Chapter Forty-Nine: The Rebellion in Korea

In the next few days, Chen Zeyu put down what he was doing and stayed with his family for a few days, seeing that his cousin Chen Cuifen was still a little depressed, Chen Zeyu sent a telegram to call Ping Su and her beloved wife together.

Sure enough, Ah Fen was accompanied by a good sister, and the baby in Aunt Helen's womb was diverted, and her mood gradually became cheerful.

While Chen Zeyu was spending a leisure vacation with Aunt Helen and them at home, far away on the Korean Peninsula in North East Asia, a peasant uprising that was destined to be remembered by history was also intensifying.

As a matter of fact, as early as September last year, news came from the DPRK personnel of the Asian Division of the Ministry of Security that the North Koreans were all allowed to rebel in Jeolla Province.

The cause is still old-fashioned, the officials forced the people to rebel, and at this time, the de facto ruler of North Korea, Concubine Min, was leading a group of courtiers under the Min family to set off a series of reform measures throughout the country.

The idea is good, but the strength is not good, and the Ganghwa Island Treaty, which was forced to be signed by Yu himself earlier, has caused a large outflow of domestic grain. While helping Yuben raise more people, the people in North Korea gradually fell into a situation of soaring prices and food shortages.

In addition, during this period, Cho Byung-jia, the chief official of Jeolla Province, was a famous corrupt official in history, and while he lived a luxurious life, he gave the whole people under his rule a miserable life. At that time, the people in Jeolla Province, North Korea, competed to recite such a ballad: "The golden bottle of wine is the blood of thousands of people, and the jade plate is delicacies and ten thousand surnames." When the candle tears fall, the people cry, and the singing is high. "In such a situation, it is only natural for the people to take risks.

The leader of this peasant uprising was Quan Jizhun, who claimed to be the head of Dongxuedao.

His rebellious genes are also family traditions, and his father died in his early years in rebellion against the county guard's tax increase. Naturally, the young Jeon was determined to save the suffering people by following the example of his father, and in the minds of the North Koreans of this era, it should be said that Jeon Joon was a heroic figure.

Originally, this person didn't necessarily have the climate, and they all said that tigers can't fight wolves. And it was this person's career choice mentor who gave him the power to start, Choi Shiheng, the Taoist master of Dongxue Taoism in North Korea at that time.

Historically, Dongxue Tao has always been an organization that opposes Western religions and advocates Eastern learning and teachings, which should be said to have a certain progressive significance. The slogans of "punishing corrupt officials and corrupt officials" and "rebuking foreign officials" put forward by the church were indeed very influential among the poor peasants of North Korea at this time.

Therefore, in the early days when the banner of the uprising was erected, a very large-scale turmoil was set off in the entire province.

Jeon is himself much luckier than his father, and the current Jeolla Provincial Governor Cho Byung-ja is obviously more than a step behind his predecessor, Kim Moon-hyun, a child of a family. As soon as this corrupt official heard that the Dongxue Party and People's Army had hit Gufu, he out from Quanzhou County, his jurisdiction.

In fact, at that time, the Dongxue Party and People's Army, which had just started the incident, were extremely short of weapons at hand, and most of the equipment on their hands were Tiejiashi who worked in the fields. If this Lord Zhao Bingjia was willing to stick to the city at that time, he might not be able to get these "peasant army" with his hundreds of servants.

It's a pity that history has no ifs.

On the other hand, since the Donghak Party rebel army was lucky enough to succeed in the first step, after laughing at Jeolla Province's "parent official" Cho Byung-jap, who gave up Jeonju Fortress, and obtained the precious grain, gold, silver, and weapons in the government treasury, its power became stronger and stronger.

When the Mokpo county lieutenant heard the news, he wanted to send someone to extinguish this rebel army, but he obviously didn't expect his superiors to be so "seeded", and as a result, the hundreds of officers and soldiers sent were annihilated at once when they encountered tens of thousands of Donghak Party and civilian troops who were replenished by materials, and the county lieutenant himself, Li Gengho, was also killed by the platoon gunners in the people's army.

