Chapter 551: Drinking to quench your thirst Go to the countryside

In front of Emperor Jiajing's bedroom, the alchemy furnace that had been removed for a period of time was placed there, and when the palace was dedicated, Jiajing was extremely interested in these alchemy things, and when he came to Jingshi, whether it was Taoguang or something else, he was more and more obsessed with these strange things.

People's psychological pressure is getting bigger and bigger, and they always need to find something to relieve their pressure, Jiajing is to use alchemy to seek immortals, alchemy and immortality are gradually separated from the trivial matters of the world, but Emperor Jiajing is because he is too busy with political affairs and too much pressure to do this, which can be regarded as a contradiction.

After the tax superintendent was sent, Emperor Jiajing did not check their situation through Jinyiwei and Dongchang, but through the secret agents under the Criminal Department, the Criminal Department is still floating astronomy, these people are all born from the head snake, so the information given is relatively more real, and the real reaction of the people who arrange the tax superintendent, all the reactions are "public resentment boiling".

Emperor Jiajing knew that the tax supervision tax was poison, but the current situation could only be swallowed like this, the tax supervision tax, a large number of silver money and kinds, constantly concentrated in Beijing, the treasury became full day by day, and the structure at all levels, which was already in tatters, began to be re-established, which was the result of tax supervision.

The most obvious thing is that in Baoding, the soldiers and horses of the original Baoding battalion were transferred, and the new army of the Ten Guards had been slowly formed into a scale, and the 50,000 soldiers known as the mighty battalion had formed a great deterrent to the Beijing division with the gradual formation of the army's combat strength.

Originally, there were four towns around the Beijing Division, Liaozhen, Jizhen, Xuanhua and Datong, as well as Jingwei and Jingying, it can be said that sixty percent of the core of the military force in the world is Gongwei here, Emperor Jiajing after the mutiny took power, of course, he also had to carry out a series of transfers for the army around him, because he did not want to cause turmoil in the army's heart, so there was a lot of room for loosening the wording of the will, and it could be regarded as saving enough face for the border towns and guards.

However, if you save enough face, the other party doesn't want it, and there are repeated prevarications everywhere, emphasizing various reasons, that is, they are unwilling to carry out orders.

If the above wording is more severe, there is even such a twist in Liaozhen, saying that it is the border soldiers of the military households in the town, and they are uneasy and fearful in their hearts, and if the court oppresses tightly, I am afraid that something will happen.

This naked threat did not care about the decency of the court and the emperor at all, but the emperor could only accept it stubbornly, although it would not be appeased by the decree, but the will to change the position had no follow-up. This is actually equivalent to a slap in the face of the court, but the court has nothing to do.

Liaozhen is in the hinterland of the Beijing Division, in such an unpredictable time, the imperial court really does not dare to come up with anything to deal with, which is also the reason why the city of Zhangzhou in Fujian is occupied by the so-called Spaniards, but the center of the Beijing Division has always remained silent.

But the border towns do not listen to the dispatch, how dare to bring humiliation on themselves, one thing after another, the world is watching, although it is said that everything is the dictatorship of the Son of Heaven, but the opinions of the courtiers and the military must also be listened to, otherwise, the throne and power that have been finally recovered will still be shaky.

Lu Bing's proposal that day to send tax supervisors, collect wealth, fill the treasury, and train the new army, also knew that this matter was to drink to quench thirst, but when people were about to die of thirst, even if it was poison, they had to drink it, and then they would find an antidote.

What's more, these 50,000 soldiers gradually took shape, but it gradually deterred the surrounding forces, whether it was the border town or something else, they were staring at the 54,000 soldiers trained in Baoding, the Beijing division kept throwing silver into it, and there were officers in the border towns of Shaanxi who were training.

The army gradually showed a strong style, since the civil fort, the soldiers and horses in the Ming Dynasty have become increasingly corrupt and corrupt, the officers have deducted military salaries, the soldiers do not do their jobs, there are people who drive the soldiers to work for the serfs, and there are those who rely on the military households to work outside for profit, and they have not seen such a pure army for many days. Although this army may also be corrupt in the future, it is at least a strong army for now.

Although there has been no real actual combat, but it has shocked everyone, the original order issued by the center of the imperial court, the border towns of the various guards began to obey silently, Beizhili, Henan, Shandong, Shaanxi, and several border towns around began to obey the orders of the imperial court.

