Chapter 80: Holding the Peasants Hostage

"Eh, I said did you pay the money, and you rushed to reincarnate?!" At the gate of the city, the tax collector who was guarding the gate was playing with the copper coins that he had received today, and at the same time thinking about how to save money from them, and was sitting in a shady place to rest, when he saw a large caravan gathered in front of the city gate, wanting to enter the city. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

Seeing the fat sheep coming, the tax collector suddenly couldn't sit still, and quickly got up and looked at the caravan, but there were some doubts in his heart, all the ethnic groups and families in Chunxian County knew each other, these people and horses saw that they were pushing carts, and they were full of all kinds of goods, but these people had not seen them.

"It seems that today is the right time for me to be developed!" It's not from this county, so naturally there are only businessmen from other places, so it's just right, knocking on a stroke, fattening your own family.

"Official, let's pay it over, I don't know how many qualifications do you need to get started in your county?" The leader of the caravan hurriedly came up, took out a tael of silver from his pocket, and handed it over without a trace, obviously very clear-eyed.

The tax collector took the silver with a smile, carefully weighed the weight in his sleeve, and immediately glanced at the convoy, "Well, these cars, just pay twenty wen, and pay two big dollars per person who enters the city." ā€

According to the rules of the county, each cart pays 50 wen, and these seven or eight carriages plus more than 30 strong men who drive the cart will have to collect at least 4 or 500 wen, but this account cannot be calculated like this, and the tax collectors and soldiers who guard the city can rely on this to get some extra oil and water, and if all of them are returned to the public, they will not recognize it.

The local clan is okay, you can get by by giving a few wine money, but if it is a foreign businessman, this tax collector will not be so easy to speak, if you don't pull off a layer of skin, it is good, this tax collector collected the silver, counted the amount at will, saw a few men with swords wrapped around their bodies, and didn't care, just let them pay the money and just go in.

The caravan entered the city, and did not go inside, but stopped in an inn not far from the city gatehouse, thinking that it was because the sun was too poisonous today, so he went to Chunxian to rest.

The innkeeper secretly said in his heart, these big-headed ghosts, how can they rest in broad daylight, but the guests were generous, and directly chartered more than a dozen guest rooms, and suddenly fell silent, and listened to those caravan guards talk about bandits nearby, and interjected casually, "Isn't it, this piece has not been peaceful recently." ā€

The leader of the caravan directly poured himself a cup of tea and took a sip, "The shopkeeper should go to work, serve the food quickly, I will go to rest after I use it." ā€

When he walked away, he beckoned a few clever people around him to get together, "You wait a few, go to the street, see if there is anything abnormal, be careful, look at the sun, I'm afraid it's only two hours, and the team will arrive!" ā€

It turned out that this team of men and horses was the first team of people under Li Jing to enter the city, and it was Zhao Mosheng's first team of people, specially drawn from the three soldiers who collected the village, and the three people who went down the mountain, at this moment they hit the east gate to enter the city, and looked at the four or five tax collectors and soldiers who were lazy at the door, and immediately breathed a sigh of relief, I was afraid that Chunxian County was heavily guarded, and it would be difficult to do it if there was no way to seize the door.

"We can save it, don't worry!" When several people heard this, they immediately answered in a low voice, and they didn't mention it when they came out......

"Lord, if you recruit your neighbors like this, and make sure you supplement it with good land, I'm afraid that the big clans in the whole world will have to oppose us!" In the field, a huge military formation was slowly advancing, with dozens of elite horsemen at the head and a long queue behind them, and only a hundred or so people in front of them were wearing armor and holding standard weapons.

Almost all of them were chaotic people, and the guys in their hands were also varied, some with kitchen knives, some with hoes, some with flat poles, and some directly with sticks, anyway, there were all kinds of peasants who came out of the villages and towns along the way and had no way to live.

Starting from his own Majia Village, Li Jing saw that the insensitive peasants, even if they came to a dead end, did not dare to rise up to rebel against the imperial court, and suddenly became angry in his heart, but in the end he still provoked an uprising.

