Chapter 546: Who is the mourner?

Ma Tax Supervisor is really proud, the Rong family was broken and brought him too much money and income, and he found a good way, which is to buy off the other party's subordinates to make false accusations.

The weavers who were taken in by the Rong family were like this, and the subordinates of the tax collector only used the price of a hundred taels of silver to make these people promise to do something like burying the dead and making false accusations according to their instructions.

Zhizhou Yamen also shared a sum of money in this matter of raiding the house, and the Ma tax supervisor and Zhizhou were all happy, they naturally didn't know that after the whistleblowers left the court, they were blocked in the alley by angry weavers and beaten to death, of course, they would not care about anything if they knew it.

After this incident, the wealthy families of the entire Jining City are vigilant, or afraid, these wealthy families originally thought that they were in this tax supervision trend, following the footsteps of the Ma tax supervisor, buying the confiscated property of small and medium-sized merchants in the back, and accommodating their dismissed personnel, so that if the current tax amount is more extorted, after the tax supervisor leaves, they can quickly earn back the money by doing business.

No one thought that they thought they were wolves, or at least dogs, and they could eat sheep behind the Ma tax supervisor, until the Rong family broke down, they didn't know that they were also sheep, and the horse tax supervisor was there to eat them, after all, they were fatter.

The means of buying buyers and weavers, these powerful people also know that those few informants were beaten to death, and the women and children in the family were tied up and thrown into the canal, which is also their deterrent means, but they also know that such means cannot be prevented, Jining's generations of wealth, the servants in the families of the big and wealthy families, and the people who hire dependent workers outside, who are not hundreds or thousands.

Most of these people do not have the same surname, or they change their surnames after entering the house, who knows if these people will be tempted in front of dozens of taels of silver or hundreds of taels of silver, and it is unrealistic to be dismissed, because these big families are inseparable from the existence of the next people, and they can't operate at all after leaving. Therefore, after killing those informers, almost every family prepared a heavy gift and sent it to the tax supervisor's house.

Only a few of them, seeing that the current situation is a little wrong, simply take their families small and soft, in the name of traveling, or go south by boat, or move to a place where there is no tax supervision, and the rest of the people are waiting there, hoping to see if there is any change in the situation.

There are still five days before the Rong family was paraded on the street, the second family was raided and arrested, the crime of this is very simple, that is, evading taxes, this is the largest cotton merchant Gu Jia in Jining City, buying cotton from the three northern provinces, and then reselling it to the south in Jining, a master of the Gu family came to Yamen with a confidential account book to inform, saying that the Gu family has something to do with the pirates at sea, at this time there is a very strange policy, that is, merchants of a little size have business at sea, and the lives of the people are closely related to the things trafficked by the sea trade.

However, the ban on the sea has still not been canceled, and if it is really a detailed picket according to the Ming law, anyone related to the sea trade can be sentenced to a heavy sentence. This ancient family is like this, it's okay when there is nothing to do, but if someone finds out that he made this mistake, then he is unlucky.

When the tax supervisor was rejoicing, he was ready to order a copy, but the river yamen and the Zhizhou yamen did not dare to jump out as accomplices at this time, this ancient family is different from the Rong family of outsiders, such a local powerful and powerful family, and the government has a deep relationship, and the power is not only in Jining, but also in Shandong are intertwined.

The governor of the river and the governor of Jining and the prefect of Yanzhou either went to the house of the tax supervisor in person, or sent someone to carry a letter to the past, defending the Gu family and saying that this matter may be falsely accused by the master, the Gu family is a big family, and it is enough to pay some fines. Ma Tax Supervisor didn't expect that arresting this Gu family would cause such a big reaction, but he was really unwilling to let him go, the Gu family's money was much more than that of the Rong family, and looking at the situation in Jining City, if he really let go of the Gu family, no matter who he was arrested next, someone would intercede, and whether to let it go or not, and the big families in Jining City, after this incident, no one would have any sense of security, and they would definitely relocate, at that time, they would not be able to get a penny.

Two birds are not as good as one bird in the forest, take down this ancient family first, even if you can't collect taxes next, the money you get is enough.

