Chapter 266: Anti-Qing Forces in Four Provinces
It was already early April when Yunhua received the news that Song Jun's 100,000 vanguard troops had been completely wiped out, countless weapons and food supplies had been seized, and Yunhua had surrendered 60,000 enemy troops in one battle.

Looking at the military newspaper in his hand, Chen Gu couldn't help but look at the messengers in front of him with strange eyes.

At this moment, there were four groups of envoys in front of Chen Gu. These people all set out from their local areas to Chongqing after the New Year. As a result, some of them came back empty-handed and ended up in Guizhou, some changed their route halfway and came to Guizhou, and some came only after they knew that Chen Gu had arrived in Guizhou.

It was by chance that we all met Chen Gu in early April.

The first to come was Zhang Jinxiu, one of the leaders of the Tiandihui, who came from Boluo County, Guangdong. He had arrived in Guiyang five days ago. As soon as he saw Chen Gu, he recited a code word of the Tiandihui.

"He travels among us with a sword on his back, and fights for the country with a stick in his hand; heroes decide the fate of the world, and the vast country is one circle; fighting for the country with a branch of flood, leaking military secrets will die under the sword; the high ground and the streams and mountains will last forever, and the gate faces the sea, and the water of the three rivers will flow for thousands of years.

Red flowers, white lotus roots, green lotus leaves, Hongmen, Qingbang, and Gelaohui, the three religions were originally one family. Leader Chen, I am Zhang Jinxiu from Boluo, I have heard of you for a long time! "Zhang Jinxiu saluted Chen the executioner with a wooden stick in his hand.

Chen Gu couldn't help but smile. After chatting for a while, he arranged for Zhang Jinxiu to stay for the time being. He needed to think about how to deal with the affairs of the Tiandihui.

The Tiandihui was not a gang like the White Lotus that deceived and fooled the people. They had their own political program and were true anti-Qing heroes.

It just so happened that people were coming from Yunnan, and Chen Gu thought that after the people from Yunnan arrived, they could sit down and have a good talk together.

At the beginning of the year, Heng Zhaben, a farmer from Weixi Hall in Lijiang Prefecture, Yunnan, led three to four thousand people from various ethnic groups including Nu, Bai, Han, and Naxi to revolt against the rule of the Qing Dynasty. They burned villages with weapons and fought against government soldiers, and finally cooperated with the enemy to conquer the entire Yunnan in a very short time.

However, he was unwilling to be recruited by the obstacle and wanted to negotiate with Chen Gu. Chen Gu agreed that as long as the other party was willing to talk, Chen Gu would agree to talk first.

Chen Gu rebelled not because he wanted to enslave anyone. As long as they agreed with the general rule of the Huaxia tribe, everyone could discuss many details. It didn't matter if they wanted autonomy.

Not only Yunnan, but Cai Qian from Fujian also sent people to see Chen Gu, wanting to have a talk with him.

Cai Qian lost both his parents when he was young, and later drifted to Sansha Port in Xiapu County, working for a fishing boat owner. In the 1794th year of Qianlong's reign (), Cai Qian went to sea as a pirate due to famine, and received many responses. He led nearly people to gallop on the seas of Fujian, Zhejiang, and Guangdong, hijacking ships and goods, blocking waterways, and collecting "sea tax".

This is a cruel person!

At the same time, there were also peasant army leaders in Guangxi who wanted to talk to Chen Gu.

After Roadblock captured Guiyang last year, Scar led 5,000 troops to reinforce. Then Roadblock attacked everywhere to wipe out the local chieftain forces. At the end of the year, Roadblock sent troops to Yunnan, and Scar sent troops to spy on Guangxi. In fact, the purpose was to prevent Guangxi from sending troops to support Yunnan.

This made Guangxi feel like it was facing a formidable enemy, and it assembled its troops for defense, which resulted in a shortage of military forces in the prefectures and counties of Guangxi, which undoubtedly gave the Guangxi peasant army an opportunity.

Under the rule of the Qing Dynasty, corrupt officials were rampant and many ordinary people could not survive.

