Something happened in Guangdong!

During the Wanli period, due to frequent natural disasters, demons, wars, and tax revenues controlled by the civilian group, the internal treasury expenditure was tight. The emperor had no money to use, so he naturally had to figure out his own way. Before, Wan Li Ye thought of a number of new ideas, including increasing the mining of Guangdong pearls and exchanging pearls for money, after all, 100,000 mouths in the palace have to eat. As a result, an interest group in Guangdong was formed in which officials and businessmen colluded. The comprador of this group, Li Yuanlang of Shixing County, Guangdong, made a fortune in the process.

Li Yuanlang, born in the forty-third year of Jiajing (1564), was born in Shixing, Guangdong. The family was a supplier of timber to the Ming Dynasty royal family, and was responsible for transporting timber from Nanyang to Nanjing by sea and then along the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal to Beijing. In the thirteenth year of Wanli (1585), the Li family relied on bribing internal officials to obtain the official position of a pearl diving inspection envoy from the palace. Although it is from the ninth grade, because it is under the control of the palace, it can wear crown clothes, and no one dares to mess with it from Beijing to the place.

The pearl diving inspection envoy is to collect pearls for the palace, and his job is to collect the pearls collected by the Tan people and send them to the palace, and then take money from the palace and distribute them to these Tan people. The trouble lies in the fact that the local officials are also insatiable in their demand for pearls, and how to distribute the limited pearls collected between the local officials and the palace has become a big problem, after all, it is not good to offend anyone.

Li Yuanlang also has a secret identity - the local White Lotus Sect leader in Shixing County! "Make demon books, incite people's hearts, say that it is easy to die and live, congenital acting birds and paper-cutting are human horses, and the night is flying and flying to rob and kill people." The so-called congenital performance method, that is, the Tang Yuan Tiangang method, contains the five elements, cadres and branches, human physiognomy, past, present, future, good fortune, good fortune, cause and effect, retribution, etc. It gathered some hardcore believers, echoing with Wang Zilong, the leader of the White Lotus Sect in Wengyuan County.

After Zhengde, the White Lotus Society was influenced by Luojiao (created by Luo Qing in the Ming Dynasty, with a purpose close to the southern school of Zen Buddhism), absorbing the idea of "vacuum hometown, no parents", worshipping the lifeless old mother as the creator, and claiming that the lifeless old mother sent Maitreya and other gods and Buddhas to descend to earth, and the fetal daughter of the emperor who was lost in the red dust was returned to the vacuum hometown. The Cantonese dialect reads it as "Eye-Watching Lou Mou", and the official government that wants to suppress the White Lotus Sect is called "Lost Lei Lou Mou" to show hostility. "Diao Lei Lou Mou" in the Cantonese dialect, greeting the other party's mother's vulgar words.

Now, due to the birth of Liaoning, Wanli is in a strong position in the-for-tat confrontation with the previous dynasty. Moreover, the income of the inner treasury is also very generous, and the use is sufficient. Since the economic urgency has disappeared, all kinds of means of accumulating wealth in the interior have also been greatly relaxed. But there are no eunuchs below to make money, don't you think so!

As a group of eunuchs who have suffered heavy physical and mental injuries and live in the inner courtyard of the deep palace all day long, due to the particularity of their physiology, psychology and environment, eunuchs show a personality trait that is very different from ordinary people. And this character trait further influenced and restricted the words and deeds of the eunuchs, which led to the formation of the eunuchs' deformed personalities.

Obedience to authority, bullying the weak and fearing the hard, insidious and cunning, extreme thinking, unprincipled, psychologically dark, insatiable, rudder and servile. All in all, eunuchs are a group of excellent royal senior attendants trained under the Chinese imperial system. Its business training was designed to serve the emperor. Hides personality to personal requirements, servile face, superficial deference, and flexible mind. Once this kind of talent enters politics, the major is very inappropriate, produces obstacles to adaptation, and is very easy to expand, and eventually often messes up and messes up a big beach.

Because of Chen Ju's brilliance in the past two years, he has frequently been praised by the emperor, which makes other eunuchs who can go out to do errands feel that Yali Mountain is big. The eunuch's only biggest goal is to hope that one day he can be favored by the emperor in order to soar. Now that he sees Chen Ju being appreciated by the emperor, how can he not be jealous?

