In the second year of Chongzhen, May 25.

Wang Zezhi selected a thousand elites from the army, all of whom were tall and strong, and each of them was good at wielding a gun, a bow, a knife, and a javelin.

Each of them is equipped with two horses, dressed in the opposite cloth armor, weapons include Lu Mi gun, Kaiyuan bow, Japanese sword, waist knife, javelin, and Teng card for defense, which is the elite of the elite.

Wang Zezhi appointed Zage as the company general and Leng He as the deputy company president.

Let them escort Ben Baji to the west, with a hundred three-eyed guns and gunpowder, projectiles, tea, salt, iron ingots, and other things.

Not only did he want to open up the Silk Road, but he also wanted to show force.

He wanted to let the Yarkands in the west, the Oirat tribes, and especially the Dzungars of the Oirat tribe know how powerful he was.

At the same time, he wanted to tell the Tsar in the north that the Turghuts had a powerful ally in the east, so that he would not dare to use his sword to destroy them.

After Ben Baji knew what Wang Zezhi meant, he excitedly stroked the goods on the camel, and then ran to Wang Zezhi, climbed at his feet, and kissed the tips of his shoes to show that he sincerely surrendered.

Wang Zezhi was taken aback by his actions, he didn't know where Ben Baji had learned it, or if this was the etiquette of their people to show their sincere submission.

This action made Wang Zezhi's sweat and hairs stand on end, and he helped Ben Baji up and told him that the Turhut Department is also a descendant of Yan and Huang, and we are in the same vein, and it is appropriate to help each other.

Ben Baji listened to it as if he didn't understand it, and remembered it firmly.

Originally, he couldn't understand why Wang Zezhi was willing to vigorously support the Turk Special Ministry, but now he understood.

It turns out that this is the reason, it turns out that we are all descendants of Yan and Huang.

Ben Baji was a little dizzy with excitement, and he couldn't wait to take the goods and a thousand elites and follow the familiar route to the west.

After arranging these things, Wang Zezhi ordered Li Hua to recruit a new source of troops to supplement the shortage of troops.

Wang Zezhi has made strict requirements for the recruitment criteria.

He placed a huge grinding plate in the recruiting office, and only those who could move it could enlist in the army.

After passing the physical fitness, he handed it over to Yang Zhihui and ordered him to divide some apprentices, examine these people, and eliminate those who have physical diseases.

Finally, it's training.

The training of the recruits was all pulled to the guerrilla camp, and Wang Zezhi demanded that only those who could carry a weight of 30 pounds from the guerrilla battalion to Datong Mansion and then run back were qualified.

The unqualified ones are all eliminated, and the soldiers lie in the refinement, not in the many.

If some old, weak, sick and disabled people are recruited, and the battle has not yet started, his people may be scattered.

After doing this, Wang Zezhi finally breathed a sigh of relief.

However, before he could relax, a crooked wind suddenly blew throughout Shanxi.

And there is a momentum that is getting worse and worse.

From this day on, the whole Shanxi suddenly blew a violent storm.

First, there were more than 100 Confucian scholars sitting quietly at the north gate of Datong Mansion, blocking the entrance and exit of the city gate.

They claimed that Wang Zezhi's private collection of commercial taxes was to compete with the people for profit, and wrote a book of blood for the people and posted it on the city wall at the north gate of Datong Mansion.

"Wanli commercial tax, disaster to the country and the people, Shanxi general army privately collects commercial tax, compete with the people for profit, knock the bone and suck the marrow, and the people are unbearable.

Shaanxi and Shandong, hungry people are everywhere, how can they bear this exploitation of the bone and marrow?

The disaster of Wanli is vivid, and now the general army of Shanxi has seized the wealth of the people, and the sky is angry and the people are resentful.

We are full of poetry and books, and we can't bear the misery of life in Shanxi, so we are willing to go on a hunger strike to resist it and ask for the lives of the people.

Bong, a letter of blood for all people! ”

A huge book of blood, covering a city wall.

In addition to the first impassioned words, there were blood-red slap prints.

As for who these seals are, there is no way to know, maybe there are really 10,000 people who put them on, or maybe only these people in front of them put them on.

