When the rebel army first broke through the city of Hangzhou, most of the famous families with piles of gold and silver left Hangzhou under the escort of Wuwei troops or escorts.
There were also a small number of wealthy people who stayed behind to form an attack force and try to resist the rebels. However, their strength was very different, and of course they were eventually destroyed by the rebels.
Fang La used the refugees driven over and the rebels hidden among the refugees to break the city. Only after the city of Hangzhou was broken did the Wuwei army react.
Having lost the support of the city wall and facing the incoming rebels and refugees, the Wuwei Army lost the courage to resist and abandoned the city and fled.
The rich people who escaped left behind a large amount of food, gold and silver because they left in such a hurry and could not take much with them.
After defeating the city of Hangzhou, Fang La gained a great harvest and took the opportunity to ascend the throne and proclaim himself emperor.
After Liu Bang arrived in Guanzhong, he summoned local celebrities and made a three-part agreement with them:
Those who kill will be punished with death, and those who injure or rob will be punished. The harsh legal systems of other Qin dynasties were all abolished, which gave him popular support.
Fang La also wanted to imitate Liu Bang and made a three-part agreement with the people of Hangzhou City to gain support from the people of Hangzhou.
However, Fang La couldn't do it because his rebels were burning, killing and looting all over Hangzhou.
Liu Bang could make a three-part agreement with the people in Guanzhong because he had a regular army, while Fang La's rebel army was a ragtag group, and Fang La could not enforce orders and prohibitions.
Fang La also wanted an army like Liu Bang. He did not have as much time as Liu Bang, and the situation did not allow it.
Chu Huizong humiliated and surrendered externally, and imposed excessive taxes internally, resulting in "the rich have a lot of hope, and the poor have no place to stand." Social production was severely damaged, and class contradictions and ethnic contradictions were extremely acute.
In such a historical background, the massive peasant uprising led by Fang La took "Equality under the law, no superiority" as its fighting program, and united the working people in Zhejiang and Jiangxi to fight together.
Although the Chu Dynasty was already terminally ill, the emaciated camels were bigger than horses, and they had not yet reached the point where the people were in dire straits, so their strength was still there. After all, the rebels are all farmers. Hoes, swords and spears are not the same after all, and they are not well trained at all.
If Fang La wants to rebel, he needs to assemble an army strong enough to fight against the imperial army before it comes.
After the Fangla Uprising, the rebels robbed the rich, helped the poor, and fought against the government troops. The four towns responded to the news and soon gathered tens of thousands of people.
The news of the rapid growth of the rebel army shocked Zhang Huiyan, the magistrate of Muzhou. He hurriedly sent two Zhejiang soldiers and horses to supervise Cai Zun and Yan Tantan, five thousand officers and soldiers, to attack Qingxi in an attempt to eliminate the rebel army in Bangyuan in one fell swoop.
In late November, the Chu army arrived at Wannian Town.
In order to prevent the enemy from approaching Bangyuan Cave, Fang La sent his team to lead the enemy to a sleeping pit eighty miles east of the county and set up an ambush to lure the powerful enemy.
When the arrogant Chu army was lured to a resting hole, the rebel army that had been ambushing them suddenly attacked, besieged on all sides, and completely annihilated the Chu army. Cai Zun was shot dead on the spot, and Yan Tan committed suicide.
In the Battle of Xikeng, the rebel army destroyed the main force of the enemy forces in Muzhou and was a huge force.
Taking advantage of their victory, they captured Qingxi County. The rebels fought continuously from Qingxi to Muzhou. With Qingxi as the center, they expanded their power to the east and west, capturing Shouchang, Fenshui, Tonglu, Sui'an, Wuyuan, Jixi, Qimen, Yi and other counties.
In November of the second year of Xuanhe, Qingxi was captured, and in December, Mu and She states were captured.
From the south, they conquered Quzhou and killed the governor Peng Rufang; from the north, they swept through Xincheng, Tonglu, and Fuyang counties and pushed into Hangzhou.
The governor of Hangzhou, Zhao Ting, abandoned the city and fled. The rebels occupied Hangzhou, killed the envoy Chen Jian and the envoy Zhao Yue, and set fire to the city for six days, killing countless people.
