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  Chapter 295 293 [Zhezhong scholar uprising]

  In the late Ming Dynasty, there were three eccentric Confucian scholars: Li Zhi, Chen Jiru, and Li Yu.

  How can it be called a monster?

   Deviant!

  Li Yu is the most inexplicable among them. Although "Meat X Group" does not have a real name, anyone who is a little familiar with Li Yu's works can tell that this novel was written by him.

   There are two core ideas in "Meat X Group": pleasure is innocent, and indulgence is moderate.

  This guy especially likes to share the bed. The three concubines sleep separately for three nights and sleep together for one night, which is called "unification of three parts".

  At this moment, Li Yu is not called Li Yu yet, his name and name are very suitable for Xianxia novels.

   Surname Li, first name Xianlv, style name Banfan, nickname Tiantu!

   Moreover, Li Yu at this time had only one wife who loved each other and had no concubines.

  Lanxi County, Xiali Village.

  Li Yu was sharpening his sword in the yard, while his mother was sitting under the eaves crying bitterly, while his wife and sister-in-law comforted him patiently.

  Big brother Li Mao said anxiously: "Second brother, are you confused? The provincial examination will be in two months. You are a Wujing boy in the county. You will pass the examination this year. Why do you want to rebel with those acid scholars?"

  Li Yu sprinkled water on the sword, scratched the edge of the sword with his fingers and said, "In two months, even Hangzhou will be gone, and you still have to take the Laoshizi Township Examination?"

   "Jiangxi thief Zhao, how can he be so powerful? Don't make trouble with them, and prepare for the provincial examination." Li Mao persuaded.

Li Yu stood up abruptly, put his sword back into its sheath, and said to his elder brother, "Brother, you take care of the family by yourself. I have to go this time. My family has been a doctor for generations, and my uncle is also a drug dealer. How can I leave Jiangxi? There are no medicinal materials in Zhangshu Town. , Uncle can’t even do business. Brother, do you know what is the status of doctors in Jiangxi?”

  Li Mao said: "What status can I have? I am the last one."

   "Haha, it's wrong," Li Yu laughed, "Doctors are very respected in Jiangxi, and based on this alone, the Li family should serve King Zhao!"

  In ancient times, there were indeed many scholars who studied medicine, just like studying Taoism and Buddhism, which belonged to cultivating sentiment.

  The medical households in the Ming Dynasty were different. "Witch doctors and monks" also claimed that they were not much different from artisan households, and they belonged to the object of discrimination from generation to generation.

  Li Yu was born in the same county as Mao Pijiang in the same year. Li Yu himself is a scholar, and his family is still in business. He has many mutual friends with Mao Pijiang. However, the two of them have never been friends in their entire lives, because Mao Bijiang looked down on Li Yu's background!

  Li Yu said to his elder brother: "Brother, if Mr. Zhao takes over the world, our Li family can really turn around!"

   "Exile Fan, let's go!"

   Someone outside the courtyard suddenly urged.

   "Come on!"

  Li Yu turned around and bowed to his mother, then said to his wife, "If I die, you can remarry."

  Wife Xu nodded: "You go, I will watch over the house."

  Li Yu walked out holding the sword, followed by a house slave, who was the book boy who grew up with him.

  The house slave held a stick in his hand, and his blood was boiling. He can read and write, if Zhao Tianwang comes, he will be free, and maybe he can be an official in the future.

  The master and servant walked out of the yard, and there were already more than ten people standing outside.

   They are all master-servant combinations. The master holds a sword and the servant uses a stick. They have been practicing for more than a month.

  The crowd went to the county town together, and in order not to attract attention, they were divided into several groups, and they came to the city one after another, and lived in the home of a big businessman.

   There is a river in Lanxi County, which leads directly to Jiangshan County.

   And Jiangshan County is next to Jiangxi Guangxin Mansion. A large number of Jiangxi commodities were transported to central Zhejiang through this route. The gentry and merchants along the way knew the situation in Jiangxi very well.

  The first day of June.