After these Confucian scholars were on a hunger strike for a day, merchants from all over Datong suddenly stood up and announced that they would no longer sell any goods to Wang Zezhi from this day forward.

If Wang Zezhi wants to buy it, he will have to pay a hundred times the market price, and if Wang Zezhi wants to kill them all like the seventy-four squires, then come as well.

These businessmen speak of righteousness, but in fact, they are only talking about their stewards, or their stewards.

The real businessmen have already hid in Xuanfu and the capital, and Wang Zezhi has killed the heads of the seventy-four hometown gentry, and it is impossible to say that they are not afraid.

Soon, not only Wang Zezhi couldn't buy anything, but the people in Datong Mansion couldn't buy anything either.

The people in Datong Mansion were terrified, they didn't know what was happening.

The people of the four states and seven counties began to appear in a huge wave of petitions under the instigation of well-intentioned people.

They gathered towards Datong Mansion in a mighty manner, shouting one after another, asking Wang Zezhi to come out and asking him to cancel the practice of collecting private business taxes.

Later, this kind of thing happened not only in Datong Province, but also in Taiyuan Province and further away in Pingyang Province.

To the horror of the people, the price of grain, tea, salt and other things they usually eat has increased by three or four times.

At this time, the people were frightened, and the situation of the year was not good.

Now that prices are still rising, this is still going to happen.

As a result, some rich and powerful lords picked them up and gathered the people of Taiyuan Mansion to besiege the Fangshan guerrilla camp.

They besieged the guerrilla camp and did not stop, and brought the people of Pingyang Mansion in the south to gather outside the city of Taiyuan Mansion to shout.

Song Tongyin, the governor of Shanxi, looked at the people who were in turmoil, and his heart and blood were surging, and he fell ill all of a sudden.

Wei Yunzhong, the governor of Datong Military and Political Affairs, did not dare to touch the moldy heads of these people, and ran to Xuanfu to hide.

It's not that he says they're afraid of the people, it's that they can't take the people under them.

In the face of the people, they will be impeached by the ministers of the DPRK and China as soon as they make a move.

If the ministers had given them the label of oppression of the people, they would probably have lost their own life at once.

"Wanli commercial tax, endless harm!

Private collection of commercial taxes will bring disaster to the country and the people!

Bring calamity to the country and the people! ...”

The people who don't know why were led together by people with good intentions and shouted a unified slogan.

Their purpose is obvious, that is, to ask Wang Zezhi to cancel the commercial tax.

Wang Zezhi, who had just dealt with various affairs in Guihua City, felt inexplicable after hearing about it.

He had a plan to collect a business tax, but he wouldn't do it until he was strong enough.

Now he is just collecting a little money for the hard work of the bandit brigade in the name of protection money.

How did it become a private business tax?

After Wang Zezhi received the news of the secret spy, he took out a pen and paper and began to sort out the clues.

The Confucian sat in silence and went on a hunger strike during the day.

At night, they secretly ate and drank with the merchants, and the purpose of their meditation and hunger strike was to hope that Wang Zezhi would not collect business taxes privately.

The people gathered and began to act in an organized manner.

Their purpose was also to ask Wang Zezhi to abolish the commercial tax.

In other words, there must be a powerful behind-the-scenes promoter behind them, who could this person be?

The people who benefited the most from the abolition of commercial taxes were the wealthy businessmen and gentry who did business.

Merchants throughout Shanxi have severed their business ties with Wang Zezhi, and the 74 Zhang Gentry industries he took over have been completely suspended.

Because there are no raw materials, no one buys.

His business was on the verge of bankruptcy in just a few days.

Most importantly, these people were reluctant to sell him food.

Fortunately, Wang Zezhi saved a lot of rice and grain in the past, and he didn't touch that batch of grain in several battles, but bought it in Datong Mansion nearby.

Otherwise, if no one sells him food, the soldiers under his command will be starved and rebel.

This is to put his king to death at the root.

"Hmph, since you are looking for death, then I will fulfill you." Wang Zezhi squinted his eyes, picked up the clues that were clearly organized, and burned them.