I really don't want to be emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty

Yanzhou Shan County, Majiapu, and the Majia Courtyard are decorated with lanterns and festoons.

As the youngest son of Ma Yuanwai, the biggest rich man in Majiapu, most of the famous people in Shan County came to Ma Baolin's wedding. Even Liu Wenqing, the magistrate of Shan County, and Bo Shi Liangcai, the owner, also attended Ma Baolin's wedding.

This made Ma Yuanwai feel very dignified. Although Ma Yuanwai did not have much fame, when he reached [-], he could be regarded as a scholar. As for his eldest son, Ma Baoshan, he was also not expected to study.

It is precisely because of this kind of incense that Ma Yuanwai is doing well in Shan County, at least the gentry or county magistrate, the government dare not judge Ma Yuanwai.

Of course, Ma Yuanwai is also a slick man, who will be called a social cow in future generations. Even a Jianghu person like Song Xiance, he treats each other with courtesy.

In Ma Yuanwai's home, there are "good people" sent by the four county officials after graduation. In all fairness, Ma Yuanwai, a rich man, is different from most local tyrants and evil gentry who beat the people to their bones, at least he will not do it that badly.

Right at the gate of the Ma family compound, Ma Baoshan, the eldest son of the porter and the horseman, saw a huge convoy approaching from the street. Dozens of strong and strong men, armed with waist knives, guarding seven or eight carts, came towards the Ma family compound.

Ma Baolin saw Song Xiance coming on horseback, and hurriedly stepped forward to salute: "Mr. Song is coming to the humble house, but he didn't go far to greet him. I'm rude, I'm really rude!"

Song Xiance turned over and said with a faint smile, "Nephew is polite, you have married my younger brother, as an uncle, should I come to congratulate you?"

With that said, Song Xiance motioned to Jiang Wubing to present the gift list.

Ma Baolin is not a greedy person, even so, he was shocked when he saw the gift list.

What Song Xiance sent was the standard Liaodong Bank silver coin. This kind of silver coin has been accepted by most people in Shandong, Henan, and North Zhili, because this kind of silver coin is of good quality, accurate in weight, and does not need to be weighed.

Therefore, after the silver coin was launched, it was very popular.

Song Xiance was also generous, each piece was ten taels of silver, one tray was sixty pieces, two trays was 1000 two hundred pieces, in addition to cloth, salt and other materials, this generous gift was worth 2000 taels of silver.

Ma Baolin is not a person who does not listen to things outside the window. Zhu Yihai has also heard about Song Xiance's Huanggang Coal Mine, but the problem is that although Ma Yuanwai has some face in Shan County, what is Ma Yuanwai's face in front of Zhu Yihai?
Ma Baolin said: "Mr. Song is really polite, how dare Ma be such a generous gift?"

At this time, Yuanwai Ma came out from the inside, he smiled and said: "Mr. Song, if Mr. Ma refuses to accept such a generous gift, he will look down on Mr. Song, Baolin Baoshan, you still haven't thanked Mr. Song for your father!"

Ma Yuanwai and Ma Baolin had different considerations. Although Ma Yuanwai had no way to get back the coal mine that King Lu's Mansion had taken from Song Xiance, he knew that Song Xiance, a Jianghu man, had a large number of talents under his command, and they were proficient in the art of public opinion. They discovered the Huanggang Coal Mine.

If Song Xiance was a smart person, he would not think of a way to get back the coal mine that was taken by Lu Wangfu, so he could only suffer from this dumb loss. However, he can cooperate with Song Xiance, and the worst is to open another coal mine.

Song Xiance entered the Ma family courtyard with his entourage, just like almost all big family weddings, ordinary guests sat in the courtyard outside, ordinary neighbors and tenants sat outside the courtyard, as for the people with status entering the inner courtyard, the most distinguished ones were in the main banquet hall, occupying the upper ranks.

Song Xiance came to the inner courtyard and sat in the atrium hall. There were four tables in total, all of whom had status. Of course, there were quite a few people who knew Song Xiance, and everyone greeted Song Xiance one after another.

Of course, after the wedding ceremony, when the groom brought his servants to toast the guests, Song Xiance gave Jiang Wubing a wink, and Jiang Wubing left quietly. Not long after, the sound of orderly footsteps came from outside.

