Chapter 196: Wuchang Uprising 6
Modern people, since 1949, have lived a peaceful and orderly life - by 2015, the vast majority of Chinese have a difficult time imagining a troubled society.
Those of us who are modern people will show disgust when we think of the militias, riots, and uprisings that broke out frequently in ancient times and in the past. Many people who pay more attention to feelings will also quote some ancient poets who said something like "the people are bitter when they rejuvenate, and the people who are dead are bitter".
However, these people often forget that those who can leave an influence in the ideological field, those "public knowledge" who have nothing to do with the word "common people" in ancient or modern times, can never really have any real understanding of the situation of the common people.
Do you think everyone is Du Fu!
The main reason why the vast majority of literati and writers lamented the rise and fall of the world is not really because the interests of the common people were damaged at this time. Rather, they can enjoy the profits of the people, and the days of eating, drinking, prostituting, gambling, and drinking as members of the ruling class are ruined. That's why they have to say something grumbling "on behalf of" the people.
The lives of the common people of the ruled class, who have been bullied, persecuted, exploited, and represented, cannot really be fundamentally different, whether in peaceful years or turbulent years.
For the ruling class, on the other hand, turbulent times can undermine the interests of their vested interests and the stability of their rule. Therefore, they will desperately maintain the life of those decadent and degenerate feudal dynasties, and try to hang their breath for those feudal dynasties. After the inevitable collapse of those feudal dynasties, they will "represent" the people and cry out that their interests have been damaged.
Take the Wuchang Uprising as an example. For the people in Wuchang City, whether Wuchang City is a stable state or a state of turmoil, they don't care at all. To put it in a modern phrase, the people of Wuchang City might say, "What's the matter with me?" ”
Yes, the question "it's about me birds" is hard to answer. Some people who live in modern times, who can eat well, wear warm clothes, and live in a house, may think that they are bitter and say: "Brother, if the society is unstable, you will not be able to live your life." ”
However, the reality is that this is the case. Even if no one made trouble, even if the soldiers of Wuchang Left Guard did not kill all the officials in the city, the life of the ordinary people of Wuchang Mansion would not be able to go on for a long time. Successive increases in taxes and the continuous outbreak of natural disasters have long cut off all the livelihood of these ordinary people.
Therefore, the people who are in dire straits do not feel that "maintaining stability" has any meaning for them. For them, there was no Wuchang uprising, they were living in hell. To paraphrase the saying "dead pigs are not afraid of boiling water", they simply don't think anything worse will happen than the current one.
To put it mildly, if it weren't for the lives of ordinary people, they would really have reached the bottom line. How could there be such a thing as the Yuan and Mongol ruling China and the Manchu ruling China, which seemed to make no sense, and was easily accepted by the common people.
For another example, during the years of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, there were even cases of ordinary people in the Kuomintang areas helping the Japanese to fight the Kuomintang. Modern people may think that what those ordinary people are doing is incomprehensible, but the truth of the matter is actually very simple. Between the Kuomintang and the Japanese, those common people chose the Japanese. But it was because it was easier to survive under the rule of the Japanese than under the rule of the Kuomintang.
You must know that Jiang Guangtou, a perfect man through the ages, did not lightly harm the common people. The Kuomintang government could not perform even the most basic government functions to rescue people in natural disasters.
Leaving the people of Nanjing to be slaughtered by the Japanese, digging up the mouth of the garden and replacing the soldiers with water are all unbelievable things done by this perfect man through the ages. Therefore, it is not at all a common sense that some ordinary people would rather choose to be a slave of the country than a small citizen under the rule of the Kuomintang.
In modern society, some fools will overturn the cases of the landlords and bureaucratic capitalists of the past. That's because they were fortunate to be born in a good era. In the 2,000 years before the founding of New China, if you asked any common people who were exploited by the feudal landlord class and later the bureaucratic bourgeoisie, if they could answer you sincerely, they would applaud the demise of all the landlords and bureaucratic capitalists.
You must know that in the history recorded by the ancient intellectuals, those feudal literati who were members of the feudal ruling class, they had to honestly record the most straightforward curse of those ancient people for the spokesmen and heads of the feudal ruling class.
