Tang Sai'er, Wang Cong'er, Wang Nangxian, and Lin Hei'er in later generations are all more famous characters in Chen Shuo's real and fart worms.

So after talking about Tang Sai'er, let's talk about Wang Cong'er.

Wang Cong'er (1777-1798): A native of Xiangyang, Hubei (now Xiangfan, Hubei), she was born as a Jianghu artist, after participating in the White Lotus Uprising, she served as the commander-in-chief of the Righteous Army, that is, the commander of the Eighth Route Righteous Army.

During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, bureaucratic landlords encroached on the land of the peasants in large quantities. Unable to make a living, the peasants had to live in the rivers and lakes to make a living. Wang Cong'er lost his father at a young age, and followed his mother to learn acrobatics, running horses and ropes, dancing knives and sticks, and doing everything. The mother and daughter traveled north and south with their skills and lived a life of displacement. One day, the mother and daughter came to Xiangyang and joined the White Lotus Sect with the help of a man named Qi Lin in an accident. Qi Lin is the leader of the White Lotus Sect in Xiangyang. After Wang Cong'er joined the church, he often used his identity as an entertainer to promote the teachings of the White Lotus Sect on the rivers and lakes. Because the two of them were like-minded, their relationship became deeper and deeper, and they soon became husband and wife. After getting married, Qi Lin and Wang Cong'er led the White Lotus cultists to plan an armed uprising against the Qing Dynasty. When He Shen was in power, the Qing Dynasty was very corrupt, local officials were rampant with corruption, and the people were full of complaints. At that time, in Hubei and Henan, the White Lotus Sect was popular again. There was a native of Anhui, Liu Song, who went to Henan to preach, and took advantage of the opportunity to treat the people to persuade them to join the church, but was later discovered by the government and exiled to Gansu. Liu Song's apprentices, Liu Zhixie and Song Zhiqing, fled to Hubei and continued their missionaries. They advertised. The Qing Dynasty was about to fall, and in the future there would be a new world realm, and those who joined the religion could be given land. The local poor peasants, fed up with the exploitation of the landlords and eager to get land, listened to this propaganda and joined the White Lotus Sect one after another. The news of the increasing number of people participating in the White Lotus Sect alarmed Emperor Qianlong. Emperor Qianlong ordered the provincial palaces to arrest the believers. Some officials, who were veterans of extortion, took the opportunity to send out officers to inquire from house to house, whether you were a believer or not. They all have to come up with a sum of money to "honor" them. Those who have money pay for their lives. Poor people who had no money were caught in prison, tortured, and even killed. There was an official in Wuchang who could not extort money from the people, fabricated charges, and was implicated by thousands of people. Believers and non-believers. They were all persecuted and their families were ruined. He gritted his teeth and hated the government even more. Liu Zhixie, the leader of the White Lotus Sect, arrived in Xiangyang. Convene a meeting of the congregants to discuss. Everyone said: "In this world, the officials have really forced the people to rebel! It is better to simply rebel." After some deliberation, it was decided to use the slogan of "the government forces the people to rebel." Mass uprisings were launched, and followers were sent to various places to make contact. The number of people participating in the White Lotus Sect increased day by day, and Qi Lin and Wang Cong'er saw that the conditions for an uprising were ripe, so they decided to revolt in Xiangyang. Unexpectedly, the news of the uprising leaked, and Qi Lin and more than 100 other believers were arrested, and they were all killed. After Qi Lin's death, Wang Cong'er was elected as the leader by everyone and secretly continued to prepare for a new armed uprising.

