Obviously, the world is unlikely to develop as Zhang Shihua expects. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Because compared with Zhang Shihua's sweet and peaceful life, the people at the bottom outside are like living in hell. A person may be adventurous and passionate, but no one will like oppression and suffering, especially when people living in suffering and oppression can't even see hope, resistance has become inevitable.

So more and more low-level people have become robbers and thieves in order to "live", and the Yuanmeng court has to increase taxes again in order to exterminate this group of "bandits", but the more this happens, the more robbers, so the Yuanmeng court has entered a strange circle of "suppressing bandits, raising taxes, suppressing bandits, and raising taxes".

Coupled with the rotten political system of the Yuanmeng court, the low-quality and short-sighted officials, and a group of landlords who would only lie on the people and suck blood at any time, the current Yuanmeng court is like a person who can only quench his thirst by constantly drinking water. Maybe he won't die of thirst, but he will definitely be poisoned, because he drank too much poison.

Maybe there are many people in the court who understand this truth, but they can't help it, because he is so thirsty.

Especially on the 22nd of this month, the day when the river was officially governed, this behemoth suddenly found that he seemed to have spent all his savings on river control, so that he couldn't even get the money and food needed to quell the chaos and suppress the bandits, and the soldiers' salaries.

In their minds, since the summer tax can be collected a few days earlier, it seems that it is nothing to collect more taxes from the people, you must know that we are to protect you, so shouldn't you take more money? So with this idea, they found the prime minister to "get off".

If you want to talk about detachment, it is definitely a great character, his uncle is the famous "Quanchen Boyan" of the Great Yuan Dynasty, Boyan killed the prince of the Yuan Dynasty at that time, abolished the Yuanmeng Emperor, and the existence of power in the world, if the Manchu Aobai is compared with him, it is not even a p, but such a person was removed by Tokh himself.

And Tokhtar not only killed his relatives and got rid of his uncle who raised him with his own hands, but also reopened the imperial examination during his reign, and majored in the three histories of Liao, Song, and Jin. He also reuses Han people, such as the current Ministry of Industry Shangshu Jialu was recommended by him.

Therefore, in the eyes of our Han people, Tokhtok is undoubtedly a virtuous minister. And Tokhtar himself can do such a big thing, naturally he will not be a stupid person, so when those officials in the court came to him and proposed to him to raise taxes to make up for the lack of the treasury, Tokhtar was still very hesitant.

After all, he decided to control the Yellow River because he was afraid that because of the flooding of the Yellow River, the people under the world would not be able to survive and rebelled. But if the people are forced to reverse because of the tax increase on the Yellow River, then his escape will really become the biggest joke in the world.

But if the tax is not raised, and the court really has no money, if he annoys the group of Qiu Ba because he can't pay the military salary, then it is estimated that he, the prime minister, will be able to do it. So in desperation, Tokhtar could only decide to raise taxes, because he had no other way to go except this road.

But Tokhtar was still very cautious and solemnly instructed the officials of the household department: "You must calculate the taxes carefully, not too much, as the housekeeper of the imperial court, you must break a penny in half and spend it." ”

But what Totoh said is obviously nonsense, and with the urine of the current court officials, the effect of spending two pennies for one penny is good. As for the collection of taxes, the magistrates did not drain the oil from the mud legs, they could stop it.

However, this order to collect taxes has already been issued, and it is now impossible to stop even if you want to. ………………………………………………

I have to say that the post station of the Yuanmeng court was still very fast, and within a few days, the prefectures and counties in the north of the Henan River received orders from above.

And when these local officials received such an order, none of them worried that such a levy would lead the people to a dead end, but they were all very happy, because they could make another amount of money. There may also be some officials who are worried about the people, but there are not many such people after all, and the most important thing is that such people are not in high official positions, so naturally such people will not have the right to speak, so these far-sighted officials can't change anything, and things will still develop how things should develop.

For example, Yin Feng Fule of Taihe County, he is one of the few visionaries in the province of Henan, but this vision does not change anything, but makes Feng Fule very painful.

To tell the truth, Feng Fule is definitely a group of top-notch people among the officials of the Yuanmeng Imperial Court, just because he is the county Yin, he has not been overshadowed by the powerful of Taihe County, and even used the contradiction between the powerful and powerful snakes in Taihe County to snatch some authority for himself. Judging from this point alone, he Feng Fule can be regarded as a capable official in this era, after all, the current Yin Bacheng of Yuanmeng County will only stamp and divide the money.

Therefore, Feng Fule still has a certain foresight, just looking at Taihe County, you can understand that a summer tax has already made the people's anger to a critical point, and now the reason why the people are enduring it is because they can still see hope, but if the imperial court takes away this last ray of hope, Feng Fule can't believe what will happen next.

However, the saddest thing is that he knows that this is not good, but he can't help it, and he knows that something may happen next, but he can't stop anything. At this time, he looked at the tax notice in his hand, and suddenly felt that he was a little like Qu Yuan of Chu State. Everyone is drunk, am I awake alone! He sighed inwardly.

"That's it, that's it, Liu Hua." He called out to the master next to him and said, "Put this notice down." When Master Liu Hua took the order to leave, he sighed and bent over, which made people feel that this person seemed to be a lot older all of a sudden. ………………………………………………………………

It was April 29th, and the weather was gloomy early in the morning, and the tax notice in the morning seemed to change the whole Taihe County at once.

It made the whole county nervous all of a sudden, and the Zhang family was no exception.

In the backyard of the Zhang family, in the study of Zhang Shihua's father, the four men of the Zhang family were all in the study, because the cloudy sky outside made the sky very dark, which also made the study very dark, and the four men of the Zhang family sat in this dark study as before.

It was very quiet in the study, and the four of them seemed to be thinking about something, and no one spoke for a while.

This kind of silence lasted for about two or three minutes, and then Zhang Liewu, who was sitting on the main seat, said: "Are Shihua's weapons still in the old mansion?" ”

"In," Zhang Shihua replied.

"Are the archers alright?" Zhang Liewu asked again.

"Very good," Zhang Shihua replied succinctly.

"That's good." Zhang Liewu sighed and said.

Then he sighed and said, "It's going to be a mess!" As if to confirm his words, there was a thunderclap in the sky at this time, and the bright white lightning seemed to tear the dark clouds all at once, illuminating the entire study.

Finally, is it going to rain? Zhang Shihua looked out the window and thought so.

At noon, it began to rain in the sky, and it rained so hard that it was as if the sky had been torn apart, and it was said that no one would go out in such a heavy rain, but there were exceptions to everything.

Also in Yingzhou, seven or eight people came to an inconspicuous courtyard in Yingshang County, because the rain was too heavy, even if those people were holding umbrellas, they were still drenched by the rain, but the strange thing is that even so, none of these people left here to take shelter from the rain, and they have been waiting at the door since they knocked on the door, as if they didn't care about the rain on their bodies.

But they didn't have to wait long, and soon the door of the small courtyard was opened by a big man in a strong suit with an umbrella in his hand, and when the people at the outer door saw the man who opened the door, one of them reached out and took out something that looked like a token from his bosom and threw it to the man. The man took the token and made a gesture to the people outside the door to invite in, and the people outside the door saw this, and they also entered the small courtyard one after another, and the two sides didn't say a word from beginning to end.