Heroine Wang Conger
When He Jun was in power, the Qing Dynasty was very corrupt, with local officials rampant in corruption and the people complaining loudly. Prior to this, the White Lotus Sect became popular again in Hubei and Henan provinces. There was a man named Liu Song from Anhui who went to Henan to preach, taking advantage of the opportunity to treat the people and persuade them to join the religion. Later, he was discovered by the government and exiled to Gansu.
Liu Song's disciples Liu Zhixie and Song Zhiqing fled to Hubei and continued to preach. They spread the legend that the Qing Dynasty was about to disappear and a new world would emerge in the future, where anyone who joined the religion could receive land. The poor farmers in the local area were fed up with the exploitation of landlords and longed for land. After listening to this propaganda, they joined the White Lotus Sect one after another.
The increasing number of people participating in the White Lotus Sect has alarmed Emperor Qianlong. Emperor Qianlong ordered all provincial palaces to arrest believers. Some officials were originally experienced in extortion and blackmail, taking advantage of the situation to send police officers to inquire door-to-door. Regardless of whether you are a believer or not, you have to provide a sum of money to "show filial piety" to them. Rich people buy their lives with money, while poor people without money are captured and tortured in prison, and even given their lives. An official in Wuchang was unable to extort and extort from the people, and he fabricated charges, resulting in thousands of people being implicated. Both believers and non believers are persecuted and displaced, and they feel even more resentful towards the government.
The leader of the White Lotus Sect, Liu Zhixie, arrived in Xiangyang and convened a meeting of believers to discuss. Everyone said, 'This world is really taking risks! Why don't we just rebel?' After some discussion, it was decided to launch a mass uprising with the slogan of 'taking risks' and send believers to various places to contact each other.
In 1796 AD, the year of Emperor Jiaqing's accession to the throne, the White Lotus sect staged an uprising in Yidu, Zhijiang, and other places in Hubei Province. In Xiangyang, Qi Lin, the leader of a Bai Lian Cult, was scheduled to revolt on the Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival). Unexpectedly, he leaked the news and was attacked by the government. Qi Lin and more than 100 companions were killed.
Qilin has a young wife named Wang Conger, who was originally a martial arts performer in the Jianghu. She has been practicing martial arts since childhood. She decided to seek revenge for her husband and fellow rebels, and together with Qi Lin's disciple Yao Zhifu, reorganized the uprising team. Within a month, they organized a rebellion army of 40000 to 50000 people. Wang Conger and other leaders led their troops to attack the government and punish corrupt officials everywhere.
When Wang Conger rebelled in Hubei, the White Lotus believers in Sichuan and Shaanxi also rose up in response. The flames of the uprising spread across a large area of the three provinces, and some poor people and refugees joined the uprising team.
When Emperor Jiaqing saw the growing momentum of the rebel forces, he panicked and quickly ordered governors, governors, generals, commanders, and other officials of all sizes to send large numbers of troops to suppress them. But those high-ranking officials and generals only know how to embezzle military pay and do not know how to fight.
Wang Conger divided his troops into three routes and fought from Hubei to Henan. The rebel army is not only brave but also agile in fighting. When they marched, they didn't form a whole team, didn't confront the official army head-on, didn't take flat roads, and only chose mountain alleys to attack the official army. They divided the soldiers into many small teams, with hundreds of people in each team, sometimes divided and sometimes combined, sometimes going south and sometimes north, making the official army besieging them dizzy and exhausted.
Wang Conger's rebel army launched campaigns in Hubei, Henan, and Shaanxi to strike against the official army. In the second year, I met with the rebel forces in Sichuan.
Emperor Jiaqing was so angry when he saw the failure of the official army's encirclement and suppression that his eyes turned red. He cursed Wang Conger as the main culprit and issued a decree to severely reprimand some of the generals who led the troops. Those who were dismissed were dismissed, and those who were punished were punished. He also strongly urged the generals in various places to gather troops and encircle Wang Conger's uprising.
The Qing general Mingliang presented a vicious plan to Emperor Jiaqing, urging landlords in various regions to organize armed militias and build bunkers. As soon as the rebels arrived, they drove the people into the bunkers, making it impossible for them to find help from the masses and obtain food and supplies. This practice is called 'clearing the wilderness with firm walls'. Emperor Jiaqing ordered various regions to adopt this strategy, and the movement of the rebel forces became increasingly difficult.
The Qing army besieged Wang Cong'er in the northern Sichuan region. Wang Conger broke free from the Qing army's siege and personally led 20000 troops to attack Xi'an. However, he was ambushed by the official army in Xi'an and suffered a defeat; When returning to Hubei, Mingliang led the official army to closely pursue. In front of the rebel army, there were official troops, and in front of them, there were armed militia groups from landlords who blocked them. Finally, they fell into the enemy's encirclement at the Sancha River in Yunxi (in present-day Hubei Province, Yunyin y ú n).
Wang Conger was fearless in the face of danger and commanded the rebel army to retreat to the forest of Maoshan, preparing to organize a breakout. The official army discovered it and surrounded Maoshan, rushing up densely from the front and back of the mountain. The rebel army finally failed after stubborn resistance. Wang Conger and Yao Zhifu saw that they couldn't break through, so they retreated to the summit and jumped down from the steep cliff, heroically sacrificing themselves.
After the sacrifice of the female hero Wang Conger, local rebel forces continued to fight against the government. It took the Qing Dynasty nine years to suppress this great uprising. However, after this severe blow, the Qing Dynasty fell into a slump.
After the death of Emperor Jiaqing, his son Min Ning ascended to the throne and became Emperor Xuanzong of the Qing Dynasty, also known as Emperor Daoguang. After Emperor Daoguang ascended the throne, the Qing Dynasty gradually declined, and Western capitalist countries seized the opportunity to invade, leading to an increasingly severe national crisis. In 1840 AD, the twentieth year of Emperor Daoguang's reign, the Opium War broke out. Since then, China has gradually changed from a feudal society to a semi colonial and semi feudal society. The heroic Chinese people have waged an indomitable and arduous struggle against the invasion of capital imperialism and feudal rule. Chinese history has entered a new era - the modern era.