In 1796, Wang Cong'er learned that the White Lotus Sect in other places had launched an armed uprising. Everyone unanimously elected her as the "chief teacher". So, she led the rebels to kill corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and opened the granary to distribute grain to the poor people. By this time, Wang Cong'er's army had grown to as many as 40,000 or 50,000 people. Later, she led the rebel army from Hubei to Sichuan, and joined forces with the rebel army in Sichuan, forming an uprising army of 140,000 or 50,000. In order to facilitate the command, the rebel army was divided into eight armies with yellow, blue, blue, and white colors. Wang Cong'er was elected as the road commander of the Eighth Army. The fact that a young woman could become the leader of such a large-scale uprising shows Wang Cong'er's ability! In 1798, Wang Cong'er led the rebel army all the way to Xi'an. Emperor Jiaqing saw that the rebel army was getting stronger and stronger, panicked, and hurriedly ordered governors, governors, generals, general soldiers and other officials in various places to send a large number of men and horses to suppress it. However, those high-ranking officials and generals only knew how to embezzle military salaries, but did not know how to fight. Wang Cong'er divided his troops into three routes, from Hubei to Henan. The rebels fought bravely, but also with agility. When they were marching, they did not form a group, and when they saw that the officers and soldiers did not meet them head-on, they did not take the flat road, but chose mountain paths to walk, looking for opportunities to attack the officers and soldiers. They also divided the soldiers into many small teams, a team of several hundred people, and they were divided and united, moving from south to north, and the officers and soldiers who surrounded and suppressed them were dizzy and exhausted. Wang Cong'er's rebel army fought in Hubei, Henan, and Shaanxi to fight against the official army. The following year, he joined forces with the rebel army there in Sichuan. Emperor Jiaqing saw the failure of the encirclement and suppression of the official army, his eyes were red with anger, he scolded Wang Cong'er as the culprit, and issued an edict to severely reprimand some generals who led the troops. The Qing army general Mingliang offered a vicious plan to Emperor Jiaqing, asking landlords everywhere to organize armed militias and build blockhouses. As soon as the rebels came, they drove the people into the bunkers, so that the rebels could not find the help of the masses and could not get food and grass. This practice is called "Fortified Clearing". Emperor Jiaqing ordered this strategy to be adopted in various localities, and the activities of the rebel army became more and more difficult. The Qing army besieged Wang Cong'er in the northern Sichuan area. Wang Cong'er broke away from the siege of the Qing army and personally led 20,000 horses to attack Xi'an, but was blocked by the official army in Xi'an and lost the battle. The rebel army was followed by officials and troops, and in front of it was intercepted by the landlords' armed militias, and finally fell into the enemy's encirclement at the Sancha River in Yunxi (in present-day Hubei Province, Yunyin Yún). Wang Cong'er was not afraid of danger and commanded the rebel army to retreat to the forest of Maoshan and prepare to organize a breakthrough. When the officers and soldiers found out, they surrounded Maoshan again, and from the front and back of the mountain, they crowded up. After stubborn resistance, the rebels were finally defeated. Seeing that the breakthrough could not be achieved, and that she and her subordinates did not want to be taken prisoner, Wang Cong'er retreated to the top of the mountain, jumped off the steep cliff with her subordinates, and died heroically, and the heroine Wang Cong'er was only twenty-two years old at the time.

Wang Cong'er (1777-1798), a native of Xiangyang, Hubei Province (now Xiangyang City), was born as a Jianghu artist, and was the wife of Qi Lin, the former leader of the White Lotus Sect, so it is also known as Qi Wang's. In the first year of Jiaqing (1796), he led the famous peasant uprising in the late Qing Dynasty as the chief teacher of the White Lotus Sect - the White Lotus Uprising, and led more than 100,000 people to gallop across the four provinces of Hubei, Sichuan, Shaanxi and Henan. After fighting bravely for more than two years, although he eventually committed suicide due to the failure of the uprising, the rebel army led by him dealt a heavy blow to the Qing rulers, which was a turning point in the reign of the Qing Dynasty from prosperity to decline, and wrote a glorious page in the history of the Chinese Peasant War.

Wang Cong'er left many legends for future generations.

Hanging Drum Tourist Park, Yunxi County, Shiyan City, Hubei Province, Wang Cong'er once fought a bloody battle here. In the last years of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty, the early years of Jiaqing were politically corrupt and the people were struggling to make a living, which led to a large-scale peasant uprising of the White Lotus Sect. The main leader of the uprising was the heroine Wang Cong'er. Wang Cong'er's husband Qi Lin was killed for opposing the Qing Dynasty, so Wang Cong'er was also called the widow of Qi by the masses. The rebel army under her command fought fierce battles against the Qing army and local heroes in the Luanchuan area. Therefore. In the territory of Luanchuan County. The deeds of the rebellion of the widow Wang Cong'er of Qi are spread everywhere. There are also many place names, such as Pengliangdian in Taowan Township, Chezhuang, Changting River, Qinwangzhai and Hubiangou in Chengguan Township in Shizimiao Township, Qigugou in Shimiao Township and other place names. is also related to the rebellion of Qi widow Wang Cong'er.

