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In the late Ming Dynasty, there were three eccentric Confucians: Li Zhi, Chen Jiru, and Li Yu.

How can it be called strange?

Heresy!

Li Yu is the most elusive among them. Although "Meat X Group" does not have a real name, anyone who is a little 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 innocent, and indulgence is moderate.

This guy especially likes to share the bed. The three concubines sleep separately for three nights and sleep together for one night, which is called "unification of three parts".

At this moment, Li Yu is not called Li Yu yet, and his name and name are very suitable for Xianxia novels.

His surname is Li, his first name is Immortal Couple, his style name is Banfan, and his nickname is Tiantu!

And at this time, Li Yu had only one wife who loved each other and had no concubines.

Lanxi County, Xiali Village.

Li Yu was sharpening his sword in the yard, while his mother was sitting under the eaves and weeping bitterly, while his wife and sister-in-law comforted him patiently.

Eldest brother Li Mao said anxiously: "Second brother, are you confused? The provincial examination will be in two months. You are a five classics boy in the county. You will pass the examination this year. Why do you follow those sour scholars to rebel?"

Li Yu sprinkled water on the sword, scratched the edge of the sword with his fingers and said, "In two months, even Hangzhou will be gone, so why not take the Laoshizi Township Examination?"

"Jiangxi thief Zhao, why are you so powerful? Don't make trouble with them, and prepare for the provincial examination." Li Mao persuaded.

Li Yu stood up abruptly, put his sword back into its sheath, and said to his elder brother, "Brother, you take care of the family yourself. I have to go this time. My family has been a doctor for generations, and my uncle is also a drug dealer. How can I leave Jiangxi? There are no medicinal materials in Zhangshu Town. , Uncle can’t even do business. Brother, do you know what is the status of doctors in Jiangxi?”

Li Mao said: "What status can I have? I am the last one waiting."

"Haha, it's wrong," Li Yu laughed, "The doctor family is very respected in Jiangxi, just because of this, the Li family should serve King Zhao!"

It is true that many scholars in ancient times studied medicine, just like studying Taoism and Buddhism, they belonged to cultivating sentiment.

The medical households in the Ming Dynasty were different. "Witch doctors and monks" also claimed that they were not much different from artisan households, and they belonged to the object of discrimination for generations.

Li Yu was born in the same county as Mao Pijiang in the same year. Li Yu himself is a scholar, and his family is still in business. He and Mao Pijiang have many mutual friends. However, the two of them have never been friends in their entire lives, because Mao Bijiang looked down on Li Yu's background!

Li Yu said to his eldest brother: "Brother, Mr. Zhao has taken over the world, and our Li family can really turn around!"

"Exile Fan, let's go!"

Someone outside the courtyard suddenly urged.

"Come on!"

Li Yu turned around and bowed to his mother, then said to his wife, "If I die, you can remarry."

His wife, Mrs. Xu nodded: "You go, I will watch over the house."

Li Yu walked out with his sword in hand, followed by a house slave, who was the book boy who grew up with him.

The house slave held a stick in his hand, and his blood was boiling. He can read and write, if Zhao Tianwang comes, he will be free, and maybe he can be an official in the future.

The master and servant walked out of the yard, and there were already more than ten people standing outside.

They are all master-servant combinations, the master holds a sword and the servant uses a stick. They have been practicing for more than a month.

The crowd went to the county town together, and in order not to attract attention, they were divided into several groups, and they came to the city one after another, and lived in the home of a big businessman.

There is a river in Lanxi County, which leads directly to Jiangshan County.

And Jiangshan County is next to Jiangxi Guangxin Mansion. A large number of Jiangxi commodities were transported to central Zhejiang through this route. The gentry and merchants along the way knew the situation in Jiangxi very well.

The first day of June.

An army composed of merchants, scholars, and domestic slaves, totaling more than 200 people, suddenly rushed out of the mansion in the city.

Although Li Yu has superb medical skills and is a genius who is proficient in the Five Classics, he really doesn't know how to fight. This fellow drew out his iron sword, led his slaves forward, and ran all the way towards the county government office.

"The Great Harmony of the World!"

"The good and the bad are equal!"

Everyone chanted slogans, and the house slaves chanted the most vigorously. They really took "good and bad equality" as their belief.

Seeing more than two hundred people rushing towards them, the yamen servants were frightened, threw down their water and fire sticks and ran away. The officials of the Sixth House did not have time, and knelt down on the ground, hoping to save a dog's life.

"Yufu, Zhongde, each of you will lead five people to guard the storeroom and the public records!"

Tang Yuqi began to issue orders. He was the leader of the uprising in Lanxi County. Scholars who were born in big merchants mainly purchased goods from Jiangxi and shipped them to Jinhua for sale. They could barely be regarded as members of the Longyou Merchant Gang.

Li Yu followed Tang Yuqi and rushed into the second hall of the county government office, which was empty. Then he rushed into the back house, and only met a few servants, who caught them and asked them, only to find out that the county and the master had run away.

"Follow me to seize the city gate!"

Tang Yuqi shouted.

Li Yu was inexplicably excited, and rushed out with his sword in hand, shouting: "The world is one!"

Plop!

Li Yu tripped over the threshold and was thrown like a dog.

Fortunately, everyone was rushing, and no one noticed his embarrassment. Li Yuma slipped up, patted the dust off his body, and quickly chased after him with his sword in hand.

Because it is too close to Jiangxi, there are also officers and soldiers stationed in Lanxi County.

More than 200 rebels were divided into two groups, each committing suicide to the north and south walls. A larger number of officers and soldiers threw down their weapons and ran away in fright. They were still homeless last year, and they served as 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 distribute their money to recruit soldiers, and recruited a thousand soldiers to guard the city, waiting for Zhao Han to send someone to receive them.

