In March 1279, the Yuan general Zhang Hongfan launched the Battle of Yashan, eliminating the last rebel forces of the Southern Song Dynasty, and the Yuan Dynasty completed the final unification of China.

In his later years, Kublai Khan completed the death of his eldest son Duoer and the troubles of illness, and his temperament changed greatly, and he constantly "recruited" the ethnic minorities in the south of the Yangtze River, burned, killed and plundered, and carried out genocide. The people of all nationalities have repeatedly resisted, ranging from tens of thousands of people to thousands of small ones.

Meng Ke Khan's dictation to the fief of the Yang family general in Chishui Mountain, Chengbu Village, Wugang Road, became a blank check because of his unexpected death. Even Kublai Khan, the founding emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, forgot about it, and after his death, his descendants often killed each other for the throne, where did they still have the heart to fulfill their promises.

However, there is one thing that is okay, if the local officials and garrison generals of Baoqing Mansion, Wugang Road, Suining and other places want to plot against Chengbu Zhai and levy harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, as long as the Yang family general group is sent to the office of Dadu, the emperor will personally inquire into the matter, and try his best to maintain the prestige of the Yang family in the surrounding area, and order that all of them must not invade the fiefdom of the Yang family, otherwise they will be killed.

In the second year of Huangqing (1313), in order to thank the Dayuan court for the protection of the Yang family generals and benefit one party, Yang Zaicheng, a descendant of Yang Zhengxiu of Chishui Mountain, with the support of the elders of the clan, funded the establishment of the first Miao academy in China - Rulin Academy. Yang Zaicheng served as the dean, recruited the children of Tuantong as students, and gave lectures in person. Since the Confucian Academy implements civilian education, there is no class of education, and the children of poor families can also enter the academy to study, and for a time the tradition of worshipping literature and learning martial arts in Chengbu Village has been carried forward.

In 1341, the confusing Tuhuan Timur inherited the throne of the Yuan Dynasty and was the Emperor of Yuan Shun, with the name of the right. Although later generations called him Emperor Shun, in fact, it was not smooth at all, as soon as he came to power, natural and man-made disasters followed.

In 1346, the border of Hunan, Guizhou and Guizhou in the southern region suffered a catastrophic natural disaster, and in many places the crops were not harvested, the common people starved to death in countless numbers, and the plague also spread with the famine. The imperial court did not save him when he saw death, and continued to send troops to collect food and taxes, and those who did not pay were arrested and put in prison.

The number of hungry people is rising, and tree bark, grass roots, wild vegetables, and locusts in the wild have become the staple food of the people, and tens of thousands of hungry people in Chengbu Village have reached the brink of life and death. The Yang family has exhausted the group's many years of food reserves in the process of disaster relief, and Mr. Yang Liu, the head of Tusi, has asked for help from surrounding states and counties to support the disaster relief work in Chengbuzhai. After all, Mr. Yang Liuzong was only a general of the Yang family's general group, and he couldn't represent the imperial court, so no one paid attention to him.

Some officials and local generals still said cool things, slandering Yang Liu always wanted to buy the hearts of the people, take the opportunity to expand their territory, and restore the fiefdom of the Yang family during the Five Dynasties. These words soon spread to the capital, and the eunuchs around Emperor Yuan Shun added fuel and vinegar to the emperor, and the Yang family will have ill intentions, and they must arrest the local official Yang Liuzong and behead him in Beijing as soon as possible, so as to prevent future troubles.

Emperor Yuan Shun sent troops to seize the office of the Yang family general in Dadu and threw all the personnel into prison. Wu Tianbao, the porter of the office, went out, so he was not arrested, and he immediately flew a pigeon to send a book back to Chengbu Village, saying that there would be a big move in the imperial court recently, and reminded Yang Liuzong to leave a way back for himself and organize an armed force as soon as possible in order to protect himself.

Mr. Yang Liuzong pondered: The closure of the Dadu office is the first signal that the emperor wants to attack me. Hey, I loyally asked for the people's life, and I was charged with rebellion, and the world is black and white upside down!

