Ye Zongliu's miners' uprising in Ming China
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- Debt: The First 5,000 Years whole source · open book
Between 1445 and 1449 these became a serious threat as silver miners under a rebel leader named Ye Zongliu made common cause with tenant farmers and the urban poor in overpopulated Fujian and Shaxian, sparking an uprising that spread to a number of different provinces
chapter: Chapter Eleven