The last years of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty. From Xiangyang, Hubei Province, a group of Jianghu people who performed their arts came. The head of the squad is named Qi Lin. His wife, Wang Cong'er, is a well-known cylinder artist with excellent skills. Her performance was very popular with the masses. On this day, their acrobatic class came to a place in Taowan Nangou to perform. There was a local profiteer named Zhang Pengliang. Opened a mountain goods store. He often deceived people with big scales and small scales, and within a few years he made a fortune and became a wealthy businessman in this area. He relied on his wealth and often oppressed the poor, and as soon as he saw Qi Lin's acrobatic class performing here, and fighting with the poor, he had a bad heart and decided to clean up Qi Lin. He heard that Qi Lin's wife, Wang Cong'er, was an expert at kicking the tank, so he secretly asked the servant to fill the tank she was kicking with sand and glue. As soon as Wang Cong'er came on the stage, he realized that someone was plotting against him, but in front of many audiences, he had to kick down without force. The cylinder turned around, but after the performance, Wang Cong'er suffered from back pain, which did not heal for a long time. A few years have passed in a blink of an eye, and a peasant rebel army has come from Xiangyang, Hubei, who specialize in fighting the rich and helping the poor, and want to overthrow the Qing Dynasty. As soon as Zhang Pengliang inquired, the leader of this peasant rebel army was a little widow in her twenties, known as the widow of Qi. This Qi widow is Wang Cong'er, the wife of Qi Lin who pedaled the cylinder here last year. It turned out that Qi Lin was the leader of the White Lotus Sect, and he used preaching and performing arts as a cover, secretly colluding with the believers and the poor everywhere to hold an anti-Qing uprising. In the first year of Jiaqing, they took advantage of the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month to prepare to gather the White Lotus Sect to start an incident. Unexpectedly, the secret was leaked, Qi Lin was arrested and died before the uprising, and more than 100 people were killed at the same time. However, this fire was not suppressed, and afterwards, the believers still elected Wang Cong'er, Qi Lin's wife, as the leader, and raised the banner of the peasant uprising. Everyone called Wang Cong'er the widow of Qi, and the army she led was called the Qi family army. The Qi army soon grew to 40,000 or 50,000 people, and moved to Hubei, Henan, Shaanxi, Sichuan and other places. When Zhang Pengliang was suspiciously asking if this widow Qi was Wang Cong'er who was kicking the cylinder, Wang Cong'er suddenly led the people and appeared in front of Zhang Pengliang, and Zhang Pengliang was immediately paralyzed to the ground with fright. Wang Cong'er counted the facts of Zhang Pengliang's crime of harming and oppressing the masses with a big scale and a small scale, and then ended Zhang Pengliang's life with a knife. Later, the peasant rebel army of Qi widow Wang Cong'er failed, so some people named the place where Zhang Pengliang opened his shop, the place where he was killed, "Pengliangdian", which has been used until now.

