After the peace of Svistov in 1791 in Belgrade Pasha's jurisdiction came the period of faster economic development. Sultan Selim III forbade the janissaries to return, and the Serbs could elect their chiefs, the folk headmen.
However this state of affairs didn't last for long. The janissaries succeeded in coming back and killing Pasha Mustapha. They established bloody regime. The common insecurity and arbitrariness gripped the whole country. The population of Takovo region paid three kinds of taxes: imperial, spahian and chitluc-sahibian.
When four of janissary despots took all the power in Belgrade Pasha's Jurisdiction, Sali Aga, a brother of Kuchuk Ali (one of four despots), came to be a commander in chief in Rudnik. He terrorized everybody and everything and he was a real bully. He wasn't obedient to anyone, not even to the Othoman Sultan himself, and because of his cruel and bloodthirsty behavior to the ordinary people he got a nickname "The bull of Rudnik". Sali Aga took for himself the right of "The first Wedding Night". During the wedding procession, the Serbs, together with the bride, had to call on Aga's tower in " The Cities" first, where he usually sat and smoked under the pear-tree on the slope of the hill.
There the wedding guests had to dance and sing the song noted by Jeremija Zivanovic. This is the song:

" Come and gather, kolo dancing
to meet Sali Aga,
Sali Aga, our pride !
. . . . . . . . .
Sali Aga answers them:
"When the bride is leading kolo
there's Bairam in my soul."

(KOLO - Serbian folk dance)

After the famous execution of folk headmen, the princes of Belgrade Pasha's Jurisdiction decided to start the Rising, proclaimed in Orasac, "unseasonably in the middle of winter" . The rising spread very quickly, especially in Sumadija. In Takovo region Milan Obrenovic raised people of Rudnik to take the arms and he joined Karadjordje. The Rising was accepted by the other prominent people of this area: Nikola Lunjevica, Milic Drincic, Arsenije Loma ......
Rudnik was among the first liberated places. Karadjordje besieged it and Milan Obrenovic and Arsenije Loma came to help him. The insurrectionists succeeded in conquering Rudnik, getting a plenty of war loot and burning Sali Aga's Konak (his home).
After the liberation of District of Rudnik Karadjordje gave the order to Lazar Mutap, Arsenije Loma and Milic Drincic to attack Cacak and to chase the Turks off. This task was successfully done. Serbian insurgents, among them were also those from Takovo region, took part in the other battles during the First Serbian Rising and they were very successful. Mentioned as one of the most popular fighters was Arsenije Loma, who was wounded many times and who won many fights.

New governing and administrative centers were made in free parts of Belgrade Pasha's Jurisdiction. Together with the Council Karadjordje made a decision that the works on the extraction of the ore on Rudnik should be continued. For that purpose they invited 35 Saxons, miners and smelters. The works started in 1806. Iron, lead and some silver were manufactured.
With the military defeat of the First Serbian Rising in 1813, inchoated national and revolutional struggle of the Serbs under the Turks wasn't extinguished. It resuscitated again in the famous Hadji Prodan's mutiny in 1814 and then in its extension in the Second Serbian Rising.