Dominate the Country

[Thanks to ‘Hua Bairen Weihui’ 1888 for the reward, thank you very much]

The thirty-three years of Qianlong's reign in China was a turning point in history. In the Chinese history textbooks of later generations, Chen Mingbing's expedition to the south of the Yangtze River was praised and admired in every possible way, as if it was such a "magical plan".

But in reality? Although Chen Ming's visit to Jiangnan dealt a heavy blow to the Qing Dynasty, it was still far from being the final nail in the coffin of the Qing government's doom.

Since the beginning of spring this year, groups of Qing troops have marched out from all over the world, aiming at Henan and Jiangnan. This includes the Beijing banner, the Guandong cavalry, the elite frontier soldiers from Gansu, Shaanxi, Sichuan, and Guangxi, the cavalry from the Mongolian prairie, and the green battalions stationed in prosperous coastal provinces such as Shandong, Fujian, Zhejiang, and Guangdong. Looking at the entire map of China at this time, there is still no movement in the two provinces of Yunnan and Guizhou, which had just stopped fighting with Myanmar.

This large army coming from the east, west, north and south illustrates the strong national power and strength of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. This large army transferred out of the province also proves the harm of the Fuhan Army to the Manchu Qing Dynasty in another aspect.

But when the whole world's attention was attracted by the Fuhan Army, this gave other forces loose room to move.

Forget about the big and small Jinchuan bomb. To be honest, the Tibetan chieftains in that place, with their small population in the mountains with absolute geographical advantages, could still carry the Manchus for a while. If the chieftains of Jinchuan and Jinchuan sent troops to attack the capital of Sichuan, they would just light lamps in the toilet - seeking death.

Chen Ming has never contacted there. He and his cheap dad now place more hopes on Hunyuan Sect and Tiandihui, in eastern Henan, northern Anhui, and Fujian and Taiwan. The former has various branches of the White Lotus Sect, such as the Qingshui Sect in Shandong, the Mahayana Sect and the Bagua Sect in eastern Hebei, while the latter also includes those foreign bandits.

Chen Ming knew that there were not many good people among the foreign bandits of the Tantric Cult, especially the leaders who took the lead. Many of their hands were stained with innocent blood and dark and heinous crimes. But those who achieve great things don't stick to trivial matters. He has used this sentence more and more frequently since he 'learned' it.

Now eastern Henan, northern Anhui, and southwestern Shandong, as well as Xuzhou Prefecture in Jiangsu, are all blank. Shandong Green Camp has been transferred to northern Jiangsu in large numbers. Green Camp garrisons and naval forces from Fujian and Guangdong are all gathering towards the south of the Yangtze River. Taiwan Town is also They were mobilized, which gave the Tiandihui over there a good environment for the uprising.

A single flower is not spring, but a hundred flowers blooming together fills the garden. Wait until the Hunyuan Sect and the White Lotus Sect raise their troops, wait until the Tiandihui raises their troops in Fujian, even though they will be quickly wiped out by the Qing soldiers - the White Lotus Sect has the worst environment, so the General Mansion will attack them in large numbers Spending real money on them to give them the guarantee they want is to make them truly rebel against the Qing Dynasty.

In such a world, in whose eyes is it not that war is everywhere and chaos is about to break out?

When the Fuhan Army threw Wuchang City to the Qing Army, some cynics were still barking, clamoring that the Fuhan Army's rabbit tail would not grow long, but soon Chen Ming sent troops into Jiangnan to give them a loud slap in the face.

No matter how powerful the Manchu Qing Dynasty was three or five years ago, after Chen Ming destroyed the Huguang grain depot, the Manchu Qing Dynasty now stabbed the Qing government's money bag with a knife, even in Shandong, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Hebei Guandong, Mongolia, Tibet, Xinjiang Qinghai, Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian and Zhejiang, more than 80% of the country's land has not been set foot by the Fuhan army. The middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River were severely ravaged by Chen Ming. The Manchus suffered huge losses in money and food, and their national power was in decline. It's already a fact.

