How a duck trader became emperor during the Kangxi Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty

I like history more, recently in the reading of Cai Dongfan's version of the "Qing History Of the Evolution", the twenty-ninth time "Wen Kou police sent troops to Pingzang Wei, harsh government and advocated chaos according to Taiwan", about the Qing Kangxi years in Taiwan a small people who sold ducks for a living, surname Zhu Mingyigui plotted rebellion, I think it is very interesting, so the original text is translated word for word, interested, please read down.

The content of the story is as follows: After Shi Lang (a major general during the Kangxi dynasty) took over Taiwan, in his later years, Kangxi used a greedy and tyrannical Wang Zhen to grant the prefect of Taiwan, during his term of office, those who did not have taxes should increase taxes, those who did not have grain should levy grain, the people did not obey, they had to be spanked, or shackled for a few months, and all the litigation incidents, if there is money, you win, if you have no money, you lose, so the Taiwan people are very resentful.

This Zhu Yigui, although he sells ducks for a living, he has several wine and meat friends, one named Huang Dian, one named Li Yong, and one named Wu Wai, these three people are restless, but they are very speculative with Zhu Yigui. One day, I went to a restaurant to eat, and I talked about weekday things while drinking. Huang Dian asked Yigui, "How is Big Brother Zhu's business in recent days, is it good?" Ichigo shook his head and said, "Not good! Now this prefect, reaching out in the coffin, wants copper coins when he dies, and even if I sell a few ducks, I will donate more. I sold a thousand ducks this time, but I lost thousands of dollars, and it seems that I had to give up and could not do it. Li Yong and Wu Wai said in unison, "Such a dog official must always be killed." Yi Gui said, "There are only a few of us small people, where can we kill the prefect?" Huang Dian said, It is not difficult to kill this prefect, but this is not a place to say anything, brothers don't say it. After saying that, the eyes signaled to them.

Everyone finished drinking, and Ichigo paid for it, so they went to Ichigo's house together. After they all sat down, Huang Dian said, "Elder Brother Zhu, do you say it is better to sell ducks, or is it better to be an emperor?" Yi Gui laughed drunkenly, "Second Brother Huang is really drunk, how can a duck seller compare with the emperor?" Huang Dian said, "Does Elder Brother Zhu want to be emperor?" Yi Gui laughed and said, "People like me can only sell ducks, where will they be emperors?" Huang Dian said, "Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang was once a monk in the temple, and later unified the country and mountains, and became an emperor with good manners." The eldest brother is also surnamed Zhu, and although the duck seller is lowly, he is slightly stronger than the monks in the temple. Water has no bucket, people have no appearance, what is difficult to be an emperor? When Yi Gui heard this, he didn't feel that his hands were dancing, so he said, "I will be the emperor, and Second Brother Huang, you will help me." Huang Dian said, "As long as the eldest brother doesn't panic, tomorrow he will let you face the south as the king." Yi Gui took advantage of the drunkenness and said, "If I can be the emperor for a day, even if I am slashed with a thousand knives, I will be willing." Huang Dian said, "A word is certain, and it cannot be denied." Yi Gui said, "Nature is not bad." Huang Dian then asked Li Yong and Wu Wai to say goodbye and leave.

The next day, Huang Dian, together with Li Yong and Wu Wai, took one or two hundred hooligans, carried a cage, and hurried to a noble house. Yi Gui didn't know what the reason was, and hurriedly asked, "Second Brother Huang!" Why did you come to my house with so many people? Huang Dian said, "Please become emperor from today." At this time, Yi Gui had forgotten all the wine words of yesterday, and only then did he suddenly remember it, so he laughed: "Yesterday was a drunken wild talk, how can it be counted?" Huang Dian said, "No, no! What you said yesterday is okay, and today you can't deny it. Now even if you don't want to be, you are not allowed to be inappropriate. After saying that, he ordered his subordinates to open the suitcase of clothes, take out the yellow crown and yellow robe, and change Zhu Yigui's dress. Yi Gui said, "You are too good at teasing me." Huang Dian said, "Which teased you?" Suddenly, with seven hands and eight feet, he ripped off Zhu Yigui's old clothes and wore a yellow crown and yellow robe, and a small duck seller actually asked him to sit facing south and become a robber king. Do you know where this yellow crown and yellow robe came from? He borrowed it from the singer and put it on temporarily; there was also a python official dress, which was then taken out. Huang Dian ran to the back room, helped out a yellow-faced woman, and called on her to change her outfit. Poor yellow-faced woman was trembling with fear, who dared to wear this dress? Huang Dian also disregarded what kind of ethics, and even draped the python robe on the yellow-faced woman and led her to sit down on the left side of Yi Gui. So the public took out their clothes, all dressed up, dressed in red and green, crowded into a pile, and bowed their heads to Zhu Yigui and his wife. Zhu Yigui and his wife are not subject to it, nor are they subject to it, just like puppets. When everyone had finished worshipping, they went outside to rob and plunder, take some gold and silver treasures, make flags and tents, build weapons, and occupy dozens of private houses.

