293 [Xiucai Uprising in Zhejiang]
In the late Ming Dynasty, there were three strange Confucians: Li Zhen, Chen Jiru, and Li Yu.
How can it be called weird?
Deviant!
Li Yu is the most indescribable of them, although "Meat X Group" did not have his real name, but anyone who is a little familiar with Li Yu's works can see that this book was written by him.
There are two core ideas of "Meat X Group": hedonism is not sinful, and indulgence is moderate.
This product especially likes the joint bed, three concubines, sleeping three nights together, sleeping one night, called "three points and one unification".
At this moment, Li Yu is not called Li Yu, and his name is very suitable for Xianxia.
The surname is Li, the name is immortal, the word is fan, and the number is heavenly!
And at this time, Li Yu had only one wife, who loved each other and had no concubines.
Lanxi County, Xia Li Village.
Li Yu was sharpening his sword in the yard, his mother was sitting under the eaves and weeping bitterly, and his wife and sister-in-law were patiently comforting.
The eldest brother Li Mao said anxiously: "Second brother, can't you be confused? In two months, it will be the township exam, you are a boy in the county, you will definitely be able to raise people in the exam this year, why do you want to follow that group of sour Confucians to rebel? ”
Li Yu sprinkled water to moisten the sword, scraped the blade of the sword with his fingers and said: "In two months, even Hangzhou will be gone, and you will still take the Laoshizi Township test?" ”
"Jiangxi Zhao thief, how can he be so powerful? Don't follow them, let's prepare for the township test. Li Mao persuaded hard.
Li Yu stood up suddenly, put his sword into the sheath, and said to his eldest brother: "Brother, you take care of your own family, I have to go this time." My family has been a doctor for generations, and my uncle is still a pharmaceutical businessman, how can I leave Jiangxi? Without the medicinal materials of Zhangshu Town, Uncle couldn't even do business. Brother, what is the status of the doctor in Jiangxi? ”
Li Mao said: "What status can it have? Self is the last. ”
"Haha, that's wrong," Li Yu laughed, "The doctor family is quite respected in Jiangxi, and just by virtue of this matter, the Li family should serve Zhao Tianwang!" ”
In ancient times, many scholars did study medicine, just like learning Taoism and Buddhism, which belonged to cultivating sentiments.
The doctors of the Ming Dynasty were different, and the "witch doctor monk Tao" also said that there was not much difference from the artisan household, and they belonged to the object of discrimination for generations.
Li Yu and Mao Bijiang were born in the same county in the same year, Li Yu himself is a showman, and his family is still in business, and he has many common friends with Mao Bijiang. However, the two of them have never crossed paths in their lives, because they look down on Li Yu's background!
Li Yu said to the eldest brother: "Brother, Mr. Zhao has taken over the world, and our Li family can really turn over!" ”
"Qi Fan, let's go!"
Someone outside the hospital suddenly urged.
"Come on!"
Li Yu turned to his mother and saluted, and said to his wife, "If I die, you will remarry." ”
His wife Xu nodded: "You go, I will guard the house." ”
Li Yu walked out with his sword, followed by a house slave, who had grown up with him since he was a child.
The house slave was holding a stick in his hand, and his heart was also boiling. He is literate, if Zhao Tianwang comes, he will be able to get a free body, and maybe he can be an official in the future.
The master and servant went out of the courtyard, and there were already more than a dozen people standing outside.
It's all this kind of master-servant combination, the master holds the sword, the slave uses the stick, and they have been practicing for more than a month.
The people went to the county seat together, and in order not to attract attention, they scattered into several groups, and came to the city one after another, and lived in the house of a big merchant.
There is a river in Lanxi County, which leads directly to Jiangshan County.
Jiangshan County is next to Jiangxi Guangxin Mansion. A large number of Jiangxi commodities were transported from this route to central Zhejiang, and the gentry and merchants along the way had a very good understanding of the situation in Jiangxi.
