In the late Ming Dynasty, there were three great eccentric Confucians: Li Zhi, Chen Jiru, and Li Yu.
How can one be called weird?
Apostate!
Li Yu is the most difficult to describe among them. Although "Meat X Group" does not contain his real name, anyone who is slightly familiar with Li Yu's works can tell that this novel was written by him.
There are two core ideas in "Meat X Group": pleasure is guilt-free and indulgence is moderate.
This guy especially likes to sleep in a joint bed. The three concubines sleep three nights separately and sleep together for one night, which is called "three parts unified".
At this moment, Li Yu is not called Li Yu, and his name is very suitable for Xianxia novels.
The surname is Li, the name is Immortal Lover, the courtesy name is Banished Fan, and the name is Heavenly Disciple!
Moreover, at this time, Li Yu only had one wife, who was deeply in love with each other, and had no concubines.
Lanxi County, Xiali Village.
Li Yu was sharpening his sword in the yard. His mother sat under the eaves and cried bitterly. His wife and sister-in-law patiently comforted him.
The eldest brother Li Mao said anxiously: "Second brother, aren't you confused? In two months there will be the provincial examination. You are a Five Classics boy in the county. You will definitely pass the exam this year. Why do you want to rebel with those scornful scholars?"
Li Yu sprinkled water on his sword to moisten it, scraped the edge of the sword with his fingers and said: "In two months, even Hangzhou will be gone. How about taking the Laoshizi Provincial Examination?"
"How can Jiangxi Zhao thieves be so powerful? Don't follow them and prepare for the provincial examination." Li Mao persuaded.
Li Yu stood up suddenly, sheathed his sword, and said to his eldest brother: "Brother, you can take care of your own family. I have to go this time. My family has been a doctor for generations, and my uncle is also a pharmacist. How can we leave Jiangxi? There are no medicinal materials from Zhangshu Town.
, my uncle can’t even continue his business. Brother, do you know what the status of doctors is in Jiangxi?”
Li Mao said: "What status can it have? I am the last."
"Haha, you're wrong," Li Yu laughed, "Doctors are highly respected in Jiangxi. Based on this matter alone, the Li family should serve King Zhao Tian!"
It is true that many ancient scholars studied medicine, just like studying Taoism and Buddhism, it was about cultivating their sentiments.
Medical households in the Ming Dynasty were different. They were called "witch doctors, monks, and Taoists" and were not much different from craftsmen. They were the target of discrimination for generations.
Li Yu and Mao Pijiang were born in the same county in the same year. Li Yu himself was a scholar, and his family was in business. He and Mao Pijiang had many friends in common. However, the two of them had never been friends in their lives because Mao Pijiang looked down on Li Yu.
origin!
Li Yu said to his eldest brother: "Brother, if Mr. Zhao takes over the world, our Li family will really turn around!"
"Exiled to the mortal world, let's go!"
Someone suddenly urged me outside the hospital.
"Just come!"
Li Yu turned around, bowed to his mother, and said to his wife, "If I die, you will remarry."
His wife, Mrs. Xu, nodded: "You go ahead, I will guard the house."
Li Yu picked up his sword and walked out, followed by a house slave who had grown up with him.
The house slave was holding a stick in his hand, and his heart was boiling. He was literate, and if King Zhao Tian came, he would be free, and maybe he could be an official in the future.
The master and servant left the courtyard, and there were already more than ten people standing outside.
They all have this kind of master-servant combination, with the master holding a sword and the slave using a stick. They have been practicing for more than a month.
Everyone went to the county town together. In order not to attract attention, they dispersed into several groups. They came to the city one after another and stayed in the home of a big businessman.
There is a river in Lanxi County that leads directly to Jiangshan County.
Jiangshan County is close to Guangxin Prefecture in Jiangxi Province. A large number of Jiangxi commodities are transported to central Zhejiang from this route. The gentry and merchants along the way know the situation in Jiangxi very well.
