Standing on the high building in the yard, looking at the fire on all sides, listening to the diminishing gunfire, Qiu Yi knew that failure was a foregone conclusion.
Sun Long fought with teeth and said, "Didn't you say there will be reinforcements?"
Qiu Yi shook his head and ignored him.
In fact, yesterday Qiu Yi sent people to various garrisons in Shanghai to seek assistance to the Wusong Fort Guards, the patrol soldiers, the patrol soldiers, the patrol soldiers, the patrol soldiers, and even the Chongming Island Navy. He sent people. However, the patrol soldiers said that they would maintain order in the market, and the patrol soldiers said that the chief general had not returned to the salt patrol.
They dared not make decisions. The two major navy said politely that they could ask for help in the sea affairs, but they could not do anything on land affairs. As for the reason of the Wusong Fort defenders, they wanted to defend the fort and did not dare to go out without any reason...
If they thought they were making a big fuss yesterday and refused to act rashly, then the fireworks that had been fired overnight tonight but no army came to reinforce them, this only means that all the troops were instigated.
"There will be no reinforcements." After Sun Long's questioning, Qiu Yicai turned his head and said word by word: "I heard that Ma Tang was paraded naked, then beheaded, and his head hung on the city gate. He has not been picked yet."
"What do you mean?" Sun Long said with a pale face.
"We two have done so many bad things," Qiu Yi sighed and said, "If you fall into their hands, you will be even worse than Ma Tang."
"So...what?" Sun Long said in a daze.
"Please be happy and let yourself break yourself." After Qiu Yi said that, he pulled out his knife and handed it to him: "I have already made people pile up firewood and poured oil on the downstairs, so that they can't insult our bodies."
"But I'm afraid of pain." Sun Long looked at the shaky blade and his body shrank back.
"I'll help you!" Qiu Yi handed a look, and his entourage clamped Sun Long tightly behind him. The next moment, the sharp blade entered his abdomen. Sun Long opened his eyes wide and stopped struggling.
After gritting his teeth and pulling out the knife, Qiu Yi didn't mean to give him another one.
Following Qiu Yi's instructions, he placed Sun Long on a chair and sat down. As soon as he was about to get up, he felt a pain in his mouth. He looked down and saw that his heart had been penetrated. He turned around in disbelief and saw Qiu Yi's cold face.
Qiu Yi pulled out his knife, took off his python clothes, changed it to his dead companion, put on his clothes, lit a fire, and hurried downstairs.
Seeing a fire rising from the upper floor of the Governor, the resistance of the Dongchang stopped abruptly and they all knelt down on the ground and surrendered.
The suicide squad, who had been stuffy all night, rushed in, killed the beardless one, and then searched for money everywhere.
The discipline of the merchant group was much better. Although the losses were heavy, they did not rush to retaliate or rob. Instead, they rushed towards the East Factory dungeon under the leadership of Ge Cheng.
The dungeon of the East Factory is at the core of the yamen. In the past, it was guarded layer by layer and was heavily guarded, but now the prison guards are no longer visible, and even the prison door is open. The troupe brave men rushed into the dungeon, opened a cell, and released more than 1,700 prisoners imprisoned inside... There were Wang Xuebang members, progressive gentry and merchants, Huilian employees, newspaper editors, and many people who were arrested for tax resistance.
Citizens quickly came to help, carrying the tortured prisoners out and sending them to Shanghai Medical College two streets away. However, too many wounded people had been admitted here, so they first placed them together for treatment. Some of them were healthy and insisted on going home. Citizens just asked if they needed escorts, but did not stop them.
No one noticed that Qiu Yi, who had a big beard, mingled in the prisoner's team and left the medical school calmly.
Of course, this has nothing to do with the overall situation, because people believe that Qiu Yi is dead, which is enough.
After the success of the Shanghai City Uprising, the surrounding counties competed to respond, Baoshan, Songjiang, Qingpu,
Chongming, Jiading, Nanhui, Fengxian and Chuansha revolt one after another, and the process was basically very simple.
Tax offices in various places without the protection of the Dongchang and the army, and dozens of tax officials were close to the people, how could they withstand the impact of the people? Often, the insured rushed to the front door, and the tax officials ran away from the back door, which was considered to be the revolution of the tax officer.
