I have written many articles about the rebellion of Shaanxi and Gansu, but the cause of the rebellion of Shaanxi and Gansu has not been revealed due to special reasons. Today I will reveal the truth about the cause of the rebellion of Shaanxi and Gansu. History needs to be told truthfully. From today on, I will continue to tell you the dark history of the rebellion in Shaanxi and Gansu.
The rebellion of Shaanxi and Gansu is a continuation of the rebellion of Yunnan. After the rebellion of Yunnan was quelled, the rebel leaders Renwu and Hemingtang escaped by luck. The two of them fled to Shaanxi and found an opportunity to initiate a rebellion in the two provinces of Shaanxi and Gansu.
Ren Wu and He Mingtang recruited some believers and led them to kill Zhao Quanzhong, the group training and training Zhao Quanzhong. The actions of Ren Wu and others at this time were of a rebellion, but from then on, the nature of the actions of these people completely changed.
Ren Wu, He Mingtang and others found many blacksmiths and asked the blacksmiths to build swords and guns to prepare for the rebellion. Then they sent the believers to buy bamboo in various parts of Shaanxi, as knife rods and gun rods, resulting in the bamboo in Shaanxi being sold out.
Later, Ren Wu sent the believers to cut bamboo. An accident occurred during the process of cutting bamboo. The Han people had a forceful conflict with them because of Huimin crossing the border to cut bamboo. The two sides fought. This accident and what happened later became an excuse for Ren Wu's rebels to launch the rebellion in Shaanxi and Gansu, which directly caused this catastrophe that killed 20 million innocent people in the two provinces of Shaanxi and Gansu.
"Huaxian Chronicles" records: "Since Hui tribe cut bamboos in the holy mountain, Pu Gui of the state governor was right and Han left. The hall edict said: 'The Han Dynasty hurts Hui people, one ten to one ten to the people, one ten to the people.' Qin Ying, the Hui people, was angry and went to the hall to make a move more anxious. Later, Bai Xiangsheng, the commander of Huashan, joined forces with Zhang Yinglan, the commander of Weiyi, and arrested 17 Hui people in the wheat field. The Hui people were killed in Baiquanpu, and Hui people crossed northwards. Qinjiazhai and Yejiatan burned a group of people. In vain, there was a disaster for the Hui people. "
The accident of cutting bamboo in the holy mountain and the group training to kill the returning spies became an excuse for Ren Wu to initiate the rebellion in Shaanxi and Gansu. Ren Wu and He Mingtang led the rebels to slaughter innocent people in Huazhou . The rebels of Weinan and Tongzhou (now Dali ) quickly responded to Ren Wu's actions and began to slaughter innocent people.
The Qing government was deeply shocked when it heard about this, so Cixi sent Shaanxi troupe and Tongzhi imperial teacher Zhang Fu to Shaanxi to appease the rebels.
In order to show that he was not hostile to the rebels, Zhang Fu only brought more than 20 people to appease him. Zhang Fu persuaded the rebels with kind words and promised that the rebels would treat them well in the future. Some of the rebels expressed that they would accept the revenge and no longer rebel, but when Zhang Fu asked the rebels to hand over their leader Ren Wu, Ren Wu panicked.
Ren Wu knew very well that if the rebels handed him over to Zhang Fu, he would definitely be executed by Zhang Fu. So Ren Wu had the intention to kill Zhang Fu. Zhang Fu was just a civil servant, but he could not defeat Ren Wu after all. As a result, Zhang Fu was dismissed by Ren Wu. More than 20 people who came with Zhang Fu to appease the rebels were also civil servants, but none of them were spared and all were killed by the rebels.
At this time, Ren Wu took out a post, claiming that the post was found in Zhang Fu's sedan chair. The post said "Qin will not stay back", which directly led to the rebels starting to slaughter the innocent people in Shaanxi even more violently. Ren Wu sent people to spread the four words in the post throughout the two provinces of Shaanxi and Gansu. The rebels from Shaanxi and Gansu responded, which eventually led to the catastrophe that caused the deaths of 20 million innocent people.
In fact, the content on the post was forged by Ren Wu himself, not what Zhang Fu meant.
The tragic rebellion in Shaanxi and Gansu is recorded in the county and county annals of each province of Shaanxi and Gansu. Here I will list the records in five county annals.
"Lintong County Chronicles" records: From 1862 to 1869, more than 300,000 people were killed, and Weihe No village in the north and south were spared.
"Fuping County Chronicles" records: In 1855, there were 46,579 households in the entire county town, and the number of people was about 250,000. However, in 1876, the result of the statistics again was that there were only 28,543 households, and the number of people also became about 120,000.
"Sanyuan County Chronicles" records: Before the rebellion of Shaanxi and Gansu, the population of Sanyuan County was about 160,000, and only about 40,000 remained after the rebellion of Shaanxi and Gansu was put down.
"Gaoling County Chronicles" records: Gaoling County's population was nearly 70,000 before the Shaanxi-Gansu Rebellion. After the Shaanxi-Gansu Rebellion was put down, the population of Gaoling County had lost half of it.
"Weiyuan County Chronicles" records: Tens of thousands of poisonous creatures were slaughtered, and all the officials and people in the city died. After a day of killing, tens of thousands of people died, blood flowed into a canal, corpses piled up like mountains, and sad eyes were sad.
The rebellion in Shaanxi and Gansu has reached a point where it is out of control. The Qing government has to send troops to quell the rebellion. The Qing government first sent Shengbao to quell the rebellion. As a result, Shengbao suffered a great defeat, but lied that he won, and was discovered by Cixi and dismissed from office and imprisoned, and was soon sentenced to death by Cixi.
Cixi then sent Daur generals Dolonga to lead his army to suppress the rebellion. Duolana was brave and good at fighting and was one of the famous generals of the late Qing Dynasty. He led his army to defeat the Renwu rebels and Bai Yanhu rebels, but when he continued to pacify other rebels, he suddenly suffered an accident. He led his army to fight with the rebels and was seriously injured in the head and died of serious injuries during his recovery.
Dolonga portrait
After General Duolonga died, the national hero Zuo Zongtang old general replaced Duolonga and led his army to continue to suppress the rebellion. Zuo Zongtang led the Hunan Army soldiers to pacify Dong Zhiyuan's rebels, Jinjibao's rebels, Hezhou rebels, Xining's rebels, and Suzhou's rebels. It took a total of ten years, and more than 30 Hunan generals died in battle, and finally successfully completed the important task of suppressing the rebellion in Shaanxi and Gansu.
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