Chapter 555: Not Before

After disguise, he entered Cangzhou City and looted the treasury, this legendary deed was the only one in the three northern provinces, except for the tax supervisors and officers and soldiers, there were not too many people who died.

Other places are not so peaceful, the local cotton gentry have been combined, the private soldiers of each family have gathered together, the White Lotus Sect is in the center of the contact, resolutely not allowing tax supervisors and officials to go to the countryside to collect taxes and grain, and some of them are too direct to attack the prefecture and county.

Cangzhou is the first place to report the chaos, because the tax supervisor is already dead, and the above must come to ask for the crime, and the chaos is so fierce, it is better to report it, let the above send troops down to protect their own safety. Other places are still trying their best to conceal them, hoping that these things are just foolish people, and they can solve it themselves first and keep their black yarn hats.

However, the chaos in the countryside of the three northern provinces this time is not the same as the previous situation, the previous civil unrest, there are more or less the shadows of white lotus and various Taoist sects, but the cause is not them, some are catastrophes from the sky, droughts and floods, the local people can not survive, can only be wandering everywhere, the government is trying its best to avoid the appearance of displaced people, the two sides conflicted, or there are people with intentions to instigate, gradually causing a great civil unrest, almost every time there is a catastrophe, there will be chaos. For thousands of years, many dynasties have perished because of this.

There is also the oppression and maladministration of the imperial court, which makes the people who inherit the policies and maladministrations miserable, and gradually accumulate grievances, the accumulation of this grievance reaches the peak, and it will inevitably be unbearable to erupt, and this kind of disaster is also very common, such as Liu Liu Liu and Liu Qi's rebellion in white clothes, this is because Ma Zheng tossed the peasants in the three northern provinces in distress, and they can only rebel.

In the final analysis, the people of Li are miserable, and if they can't survive, they can only rebel and find a way to live.

However, the main body of the current chaos is not anything that cannot survive, but those landlords and squires who belong to the top level in the prefecture and county, relying on the prosperity of industry and commerce, within five years, their power has expanded rapidly, and they have mastered a large amount of wealth, land and population, and the decrees of the magistrates can only be used in the city.

After Emperor Jiajing regained power, there was a Qingliu official in the court who said:

"For example, today, it is called a country of the Ming Dynasty, but in fact there are thousands of countries, there are princes and princes in every government and county, and there are relatives and nobles among the villages, claiming to be a system, and the king is not up to the law!"

In fact, this means that the power of the powerful clans in the local area has been out of the normal category, and in the villages and villages, all kinds of large and small merchants and landlords are independent in front of the government.

In fact, the words spoken by this civil official were not his own originality, but were told to the imperial court during the Han Dynasty, Wei and Jin dynasties, which means that the local power is too great and too autonomous, which will inevitably affect the centralization of power in the central government, and chaos will inevitably arise over time.

In response to such a situation, the imperial court should have taken strong measures to take back all kinds of rights into its own hands as soon as possible.

After Emperor Jiajing regained power, he did exactly that, sending tax supervisors everywhere, collecting local financial power, and organizing and training armies to maintain the military superiority of the central government over the localities.

These local forces, which are seemingly independent, are independent of each other and are fighting against the central forces that are gradually recovering, and the difference in strength is too great, and there is no suspense about victory or defeat.

In the plan of Emperor Jiajing, Lu Bing and others, the policy of tax supervision can be ended in the twenty-third year of Jiajing, and at that time, it will be politically clear and prosperous. There are also all kinds of local forces, which are also very different from before.

After Jiang Feng crossed over, a person who did not belong to this time and space at all caused extremely great changes to the history of this era, and the expansion of many local forces was not because of the intensification of the exploitation of the peasants, but because of the prosperity of industry and commerce and the promotion of all aspects.

For example, because of the increase in the price of cotton, the cotton gentry caused the powerful or powerful landlords to occupy more land and control more population. Then the indulgence of the Eastern Party against the merchants and landlords, and the virtual taxation, made them swell even faster.

The local forces that have swelled up because of industrial and commercial reasons will not be closed and self-controlled, and if they want to do business, they must communicate with each other and communicate with each other. The so-called various breaks, in the face of such a situation is also impossible to talk about, one loss, one glory, the cotton gentry are in alliance with each other, the tax inspector's office touches a family, and the rest have the feeling of rabbit death and fox sadness, and they will inevitably think about whether it will be their turn next.

