Chapter 550: There are countermeasures

The chaos in Jining subsided in this way, except for the five people who were called righteous soldiers, that is, a few people died around the Ma tax supervisor, and there was a great chaos in Jining City, and the main people who suffered were those innocent people, and all the weavers who wandered in Jining City were all driven out of the city by the officers and soldiers of the guard.

In the face of the bright swords and guns, no one dared to resist, after arriving outside the city, many people had no way to go, but to go to the homes of the local cotton gentry landlords to be slaves, but to the countryside landlords quite surprised, thinking when they would see willing to come to slave labor on weekdays.

This time, Jining City received the impact and impact of the big businessmen and wealthy families, only the Gu family and the Rong family, and the rest of the people were silent waiting for the attitude of the imperial court. Jining is a key transportation area, close to the cotton-producing area, and has been a prosperous commercial town for many years, staying there to start a business, or the best choice, even if the tax is slightly higher, compared to the profits, it is enough.

But after the third tax supervisor was sent, everyone's hearts were cold, the horse tax supervisor scraped so high that it was about to scrape Jining City, and this chaos, without the support of the big family and the wealthy family, could not be so far.

For example, these salt merchants, grain merchants, and big ship owners, there are a lot of thugs and family members in the family, such a large-scale chaos, smashing and looting shops, will definitely hurt the interests of these people, but they did not send anyone to protect their property and industry, just watched, hoping to make the matter bigger, hoping that the imperial court would make a statement or make concessions on this matter.

Then they waited for the third tax supervisor, and at this moment, these people suddenly realized in their hearts.

The third tax supervisor acted much more cautiously, after all, the experience of the horse tax supervisor being chopped into meat by the chaotic people warned him that he knew what the consequences would be if he did too much, and the imperial court sent thousands of soldiers and horses, but in the end he only killed less than 100 people, and five people were regarded as righteous men, and they repaired the tomb and erected a monument in a grand manner, and everyone paid tribute, but the new tax supervisor also couldn't understand what the intention was.

Although there is chaos, but the task of tax collection and tax supervision, there is no reduction in the slightest measure to soothe the people's hearts, if you do not fill your own pockets, or say that you make less money, in fact, this tax is not a heavy tax for Jining City, after all, there are many buying and selling businesses, and it is a traffic artery, but this is Jining before the horse tax supervisor came, and the horse tax supervisor has made many people bankrupt several times.

However, after the tax supervisor Ma was killed by the rebels, the silver money he fished out was not returned to the bitter master, but confiscated, and the new tax supervisor did not want to overcharge and did not dare to overcharge, but the tax amount is here, and the base of tax payment is greatly reduced, so it can only be increased.

Since the small merchants were destroyed, the objects of taxation were transferred to these wealthy merchants, and many of the big merchants who used to run shops and factories closed their businesses, or moved or closed their doors, and the objects of taxation were transferred to the salt merchants and grain merchants.

Salt merchants and grain merchants are very different from those solid landlords, as well as rising star industrialists and merchants, salt merchants and grain merchants have a lot of official backgrounds behind them, and salt merchants and salt lords are two sides of the same coin, they have always relied on their power to oppress others, and there is no reason for them to be oppressed, and these people have various relationships with the Cao Gang, the Salt Gang, and other gangs, and there are a lot of secret forces that can be used in their hands.

These things are all in the heart of the tax superintendent, but he was also sent down after paying the money, at this time he doesn't care how much he can earn in his own pocket, he can only hope to settle the account, you know, if the tax amount is completed, then what awaits him is to be convicted of copying his home.

At this time, I can't care about anything, the three thousand soldiers and horses in Qingzhou outside the city are still stationed there, and the generals who led this army of soldiers and horses got the order that the safety of the tax supervisor is the first priority, and although the horse tax supervisor was killed, it was very happy to be in the people, but the people in the officialdom were unlucky.

The governor of Shandong, Buzheng, and the prefect of Yanzhou were all reprimanded by decree, and if there was a recidivism, it would be to take off the black yarn and send Tiqi to arrest and bring it to Beijing.

The third tax supervisor surnamed Wang has completely torn his face, and he doesn't have a smiling face, so he directly posted a notice on the shadow wall in front of the Zhizhou Yamen, saying how much tax should be collected in Jining, how much should a certain household pay, how much should a certain household pay, and those who fail to pay within the time limit should be questioned.

The tax supervisor Wang, who had been very low-key, suddenly posted this, which caught everyone off guard, and there was no time to react.

