Chapter 302: The Sun Shines on the Sweetwater River
Guo Huaiyi's recruitment fleet, the first stop to arrive is Juzhou, Shandong, which is Rizhao City, Shandong Province, which is the world. ()
The first stop was the order of the Hantang Group.
The reason is simple:
First, the geographical location here is relatively remote, belonging to the non-mainstream area of various disasters; Second, judging from the historical materials recorded here, it temporarily belongs to the sphere of influence of the Yuyuan Rebel Army.
Captain Wu Jianqiang once asked the Ming security guards who had been to Shandong about this matter, but although they had been to Juzhou, Shandong, they did not know about the Yuyuan Rebel Army, and their attitude towards the peasant revolution was extremely reactionary.
Wu Hualong said with a grin: "What is the rebellion against tyranny, rebellion against the Manchu Dynasty, big households, merchants, middle households, etc., as long as there are some good things at home, they will rob them - last time I brought some goods to walk in Luxi, and I was almost robbed by them, if it weren't for my unique skills-"
"Okay, don't blow it to me, you're a good man." Captain Wu Jianqiang said impatiently, "Have they resisted the Manchu Qing - then they can be regarded as national heroes!" It depends on the mainstream of the problem-"
"Whoever is in office, they will rebel! -- Okay, it's a national hero, don't stare at me -- I'd better go back and train my recruits, there are more and more people, it's really good. ”
"Get out!"
Wu Hualong turned around deftly and ran quickly, but Captain Wu Jianqiang didn't kick this time-
The Ming people's ideological concepts were feudal and backward, and it seemed that they did not have a view of the overall situation of the country and the nation, so it was impossible to expect them to give them an objective and fair evaluation.
Hantang Group can only use historical data as the main research object.
The Yuyuan Army Uprising was a typical historical event in the history of the traditional Chinese peasant revolutionary war, and its life and exhibition had the universal characteristics of peasant rebellion in China's feudal society, while the imbalance of the social and ecological system in the southwest of Shandong in the late Ming Dynasty led to the multiplication of the local poor peasants' survival pressure.
More importantly, the Han and Tang groups have analyzed their actual situation, and now no one among them has the phenomenon of being called king and emperor, which really proves that their rebellion is really just to live, or to live better.
The Yuyuan Army was not a peasant armed force with unified leadership and strict organization, but a collective name for several peasant armed forces in the Cao and Pu areas of Shandong in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. With the help of the natural barrier of the treacherous and traffic-constrained Yuyuan area, they gathered here to establish a base, and from there they attacked everywhere, occupied the city, threatened the Cao Yun, and resisted the rule of the Ming and Qing dynasties.
The main leaders of the Yuyuan Army, Zhang Qi, Ren Qi, Liang Min and others, were all ordinary peasants, and the main participating force of the Yuyuan Army was also the local poor peasant class, with a scale of more than 100,000 people.
The Yuyuan Army's activities spread to the vast areas of western Shandong, southern Shandong, and northern Jiangsu, affecting the four provinces of Zhizhi, Shandong, Henan, and Suzhou, and became the most influential peasant war in Shandong in the early Qing Dynasty, threatening the Qing government's control of local power in Shandong.
With the emergence of national contradictions after the Qing troops entered the customs, the Yuyuan Army and the Ming regime in the past gradually moved from confrontation and hostility to cooperation.
The "Caozhou Uprising" in 1648, in which the Yuyuan Army participated, together with the anti-Qing movements born across the country in the same year, formed a peak of the anti-Qing struggle in the early Qing Dynasty, and the sphere of influence was also expanded to the maximum.
Juzhou, the Qingzhou Mansion of Luxi, is also theoretically within the scope of their activities.
Of course, due to the mediocrity and decay of the Southern Ming regime in a corner of peace, it was unable to unite the heroes to recover the Central Plains, and was finally broken by the Qing army's integrated forces.
Twenty miles outside the county seat of Juzhou, near the seaside, there is a Zhuangzi, named Zhaojiazhuang.
Most of the people in this village are from their own tribe, and even if there are foreigners among them, some good people were selected to enter the village at that time.
There are more than 200 households in Zhuangzi, with a population of about 1,000 people, and every household is very familiar with each other.
The old patriarch of the Zhao family could even call out everyone's name.
