The name Ma Dalong made Zhao Xiangwei a little familiar, but he couldn't remember who it was for a while. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info half loud, and then I thought that Mo was not the scripture master Ma Dalong who specialized in collecting debts for people in the White Crane Temple? If it was really this person, Zhao Xiangwei was a little disgusted, because Ma Dalong was a religious person, and he usually led a group of religious people to do things for their people, and the Han people in the four miles and eight towns were very disgusted with them, and generally did not deal with them, but I don't know how Lord Mingzhu contacted them.

The urgent news from his subordinates did not shake Mingzhu, let alone make him lose color, but sat down very calmly, and said very calmly: "Paper can't hold the fire, the matter of Songjiang, the southerners will finally know, Ma Dalong and they just led people to attack the Jiading County Ya a few days ago, how can the southerners not stare at them." It is also expected that the incident will start early. ”

"My lord, what shall we do?"

Mingzhu's subordinates did not have the calmness of Mingzhu, and he was a little panicked when Ma Dalong led the people to rise up in advance, worried that the government of the southerners would find out about them, so that the efforts of the past year would be wasted.

Mingzhu pondered for a moment and instructed his subordinates: "Since the people of the sect have moved, this matter cannot be delayed. No matter how much you prepare, you will be surprised. You immediately send people to contact all parts of the country, and immediately start an incident! After a pause, he advised: "Remember, after the uprising in various places, the first attack on the county yamen, control the city, and never move in the countryside, otherwise, you will be surrounded and suppressed by the Taiping army." ”

After speaking, he took out a stack of blank official documents from a box, all of which were stamped with the large seals of the Qing Dynasty officials. Mingzhu handed over these blank official certificates to his subordinates and asked him to distribute them to the gentry who participated in the uprising in various places, and as for what kind of official positions they wanted, they were free to fill in whatever official positions. As for the seals of the officials, they had to wait until they were done, but if the gentry had to do so, they could be carved in wood and replaced with copper later.

Mingzhu's subordinates were a little excited to take over the stack of official certificates, as if this stack of official certificates was a priceless treasure. Zhao Xiangwei's eyes were also firmly fixed on the stack of official certificates, and his eyes were extremely envious. After his subordinates went out to act, Mingzhu turned to Zhao Xiangwei and said: "You must also move immediately, after the matter is completed, a Songjiang Mansion will always be indispensable to you." ”

"Thank you, sir!" Zhao Xiangwei's heart was shocked, and he hurriedly thanked Mingzhu, and then said: "My lord, the villain thinks that those people are not credible, especially Nama Dalong, who is not enough to achieve and more than to lose. ”

Mingzhu nodded and said softly, "I know that the parishioners are not credible, but do you know why I should contact those parishioners?" ”

"The villain doesn't know, please show it to the adult."

Zhao Xiangwei really didn't know why Lord Mingzhu wanted to contact the people of the church to start an incident, according to his idea, as long as the Jiangnan gentry were mobilized to unite against the Taiping Army, with the help of the people, at least six points of success would be grasped. However, if the parishioners also participated, I am afraid that many gentry would be puzzled, and even some gentry who were usually dissatisfied with the parishioners said that they would not change their minds and would no longer participate in this matter.

Nalan Pearl has been in the north earlier. Jing has never been to Jiangnan, but he also knows the people very well and knows that these people are unreliable. In the past, the Qing court was also wary of the people, because these people had a religion but no country, and neither the Ming nor the Qing dynasties were the country in their hearts. If we talk about closeness, I am afraid that only the Mongols can make the parishioners treat each other sincerely, because if it were not for the Mongol Yuan, the parishioners would not have come to China from thousands of miles away from the far west. It is precisely because of the Meng Yuan Dynasty that the Catholics occupied almost all the positions of middle-level officials during the Yuan Dynasty, and the garrisons in the south of the Yangtze River were also composed of Catholics.

It can be said that during the Mengyuan period, it was not the Yuan army that really suppressed the Han people in Jiangnan, but the people. Because of this, the Han people in Jiangnan are very disgusted with the people, and in the Ming Dynasty, if it wasn't for the people who participated in the martyrdom and helped King Yan become the emperor, I am afraid that they would have been extinct in Jiangnan, how can they still be now. However, even though he knew that the Han people in Jiangnan were disgusted with the people, Mingzhu had to contact them, for the simple reason that the people were more united than the Han people.

"The number of religious people is small, but there is a temple presiding, and the people are more united, once something happens, they can order and prohibit it, and they can fight more than you Han people."

It has been decided to start the incident in advance, and Nalan Mingzhu has nothing to hide from Zhao Xiangwei, after all, the people can play a big role in the early stage, but it is the Jiangnan gentry who ultimately decide the success or failure.

According to Mingzhu, the parishioners are more united and organized than the Han Chinese. Suddenly rising, the Ming Dynasty government was unprepared, and the people could cause great damage and impact in a short period of time, which was more powerful than the gentry who were scattered all over the country and had their own ideas. Although he has always said to Zhao Xiangwei and others that once an incident breaks out in Jiangnan, the Qing court army will immediately move south from Xuzhou, but in fact, Mingzhu knows that even if Jiangnan is really in chaos, as long as the Central Plains is still threatened by Wu Sangui, it is impossible for the Qing army to cross the Yangtze River, and even Belle Tuntai on the Xuzhou side does not dare to send a single soldier to Yangzhou.