This time, the civilians of Jining no longer have the courage to make trouble, and the graves of the five soldiers stand on the bank of the river for people to pay respects, but the Rong family and the Gu family are safe and sound, and they run away, but these five civilians are all ruined, and the prophet Ah looks at the objects of tax collection are all salt merchants and grain merchants, to put it bluntly, they are all businessmen who have no reputation and people's voice, who will be indignant to do anything.

Wang Shui Jian actually collected taxes very smartly, this tax is much higher than what he really wants to collect, he plans to understand in his heart, the object of this tax collection, the relationship between salt merchants and grain merchants in the government is inextricably linked, there must be someone who intercedes to come to the door, and when the time comes, make some concessions themselves, those businessmen may feel that they are making a profit, and naturally they can spend less effort.

However, what he thought was too idealistic, and the businessmen were not willing to spend a penny more at all, of course, the officials who interceded should still ask for it, and then they were all wondering if there were other means.

Of course, no one knows that the subordinate who assassinated the tax supervisor in Lu Xi is a member of the White Lotus Sect, and no one knows that the helmsman of the White Lotus Sect who advocated promoting tax resistance in the name of the Holy Dao Gate used to serve in the army under Liu Shisan, and his real identity was Sima under Sima of Huazhou.

Of course, Jining's affairs really have nothing to do with the White Lotus Sect, if it is instigated by the White Lotus Sect, this turmoil will definitely not make trouble until the evening, and they will go home quietly.

The leaders of the White Lotus Sect who knew about this matter were all regretful, and immediately arranged for a large number of people to come here, and in all the prefectures and counties where tax supervisors were sent to the three northern provinces, the White Lotus Sect's preaching was unusually smooth, and incitement of right and wrong, and instigation of riots, was the specialty of the White Lotus Sect.

There are constantly besieged tax supervisors' houses in various places, gathering crowds to make trouble, and the tax supervisors are not all ruthless characters, and they are afraid of arousing public anger, after all, there are a few precedents for not making money, but dying in office, or saving their lives, safe and stable, even if the wealth is less.

Such a move is made, naturally the tax will not be so tight, the original anxious businessmen and gentry saw that the White Lotus Sect's method is also useful, naturally the number of believers is even more increased, to say, the White Lotus Sect also knows how to absorb the advanced experience of the Holy Daomen, and there are many Langzhong people everywhere to join the Sect, and also go to give people medical treatment, anyway, this is also a good thing for people, but there are also many believers from the Holy Daomen in the past to join in.

In Jining City this time, although the tax supervisor Wang did not let those big wealthy businessmen go out, but the common people couldn't help it, but many ordinary people walked back and forth in the big households, which was a very strange scene, the tax supervisor was staring at the silver, and the Zhizhou was staring at the situation in Jining, who would think about the convergence of the rich and the poor.

The White Lotus Sect doesn't need to talk about the apocalypse this time, nor does it need to talk about any merits, let alone the words that Maitreya didn't believe in, just to point out that this time the tax supervision tax, or squeeze out your property, I'm afraid you won't be willing to give up.

The Rong family has such a good reputation, the ancient family has such a big power and relationship network, in the end, it is not a broken family, and now people don't even know where they went, this is the catastrophe, if you want to avoid this catastrophe, you can only join the White Lotus Sect, or cooperate to resist taxes, people are practical, and these businessmen are even more so, the conditions proposed by the White Lotus Sect are so realistic, how can there be no reason not to be tempted.

Even if there were a few people who were afraid of disaster, they all sent people to contact them, looking at the soldiers at the city gate and the river wharf, these big families all had a feeling that a big disaster was coming.

Zhending, Cangzhou, the cotton gentry in the area of Dezhou, the private soldiers and the people at home are all combined, originally the cotton gentry lived in their respective villages, but now they are all living in the village, living together, the places where they live are all launching slave labor, the tenants build as if it is a city, the private soldiers and the people are invited to teach the head training every day, the first batch of tax supervisors can also go to the countryside to collect taxes, the second batch is to start to collect some money, now if you go to the countryside, tax collection is one thing, do not bring a few hundred people down, The safety of life cannot be guaranteed, and there are always masked and fierce "green forest ringing horses" intercepting halfway, showing no mercy.

In some places, the tax supervisors have changed three times a month, and the local government is helpless, and the report to the official and send troops to encircle and suppress this kind of should be done, but it has no effect at all, and if you send the soldiers down, you can't even catch a single hair on the "ringing horse", and hundreds of people and horses seem to have disappeared out of thin air......