Chapter 14 Fourth, the rise of the green forest and red eyebrows

Wang Mang's nerdy reforms caused social turmoil, and the social contradictions accumulated for a long time in the late Western Han Dynasty broke out in an all-round way. In dealing with international issues at that time, Wang Mang also showed a strong bookishness. In the ninth year of AD, conflicts broke out between the Xinmang Dynasty and the Huns and other ethnic minorities. In the tenth year of AD, Wang Mang even had a whim, and changed the name of the Xiongnu Shanyu to "Subdue Yu", not only taking advantage of others verbally, but also sending more than 300,000 troops to conquer the Xiongnu.In the northeast, the Xinmang Dynasty trapped and killed Gaogoulihou, and changed his country's name to "Xiaguli".

For a while, the Xinmang Dynasty fought from all sides, east, west, north, south, and lasted for more than ten years.Wang Mang stationed heavy troops in the four regions, fighting endlessly, which made the social economy that was already on the verge of collapse worse. This situation is exactly the same as the crisis situation at the end of Qin Dynasty.Wang Fuzhi, a great thinker in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, commented on this passage: "The recklessness of instigating chaos began with the attack on the Huns, deceiving the sky and ignoring people, and exhausting China. This is where the disaster must come."

In the 14th year of AD, there was a "great hunger along the border, and people ate each other". Famine and disease spread rapidly from the border to the interior, but Wang Mang was still obsessed with building the world of Datong he originated from "Zhou Ri", building a magnificent and magnificent world for his ancestors. nine temples. It's not that he didn't help the victims at all, but he used such a ridiculous recipe as "cooking grass and trees into cheese", thanks to this idiot who figured it out.Hungry people certainly cannot feed their hunger with vegetation.Looking at the history at that time, there are many examples of cannibalism.People everywhere are in dire straits, and "thieves" are springing up.

This dynasty is coming to an end. In the fourteenth year of AD, an uprising led by Lu Mu broke out in Haiqu County, Langye County. Lu's mother's son was a county magistrate, and was killed by the county magistrate for a minor crime.The Lu family had a rich family property with millions of assets, so his mother broke the family fortune and made friends with desperate young men, broke through Haiqu County, killed the magistrate, and launched a guerrilla attack on the sea near Langye, with tens of thousands of people. In the seventeenth year of AD, Wang Kuang, Wang Feng, Ma Wu, Cheng Dan, Wang Chang and others also revolted in Green Forest Mountain, and quickly grew to seven or eight thousand people, known as the "Green Forest Army".Green Forest Mountain is located between Jiangling, Hubei Province and Nanyang, Henan Province. It is called "Green Forest Heroes" by later generations, which originated from this.In the twenty-first year of AD, the Green Forest Army and the 20,000 troops of Jingzhou Mu of the new Dynasty fought in Yunshe, defeated the Xin Mang Army, killed thousands of people, and captured all their belongings.Immediately, taking advantage of the victory to conquer Jingling, they turned to Yunshe, Anlu and other places, probably to solve the personal problems of the officers and soldiers of the army. The Green Forest Army also deliberately robbed a large number of women, and returned to the Green Forest Mountain to live the life of the king of the mountain.

More than 50,000 people quickly gathered in the green forest, but the good times didn't last long. In the 22nd year of AD, a plague prevailed on the green forest mountain, and nearly half of the people died. The leaders of the green forest had no choice but to lead their troops to move separately.Wang Chang and Cheng Dan went west to Nanjun and were known as "Xiajiang soldiers"; Wang Kuang, Wang Feng, Ma Wu and others went north to Nanyang and were known as "Xinshi soldiers". When Xinshi soldiers attacked any place, Chen Mu and Liao Zhan from Pinglin gathered more than a thousand people to respond, known as "Pinglin soldiers".

The Liu brothers from Chongling also gathered together to revolt, known as "Chongling Soldiers". In the eighteenth year of A.D., Fan Chong, a native of Langye, raised his troops in Ju County, Chengyang State, with more than a hundred people, and moved to the area of ​​Mount Tai, calling himself the Three Elders.At that time, there was a famine in Qingzhou and Xuzhou, and bandits and thieves rose up in droves. The bandits, with Fan Chong's bravery, joined them one after another, and gathered more than 10,000 people within a year.Pang'an, Fan Chong's fellow villager, and Xu Xuan, Xie Lu, and Yang Yin from the East China Sea, all gathered together to revolt, with tens of thousands of troops, and obeyed Fan Chong's orders.

So far, the protagonists of the troubled times have all appeared on the stage, and the big drama has begun.