On June 24 of the first year of Hongguang, Jiangyin, a small county town located south of the Yangtze River, ushered in a new magistrate Fang Heng. Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info gauze hat and blue robe, wearing the same clothes as the previous county order, but the court has changed.

Regarding the arrival of Fang Heng, the first county commander of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the squires and people in Jiangyin City were indifferent. Whether it's Ming or Qing, it's just a change of court and a change of food object, how should everyone's life be lived.

Of course, there are also many people among the gentry who are loyal to the Ming Dynasty, but so what? Hundreds of thousands of troops in the imperial court, countless civil officials and military generals have surrendered, what can ordinary gentry and ordinary people do? It's just a few scoldings behind closed doors.

When Fang Heng first arrived in Jiangyin, he behaved no different from other new county officials, collecting the filial piety of the merchants in the city and taking the initiative to visit the famous gentry in the city.

But on the 27th, everything changed. On April 27, the order of Duoduo, the prince of Yu, to order the shaving of his head reached Jiangyin. Changzhou prefect Zong Cheng sent four Manchu soldiers to Jiangyin to give orders, and Fang Heng, the Manchurian uncle, did not dare to slack off, and received them respectfully.

On the 28th, Fang Heng sent people to post a notice to shave his hair at the entrance of the yamen, which immediately aroused the indignation of the people in the county.

On the first day of the leap June, dozens of people, including Xu Yong, a student member of Jiangyin County, gathered at the Confucian Temple to discuss the matter of shaving their hair. Xu shouted angrily, "The head can be broken, but the head cannot be shaved!" It caused a fierce reaction from everyone.

Not only did the county school talents react fiercely, but the squires and villagers in Jiangyin County also resolutely opposed shaving their hair. Villagers He Mao, Uncle Xing, Zhou Shun, Xing Ji, Yang Fang, Xue Yong, Yang Qi, Ji Mao, Xin Rong and others jointly wrote to Fang Heng asking to keep his hair.

Fang Heng was furious and angrily scolded the petitioners. On this day, the Changzhou government sent a more strongly worded proclamation, which included such sentences as "keep your head without hair, keep your hair without leaving your head", and the county government clerk was indignant when he copied the notice, angrily threw his pen to the ground, angrily said, "Die or die", and left angrily. When Fang Heng angrily ordered the officials to arrest this person, but the officials ignored him.

In the afternoon, the teenagers in the city, led by Ji Shimei, Ji Congxiao, Wang Xian, He Chang, He Tai and others, gathered hundreds of people to come to the county government to petition, sound gongs and arms, and more than 10,000 people responded in the city. Fang Heng was shocked and promised to allow everyone to write an application asking for a waiver. Everyone dispersed.

The reaction in the city became more and more intense, and Fang Heng could not even control the county government now, so he secretly wrote a letter to the Changzhou prefect Zong Li, asking Changzhou to send troops to suppress it. However, this move was known to a county clerk and secretly reported to the classic history Chen Mingyu. Chen Mingyu was also opposed to shaving his hair, so he made everyone informed.

Everyone was furious, and the next day they rushed into the county office and captured Fang Heng. Everyone discussed, elected Chen Mingyu as the leader, raised the banner of "Zhongxing Daming", and claimed that the righteous people of Jiangyin officially opposed the Qing Dynasty.

Following Jiangyin, other places also rebelled against the Qing Dynasty.

On the 11th of June, a shaving order was posted in Suzhou. On the twelfth, the student Lu Shijian gathered in Fengqiao and refused to shave his head. On the 13th, Lu Shijian marched to Suzhou, and at the same time asked to retreat to the vicinity of Taihu Lake, Wu Zhikui, the general army of Wusong, and Huang Fei, Zhennanbo, to attack Suzhou. The gentry in the countryside near Suzhou responded one after another, gathering countless people in the surrounding villages, and even the Taihu Lake thief barefoot Zhang San and others led their subordinates to steal out of Taihu Lake and attack Suzhou.

Jinshi Wu Yi once served under Shi Kefa's curtain, and when he evacuated with Shi Kefa by boat after the city of Yangzhou was broken, the fleet was attacked by the Qing army in the Guazhou Canal, Shi Kefa was captured, and Wu Yi, who was familiar with the water, escaped by luck and returned to his hometown Taihu Lake. After the Manchu shaving order was issued, Wu Yi and Sun Zhaokui raised troops against the Qing Dynasty and invaded Wujiang County on June 11, killing Zhu Tingzuo, the commander of the Manchu County.

