After a busy morning, everyone finally got a rest for half an hour. These miners immediately collapsed on the ground as if they had dispersed.

Several water tanks were filled with people's heads, and Xiao Liuzi brought a scoop of water and handed it to Chongzhen. Chongzhen hesitated for a moment, nodded at him, picked up the scoop of water and started to gulp.

Almost everyone was slumped on the ground. The brief rest made everyone still numb, but Chongzhen was full of thoughts.

Emperor Chongzhen vaguely saw it from the file left in the palace. During the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty, a commoner named Wang Si told his friend Qiang Qing a message: "Liang Wen pulled up a group of people and privately mined silver mines, and obtained a lot of silver sand, which is said to be stored in the cave of the Creation Shuang Temple."

Then Wang Si suggested: "We have many brothers, who are going to ask Liang Wen to share money. If he refuses, we will compete with him."

Silver mines are one of the most important mineral deposits in the Ming Dynasty, the same as gold. Silver is the economic lifeline of the Ming Dynasty and its status is particularly important. With the prosperity and development of the commodity economy in the Ming Dynasty, silver was fully monetized by the Ming Dynasty's Yingzong period, replacing other forms of currency and becoming synonymous with wealth.

In addition to the loose management of gold and silver ore in the early Ming Dynasty, it was strictly prohibited for private development of gold, silver ore, and stipulated that gold, silver ore deposits and their mining were directly managed by the palace transport warehouse. This means that all gold and silver ore produced in the world should be sent to the inner treasury of the Ming Emperor. Even the Ministry of Revenue, which manages other minerals such as copper and iron, cannot be involved in it.

Wang Si and Liang Wen are both big brothers in the world. They have financial resources and courage, and have strong organizational skills. As soon as they call, the miners immediately rushed forward. Moreover, since the mid-Ming Dynasty, many people have suffered from heavy taxes and service, left their hometowns, and fled to other places. Many strong people gathered those who fled the border guards and the gangsters who dreamed of making money to join the private silver mining team in order to make a living.

Xiang Zhong, the right deputy censor of the governor of Shaanxi, once wrote a letter: "There are silver mines in the mountains of Zhongnan, Shaanxi, Yongning and other places in Henan, and they often gather for local traitors to steal... Lu Song, Yongning, Neixiang, Xishui, Zhenping in Henan, Shangluo Jinxun in Shaanxi, Yunjun in Huguang, Shangjin in Shangjin, and many mines in Shangjin, so refugees gathered with stealing mines."

The Yasi came forward to investigate and arrest Qiang Qing, Wang Liang, Xing Guang and others, but the mastermind Wang Si escaped, and his opponent Liang Wen seemed to be invisible. Next, a summary report with a clear statement on the surface and a deep mystery inside was released. However, until the Dali Temple Minister Wang Qi reviewed the file, no one found out that it was strange, or did he deliberately ignore it?

The ending is that the deceased were Wu Qing, Diao Feng, Zhang Neng, Xu Guang and an unknown stonemason, a total of five people. Qiang Qing, Wang Liang and Xing Guang's actions constituted murder. According to the Ming Dynasty's law, the hanged after autumn. Wang Si, who directed them to commit the above evil deeds, has now escaped and cannot be dealt with.

This is a microcosm of the previous private mining deposits. However, with the increasing decay of the Ming Dynasty, these miners who dug privately have already learned to collude between officials and businessmen.

They no longer take theft method, and the risk is too high. Once they are arrested by the court, they will be severely punished.

Collude with local governments, a 28-cent account or even 37-cent account. After each layer of increase, the first thing that bribes the local magistrate, then the higher-level magistrate went to the governor. Even a guy with a wide eye can reach the capital.

If the court officials who are attached to the capital will be even more like fish in water. These corrupt officials colluded with each other, and even if the people reported it, it would be useless.

The complaints who filed the prefecture were sent back to the county government, and the complaints who filed the capital were sent back to the prefecture. After walking around, they finally returned to the place.

