Li Zhi looked at the civil officials who were prostrate on the ground and snorted coldly. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

He sat down in his chair and said slowly:

"You are afraid that the gentry will lose their tax-free privileges and go bankrupt, but you don't know that because of the gentry's tax evasion, all the taxes are pressed on the poor, resulting in the poor people in the world have no food and clothing, and even their families are ruined!"

"Zhang Xianzhong looted in Sichuan, and the mountain farmers scrambled to be the eyes and ears! and even the gates of the city should be opened with the inside and outside. Li Zicheng rode into Henan in the hundreds, climbed high and shouted, how many poor people rushed over to take refuge without their lives? If it weren't for the taxes of the imperial court that overwhelmed these poor people? How could state affairs be so corrupt? ”

"You have only the gentry in your eyes, but you don't know that where there is water there are fish. If the poor people of the world are living in misery, and this water becomes boiling water, where in the world will there be a place for the gentry and these fish? ”

Hearing Li Zhi's words, the civil officials on the ground glanced at each other, and their eyes were full of helplessness. They didn't know if Li Zhi could be a soldier in the world, but they knew that Li Zhi would definitely be able to do them as civil officials in Tianjin.

Li Zhi insisted on going to war with the gentry of the world.

If the civil officials in Tianjin were on the side of the gentry, they would be killed by Li Zhi in a few strokes. If the civil officials in Tianjin stood on Li Zhi's side, not only would these civil officials be unwilling, but they would also be criticized by the people of the world in the end, and their reputation would be ruined.

These civil officials in Tianjin have been forced into a very embarrassing situation by Li Zhi.

Li Jizhen shook his head, no longer knelt on the ground, got up and arched his hand and said: "Xingguobo, this is a challenge to the gentry of the world, think twice!" ”

The more than 50 civil officials in Tianjin all got up and said:

"The power of the people of the world cannot be violated, and the rejuvenation of the country will think twice!"

"This Ming is the Ming of Shilin, can Xingguo Bo know?"

At the last moment, the civil officials in Tianjin still hoped to use the gentry of the world to scare Li Zhi.

But they are not lying, the power of the gentry in the world is indeed huge.

In the Ming Dynasty, even the Son of Heaven did not dare to go to war with the gentry of the world. Zhu Youzhen, the son of heaven, has been on the pole for 14 years, has he successfully done something that offended Shilin? Not to mention that there is no longer a commercial tax and mining tax now, even the Jinyiwei and Dongchang, who supervise Shilin, are also handed over to the people close to Shilin, and they exist in name only.

The country is ostensibly the Son of Heaven, but in fact it is the gentry. Emperor Zhengde was full of military power at that time, challenging the world's corporals, how did he die in the end? Even the Son of Heaven can't fight the scholars, isn't Li Zhi afraid?

He grew up eating bear's heart and leopard gall?

Listening to Li Jizhen's soft and hard words, Li Zhi coldly glanced at the civil officials who threatened him, and said, "I, Li Zhi, am not afraid of the gentry!" Even if I start a war with the corporal of the world, I, Li Zhi, will not take half a step back! ”

"You threatening remarks, you can put an end to it!"

"I, Li Zhi, fought in the south and the north, turned the tide and helped the building to fall, in order to save the poor people in the world, not to let the parasite absorb more flesh and blood before I was born and died."

The civil servants glanced at each other and knew that it would be useless to say more.

Li Zhi has already scolded the gentry as parasites, how can he continue to say this?

Li Jizhen finally had some temper, flicked the sleeves of his official uniform, and left Li Zhi's General Military Mansion with a group of civilian officials.

A group of civil officials blushed and walked out of the General Military Mansion and entered the governor's yamen.

Sitting in the second hall, Li Jizhen sighed, sat on the main seat and did not speak.

Tongzhi of the Qing Military Department in Tianjin also sighed, and asked: "Lord Governor, now that Li Zhi insists on putting moths out of the fire and provoking the gentry of the world, how can we deal with it?" ”

Lu Hualin, the new governor of Hejian Prefecture, said coldly: "Li Zhi challenged the corporal of the world, and there is no way to live. The current plan is to make things bigger, attract the attention of the world, and make Li Zhi become a rat crossing the street, and everyone shouts and beats him. ”

Before Lu Hualin was promoted to the prefect of Hejian Prefecture, he served as the governor of the Tianjin Qing Military Department for several years, and was in charge of the civil affairs of the Tianjin Acropolis. In the seventh year of Chongzhen, his younger brother Lu Huarong once sent a green-skinned scoundrel to Li Zhi's textile workshop to seize Li Zhi's secret recipe. But at that time, Li Zhi took refuge with the governor He Shishou, and He Shishou came forward to suppress Lu Huarong, and the matter was finally over. More than five years have passed, Li Zhiping has become a rejuvenating countryman, and Lu Hualin has also become the prefect.

