Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 694 Postscript ([-]) The Rebellion of Moliu
"You bastard! Where did you say that workers were forced to return to work? I think they regarded themselves as the masters of the Ming Dynasty and the common people as domestic slaves in the old days!"

At noon, in the yamen of the Procuratorate in Wuchang City, Huguang, Li Ziren's voice sounded, and he was yelling curses with the letter in his hand in the yamen meeting hall.

When he slapped the letter on the table, an official next to him picked up the letter and observed it carefully, and only then did he understand what happened.

It is now the eighteenth day of the first lunar month, and a week has passed since the bloody incident of the "Wushen Strike".

During this week, the Metropolitan Procuratorate has been impeaching the officials of the three divisions of the Yunnan Chief Commissioner, Military and Horse Division, and the Procuratorate Division.

I originally thought that even if such impeachment didn't work, it wouldn't put them in prison, but it would make them more wary and apprehensive about doing things.

Unexpectedly, in the letter from the officials of the Yunnan Metropolitan Procuratorate, the officials of the third department ordered soldiers and government servants from the military and horse division to dispatch and use high-pressure methods to force the workers to return to work.

Not only that, but they also arrested local labor union president Li Bin, Wan Chaoshi, He Wensong and others in the three industrial prefectures of Kunming, Lin'an and Dali.

In prison, the officials of the third department used soft and hard tactics, threatened and lured them, and even tortured them to force them to organize workers to return to the factory to resume work.

Li Bin and the other three did not surrender, so they were brutally tortured.

When officials from the Yunnan Metropolitan Procuratorate arrived at the prison and rescued them and sent them to Kunming, they realized that they had been tortured beyond recognition.

Seeing that they did not resume work, the local officials simply forced the marching workers to the urn of the city wall, with an attitude of starving to death if they did not start work.

With such a bloody method, it's no wonder Li Ziren was so angry.

"This matter must be reported immediately. The officials of the Yunnan Third Division cannot be so lawless!"

Li Ziren clenched his fists: "I want to go to Beijing and tell Li Du Yushi and Long Live this matter!"

"But now Huguang still needs you..." The officer next to him frowned and reminded, but Li Ziren shook his head:

"The situation in Huguang has been brought under control, now I have to go to Yunnan."

"As long as Yunnan is stable, we can spread to Luchuan, Jiaozhi, Guangxi, Sichuan, and Guizhou, and uproot the two parties from each province step by step!"

"I am very firm in this matter. If they bully the common people, then I will go and avenge the common people!"

After all, Li Ziren walked out of the hall without looking back, and went to Beijing the next day.

However, when he arrived in the capital, before he got off the train, a team of criminal officials arrested him and imprisoned him in the prison of the Criminal Ministry for the crime of "accepting bribes".

Li Ziren felt that he acted rightly and sat upright, but he was not in a hurry. Instead, he bought paper, pens and inkstones with the yamen servants. In prison, he wrote "Everything in the State and Society" based on what he had seen and heard in Huguang for more than a year. Class Analysis".

What he saw and heard in Huguang made Li Ziren realize how bad the social environment and status of farmers and workers are.

Although on paper China has 26 billion mu of arable land, 3000 million people, [-] mu per capita, and [-] catties of grain per capita, the actual situation is completely different from the situation on paper.

The working hours of the workers are not guaranteed, and they need to work five hours a day.

Farmers are embarrassed by low-level officials when it comes to paying taxes, and local officials even collect other taxes.

Farmers actually have to pay one-tenth of the original agricultural tax of one-in-thirty. This kind of burden is okay when the weather is good, but in the event of a famine, it can starve to death.

Therefore, Li Ziren expounded his ideas in the book, which is to promote the new technology industry, let more farmers go to the city, and guarantee their employment, and actually implement the four-hour work system for workers.

Li Ziren wrote his memorial in prison unhurriedly, but the Metropolitan Procuratorate outside became a mess because of his arrest.

The Ministry of Punishment and Dali Temple jointly enforced the law and excluded the Metropolitan Procuratorate. In this case, if Li Ziren had any clues, he would be easily implicated.