The first day of June.
An army of more than two hundred people, composed of merchants, scholars, and domestic slaves, suddenly came out of the mansion in the city.
Although Li Yu had superb medical skills and was a talented man who was well versed in the Five Classics, he really didn't know how to fight. The guy pulled out his iron sword and rushed forward with his slaves, all the way towards the county government office.
"The world is unified!"
"Good and bad are equal!"
Everyone shouted slogans, and the domestic slaves shouted the loudest. They really regarded "the good and the humble" as their belief.
Seeing more than two hundred people charging towards them, the government officials were so frightened that they threw down the water and fire sticks and ran away. The civil servants in the six rooms did not have time and fell to their knees one after another, hoping to save the dog's life.
"Zhifu and Zhongde, each of you will recruit five people to guard the warehouse and official registers!"
Tang Yuqi began to give orders. He was the leader of the Lanxi County uprising. He was a scholar with a big business background. He mainly purchased goods from Jiangxi and shipped them to Jinhua for sale. He could barely be considered a member of the Longyou Merchant Gang.
Li Yu followed Tang Yuqi and rushed into the second hall of the county government office. No one was there. Then he rushed into the back house and met only a few servants. When he was arrested and questioned, he learned that the county government and the master had run away.
"Follow me and seize the city gate!"
Tang Yuqi shouted.
Li Yu was inexplicably excited. He rushed out with his sword and shouted: "The world is unified!"
Plop!
Li Yu tripped over the threshold and was knocked upside down.
Fortunately, everyone was rushing and no one noticed his embarrassment. Li Yuma quickly got up, dusted himself off, and quickly caught up with his sword.
Because it is so close to Jiangxi, there are also officers and soldiers stationed in Lanxi County.
More than two hundred rebels were divided into two teams, each committing suicide towards the north and south city walls. A larger number of officers and soldiers were so frightened that they dropped their weapons and ran away. Last year, they were still vagrants, and they were soldiers just to make ends meet.
Without a drop of blood, Li Yu and others occupied the county seat.
Several major merchants in the city began to disperse their wealth and recruit soldiers. They recruited a thousand soldiers to defend the city, waiting for Zhao Han to send someone to take over.
The military flag of Datong has been planted on the top of the city, making a sound in the wind.
Li Yu was responsible for leading people to guard a section of the city wall. He looked out from a high place and suddenly felt open-minded. He held his sword and said with a smile: "I didn't expect to do such a big thing in this life!"
It felt like he was following Zhao Han and assisting the Holy Lord in his quest to dominate the world.
This Zhejiang uprising was initiated by Xu Du, the leader of the volunteer society, and was mainly carried out in Jinhua and Shaoxing.
There is something very nonsense. The Longyou merchant gang in western Zhejiang should be considered the most revolutionary group of people. They don’t have much land to their name, but they have a lot of money in their hands, and they rely heavily on Jiangxi for business.
If Zhao Han comes to fight, it will be beneficial to them without any harm.
But this time Xu Du planned an uprising and sent people to contact western Zhejiang. Instead, they were reported by the gentry, and the Longyou merchants did not respond at all.
These Longyou merchants had business all over the country, even in the southwest, northwest and overseas. No matter how much money they earned, they would go home and build mansions. Moreover, merchants were despised here, so big merchants built academies one after another.
The strange thing is that only academies were built and no famous teachers or scholars were invited to teach.
Merchants who made a lot of money tried their best to buy land and became big landowners. Many of them simply gave up doing business.
As a result, the main body of the Longyou Merchant Gang has always been small and medium-sized businessmen. Moreover, without the government's care, they were bullied everywhere and turned into big businessmen who were landlords. In turn, they discriminated against and suppressed businessmen.
In this uprising, in the entire Quzhou Prefecture, only Jiangshan County succeeded, while all other places failed.
