Chapter 208: Suppression and Rebellion
In these years, the price of rice is expensive, which of the people in the county will store a large amount of grain? As soon as the rice shops closed, the people in the three counties were extremely frightened, for fear that their families would starve to death if they cut off the grain route. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Not only that, but the scholars from the three counties also gathered under the convening of Song Jinyu. Not only did the students of the county school strike together, but even the students who had not entered the private school also went into battle and put up leaflets and notices on the streets to oppose General Long Hu's levy of commercial taxes and compete with the people for profit. In each county, hundreds of students took to the streets, marching all the way to the county yamen, beating drums and marching for their lives.
The magistrates of each county stood up and spoke one after another, stating that this commercial tax collection was the intention of General Longhu alone, and had nothing to do with the magistrates. The magistrates also said one by one that they would explain the situation to the soldiers, and return Tianjin West Road to a bright and prosperous place.
The students marched to the garrison of General Longhu outside the city and threw stones at the soldiers of Fanjiazhuang. Zheng Kaicheng, who was stationed in Jinghai County, was quite restrained, and did not fight back against the students, but only fired a warning shot. Li Laosi, who was stationed in Qing County, and Zhong Feng, who was stationed in Xingji County, both directly asked the soldiers to open fire and fire with the students who were making trouble, killing and wounding several students who attacked the barracks.
The students were even more indignant when they saw the GIs killing. They did not dare to go to the barracks outside the city again, so they gathered at the gates of the yamen of various counties and counties, stopped the students who had been killed and wounded by the officers and soldiers of Fanjiazhuang at the gates, gathered noisily, and shouted slogans.
"Greedy soldiers, squeeze the people's power!"
"The scourge of the tax superintendent, the murder of the tiger and the wolf!"
"Compete with the people for profit and seize the wealth of the people!"
Song Daoming's second son, Song Jinyu, is the vanguard of troublemaking, and in the past few days, he has been soaking in the three counties and counties of Xilu to organize students from various counties to parade in the streets and shout slogans. He stood next to the wounded at the entrance of the county government and said loudly to the students:
"A businessman does a little business, earns a little money, and runs around day and night for a moment! Is it easy? ”
The students below shouted, "It's not easy! ”
Song Jinyu shouted: "But the dragon and tiger general Li Zhi wants to extort and eat from the merchants' rice bowls, can we agree?" ”
"Can't!"
"Never!"
When the students saw that their sons came to support the strike, they felt that this time General Long Hu would not be able to eat and walk around, so they were full of confidence and shouted slogans.
Where have the people seen such a posture? Scholars are all decent people in the eyes of the people, and when they see decent people fighting like this, the people are at a loss, and they don't know how the government confronts the scholars? The people gathered at the gate of the county government to watch the excitement. Seeing that the students were speaking for their own interests, some vendors also joined the ranks of the students to make trouble, making the ranks of the anti-tax team bigger and bigger.
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The news of the boycott of classes in the three counties of Tianjin West Road soon spread to Fanjiazhuang.
When Cui He heard the news, he was very scared, and hurriedly found Li Zhi and said, "Husband, how can you go against the people of the world?" ”
Li Zhi said: "Madam, I am not against the people of the world, I am doing things for the people of the world!" It was only the upper classes who made trouble, and the poor lower classes were watching! If the rich merchants did not pay their taxes, the poor people would be crushed by the heavier and heavier land endowments! ”
Cui He lowered his head and said, "But they make such a big fuss, how can the husband suppress them?" ”
Li Zhi smiled and said, "Then let them see my thunder methods!" ”
Cui He grabbed his sleeve and pinched it for a long time, and finally raised his head and said, "Husband, you're right!" ”
Li Zhi smiled and touched Cui He's face.
The students made trouble for two days, and Li Zhi made a move.
Li Zhi's first target was to prepare for the military of Song Daoming's military garrison. Five hundred soldiers of the Xuanfeng Regiment surrounded the Bingbei Mansion, and under the jaw-dropping gaze of the Tianjin people, Li Zhi's soldiers smashed open the gate of the Bingbei Mansion with a hammer of wood and forcibly captured Song Jinyu's concubine Yuwan.
Li Zhi caught Tianjin's Dongnu and Yuwan's personal maid in the courtyard of the Wang family in the north of Tianjin. At that time, the two were passing on information, and even the letters that wrote the information were seized, and both of them were stolen.
As soon as the punishment was used, Yuwan and her maid spit out the whole thing and admitted the fact that they had done a lot of work.
At the beginning, Song Daoming was furious because his mansion was broken into by Li Zhi, saying that he wanted to join Li Zhi to death. But after hearing that Song Jinyu's newly married concubine Yuwan was a Dongnu meticulous work, Song Daoming felt a chill rise from his back.
There is a fine work in the family, and to put it mildly, it is a stain on the official rank; To put it mildly, it is a capital crime of raiding the house and beheading! Unless you kill Yuwan with your own hands, you can't get out of it! And now that Yuwan has been controlled by Li Zhi, it is too late for her to do it herself.
How could his own family have a slave and a spy? How did this Li Zhi know? Song Daoming thought about it, and became more and more afraid.
This Li Zhi is too rich, and the power he can use is too great, whether it is the grace of the soldiers and horses on the surface, or the detective and frame-up in private, this Li Zhi can throw himself to death with a silver ticket. Fight with him yourself, you can't fight!
Song Daoming suddenly remembered his second son Song Jinyu, and hurriedly asked his family to rush to Jinghai County, telling Song Jinyu to stop making trouble and go home to avoid the limelight.
But it was already late when the people of the Song family went, and Song Jinyu was still sitting in Jinghai County to make trouble, and he didn't know that Yuwan in his family had been arrested. Li Zhi sent troops to rush to the gate of the county government and captured Song Jinyu in public. Zheng Kaicheng took the soldiers, and under the stunned gaze of the students, stood in front of the county government and said:
"Song Jinyu's concubine has been verified to be a Dongnu worker, and Song Jinyu was instigated by him to instigate this anti-tax activity, and has now been taken down in accordance with the law. Everyone quickly returned home, and if they made trouble again, they would be treated as Dongnu! ”
Li Zhi's soldiers fired warning shots, and then escorted Song Jinyu away with live ammunition, and the onlookers did not dare to come out.
Li Zhi's soldiers began to act, they took to the streets of the three counties, tore down the leaflets posted by the students one by one, and knocked on the door of the store to warn the merchants: "This strike is initiated by Dongnu Meticulous, if the store is not opened within three days, it will be dealt with according to the crime of Dongnu Meticulously!" ”
At the beginning, the students were still unsatisfied and unwilling to leave, and they were still shouting slogans at the gate of the county government. However, only half a day later, Zheng Kaicheng led his troops back to kill again. This time, Zheng Kaicheng targeted the children of several gentry families. The children of these families have big businesses in their families and are the backbone of trouble, and there are a lot of dirty things in the family behind them.
"The Chen family forcibly occupied the farmers' fertile land and forced the landed farmers to become tenant farmers, and the incident was suspicious! Ben Qianhu is now ordered by General Longhu to arrest Chen Luqian, a disciple of the Chen family, and put him in prison for interrogation! ”
"The Lu family runs a casino, cheats people out of money, extorts money from civilians, and causes more than ten people to go bankrupt and die, which is a serious crime. Now arrest Lu Keqi, a child of the Lu family, and interrogate and investigate! (To be continued.) )