Chapter 226: Troubled Times Come
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Qianlong's 33-year China was a turning point in history. In the Chinese history textbooks of later generations, Chen Mingbing was admired and admired in every way when he went to the south of the Yangtze River, as if it was a 'miraculous calculation'.
But in reality? Although Chen Ming's visit to Jiangnan was a heavy blow to the Manchus, he was still far from the last nail to be hammered into the coffin for the end of the Manchu government.
From the beginning of spring this year ago, a Qing army drove out from the south of the world and the north of the earth, aiming at Henan and Jiangnan. This includes the Beijing Banner, the Kwantung Horse Corps, the elite border soldiers of Gansu, Shaanxi, Sichuan, and Guangxi, the cavalry of the Mongolian steppe, and the garrison green battalions of Shandong, Fujian, Zhejiang, and Guangdong, which are rich coastal provinces. Looking at the entire map of China at this time, there is still no movement in the two provinces of Yunnan and Guizhou, which have just fought with Burma.
This large army from the east, west, north and south shows the strength and strength of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and this large army transferred out of the province also proves the danger of the Han army to the Manchu Qing in another aspect.
It's just that when the eyes of the whole world are attracted by the Fu Han army, this gives other forces a relaxed space for their activities.
Forget about the big and small Jinchuan bombs. Seriously, the Tibetan Tusi in that place, with their population, are also in the mountains with absolute geographical advantages, and they can still carry the Manchu Qing Dynasty for a while. If the Tusi of Jinchuan and Jinchuan waved their troops to attack the Sichuan Prefecture, they would be lighting the lights in the toilets - looking for death.
Chen Ming has never been in contact with there, and he and his cheap dad are now pinning more hopes on the Mixed Yuan Sect and the Heaven and Earth Society, in eastern Henan and northern Anhui, and in Fujian and Taiwan. The former has various branches of the White Lotus Sect, such as the Qingshui Sect in Shandong, such as the Mahayana Sect and the Bagua Sect in eastern Hebei, while the latter also has those foreign bandits.
Chen Ming knew that there would not be many good people among the Esoteric Bandits, especially the leader who took the lead, many of whom had innocent blood and black heinous crimes on their hands. But those who can achieve great things are not informal, and this sentence has been used more and more frequently since he 'learned'.
At present, eastern Henan, northern Anhui and southwestern Shandong, as well as Xuzhou Prefecture in Jiangsu, are all blank, Shandong Green Battalion has been transferred to northern Jiangsu in large quantities, Fujian and Guangdong Green Battalion garrisons and naval divisions are assembling towards the south of the Yangtze River, and Taiwan Town has also been transferred, which has given the Tiandihui a good environment for uprising.
A lone flower is not spring, a hundred flowers bloom in spring. Wait until the people of the White Lotus Sect of the Mixed Yuan Sect raise troops, and wait until the Heaven and Earth will raise troops in Fujian, even if they are quickly wiped out by the Qing soldiers - the environment of the White Lotus Sect is the worst, so the General's Mansion is throwing a lot of real money and silver at them, giving them the guarantee they want, just to let them really raise troops against the Qing.
In such a world, in whose eyes is it not the appearance of beacon fires everywhere and troubled times?
When the Fu Han army lost Wuchang City to the Qing army, there were still some cynics barking, shouting that the rabbit tail of the Fu Han army could not grow, but soon Chen Ming used his troops to enter the south of the Yangtze River and gave them a resounding slap in the face.
No matter how strong the Manchu Qing was three or five years ago, after the current Manchu Qing was destroyed by Chen Ming in Huguang Grain Depot, he was stabbed on the money bag of the Qing court, even if Shandong, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Hebei, Guandong, Mongolia, Tibet, Xinjiang, Qinghai, and Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, and Guangdong, Fujian and Zhejiang, more than eighty percent of the country's land has not been set foot by the Han Army, and the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River have been ravaged by Chen Ming.