As a general of the Metropolitan Procuratorate at the moment, it is impossible for Li Fu to watch Li Ziren be locked up in prison like this.

So when he heard the news, he rushed to the Forbidden City in a hurry.

It's just that before he reached the gate of Qianqing Palace, he found many military officers walking out of the gate of Qianqing Palace, which gave him a bad feeling in his heart.

He caught an acquaintance in the Dudu's mansion of the fourth rank, and couldn't help asking:
"Why are there so many people from the Governor's Mansion? What happened?"

"Which..." The captured military officer subconsciously wanted to scold, but when he saw that it was Li Fu, he calmed down, looked around, and said solemnly:

"Mosan, the commander-in-chief of the Ganges River, turned his back on his arguments and even blew up the Ganges River Bridge. Now we don't know the specific situation of the soldiers in India."

"Reverse?!" Hearing this, Li Fu was stunned.

Countless possibilities flashed through his mind, but no matter how he thought about it, he couldn't think that this kind of thing would be caused by Xungui.

In order to get more specific information, he stopped many acquaintances, and then he got a general understanding of the situation of the Ganges rebellion...

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month of the third year of Shaoqing, on the night of the Lantern Festival, the general of the Ganges River, a naturalized man of mixed blood from the Han Dynasty, raised his troops to rebel, falsely preaching imperial edicts, raided the military camps of Xikang and Shannan provinces, and blew up three bridges over the Ganges River and its railways.

On the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, Mosanlun distributed the guns from the armory in the three provinces of Ganges, Xikang, and Nanshan to the [-] naturalized people from Luchuan and India who he secretly raised in the factory.

At noon on the [-]th day of the first lunar month, Mo Sanlun rebelled under the pretext of "Jiang Ding, Wang Ke, Qin Quyi, Ma Fu, Qi Zhongwu and others obstructed the New Deal and hijacked the emperor. We should serve as the Qing emperor and serve our country".

Not long after Nanyuan Province sent this telegram, Zhunan City, the capital of Nanyuan Province, was surrounded by rebels, and the feudal vassals did not dare to send troops to rescue them without intention.

This incident happened so suddenly that the Commander-in-Chief of the Five Armies panicked. Everyone was wondering how Mo Sanlun persuaded the Ganges Battalion to join him in the rebellion.

Three days after the incident broke out, the Nanyuan Camp joined the "Qing Emperor's side", and the whole province of Nanyuan fell. The rebel army numbered [-], and [-] people attacked Luchuan.

On the [-]th of the first lunar month, after investigation by the Dudufu of the Five Armies and Jinyiwei, it was discovered that Mo Sanlun had forged Chinese records for some natives three years ago, and had bribed the officials of the "Recruitment Division" of the Dudufu of the Five Armies. The natives mixed into the army.

On the eve of the Mosanlun rebellion, one-third of the Ganges camp was mixed Han and barbarian, one third was mixed Han and Hu, and the remaining third were simply natives.

The reason why they were able to raid the barracks of Xikang and Nanshan provinces easily was also because of the long-term grievances of the Han soldiers in the army.

Originally, the Shaoqing New Deal could quell the anger of the Han soldiers who had accumulated grievances for many years, but with the unfavorable implementation of the New Deal, the anger of the Han soldiers was also ignited by the fanning of Mo Sanlun.

Knowing the situation of the mutiny, Li Fu immediately asked Zhu Bohai to kill the five people "Jiang Ding, Wang Ke, Qin Quyi, Ma Fu, and Qi Zhongwu" to calm the anger of the world. At the same time, he sent officials and troops to stop Mo Sanlun from attacking Luchuan. .

Li Fu's appointment won the response of some officials, although they all knew that killing these people was just an excuse for Mo Sanlun, and it was impossible for Mo Sanlun to withdraw his troops obediently.

However, if Jiang Ding and the others can be taken advantage of this opportunity, the New Deal can be implemented.

