Chapter 178: The Southeast's Turmoil (Part II)

"After the rebellion in eastern Zhejiang was put down. The culprit of this rebellion was not discovered, and in order to avoid unnecessary trouble, the court claimed in the newspaper that the rebels had been suppressed and that the head of the thieves had died in the fire. ”

Shi Yufeng talked about the rebellion in eastern Zhejiang more than ten years ago, and the reigning emperor at that time was not Song Yuren, but Song Yuren's father. The impact of the rebellion in eastern Zhejiang on the empire was no less than that of the Manshu people. emperor

The rebellion spread to two of the empire's wealthiest provinces: Zhejiang Province and Nanzhili. These two empires were the most important tax areas of the empire, and the tax revenue of these two provinces alone accounted for nearly half of the empire's tax revenue. It is said that Jiangnan is a land of ointment, the land of fish and rice, and it is from this that it comes from.

Because this rebellion affected the empire's tax-paying areas and threatened the lifeblood of the empire, the court was particularly concerned about the rebellion in Zhejiang. Even the Qin army, which was out of the fortress to find the main force of the Menggu tribe at that time, returned to the division because of this rebellion, transferred troops south, and joined the army to suppress the rebellion in Zhejiang.

As a result, the Qin army lost the opportunity to completely annihilate the Menggu tribe, and the return of the Qin army allowed the Menggu tribe to have a respite, withdraw from the Yellow River loop, and escape into the Chahar and Mobei regions.

Meng Gu can survive today, it can be said that this rebellion inadvertently and indirectly helped the Meng Gu people. Speaking of which, the Meng ancients also have to thank the rebels who rebelled in Zhejiang more than ten years ago.

The result is naturally self-evident, the Zhejiang rebels could not withstand the army organized by the Zhao Empire to suppress the rebellion, and in the end the rebellion was bloodily suppressed. The strongholds of the Zhejiang rebels, such as Ningbo, Jinhua, Taizhou, Wenzhou, and Chuzhou, were bloodied by the imperial army, and the several major clans who advocated the rebellion were all exterminated for the crime of rebellion, and the whereabouts of several major rebel leaders, according to Shi Yufeng, were likely to take the remnants of the army to the southeast coast to disguise themselves as Haikou and make a living by looting. Maybe the rampant pirates in recent years have something to do with the remnants of these Zhejiang rebels?

At the time of the Zhejiang rebellion, He Tengxiao was only a few years old, and he was also in Liaodong, which was thousands of miles away, so he didn't know much about this rebellion. I've only heard of such a shocking rebellion in the south. Shi Yufeng grew up in Jinling, and the rebels in eastern Zhejiang captured Hangzhou Mansion in their heyday, and the soldiers pointed directly at Jinling City.

Only more than ten years have passed since the rebellion, and Shi Yufeng has been exposed to it since he was a child, and he is no stranger to the rebellion in Zhejiang. Shi Yufeng even vaguely remembers that when he was a child, the Zhejiang rebels besieged Jinling City, and his father took the whole family to hide in the cellar. In the cellar for half a month, accompanied by darkness all day long, living a fearful life, this experience Shi Yufeng still remembers vividly. It wasn't until half a month later that reinforcements from the imperial court arrived to repel the Zhejiang rebels, and Shi Yufeng's family dared to climb out of the cellar. to see the light of day again.

"What do you mean is that the rebels in eastern Zhejiang were defeated suddenly, leaving no way back for themselves, and those who survived by luck went to the sea to escape the pursuit of the imperial court?" He Tengxiao understood what Shi Yufeng's Mansion meant, and it was not impossible to do so. On the contrary, this possibility is extremely likely. It is no accident that the southeast sea frontier has been rampant in the past decade or so. There should be a hand in the southeast sea to stir up waves.

"Yes!" Shi Yufeng nodded affirmatively, "Originally, this was just my random speculation, but now I can be sure that the Zhejiang rebels did not die back then, and the people who survived became Haikou and colluded with the Japanese Kou, and they have been harming Nanzhili and Zhejiang for more than ten years." And the court was not aware of this. ”

"Could it be that this attack on the fleet is a Haikou composed of remnants of Zhejiang?" He Tengxiao thought to himself that since Shi Yufeng was so sure of his idea, the Haikou who kidnapped him this time must be the remnants of the Zhejiang rebels, so Shi Yufeng was so convinced of his idea.

"When I was a child, the portraits of the leaders of the rebels in Zhejiang were plastered all over the streets of Jinling City, and at that time, the heads of these leaders were worth more than the heads of the Manshu people, and the lowest rewards for these leaders were 3,000 taels, and the most were as high as 30,000 taels. And when the fleet was attacked, I saw a person who was very similar to the leader of the Zhejiang rebel army whose head was worth 30,000 taels when I was a child. Shi Yufeng said very seriously.

He Tengxiao couldn't help but laugh when he heard Shi Yufeng say it, and felt that Shi Yufeng seemed to be joking, but for this reason, it was too decisive to conclude that these Haikou were the remnants of the Zhejiang rebels in the past: "The world is so big, there are many people who look similar, maybe this Haikou is just very similar to the leader of the Zhejiang rebel mansion." ”

Finding a person according to the portrait has great limitations, and the realism of the portrait is not large, and it can only be used as a reference. Moreover, this portrait has been buried in Shi Yufeng's heart for more than ten years, and it is very unreliable to correspond a person to the portrait of more than ten years ago after more than ten years.

"But based on a portrait I saw more than ten years ago, it is really not enough to conclude that these pirates are the remnants of the rebels in Zhejiang back then." Speaking of this, Shi Yufeng paused, and changed his words, "But then I saw a person who was also among these pirates, I am sure I know this person, I have been running business all year round, I have also done this person's business, and it has left me with a deep impression, I am sure that I have never recognized the wrong person!" ”

Shi Yufeng's tone was unquestionable, but He Tengxiao was more concerned about who this person Shi Yufeng recognized, so that Shi Yufeng was so sure that this group of people was the Zhejiang rebels.

"Wang Canghai, who is now a member of the Fujian royal family. Wang Canghai is not the son-in-law of the royal family, but he takes care of all the foreign affairs of the royal family, a son who is not a son-in-law holds so much power in the royal family, this person will naturally not be simple, I paid more attention to this Wang Canghai at that time. Shi Yufeng said.

It is no accident that important sons of the royal family appear among the pirates. He Tengxiao carefully sorted out the relationship, and there was only one idea that could explain why the children of the royal family appeared in Haikou: after the Zhejiang rebels fell into the sea, they were supported by the royal family, and the royal family used his power in Fujian to fund the remnants of the rebels in Zhejiang. The Eight Great Tribes of Fujian were not as loose as the four major families of Liaodong, and the conditions were difficult when they entered Fujian to eat, and the Eight Great Tribes who moved south not only had to overcome their unaccustomed water and soil in Fujian, but also had to always be on guard against the attacks of the unfriendly natives on them as outsiders.

Therefore, these eight major clans are allied by blood, and it is agreed that one clan is in trouble and the other clan is obliged to come to the rescue. The eight major clans of Fujian are all prosperous, and they are all lost. The royal family is involved in funding the remnants of the Zhejiang rebels, and the hands and feet of the other seven clans are definitely not clean.

After the Zhejiang rebels were disabled, the general trend has gone, and there is no climate, but the royal family has been secretly funding the Zhejiang rebels, and the intention is obvious: the royal family has the heart of rebellion! The eight major clans of Fujian have the intention of rebellion!

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