In addition to the Liu Liu and Liu Qi uprisings in the capital area, in the fifth year of Zhengde, King Zhu Jixiu of Anhua launched a rebellion and started an uprising in Qingyang, Ganzhou.
Because the imperial court mobilized troops from Shanxi and Shaanxi to go to Heluo to quell the rebellion, which left Shanxi and Shaanxi empty. Therefore, after the rebellion, King Anhua easily attacked the government and county, expanded his strength, and occupied Lingzhou in a few days, and quickly March to Chang'an.
Guanzhong was shaken for a while, and the imperial court could only continue to divide its troops to quell the rebellion.
In addition, Ganzhou, Minzhou, Guangdong and other places also took turns to revolt in the early years of Zhengde due to the raging eunuchs and excessive taxation. Rebellions have always been suppressed, and rebellions have been suppressed. If the disease is incurable, it is committed again and again, and the court is forced to divide its troops.
Especially after the chaos in Heluo area, the imperial court mobilized troops to Heluo to quell the rebellion, leaving Ganzhou, Minzhou, Yuezhou and other places with empty defenses, which gave the rebels an opportunity to take advantage.
Therefore, if you have a satellite map at this time, you can see that at least half of the entire territory of the Ming Dynasty is at war. Fortunately, the Tatars in the north were fighting among themselves and had no time to look south.
Otherwise, the Ming Dynasty would be in danger.
It is precisely because peasant uprisings are blooming in various places that the rebels in Heluo area do not know when they will be eradicated.
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Xiang Nan didn't care about this and just took care of his own Luoyang City.
In addition to resuming farming, work, and business, he also reopened schools to educate the people and promote talents. They even sent out troops to suppress bandits, recruit refugees, and open up trade routes.
The major rebels were wary of Xiang Nan, so they all gave him little support and did not dare to send people to attack the trade routes. Therefore, the trade routes between Heluo and Luo were restored.
Businessmen are all driven by profit. Food prices in the Heluo area are extremely high, one or two times higher than in other places. With such high profits, naturally they come one after another.
As a result, Luoyang City once again regained its former bustle and attracted more and more people.
Xiang Nan took the opportunity to collect taxes and gradually restored Luoyang's finances, and everything was developing in a good direction.
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In addition to taking care of the city, Xiang Nan also did not forget to practice martial arts.
In addition to continuing to study Tai Chi with Jun Bao, he is also preparing to develop Tai Chi swords.
Although Tai Chi is very powerful, when faced with an opponent holding a weapon, you can use both hands to use it. However, it is limited to competing with inferior players.
If there is not much difference in strength between the two parties, one is holding a weapon and the other is bare-handed, then the one with the weapon must have the advantage. After all, every inch is stronger.
Tai Chi, to be honest, Xiang Nan and Jun Bao are almost done with it. I dare not say it is perfect, but at least they have achieved great success.
Unless a sudden inspiration occurs and a sudden enlightenment occurs, otherwise, it will only be a grinding effort, which may take a long time. It is simply impossible to rapidly increase combat power in a short period of time.
Therefore, Xiang Nan considered developing Tai Chi sword. With the help of weapons in this way, one can naturally improve one's martial arts skills quickly.
However, Tai Chi Sword is not as easy to develop as Tai Chi Chuan.
Because Xiang Nan and Junbao don't have enough foundation.
To develop anything, it must have its foundation. For example, the foundation of the atomic bomb is Einstein's mass-energy equation; the foundation of Bisheng's movable type printing is hundreds of years of woodblock printing...
The reason why Xiang Nan and Junbao were able to develop Tai Chi was because they learned Shaolin Boxing in the Shaolin Temple. They first learned Luohan Boxing, then Fuhu Boxing, and then Wei Tuo Palm...
In addition, Xiang Nan also secretly learned Prajna Palm and had a foundation in Wing Chun. Therefore, they all have rich accumulation in boxing skills.
But in terms of weapons, they learned less. Xiang Nanhui's only weapons are the Liuhe Dao, the Eight-Zhan Dao, the White Eyebrow Stick Technique, the Six-and-a-half-Point Stick Technique, etc. None of them are sword techniques.
