In 1420 AD, a peasant uprising led by Tang Saier broke out in Jiaodong, Shandong.

This uprising brought the Jiaodong Peninsula and Jianghu Wulin in Shandong into a chaotic massacre. The army of the imperial court, that is, the Ming army, carried out a comprehensive massacre of every village in Jiaodong when it suppressed the Tang Sai'er rebel army. On the rivers and lakes, the demons led by the black-clothed witch set off a bloody fight. The tragedy of this massacre, the grandeur of its scale, the magnitude of its impact, and the depth of its shadow on the people are unprecedented. Up to now, it has been circulated among the people in Jiaodong, and some village chronicles and county chronicles have different records of this massacre, and they all call this massacre "Yongle sweeping the north".

In other words, this brutal massacre happened during the Yongle period when Zhu Di, the fourth son of the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, called himself emperor in Nanjing.

What kind of massacre is this, speaking of this massacre, this has to talk about the Don Sayre uprising.

Speaking of the Tang Sayre Uprising, this also has a certain historical background.

That is, during the Yongle period after Zhu Di, the king of Yan of the Ming Dynasty, was called the emperor, because Zhu Di, the king of Yan, was in the same period as his nephew Zhu Yunwen, the emperor of Jianwen, Zhu Yunwen, who was the son of Zhu Biao, the eldest son of the crown prince, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, because Zhu Biao died before Zhu Yuanzhang, so Zhu Yuanzhang passed the throne to his imperial grandson Zhu Yunwen when he died. As Zhu Yuanzhang's fourth son, Zhu Di, the king of Yan who was sealed in Beiping at that time, was unconvinced, thinking that Zhu Yuanzhang had a son who would not pass it on to his grandson, so soon after Zhu Yunwen ascended the throne as emperor, a four-year-long war broke out between uncles and nephews led by Zhu Di, the king of Yan.

In this war, because the two sides were only concerned with fighting, the local economy was very depressed. In particular, at that time, disasters occurred in the Shandong Peninsula for many years, either drought or disease was rampant, causing the entire land of Jiaodong and the common people to be rampant with drought and disease. The poor people could not eat, and there was money to cure the disease, so they were sick but had no money to treat them, so they could only suffer from the disease with their eyes open and suffer helplessly until they died. And at that time, the government and its **, due to disease and hunger rampant, the government regarded it as normal, blindly turned a blind eye, blindly ignored the life and death of the people, and allowed hunger and disease to spread, resulting in the entire land of Jiaodong, the common people are struggling in the dire misery of death, resulting in every household in the village, the people are not living, the bones are everywhere, and the village can hear the sound of the living crying and the dead breaking their intestines.

At this time, in Huantai County, Binzhou, Jiaodong, Shandong, Tang Sai'er, a woman who practiced medicine for a living, went around looking for herbs to treat people for free, and the patients she treated for free were 60,000 or 70,000 young and middle-aged men. But in the process of treatment, Tang Sai'er gradually discovered that although she cured people and pulled them back from the death line of the disease, she could not save them from hunger. They starved and starved, and eventually starved to death, which could never be reversed by medical skills.

In the process of treating the people, Tang Sai'er saw that the officials in the government, because in the four years of melee, they all developed the habit of not asking about the life and death of the people, and even some local officials used their own tricks to take advantage of the chaos to oppress and oppress the people, so that they would squeeze the last drop of blood of the people, so the people complained and suffered everywhere, which made Tang Sai'er very angry.

But at this time, a sick person, because he was grateful to Tang Sai'er for curing his family's illness, but had no money to repay, gave Tang Sai'er a book from his ancestors. Tang Sai'er got this book, and saw that this book recorded some secret methods of cutting paper for horses, tying paper for adults, and sprinkling beans into soldiers. So Tang Sai'er was very happy, thinking that he could use the method in this book to fight against the officers and soldiers of the government, to save the suffering, and to save the people from the dire situation.

So, she found the first talent Bin Hong, taught her to study this book day and night, and practiced the techniques according to what was said in this book, and learned to be proficient in its way, well understood its methods, and immediately saved the sixty or seventy thousand people who were struggling on the line of starvation and death from her medical practice, and the young and middle-aged men who were uncertain about life and death gathered together and organized them, preparing to one day give an order, get up together to smash the government first, open the granary, release grain to save the people, and rise up together to build the government and the government, and lead the people to fight a world without hunger. However, due to the traitor's informant, her husband was first killed by the government, and then some of the leading figures of the uprising were also arrested one after another, so the uprising had to be hastily held in advance.

So, in 1420 AD, a peasant uprising led by Tang Sai'er broke out in Jiaodong. The rebel army attacked the city and seized the county, opened warehouses to release grain to help the people, won the support of the people, and in a very short period of time, it developed and grew, and launched fierce battles with the officers and soldiers many times, and the officers and soldiers were defeated, and the officers and soldiers were terrified and did not dare to face the battle. Especially in the fierce battle with the officers and soldiers, when the killing with the officers and soldiers was fierce, Tang Sai'er made a move, and in an instant, the officers and soldiers saw the sky for a while with lightning and thunder, the wind was raging, and the wind and sand walked the stones, Tang Sai'er cut those lions, tigers, insects and leopards with paper, and suddenly turned into some real lions, tigers and insects, and pounced on them viciously with their teeth and mouths, and those officers and soldiers who were scared dared to fight again, one by one were so shocked that their livers were broken, and they ran away without their lives, and the rebels were chasing and killing behind, killing those officers and soldiers crying and shouting for their mothers, and they would be defeated in every battle, and they would be defeated and defeated, and they did not dare to fight again.

