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Chapter 154, The Chaos of Jiangnan

Therefore, seeing that the livelihood of the citizens in Jiangnan is miserable day by day, the tuition money and rice subsidies that the government should have given to them have also been cut off for a few months, because it was only a few years later. Pu wrote "The Tablet of Five People", and the deeds of taking advantage of the Suzhou civil uprising to become famous all over the world are still fresh in his memory. Right now, a group of poor scholars in Suzhou Prefecture are thinking about connecting with each other. Teacher Confucius tablet is set up outside the magistrate's yamen, wanting to repeat the Suzhou anti-tax civil uprising in the sixth year of the apocalypse under the banner of "pleading for the people and doing justice for the sky", and asking for justice from the government. Allow yourself some benefits.

However, they forgot a very important point. In the civil uprising in Suzhou in the sixth year of the apocalypse, what was opposed was the dictatorship of the eunuch party, and also resisted the court's taxation of Jiangnan industry and commerce. Behind them were the Donglin Party and the Jiangnan landlords, gentry, wealthy businessmen and so on. The big benefactor acted as a pusher, naturally there was a lot of response, and there was a lot of trouble.But today's Nanjing court is dominated by the Donglin Party, how can they allow poor scholars like them to jump up and down?

Therefore, just like those American poor who were dazzled by the human rights and freedoms that they usually advertised in the past, they recklessly went to "occupy" that Wall Street poor American, these junior Suzhou scholars also seriously underestimated the Donglin Party If you dare to take to the streets with no one to support you, you will suffer in the end. The ragged boot formations set up by Suzhou scholars outside the magistrate’s yamen were noisy for three days at first, and no one dared to control them at first. , Let these scholars feel complacent for a while, feeling that they have accomplished a great event, and they may be as beautiful as Zhang Pu in the future.

Unexpectedly, three days later, the Nanjing court's handling was unprecedentedly severe. The cabinet actually ordered the dispatch of the newly formed Jingying imperial army to rush to Suzhou, where they shot and killed the troublemakers with bows and crossbows in the street. Those who can't escape will be chopped into meat sauce!
Because the place where scholars and scholars set up their boot formations is not only in Suzhou, but also in Zhenjiang, Huzhou, Jiaxing, Songjiang, Changzhou, Nanjing and other places, so they were hacked to death on the spot under the bloody strangulation of the imperial army. Thousands of people, Confucius tablets were thrown all over the street.Afterwards, more than 600 scholars and more than 150 juren were dismissed, and more than 80 related officials were dismissed.

However, those scholars who can only talk cannons, have no power to restrain chickens, and have failed to rebel for ten years, are relatively easy for the court to suppress, but the unemployed workers who are so poor that only one life is left and Bankrupt farmers, but very people scratching their heads.

Faced with the gentry thugs and servants who came to suppress the rice-grabbing trend, the anger and despair that had accumulated in the hearts of the citizens of Jiangnan for more than half a year suddenly erupted like a mountain torrent.These people, who had been starved to the point of death, got their strength and courage from not knowing where they came from, but they actually fought with the officials. Refuse to let go.

And in rural villages in the south of the Yangtze River, the tax collectors who came to pay the poll tax were also besieged by angry villagers, and most of them were beaten to death.

In the face of the threat of death, the once high-ranking government seems to have become less scary.

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Zhou Yanru, the chief assistant of the cabinet squad of the Forbidden City in Nanjing, was facing the snowflakes of military intelligence reports, his face was full of sadness.

Seeing that the situation in the market is getting worse day by day, his hair is also graying one strand after another.Now the territory that the Nanjing Yonghe Emperor's court can really manage is only the size of a palm. It is no more than Anqing in the west, Songjiang in the east, Chuzhou in the north, and Jiaxing in the south.Now trapped in Quzhou, the governor of Zhejiang, who is in a dilemma, is actually alone behind the enemy.

But right now, the foreign enemies from all sides have not yet attacked further, and this piece of Jiangnan, which is known as a rich land of fish and rice, has already become a mess by itself.

——The Wenxiangjiao monsters in Jiangbei were beaten to ashes by the Eight Banners Jiannu, basically posing no threat to Jiangnan.However, the Liaodong Jiannu had just arrived and hadn't established a firm foothold in Lianghuai, so they probably wouldn't try to cross the south of the Yangtze River soon.As for the Australian Kun bandits in the south, they also stopped after occupying Hangzhou.Although the abolished Emperor Chongzhen of Huguang in the upper reaches made a lot of noise in raising salaries and recruiting troops, after all, there has been no sign of sending troops so far.

