86_86695 There are many things that could have been avoided if you looked at them afterwards.

However, objectively speaking, this kind of seemingly avoidable thing is inevitable if we look at it in the context of macro history.

Let's take the Wuchang Uprising as an example. This incident, from the perspective of the time, was completely avoidable. As long as the staff and family members of Gu Dajun, the chief soldier of Huguang, handle it properly. The guards in Wuchang did not necessarily immediately rebel.

Of course, the subsequent rebellion, in which all the soldiers of Wuchang Mansion participated, would not have caused so much damage to the rule of the Ming Dynasty in Huguang.

However, from a macro point of view, the outbreak of the Wuchang Uprising was not an independent and special event. Throughout the Ming Dynasty during the Apocalypse, various mutinies and civil uprisings occurred one after another.

The excessive concentration of land, the continuous increase in taxes imposed by the imperial court, and the frequent outbreak of natural disasters made it impossible to guarantee the basic survival of the common people. Naturally, the rebellion and troubles of the common people and the guards who were similar to the common people became a norm.

Therefore, from this point of view, the outbreak of the Wuchang Uprising is full of inevitability.

In fact, even if the Wuchang Uprising did not break out, the uprisings in various parts of the Ming Dynasty were constantly breaking out. It's just that, except for the Wenxiangjiao Uprising a few years ago and the Shaanxi Peasant Uprising in the future, no uprising has such a large scale and as profound as the Wuchang Uprising.

In fact, both in life and history, many things happen by chance.

For example, He Zuxian, who is considered the initiator and leader of the Wuchang Uprising, subjectively did not want to lead the soldiers and launch an uprising. The reason why he was the first to ask "when will he be paid" was that he did not actually expect to receive any salary. He just wanted to use this kind of questioning to vent his inner anger that his acquaintance would be beheaded.

He didn't expect that his ordinary question would resonate with the soldiers present at the entire Wuchang Left Guard.

As a matter of fact, if the few staff members and family members of the general army who came to carry out the task of "killing chickens and making an example of monkeys" could clearly recognize the reality and the power of the people's anger. To appease the noisy soldiers at the scene. There is no need to even appease them, as long as they do some simple perfunctory work, things may not go in the direction of an uprising.

But the reality is that Gu Dabing's staff, who were a little lacking in heart, were stunned by the sudden outbreak. After that, they proceeded according to their daily habits, and issued some threats such as "you want to rebel and fail", "boldly disrupt the people, what kind of system will you become".

It's as if I'm afraid that things won't be big enough. When the soldiers gradually became quieter, one of Gu Da's chief soldiers' careless staff proudly and openly proposed to arrest a few soldiers who were the most noisy and shouted the loudest.

The vast majority of soldiers who dare to make noise in such public places are not people like He Zuxian who have families, jobs, wives and children. He Zuxian's expression today belongs to the abnormal behavior of the guide zhì because of the loss of control of the situation. Under normal circumstances, no matter how annoying things are or how depressing they are, out of consideration for supporting the family, He Zuxian, as the head of the family, will not come out to make trouble.

The vast majority of those who like to make trouble are like the seven soldiers who dared to run to rob the grain truck, the kind of single soldiers who have no father or mother, can't marry a wife and can't have children. For people of their status, they are in a situation where they have nothing left but their lives.

For this kind of person, in fact, they are already able to face the reality very soberly. The reality is that there is nothing to look forward to in the future. There are only two ways left in their lives: early death and late death.

Without land, they made a living by farming land for the officers of the guard post and became serfs, and they were always on the verge of starvation. Any weather anomaly could kill them. They have long since taken their rotten lives seriously. It's just that because of inertia, they still honestly accept the reality and don't rise up.

Now, the foolish staff and the family members suddenly stimulated them severely, so that they were strangled from starving to death by habit, and only one was left with the prospect of dying soon. At this time, desperate fighting becomes a meaningful choice.

We have to say that the outbreak of the Wuchang Uprising did not have the Chen Sheng and Wu Guang Uprising, nor did it have the Yellow Turban Uprising, with beautiful slogans such as "The prince will Xiangning have a kind of" or "The sky is dead, the yellow sky should stand" and so on.

When a few of the down-and-out soldiers saw the chief soldier who had come to arrest them approaching them, they said, "We are starving to death!" But you dog slaves are well fed and fat! your mother! Then he began to resist the arrest of these family members, and then rebelled against them.

