Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 119 Raising righteous soldiers, Tang and Lu stand side by side
In August of the Yiyou year, after King Lu surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang Province, was occupied by northern captives, and many prefectures and counties surrendered to the Qing court.

Dorgon thought that the overall situation was settled, so he asked Azige to lead the soldiers of the northern captives to the north to escape the summer heat, and only let Belle Boluo and Hong Chengchou go south to take over Jiangnan.

The Qing court miscalculated the situation, thinking that the general situation in the south of the Yangtze River was fixed, while sending people to appease the various places, while forcing the shaving and restructuring, but did not want to make the north and south of the river boil instantly.

The people in the south of the Yangtze River were disappointed with the Hongguang court. Therefore, at the beginning of the Qing army's invasion of the south, the resistance was not fierce, but when the hair-shaving order was issued, it ignited the raging anger of the people, and the pain of subjugation was completely aroused.

After Jiangyin came down to the Qing court, Lin Zhiji, the county magistrate of Daming, dismissed his seal and resigned. After Fang Heng, the magistrate appointed by the Qing court, took office, he posted a notice ordering the people in the city to shave their hair in accordance with the Qing court law.

On the [-]th day of the eighth month of the Yichou year, Xu Yong and others gathered in the Minglun Hall of the Confucian Temple and unanimously decided: "The head can be cut off, but the hair must not be shaved."

At this time, the Changzhou government once again issued a document strictly ordering hair shaving, which contained the words "keep the head but not the hair, and keep the hair but not the head". Fang Heng of Qingzhi County asked the clerk to write the document into a notice and post it. When he said a word, he couldn't help being filled with righteous indignation, threw his pen on the ground, and said angrily: "Just die!"

When the common people heard the news, the whole city immediately erupted. Fang Heng of Qingzhi County saw that the soldiers and the people would not obey and the situation was about to get out of control. When it was seized, the people were filled with righteous indignation and locked it up. Chen Mingyu and Yan Yingyuan, the official historians, were publicly recommended to fight against the Qing Dynasty under the banner of Zhongxing Daming.

When Jiangyin fought against the Qing Dynasty, the people of Jiading County were also forced to shave their hair by the Qing court, and the great uprising division restored the banner of the Ming Dynasty and rebelled against the Qing Dynasty and restored the Ming Dynasty.

At that time, Jiading fell into the hands of the Qing court for dozens of days. After Zhang Weixi, the county magistrate appointed by the Qing court, took office, he issued an order to shave their hair on August [-], Yiyou year.

The people have no leader, so they consulted Hou Dongzeng, a country gentry who had served as the Zuo Tongzheng envoy of the Tongzheng Secretary during the Hongguang Dynasty.The Duke resolutely replied, "I heard that Xu Shiqian protects the law and commits suicide. Why don't you fight for righteousness? That is, you can't do it. It's about the survival of the city. It's not too late."

On that day, Hou Dongzeng took his two sons, Hou Xuanyan and Hou Xuanjie, together with Jinshi Huang Chunyao and his younger brother Huang Yuanyao, into the city to fight against the Qing Dynasty.

In Kunshan County, Suzhou Prefecture, after the fall of the Hongguang Dynasty, the scholars and the people discussed and refused to defend, and then King Lu negotiated peace with Qing before giving up.At that time, Yan Maocai, the county magistrate, had sent envoys to surrender, and was used by the Qing court as the county magistrate, who did many evil things in the city.In August of the Yiyou year, when the order to shave hair came, the soldiers and civilians revolted and killed Maocai, and promoted Wang Zuocai, the commander-in-chief of Langshan, as the leader of the army, and ordered Yang Yongyan to enter the city to refuse to defend the old days.

Wang Yongzuo, the original Xunyang Fuyuan, guarded Wu Yishan and led thousands of volunteers to the city to help in the battle. Zhu Tianlin, editor of the Imperial Academy, and patriots Gu Yanwu and Guizhuang all went to participate in the righteous deeds.

On the great lake, after Chen Zilong and Wu Yi failed to rescue Hangzhou, they led a hundred and eight remnant soldiers to retreat to Taihu Lake.

On August [-]th of the Yiyou year, Chen Zilong and Wu Yi, with Yu Shizhong as the vanguard, invaded Wujiang County and killed Zhu Tingzuo, the county magistrate of the Qing court, and Nanzhili was greatly shaken.

In the east of Zhejiang, the hair-shaving order shocked the prefectures that had already surrendered. Just when Wang Yan was in Lishui to protect the king of Tang and went south, a large number of people with lofty ideals were furious at the shaving and restructuring, and rose up one after another. Soldiers resisted the Qing Dynasty.

"There is still something to be done in the world, I want to organize a volunteer tour, what should I do?" Zheng Zunqian, a member of the Shaoxing government, said generously, and then he and the general of the old friend county set up a banner and recruited soldiers. Thousands of people beheaded Zhang Su, an official of the Qing Dynasty. Peng Wanli, who claimed to be Marshal Yixing, raised troops to fight against the Qing Dynasty.