If the White Lotus Sect and Heaven and Earth will ignite the beacon fire again, haha, at a glance, war and chaos will come, and the chaos will come.

Chen Ming has high hopes for the Fujian Tiandi Society and hopes that they will be fully prepared before launching an army. However, his cheap dad Chen Hui hopes to see the Hunyuan Sect rise up in a short period of time. In order to cooperate with the Hunyuan Sect who was based at the junction of eastern Henan and northern Anhui, Chen Hui appointed Chen Erbao, the most powerful general in the general's office, as the left deputy governor, and assembled half of his troops to quietly move to Yancheng.

When the Hunyuan Sect revolted at the border between eastern Henan and northern Anhui, the army would sweep through Chenzhou Prefecture and Yingzhou Prefecture. Chen Hui did not believe that the Qing soldiers on the battlefield in Yancheng would not be panicked. As far as he knew, all the grain, grass, money, and materials needed for combat of the Qing army on the battlefield of Yancheng were all stored in Chenzhou Fucheng. If Chenzhou Fucheng was lost, haha, even if Chen Hui did not urge him, Chen Erbao would definitely They will intensify their efforts and launch a more violent attack on the Qing army on the front line of Shahe.

Liu Song was laughing now. He was waving the autographed letter written by Chen Hui to him in his hand, with a look of ridicule on his face. "This great general thinks that our Hunyuan Sect is too simple. If we want to destroy the money and food in the treasury of Huaining [Chenzhou Fucheng], do we still need our entire team to move?" Chen Hui didn't even think of Hunyuan. The religion has such a deep foundation in both Chenzhou and Yingzhou Prefecture.

One sentence can be transparent: If those who work in their secret sect do not have strong connections with the county and government offices, can they escape the palm of the government?

Yang Ji had a relaxed expression on his face. The general's request was very simple, very simple for their Hunyuan Sect. Just burn the food and materials in Huaining's treasury with a fire. As Liu Song said, there is no need for the Hunyuan Sect's large rebel army. Just the disciples of the Chenzhou Magistrate's Yamen are enough to accomplish it and can do it. Watertight.

Fan Mingde was not in Luyi, he went to Yingzhou Prefecture, Anhui. The uprising of Hunyuan Sect would be launched in Chenzhou and Yingzhou, and then Liu Song would personally lead a group of elites to march towards Chenzhou Prefecture with great fanfare. Yang Ji would lead the main force to gather followers from all directions in Luyi, and then lead the large force to kill Yingzhou Prefecture.

They have already thought of a strategy. Kill officials, gentry and rich people along the way, open warehouses and release grain. It will surely attract countless young and strong people to join the gang.

Then they will take advantage of the emptiness of northern Anhui, sweep northern Anhui, advance into Xuzhou, and then march to Shandong. There are people from Qingshui Sect there to meet them. Even if the Qingshui Sect dare not rebel when the rebel army arrives in Shandong, it will definitely be no problem to borrow a few people as guides.

In the middle of Qianlong, the Manchu Qing Dynasty had serious land annexation, population surge and rapid price increase. In fact, the lower class society was already turbulent. This was by no means the fault of Heshen alone, although his existence greatly accelerated this process.

This is the situation in the whole of North China, and Shandong is the most important. The situation in Shandong in the middle of the Qianlong period was: ... In the past, farmers in the eastern province borrowed money, and the rich households were willing to repay the loan with an interest rate of four or five cents, so the common people borrowed money and did not become homeless. Now they charge two or three cents in interest and do not repay the loan. ... Families with surplus are afraid of being in debt and no longer lend money, ... Poor households have no door to turn to and have to seek food in other places. And the most serious thing is that by the middle of the Qianlong period, China's surging population had developed the whole of North China to the point where there was no wasteland to be reclaimed. The relative shortage of land itself led to local unrest, and the population growth in the middle of the Qianlong period was abnormally rapid.

