Since suspicion is unavoidable and staying out of the matter is not the solution after all, it is better to make each other jealous, or to live in peace with each other.
Han Qian's attitude changed, and Feng Liao contacted Han Donghu with Dou Rong, who had served as battalion commander and deputy general in the Chishan Army and Zuo Guangde Army, and rushed to the north of Fuyu Mountain south of Guangde with a batch of money and food.
Lushan Village, met with Su Lie and other leaders who were secretly preparing for the uprising.
Han Qian was willing to meet with the leaders of the rebellion. Su Lie and other leaders of the rebellion naturally wanted to see Han Qian first before discussing anything else.
Han Qian and his hundreds of retinues did not want to stay in Maoshan for too long, so they finally chose to meet at the intersection of Huzhou and Guangde Mansion, between the southeastern branches of Jinzhong Ridge, Jinji Ridge and Xuanjiao Ridge.
Sitian Dun.
Sitian Dun was originally the place where Xinchang Hou Li Pu led the Wei family, Liu family and other Lishui family clan soldiers and clan members to live.
After the official establishment of the Guangde military system, the Youguangde army, composed mainly of the descendants of Xinchang Hou Lipu and Xuanzhou, and the Jingnan clan clan, was mainly stationed in the area west of Langxi to confront the Anning Palace rebels.
The Liu family and nearly 20,000 women and children all moved to Xuancheng and other places where it was easier to obtain food to escape the war.
After the recapture of Jinling, most of these people moved back to Lishui County.
After the official establishment of the Guangde Military Government, Han Qian established dozens of new villages in Sitian Dun and the surrounding mountains to accommodate the retired troops of the Zuo Guangde Army.
The generals and the family were small, but just like that, Sitian Dun suffered the most severe counterattack from the clan clans.
Not only did people take out the old land deeds for the old fields in Sitian Dun, and the land deeds were returned to usurp them, but even some of the newly reclaimed sloping terraces and new fields in the valley were forcibly taken back by Anji County and used as public land, and only the original farmers were allowed to rent and cultivate.
, ordered to pay four or five times the land tax; at the same time, three coal mines and an iron mine mined in Sitian Dun were forcibly expropriated by Anji County as official property.
At the peak of the aristocratic family's counterattack, nearly 3,000 households in Guangde Prefecture had their fields and homes invaded, and almost more than a quarter of them were concentrated in Sitian Dun.
This is the number of households whose fields and houses were directly invaded and persecuted.
There are countless people who are dissatisfied and have hidden the fire of resistance.
The imperial court thought that sending Chen Jingzhou over had eased the conflict, but they didn't know that the fiery magma was already burning silently underground, waiting for a more appropriate time to erupt at any time and destroy everything around it.
Located at the eastern foot of the Jieling Mountains, the Xujiaoling Ancient Post Road connects Yangxian, Runzhou, and Changxing, Huzhou. The mountains to the east of the post road continue to stretch until they reach the shores of Taihu Lake.
The terrain can be regarded as the mountains at the eastern foot of Xuanjiao Ridge. The peaks are not very high, but the ridges are dangerous, the valleys are deep, and the terrain is rugged. At that time, in order to facilitate the harvest of fish and shrimps in the waters of Taihu Lake and supplement food, several carvings were made.
There are several trails and five villages that make a living by fishing and hunting, housing more than a thousand people.
Han Qian had planned for a long time to arrange for some veteran soldiers to withdraw from the army. It was not to preserve strength or any other ambitions, but purely because at that time hundreds of thousands of women and children had to be accommodated, which required a large number of able-bodied laborers to participate in various heavy physical labor.
labor.
The meeting place was located in one of the villages called Dingjiagou.
Han Qian climbed to the peak behind the village. Under the shade of green trees, the rock exposed from the soil is brownish red, also known as Red Rock Peak. The East Peak Cliff, which is more than 40 feet high, faces the Taihu Lake directly.
Han Qian stood on the top of the cliff and looked at the mighty Taihu Lake. There were dots of green peaks in the lake. There were also some fishing villages and water villages in the middle. Some made a living by fishing, some were shipping, but some were also traders and pirates.
