Dominate the Country

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In the mountains and forests of Yunyang in July. Chen Baoguang, whose body was covered with dirt, held up his binoculars and looked at the Yunyang Green Battalion soldiers at the foot of the mountain, where Shi Shiran was marching out. The endless burdens in his heart were lifted, and the tense nerves in the past few days also relaxed. As soon as his legs and feet softened, his whole body fell to the ground. Behind him, five men who were covered in dirt, black and gray like him were lying staggering on the ground. In the past few days, he had been chased by the Green Camp soldiers to nowhere, and finally managed to survive in this deep mountain and old forest. The two dens that were developed were all wiped out by the soldiers. There were more than 20 downlines and two personal followers who had followed him when they entered the mountain. Only three people were still following him. The others were either captured by the Qing soldiers, killed in the fight, or escaped halfway.

"Wang Qingjiang, you old dog, Mr. Guang has not been caught by the Tatars, you are an unfamiliar old dog, just wait for me to eat the knife!" The most deadly and urgent threat was gone, and Chen Baoguang's mind was filled with thoughts of escaping. It instantly turned into the hottest hatred for the traitor. If Wang Qingjiang, an old man whose whole family had been greatly favored by him, hadn't tipped off the Yunxi County Yamen, how could his six months of hard work have been ruined? And almost lost his life?

As one of the secret spies sent to Yunyang Mansion by the Chen Jiajun secret camp, Chen Baoguang has an arduous task. And what he accomplished was quite good, and he was rewarded by Chen Guang's order, but now he returned to before liberation overnight. Two dens were raided, and Chen Baoguang lost hundreds of taels of silver, a considerable amount of grain, salt and sugar, as well as a batch of weapons brought into the mountains. The most important thing was that almost all of the offline people he had worked hard to develop were gone. Chen Baoguang's hatred for Wang Qingjiang's family was deep in his bones. He wished he could chew up the bones and flesh of Wang Qingjiang's family right now and swallow them...

The six people slept peacefully on the mountain. When Chen Baoguang woke up, the sun had already set to the west. He woke up the other people who were still sleeping, and the six people went down the mountain. Chen Baoguang knew that there was a refugee settlement at the foot of this mountain, a refugee settlement that was not even a village. There were about thirteen or four families with a population of forty or fifty.

At the beginning, Chen Baoguang brought iron materials to this refugee settlement to sell. He also knew that the refugees here were all from Jiangxi. The leader's surname was Zhang. Chen Baoguang didn't know his real name, so he only called him Zhang Laosi. In more than a dozen families, the men work in the wooden box factory, and the women lead their children to cultivate what they can on the barren land in the mountains.

Don’t wonder why the refugees from Jiangxi came to Yunyang in northwest Hubei, because Yunyang has been a major gathering place for Chinese refugees and refugees since the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties. From the middle and late Ming Dynasty to the Manchu and Qing Dynasties in the original time and space, that It was even more of a big gunpowder barrel set on a pile of dry wood.

Yunyang was the core area from the two refugee uprisings during the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty to the White Lotus Sect uprising in the five provinces of Sichuan and Chu that brought the Manchu and Qing Dynasties down from their peak in the history of the Qing Dynasty.

This area is full of mountains, the plain area is very small, and it is adjacent to Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Henan, making it a key place. During the Yuan Dynasty of the Meng Dynasty, because it was a place out of reach of government rule, the mountains and forests within the territory became a refuge for poor people to escape natural and man-made disasters. After Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, he listed the Yunyang Mountain area as the largest closed area in the country. "The land is empty and no refugees are allowed to enter." This policy was implemented until the middle of the Ming Dynasty, that is, during the Chenghua period.

Because there was no government in Yunyang, bankrupt and distressed peasants often fled into Yunyang for more than a hundred years. By the Chenghua period, the number of refugees reached more than 1.5 million. These refugees built shacks and houses, burned crops for fields, and cultivated their own crops. , living a free life without paying donations or taxes, was naturally not allowed by the court, so officers and soldiers were sent to exterminate them, which triggered two major uprisings of Jingxiang refugees. Yunyang Mansion was thus forced to be established.

In the original time and space, in the middle and late Qianlong Dynasty, due to official corruption and high concentration of land, large numbers of refugees, numbering in the millions, gathered in the old forest areas of Nanshan and Bashan at the junction of Sichuan, Chu and Shaanxi to make a living. Yunyang Mansion is its core place, where a large number of refugees gather to open up wasteland and make a living through hard work. In addition to setting up shacks and reclaiming wasteland, the refugees also need to be employed in local wooden box factories, iron factories, and paper mills. They work hard to earn meager wages in order to survive.

Chen Baoguang has been in Yunyang for half a year and has a very clear understanding of the local situation. The hundreds of thousands of refugees living here are not only exploited by landlords and factory owners, but also extorted by local police officers and litigants. Their lives are extremely unstable. difficult. It is also because of this desperate life that branches of the White Lotus Sect such as the Hunyuan Sect and the Sanyang Sect have spread widely among the refugees.

The historical Sichuan-Chu White Lotus Rebellion started in the first year of Jiaqing and lasted until the ninth year of Jiaqing. It involved five provinces: Hubei, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Henan, and Gansu. It forced the Manchu Qing Dynasty to mobilize the national army to suppress the uprising, resulting in more than ten More than 400 senior military attachés, including admirals and generals, and mid-level military attachés below deputy generals were killed. It also cost 200 million taels of silver military expenditure before and after the Manchu and Qing Dynasties, which was the tax revenue of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties for four to five years. If Emperor Jiaqing hadn't used Heshen's private money to replenish the Qing Dynasty, what would have been the consequences? So, no one can say for sure.

As a time traveler, Chen Ming certainly knew that Yunyang was a big powder keg. Even though the number of refugees in Yunyang and other places in the middle of the Qianlong period was far less than that in the later years, there were still hundreds of thousands of people who wanted to come.

Early before the Chen family started the rebellion, he wanted the Chen family's "caravan" to actively develop southward, cross Nanyang Prefecture, and kill to Yunyang Prefecture, but time did not allow the Chen family to operate slowly. Before the rebellion, even if it relied on the Gao family's route, the Chen family's tentacles could only reach Nanyang Prefecture at most. Until the establishment of the secret camp.

Chen Baoguang had no food in his stomach. He ran out of food three days ago and only relied on wild fruits in the mountains to fill his stomach. Now the refugees under the mountain can give him a piece of wild vegetable cake, which can make him taste the beauty of mountain delicacies and sea delicacies. Thinking of this, Chen Baoguang swallowed his saliva subconsciously, and his stomach became even hungrier.

"Gurgle..."

I don't know whose stomach rumbled first, and the six people's flat stomachs all gurgled.

"Let's go, let's go down the mountain quickly. We can have a good meal." Although he was in a hurry when he escaped, Chen Baoguang had to bring more than a dozen gold beans and silver nuggets. The group of people shouted happily and walked quickly down the mountain.

But the closer they got to the refugee settlement, the more obvious a bad feeling became. Chen Baoguang had already walked to the fence or fence outside the refugee settlement, and he didn't hear a single voice, but he smelled a bloody smell more and more clearly in his nose...

"Master Guang, wait a moment, I'll go inside to take a look..." A long-term servant stepped forward, holding a short knife in his hand, and walked into the refugee settlement cautiously. After a moment, a scream came from inside: "Master Guang, come and see..." The voice was full of shock and anger.