The first day of June.
An army of more than 200 merchants, scholars, and domestic slaves, suddenly slaughtered from the mansion in the city.
Although Li Yu has superb medical skills and is a talented man who knows the Five Classics, he really doesn't know how to fight. This guy pulled out his iron sword, rushed forward with the house slaves, and ran all the way to the county office.
"The world is the same!"
"Good and low are equal!"
The crowd shouted slogans, and the house slaves shouted the hardest, they really regarded "the equality of the good and the low" as their faith.
Seeing more than 200 people rushing over, the officials were frightened, threw down the water and fire sticks and ran away. The clerks of the sixth room didn't have time, and knelt on the ground one after another, hoping to save a dog's life.
"Fufu, Zhongde, each of you will receive five people, guarding the treasury and the official register!"
Tang Yuqi began to call the shots, and he was the leader of the uprising in Lanxi County. Xiucai, who was born in a big businessman, mainly purchased goods from Jiangxi and transported them to Jinhua for sale, can barely be regarded as a member of the Longyou Merchant Gang.
Li Yu followed Tang Yuqi and rushed into the second hall of the county government, which was empty. Then he rushed into the back house, only to meet a few slaves, and after a question, he learned that the county and the master had run away.
"Follow me to the gates!"
Tang Yuqi shouted.
Li Yu was inexplicably excited, rushed out with his sword, and shouted in his mouth: "The world is the same!" ”
Poof!
Li Yu tripped over the threshold and was thrown into a dog eating.
Fortunately, everyone was rushing, and no one noticed his embarrassment. Li Yuma got up, patted the dust on his body, and hurriedly chased after him with his sword.
Because it is too close to Jiangxi, Lanxi County also has officers and soldiers stationed there.
More than 200 rebel troops, divided into two teams, each committed suicide to the north and south city walls. The larger number of officers and soldiers were so frightened that they threw down their weapons and ran, they were still vagrants last year, and they only joined the army to make ends meet.
Not a drop of blood was gone, and Li Yu and others occupied the county seat.
Several major merchants in the city began to collect money and recruit troops, conscripting 1,000 soldiers to defend the city, waiting for Zhao Han to send someone to receive it.
The head of the city has been planted with the flag of Datong, and the hunting sound is ringing in the wind.
Li Yu was responsible for leading people to guard a section of the city wall, he looked at it from afar, suddenly felt open-minded, held his sword and smiled: "I didn't expect to do such a big thing in this life!" ”
It felt like he was following Zhao Han and had already assisted the Holy Lord to win the world.
This Zhejiang uprising, initiated by Xu Du, the leader of the Righteous Society, was mainly carried out in Jinhua and Shaoxing.
There is a very nonsense thing, the Longyou Merchant Gang in western Zhejiang should be regarded as the most revolutionary group of people. They did not have much land in their name, but they held a lot of silver in their hands, and they relied heavily on Jiangxi for business.
If Zhao Han calls, it will be beneficial to them and harmless.
But this time, Xu Du planned an uprising and sent people to contact western Zhejiang, but it was reported by the gentry, and the Longyou merchants did not react at all.
These Longyou merchants have business all over the country, and even in the southwest, northwest and overseas. No matter how much money he earned, he went home to repair mansions, and he despised merchants here, so big merchants built academies one after another.
The strange thing is that only the academy is built, and the famous teachers and Confucians are not invited to teach.
Merchants who made a lot of money tried their best to buy land, and as soon as they became big landlords, many of them gave up doing business directly.
As a result, the main body of the Longyou Merchant Gang has always been small and medium-sized merchants. Moreover, without the government's care, they were bullied everywhere they went, and they turned into landlords and big businessmen, and in turn, they had to discriminate against and suppress businessmen.
In this uprising, only Jiangshan County succeeded in the entire Quzhou Prefecture, and all the rest failed.