In order to be appreciated by the emperor, you must first do your duty. Li Jing came to Guangdong the previous year to supervise the work of pearl diving. As soon as he took office, he intensified his persecution.

Due to the backwardness of ancient pearl diving technology and equipment, the Tan people risked their lives to dive pearls for the imperial court year after year, and eight out of ten * nine corpses were laid at the bottom of the sea, leaving many orphans and widows. Originally, it was already very miserable and miserable for the Tan people to cope with the normal payment, but now Li Jing persecuted the Tan people in order to ask the emperor for merit, not only did he not sympathize with the danger of pearl diving, but also drove people to death.

After many casualties, the unbearable Tan people broke out, killing Li Jing and his men, robbing them of their belongings and ships, and fleeing to the South Seas.

The people from the palace were killed, and the people directly related to them could not escape the blame, and they had to be killed! What to do? Gotta find a scapegoat. It's rare that there is a survivor at the scene, it's him, greedy for money, murdering internal officials, it's logical!

But this survivor is not muddy, and you can make it round and flat. Li Yuanlang can sit in the position of the head of the White Lotus Sect in Shixing, and has his own ability, since he can escape from the riots of the Tan people, he can also escape from the round-up of the government and escape back to his lair, Shixing County, Shuoyuan Xiadong Shui Baoqing Nunnery.

It's not safe to escape back to the lair, and the government will never stop until it gets its head in order to explain to the palace. It seems that escaping is not a way, Li Yuanlang discussed it with his good friend Wang Zilong, and decided that it would be the opposite!

After Li Yuanlang falsely called Wang Zilong Huangchao, there were 12 kilns of Huangchao's relics, and he was willing to share them with his servants. It is also said that the prince dragon was born in Maitreya, and was entrusted by his motherless mother to take the queen's fetus lost in the red dust back to his vacuum hometown. It is also said that there is a catastrophe in the ugly year, and the ghost will eat people, and those who donate money to Mifu can be exempted.

Hehe, in Cantonese dialect, "Huang" and "Wang" are homophonic, and of course the village husband and foolish woman can't tell that this is "Wang Zilong", not "Huang Zilong". Moreover, the army of Huangchao was to the Liangguang area, and Huangchao has a legend of treasure remaining, and there is a market in the local area.

After some preparation of public opinion, in April of the seventeenth year of Wanli (1589), Li Yuanlang and Wang Zilong gathered hundreds of White Lotus disciples in Shixing and Wengyuan counties to launch arms, divided troops to Dongtao and other places to sacrifice flags and gold, and ordered the people of Dongtao to flee because of wanton burning. He also sent troops to attack Nanxiong Mansion and other places, and the momentum was very strong, and there were also those who followed it in Longnan County. For a time, in the surrounding places, officials and generals preached: "'Lose Lei Loumu' is so powerful!" ”

In the original history, "there are Si Ji Township soldiers to defend it, beheading the dragon to capture Yuanlang, Yu Dang Xiping, and the governor of Southern Jiangxi to Wen Zhiyao, etc., Yuanlang is ambushed." ”

Now there is a big difference, Li Yuanlang got into trouble, and there were people who claimed to be friends of the same religion in Yuanlang Shandong, surnamed Li Mingjiaxuan, and donated weapons and armor purchased at a high price, and lured open the gate of Nanxiong City, so that Li Yuanlang and Wang Zilong could successfully occupy the entire Nanxiong Mansion.

After occupying Nanxiong, Li Jiaxuan went out to buy weapons, armor, grain and grass by himself, carried a lot of money, and left Nanxiong.

Li Jiaxuan soon disappeared, and the people who followed Li Yuanlang also disappeared. When Li Jiaxuan reappeared, he was in Jinling City, restored his original name "Wang Sen", and reported the details of his southward trip to Guangdong to Li Siwei, who had returned from Shandong, and Duan Xiao and Jin Cilang stood on both sides.

(Wang Sen's deeds, you may wish to Baidu it.) ）

The White Lotus Sect plotted to kill internal officials, rebelled, and attacked Nanxiong, with great momentum. Officials in various localities no longer dared to slack off, and on the one hand, they increased their reporting, and on the other hand, they mobilized heavy troops to encircle and suppress them. Above the Yangtze River, the troops are empty, and the bandits from Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Lake who have infiltrated the interior have risen up one after another, and the cult bandits in other places are ready to move when they hear about it!