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In the year of Jihai (1899), the Longyang area suffered from a severe drought, with no rain from June to October. The seedlings in the fields are as dry as thatch. The news was reported to the governor. The governor had no intention of providing disaster relief, and the bank took the opportunity to extort and exploit the grain. As a result, the price of grain was high, and the hungry people gathered fern and thatch roots for food. Feng Deqian, the owner of a charcoal kiln in Longyang County, contacted Xiaoyong and plotted an uprising. On the third day of the twelfth lunar month in the lunar calendar, Feng Deqian and other heroes drank blood and wine, shouted the slogan of robbing the rich and giving to the poor, proclaimed himself a general, and led more than 700 people to attack the county town, killing officials and gentry, burning down the bureau, confiscating the pawn shop property, and opening three porridge factories in the official warehouse. The streets were plastered with plaster slogans and the hungry people cheered. Feng Deqian ordered to set up a point to recruit new soldiers. In an instant, a long line of applicants formed.
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