"When the one-eyed stone man stirs, the realm of Zhejiang will rebel."
A doggerel verse swept outward from the Qiantang River like a raging wildfire, spreading across the length and breadth of the country and surging out of the Two Zhejiang Circuits in less than a month.
The White Lotus Cult and the Manichaean sect rose in rebellion one after another, with various regions responding in succession. In the blink of an eye, the Central Plains were thrown into chaos, and this fire quickly burned toward the imperial court in Lin'an.
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