On the contrary, the industrial and commercial households in the city, because they have existed for a long time, are intriguing with each other, just like Jining City, so many big businessmen have been cleaned up and bankrupt by the tax inspectors one by one, and they have no power to resist.

The situation in the three northern provinces is different from that of Jiangnan, the prosperity of industry and commerce in Jiangnan is a tradition, and the industries that make money are concentrated in the towns, and those weaving workshops and shops employ local citizens, who have been working in the factory for many years, and see this matter as a reality, knowing that they are making money by work, and have no personal dependence with the owner of the factory. Even if there is a black-hearted boss who circles people together, it will arouse resentment. Needless to say, the most profitable business in the three northern provinces, the smuggling of sea trade, the production of cotton in this cotton field is the biggest business, and the production of such farms requires a large number of peasants to cultivate.

In the north, because of several civil unrests, displaced people and natural and man-made disasters, the strong labor force is not abundant, and all the cotton gentry who can stay are trying to get the population, so all kinds of coercive means have poured out, turning the original hired peasants into serfs and tenants into vassals.

In order to maintain this situation, the cotton gentry also need a large number of private soldiers, and they also strive to create a sense of belonging among the people in their own estates. Let these people be faithful to themselves, not only to farm for themselves when they are busy farming, but also to wield a knife for themselves when something happens.

From thrift to luxury, from luxury to frugality, these landlords, when they do not have today's power, they are also willing to live in peace, endure the exploitation and extortion of officials, maybe it will go on forever, but they have obtained a large area of land and population through bloody struggle, as well as the wealth that rises every year, let them give up these, but they can't.

And people have knives and guns in their hands, and their courage has become a lot bigger, this time there is an old rebel professional household like the White Lotus Sect, and this time the chaos is not a small mess, but no one realizes this, except for Cangzhou because the tax supervisor was killed and reported, the rest of the place is still peaceful, at least the self-proclaimed peace.

If someone knew how the men and horses besieging the nine hundred cavalry and the Cangzhou tax supervisor were destroyed that day, it would not be so easy, nearly a thousand or more troops were wiped out, and the strength required was obviously not something that the local private soldiers in Cangzhou Mansion could do, in fact, it was also the case, the cotton gentry Ding Zhuang in the two prefectures and counties near Cangzhou Mansion were all mobilized, and they cooperated with the White Lotus Sect to teach their own descendants, and succeeded in one fell swoop.

Cangzhou Mansion can be said to be the first place where the tax supervisor used officers and soldiers to forcibly collect taxes, after the 800 cavalry exterminated Caichujiazhuang, it was left with 400 cavalry to garrison, Cangzhou Mansion is a model of the entire three northern provinces, here is an example of the official support for the tax supervisor, here is the place where taxes should be collected the most.

Therefore, after planning, the leader of the White Lotus Sect felt that it was most appropriate to take Cangzhou Mansion as the first target, and it could be regarded as Liwei.

Before this, the private soldiers and ringing horses of the cotton gentry in various places, all the forces that the White Lotus Sect could mobilize were mobilized, and they began to carry out wanton activities outside the city, and all those who had official statuses were deterred by ruthless means, and the entourage and followers of the tax supervisors were all those who had no official status, even if they were killed, they would not cause much reaction, but they could give the tax supervisors a big blow.

Incidentally, no matter how noisy the Xiangma White Lotus in and out of the city was, the purchase and transportation of cotton was never affected, but some people began to transport it by sea or sell it directly to the weaving mills along the coast.

Now, except for the Cangzhou prefect who is distressed that the accumulation in the treasury for many years has been swept away, including the garrison led by Tongzhou to help, they have not taken this matter too seriously, but it is just a group of rebels who have deceived the city gate with tricks and looted their property, and they are not willing to report it, because if this matter alarms the above, the crime of the tax supervisor will be added to it.

The weapons in Cangzhou's treasury have fallen to the people, how many people can be armed, and how much disaster can be caused.

can conceal one day at a time, Cangzhou's officials have been too unlucky during this period of time, and they really don't want to add any more trouble to themselves.

Cover your ears and steal the bell, the sound of ringing is just that you can't hear it......

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