Therefore, it was naturally very difficult to create a sword technique, and the two of them could only practice it gropingly.
As for why he didn't learn from a master or search for sword manuals everywhere, it's a bit fanciful.
On the one hand, they are already masters of the generation, so there is no way they can learn from them again. No one dares to accept them. In addition, most people who practice martial arts cherish their skills for themselves and rarely pass on their martial arts to others.
On the one hand, many martial arts emphasize oral transmission and heart-to-heart teaching, without writing, to avoid leaking the martial arts of one's own sect. Because of this, there is no place to look for sword manuals.
And, to be honest, many people who practice martial arts are actually illiterate. Even if a martial arts secret book is placed in front of him, he may not recognize it, and naturally it is impossible to write down his martial arts secrets and pass them down to the world.
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"If I had known this, I shouldn't have fallen out with the big black mole when I entered the Bodhidharma Hall to compete." Xiang Nan sighed, "If not, we would have learned the best martial arts long ago."
The martial arts they learned in Luohan Hall are just the beginning of Shaolin martial arts. They haven't learned any truly superior martial arts.
Only Xiang Nan knows that after entering the Bodhidharma Hall, you can learn Bodhidharma Sword, Demon Subduing Fist, Vajra Palm, Crazy Magic Wand Technique, etc. If you had learned all those martial arts, you wouldn't be in such a difficult situation now.
"Senior brother, life has its limits, and knowledge has no limits. If you follow the limits with the limits, it will be a disaster." Seeing this, Jun Bao persuaded, "There is no way to practice all the martial arts in the world, so why force it."
Xiang Nan smiled when he heard this.
If he only had one life, he didn't have to force it. With his current martial arts, it is enough. However, who allowed him to live his life more than once.
It took him so long to come here, so he naturally had to learn more martial arts. Otherwise, it will be a waste of a [Memory Stone]. Therefore, Xiang Nan did not give up. He planned to find an opportunity to go to the Shaolin Temple to obtain superior martial arts.
Under the siege of the city by the army, it was expected that the Shaolin Temple would have to bow its head in order to protect the thousand-year-old temple. However, now is not the best time.
On the one hand, Master Jue Yuan is probably still alive, and he doesn’t want to embarrass Master; on the other hand, his power and reputation are not big enough, so he rashly goes up the mountain to demand martial arts secrets and spreads them, which would not sound good. .
So he waited silently for this opportunity.
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Time flies and years pass by.
Soon, the six years of Zhengde passed.
The Liu Liu and Liu Qi uprisings of Yanzhao have not subsided, but have become more and more troubled. In the twelfth lunar month of the sixth year of Zhengde, the rebels attacked Qingzhou, Yanzhou, Yizhou and other places, blocked water transportation, and burned more than a thousand grain ships. As a result, the price of rice in the capital skyrocketed, commodity prices were boiling, and people were in dire straits.
Zhu Zhixiu, the king of Anhua in the Gansu and Shaanxi areas, rebelled. Although the leader has been captured, the remaining defeated soldiers are still raging in the Gansu and Shaanxi areas. As for Jianghuai, Fujian and Guangdong, the voice of peasant uprisings is still getting louder and louder.
In the Heluo area, the rebels are now learning from Xiang Nan and organizing farmers to resume farming, workers to resume work, and merchants to resume the market. Although there are still levies and extortionate measures, the people can finally take a breath and barely survive.
Therefore, there is no sign of being wiped out at all.
Seeing this, the court could only increase its appeasement strategy.
Many rebels have been recruited by the imperial court. As long as they surrender, they will be either commander-in-chief or general, with the worst being a fourth-grade official rank. As for Xiang Nan, it was even more remarkable. He was named "Fengtian Fuguo Zhongyi Zhenren". The rank is two thousand five hundred stones, and one thousand hectares of land are given. The treatment is equivalent to that of a duke, which is considered good.
However, although the treatment is good, it is just a talk at the moment, and I have not seen any benefits yet.