The flag of Datong has been planted on the top of the city, fluttering in the wind.

Li Yu was in charge of leading people to guard a section of the city wall. He looked at the height and suddenly felt broad-minded. Holding his sword, he smiled and said, "I didn't expect to do such a big thing in this life!"

It felt like he had followed Zhao Han around, and had already assisted the Holy Lord to win the world.

The Zhejiang uprising was initiated by Xu Du, the leader of the righteous society, and it was mainly carried out in Jinhua and Shaoxing.

There is one thing that is very nonsense, the Longyou Merchant Gang in western Zhejiang should be regarded as the most revolutionary group of people. They don't have much land in their name, but they have a lot of money in their hands, and they rely heavily on Jiangxi for business.

If Zhao Han calls, it will be beneficial to them and will not cause any harm.

But this time, Xu Du planned an uprising and sent people to western Zhejiang to contact him. Instead, he was reported by the gentry, and the Longyou merchants did not respond at all.

These Longyou merchants have done business all over the country, even in the southwest, northwest and overseas. No matter how much money they earn, they will go home to repair luxury houses, and merchants are very despised here, so big merchants build academies one after another.

The strange thing is that only academies are built, and famous teachers and scholars are not invited to teach.

Merchants who made a lot of money tried their best to buy land and became big landlords, and many of them gave up doing business directly.

As a result, the main body of the Longyou Merchant Gang has always been small and medium businessmen. Moreover, without the support of the government, they were bullied everywhere, and big merchants who turned into landlords, in turn, discriminated against and suppressed merchants.

In this uprising, only Jiangshan County succeeded in the entire Quzhou Prefecture, and all other places failed.

Especially in Longyou County, the big landlords directly recruited soldiers and fought back frantically against the rebels who occupied the county, killing more than 30 rebels and more than 100 other rebels.

These guys are just crazy!

They are so close to Jiangxi, so they are not afraid of Zhao Han coming to kill them randomly?

Let's analyze and sort out why Quzhou Prefecture, where all people are merchants, has instead formed a social atmosphere that discriminates against merchants.

The merchants here mainly do long-distance trafficking.

In ancient times, people who engaged in long-distance trafficking must have been bullied and exploited, and suffered many beatings from society along the way. They are afraid of the government, they worship power, and because the business route is too long, it is impossible to form a stable official-business collusion model.

In terms of the number of merchants from all walks of life, Longyou merchants are the most.

But they don't form a group or collude with the government, and they can't 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, many big merchants were old and couldn't do business anymore, so they went home and kept hoarding land to train their children and grandchildren to study, and they regarded themselves as gentry families from then on.

In the mid-Ming Dynasty, there was a Longyou businessman who did a lot of business in the north, with shops and warehouses covering three and a half counties.

Going home to buy land, go home to build a house, and build a bridge in the magistrate, he directly donated tens of thousands of taels of silver.

As for the business in the three and a half counties in the north, they are all sold!

Anyway, he has plenty of money, just waiting for the natural disaster to annex the land.

But it is said that Xu Du raised troops in Dongyang County, taking advantage of the summer grain harvest to pay rent and land taxes, inciting tens of thousands of tenants and small landlords to conquer Dongyang County in one fell swoop. Then they captured Yiwu and surrounded Jinhuafu City. Scholars and domestic slaves in the city responded and took Jinhuafu by cooperating inside and outside.

When the sad news of Longyou County came, the scholars in the middle of Zhejiang were excited, and they admired the scholars who were killed by the big landlords as "Thirty-two Gentlemen".

Immediately, Xu Du led troops to break through Tangxi County, and the soldiers pointed directly at Longyou, preparing to kill those big landlords for revenge.

The eight counties of Jinhua Prefecture were captured by the rebel army and five counties were captured by the rebels, and the whole south of the Yangtze River was shaken.

Xiong Fenwei, the governor of Zhejiang, turned pale with shock, and immediately sent orders to all counties in Zhejiang to recruit soldiers to suppress the bandits.

Except for being a county magistrate when he was young, this guy has all other positions as a speech officer.

For this position in Shizhong, from the Wanli Dynasty to the Chongzhen Dynasty, he almost took all six subjects. After being transferred to the Ministry of Military Affairs, Xiong Fenwei claimed to know the soldiers and impeached several Ministers of the Ministry of War. Because he offended Wen Tiren, he was thrown to become Shang Baoqing. To put it bluntly, he was in charge of seals and letters.

After Zhao Han occupied Guangdong and Hunan, Chongzhen suddenly remembered that Xiong Fenwei knew the soldiers, so he promoted him to governor of Zhejiang.

With Xiong Fenwei's order, the whole of Zhejiang was on the verge of flying like dogs.

There is already a famine in Zhejiang, and the governor actually conscripts troops and food to fight?

The people of Zhejiang, who had been overwhelmed for a long time, saw the riots in central Zhejiang, and violently resisted the tax, and at the same time refused to be civil husbands for the government.

In the area of ​​Kuocang Mountain, a peasant army with a scale of more than 30,000 people even appeared.

Tangxi County.

A member of the righteous society rushed over: "Zikou, Zikou, good news!"

"What good news?" Xu Du asked.

The scholar said with a smile: "Mr. Zhao has dispatched troops, and the army has already passed Jiangshan County!"

"Ha ha ha ha!"

Xu Du burst out laughing immediately, and summoned many scholars and business leaders: "Master Zhao has already passed Jiangshan County, let's block the enemy army here, and watch how those thieves are wiped out by Mr Zhao!"

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