Cao Shuang chatted with the envoy of the Five Dou Rice Sect about Taoism and the customs of Shu. After a while, he asked the envoys who were about to see off the Five Dou Rice Sect to go back to the posthouse to rest. "I will take my leave now.
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Cao Shuang smiled and nodded: "You go ahead, I won't send you off. Don't forget to say hello to your leader on my behalf."
When the envoy's figure disappeared from sight, Cao Shuang sighed: "These people are really ambitious, but the most indispensable thing throughout the ages is such people, especially those who use religious believers to cause trouble, but almost no one
If they can accomplish anything, they are just a bunch of rabble."
Yang Zong also agreed: "I thought they were just a bunch of chickens and dogs."
Cao Shuang thought for a while and then said: "However, such a group of people also have their uses, and we cannot take them lightly. Chu Boru will make arrangements to strengthen contact with them. If necessary, we can also provide them with some support, including money, food and weapons."
Yes, but not too much."
Chen Shuozhen called himself "Emperor Wenjia" and used Taoism and immortal deception to win over people's hearts. People across Zhejiang responded in large numbers, and the rebel army soon grew to tens of thousands.
This incident attracted great attention from the Central Court of the Tang Dynasty. Tang Gaozong organized a large army to quell the rebellion. Naturally, Chen Shuozhen's rabble could not defeat the regular army.
Fang Renyu and Cui Yixuan attacked the rebel army back and forth. Chen Shuozhen was defeated and captured. The Israeli army killed tens of thousands and captured more than 10,000 people. After the uprising experienced a short period of development and growth, it was quickly quelled.
The Fangla Uprising almost happened in the same place as the Chen Shuozhen Uprising four hundred years ago. Everyone is familiar with the Fangla Uprising, probably from the conquest of Fangla in Liangshan in "Water Margin", one of the four famous novels. Fangla is described in novels as very vicious.
Most of the barbarian and Liangshan heroes died in the battle against Fangla.
Fang La was originally a rich farmer in Zhejiang. He had a lacquer garden. Officials from the Manufacturing Bureau often came to seize the wood by force, which aroused Fang La's dissatisfaction. Later, in order to cater to Song Huizong, the officials in the south of the Yangtze River built large-scale flower and stone structures.
The people of Zhejiang were squeezed, and Fangla’s lacquer garden was also a key squeezed industry.
So Fang La gathered the oppressed local people, started with a touching speech, and then adapted it using Manichaean teachings. Under the guise of the "Destiny Talisman", Fang La led the farmers to Bangyuandong as a base.
, gathered poor peasants and called for an uprising.
Fang La claimed to be the Holy Duke and established Yongle, established officials and generals, distinguished their ranks with turbans, wore red scarves and other colorful turbans as symbols, and established a peasant regime. Fang La was also called Yongle, but compared to the Yongle Emperor two or three hundred years later, it was different.
Too far.
This Manichaeism originated from Persian Zoroastrianism, was later transformed by Christians, and then spread to China. It was adopted by Fang La for his own use, and within ten months he called on hundreds of thousands of people to follow him.
Fang La's army then began to attack the city. At its peak, Fang La's army established a political power including 52 counties in six states of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, and Jiangxi. At that time, it posed a great threat to the Song Dynasty. In 1120, Fang La captured
Hangzhou became the dominant city in the south.
Subsequently, Fang La fought in the south and north to expand his territory, but because he did not have the strength to consolidate these places in the short term, and the army sent by the Song Dynasty also came later. Because the Song army had many soldiers and horses, Fang La's army was surrounded and annihilated everywhere, and eventually Hangzhou was lost.
Fang La was surrounded by enemies on all sides and ended in a disastrous defeat. In the final decisive battle, Fang La lost 70,000 to 80,000 troops. Fang La, his wife Shao, his son Fang Bo (the second prince), Prime Minister Fang Fei and more than 30 people were exhausted and captured.
, was sent to Bianjing, where he was later killed, and the Fang La Uprising was put down.
The most influential peasant uprising in the Song Dynasty led by Yang Mo, Zhongxiang of the Southern Song Dynasty, was one of the most influential peasant uprisings in the Song Dynasty. It was also a continuation of the Five Dou Rice Cult disaster.
Zhong Xiang, a native of Changde, Hunan, had the ambition to rebel when he was young. In the name of practicing medicine, he promoted the Five Pecks of Rice religion everywhere, proposing that "the law of distinguishing the rich from the rich and the poor is not a good law."
