What kind of opportunity is this? Gao Yingxiang didn't understand what Monk Wang was talking about? The poor men who have no food to eat have all gone to Liaodong, so who in Shaanxi will rebel?
However, this issue is not convenient to discuss outside the city of Xi'an... The little emperor himself is on the Changle Gate Tower, and there must be many eagle and dog lackeys of Dongchang and Jinyiwei around! If they hear someone openly discussing rebellion, why not arrest them?
So Gao Yingxiang winked at Monk Wang, and the monk and layman squeezed out of the crowd together, walked around the moat to Xi'an Nanguan, and then crossed the moat through the suspension bridge outside the Nanguan gate. Outside the moat in the south of the city, there were several men dressed as businessmen, leading mules and horses, waiting for the two of them.
After the two passed by, they each got on a horse and went together to Jixiang Temple at the mouth of Ziwu Valley in the southwest of Xi'an.
Both men are wanted criminals, and all states and counties in Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Henan have received official arrest documents and sketches issued by Xi'an Xingzai.
Moreover, Zhu Youjian also put a price on their heads. Among them, Wang's head was worth 1,000 taels of silver, while Gao Yingxiang's head was worth 10,000 taels plus a Jinyiwei Baihu!
Zhu Youjian's price for the heads of a group of rebel thieves was really strange. Among the thirty-six families in Bai Yushan today, Gao Yingxiang was only a middle and lower class force, but he gave the highest price! Wang Ziyong, who inherited Wang Jiayin's subordinates, and Wang Er, who was in Shouyi, Baishui County, were the two largest families. Both of them were "kings side by side" of the thirty-six families. But the heads of these two people are not very valuable, they are both 1,000 taels. Not only is he inferior to Gao Yingxiang, he is even inferior to Luo Rucai, Ma Shouying, He Yilong, He Jin, Liu Xiyao, Lin Chengcheng and other little kings... Their heads are all worth five to six thousand taels of silver!
What’s even more puzzling is that Gao Yingxiang’s nephews Gao Yigong, Gao Yidao and niece Gao Guiying are all worth more than Monk Wang and Wang Er!
After Wang Ziyong and Wang Er learned about these prices, they were all furious... The Ming Dynasty should be destroyed for this kind of random pricing of the heads of rebels!
In addition to the random price of the reward, the graphics of the painting are also wrong. Not only does the painting look different, but Gao Yingxiang is also painted as a depressed old man... He is an Ansai hero, Gao Ruyue! Apart from anything else, he looks quite glorious. If he is a bad old man, who will mess with him?
In addition, although all states and counties in Shaanxi received official notices of sea arrests, no one took them seriously. Because during this period, they were busy sending local "heroes" to Xi'an... and at the same time, they had to prevent passing heroes from causing trouble in the local area. How could they have any extra energy to catch the rebels?
Moreover, both Gao Yingxiang and Wang Ziyong obtained official certificates of passage. Gao Yingxiang pretended to be a heroic man who went to Xi'an to seek refuge with the emperor, while Wang Ziyong obtained a real certificate and became a "real monk."
So the two of them each took a few of their subordinates, and the journey from northern Shaanxi to south was smooth.
When the two of them left Bai Yushan and headed south, they actually had some doubts about the future of the peasant uprising. Otherwise, instead of sneaking out of Bai Yushan to check the situation, they would have led their brothers to fight out. But the result they saw along the way was that they strengthened their confidence to rebel to the end!
This Ming Dynasty is really unbearable... Now the emperor is in charge of Xi'an, but the poor people in Shaanxi still have no way to survive.
First of all, of course, God will not let humans live! This is also because the emperor lost his virtue and God was angry!
It was the winter of the second year of Chongzhen when Gao Yingxiang, Wang Ziyong and others left Baiyu Mountain. It should have been the season when heavy snow closed the mountain. But as they walked all the way, all they saw was bare earthy yellow, and the white that symbolized auspicious snow could not be seen at all!
Looking at this situation, the drought in Shaanxi during the three years of Chongzhen will continue!
Secondly, the foolish emperor Chongzhen did not care about the sufferings of the Shaanxi people at all. He only exempted the Liao salary increase for the third year of Chongzhen and the following years... For the Shaanxi people who have been in drought for several years and have exhausted their old foundation. , this reduction is far from enough! Even if we don’t import grain from other provinces to Shaanxi, we should be exempted from the summer and autumn taxes for the three years of Chongzhen!
