Chapter 270: Tang Sai'er (Seeking Points and Receiving Rewards)

Regardless of what the outcome of Chen Shuo's real death is, one thing is certain.

Chen Shuozhen's uprising also has the shadow of Taoism.

After talking about Chen Shuo's real uprising, he is talking about Chen Shuo's real ass and bugs.

Although Chen Shuozhen was not the first leader of a peasant uprising who started as a missionary, he was the first female leader to rebel. This had a great impact on future generations. Later generations of Tang Sai'er, Wang Cong'er, Wang Nangxian, Lin Hei'er, etc. all started in this way.

It can be said that Tang Sai'er, Wang Cong'er, Wang Nangxian, and Lin Hei'er in later generations are the more famous characters in Chen Shuo's real and fart worms.

Tang Sai'er (1399~?), a famous leader of the White Lotus Sect who rebelled against the imperial court in the early Ming Dynasty, was born in Putai County, Binzhou, Shandong, and was the wife of Lin San.

Tang Sai'er (1399~?), a female leader of the peasant rebel army in the early Ming Dynasty, was born in Putai County, Binzhou, Shandong. In 1420 (the eighteenth year of Yongle), he led an uprising in Yidu (now Qingzhou) to unload the stone shed, which shook the Beijing division and dealt a heavy blow to the Ming Dynasty. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Chengzu moved the capital from Nanjing to Beijing, overhauled the palace, organized manpower, transferred grain from the south to the north, and dug canals, and successively requisitioned hundreds of thousands of people in Shandong, and the burden of peasant forced labor was heavy. Tang Sai'er was a famous female leader of the White Lotus sect who rebelled against the imperial court in the early Ming Dynasty. Tang Saier was a native of Putai County, Shandong (now Pucheng Township, Binzhou City, Shandong), and the wife of Lin San. After the death of Lin, it is said that the Tang Dynasty even got a stone box, which contained the sword and the book of soldiers, and after the Tang Dynasty studied the art of war, in the name of spreading the White Lotus Sect, gathered thousands of people, and in February of the eighteenth year of Yongle (1420), the Yidu unloading stone shed village (now Qingzhou City) started an incident. After Tang Sai'er got up, he completely annihilated the besieging army and killed Gao Feng, the commander of Qingzhou. People everywhere have responded. The imperial court sent elite soldiers from Beijing, led by Liu Sheng, the chief soldier of An Yuanhou, and Liu Zhong, the commander of the capital, to come to conquer. The Ming army was outnumbered and surrounded Tang Sai'er Cottage. Tang Sayer pretended to surrender and took the opportunity to attack the official army at night. The Ming army was in turmoil, and Liu Zhong was killed in battle. Tang Sayer broke through. Tang's troops captured Juzhou, Jimo and other places, and besieged Anqiu. Tang Sai'er's department was defeated and eliminated by Wei Qing, the commander of the Shandong capital.

