Dominate the Country

At this time, Chen Ming was no longer in Lushan. He took advantage of the time after the summer grain harvest and went to Hanzhong.

In the current territory of Chen Han, Hanzhong is like a forgotten corner.

Chen Qi led the teaching division to Hanzhong. For more than a year, the territory has not been expanded or changed. It has always been on defense. People who don't know think that his work is so easy. After all, Chen Qi's men are the teaching division, which is recognized as the first elite in the Fu Han Army!

In fact, the heavy responsibility and pressure borne by Chen Qi and the teaching division are even more than Anqing and northern Jiangsu.

The strength of a division seems to be a lot, but it has to be distributed in Hanzhong and Xing'an. On the southern line, they have to resist the attack of the Qing army in Sichuan, and on the northern line, they have to deal with the multi-faceted threats of Shaanxi, Gansu and even Qinghai Mongolia.

Chen Qi did not return to Lushan during the Chinese New Year. This time when Chen Ming saw him again, he felt that Chen Qi had aged ten years in a flash after more than a year. It's not the aging of appearance, but a feeling of temperament in the dark. Chen Qi now looks to be in his thirties, but he is actually in his forties or fifties. He is calm and composed, like a deep-rooted tree, and he is more like strolling in the garden regardless of wind and rain.

People really need to be tempered.

Only when you are in charge of a place can you be independent.

"Ang ang ang..."

The neighing of a tall horse is nothing, but what if there are hundreds or thousands of horses? Hanzhong is connected to Gansu, and there are already channels for horse trading. Now the two sides are fighting frequently, but there are still capable people to transport horses in. And they are all absolutely good horses!

Even though this number cannot be too much. In the first half of this year, the teaching division has accumulated three or four hundred war horses. Chen Ming wants to add a cavalry regiment to the teaching division. In addition to the war horses accumulated by the teaching division for more than a year, a cavalry battalion will be transferred from Lushan.

While Chen Ming was watching the newly formed cavalry regiment of the teaching division riding and training, in the distant Hezhou, Gansu, in the abandoned ancient city of Changningyi, smoke was rising.

Dong Wei and his party, who had sneaked into Luoyang from the southwest of Henan, then passed Tongguan, passed Shaanxi and finally came to Gansu, traveled thousands of miles, and came to the ancient city of Changningyi, one of the bases of the Northern Secret Camp in the northwest region, and looked at the scene in front of them in great surprise.

"This, this, will it be too much to eat? Will it make people sick..."

Dong Wei, who had just arrived here, opened his mouth wide. He never knew that people could eat like this. The "rice" steamed with sweet potatoes, potatoes, beans, millet and foxtail millet, these people in front of him could actually eat two or three bowls with just a little bit of food? !

Dong Wei was surprised, he was very surprised.

He thought that the bowl of rice mixed with lard he was eating was simple enough, and he thought it tasted good. Even without cooking, he ate up the whole bowl of rice in one gulp, and felt that he could eat more...

But he didn't expect that he was really a 'frog in the well', and the ragged people in front of him were the real gluttons. The rice was not mixed with lard and soy sauce, and even salt was not sprinkled on it. It was like pouring into a bottomless pit, one bowl after another.

It was really beyond his imagination, inhuman!

Dong Wei didn't hide his expression. Although his family fell into poverty, he had never suffered much since he was born. Dong Wei couldn't imagine what it felt like to be hungry every day. Not to mention the steamed rice that was sticky and a little sweet, even the mashed potatoes that really had no taste at all, these refugees who were gathered by the secret camp in front of him could devour it like eating delicacies from mountains and seas.

Every time these people eat, they have to hand over a small piece of paper. The small piece of paper is given to these refugees by the secret camp. If they work hard and obey orders, they will get a piece of paper.

One piece of paper can be exchanged for a bowl of rice. There are also pickles, stir-fried vegetables and hot soup next to it, which are also a small piece of paper. But Dong Wei has been sitting here for a long time, and he has not seen anyone take a piece of paper to buy pickles and hot soup, let alone stir-fried vegetables.

"Brother, you are not a country boy, right?"

"Don't worry, people here can eat. The common people don't have oily stomachs, and many people eat one or two kilograms of food for a meal."