The slogan "I practice the law, treat the noble and the humble, and equal the rich and the poor" is admirable. According to the routine, the Song Dynasty sent famous generals Han Shizhong, Liu Guangshi, Cui Zeng and others to suppress them, but in the end they failed to win.
Emperor Gaozong of the Song Dynasty said that you guys can't do it. I want to call Yue Fei to go. Yes, the national hero Yue Fei took action. Zhong Xiang, who had lasted for 6 years, was wiped out by Yue Fei.
At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, serious land annexation, heavy taxes, and the displacement of people once again occurred.
Since the economic foundation is in the hands of a few people, grassroots governance has actually been paralyzed, so the White Lotus Sect took advantage of the situation. The teachings of the White Lotus Sect are partly derived from Buddhism, but they are not exactly the same.
The main figure of the White Lotus Sect at that time was called Han Shantong. He used the slogan "The birth of King Ming", saying that as long as King Ming (isn't this King Ming later "Ming Dynasty" - that "Ming") born, there will be peace, so as to confuse people's hearts.
In 1351, Han Shantong and others launched an uprising and were honored as the "King of Ming" by the rebels. Because the rebels were wrapped in red scarves, they were called the "Red Scarf Army". In the same year, Han Shantong was arrested and executed, and his son Han Lin'er hid in the mountains. The rebels came from
Liu Futong led the campaign and continued the campaign.
The next year, a man named Guo Zixing in Dingzhou responded to the uprising. At this time, the 25-year-old young monk Zhu Yuanzhang joined Guo Zixing's team. Because Zhu Yuanzhang was smart and brave in battle, he was highly valued, so Guo Zixing married his adopted daughter Ma.
Gave it to Zhu Yuanzhang.
This was the later Empress Ma and the only empress in Zhu Yuanzhang's life. In 1355, Liu Futong found Han Lin'er in the mountains and made him emperor, also known as "King Xiao Ming".
This year, Guo Zixing died of illness. The next year, Guo Zixing's son died in battle, and Guo Zixing's army was basically inherited by Zhu Yuanzhang.
At this time, although Zhu Yuanzhang was nominally attached to Han Lin'er, he actually had his own power.
Everyone knows what happened later. Han Lin'er drowned inexplicably, and Zhu Yuanzhang founded the 277-year-old Ming Dynasty.
Interestingly, after Zhu Yuanzhang became emperor, he banned the White Lotus Sect, which developed secretly and became a secret religion.
In the late Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, land annexation was serious, the landlord class occupied absolute wealth, and the peasant class was displaced.
Grassroots governance is no longer optimistic, and corruption is prevalent, and grassroots control capabilities have gradually weakened.
The White Lotus Sect made a comeback, using its teachings to promote the anti-Qing and restoration of the Ming Dynasty, and the grassroots masses were quickly infiltrated.
In 1795, Qianlong announced his abdication and proclaimed himself the Supreme Emperor; the following year, the White Lotus Sect launched an uprising.
However, due to the lack of unified action in this uprising, the various rebel armies fought independently and lacked coordination. Although they achieved certain results, they were ultimately outnumbered and the uprising failed.
However, the failure of the White Lotus Sect uprising actually heralded the end of the so-called prosperous age of Kangxi and Qianlong.
Fifty-five years after the White Lotus Rebellion, the Taiping Rebellion broke out.
At that time, in the late Qing Dynasty, land annexation became more serious. After the Opium War, China began to become a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society. The contradictions between China and foreign countries, the Manchu-Han contradictions, and the contradictions between the landlord class and the peasant class became more prominent.
At this time, Hong Xiuquan, a failed scholar who had failed many times, founded the "God Worship Cult" based on some Christian doctrines to attract followers and develop his own power.
In 1851, Hong Xiuquan launched an uprising in Jintian, Guangxi, which was known as the "Jintian Uprising" in history, and established the "Taiping Heavenly Kingdom".
In 1853, the Taiping Army captured Nanjing, an important town in the south of the Yangtze River, and established its capital here.
Then the troops were divided into two groups, one to the west and the other to the north. The Northern Expedition invaded Tianjin and other places, but ultimately failed because the lone army went deep;
The Western Expedition achieved good results and conquered Wuhan twice. Later, due to the joint efforts of the Qing court and other powers, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom failed. This shows the limitations of starting a religion...