Tang Sai'er's family is poor, he has learned martial arts from his father since he was a child, and he is already excellent in martial arts at the age of 15. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Shandong suffered from famine for many years. Hunger is everywhere. After the death of Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu Di launched the "Battle of Jingyan" again, and Shandong was the main battlefield. After Zhu Di became emperor, he moved the capital from Nanjing to Beijing and overhauled the palace. In order to support the officials and the army of the Beijing Division, he also organized the transfer of grain from the south to the north. Dredging of canals. Digging will lead to the river. A large number of people were recruited, and the people of Shandong bore the brunt. During the Yongle period, floods and droughts occurred in Shandong continuously. The people ate tree bark and grass roots to survive. However, they are still "relentless in forced labor and incessant conscription," and the broad masses of the people are in a desperate situation. Tang Sai'er's father was arrested and served in hard labor, and she and her husband Lin San rushed into the government to beg for food, and Lin San was killed. Her father died of grief, and her mother died of a serious illness. She couldn't bear it anymore, and was determined to lead the people to revolt, she divided the stone unloading shed into 4 villages according to the terrain, and she was stationed in the highest south village, so as to facilitate the observation of the enemy and command the battle. She also built a wall on the two cliffs in the north and south, and built a pond in the village to store grain and grass. The rebel army first conquered the military town of Qingzhou in one fell swoop, seized weapons, opened warehouses to help the people, and then returned to the cottage in victory. The commander of Qingzhou Wei made Gao Feng frightened when he heard the news, and quickly led his troops to chase after him, and was surrounded by the rebel legions ambushed in the mountain valley. At night, Tang Sai'er suddenly launched an attack, Gao Feng was killed, and more than 1,000 officers and soldiers were annihilated. The peasant army's victory in the first battle inspired the people in all parts of Qingzhou. They responded one after another, including dozens of rebel armies of various sizes, including Bin Hong, Dong Yangao, Ding Gugang, Liu Xin, Liu Jun, Wang Xuan, Hao Yunzhong, Bai Baier, Gao Yang'er, Wang Zhu'er, Yang San, etc. The storm of peasant revolution centered on the unloading of rocks swept through Qingzhou, Laizhou, Juzhou, Jiaozhou, and nine prefectures and counties, including Anqiu, Shouguang, Zhucheng, and Jimo, and the ranks rapidly expanded to tens of thousands. Dong Yangao led more than 2,000 people to punish corrupt officials, local tyrants and inferior gentry in Juzhou, Rizhao, and Zhucheng. In Shouguang, Anqiu, Jiaozhou and other places, the peasant army "destroyed the official mansion and burned the warehouse" to attack the Ming army. The rebel army was greatly invigorated, and the local officials in Shandong were panicked, and the three divisions jointly called the police. Ming Chengzu Zhu Di was greatly shocked when he heard the report, and immediately dispatched officials to the starry night to unload the stone shed to recruit peace, but was resolutely rejected by Tang Sai'er. Zhu Di also sent Liu Sheng, Marquis of Anyuan, to be the chief military officer, and Liu Zhong, the commander of the capital, to be the deputy chief military officer, and led 5,000 men and horses to suppress and surround the stone sheds. Liu Sheng once had a level in the south, broke the Japanese in the east, and the Mongolian in the north, and was a marquis for merit. He was arrogant and did not take the peasant army seriously at all. Tang Sai'er seized the weakness of his pride and underestimation of the enemy, and sent people to the enemy camp to surrender, saying that there was a shortage of water in the village, and he was in a desperate situation, and he had decided to break through the Dongzhai Gate to get water. Liu Shengxin thought it was true, and ordered to concentrate his forces and guard the east gate, in a vain attempt to cut off the water and trap the rebel army to death. On the night of March 16, the rebels suddenly launched a fierce attack on the weakly defended enemy camp, which made the enemy dizzy and fled in a hurry, and all commanded Liu Zhong to be killed by an arrow. After dawn, Liu Sheng learned of the plan and quickly led a large group of men and horses to suppress it, but the rebel army had long since disappeared. At the same time, in the Anqiu Chengxiang area, the fighting was also raging. Bin Hong led the rebel army to storm the county seat, and the city was about to be conquered, but because the enemy reinforcements arrived, the rebel army lost the battle and withdrew. Although the Ming Dynasty suppressed this peasant uprising, the main leaders of the uprising, Tang Sai'er, Bin Hong, Dong Yangao, etc., were safely transferred. Zhu Di was furious, put Liu Sheng in prison, and executed the political envoys, senators, envoys, deputy envoys, and county officials who had revolted in Shandong on the charge of "arsoning with the thief and not saying a word". In order to trace Tang Sai'er's whereabouts, from March to May of the same year, he ordered the arrest of nuns and Taoist priests in Beijing and Shandong twice, and later arrested tens of thousands of nuns and Taoist priests across the country, and escorted them to Jingshi for examination, but no trace of them was found. There are still many legends about Tang Sai'er in Qingzhou. In order to commemorate her, the local people renamed the stone sheds as "Tang Sai'er Village" and "Tang San Village". The top of the mountain still retains the remains of stone mortars, stone mills and walled walls used by the rebel army. She took advantage of the extensive influence of the White Lotus Sect in society to organize the masses. Self-proclaimed "Buddha Mother", claiming to be able to predict the future. She worked tirelessly and traveled to and from Yidu, Zhucheng, Anqiu, Juzhou, Jimo, Shouguang and other prefectures and counties. He first rebelled in Binzhou and was discovered by the government. Later, he went to the area of the small camp to carry out secret activities. In January 1420 (the eighteenth year of Yongle), she led the rebellious masses to the unloading stone shed village in the southwest mountainous area of Yidu, and launched a peasant uprising that shook the Ming Dynasty on February 11.

Tang Saier was well-known in the Yongle period of Ming Chengzu. During the Yongle period, she used the White Lotus Sect as a cover to organize and launch a large-scale peasant uprising, achieved two great victories, and became a famous female leader of the peasant uprising in Chinese history.

