The Rise of the Mo Family in the Late Qing Dynasty

In the 29th year of Daoguang's reign, there was a severe drought in Guangxi, and people died of hunger all over the land. The beacon fires in Jintian were already starting to set fire to the prairie fire in the dark. Mo Zhenbang, a graduate student in modern Qing history, suddenly became a scholar of the Mo clan in Beiliu County, Wuzhou Prefecture. What he inherited was a mess of "eight hundred acres of thin farmland with reduced production, thousands of tribesmen waiting to be fed, and fifty taels of loan sharks pressing in on the door." The clan elders were holding up the title deeds of their ancestral land, asking to sell the land in exchange for food to survive. The Qing court is corrupt above, and bandits are rampant below. In another year, the war of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom will come to our doorstep. Selling the land would mean death, and not selling would also mean death. Mo Zhenbang held on to the secrets hidden in his mind: the light blue boxes with several compartments that could store things, and the hidden panels that could accumulate experience and cultivate talents. He couldn't sit still and wait for death. First, borrow sugar cane seeds to meet urgent needs, use storage boxes to transport goods and avoid bandits, and cultivate farmers and blacksmiths by accumulating experience through practice; then take exams for merit, organize regiment training, and use the Qing court's military strength to train their own troops, and gain reputation and expand power on the battlefields of suppressing bandits and resisting the Taiping Army; from secretly smuggling salt and iron to subsidize the clan, to establishing a talent echelon of "literary, military, agricultural, industrial, and intelligence", every step is on the tip of the knife of history. In the eyes of the tribe, he is a "Zhenbang scholar" who can make everyone eat well; in the eyes of the government, he is a "good general in regiment training" who suppresses rebels; only Mo Zhenbang himself knows that what he wants is never to be loyal to the Qing court—— He wanted the Mo clan to gain a firm foothold in the troubled times, and he wanted the decadent Qing Dynasty to pay the price it deserved for this war-torn era! A story about a man who started out as a clan scholar, used the name of regiment training to recruit troops, and finally overthrew the Qing court in troubled times.