If the White Lotus Sect and Heaven and Earth will light the beacon fire again, hehe, at a glance, the war is in chaos, and a proper chaotic era is coming.
As for Chen Ming's high hopes for the Fujian Heaven and Earth Society, hoping that they would be well prepared before raising troops, his cheap father Chen Hui hoped to see the Mixed Yuan Sect rise up in a short period of time. In order to cooperate with the actions of the Mixed Yuan Sect based on the junction of eastern Henan and northern Anhui, Chen Hui served as the left deputy governor with Chen Erbao, the most powerful general of the General's Mansion, and gathered half of his troops to quietly move to Yuncheng.
When the Mixed Yuan Sect revolted at the junction of eastern Henan and northern Anhui, and the army would sweep through the Chenzhou Mansion and the Yingzhou Mansion, Chen Hui would not believe that the Qing soldiers on the battlefield of Yuncheng would not be flustered. As far as he knows, the Qing army on the battlefield of Yuncheng, all its grain and grass, money and materials needed for the battle, are all stored in Chenzhou Fucheng, if Chenzhou Fucheng is lost, hehe, even if Chen Hui does not urge, Chen Erbao will inevitably increase his efforts and launch a more fierce attack on the Qing army on the front line of Shahe.
Liu Song was laughing at the moment, shaking the handwritten letter written by Chen Hui to him in his hand, with a mocking face. "This great general, it's too simple to think of our Mixed Yuan Sect. If we want to destroy the money and grain in the treasury of Huaining [Chenzhou Mansion City], do we still need our brigade to move? Chen Hui couldn't imagine how deeply rooted the Mixed Yuan Sect was in both Chenzhou and Yingzhou Mansions.
One sentence can be transparent: if there is no ironclad relationship between the county government and the government office, can they run past the palm of the government?
Yang Ji had a relaxed look on his face, the request of the General's Mansion was very simple, and it was very simple for them to mix the Yuan Sect. It would be good to burn the food and materials in the Huaining Mansion Treasury with a fire, as Liu Song said, there is no need for the rebel army of the Mixed Yuan Sect at all, just the disciples in the Yamen of the Chenzhou Prefect are enough to do it, and what can be done is not leaky.
Fan Mingde was not in Luyi, he went to Yingzhou Mansion in Anhui. The uprising of the Mixed Yuan Sect will be the simultaneous rise of Chenzhou and Yingzhou, and then Liu Song personally led a group of capable people to drive towards the Chenzhou Mansion with great fanfare, and Yang Ji led the main force to gather the Bafang Sect in Luyi, and then led a large army to kill the Yingzhou Mansion.
They've already figured out the strategy. Along the way, kill officials, kill gentry and kill the rich, and open warehouses to release grain. It will surely attract countless young and strong people to join the local community.
Then they will take advantage of the emptiness in northern Anhui, sweep through northern Anhui, arrive in Xuzhou, and then march to Shandong. There are people from the Qingshui sect who will answer them. Even if the Qingshui Sect did not dare to rebel when the rebels arrived in Shandong, it would be absolutely no problem to borrow a few people as guides.
In the middle of the Qianlong period, the Manchu Qing Dynasty had serious land annexation, population surge, and soaring prices, and in fact, the lower classes of society were already in turmoil. This is by no means the fault of He Shen alone, although his presence has greatly accelerated the process.
This is the case throughout North China, and Shandong is a top priority. The situation in Shandong in the middle of Qianlong was...... In the past, the peasants in the eastern province said that they would take out loans, and the rich households were willing to repay the interest rate by four or five cents, because the small people had borrowed funds and would not be displaced. Now I will take two or three points of interest, and I will not pay it back if I lend it. …… There is more than a home, and I am afraid that I will be burdened and will not lend it again,......。 Poor families have no way to knock and have to beg for food. And the most serious thing is that by the middle of Qianlong, China's surging population had developed the whole of North China to the point where there was no land to cultivate. The relative scarcity of land itself led to local unrest, coupled with the unusually rapid population growth in the middle of Qianlong.
