They were asked by these corrupt officials for almost 50 yuan for crossing the road and benefits, learned a lot of local "local customs", and also learned various exploitation methods for some business travelers to travel in the middle of the night to avoid officials and officials.
They often run the risk of encountering bandits and wild animals, and travel from forest areas or mountainous areas in the middle of the night, far away from places where officials are located, such as urban areas, and stay up all day and go out at night, making them as human as some wild animals.
In this process, Zhao Yucheng had a deep feeling.
"The ancients often said that tyranny is fiercer than the tiger. We realized that farmers don’t understand the hardships of vendors. Today, we have realized the oppression of white orientation.
It’s not impossible to kill a tiger when 10 or 20 people together hold a lance, but what if there are hundreds of people in tyranny? "
One hundred members of the Fuxing Association in the same trade were also deeply touched and nodded in agreement.
Chapter 731 There is rebel soil in this area.
Zhao Yucheng and others did not act immediately after arriving in Luling.
They had a meeting, and then dispersed locally and lived in different counties for a while. It took more than a month for everyone to reunite with Luling to exchange what they saw and heard.
Through communication, they found that this place is really suitable for them to carry out their actions.
In short, there is rebel soil in this area.
Thirty years ago, at the beginning of the southern crossing of the Song Dynasty, a peasant uprising broke out here because of too harsh taxes and repeated ravages by Jin Bing and Song Bing, with a huge crowd of more than 100 thousand people.
It was Yue Fei who was in charge of pacifying this group of anti-thieves at that time.
After Yue Fei’s crusade, the rebels were defeated and the rebellion was suppressed, but the barren and poor land has not changed, and the fierce situation of official tax collection has not changed.
People in this land are always brewing rebellion.
So in the twenty-second year of Shaoxing, Lin ‘an imperial court was stationed here, and there was a rebellion that swept through several state capitals. It took great efforts to finally put down the rebellion.
And then it’s now
The deep suffering brought by the rebel war has not been alleviated, and the government rule is still cruel.
Moreover, there are quite a few mountains in this area suitable for farming, and there is not much grain to fight for. People are often forced by tax collectors to drill into the mountains.
Or from now on, I will escape into the mountains and forests, and I will be hungry and full. People are tired of dogs and feel like uncivilized cavemen.
Either the bandits lick the blood through the knife edge and mix up a large piece of meat and drink in a big bowl. If you don’t even eat a full meal, you will be pushed out as cannon fodder
Of course, fleeing and bandits are not without risks.
When you escape, you have to worry about the government organizing people to go into the mountains to search for it. If you catch it, you will have to work as a coolie, and you will not be able to regain your freedom.
Bandits are relatively good and have the ability to resist. Generally speaking, they rob villages to pick up soft persimmons. But if one accidentally robs the government, the government will send people into the mountains to kill bandits.
Compared with fleeing and bandits, yeomen and tenants are also living, not ghosts and ghosts.
Working hard all the year round, most of the income is either given to the government or to the landlord, leaving himself barely enough food and clothing. This is still a good year.
If there is a natural disaster and a poor harvest, it is to escape bandits and go into exile. There is no fourth way-if starvation is a way.
Lu Chengren, deputy director of the general department of the Fuxing Branch of Jiangnan West Road, gave the conclusion of his visit to the local area
"The people in this land are illiterate and illiterate. I visited many villages and the people talked about it. There are no more than ten people who can read and write in a village, and no more than five people can read and write unless there is a local landlord family.
This is not to mention working in cities, and quite a few of them are illiterate or have limited knowledge of several big characters. The whole observation shows that people are numb and desperate, and they have no resistance. "
Duan Yang, the head of the organization department, also gave his own views.
"Through communication with local people, I think they are either numb and afraid to resist, and it is also a success to resist. They may passively resist or fall into the mountains, and they don’t know that there is a better way to resist. It is meaningless to organize resistance spontaneously.
Moreover, many passive rebels did not attack the local government and the landlord’s powerful forces after their resistance, but continued to bully the weak, rob villages and bully the people. There is no sense of resistance. They are simply evil and cannot achieve positive results. "
Later, some members also gave speeches, and they all said what they saw and thought.
Zhao Yucheng is very optimistic about Xu Tong, a member of the military department, who looks at the problem from different angles 2.
"I think this place is rich in bandits. There is no reason why this area is mountainous and less plain. It is particularly difficult to walk a little deeper. Many passages are enough for one or two people to pass.
I ran to the mountains from time to time and found that there are many mountains, and there are still many valleys suitable for camp mountains and mountain springs. It is not a problem to have enough food to live in a mountain for three or five hundred people. "
Yu-cheng zhao leng leng and then laughed.