In less than ten days, thousands of people responded, and thousands of people were recruited. Taiwan's general soldier Ouyang Kai, an emergency meeting, sent troops to suppress the bandits. The guerrilla leader Liu Dezi always said that he would use troops, so he took the initiative to request to carry out the suppression of bandits, but Ouyang Kai did not agree, but instead dispatched an incompetent Zhou Yinglong to lead the troops forward. The enemy village was only thirty miles away from the official palace, Zhou Yinglong stopped along the way, thirty miles of road walked for three days, the enemy refused to defend the mountain, Ying Long did not attack, but sent troops to burn and plunder the village next to it. The villagers were very angry and led each other to follow the thieves. Du Junying, a traitor on the South Road, also took the opportunity to rebel, and joined forces with Zhu Yigui to attack and kill Miao Jinglong, the general of Fengshan, and the official government city was very shocked. Ouyang Kai took Liu Dezi and the deputy general Xu Yun with him, and led fifteen hundred troops to personally suppress Yigui. Huang Dian, Li Yong, Wu Wai, and others went out to meet the enemy, Xu Yun was trapped on a prancing horse, the thieves all dodged, and Huang Dian and others fled into the mountains. You Songgong, the guerrilla leader of the Huishui Division, also came to the aid from the Deer Ear Gate, and Ouyang Kai was overjoyed, thinking that the enemy was frightened of all the courage, so he did not do anything to prevent it. After two days, Zhu Yigui and Du Junying's combined army brigade rushed to the scene, only to see that at the beginning of the dust head, there were about tens of thousands of horses and horses, and the strength came. The Qing soldiers were already frightened and looked at each other. Ouyang Kai rushed out to resist, and in the middle of the battle, he put general Yang Tai behind Ouyang Kai, suddenly jumped up, and stabbed Ouyang Kai down. Liu Dezi hurried to the rescue, but in case Yang Tai stabbed again, The purple flashed sharply, and the mount was shot, and the horse fell to the ground in pain, and threw Dezi to the ground, and was also captured by the rebels. Suddenly, the officers and troops were in chaos, Xu Yun and You Songgong could not stop them, and the thieves army surrounded and gathered again, so they had to fight desperately and bloodily. By noon, the arrows and cannons were exhausted, and each person had a knife (killed) dozens of people, and killed themselves (suicide).

So the marine division guerrilla Attacked Zhang Xian, Wang Ding, and others, led more than a thousand troops and dozens of warships, and escaped from Penghu. Taiwan's Dao Liang Wenxuan, the prefect Wang Zhen, and others drove all the merchant fishing boats in the harbor out of Lu'er Gate. Zhou Yinglong escaped even faster and actually ran into the interior. Zhu Yigui entered the Taiwan prefecture, plundered the warehouse, and regained the guns, sulphur, lead and iron (making guns and cannons) of the Zheng clan (Zheng Chenggong) in the old days, and was very happy. Lai Chi and Zhang Yue, the traitors of the North Road, also attacked Zhuluo County on the same day and killed the general Luo Wancang. It took only seven days for the whole of Taiwan to fall. Zhu Yigui gathered the people's meeting, feasted for three days, called himself the King of Zhongxing, the national name was "Yonghe", and the Huangdian was made the Auxiliary Duke, and the title of Taishi, Li Yong and Wu Wai were marquises, and many generals and general soldiers were sealed below. The robe was too late to be cut, and he wore a Ming Dynasty crown (hat), and he counted the matter. Countless women were taken captive as concubines. A noble left hugs the right hug, saying that it is not enough to wait for happiness.