Well, all of a sudden, the Donghak Party had no "opponents" in the entire Jeolla Province of North Korea.

The People's Army began to "capture" the towns in the province in a step-by-step manner, and at this time more and more civilians joined the rebel army along the way, and at the same time, the wealth and weapons swept by the Dongxue Party and the People's Army also greatly increased.

Soon after, Quan appointed a young man named Jin Deming as his military advisor.

In the original history, there was no such figure at the top of the Middle East Party, and history has changed here!

One day in February 1894

Quan Zhun, who was dressed in military uniform, looked at the Yellow Sea in the west without saying a word, rubbing his hands, and his rather indifferent eyes showed a rare hint of eager anticipation today.

"Brother Jin, will the Chinese really send arms?"

"Rest assured, chief, I have a machine to communicate with Chinese for thousands of miles, and since I have received the telegram, the ship will arrive in the near future......" Jin Deming also looked at the sea in the distance, and then turned his head to the side of Quanzhu.

"Chief, did I bring all the gold and silver you had prepared?"

Quan Zhun nodded with a wry smile, "So far, I still keep these gold and silver for a long time, and I have brought 300,000 taels of gold." ”

After saying that, he raised his head and looked at a Chinese soldier sitting on the dock not far behind him, this Chinese was wearing a strange military uniform, carrying the liaison agency mentioned by the Jin brothers behind his back, and was smoking a cigar leisurely, and the burly young man was holding a pair of Westerners' telescopes at this time staring intently at the Yellow Sea.

Quan Qizhu saw the young man suddenly stand up from the ground and make a strange gesture to Jin Mingde, and his expression was immediately happy.

"Brother Jin, are they here?"

Jin Mingde returned unhurriedly, "Don't worry, chief, the ship has arrived." ”

"Good, good! Fast! Come with me to greet you personally! ”

……

The water level at Mokpo Port was very good, and the waterway was cleared in advance to meet the cargo ship.

Looking at the huge body of the large freighter not far away slowly approaching the dock, Jin Mingde breathed a sigh of relief, and looked up, and could vaguely see a group of Seris soldiers lining up on the deck to disembark.

A group of neatly dressed Chinese soldiers of 50 people stepped on the trestle one by one to line up on the trestle, and the awe-inspiring momentum was seen to the side of the Dongxue Party and the People's Army, which had been waiting for a long time, one by one dumbfounded.

"It's really magnificent, these Chinese are really ......"

Quan Zhun looked at the soldiers in front of him, and his expression was quite envious.

"Chief, this is Mr. Sheng, the merchant of Seris!" It wasn't until Jin Mingde next to him reminded him that Quan Mingzhun came back to his senses.

Quan Mingzhun, who felt that he was out of shape, blushed a little and walked in front of the person recommended by Jin Mingde.

"Mr. Sheng, thank you for your help, Quan is grateful!" Quan Zhun clasped his hands into fists and made a gesture.

The person who came was Sheng Xuanhuai, who was entrusted by Chen Zeyu to be in charge of this operation, and he was very serious, and he hurriedly helped Quan Xuanzhun up, while pointing to the cargo ship not far away, "Where, we are late." Let's hurry up and unload the goods, in case there are many dreams at night. ”

"What Mr. Sheng said is reasonable! Ansheng, carry a few boxes of gold onto the ship, and tell the brothers to hurry up and unload the goods, be careful, don't bump into me! ”

As the mechanical boom on the freighter began to work, boxes of munitions were suddenly taken over by the civilian soldiers on the trestle, and they were busy carrying the boxes on their shoulders one by one.

The Seris Navy soldiers on one side, each carrying a rifle, patrolled the perimeter under the leadership of each squad leader......

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