At the end of the Ming season, the orders of the imperial court were usually implemented by local officials at a discount, but this time the decision to levy a commercial tax was implemented in all parts of the Ming Dynasty.

The speed of the government's response and resolute action are really rare at the end of the next season.

In the matter of collecting taxes, because of Liu Renyu's instructions, the factories and shops in Jingbianbao also cooperated, and the commercial taxes in various places amounted to three million taels, but whether they were handed over to the imperial court or not, it was not necessarily.

Chongzhen finally received the silver in his hand, which was only one million taels.

One million taels, for Chongzhen, who had stars in his poor eyes, was definitely a huge amount of money, and when he got the silver, he ordered the cronies and eunuchs in the palace to give priority to Cao Wenzhao, Zu Dashou, and Wu Sangui and Zu Kuan, who led the army.

The imperial court wants to eliminate Jiannu, balance warlords like Liu Renyu, and exterminate giant thieves like Li Zicheng.

However, Liu Renyu's willingness to pay taxes does not mean that the local government can arbitrarily oppress, and some officials and officials plan to take the opportunity to knock on Liu Renyu's factories and shops again, hoping to get greater benefits, but the result is that these officials were assassinated by Liu Renyu's agents, and the whole family died.

In the home of each official who was killed, the cause of death was written: "The court collects taxes, and it is justified that they will be given; You blackmail, kill yourself, don't pay a penny, criticize horizontally, and kill them all. ”

Liu Renyu did this, everyone was in danger, and they didn't dare to collect Liu Renyu's taxes indiscriminately.

In this way, the strangest scene in the history of the Ming Dynasty appeared, the imperial court collected taxes from the warlord, trained the army to oppose the warlord, and the Guanning army sent out by the imperial court with the money confronted the thieves raised by the warlord in the Tiger Prison Pass.

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Tiger Prison Pass, since ancient times is the place where soldiers must fight, it is bordered by the Yellow River in the north, the mountains stretch in the south, from Kaifeng to Luoyang, here is the place that must pass.

When Luoyang was still the capital, the status of the Tiger Pass was naturally extremely important, and later in the Ming Dynasty, Henan was in the mainland, and Luoyang's status could not even be compared with Kaifeng, and the Tiger Pass became an ordinary pass from a place where soldiers must fight.

The Ming Dynasty has been established for more than 200 years, and the tiger prison has not known soldiers for a long time!

In March of the seventh year of Chongzhen, it seems that he dreamed back to the Three Kingdoms again, the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and the smoke of the founding of the Ming Dynasty burned here again.

The burning of these scorching beacon smoke was naturally the begging army of Li Zicheng's army, the Guanning army outside the wall, and the squad army and recruited troops from Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Huguang and other places.

On the side of the official army, the general army is the governor of the five provinces and the governor of Henan, Xuan Mo, and the rest of the generals, as well as You Shiwei, Zuo Liangyu, Deng Xi, and Guan Ningjun, are the deputy general Wu Sangui, who has gradually emerged in recent years, and the general Zu Kuan.

The total strength of the official army is only 20,000, of which the most effective is the 2,000 people led by Wu Sangui, and the 3,000 people led by Zu Kuan.

Therefore, the task of attacking the city naturally fell to You Shiwei, Zuo Liangyu and Deng Xi and others.

Li Zicheng became a defender of the Tiger Prison Pass, made full preparations, the artillery of the entire Henan Mansion was concentrated in the Tiger Prison Pass, and the troops stationed in the Tiger Prison Pass reached 20,000 people, of which 5,000 were the surrendered officers and soldiers, and the generals guarding the Pass were Li Zicheng's nephews Li Guo, Gu Junen, and Megatron.

You Shiwei, Zuo Liangyu and Deng Xi took turns to attack, and the defenders of the gate were all firing cannons, firing guns, shooting with bows and arrows, smashing stones, burning gold juice, and dead bodies were everywhere under the tiger prison, and the officers and soldiers were not allowed to enter an inch.

As a result, at the Tiger Pass, the official army and the beggar army formed a confrontation situation, but the form was not always beneficial to the official army.

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Spring has arrived, with the support of mountain goods, Xunyang mountain people, who have easily survived the harsh winter, plan to spring ploughing, and sow the seeds that have been accumulated with great difficulty in their hands.

In the north, Henan Mansion is very noisy, and the beggar army is dividing the land, and it is fighting corrupt officials and gentry, but it is lively, but it seems to be very close to Xunyang, but it is actually very far.

one-third of an acre of one-third of their own land, after all, they have to be served, let them make trouble.

