The Soul of the Han Dynasty in the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 358 Rebellion
The official of Qianhu watched Li Yingyuan, the general manager, behind the raging soldiers for a while, and returned to his camp feeling bored.

He suddenly found Lao Tzu Li Jiuzheng sitting inside drinking a small wine.

Li Yingyuan quickly asked: "Father, why did you come back so soon, how many war horses did you buy in total?"

Li Jiucheng is Li Yingyuan's father. He was sent to Zhangjiakou by Sun Yuanhua some time ago and gave him 1 taels of silver.

Seeing Li Yingyuan coming in, Li Jiuzheng greeted his son and said, "Come, sit down and have a few drinks with me. These stewed meat, dried tofu, peanuts, and shochu were bought when I just passed by Shiliji."

Li Yingyuan hadn't had the chance to eat meat and drink for a long time, so he grabbed a piece of meat and put it into his mouth, took a sip of the wine, and said, "Shandong people in Shiliji are willing to sell things to our Liao soldiers!"

"I am alone, and I don't make a sound when I buy things with money. How is it different from the guards here?"

"Damn, it's getting more and more outrageous these days. Those Shandong people dare to bully and come to the barracks. I reckon something big may happen."

Li Jiucheng said: "Big thing? It's time to do big things. Ying Yuan, when will the days when we Liao soldiers are neither human nor ghost? I'm going to change my way of life and take the lead in doing something big."

Li Yingyuan had already had a few glasses of wine, and when he felt drunk, he suddenly laughed and said, "Stop, stop, change your way of life? How many times have you said it? When did you change it? Big things? You don't drink, gamble, and fight. When did the serious [-] do something?"

Being despised by his son, Li Jiuzheng, who has all kinds of poisons, looked embarrassed. He said helplessly: "Ying Yuan, this time I have to change my way of life, because I can't live anymore."

Li Yingyuan was shocked all over, he immediately realized what was wrong, and said angrily:
"Father, did you get into trouble? Did you lose the money that Mr. Sun gave you?"

Li Jiuzheng apologized with an embarrassing smile: "I didn't lose everything, so I still have money to buy wine and meat to entertain my son!"

Li Yingyuan almost fainted, and asked, "How much money do you have?"

"There should be more than ten taels!"

For a moment, Li Yingyuan forgot that it was Lao Tzu who cheated him, and grabbed Li Jiuzheng by the lapel of his chest and roared, "What? You spent 1 taels of silver and only a dozen taels are left? You are playing dead!"

Li Jiuzheng quickly covered his son's mouth and said, "Hush your voice, don't say anything. Now that the camp is in such chaos, it is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. As long as you and my father raise their arms, half of the brothers here will follow us." Dry."

Li Yingyuan asked back: "What? What are you doing? You want to make a mutiny? Aren't you afraid of implicating the nine clans?"

Li Jiuzheng said viciously: "I'm afraid of a bird, I'm going to die anyway, I'll bring my brothers to make a fuss, and first confuse everyone to hack and kill Wuqiao's bastard, so that those bastards will know that the sky is high and the earth is thick, and that they have knives in their hands. Anyone can be humble."

Li Yingyuan is only under 20 years old, and he has been aggrieved these days. Like other Dongjiang soldiers, he has a grudge against everyone here in Wuqiao.

The father and son took the opportunity to fan the flames with great effect. Seeing that Li Jiuzheng, Li Jiuzheng, and Li Yingyuan, a thousand-household official, father and son sympathized with their experience, and supported them to teach the local people in Wuqiao some lessons, they immediately supported the Li family father and son as the leader.

On the same day, Li Jiucheng led more than a hundred desperadoes with knives and guns into the camp. Kong Youde did not expect that his subordinates would dare to rebel against him, and he was controlled by Li Jiucheng's men without warning. Being restrained can only choose to compromise.

In fact, these servants supported the rebellion and robbed them out of their hearts, and at worst they finally accepted the imperial court's call for peace.

About half a month after Zhang Chun was wiped out in Changshan, Li Jiuzheng bewitched less than a thousand Liao soldiers to break into Wuqiao, a small county in the hinterland of Shandong, where there were only yamen servants and no troops garrisoned.

Li Jiuzheng had the potential to be a professional rebel. He raised the banner to recruit surrender and rebellion. He first released hundreds of prisoners from Wuqiao Prison, and then brought the green-skinned gangsters from the area to rob houses.

In just one day, Li Jiuzheng's troops have more than doubled. There are [-] cavalry and [-] infantry. Everyone has weapons, and most of the cavalry have armor.

A chicken triggered a rebellion that was enough to shake the foundation of the Ming Dynasty. Historically, this rebellion lasted for a year and a half, and it was about to corrupt Denglai, and even the hinterland of Shandong was ravaged.

Later, the Jin army sat at home and did nothing, and got the unattainable navy, strong ships and guns, professional artillery and Sun Yuanhua's full set of craftsmen who carefully managed and manufactured firearms. Among these craftsmen are Some of them can cast cannons and blunderbusses.

The Ming Dynasty lost tens of thousands of troops, 20 million civilians were massacred, countless displaced people, and lost warships, artillery, and food and money.

From then on, Denglai was desolate, Dongjiang was shaken, and the containment at sea completely lost its effect. Instead, Kong Youde led the later "God's Blessing Army" to harass the coast of Daming. Lushunkou was missed within a few days, and Dongjiang Town was wiped out.

At this time, Huang Han was fighting fiercely in southern Liaoning, and the army was at the time when the Jinzhou was in total, so he might not be able to send troops to Denglai. Besides, Huang Han was the general officer of Ji Town who had just taken the position and had not yet performed his duties. Without the imperial court's order, he had no right at all. Go to Dunley to fight.

The weather in Xiaobinghe is really cold. It started to snow in Liaodong at the end of September. Although Jinzhou has the influence of the ocean climate, it is not much better. At the beginning of October, the temperature at night is below freezing.

Cotton armor, cotton coats and gloves produced in Tiger Cave City were sent to the front line of Jinzhou, and a large number of ordinary people took boats from the port of Langwobao to Funingwei for resettlement.

For the time being, they will get jobs that mainly involve heavy physical labor, such as mining iron ore, digging coal, operating human jackhammers to strike iron, crushing stones to burn cement, and so on.

In order to create more employment opportunities and effectively utilize the abundant high-quality coal resources, a large number of brick and tile kilns, magnetic kilns, glass kilns, and cement kilns came into being.

These labor-intensive industries have digested too many men and women, and even the elderly and children can get pocket money of ten or eight yuan or more than ten yuan a day in the brick factory.

In the stage of great development, there is a shortage of funds and no worries about product sales. Huang Han obtained development funds through robbery and continuously injected them into the "Red Banner Army" system to increase liquidity.

The factories and workshops invested during this period have all started to make a profit, and even the supply of vermicelli and vermicelli is in short supply. The three grades of high-strength baijiu have already sold well in Gyeonggi, and the next step is to develop the Nanzhili market.

(End of this chapter)