The refugees who had fled from the government all arrived in Penghu (Grandma's Penghu Bay), and the guards did not know what to do, and all the families boarded boats and prepared to cross the sea to Xiamen, and the people were terrified. Only the garrison Lin Liang decided to stick to it, ran to the seashore, stopped the officials and people's families, and was not allowed to cross the sea, and the people's hearts were slightly calm. Admiral Shi Shibiao traveled from Xiamen to Penghu, and Lan Tingzhen, the commander-in-chief of South Australia, also came to Penghu to meet the division. Therefore, he ordered Lin Liang and Qianzong Dongfang to be the vanguard, leading a fleet of 8,000 people to directly attack the Deer Ear Gate. Just happened to encounter Zhu Yigui and Du Junying fighting for the eldest brother, killing each other. The townspeople were indignant at the plunder, and they formed their own vigilante groups to protect the villages. When the Qing soldiers heard about the civil unrest in Yigui, the people did not follow, and they were immediately a hundred times more courageous. Arriving at Lu'er Gate, the cannons on the shore were fired one after another, Lin Liang and Dong Fang risked death to advance straight ahead, and in the distance they saw the gun emplacement on the shore, the gunpowder accumulated, Lin Liang rectified the sailors to fight back with cannons, injected gunpowder, the cannon sounded too much, the gunpowder rushed upwards, the sea was steeply shaken, the heavens and the earth were dim, and the defenders on the shore at that time were all bombed without knowing where to go. Lin Liang and Dong Fang immediately left their boats to land and led their troops straight in. Shi Shibiao and Lan Tingzhen also led a large army to follow and attack, suppressing bandits at any time. Do you think that Zhu Yigui, Du Junying and other, where can they resist a few tiger generals? Consecutive defeats, consecutive defeats, and chasing after the Qing troops, straight (pounced) under the city of Taiwan, the east, west, south, and north were full of troops, and the sound of artillery was endless day by day.

Zhu Yigui was helpless, so he could only hide in the pseudo-palace (false palace), crying non-stop at the ordinary princess and concubine (at this time, is it better to sell ducks, or is it better to be an emperor?). ）。 Fortunately, outside the military Yellow Temple, I thought of a plan to rob the camp, sneaked open the city gate at night, and raided the Qing camp. Who knew that lan tingzhen had expected it earlier, and set up an empty camp plan, waiting for Li Yong, Wu Wai, and others to enter, and ambushing the soldiers to cover up together, like chopping melons and cutting vegetables. Lin Liang beheaded Li Yong, Dong Fang stabbed Wu Wai to death, leaving only the Yellow Palace of the rear team, hurriedly fled back, turned around, looked at it, the city gate was closed, and there was a general standing in the city, not someone else, but Liu Dezi, the leader of the Qing guerrillas. It turned out that Liu Dezi was captured by Yang Tai and offered to Yi Gui, who attached great importance to Zi's reputation and did not kill him and imprisoned him in the Xuegong. Dezi did not eat for three days, preferring to starve to death. Zhusheng Lin Gao and Liu Huali secretly persuaded Zi to eat, and slowly tried to recover, so that Zi cai could eat as usual. This time, the Yellow Palace went out of the city to rob the camp and transferred all the people in the middle of the city, so Lin and Liu Ersheng invited the good people, hugged The Purple out of the Palace, closed the city gate, and invited the Purple to guard the city. The Yellow Temple had no way out and committed suicide. Shi Shibiao ordered that those who surrendered would be spared death, so all the rebels surrendered. Liu Dezi greeted him, recounted the situation in front of him, and Shi Biao immediately ordered him to enter the puppet palace, arrest Zhu Yigui, interrogate him, and push him into a cage. The false concubines and concubines in the room were all brought back by the people themselves. According to statistics, the Qing army invaded Lu'er Gate and regained the capital city of Taiwan, which was also seven days. Shi Biao also divided his troops to search the north and south roads, captured Du Junying and others, and escorted Zhu Yigui to Beijing, where they were all executed. He also abandoned Taiwan and fled to the prefectural government and county, and did his best to punish him. Only Wang Zhen had committed suicide for fear of the crime, and ordered the coffin to be immediately dissected (presumably to dig up the coffin corpse for public display).

At this point, during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, the story of the rebellion of the islanders has come to an end. I don't know how everyone feels after watching it? If you like it, you can give me a comment or leave a message.

The content of this article is mainly from the "Qing History" twenty-ninth, thirtieth time, I did the translation of the original text, in the future will be more good articles to sort out, translation, I hope you like!

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