The three people were chatting, and suddenly the crowd behind them started to stir up a commotion. A fast horse rode straight ahead on the street without giving way to the crowd.

There was a lot of chatter and shouts of crying for father and mother. Hong Dashou quickly pulled the two of them to the side of the street. He thought that his life was more valuable than the Tatar emperor of the Qing Dynasty, so he didn't want to be killed for no reason. .

"What happened?" Jin Douji almost fell down. He didn't know if it was because he plowed the fields too hard last night.

"I think it must be the urgent military situation in Eight Hundred Miles." Hong Dashou was confused for a moment. In the sixth year of Jiaqing, what kind of war was there?

Li Xi looked at the post soldiers who had disappeared in a flash, and boldly guessed, "It turns out that the Qing Dynasty also had rebellions and uprisings for many years."

"Uprising?" Hong Dashou suddenly had an impression.

A few people walked back to the meeting hall and sat down. They didn't even think about having lunch. All kinds of news about the General Affairs Department Yamen and the Ministry of War Yamen had spread throughout the streets and alleys. It was really a good thing not to go out. , bad things spread thousands of miles.

Cai Qian, a native of Tong'an, Fujian, organized the boatmen and fishermen who could no longer survive and rebelled against the Qing Dynasty!

The rebel army first fought in places such as Zhangzhou and Quanzhou, and continued to recruit and accommodate people who responded to the uprising. However, Cai Qian's uprising did not conquer prefectures and counties, nor did it kill officials.

Therefore, the local government had been dealing with pirates and bandits before, and did not report to Yanjing that there was a large-scale uprising army under the rule.

After two or three years of fooling around like this, Cai Qian's troops gathered more and more people, and their power continued to grow. The poor people who were willing to participate in the anti-Qing uprising greatly enhanced Cai Qian's strength.

Finally, Cai Qian gathered eighty warships and soldiers to attack Xiamen, the key city of Fujian.

Wu Qigui, the commander-in-chief of the Kinmen Town Navy, fled in the face of the wind, and the town's navy collapsed without a fight. In vain, dozens of large and small warships and countless ordnance were handed over to the rebels.

However, the Qing guerrilla Wu Keqin in Xiamen still had some courage. He gathered his warships and men and cooperated with Xiamen's Dadan Mountain and Xiaodan Mountain forts to prepare to attack Cai Qian's rebel army overseas.

But it is a pity that Wu Keqin had courage, but did not have the ability to match it. He was beaten by Cai Yian in a confrontation, and his armor was thrown off. The entire navy was wiped out, and Wu Keqin died on the spot.

Taking advantage of the victory, the rebel army pursued and marched to Xiamen. Tingzhang Long Daotai Bailing and Xiamen coastal defense colleague Chen Tingmei were besieged in the city. The situation along the coast of Fujian was rotten. The officers and soldiers retreated, and no one dared to save them.

The lid could not be closed at all, so Zhang Shicheng, the governor of Fujian, had to hurry up and report to the court, requesting the navy of Zhejiang and Guangdong provinces to rush to Fujian Province to rescue the local officers and soldiers.

Moreover, Cai Qian finally openly raised the banner of anti-Qing at this moment, and was elected as the Mighty King of Zhenhai by the rebel army. He claimed to have hundreds of warships and a crowd of 120,000.

Once they invaded Xiamen, Chen Tingmei was captured and died, leaving Fujian Province with no available troops!

In fact, when Hong Dashou heard the word uprising, he roughly guessed who it was. After all, in the Jiaqing Dynasty, although the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty had suffered a heavy blow, uprisings of various Taoist sects continued. Even like the White Lotus Sect Uprising Large-scale uprisings sweeping several provinces had already occurred, but in the sixth year of Jiaqing, it was the time when Lebao led the officers and soldiers of the five provinces to establish the White Lotus Sect uprising.

The large-scale rebel army had been eliminated and defeated, and the remaining small groups had to go into the mountains to fight.

Anyone who dares to jump out at this moment can really be called a hero.

Naturally, the Eight Banners and the people in Yanjing did not have the same sense of urgency as the people thousands of miles away in the center of the rebel army. It was just that everyone had one more thing to talk about after dinner.

