清朝道光末年到咸丰初年,湖南农村天灾连年,收成锐减,农民无法维持最起码的生活。于是民变纷起,先后发生了新宁会党李沅发起义、宜章丐妇王萧氏起义、桂阳斋教首领朱福隆起义,天地会首领朱涛起义、郴州矿工刘代伟起 In the last years of the Qing dynasty, when the Daoguang Dynasty was in the early years of Xianfeng, natural disasters in rural areas in Hunan hit consecutive years with the harvest plummeted and peasants could not maintain their minimum life. So civil conflicts, there has been a new Ninghai Li Yuan fathers uprising, Yizhang Beggar Wang Shaw’s uprising, Guiyang vegetarianism leader Zhu Fulong uprising, heaven and earth will leader Zhu Tao uprising, Chenzhou miner Liu behalf of Wei