Cha Dengbei scolded "Qiu Ba", raised his head and said loudly: "Don't panic, Li Zhi is resisting the decree, this is the son of no law!" I'll wait for the court to play and see how the Son of Heaven governs him! ”

The county magistrate of Jinghai County said in fear: "My lord, it seems that the Son of Heaven does not object to Li Zhi's collection of taxes, but he was forced to make the decree under the pressure of the ministers of the court and the central government. I am afraid that even if we impeach Li Zhi for violating the will, the Son www.biquge.info of Heaven will not punish him much! ”

The county commander of Yanshan County pondered for a moment, shook his head and said: "That Li Zhi's soldiers and horses are strong, and the Son of Heaven now relies on Li Zhiping to kill slaves." Even if Li Zhi resists the decree, I am afraid that the Son of Heaven will turn big things into small things and small things. ”

Chadenbei listened to the words of the two county orders, and he was at a loss for a while.

Liang Yishou, the governor of Jingzhou, jumped out and said: "Don't panic, you don't panic, we now have the holy decree of the Son of Heaven, and Li Zhi is acting against the will, and we are justified." On the one hand, we will play the court to convict Li Zhi, and on the other hand, we will make a big deal about it! ”

Everyone looked at Liang Yishou in unison, wanting to hear how he said how to make things bigger.

Liang Yishou said: "We organized businessmen to strike the market, organized students to sit down and go on a hunger strike, and then organized scoundrels to pretend to be small traders to make trouble in the general military mansion, I see how he Li Zhi ends!" ”

"Li Zhi has already disobeyed the holy decree, and he is already pointed out by Qianfu. I don't believe that Li Zhi still dares to use a knife against the people and scholars! ”

When the officials heard Liang Yishou's words, their eyes lit up.

Cha Dengbei finally found a reliable way, touched his beard and said: "What Liang Zhizhou said makes sense, just do what Liang Zhizhou said!" ”

Liang Yishou looked at Cha Dengbei and said, "My lord, this Li Zhi has soldiers, and we also have soldiers!" Li Zhi now disobeys the holy decree and mobilizes troops to forcibly collect taxes, which is tantamount to rebellion. The governor can mobilize all kinds of soldiers and horses in Tianjin to Fanjiazhuang, so that Li Zhi should not be too arrogant! ”

"Now that Li Zhi dares to attack our soldiers and horses, it is undoubtedly a rebellion! When the time comes, the court will have its own soldiers to suppress him! If Li Zhi doesn't dare to attack us, we will lead our troops into Fanjiazhuang! forced Li Zhi to give up commercial taxes. ”

Cha Dengbei thought about it with a solemn face, and finally said, "Okay! Mobilize troops to Fanjiazhuang! ”

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On September 16, overnight, all the shops in 20 counties in Tianjin, one prefecture, two prefectures, and 20 counties were closed. The strike, which was presided over by local magistrates in various localities, was brewing for several days, and naturally had an unusual intensity.

In the early morning, there were sporadic shops open, but the shops that opened were soon warned and troubled by the street patrol officials, and the doors were quickly closed.

It is not a trivial matter for businessmen to strike the market, and small citizens usually only have a few days of rice in their homes. If the strike lasts for a long time, some people will have money and nowhere to buy rice, and they will go hungry. Not to mention vegetables, oil, salt, and other materials.

Li Zhi didn't expect the civil officials in Tianjin to play this trick again. He got up in the morning, rode around Tianjin with his guards, and found that there was really no shop in the Tianjin Acropolis that was open, and it was already like a dead city.

Li Zhi snorted coldly, returned to the General Soldier's Mansion, and sent someone to recruit Li Xing and others to arrange countermeasures.

But before Li Xing and the others came, a group of uninvited guests poured at the door.

Two or three thousand scoundrels in Tianjin were organized by the Qing Military Department in Tianjin, gathered at the south gate, shouted slogans and walked all the way to the General Military Mansion. These scoundrels are all idlers, and they have heard that they can make a fortune by making trouble for a day, and they are all here. They washed their faces at this time, pretended to be ordinary people in the city, and pretended to be indignant one by one.

