Not to mention Zhou Zhenglin and others' tandem planning, on the second day, there were also bursts of indignant voices in Suzhou Mansion College: "The harm of commercial taxes is undoubtedly obvious when the emperor is revealed, one goods and one person, taxes and taxes, and the people are unbearable, and it is ...... that the people are unbearable." ”

"Suzhou, the place where the literary style is at its peak, how can it bear this exploitation of the bone and marrow? If this is the case, there will be business difficulties and sparse people, people's livelihood will wither, and the disaster of Wanli will be in front of you! ”

The person who spoke was a young man dressed as a scholar, dressed in a Confucian shirt, wearing a square scarf, and looking quite handsome, this person's name was Lu Shiyi, and he was the second son of the Lu family in Suzhou. The Lu family in Suzhou is also a big family, operating dozens of shops and thousands of looms.

In addition to the scholars, instructors and students of Suzhou Prefecture Schools, there were also scholars from various counties in Suzhou, instructors and students from various county schools, and there were almost hundreds of people gathered.

Qian Dehong, a scholar and politician in Suzhou Prefecture, was born as an old supervisor and studied in Suzhou for decades, which is considered "highly respected", even if the Suzhou prefect saw him, he had to respectfully call him "Qian Weng". His family worked hard to manage and save money, and finally bought several good land, as well as more than a dozen related shops.

Qian Xuezheng treats himself harshly on weekdays and is very economical, although the family business is accumulating more and more, he is reluctant to be a little extravagant. A person like him is harsh on himself and his family, and he is unwilling to pay money outside, let alone an outsider, so he has already been angry since the chengguan charged.

After Lu Shiyi was impassioned, he also sighed tremblingly: "The governor collected commercial taxes in the name of urban management, and the disaster of commercial taxes in the Wanli Dynasty is still fresh in the old man's memory. Fighting carries the road, and disasters flow all over the world, not trapped businessmen, but trapped people. The sage said that taking the wealth of the people is not the way to make money. The way to make money, to be born, to be thrifty, is only at both ends. The harm of the increase is not calculated by tax, but the harm of commercial tax is measured in days. The collection of commercial taxes is to seize the wealth of the people, this move is angry and resentful, and there is no day of light and darkness, and Suzhou will be destroyed and withered! ”

At this point, he coughed repeatedly.

Everyone present is also a word from you and me, and the words are all heartbroken, all the scholars and students present, which one has not opened a store? Merchants all over Suzhou, which one is not a relative of their clan? When Wang Yue wanted to levy a commercial tax, he would take food from their mouths and would never agree.

Of course, there are also many poor scholars among them, and they don't have any shops in their homes, but at this time, "the public is angry", how dare they speak for the chengguan? If this is the case, the evaluation of a Sven scum will definitely be inevitable, and they should not want to mix among the scholars in the future. So they made up their minds not to help each other, and everyone wanted to boycott the class, so they could follow behind, and they should never be the first bird.

October 12, 11th year of Chongzhen.

From this day on, the market in Suzhou suddenly surged, and from the morning, most of the shops in Suzhou began to close, and all trading was announced. Affected by this, the people in Suzhou began to panic. A rush of buying ensued, and by the afternoon all the shops were closed. The price of rice has soared to ten taels of silver and one stone, and the price of rice has risen fivefold.

Diseases are contagious, people's panic is also contagious, under the propaganda of countless well-intentioned people, including the price of salt, the price of various goods such as cloth, tea, medicinal materials and other goods in Suzhou City has also soared, and finally it has reached the point where there is no market.

Soon, the strike spread to Wujin, Changshu, Wujiang, and Kunshan counties, and panic buying became a trend in various places.

The cities were in a depression, and the people were panicked and didn't know what was going on. Not only that, but there were huge crowds of petitioners in the streets of the city. Officials were invited to cry to the magistrates, garrisons, and military garrisons of each city, demanding that the city management be stopped from collecting commercial taxes.

The streets and alleys everywhere were crowded with howling people, and all kinds of anonymous lists were posted everywhere. If an official passes through the streets, he is also attacked by the rubble thrown by the crowd.

On the same day, the Suzhou Prefecture School announced a strike, and hundreds of students flocked to the Suzhou Prefecture Yamen to petition the Suzhou prefect Chen Hongmi, opposing the expropriation and extortion of the city management and competing with the people for profit. Chen Hongmi, the prefect of Suzhou, came out to speak to the students, claiming that he very much disagreed with the city management's move to collect commercial taxes in the name of collecting management fees, and that he would definitely make a statement to the governor and persuade the governor to give up such angry and resentful practices.

So the students rushed to the backyard of the Yamen of the Ying Tian Governor and howled in front of the city administration to petition.

By the afternoon, the strike in Suzhou had reached a high tide, and the people were already panicking, and they were all asking in horror what was going on.

Xu Yucheng, the magistrate of Wujiang, condemned such a move to disrupt the city and ignore the government, and after being thrown with stones, he was angry and bloody, and ordered his servants to disperse the crowd, and bloody clashes broke out between the two sides.

Li Yide, who is often familiar with the county, tried to stop the crowd, but was also treated by everyone who threw rubbles and stones, causing him to bleed from his mouth and nose. He didn't have Xu Yucheng's courage, so he fled into the magistrate's yamen in a hurry to avoid trouble, and in embarrassment, he even threw away his official boots.

Chang Dengfeng, the magistrate of Kunshan, saw the huge momentum of this incident, and couldn't help but be secretly happy, and he said that it was because of Governor Wang's ignorance that today's disaster was caused. He advised the king to read the sages' texts the more he would, perhaps he would be less reckless in the future.

Officials in Wu County, Changzhou and other counties all chose to disappear, ignoring the chaos in the market.

On 14 October, the streets of Suzhou became even more chaotic, and a group of chengguan marched to the streets of Tangshan and were beaten by nearly 1,000 people, killing all 31 chengguan.

In the face of this sudden wave of market boycotts and class boycotts, the political envoys and envoys under the governor of Yingtian called them "sick" one after another.

The movements of the merchants and scholars in Suzhou were not highly secret, and the Military Investigation Bureau easily found out the details, and Li Chuanxin had already reported the relevant situation to Wang Yue by telegram.

A few days before the incident, Wang Yue had secretly returned to Suzhou.

"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!"

The governor could still hear the shouts outside, and in the official hall of the yamen, Li Chuanxin was making a report: "...... The boycott was headed by Zhou Zhenglin, and he contacted the merchants of various cities to discuss it, and his nephew Zhou Benshen is now the general judge of Suzhou, and his uncle Guo Shitong is now the secretary of the Nanjing Ministry of Officials. ”

According to the lowly investigation, Chang Dengfeng, the magistrate of Kunshan County, Huang Shanyi, the garrison of Changshu, and Cheng Sheng Maochong of Changzhou County all participated. The strike was led by Qian Dehong, the school administrator of Suzhou Prefecture, and Lu Shiyi, the second son of the Lu family in Suzhou. ”

"And the general backstage of the Suzhou market boycott should be Chen Hongmi, the prefect of Suzhou, and Zhou Benshen, the general judge of Suzhou."

"According to reliable sources, Zhou Zhenglin and other large weaver merchants have stopped working in various weaving yards on the grounds that the chengguan fees are too heavy, and nearly 10,000 mechanics who have lost their jobs have a tendency to riot under the organization of caring people."

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