Zhang Jie didn't know that someone had deliberately set up a trap for him, he only felt that his lungs were about to explode, he brought a large family to enjoy the glory and wealth, but he didn't even have a place to live!

He really wanted to go crazy, but he couldn't get out of a mansion when he was mad, and seeing that the time was not early, he had no choice but to arrange himself and Shi Fan's family in a hurry, and wait until he settled down.

It is not good for him to monopolize the backyard of the Dusi Yamen, after all, Shi Fan is also a governor, and there is no place to put his face when he is driven outside, so he can only divide one of the two courtyards in the backyard to Shi Fan, and he just occupies one.

There are three sets of bedrooms in a courtyard in this backyard, he doesn't say that there are groups of wives and concubines, and there are more than ten wives and concubines combined, and they can't live at all, and in the end, he can only leave three of his favorite concubines, and his wife in the main room was arranged by him to the guest house in the front yard, which is called helping him manage his family over there.

Shi Fan also did the same, leaving only the three most favored concubines to live in the backyard, and the others were also sent to the guest house by him, now, the problem came again, the guest house of the Dusi Yamen has a total of more than ten bedrooms, and the wives and concubines who live in one of them are almost the same, and the wives and concubines of the two live in, and they can't live at all, not to mention that there are also families, nurses, maids, and old mothers who have no place to live!

Zhang Jie was really going crazy now, but he suddenly found that there was no one to give him Biao, because the Fujian officials all used the excuse that he was on duty after sending him to the Dusi Yamen, and they all left, even Hong Xianchun took his subordinate officials to work, and there was not even a Fujian official in front of him at this time!

He was also dizzy at the time, just thinking about quickly settling down, taking a good rest, and preparing to start a corruption plan, but he didn't pay attention to it, the Fujian officials actually ran away, and in desperation, he had to order someone to find Hong Xianchun to come over, and arrange the accommodation of a large family first.

As a result, the entourage he sent soon returned, and the time had passed, and Lord Hong had gone back to the temple after work!

Of course, this does not mean that Hong Xianchun was originally a monk, and he lived in the temple "There is no way", because the backyard of the Dusi Yamen has been occupied by Zhang Jie and Shi Fan, and it is rumored that in order to get out of the backyard, Hong Xianchun drove all his family back to his hometown, and now he lives alone in the temple near the Dusi Yamen.

Everyone is like this, what else can I do, the backyard will be given to you, my wife and children will rush back to my hometown, and I will go to live in the temple by myself, and I have done my best!

Zhang Jie had no choice but to order someone to find the second-level chief officer, but fortunately, he commanded the envoy Sun Bingru to live in the official house, otherwise he would not even be able to find a person in charge, and he would really be crazy.

Sun Bingru saw this situation, without saying a word, and immediately drove all the officials in the Yamen Residence of the Dusi Division to live in the barnhouse, and emptied the entire compound of the Yamen, and finally settled all the female dependents of the two families.

After tossing for nearly two hours, the family settled down, and the sky gradually darkened, Zhang Jie suddenly felt that his stomach was empty, and his intestines were almost knotted with hunger.

These dogs, waiting for Lao Tzu, Zhang Jie suppressed the urge to run wild, and ordered someone to notify the canteen of the Dusi Yamen, and immediately make meals for hundreds of people and pick up the best.

This Dusi Yamen Canteen is worthy of being a large canteen that provides food for hundreds of people, and the meals for their hundreds of people are ready in less than half an hour, and the dishes are also the best to make.

When Zhang Jie heard the news, he finally relieved himself a little, but when he came to the dining hall with a few favorite concubines, he finally couldn't help but go away.

It's still a damn three dishes and one soup, or a damn greens, tofu, meat, and soup, it's very good-looking, but is this thing eaten by people?

He directly picked up a bowl of hot pickle soup, splashed it in the face of the person in charge of the dining hall, and roared: "Playing this official, isn't it, is this your best meal?" ”

The person in charge of the canteen grinned with hot teeth, but he didn't dare to move, he could only say aggrievedly: "Lord Governor, this is already the best meal we have here, and the original Lord Governor Zhang ate this when he lived here." ”

Zhang Jie continued to roar: "Don't tell the official that the broken goods, he is an idiot, he has three dishes and one soup every day, three dishes and one soup everywhere, and his brain is sick!" Hurry up, go to the official to buy vegetables, delicacies from the mountains and seas, chickens, ducks and fish, otherwise, you will immediately roll up and cover the official roll! ”

The person in charge of the canteen had no choice but to organize it according to his requirements, he was simply going to die, it would be almost dark, and the vegetable markets everywhere were closed, how could there be any vegetables to sell!

Fortunately, there are no vegetable vendors in the Dusi Yamen who dare to offend, and the governor is even more unprovoked, there is no meat, they kill the pigs now, and if there is no fish, they will find someone to go to the fish pond immediately, there is no mountain and sea delicacies, they begged grandpa to tell grandma to go to the major restaurants in Fuzhou City to buy back, and most of the Fuzhou City was full of chickens and dogs for nearly an hour, and Zhang Jie finally ate a meal that was barely satisfactory.