Originally, they worked every day at sunrise and rested at sunset, and they paid the imperial grain to pay the imperial grain, and paid the taxes and contributions when they paid the donations, and they could still live their lives.
Most of the people in Zhaojiazhuang made a living by the sea, and when they got the catch, they went along the Tianshui River to Juzhou to sell them in exchange for some daily necessities.
There are also some thin fields around Zhuangzi, probably because they are close to the sea, so they don't produce much grain, so they can only grow sorghum - and some places along the Tianshui River are still more fertile, and the grain production is not high. But it is also food, which can live. Work harder, open more land, how can you produce more.
Therefore, even the old patriarch of the Zhao family in Zhuangzi himself has to go to the field to do work, and the strong laborers in Zhuangzi have to go to the sea, which is the main harvest.
The eldest son of the head of the Zhao family was a small official in Jimo, and the second son was a small official in Juzhou, and then the troubled times were panicked, and the old patriarch called the two sons back, we are not the people who are officials, and there is no need to worry about one party's duties, and then they both moved to Zhuangzi to live, after all, Zhuangzi is safer and can resist for a while.
Zhuangzi's protective measures are indeed in place.
As early as a few years ago, when the world slowly began to be chaotic, the old patriarch secretly ordered people to make spearheads, and decisively ordered the young people in Zhuangzi to gather together to build a wall - this is a common kind of wall in Shandong, not a brick wall, nor a stone wall, but a kind of wall with wooden stakes sandwiched with adobe.
The wall is more than one person wide, and pedestrians can be used, which is conducive to patrolling the wall guards.
This kind of wall is cheap to build, easy to maintain, if it rains and the wall soil is loosened, add soil and smash it again after the rain is clear, until it is solid; If one of the stakes on both sides is rotten, replace it with another one.
At first, the young people in the Zhuangzi were annoyed, until wave after wave of homeless people passed by-the Zhao family Zhuangzi, and this wall was a life-saving wall. Whenever the outcasts came in droves, they closed the large wooden gates, and hundreds of men immediately went up to the barricade with their weapons and began to guard them.
After seeing this, the ordinary homeless people left. The cost of attacking this Zhuangzi is too high, after all, there are still big families who do not have such a defense as Zhaojiazhuang.
Zhaojiazhuang's young and strong weapons are spears with spear heads, all of which are nailed with iron nails, and they are also shining in the sun after grinding.
When there were fewer and fewer big households around, the people of Zhaojiazhuang, who had been cowering in the Zhuangzi, knew that it might be their turn. It's not that they're unprepared, but who can they turn to for help?
The officials of the Ming Dynasty in the county town of Juzhou were killed by the officials sent by the Dashun army, and later the officials sent by the Dashun army were killed by the angry people - until the officials sent by the Qing Dynasty came, a total of 300 soldiers and horses, it would be good to be able to keep the city of Juzhou - besides, the old patriarch of the Zhao family would not ask those Tartars for help, they even asked people to shave their braids!
Originally, there were still rebels, but they only appeared when they were collecting grain, and they couldn't usually see them - fortunately, some dilapidated farmers around them also joined Zhaojiazhuang.
I am not afraid that they are spies, and the people of Zhaojiazhuang only choose those who they know in the past - these people hate those homeless people more than the people of Zhaojiazhuang, and they are the ones who ruined their own home.
On this day, another large group of homeless people appeared, and they were much more numerous than before. They could also be seen followed by more than 20 men riding mules and driving donkeys, which carried large and small burdens on their backs. All of them had iron tools, not like the sticks of the homeless.
The homeless people didn't say anything, and at that time they began to storm the gate, and the men in the Zhuangzi took guns and stabbed them out through the cracks in the fence of the gate.
In the midst of the spells, in the screams, more and more people died outside, and the corpses all blocked the door.
Some of the homeless people crawled from the corpses and tried to climb the wall - the men who had been on the wall stabbed down with their guns, and the weapons of the homeless people were obviously not opponents, they were mostly wooden sticks.
By the afternoon, neither side could move. One of them was below, and the other was above with blood-red eyes glaring at each other, and they couldn't even say anything swearing.