, only since the founding of the Chu Kingdom, it has been strengthening its crackdown on the Taihu pirates who are close to the bed. The forces in the water village are not as crazy as those in Poyang Lake.
"Han Donghu, Su Lie and the others are here." Feng Yi came over with two guards and said to Han Qian.
"Okay, let's go there," Han Qian said.
The place here is narrow and cannot accommodate many people. There is a hunting shed in the forest in front. After a little tidying up, it can be used as a meeting place.
Han Qian, Xi Rong, and Guo Rong walked towards the woods ahead.
Kong Xirong and He Liufeng took the manpower to guard the perimeter. Feng Liao and Dou Rong were already waiting in front of the hunting shed with Han Donghu, Su Lie and the other seven leaders of the rebellion.
"grown ups……"
Except for Han Dong and Su Lie, the other seven leaders of the rebellion were all military attaches who had retired from Zuo Guangde's army. When they saw Han Qian, they all choked with excitement.
Han Qian returned to Xuzhou on the basis of the engagement. Many soldiers and civilians who stayed in Guangde Mansion at that time had almost arranged their way out. The large-scale reclamation of the terraced lakes was also in full swing. Xuzhou craftsmen even stayed until the next day.
The last batch was evacuated only in April of this year.
Except for the thousands of soldiers and civilians who moved to Xuzhou with Han Qian, the people who stayed behind were said to have broken away from Xuzhou.
However, as long as we are human, we are always dependent.
Especially when the family's counterattack was the most ferocious, so many innocent people were imprisoned, tortured, dead or maimed, and the fields and homes where so many people lived and lived were taken away. Forced by the elite imperial guards stationed around the family at that time, they did not dare to rise up to resist.
, when he was filled with overwhelming resentment towards the imperial court and the aristocratic family, why didn’t he feel a sense of loss at being abandoned by Xuzhou?
"Guo Xiao, Guo Quan, Zhou Zhu, Lin Jiang, Lin Sheng..."
Among the military attachés who retired from Zuo Guangde's army and chose to stay in Guangde Mansion, Guo Xiao, Zhou Zhu and other seven were also the backbone. Therefore, it was possible for them to lead the seven-member army, together with Han Donghu and Su Lie.
They got together and prepared to start a rebellion - Han Qian had an impression of them all and invited them into the hunting shed to sit down and talk without being formal.
The seven people were so excited that they could hardly restrain themselves. They followed Han Qian straight into the small hunting shed, bowed their bodies, and were willing to stand there in such an awkward posture to listen to Han Qian's instructions.
Su Lie hesitated a little and followed Han Donghu into the hunting shed with a rather unnatural look on his face.
Han Qian didn't take it seriously. He called Su Lie and Han Donghu to sit next to him and asked Han Donghu, "Is this Master Su with two swords?"
"In front of the Marquis of Qianyang, Su Lie is a nobody and he doesn't dare to be called this." No matter how arrogant Su Lie was, he had already heard about Han Qian's almost legendary past.
Not to mention Han Qian, if anyone around Han Qian is not famous ten times or a hundred times more famously than him, how can he get the seat next to Han Qian?
"Chief Su, please don't be polite. Sit down and talk. Otherwise, everyone's waist will be unbearable when they are bent over like this." Dou Rong smiled and pushed him and Han Donghu to sit next to Han Qian.
Feng Liao joined the leaders and moved a tree pillar to sit down.
Feng Liao and Dou Rong have been with Han Donghu and Su Lie these days, so they can more accurately grasp Su Lie's mentality.
Su Lie had excellent swordsmanship and had been with Shang Wensheng for many years. He was proficient in writing and had extraordinary knowledge. The fugitive slaves who escaped from the Shang family with him were all elite soldiers of the Shang family.
They were numerous and powerful, and they helped each other with Han Donghu to escape the government's pursuit, and were even forced to flee deep into Fuyu Mountain. In the early stage, he gathered some of the persecuted former soldiers of the Zuoguang De Army and the young Luocao as bandits. He occupied a quite dominant position.
