At this time, Wang Mang was already crazy.

He tried every means to loot the world's wealth into his own hands, and used it to squander and enjoy luxury, build palaces and ancestral temples, and reward his henchmen.

His ancestral temple was extremely luxurious and magnificent, which took 3 years, cost an astonishing amount of money, and took the lives of tens of thousands of people.

(Millions of merits, tens of thousands of deaths)

He tried every means to suppress those who resisted him, whether it was ordinary people, local cadres, henchmen or close relatives, he would be wiped out if he succeeded.

His cadres and officers and soldiers were extremely thorough, disregarding human lives, burning, killing and looting, and acting recklessly.

Coupled with the continuous famine and plague, the common people simply could not survive.

More than half of the people in the world have been forced to die, and the tragic tragedy of cannibalism has occurred in many places, and people have been crying everywhere. Even the richest Guanzhong land in the past

The district is also "the people are ruined, and there are no differences".

At this time, the common people were either starved to death, died of disease, or died, or they rose up to resist.

Therefore, at this time, whoever wants to stand up and shout to beat Wang Mang will immediately respond.

Wang Mang's life was also very difficult: there was a lot of fire outside, and there was a fire in the backyard of his home.

Since time is a bit tight, let's first talk about how the Green Forest Army and the Red Eyebrow Army ignited the armed anti-reckless beacon fire, and then talk about the king in the interval between battles

A fire broke out in the backyard.

In 18 A.D., Fan Chong, a native of Ju County, Langxie County (now Ju County, Shandong), gathered hundreds of people to revolt, he called himself the three elders, turned to fight into the area of Mount Tai, and attacked on a mobile basis

Officers and soldiers.

At that time, there was a famine in Lang Evil County and the surrounding areas, and the government was too dark, so the common people had to rise up and rebel.

Fan Chong is brave and good at fighting, and everyone is willing to join him. In just one year, the team has grown to more than 10,000 people.

This is a very simple peasant team.

They didn't deliberately make trouble when they got up, nor did they want to make a prince like Chen Sheng and Liu Bang from the beginning.

They risked their lives to come out to do this work, the purpose is simple, just to eat, just to solve the problem of survival.

No matter which dynasty or generation, it is the minimum requirement for the common people to eat and live, and it is also a matter of course.

Therefore, they were very pragmatic and low-key from the beginning, and they did not have any grand plans to conquer the city, not even flags and slogans.

It wasn't until the team grew that the rule of "those who kill die, and those who hurt pay for the wounds" was formulated.

Everyone also saw that the leader Fan Chong called himself the third elder.

"Three Elders", this was the lowest-ranking local yamen official at that time.

This is tantamount to openly stating that when we get up and work, we must have something to eat, that is, we must have something to eat like the errand of the yamen!

However, this team is very combative.

Anyway, with Wang Mang as the first brother, everyone is dead.

Death of starvation is silent, and death in battle is not in vain to come to the world!

What if you don't die?

When this army faced the official army sent by Wang Mang to suppress it, it successively won great victories in Gumu (now Anqiunan, Shandong) and Wuyan (now Dongpingdong, Shandong).

won a complete victory, killed the commander of the official army, Ping Gong Liandan, defeated the other commander of the official army, Taishi Wang Kuang, and killed tens of thousands of enemies.

When Fan Chong led the crowd to resist the official army, he had a good idea, that is, in order to prevent his brothers from being confused with the official army, so that his soldiers would all raise their eyebrows

The hair is dyed red.

(All of them are identified by their eyebrows.) ）

Lao Fan's idea is very practical, can be easily and happily accepted, and the cost is very low.

Although he did not apply for a patent, he received extremely high praise and was very well-known, and no one came to plagiarize and imitate it.

At that time and later, this team received the title of "Red Eyebrow Army".

Since this team is currently far away from Chungling, it will have the opportunity to meet you in the future, so we will continue to talk about it later.

Let's talk about the Green Forest Army, which is also a typical peasant army that was forced by Wang Mang to rise up and rebel.

Time of Incident: 17 A.D., 1 year before the Red Eyebrow Army.

Place of the incident: near Lulin Mountain (now in Dangyang, Hubei).

The main body of the uprising: hundreds of hungry people led by Wang Kuang and Wang Feng.

Cause: The starving people could not survive due to the oppression of Wang Mang's regime and the continuous famine, and they really wanted to live.

This green forest mountain is located in the upper reaches of the Han River, with verdant trees and abundant grasses, and the surrounding mountains, forests, lakes and lakes have suitable climate and rich products.

At that time, forced to make a living, the people in the vicinity came to pick wild plants such as water chestnuts to satisfy their hunger. There are many people who are busy, and conflicts are inevitable.

Wang Kuang and Wang Feng, who were from Xinshi (now Hubei, Beijing, Shandong), handled things fairly, and they were convincing and enjoyed high prestige.

