The Twist Army was an anti-Qing peasant armed force active in northern Anhui north of the Yangtze River and parts of Jiangsu, Shandong, and Henan provinces, contemporaneous with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info "twist" is Huaibei dialect, meaning "a group", the twist army originated from the "twist", originally Anhui, Henan a region of nomads pinched paper, the grease ignited, burned oil twisted paper used to practice, in the festival gathered to perform, for people to drive away diseases, disasters to make profits. In the early days, the twist was to donate sesame oil money to the villagers to buy oil twisted paper. Later, there were also phenomena of intimidation and extortion, which were no different from thieves. The more the famine year, the more people enter the twist, the so-called "residents for the people, out of the twist", and the Qing Dynasty officially called it the twist bandits.

In the spring of the third year of Xianfeng, there was a drought in northern Anhui, and the number of farmers in twisting increased. Bozhou people Zhang Luoxing, Gong Deshu and others gathered 10,000 people to capture Yongcheng, Henan Province without success, and dispersed on their own. In April, the Twist of the Crowd in Anhui Bozhou Pheasant River Set (now Anhui Wuyang) blood for the alliance, pushed Zhang Luoxing to be the leader of the alliance, raised troops to resist the Qing Dynasty, known as the "Eighteen Shops Gathering Righteousness".

The leaders of the Twist Army, Chen Si, Chen Er, Geng Jinbao, and Deng Qi carried out an anti-Qing struggle in Shandong, and united with Huangfutang in Fengxian County, Jiangsu, to control the main water and land routes. The Qing court ordered the governors of Jiangsu, Henan, Shandong and other provinces to strictly investigate and arrest. In order to suppress the Taiping Army and the Twist Army, the Qing court successively ordered the gentry Liang Caohan, Li Zhangyu, and Wang Jian in Beijing to return to Shandong to supervise the regimental training. The Shandong Twist Army was active, and the Qing court ordered Li Cha to arrest the Yan, Yi, and Cao Sanfu Twist Army to prevent the Twist Army from combining with the Taiping Army. Ordered the cabinet bachelor Shengbao to assist in the defense of Jiangbei. On April 8, Huangfutang gathered 1,000 people to revolt at Weishan Lake. The Qing court ordered Li, the governor of Shandong, to suppress it. In order to prevent the Taiping army from going north, the Qing court successively transferred 3,000 Shanxi soldiers and 4,000 Shaanxi and Gansu soldiers to Shandong to block the defense. On the 13th, Li ordered the officers and soldiers of the Heilongjiang Horse Corps passing through Shandong to leave a number of coordinated defenses; Naturalized, Suiyuan, and Rehe troops were sent to the border area of Shandong and Jiangsu for standby. and ordered Li to quickly rush the troops that had been transferred to gallop forward; On the 19th, he sent Yangwei General Yijing to Shandong with 1,000 soldiers stationed in Miyun to defend with Li.

On 20 April, Li Zuo: Shandong held group exercises in Yanzhou, Yizhou, Caozhou, Jining, Jinan, Dongchang, Tai'an, Linqing, Dengzhou, Laizhou, Qingzhou, Wuding, and other prefectures.

On 23 April, 500,000 taels of silver were allocated to the treasury of Shandong Province for military expenditure.

In the spring of the third year of Xianfeng, in addition to the transfer of 150,000 taels to Luzhou, there was no good news at all, although Jiangning was in accordance with the will of Emperor Xianfeng, all the soldiers and civilians withdrew from Jiangning unharmed, and gave up the Xiongcheng to the long-haired traitor, but Kedao's giving was to bite Lu Jianying tightly, and they all joined Lu Jianying, the governor of Liangjiang: "Fear the enemy like a tiger, and have no way to command, so that there is a change in Jiangning." ”

Emperor Xianfeng was furious and threw down the nonsense recital, "In the end, I'm still blaming me for not losing Jiang Ning!" If the Eight Banners Green Camp in the south had a little ability, I would really be willing to lose Jinling! Message! Like palm print to Mao Hongbin in the matter is so proficient in the art of war and military, loyal and patriotic, given the title, dazzling eyes, let him go back to his hometown Shandong to run a regimental training, to let him drag the thief, be sure to train the regimental training in a good way! ”

Qi Junyu lowered his head, signaled that he had heard, and asked again: "What else does the emperor have for Jiang Ning?" ”

"Those are those words," Emperor Xianfeng frowned impatiently, "Kill more enemies, keep a few big camps, and don't let the traitors wander around, and be sure to let the Hongyang traitors stay in Jiangning City to make a fortune!" ”

"Yes," Qi Jun got the will, and before he knelt down, he thought about it for a while, and then said cautiously: "The minister still has something to play the emperor." ”

"Master Qi, please speak," Emperor Xianfeng motioned for Qi Jun to speak. "Although I and you are kings and ministers, we are masters and apprentices, so it doesn't hurt to speak directly."

"The minister is too talkative, now the emperor has been on the throne for three years, but the emperor has not yet established a queen, these six palaces have no owner, people's hearts are unstable, ** uneasy, and there is no benefit to the government."

Emperor Xianfeng sat up straight, thought for a while, and then slowly spoke: "Don't I know that the six palaces have no owner, and it is not beneficial to the country, but in these six palaces, I didn't expect to choose the queen of the middle palace." "Li Guiren doesn't know if she is pregnant with a male fetus; The concubine has served me the longest, but there is no queen; Concubine Yi is naturally the best, and she can give me advice, but the days of entering the palace are still short, I am afraid that I will not be convinced, and I have no heirs, so it is really difficult to choose.

"And no one in the palace is blessed now, to be able to give birth to a dragon son, Master Qi, I think it's better to give birth to a brother first, let's take a look, after all, it is still very important to have a concubine."

"The emperor is far-sighted, but the minister is too worried."

"It's okay, you can kneel down."

"Yes."

Emperor Xianfeng looked at the excerpts, and suddenly became irritable again, and called Yang Qingxi, "What time is it?" ”

Yang Qingxi took out the watch in his arms, "Back to the emperor, it's just noon." ”

"Noon? Let's go and take a look at Liguiren, I don't know how her stomach is now. ”

"Wow."