Legend has it that after the rebel army led by Wang Cong'er eliminated Zhang Pengliang, he encountered a local tyrant Li Tong who occupied the mountain as the king in the Lion Temple. Legend has it that Li Shimin, the king of Qin, once stationed troops here, so Li Tong also called himself the king of Qin. He occupied Nanshan, built a cottage, known as Qin Wangzhai, and established a palace behind the mountain, which is now Wangfugou. According to this mountain, Li Tong attacked houses and houses, robbed people's daughters, did all kinds of evil, colluded with the government, and dominated one side. General Yang, the general of the Qing army who was chasing behind Wang Cong'er's army, had already sent someone to collude with Li Tong and ordered him to block the path of the righteous army here. I saw that there were Li Tong's bandits blocking the road in front, and General Yang's Qing soldiers chasing after him. Wang Cong'er decided to fight a quick battle, first uproot Qin Wangzhai, and then, with the help of natural danger, to deal with General Yang. At noon that day, the rebel army approached a small mountain villa only eight miles away from Li Tong's bandit nest, Qinwangzhai. This mountain villa is the gateway to Qinwangzhai and is heavily guarded. After Wang Cong'er's rebel army arrived here, he bluffed, concentrated his carriages and horses in the forward position, waved his flag and shouted, and put on an offensive posture, but secretly divided his troops and rushed to Qinwangzhai from the valleys on both sides. When Li Tong, the king of Qin, heard that the righteous army was gathered in the area of Chezhuang, he also concentrated his forces there, but the troops of Qin Wangzhai were empty. At this time, only a cannon was heard, and Wang Cong'er's men and horses rushed out from the mountains on both sides and surrounded Qin Wangzhai. King Li of Qin informed Lu Dao that he was deceived, so he personally went out to meet Wang Cong'er. This Qin King Li Tong once studied art in Huashan, and especially learned a set of spells of "self-union with broken heads", which is even more skillful. King Qin saw that Wang Cong'er was not fighting, so he used the spell of "decapitating his head and closing himself", only to see him pull out his waist knife, cut off his head and throw it into the air, the human head became bigger and bigger in the air, and made a terrible strange scream, while his body was still sitting on the horse and fighting with Wang Cong'er. This move can scare people to the point of panic and then die under his knife. Who knew that this Wang Cong'er had also studied art in Wudang Mountain, and had heard the master say that the demon method of "self-union with a broken head" was just a set of spells, and he could only hold on for a moment before he broke himself. As soon as Wang Cong'er saw this formation, he immediately calmed down and responded calmly. Look at the moment when the time is up, King Qin's spell is about to be revealed. At this time, Wang Cong'er suddenly took out a white handkerchief from his waist. This handkerchief is called "Yin Yang Pa". If you throw it into the air, if the yin side is facing down, it will cover the earth with darkness, and if the yang side is facing down, it will make the earth shine with golden light. She threw this yin and yang handkerchief into the air, a flash of brightness, a flash of darkness, and dazzled the Qin King Li Tong, and his body could not find his head, and his head could not find his body, at this time, I saw Wang Cong'er wave the knife in the air, and the head and body of the King of Qin suddenly burst into blood, and rolled to the ground together. The king of Qin fell from his horse, the bandits were leaderless, and the rebel army quickly broke through the Qin Wangzhai. When the outpost of Chezhuang saw that Qin Wangzhai was lost, he quickly became chaotic. After Wang Cong'er broke through the Qin Wangzhai, he rescued many suffering people, especially the women who had been taken captive to the mountain, and opened a warehouse to release grain, and the crowd cheered. When the rebels withdrew, the crowd helped the old and the young and gave them a warm farewell. The crowd of farewells lined up from Lion Temple Street to the mouth of the small river, about ten miles long. So now this place is still called "Changting River", that is, to take the meaning of "Changting farewell".

The righteous army led by Wang Cong'er, after breaking the Qin Wangzhai, fought in a roundabout way in the Luanchuan area, and the Qing soldiers led by General Yang who chased behind, on this day, the righteous army assembled in the area of the Luanchuan Stone Temple, the stone temple was only twenty miles away from Luanchuan, and the pursuing soldiers of General Yang set up camp next to the mountain behind Luanchuan Street. He asked the local people: "What is the name of this place?" The masses replied: "Hubeigou", who knew that this General Yang was very superstitious, and he was afraid of the Qi family's army, as soon as he heard the word "pot" in Hubeigou, he thought of its homonym "tiger", and from the tiger to the sheep, his surname "Yang" is also homophonic with the word "sheep", how can a sheep survive when it meets a tiger? When they came to a ravine behind Shimiao Street to set up camp, General Yang asked the local people, "What's your name?" and the local people replied, "This place is called 'Qihugou'." As soon as he heard the word "Hu" in "Qihugou," he thought of the homonym of the word "Hu," and the word "tiger," and he marched all night and met two tigers in a row. Because Wang Cong'er won a great victory here, the masses renamed Qihugou "Qigugou". Wang Cong'er's peasant rebel army continued to march towards Xi'an, Shaanxi. Attacking Xi'an Weike, she was surrounded by Qing soldiers on the Xie Hua Slope of Maoshan in Shaanxi, she insisted on fighting, bravely jumped off the cliff and died. The crowd said: "She also committed the taboo of place names." Her heroic flower withered on the "Xie Hua Slope". (To be continued......)