Especially in Longyou County, large landowners directly recruited troops and launched a wild counterattack against the rebels who occupied the county, killing more than 30 rebels and more than 100 other rebels.
These guys are crazy!
They are so close to Jiangxi, so aren't they afraid that Zhao Han will come and kill them randomly?
Let’s analyze and sort out why Quzhou Prefecture, where all the people are businessmen, has formed a social atmosphere that discriminates against businessmen.
Merchants here mainly engage in long-distance trafficking.
In ancient times, those who engaged in long-distance trafficking would have been bullied and exploited, and they would have encountered countless social beatings along the way. They were afraid of the government, and they worshiped power. Because the business route was too long, it was impossible to form a stable government-business collusion model.
In terms of quantity alone, Longyou merchants are the largest.
However, they do not sign up for a group, nor do they collude with the government. They cannot do business in big cities at all. They can only go to remote areas in groups, and in many cases they can only be manipulated by others.
Therefore, when many big businessmen got old and could no longer do business, they returned home and kept hoarding land, educating their children and grandchildren, and from then on regarded themselves as gentry.
In the mid-Ming Dynasty, there was a Longyou merchant who did a lot of business in the north, with shops and warehouses spread across three and a half counties.
When he returned home to buy land, build a house, and build a bridge in the county, he directly donated ten thousand taels of silver.
As for the businesses in the three and a half counties in the north, sell them all!
Anyway, he has plenty of money, so he can just wait for the natural disaster to annex the land.
However, it is said that Xu Du raised troops in Dongyang County and took advantage of the summer grain harvest to pay rent and land taxes. He incited tens of thousands of tenants and small landowners to conquer Dongyang County in one fell swoop. Then he captured Yiwu and surrounded Jinhua City. The scholars and domestic slaves in the city
In response, the inside and outside cooperated to capture the Jinhua Mansion.
When the bad news came from Longyou County, the Zhejiang Zhejiang scholars became excited and worshiped the scholars who were killed by the big landlords as "Thirty-two Gentlemen".
Immediately, Xu Du led his troops to attack Tangxi County and directed his troops towards Longyou, preparing to kill the big landowners for revenge.
The rebels captured five of the eight counties of Jinhua Prefecture, and the whole Jiangnan was shaken.
Xiong Fenwei, the governor of Zhejiang, was shocked and immediately ordered all prefectures and counties in Zhejiang to recruit troops to suppress the bandits.
Except for being a county magistrate when he was young, all other positions this guy held were public officials.
He was given the position of Shizhong from the Wanli Dynasty to the Chongzhen Dynasty, and he almost took over all the six departments. After being transferred to the Military Branch and assigned to Shizhong, Xiong Fenwei regarded himself as knowing the military and impeached several ministers of the Ministry of War. Because he offended Wen Tiren.
, was thrown into the position of Shang Baoqing. To put it bluntly, he was in charge of seals and letters.
After Zhao Han occupied Guangdong and Hunan, Chongzhen suddenly remembered Xiong Fenwei and promoted him to governor of Zhejiang.
Xiong Fenwei gave the order and the entire Zhejiang province was in a state of panic.
There is already a famine in Zhejiang, but the governor actually conscripts troops and supplies for war?
The people of Zhejiang, who had long been overwhelmed, saw the riots in central Zhejiang and violently resisted taxation. At the same time, they refused to work as civilians for the government.
In the Kuocang Mountain area, there was even a peasant army of more than 30,000 people.
Tangxi County.
A volunteer scholar came running to him: "Zikou, Zikou, good news!"
"What good news?" Xu Du asked.
The scholar smiled and said: "Mr. Zhao has sent out troops, and the army has passed Jiangshan County!"
"Ha ha ha ha!"
Xu Du immediately laughed and summoned many scholars and merchant leaders: "Gentlemen, Mr. Zhao has passed Jiangshan County. Let's block the enemy troops here and watch how those thieves are annihilated by Mr. Zhao!"
