In fact, Jiangnan, especially Yangzhou, was the richest area in the world at the earliest, and the biggest three wishes of many officials at that time were "to wrap 100,000 yuan around their waists and ride a crane down to Yangzhou".

Therefore, although they are now all levied and extorted, and there are many excessive taxes and miscellaneous taxes, the people in Jiangnan are living okay, at least they can maintain a basic life.

But since the policy of this Huashigang has completely changed, the big officials and small officials are desperately asking the people for this Huashigang, at first everyone didn't take it seriously, they didn't think it was difficult, if they needed it, they would take it, anyway, there were more.

However, as the amount demanded by the imperial court increased, the situation changed, and the nearby Huashi Gang was swept away, and they could only be found in the deep mountains and old forests or at the bottom of the lake, and the above requirements did not decrease because of the increase in the difficulty of taking, on the contrary, they became heavier and heavier.

Those who are officials want to climb up by this way, but where can they care about the lives of the people? In their eyes, these stones and wood are like glittering ingots, but they can only be effective if they are transported to the capital.

Therefore, this flying disaster has oppressed the people of Jiangnan to the point of water and fire, but it has created a great opportunity for Fang La and them, and as the policy becomes more and more stringent, there are more and more people gathered around him.

Everyone urged Fang La to quickly plant a flag to rebel and lead everyone to rebel against this dark court, but Fang La never moved, asking everyone to wait and wait for the best opportunity.

The opportunity soon came, one of them had a brother who was beaten and locked up by the officials because he couldn't hand over Hua Shigang, and his parents went to ask the government to release their son, but the county official wanted to kill the chicken to show the monkey, and take this person as an example, so that the group of Diao people could honestly collect Hua Shigang, so not only did they not release them, but also ordered the old couple to be beaten severely.

And the officials below took the opportunity to play, and beat the two old men with whips in front of all the onlookers, no matter who tried to persuade them, it was useless, and finally beat the two old men to death, and then continued to whip the corpses.

The people have been unable to bear it anymore, and the crowd is excited, like a pile of dry wood waiting for a spark to ignite.

And Fang La, it is this Mars.

Fang La jumped out in public to accuse the other party, demanding that the county official must severely punish the murderer, the murderer will pay for his life, and the county official himself must apologize to the people.

This "excessive" request from the county official naturally refused to pay attention, and sneered and asked the official to arrest Fang La, but before they touched a corner of Fang La's clothes, they had already been overturned by a few henchmen under Fang La's command, just like knocking down a few rabbits.

The people were thunderous, and the county magistrate was as pale as dirt, so he had to take a gamble to scare Du Jia and say, "Don't you want to rebel?" ”

Rebellion, what a terrible two words, as long as it has a little bit to do with this crime, it is enough to make Yipin Dayuan so frightened that he can't sleep for three days and three nights, not to mention the ordinary people, the county order just wants to make Fang La afraid.

But what he didn't expect was that Fang La actually replied: "Exactly." Then he immediately raised his arms and shouted, and a group of brothers who had been planning for a long time immediately rushed up and smashed the entire county government from top to bottom, and killed all the court personnel from the county order to the government service.

The common people couldn't bear it, and they acted together with Fang La's people, and captured the entire county like a storm.

However, this is just the beginning, Fang La and his gang continued to attack everywhere, and before the imperial court could react, they took down the nearest Changzhou Mansion in one breath, and used this as a base to openly plant flags to rebel, recruit troops and buy horses, the people of Jiangnan were already oppressed by Huashigang, Fang La was originally expected here, and suddenly they came to vote, and in a blink of an eye, they gathered one or two thousand horses.

And Fang La's subordinates are many talents, Deng Yuanjue, Shi Bao, Fang Jie, Wang Yin, are all heroes for a while, under their assistance La continued to expand, in just two years to lay down five cities, occupying nearly half of Yangzhou.

Now the hole is too big, no one can cover it, even Huizong was shocked, you must know that Tianhu Wang Qing also had the current scale in four or five years, and Fang La did it in less than two years, especially in the Jiangnan region, which the court considered to be the richest and most stable, where the taxes of a state accounted for nearly one-third of the income of the Great Song Dynasty, and the great impact on the court can be imagined.

Huizong Longyan was furious and ordered a thorough investigation of the matter, but as a result, various officials and ministers of the Imperial Shi Qin sent out one after another, and soon found the problem, and the reason was just three words - Huashi Gang.

Huizong couldn't help but be surprised, how could a little artistic hobby of a widow cause such a big impact? Don't the common people appreciate the artistic taste of the widows, but this is something to discuss, so why bother?

However, after a few ministers who still had some conscience, he understood that it turned out that the burden of Hua Shigang was too heavy, in fact, Huizong only asked for 1,000 yuan, but the ministers of the court asked for 10,000 yuan, and when it came to the mouth of the local officials, it became 100,000 yuan!

On the contrary, Huizong originally paid for the flower stone gang, but the 100,000 guan he allocated became 10,000 guan to the ministers of the imperial court, and then it became 1,000 guan in the local area.

Huizong suddenly realized, and hurriedly stopped the worship of this flower stone gang while sending people down to appease, but Fang La and they didn't look like a fool surnamed Song (Song had already blushed and argued, I was loyal to the country, not a fool), knowing that once he surrendered to the imperial court, he would not let him go, so he ignored it at all.

This was a slap in the face of the court and Huizong, and the two sides had nothing to talk about, they could only meet each other.

Yangzhou Zhizhou entangled 20,000 heavy soldiers, 100 generals, the imperial court sent 5,000 elite forbidden troops and two strong martial arts regimental training envoys to help, Fang La's side also correspondingly sent his four King Kong and 20,000 elite soldiers, the two sides fought for three days and three nights in the suburbs of Hangzhou, an important town in Yangzhou, killing the sky and the earth, the sun and the moon were dark.

But the result made the imperial court shocked, their more than 30,000 elite soldiers and horses were killed by Fang La, ten stops and five stops, two strong martial arts team training envoys were also killed by Deng Yuanjue and Shi Bao, and finally even Hangzhou Mansion fell into the hands of Fang La.

After this battle, the court had to accept the fact that Fang La had become a climate, and changed the two thieves to the three thieves, but Fang La Shi Shiran entered the peak of his life.

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