The magistrates of each county were also mentally prepared and followed the example of the prefect and put comfort in the uprising. Many county magistrates even agreed to serve as the nominal leader of the uprising and wrote letters to the court on behalf of the people. Of course, there were also those who were determined to stay away from the door, and the people who were uprising did not force them too much, and did not attack the county government. Both sides were at peace and did not violate the river water.
Another day later, Suzhou and other places also started to revolt. The 22nd winter moon, and the civil war was like mountains and rivers.
He rushed to the streets like a rush. In the morning, Xu Yichun, who was fleeing at Midu Bridge, rushed to Yue and Xumen, beat tax officials everywhere, and even tied them up and threw them into the river.
On the 23rd, the civilians found the hiding place of the tax officials, beat Pan Xinglu, Zhou Yangyun and more than ten others, and destroyed their houses. Deng Yunxiao, the magistrate of Changzhou, also participated in the civilians and brought the captured chiefs of the commission, Tang Xin and Xu Cheng, to Xuanmiaoguan for public trial. The angry people beat the two to death on the spot.
The bleeding caused the crowd to boil. The people who were rebellious rushed to the office of Huang Jianjie, the tax supervisor of Suzhou, and beat him to death on the spot for 24 days. The rebellious team went to the gentry Ding Yuan, who supported the tax officials, to make his home and Gui's house, burned his house, and beat him to "not forgive him". During the collective action with clear goals, violence and tragedy were released in full swing, but the mutiny did not disturb the people. Occasionally, those who took advantage of the chaos to rob, were also killed by the inspector team formed by Wang Xuemen.
On the 25th, Suzhou city gates posted a list of civilians who changed their lives, claiming that "tax officials are rampant and the people are unable to bear their lives. We advocate righteousness to eliminate harm for the people and ask the emperor to eliminate the mining supervision envoys and restore the prosperity of our market, without any intention of disturbing the people. Residents from all directions are all calm in their physiology and have no excuses to cause chaos." For a time, Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas responded, and all prefectures and counties were killing the mining supervision envoys who were angry and resentful, and established militia groups to defend the market. In the twelfth lunar month, the uprising swept across the six southeastern provinces, and together with Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou, a vigorous uprising against taxes and eunuchs reached its climax.
However, this great uprising is significantly different from previous peasant uprisings.
First of all, unlike the peasant uprising with strong destructive power, although this citizen uprising was very violent, it always left no one of the mine surveillance officers and their lackeys within a clear and controllable range, but it did not hurt the innocent.
For example, on the night of the Shanghai Uprising, the rebels who did not participate in the war went out to defend the public order in different areas. All prison reform sites, Nitrogen Bureau and other important places had strict defenses, and the firefighting team was also on guard, and the social order was stable. Although there were still gangsters who took advantage of the chaos to rob, they were all arrested by the inspectors who rushed to the scene and were severely punished.
The situation in other areas is not as ideal as the sea, but the sāo chaos that occurred is within a controllable range, and there was a large-scale smashing and looting in one place. This is unimaginable in the peasant uprising.
The reason is that the goal is clear and the citizens vented all their anger on the eunuch party. The second is that the leaders of the uprising, the power of the city, Wang Xue Party members, local gentry and merchants, and even bureaucrats, were unwilling to see chaos in the city. Under the guidance of the Qionglin Party members, they effectively prevented people from taking advantage of the situation through a lot of preliminary work.
There is another third point, that is, the collective action that occurs in cities, with the urban residents, and is shaped in the urban environment. Although the reasons for the cause and the causes of peasant uprisings are not much different, they are basically for livelihoods. However, there are essential differences from peasant uprisings: urban people are easy to fight and comfort, because they make a living by relying on skills and labor. If they lose their jobs or cannot support themselves, they will fight, but they can find a job or get a reasonable reward at any time and survive at any time.
In the peasant uprisings in history, the peasants completely lost their land and everything. From then on, they were wandering on the brink of death, with no more hope, and only a dead end.
Therefore, once an uprising is full of resentment, it often turns into a storm that destroys everything and overthrows the court.
"Simply put, although there are protests in urban civil rebellion, it does not subvert. "They are against eunuchs, but not against the emperor." In the Jiangnan Navy station on Chongming Island, Shen Mo slowly explained to Zhang Juzheng in the mountain villa where Shen Mo and Hu Zongxian drank for the last time.
"How did you figure it out?" Zhang Juzheng said with his eyes wide open: "There are no examples in ancient and modern times, both in China and abroad, right?"