"You thought about going to war with Song Jun before we acted?"
"Sooner or later, although the people here are numb, everyone is angry and resentful and hungry. They don’t hate the government and the landlords, but they can’t see the success of resistance. I hope we can let them see hope!"
Xu Tongxiao "positions that sentence how to say it again? Oh! A single spark can start a prairie fire. "
Xu Tong’s words made everyone’s minds accessible, and many people’s minds came alive.
"I think Xu Tong has a point."
Du Qi, vice president of Jiangxi Branch of Fuxing Association and the most senior Fuxing member here, said, "We are here for armed struggle, not for doing good deeds and opening porridge sheds. We have to do something to pull up a strong team and open up the situation of our Fuxing Association here."
Therefore, we can really choose a reliable base area first, and we must be able to stick to it for a long time. When our strength is not strong enough and our manpower is not enough, we can win more with less, and we can attack Song Jun or the landlord armed forces at any time. "
They discussed this for a while and then turned their attention to Zhao Yucheng.
Zhao Yucheng thought for a while and agreed.
"Without considering him, we should consider the problem of health first, and then we can consider his problem. I think what Xu Tong said is very reasonable. Let’s find a place that can be used as a base and then buy the necessary things."
So in the next two months, they began to prepare for the armed struggle.
Before we set out, everyone wanted to develop farmers in Luling area to fight, but they soon realized that this strategy was dangerous.
Because the Luling area is too close to the Ezhou army, the most powerful and largest army in the Southern Song Dynasty.
Besides, it is not difficult for Luling North and Song Jun in Jiujiang area to mobilize Nanping rebellion.
Once these two armies meet in the south, they can at least pull out more than 100 thousand troops to counter the rebellion, and the troops will be very large, which is beyond the resistance of the newly uprising rebels
In addition, Ganzhou, not far from Luling area, also has a Song imperial army stationed.
It is said that this is because when Ganzhou was also called Qianzhou, there was a civil commotion, which disturbed Zhao Gou’s old mother Zhao Gou and frightened her.
Zhao Gou was furious and wanted to slaughter the residents of Qianzhou. Fortunately, Lai Yuefei begged Zhao Gou to stop, but since then, he has not believed in Qianzhou people and sent troops to station.
In the twenty-second year of Shaoxing, Qianzhou was renamed Ganzhou after the garrison rebellion subsided.
There are Ezhou army in the northwest, Jiujiang army in the north and Qianzhou imperial army in the southeast. If the plain area in this area develops, I’m afraid it will be pacified by the army in the Southern Song Dynasty.
Once the army has a certain foundation, it should immediately enter the mountainous area to operate the mountainous area, fight against the crusade troops in the Southern Song Dynasty through the mountain situation, and at the same time train its own personnel, educate their own personnel to grow and wait for the opportunity.
Can’t stay in the plain area and will soon be able to come to the Southern Song Dynasty regular army to play hardball.
Zhao Yucheng and others are responsible for the implementation of this strategy after it is determined.
Their base area is located in Luoxiao Mountain area in the southwest of Luling.
Chapter 732 Rise up
Luoxiao Mountain area has been inhabited since the early Eastern Han Dynasty.
It’s not that people in the mountains can’t live, and it’s not that fields can’t be cultivated. There are fewer places suitable for human life, and the soil is thinner and less fertile, and it’s difficult to achieve large-scale human settlements with fewer arable places.
Here, a settlement can be scattered, and the living place has not been large since the Eastern Han Dynasty. Most of the human settlements are still desolate and primitive forest areas.
However, in the Song Dynasty, more and more people entered the mountainous area to be bandits because of tyranny. The bandits actually made this mountainous area more habitable human settlements.
Zhao Yucheng, Xu Tong, Du Qi and others drilled in the mountains for more than two months and found some mountain basins suitable for human habitation.
As far as they can see, two of the five mountain basins are occupied by people, and three are occupied by people. Naturally, these mountain basins are bandits who rely on steep mountains to survive here.
It seems that these bandits don’t live entirely by looting. They also farm land. These mountain basins also have places suitable for farming. These bandits gather and flee to join them. Some people are responsible for farming, while others are responsible for licking blood.
It’s a good feeling. If the mountain area can find a mountain basin and live people, then there is no problem
In addition to these raw areas, they also choose hidden places in the mountains as backup bases. They buy grain in batches and find channels to buy smuggled salt and spears. Some live in places, while others are not needed in the mountains.
This channel is not difficult to find.