Spoiler History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 563 The song is not yet finished

[Another thing worth mentioning is undoubtedly the peasant uprising.

We have said before that Huang Chao's uprising destroyed the spirit of the clan. On this basis, Wang Xiaobo's uprising went a step further and launched the slogan of equalizing wealth and poverty.

After the Jingkang Disgrace occurred, the Central Plains was like a raging fire cooking oil, which also created another peak of peasant uprisings.

In 1130 AD, at that time, Yue Fei and Han Shizhong worked together to repel Jin Wushu's search for mountains and seas, and therefore they both won the favor of the eunuch emperor Wan Yangou.

During this year, Yue Fei basically became the fire-fighting captain. He was transferred to Jianghuai by Wanyan Gou, and he successively put down Li Cheng, Zhang Yong, Cao Cheng, Kong Yanzhou and other rogue bandits with great success.

But these are actually only minor troubles. What is a big trouble? Of course it was the vigorous peasant uprising.

As we said before, although the Southern Song Dynasty did not completely inherit the territory of the Northern Song Dynasty, it completely inherited the exorbitant taxes and levies of the Northern Song Dynasty.

Moreover, after the humiliation of Jingkang, Zhao Gou licked his face and added an anti-gold tax. No one knows whether the money became military expenses for the anti-gold generals, but what is certain is that Zhao Gou's life became more and more colorful. .

When the emperor is happy, the people will not be able to survive, so revolt becomes a multiple-choice question. And after learning from Wang Xiaobo's advanced experience, peasant uprisings in various places have basically become a situation where the gourd and the ladle rise when the gourd is pressed. Absolutely.

The Zhong Xiang Uprising in 1135 AD was particularly special.

In fact, what is very helpless is that if we look back at history, whether it is Zhong Xiang or Yang Yao, they are similar to Yue Fei, both of whom can see the plight of the people.

Li Guang, a famous minister of the Southern Song Dynasty, once spoke frankly about the plight of the poor:

"If the people do not commit robberies, they will sit there and wait to die!"

However, because the rebels were mixed with good and bad, spies were mixed in. Zhong Xiang and his son were quickly captured and killed on the spot.

After doing this for twenty years, until the disgrace of Jingkang, Zhao Gou surrendered to the outside world and attacked internally, and allowed the bandit leaders who recruited An to cause trouble in the countryside, and finally forced Zhong Xiang to rise up.

In the end, Zhao Gou recalled Yue Fei from the anti-Jin front line, and the uprising of Zhong Xiang Yang Yao finally failed.

First of all, the location. Zhong Xiang chose Xiaozhong Dongting Lake for his uprising. From here up along the Yangtze River is the Xiangyang area, down there is the Jiangxia area, and further down is the Jiangnan area where Zhao Gou Pian'an is located. It can be said that it is a stepping stone. On the heart.

In the end, because of Song Ting, these people came to oppose each other, which is really sad.

Zhong Xiang was born in a merchant family. When he was young, he joined Manichaeism and followed the teachings to give alms to the poor in the countryside. After seeing the suffering of the people with his own eyes, this businessman's son not only gave money but also promised to the people, either to preach or out of compassion. After the rise of Manichaeism, the rich and the poor will be equalized.

Yang Yao is more like it. He insisted on studying when he was a young man, and he relied on punting to carry goods to Dongting. He knew the people's livelihood well at that time, but in the end, when the docile people had no way to survive, he rose up and threw himself into the vigorous uprising. Fortunately, Yue Fei finally accepted him. Nearly half of Yang Yao's men were taken away, and they either moved to Xianghan to live a stable life, or were incorporated into the army and went north to fight against the Jin Dynasty.

After all, the people of the Southern Song Dynasty were just poor, not stupid. When faced with the choice between starving to death at home and going out to grab votes from landlords, everyone knew how to choose.