Tang Sai'er, female, also known as Tang Sanjie, was a native of Xiguan, Putai County (now Binzhou, Shandong). (1399~?)。 He has practiced martial arts since childhood. At the end of Hongwu in the early Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang's four sons launched the "Battle of Jingyan" in order to compete for the throne, and Shandong became the main battlefield. Civilians have been displaced by the war. After Zhu Di ascended the throne. Moved the capital from Nanjing to Beijing. Overhauled the palace, organized manpower, and transferred grain from the south to the north. Canals were also dug and hundreds of thousands of people were requisitioned and transferred in Shandong, and the peasants were burdened with forced labor. In addition to floods and droughts, plague epidemics, the masses are living in great difficulty. The masses in Shandong, Henan and other places have reached the point of eating tree bark and grass roots to support their lives. "People eat grass for food. "In the seventeenth year of Yongle," Shandong, Henan, and Shanxi were still in a state of famine and drought, until they stripped the bark of trees and dug up grass roots...... The old and the young wandered, the roads were bumpy, and the wives and children were sold in order to survive." In folklore, Tang Sai'er got married at the age of 18 in troubled times. Soon after the marriage, her beloved husband Lin San was forced to death by the government (one said that he died of an epidemic), Tang Sai'er was in pain, aroused her spirit of resistance, and was determined to avenge her husband and the suffering villagers. At that time, the folk White Lotus Sect in Binzhou was prevalent. The peasant masses, who had suffered from war and exploitation, widely believed in the White Lotus Sect and sought spiritual sustenance and mutual help from it. Tang Sai'er has been chanting Buddhist scriptures since he was a child, and in order to make his teacher famous, a legend has been circulated. After Lin San's death, Tang Sai'er often went to the cemetery to pay respects. When Lin San returned to the village after a sacrifice, in the stone crevice at the foot of the mountain, Tang Sai'er found the books and swords of the White Lotus Sect. Since then, it has been rumored in the township and the government that she is "proficient in all arts", and believes that "the sword is also a divine object, but Sai'er can use it". Tang Sai'er then called herself "Mother of the Buddha", saying that she could predict the success or failure of things in the future, and called on the people to be able to cut paper. She worked tirelessly, did not avoid hardships and dangers, and secretly traveled back and forth between Yidu, Zhucheng, Anzhou, Juzhou, Jimo, and Shouguang counties.

The rebel army organized by Tang Sai'er, called the "White Lotus Army", gathered thousands of people. Because Putai County is located in the plain, there is no danger of high mountains and dense forests, Tang Sai'er found in Qingzhou, in the territory of Yidu County, more than 200 miles south of Putai County (the junction of Yangji and Zhuya townships), there is an ancient stone unloading shed, the peak is seven or eight hundred meters high, is surrounded by cliffs, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and is in the center of Zhucheng, Anqiu, Juzhou, Shouguang and other places, so Tang Sai'er chose the stone sheds as the site of the uprising, Yongle 18 February 11 formal uprising. After Tang Sai'er's uprising, the Ming government urgently ordered the Qingzhou Weidu to command Gao Feng to surround the unloading stone shed in an attempt to eliminate the rebel army. As soon as the Ming army arrived at the end of the stone shed, Tang Sai'er suddenly launched an attack at night, killing Gao Feng and others on the spot, and annihilating all the Ming troops in a state of chaos. The first battle was victorious, and the Tang Sayer rebel army was greatly inspired. She used the unloading stone shed as a base, and soon occupied Juzhou, Jimo and other county seats, attacking the government and wealthy landlords. People in all parts of the east of Qingzhou responded to the uprising, "destroying the official offices, burning the warehouses", opening warehouses to help the poor, and the team quickly grew to more than 20,000 people, shaking the Beijing division. The masses in all parts east of Qingzhou responded one after another, and more than a dozen rebel armies appeared in Yidu, Zhucheng, Anqiu, Juzhou, Jiaozhou and other prefectures and counties. Among them, there are two teams of Bin Hong and Dong Yangao. In this way, the peasant uprising centered on the stone unloading shed village was vigorously launched. After Tang Sai'er won the first battle, he used the stone unloading shed as a base to continuously attack the official officials, bullies, and landlords in the nearby state capital. Everywhere Tang Sai'er went, all the officials fled for their lives, and other rebel armies also responded. According to local chronicles, Shouguang, Anqiu, Jiaozhou and other places all had activities to crack down on the Ming army, such as "destroying official offices and burning warehouses", and one by one urgent documents flew to Beijing. In order to control the situation, Emperor Yongle sent a minister to the unloading stone shed to recruit peace, and Tang Sai'er angrily beheaded the envoy.

