Xu Pi's Anger -- The History of the Peasant Revolution in Xuzhou in the Ming Dynasty, Volume III, Chapter 4, The Formation and Early Activities of the Reactionary Army of Zhao Jin

At a time when the peasant uprising swept across the land of Jianghuai with the momentum of a prairie fire, and the rebel troops from all walks of life crisscrossed between Sulu, the reactionary landlords and bureaucrats in Xuzhou had to cry out that "thieves are swarming, and the good people are uneasy." Of course, it is not the good people who are uneasy, but the big landlords, big bureaucrats, and big profiteers who are in Xuzhou.

Under this situation, the reactionary landlords and bureaucrats inside and outside Xuzhou had to pin their hopes on their so-called "Xu Piliang General", and the representative figure of the so-called "Xu Piliang General" was the reactionary warlord Zhao Jin.

Zhao Jin was the most vicious and vicious among the feudal soldiers of the late Ming Dynasty, not only was he good at the infighting of feudal officialdom, but also had some habitual methods of suppressing peasant uprisings, no wonder the feudal ruling class in Xuzhou pinned their hopes on Zhao Jin.

Zhao Jin was born in a reactionary feudal family, and his father Zhao Zhentang was a veteran of suppressing the peasant uprising, "the world is a hundred households in Xuzhou, from the conquest between Suzhou and Huai, and repeatedly broke the giant coward", his hands were stained with the blood and tears of the peasant rebel army, but Zhao Zhentang was still insufficient, "The incense bandits started an incident, Xu Pi was in turmoil, Zhentang generously asked for help, and the whole Xu people's hearts were inspired."

Zhao Zhentang's so-called "generous invitation", most of the feudal literati were ominous, but when Zhao Dengpu, a member of the distant branch of the Zhao clan, wrote the phrase "He was originally a good son of a Jiangmen, why did he a butcher and a cheap business", which shows that Zhao Zhentang actually took the initiative to act as the executioner of the people who slaughtered the uprising, which shows his reactionary nature.

Zhao Jin's mother, He, was also born in a reactionary executioner family, although the feudal reactionary literati always concealed their origins, but Kong Bu's so-called "Xuzhou Native Chronicles" revealed the real details, "the world is the butcher of Ximen", and its reactionary family has been a large landlord in Xuzhou City after several generations of operation, according to the information we investigated, Zhao Jin's uncle He Youfu alone has more than 1,000 acres of land.

Zhao Jin was born in such a feudal reactionary family, and since he was a child, he was naturally full of hatred for the people's uprising, "he was able to punish thieves at the age of 13, he was a general, he was born a good general, and he could do his best to meet the hopes of Xu", but the whitewashing of the feudal literati could not hide his reactionary nature.

According to Kong Bugen's "Xuzhou Rural Chronicles", Zhao Jin was "rampant in the countryside of Xuzhou, often leading dozens of people to accompany him, although the official army could not be controlled", and the Ming Ji family was the lackey of the feudal reactionary officers. Among the thousands of reactionary troops, there were only one or two hundred family members, and Zhao Jin was able to bring dozens of family members with him when he traveled at will, which shows that his crazy squeezing of the people of Xu Pi is no wonder, and it is no wonder that "the whole Xu is depressed, and the people are not able to make a living", which is another blood debt owed by Zhao Jin to the people of Xuzhou.

It's just that how did Zhao Jin's reactionary team come to form? What is its composition? We have counted the family information of several reactionary high-ranking officers in the early days of Zhao Ziying, and there are some extremely interesting information.

Among these reactionary high-ranking officers, Dong Bingfeng's family was a thousand households in Xuzhou, occupying a large amount of land and enslaving the vast number of military households for a long time; Chen Huang was also born in the feudal army of Xuzhou, and he was also a powerful eagle dog of the feudal regime to suppress the people; Sun Dalei's family was a feudal comprador specializing in usury; Shi Manqiang's family was a big iron shop owner with "dozens of blacksmiths"; Ji Xiang's family had the status of both a big landlord and a big businessman; Wang Zhaojing's father Wang Youshan was even born in a reactionary imperial history, and was known as the first Qing noble family in Xuzhou.

It is no wonder that these reactionary officers, in order to safeguard their class interests, were particularly brutal in suppressing the peasant uprising, and were the most vicious opponents of the peasant uprising.

At that time, some feudal literati saw that their son Wang Zhaojing actually interacted with Zhao Jin, a martial artist from a family of double executioners, and often discussed, "Shilin is not a person, thinking that Wenqing is turbid, this matter is not appropriate, Wangshan does not think so, often said that Xu Huai'an is blocked, all in one person."

Just as Wang Youshan said, "Xu Huai'an blockade is all in (Zhao Jin) alone", since its formation, this reactionary army has fully exposed its reactionary characteristics.

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