Crazy Wife Arrives

During the Xuanhe period of the Northern Song Dynasty, Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty was fond of flowers, stone, bamboo and wood. He set up the Suzhou-Hangzhou Yingfeng Bureau in the south of the Yangtze River. He sent Zhu Meng and other minions to various parts of the southeast to collect folk flowers, stone, bamboo, wood and rare treasures, and transported them to Bianjing in large ships. Every ten ships formed a gang, which was called the Huashi Gang at the time. Qingxi is rich in bamboo and wood lacquer and is a key location for Yingfeng Bureau. This heavy burden has been passed on to farmers, especially the extremely poor who rely on selling their labor to survive. As a servant, Fang La felt the pain of this kind of exploitation and oppression even more, so he had a deep hatred for the reactionary rule of the Song Dynasty, and he began to resist. On the ninth day of October in the second year of Xuanhe (October 1120), Fang La led his crowd to the Seven Sages in She County...