At this time, the old patriarch of the Zhao family climbed the barricade, and shouted in a righteous and awe-inspiring voice: "If you wait for the fight to continue, you will have to wait for me to open the door, and everyone can only fight to the death - but see that you are not locals, and when you come here, you must be hungry, and we will wait for benevolence and righteousness, so that you can wait to eat and fight again--after that, several healthy women in the village also climbed the wall, and they threw the bun into the distance, and the bun seemed to be steaming.
The flow of people around the gate suddenly became chaotic, and the homeless people cried and scrambled.
The old patriarch of the Zhao family immediately asked the young people in the Zhuangzi to come down to the wall first, handed them food with soup and water, and let them eat while it was hot, but he was walking around in the village as usual, and said in his mouth: "Mo food is too fast, Mo food is too fast, the strongest people outside must be able to eat sorghum buns, and they will be thirsty after eating, I can rest for a while-"
Sure enough, after a few moments of fighting outside, it was quiet - but the homeless people still didn't disperse.
The old patriarch of the Zhao family sneered and said: "Hmph, I can't beat Juzhou City, but I'm staring at my Zhaojiazhuang - I see how the cold winter tonight will live?!" ”
Before evening, the homeless people began to pick up the clothes of the dead and put them on their bodies indiscriminately, this is to fight to the death with Zhaojiazhuang-
A bonfire was also lit in the distance--The old patriarch of the Zhao family sneered and said, "It must be driven by the people there, they are by no means the rebels, they must be the remnants of the thieves-"
His two sons have been with him all the time. The eldest son said: "The Manchus have 2,000 soldiers and horses in Jimo, and they dare not go there; There are three hundred soldiers and horses in Juzhou, and they don't dare to go there, but they come here to harm the villagers, it's really damned-"
"Hmph, I will respect heaven and earth, and be in harmony with the villagers, but I still suffer in troubled times - family righteousness, my father asked you to come back from Juzhou, and I lost you, and suffered this great calamity - this is immortal!"
The second son of the old patriarch of the Zhao family said: "Daddy, let me be the thief as a servant, I will have already died and have no place to be buried - now I am a Tartar, and I don't want to be in the same city, if the whole family goes to the country together, I will die well!" ”
The voice of the old patriarch of the Zhao family was so loud that almost everyone heard it:
"Good! It's not a loss to us to be from a farming family - it is difficult for a gentleman to die in the country - but not necessarily! My Zhao family has done countless good deeds, and after holding on for two days, the righteous army will definitely come to help! ”
The eldest son of the old patriarch muttered in his heart, the rebels could only be seen when they were receiving food, and this place was still far away from where the rebels were—how could they know in two or three days? Otherwise, Daddy would have sent someone for help - the rebels? If they don't give them food, they will attack us.
At the campfire in the distance, more than a dozen big men were sitting around.
A big man said: "Third brother, I really didn't expect that the cottage in other places would almost be taken lightly, and there would be countless casualties in such a remote mountain villa—"
Another big man said: "It's a pity that we waited too much to be too benevolent and didn't die to the homeless people - I will talk about it tomorrow when the eldest brother comes to help, I don't know how many of these homeless people will die in vain overnight - it's a pity." ”
"Third brother, after grabbing these votes, the brothers will go into the mountain to rest, don't worry that there are no homeless people-"
On this winter night, the cold wind could not blow away the thick smell of blood—the blood that flowed was only slightly frozen—and the extreme cold that the patriarch of the Zhao family had hoped for had not arrived.
The next day, the sun was still shining on the Sweet Water River.
The big man named the third brother said loudly: "I'll start distributing dry food, and we will break Zhaojiazhuang today!" ”
The homeless people began to pour in, and more than a dozen big men changed their faces, and immediately drew their knives, shouting in their mouths: "Just like last time, don't mess up!" ”
Dry food is as hard as iron, and hunger is as strong as steel. After some homeless people ate some dry food, they seemed to have some strength and began to rush at this Zhaozhuang again.
If you don't break through it, where can you run? If their own family business has been destroyed a long time ago, then other people's family business cannot be saved, and they can only live if they rob themselves.
The old patriarch of the Zhao family on the wall saw these people with hideous faces, and he resolutely rushed up, and his heart was very bitter.
God, my Zhao family has never done anything lacking in morality, how did they suffer from this catastrophe...... Oh my God, help me!
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