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- Although Shi Kunyu¡¯s descendants insist that he definitely signed his name on the "Exhortation" while he was awake.
But official records in official history books and Ge Cheng's memoir "Long Live the Workers" all say that Shi Kunyu fainted on the spot after reading this approachable "Article for Shi Kunyu's Admonition to the Tyrant".
¡°Then ¡®Gexian¡¯ held his wrist and signed his name on it.
Because this precious anti-imperialist revolutionary proclamation has since been retained in the National Archives. After the confidentiality period, the public can see his true appearance. The crooked signature on the document seems to support the latter statement.
But in any case, on the seventh day of winter in the eighteenth year of Wanli, Suzhou first announced an uprising!
Soon, worker riots broke out in the neighboring Songjiang Prefecture, Changzhou Prefecture, and Zhenjiang Prefecture, and the officials in the prefectures and counties also cooperated in announcing an uprising!
Then there are Huizhou, Taiping, Anqing, Chizhou, Ningguo
Over in Zhejiang, Hangzhou, Jiaxing, Huzhou, Ningbo, Shaoxing, Taizhou, Wenzhou, Jinhua and other prefectures also announced uprisings one after another.
Seeing that the general trend was irreversible, Tang Hezheng, the governor of Zhejiang, had no choice but to declare a peaceful uprising in Zhejiang province
The only place in Jiangsu and Zhejiang that is not at peace is indeed Yingtian Mansion.
After all, Nanjing City is the capital of the Ming Dynasty. It has six yamen, garrisoned by troops, eunuchs on guard, and even the Nanjing East Factory. It is really a stronghold.
So when organizing the workers¡¯ riot, Zhao Hao instructed Miwa that Jinling could hold off for now. It will not be too late to launch another attack after the entire Jiangnan spreads the message and the group's army presses the border.
However, the plan could not keep up with the changes. When Zhang Gui, the garrison eunuch of Nanjing, saw that all the governments in the south of the Yangtze River were raising flags of rebellion, he actually ordered the city gates to be closed tightly and Jinling to be under martial law!
At the same time, the Nanjing East Factory was dispatched to seal down the Nanjing branch of Jiangnan Daily and its distribution points throughout the city. He tried to prevent the spread of the "Essay on the Desire of Shi Kunyu" and the successive uprisings in various prefectures among the people.
He also sent people to arrest several Jiangnan Group executives and key members of the weavers' guild and lock them up in the garrison yamen, in an attempt to prevent the weavers from rioting.
However, Eunuch Zhang¡¯s behavior backfired - when the weavers learned that their leader had been arrested, they gathered from all directions to the North and South Streets of Gen'er in the West Imperial City, trying to rush into Xi'an Gate to save people!
Because the Nanjing Imperial Palace is a zigzag structure of the outer imperial city and the inner palace city. The garrison and Nanjing East Factory, as well as the inner palace, prisons and treasuries, and the left and right guards of Yulin are all stationed in the imperial city, guarding the Forbidden City which has not had an owner for 160 years.
So once the Yulin army guarding the imperial city closed the city gate, the weavers could only look at the high imperial city wall and sigh.
That¡¯s why Eunuch Zhang actually wanted to control the situation in Jinling City when he was confident. This is unwise!
But now we can only hope that those weavers can retreat in front of the majestic imperial city.
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However, Eunuch Zhang did not understand the psychology of the people of Nanjing at all.
How could they allow themselves to fall behind Suzhou?
Although we can¡¯t win the first victory in the rebellion, we can still fire the first shot in the rebellion! Fire the first shot of the uprising!
"Go to the imperial city!"
"Go to Xi'an Gate!"
In the early morning of the fourteenth day of the winter month in the eighteenth year of Wanli, after a night of running around telling each other, the angry Nanjing citizens came from the Qinhuai River, from the Bell and Drum Tower, from Caijia Lane, from Xiaocang Mountain, from Xuanwu Lake, from the Jinchuan River They flooded into the Southern Imperial City from all directions.
Of course, the Nanjing elders have always insisted that it was the imperial city.
And unlike Suzhou City, the outer city of Nanjing is really too big, and almost all Nanjing people live within the city walls, so Eunuch Zhang¡¯s previous order to close the city gates was equivalent to shutting down the loneliness
By the morning of that day, hundreds of thousands of Nanjing men surrounded the imperial city.
Some of them held muskets, some held daggers, and some held spears in their hands, angrily demanding to be released. Of course, it is indispensable to greet the guarding eunuch:
"Zhang Gui, Huo Shinima! Redema, Ibi!"
The scoldings of hundreds of thousands of people were like the raging waves of the sea sweeping across the entire imperial city, making Eunuch Zhang, who was already frightened, completely pale.
Fortunately, this imperial city wall was built by Emperor Taizu, so the quality can be imagined. The city is 11 meters high, 8 meters wide at the base, 7 meters wide at the top, and 20 miles in circumference! It is completely a large military fortress!
Although it has been in disrepair after a century and a half of wind and rain, it is still invincible. With the supplies stored in the inner palace's treasury, the people in the imperial city can hold on for a year!
So although Eunuch Zhang was a little frightened, he had not completely peed yet.
"Let them scold them, anyway, usuallyMilitary commander Macron immediately learned of the Nanjing citizens' plan to attack the palace.
After asking Zhao Hao for instructions and receiving an answer that was "in line with public opinion," he immediately ordered the arsenal affiliated to Wuhu Iron and Steel Group to ship out the siege artillery that had been prepared overnight.
?? Two hundred miles down the river, rushing to Jinling's aid at starry night!
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Seeing that their armed forces finally arrived for reinforcements, the citizens of Nanjing cheered like thunder, and their bodies were filled with strength again!
In less than an hour, they helped the worker escort transport twenty siege artillery pieces and hundreds of boxes of ammunition to the gun positions.
After some intense installation and debugging, the gunners accompanying the cannon began to shoot towards the city head.
These new siege cannons are unparalleled in terms of range and accuracy.
"Fire!" When the order to fire was given, the citizens of Nanjing roared together:
"Fire! Huoshenima!"
So, amidst the earth-shattering roar, twenty cannonballs roared out of the barrel on the orders of the people!
Most of the spherical artillery shells accurately landed on the gun positions at the head of the city, smashing the defenders' small artillery batteries to pieces.
The gunners fired continuously, shelling round after round, causing bricks and debris to fly everywhere on the walls of the imperial city and filling the air with smoke.
When the smoke dissipated, there was no one alive at the top of the city
It¡¯s not that they were all hit, but they were all scared away.
The gunners turned their guns again and blasted Xi'an Gate to pieces.
The revolting citizens held their swords and guns high, cheered and swarmed into the Ming Imperial City, which had stood for two hundred years!
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