Everyone expected that the emperor would take this opportunity to kill the five people, but when the officials of the two parties above the temple heard what they said, they immediately began to refute.

In front of the officials, Qin Quyi, Marquis of Youyang, asked for orders to quell the rebellion.

Knowing that he could not kill them directly, Emperor Zhu Bohai of Shaoqing agreed, and appointed Qin Quyi as the counter-rebellion general to control the southern and western armies to counter the rebellion.

Seeing this, the cabinet minister Wang Ke asked the emperor to allocate the sharp weapons in the Armament Academy to counter the rebellion, and ordered the Indian servants to encircle and suppress the rebels, but Zhu Bohai ignored it.

Obviously, Zhu Bohai was only going to give Qin Quyi existing resources to counter the rebellion. If the counter-rebellion failed, then Zhu Bohai would have an excuse to kill the officials of the two parties.

He was not worried about Mo Sanlun's rebellion, because the Ming Dynasty still had many backers in the Military Armament Academy.

His thoughts are not difficult to guess, so the officials also know his thoughts.

On the 26th of the first lunar month, Mo Sanlun led an army of [-] to besiege Xishan, a border town in Luchuan Province. Qin Quyi arrived at Kunming Mansion by train and summoned [-] battalions of troops from Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, and Jiaozhi.

On the [-]th day of the first lunar month, Xishan City was broken, and Mo Sanlun marched towards Qinshan City.

On the fifth day of February, Qinshan City was broken, and Qin Quyi led his army to Luchuan City. He led an army of [-] to march westward, and sent a telegram to order the two battalions of Hezhong and Mengchi to attack Nanyuan.

On February [-], the rebel army came out of the Qinshan Mountains and besieged Taigong City. Qin Quyi led his army to the east of the Dajinsha River east of Taigong City.

Not waiting for Qin Quyi to cross the river, Mo Sanlun ordered two battalions to besiege Taigong City, and led ten battalions to the west of the Dajinsha River to intercept the Ming army from crossing the river.

On the battlefield, Mo Sanlun ordered the soldiers of the formation to shout at the Ming army, reprimanding Qin Quyi for his crimes, and finally put the crime of the Ming army not increasing their pay for many years on him.

For a while, the morale of the Ming army was low, and Qin Quyi saw that his position was unstable, so he immediately ordered to stop crossing the river.

Since the Five Armies Commander's Mansion has strict ammunition restrictions on soldiers and horses in various places, when they hit Taigong City, the rebels did not have much ammunition.

Mo Sanlun had participated in the two battles against Mughal and Persia. He knew very well that he could not stand in a stalemate in Luchuan. He had to capture Taigong City, which had ammunition stored in the third battalion of Luchuan, before he could have the capital to fight against Qin Quyi.

Therefore, when Qin Quyi stopped moving forward, he left two battalions of soldiers and horses to build fortifications, and led eight battalions of soldiers and horses to turn around and attack Taigong City.

Compared with Mo Sanlun's rich resume, Qin Quyi is just a noble son who has been gilded in the Eastern Army for ten years with a title.

So when Mosan Lundu had already stormed Taigong City, he reacted, and immediately ordered the whole army to cross the river, and ordered the artillery battalion to launch a fierce artillery attack on the [-] rebels on the west bank.

On the evening of February 5th, after the hour-long bombardment ended, Qin Quyi, regardless of the tiredness of the soldiers, forcibly ordered the Tenth Battalion of the Southern Army to cross the Dajinsha River, and promised to give out [-] taels of silver to reward the soldiers after the war. Boarding soldiers and horses.

At [-]:[-] pm, the Ming army forcibly crossed the Dajinsha River and successfully broke through the first position of the rebels on the west bank.

But before they could gain a firm foothold, the artillery positions of the rebels attacked the shore, and the Ming army was stopped by the fierce artillery fire. At the same time, the rebels launched a counterattack, and the Ming army was repelled.

After retreating, Liu Qian, the general soldier of Yunnan who took the lead to board the west bank, asked Qin Quyi for the reward for first boarding, but Qin Quyi scolded him as a "man" in the name of "lost position", and ordered Liu Qian to be whipped.