In this way, in a very short period of time, the rebel army quickly fought all over Jiaodong and captured most of the prefectures and counties in Jiaodong, and because the hungry people were miserable, the people responded to join wherever the rebel army went, and even the officials of some local prefectures and counties were forced to surrender to the rebel army one after another. After the rebel army occupied most of the prefectures and counties in Jiaodong, it formed an expeditionary force, led by Tang Sai'er himself, and continued to fight against the official army from east to west.

This expeditionary force numbered more than 60,000 people, and under the personal command of Tang Sai'er, they soon reached Qingzhou, an important military town in Shandong, and fought a bloody battle with the Ming army in Qingzhou.

Liu Qiying, the commander of the Ming army in Qingzhou, and Gao Feng, the commander of the Qingzhou guard, heard that the Tang Sai'er rebel army was rushing to Qingzhou, and the rebel army had not yet arrived in Qingzhou, so they hurriedly reported to the imperial court in a panic.

At that time, Zhu Di, the emperor of Yongle, was shocked when he heard the news and was busy mobilizing his ministers to discuss countermeasures. The generalissimo of the Nanjing garrison, Liu Sheng, who was named the Marquis of Anyuan by the Yongle Emperor, came out of Ban and said: "Your Majesty, the thieves Tang Sai'er gathered thieves to rebel, and sent troops to recruit as soon as possible, if the thieves broke through Qingzhou and approached Jeju (Jinan, Shandong), I am afraid that Shandong will fall into the hands of the thieves. ”

When Emperor Yongle heard this, he said: "Shandong anti-thieves are in rebellion, so fast, its army arrived in Qingzhou in a few days, it seems that Shandong is very anti-people, should go to destroy it as soon as possible, in Aiqing's opinion, how many troops should be used to destroy it?"

Minister Li Muju said: "Your Majesty, the anti-thieves are so fast, it seems that the people of Jiaodong are all opposed, there are no good people in Jiaodong, there are so many people in Jiaodong, when a large army goes to conquer it." ”

Emperor Yongle said: "Everyone, how about sending 200,000 elite soldiers?" Liu Zhong, deputy generalissimo of the Nanjing deputy garrison, came out of the squad and said: "Your Majesty, if you send 200,000 troops to conquer and suppress, I am afraid that the capital will be empty, and if the remnants of Zhu Yunwen resurrect and take advantage of the void to enter, what should we do? In the opinion of the ministers, it is enough to line up 100,000 elite soldiers to go to the conquest and suppression. ”

Liu Sheng was afraid that Yongle Platoon Liu Zhong would go to conquer and take the lead, so he immediately said: "Your Majesty, the minister means that 100,000 troops are enough, and 100,000 troops are enough to destroy Tang Sai'er in Jiaodong, if Your Majesty platoons 200,000 troops to go, there will be a huge amount of grain and grass at that time, but the action will be slow, and he will not be able to reach Jiaodong very quickly, and then Tang Sai'er's anti-thieves will be even more powerful, and I am afraid that the 200,000 troops at that time will not be as good as the 100,000 elite soldiers to go to the conquest now." ”

When Yongle saw this, he thought for a while and said, "In this case, I will first send 100,000 elite soldiers to Shandong to exterminate Tang Sai'er's thieves." Liu Sheng lost no time in saying: "Your Majesty, the minister is willing to lead the troops there, and the minister must exterminate Tang Sai'er's thieves in one fell swoop." When Emperor Yongle heard this, he nodded slightly and said, "Aiqing is going, I am very relieved, but I don't know who can be the pioneer." ”

As soon as Liu Zhong saw that Liu Sheng had won the battle, he hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, the last general is willing to be the vanguard." Emperor Yongle looked at Liu Zhong and said, "If you have two Aiqing going, I don't have to worry about it, Liu Sheng listens to the seal, Liu Sheng, I will make you the generalissimo of the thief." Liu Sheng was very happy and immediately said: "Thank Your Majesty for your trust, the last general will definitely live up to the emperor's expectations." Emperor Yongle said: "The two of you have had a very good relationship in the past, and you will definitely live up to my expectations, put the community first, and establish miraculous achievements, so that I can rest assured." ”

Liu Sheng said: "Emperor Xie, the ministers must live up to the emperor's trust, and they will definitely exterminate all Tang Sai'er's thieves." Emperor Yongle nodded slightly, and said: "Liu Zhong listens to the seal, I will appoint you as the deputy generalissimo of the thief, and also serve as the chief vanguard." ”

Liu Zhong said: "Thank Your Majesty for your trust, the last general will definitely live up to the trust of Marshal Liu." ”

Therefore, the Yongle Emperor hurriedly issued an order to immediately mobilize 100,000 elite soldiers, led by the general marshal Liu Sheng, the deputy marshal and the general vanguard Liu Zhong, the two led 100,000 Ming troops, and hurried to Shandong in the starry night to extinguish the flames of the uprising.