In the summer of the third year of Guangde, the emperor's little patience was finally exhausted by the continuous rebellion in the canal south of Huai'an.
Liu Kan's counter-insurgency operations in Yangzhou have yet to make substantial progress. The rebellion that was originally a spark intensified and had the potential to start a prairie fire.
As of early April of the third year of Guangde, hundreds of thousands of Luo Jiao believers in Huai'an, Yangzhou, Changshu and other places had revolted, colluding with the disbanded Cao Army, as well as teaching assistants, dental shops, and dental merchants who had lost their livelihoods due to the abolition of Cao Cao... ·A total of one million rebels went out to plunder,
The Huaiyang area was once again plunged into war.
More than a dozen prefectures and counties were affected, including Taicang, Suzhou and other places that had just been pacified last year. Seeing that there was an opportunity to take advantage of, the wealthy gentry families also began to make moves.
There is great instability in the southeast.
Liu Zhaosun was stationed in Nanjing and ordered the Fifth Corps to encircle and suppress the Luo religion rebellion. Pu Gang commanded 10,000 troops and traveled to more than ten prefectures and counties to put out fires like a fire captain.
It was necessary to protect the safety of Emperor Liu Kan of Guangde, but also to deal with the constant attacks by the Cao army and Luo Jiao, and to be wary of retaliation from the Jin gentry in various places.
It is beyond Pu Gang's ability to complete such a necessary and demanding task.
Not long after arriving in Yangzhou, the imperial veteran realized that compared with the crisis-ridden defense of Linqing in the first year of Wuding, the rebellion caused by the abolition of Cao Cao in the third year of Guangde was more deadly and dangerous.
The consumption of the field troops by the security war is also very huge, which is not something the Fifth Corps can bear.
In view of the pressure from all parties, Pu Gang had to repeatedly ask for help from Nanjing, hoping that the emperor could send more troops to fight the rebellion, pointing out that the number of reinforcements must be more than 100,000.
A hundred thousand troops to quell Huaiyang was obviously a task they were unable to undertake.
Liu Zhaosun could not give him 100,000 people, so he had to cobble together 50,000 horses and horses, which was the limit.
Fortunately, the enemies we dealt with this time were rebels with weak organizations.
On the day Lin Yu and his party set out, recruits recruited from various places set off from Nanjing one after another and headed for Yangzhou.
On April 15, the first batch of 10,000 new soldiers arrived in Yangzhou and joined the main force of the Fifth Corps. The 20,000-strong army entered Fucheng and immediately declared martial law in Yangzhou.
On the 17th and 19th, the second batch of 15,000 reinforcements arrived at the Qinhuai River.
After completely cutting off traffic between Yangzhou and surrounding prefectures and counties, Pu Gang ordered that from April 21st to 30th, the Qi army would arrest the rebels and kill the rebels in Yangzhou city for ten consecutive days.
It is known as the "Ten Days in Yangzhou" in history.
During the ten-day fight against the rebellion, more than 36,000 soldiers were divided into hundreds of squads, fully armed and went door-to-door in the city to search for rebellious Luo Jiao believers hiding in the city. As long as there was any resistance, He was killed on the spot by the soldiers.
As of April 30, after ten days of hunting and killing throughout the city, a total of more than 18,000 rebels were captured, and more than 25,000 Luo Jiao, Caojun, Daxing and other traitors were killed.
Due to too many killings, the water of the Qinhuai River was soaked with blood and turned red. There were many killings in the city. After this battle, eight out of ten blood-sucking insects entrenched on the canal were eliminated, and the surviving Luo Jiao Cao troops fled one after another, either to the sea or further south.
After dealing with the rebellious forces, Liu Zhaosun extended his butcher knife to the salt merchants and Jin gentry who were behind the command of Luo Jiao of the Cao Army.
How can one show the heart of a Bodhisattva without resorting to thunderous means?
The Supreme Emperor showed no mercy and ordered Xie Yang to organize personnel to liquidate the Hui merchants in Yangzhou.
On the second day of May, the officials of the Chamber of Commerce, together with the Zhenfu soldiers, the Imperial Guards, the Coil Guards and other agencies, formed a professional property raiding team and began to systematically confiscate the properties of salt merchants in Yangzhou City. According to the Daqi law, the salt merchants nationwide The industry is monopolized by the Daqi Chamber of Commerce, and private salt production and salt sales are strictly prohibited.
Previously, when the Qi army was stretched thin, the Supreme Emperor adopted a conniving and tacit attitude towards the salt merchant trade in Yangzhou and other places, turning a blind eye.
Nowadays, the Qi State is experiencing constant military violence, and the implementation of the New Deal is quite smooth. The Supreme Emperor decided to change his conniving attitude towards these salt merchants.
Therefore, similar to how he dealt with Shanxi merchants in the first year of Wuding, the Supreme Emperor ordered to wipe out all the Hui merchants entrenched in Yangzhou City.
This method of closing the door and beating the dog is not to catch all the money. It is much better to at least let the Huizhou merchants flee.
The reason why the Supreme Emperor spent so much energy to control Yangzhou City was actually to plunder these fat and oily people.
Hui merchants.
The two pillar industries supporting Yangzhou, in addition to canal water transportation, are the salt industry.
The main popular system in the late Ming Dynasty was the salt quotation system. Merchants paid money to obtain quotations, and the quotations were used to transport and sell salt. In fact, the salt transportation and sales license certificates issued by the government to salt merchants were divided into long quotations and short quotations. The long quotation was for one year and the short quotation was for one season.
Yangzhou does not produce salt, but it is rich in salt. It is close to the Yangtze River, has inland access, is adjacent to the East China Sea and the Huaihe River salt producing areas, and has the convenience of water conservancy. Salt mining has been started since the Han Dynasty.
By the Ming Dynasty, Yangzhou had become the salt transportation center in the south. The salt produced in the Huaihe River and Huaihe River was transported and stored here, and then sold to the north along the Grand Canal, or up the Yangtze River to Henan, Hunan, Hubei, Jiangxi, and Anhui provinces in the Central Plains.
Yangzhou has been a gathering place for wealthy businessmen since ancient times, among which salt merchants were the most numerous, and most of these merchants came from Huizhou.
There is a saying in "Wu Shi Zhai" written by Chen Qubing, a modern man: "The prosperity of Yangzhou was due to the establishment of Huizhou merchants and the establishment of colonies by Huizhou merchants.
The confiscation of Huizhou merchants was also one of the important contents of this "Ten Days in Yangzhou".
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After Jiang Liu'er settled Lin Yu, he turned around and came to the entrance of the ruins. He asked the two guards to follow him, and the three of them filed in through the entrance of the hole.
The cave is bottomless and extremely narrow at first to allow access to the cave.
Jiang Liu'er took the torch and walked through the narrow place. When he looked up again, he saw that there was another cave in the cave.
The stream gurgled along the stone path.
The huge underground river formed by this karst landform leads to far away places.
After walking through several stone paths, the space in front suddenly became wider, and a decent hall appeared in front of the three of them.
Luo Wenwen sat on the stone bench in the center of the hall. Gold and silver jewelry were scattered on the ground, and some of the jewelry had blood stains on them.
"You came?"
The Dharma Protectors around the woman have disappeared, leaving her alone on the lotus seat.
"I'm here to kill you." Jiang Liu'er quickly looked around to make sure there was no ambush.
"All your people are dead, killed by us. You..." Jiang Liu'er listened, not knowing what to say.
Chapter 653 The destruction of Huizhou merchants
