The Qingzhou Guards went to recruit troops, but fell into the rebels' plan. The commander Gao Feng was killed, and the officers and soldiers suffered heavy casualties.
The chief envoy immediately sent Sun Gong of thousands of households in Juzhou to appease him, but the rebel army refused to appease him and killed the officers and soldiers who accompanied him.
Jimo and Juzhou have been conquered one after another!
This can no longer be regarded as a civil uprising, it is a naked rebellion to seize the country!
Most civil unrests were caused by people who could no longer survive. After organizing armed forces, they robbed landlords and took advantage of big households, rather than directly going to war with the court.
Even at the end of the Yuan Dynasty when the world was in chaos, at the beginning, the rebel army did not directly go to war with the Yuan army, but took advantage of the big households. Only later, the situation became more and more intense, and the Yuan court suppressed the rebel army, and then the war officially started.
But this time it was completely different. The imperial court had recruited people, but not only did they turn a deaf ear, but they went straight to war, killing officials and burning granaries, obviously just to make the matter bigger.
What made Zhu Di even more angry was that the Jin Yiwei had found out all this information, but the local officials were still trying their best to conceal it and not report it.
Regardless of whether they are the masterminds or just trying to keep their heads above their heads, Zhu Di cannot tolerate it. The most taboo thing for an emperor is to deceive his ministers.
Li Qing looked at Tang Saier's personal file repeatedly:
"Tang Sai'er was the wife of Lin San from Putai, Shandong. After her husband died, she came across a stone box on her way home from sweeping the tomb, which contained a sword and a book of war.
After studying day and night, she became proficient in various arts, so she became a nun and called herself the Mother of the Buddha. She claimed that she could know success and failure before and after life, and could cut paper and fight with each other.
If you need food, clothing, property, etc., you can use magic to get it..."
The path taken is to change dynasties, which is exactly the same as the "stone man with one eye, inciting rebellion across the Yellow River" in the late Yuan Dynasty.
What's even more shocking is that this rebel army actually has an organization - the White Lotus Army!
History is always surprisingly similar, it’s the White Lotus Rebellion again!
At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the world was in chaos. Han Shantong and Liu Futong took advantage of this to cause trouble. Speaking of which, Lao Zhu was also a member of the White Lotus Sect. He was able to conquer the world because of the White Lotus Sect.
However, after Lao Zhu came to power, he never stopped suppressing the White Lotus Sect because he was afraid that someone would imitate him.
Under his suppression, the White Lotus Sect has disappeared, and almost no one has heard of the White Lotus Sect. Now that there has been such a big commotion, how can Zhu Di endure it?
Zhu Di's eyes were cold and he could not hide his anger: "Whether Tang Sai'er has Han Shantong or not, let alone Liu Futong's ability, I, the Ming Dynasty, am definitely not the Yuan Ting;
Rebellion? Haha...you have to pay a price!"
"Ah~haha..." Zhu Di laughed angrily and gritted his teeth and said, "This time, let that bitch see what it means to punish the people and punish the people!"
Li Qing and Xiao Pang were silent, both understanding that it would be impossible not to kill them this time.
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The next day, the commander-in-chief of the Beijing camp, Anyuan Hou Liu Sheng, and the commander-in-chief Liu Zhong personally led 5,000 elite troops to suppress the attack.
As the army set off, the court became quiet. No one scolded Zhu Di anymore, and no one dared to cause turmoil to oppose the relocation of the capital. They were all observing the situation nervously.
The seriousness of the situation this time is the most serious since the founding of the Ming Dynasty. Everyone knows that after this incident, many people will have their homes confiscated and their families exterminated, and their heads will be killed.
Li Qing was also observing the situation at all times. The royal court came out in full force, the post station was rushed eight hundred miles away, and real-time intelligence was continuously sent to the capital.
Seven days later, the elite troops from the Beijing camp rushed to Yidu, Shandong Province. Tang Saier's White Lotus Army held on to the dangerous position and unloaded Shipeng Village.
Anyuanhou Guang believed that the terrain was dangerous and he would suffer heavy losses from the attack, so he surrounded the enemy without attacking and cut off his water and food supply.
The White Lotus Army relied on the danger to defend, but the mountains were high and there was no water. Soon they could not hold on any longer, so Tang Sai'er had no choice but to beg for surrender.
When Zhu Di saw the report, he breathed a long sigh of relief. The situation was finally stabilized.
Li Qing felt much more relaxed and understood that after this time, no one would dare to oppose moving the capital.
But soon, things took a turn.
Tang Sai'er pretended to surrender on the grounds that "there was no food in the stronghold and there was no water", and lured the main force of the Ming army to a place with water in the east of the city. Then he concentrated his forces and attacked the Ming army at night, killing Liu Zhong, the commander of the capital.
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When the main force of the Ming army returned for reinforcements, Tang Saier had already commanded the White Lotus Army to move calmly.