At this time, Emperor Jiajing felt that he was finally a little sure, the territory north of the Huai River plus Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Huguang that he had already controlled, most of the world was already firmly controlled by him, 60% of the population, 50% of the wealth was controlled in his hands, since this has obtained clear benefits, then it is natural to persist in doing it, the plan of the center of the court is to wait until this group of troops is stable, and immediately stop the policy of tax supervision that arouses public anger. However, the formation and training of 54,000 new troops had such an effect, and both the Jiajing Emperor and his ministers wanted to have a bigger and better effect.

To do this, the only way to do this is to train more new troops and spend more silver, in other words, the tax supervisors below need to collect more silver.

Therefore, although the news of the killing of the tax supervisors one by one reached the capital, and the news of the unstable and turbulent local people, the emperor was still desperate to send the tax supervisors down and collect the money first. Local troops and horses were also mobilized to assist in the escort.

And set up strict rules, if there is any accident in the tax supervisor anywhere, the local magistrate has a great responsibility, just by the rules to remove those bureaucrats who were promoted from the former East Party, the current situation is so embarrassing, Emperor Jiajing in private and close courtiers often compare themselves to Han Wu, of course, not when the Quartet is conquered, but in his later years, often said:

"If it's really time for the embroidered messengers to come out, it's not too late for me to issue the edict."

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty in his later years was reckless, and the people around the country even rebelled one after another, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent a large number of embroidered envoys to urge the bandits to quell the chaos, relying on strong force to completely extinguish the beacon fires in various places, and then on the occasion of his death, he issued an edict to recuperate, persuade the cultivation and prosperity, and brought back the situation of the country from the chaos, without losing the evaluation of a generation of Ming Jun. Emperor Jiajing now boasted of using the Han Wu at this time, and waited until he trained a strong army to stabilize the society, and then made changes, and he could only think so at present.

Cangzhou Mansion's Chujiazhuang is already a historical term, and now the remaining cotton gentry in Cangzhou Mansion have carved up his family's territory, but after the first tax inspector left, they still thought that their opportunity to make money came, so many new fields and so many slave laborers, the cotton production in the entire three northern provinces is very withered, the price of cotton is still rising, as long as it is to start farming, the higher tax amount can not only make up for it, but also have more income.

But how can there be such a good thing, the second tax inspector set the tax as high as the sky, even if they exhaust their harvest for the whole year, they will not be able to complete it, I am afraid that they still have to take their savings.

Who is willing to do the business of losing money, and several big families have the heart to do something to come out, but the 400 horse team of the Tongzhou Guard is still stationed in the city, looking at the outside of the city, and can only swallow their anger to privately bribe the tax supervisor, hoping to reduce it.

If the first tax supervisor still has some public intentions, the second term is completely nailed to the money, and it is not okay to lose a penny, where will there be leniency.

The cotton gentry merchants in Cangzhou Mansion didn't know what to do, when the White Lotus Sect appeared, and the actions of the neighboring prefectures and counties and those places in Shandong gave them a lot of confidence, and there was never a shortage of private soldiers and horses, and there was no need to blatantly stumble against them anyway.

Beginning one day, the public security outside Cangzhou City suddenly deteriorated, all the people who went out of Cangzhou City, looking at the pedestrians and tourists with a little wealth, there were green forests and horses coming to rob them, if it was ordinary people, that is, they plundered their property, if they had some official status, then they would definitely not keep their hands, and the people who went out of the city to collect taxes were directly looked at their heads, and they hung their heads with a pole, and the four hundred horse teams and the prefect's officials naturally went out of the city to arrest and investigate.

But it is nothing, there is no way to find it, although it is a flat river near Cangzhou, but it is vast, it is very convenient to go to other prefectures and counties, there is a search, occasionally find a so-called villager to inquire, I don't know, after arriving, I can't even go out of the city.

Most of the people outside the city gathered around the farms of the cotton gentry, guarded by private soldiers, and it was far away from the prefecture and county, and gradually the prefecture and county could not go to the countryside except for the transportation on the official road.

If you don't go to the countryside, you can't collect money, and the task of the tax inspector here is to collect money, and he is already anxious like an ant on a hot pot, but the tax collector who used to be extremely majestic in the countryside and city is now cowering around the tax supervisor's house, and he doesn't dare to do anything.

After the arrival of the second tax superintendent, the taxes and goods were only paid for two months, which was not enough for his own greed, so he had to organize people to go to the countryside to collect taxes and collect grain, and specially mobilized 300 cavalry guards to escort them, and carefully went out of the city gate, and the action was secret, and no one dared to tell him.

The tax supervisor and a cadre naturally didn't know that hundreds of years later, in the parallel time and space that Jiang Feng did not cross over, there was a similar situation in the Hebei Plain, and a group of birds and beasts cautiously came out of the city to grab money and food, and these beasts were generally called Japanese devils......