My Lord Fang La

The background is the late Northern Song Dynasty. During the reign of Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty, he was keen on pleasure, carried out large-scale construction projects, favored traitors, imposed excessive taxes and extorted money, and social conflicts were acute. The protagonist Fang Laben was a hired worker in Qingxi County. Due to the raids by "Hua Shi Gang" and the oppression of the landlord Fang Youchang, his life was difficult. He used the popular Manichaeism in the area to unite people's hearts, and with Bangyuan Cave as his stronghold, he officially launched an uprising on the ninth day of October in the second year of Xuanhe (1120). He named himself "Shenggong" and established his reign as "Yongle". The rebel army defeated the Song army that came to suppress them in the first battle at Xikeng. Afterwards, they conquered Qingxi County, Muzhou, Shezhou and other places one after another. They adopted a strategy of dividing their forces, advancing from the north to the south, and quickly occupied Hangzhou. By the first month of the second year of Yongle (the third year of Xuanhe, 1121), the Fangla rebel army had captured fifty-two counties in six prefectures, including Hang, Mu, She, Chu, Qu, and Wu. Almost half of the country in the southeast was captured, and heroes from all over the country responded one after another.