Hearing the movement, the horsemen felt a little strange, at this moment, dozens of attendants who followed Song Xiance to the Ma family compound to attend the wedding ceremony showed their weapons.

The horseman looked at Song Xiance and stammered, "Song...Mr. Song...you... want...to do...what?"

Song Xiance ignored Ma Yuanwai, but looked at Liu Wenqing, the magistrate of Shan County, who was in charge, and said, "Lord Liu, come with us!"

A guest who had been stunned for a long time was terrified and screamed loudly: "There are bandits, there are bandits..."

All the important figures were frightened out of their wits and wanted to escape, but their legs were weak, how could they escape?There was a sudden chaos in the hall.

Song Xiance looked at the crowd and said, "Everyone, don't be afraid. We are not bandits. We are miners in Huanggangzhai. It's just that our mines have already been robbed by Lu Wang's mansion. The government didn't do anything, and they helped the tyrant. They even killed a lot of us! There is a wrong and a debtor. We are looking for the government minions who helped the tyrant, not you. As long as everyone sits here honestly and doesn't move around, everything will be fine. We will let you go when we finish cleaning them up!"

Liu Wenqing was stunned, looked at Song Xiance and said: "Shout loudly: "You are so courageous, you dare to rebel, aren't you afraid of being punished by the nine clans? "

A miner snorted contemptuously: "If you rebel, you will punish the nine clans? Before we rebelled, many people's families died or only one person was left. What is this? You bastards are more ruthless than bandits. You will do all the bad things. Today I want you to know what retribution is."

Just when Song Xiance led people to capture the leaders of Shan County in the Ma family compound, Lin Xuzong also led the main force of miners to approach Shan County. Like most counties in Ming Dynasty, Shan County had no garrison.

Daming’s guards and local counties are two independent units, and only guards like Tianjin Guard, Weihai Guard, and Dengzhou Guard have garrisons. Kong Youde can rely on more than [-] cavalry from the Dongjiang Army to corrupt half of Shandong because of Daming’s institutional problems.

Dozens of yamen servants saw thousands of miners appearing below the city, and they ran away in fright without firing a single shot.

Qiao Zhuang said in disbelief, "Why did they run away?"

The miners thought that the rebellion would lead to near death, but the problem was that they hadn't fought yet, and the gates of the county town were wide open, and there was not even a single person in sight.

"Attack, take down the county seat!"

Following Lin Xuzong's order, the miners cautiously approached Shan County, with shields in front of them. From a professional point of view, these miners looked very amateurish.

The sword and shield soldiers formed by these miners were very hesitant to attack, and their momentum could only be described as mediocre. If they were blocked, they would probably retreat immediately... In a word, their combat effectiveness is scum.

But the yamen servants don't think so. Although they are yamen servants, they are different from the various executive departments of later generations.If they really fought one-on-one, they might not be able to beat many ordinary people.

When the yamen servants saw so many soldiers with swords and shields rushing towards them like tigers descending the mountain, they were so frightened that their legs went limp.

Since there was no resistance from the yamen servants, Lin Xuzong led the miners to quickly occupy the entire Shanxian county seat. When occupying the county seat, the only bloody sacrifice was that some hooligans took advantage of the chaos to rob, and were hacked and stabbed to death by the miners with knives and guns.

The seized yamen servants’ equipment was also surprising, such as the spears with the teeth marks of rats all over the shafts, the rusty simple knives, the firecrackers that exploded in a single blow, the soft bows, and the light arrows... These things are really eye-opening.

In the Ma family courtyard, Song Xiance captured all the people with heads and faces. Song Xiance put a fat rich man on the street outside the compound, pointed at the fat rich man and asked, "What is he like?"

"Character?"

A man who looked like a farmer gritted his teeth and said, "Han Laocai still has character, this bastard, he has done bad things long ago!"

"What bad things has he done?"

"There are too many bad things, too many to tell!"

"Pick up the important ones and talk about them!"

"This Han Laocai likes women who have just given birth the most. Last month, the daughter-in-law of Deng Maocai in our village brought a baby less than one year old back to her natal home. On the way, Han Caicai ran into her. He asked people to arrest Deng's daughter-in-law. The daughter-in-law of the Deng family was violent and would rather die than obey. Han Laocai threatened Deng Maocai's son. Humiliated, he sent his son home and hanged himself on a big willow tree in the village!"