Yang Liu, who has suffered great grievances, continues to do his best to help those Miao compatriots in need. Ten days later, Wu Tianbao, the porter of the expelled Beijing Office, returned to Chishuitong and went straight to Yang Liuzong's Jingliangping barracks.

Wu Tianbao asked a leader in a hurry: "Where is General Yang going?" ”

The leader replied: "The general went to Rulin Township for disaster relief. ”

"I fainted to death, and when I was dying, I still had the heart to go to disaster relief, and I think his brain was flooded. Prepare my horse, quick! ”

"The general has an order, and the military camp and war horses are not allowed to be used without authorization." The leader said.

"You're still grinding, I have something urgent to report to the general." Wu Tianbao went to the stable and led a horse, turned over and left the barracks, and the leader couldn't stop him.

Although Wu Tianbao is a porter, the reason why he dares to break into the military camp is because Mr. Yang Liu and he are friends of life and death, hardcore buddies, and the leader has nothing to do with him. Wu Tianbao ran all the way to an ancient tree in Shili Tree in Rulin Township, and finally found Mr. Yang Liu.

Mr. Yang Liu, who was on disaster relief, was taken aback when he saw Wu Tianbao galloping on the war horse of his camp: "Didn't you say that you are not allowed to go to my military camp to find me?"

"Big brother, on the way back, I found that soldiers and horses were being mobilized everywhere, and they were coming for you!" Wu Tianbao said.

"Could it be that the Holy One is really going to do it?" Mr. Yang still doesn't believe it's true.

"Big brother, when did I, Wu Tianbao, lie to you? This is not child's play. ”

"Borrow a step to speak." Mr. Yang Liuzong left the crowd, "Tianbao, what should we do now?" ”

"What else can I do? It's the other way around! ”

"No, my Yang family will be deeply favored by the emperor in the era. On the contrary, it is a great rebellion. ”

"At this time and that time, the king wants his ministers to die, and the ministers have to die. If you want to be unjustly killed, you can do it. ”

"I want to go to Beijing to face the Holy ......"

"Do you want to throw yourself into the net?"

"Yue Wumu, it's not that you don't know, there is a fart for redressing grievances! More than a dozen brothers in the capital have been arrested, and their fate is unknown. I risked my life to escape, and if we hesitate to die, we will all die,"

"The matter has come to this, then we have to raise troops, it is better to die in battle than to die unjustly." Yang Liuzong looked up to the sky and sighed.

"Now we can't go back to the Chishuitong military camp, the brothers there know that the eldest brother will definitely follow him to the death." ......

Mr. Yang Liuzong and Mr. Wu Tianbao rode to the direction of Fuchengtong, which was also the military base of the Yang generals, which was easy to defend and difficult to attack. When they arrived at Fucheng Village, the soldiers of the Lan family and the Li family saw that Mr. Yang Liuzong was in a hurry, and immediately introduced him to the village and met with the elders.

Mr. Yang Liu said: "I have devoted my family resources to disaster relief, and I am loyal. Now the emperor is mediocre, listening to slander, and preparing to raise troops to attack our city......"

The elders were indignant one by one: "Henglingtong, Moyitong, Pengtong and other Dongzhai food is almost gone, and there is still not a grain of grain in the imperial court, we have to starve to death!"

"Instead of starving, it is better to rise up and resist!"

"It's the other way around, we're all the other way around!"

"If you want to die, you have to die!"

"Ladies and gentlemen, the imperial court wants my head, if my death can be exchanged for the vitality of the people of Chengbu Village, I would rather bind myself to Beijing!"

"General, no! Have you forgotten Shengtai Gong? ”

"I haven't forgotten."

"Then today, the general will follow the example of the Duke of Shengtai and make a big plan to force the imperial court to change its strategy. You can be our leader! ”

"Everyone, listen to the order, Wu Tianbao is General Zhenwei, Lan Meng is General Fenwei, and Li Hao is General Zheng......" Mr. Yang Liu decided to start an incident at this time.

