Chapter 1016 1012 [Russian version of 'Datong Collection']
Stepan Razin was no stranger to China, and he heard most of the information from the Turguts.
This guy once lived in the Torgut region for two years and served as the permanent diplomatic representative of the Don Cossacks. He also stayed away from the Don River and worked as a water bandit on the Volga River for several years, collecting protection fees from merchant ships passing along the way.
"Dear Khitan envoy, please convey my respect to the Khitan Emperor." Razin bent down and saluted, and he spoke Mongolian fluently.
Xie Yuan smiled and said: "Hello, brave rebel."
Racine asked curiously: "You are the Khitan envoy, so you must be from a noble family. Shouldn't the nobles hate rebels like me? Why do you call me a heroic insurrectionist?"
Xie Yuan suddenly looked serious, bowed to the east, then turned around and said: "Because His Majesty the Emperor of our country is also a heroic insurrectionist. He was a slave oppressed by the nobles, and he led more slaves and poor people to overthrow the brutal emperor.
’s rule. In China today, no poor person is oppressed anymore because the emperor treats everyone equally.”
"The Khitan Emperor was a slave before?" Racine was greatly surprised.
Xie Yuan nodded and said: "Yes, His Majesty, the Emperor of China, used to be a slave. Many Chinese officials were slaves and poor people. They followed His Majesty in the uprising and created a new dynasty. I heard that you are going to ask
March on Moscow and then ask the Tsar to improve his policies towards the poor. With all due respect, you are not going to succeed."
"Why is it impossible?" Racine asked.
Xie Yuan said: "Because the tsar and the nobles are one and the same, he will only speak for the nobles. Even if he agrees to you, he will definitely regret it and then mobilize an army to destroy you."
Racine said: "I believe that His Majesty the Tsar is benevolent."
Racine himself didn't believe this nonsense.
He was purely comforting himself, because for the Cossacks, the Tsar was invincible. Even if they rebelled, they could only move around and cause losses to Russia to force the Tsar to change his decree.
Xie Yuan asked: "Are you literate?"
"I have been studying for several years." Racine's parents were wealthy Cossacks, but the family property was occupied by the nobles.
Xie Yuan took out a special Russian edition of "Datong Collection". With the efforts of Honglu Temple and missionaries, this book has been translated into many languages. He handed it to Razin and said: "This is written by His Majesty the Emperor himself.
The book tells how to revolt and govern the country."
Racine took it and took a look and saw that the title of the book was "The Khitan Emperor Led the Poor Revolt and the Theory of Founding the Nation".
The Russian translation is more straightforward and eliminates China's unique traditional ideas.
The first chapter is the theory of personality, which explains that everyone is equal under the gods and no one should be born oppressed.
The second chapter is the Sanyuan chapter, which explains that the people are the masters of the country, the monarchs, nobles and officials, and they are just managing the country on behalf of the people.
The third chapter is the theory of land equalization, which explains that land is given by the gods and should not be monopolized by big landowners. All big landowners obtained their land through bloody means. Only small landowners and self-cultivators obtained their land through hard work by reclaiming wasteland.
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Chapter Four……
Racine led the rebel troops and headed north along the Volga River.…
Sitting in the Cossack boat, Racine began to read the Russian version of the Datong Collection.
The first chapter gave him a strong impact, and at the same time made him empathize, because this theory fit the Cossacks very well.
After reading the second chapter, Racine felt enlightened.
Racine suddenly wanted to cry when he read the content of the third chapter. The Cossacks were not born robbers. His ancestors were runaway slaves. They fled to the Don River Basin and worked hard to cultivate land. They got rich entirely through hard work. But here comes the damn noble man.
After taking over his family's property and business, he could only lead a group of people to become robbers.
Tsarist Russian aristocrats are constantly encroaching on the Don River Basin and constantly compressing the Cossacks' living space.
This book is just a small book and can be read in half a day.
The end of the book is "A Brief Biography of the Great Khitan Emperor". It tells how miserable the Khitan Emperor was when he was a child. He was oppressed at all levels, and finally led the poor and slaves to rebel, and finally established a happy country where everyone is equal.
After Racine finished reading the book, his hands were trembling. He was inspired by the deeds of the Khitan emperor and felt that he could also overthrow the tsar and establish a country.
After docking and plundering a small town, Racine called in all the rebel leaders and also the leaders of the Bashkir uprising.
He took the Russian version of "Datong Collection" and said: "In the far east, there is a powerful country called Khitan. How powerful is Khitan? There are one million people in its capital, and it can easily defeat the tsar's army.
But twenty years ago, the Khitan emperor was also very cruel, oppressing and exploiting the poor and slaves."
More than thirty rebel leaders gathered around Racine and listened.
Racine continued: "There was a Khitan serf who couldn't stand the abuse of his landlord, so he led the serfs and poor people to rebel. Their initial weapons were not even as good as ours. They could only use boards as shields and wood as spears. But
They were very brave and defeated the emperor's army time and time again. Finally, they overthrew the brutal Khitan Emperor and established a country of their own."
"Are you telling a story?" asked Muhad, the leader of the Bashkir uprising.
Racine held up the "Collection of Datong": "I am not telling a story, all this is true. The serf who led the uprising is the current Khitan Emperor. This is a book written by the Khitan Emperor himself. I will tell you now
listen……"
Rahim walked up the steps: "Humans are created by..." He suddenly looked at Muhad, "Slavs were created by Jehovah. Bashkirs were created by Allah. No matter which god created them
Human beings, under the gods, are all equal. You have to ask, the aristocrats are smarter and the aristocrats are literate, why are they equal to the poor? The Khitan Emperor said that personality is equal, and the aristocrats and the poor only have personality
The difference. And personality can be changed. If a person's morals and abilities are not consistent with his status, then he is not worthy of having a noble personality..."