Coincidentally, the ancient farmers, when the matter came to an end, looked forward to the blessing of the gods and Buddhas, and did not want to fight with their lives, but fortunately, Li Mao was alert and directly fabricated the identity of Li Jing's reincarnation of the living Buddha.

Hearing Li Jing's identity, he was immediately suspicious, but there was evidence from Ma Baocheng and others, who were already desperate, and they immediately believed it.

Talking about the additional taxes in Chun County almost reached fifty percent, so that even the self-cultivated farmers could not survive, let alone hired farmers, plus two or three percent of the rent given to the landlord's family, according to the harvest year, they could not eat the winter, plus this is a major event that affects the entire county, even if they flee to the mountains, what can they do?

Can the left and right flee the whole county? After these were broken by Li Jing one by one, everyone fell into hesitation, and Li Jing mentioned the matter of Ma Baocheng again, and directly asked people to cut off the head of the useless lieutenant directly, hang directly under the big tree in the village, and shout, "If you want to live, follow me!" ā€

In the crowd, there were people from Majiazhuang who had gone up the mountain before, and they told the story of the chief's oppression of their own family one by one, and even said the matter of transferring Ma Laohan to labor, and the frightened Ma Laohan suddenly retreated four or five steps, and denied it again and again, Ma Baocheng had suffered a great disaster today, and he was worried that he had no punching bag.

Seeing Ma Laohan, remembering the despair when his family was forcibly assigned to labor that day, and seeing him leading the way today, new and old hatreds erupted together, and he only shouted, "I will kill you, the dog thief who betrayed your clan." ā€

There are also people of the same clan pulling, persuading, and wanting to be beaten together, making a mess, and the three sons of Ma Laohan's family also came out to help, but this brigade of people who will enter the village, under Li Jing's hint, pulled and helped, and finally went directly to the field, and the situation became more and more chaotic.

In the end, I don't know who shouted, "Ma Laohan is called to death, don't make trouble, someone will die!" Seeing Ma Laohan lying on the ground, there was no longer a sound, and when his three sons saw it, they were immediately angry, and they directly hit the crowd and beat them.

In this way, Li Jing, who was mixed in the crowd, shouted, "In the past, Ma Laohan was not a good thing, the year before last, he took five cents of silver from my family, and he used the good land to pay off the debt, he should die, we have a living Buddha to preside over justice today, and I am afraid that he will do something, so I simply don't do two things, and kill such a cannibalistic bully together!" ā€

Seeing that someone was killed, and looking at the beaten family in front of them, everyone was suddenly angry, Ma Laohan's days were already jealous of the village, this will make everyone dizzy, and the evil thoughts in their hearts suddenly came up, and there was agitation mixed in the crowd, and they directly surrounded them with red eyes......

In this way, with violent coercion and verbal threats, the back road of the villagers was cut off, and none of the 200 or so people in Majiazhuang were spared, and the men who had just been stained with blood in every household were all called to be selected and gathered together to discuss with seventy or eighty people, and listened to Li Jing's policy of dividing the land evenly planned by his family a long time ago, and there was no way out now, and finally asked the villagers to accept it......

"Whoever joins the army, each family will divide 20 acres of land into Yongye field, and the agricultural tax will be 30%, and it will never be added!"

"Folks, you have no way back, the landlord in the village told you to kill you, and the government will not let you go."

"Folks, the county is going to persecute everyone to death this year, and they have to collect fifty percent of the tax, do they still have a way to live?!"

"These tenants are all called servants, and there is a way to live in that place? If you go, you will be sent to death, think about it, if you don't rise up to resist, sooner or later it will be your family's turn, and then the tragedy of breaking the family, who wants to suffer! ā€

After a series of agitations, Li Jing decisively provoked cannibalism like Majiazhuang, slaughtered almost all the rich peasants and small landlords in the villages who were unwilling to follow, and promised all their land to the landless peasants......