In the thirtieth year of Zhu Yuanzhang Hongwu of the Ming Dynasty, in 1397, the White Lotus Sect revolted.
Ethnic minorities in Shaanxi, Sichuan and other places followed suit.
In 1396, there was a great drought.
On the twelfth day of the first month of the thirtieth year of Hongwu (1397), Gao Fuxing, a county official of Hanzhong Prefecture, Tian Jiucheng, a citizen, and Li Puzhi, a monk, led the people to revolt.
Xianxian - Mianxian County, western part of Hanzhong City, Shaanxi Province.
Tian Jiucheng, Qiang nationality, Ningqiang Weiren, poor family in childhood, no livelihood, entered the southern foot of the Qinling Mountains Yunwu Temple to shave as a monk. In the last years of Hongwu, the government was chaotic and the people were poor, coupled with the remoteness of the mountainous areas, the Han and Qiang lived together, and the famine was repeated for many years, and people's minds changed. Tian Jiucheng gathered the victims and rebelled against the imperial court.
Tian Jiucheng contacted Gao Fuxing, a county magistrate, Li Puzhi, a monk, Huang Gangnu, He Miaoshun, and others to organize the followers with the White Lotus Doctrine and rose up.
Tian Jiucheng called himself "Emperor of the Han Dynasty" and Jianyuan "Dragon and Phoenix"; Gao Fuxing calls himself "Maitreya Buddha", and Golden Gangnu and He Miaoshun are known as "Heavenly Kings"
This matter was known to Wang Pu, the county magistrate of Hanzhong Prefecture, who told Hanzhongwei, and the guard sent troops to arrest Li Puzhi.
Subsequently, Gao Fuxing, Tian Jiucheng and others led the rebel army into Houhe and Tumen in Chuxian County, gathering thousands of people, and the ethnic minorities in Shaanxi and Sichuan responded successively.
After the imperial court learned the news, it immediately ordered Geng Bingwen and Guo Ying, the generals of the expedition to the west, to lead the troops of Shaanxi and Sichuan to besiege it. He also ordered Zhu Shangbing, the king of Qin, to train his soldiers, repair his weapons, and patrol at all times to be vigilant and unremitting.
Geng Bingwen, a native of Haozhou (Fengyang, Anhui), the hometown of Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty, the son of Geng Junyong, the head of the army, Geng Bingwen inherited his father's position in his early years, repeatedly defeated Zhang Shicheng's army, and successively served as the marshal of the general army, the governor of the capital, etc., and later followed Chang Yuchun and Xu Da to attack Datong, Shaanxi and other places, and repeatedly made military exploits; After that, he was awarded the title of Marquis of Changxing with military merits. Zhu Di, the king of Yan, rebelled, and Zhu Yunwen led the army to attack Zhu Di with Geng Bingwen as the general. Soon, it was defeated (Hebei Zhengding).
Guo Ying is Zhu Yuanzhang's hometown, at the age of eighteen, he followed Zhu Yuanzhang to fight in the south and the north, and was knighted Marquis of Wuding in 1384.
Zhu Shangbing is the grandson of Zhu Yuanzhang, the eldest son of Zhu Zhang, the king of Qin, and his mother is the daughter of Deng Yu, the meritorious defender of the country, Zhu Shangbing was knighted in 1395, and within two years there was an uprising of the White Lotus Sect, which embarrassed him and was very depressed.
On the 14th of 1397, Han Zhongwei sent troops to arrest Gao Fuxing, the army was stationed in the Tumen of Yangping Pass, the rebel army gathered in large numbers, He Miaoshun, known as the king of heaven, stood out to meet the battle, I didn't expect the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, so I couldn't help fighting, the officers and soldiers were defeated, and then the rebel army entered Luoyang, burned the county government, and killed the county governor Lu Chang, and the teacher Lu Xu.
Subsequently, the rebel army crossed Baishui to the west and attacked Huizhou (Hui County, Gansu), which was the garrison of Ningqiangwei. The officers and soldiers resisted stubbornly, but unfortunately they did not stop the rebel army, and after the city was broken, they burned the Huizhou government office and killed Xuezheng Yan Xubin. The results of the rebel army's actions shocked the Qinlong region for a while, and the ethnic minorities and other toiling people came to take refuge when they heard the news.
The imperial court generals Geng Bingwen and Guo Ying were ordered to be stationed in Wenxian and Chuxian respectively, and then sent 15,000 men led by Wu Wang, the commander of Shaanxi, and 18,000 men led by Yu Qi, the commander of Sichuan, to pursue the rebels by different routes.
This White Lotus uprising caused a shock to the imperial court, looking at the arrangement of the imperial court, you can know how angry it is, those heroes in the early Ming Dynasty, by this time there are not many left, the imperial court still sent Geng Bingwen and Guo Ying, which shows how much attention is paid to this uprising.
After several months of pursuit, on the first day of September 1397, due to the disparity between the two sides, the rebel army was defeated one after another, retreating to Houhe (Houhe Village, southwest of Ningqiang County), and Gao Fuxing had nowhere to escape and was captured.
Tian Jiucheng withdrew to the original base area of Masian Mountain, collected the remnants and continued to fight against the imperial court, and then dug deep ditches and built high forts, but he could not stop the overwhelming officers and troops, and both sides suffered heavy casualties. In the autumn of September, the weather began to be a little cooler, the rebel army lacked food and clothing, and the arrows ran out, and there was no strength to fight again, Tian Jiucheng and his subordinates were captured more than 4,000 people, and the imperial court ordered that only the conspirators be killed, and those who were coerced to participate were released.
After the rebel army was exterminated, the imperial court moved the right thousand households to which Han Zhongwei belonged to the county to guard it. The imperial court also sent Jiang Guan to move the Ningqiang Guard from Huizhou to Yangluping (Ningqiang County) in 1398 to build a city and build an official mansion. Since then, Ningqiangwei has become an important military town in central and western Han.
King Kong Nu (Golden Gangnu, Wang King Gangnu) is a native of Jiezhou (Wudu County, Gansu Province).
This guy is definitely a high-ranking White Lotus Sect, he has joined the White Lotus Sect since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, has been conducting secret missions, he has a very strong sense of danger, after the failure of the uprising, he was not caught, but continued to carry out secret activities, until he was arrested in 1409.
Don't look at Zhu Yuanzhang's starting family is Mingjiao, and he has been in the Mingjiao general altar for five or six years, but with the improvement of his status and status, he has the intention of building a country, of course, he has to part ways with Mingjiao, before the founding of the country, Zhu Yuanzhang began to attack Mingjiao, after the founding of the country, he secretly arrested Mingjiao, and the Ming law stipulates as follows
"Vainly claiming that Maitreya Buddha, the White Lotus Society, the Mingzun Sect, the Baiyun Sect and other associations should be left and right. or hide images, burn incense to confuse the people, gather at night, feint good deeds, and incite the people. The leader is hanged, and the servant is each with a hundred rods, and the flow is three thousand miles. ”
Although the rebel army had a lot of time, it touched the Ming court a lot, and it proved from the side that Zhu Yuanzhang had a lot of problems in the Ming Dynasty, the official army of the guard was very poor, the intelligence of the Jinyi Wei was very poor, the regular army of the imperial court was not very good, and the sense of belonging of the ethnic minorities was not strong, coupled with the previous drought, as well as the agitation of the White Lotus cultists, which caused this uprising.
In fact, during the Hongwu period of Zhu Yuanzhang, this was not the first uprising, there had been an uprising before, but it was not as large as this time, and the scope was wide!
This White Lotus Sect uprising, I personally feel that the instigator behind it is Vajra Nu!