Most of the listeners were illiterate and had no idea of personality.
But they understood some things. Under the gods, everyone is equal. The people are the masters of the country. The emperor, nobles and officials only manage the country on behalf of the people. The big landowners are immoral, and only small landowners and farmers earn their income through hard work.
land.…
Since the big landowners are immoral, they should be overthrown and the land should be taken away and distributed to the poor!
Racine also made up his own imagination and told how happy the Chinese people are. The beggars there can easily get alms. The farmers there only need to pay a small amount of taxes. The craftsmen there do not have to bear heavy labor... Everything is made possible.
The rebel leaders' eyes lit up.
At this moment, a small boat docked.
The person who came was the envoy of Andrei Onkovsky, the governor of Tsaritsyn. When he saw Razin, he said: "I have heard of your name. You have been plundering on the Volga River for many years. The governor asked me to
You give me a price, how much money do you need to avoid heading towards Tsaritsyn (Volgograd)."
"Want to bribe me?" Razin sneered, "Go back and tell your governor that I was just passing through Tsaritsyn and I will fight all the way to Moscow. If he dares to intervene, I will surround Tsaritsyn! Get out!"
The rebels collected and built more boats along the way, and approached Tsaritsyn with great swagger, even rowing past the city. The governor actually pretended not to see it.
Along the way, many poor people came to seek refuge. When they arrived at Tsaritsyn, the rebel troops already numbered over ten thousand, and many of them were not Slavs.
How could the hundreds of defenders in the castle dare to come out to fight?
After passing Tsaritsyn, they ran out of food, so they decided to divide their forces and carry out plunder. The Cossacks and Bashkirs each attacked their own. Only when the large army separated could the food they plundered be enough.
Racine led his army northwest along the tributary, heading towards Moscow.
The Bashkir rebels continued north along the Volga River to plunder Moscow towns along the river.
Racine officially issued the slogan of the uprising: everyone is equal, everyone has land, kill all the boyars, big landowners and officials.
Along the way, Racine was emancipating serfs.
But instead of finding a base to develop in peace, he became a rogue like Li Zicheng. Countless serfs followed him willingly because their lives had long been unbearable.
While looting Voronezh, Razin met a group of political prisoners. He said to these people: "I do not force you to join me, but anyone who follows me will become a free Cossack. I just want to
Defeat those boyar nobles and landowners. As for the poor people, I treat them like brothers! By the way, you should all be literate, I have a book for you to read."
The Russian version of "Datong Collection" was handed over and a political prisoner read it aloud.
Just reading the second chapter, most of the political prisoners had expressions of panic and fear on their faces. Because they were all nobles, they were exiled after failing in their political struggle, and they had a natural fear of allocating land to local tyrants.
But soon someone was moved, they were already on the road to exile, and their family was already finished.
They have nothing, why are they afraid of a hammer?
Except for a few who decided to leave, most of the political prisoners expressed their intentions and were willing to join Racine in the rebellion.
But these guys, including Racine, lacked a clear program of rebellion. They still had illusions about the Tsar. They just wanted to go to Moscow and force the Tsar to banish them, and then they could get a piece of territory to live on. This kind of thing, in the
This often happens in Russia. Many Cossacks were imprisoned because the Tsar was simply unable to quell the rebellion.…
However, it is absolutely impossible for Racine to be imprisoned.
Because the direct cause of this guy's uprising was that he robbed the official ship of the Russian Ministry of Finance! Along with the official ship, there were also fleets of big nobles and wealthy merchants. This incident aroused the anger of the Moscow nobles.
After advancing for more than a hundred miles to Moscow, Racine finally encountered the troops sent by the Tsar.
The shooting force that serves as the main force is all fake.
The real main force is the noble army and the Cossacks. The Cossacks are also divided into many forces, and some of them are willing to be lackeys for the nobles.
A battle broke out between the two sides by the river. The officers and soldiers had better weapons, but the rebels had high morale. The rebels defeated the officers and soldiers with only a few hundred casualties, and continued marching with loud songs.
But when he was still hundreds of miles away from Moscow, Racine became timid again.
He was still afraid of the Tsar and knew that Moscow could not be defeated. The group of political prisoners who had taken refuge in Racine also began to show weakness in speculation and encouraged Racine to change directions and plunder. As long as more towns could be destroyed and more big landowners robbed,
It can cause huge losses to Tsarist Russia, and it can also force the Tsar to come to Zhao'an.
As a result, Racine changed the direction of his march and started fighting everywhere along the river. Moreover, he could not afford to support so many soldiers by looting. When he met the new serfs who had come to join him, he sent them away with some money and food, and then robbed everywhere.
Nobles and rich people.
The Tsar finally had time to summon more troops and sent tens of thousands of troops to suppress it.
Racine once again made a mistake. He divided his army into ten and plundered in all directions. This not only made it difficult for the Tsar's army to pursue, but also caused a larger area of damage, forcing the Tsar to carry out imperial edicts.
I read that "Datong Collection" in vain...
However, as Racine's uprising swept across the country, the ideas in "Datong Collection" spread.
In particular, several political prisoners secretly copied some copies and carried them with them during their escape, thus preserving the seeds of revolutionary ideas.
While Racine was running around, the strong fortress was captured by the Turgut troops.
To be precise, they were not defeated, but the defenders rebelled themselves.
Racine also encountered many such situations. There were many fortified cities along the way. As soon as the rebels arrived, the city gates were opened wide, and the defenders directly joined the uprising team.