However, the Hunjun not only refused to pay taxes, but also wanted to take advantage of the severe drought in Shaanxi to recruit a group of hungry soldiers from the five towns and hungry people from Shaanxi to go to western Liaoning and eastern Liaoning to farm and fight slave thieves.
This is like being the second emperor of Sui Yang!
Gao Yingxiang and Monk Wang were already far away from the city of Xi'an, walking on a deserted official road, with dull, lifeless fields on both sides.
Monk Wang stopped his horse, and Gao Yingxiang also stopped his horse at the same time. The two stood side by side, looking at the Xi'an City in the distance. After a long time, they heard Monk Wang say: "This Ming Dynasty should also die... Since ancient times, when the population gathers in the year of great disaster, it is easy to cause trouble!
At the end of the Qin Dynasty, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang rebelled against Daze Township, and at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, they instigated a rebellion across the Yellow River. First there was a big disaster and bad harvests, then there was boiling public resentment. Finally, it was the imperial court that spared no effort from the people and gathered the population to do some big project, which caused the whole world to rebel. ?
This time the little emperor of the Ming Dynasty was also confused. He didn't care about the life and death of the Shaanxi people, and wanted to trick the people who could no longer make a living into going to Liaodong to die. The Ming Dynasty had such a tyrannical and mediocre king, why didn’t God want it to perish? "
"That makes sense!" Gao Yingxiang nodded, "This Ming Dynasty is destined to die...Master, how can we do justice for Heaven and send the Ming Dynasty on its way?" He frowned, " Now the little emperor of Ming Dynasty is still in Xi'an Fucheng!"
When Gao Yingxiang mentioned that the little emperor was in Xi'an, Monk Wang also frowned a little. The little emperor was too fierce... This guy didn't look like Qin II, but like Qin Shihuang! If others are in Xi'an, rebellion will be difficult to handle.
Monk Wang thought for a while and said, "Stand guard here at Jixiang Temple. You go back to Baiyu Mountain to recruit people...and then find an opportunity to pretend to be a disaster victim and come to Xi'an...Now the Ming Dynasty is about to fall. So there will definitely be a chance!”
Gao Yingxiang nodded: "Yes, God must have destroyed the Ming Dynasty. Otherwise, why didn't it rain in Shaanxi for so long?"
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"Long live my lord, this is the account book of the past years' land rent paid by the farm occupied by the Qin Prince's Mansion. Please take a look at it."
Xi'an City, Prince Qin's Mansion. Zhu Youjian, who had just returned from the military review, received an account book from his outstanding female officer, Widow Xu.
"Don't look," Zhu Youjian waved his hand, "I believe you... just give me the number!"
"Long live my lord," Widow Xu said with a smile, "The Prince of Qin has been in Shaanxi for more than 200 years. He has accumulated a lot and suffered a lot of disadvantages. I know that I am in urgent need of food and money, so I didn't go into it too deeply. I just wanted to be quick... .Now I have received 1.38 million shi of wheat and 530,000 taels of silver.
In addition, the Qin Mansion has a total of more than 24,000 hectares of land...at least 40% of which is land sent from the Qin Dynasty, and the other 30% is occupied by the guards to farm or hide the land. "
"Haha, the deception plus embezzlement is more than 1.6 million acres..." Zhu Youjian shook his head, "How much imperial grain and national taxes are just gone, how can my Ming Dynasty not be poor? Fortunately, the sky will not perish. Daming, let me turn the tide!"
Now Zhu Youjian would never believe that the Ming Dynasty was going to be over... How could it be over? Ming Dynasty has destiny! He, Zhu Youjian, was sent by destiny!
However, even with the blessing of destiny, it is still difficult for Zhu Youjian to save the crumbling Ming Dynasty.
Because the disasters in the Chongzhen Year of the Ming Dynasty have just begun! It has not even reached its most serious stage. The drought that started in the 10th year of Chongzhen year after year is the truly terrible drought. This drought lasted from the 10th year of Chongzhen year to the 17th year of Chongzhen year... During the Jiashen Incident Later, it rained heavily, which alleviated the disaster.
This is a severe drought that has lasted for seven years, and all the provinces in the north have not been spared. They are all suffering from drought and little rain. It is simply impossible for people to survive!
If Zhu Youjian wanted to lead the Ming Dynasty to survive this strange drought safely, he would have to find enough food rations for most people in the north of the Ming Dynasty to survive the disaster years.
Otherwise, tens of millions of people in the north would rebel together, how could Zhu Youjian be able to deal with it?
