[25] Theoretical basis of rebellion

Wei Guofu said: "Although my old Wei is a martial artist, I also know that this year of drought and flood is as terrible as the war and chaos, and there are thousands of deaths. Even a well-to-do family with medium wealth will always hurt their vitality. I heard that the governor has found a Taoist priest, set up a magic altar in Jinan Mansion, and is begging for rain, but I hope that these Taoist priests are proficient in Taoism, and it is good to have a heavy rain after the summer, otherwise next year's field tax, and I will have to send troops to the countryside to pursue it, damn it, this kind of bullshit is not oil and water, which time is not a chicken flying dog jumping......"

Yao Fan was suddenly shocked at this time and understood what the origin of this drought was.

He thought sadly in his heart: "How many thousands died this time!" This is the beginning of the Ding Wuqi famine!

This four-year drought in history covered the entire provinces of North China! Shanxi, Henan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Zhili, Shandong, northern Jiangsu, northern Anhui, and northern Sichuan were all affected! Everywhere the crops are lost, the fields are barren, the starvation is carried away, and the bones are full of wilderness! More than 10 million people died of starvation! ”

Thinking of this, Yao Fan couldn't help but tremble, and the burly Shandong man almost wanted to cry: "More than 10 million people!" What is the concept of more than 10 million people? The total population of Britain, which completed the Industrial Revolution as early as 184o, was only 310,000 in the census of 187o! There were only 360,000 people in France in 187o! There were only 4ooo people in Germany in 187o!

However, because the Taiping Rebellion was extinguished by the Qing government in 1864, the Qing government also gradually equipped a powerful weapon to suppress the peasant uprising in the military campaign to exterminate the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom--foreign guns! So in this unprecedented drought in North China, the hopeless peasants who resisted could only die silently, first eating grass roots and tree bark, then children and dead bodies, and then starving to death.

Yao Fan clearly remembered the history in various local chronicles: the peasants in northern Jiangsu gathered like zombies, plundered people and ate them, and many travelers reported missing......

There are many farmers in Gansu who are afraid of being eaten, so they simply fall into the rock and go to the stream to kill themselves......

Henan peasants were described as having neither edible meat nor the power to cut people', so the whole village quietly stood up......

In northern Sichuan, fathers and sons, brothers, and husbands and wives abandoned each other, and they all died on the way to escape after crying......

Shandong winter goes to spring, no one enters the village, and when you open the door, you see the whole family quietly dying, and the whole village is like this......

There are people eating people everywhere in Shanxi, the hardest-hit area, and people who eat and sell human flesh abound! There are those who eat the flesh of the dead! There are those who kill their wives and children and eat them alive! The Jin merchants, who were licked by many people in later generations, used heavily armed Zhuang Ding to guard their houses and granaries tightly. Although they only need to take out one-tenth of the silver winter melon they hide in the ground, they can buy rice to feed the whole Shanxi people, but the unprofitable things Jin merchants will not do, this ethnic group that can sell the Ming Dynasty for the sake of profit, will never do such a stupid thing.

As for the ironcore crops of the Manmeng Eight Banners in all the cities of the world, they have survived the four years of drought peacefully, during which there are a lot of taels of silver, and the grain of one or two meters has not decreased. At that time, the blind could see that where there was the 5,000-year-old Chinese Taoism advocated by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, leaving only a man-eating hell in the world! ”

Yao Fan clenched his fists tightly, restrained the trembling on his body, his nails sank into the flesh unconsciously, his chest rose and fell violently, and he breathed desperately deeply, but his mouthpiece, mouth and nose were already blocked by angry muscles. He asked himself, "What should I do!" Do you want to sit idly by? What can I do! What if I had no foundation right now and suddenly started something? ”

"Nope! No, no, no! I can't watch these compatriots go on like this, I can't watch them die in this suffocating darkness! Even though I have no roots......

Although tens of millions of people have taken the lead, on the other hand, isn't this an opportunity!

As long as! …… As long as I can solve the food problem! One day of unveiling, why not smash this old world! When the time comes, who in the world can beat me!

Yao Fan! You have to rebel quickly! ”

After the doctrine of determination, Yao Fan was terrified that he had forced his future plan for the rich family to a dead end.

Liu Ziming saw that everyone didn't talk much after talking about the unfortunate topic of drought at the banquet, so he broke the silence and said in a knowledgeable manner: "When it comes to cannibalism, there is no need to make a fuss. Cannibalism has been practiced since ancient times, so it depends on who eats? Who to eat?

Murong Xianbei captured Yecheng and grabbed 50,000 girls, the army first raped and then cooked, and they were eaten up in one winter, and the white bones and skeletons eaten up outside the city were piled up like a mountain.

The rebellion of Jingkang in the Northern Song Dynasty, the Jin soldiers went south to take people as food, commonly known as 'two-legged sheep', the old man's name was 'Rao put the fire', not too big fire can not be cooked thoroughly, the girl's name was called 'not envious sheep', the meat was delicious and more than mutton, and the children were called 'and the bones were rotten', and the bones were crispy when cooked, and the flesh and bones could be eaten together.

The Yuan army entered China, the way to eat is complicated, eat raw and cooked, eat alive and die, its recipes are not all recorded, the Yuan people call human flesh "want meat", that is, eat and want to eat again, delicious very. ”

Liu Ziming finished selling off, thinking that he was knowledgeable, but he lost his appetite when the audience was full.