Seeing that the time was ripe, Wang Kuang and Wang Feng quickly pulled up a team of hundreds of people and announced that they were against Wang Mang and looking for food.

Wang Chang, Ma Wu, Cheng Dan and others, who had been preparing to rebel not far away, also rushed to join, and the team soon grew to seven or eight thousand people.

They occupied the Green Forest Mountain as a base and were called the "Green Forest Army".

The Green Forest Army usually hides in the green forest mountains, and often comes out to attack the surrounding government, official army and local tyrants, and seize property and food.

Later, people called people who robbed homes and squandered money as "heroes of the green forest", and the meaning was very different.

Because they could eat, not be angry, and rebel against the government, the common people from all over the world gathered in the Green Forest Mountain, and the Green Forest Army soon grew to more than 50,000 people.

Wang Mang didn't dare to underestimate this, and hurriedly sent troops to encircle and suppress it.

The Green Forest Army, like the Red Mei Army, was out anyway, and its combat effectiveness was very strong, and the official army was defeated in Yundu (now Chuyang, Hubei).

This attracted Wang Mang's further attention.

In the following year, that is, in the summer of 22 AD, Wang Mang sent Yan You, the general of Nayan, and Chen Mao, the general of Zhizong, to lead the main force from the capital Chang'an and pass through Nanyang

, in an attempt to eliminate the Green Forest Army in one fell swoop.

At this moment, a plague broke out in the Green Forest Mountain, and almost half of the Green Forest Army died (and half of the dead).

In order to get out of the predicament, seek survival first, and then seek development, the Green Forest Army can only be transferred by different routes.

To make a long story short, in the fall of 22 AD, the Green Forest Army developed (or had to be divided into) 3 teams:

A group led by Wang Chang and Cheng Dan crossed the Han River in the south and operated in the area of Nanjun (now Jiangling, Hubei), called the Xiajiang Soldiers (then called the Yangtze River from Nanjun).

The following is Xiajiang).

A group led by Wang Kuang, Wang Feng, Ma Wu, Zhang Wei, etc., from Xinshi (now Beijingshan County, Lake), went north to Nanyang, and was called Xinshi Bing.

At this time, Chen Mu and Liao Zhan, who were from Pinglin (now Suizhou, Hubei), gathered more than 1,000 people to revolt and respond to the new city soldiers, known as Pinglin soldiers.

These three teams galloped across the three counties of Nanjun, Nanyang and Jiangxia, to which Jingzhou belonged, echoing each other and acting as horns for each other, which not only dealt a heavy blow to Wang Mang in the south

Fang's rule, and directly threatened the capital of Chang'an, the center of his rule.

The formation of this military situation was of course due to the simple and practical strategic and tactical thinking of the leaders of the Green Forest Army, and also benefited from the work of Wang Mang's cadres

Style.

Wang Mang's work style of coercing and deceiving the country is manifested in the usual work of being a politician, and at every critical time, he still has a good performance in this regard.

When the Green Forest Army first revolted, he sent messengers to pardon them.

He thinks that the rebels are thieves, and they should be beaten, but there are too many troubles in the court now, so don't make trouble, the court will not beat you and will not pursue it

You guys.

He sent envoys to carry out the so-called pardon, but in fact he was to entrap the rebels.

The Green Forest Army and the other rebels were not full enough to hold up and play on the contrary, they were precisely because they were so hungry that they couldn't live, and they were reckless to Wang

In the end, he was disappointed, so he took his head and rebelled.

In other words, they have too deep a grudge against Wang Mang, too much contradiction, and it is a matter of survival, which is not compatible with ordinary people.

Once, a messenger returned in vain and truthfully reported to Wang Mang:

"At the moment thieves are on the rise, sometimes alone, sometimes together. I carefully investigated the reasons for this, and they all said that we are suffering from the reality of the decree and the law

Harsh, committing a felony at every turn. Working hard, the income from labor is not enough to pay taxes. Even if you close the door in your own home, maybe it will be

Because the neighbor committed a private coinage or something, he was arrested by those traitors. I see that it is because the common people have no way to live, that they all rise up to be thieves

Poor, all thieves). ”

This envoy told the truth, and he reported very responsibly on the social situation at that time and the reasons for the rebellion of the common people, very specific and very vivid.

However, Wang Mang was furious when he heard this, and immediately dismissed the envoy.

This is because, in his cadre ranks, he really cannot tolerate honest cadres and pragmatic style!

Among the other envoys, most of them were party sticks and politicians who were good at observing words and feelings, and seeing the wind and steering, so they followed Wang Mang's thoughts and said that "the people are arrogant and cunning."

should be killed (the people should be punished)", what "the situation is good now, and the thieves will be extinguished soon (the time is right, and it will not be long in time). ”

Wang Mang was very happy to hear this, and immediately promoted and reused such cadres.