When the General's Mansion gave money to the Hunyuan Sect, he asked him to connect with the White Lotus Sect branches in various places. The Qingshui Sect in Shandong became another chess piece that the General's Mansion valued very much. It was not because of Wang Lun's personality charm, but there was a real basis.

At the end of March, Beijing City had sent back a piece of information, which was obtained by Yu Zecheng (Gao Jingcheng) from the Henan Guild Hall. A Henan official who came to Beijing from Shandong to report on his work said this in a conversation with a friend in Beijing: I heard about the case of the evil people in Shouteng County, Shandong Province, gathering to cause trouble. In March, I heard from travelers between Beijing and Qi and Lu that due to the lack of rain on all roads, the wheat harvest was poor. This year, Chen Ni dug up the canal and cut off the canal transportation, which made tens of thousands of canal workers along the river unable to eat or wear clothes. As a result, banditry and robbery have repeatedly occurred. Whenever there are travelers and carriages, they are often surrounded by dozens of people and cannot move. What we hope is that the summer harvest is coming soon, which can provide relief. After April, although Qi and Lu have rains at different times, they are not enough. Since the harvest has not been harvested, it is inevitable. I am afraid that the local officials will whitewash the situation and report the percentage of the harvest, which varies from 7 to 8. No one knows about the words of comfort, and the collection of taxes is getting tighter day by day, so the lawless people will take the opportunity to cause trouble. The current incident in Teng County can be regarded as a warning. Although they are called treacherous people, most of them are hungry people who have no reason to complain. They are provoked.

The information sent by Yu Zecheng is in contrast with the Qingshui Sect in Shandong. It is the biggest reason why the Qingshui Sect stands out from the branches of the White Lotus Sect. He made the General's Office believe that Shandong has the foundation to succeed. And it is said that the population of Shandong has exceeded 18 million. Compared with more than 12 million in the 18th year of Qianlong, it has increased by half, but the increase in arable land has gradually become zero.

Although the Fu Han Army's secret camp has only been in contact with the Qingshui Sect for less than a month, it has already provided 10,000 taels of silver to the Qingshui Sect.

Silver is nothing to the current Fu Han General's Office. Let the Qing territory be burned with war and smoke everywhere, which is the most powerful.

There are many mountainous areas in western Shandong. Liu Song, Yang Ji, and Fan Mingde realized the importance of mountainous areas to the righteous army from the trajectory of the Fu Han Army. It is not the Huanghuai Plain in eastern Henan and northern Anhui. As long as they can get into the mountains of Shandong, there is no possibility of being wiped out in a short time. Although the righteous army set out from eastern Henan and advanced to western Shandong, it was a long way in between. No one dared to say that they could really escape the attack of the Qing army's cavalry and infantry, but the current conditions and environment really reached the most perfect time that the Hunyuan Sect could achieve.

Liu Song, Yang Ji, and Fan Mingde did not want to give up.

There was no large group of green camp soldiers stationed in Luyi County. At most, there were only a hundred or so green camps here, led by a thousand-man commander named Deng. I won't mention the name. Everyone just needs to know that this thousand-man commander surnamed Deng was beheaded without any pain after being drunk. Liu Song wants to use the head of this thousand-man commander and the head of the Luyi County Magistrate as a sacrifice!

On the same day, at the prefectural office of Yingzhou Prefecture, Fan Mingde and his followers in plain clothes had arrived outside the city of Yingzhou Prefecture at 7:00 am. There were only 200 followers behind him, scattered and not gathered together. Each of them carried a package, pushed a cart, or led a donkey cart or a mule. These 200 people were the elite of the Hunyuan Sect. They had been training in the Luyi militia for a month. Although they could not wear iron armor and rattan armor now, each of them had a sharp sword, an iron rod and a long spear.

