Why did Yang Yinglong rebel?
The main reason was that he could not sit back and watch a large number of serfs under his rule flee to work in the Han Dynasty, which caused serious losses to the interests of the landlord class within his own chieftains.
Therefore, he needs to solve this problem through a war.
Because if he doesn't do this, the landowners who support him will no longer support him because their interests are damaged, and they may even divide him up.
It is equivalent to Yang Yinglong's rebellion not that he wanted to rebel alone, but that the entire ruling class within the Banzhou chieftains wanted to rebel and were dissatisfied with the status quo.
"General Yang, the current predicament is caused by the collapse of etiquette and the destruction of music, the overdevelopment of industry and commerce, and the court's emphasis on profits rather than virtue. Therefore, if the general really wants to get rid of the current predicament that the head of Guizhou is unwilling to stay in his hometown and be driven by the general, he should protect etiquette and practice morality. The name emphasizes agriculture and suppresses merchants, and treats merchants in the territory they pass through, and treats small farmers well!"
"In addition, in the name of restoring the ancestral system, we should reopen the prohibitions of Luyin and re-emphasize the respect of Neo-Confucianism!"
"In this way, once the world has land for farming, the Han barbarians will not resent the general and raise armies;"
"Secondly, the general used the name of restoring the ancestral system to attack the unprincipled and ignorant king. It is considered reasonable to raise troops, and the scholar-bureaucrats in the world will not be too disgusted with the general."
"General's great cause is naturally half done!"
Yu Maochang, a retired civil servant who surrendered to Yang Yinglong, proposed his own strategy to Yang Yinglong after Yang Yinglong raised his army.
Yang Yinglong nodded at this: "What Mr. Yu said is absolutely true! Zhu Yijun's unrighteousness has caused turmoil in the world, and even our southwest corner has no peace. Now is the time for me to take the right way for him! As Mr. Yu said, we should protect the etiquette, practice the Tao, and restore the ancestors. Make it the name Qingjun!"
Next, Yang Yinglong quickly led his troops to capture Qijiang County.
After capturing Qijiang County, Yang Yinglong followed what Yu Maochang did and ordered his officers and soldiers not to rob landlords and farmers, but only to rob merchants and traders, including the hired hands working in the city, and forced all these merchants and hired workers into slavery, regardless of Han or foreigners.
Yu Yougang, the magistrate of Qijiang County, was also taken to Yang Yinglong after he was captured due to injuries.
Yang Yinglong learned that Yu Yougang was originally from a military household and was appointed as the magistrate of Qijiang County because of his military exploits and physical disability. Since he wanted to restore the old system, he directly said after meeting Yu Yougang:
"If you were a county magistrate with a scholar background, I would consider recruiting you to surrender and make you my official. But since you are a military householder with no merit, you should do despicable things for generations. How can you be with Like me, became a noble person directly?"
"This is simply a disrespectful gift!"
"I didn't do anything disrespectful!"
"Nowadays, new etiquette has been implemented in the world. Those who have made contributions to the country are as valuable as their fame, and they can also govern a country on behalf of the emperor!"
Yu Yougang retorted at this time.
After hearing this, Yang Yinglong chuckled: "It turns out he was poisoned by the new rites! As everyone knows, the new rites are said to correct the mistakes of the old rites and make the etiquette more in line with the original meaning of the saint, but in fact it is messing with the saint's intention, which is the source of ruining the world!"
After Yang Yinglong said this, he ordered: "Take this man down, use scissors to cut off his heart that was poisoned by the new ritual, and then burn his heart with fire, so as to avoid harming more people!"
"yes!"
As a result, Yu Yougang was dragged down by Yang Yinglong's rebels and tied to a pillar. Under the personal supervision of scholar Yu Maochang, the rebels took off his clothes and inserted a knife into his chest.
"ah!"
Yu Yougang screamed and couldn't help but gritted his teeth and said: "You traitors will die badly!"
"If you want to blame, blame him Zhu Yijun. It was him who made you, Wu Bian, become civil servants, and that's why you ended up where you are now!"
"This wonderful world has become what it is now because he listened to Zhang Dang and implemented some new etiquette. This is why our general has to do this!"
Yu Maochang smiled and said a few words at this time.
"That's right!"
"Now everyone in Bozhou Chieftain is uneasy because he, Zhu Yijun, trusts Zhang Taiyue too much and refuses to be a conservative!"
Yang Yinglong said: "I will pass on my general's order. If the officials who guard the city under my command are not scholars but are civil servants, they will all be like this, so as to set clear rules and regulations, especially those who are from military households."
"In addition, all Han women need to have their feet bound again, all Han men without fame are not allowed to leave their hometowns for hundreds of miles without being lured, all books on modern learning must be destroyed, all scholars must only learn Cheng and Zhu's learning, and those who keep it secretly will be killed immediately!"
"yes!"
At this time, Yu Maochang was busy praising Yang Yinglong: "General is wise! Doing this will undoubtedly win the support of many scholars and officials in the world who respect the old etiquette!"
