I'm sure of the prosperous age of Kangxi and Qianlong!

Chapter 151 Chaos in the North
Since the Yellow River overflowed last year, it has spread to three provinces, and even Zhili has been affected.

Although Kangxi quickly ordered the imperial ministers to build embankments for relief, he underestimated the seriousness of the flood and the greed of the Henan government and the imperial ministers he appointed.

Under these people's unbridled exploitation and harm to the people, Liu Ruhan, the leader of the Bagua Sect, led the crowd to revolt.

He proclaimed himself the King of Han Dynasty.

This time, it directly detonated the Bagua sect branches all over the Central Plains. Regardless of whether they originally wanted to rebel or not, they all rebelled this time.

There is no other way. If you don’t respond now, are you waiting for the government to settle the matter later?
Although Kangxi was frightened and angry, he did not lose any composure. He quickly dispatched the Eight Banners of the capital and the Green Camp of Zhili to gather [-] troops to quell the rebellion.

When Liu Ruhan and Gao Wenlong heard that the Zhili army was attacking, they quickly joined forces and claimed to be a 40-strong army.

However, everyone knows what the Bagua Cult is.

Rounding off the 40 troops, the maximum is only 20 horses. Excluding the civilians who are holding them hostage, there are less than [-] people who dare to fight after seeing blood. These are still two joint forces.

Therefore, there is no surprise that Liu Ruhan, a grassroots Han king, was almost defeated when faced with the Zhili Qing army that came to suppress the rebellion.

Hundreds of thousands of troops were routed thousands of miles away. Just when the Qing army was preparing to go all out, something happened on the Shandong side.

Heze and Jinxiang Counties in Shandong Province responded to the Han King's Bagua cultists Wang Rongqing and Hou Tang. Although these two people could not compare with the Han Dynasty King Liu Ruhan in terms of the strength of their followers and the scale of the uprising, their geographical advantages were really good.

Not only did Shandong have fewer Qing troops stationed there, only a few thousand more than Henan, but it also had the lifeblood of Zhili Capital.

canal!

Not to mention Wang Rongqing's department in Heze County, Jinxiang County is only less than [-] miles away from the canal, and there is a river connecting directly in the middle.

As a result, Hou Tang, the Bagua cultist who started the uprising in Jinxiang, became so arrogant that he directly joined forces with Wang Rongqing of Heze, gathering more than 20 people and claiming to be a [-]-strong army.

Riding on the momentum created by Liu Ruhan, Hou Tang and Wang Rongqing unexpectedly took over the canal... No, they simply went over and occupied it.

The strength of the local garrison was less than a fraction of the two-person coalition.

The water transport from the south to Zhili was inexplicably taken away by the Bagua Cult.

The news soon spread to the capital of Zhili.

On that day, food prices in Beijing rose by [-]%.

The people of Kangxi were all stupid, so they no longer cared about Liu Ruhan. This guy was at most a scabies disease that would break out at the first touch. No matter how many times he came again, he could always be wiped out if he gave the Qing Dynasty and Kangxi some time.

But if something happens to the water transportation, it's not as simple as not having enough food or starving.

Henan was already hit by a disaster at the end of last year, and the relief efforts were not successful, which led to widespread civil unrest and military disasters. Junggar in the northwest was still unyielding, and the overall financial and food coordination of the entire Northland was already stretched thin.

If water transportation is interrupted again, I'm afraid the entire north will be bombed.

While Emperor Kangxi hurriedly mobilized his anti-rebellion troops to return to Shandong, he also ordered Shi Shilun, the governor of water transport, to send troops northward. He must round up and kill all the Bagua rebel bandits on the water transport to avoid future troubles.

Although Kangxi's deployment of troops seemed hasty, there were no major flaws.

The Bagua Sect seems to have hundreds of thousands of followers and responds to hundreds of calls, but in fact this kind of rebel army that relies on religion and coercion is very fragile.

