The official foundry bureau casts copper coins in full amount, the copper is not enough, and the lead is violently added, and then it is not enough, and the iron money is cast until it is rotten, and it also turns out the tricks, what 'when ten', 'when fifty', one is not used for fifty! Isn't that inflation? However, it still could not solve the problem of lack of money for the government, so he had no choice but to agree to collect centigold from various places to maintain the operation of the imperial court.

The governors' yamen, collecting cents of gold on the spot, organizing regimental training on the spot, expanding the recruitment of soldiers, and maintaining the peace of the ground, opened Pandora's box.

This is a precursor to the collapse of the building!

People say: The hole with the tip of the needle is big, and the wind is big. As soon as the imperial court opened, it spread to the state capital and county and even to the Yong place where the soldiers lived, everyone rushed up, set up road cards, collected money, and was justifiable, the emperor was not short of hungry soldiers, right? ...... this country?

But where the dynasty is decayed, it will be harsh, and the people will hang in the air.

In fact, the industrial and commercial development in the late Qing Dynasty was a bit deformed, due to the backwardness of the financial system, the imperial court wanted to collect industrial and commercial taxes and had no way to start, many merchants still used the traditional barter trade method, and the private transactions were even more clueless.

There are two kinds of so-called centi, one is called living centi, and the other is called sitting centi, sitting centi is on the shop to collect business tax, which is the kind that the monk can't escape from the temple, which belongs to the business tax. As for the living room, it is much simpler, that is, to set up a card and draw the money of the passing goods, which is a transaction tax, but the eight immortals cross the sea, running, mixing, escaping, and leaking everything is done, and it is good to collect five or six tenths of a tax on bulk commercial goods, but it is real to exploit the small people, and never soft.

Although the amount of centigold is not much, it varies from place to place, and there is no shortage of money to collect less, ranging from 10 to 40 per 1,000, but it can't withstand the layers of collection, and it is collected uncontrollably, and the local state government still collects it again in the next place, and the reason is not explained, will the money collected by the Hangzhou government be used by the Quzhou government?

This cent of gold is notorious, like a mountain bandit buying road money.

In and out of the valley of the mountain town, there are officials and soldiers who bravely set up cards to collect money, although it is far from the mountain town, but this is the main passage from Jin County into the mountain town, who is moving the mind to the head of the mountain town?

Since the explosives were out, Zhang Yingquan has gathered the mountain people to renovate this mountain road, at least it can be used by a large car, right? A year later, the road in the mountains has begun to look like it, although it is not smoother than the official road, but it can also run mule carts and run mountain horses (dwarf horses), which greatly shortens the passage time of people in the mountains. This is a bit of a lot of goods in and out of the mountains, maybe they are targeted by the officials, and they are uncertain, the mountain bandits want to do things that they dare not do, and the officials should not let them.

Zhang Yingquan's heart is unbalanced? Although many of his goods are in the name of the political secretary and do not pay the money, there are still many miscellaneous goods in and out of the mountain, and they will inevitably be stripped by the officials, and they are unhappy from the bottom of their hearts.

The official family is short of money, so they block the door of our small people's house to collect money? Why?

"Brother Wu!" Zhang Yingquan found Wu Nengjing, and some time ago recruited a team of volunteer members, and temporarily handed over to Wu Nengjing to be responsible, so that the volunteer group has three teams of 60 people, and it has begun to take shape on a combat scale: "How has the training been recently? ”

"Yes, I'm going to pull it out for field training in the near future."

"There's something, see if you can do it by the way!"

"The big shopkeeper made it clear!"

"There is a team of soldiers with the name of the government in Taniguchi who are collecting centigold, it's inexplicable! Let's make some small moves and blow them away! ”

"Hah! I have experience in dealing with officers and soldiers, don't be polite to them, you are polite, show only when you meet soldiers, pretending to be stupid and filling up will work, as the saying goes, 'good men are afraid of lazy men, lazy men are afraid of lazy men', hand them over to me, pretend to be stupid and fill them once, and make sure to scare them so much that they don't dare to come again. ”

Wu Neng actually took twenty of his men and went down the mountain.

Since the advent of foreign guns, its combat form has changed, especially the emergence of breech guns, the traditional combat thinking is no longer appropriate, Wu Neng actually since joining the Volunteer Corps, he knew that the defeat of the rebels is inevitable, and he is glad that he joined the Volunteer Corps, which is where heroes come in.

A team of 20 volunteers, armed with a breech gun for training, this kind of gun is still excellent in their hands, the foreign gun in the hands of the volunteer regiment, the operation is different from other similar foreign guns, such as charging, the usual process is to bite through the paper bag and throw the gunpowder into the barrel, first poke the gunpowder, then throw it into the bullet, and then poke it solid, and then it is finished. And the gunpowder in the mountain town is a tightly wrapped cotton paper roll, directly stuff the cotton paper roll and the bullet into the barrel, and poke it together, you can, save a lot of processes in the middle, people who know the principle understand that the cotton paper is the gunpowder carrier, itself is smokeless gunpowder, a new product.

The costumes of the Volunteer Regiment are also a little different, wearing dyed 'waste cloth' clothing, the word 'Yong' or 'Lian' on the chest is shrunk to the size of a fist, and the position is also moved to the left chest, becoming 'Lian Yong' two small characters, and there is a row of smaller words below 'Mountain Town Volunteer Regiment' is a bit of a snake to add to the picture, standing close to see it really, standing far away to see the bells and whistles, you can't see anything, this is already very good! The village warriors who are trained in many places still wear civilian clothes, why don't you say it?