  An army composed of merchants, scholars, and domestic slaves, totaling more than 200 people, suddenly rushed out of the mansion in the city.

  Although Li Yu has superb medical skills and is a genius who is proficient in the Five Classics, he really doesn't know how to fight. This fellow drew out his iron sword, led his slaves forward, and ran all the way towards the county government office.

   "Under Heaven!"

   "Good and bad are equal!"

  Everyone shouted slogans, and the house slaves shouted the most vigorously. They really took "good and bad equality" as their belief.

  Seeing more than two hundred people rushing towards them, the yamen servants were frightened, and they threw down their water and fire sticks and ran away. The officials of the Sixth House did not have time, and knelt down on the ground, hoping to save a dog's life.

   "Yufu, Zhongde, each of you will lead five people to guard the storeroom and the public records!"

   Tang Yuqi began to give orders. He was the leader of the uprising in Lanxi County. Scholars who were born in big merchants mainly purchased goods from Jiangxi and shipped them to Jinhua for sale. They could barely be regarded as members of the Longyou Merchant Gang.

   Li Yu followed Tang Yuqi and rushed into the second hall of the county government office, which was empty. Then he rushed into the back house, and only met a few servants, who caught them and asked them, only to find out that the county and the master had run away.

   "Follow me to seize the city gate!"

   Tang Yuqi shouted.

  Li Yu was inexplicably excited, and rushed out with his sword in hand, shouting: "The world is one!"

   Plop!

  Li Yu tripped over the threshold and was thrown to the ground.

   Fortunately, everyone was rushing, and no one noticed his embarrassment. Li Yuma slipped up, patted the dust off his body, and quickly chased after him with his sword in hand.

  Because it is too close to Jiangxi, there are also officers and soldiers stationed in Lanxi County.

  More than two hundred rebels, divided into two groups, each committed suicide towards the north and south walls. A larger number of officers and soldiers threw down their weapons and ran away in fright. They were still homeless last year, and they served as soldiers just to make ends meet.

  Without a drop of blood, Li Yu and others occupied the county seat.

  Several major merchants in the city began to distribute their money to recruit soldiers, recruiting 1,000 soldiers to guard the city, waiting for Zhao Han to send someone to receive them.

  The flag of Datong has been planted on the top of the city, fluttering in the wind.

  Li Yu was in charge of leading people to guard a section of the city wall. Looking at the height, he suddenly felt open-minded. He held his sword and said with a smile: "I didn't expect to do such a big thing in this life!"

  It feels like he has followed Zhao Han around, and has already assisted the Holy Lord to win the world.

  The Zhejiang uprising was initiated by Xu Du, the leader of Yishe, and it was mainly carried out in Jinhua and Shaoxing.

  There is a very nonsense thing, the Longyou Merchant Gang in western Zhejiang should be regarded as the most revolutionary group of people. They don't have much land in their name, but they have a lot of money in their hands, and they rely heavily on Jiangxi for business.

   If Zhao Han calls, it will be beneficial to them and will not cause any harm.

  But this time Xu Du planned an uprising and sent people to contact western Zhejiang, but was reported by the gentry, and the Longyou merchants did not respond at all.

  These Longyou merchants have done business all over the country, even in the southwest, northwest and overseas. No matter how much money they earn, they will go home to repair luxury houses, and merchants are very despised here, so big merchants build academies one after another.

  The strange thing is that only academies are built, and famous teachers and scholars are not invited to teach.

  Businessmen who made a lot of money tried their best to buy land and turned themselves into big landlords. Many of them gave up doing business directly.

  As a result, the main body of the Longyou Merchant Gang has always been small and medium businessmen. Moreover, without the support of the government, they were bullied everywhere, and big merchants who turned into landlords, in turn, discriminated against and suppressed merchants.

  In this uprising, only Jiangshan County succeeded in the entire Quzhou Prefecture, and all other places failed.

  Especially in Longyou County, the big landlords directly recruited soldiers and fought back frantically against the rebels who occupied the county, killing more than 30 rebels and more than 100 other rebels.