At the time of Haishi, Qin Quyi tried to storm the West Bank by night, but the rebels used flares to expose the Ming army crossing the river, and the plan to grab the beach failed again.

At three o'clock, Mo Sanlun led an army of [-] to attack Taigong City, which had only [-] defenders.

Mo Sanlun, who broke through the city, opened the treasury and distributed gold, silver and food to soldiers and common people.

In the early morning of February [-]th, Mo Sanlun led an army of [-] to the west bank. At this time, there were only [-] rebels in the two battalions of the [-] rebels on the west bank, and the Ming army had more than [-] casualties.

Seeing Mo Sanlun returning with his army, Qin Quyi immediately knew that Taigong City was lost and lost all courage.

At the same time, knowing that the morale of the Ming army lost in Taigong City was low, Qin Quyi had no choice but to order the defense line to be consolidated on the east coast.

On February [-]th, the emperor sent the Xihai Fleet to land on Xishan and regain Xishan City. The rebels' supplies were cut off.

Knowing that the supply had been cut off, Ma Sanlun led his army northward, trying to return to the Ganges from the northern part of Chinshan.

During this period, Qin Quyi did not dare to lead his army to pursue due to low morale in the army, and Mo Sanlun calmly withdrew to the Ganges province.

Although Qin Quyi regained the entire territory of Luchuan afterwards, the war has been dragged to March.

At the beginning of March, Yue Zhongqi, the governor of the Southern Army, returned to Luchuan from Nanzhou. At the same time, he suggested that Qin Quyi's army should go northward for a quick battle.

However, due to the previous defeat, Qin Quyi stopped and delayed the battle.

On March [-]th, when Qin Quyi was about to order Nian Gengyao, the governor of the Western Army to attack the South Plains from the Khyber Pass, a rebellion broke out in the three provinces of Persia.

Without the containment of the Western Army, Qin Quyi was even more cautious and dared not enter the Ganges River for a while, and was scolded by Yue Zhongqi as "everyone is incompetent and harms the three armies."

Seeing Yue Zhongqi insulting him, Qin Quyi was very angry, and ordered his left and right to be imprisoned, and no food was given to him.

After the incident happened, the news quickly spread throughout the army, and the army was shocked.

At [-]:[-] on March [-]th, Liu Qian, the general of the Southern Army in Yunnan, and Wang Dong, a general of the Dali Battalion, led more than a hundred people into the tent, and Li Jing, the general of Jiaozhi, Zheng Kui, the general of Guizhou, Deng Chang, the Sichuan general, was imprisoned, and he personally led people to restrain Qin Quyi, the general who suppressed the rebellion, to the school grounds and beheaded.

Afterwards, Liu Qian and others tried to support Yue Zhongqi as the leader, but Yue Zhongqi pretended to agree, and sent Wang Dong to the Ganges to negotiate with Mo Sanlun.

That night, Yue Zhongqi led more than a hundred personal guards to break through, fled back to Yunnan at night, and blew up the Luchuan Railway.

When Liu Qian and others learned that Yue Zhongqi had escaped, they immediately ordered people to submit a letter to Mo Sanlun, willing to offer him to Luchuan, and jointly named him the commander of the Southern Army.

During this period, soldiers in the army continued to flee. By March 25, when Mo Sanlun recovered Xishan City, only [-] of the [-] Southern Army remained.

On March 27, Mo Sanlun led the army into Luchuan, and the rebel army grew to 5 people. At the same time, they also harvested more than [-] firearms, more than [-] artillery pieces, and enough ammunition for the rebels to fight for a year.

On the same day, Yue Zhongqi fled back to Kunming and ordered people to reorganize the fleeing Ming army. At the same time, he sent a telegram to the court, asking to transfer the third battalion of Guangdong and the third battalion of Uszang to Yunnan to suppress the rebellion.

When the telegram was sent back to the capital and learned that the Southern Army rebelled and Qin Quyi was killed, the government and the public were shocked for a while. Even Shaoqing Emperor Zhu Bohai did not expect that Qin Quyi, who was talking about the military in the open, would be stupid when he was about to go to the battlefield. to this point.

