Spoiler History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 737 My last name is also Zhao
The Ming Emperor's sigh was quite straightforward.

Zhu Biao was speechless, but then he became curious:

"Dad, is there really nothing special about that one-eyed stone man?"

Hearing their eldest brother's question, Zhu Di and Zhu Zhen all looked up at their father with curiosity. Even Zhu Su put down his book and looked like he was listening.

The incident of the one-eyed stone man stirring up the Yellow River took place in the eleventh year of Zhizheng, while the oldest Zhu Biao was born in the fifteenth year of Zhizheng. Moreover, the stone man was dug out from Yinghe River, which was far away from Yingtian Prefecture, so naturally he had no chance to see it.

And it was only today when Guangmu mentioned this that the brothers suddenly remembered:

There seems to be no record of this stone man who stirred up the Yellow River.

"What do you think is so special about it?"

Zhu Yuanzhang said this with some disdain:
"Those who have seen the stone man say that it has all the facial features and limbs, but is missing one eye. This is just a rumor. After the incident, the whereabouts of the stone man is unknown. Most likely, he was abandoned. If he could have this magical light curtain, how could he be lost?"

"But since this light curtain can favor me, doesn't it prove that I am the one who is destined by heaven?"

As Zhu Yuanzhang spoke, he could not help but feel a little complacent, but was soon ruthlessly exposed by Zhu Biao:

"But you also said, Dad, that this screen has become magical only when it is placed in Mom's Kunning Palace. It has been placed in the Huagai Palace for a long time and it has not changed at all."

"It can be seen that this light curtain favors my mother. Maybe my descendants in the future generations cannot bear to see my mother suffer misfortune."

Zhu Yuanzhang's beard immediately began to tremble:
"Well...husband and wife are one body. What is the difference between favoring the Queen and favoring us and the Ming Dynasty?"

In the end, it was Empress Ma who came over with a slight amusement to calm the small verbal dispute between father and son. The Emperor of the Ming Dynasty then picked up what he had said before and continued to talk about the stone man:

"Moreover, in the early years, there were many rumors about the stone man. Some people even claimed that the stone man had a stone man's eyes carved on him, and the world was reversed in four directions."

"But none of these are as clear as what this younger generation sees. What kind of magic can a stone man who pretends to be a god or ghost have? What is stirring up the world is not rumors, but the people's resentment."

"That Tuotuo is willing to find a solution, but Yuanli...ha."

The contempt on Zhu Yuanzhang's face was very obvious:

"The food money given by the Yuan court is deducted by the provincial clerks, and the common people receive less than one tenth or one twelfth of it. How can they not complain?"

"Before these civilians were forced to work on the river, they had already been burdened with heavy taxes. How could they not be resentful and angry?"

"Biaoer needs to take this as a warning."

At this point, Zhu Biao also bowed solemnly:
"It's from my son."

[The Yuan Dynasty ruled over many ethnic groups, and the beliefs of the Mongolian nobles were quite diverse, so the Yuan Dynasty basically ignored religion. This led to a large number of folk religions, and ordinary people believed in all kinds of things. However, according to our current laws and regulations, these religions are basically considered cults.

But at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, a time of vitality and development, these chaotic sects began to emerge, the most typical of which was Han Shantong.

Han Shantong's family has been believing in the White Lotus Sect for generations. This is a branch of the Pure Land Buddhism in the Southern Song Dynasty. The tenet is quite simple: as long as you don't drink alcohol, don't eat onions, ginger, and garlic, and can chant Buddha, you can be reborn in the Western Paradise. In addition, the White Lotus Sect does not restrict marrying, having children, eating meat, fighting, etc. This down-to-earth religion is very popular among the people. After all, the threshold for believing in religion is not high. What if you can really be reborn in the Western Paradise in the future?

However, at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Han Shantong, who was determined to stir up trouble, felt that the White Lotus Sect, which was a bit of a lie, was not enough, so he combined the various sects on the market at that time and came up with a new one:

Han Shantong began to eat only vegetables and no meat, and at the same time he told the people who followed him that Maitreya was about to come to the world to save the world, and that he himself was the reincarnation of the Peacock King.

The strict dietary control was learned from Manichaeism.