"Does the government not care?"

"Government, you have to ask Mr. Liu County. Han Laocai's son is Mr. Liu's master. Who dares to control him?"

"I'll take care of it!"

Song Xiance said: "Qu Bing, take all of Han Laocai's family and bring them here for a public trial!"

After Jiang Qu got sick, he led a team of miners to attack the old house of the Han family. He never thought that Han Laocai was an old man with only a dozen or so servants. Seeing hundreds of miners approaching, these servants also ran away in fright.

From the time the miners attacked the Han Family Fort, the battle was over soon, and those family members either surrendered or died in battle, and not one of the Han family's children who dared to stand up to the end died.

Along with the three sons and seven grandsons of Han Laocai who were covered in blood, they were dragged out, and they were soon to be baptized by stones, saliva and rotten leaves. What awaited him was a very tragic fate.

Jiang Wubing ransacked Han Laocai's house at an astonishing speed. Boxes of silver, copper coins, bags of grain, livestock and poultry, silk and satin were shipped out at a price like water.The curses of the onlookers became louder and louder, and the more they watched, the angrier they became. We have worked so hard all year round, and we can't even eat enough bran and vegetables, but you lie on us and suck blood. It's unreasonable!
Song Xiance counted and seized a total of more than 6000 taels of silver, more than 1000 copper coins, more than 25 shi of rice, 30 cows, more than [-] mules, as well as a batch of silk and antiques, all of which were accepted with a smile.

Song Xiance looked at a large basket of documents brought over, which looked like account books, he picked up one and flipped through it casually. These were either rent owed by Han Caicai's tenants, or debts borrowed.

Song Xiance made a gesture, and Jiang Wubing brought a bucket of oil and poured it on the big basket of ledgers, and handed over the booklet.

Song Xiance blew on the fire booklet, blowing on the fire booklet, and then threw it into the basket. With a slap of the bear, the flames surged up and devoured the books that either exuded the fragrance of ink or were yellowed and moldy.

Immediately, the whole audience was silent, and everyone looked at the rising fire as if under a holding spell, with their mouths slightly open, unable to close, and they couldn't believe their eyes.

Song Xiance said: "Han Laocai is unjust. If he grants usury, you don't have to pay it back. There are also these deeds of sale. Somebody burned them. From now on, you are no longer serfs of the Han family, and you are free!"

Along with Han Laocai's family, they were all executed one by one according to the crimes revealed during the interrogation. The seven grandparents of the Han family, except for the youngest grandson who had not had time to do evil, were all hung on the tree.

Song Xiance also kept the cattle, mules and horses captured by the Han family, and distributed part of the food to those people who could not survive. Just one Han family gave Song Xiance more than 600 supporters.

The public trial in the Ma family compound is still going on. The local tyrants and evil gentry first ask the crimes. As long as the character is not good and the crime is full of crimes, the house will be ransacked.

The rebellion went very smoothly, so smooth that Song Xiance could hardly believe it. He was prepared for thousands of casualties, but he did not expect that Lin Xuzong would also take down the county without bloodshed.

Lin Xuzong and Song Xiance took the same approach, first dealing with the big gentry households in the county, and held a public trial for the big gentry households. Some conscientious and hard-working rich men were not liquidated, and even Ma Yuanwai had no notoriety.

Lin Xuzong looked at the four or five thousand newly recruited rebels behind him, looked at Song Xiance and said, "What shall we do now?"

"Our foundation is too thin!"

Song Xiance said: "There are only so few people, and the weapons are not enough, and the common people don't know whether we are good or bad. If they rush to attack the city of Yanzhou, the common people will easily regard us as bandits and rogues. In order to save their lives, they will desperately defend the city. When the time comes, they will not be able to fight or retreat. The loss will be too great!"

"Then what do you say?"

Song Xiance said: "Brother Lin, you should manage Shan County first. Our commander-in-chief said that when we are not strong enough, we will fight guerrilla warfare and encircle the cities from the countryside. Huanggang is our foundation and we cannot afford to lose anything. Let's do this by selecting those young and strong who are willing to dig coal. We will pay wages and join us in the great cause. Then we will start with the gentry in Yanzhou!"

As Song Xiance formulated the strategy of encircling the city from the countryside, the gentry in Shanxian suffered a bad luck.