Although the words shouted by these soldiers don't sound like a big deal now. It's just a few vulgar curses. However, in this environment at that time, the well-fed and fattened family members were enough to arouse the common hatred of the soldiers who were starving to death.

In the beginning, it was just some acquaintances and friends of the soldiers who were about to be arrested, who took the initiative to help their friends and acquaintances resist and resist the arrest of the chief soldier. Then, I don't know what's going on, everyone seems to be suddenly stimulated, first a few people who have nothing to do with the soldiers who are going to be arrested, secretly punch a few Taiping boxers, and secretly beat those family members a few times, to vent the dissatisfaction in their hearts.

However, I don't know how, the beating became a contagious event. All the people around them began to wave their fists at those few family members. In the end, before everyone could react, what was going on. The few family members who came down from the platform to arrest the leader of the troublesome soldiers were beaten to the ground by everyone, and they took in less air and took out more air.

In fact, the ancient people could not have seen very few dead people. For example, now, Wuchang Mansion, which is in winter, has to transport some "road downs" who have been frozen to death or starved to death in the city outside the city every day. However, the staff member sent by Gu Dajun to organize the Killing Chickens and Monkeys Conference was a pure literati in the Jingshi region. You ask him to write, and he writes the dragon and phoenix dance. He asked him to draw, and he painted you all over the page. But if you let him see a few dead people lying on the ground with bloody faces, he can't stand it.

I only heard a shout that seemed to be a eunuch, and shouted out of the mouth of this Gu Zongbing's staff: "Rebellion!" Rebellion! ”

How strange this is. The soldiers of the guardhouse, who were supposed to rebel and took the initiative to rebel, were confused for a while by the shrill shouts of the staff of the chief military officer, who did not want the soldiers to rebel and wanted to suppress the soldiers' rebellion. Many people are still thinking, "Who is going to rebel, and where?" ”

Until a few minutes passed. When they saw the remaining chief soldiers pulling the chief soldiers who were shouting like eunuchs and galloping away, everyone reacted at once. It turns out that this rebellion refers to everyone!

At present, there are more than 2,000 soldiers gathered on the field of Wuchang Zuowei University. Theoretically, a guard should have 5,600 people. It may be because Wuchang Zuowei is located in the provincial capital city of Wuchang Mansion, so it is easier to make a living. Unlike those foreign guards with only 1,000 guards, there are more than 2,000 regular soldiers in Wuchang Zuowei.

Under normal circumstances, the actual number of troops could reach about 50 percent, and the commander of the Wuchang Left Guard should be commended by the imperial court. However, under the circumstance that a mass incident is about to break out, the existence of more than 2,000 regular soldiers is not a happy thing for the officials in Wuchang Mansion.

More than two thousand soldiers were faced with such a situation. Originally, rebellion was their possible, last resort. Now, whether they really want to rebel or not, the name of rebellion has been put on their heads by the close figures and family members around the chief soldier.

Now, these soldiers are faced with an easy choice. Is it just like this, who is unexplained to be put on the name of rebellion, and honestly waits for the hundreds of heavily armed family members to come and kill everyone? Or is it just a matter of using the excuse to directly settle this rebellion?

Those few single soldiers who were about to be taken away, whether they rebelled or not, were a dead end, began to play a role in promoting at this time.

They began to agitate to everyone. Their encouragement to everyone is not even a very clever word. They first let go of the six soldiers tied to the high platform, and then proposed a very feasible plan: "Everyone follow these six brothers and go together to rob the grain depot of the chief soldier." Even if it's death, be a full ghost. ”

It's funny to say. Even if they want to rebel, the soldiers think that there must be a person with a higher status and a higher position than everyone else to lead everyone, and everyone will feel that they have the bottom of their hearts.

And He Zuxian, who was the first to question, was revealed at this time.

Yes. In terms of position, He Zuxian is a small flag of eight grades. In terms of status, He Zuxian's He family has a higher status than ordinary serf soldiers. There is no room for He Zuxian, who has calmed down, to shirk at all. Everyone elected He Zuxian as everyone's leader.

It must be said that these soldiers of the Wuchang Left Guard, who were preparing to rob and rebel, made a very wise choice according to their habits. Ho Zuxian really has what it takes to be the leader of the uprising.

He Zuxian, who has martial arts in his body and insight in his head, has participated in several actual battles before, is really a good commander of military operations