Lu Hualin couldn't have imagined that he had just taken up the post of prefect of Hejian Prefecture and encountered Li Zhi. He offended Li Zhi because of his younger brother Lu Huarong, and before he took office in Hejian Mansion, he was worried that Li Zhi would retaliate against him, and he hoped that Li Zhi would fall now. At this moment, when the officials were cowering and hesitating, he jumped out to make suggestions, thinking about putting Li Zhi to death.

The eyes of the officials lit up, and they all looked at Lu Hualin, who said: "We will organize students to parade into the streets, organize businessmen to strike the market, and then spread rumors that Li Zhi will not only levy the land tax of the gentry, but also greatly increase the land tax of the poor peasants. Those foolish people who are illiterate and have no knowledge, and who only know how to listen to the scholars on weekdays, may be able to provoke a popular uprising if we provoke a little. ”

When the officials heard Lu Hualin's words, they pondered whether his suggestion was feasible, and they were silent for a while.

Li Jizhen thought about it, shook his head and said: "Tactics such as street boycotts can't help Li Zhi." I heard that when Li Zhi was collecting commercial taxes in Tianjin, the late governor Cha Dengbei organized a hunger strike among students and a strike by merchants, and they were all defeated by Li Zhi by brute force. In the end, Cha Dengbei was arrested by Li Zhi in the squad room of the General Soldier's Mansion and tortured..."

Hearing the tragedy of Cha Dengbei, all the civil officials felt the same way, shook their heads and sighed one by one, very sorry.

Li Jizhen was also very sympathetic to Cha Dengbei, sighed and said: "It's a good idea to provoke farmers. It's just that now Li Zhi is the dominant family in Tianjin. It is difficult for those who organized people to provoke the peasants to stay out of the matter, and if Li Zhi is unlucky enough to find out, I am afraid that he will repeat the mistake of Cha Dengbei..."

Hearing Li Jizhen's words, Lu Hualin laughed and said, "I'd rather break the jade than be whole." Although the lower officials are not talented, they also have to fight with Li Zhi for the gentry of the world. The governor assured that Lu Hualin was willing to organize people to spread rumors in the countryside and ensure that Li Zhi would be hit in the abdomen and back. ”

When the officials heard Lu Hualin's words, they all took a breath. In these years, there are really not many people who dare to come forward and fight with Li Zhilin in Tianjin, and this Lu Hualin is a bold man.

All the officials bowed to Lu Hualin in admiration. Li Jizhen said excitedly: "Lu Gong is righteous, he is above the sweat and green every day, and he should make a record for Lu Gong's anti-tax righteous act today!" ”

Lu Hualin smiled and said, "It's not worth mentioning!" ”

Li Jizhen pondered for a moment and said: "At such a juncture, our civil officials in Tianjin cannot face Li Zhi alone, we should play the princes of the court and declare that Li Zhi's crime of bullying the monarch and betraying the lord is extremely evil. Let the princes of the court use all kinds of forces to fight Li Zhi together. The princes of the court collectively attacked, even if the Son of Heaven favored Li Zhi, he didn't dare to protect him! ”

"We also have to write to the world's famous and powerful gentry, stating that although Li Zhi is only exploiting the gentry in Tianjin today, he will inflict this poison on the whole country in the future! We must gather the strength of the world to encircle and suppress this Li Zhi, who does not know the height of the sky. ”

"We, the civil servants in Tianjin, are facing the front, and we can take a step back. The rest of the matter will be left to the celebrities and masters of the world! ”

Hearing Li Jizhen's analysis and arrangement, the officials suddenly became enlightened. At this moment, the gentry in Tianjin could not rush hard, and they should indeed mobilize the Shilin forces of the whole country to deal with Li Zhi. The officials secretly said that Li Jizhen deserved to be the governor, and he was old and vicious. All the officials bowed to Li Jizhen.

"Governor-sama!"

"I have seen the death of the thief!"