This toss was just an appetizer, and early the next morning, Zhang Jie took Shi Fan to the Yamen of the Chengxuan Political Envoy Department to start checking taxes, or to start their corruption plan.

It's a pity that Bi Maokang and they have already prepared, whether it is agricultural tax, commercial tax or liao salary, they have collected all the taxes stipulated by the imperial court, and they have all sent people to hand over to the household department.

It's December at this time, and it's almost the New Year, and it's not surprising that all the taxes have been paid, but because it's going to be the New Year, Zhang Jie is even more greedy, and he finally got a fat and oily errand, and this first year is not a great luxury.

It doesn't matter if the taxes stipulated by the imperial court have been paid, the eunuch party has never collected taxes according to the taxes stipulated by the imperial court, Zhang Jie directly waved his pen and wrote, and all kinds of eunuch party clever names jumped on the paper, what vehicle and ship loss tax, what personnel travel tax, what copywriting tax, what local security tax, etc., no more, no less, directly the twenty taxes stipulated by the imperial court one, into ten taxes three, that is, 30% of the tax!

Is this tax charged?

Yes.

His thirty percent is still a little, the Heavenly Apocalypse Dynasty, the eunuch tax envoys sent by Wei Zhongxian to various places have collected tax rates of more than thirty percent, and even fifty percent!

Can this tax be collected like this?

Of course not.

If taxes are collected in this way, the people will have no way to live, and it is easy to provoke a civil uprising!

Do they collect taxes like this and no one cares?

Yes.

However, whoever cares is unlucky, and even, whoever cares who dies!

For example, the famous Suzhou civil rebellion in the Tianqi Dynasty was caused by the tyranny of the weaving eunuch Li Shi in Wuzhong, but in the end, it was slandered by the eunuch party as the Donglin Party took the lead in resisting taxes and organizing the people to rebel!

In fact, the civil uprising itself really has nothing to do with the tax resistance, but the fuse of this civil uprising is indeed the eunuch tax envoy Li Shi.

The cause of this popular rebellion is in the final analysis that the eunuch tax makes Li Shi levy tyranny, the so-called weaving eunuch is actually the collection of weaving household tax, the so-called Wuzhong is the Suzhou area, at that time the weaving industry in Suzhou is the most developed in the entire Ming Dynasty, the sunrise cloth reached more than 30,000 horses, and the price at that time was about one or two silver and three pieces of cloth, that is to say, in the Suzhou area, the output value of cloth alone is about 10,000 taels a day, and it is more than 3 million taels a year”！

At that time, the prescribed commercial tax was 20 taxes and 1, that is to say, the annual tax of the weavers in Suzhou was about 180,000 taels, and Li Shi set up a project to raise the tax to 10 taxes and 3 as soon as he ran to Suzhou, which means that the tax he collected a year was about 1 million taels, and the extra 800,000 taels were naturally not handed over to the imperial court, but to the Duke of Wei.

That's it, Li Shi still feels that it is not enough, because he can't make much money in the middle!

So, he played a trick and stipulated that each loom should pay three cents of use tax a day.

How much is the equivalent of three pennies?

According to the price conversion at that time, one tael of silver was about equivalent to three or four hundred yuan in modern times, and one thousand wen was equivalent to one tael, that is, three wen was only equivalent to one dollar now.

Paying one dollar a day doesn't seem like much, but the loom at that time was not the current automatic rapier loom or air-jet loom, but a purely manual wooden loom, and a skilled weaver of cloth had to weave for at least 12 days!

Converted in this way, 30,000 horses of sunrise cloth require at least more than 300,000 looms, that is to say, this Li Shi can carry more than 300,000 in one day!

He is making a good profit, but the weaver is miserable, a piece of cloth minus the material cost and labor cost gross profit is only about thirty percent, he cleverly set up a name to raise the tax to three percent, the weaver has nothing to earn, Li Shi then collected the loom use tax, many weavers immediately closed down, no way, how much to weave and how much to lose, who loses it.

As soon as he did this, the originally wealthy Suzhou area suddenly became poor, and many weavers hired by weavers were starving to death because they had no work, hunger and cold!

Now the people will definitely quit, and they will sue Zhou Qiyuan, the governor of Susong.

This Zhou Qiyuan is said to be incorruptible, is a hard bone, and is also a member of the Donglin Party, he received the letter from the people, he was furious, and immediately published this book "Seven Things to the Beetle", impeaching Li Shi for tyrannical expropriation in Suzhou.

At this time, a friend reminded him, "Don't worry about misfortune? It means that Lord Zhou, you be careful, this Li Shi was sent by the nine-thousand-year-old Wei Gonggong, don't provoke it.

Zhou Qiyuan replied directly, "Blessings and disasters come, and heaven is also; The gentleman does not count, and the one who counts is right and wrong! He meant, good and bad is the destiny of heaven, the gentleman doesn't care about this, the gentleman only cares about right and wrong!