A man dressed as a clerk sat next to Dong Wei and handed Dong Wei a cigarette while talking.

"From your accent, are you from Henan?"

"I am also from Henan. My hometown is Chenzhou..." The clerk was surprisingly a chatterbox. He talked a lot of miscellaneous basic situations and gossip, but it also filled the cognitive gap in Dong Wei's mind.

Gansu is a poor place. In previous years, they often relied on Sichuan and Shaanxi for money and food.

But now the passage to the north from Sichuan is blocked, and Shaanxi can't take care of itself. Fortunately, Gansu's harvest in the past two years has been relatively good, otherwise, there would have been famine and chaos here.

But even so, the people here have a hard time. The Qing army is a man who will squeeze oil out of stones. The more money they lack, the more they will take food from the hands of the lower people. They will never see that "they are in trouble, and the people's life is even harder."

So a large number of farmers in various counties and prefectures have fled their hometowns.

Take Hezhou as an example. Since last year, groups of people have been going west out of Jishi Pass and rushing into Jishi Gorge at the west end to make a living. If these people cannot survive in Jishi Gorge, they will even continue to flee west to Tibet.

And what about the Manchu and Qing government itself in Hezhou? Too busy to take care of themselves, they didn't care. Hezhou can't even send out money to the government officials, so how can it take care of the people?

In the early days, the Manchu Qing Dynasty deployed heavy troops in Hezhou, with twenty-four passes including Jishi Pass and below. Each major pass had a flood officer and fifty soldiers to guard it, and they were replaced every year. There are more than ten or five or six people in the small and medium-sized passes, and they are still changed every year. The total garrison is no less than a thousand people, plus the defenders of Hezhou City and local warriors from all over the country, the total force is no less than 5,000 people.

But now the Manchu and Qing Dynasty's economic troops have long been mobilized, and all the country warriors have dispersed. Even in the city of Hezhou, there are only four to five hundred countrymen guards of varying strength left.

"They are all Han here, and they are HH over there." Anying is very crude and simple in terms of ethnic distinctions. Do you believe in the Green Religion? If you believe it, even if your parents are Han Chinese, go to the hh side. If you don't believe it, go this way. It is the differentiated treatment of Chiguoguo. The treatment of Han people is much better than that of hh.

"There are a lot of gangsters here!" Dong Wei lowered his head and asked, "Can they believe it when there is an uprising?"

"Of course we can trust it. We saved the lives of these hh, so of course they have to be obedient. And all hh are from the Old Green Sect. Hezhou is hh's home base in Gansu and one of the places with the most hh. But they want these hh When they were starving to death, I didn't see the hh here in Hezhou reaching out to give them a hand?

So, people can use this too. The Green Religion is nothing, but those HHs in Hezhou who are also religious, these HHs hate them to death. "

"Besides, the letter has been sent down from above. When the uprising broke out, they didn't raise any banners such as being a traitor or rebelling against the Qing Dynasty. They just shouted about eating, begging for food, and begging for work. When the time came, the first people to grab would be hh."

Dong Wei really didn't understand this, and asked in surprise: "Then can they be willing?" The clerk said that all the weapons in the dark camp were from Hezhou. Why didn't Dong Wei believe it?

The secretary waved his hand and said indifferently: "Why don't you want to? The Green Sect is no different from Buddhism and Taoism. They look like they are all from the same family, but in fact they all have their own origins."

"The new sect of Green Religion has flourished here in Hezhou in recent years, without the instigation of the Tatar government. The conflict between Ma Mingxin's followers and the old Green Religion followers has been fierce. From Hezhou to Xunhua, there have been many conflicts in recent years. "With the large-scale eastward transfer of Qing troops in Gansu, the Qing government's control over Gansu's local areas was greatly reduced. hh annexed it on its own, and the people did not complain to the officials. The local officials in Hezhou, Xunhua and other places just turned a blind eye. blindness. Anyway, those who died were hh.

Of course, the Manchu and Qing Dynasties did not turn a blind eye to everything. The main premise was that they should not go too far. In the thirty-fourth year of Qianlong's reign, the Qing government used high-pressure measures to close down three Protestant monasteries. He Maluhu, a student of Ma Mingxin and the leader of the Protestant religion in the Xunhua area, was tortured with a cane and sent to Urumqi, Xinjiang as a slave in shackles. These measures certainly increased the New Green Sect's hatred of the Qing court, but they also deepened and expanded the contradiction between the old and new Green Sects.