Yingzhou Prefecture also organized militia training, and like the militia training of Chenzhou Prefecture, there was no uniform clothing. The clothes of the civilians were messy and undisciplined. It was difficult to distinguish a stranger from a group of people.

The prefect of Yingzhou was surnamed Tang, and he had been an official in Yingzhou for two years. The prefect of Chenzhou next door was very miserable, but the prefect Tang lived a very comfortable life. The Fu Han Army's lair was right next door, but there was a Chenzhou Prefecture in between. Yingzhou was safe. If it weren't for the braid-cutting case before, he would have had a very good life.

Because the Qing court needed silver, money and food to destroy the Fu Han Army, and had to recruit civilians and labor, for local officials, this was a good opportunity to make a lot of money. And it was easy to settle the accounts, without any loopholes. So the prefect Tang, wearing a white silk gown and shaking a paper fan, came to see the Hunyuan believers brought to him by the yamen runners without any defense, and asked: "What's the urgent matter? So urgent." The believer made himself sweat in order to act, and there was a layer of dust on his face. The sweat flowed down his forehead, leaving a series of gray marks on his face.

"Prefect, it's the traitor, the traitor is here..."

Prefect Tang was subconsciously stunned, then waved the paper fan, scolding him for being false, Chenzhou Prefecture was still there, how could the Fu Han Army come to his Yingzhou Prefecture? He asked sternly: "Where do you say Chen Ni is? How dare you report false military information..." He was about to get angry. The scout took two steps forward and answered loudly: "Mr. Mingfu, the traitor... is right in front of you!" He took out the short sword in his arms and hit Tang Zhifu in the neck.

The chief official of a prefecture died in the hands of a commoner like this, and with him died the commander of the Yingzhou Green Camp garrison, who was shot dead on the spot by a commoner delivering vegetables with a double-barreled pistol in the camp.

The noise and panic of the government office and the military camp spread outside the city. Fan Mingde suddenly threw off his hat, and the believers around him immediately used bamboo poles to pick up a large flag of Buddha light and white lotus. This was the suggestion given to them by the Fu Han Army, to raise a flag of their own, not just the surname of the leader.

The three leaders of the Hunyuan Sect discussed and discussed, and then painted a ninth-grade white lotus with Buddha light as the flag of their own righteous army.

The flag was originally in the believer's arms, and it was easy to pick it up.

On April 18, the 33rd year of Qianlong's reign, the Hunyuan Sect rebelled in Chenzhou and Yingzhou.

The leader Liu Song called himself the chief teacher, and Yang Ji called himself the general of Fengtian. In Luyi, the county magistrate, the general of Qianzong and other county officials and gentry were invited to a banquet. When everyone was drunk, the Hunyuan Sect members rushed out and killed 70 officials and gentry below the county magistrate and the general of Qianzong, and more than 300 yamen runners and civilians. Later, more than 2,000 members of the sect attacked and captured the county, swore an oath of blood, and vowed to fight against the Qing Dynasty.

Another leader, Fan Mingde, assassinated the prefect and the military and political leaders of the garrison in Yingzhou Prefecture, and then attacked with elite troops. The green camp and the militia in Yingzhou Prefecture were defeated, and Yingzhou Prefecture was captured by Fan Mingde in one fell swoop. The Hunyuan Sect members in Yingzhou came from all directions, and more than 3,000 people swore an oath of blood and vowed to fight against the Qing Dynasty. They called themselves the vanguard of driving away the invaders.

At the same time, the treasury of Chenzhou Prefecture was burned. In a place of money and grain, dozens of soldiers and civilians were killed, and warehouses storing tens of thousands of dan of grain, weapons, cloth and gunpowder were turned into waste. The prefect of Chenzhou asked for death, and the governor of Henan, Chen Huizu, went to Chenzhou in person, but could not find any clues.

Since the Chen family, Yu Lushan, was the first to raise the anti-Qing banner, the second family to respond and raise troops, "Princes", appeared.