This means that ordinary people have no way to sue, which ultimately makes these private mine owners become more lawless.

The owners of large mines will not easily come to the mine. They usually send supervisors to take care of them. These supervisors are just scapegoats. If something happens one day, these big miners with great hands and eyes will even escape unscathed.

They own a silver mine, and everything else is easy to say, but the one they lacks the least is silver. For them, silver is like leaves on the ground, and it is inexhaustible.

Money can make the devil push the mill. With this money, they can really do whatever they want. They are domineering in the local area and become local emperors who have one by one.

Because they are located around the capital, these places are also affected by bandits. However, the lives of the people here are still in dire straits.

How to relieve worries is to get rich. Silver is always an unavoidable topic in human life. Among them, the rebellion for silver mines was the "Xuanko Rebellion" with miners as the main body that broke out during the Zhengtong period of the Ming Dynasty in Chuzhou, Zhejiang.

The "Records of the Ancestral Hall of Tao Zhongliegong" written by Wang Zhi, the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, the "Records of the Shendao of Tao Zhongliegong" written by Qiu Jun, as well as the "Records of Kuocang Hui", "Hongyoulu", "Records of the World and the Country of the World", "Records of History and the Prefectures and County Chronicles in Chuzhou area, all record: the leaders of the "Xuan Kou Rebellion" were Ye Zongliu, Chen Jianhu, and Tao Deer.

Ye Zongliu was from Qingyuan, Zhejiang Province and was a miner. He has been practicing martial arts since childhood, and is proficient in fighting and is famous in the village.

In the seventh year of Zhengtong, Ye Zongliu gathered more than a thousand people and entered the mountainous areas of Zhejiang, Fujian and Jiangxi to mine silver mines. This was a mountainous area where Ye Zongliu and others were hunted by the government army and later appeared in the border areas of Zhejiang, Fujian and Jiangxi, where they robbed and killed wealthy people and their power grew.

Ye Zongliu was once a servant in the Chuzhou Prefecture. 1 In order to live, despite the Ming Dynasty's ban, he risked his life and hundreds of people including Wang Neng, Zheng Xiangsi, Canghuotou, Chen Gongshan, Chen Jianhu, Tao Deer, Ye Xiba, etc. He opened Baofengchang and made a living in the Xianxialing and Tongtangshan areas at the junction of Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Fujian provinces.

Xianxia Ridge was a forbidden area explicitly ordered by the Ming government, and refugees were strictly prohibited from entering the mountains to mine. In order to cope with the government's pursuit, Ye Zongliu used the dangerous terrain of Tongtang Mountain to "cast and smelter armour", organize armed forces, protect refugees from mining, and openly oppose the Ming government's monopoly and ban on mining, requiring the mining industry to operate freely.

Later, the imperial court ordered that the officials of the mines would be sentenced to death for those who had mined privately, and their families would be imposed on the frontiers. "If anyone disobeyed and pursued them, they would be transferred to pursue them." Ye Zongliu and the miners not only did not surrender to the intimidation of the official army, but instead challenged the official army that if they wanted to fight, they could agree to a battle one day.

In July, Fujian Senator Zhu Yuan led a thousand officers and soldiers into the mining area, prohibiting private mining. Because he could not bear the official army's suppression and arrest, Ye Zongliu and others led the uprising to kill Zhu Yuan and injured Liu Hai, the commander of the capital, and his power was greatly boosted. Miners and peasants gathered in Fujian, Zhejiang and thousands of people, and fought on the borders of the three provinces of Fujian, Zhejiang and Jiangxi, echoing each other with the seven rebels of Deng Mao, Fujian.

Due to his age, Emperor Chongzhen could not remember it very clearly. But he vaguely remembered that these rebel miners were unable to bear the exploitation of the court. Instead of colluding with the current situation, they were officials and businessmen.
Chapter completed!