When the General's Mansion threw the money to the Mixed Yuan Sect, he asked him to take the lead in contacting the branches of the White Lotus Sect in various places, and the Shandong Qingshui Sect became another chess piece that the General's Mansion valued very much, which was not influenced by Wang Lun's personality charm, but had a real basis.
At the end of March, a piece of information came back from Beijing City, which Yu Zecheng (Gao Jingcheng) obtained from the Henan Guild Hall, and a Henan official who had gone to Beijing from Shandong to report on his work said in a conversation with friends in Beijing: I heard about the case of traitors gathering a crowd to harass people in Shouteng County, Shandong Province, and in March, I heard the legend of pedestrians who traveled between Beijing and Qilu, because of the scarcity of rain on the roads, and the lack of wheat harvest. As soon as there are traveling chariots and horses, there are more than a dozen people around them at every turn, and they can't walk. The summer harvest is in the future, and it can be helped. After April, although Qilu has received rain every time, it is always not enough. The age is neither on the board. I'm afraid that there are divisions in the local area to whitewash each other, and the harvest score will be reported to be seven or eight points. The words are not heard, and the urging is getting worse, so that the lawbreakers take the opportunity to provoke. The matter of Teng County can be described as a good example. Although they are called traitors, most of them are hungry people who are not informed, and they are also provoked.
The information that Yu Zecheng sent was in contrast to the Shandong Qingshui Sect, which was the biggest reason why the Qingshui Sect stood out from the branches of the White Lotus Sect. He convinced the general's government that Shandong had the foundation to succeed. Moreover, it is reported that the population of Shandong has exceeded 18 million. Compared with more than 12 million in the 18th year of Qianlong, this has increased by half, but the increase in arable land has gradually tended to be none.
Although the secret camp of the Fu Han Army had only been in contact with the Qingshui Sect for less than a month, it had already provided 10,000 taels of silver to the Qingshui Sect.
Silver is not a fart for the current Fu Han general's mansion, and it is the most powerful thing to let the Manchu territory burn and smoke everywhere.
There are many mountainous areas in Luxi, Liu Song, Yang Ji, and Fan Mingde They realized the importance of mountainous areas to the righteous army from the trajectory of the Fu Han army, where it is not the Huanghuai Plain in eastern Henan and northern Anhui, as long as they can drill into the mountains of Shandong, there is no possibility of being exterminated in a short time. Although the rebel army set out from eastern Henan and advanced into Luxi, thousands of miles in the middle, no one dared to say that they could really avoid the attack and killing of the Qing army's horse infantry army, but the current conditions and environment have really reached the most perfect time that the Mixed Yuan Sect can achieve.
Liu Song, Yang Ji, and Fan Mingde didn't want to give up.
Luyi County does not have a brigade of green battalion soldiers stationed, and when it is full, there are only about 100 people in the green battalion here, led by a thousand generals surnamed Deng. I can't afford the name, as long as the big guy knows that this Qian surnamed Deng is always cut off without pain after being drunk. Liu Song wants to take the head of this thousand presidents and the head of Luyi Zhixian to sacrifice the flag!
On the same day, at the Yamen of the Governor of Yingzhou Prefecture, in the morning, Fan Mingde and his followers in civilian clothes had arrived outside the city of Yingzhou Mansion. There were only 200 believers behind him, scattered and not gathered together, each carrying a package, or pushing a cart, or leading a donkey cart or a mule. These two hundred people are the elite of the Mixed Yuan Sect, and they have been practicing in the Luyi militia for a month, although they can't wear iron armor and rattan armor now, but everyone has sharp swords and iron rods and spears.
Yingzhou Mansion also organized group exercises, and like the group exercises in Chenzhou Mansion, there was no uniform costume, and the people's costumes were messy and undisciplined, and it was difficult for you to distinguish a stranger from a group of people.