In the thirty-fifth year of Qianlong's reign, another group of Qing troops in Gansu were transferred away, and the Manchu Qing's control over the local area dropped again. In HH in Gwanghaju, there were no less than ten fires involving more than 100 people last year.

Chen Ming had given instructions to the northwest part of the Northern Dark Camp very early on, to eliminate the influence of the Green Sect in the local area whenever possible, without Xingyue Temple. But if you want to pick one among the green religions, the old religion is better than the new religion. The latter, led by Ma Mingxin, advocated the "unity of Z religions", which must be eradicated absolutely and resolutely!

Ma Mingxin, the so-called 'foreign student' who had studied in Mecca, the Holy Land of the Green Sect, for sixteen years, was directly the culprit of the chaos in the original time and space. His doctrinal propositions have a great influence on the entire Chinese Green Sect.

Before Ma Mingxin, the Green Sect, which had been introduced to China for hundreds of years, had been deeply integrated with Chinese local thought, philosophy and culture. They had influence, communication and integration with each other, and even the hierarchical system was much gentler. But the theory of "unity of Z religions" that Ma Mingxin retrieved from his "study" was like a newborn calf, spreading wildly in the land of northwest China. It happened to be at the point when the Qing Dynasty was turning from prosperity to decline, and It finally broke out in the middle to late next century. Thousands of people bleed!

The Tongzhi Rebellion will always be a heavy historical pain for China, and its influence has repeatedly reappeared in the 21st century in the Internet age. The current Protestant system is in absolute contradiction and opposition to China's traditional political and social system! If it is not eradicated, the consequences will be endless...

[During the Tongzhi period, it was not just the Protestants who raised armies. The Qing Dynasty's strength in the northwest fell to the bottom, and the old religion also came to take a share of the pie. In other words, the old religion also accepted many of the ideas of the new religion]

"Therefore, the first target of our troops after we raised our troops was Huang Guoqi." [This man rose up in rebellion in the 42nd year of Qianlong's reign in history]

And the truth is always stranger than the story.

Wang Fulin, who stood in front of Dong Wei and other generals and explained in detail the distribution of the Protestants in Hezhou, had no idea that if time and space were to turn back to its original trajectory, he, the leader of the Yuandun Sect, would be the leader of the Yuandun Sect a few years later during Qianlong's reign. In forty-two years, they will join forces with Huang Guoqi to fight against the Qing Dynasty.

Wang Fulin was born in the fifth year of Qianlong's reign. He was from Hongjiqiao, Shani Station, Didao Prefecture, Gansu Province. He became a monk and later returned to secular life. In the original time and space, he came to Hezhou in the 38th year of Qianlong's reign and established the Yuandun Sect, which was actually the same as the White Lotus Sect. He had the "Ten Turns Sutra" and "Maitreya Sutra" and other treasure scrolls. He claimed to be the reincarnation of Maitreya Buddha. His mother was the reincarnation of the Five Saints Old Mother, and his sister was the reincarnation of the Guanyin Old Mother. He had great magical powers and could turn stones into gold. He had a spell to avoid fire and was not afraid of swords, weapons, water and fire. If you worship him as a teacher, you can eliminate disasters and prolong your life.

In this time and space, Wang Fulin was recruited by the secret camp and came to Hezhou early. He was doing secret activities under the name of Yuandun Sect. At the same time, as expected, he came into contact with the people of the New Green Sect. The latter pushed out a chess piece to contact Wang Fulin, and that person was Huang Guoqi. The New Green Church has been very supportive of Wang Fulin's missionary work among the Han people in Hezhou in the past two years. At first, Wang Fulin relied on their protection to escape several searches and liquidations by the Qing Dynasty.

But Huang Guoqi and the people behind him would never have thought that Wang Fulin was also a pawn pushed out by others, and this pawn was partly aimed at them from the beginning.

When Wang Fulin reported to Chen Guang last year, he wrote very clearly: "The new church wants to make the Yuandun Church its pioneer, and its ambition is very big."

