Heavy rains, together with neglect of the …
Years: 17 - 17
Heavy rains, together with neglect of the dikes, cause the Hwang He to flood severely in 17, driving thousands from their homes.
Due to Wang Mang's incompetent rule—in particular, his implementation of his land reform policy—and this major Yellow River flood, which affects the modern Shandong and northern Jiangsu regions, the people who can no longer subsist on farming are forced into rebellion to try to survive.
The rebellions are numerous and fractured.
In Shandong, Lü Yu, a minor official at the Haiqu (in modern Rizhao, Shandong) county government, had been falsely accused of not collecting taxes from the peasants and executed by the county magistrate.
His mother, called Mother Lü, who apparently was a substantial landowner, had sold off her property and used the proceeds to befriend poor young men, of whom she gathers about one hundred, leading them in a raid against the county government and killing the magistrate to avenge her son.
As she cannot remain, she leads her men to sea and becomes a pirate.
She will return eventually to land and gain further strength.
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Years: 17 - 17
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- Commerce
- Engineering
- Labor and Service
- Conflict
- Faith
- Government
- Technology
- Catastrophe
- Movements
- Piracy
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