What did the common people of ancient times think of the ruling class? By the way, then the words are called "Time is mourning, and you are dying!" (When you perish, I will die with you)
Therefore, we don't need to worry about the people of Wuchang Province who can't live in a stable society. What they have lost is not only a stable life, but also the "shackles" that surround their necks and constantly restrain their breath.
After the Wuchang Uprising evolved from a soldier mutiny to an armed uprising with the participation of citizens, the object of the uprising began to shift from the civil and military officials who had been wiped out to the big landlords, big businessmen, and most importantly the big landlords, big businessmen, and most importantly, the Chu Wangfu, which occupied one-third of the entire Wuchang City.
It's really ironic to say. It was precisely the Chu royal clan of the Ming Dynasty who called on and led the rebel soldiers and people to attack the palace of the king of Chu.
According to historical records, the king of Chu was prosperous, and there were no less than 10,000 descendants by the end of the Ming Dynasty. These more than 10,000 people are the descendants of Zhu Zhen, the first king of Chu, who are derived from him by blood relations. However, according to the feudal patriarchal system, only a few of the more than 10,000 people are "Tianhuang faction", and the rest are "side branch sects".
The Tianhuang faction held the "golden rice bowl" given by Ming Taizu to the first Chu king Zhu Zhen from generation to generation, and lived a luxurious life of drunkenness, drunkenness, and dreams. And the vast majority of the side branch sects, with the decline of the Ming Dynasty and the emptiness of the treasury, are often hungry and cold, and the annual supply of rice is not enough to make ends meet, and Zhu Yuanzhang's "ancestral training" does not allow them to engage in the business of the four people.
Therefore, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were many people in the branch of the Chu king, who robbed openly, secretly stole, and even dug up their ancestral graves.
To put it more realistically, nearly 10,000 of the "side branch of the Chu Palace", who are also the descendants of Zhu Yuanzhang, live a life that is not as good as that of the common people. So it is conceivable that the common people are already alive and dead, so what kind of survival state is the "side branch sect" of the Chu Wangfu, which is "not as good as the common people".
Therefore, it has become a very reasonable thing that many clans of the Chu Wangfu will lead the rebel army and the common people to attack the Chu Wangfu.
There was an uprising, and there was an incident of social instability with the common people and the lower strata of society as the main component. It will certainly not be the common people who will suffer from the loss of interests. Because the common people have nothing, they are all participants in uprisings and unrest.
So, who will suffer the loss of Yan zhòng's interests in the Wuchang Uprising?
Naturally, it is the landlords who spend their days on renting and renting land, the landlords who exploit the people by usury, the landlords who plunder the people by relying on grain stores and shops, and the nobles who suck all the people of the Ming Dynasty and use the taxes that all the people are forcibly collected to die of life.
When he killed the entire family of the general soldier of Huguang, He Zuxian's heart was still full of apprehension and uneasiness. When he killed the entire family of the governor of Huguang, He Zuxian still had a little weakness in his heart. However, once the murder is done too much, it becomes a process of skilled work.
Until now, he hasn't waited for He Zuxian to give a clear order. The rebel soldiers under his command and the people who took the initiative to participate in the uprising began to carry out large-scale executions of all the landlords, wealthy merchants, and nobles and clans of the Chu royal palace "on the orders of General He".
He Zuxian not only killed people and cut off everyone's retreat, but everyone also cut off He Zuxian's retreat.
A mutiny of soldiers broke out in Wuchang Province. The news reached the Revival Society on the same day.
At a time when all the other people didn't know what was going on in Wuchang Mansion, and they all thought that the capital of Huguang Province in the Ming Dynasty was peaceful. The office and intelligence department of the Renaissance Society stationed in Wuchang Province had already sent the relevant information to the headquarters of the Renaissance Society in Zhijiang County by steam express.
In addition to the Fuxing Society, the second person to know the news of the Fuxing Association three days late was the Zhijiang Business Alliance, which had corresponding industries and stores in Wuchang Prefecture.