There is a Yang family in Daxuanli, Guiping County, Xunzhou, Guangxi. The head of the family is called Yang Erhu. He could not make a living in Guangdong in his early years and was forced to live in Daxuanli with only two sets of tattered clothes and a hemp belt. After living there for a few years, he still had no place to live, so he crossed mountains and went deep into Pingai Mountain to make a living by reclaiming wasteland and burning charcoal before settling down. Yang Erhu relied on his diligence to marry and have children. He now has two sons to inherit the family line, three daughters married, and more than ten grandchildren. The eldest grandson Yang Qingshan is 20 years old this year, just the right age to get married, and the youngest grandson Yang Yaqi was born not long ago.

Although life in the mountains is hard, at least there is plenty of food and drink. Yang Erhu is satisfied with his current life. He originally thought that his life would just pass by like this, but who knew there would be unexpected events.

At the beginning of the year, when the eldest grandson Yang Qingshan went to pick up the bride, the bride's sedan chair was unexpectedly stopped and intercepted in public by the city's playboys.

This kind of thing was a huge humiliation to the Yang family. Yang Erhu had worked hard all his life to make a living, so how could he endure such humiliation? He gathered the mountain people to snatch his grandson's wife back. However, some of the mountain people took advantage of the chaos to rob the playboy's house of money, cloth and other things.

Yang Erhu saw that the situation was getting out of hand, and the yamen runners in Guiping County were not enough to suppress them. Thinking about the humiliation of being oppressed by the government on a daily basis, the old man simply made up his mind and rebelled.

There are many mountain people in Guangxi, and they have always been severely oppressed by the imperial court. When Yang Erhu rebelled, he attracted a lot of followers. In Guiping County alone, he gathered several thousand young and strong people. It can be said that his momentum was huge.

A month later, he easily captured three counties of Xunzhou Prefecture and gathered 20,000 people. In February, he captured seven counties of Liuzhou Prefecture and gathered 100,000 young and strong people to besiege the city of Liuzhou Prefecture. In March, he captured Liuzhou Prefecture and then advanced on Nanning.

Yang Erhu knew that the reason why he could easily conquer such a large territory was simply because there was a shortage of military forces in Guangxi. Although he had 100,000 troops under his command, they were just some mountain people after all and could not be compared with the regular army.

Therefore, while advancing towards Nanning, Yang Erhu was also considering a way out for himself. He certainly could not count on the imperial court, otherwise he would not have to rebel. The best option was naturally to make the imperial court afraid of the Huaxia tribe.

So Yang Erhu sent his eldest grandson Yang Qingshan to Guizhou to meet Chen Gu.

Finally, in early April, Chen Gu had to have serious talks with four groups of people.

Yang Erhu, who gathered a crowd of 100,000 in Guangxi, Heng Zhaben, who led a coalition of 50,000 troops from various ethnic groups in Yunnan, Zhang Jinxiu, one of the leaders of the Tiandihui in Guangdong, and Cai Xi, a big pirate in Fujian.

The four groups of people included Heng Zhaben and Zhang Jinxiu who came in person, Yang Qingshan, the eldest grandson of Yang Erhu, from Guangxi, and Cai Qian, the eldest son Cai Xi, who was sent from Fujian.

All four of them are full of sincerity.

Heng Zhaben's demands were simple. They needed to be treated the same as the ethnic minorities within the Huaxia tribe. They also wanted the freedom to exchange materials and autonomy. They had been severely bullied by the imperial court in recent years, so naturally they did not want Chen Gu to send anyone to control them anymore.

Yang Qingshan wanted Chen Gu to appoint Yang Erhu as the King of Guangxi. This request was a bit excessive. Of course, Yang Erhu was probably testing Chen Gu. He was a typical mountain dweller who was cunning. He didn't care about anything else and just made a huge request first. What if it worked?

Zhang Jinxiu and Cai Qian of the Tiandihui had similar goals. They hoped that Chen Gu would send troops from the Yangtze River to attack Jiangnan as soon as possible so that they could each start an uprising in Fujian and Guangdong to fight against the Qing Dynasty first. As for what would happen next, they would talk about it later.

These are obviously two ambitious people!

(End of this chapter)