Qiming 1158

Chapter 733 There is soil for rebellion in this area

After arriving at Luling, Zhao Yucheng and the others did not act immediately.

They held a meeting, then dispersed locally, and went to live in different counties for a period of time. After more than a month, everyone gathered in Luling again to exchange what they had seen and heard.

Through communication, they found that this place is really suitable for them to carry out actions.

In short, there is soil for rebellion in this area.

30 years ago, at the beginning of the Song Dynasty's southward journey, a peasant uprising broke out here because of the excessively strict taxes and the repeated ravages of the Jin soldiers and the Song soldiers.

At that time, it was Yue Fei who was in charge of pacifying this group of rebels.

After Yue Fei's crusade, the rebels were defeated and the rebellion was suppressed, but the barrenness and poverty of the land did not change in any way, nor did the government's ferocious tax collection.

People in this land are brewing rebellion all the time.

So in the 22nd year of Shaoxing, the garrison of the Lin'an imperial court rebelled here, and the rebellion swept across several state capitals. The imperial court finally put down the rebellion with great effort.

And then there is now.

The insurgents and wars inflicted deep suffering on the local people still unrelieved, and the government's rule is still brutal.

In addition, there are many mountainous areas in this area, and there is little land suitable for cultivation, and the grain cannot be raised by many kilograms. Often people force the tax collectors to do nothing, so they will drill into the mountains.

Or become a fugitive in the deep mountains and old forests, and live like an uncivilized caveman.

Or you will be a pirate and live a life of licking blood. If you mix well, you will eat meat and drink in large bowls. If you don’t mix well enough to eat a full meal, you will be pushed out as cannon fodder.

Of course, runaways and bandits are not without risk.

Fleeing households always have to worry that the government will organize manpower to search the mountains, and if they are caught, they will have to do hard labor, and basically they will not want to recover their freedom.

Bandits are relatively good and have the ability to resist. Generally speaking, they rob villages and pick up soft persimmons, but if one accidentally robs the government-related things, the government will send people into the mountains to suppress the bandits and start killing them.

Compared with runaways and bandits, peasants and tenants are also living beings and not ghosts or ghosts.

The end of the year is exhausting, most of the income is either given to the government or to the landlord, and the food and clothing left to himself is quite reluctant. This is still the situation of a good year.

If this happens to a natural disaster and the food fails to harvest, it will be the fate of escaped households and bandits who choose one of three to go into exile. There is no fourth way - if starvation is one way.

Lu Chengren, deputy director of the General Affairs Department of the Jiangnan West Road Renaissance Association Branch, gave the conclusion that he had visited the local area.

"The people in this land are basically illiterate and illiterate. I visited many villages and talked to the people. Basically, no more than ten people in a village can read and write, and no more than five can read and write. Unless there is a local landlord family.

This is not to mention, a considerable number of those who come to the city to work are illiterate, or only know a limited number of large characters, and their reading and writing skills are worrying. The whole observation shows that people are numb and hopeless, and they basically do not resist ability. "

Duan Yang, director of the organization department, also gave his own views.

"Through communication with the local people, I think they are either numb and dare not resist, and if they want to resist, it is a passive resistance with no possibility of success, or they fall into trouble, or escape into the mountains. They don't know there is a better way to resist, just Spontaneous, unorganized resistance that is meaningless.

Moreover, many people who resisted passively did not fight against the powerful local government and landlords after their resistance, but continued to bully the weak, looted villages, and bullied the common people. There is no point in resisting. They are simply doing evil and cannot achieve any positive effect. "

Next, some members also made speeches, basically saying what they saw and thought about.

Among them, Xu Tong, a member of the Ministry of Military Affairs who Zhao Yucheng is very optimistic about, sees the problem from a different angle.

"I think it's not unreasonable that this place is rich in bandits. This area is more mountainous, less plain, and the mountain road is rugged. It is particularly difficult to walk a little deeper. Many passages are only enough for one or two people to pass.

During this period of time, I went to the mountains when I was free, and found that there are many such mountains, and there are many valleys in the mountains that are suitable for camping. There are mountain springs on the mountains. As long as there is enough food, it is not a problem for three to five hundred people to live on a mountain. . "

Zhao Yucheng was stunned for a while, then laughed.

"We haven't acted yet, and you have thought about fighting against Song Jun?"

"Sooner or later, although the people here are numb, everyone has anger and resentment in their hearts, and they are very hungry. It's not that they don't hate the government and landlords, but they can't see the hope of successful resistance. They see hope!"

Xu Tong smiled: "How did your Majesty say that? Oh! A single spark can start a prairie fire."

Xu Tong's remarks made everyone's minds understandable, and many people's minds came alive.

"I think Xu Tong is right."

Du Qi, the deputy director of the Jiangxi branch of the Renaissance Society and the most senior Renaissance member here, said: "We are here for armed struggle, not for good deeds or opening porridge sheds. What we need to do is to build a strong team. , here to open our revival situation.

Therefore, we can indeed choose a reliable base first, and we must be able to stick to it for a long time. When our strength is not strong enough and our manpower is not enough, we can win more with less, and defeat the Song army or the landlord armed forces that may come to crusade at any time. "

Everyone discussed this for a while, and then turned their attention to Zhao Yucheng.

Zhao Yucheng thought for a while and agreed.

"Don't think about other things, think about survival first, we have to survive first, and then we can think about other problems, so I think what Xu Tong said is very reasonable, everyone first find a place that can be used as a base, and then buy necessary things ."

So for the next two months, they began to prepare for armed struggle.

Before setting off, everyone wanted to develop peasants to fight in the Luling area, but soon they realized that this strategy was dangerous.

Because the Luling area is too close to the Ezhou army, the most powerful and largest army in the Southern Song Dynasty.

And just north of Luling, the Song army in the Jiujiang area was stationed, and it was not difficult to mobilize the south to suppress the rebellion.

Once these two armies join forces in the south, they will at least be able to pull out more than [-] troops. The troops used to counter the rebellion will be very large, and it is not something that the rebel army that has just risen can fight against.

In addition, in Ganzhou, not far from the Luling area, there is also a forbidden army of the Song Dynasty stationed.

It is said that this was because when Ganzhou was still called Qianzhou, there was a civil unrest. The civil unrest disturbed Zhao Gou's mother, and Zhao Gou's mother was very frightened.

Zhao Gou was furious and wanted to slaughter all the residents of Qianzhou to express his ill-will for his mother. Fortunately, Yue Fei pleaded hard, and Zhao Gou gave up, but since then he distrusted the people of Qianzhou and sent troops to station.

In the 22nd year of Shaoxing, there was a garrison rebellion in Qianzhou. After the rebellion subsided, Qianzhou was renamed Ganzhou.

There are the Ezhou army in the northwest, the Jiujiang army in the north, and the Qianzhou forbidden army in the southeast. If you want to develop in the plains of this area, I am afraid that it will be too late to develop, and it will be pacified by the army of the Southern Song Dynasty.

Therefore, once the army starts to gain momentum and has a certain foundation, it must immediately enter the mountainous area, manage the mountainous area, fight against the Southern Song Dynasty crusade troops through the mountain situation, and at the same time train its own personnel, educate their own personnel, continue to develop and grow, and wait for the opportunity.

They could not stay in the plains and confront the regular army of the Southern Song Dynasty who could come soon.

After this strategy is determined, Zhao Yucheng and others are responsible for the implementation.

The base they chose was located in the Luoxiao Mountains in the southwest of Luling.

(End of this chapter)