Logically speaking, after the leader was killed, the rebel army should have dispersed quickly, but no, Yang Yao, one of the leaders of the rebel army at that time, took over the anti-Song banner and commanded the uprising vigorously.

The second, of course, is the nature. After learning about Wang Xiaobo’s uprising, Zhong Xiang extended this slogan to a class level and quickly attracted a large number of bankrupt refugees. This slogan is also quite simple:
Both the rich and the poor wait for the rich and the poor!
In less than a year, nearly 500,000 people gathered. Under the leadership of Zhong Xiang and his son, they successively captured 19 county towns, established a political power called Da Chu, and Zhong Xiang called himself the King of Chu. They also attacked the bureaucrats in the occupied areas. When the landowner's property was liquidated, it was said that the land occupied "had no tax, no official decree".

We cannot use today's swords to kill the officials of the previous dynasty. Yue Fei, who suppressed the uprising, had no choice. He also needed the troops from the Song Dynasty to go to the Northern Expedition to save his hometown from the iron heel of the Jin people.

Zhong Xiang Yang Yao Luocao also had no choice in revolting against the invaders. They were cornered by the cannibal Song Ting and had to resist.

They all died in the Song court in the end. This was a tragedy of the times. How to solve it? No one knew at that time. More than 800 years later, when the waves of the 800-mile Dongting Lake had dissipated, the teacher used the history to grind ink, and used the famous figures of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors as pens to write the poem "Reading History", which may be regarded as an answer to this tragedy.

Throughout the five thousand years, only the common people can be called the most romantic people.

The song is not yet finished, the east is white. 】

In Han Chang'an Mansion, everyone present was speechless for a long time.

In the end, Zhang Fei touched his head, looked around and said honestly:

"I don't understand. Can the military advisor explain it to me?"

But what surprised Zhang Fei was that the military advisor who never seemed to be stumped by various problems, the military advisor who always seemed to have a well-thought-out idea, the military advisor who would only raise an eyebrow at the various magical sights in later generations, At this moment, his brows were furrowed, and he raised his head in confusion for a moment.

So Zhang Fei turned his head and aimed his gaze at Liu Bei. Unexpectedly, his elder brother also waved to him frankly and said calmly:
"I can read one or two pieces of sadness, but I don't understand eight or nine points of its meaning."

So Zhang Fei laughed:
"Isn't it that big brother is just like me and very ignorant?"

Liu Bei did not refute. He lowered his head and copied the poem and read it twice, but in the end he could only shake his head helplessly.

Then he said:
"Although I don't understand the word, Zhong Xiang Yang Yao is particularly easy to understand."

This point is indeed easy to understand. After all, didn't later generations say that there were many frustrated people under Ji Han's command?

Although they were not as forced into desperation by exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes as the common people in the two Song dynasties, they were also trapped in a similar sense of desperation due to the current situation.

Just like Liu Bei himself, if he doesn't come out to carry the banner of reviving the Han Dynasty, then who can?

Is it Liu Jiyu from Pian'an Yizhou? Or is it Han Sui who only cares about his own gains and losses throughout Yongliang? Or is it the Cao thief who held the emperor hostage and committed crimes?

It couldn't be the King of Wei and Wu who had repeatedly lied to Cao A and was granted the title, right?
"Who doesn't understand?"

There was a rare hint of sarcasm in Zhang Fei's words:
"Then the eunuch and the emperor don't care about the people. Could it be that he still wants the people to care about him?"

"Is he happy?"

Shaking his head to get rid of these unlucky things in his mind, Zhang Fei suddenly had an idea:

"It's a pity that the method of time travel that the younger generation said is difficult to be true."

"How about we trade with the Southern Song Dynasty and trade Zhang Jiao for Yue Fei?"

"If that doesn't work, how about I exchange Prime Minister Cao for his Yue Shaobao when I go to Xudu to capture the traitor Cao?"

Liu Bei: "..."

(End of this chapter)