Today is another sunny day, the mountain people picked up hoes, and planned to go out to plow the fields, but unexpectedly a team of servants dressed as public servants appeared at the head of the village.

Everyone in the village saw this group of male officers, both men and women, and their eyes were full of hatred and fear.

The villager in the village was planning to distribute ploughing cattle to each family for use, and he didn't watch out for the figure of the team of officials who caught his eye, and he scolded in a low voice: "Donkey Day, fucking here again, when there are bandits in the mountains, why didn't I see you so diligent." ”

The old man cursed in his mouth, but his face was already full of smiles, and the smile stretched out, and even the wrinkles seemed to be ironed and smoothed.

"Yo, what kind of wind is this, blowing the county's inspection, to put it mildly, this is a flourishing fire!"

"Hey, what kind of wind, Shangguan's palm wind blew me here, Daddy Zhang, the imperial court is using troops in Henan, there is a shortage of grain, Lord Xuan asked the provinces to supply grain and grass, we Xunyang has to pay a thousand stone of military rations, how can there be so much grain in our county, and the county will send us out to collect grain."

Although the inspection was bitter, the look on his face was not bitter at all.

"Do we have to pay it in our village?"

When the villager heard this, the smile on his face froze, and the wrinkles engraved by the years seemed to be deeper in the blink of an eye.

"Didn't you just harvest it last fall? And they have all received Chongzhen for ten years, even if they want to receive it, they will have to wait until after the autumn harvest! ”

"I can't wait, now this soldier is not as good as before, those military masters who urge food live in the county office, and the daily price is used to control the county respect, and the county honor can't afford the prestige of a civilian official, so he can only ask us to come out to collect grain. We have tried our best to speak for you, saying that all the grain we harvest now is seeds, and that is a desperate plan and will be punished by God. Unexpectedly, you see, you see"

The inspector pointed to his face and said unwillingly: "I just said a few words to our Xunyang father, and then I was whipped." ”

The villager looked at it carefully, and there didn't seem to be any whip marks.

The inspector said: "I have said everything that should be said, but it is useless, the military master wants food, and if there is no food, we will have our lives, so I have no choice but to come out to collect food." You go door-to-door and talk about the country's difficulties, and everyone is the people of the Ming Dynasty, and they will help the Ming Dynasty tide over the difficulties. ”

"Can the Ming Dynasty survive the difficulties with this little food in our village?"

The villager knew that if he loosened his mouth at this time, he was afraid that the food in the village would be looted, so he must take a top at this time.

When the inspector heard this, the murderous intent flashed in his eyes, his face changed color, and his mouth said in a hard and cold voice: "It's all like you think, but where do I go to collect taxes, today, the grain is settled, if you don't pay, you will tear down the tile." ”

"After handing over the grain, where do we still have seeds to sow seeds, and in the autumn, you come to urge the department again, and what do we take to hand over the autumn grain."

Although a villager is afraid of officials, when it comes to his life at this time, he can't care about anything, so he can only stand up and shout to express his dissatisfaction.

"Yes, when the bandits in the mountains came to harm us, why didn't you see you so concerned."

"If you don't have food, if you want a life, you just take it."

The crowd was furious, and the villagers were full of anger, and as they spoke, they surrounded the officials brought by the patrol group.

Some of the officials were frightened and pulled out their swords from their waists.

"What's the matter, this is, it's going to rebel, isn't it?"

At this time, the patrol not only did not retreat, but instead took a few steps forward with his neck in front of the villagers who were slowly surrounding, and he was not afraid.

The villagers were stunned.

"Bandits are like combing, soldiers are like washing, they are all native to their hometowns, it's not that we don't take care of you, we come to collect food, you just hand over some food, if the soldiers come to collect food, you think for yourself."

The sentence of inspection was like an extremely cold north wind, which blew out all the anger of the villagers.

"Then how are we going to survive?"

A cry of despair.

"That's your business, it's none of us."

The inspector replied coldly, and the villagers were silent, dead silent.

"I finally know why the beggar army is so loved in Henan Mansion, you are like this, we all want to rebel."

A whisper, but in the ears of the inspector, it was not inferior to thunder.

"What, who said that, who the fuck dares to say such a thing, it's tired and crooked, right?"

The inspector drew his knife in his hand and roared loudly.

"If there is a seed, stand up, or I will go back and call the military masters to come and destroy your village that harbors the thieves."

The patrol could not find anyone, so they made threats, and the faces of the people in the village changed, but no one identified who said this.

Leaning less, a young man with an angry face stood up and squeezed out a sentence from between his teeth: "What did your grandfather say?" ”

"Humph!" The inspector sneered, and his eyes were full of murderous intent.