The hat of the volunteer regiment is similar to that of the Qing soldiers, but there is no copper top and red spike, it is a thick hat worn by the mountain people, the feet wear canvas boots, leggings, and a thick canvas belt around the waist, and two cowhide boxes are hung on the belt, which are obviously boxes containing gunpowder and bullets.

Don't say it, compared to those Qing soldiers with obscene images and dull eyes, they are too energetic.

The group came to the front of the level.

"You're also practicing bravery?"

"Mountain Town Volunteers!"

"Do you really dare to wear clothes dyed like this? No matter how poor the imperial army is, they will never have this costume! This is really a burlap bag and a straw cloth bag, a bag is not as good as a bag! However, these posterity are quite energetic, huh? This foreign gun is really not bad! ”

"Do I want to keep the money to buy the road?"

"It's a joke! Hurry up, hurry up! ”

Wu Neng actually came all the way to the gate of the county seat, the formation was neat, attracting a lot of attention, and the volunteers stood taller.

The city gate was also checking the goods and collecting money, and the volunteers stopped at the intersection fifty paces away in front of the gate, opened the formation, and also began to check the goods and collect the money.

"What's going on? Someone stopped in front of us to draw money? The robbery of the open fire? ”

"Hey, hey, hey!" A small school ran over: "Where are you from?" Why intercept the centigold? ”

"......" no one answered.

"Hey! Who is the tour leader? Ask you! The older one! Feed! Feed! ”

"......" continued to do his own thing.

The small school touched a gray nose, turned around and ran into the city, the village Yong who originally collected the gold in front of the door, was not afraid of big things to see the excitement, and stopped there to be happy, okay! Again, they all said, 'How good are the people!' But we adults just listened to the belief that 'it is better to eat if there are fewer people!' 'Nonsense.

After a while, more than a dozen soldiers poured out of the city gate, and more than a dozen servants, murderous, and a six-rank civil official in the middle, I don't know what position, Xiang Wu Neng actually walked towards them.

"You're the Lian Yong there?"

"The Mountain Town Volunteer Regiment, ordered to collect centigold." Wu Neng replied.

"By whose orders? How can you collect it indiscriminately? What kind of system? ”

"My lord! The imperial court promised to collect money to hold a group exercise, ready to fight long hair? ...... General Order"

"Not everyone can collect money."

"The mountain town group has been trained for a long time, and it has not been a penny from the state capital, so why can't it collect a centime? Otherwise, we will go with you, and you will feed us? ”

"No, it's not! The governor's yamen has an order that the township warriors who are guarding each cantonment can collect centigold in their own garrisons, and if there is a superposition, it must be collected and allocated by the state government in a unified manner, and they must not do it themselves. ”

"Then we'll go with you, and wait for the moon to be dark and dirty... Belch! … What about sharing it together? ”

"No, it's not! You can set up a card at the mountain pass, draw cents of gold independently, and go back to your own defense area to toss, so as not to mess around across the area. ”

"The mouth of the valley has been set up by someone."

"Who dares to mess ......," he turned to the colonel and asked, "It's your people?" ”

"It's not!"

"Are there any other townspeople here?"

"No, no." Xiao Xiao stammered a little when he spoke, of course he knew that the village Yong of Gukou was his subordinate, and the county magistrate wanted to make some extra money, so he set up a card with them in Gukou, this place did not conflict with the main road, no one knew about Shangfeng, it was an extra income, and the two families were divided.

"What's wrong?"

"it! We were fooled, it was the mountain bandits who pretended to be officials and soldiers to collect taxes, and there is no distinction between officials and bandits in this world, him! ”

"It's really possible!"

"Assemble! Run to the mountain pass. ”

As soon as the little colonel heard that it was not good, he urgently ordered his subordinates: "Ride in front of them and inform the people of Taniguchi to withdraw quickly!" "Hurry up and run out.

This group of volunteers is well-trained and in excellent physical condition, and they rushed to the valley in less than an hour, and at this time a thin horse in the yali also arrived.

"Target bandits, three-stage preparation!" Wu Neng actually looked at the dozen or so soldiers within a hundred steps in front of him, and gave the order without hesitation.

The officers and men who were pointed at the guns were confused, standing there looking at the 'Western scenery', could it be that in broad daylight, they still want to attack us?

"Aim for the thigh, shoot!"

"Bang bang bang!" A section of seven people fired, but they didn't kill anyone, and they really aimed at the legs.

"Ahh Yes! Several screams were heard, and the three soldiers fell to the ground, clutching their legs and screaming.

"Second stage, ready-!"

"Don't fire, it's your own people!" The officer on the lean horse shouted loudly.

"It's just a group of mountain bandits, don't be fooled again!"

"Yes, it's my own people, my brother raises his noble hand."

"Huh?"

"Don't dare, not in the future, raise your noble hand!"

"Is it really your own person?"

"Life guarantees, it's all your own people!"

“…………”

"Please tell all the adults, the people in the mountains are stupid and unreasonable, who dares to set up a card on Lao Tzu's territory in the future and break his dog legs!"

"Don't dare, don't dare!"

"Close! Back to the mountain. ”

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