"Oppose the government's increase in taxes!"

"Oppose the government's destruction of the free business environment!"

"Wang Xun and Bi Keng step down!"

The roads in Wuchang were crowded with marchers, and He Xinyin also led a group of members of the Free Literature Society to the front.

Some gentlemen also came out to help, and they grabbed the tax collector of the Huguang State Taxation Bureau and beat him directly.

He Xinyin was also very excited, watching himself organize a huge team, he had a feeling that he had controlled the entire world with his hands.

The police officers of the governor of Huguang all came out, busily holding glass shields, and formed a team to prevent the procession from smashing the shops on the street and storming the government premises.

Wu Guozheng, a student who organized the parade with He Xinyin, threw away the stinky shoes on his feet as soon as he saw these police soldiers: "You eagle dogs who are fighting for tigers!" Qiu Ba! We don't have you to deal with us! Have the ability to deal with the government with us! ”

A police soldier who had received a stinky shoe could only endure his anger and continue to stand, after all, the upper peak and the lower orders were too strict, and they could not be rude to these soldiers, after all, these were the representatives of the Huguang gentry, and they were strong in the court and the locality.

Wu Guozheng saw that these police soldiers did not dare to do anything, so he was even more proud, he also knew that he was a student, a graduate of a higher school, and a child of a civilian bureaucrat, unless he killed people and set fires, these police soldiers did not dare to do anything to themselves.

"If you don't get out of the way, don't let me wait to hit the IRS, I'll wait!"

Wu Guozheng simply threatened directly.

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Other members of the Liberty Literary Society also clamoured, busily instigating Wu Guozheng to smack these police officers.

After all, the police soldiers set up by the imperial court completely broke the power of local clans to deal with criminal cases independently, and the members of the Free Literary Society, mainly from the gentry class, naturally hated these police soldiers, and now they naturally wanted Wu Guozheng to smack these police soldiers a few times.

Wu Guozheng was instigated by these people, and seeing that these police soldiers really didn't dare to touch him, he really rolled up his sleeves, walked over, and spit on the face of a police soldier.

This police officer was affected by the Ming recruit system, and even during the training, he had not been so humiliated by the training officer, and he was very angry, and was about to make a move, when the Wu Commander beside him hurriedly shouted in a low voice: "Jia Shan, don't be impulsive!" They are the people! Do not violate discipline and do it to the people for no reason! Got it! ”

"Understood!"

The police soldier named Jia Shan had to reply, and continued to stand straight in front of Wu Guozheng with anger.

Wu Guozheng saw that this Jia Shan didn't make a move, he was even more proud, and he forgot his fear, he really thought that a gentleman like himself was superior in front of these people, so he continued to spit on the face of the Wu Chief: "Didn't you hear, get out of the way!" Otherwise, Lao Tzu will spit down! ”

"Get out of the way!"

"Get out of the way!"

"Get out of the way!"

The other members of the Free Literature Club also shouted.

Only the shopkeeper on the street couldn't stand it when he saw this, and couldn't help but shout: "You people, how long will you march, block the streets, and do you want us to do business!" You pay for the loss! ”

Bang!

The shopkeeper was punched on the spot.

A student in a shirt came over at this time and scolded the shopkeeper: "Old thing! Do you know what we're doing, we're fighting for rights, fighting for tax freedom! Shut up! ”

The shopkeeper covered his face and wanted to say more, but at this time, his account room grabbed him: "Shopkeeper, forget it!" These are all people we can't afford to mess with, they are members of the Free Literature Society, and there are gentry officials behind them, we are just small merchants, and we have no place to find reason when we are beaten by them, don't you see, even the government can't do anything about them! ”

"But, but", the shopkeeper wanted to say more, but in the end he only sighed.

……

It just so happened that on this day, Zhu Houzhao was preparing to enter the Sichuan by waterway, and by the way, he inspected the southwest to change the land and return to the city, and happened to pass through Wuchang to rest.

Therefore, Zhu Houzhao also witnessed the influx of a large number of soldiers into the streets of Wuchang City to march.

Zhu Houzhao also encountered a lot of demonstrations in his previous life, in general, Zhu Houzhao did not reject the procession, nor was he afraid of the people's demonstration, after all, it was only in this peaceful and prosperous era that the people had the energy to march, otherwise they would have risen up early and started armed struggle.

But Zhu Houzhao's real disappointment is that the theme of these demonstrations is still not new enough, and it is still about political demands in terms of taxation.

Zhu Houzhao actually didn't understand what the anti-monopoly tax had to do with these people, first of all, these people would not participate in monopoly and did not have that strength, and secondly, anti-monopoly should be in line with the interests of the majority of people, and it would only hurt the interests of big businessmen and gentry.

This time, Zhu Houzhao and several large conglomerates took the initiative to be willing to be levied by the imperial court on the anti-monopoly tax, otherwise, the strength of the cabinet alone would not be able to levy this anti-monopoly tax.

This is something that everyone in the Ming Dynasty should be happy about, after all, this shows that their Emperor Zhu Houzhao is not an egoist, and he will still take the initiative to spit out some meat to help the entire Ming Dynasty's national cause.

However, it seems that the current people have automatically chosen to ignore this matter, and have paid more attention to the imposition of anti-monopoly tax in this place.

"The cabinet is also to increase the revenue of the local government, seeing that the royal and the big chaebols who control the wealth of the world are willing to be subject to anti-monopoly taxes, so they let the local governments collect local anti-monopoly taxes on their own to increase local revenues, after all, if the agricultural tax has been exempted today, the local government can no longer rely on fire consumption to obtain income to build the local can no longer rely on fire consumption, but can only be found from these industrial and commercial taxes, there are many local monopoly giants, there are official gentry background, there are also noble backgrounds, and there are overseas vassal kings background! Ordinary merchants naturally find it difficult to become monopoly merchants, so Wechen didn't understand why these people would oppose it, although the reason is not to compete with the people, it is clear that these monopoly merchants are competing with the people, and the government is actually preventing these monopoly merchants from competing with the people! ”

Wang Xun, the governor of Huguang, looked at the people who crowded the main streets of Wuchang City, and reported the situation in Wuchang to Zhu Houzhao.

There are a lot of people who can be officials in the Ming Dynasty, and there are more people waiting to be officials, especially in today's decades of national education, there is only a 1 in 10,000 probability of being promoted to the governor, so the relationship between the government and the people will also be an important assessment standard for local officials in many cases.

"What about Zuo Bu's political envoy Bi Keng?" Zhu Houzhao asked.

"I am admonishing the marchers in the streets, explaining to them," replied Wang.

"What's the use of explaining, didn't you see what was written on the slogan, let you and Bi Keng resign", Zhu Houzhao pointed to the slogan on the street as he spoke, and couldn't help but think again: "The officials of the Ming Dynasty will resign or not, when it will be the turn of these people to decide!" ”