I was the emperor in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 376
Although the Jenny machine he made can only spin two spindles at the same time, the principle and working method have been described very well.

Just hand him over to the Tiangong Academy for research.

I believe that within a few days, we will be able to see the birth of a real Jenny machine.

If Zhou Zhen and Liu Baohe worked hard enough, maybe even a hydraulic drive could be added to it.

At that time, whether it is Li Tian opening a large-scale textile workshop to seize the market of the Wang family, or distributing the machines to the people in the capital to let them fight against the Wang family, it will not all be a matter of Li Tian's words.

As the release of the tax reform is getting closer, the storm in the capital is unlikely to stop in a short time.

But Li Tian's checks and balances have already been launched, and it will take some time to see what the specific effect will be.

The battlefield has spread out, and various characters have already entered the arena, and there is not much he can do at this time, waiting for changes in the market, sitting and watching the clouds rise and fall, and responding to all changes with the same, is the real demeanor of a general .

So after ordering someone to send the drawings and the simple version of the Jenny machine to Tiangongyuan, Li Tian, ​​who had been busy all night, fell asleep regardless of his care.

It wasn't until dark that Li Tian woke up from his deep sleep.

Someone sent today's Beijing newspaper, and while eating and reading the newspaper, someone told a legend that Huang Yan begged to see him.

Huang Yan seemed to have been waiting outside for a long time, and he came in soon after the transmission.

As soon as he came in, he cupped his hands and said,
"Your Majesty, those Ming Cult thieves captured the day before yesterday have already confessed."

Hearing the news, Li Tian suddenly became interested,
"Tell me, what did he recruit!"

Since Mingjiao was cleaned up by Zhu Yuanzhang, as the Ming Dynasty became more stable to the world, their living space was further compressed.

It was cleaned up by Li Tian once again before, but now it has reached the point where it is unsustainable.

Their core members at this time have dropped from tens of thousands of people who were so powerful back then to less than a thousand now.

There are also many old and weak women and children among them.

If those craftsmen and clerks who were unable to participate in the battle were also removed, there would be as many as one or two hundred people who could participate in the battle.

The seven or eight people they sent to rob prisoners this time were already among the last dozens of elite fighters.

Seeing that the general situation is getting worse and worse, there are actually divided voices within Mingjiao.

The person who made the confession was actually an important member of the faction that advocated separatism.

Huang Yan skillfully took out a roll of confession from his sleeve, and after someone handed it to Li Tian, ​​he began to say,
"Returning to Your Majesty, Mingjiao is already in decline at this time, and the old slave has already found out the existence of their headquarters at this time from that population.

The old slave asked for an order, only needing to give the old slave 300 troops, and in only three to five days, the old slave promised to completely destroy Mingjiao. "

Li Tian read the confession while listening to Huang Yan's report.

Flipping through the pages, a name that popped up suddenly caught Li Tian's attention.

In fact, there is no shortage of careerists in any dynasty, and the Mingjiao is just one of the more outstanding forces.

The White Lotus Sect uprising led by Tang Sai'er during the Yongle period not only captured many state capitals in Qingzhou, but also defeated the imperial court's encirclement and suppression army twice, but it was much more serious than the small troubles of the Ming Sect.

In particular, Tang Sai'er, the leader of the White Lotus Sect, is a mythical and legendary figure.

According to the information obtained by Dongchang, Tang Sai'er was born in Putai, Shandong Province. He practiced martial arts since he was a child. Before he was 15 years old, he was already a well-known knight-errant in the local area.

At that time, he met Lin San, a talented scholar in the same county, and they got married after being matched.

Zhu Di launched the Battle of Jingnan that year, and Shandong was the main battlefield where the two forces fought, and the battle lasted for three or four consecutive years.

As a result, most of Shandong was reduced to scorched earth, merchants were blocked, devastated, and countless people were homeless.

In addition, in the next few years, Shandong suffered several catastrophes in succession.

At the same time, Zhu Di first built the canal, then moved the capital to Beijing to build the imperial city, and made several expeditions to Mongolia, conscripting a large amount of labor.

And Shandong, a province with a large population, has become the main supplier of labor, which has caused the entire Shandong to be almost devastated.

Under such circumstances, the poor and helpless people urgently need a comforting spiritual sustenance.

Tang Saier's husband, Lin San, was one of the main leaders of Mingjiao in Shandong at that time.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of another drought in Shandong, Henan and other places in the 17th year of Yongle, Lin San and others, with the secret support of Mingjiao, vigorously developed the congregation.

For a time, followers gathered, and a large number of congregants developed in Yidu, Zhucheng, Anzhou, Juzhou, Jimo, Shouguang and other counties.

By the beginning of Yongle's 18th year, their congregation had reached a rather large scale.

This also aroused the vigilance of Juzhou Jinyiwei, who secretly arrested many core congregants.

But this aroused the idea of ​​​​Lin San and others. In order to rescue the arrested congregants, they did not stop doing two things, entangled more than 2000 people, and began to attack the county government under the banner of the red and white sun and moon banner. .

Unfortunately, at that time, Sun Gong, a thousand households in Juzhou, inquired about the news from among the arrested congregants, and took precautions.

Tang Sai'er's husband, Lin San, was ambushed and killed.

Lin San's death made Tang Sai'er, who had always been behind Lin San, very angry. In a rage, she completely broke with the Ming Cult that caused her husband's death.

She shaved her hair and became a nun, claiming to be the mother of Buddha, and her followers were changed from the original Ming religion to the White Lotus religion.

There are rumors that she encountered heavy rain on the way back to pay homage to her husband, and got a stone box when she was hiding from the rain in a Shandong province.

There is a book of swords and swords inside. After studying day and night, within half a year, he will make great progress in martial arts and be proficient in all kinds of techniques.

It is said that it can know the success or failure of life and death, and can cut paper and paper horses to fight each other. If you need food, clothing, wealth and other things, you can get them with magic.

The change of belief did not make her lose her congregation, on the contrary, after the change of doctrine, the number of believers further increased.

In addition, officials in Shandong and other places concealed many things from the court.

Until the 19th year of Yongle, her congregation had reached tens of thousands.

Even more than a dozen rebels responded to her call at the same time and participated in the uprising.

After defeating the imperial court's suppression army again, the provincial capital in Shandong understood the seriousness of the matter and reported the uprising of Tang Sai'er and others to Zhu Di.

After Zhu Di learned of the riot, he was furious, and urgently ordered the admiral of the Beijing camp, Anyuanhou Liu Sheng, and the commander of the capital, Liu Zhong, to lead an army of [-] to suppress it.

(End of this chapter)