Jinhua Mansion is located in the central part of Zhejiang Province, and Yiwu County is also located in the middle of Jinhua Mansion, surrounded by mountains on three sides, the terrain is dominated by mountains and hills, so don't look at the modern Yiwu City is rich and oily, but in the Ming Dynasty it was a poor countryside where birds do not, most of the people living here are poor and white, and the life is hard Haha mountain people, farmers, or miners. The place where the civil unrest took place was in the area of Beilei Village and Pingwang Village under the jurisdiction of Yiwu County.

It is said that there is a mountain in Yiwu County, called Babao Mountain, which belongs to the jurisdiction of Beilei Village and Pingwang Village. It has been rumored since ancient times that there is a silver mine hidden in Babao Mountain, and in April this year, a salt merchant from the next door Yongkang County passed by Babao Mountain. This salt merchant's name is Shi Wenliu, this guy passed by Babao Mountain when it was evening, the sky was dark, suddenly saw a silver light flashing at the foot of Babao Mountain, he thought that there was really a silver mine here, so he became greedy.

After Shi Wenliu, a salt merchant, returned to Yongkang County, he immediately found his fellow villagers and friends Lu Shishi and Fang Xiliu, recruited nearly 100 workers, and secretly infiltrated Babao Mountain to steal silver mines. As the saying goes, there is no impermeable wall, Shi Wenliu and others were just about to start when they were discovered by the nearby mountain people, and they quickly reported to the squires of Beilei and Pingwang villages.

Outsiders from neighboring counties actually ran to their own fields to steal mines, and the villagers of Beilei and Pingwang villages were naturally not happy, and immediately took action to fight back.

It is said that the villagers of Beilei Village are surnamed Chen, and the villagers of Pingwang Village are surnamed Song, and it just so happens that there is a martial artist named Chen Dacheng in Beilei Village, this person is quite a bit of martial arts, and he is very brave, he led the village Zhuang of the two villages to rush to the mining site, and caught Fang Xiliu and other sixteen main criminals of mine theft on the spot, while the salt merchant Shi Wenliu escaped by luck, and the other miners scattered in a hurry.

The villagers of the two villages tied up Fang Xi and other mine thieves to the county government of Yiwu County, and the county commander Zhao Dahe read that Fang Xi and the others were all from neighboring counties, and there were no serious consequences, so they were reprimanded and released them.

Who knew that Fang Xiliu and others did not give up, and immediately gathered more than 1,000 people after returning to Yongkang County, and went to Babaoshan in Yiwu County again in June to rob the mine, they divided half of the people to mine, and half of the people guarded the dangers of the mountain road, and planted the red flag, and used force to cover the theft of mines.

Yiwu County made Chen Dahe shocked and angry, but there was nothing to do, who expected that the villagers of Beilei Village and Pingwang Village were quite strong, and when they saw that the county government could not manage it, they decided to take care of it themselves. Wusheng Chen Dacheng once again led a team composed of two village Zhuang and attacked Babao Mountain in one fell swoop, killing more than 90 mine thieves led by Fang Xiliu on the spot, and the rest of the miners fled as birds and beasts.

Fortunately, Yiwu County ordered Chen Dahe to be quite enlightened, and did not investigate the crime of beating people to death in the two villages afterwards, and also posted a statement stating that anyone who participated in the mine robbery was killed by the villagers in the mine was to blame, and the villagers were not responsible.

However, as the saying goes, people die for money, and birds die for food. Fang Xiliu's remnant Lu 14 was unwilling to fail, after he fled back to Yongkang County, he deliberately mixed some silver sand into the mining sand he brought back, and coaxed the villagers to say that Babaoshan had indeed dug up the silver, so that everyone could hurry up and make a fortune with him!

As a result, Lu Shishi quickly pulled up a team, and the number reached 3,000.

It is said that Yongkang County is next door to Yiwu County, and there is also a group of bitter mud legs living here, the same folk customs are fierce, a bad life, not afraid of death, afraid of poverty, I heard that there is silver digging in Babao Mountain, one by one is like beating chicken blood, so Lu Shishi fooled thousands of people to sell his life without wasting his strength.

In addition, Lu Shifu also found a group of bandits to join the team, the bandit leader's name is Yang Song, he has good martial arts, and he is good at hurting people with flying knives, which is very awesome.

At the beginning of August, Lu Shishi, who felt that he was already strong, set out again, leading a team of more than 3,000 miners, mountain people, farmers and thieves to cross the mountains and mountains to kill and return to Babao Mountain to grab mines.

It is worth mentioning here that Yiwu County and Yongkang County border, Babaoshan is at the junction of the two counties, but it actually belongs to Yiwu County, but the people of Yongkang County feel that Babaoshan is also next to Yongkang County, since there is a silver mine in the mountain, Yongkang County must also have a share, and everyone has a fortune, why let Yiwu County monopolize it?

Therefore, Lu Shishi's gang robbed the mine with great confidence, and more than 3,000 people killed all the way to Babao Mountain, and their arrogance was not ordinary.

However, the fierce Bei Lei and the villagers of Pingwang were not only stunned when they learned about it, but immediately launched again, and the two villages, regardless of men, women, and children, went into battle together, and mobilized their relations to pull people around to help them, and soon gathered thousands of people, putting on a posture of not being convinced.

Yiwu County Ling Zhao Dahe was very anxious when he saw that things were getting bigger and bigger, but he only had hundreds of sleek old officials under his hands, these guys came to collect taxes, and it was okay to catch a few thieves, let him stop thousands of people from fighting? Dream on!

Since the beginning of August, the mining team led by Lu Shishi and the village Zhuang led by Chen Dacheng have been competing in Babao Mountain for several rounds, and there have been casualties among each other.

The fierce battle between the two sides in front of the county commander Zhao Dahe is becoming more and more intense, and if he continues to fight, it is estimated that he will suffer heavy casualties, so he can only send someone to report to Li Jun, the prefect of Jinhua Mansion, but Li Jun has no choice, but just sends someone to reply and let Zhao County order act cheaply.

Just when Zhao County's order was at a loss, Zhang Xiancheng, the second-in-command of Yiwu County, gave him an idea, saying that Xu Jin, the governor of Zhizhejiang, was in Ningbo Mansion, and as long as the governor sent an army casually, he could easily suppress both sides of the fight.

In fact, Zhang Xiancheng's idea of giving Zhao County an order was a bit rancid, and it was even said to be ill-intentioned. Because now the anti-Japanese war in Ningbo Mansion is tight, even Li Jun, the prefect of Jinhua, is unwilling to bother Governor Xu with such a "trivial matter", if Zhao County Ling oversteps the level to report to Xu Jin for help, it will seem that he does not know the general situation, and it will inevitably cause the prefect Li Jun's displeasure.

However, Zhao Dahe was loyal and honest, maybe he couldn't see the stakes, or he didn't care at all, so he immediately sent a messenger to Xu Jin, the governor of Zhizhejiang, to ask for help.

After receiving Xu Jin's order, the guerrilla general Yu Dayou ordered 300 cavalry on the night of 16 August and rushed to Yiwu County overnight.

On the afternoon of 17 August, Yu Dayou led his troops to Yiwu County, but the result was a failure, and Zhang Hao, the county magistrate in charge of staying behind, informed Yu Dayou that Zhao Dahe, the county magistrate, had already led people to Babaoshan, because there was another large-scale armed fight between the villagers and the mine robbers.

So, Yu Dayou led his troops non-stop to the foot of Babao Mountain, fifty miles southwest of the county seat. ()

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