"Boom, boom, there's a rebellion! The people of Jiangning heard this, and the governor of Jiangnan, Lord Zu, the governor of Jiangnan, Lord Hong, and the admiral of Jiangnan, Lord Zu, all rebelled!"
On the afternoon of the eighth day of the eighth month of the thirteenth year of Emperor Kangxi's reign in the Qing Dynasty, the people in Chengnei, Jiangning were busy preparing dinner. They paid homage in front of their ancestors' memorial tablets and reported to their ancestors that although Master Wang was coming soon, he had not come yet today. At that moment, they suddenly heard someone outside beating gongs and drums while announcing the great news!
Zu Zepu, the governor of Jiangnan, Hong Shiming, the governor of Jiangnan, and Zu Yonglie, the admiral of Jiangnan... finally rebelled against the Qing Dynasty and restored the Ming Dynasty!
Of course it was to fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty, otherwise what would we fight against? Take refuge in Wu Sangui? It's impossible, Wu Sangui is still far away, and he can't reach him now if he wants to seek refuge!
But Zhu San Taisun's army has arrived at the door of Jiangnan Province, and may have already entered. So now is the time to rebel against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty. Once you rebel, Zhu San Taisun's army will come in and take over Jiangnan safely. No matter how many bad things Zu Zepu, Hong Shiming, and Zu Yonglie did in the past, once this great contribution of "devoting to Jiangnan" is given, a hero of the restoration of the country will not escape.
After all, Jiangnan is so rich that the tax revenue of the six southern Jiangsu prefectures of Jiangning, Zhenjiang, Changzhou, Suzhou, Taicang, and Songjiang alone accounts for more than two cities in the country! Moreover, the total population of these six prefectures must be more than six million. Guangdong Province may not even have this number... Nowadays, people value scarcity. If the Ming and Qing Dynasties had been fighting in Jiangnan for a year and a half , what a pity it would be if someone filled the city with people and filled the country with people.
If the New Ming Dynasty could swallow up the six prefectures of southern Jiangsu, the population and wealth at hand should have exceeded half of the world, right?
There are people with money and heavenly weapons and magic. Even if the new Ming Dynasty cannot dominate the world, the people in Jiangnan should be able to live a comfortable and stable life from now on.
Before the collapse of the Ming Dynasty, the gentry and common people in Jiangnan often criticized the Ming Dynasty, which had collected "heavy taxes" in Jiangnan for more than two hundred years and sent eunuchs from time to time to torment the people in Jiangnan.
But after the Ming Dynasty was replaced by the Qing Dynasty, the gentry and common people in Jiangnan realized how powerful it was!
It turns out that the "heavy taxes" in the Ming Dynasty are not called heavy taxes at all, and those dead eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty were not cruel at all - they were beaten for collecting some mining taxes, and the beaters actually became "righteous men" and lived happily in prison. It was released in a few years. Can you try beating one of the servants from the Ministry of Internal Affairs?
Even if the people of Jiangnan did not offend the Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty would instigate a coastal border relocation that would kill people. You have three days to get out. If you don't move, you will be hacked to death. If you move, we won't care about your resettlement. I don't care where you go to starve to death! If you have the guts to rebel, the Eight Banners Green Camp will kill you and not bury you!
Encountering such a "master", the gentry and people in the south of the Yangtze River really regretted it. Just when they were regretting it, there was a "regret medicine" in the world, and the Ming Dynasty was resurrected with full blood.
Moreover, the resurrected Ming Dynasty has become a brand new dynasty. According to the news from Zhejiang and Jiangxi, the current Ming Dynasty soldiers are really disciplined and have no offense.
And the news coming from Guangdong and Fujian is that the Ming Dynasty now equalizes land, taxes, and services, and also establishes trade, encourages industry and commerce, and establishes education... The people's days are getting more and more promising!
Of course, these news are likely to be false news, and the new Ming Dynasty should not be that good. But there are two things for sure... First, with the contrast between the Qing Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, it would be fine for the New Ming Dynasty to do whatever they want.
Second, the new Ming Dynasty’s army must be very capable of fighting! Otherwise, they would not have swept through the four provinces of Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, and Zhejiang so quickly.
Since their rule is definitely better than that of the Qing Dynasty - it can't be worse! And its combat effectiveness is also very strong, which can protect the people of Jiangnan from the massacre of the Qing Dynasty's heavenly soldiers. So what reason do the people and gentry in Jiangnan have not to welcome the new Ming Dynasty?
After all, this is still the thirteenth year of Kangxi's reign, not the one or two hundred years after the Qing Dynasty ruled the world.
Nowadays, most of the gentry and common people in Jiangnan still do not agree with the braid on the back of the head!
So when the news that Zu Zepu, Hong Shiming, and Zu Yonglie were "revolting against the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty" spread in Jiangning City, the people in Jiangning City immediately became excited. At least tens of thousands of people immediately put down their work and rushed to the streets to "welcome the Ming Dynasty." Some even took out the Ming Dynasty robes from the bottom of the box and changed into them - Nanjing is a legacy of the Ming Dynasty. All!