The folds he presented naturally couldn't reach the hands of Tianqi, and he was directly intercepted by Wei Zhongxian, Wei Zhongxian was so angry, sprinkled his family to collect some taxes, it was your, and he was looking for death, so Zhou Qiyuan was soon cut to the people.

The people of Susong are sad, but they didn't expect that Zhou Qiyuan made the decision for them but ended up like this, Zhou Qiyuan rolled up the cover and got out of the day, tens of thousands of Suzhou people sent each other all the way, and the cry spread throughout Suzhou!

At this time, no official dared to see him off, except for Zhou Shunchang.

This week Shunchang is a native of Wu County, Suzhou, and also the Donglin Party, he turned out to be a member of the Ministry of Literature and Selection, because he was not used to what the eunuch party did, he had already pretended to be sick and returned to his hometown, and he stopped doing it, and then he heard that Zhou Qiyuan should impeach the eunuch Li Shi for being tyrannical and was cut to the people, and he was immediately filled with righteous indignation, he not only went to send, but also scolded, not only scolded Li Shi, but also scolded the nine-thousand-year-old Wei Gonggong!

Ordinary people scolding eunuchs will naturally mention the physical defects of the lower half of the body, these words reached the ears of Father-in-law Wei, and Father-in-law Wei was naturally furious, and he immediately issued an order to let his godson Ying Tianxun Mao Yilu clean up Zhou Shunchang.

Although Mao Yilu shamelessly knelt and licked Wei Zhongxian and became a godson, he was a scholar, he still talked about some rules, and asked him to clean up an official who returned home due to illness for no reason, but he really couldn't do it, so he simply found Li Shi and asked Li Shi to impeach Zhou Shunchang.

Such trivial things are naturally nothing to Li Shi, he not only wrote to impeach Zhou Shunchang, but also impeached his old enemy Zhou Qiyuan together, on charges of doing good deeds by himself, serious corruption!

This guy is really shameless.

Wei Zhongxian is even more shameless than this guy, as soon as he received Li Shi's impeachment, he immediately summoned and ordered the arrest of Zhou Shunchang and Zhou Qiyuan and other corrupt officials!

Mao Yilu got Wei Zhongxian's holy decree, and immediately took Dongchang Fanzi to Suzhou to arrest people without hesitation.

Now, the people of Suzhou have fried the pot, in order to call the shots for them, a governor has been dismissed, and now even Zhou Shunchang, a good man who resigned and returned to his hometown, has to be arrested, is there any reason for heaven?

On the day of the opening of the reading, that is, the day of the arrest, tens of thousands of ordinary people, kneeling on the ground with incense, begged for Zhou Shunchang's life, to put it bluntly, it was blocking the way, and no one was allowed to arrest Zhou Shunchang; Zhusheng Wen Zhenheng, Yang Tingshu and others also stepped forward to dissuade the governor Mao Yilu and the governor Xu Ji, and asked them to let Zhou Shunchang go.

Dongchang Fanzi didn't care about this, and scolded "Dongchang arrests people, rats dare!" "Wait, and throw the shackles and shackles in front of the people and threaten the people, whoever is blocking will be arrested!

Now the people it, shouting, "I thought that the Son of Heaven was fate, but it was Dongchang!" It means that we thought it was the emperor's will, and it was Gonggong Wei who asked Dongchang to arrest people for a long time!

You are still justified, the common people rushed up and beat Dongchang Fanzi under the call of several people, but as a result, the attack was too heavy, and one Fanzi was beaten to death!

At this time, Mao Yilu didn't dare to put a fart, but it was Kou Shen, the prefect of Suzhou, and Chen Wenrui, the prefect of Wuzhong, who heard the news and came to dissuade them, and the people dispersed.

This is the famous Suzhou civil uprising, logically speaking, the civil uprising itself has nothing to do with tax resistance, but the people of Suzhou can't get used to Wei Zhongxian's cruelty to Zhongliang, so they spontaneously organized to prevent Dongchang Fanzi from arresting people, their purpose is to save Zhou Shunchang, not to resist any taxes.

Besides, neither the Donglin Party nor the people of Suzhou objected to the taxes levied by the imperial court, but they only had great opinions on Wei Zhongxian and Li Shiwei's private pockets and the additional taxes levied.

However, the eunuch party did not say so, Wei Zhongxian directly asked people to write a book, saying that the Donglin Party took the lead in organizing tax resistance, plotting the Wuzhong civil uprising, attacking tax collectors, etc., anyway, it was slandered that this was an organized anti-tax activity, a rebellion, and a large army should be sent to suppress it.

The people who had already dispersed heard that they were going to suffer a military disaster, so they were naturally too frightened to do it, and if they were to be suppressed by the thieves, they would have to do it.

So, the weaver Yang Nianru, the weaver who took the lead in beating people, the weavers Ma Jie and Shen Yang, the sedan chair driver Zhou Wenyuan, and the trader Yan Peiwei ran to the governor Mao Yilu to surrender and send his head up to be cut off, and the matter slowly subsided!