said, a few merchants have a Suzhou accent, and they speak in a low voice, even if they scold people, it's weird! , "Chen Wangmo is an abandoned guy, he doesn't pay attention to it at all, don't stop fooling around!" The housewife waited for me to go back for the New Year, look at this morning light, how crooked I will go back! ”

Qin Lin didn't understand what he heard, and he probably knew that this person scolded Chen Wangmo, the chief soldier of Caoyun, for stopping the Cao Gang, so that he couldn't go back to reunite with his wife.

Zhang Zixuan grinned, and seeing that Qin Lin didn't understand much, he sat closer and explained to him.

It turned out that these Suzhou businessmen, you and I, were complaining that Chen Wangmo had stopped the Cao Gang, and the canal from Qingjiangpu to Hangzhou was almost paralyzed.

They bought a shipload of Yunjin from Nanjing and wanted to transport it back to Suzhou, along the Yangtze River to Zhenjiang Mansion should have turned into the Jiangnan Canal, but the Cao Gang stopped operating, and the Zhenjiang section of the Jiangnan Canal was paralyzed, and several Suzhou people were in a hurry to go home for the New Year, so they continued to go down the Yangtze River, wanting to take the Xicheng Canal (branch Xiǎo Canal) from Jiang Yīn to Wuxi and then turn into the Grand Canal, so as to avoid the paralyzed Zhenjiang section.

Unexpectedly, even the Xicheng Canal was blocked, so they were trapped in Jiang Yiīn, sitting in the restaurant in a hurry, gritting their teeth and scolding Chen Wangmo for being a bastard.

Qin Lin chuckled in his heart, and immediately stepped forward to salute: "Ladies and gentlemen, I have just bought some seafood from Baishuiyang, and I am about to transport them to Jingshi for sale, but I just heard from you that the canal is blocked, I don't know what's going on?" Yangzhou to Qingjiangpu is still not passable? ”

"It's so crooked!" The Suzhou guest said only to find that Qin Lin stared at him and didn't understand, so he changed to official words again: "It's strange that you can go well this time!" Chen Wangmo, the faint official, couldn't recover Cao Yin by himself, so he took the Cao Gang to make up for it, and arrested the Cao Gang General A, Deputy A, Huitou, and the dock boss, and now the Cao Gang has no leader, and the whole bottom is a pot of porridge ......", Qin Lin pretended to be puzzled: "The general merchant of the Cao Gang was arrested, and the slender man, boatman, and wharf Lifu below were not arrested, why did the canal stop operating?" Suzhou Ke pouted: "Brother xiǎo, now it is rumored that 500,000 Cao silver will be shared equally by the Cao Gang, and each person will have to pay five taels of silver, Cao Gong is already poor, where can he afford it?" Now those who work hard are panicked, how can anyone load goods, pull fiber, and catch the ship for you! ”

"It's not the Cao Gang who are here to make amends, right?" , A merchant with a Huzhou accent at a table next to him heard what was said here, and retorted: "I just came from Changshu two days ago, and they all said that they would fold this year's autumn grain into silver for the second time to fill the shortfall, so many mud legs were panicked, and the squire was also discussing to resist taxes and donations." ”

"Hmph, where did you say that? The silver was not stolen at all! Another fat man looked left and right sneakily, lowered his voice and said: "I heard that because of Zhang Xiangye's new policy, it is called a whip law that shortens the treasury money and grain, and the imperial historian Shangben participated in the performance, and he was reprimanded by Jinshang and Empress Dowager Li. So Xiang Ye asked the government to deliberately hide the silver and shouted to catch the thief, so that he collected a lot of money and grain for the first time in front of the court, you know no, the robbery occurred in Yangzhou Sanwan, and the canal silt was full of tin, that is, the government first exchanged tin for silver, so as to hide people's ears! When Qin Lin heard this, his heart sank violently, and he almost thought of the White Lotus Sect's scheme.

Zhang Zixuan's delicate body trembled, she grabbed Qin Lin's arm tightly, her lips kept trembling, her bright goose egg face completely lost her blood, and the turmeric water she had applied before became sallow and pale.

Qin Lin almost half-hugged and half-hugged her back to her position, and the few merchants were arguing with themselves, spreading all kinds of news.

Zhang Zixuan suddenly grabbed a large glass of black Du wine on the table, drank it all, and then grew one. Angry, he forced himself to regain his composure and dropped the ingots to the bartender, and pulled Qin Lin downstairs.

"Since the Red Turban Army at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the past of Daming Longxing, Brother Qin must still remember?" , Zhang Zixuan asked while hurrying away.

Qin Lin frowned: "Mo Dao Shiren has one eye, provoking the world to rebel!" ”

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Han Shantong, the leader of the White Lotus Sect, burned incense and cast mantras to spread the White Lotus Sect, intending to mobilize the peasants to overthrow the rule of the Yuan Nose.

In April of the first year of Yuan Zhizheng, the imperial court forcibly requisitioned the people to repair the Yellow River breach, and when the migrant workers dug the river, they dug out the one-eyed stone man who Han Shantong and Liu Futong buried at the bottom of the river in advance.

At that time, the folk proverb "Mo Dao Shiren has one eye, inciting the Yellow River to rebel" was fulfilled. Han Shantong and Liu Futong gathered all the river workers and people, killed the white horse, the black bull and the alliance uprising, and wrapped the red cloth on the head called the Red Turban Army, so the world responded in groups, and Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor of Taizu Gao, also threw himself under the command of Guo Zixing, the general of the Red Turban Army. ,

Thinking that Meng Yuan is a generation of Tianjiao, the iron cavalry is known as invincible in Europe and Asia, destroying countless countries, and ruling the Central Plains is also extremely cruel and ferocious, why is it that Han and Liu are uncontrollable when they start an incident?