On the same day, Zhu Bohai decreed to imprison the cabinet minister Wang Ke, Qi Zhongwu, Marquis of Dingyuan, Ma Fu, uncle Shizhu and others, abolished the titles of Qin, Qi and Ma, and sent a telegram to appease Yue Zhongqi, canonizing him as Uncle Huayang, the governor of counter-insurgency matters.

The next day, Zhu Bohai decreed that Li Fu, the censor of Zuodu of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, would enter the cabinet, Li Ziren, the inspector of Huguang, would be released from prison, and he would also serve as the censor of Zuoqian Capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate to inspect the southwest.

On March [-], Zhu Bohai issued another decree to transfer the three battalions of Huguang, Shaanxi, Jiangxi, and Fujian into Yunnan to suppress the rebellion.

During this period, Qin Yushang, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, asked the feudal clans to put down the rebellion, but Zhu Bohai worried that the feudal clans would acquire steam engines and other machinery in the fight against the rebellion, so he ordered the feudal clans to defend themselves and not to counterattack.

At the beginning of April, relying on more than [-] discarded guns, Mosanlun expanded its army to [-]. The cabinet sent a telegram to Luchuan, saying that Wang Ke, Jiang Ding and others had obeyed the law, and ordered Mosanlun's troops to lay down their weapons and surrender.

Mo Sanlun ignored this, which caused dissatisfaction among the Han soldiers under his command.

On April 26, Mosanlun assembled [-] native soldiers and [-] Han soldiers, a total of [-] troops, to attack Longchuan, Yunnan.

At this time, Yue Zhongqi had gathered more than [-] soldiers who had fled back in Longchuan, and the soldiers and horses of the inland battalion had already arrived in Kunming.

Knowing that Mo San was on the border, Yue Zhongqi commanded the inland battalion to go south.

On April 29, Yue Zhongqi led his army to Longchuan. At this moment, the number of Ming troops in Longchuan reached [-], and the number of rebels was still more than [-].

Knowing that Yue Zhongqi was coming with troops, Mo Sanlun retreated to Mengmao City in the rear, trying to defend and counterattack.

On April [-]th, when the sun was shining on the earth, Yue Zhongqi ordered the whole army to leave the customs, and brought twenty large boxes from the Armament Academy.

On the first day of May, Yue Zhongqi led his army to Mengmao City and ordered to unpack [-] large boxes.

When the box was opened, twenty strange guns with large cylinders on the barrels appeared in front of the soldiers.

The guns seemed odd to the soldiers, and when a hundred soldiers from the Ordnance Academy loaded them onto trucks, they thought such exposed firing points were stupid.

However, their ridicule lasted less than 5 minutes.

When the soldiers of the Armament Academy spread the bulletproof steel plates in front of the cars and guns, and as the military truck started, the twenty strange-looking guns also slowly arrived at the front battlefield.

When they were loaded, many soldiers kept their mouths shut, and when they fired, the eyes of almost everyone in combat stared.

Tongues of flames suddenly appeared on the battlefield. They swept across the battlefield with such ferocity that they even suppressed the rebel positions with more than 3000 people in front of them.

The enemy's bullets cannot penetrate the steel plate of the military truck, but the guns in the hands of the soldiers of the Armament Academy are cleaning the battlefield all the time.

The rebels tried to send cavalry to outflank the Ming army's position from both wings, but in the face of the bullets that were unleashing wildly, [-] rebel cavalry had just rushed out of the trenches for less than a hundred steps, and there were only a few fleeing horses left in the entire battlefield .

At dusk on the first day of May, Mengmao City was broken, and Mo Sanlun led his army back to Luchuan, and the Ming army advanced towards Luchuan.

On the second day after the Battle of Mengmao, all the soldiers knew the name of the firearm yesterday.

Apocalypse heavy machine gun...

　The overall technological level at this stage was around 1870~1900
　　
　
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