In fact, the largest peasant uprising was not the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom movement. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom movement was anti-feudal but not anti-imperialist! It only had a small promotion effect on the demise of the Qing Dynasty! With the emergence of Zeng Guofan, the Taiping Rebellion was just a bubble! The peasant uprisings that changed history were the peasant uprisings at the end of the Qin Dynasty, the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty, and the peasant uprisings at the end of the Yuan Dynasty!
The most famous peasant uprising in the late Qin Dynasty was Chen She’s uprising! Chen Sheju is called upon by the whole world! But Chen She's uprising was just a small chapter of the peasant uprising in the late Qin Dynasty! The peasant uprising at the end of the Qin Dynasty was an uprising of princes and countries from all walks of life who raised their troops to fight! The most famous are the two groups of Xiang Yu and Liu Bang of Chu State! These two groups fought vigorously to destroy Qin and fight for hegemony between Chu and Han! During this period, many heroes of all walks of life emerged! Xiang Yu, Liu Bang, Fan Zeng, Ji Bu, Zhong Limei, Yingbu, Long Qie, Yu Ziqi, Zhang Liang, Han Xin, Fan Kuai, Zhou Bo, Xia Houying, Han Xin, Xiao He, Peng Yue, Zhang Liang, Guan Ying, Chen Ping, And Zhang Han and so on!
The end of the Eastern Han Dynasty was the eve of the country’s subjugation in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. It lasted for 36 years (or 45 years based on the founding of Soochow) until Cao Pi usurped the Han Dynasty or the Three Kingdoms were established (Sun Quan of Dongwu proclaimed himself emperor in 229). During this time, the warlords were divided and fighting with each other. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, as land annexation became more and more intense, powerful landlords had their own private armed forces, coupled with the political darkness of the central government, the imperial power was weak and excessively delegated power to local areas, resulting in a situation of separatism among the heroes. These separatist forces have different rise processes and development paths, reflecting the diverse aspects of that turbulent era. When the Yellow Turban Uprising began, and when Dong Zhuo usurped power, the Eighteenth Route Princes were the most outstanding peasant uprisings! Until Cao Cao took advantage of the emperor to make the princes stand on three pillars! This period saw the emergence of unprecedented heroic scenes Liu Bei, Zhang Fei, Guan Yu, Zhao Yun, Ma Chao, Huang Zhong, Wei Yan, Zhuge Liang, Huang Yueying, Cao Cao, Zhen Ji, Zhang Liao, Xu Zhu, Xiahou Dun, Sima Yi, Xiahou Yuan, Cao Ren, Sun Quan, Gan Ning, Huang Gai, Lu Meng, Da Qiao, Xiao Qiao, Sun Shangxiang, Zhou Yu, Lu Xun, Zhou Tai, Lu Bu, Diao Chan, Hua Tuo, Zhang Jiao, Yu Ji... these are just some small examples!
At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the government was dim, and the peasant uprising at the end of the Yuan Dynasty refers to the peasant uprising of the Yuan Dynasty in China from the eleventh year to the twenty-seventh year of the Yuan Dynasty (1351-1367). The armed struggle to overthrow the Yuan feudal dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang took advantage of the fact that the Yuan army was tired of dealing with the Red Turban Army in the north and had no time to look south. He took a series of effective measures and gradually developed and strengthened it. Adopting the strategy of first west and then east, first strong and then weak, in specific operations, steadily advance, concentrate superior forces, first cut off the branches and leaves, and then shake their roots, thus flattening the heroes and unifying the south of the Yangtze River, and laying a solid foundation for going north to destroy the Yuan Dynasty. foundation and military foundation. The initiators of the uprising were Han Shantong and Liu Futong, leaders of the White Lotus Sect, who used the White Lotus Sect as a tool to propagandize and launch the uprising.
After Liu Futong's uprising in Yingzhou, red scarf armies suddenly emerged all over the north and south. For example, Xu Shouhui and Peng Yingyu (Monk Peng) also rebelled in Qi and Huang, and were called the Southern Red Turban Army. Xu Shouhui proclaimed himself emperor, and the country was named Tianwan. This Red Scarf Army developed rapidly and moved to the present-day Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Anhui, and Zhejiang areas. In addition, the team belonging to the Red Scarf Army also included Sesame Li (Li Er) who raised troops in Xuzhou, Bu Wangsan (Wang Quan) who was active in today's Henan area, and Meng Haima who was active in today's Hubei area. However, these red scarf troops were soon suppressed by the Yuan army. The leader of the Red Scarf Army in Haozhou (now Fengyang, Anhui) was Guo Zixing, and Zhu Yuanzhang was under his subordinates.
In addition to Fang Guozhen and Zhang Shicheng’s uprising Red Scarf Army, there were other uprising teams. One was Fang Guozhen from eastern Zhejiang, and the other first raised troops in Gaoyou, northern Jiangsu (now part of Jiangsu), and later occupied Pingjiang. Zhang Shicheng of (now Suzhou, Jiangsu). Gaoyou is located at the strategic point between the north and the south. Zhang Shicheng occupied Gaoyou and was regarded as a thorn in the side of the Yuan Dynasty. In the fourteenth year of Zhizheng (1354), the Yuan Dynasty Prime Minister Tuo Tuo attacked Gaoyou with a million troops, but was defeated by Zhang Shicheng. The victory of Gaoyou buried the main force of the Yuan army, which not only enabled Zhang Shicheng to turn the corner, but also gave the Red Scarf Army an opportunity to develop. Fang Guozhen and Zhang Shicheng's uprising initially played a role in cooperating with Liu Futong's uprising and containing the Yuan Dynasty's military forces. However, they later accepted bribes from the Yuan Dynasty and turned against the rebels.
The Red Turban Uprising at the end of the Yuan Dynasty was a large-scale peasant uprising that swept across the country and lasted for seventeen years.
But I personally think that the most famous peasant uprising in history was the troubled times of the Three Kingdoms in the late Han Dynasty. There were too many heroes here, in military, political, economic, strategic, humanistic, There has been tremendous development!