On the 12th of June, Zhang Weixi, the magistrate of Jiading County, issued a shaving order, and the people of Jiading were indignant and refused to obey their orders.

On the 17th, the squire Hou Tong led his two sons Hou Xuanjie to play Hou Xuanjie, Jinshi Huang Chunyao and his younger brother Huang Yuanyao into the city to advocate against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty.

In the same month, the gentry of Kunshan County, under the initiative of Wang Yongzuo, editor of the former Xunyang Fuyuan, Zhu Tianlin, and Yang Yongyan of the Zhixian County, killed Yan Maocai, the appointed county governor of the Qing Dynasty, raised troops against the Qing Dynasty, and promoted the deputy general Wang Zuocai as the commander, and the famous literati Gu Yanwu Guizhuang and others actively participated in the righteous act.

After more than ten days of hard work, all the provinces in the southeast of the Yangtze River were on fire, setting off a frenzy of resistance to the Qing Dynasty, and under the leadership of the squires and celebrities from all over the country, hundreds of people rose up to fight to the death in the Manchu army.

At the same time, Zhejiang, which is adjacent to Nanzhi, also broke out in a wave of resistance to the Qing Dynasty.

On the ninth day of the sixth month of the leap month, Sun Jiaji, the thrifty minister of Jiujiang Province in the Ming Dynasty, started in Yuyao and killed Wang Xuanru, the appointed magistrate of the Qing Dynasty

On the tenth day of the first month, Zheng Zunqian, a student, raised troops in Shaoxing.

In Ningbo Prefecture, Dong Zhining, a student of Yin County, first advocated against the Qing Dynasty, and discussed with Wang Jiaqin, Zhang Mengxi, Hua Xia, Lu Yuding, Mao Jukui, etc., and decided to raise troops.

However, when the squires of Ningbo were invited, they were rejected by the Yang family butcher. After discussion, everyone decided to elect Qian Sule, a former member of the Criminal Department, as the leader of the alliance, and invited all the squires to the Chenghuang Temple for a meeting on the 12th.

Due to the good secrecy work, the squires who were invited to come didn't know what was going on, and even Zhu Zhikui, the Qing prefect, and Kong Wenyu, who knew Tongzhi, also came to join in the fun.

Dong Zhining and others immediately made a decision, tore off Zhu Zhikui's Confucian name, and announced that they supported Qian Sule to raise troops against the Qing Dynasty. The two battalions and the city defenders in Yinxian County who were subordinate to Haiphong Province also expressed their support for the anti-Qing Dynasty. Ningbo Fucheng Yin County returned to the Ming Dynasty.

Wang Zhiren, the general soldier of the Ming defense and Japanese garrison in Dinghai, had already surrendered to the Qing Dynasty at this time, and heard that the whole city of Ningbo was against the Qing Dynasty, and also raised troops in response, and raised the banner of the Ming Dynasty again, and the general army Fang Guoan led the troops to retreat to the east of the Qiantang River when Hangzhou fell, and at this time he still had more than 10,000 troops under his command. Fang Guoan and Wang Zhiren were the main forces in eastern Zhejiang's resistance to the Qing Dynasty.

The whole eastern part of Zhejiang was surging, setting off a wave of anti-Qing movement. Shen Chenquan and Feng Yuanliu of Cixi County revolted, Shipu General Zhang Mingzhen led troops to rendezvous, Zhu Maohua of Dinghai Zhi County, Gu Zhijun of Fenghua Zhi County, Yuan Zhouzuo of Yin County Zhi County, and Jiang Xin of Xiangshan Zhi County provided food and salary to recruit volunteers.

After the anti-Qing movement in eastern Zhejiang, Zhang Guowei, the secretary of the Ming Dynasty's former Rong Political and Military Department, discussed with the registered bureaucrats Chen Hanhui, Song Zipu, Ke Xiaqing, etc., and believed that it was urgent to appoint a clan to serve as a supervisor. At that time, the prince of the Ming Dynasty in eastern Zhejiang, only Zhu Yihai, the king of Lu in Taizhou, had not surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, and on the 18th day of the leap June, Zhang Guowei and others welcomed Zhu Yihai as the supervisor on a raft.

The anti-Qing wave in various parts of the Yangtze River caused a shock to the Prince of Yu, Duoduo, who stopped the pace of disarmament and sent a large number of troops from Nanjing to suppress it everywhere. and ordered Li Chengdong, a green battalion soldier who rushed to Wusong, to slow down the attack on Chongming, and turn around to suppress the rebellion in Jiaxing. (To be continued.) )