Although Song Xiance had never managed or commanded the army in the Ninghai Navy, he was no stranger to army training. During nearly four years of following Cheng Shijie, Song Xiance learned a lot. In fact, Song Xiance at this time is much better than Song Xiance in history.

First of all, he did not expand the army blindly. In the face of many refugees who were willing to join the rebel army, he organized the young and strong, the old, the old and the weak, and went to Huanggang to dig coal.

Many people did not understand Song Xiance's approach, including Qiao Zhuang.

Song Xiance explained to Qiao Zhuang: "A very great general said that wars are fought without money, and this battle is bound to be lost. We have no source of income, where does the money come from? It can only come from the coal mines. Only by digging out more coal can we exchange it for more weapons and destroy more enemies! When the war is over, we will build several phosphate fertilizer factories like Liaodong in Yanzhou to produce phosphate fertilizer, so that the crops will have a good harvest, so that everyone will no longer be hungry!"

No need to go hungry anymore!
These simple seven words have an irresistible attraction to these simple and honest miners. They happily accept the order, enter the mining area with tools, and start mining against the clock.

As for the rebel army with more than 4000 people, Song Xiance divided his troops into three groups. More than 1000 young and strong youth troops were trained in Huangzhou Village, so they did not need to participate in the current battle.

In Cheng Shijie's words, this is called Xinshoucun brushing experience.

Lin Xuzong looked at the troops lined up neatly and said: "Director Song, you are the leader of our army, please give our army a name!"

"Back then, Liu Bowen was divining the fate of Daming for Emperor Hongwu. After the divination, Liu Bowen only said one sentence: "If you encounter favorable conditions, stop."

Lin Xuzong laughed: "Okay, let's call it the Dashun Army. I never thought we could command such a large army across the battlefield..."

"What is this? It won't take long before our troops will expand to tens of thousands, tens of thousands, or even tens of thousands of people, until we can't command them!"

Jiang Wubing had some hesitation and said: "Uncle, tell me, can we succeed?"

"If you don't succeed, you will become benevolent!"

Jiang Wubing asked: "Uncle, I can't figure it out!"

"Can't figure out what?"

"For those who are willing to join our Dashun Army, there is nothing wrong with giving them food and money, but those common people, why should they...they didn't contribute, why should they give them money and food?"

"No disease, let's take a longer view!"

Song Xiance said: "The commander-in-chief once said that the power of the common people is unlimited. If we can get their support, let's take down Yanzhou, let alone take down the entire Shandong and the entire Central Plains. What is a little land money and food?"

Jiang Wubing didn't understand, but he didn't ask.

Song Xiance said: "Let's perform our own duties, you take down the local tyrants and evil gentry around you, the public trial meeting is almost over!"

Song Xiance rebelled in Shan County, successfully captured the county seat, and brought down dozens of estates of local tyrants and young gentry. However, Luo Ruwen, the magistrate of Yanzhou Prefecture, still didn’t know about it.

Daming has too many names for officials like this.

If the current magistrate is Deng Fanxi, it is estimated that Song Xiance will not have time to publicly try the gentry.

This was Song Xiance's great fortune, but Daming's misfortune.

With the convening of the public trial meeting, the people of Shanxian County were overjoyed. Now is the period of lean and yellow, and their households have long been out of food. When they didn't know what to do, Song Xiance publicly tried the local tyrants and evil gentry. The local tyrants and evil gentry who were greatly angered by the people were all hung on trees to dry by him.

And those common people also got the food they needed to survive, and they didn't have to pay back the debts owed to the local tyrants and evil gentry. The most important thing was that as long as they joined the Dashun Army, they could be allocated fields ranging from ten to twenty or thirty mu.

At this moment, the people around the entire Shan County were shocked.

"Fight local tyrants, divide the fields!"

"Dashun Army, uphold justice!"

"The law of heaven is not fair, but Dashun is fair!"

"Stop when there is a smooth ride, and when there is a smooth ride, you will prosper!"

Song Xiance uttered many slogans, and as the size of the Dashun Army grew, these slogans spread more and more widely. It was not until Cheng Shijie in Liaodong heard the name Dashun that he suddenly understood.

"It turns out that Li Zicheng's national name Shun was actually made by Song Xiance, a bastard!" (End of this chapter)