The idea of ​​Maitreya's descent to the earth was based on the doctrine of Maitreya belief that was prevalent among the people at the time. Some modern scholars speculate that the source of this belief may be a fusion of Maitreya's reincarnation and the birth of Yego, a new belief that combines Chinese and Western elements.

The theory of the reincarnation of the Peacock King was adopted in Lamaism, which was believed by the Mongolian nobles at that time. The Peacock King is one of the five great kings in Lamaism.

There is no need to say much about Han Shantong's intention in creating this stitched monster. It was all for the purpose of causing trouble.

After all, although there were many chaotic sects at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, in the final analysis, the only ones with a complete organizational structure and keen on rebellion were the White Lotus Sect, Manichaeism, and Maitreya Faith.

Manichaeism in particular can be said to be very famous. Its history of rebellion can be traced back to the period of Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty. Chen Shuozhen, the first woman to proclaim herself emperor, used the early Manichaeism to gather people when she launched an uprising. After her failure, she left behind the Tianzi Base and Wannian Tower, which were later used by Fang La, who was also a Manichaeism, to launch an uprising. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Manichaeism was more widely known by another name, namely Mingzunjiao, or Mingjiao.

Because the tendency of Han Shantong's doctrine was too obvious, he was soon convicted and exiled to Bailu Village in Yongnian, where he met Liu Futong, who also believed in the Great Yuan Pill and had money.

Later, Han Shantong and Liu Futong were both conscripted into the ranks of civilian laborers, so the rebellion was almost a foregone conclusion.

After the stone man was born, a scholar named Sheng Wenyu in the rebel team said to Han Shantong, "Your identity as the reincarnation of Maitreya and the Peacock King should be put on hold for the time being, as the eighth-generation grandson of Emperor Huizong of Song is more suitable for you."

Han Shantong himself didn't expect that after living for most of his life, he only found out today that his surname was Zhao.

Regardless of whether it is true or not, from here on the rebel army officially raised the slogan "Three thousand tiger soldiers, straight to the land of Youyan; the dragon soars to the sky, reopening the sky of the Song Dynasty", which put on a layer of legal cloak to revive the Song Dynasty.

It is not difficult to guess Sheng Wenyu's intention of finding a descendant of Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty for Han Shantong. Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty died in the north nine years after being captured by the Jin Kingdom, which highlights the fact that there is no evidence to prove his mistake.

But the title of Song Huizong obviously had no deterrent effect. When the local county magistrate heard about the rebellion, he immediately mobilized his troops and sent Han Shantong to see Song Huizong.

Liu Futong fought desperately with Han Shantong's son Han Lin'er and fled to Fuyang, Anhui. After arriving here, their rebellion began to go well and they were able to recruit soldiers and horses smoothly. Of course, the more important reason was that there were too many people in the world who rebelled in the name of Han Shantong's "Red Turban Army".

Zhima Li and Peng Da from Xuzhou, Guo Zixing from Fengyang in Anhui, Wang Quan from Nanyang, and Meng Haima from Xiangyang, basically all fought under the banner of the Red Turban Army.

However, the most arrogant among them was Xu Shouhui from Hubei, who directly proclaimed himself emperor with the support of Maitreya belief.

If the rebellion of Mingjiao was to build the structure first and then go public, then the rebellion of Maitreya faith has always intended to achieve the goal in one step. The most typical example is Peng Yingyu who rebelled with Xu Shouhui.

Fifteen years before the Red Turban Rebellion, Peng Yingyu rebelled in Yuanzhou with a man named Zhou Ziwang. Under Peng Yingyu's persuasion, Zhou Ziwang directly called the empire Zhou. But this rebellion was quickly put down. Zhou Ziwang died but Peng Yingyu ran away quickly. Fifteen years later, he dragged Xu Shouhui to repeat the plot again. Maybe Peng Yingyu's hobby is to watch others become emperors.

But we all remember that before repairing the river, Tuotuo patted his chest and guaranteed that no one would rebel.

Now the Red Turban rebels are all over the country, and Tuotuo, the last prime minister of the Yuan Dynasty, is also beginning to walk on his own road to death. 】

(End of this chapter)