Especially in Longyou County, the big landlords directly recruited troops and fought back wildly against the rebels who occupied the county seat, killing more than 30 rebels and more than 100 other rebels.
These guys are just crazy!
They are so close to Jiangxi, aren't they afraid that Zhao Han will come over and kill indiscriminately?
Let's analyze and sort out why Quzhou Mansion, where all the people are businessmen, has formed a social atmosphere that discriminates against businessmen.
The merchants here are mainly engaged in long-distance trafficking.
In ancient times, if you engage in long-distance trafficking, you must have been bullied and exploited, and you don't know how many social beatings you have encountered along the way. They are afraid of the government, they worship power, and because the business route is too long, they cannot form a solid pattern of collusion between officials and businessmen.
In terms of quantity alone, Longyou merchants have the most.
But they don't sign up for groups, they don't collude with the government, they can't do business in big cities at all, they can only go to remote areas in groups, and many times they can only be manipulated by others.
Therefore, many big businessmen were old and could no longer do business, so they went home and continued to hoard land, train their children and grandchildren to study, and from then on they regarded themselves as gentry families.
In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, there was a Longyou merchant who did a lot of business in the north, and his shops and warehouses spread all over three and a half counties.
Go home to buy land, go home to build a house, and build a bridge in the county, and he directly donated 10,000 taels of silver.
As for the business in those three and a half counties in the north, sell them all!
Anyway, what he has is money, waiting for the natural disaster to annex the land.
However, it was said that Xu Du raised troops in Dongyang County, and took advantage of the summer grain harvest to pay rent and land endowments, and instigated tens of thousands of tenants and small landlords to conquer Dongyang County in one fell swoop. Then he took Yiwu and surrounded the city of Jinhuafu, and the scholars and domestic slaves in the city responded, and the inside and outside should join forces to capture Jinhuafu.
When the bad news came from Longyou County, the Zhejiang sergeants were excited, and the scholars who were killed by the big landlords were posthumously admired as "thirty-two gentlemen".
Immediately, Xu Du led his troops to break through Tangxi County, and the soldiers pointed directly at Longyou, ready to kill those big landlords to take revenge.
The eight counties of Jinhua Mansion were captured by the rebels, and the entire Jiangnan was shaken.
Zhejiang Governor Xiong Fenwei was shocked and immediately ordered all prefectures and counties in Zhejiang to recruit troops to suppress thieves.
Except for being a magistrate when he was young, all his other positions are officials.
This position in the matter, from the Wanli Dynasty to the Chongzhen Dynasty, the six branches are almost all over and over again. After being transferred to the military department, Xiong Fenwei regarded himself as a soldier and impeached several military secretaries. Because he offended Wen Tiren, he was thrown to be Shang Baoqing, to put it bluntly, he was in charge of seals and letters.
After Zhao Han occupied Guangdong and Hunan, Chongzhen suddenly remembered Xiong Fenwei's soldiers, so he promoted this person to the governor of Zhejiang.
Xiong Fenwei gave an order, and the whole Zhejiang chicken flew and the dog jumped.
There is already a famine in Zhejiang, and the governor actually conscripts troops and grain to fight?
The people of Zhejiang, who had long been overwhelmed, saw the trouble in Zhejiang, and also violently resisted taxes, and at the same time refused to be the people's husband for the government.
In the area of Cangshan Mountain, there was even a peasant army of more than 30,000 people.
Tangxi County.
A righteous scholar rushed to him: "Zikou, Zikou, good news!" ”
"What's the good news?" Xu Du asked.
The scholar smiled and said, "Mr. Zhao has sent troops, and the army has passed Jiangshan County!" ”
"Hahahaha!"
Xu Du immediately laughed, and gathered many scholars and business leaders: "Gentlemen, Mr. Zhao has passed Jiangshan County, let's block the enemy army here, and watch how those thieves are annihilated by Mr. Zhao!" ”
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