Afterwards, Sun Jiaji, former Daoist of Jiujiang of the Great Ming Dynasty, killed Wang Xuanru, magistrate of Qing court, and set up troops in Yuyao.Dong Zhining, Wang Jiaqin, Zhang Mengxi, Huaxia, Lu Yuding, Mao Jukui, and Qian Sule, a former member of the Ministry of Criminal Affairs, raised their troops in Ningbo.

The land of Eastern Zhejiang was suddenly full of flames of war, but it was different when Eastern Zhejiang resisted the Qing Dynasty, and Yu Wang Yan supported the King of Tang. The Longwu regime was established by Wang Yan and other ministers who were unwilling to surrender to the Qing Dynasty. In the land of eastern Zhejiang, after some senior officials went south like Wang Yan, and some surrendered to the Qing court, a group of imperial court students and middle and lower-level officials led anti-Qing activities.

Because of the hair-shaving order in the south of the Yangtze River, the rebels swarmed into a prairie fire, but the rebels did not belong to each other. People with lofty ideals also realized this. They urgently needed to elect someone to be the leader of the anti-Qing alliance.

At that time, people in eastern Zhejiang did not know that the king of Tang had already assumed the post of supervisor. Zhang Guowei, the former minister, discussed with the registered officials Chen Hanhui, Song Zhipu and others. Wang, only Lu Wang who fled to Taizhou did not vote, and became the only candidate supported by the Fuming forces in Zhejiang.

Not long after Wang Yan established Tang Wang Jianguo in Wenzhou, Zhang Guowei and others welcomed Lu Wang Zhu Yihai to Shaoxing, and then took office as Jianguo on August 23, Yichou Year.

Now that the King of Lu was established, the rebel armies in eastern Zhejiang seemed to have broken the situation of fighting each other. General Zhang Mingzhen of Shipu, Shen Chenquan of Cixi County, Feng Yuanliu, Zhu Maohua of Zuhai County, Gu Zhijun of Fenghua County, etc. all supported or called volunteers , or provide grain and grass, making Lu Wang's regime gradually stable.

At that time, the Ministry of National Security retreated from Hangzhou to the east of the Qiantang River after Lu Fan surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. There were still more than [-] elite soldiers under him. They also served King Lu and became one of the two main forces under King Lu.

The other main force is Wang Zhiren, the Zhejiang anti-Japanese general. After Azig fell to Hangzhou, he had surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, but the shaving order caused Jiangnan to boil. Troops were sent to suppress it, and Qian Sule, the Ningbo Fuming faction, sent Ni Maoxi as an envoy to instigate rebellion against Wang Zhiren.

Two envoys with completely opposite missions arrived in Wang Zhiren's army almost at the same time. After Ni Maoxi arrived, he heard that a scholar surnamed Chen had written to Wang Zhiren the day before, angrily denouncing him for surrendering to the Qing Dynasty and being killed by Wang Zhiren, but Ren resolutely entered.

As soon as they met, Wang Zhiren said: "Your Majesty, you are bold!"

Ni Maoxi said: "The great general has received the grace of the country for generations, and the virtuous brother (the eunuch Wang Zhixin of the Chongzhen Dynasty) has climbed his beard and died in the country. The world has looked forward to it, and all people with lofty ideals know that he will do it. People today think about Han, and the key to the East China Sea lies in Generals, followed by Generals Huang of Fuzhou and General Zhang of Shipu, who are leading from the left to the right, must have the leader of the alliance, the role of the general.”

Wang Zhiren hurriedly stopped him from continuing, and said: "It's good to do it, and don't let it out." Then he asked his son to take Ni Maoxi down to rest, and then met with Qing Shi, and wrote him a reply, "But it is said that we will discuss it together on the 21st. .”

The Qing envoy thought that he had fulfilled his mission, so he returned to Yin County.

Wang Zhiren, after the Qing envoy left, said to Ni Maoxi: "Yu Qiangong, you should have the gift of rewarding your teacher."

On the 21st, Wang Zhiren came to Yin County. The Qing envoy thought he had a plan, but Wang Zhiren ordered the soldiers to take it down, and ordered him to lose ten thousand gold for payment, but he was released.

Soon thereafter, Wang Zhiren supported the King of Lu and granted him the title of Marquis of Wuning. He had more than [-] elite soldiers under his command, together with Fang Guoan's soldiers, and became the main force of the Lu King's regime against the Qing Dynasty.

(A large amount of information in this chapter comes from Mr. Gu Cheng's history of the Southern Ming Dynasty. Thanks to shyion and Danshui Ranger for their rewards. Thank you for your support. I hope book friends will comment more. If there is no accident, the author will update more every day in May.)
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