Sun Maowen put down his chopsticks heavily, frowned and reprimanded: "What do you say!" Besides, the Dajin Kingdom is of the same origin as my Great Qing Dynasty, and the Yuan people are now also the noble status of the Mongolian Eight Banners, Ziming, you are so taboo when you speak, if you fall into the ears of the things that are used to chewing the root of the tongue, do you know that sooner or later you will be involved? These words of yours tonight will not be mentioned again in the future! ”

Liu Ziming was counted down by Sun Maowen, and he trembled all over, and he also felt that he was drunk and speechless, so he hurriedly hid to cover up, and said that he was drunk.

Wei Guofu drank the wine glass in front of him in one gulp, and also frowned: "Let's drink!" It's disgusting! You readers know a lot about these pickled birds! ”

Yao Fan listened to Liu Ziming's nonsense in order to show off his knowledge, and he was extremely disgusted.

He forced himself to calm down, and said, "Brother Sun, junior brother, I think that if the imperial court uses work for relief, it can feed the hungry people, and at the same time, it can also rebuild the water conservancy road." ”

Sun Maowen sneered: "Brother, don't be funny, the chaos of long hair and twisting bandits has just been settled for only ten years, but the court has not yet filled the deficit, where is the money to do what work for relief." I heard that when Lord Zuo went to Xinjiang this time, the silver for quelling the rebellion was still backed by Hu Xueyan, the head of the Hui businessman. Now, no matter how big your things are, if you want to expect the court to come up with silver, you can't count on it. ”

Yao Fan wanted this is what he wanted, and immediately said: "I originally planned to build a Zhuangzi and some warehouses in Qingdao in a few years, but now it seems that this civil engineering project will be done sooner or later, so it is better to do it now." In this way, I can also feed some laborers, so that they can have something to eat and not starve to death, which is also regarded as my accumulation of yin virtue and cultivation in the next life. ”

Sun Maowen glanced at Yao Fan with a little surprise, and then said with a smile: "This is indeed a good thing to accumulate yin virtue, but when you build roads and houses in disaster years, you can always live a few more poor people." Brother Yao, since you have this ambition, you are willing to help you as a brother, and you will definitely be presented to the court for you and ask for royal commendation. ”

Liu Ziming also smiled dryly: "Brother Yao is kind-hearted, I will toast you." ”

Wei Guofu said with some admiration: "Brother Yao, this is indeed a good deed of accumulating yin virtue, and I also salute you." ”

When he went out of the Shijia Hotel that night, Yao Fantuo was unwell and did not go to the Spring Sleep Hall with everyone. Everyone thought he was going back to make love with the third sister, and he was teased a lot.

Yao Fan got into the carriage driven by He Shicheng and returned home, and the third sister had already made the bed.

"Big brother, are you drunk? I've cooked the decanter soup, you drink some before you go to sleep. ”

Yao Fan sat on the edge of the bed and nodded, and instructed He Shicheng: "Shicheng, you go and fetch some water, and I will wash my feet." ”

The third sister handed over the decanting soup, and when she saw Yao Fan's uncertain face, she asked carefully, "Brother Yao, did you listen to something unhappy during the meal?" ”

Yao Fan raised his pale face and said to the third sister: "Don't worry, I just saw that there were more beggars in the city, and I felt uncomfortable watching it." ”

The third sister's eyes lit up, and she thought, "Brother Yao, what a good person he is!" There is such a good person in the world, and I actually met it, how lucky I must be in this life! ”

Although Yao Fan didn't want her to wash her feet, the third sister still insisted on staying by the side, and after Yao Fan finished washing, she took the footbasin out. served Yao Fan on the side and went to bed, and the third sister went back to her room to sleep. These days when Yao Fan was not there, the third sister asked Luo Guanqun to set up a bed for herself in the room next to Yao Fan, and slept next to Yao Fan at night, taking the initiative to take on the responsibility of serving Yao Fan at home, which was the responsibility of the rich son's personal maid.

Yao Fan blew out the oil lamp and lay on the bed, he should have been sleepy after drinking wine according to his physique, but this time he couldn't fall asleep after tossing and turning.

"How do I go about rebellion? Stripping away the military part, rebellion has always been a sociological system engineering. ”

This proposition is too big, and Yao Fan can only analyze it from the structure of modern society:

"I remember reading when I was a sociology elective in college that the basic social makeup of feudal society was four parts:

The first is the villages scattered in the countryside, which contain almost all the population of an agricultural society like the Qing Dynasty;

the second is the road connecting the village, which allows the village to enter the social system and play a role in it;

the third is the bazaar of social products, which makes the society complementary and coordinated;

Fourth, towns inhabited by wealthy merchants, urban landlords, and craftsmen, which were important hubs for ruling large areas.

How can I take control of this in my own hands?

Military, no doubt, only military. Commercial means are too slow and time-consuming, and the Qing government will not watch commercial capital erode its traditional social structure.

So, should I attack and take the state capital like a peasant army, and use the city to control the party? Or do you abandon the city and take the route of surrounding the city from the countryside as Taizu did, so as to establish a strong base area?

The answer is almost yes, the main force in China's change of dynasty has always been the peasantry! ”

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