Even if the aloof Emperor Jiaqing and the military ministers even pulled out several hairs from their pigtails, it would not change the way the market treated such a military and national event as child's play.

Zhang Shicheng couldn't keep the lid on, so he simply let himself go. Whenever something happened, he would send an urgent report eight hundred miles away to Yanjing. Anyway, there was an insurrectionary army under his rule, and he was given the title of king. He even conquered prefectures and counties, and he was also the governor.

At the end of the day, it’s better to just break the jar and smash it.

Sure enough, within a few days, reports of defeat came one after another. First, the grain ship bound for Fujian from Anping Prefecture (that is, Daiwan Prefecture, but involved in politics) was robbed, and thousands of kilograms of military grain and rice were lost.

Later, Shangshan in Shanwei fell. Hu Zhensheng, the commander-in-chief of the Wenzhou Navy Division in Zhejiang Province, led 24 Ting ships to fight. Cai Qian defeated him with a majestic formation on the east coast of Mindong. Hu Zhensheng died in the battle, and almost all the elite troops of the Wenzhou Navy Division

annihilated.

Later, the Guangdong uprising army Zhu Xun also led more than a hundred large and small ships to defect to Cai Qian. The two merged and their power increased greatly. They joined forces and took advantage of the victory to attack Anping Prefecture.

The whole Taiwan was shaken, and anti-Qing armed forces from all over the country responded one after another. Tens of thousands of troops from the two sea divisions surrounded Anping City. Even the towns of Jilong and Tamsui in Taipei were greatly shaken.

There are already signs of taking Anping Town, separatizing the Taiwan Strait, and dominating one side!

How much effort did the Manchu and Qing court spend on pacifying the forces of Ming and Zheng during the reign of Kangxi? Countless people died and countless silver coins were spent before they succeeded.

In the Qianlong year, Lin Shuangwen's uprising, although huge in momentum, came to an end because the rebel army did not have the ability to isolate the Manchu navy from the strait.

But Cai Qian was different. He really had more than 400 large and small warships. If he captured Anping and intercepted the Manchu reinforcements with his navy, it would be decided by spreading the word throughout Taiwan, and it would be effortless.

Then use Taiwan Island as a springboard, take Peng Island first, and then Zhoushan, Jinxia, ​​and Lianjiang Islands.

As long as the navy is here, there will be another Ming Zheng!

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"I never thought that a pirate could be so powerful." Hong Dashou and the others were making tooth sacrifices in a restaurant at the moment.

"How come all the officers and soldiers in the world are like this? The people in Tieshan are like this, the people in Yiju are like this, and I didn't expect that even the Qing Dynasty is like this." Jin Douji put down his chopsticks.

"It's because the Qing Dynasty didn't pay attention to coastal defense."

To put it bluntly, there is no navy! The warships of the Navy have long lagged behind the world. Thousand-ton sailing battleships in Europe traversed the oceans. The Manchu and Qing Dynasties still used centipede ships, thunder ships, and black ships as the main force.

One hundred and fifty years ago, the surnamed Guo was able to build large plywood ships with thirty-six cannons or even forty-eight cannons. On the contrary, the Manchu Qing Dynasty was getting better and better. Craftsmen who could build sailing battleships were readily available, but none of them wanted to go there.

make.

"Even the beauties know the importance of coastal defense, but the ministers are so ignorant that they pretend not to know."

"It's ridiculous, it's really ridiculous!"

A young scholar at the next table was mocking himself in Mandarin with a strong Wu accent.

"Your Excellency is drunk, don't talk about state affairs!"

Hong Dashou was fond of this person because he spoke Wu dialect, and reminded him that good scholars should not imitate people like them from the Li Dynasty. At most, they would be deported back to their country, and the people of the country would have to answer for the crime.

"I, Shen Ziyi, have arrived in Beijing by bus and have to go to the General Affairs Department to tell the Holy One that the minister is incompetent!" The scholar drank a full glass, placed the glass heavily on the table, dropped a silver dime of about four or five yuan, and walked away.

"Shen Ziyi, what a familiar name!"
Chapter completed!