At the same time, more than a dozen rebel armies appeared in Zhucheng, Anqiu, Jiaozhou and other places, and were later collected by Tang Saier one by one. The White Lotus Army once reached more than 20,000 people.
Things are officially getting out of control...
At this time, Zhu Di showed his talents and strategies, and the style of Emperor Yongle was fully displayed.
Against all odds, he rejected everyone's suggestions, including Lee Sin's proposal for immediate reinforcements.
Zhu Di issued an order: the construction of the new capital was completely stopped, and the craftsmen were sent home. This was to stop public opinion first and prevent the White Lotus Army from taking the opportunity to resist tyranny and develop and grow;
At the same time, the military in Jizhou, Zhending, Jinan... and other places have been ordered to implement comprehensive martial law to prevent the situation from deteriorating.
After the above two orders were passed, the living space of the White Lotus Army was directly cut off. At the same time, the White Lotus Army was firmly trapped in the prefectures and counties near Jimo, giving them no chance to escape at all.
At this time, Zhu Di ordered the troops of the Shandong Guard to go to suppress the rebellion.
After the order was issued, Wei Qing, the commander of the capital responsible for guarding against Japanese pirates along the east coast of Shandong, arrived first with his troops.
Wei Qing and Marquis Anyuan cooperated with each other and attacked from both front and rear. The White Lotus Army was attacked from both sides. Within a few days, they were defeated and fled in all directions.
The fighting strength of the Ming army was simply not comparable to that of the rebel army. A team of more than 20,000 people was killed by less than 8,000 Ming troops, leaving nothing behind.
In this battle alone, more than 2,000 people from the White Lotus Sect were killed and more than 4,000 people were captured. Before the other guards arrived, the matter was settled.
Tang Saier's uprising came and went quickly. It took more than a month for the news of the uprising to reach the capital, to gain momentum, and then to be suppressed.
After the unrest was suppressed, it was time for liquidation.
Zhu Di is not a kind-hearted person. This turmoil is not a civil uprising at all. He only punishes the evil leaders and never asks for threats. The White Lotus Sect has emerged. If he doesn't kill him, will he still be allowed to celebrate the New Year?
As a result, all the captives were beheaded, and that wasn't the end of it. Their wives and children were confiscated by the government and made into slaves. The men were turned into labor slaves, and the women were turned into official prostitutes.
Zhu Di wants to set an example and shock the world!
Let the whole world see the consequences of joining the White Lotus Sect.
Is this the end?
No, there is more!
Shandong's chief envoy, political envoy, councilor, inspector, deputy inspector, minister... All high-ranking officials were beheaded!
——The crime is harboring and indulging in rebellion.
But Zhu Di's anger was far more than that. He used this crime to start a thorough liquidation. Wherever the White Lotus Army went, local magistrates, county magistrates, bookkeepers, criminal names, jailers, police officers... not only officials, but also officials
Let them go and behead them all.
There were not many officials in the Ming Dynasty, but there were many officials. Zhu Di killed more than 3,000 people in one fell swoop, which can be said to be ruthless.
At this point, the news spread all over the world, and officials were wary of the White Lotus Sect to the point where they became disloyal, and even regular temples were affected.
For the sake of their black gauze hats and their lives, local officials began to carry out strict inspections of temples and nunneries, and many monks and nuns were forced to return to secular life.
Although it is unkind, it has also invisibly increased the social labor force. These people spend all day knocking wooden fish, and if they don't do any work, they get a lot of sesame oil money. They just suck the blood and sweat of the people.
Their return to secular life has brought about hundreds of benefits and no harm.
Zhu Di had been in power for eighteen years, and the previous seventeen years combined did not kill as many people as this one month, and the killings made all the ministers frightened.
The civil servants, in particular, were even more frightened, as if they saw Taizu waving to them.
Almost all of the people Zhu Di killed were people from the civil service system, and the generals were basically untouched.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Zhu Di once again elevated the status of military generals and awarded rewards to the generals who participated in suppressing the rebellion. Soldiers and generals who died in battle received generous pensions.
At the same time, Zhu Di also set a positive example for military commanders.
Wei Qing, the commander of the capital in charge of guarding against Japanese pirates along the coast of Shandong, rose to the top in one step and was directly promoted to the commander of Shandong.
Zhu Di's move undoubtedly showed: I love you, follow me and enjoy the good life!
This scheme worked very well, and all the generals came to their hearts' contention and wrote memorials one after another in favor of moving the capital.
After stabilizing the army, Zhu Di's back was immediately strengthened, and the civil servant group also knew that the situation was over, and they pinched their noses and urged him one after another.
Unexpectedly, Zhu Di quit at this time, saying that the liquidation was not over yet.
The culprit Tang Sai'er hasn't been found yet, so we can't just let it go. We suspect someone is covering up Tang Sai'er, so we need to investigate strictly and thoroughly.
The local liquidation is over, it’s time to liquidate the court!