However, the attitude of the officials in Jining could not be ignored, and it was said that the messengers of the governor of Shandong were already on the road, and the Ma tax supervisor knew in his heart that he relied on the Jiajing Emperor and Dongchang in Beijing, as long as they showed a clear attitude, then everything would be easy.

Now the streets of Jining are full of wandering weavers, after the Rong family is ruined, those merchants who have sheltered a lot of weavers and are ready to wait until the Ma tax supervisor leaves to start work, are all driving those weavers out of their own homes, and even the subordinates hired by themselves are as dismissed as possible, retaining the minimum number of people, so as not to be informed.

Most of these people are farmers who have left their hometowns and come to the cities from the countryside to work, and the land in their homes has long been divided up by the cotton gentry and the powerful people, and now they are back to their hometowns, and there is only one way to go as slave laborers. However, their savings continued to be depleted, but when they saw and heard the news that the factories and shops in the city were closing one by one, the anger in their hearts also grew.

Originally, they worked in the city to support their families, and their wages gradually rose, and there were more and more job opportunities, but since the arrival of the tax inspector, everything has changed, and these people don't know so many national events, but they know that all these disasters are caused by the eunuch.

There are more and more people wandering on the street, and the social order is gradually getting out of control, and those officials who have been interceding with the Gu family also have a reason, and they have found Ma Tax Supervisor and said, the current situation in Jining City is a little chaotic because of the arrest of the Gu family, and he also asked the adults to put people back at home to calm the situation.

Seeing the scene outside, Ma Tax Supervisor was also a little uncertain, his henchmen and trusted people were those Jinyiwei who followed him, but Jinyiwei said it clearly, saying that if you want to continue to stay firmly in Jining City, then you must be tough, otherwise after this incident, the Gu family will not only be released, but even the Rong family, which was copied in front, is afraid that there will be repeated, and the letterhead to Jingshi has been on the road for two days, it is better to temporarily detain the Gu family, wait for the recovery of Jingshi, and maintain the original verdict for the Rong family.

As soon as he heard that he was going to spit out the money he had swallowed, the greedy Ma Tax Supervisor immediately changed his eyes, and he naturally obeyed his words and prepared to parade the streets in the name of beheading the Rong family, shocking the whole city.

On the day when the Rong family was paraded into the street, all the warriors brought by the Ma tax supervisor, the Jinyi guards and those hired Jianghu people were all dressed in full clothes, riding horses and following the back of the prisoner cart, and the horse tax supervisor was also wearing a ceremonial dress and was guarded by those people in the middle, and the prisoner cart was surrounded by the officials of Jining Mansion who were sounding gongs to open the way.

This group of people was very flamboyant, and they set off from the government office with great force, preparing to go around the main streets of Jining City, and then show the public at the gate of the government office.

As soon as this procession set out, the gongs of the quiet street of the officials rang out, and immediately a large number of people gathered on both sides of the street to watch the excitement.

On weekdays, if there are any prisoner cars parade through the streets, and those bandits and thieves are caught and displayed to the public, the people watching on both sides are constantly applauding and coaxing, and the scene is very enthusiastic, but today's parade on the street, since the government office, the streets are quiet and terrible, and no one speaks, just watching.

The cold eyes and quiet gaze of so many people made the eunuch Ma and his party walking in the middle of the street very uncomfortable, or a helper had a better way, and followed a servant in front of him to say hello, and the servant took out the verdict document of the Zhizhou Yamen, jumped into the prisoner car and recited it loudly.

Words such as "colluding with the White Lotus, harming the people, and attempting to rebel against ......" were recited aloud, but there was still silence below.

When the officials read this, they all think about the good things that the Rong family has done in Jining City over the years, but many people think that these big families have been destroyed one by one, and their own way of survival and work has been blocked one by one, where to go in the future, the more they think about it, the more gloomy they become, and they don't know what to do.

Walking out of the street in front of the yamen, it was the most prosperous place in the past. Just after walking a few steps, I saw a commotion in the crowd, more than a dozen ragged people squeezed out, threw themselves on the ground and kowtowed to the prisoner car, howling and crying, the people around felt the same way, and many people couldn't help but feel sad.

A brocade guard beside the tax superintendent saw that the situation was not right, and rode to the crowd and raised his horsewhip and shouted:

"Who's crying for sinners!?"