   These guys are crazy!

  They are so close to Jiangxi, aren't they afraid that Zhao Han will come and kill them randomly?

  Let's analyze and sort out why Quzhou Prefecture, where all people are merchants, has formed a social atmosphere that discriminates against merchants.

  The merchants here mainly do long-distance trafficking.

  In ancient times, people who engaged in long-distance trafficking must have been bullied and exploited, and suffered many beatings from society along the way. They are afraid of the government, they worship power, and because the business route is too long, it is impossible to form a stable official-business collusion model.

   Various business gangs, in terms of quantity alone, Longyou merchants have the most.

  But they don’t form a group or collude with the government. They can’t do business in big cities at all. They can only go to remote areas in groups, and they can only be manipulated by others in many cases.

   Therefore, many big merchants are old and can't do business anymore, so they go home and continue to hoard land, train their children and grandchildren to study, and they have regarded themselves as gentry families ever since.

  In the mid-Ming Dynasty, there was a Longyou businessman who did a lot of business in the north, with shops and warehouses covering three and a half counties.

  Go home to buy land, go home to build a house, and build a bridge in the county magistrate. He directly donates ten thousand taels of silver.

  As for the businesses in the three and a half counties in the north, they are all sold!

  Anyway, he has plenty of money, just waiting for the natural disaster to annex the land.

   But Xu Du raised troops in Dongyang County, taking advantage of the summer grain harvest to pay rent and land taxes, inciting tens of thousands of tenants and small landlords to conquer Dongyang County in one fell swoop. Then they captured Yiwu and surrounded Jinhuafu City. Scholars and domestic slaves in the city responded and took Jinhuafu by cooperating inside and outside.

  When the sad news of Longyou County came, the scholars in central Zhejiang were excited, and they admired the scholars who were killed by the big landlords as "Thirty-two Gentlemen".

   Immediately, Xu Du led his troops to attack Tangxi County, and the soldiers pointed directly at Longyou, preparing to kill those big landlords for revenge.

  The eight counties of Jinhua Prefecture were captured by the rebels and five counties were captured by the rebel army, and the whole south of the Yangtze River was shaken.

  Zhejiang Governor Xiong Fenwei was shocked, and immediately sent orders to all counties in Zhejiang to recruit soldiers to suppress the bandits.

   Except for being a county magistrate when he was young, this guy has all other positions as a speech officer.

  Give Shizhong this position, from the Wanli Dynasty to the Chongzhen Dynasty, he almost took all six subjects. After being transferred to the Ministry of Military Affairs, Xiong Fenwei claimed to know the soldiers and impeached several Ministers of the Ministry of War. Because he offended Wen Tiren, he was thrown to become Shang Baoqing. To put it bluntly, he was in charge of seals and letters.

  After Zhao Han occupied Guangdong and Hunan, Chongzhen suddenly remembered Xiong Fenwei's Zhibing, so he promoted him to governor of Zhejiang.

  Xiong Fenwei gave an order, and the whole Zhejiang was flying like dogs.

   Zhejiang is already suffering from famine, and the governor actually conscripts troops and food to fight?

  The people in Zhejiang, who had long been overwhelmed, saw the riots in central Zhejiang, and followed suit to violently resist taxes, and at the same time refused to be civilian husbands for the government.

   In the Kuocang Mountain area, there even appeared a peasant army with a scale of more than 30,000.

   Tangxi County.

  A member of the righteous society rushed over: "Zikou, Zikou, good news!"

   "What good news?" Xu Du asked.

  The scholar said with a smile: "Mr. Zhao has sent troops, and the army has passed Jiangshan County!"

"Ha ha ha ha!"

  Xu Du burst out laughing, and summoned many scholars and business leaders: "Mister Zhao, Mr. Zhao has already passed through Jiangshan County. Let's block the enemy army here, and watch how those thieves are wiped out by Mr. Zhao!"

   (Ask for a monthly pass.)

  (end of this chapter)