However, although foreign enemies from all over the world have not invaded on a large scale for the time being, the sparks ignited by the rice grabbing trend in Suzhou and Songjiang prefectures have already burned throughout the entire south of the Yangtze River, and all towns, prefectures and counties have been involved in the riots. swirl!In these cities with well-developed industries and commerce, the devastating economic depression has lasted for more than half a year, and the streets and alleys are full of unemployed citizens who are on the verge of starvation.Therefore, as long as someone raises his arms, tens of thousands of hungry people can be gathered to riot and loot any shops on the street, especially grain stores.Although the governments and gentry all over the country are desperately suppressing it, they are nothing compared to the hundreds of thousands and millions of crazy people suffering from hunger and poverty.

Of course, without the leadership of advanced revolutionary ideas, these riots initially stayed at the low level of "scrambling for food to survive".However, with the passage of time, more and more people with political ambitions have also joined these riots and served as the core backbone of various rebellious parties.Among them are gangsters, liars, landlords and gentry who have delusions, and even some down-and-out scholars who are good at fooling around.Under the leadership of these folk intellectuals and urban and rural real power factions, the Jiangnan civil uprising quickly showed a terrifying trend from grain grabbing to rebellion!
To make matters worse, since the fall of Beijing, the water transportation that lasted for 200 years was automatically abolished. As a result, the water gang that controlled the canal also went bankrupt. Hundreds of thousands of unemployed strong men, but these people have a high level of organization and a clear command system because they have been engaged in the transportation industry for a long time. With a little training, they will become a rebel army!
Before that, most of the Cao Gang in Jiangbei had voted for the demons of Wenxiangjiao, which caused countless troubles for the officers and soldiers seeking thieves.However, the Cao Gang in the south of the Yangtze River first actively participated in the criminal industry, which caused the security situation in the south of the Yangtze River to deteriorate rapidly. The rogue rebellion that swept across Shaanxi seems to be happening again in the Jiangnan water town!
In desperation, the chief assistant of Zhou Yanru, who was under tremendous pressure physically and mentally, had no choice but to be ruthless. He temporarily ignored the defense in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and mobilized the only mobile field force under the name of the Nanjing court that could still fight. Following the withdrawal of more than 1 "elite soldiers" from the Yangzhou battlefield, they rushed to Suzhou, Songjiang and other places to quell the chaos.At the same time, he ordered the governor of Zhejiang, who was trapped in Quzhou, to abandon the mountainous area in western Zhejiang and lead the remaining Zhejiang soldiers to Nanzhili to participate in the quelling of the chaos.After some extremely bloody killings, the battered Nanjing Communist Party finally temporarily suppressed these rebellious parties that had not had time to become popular, but it also caused even greater damage to the economy and people's livelihood in these areas destroy.

After all, the saying that "thieves come like a comb, soldiers like a grate, and officials like a shave" was not an exaggerated lie in the late Ming Dynasty!

——In mid-May, a rice-grabbing uprising broke out in Shanghai County, Songjiang Prefecture. More than ten people including Juren, scholars and retired officials were killed. During the melee, more than [-] houses were burned down, and countless people died.

——In late May, the Zhejiang Haining Guard owed a wage mutiny. The rebel army expelled the generals of Hangjiahu and the commander of the guard, plundered several counties and towns in Haiyan and Haining, and colluded with the Hangzhou Kun bandits, thinking it was foreign aid for the rebellion.At that time, there was great turmoil in southern Zhili, and the government and army were unable to attack, so they retreated to Jiaxing Fucheng.

At the beginning of June, the governor of Zhejiang led more than [-] Zhejiang soldiers, and together with the northern Zhejiang township valiant regiment trained more than [-] soldiers, to suppress the Haining guards.After several battles, the rebel army broke up, the leader of the bandits was killed, and the rest fled to the seashore.The officers and soldiers collapsed, the governor of Zhejiang was shot dead, and the remaining Zhejiang soldiers retreated to Nanjing.

——At the end of June, the villagers of Changzhou resisted the tax with force, but the local government failed to suppress it. The imperial court then sent the Beijing camp to fight for it, killing more than [-] thieves before it was settled.

——At the beginning of July, Chen, the leader of the Cao Gang in Taicang Prefecture, coerced tens of thousands of traitors into a riot, expelled the Kunshan county magistrate, and occupied Kunshan county to plot a rebellion.The two prefectures of Suzhou and Songjiang sent troops to the joint suppression at the end of July, and the entire army was wiped out.On the contrary, the thieves broke through Jiading again. After killing the magistrate of Jiading, they plundered and returned with fierce flames.

On the third day of August, Lu Weiqi, Minister of the Ministry of War, vowed to go to Kunshan. He led [-] soldiers from the Beijing Camp, Zhejiang Army, Xiangyong, Tuanlian, and Weisuo to encircle Kunshan County. They bombarded the city with red cannons. The Chen family absconded in the chaos and disappeared.Afterwards, the officers and soldiers plundered Kunshan County and beheaded [-] people. Lu Weiqi ordered to build a palace outside the east gate to show off his martial arts and deter traitors...