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Xu Du (?) ~1644), the character mouth. Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info Hongtang Xu Zhai, Dongyang City, Zhejiang Province. When he was young, he studied in Jiaxing, got acquainted with literati and bachelors in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and traveled to "Sanwu" together. Witnessing the encroachment and corruption of officials in Jiangsu, Anhui and Zhejiang, and the poor people starving to the road, they embraced the ambition of helping the world. Manager Chen Zilong was recommended but was not appointed. When he returned to his hometown, he scattered money, recruited warriors, formed a "righteous society", and made weapons. In the fifteenth year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty (1642), he sent his subordinates to participate in the peasant uprising in Kucang Mountain. Xia, contacted party members from all over the country, attacked Xuanping, but failed. The county ordered Yao Sundi to collect money and enrich himself in the name of preparing for chaos. He also added the crime to Xu Du and asked for a bribe of 10,000 gold, but he was angry and did not allow it. In December of the sixteenth year, the mother of the capital went to the funeral, and tens of thousands of mourners were delivered. Someone complained to the superintendent Wang Xiong that he had rebelled, and the king immediately sent troops to arrest him. The public was angry, the officers and soldiers were killed, and the uprising was revolted. The rebels were named after the white cloth wrapped their heads, and they were called "white-headed troops". The number of respondents was 100,000. Xu Du is handsome, and the year name is Yongchang. The Discipline Inspection Commission of the Baitou Army is strict, and Qiu has not committed any crimes. The county seat of Dongyang County, followed by Yiwu, Zhuji, Pujiang, Yongkang, Wuyi, Tangxi, Lanxi and other counties, the whole Zhejiang earthquake. However, after Xu Du occupied Dongyang, he built the "Shuai Mansion" (also known as the "Zhongyi Mansion"), and after more than 10 days, he began to march to Jinhua, lost his fighter plane, and was blocked in Xiaoshun Town. After a hard battle, it was forced into the suburbs of Jinhua. The defenders of the city were supported by the division. On the 28th day of the first month of the seventeenth year, the battle was under the city, and the righteous army was defeated and retreated to Ziwei Mountain. At this time, Xu Du felt that he could not resist the official army, so he sent someone to find Chen Zilong and asked to discuss the terms of surrender. After that, Chen Zilong's superior, Wang Xiong, believed that the military rations were insufficient and that the other party should accept the surrender. When Xu Du sent people to ask for surrender for the second time, Chen Zilong agreed to be the negotiator. After that, Wang Xiong promised that as long as Xu Du surrendered, he would be pardoned for his capital crimes, and Xu Du was overjoyed, dismissed most of his troops, and led more than 200 people to surrender. However, Wang Xiong's superior, Zhejiang Inspector Zuo Guangxian, did not think that Wang Xiong's promise was valid and insisted on killing Xu Du, Chen Zilong first asked not to kill Xu Du, but Zuo Guangxian did not agree; Chen Zilong then asked to kill only Xu Du, Zuo Guangxian still did not agree, and finally Xu Du and sixty-four of his men were killed, Xu Fuyuan and He Gang thought that Chen Zilong was treacherous, and used this to blame Zilong, and the two almost broke off their friendship with Chen Zilong. Fortunately, the misunderstanding was later clarified. Xu Du's subordinates Xu Jiaying, Ding Ruzhang and other reunited people to resist the government, and even broke Jinhua, Tangxi, Wuyi, Yongkang County, and repeatedly broke Yiwu. The following year, it was also defeated by the official army. Subsequently, there were still people in the old department of Xudu who gathered to rebel against the government. The peasant rebel army in Zhejiang and Fujian also tried to call for the white-headed army.