All officials who were caught had their flesh and limbs cut off, their lungs and intestines removed, or they were boiled into ointment, shot through their bodies with arrows, and tortured in various ways to repay their blood debt.
The rebels were invincible as they attacked the city and quickly gathered millions of troops and millions of civilians who had been carried away.
Every time the rebel army captures a city, people will naturally join the rebel army.
Most of the people were afraid of death and were unwilling to join the rebel army. In order to quickly gather forces that could fight against Da Chu, Fang La did not let go of the people who were unwilling to join the rebel army and let the rebel army drive them to attack the city and plunder the land.
Fang La was unscrupulous, and the people below were even more unscrupulous. Burning, killing, and looting had become a habit.
Everyone gathers together for righteousness, drinks wine from a big bowl, eats meat with big mouthfuls, putting righteousness first, and the rules have not yet been determined.
Before defeating the Chu army sent by the imperial court, Fang La had not established a firm foothold, and Fang La did not want to cause civil strife by establishing rules.
When the city of Hangzhou was first captured, the real rich families were looted.
Next, it’s time to clean up the remaining local tyrants and appease the people.
The definition of a local tycoon is actually rather vague. The rebels with corrupt discipline did not distinguish between real and fake local tycoons. Instead, they turned into bandits and broke into houses. If they had valuable things, they would take them back and if there were beautiful women, they would take them back to be the wives of the villagers.
If there is resistance, they will all be labeled as imperial spies or remnants of local tyrants and be killed without mercy.
Wei Xiucai's family conditions were ordinary, he had no spiritual roots, and was not among the key training targets of the imperial court.
In order to support his family, Wei Xiucai temporarily became a teacher. While teaching, he studied poetry and books and waited three years before taking the imperial examination.
Although Wei Xiucai is plain in appearance, because he is already a scholar, has achieved fame, has a bright future, and is relatively self-motivated, there is an endless stream of people coming to work as matchmakers.
He was still far away from passing the imperial examination, and Wei Xiucai was a single person from three generations. His parents wanted to have a grandson, so Wei Xiucai married a wife.
Although Wei Xiucai's wife could not be said to be the most beautiful woman in the country, she was relatively pretty and somewhat pretty.
The rebels burned, killed and looted all over Hangzhou. Wei Xiucai and his wife hid all the way. After a few days, they were unfortunately discovered by the rebels.
When the rebels saw Wei Xiucai's wife, they were shocked. They immediately accused Wei Xiucai of being a remnant of a local tycoon. They planned to kill Wei Xiucai and take his wife back to be the wife of Yazhai.
Wei Xiucai and his wife were both from poor families. They could go hunting in the mountains and fish in the sea. After exercising, their legs and feet became more flexible, and they ran away together.
When Wei Xiucai and his wife ran like flying, they were obviously from the Lian family, which further confirmed their identity as spies of the imperial court.
Now it was not just Mrs. Yazhai's problem, but the purging of the imperial spies and the rise of righteousness. She immediately contacted the nearby rebels and launched a blanket search for Wei Xiucai and his wife.
With their familiarity with the terrain, Wei Xiucai and his wife easily evaded capture in the first few days.
The better the performance of the two people, the more the rebels looked at them and felt that they must be important figures among the spies of the imperial court. After the report was made, more searchers were called in.
A few days later, Wei Xiucai and his wife were surrounded and planned to commit suicide by jumping into the Qiantang River together.
A Tai Chi pattern suddenly appeared in the sky, and the Yin Yang Fish opened. Dozens of heavily armed Red Shadow Army jumped out from it and started a bloody massacre against the rebels.
A Red Shadow Army approached the two of them and said:
"The Medical Saint asked us to come and save you. However, we can save you once, or three or five times, but we cannot be there every time you are in danger.
The city of Hangzhou is too chaotic. You may consider leaving with us. "
Xu Xian's reputation spread far and wide in Hangzhou. Wei Xiucai was convinced of Xu Xian's character and said:
"We believe in the medical saint, but can we leave with our family?"
Then, Wei Xiucai and his wife both went to Shushan.