Wang Shuhui was surprised by the uprising that broke out in Wuchang Mansion on the one hand, and felt reasonable on the other.
Wang Shuhui was surprised because in the original history, the Wuchang Uprising did not break out in the last years of the Ming Dynasty. Wang Shuhui thinks it is reasonable, because in today's Ming Dynasty, various mutinies and civil uprisings are not particularly rare events. They were erupting everywhere in China in the late Ming Dynasty.
The Renaissance leadership was visibly overwhelmed by this.
From its inception in 1920 to the present, the Revival Society has been developing for five years. The membership of the Revival Society has exceeded 2,000. The Revival army has numbered more than 30,000 people. The Fuxing Society directly controlled the area, covering the entire Jingzhou region, and had a huge influence on the Shizhu Tusi area and the Daye County area. The industrial and agricultural population under the direct control of the Renaissance Society has exceeded 300,000.
The members of the Revival Society have become accustomed to initiating and leading the people in revolution and construction on their own. However, they are still quite uncomfortable with the spontaneous struggles and uprisings of the people.
Whether it was the Standing Committee of the Party Committee of the Fuxing Society, the Military Committee of the Fuxing Society, or the Administrative Affairs Department of the Fuxing Society, the three senior cadres of the Fuxing Society, which covered the party, military, and government aspects of the Fuxing Society, were much more surprised than Wang Shuhui when faced with the news of the Wuchang Uprising.
When students are faced with a difficult problem, their first reaction is to find their teacher. I have to say that the "prince of heaven and earth" in feudal ethics has a certain rationality. When the child is hungry, he will look for his mother, and the party members of the Fuxing Association, as Wang Shuhui's disciples, are the first time they feel puzzled, they focus on Wang Shuhui.
What experience does Wang Shuhui have? It seems that Wang Shuhui has been carrying out revolutionary work since the end of the Ming Dynasty. But the reality is that apart from really eliminating the landlords, Wang Shuhui himself has no way to say that what he is doing is really carrying out revolutionary practice. He himself is well aware that his work is actually built around construction.
"Not only are we good at destroying an old world, we're even better at building a new world."
This sentence is certainly true for a native revolutionary, but for a time-traveler like Wang Shuhui, who was born and raised in modern China, he is better at construction than destruction. And realistically speaking, in the environment of the last years of the Ming Dynasty, there were not many things for Wang Shuhui to destroy.
The Ming Dynasty, which suffered from the cancer of feudalism, has completely entered a stage of collapse if it is considered from the perspective of a feudalist.
Wang Shuhui did not want to intervene directly in the Wuchang uprising. In his opinion, with his current status, directly intervening in the Wuchang Uprising will, on the one hand, turn himself and the revival society into a big goal. On the other hand, he didn't think that the rebels in Wuchang would trust a vassal clan with the official status of the Ming Dynasty.
Of course, Wang Shuhui can't do nothing. He decided to transfer the corresponding staff officers and officers from the Fuxing Society to intervene in the Wuchang Uprising, which had already broken out.
In this way, sixteen members of the Revival Society, who had undergone three days of special training, were sent to Wuchang Mansion by Wang Shuhui.
Of the sixteen members of the Renaissance Society, eight are officers and staff officers who specialize in military command. There are eight people who specialize in production and construction. The task given to them by Wang Shuhui was simple. On the one hand, they wanted to hide their identities and help the soldiers and citizens who participated in the Wuchang Uprising to build a military force as professional as possible. On the other hand, it is necessary to make the best use of the existing conditions so that this military force can become a force that can be self-sufficient and sustainable.
The most basic goal is to make the rebels in Wuchang Province survive the encirclement and suppression of the Ming Dynasty. The ideal goal is to be able to report to the Wuchang rebels and defeat all the military attacks of the Ming Dynasty.
Although Wang Shuhui does not have a specific idea of how to deal with the Wuchang Uprising now. However, Wang Shuhui instinctively wanted to help the soldiers and citizens who participated in the Wuchang Uprising survive.
Of course, for this sudden change, Wang Shuhui will not ignore it
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