A young man met an old man who was about to go to the mountains to chop wood. He stopped the old man and said mysteriously, "Fellow, have you heard? ”

The old man didn't know why: "What did you hear?" ”

The young man said in an indignant and helpless tone: "It's the matter of the imperial court wanting to increase the field tax. ”

The old man's eyes widened and he said in surprise: "What! Another tax increase, for what this time? ”

"What else can it be for, for the pleasure of His Majesty the Emperor. Wasn't there a war in the Central Plains last year, and His Majesty the Emperor had no money to spend, so he had to raise taxes again. ”

"But when we people were affected by the disaster, we didn't see Your Majesty give us money? The original tax was already very high, and now it has to be raised, and if it goes on like this, there will be nothing left at the end of the year, and we will all starve to death! ”

The young man was a little surprised, this old fellow had a little knowledge, and could say such a thing. He said, "Isn't it?" I heard that the method of the Kada tax was suggested to the emperor by the newly appointed Pingzhou Assassin Lord Zhang. ”

The old man said angrily: "The dog official is really not a thing, where did you hear the news from Housheng?" ”

"It's in the city, and notices have been posted at the entrance of the government."

At the entrance of the North Korean County Yamen, a government official was repeatedly reading out the notices posted by Yang Ji's order to the people.

"Last year, the world rebelled, and the imperial court spent money and food to quell the rebellion, but now the government treasury is scarce and the finances are insufficient. Zhang Hao, the assassin of history, said to the Son of Heaven that the court was in turmoil, the world was stable, and the people lived in peace. And when the court is in trouble, the people should also try their best to be loyal and report to the Son of Heaven to secure a hundred officials. From now on, Pingzhou will increase the tax on one field to relieve the crisis of the imperial court. ”

The onlookers were excited and indignant, and some scholars cursed Zhang Hao one after another.

"The dog official has no way, slandering the Son of Heaven, and cutting off the way of life for me and other people!"

"Why are there so many villains in this world, where have all those virtuous ministers gone?"

"I want to write to the Son of Heaven and bluntly say that Zhang Thief will bring disaster to the country and the people!"

"What's the use of going to the book, how can the Son of Heaven listen to me and others, I intend to hire a dead man to assassinate Zhang Thief, who is conspiring with me?"

This liar who is fishing in troubled waters when he hears it, how can anyone say such things in public.

But the gentleman believed it, took off the sword on his body and handed it over: "This sword is worth ten gold, and it will be given to the righteous to kill the thief." ”

Yang Ji's preparations were not only to spread rumors in Lelang, he also sent people to his hometown, so that the children of the clan could contact Haoqiang in various places, and wait for Zhang Hao to spread rumors in Quanpingzhou after he set out on the expedition.

He wanted Zhang Hao to be unable to take care of each other and increase his winning chips.

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The soldiers who went to Lelang brought back news to Zhang Hao, and Lelang was too guarded by Yang Ji and Lelang's local heroes to pull the flag and rebel.

However, Zhang Hao, who heard the news, did not panic, and it would be a real strange thing if he did not resist when overthrowing the old system.

When today's son is not Qin Xiaogong, he is not Shang Ying, but he can promise more things to Emperor Ling, so that he can ensure that Emperor Ling supports him.

And as long as the Spirit Emperor supports him, it doesn't matter who stands up. As for those guys who pretend to be high and regard wealth as their lives, if they can really make Emperor Ling change his mind, he will not let the eunuchs be in power for so many years.

Zhang Hao immediately ordered the army to assemble and prepare for a crusade against Yang Ji.

Fang Zhu said to Zhang Hao: "Lord, only Yang Ji's words are not very problematic, and I am afraid that there will be repetition in other places." ”

Zhang Hao said with a smile: "Don't worry about this matter, I will leave General Qin Wen to garrison Fang County, and my brother will guard Xiangping for me." The heroes in other places can't make any big waves. ”

Pingzhou was an administrative region composed of four border counties, so Emperor Ling allowed garrisons, but the number was limited.

The total number of permanent troops was 20,000, of which 10,000 were stationed in Xiangping. This time, Zhang Hao directly transferred 5,000 people to Lelang County to quell the rebellion.

And after Zhang Hao left, the heroes everywhere began to become ready to move.

It's still the same rhetoric, and a few rumor-mongering rangers get together to slander the decree to the people.

The person who keeps slandering is obviously a leading big brother, and the other younger brothers are echoing each other.

"Can this ruler believe what he says? Where in the world is there such a good thing that we don't have to pay taxes. You must know that the Son of Heaven has the final say in this world, and today he can exempt us from paying taxes, and tomorrow he will ask us to come back in a different way. ”

"Besides, if you really do this, can those landlords be willing? Don't make a fuss yet, when the time comes, those officials will be under pressure, and it may not be necessary to eat what they said before. We poor people, no one cares. ”

"That's it."

"That's right."

At this time, a different voice came from the onlookers: "You are talking nonsense. ”

The ranger leader said angrily: "Who, who said it, stand up for Lao Tzu!" ”

A seventeen or eighteen-year-old guy stood up: "That's what I said." ”

"Good boy, dare to talk to uncle like this. You say it's wrong to see what Lao Tzu said, if it doesn't make sense, I won't teach you a good lesson! ”

The young man was not afraid of his threat at all, and said with his head held high: "What you said is nonsense, Lord Zhang is a good official, he has mercy on us people, and he counts his words." He said that taxes are collected according to the fields, that is, taxes are collected according to the fields. You're not a good guy at first glance, so what you say can't be trusted. ”

The leader of the rangers was extremely angry and roared angrily: "You kid actually spoke for that dog officer, brothers, beat me to death!" Something happened to me. ”

A few younger brothers slowly surrounded them, but the young man was still not afraid, and just looked at them.

The Ranger Leader and the younger brother looked around and saw that the onlookers had surrounded them in turn.

The Ranger leader was a little nervous: "What are you doing, ah?" Do you want to speak for that dog officer too? How dare you know who I am? My brother-in-law is the eldest son of the Li family in the city, and the head of the Li family is ......"

Before he could finish speaking, the young man shouted loudly: "Folks, these dogs slandered Master Zhang and sent them to the government." ”

When the people heard this, they rushed up.

"What are you doing? What are you doing, ah! ”

The leader of the rangers and his younger brothers wanted to resist, but they were beaten with a blue nose and swollen face, and finally sent to the yamen.

Something like this happened all over the three counties, but the result was invariably that all the people who spread the rumors were spontaneously arrested by the people.

The reason is actually very simple, the people who originally lived in the four counties of Pingzhou added up to just over 500,000, and the newly relocated people had nearly a million, two-thirds of these people had all received Zhang Hao's favor, and most of these people were placed in the counties of the Liaodong Plain.

Simple people will not believe the words of these people, and doubt Zhang Hao, who loves them very much