Yang Yinglong smiled slightly: "How can we conquer the world if we don't do this, and how can we restore peace to the world?"
"Qijiang Xiaolian Song Wenbin is willing to donate 30,000 dan of grain and 6,000 dan of raw pork to the general to help the general protect etiquette and maintain the system! Please accept it with your smile!"
Yang Yinglong's behavior of restoring the old system and supremacy over Zhu Xi also won the favor of many conservative gentry.
After all, what these gentry dream of is to return to the era of the old system, because then they can unscrupulously treat the people as human beings.
Therefore, on this day, just after Yang Yinglong issued an order to treat the gentry courteously and restore the old etiquette in Qijiang County, Song Wenbin, a wealthy gentry official from Qijiang, came to surrender.
This made Yang Yinglong very happy, and he immediately made Song Wenbin his Qijiang County Magistrate.
Moreover, some old party gentry and landlords in Jiangjin County killed the county magistrate Wan Zihe and others, and opened the county seat to meet Yang Yinglong's army.
Yang Yinglong was even more happy because of this, and further strengthened his determination to defend the old rituals, restore the ancestral system, and destroy industry and commerce. For this reason, he specially ordered that all the people in the newly restored land must strictly abide by the old rituals.
"Dear mother, why do you want to bind my feet again?"
"It hurts, it hurts, mother!"
For this reason, Qiu Ling, the daughter of Qijiang health official Fan Shooyue, was tied to a bench on that day, and her feet were forcibly broken and bound by her slaves.
But because Qiu Ling was already ten years old, her feet were already formed, so it was even more painful to be entangled, so she had to struggle in tears.
Fan Shouyue just sighed and said: "I said it would be better to pester her quietly. This old gift may have to come back one day, but you refused to listen. Sure enough, now she will suffer even more!"
Fan Shouyue's wife Tian only comforted her daughter:
"Mom can't help it. If you don't do this, General Yang's soldiers will kill you, saying that people who break the etiquette cannot be allowed to live! My child, please be patient!"
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"This Yang Yinglong is simply acting against the will!"
"Does he think that just because he complies with the old party's wishes, he can successfully rebel?!"
"As everyone knows, by doing this, he is fighting against the entire world!"
Zhu Yijun was also quite angry after learning about Yang Yinglong's series of actions after he raised his army through Jin Yiwei's intelligence, so he spoke sternly in front of a group of ruling ministers at the Imperial Palace.
"Your Majesty said so."
"But I have to admit that Yang Yinglong must have an expert's guidance behind him. In other words, this is not as simple as a chieftain rebellion. There are scholars who are trying to restore the old etiquette!"
"And by doing this, they obviously know very well that there are still many powerful officials and gentry in the world who want to return to the period when a large number of Han people can be sold into slavery at a low price. After all, although they have become richer due to external expansion, the common people are also prosperous. They have become a lot richer, but this makes them unable to make many people grateful and voluntarily become slaves with a little kindness like before."
Qi Jiguang started talking at this time.
Li Chengliang also stood up and said, "That's right!"
"Your Majesty, Yang Yinglong's strategy is very vicious! He has figured out the thoughts of the rich in the world, just like he also knows why he wants to rebel at this time."
"Obviously, he who has always been arrogant and domineering, has no regard for the king's laws, and wants to act so wantonly that he kills his wife and mother, cannot stand the strict discipline of the court, and wants to be a real one-man thief. But the most terrifying thing now is that there may be many local people Hao You has long been unable to bear it, and wants to be a one-man thief in one village and one village, so even if he doesn't know his support, he will probably support it secretly, or at least sit back and watch it grow bigger, instead of quelling the rebellion for the imperial government. After all, This time Yang Yinglong really enforced military discipline."
"Indeed!"
"The old etiquette still has a strong foundation, but according to the old etiquette, raising an army to rebel is already a violation of etiquette!"
"So, Yang Yinglong is simply digging his own grave by doing this. Even if he can recruit, he can only recruit speculators or fools!"
Zhu Yijun nodded and said a few words, then smiled lightly and said:
"It just so happens that the reform of the land return movement that Gao Gong and Gao Qing's family proposed in the past has not yet been carried out, and my plan to extend the favor order to the southwestern chieftains has not yet found a good opportunity to carry out it. If he wants to win over the supporters of the old rites, then I Just try to win over the Southwest Chieftain!"
"According to my decree, Liu Wei, the Marquis of Nanchang, is sent from Yunnan to Chongqing to serve as the admiral of the five provinces of Sichuan, Guizhou, Huguang, Guangdong and Guangxi, and Yunnan, and to mobilize the Han and barbarian troops in the southwest to suppress them. Among them, the chieftains and barbarian soldiers who have made meritorious deeds will be treated the same as the Han soldiers. They were all given official titles, promotions and land rewards before the war, and the chieftains under their jurisdiction also received rewards and titles accordingly."
"I don't believe that Yang Yinglong is the only one who wants to be a local emperor!"
(End of chapter)