Although there are millions of river workers in water transportation who are oppressed by the pseudo-pure government, it is difficult for these river workers to become the power of the Bagua Sect, especially because the Bagua Sect still uses the same old tricks to deceive people.It also teaches people to donate and lose money. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a cult.

In less than half a month, the [-] Zhili Qing troops returning from Henan completed their rendezvous with the Cao Army and Jiangbei Green Camp under Shi Shilun.

The total strength directly reached 8 troops. Hou Tang and Wang Rongqing of the Bagua Jiao who occupied the water transport were quickly surrounded by the Qing army.

Shi Shilun, the commander-in-chief, even went to the front line to supervise the troops and cut off the escape route of the Bagua sect rebels.

It can be said that regardless of the strength of the troops, the morale of the people and the quality of the soldiers, the Qing army has completely defeated the Bagua Sect. As long as they work harder, Hou Tang and Wang Rongqing inside will undoubtedly die.

But who would have thought that at this critical moment, the Qing army or Shi Shilun, who was personally on the front line to supervise the troops and intercept the escape route of the Bagua Cult rebel bandits, was in trouble.

Seventy-year-old people are rare in ancient times, but in fact, at the age of 60, it is almost precarious.

And Shi Shilun is just 64 years old this year. He has been traveling back and forth in Caohe for a long time, and he has been sick for a long time. Now he is sick and personally supervises the army to suppress the rebellion.

After days of hard work, Shi Shilun suddenly fainted one day while discussing matters in the camp.

When the generals hurriedly carried him into the tent, Shi Shilun had already passed away just as the eldest lady arrived.

In fact, even without the Bagua sect, Shi Shilun in history would not have lived until June of this year. This time it was just one month earlier.

It's just that Shi Shilun's death was caught off guard, and he was unprepared, not even making any arrangements.

Fortunately for the Cao Army, Marshal Shi is dead and there are still deputy generals who can temporarily support him. However, all the Jiangbei Green Camp brought by Marshal Shi came with Shi Shilun. Now that he is dead, the deputy generals can't suppress these people at all. A proud and powerful general.

And Hou Tang, the Eight Diagrams Cultist, who had previously dared to take advantage of the Qing court's lack of response to rob water transport to strengthen himself (although he did not succeed), was certainly not a fool.

Hou Tang was keenly aware of the changes in the officers and soldiers in the south, especially when the originally unified officers and soldiers became clearly divided and even defended each other.

Hou Tang didn't know the reason, but he quickly seized the opportunity and immediately led his Bagua teaching army to break out. At the same time, in order to make the breakout smooth, he decisively sold Wang Rongqing to the Qing army, deceiving Wang Rongqing that he wanted to break out eastward.

That night, the war was about to break out. Hou Tang managed to break through the fragile encirclement of southern government troops with more than half of his casualties, and then most of them broke out of the encirclement and fled towards the south.

Although the other unit, Wang Rongqing, was deceived and crashed into the eastern encirclement of the official army, but because the Qing army units were not under each other's control, Wang Rongqing and Hou Tang broke through separately.

The Qing army was caught off guard, and Wang Rongqing risked his life again and successfully broke through. Then he led the remaining troops to flee eastward decisively, mainly because he had no other direction to run, so he left first.

By the time the Qing army regrouped and prepared to pursue them, Wang Rongqing and Hou Tang, one in the east and one in the south, had already escaped without a trace in this pitch-black night.

The Qing army's encirclement and suppression campaign, which took more than half a month, was in vain. Although they successfully rescued the canal transport, they let go of the remaining members of the Bagua Sect.

In particular, this battle mobilized more than [-] troops and civilians, and spent countless money and food. In order to win in one battle, it caused huge damage to the local area, not including the burning, killing and looting by the officers and soldiers, but also the Bagua sect who hijacked the people and Yanzhou Prefecture. The Jining area to the west was almost turned into a white ground.

The news quickly spread to the capital...

　Blood loss...

　　By the way, Shi Shilun is Shi Shibiao’s brother and Shi Lang’s son.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)