In addition to the brutality of the Yuan Dynasty's rule, the anger of the heavens and the resentment of the people, and other factors, the backbone of the uprising chosen by Han Shantong and Liu Futong was very important.

Now the White Lotus Sect has repeated its old skills, targeting the 100,000 gang members of the Cao Gang, they are also strong men, and they are also fighting for the corresponding organization and discipline because of the complicated Cao Yun work......

The Caogong rebellion, the canal was suspended, the price of grain in Beijing was bound to soar, the people of the entire north were panicked, and even the soldiers of the nine sides would be shaken, and the blockage of the canal brought great trouble to the imperial court's dispatch of troops, and it was difficult for the sharp border army and the new army under Qi Jiguang to move south quickly......

For the White Lotus Sect, this is even better than the situation of Han and Liu at the end of the Yuan Dynasty!

Qin Lin also understood the previous situation: while the White Lotus Sect was inciting the Cao Gang, it was also rumored that it was going to levy the second autumn grain and silver in places far away from the Cao Yun line, and the squires and peasants were dissatisfied with the imperial court, creating a favorable situation for the uprising.

On the other hand, the reason why the White Lotus Sect was relieved to give the silver to the Wufeng Maritime Merchants was that they were confident that they would soon take the land of Jiangnan into their pockets, and as long as Jin Yingji wanted to continue doing business, she would have to obediently send the silver Sanqi back!

Qin Lin pulled Zhang Zixuan and ran away: Damn, the White Lotus Sect is too cunning, I hope it's not too late to see through the Jiān plot now!

Yixing County, Changzhou Prefecture, it is famous for purple clay pots, but Yixing people do not rely on a few purple clay pots to eat, Yixing is a large grain-producing county in the south of the Yangtze River, and the land of fish and rice on the edge of Taihu Lake.

It is still some distance from the Jiangnan Canal, compared to the Wuxi River along the river and along the canal, Yixing, a rich county, is relatively closed, people in the summer by the Taihu Lake fan blowing the cool breeze, in the winter on the red mud stove to cook tea, accustomed to this leisurely and self-satisfied life.

But now, people's leisure has been shattered by bad news.

In Xiǎo Village, at the foot of Jingnan Mountain, there were peasant women holding children standing outside the ancestral hall, and a group of men were crowded inside, talking to the patriarch sitting in the middle: "Uncle Tai, do you still get the money and grain again?" Jiāo rented, paid the imperial grain and national tax, and each of our families had the rest to eat until next year's harvest of new grain, and at most we could buy some salt and pull a few feet of cloth; But if you levie money and food again, every household won't be able to survive it! ”

"Your old man is talking!" , The villagers inside and outside the ancestral hall are either worried or indignant, and they are aggrieved and angry: the money and grain that have been paid have been lost, and the government itself has lost it, so why should it be requisitioned again? Do you want people to live!

On the edge of Taihu Lake, it is a different scene.

At this time, dozens of fishing boats were moored at a distance of twenty or thirty feet from the shore, the old and weak women and children sat in the cabin, and the dark-skinned fishermen stood on the bow of each family and talked.

A stout fisherman clapped the canopy and exclaimed, "I can't live!" What kind of whip method does Zhang Lao'er do, but the price of fish is low this year, how many fish did grandpa sell to get together the folded silver of the nagging sè, and he has to levy it a second time, cào, cut off the grandfather's body and sell it! "Isn't this an official bī people? Someone was talking about it.

"It's the opposite!" The stout fisherman raised the harpoon in his hand and shouted: "Now that the catastrophe is coming, the heavens and the earth are dark, the sun and the moon are dark, the Buddha Mother has come to the world, and the Ming Dynasty is about to die, where are we still afraid of him?" In the jurisdiction of Jintan County, Zhenjiang, a remote Xiǎo village suddenly became lively.

I don't know when it began, the White Lotus Sect spread rapidly here, applying talisman water, treating people's diseases, chanting scriptures to drive away evil spirits, and gradually more and more villagers secretly converted to the childless mother, and now the whole village has become a devout believer.

And today, many people with new faces appear in the village, and the villagers entertain guests like brothers, because these are brothers of the same religion, friends from the vacuum hometown, and after death, people will also return to the vacuum hometown like brothers, come and go, dust to dust, earth to earth, only the light will appear in the world.

The White Lotus cultists wore five clothes, from the cotton robes of the merchants to the short jackets of the farmers, from silk shoes to straw sandals, but they all wore white lotus huā tied with paper on their chests.

The crowd gathered in the open space at the entrance of the village, looking at the stage with a long neck, and everyone's faces were sickly red, excited and excited to look forward to something.

Four young disciples armed with swords, purifying bottles, dusting pestles, and demon slaying pestles walked onto the stage with a tall man with a square face and a wide mouth.

"The light is generally pure, and the joy is extinguished without moving the curse: he receives joy without trouble, and if there is suffering there is no use. Always be happy and bright, if you say that you are sick, it is useless. If there are those who can live in other countries, they will be worry-free. The man recited the verse, dipped his fingers in the water in the bottle and sprinkled it down, and the believers who were stained with the nectar of the divine water were as if they were drunk.

Suddenly, the man took out a copper lotus from his arms, and shouted: "No old mother, vacuum hometown, the red sun is dead, and the white sun is alive!" Everyone starts with me, the lifeless old mother is estimated, the great merit in front of him, and he will return to the true position after death! The farmer no longer holds a hoe in his hand, but a variety of weapons