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Even Su Lie was actively promoting the collusion with more former soldiers of the Zuo Guangde Army who had their fields and homes taken away. In contrast, Han Donghu was more worried about triggering a larger-scale and more difficult-to-manage chaos, and his attitude was relatively negative.
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In other words, before Xuzhou officially intervened, Su Lie was the de facto leader of the uprising.
Now that Xuzhou has officially intervened, with Han Qian's influence and reputation, as well as the feelings and involvement of so many old people towards Han Qian and the former Chishan Army, Su Lie has been directly marginalized.
It is impossible for any person to have no thoughts in his heart.
When Feng Liao saw Han Qian discussing something, he deliberately arranged Su Lie to sit next to him, knowing that he naturally took his feelings into consideration.
When Han Qian met with everyone, he mainly discussed the way out for so many old, weak, women and children. However, he did not prejudge it at the beginning, or condescendingly specify which plan they should accept and implement. He mainly sat down and laid out the problems together.
discuss.
They must be prepared for armed struggle, but they must also recognize that in the Jiangdong area where the family clans are the strongest and adjacent to the imperial capital Jinling, their strength is weak, even insignificant.
The original plan of Han Donghu, Su Lie, and others was mainly to survive after the uprising by relying on activities in Fuyu Mountain, which spans nearly 400 miles.
Such a large-scale mountain range, with deep forests and dangerous valleys, and a large number of Guangde army generals and their families had taken root at the northern foot of Fuyu Mountain before. The mass base was excellent, and an elite combat force of one to two thousand people could hide in it.
questionable.
However, after the uprising, more people will really come in. Compared with the young and strong men who can be organized into elite troops, the number of old, weak, women and children will be several times larger, making the rebel army particularly bloated and clumsy.
This is also a problem that peasant uprisings have to face for thousands of years, and it is also a problem that Han Qian tried every means to avoid after forming the Chishan Army.
No matter how difficult it is for the rebels to advance and retreat freely in the deep mountains and old forests, let alone the tens of thousands of stones of food supplies required every month, they are simply unable to solve the problem. Under the joint encirclement and suppression by the imperial army and local soldiers and horses, they can only
It will become weaker and weaker as it fights, and will eventually be unable to escape the tragic ending of destruction.
And if Xuzhou really wants to be more directly involved in this matter, it cannot directly launch an uprising or riot in the most violent way.
Although Han Qian decided not to be tied to anything anymore and decided to take the initiative and make Yang Yuanpu and the court princes fear him instead of doing everything possible to avoid suspicion, he would not cause trouble for the Chu State.
It is even said that he is far from qualified to bring trouble to the great Chu, let alone replace him.
A more feasible alternative strategy is to imitate the original Xuzhou Boat Gang, the sect organizations that have existed since the Qin and Han Dynasties, and the secret societies that flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties to form semi-armed gang organizations in the pursuit of having certain self-protection capabilities, but not following the
The imperial court immediately broke up with him.
Considering that after the Forbidden Army's Northern Expedition captured Chaozhou, they were still unable to directly attack Shouzhou, the area between Chuzhou and Yangzhou, and to the north to the main lake adjacent to Hongze Lake, which is almost equivalent to the area of Shiliang County, with undulating hills and undulating lakes.
The mooring is vertical and horizontal, and it is connected to Hongzepu, Fanliang Lake and other giant moorings. It will be a buffer zone that all three parties are afraid of and it is difficult to fully control it.
As long as he reaches an agreement with King Xin, the gang he formed can find a larger living space there.
As long as this step was achieved, he would be qualified to negotiate with the imperial court, and Han Qian could even directly apply pressure to force the imperial court to recognize its legal existence as a semi-armed force dependent on Da Chu.
This is also the condition for Han Qian to stand up and meet with everyone and agree to Xuzhou's direct intervention in this matter. It is impossible for him to directly set off a large-scale riot in the Jiangnan water town.