Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 264
In Yaopo Village, Tang Guan held a sickle and stood in front of seven or eight guards.

Chen Daying, an officer with a gloomy face, said to Tang Guan: "Tang Guan, although you boast about your reputation in all directions, you know that you are defying the imperial court, which is a serious crime of rebellion. Don't say that you are resisting food. Now you even the landlords of this village Lu Changcai was robbed, which is also a crime of murder."

Tang Guan argued: "People in our village did not kill Lu Changcai."

Chen Daying said: "Yesterday, Lu Changcai's body was found at the foot of Luliang Mountain, half of which was eaten by wild dogs."

Tang Guandao: "It was his own death and had nothing to do with the people in our village. It is a retribution from heaven."

Chen Daying's expression was uncertain, he really wanted to win Tang Guan, it was a credit to the county government, but Tang Guan was already protected by many villagers, even people from other villages.Yesterday when Chen Daying went to another village, people from Yaopo Village also came to support. Today, people from other villages near Yaopo Village also came to support. Obviously, all villages have united and made up their minds to fight against grain.

Resistance to food grains was not a common occurrence in ancient dynasties. After all, the government, which had mastered the machine of violence, was not something that ordinary people could fight against.The most recent grain resistance occurred in the 18th year of Shunzhi. Ren Weichu, the new magistrate of Wuxian County in Suzhou, strictly urged farmers to pay grain payments while stealing and selling official rice, which caused serious harm to the farmers.Jin Shengtan and other Wu sergeants used the old Ming Dynasty method of crying in the temple to protest. As a result, Shunzhi died just in time, violating the ruler's taboo. As a result, 18 people including Jin Shengtan were executed.

But in Shanxi, it's a different situation now. Although the government has its own servants, it has no officers and soldiers.The nearby military town has been almost exhausted due to the two years of war, and now a large number of them are sent to the capital to defend Emperor Kang Mazi.

Tang Guan and the others had seen the situation correctly, knowing that Daming would come back soon, and apart from a few yamen servants, the county had no strength at all. If they could unite the strength of the surrounding villages and towns to collectively fight against the grain, then they would not say anything and blame everyone , the county obviously has nothing to do with them.

Even Chen Daying didn't dare to draw knives at this time, there were only seven or eight of them, and there were dozens of these village braves. If there was a real fight, the villagers holding up those long bamboo poles would eat them up if they poked them. a pot.

But it was difficult for Chen Daying to let Tang Guan and the others go like this.

When the people on both sides fell into a confrontation, suddenly a group of people came from a distance. These people were all riding horses, and they looked very proud.

Tang Guan was shocked, and Chen Daying was overjoyed, because they all thought they were officers and soldiers.But when the horse team approached, everyone became afraid again, because obviously these people were not officers and soldiers, they were more likely to be bandits.

The one riding the horse is a handsome young man, his attire is very different from others, he is wearing a former court attire, the country folks are not familiar with it, and they don't know that he is wearing a flying fish suit.

The young man reined in his horse and shouted at the commotion and fear of the crowd: "This is Yaopo Village. I heard that the heroes in the village resisted the grain and the Qing Dynasty, and I admire them very much. Xia Duanmuwen is Major Jinyiwei of the Ming Dynasty, who is leading the rebel army today. Support the good guys in Yaopo Village!"

When Tang Guan heard this, he was very pleasantly surprised, and immediately called out: "My lord, we are from Yaopo Village, but has Master Daming returned to Shanxi?"

Chen Daying next to him was so frightened that he almost lost his courage.

Duan Muwen smiled and said: "I haven't come to Shanxi yet, but our General Su's troops have already reached Henan. I'm afraid we will come to Shanxi not too long ago. Our Jinyiwei is now contacting various anti-Qing righteous fighters in Shanxi to overthrow the Qing Dynasty together." The government of the Tartars and the evil gentry and tyrants who have harmed the countryside. I heard that the good men of Yaopo Village drove away the evil gentry Lu Changcai. I am very happy, so that everyone can know that Lu Changcai has been beaten to death by our Jinyiwei's masters."

The people in Yaopo Village heard that this man was a member of the Ming army, and Jin Yiwei was so famous, and they also heard that they killed Lu Changcai, and they liked him very much.And Chen Daying said just now that people from Yaopo Village killed someone, and this time the real owner of the murder has come.Let's take a look at the brave men and horses led by Duanmuwen. Although they are a bit of a mob, they are very fierce. Those who wield knives and guns cannot be dealt with by a group of government servants who command and oppress the common people.

This Chen Daying was also very good, he knelt down immediately and shouted: "My lord, I hope you are here, we little servants have been bullied terribly by the Tartar government, who forced us to threaten good people, We are really uneasy, today there is an adult in charge, we are willing to abandon the dark and turn to the bright."

Tang Guan was also surprised, he didn't expect Chen Daying to change sides so quickly.The villagers in Yaopo Village are all honest people, seeing Chen Daying's ability to adapt to the wind, they couldn't say anything for a while.

Duanmuwen laughed loudly and said: "Abandon the darkness and turn to the light? Well, you guys will lead me the way, cooperate with me inside and out, and deceive the county government. We will enter the county government, open warehouses to distribute food, and help the local people!"

When Tang Guan and others heard this, their spirits lifted. Everyone was starving to death, but they were not usually excited when they heard that Duanmuwen was going to open a warehouse to release food.Tang Guan hurriedly said: "My lord, I would like to follow your lord to attack the county government!"

Duanmuwen was originally active in Shanxi, doing extraordinary things, different from the orthodox Ming Dynasty Restoration Army, but some things are consistent, that is, passed down from Bai Mingxiu - unite all forces that can be united, mobilize the masses .

With the assistance of "traitors" like Chen Daying, Duanmuwen led the bandits and farmers' mud-legged coalition forces and directly broke through the county seat. In fact, the county seat did not have much defense at all, and the soldiers in charge of the guard ran away after shouting.

Duanmuwen kept his promise, opened the granary to help the local people, and followed Daming's practice, began to crack down on the local evil gentry, bullies and traitors, and established agricultural cooperatives in each village, and the first thing was to distribute land and food.

The volunteer army he pulled up swept through more than ten counties in the two prefectures in a short period of time, and its scale actually expanded to more than ten thousand people.Although it does not have the high-end weapons and equipment of the Ming Dynasty Restoration Army, and even many of the volunteers are ordinary farmers, armed with bamboo poles and hatchets, they follow the uprising, but their power is not inferior to the genuine Ming Dynasty Restoration Army.

And Fu Shan, who is quite famous in Shanxi, even used his reputation to persuade many forces to raise their flags against the Qing Dynasty again.For a while, there were nineteen rebels, big and small, in Shanxi. Some of them just occupied mountains and villages, and some, like Duanmuwen, defeated the Qing army and occupied prefectures and counties.Although big cities such as Taiyuan and Datong were still controlled by the Qing court, the influence of Ming Dynasty spread rapidly in Shanxi.

Divide the land and distribute the food, fight evil and clean up the dirty, kill the Tartars, restore the clothes of the Han family, make a living, and take care of food and clothing.These became the slogans of the revolution.Even when Bai Mingxiu arrived in Zhili, Shanxi was already in full swing.

(End of this chapter)