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In the third year of the lunar calendar, in October, the disaster caused by the long drought finally broke out like a mountain torrent, and there was a large-scale peasant riot on Shaanxi Road.
In just one night, Jingzhaofu, Shangzhou and Guzhou were attacked by tens of thousands of moans, and it became more and more intense. It began to spread to the surrounding areas, and the degree of damage further escalated.
According to the surviving officials in the disaster, these mob were simply lawless. In broad daylight, they rushed into the county government office and began to destroy, destroy the public hall, rob weapons, beat the court officials, attack the officials who worked in groups, destroyed the official seals and burned the government documents in public, and even burned the government office.
Among them, Guzhou suffered the most seriously. The mob first attacked the government office in the city, drove away the magistrate Li Nangong, and then ran away a team of local city guards. When this amazing news reached Shangzhou, Wang Ziyuan, the patrol inspector of Guzhou, who led Cao Yuanji's army, hurriedly led the troops back to Guzhou to calm down the chaos. .
Before Wang Ziyuan rushed back to Guizhou, the mob began to destroy, rob and set fire in the city. Many innocent people and businessmen lost their lives in this once-in-a-a-century catastrophe, and almost all the shops were looted by the mobers.
The rice shop was the first target of the mob to attack, because many rice shop owners took advantage of the shortage of rice prices. The people could not afford to buy food and were hungry, so that the people's grievances were boiling. If the reason was investigated, it would be blamed on Chu Dafa, the first profiteer in Guzhou. Some time ago, he hoarded and bought a lot of food from the surrounding area, which made the city. His insiders were panicked. Later, under the coordination of the magistrate Li Nangong, he lowered the price of rice. However, it was common to be short of jin. Even if the people shouted through their throats, they could not sue Chu Dafa. He knew the big man in Beijing, and even Li Nangong had to open one eye and close his eyes.
Twenty-three rice shops in Guzhou were all robbed, and the workers inside were either beaten or killed. In particular, Chu's rice shop lost the most, because they hoarded the most rice grain, and they were the blackest.
The mob surrounded Chu Dafa's house in anger and set fire everywhere. The old and young family of the Chu family were all buried in the sea of fire. Few people knew that Chu Dafa also had a son studying in Beijing, studying at the Royal Military Academy.
Firewood, rice, oil and salt are the four basic items necessary for Song people's daily life. Among them, rice is particularly important, because food is the most important thing for the people. If there is no food, even the immortals will be angry. The immortals are not really not eating the fireworks of the world.
The peasants in Shangzhou rioted on a large scale. Under the leadership of the Taoist Zhang Luan, they started from Tianzhu Mountain. First, they rushed into Shangjin County along the south of the Jiashui River and looted it. Then they killed a man who went north to Fengyang County at the foot of Shangshan Mountain, opened warehouses to release grain, and gathered two or three thousand people. .
After resting for two days in Fengyang County, he took advantage of the victory north out of Mangmang Shangshan and came to the banks of the Danshui River, intending to cross the river to seize Shangluo City.
Taoist priest Zhang Luan has been preaching in Shangzhou for many years. He knows that Fumin Iron Money Supervisor is more than 80 miles east of Shangzhou. There is so much money there that it can fill the whole house. In one word, it is described as money passing through the wall.
These poor people who grew up on Shaanxi Road for generations have been ripped off and bullied by the imperial government since they were born. They have long been overwhelmed by all kinds of taxes and corvée. How can they hear of such money? They are overwhelmed by victory under the instigation of Zhang Luan. The group was excited and eager to try. After crossing the river, he didn't care about Shangluo City. He directly killed Fumin Iron Money Supervisor, hoping to rob him of him of eight thousand taels of silver and have nothing to worry about eating and drinking for the rest of his life.
I don't know that the 5,000 cavalry of Cao Yuanji, the Sima army in front of the left hall of the imperial court, are stationed nearby. First, in order to find the whereabouts of a group of thieves in Guo Mioshan, and second, to wait for the news in the capital to see what His Majesty Renzong has instructions. Anyway, this rule should be kept in mind.
In the past few days, Cao Yuanji has received a lot of news, all of which were bad news. First, the heavy team was robbed, Li Sui died tragically, and then Zhang Hong was trapped in the Lu family, and all his troops died under the hill. Then the team he sent out to meet Zhang Hong before leaving Guzhou encountered an ambush in the valley more than 50 miles away from the Lu family. The casualties were heavy. There were less than 200 people who escaped, and there were still many behind them. The reprimand of the Privy Council, the pressure of Zhongshu, and the great anger of His Majesty Renzong.
Cao Yuanji didn't say anything, but he felt very uncomfortable. He thought that Guo Yushan's group was just reckless people. He and Zhang Hong came to capture him. Unexpectedly, this group of horse thieves were extremely cunning. They killed his two colleagues in a row and defeated 5,000 Song troops.
At a time when he was depressed, the governor of Shangzhou and asked Mr. Pi Zhongrongpi to report that a group of people were on their way to Fumin Iron Money Supervision, and asked Cao Yuanji to send someone to calm down the chaos immediately.
Cao Yuanji's 5,000 divine guard cavalry was stationed in Huangchuan Town, north of Shangzhou City at this time. When he learned the shocking news, he immediately ordered a thousand horses and personally led the army to rescue him. He did not stop all the way. In just an hour, he arrived at the Fumin Iron Money Prison in the east, a royal mint workshop, which looked like Pu. There is no difference between the village, but the people who work in it all eat royal grain.
Taoist priest Zhang Luan led more than 2,000 peasants and ran around for a long time before he came to Fumin Iron Money Prison. He was calculating how to divide the money for a while, but he didn't know that the army of the imperial court had already come and lurted in the woods on the side of the road, and the houses in the village were covered with a trap.
With a gong sound, the ambush was killed in all sides. The Taoist priest Zhang Luan's more than 2,000 peasant army was cut down in the blink of an eye, killing and injuring countless injuries. If it hadn't been for his two times, he would have been chopped off by Cao Yuanji's thousand wolf-like cavalry.
After the failure of the Shangzhou uprising, Taoist priest Zhang Luan immediately prepared to run away and did not dare to stay for a moment, because he knew that someone would bite him out of the arrested soft eggs. At that time, he would inevitably be wanted. If he was caught, it was also a death penalty for losing his head. So he left as soon as possible and left Wuguan and looked away from Guzhou, because Zhang Luan listened. It is said that Guo Mioshan's Rebel Army is active in that area. People block people from killing people, Buddhas block Buddhas, and even the government can't help them. If he can join in, he can be a big leader, so he just threw himself there.
Due to the early discovery of the farmers' riots in Jingzhaofu, it did not cause much harm. The details have been reported to the court by Cai Xiang, a left-behind pusher of Jingzhaofu.
In mid-October, Bianliang.
It was another refreshing afternoon. Zhao Ze met the initiator of the Qingli New Deal in a very unique house outside Wangchun Gate. Lord Fan Zhongyan, also known as Lao Fan, was recently appointed by Renzong. A few years ago, he led troops to garrison in Qingzhou and resist the invasion of the Xixia Party with several famous generals such as Zhong Shiheng.
It hasn't been long since I returned to Beijing. Before my buttocks are hot, I plan to implement the new policy. It can be seen that the resistance will not be small, because what he intends to change has too much impact. Although there are only ten things, it involves many people's lives or interests.