More than 2,000 people attracted tens of thousands of onlookers, and some officials disguised themselves as ordinary people to mingle in the procession, and from time to time these officials ran out of the procession to put leaflets on the doors of shops along the street. Naturally, what was written on the leaflet was the content of the crusade against Li Zhi, and some literate people stood on the side of the leaflet and read it:

"It's not what we want to boycott the market, but Li Zhi's rampant expropriation has been angry and resentful, and we are fighting to promote the small people, working day and night to earn a bowl of chaff, but we still have to be stripped by the general army, how can we not be angry? The Son of Heaven has explicitly forbidden the general army to collect commercial taxes, and the general army resists the decree and acts privately! With such a king and a fish and flesh people, how can we not fight? ”

This leaflet is extremely inflammatory, how do the little people know that the Ming Dynasty's finances are beyond their means, and they only subconsciously feel that it is wrong for the government to levy taxes, let alone the taxes prohibited by the Son of Heaven? The general is too greedy to tax like this. The people talked about it for a while, and they all suspected that Li Zhi was really bad.

The scoundrel team in the downtown area walked to the General Military Mansion, surrounded the General Military Mansion, and shouted slogans towards the gate of the General Military Mansion:

"Chief soldier Li Zhi, collect commercial taxes privately!"

"Disobey the holy decree, there is no king's law!"

"It's a tax, but it's a robbery!"

More than 2,000 scoundrels and tens of thousands of people watched the excitement, and surrounded the gate of the General Army's Mansion. The guards standing guard at the gate of the General Military Mansion were pushed by these scoundrels and pushed into the gate of the General Military Mansion.

In the afternoon, more than 200 students from Tianjin Acropolis and nearby prefectures and counties, that is, Xiucai, appeared on the stage.

These students stopped studying today, and all went on strike to make trouble at the General Military Mansion.

Most of these students come from gentry families, and most of the families have businesses, so they are in the same voice as the merchants. Even if he was born in a humble background, he was exposed to the group of Xiucai every day, and he regarded himself as a member of the gentry, and he also fought for the merchants.

More than 200 students wore scarves on their heads and long swords on their waists, and walked from the west of the city. When the onlookers saw that the Xiucai were coming, they hurriedly got out of the way and let the Xiucai walk to the gate of the General Soldier's Mansion. Even those scoundrels who pretended to be ordinary people, when they saw that the famous lord was coming, they hurriedly gave up the position at the gate of the General Military Mansion to the talents.

The Xiucai stood at the main gate of the General Soldier's Mansion, and the first middle-aged Xiucai saluted the onlookers, and said loudly: "The Lord of the General Soldier disobeyed the holy decree of the Son of Heaven and forcibly levied commercial taxes, which has caused the anger of heaven and man. At this critical moment, we cannot but stand up against tyranny and return Tianjin to a prosperous future. ”

"I, including 216 students, will be on a hunger strike at the gate of the General Army's Mansion from today. If the general soldier does not revoke the commercial tax for a day, we will not enter the rice grain for a day. If we starve to death in front of the General Soldier's Palace, we will die to resist the commercial tax! ”

Hearing the eloquent talk of this middle-aged talent, more than 2,000 scoundrels who took money to do things applauded in unison. The scene was so enthusiastic that if people who didn't know it saw it, they really thought that the people of the entire Tianjin town had all the same hatred and hatred for the general army.

However, although this middle-aged Xiu was excited, the people watching the excitement from a distance stood too far away to hear what he was saying. This show just said a lot, and seeing that the applause was all the scoundrels around, it was a little boring. He said no more, and sat cross-legged on the road in front of the General Soldier's Mansion with more than 200 students, and began a hunger strike.

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On the second hall of the General Soldier's Mansion, Han Jinxin walked quickly to Li Zhi, knelt down and said: "My lord, not only are there hunger strikers and troublemakers outside the door, but all the battalions and horses in Tianjin have been mobilized by Governor Cha Dengbei and pressed towards Fanjiazhuang. ”

Li Zhi slapped the table angrily.

"Chaden, ready to die!" (To be continued.) )