In October of that year, the Miao Yao uprising led by Yang Liuzong and Wu Tianbao broke out, and the Miao, Yao, and Dong barbarians in Jingzhou, Suining, Wugang, Jinping and other places responded one after another, and soon the number increased to more than 100,000, and the righteous army was like a rainbow and conquered Qianyang in one fell swoop. The rebel army successively conquered or occupied Wugang, Jingzhou, Qianyang, Chenzhou, Yuanzhou, Xuzhou, Chengbu, Suining and other places, and the situation developed rapidly.

When the Yuan Dynasty heard the news, it was horrified and hurriedly sent the Youcheng Shaban army of Huguang Province to Baoqing to suppress the Yang Liu's general rebel army. This Shaban was ruthless, and after the first confrontation with the rebels, he won the victory, beheaded all the captured rebel soldiers, and hung their heads on the Baoqing City Tower to show off his might.

Bansha thought that the fighting spirit of the rebels could be broken by using terrorist means, and he did not bring any artillery equipment, so he pursued the rebels lightly, drove the rebels into the mountains and forests, and camped on the spot. When they arrived in the mountains, the Mongolian cavalry became the end of the strong crossbow, and the righteous army ambushed the official army according to the dangerous places of the mountain stream, and the official army was defeated, and the Yuan army was defeated and retreated all the way. Yang Liuzong led hundreds of his own soldiers and went straight to Shaban's camp.

Ban Sha saw that Yang Liuzong had come in, and hurriedly organized his subordinates to fight. Mr. Yang Liuzong fought with him for twenty rounds, and Ban Sha gradually lost his physical strength, and was beheaded by Mr. Yang Liu's trick to kill Ban Sha under the horse. Seeing that the commander was dead, the Yuan army scattered in all directions. Subsequently, the rebel army defeated the imperial army many times, and had occupied most of the prefectures and counties in the Wuxi region, as well as Guangxi and Guizhou.

In March of the ninth year of Zhizheng (1349), Wu Tianbao led the rebel army to attack Yuanzhou for the fifth time, and this time the main force went out. When the Yuan army learned of this information, they divided 10,000 troops, carried artillery, rockets, etc., and took advantage of the night to sneak attack Lingxi, the base of the rebel army.

At this time, Yang Liuzong only had 2,000 men and horses left behind in Lingxi, and there were no heavy weapons, but he was not afraid. The Yuan army destroyed the camp of the rebels with heavy artillery fire and surrounded the rebels. Yang Liuzong led his own soldiers to meet the Yuan army, which was five times his size, and rushed back and forth to kill, but his mount was wounded by artillery fire, and he fell off his horse. Thousands of Yuan troops, with their outnumbers and ample bows and arrows, shot most of the rebels.

There are less than ten people left around Mr. Yang Liu, and the officers and soldiers who are approaching step by step can't finish killing, and he has been deeply wounded in hundreds of places. Mr. Yang Liuzong roared, the Yang family general crossed by, and more than a dozen officers and soldiers were killed and wounded. I can't get out today, Yang Liuzong looked at his side again, there were only three people left, he threw out dozens of flying knives, and hit the Yuan army again.

There are too many enemies to kill. The leading Yuan army ordered the soldiers to retreat, and he said: "I will catch them alive!" Archers release arrows! After a burst of random arrows, Yang Liuzong was hit by more than a dozen arrows in both hands and feet, lost his resistance, and became a prisoner of the Yuan army. Soon, Mr. Yang Liuzong bravely rebelled in the capital of Yuan, and the uprising entered a low ebb.

Wu Tianbao led the rebel army to still insist on fighting, and a Miao army went north to Hubei, moved to Henan, and conquered Xingyang and other places. The imperial court ordered Jiangxi and Huguang provinces to join forces to suppress it, and it took four years to quell the Miao uprising. After the failure of the uprising, the Yuan Dynasty sent more than 100,000 Miao Yao people who participated in the uprising to guard the Dingyuan area of Haozhou, Anhui Province.