What Mingzhu really wants to do is to make chaos in the south of the Yangtze River, turn the Taiping Army's money and grain into red land, and let the corpses and blood sea here. As long as Jiangnan is in chaos, it is impossible for the thief Xiucai to have enough manpower and material resources to go north, and the two-sided battle that the emperor was worried about will become a two-sided battle against Wu Sangui all the way, which greatly relieves the pressure of the Qing Dynasty. As long as the Central Plains can be stabilized and Wu Sangui can be repelled, the Qing Dynasty will be able to get a chance to breathe.

In other words, what the Qing army could not get on the battlefield, he Mingzhu wanted to fight for the Qing Dynasty by himself. As for how many people died, he didn't care. He is a Manchurian, not a Han. As long as the parishioners can act as the vanguard of this turmoil and ignite the fire of the prairie fire, Mingzhu will also respond to their requests. It would be great if the parishioners could perform a miracle.

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The situation was really told by Mingzhu, and Ma Dalong, who killed the lord Bo Ding Ladong and killed his wife and a pair of children with his own hands, instigated and coerced the people of Jiading to start an uprising. However, Ma Dalong and others did not immediately enter the county seat as Mingzhu said, execute the Ming officials, control the city, and then reorganize the soldiers and horses, and cooperate with the gentry who rose up in various places to attack the capital city, the provincial capital and even the southern capital, but aimed the butcher's knife at the Han people in the nearby villages.

Outside the city of Jiading, the most gentleman was devastated, and the people were not for money, not for the occupation of land, without any plan, only knowing that the Han people who were hunting the surrounding villages, and the Han people, regardless of men, women, old and young, went from village to house, all of them were killed with bamboo guns and burned to death, purely for the sake of killing.

In fact, the number of people in the uprising was not very large, and the Ma Dalong Department who was the first to do it was only more than 1,000 people, while the Han people in their area were tens of thousands. However, when dozens of organized parishioners stormed the Han villages, none of the thousands of Han people in Zhuangzi dared to resist, nor could they organize any resistance force. The Han Chinese were completely defenseless, either killed on the spot or fled in all directions in fear. A small number of bloody Han people came forward with kitchen knives and sickles to fight with the parishioners, but they were slashed and killed on the spot by the parishioners because they were outnumbered.

The riots spread rapidly to various places, and before the government came to its senses and organized officers and soldiers to encircle and suppress them, the Han people in Songjiang had already suffered a large number of casualties, and more than 30,000 people were killed. The reason for this is that in addition to the suddenness of the uprising of the Christians, the Han people were unaware of it in advance, and the main reason is that after clearing the debts, most of the clan forces in Songjiang and other places were destroyed by the Taiping Army, resulting in the Han people being unable to organize quickly, and thus being broken by the Christians.

Even Nalan Mingzhu didn't expect that the people of the sect that he simply wanted to use would have such a destructive power.

The rebellion of the people took advantage of a great loophole in the policy of the Taiping Army, that is, when attacking the power of the gentry and landlords in Jiangnan, they did not quickly organize their own forces.

Obviously, the best way to organize the people is to "build villages and set up townships." Villages have security squads, townships have security squadrons, counties have security brigades, villages and villages have joint guarantees, townships and townships have mutual guarantees, and counties and counties have group protection. In this way, as soon as something happens, the local government can immediately organize forces to protect itself, instead of being destroyed immediately.

When Zhou Shixiang launched the debt settlement, he had already decided to promote the construction of villages and townships in the south of the Yangtze River and organize the people's security forces from the bottom up. However, he ignored one of the most basic problems, that is, the land south of the Yangtze River is not as large as Guangdong, and the local population is extremely large and extremely xenophobic.

The premise of building villages and townships and establishing a people's self-protection force is that the Taiping Army must be able to firmly control the villages, and the village heads, township heads, and security captains at the grassroots level must be members of the Taiping Army, or people close to the Taiping Army, and must have great prestige among the local people.

However, the fact is that the Taiping army occupied Jiangnan for less than two years, and there was no large-scale conscription in Jiangnan, which led to the retirement of the army, and most of the Taiping troops who were transferred to the local village chiefs were not natives in Jiangnan, but soldiers from Liangguang, Hunan, and even the northern green battalion.

These outsiders, who are in the eyes of the people in Jiangnan, obviously cannot be accepted by the local people in a short period of time. Even though the government of the Taiping Army implemented a series of policies favorable to the peasants, cracked down on a large number of gentry and landlords who exploited the peasants, and freed the peasants and tenants from the personal dependence of the clan, it still did not win the real support of the people of Jiangnan. Many village chiefs were able to temporarily suppress the local people and do a good job on the surface, simply because the local people were afraid of the Taiping soldiers behind them, rather than really feeling the good of the Taiping army, so they actively supported the Taiping army.

The "Wailing Temple Case", "Debt Settlement Case", and "Tongyu Case" dealt a serious blow to the gentry class in Jiangnan and did not touch the interests of the people, but the heart of the gentry is the thousand-year-old law of people's hearts, but it is not Zhou Shixiang's simple sentence of who holds the knife in his hands, who has the people's hearts can replace it.

Jiangnan Shangwen, the people have great respect for scholars, and they admire the gentry who are famous from the bottom of their hearts, which will not change because the gentry are locked up and put in prison. In terms of the "Wailing Temple Case" alone, the handling of Jin Shengxian and others can be described as vigorous and decisive, but the impact is far-reaching.