The prefect of Yingzhou is surnamed Tang and has been an official in Yingzhou for two years. The prefect of Chenzhou next door is very hard, but the life of the prefect of Tang is still very nourishing. The old nest of the Fu Han Army is next door, but there is a Chenzhou Mansion in the middle, and Yingzhou is safe here. If it weren't for the fact that he had been cut off from braids before, his boy's life would not have been too good.
Because the Qing court exterminated the Fu Han army with silver and grain, and to recruit the labor of the people, for the magistrates, this was a good opportunity to save a lot of money. And it's easy to close the accounts, and there are no loopholes. Therefore, the Tang prefect was wearing a white silk robe, shaking a paper fan, and came unsuspectingly to see the Mixed Yuan Sect who had been brought to him by the officials, and asked, "What's the urgency?" So eager. The disciple was sweating all over himself for the sake of play, and there was still a layer of ash on his face, and the sweat ran down his forehead, and there were ash marks on his face.
"Lord Prefect, it's a traitor, the traitor has arrived......"
Tang Governor was subconsciously stunned, and then waved a paper fan in his hand, scolding him for being vain, Chenzhou Mansion is still there, how could the Fu Han Army come to his Yingzhou Mansion? He scolded sharply: "Where did you say Chen Rey was?" Dare to falsely report the military situation......" is about to be ruthless. The detective took two steps forward and replied loudly: "Lord Mingfu, that traitor...... Right in front of you! He took out the short sword in his arms and hit the neck of the Tang Governor's Mansion.
The head of the dignified government died in the hands of a small common man like this, and he died with the capital of the Yingzhou Green Camp garrison, who was killed on the spot by a common man who delivered vegetables in the camp with a double-barreled handcuff.
The noise and panic of the government and the military camp spread outside the city, Fan Mingde shook off the hat on his head suddenly, and the believers around him immediately used bamboo poles to pick up a large banner of Buddha's light and white lotus. This is the proposal given to them by the Fu Han army, to put out a banner of their own, not just the surname of the leader.
And the three leaders of the Mixed Yuan Sect, after discussing and discussing, rendered a nine-grade white lotus with Buddha light and used it as the banner of their own righteous army.
This flag was originally carried in the believer's arms, and it was easy to pick up.
In the 33rd year of Qianlong, on April 18, the mixed Yuan sect rebelled against Chenzhou and Yingzhou.
The leader, Liu Song, called himself the chief teacher, and Yang Ji called himself the general of Fengtian. In the Luyi banquet, the county magistrate, Qian Zong and other county officials and gentry were invited to drink, and when the people were drunk, the mixed Yuan disciples would kill them, killing 70 officials and gentry below the magistrate and Qianzong, and more than 300 officials and civil warriors. Later, more than 2,000 members of the contract sect attacked the county seat, swore a bloody oath, and swore an oath against the Qing Dynasty.
Another leader, Fan Mingde, killed the prefect and the garrison as an assassin in Yingzhou Mansion, and then attacked it with an elite. The Yingzhou Mansion City Green Camp and the People's League collapsed, and the Yingzhou Mansion was taken by Fan Mingde in one fell swoop. The Yingzhou Mixed Yuan Sect came from all directions, and more than 3,000 people swore a blood oath and swore an oath against the Qing Dynasty, and they called themselves the pioneers of the captivation.
At the same time, the Chenzhou treasury was burned. Dozens of soldiers and people were exhausted, tens of thousands of loads of grain were stored, and a large number of warehouses of swords, soldiers, cloth and gunpowder were turned into white land. The prefect of Chenzhou asked for the death penalty, and Chen Huizu, the political envoy of Henan, personally Chenzhou, could not find any clues.
After the Chen family was the first to raise the banner of anti-Qing in Lushan, the second family responded to the 'princes' and appeared. (To be continued.) )