When they saw a large group of officials and soldiers dressed like Ming Dynasty officials on the street where the Governor's Office was located outside Jiangning Banner City, either on horseback or on foot, beating gongs and drums while "calling for rebellion," they thought The soldiers of the Ming Dynasty have already arrived - otherwise, how could there be so many people strutting around outside the governor's office of the Qing Dynasty wearing "Ming Dynasty" official and military uniforms?
So everyone spontaneously started singing "Welcome the Ming Dynasty".
"Look forward to the Ming Dynasty, welcome the Ming Dynasty, open the city gates and surrender to the Ming Dynasty, don't be slaves when the Ming Dynasty comes..."
At this time, Zu Zepu and Hong Shiming were not in the parade. They had already left the inner city to see Emperor Kangxi off and report on the progress of the rebellion. Only Zu Yonglie and Zu Chenglie, the "three generations of ancestors", led some servants and officials from the Governor's Mansion and the Admiral's Mansion to play gongs and drums. As soon as they heard people on the street singing "Welcome the Ming Dynasty", they immediately became anxious.
"The song is wrong. It is not to welcome the Ming Dynasty, but to welcome the Great Zhou Dynasty!"
"Welcome the Zhou Dynasty, not the Ming Dynasty!"
These two "three generations" still want to correct the mistakes of the masses, but how will the masses listen to them? They were all shouting loudly there!
"Welcome the Ming Dynasty! Welcome the Ming Dynasty! Welcome the Ming Dynasty..."
Anyway, everyone has decided that it is time to "welcome the Ming Dynasty"!
Zu Yonglie, the admiral of Jiangnan, did not give up and said to the soldiers and servants on his left and right: "You should join me in shouting 'Welcome the Great Zhou'!"
"嗻!"
A man with a beard and hair that was already white, responded to his old servant who had celebrated his birthday, and then raised his voice and said to a group of young servants behind him: "You little bastards, all shout with my ancestor!
Looking forward to the Ming Dynasty, welcoming the Ming Dynasty, opening the city gates and surrendering to the Ming Dynasty. When the Ming Dynasty comes, we will not be slaves..."
The people below were confused about the situation. When the old man shouted, they naturally followed him: "Hope for the Ming Dynasty, welcome the Ming Dynasty..."
"Zu Da, you shouted wrong!" Zu Yonglie became even more anxious, "It's to welcome Da Zhou!"
This Zuda is the servant who lived Zuda's birthday. He was not originally called Zuda, but the elder than him died, so everyone called him Zuda. In the circle of servants and servants of Zu's family, he was a very famous person. A person of prestige.
"Admiral, Zu Da is right!" Mr. Zu glared and shouted, "Admiral, if you want to save your life, just follow everyone to welcome the Ming Dynasty, and then send people to close the gates in the inner city. Don't let Zijin The flag army on the mountain has entered the city! As long as you wait for a few days, when the soldiers arrive tomorrow, are you still afraid that you will not have any wealth? "
Immediately, other servants joined Zu Da.
"Yes! Zu Da is right!"
"Junmen, President Wu is still far away now, and Sun Sike's flag army is on the Purple Mountain... We can only vote for the Ming Dynasty!"
"Yes, you can only vote for the Ming Dynasty!"
It turned out that these servants and slaves of the ancestral family were not brainless people. Although they did not know what "rebellion was ordered to do" or "Feng Ting dedicated himself to the party", they knew that their lives could not be given away indiscriminately.
But Zu Yonglie still shook his head and said: "But the green battalion soldiers guarding the thirteen gates of the inner city are all controlled by Sun Sike and don't listen to me!"
Zu Da chuckled: "Those gatekeepers don't recognize Sun Sike. They are all soldiers from the South just to make ends meet. They only know that the sky is about to change, and tomorrow's soldiers are coming soon! You want If we don't let them welcome the Ming Dynasty, they may mutiny... Even if they don't mutiny, when Zhu San Taisun's soldiers arrive, they will open the city gate and welcome the Ming army in, and we will be dead by then! "
As he spoke, the old man did not wait for Zu Yonglie to speak, and loudly said to a group of servants of the ancestral family: "The admiral's military gate has an order to immediately close Chaoyang Gate, Taiping Gate, Shence Gate, Jinchuan Gate, Zhongbu Gate... ..Go and give the order!”
"嗻!"
The surrounding servants of the ancestral family responded with "嗻", and then under the arrangement of Zu Da, they divided into five teams to seal the five city gates on the northeast and northeast sides of Jiangning's inner city.
However, these servants were not all Zu Yonglie and Zu Chenglie, some were Zu Zepu's confidants. Taking advantage of the chaos, they also went to Chaoyang Gate, Taiping Gate, Shence Gate, Jinchuan Gate, and Zhongbu Gate. They also slipped out of the city gate and went to report the news to Zu Zepu, Hong Shiming, and Sun Sike at Wumadu Pier. .....