"I told you that I fainted when I was a child. When I woke up, I suddenly knew what happened five hundred years later." Shen Mo sighed and said, "Do you have to wait until the Invincible Armada is overturned by the British before you believe me?"
"Although it's nonsense." In the past two years, Shen Mo said such words several times. Zhang Juzheng always felt that he was pretending to be a ghost, but after a long time, he couldn't help but believe it: "But only in this way can I understand you, what you do." As he said that, he couldn't help but say: "Will the Ming Dynasty really be destroyed by the Jurchens in decades? The great rivers and mountains are really going to be ruled by foreign races again? Will China really retreat back to the slave era and become a colony of Western powers?"
"I can only say that this is the case in history." Shen Mo smiled bitterly and rubbed his nose, "But you have to know that history is full of accidents. Liu Chengyu did not kill Guo Wei's family, and there would be nothing Chai Rong. Chai Rong did not die early, and Zhao Kuangyin did not have anything to do. One of them could live long, and Yanyun's Sixteen Prefectures would be back, and there would be nothing to do in Liao. On the other hand, if Wanyan Aguda and Temujin could die early, there would be nothing Jin and Méng Gu."
"This is the so-called destiny." Zhang Juzheng said deeply: "Before completing the mission, they did not die. When it came a little, the King of Hell would urge him."
"It's just good luck." Shen Mo curled his lips disdainfully, "In addition to being able to achieve great things, all those who achieve great things are full of luck. If you fail, you will be exhausted. For example, the Jurchen, 1],
He is a hero at such a young age, but when he meets me in bad luck, he can only show his ambitions in the next life."
"No wonder Li Chengliang sent the young man, and you killed him without saying a word." Zhang Juzheng said: "I'm afraid it was your imagination that killed an innocent life."
"You are here again." Chen Si sighed: "In fact, without the support of Li Chengliang, the Jianzhou Jurchens could not get up, but I am not at ease with this life and death trouble. I can only betray me."
"Okay, I believe you know the future." Zhang Juzheng smiled and said, "Then how many years do you think I can live?"
"Hehe" Chen Si smiled and said, "I only know the life expectancy of a few people, and you happen to be there."
Ju Zheng's face changed.
"As early as the eighth year of Wanli, you should have died." Silent smiled.
"But I'm still alive." Zhang Juzheng smiled strangely and said, "It can be seen that your trick is inaccurate."
"That's because I snatched your position as prime minister." Silence also smiled strangely and said, "So although there is no "Gangling's brilliance, the glory of you, you are still alive and lively, so it's not too much."
"You have been the chief minister for eight years, and you live a good life differently?" Zhang Juzheng glared.
"We are different." Chen Si narrowed his eyes.
Ju Zheng thought about it and sighed, "Let me let my son do it for eight years. I will definitely betray my relatives and disobey my relatives and thousands of people."
"If I come out again, I might be like you." Chen Si said in a low voice: "This world has been completely changed, and it's time for me to let my son do it."
"It seems that you are still full of confidence in victory." Zhang Juzheng couldn't help but sarcastically, "Just as you said just now, no matter how lively the citizens' riots are, they are against eunuchs and not against the emperor. The reason why local officials and the army remain neutral is because they understand that this is not about rebellion, but forcing the emperor to submit. If the emperor decisively cut off his arm, give up the mining supervision and tax entrusted, restore the news freedom, rehabilitation for the Taizhou faction, and even guarantee that there will be no commercial taxes forever, wouldn't you catch them blindly?"
"If the emperor really does this." Chen Si said lightly: "I really have no choice."
"If the emperor insists on being tough, it will be even more difficult for you!" Zhang Juzheng said: "Although the officials in the world have had a very terrible relationship with the emperor, they are emperors for more than ten years, and no one has ever changed their minds. What about the army? To fight the Dongchang Yamen, they have to change into the clothes of ordinary people while they are in the dark, and then go back secretly after the battle. Why is this? Because they disdain the emperor in their hearts and dare not be the rebellion, they will not dare to be the rebellion. If the emperor asks them to quell the rebellion, they will at most let go, but they will never turn against each other!"
"You can still gain something when the emperor surrenders, but the premise is that you have no settlement after the autumn."
Zhang Juzheng was more worried than mocking, "If he was tough at all costs, you would be beaten up."
"What you said makes sense." Chen Si said a little absent-mindedly: "But the road has been completed, so you can only take one step at a time."
"You!" Zhang Juzheng was furious and scolded angrily: "How can he be so irresponsible?"
Chapter completed!