"Mo Ni Gou." In the western part of Hezhou, at the foot of Xiao Jishi Mountain, more than ten miles away from the state capital, Huang Guoqi's hometown. "We must take it down in one fell swoop and wipe out the new church here."

At this point, Wang Fulin's eyes turned to Ma He. This loyal old green believer with the surname Ma and a scripture name has no status in the Yuandun Church. His identity outside is an old green refugee who was collected by the Yuandun Church, but in fact his surname is Wang, and he is Wang Fulin's nephew.

After Wang Fulin started his army, it was no problem for him to seize Mo Ni Gou, but how to shave the new religion "legitimately" would depend on Ma He's ability.

"Stationmaster, don't worry. I will never make a mistake." During the time when he was among the refugees in the ancient city of Changningyi, Ma He had come into contact with many old green believers who hated the new religion. No matter how many times Ma He had criticized the old green believers in his heart, his stomach was empty, so why did he care about this? But these old green believers were the best fuse.

"These people have great conflicts with the new religion, and they can be ignited at any time." Ma He said confidently.

On June 17, the day when Chen Ming returned to Lushan from Hanzhong, a turmoil that shook the entire northwest broke out in Hezhou, Gansu, thousands of miles away.

Wang Fulin led more than 2,000 believers and refugees to revolt in the ancient city of Changningyi in the name of Yuandun religion, and then broke through Mo Ni Gou and Lianhua Fort. Just when Wang Fulin led his army to attack Hezhou, a shocking news spread in Hezhou.

When the rebels broke through Mo Ni Gou, the old green religion that followed the rebels wiped out the Protestant Huang Guoqi's clan, and also searched and killed more than 50 or 60 households of Protestants in Mo Ni Gou and surrounding villages, more than 300 men, women, old and young. And set fire to the Xingyue Temple of the Protestant.

Hejiazhuang Hua Temple Gate Huan Ah Ma Zhongxian once came forward to stop the old green religion from slaughtering the Protestant believers, but it was useless.

Dongxiang's new believer Ah Ma Zhongzhen gathered hundreds of Protestant believers and rushed to Mo Ni Gou, and had a big fight with the old believers who had gathered there and had not dispersed. Both sides killed "happily". After dawn, the dead and wounded were counted, and there were hundreds of corpses left. In the chaos, a small group of Protestant men broke into Hejiazhuang, Monigou, and killed the entire family of Ma Zhongxian, who was very prestigious in the local area. At the same time, the Xingyue Temple in Monigou was also set on fire...

There were many loopholes in this matter, and it was far from being perfect for the secret camp. However, the public sentiment was surging, and the new and old factions of the Green Church were already at odds with each other. The "facts" plus the "rumors" that were released quickly turned the hostility between the two factions from "glaring at each other" to "drawing swords against each other"!

Even Wang Fulin's plan to attack Hezhou had to be stranded first because of the "incompatibility" of the Protestant military force.

So Wang Fulin also drew his sword in anger against the New Green Church.

The New Green Church originally wanted to use Wang Fulin's Yuandun Church as a raft to open the way for themselves and become a target for the Qing army, and at the same time to test the waters. But they didn't expect that the sharp knife of the Yuandun Church would eventually be swung at their own heads!

"Pah, pah, pah..." When Dong Wei led a cavalry of about 200 people to the bridgehead of Hanjiaji Stone Bridge, a burst of gunfire suddenly sounded on the Daxia River.

Dong Wei did not even look at how many people in the team fell off their horses and were killed or injured. Being killed or injured by the homemade guns and cannons of the hh at this distance was pure bad luck.

The bridge in Hanjiaji is a stone bridge, and Dong Wei did not consider whether the hh would blow up the bridge. Anyway, a group of hh were guarding the west end of the bridge. The most important thing now is to charge!

Rush to the bridgehead [west], kill the hh guarding the west end of the bridge like a blood gourd, and rush across the stone bridge along with the fled Ding Zhuang of the hh. This Hanjiaji may be taken down.

The distance is getting closer and closer. The rebel cavalry that rushed to the front of the formation was only knocked down by the guns of the hh. And now, it's time for them to kill. Under the sunlight, the sabers exuded a chilling cold light. With such a bright blade, it must be a pleasure to chop off heads.

"Brothers, kill them as hard as you can...