In the case of failure to recruit An, Ming Chengzu Zhu Di was extremely angry, and sent the commander of the "Beijing Battalion", Liu Shenghe, the Marquis of Anyuan, and the commander of Liu Zhong to lead 5,000 elite soldiers to suppress it. In the face of the rebel army led by Tang Sai'er, Liu Sheng believed that "the little thief can be pacified in a few days". On February 28, after Liu Sheng and Liu Zhongbing arrived in Yidu, they once again surrounded the unloading stone shed. Tang Sai'er took advantage of the enemy's arrogance and underestimation of the enemy's weakness, and surrendered on the grounds that "the village is exhausted and there is no water", and transferred Liu Sheng's main force to a place where there is water in the east of the city, but he concentrated his forces and launched a surprise attack on the weakly defended enemy camp. During the second watch of the night, he broke through the enemy camp and killed Liu Zhong, the commander of the capital. When the enemy's main force arrived, Tang Sayer had already commanded the rebel army to move calmly. At the same time, other rebel armies also fought valiantly against the Ming army, among which the battle of Anqiu City was the fiercest. At that time, more than 10,000 rebel troops in Anqiu, Juzhou, and Jimo besieged Anqiu City, and when they were about to take it, Wei Qing, who was responsible for guarding against the Japanese invaders on the coast of Shandong, led his troops to arrive, so that the rebel army suffered from the enemy on its back, and finally failed. The local leader Zhao Wan was captured and righteous, and more than 2,000 people were killed and wounded by the rebels, and more than 4,000 people were captured, all of whom were killed by the Ming army, and his wife and children were confiscated as slaves by the government.

Although the peasant uprising led by Tang Sayer only lasted more than 60 days, it killed two generals of the Ming Dynasty and achieved two great victories. After the failure of the Tang Sayer uprising, the ruler of the Ming Dynasty sent Liu Sheng to command the army to pursue the rebel army that broke through from the unearthing stone shed, and executed all the captured rebel generals. However, the leader of the rebel army, Tang Sai'er, had fled, which made the Yongle Emperor angry, and ordered Liu Sheng to be imprisoned, and all the senators, envoys, political envoys, and officials in the counties where the uprising occurred were executed. In order to prevent Tang Sai'er from becoming a nun and mixing into the ranks of Taoist aunts, Emperor Yongle issued an order in March and May of the same year: "All nuns and Taoist priests in Beijing and Shandong should be arrested and interrogated by the Beijing master." "All military and civilian women who become nuns and Taoists will be taught by the Jingshi. So more than 10,000 nuns and Taoist aunts were arrested and sent to Beijing for interrogation, but Tang Sai'er still "didn't know what to do". The peasant uprising led by Tang Sai'er not only dealt a powerful blow to the rule of the Ming Dynasty, but also shook the Ming Dynasty, which seized power through the peasant uprising. In order to maintain its rule, the Ming dynasty had to make some concessions to the oppression and exploitation of the peasants. According to the history of the Ming Dynasty: "It is the month, the green and the hungry." "In the second year (1421), Chengzu issued an edict to dismiss the inconvenience of the people and the lack of urgency; This kind of measure to provide disaster relief to Qingzhou and Laizhou in the same month, and then immediately recall the levies and the affected fields and grain, is inseparable from Tang Sai'er's struggle. Since Tang Sai'er's uprising, her deeds have become a topic of conversation among the masses in Binzhou and Qingzhou, Shandong. Some say that Tang Sai'er was handcuffed and shackled in prison, but when she shook it slightly, the handcuffs and shackles all fell off, and she ascended to the sky, while others said that Tang Sai'er ran to the prairie and became the leader of a tribe...... Now the place where Tang Sai'er revolted back then, the stone unloading shed village, is called Tang Sanzhai. The top of the village has the stone tablet erected in the second year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty (1863): "Tang Sanzhai has a long history, since the eighteenth year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty, Tang Sai'er, the wife of Putai Minlin San, created and repaired this village, and the mountain is famous. Until now, there are still relics such as the wall and the stone mortar of the unloading stone. In order to commemorate Tang Sai'er, the people of Binzhou built a statue of Tang Sai'er in the south of Binzhou City and north of the Binzhou Yellow River Bridge, and built a Tang Sai'er Temple at the original site of Xiguan in the former Putai County to commemorate this outstanding female leader of the peasant uprising.

There are two theories about Tang Sai'er's whereabouts: after Tang Sai'er's defeat, the official army searched Pupu to no avail, suspecting that she was hiding among nuns or female Taoists, so they arrested many nuns and female Taoist priests in Beijing, Shandong and other places, and sent them to Kyoto for interrogation, but finally failed to arrest Tang Sai'er. Tang Sai'er was once captured alive, and the Nine Dynasties and Wild Records contained: "Once you have caught it, you will be subdued and not afraid." Naked and bound, the city is about to be executed. The blade cannot enter. I had no choice but to go back to prison, Miki was quilted, and the iron buttons were tied to my feet, and Russia was freed from it, and he ran away, not knowing what to do. (To be continued......)