The winter of the fourth year of the Apocalypse was particularly cold, and from the capital to the south of the Yangtze River, the action of cleaning up the Donglin Party directed by Wei Zhongxian climaxed one after another. Many of the old enemies and old opponents of the Donglin Party have taken refuge under the command of the 9,000-year-old and have thrown themselves into the battle to eliminate the evil party with great enthusiasm.

In addition to the Donglin cadres on the surface, it is also necessary to find out the hidden Donglin Party. For this reason, blacklists have been concocted in order to strike with precision.

Gu Bingqian, the first assistant of the cabinet, and Shi Fenglai and Huang Liji, new university scholars, drew up a "Handbook of the Gentlemen," in which more than 100 people, including Ye Xianggao, Zhao Nanxing, Gao Panlong, Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou, Gu Dazhang, and Zou Yuanbiao, were listed as evil parties. At the same time, more than 60 people such as Jia Jichun, Huo Weihua, Xu Dahua and others who had fought against the Donglin Party were listed as righteous people and built for reuse.

Cui Chengxiu was not idle, he made two books: one is "Comrade Record", which includes Donglin members, and the other is "Tianjian Lu", which records members who oppose the Donglin Party.

Among the many works, the most exciting, the most expressive, and the most widely circulated is the "Dian Jiang Lu" compiled by Wang Shaohui, which corresponds the members of the Donglin Party to one by one according to the one hundred and eight generals of the Water Margin, which makes people read it and can't help but applaud.

However, among the many rosters, without exception, they are very familiar with each other and do not include Zhang Ke, the Duke of Pingliao.

Not only Zhang Ke, but also the political envoy Hong Fuyi, the left squire of the military department and the right capital of the imperial history, the governor of Jiliao Wang Huazhen, the left capital of the imperial history Huang Ziqiao, the head of the household Deng Wentong and others, were neither included in the Donglin Party, nor in the opposition to the Donglin Party.

It seems to be a family of its own, although the number is small, but the discerning person can see clearly that the Liao Party has been born!

In addition to the above-mentioned personnel, Wei Guangwei, the second assistant of the cabinet, and Cui Chengxiu, the imperial historian of the left capital, also had a close relationship with the Liao Party.

In the midst of an unprecedented political upheaval. Everyone was in danger, and many officials who had no door or faction took refuge under the banner of the Liao Party and sought refuge.

As Zhang Ke's teacher, the soul of the Liao Party, Hong Fu is not polite, the door is wide open, talents are widely recruited, the snipe and the clam compete with each other, and the fisherman profits.

In less than three months, more than a dozen officials successively belonged to the Liao Party.

And many more are still waiting. They don't look at the capital, but the south of the Yangtze River!

How difficult it is to collect commercial taxes, if Zhang Ke can really do it, it will be enough to prove his skill and strength, and at that time, I am afraid that more officials will join the Liao Party......

The whole capital is watching, staring with bated breath and waiting, the last time the eunuch Li Shi caused chaos in Suzhou, this time Zhang Ke moved even more. I'm afraid that the consequences will be stricter, and a good show is just around the corner.

However, to everyone's surprise, the show has not been staged for a long time, but the tax collection plan is proceeding rapidly.

"Ladies and gentlemen. You are all county officials, the chief bookkeepers, and the scribes of the six parties, and you usually have the final say on the ground. Enjoy the filial piety of the people and travel freely. The official of the imperial court will be transferred away in a few years, but you will not move. can even pass on the position to future generations, and the same as the emperor of the soil, is Ben Jue right? ”

"The lowly ones don't dare!"

The four or five hundred people who were pressed by the black pressure all knelt in front of Zhang Ke, there were Suzhou Mansions, as well as Changzhou and Wu County, as a high-class government, and a paradise-like place, Suzhou Prefecture had more officials than ordinary five or six prefectures.

These officials, who usually eat and drink spicy food, and are powerful and powerful, all knelt on the ground tremblingly. On either side were soldiers with firearms in their hands, and the intense murderous aura almost suffocated them.

A lifetime of glory and wealth, just at the thought of that person, the heart kept going, and the old man was paralyzed to the ground, as if he was in hell.

"Ben Jue is also a family man, and it is really pitiful for the court to give that little money. Take Mao Zhongcheng as an example, I'm afraid that there is only one hundred taels of silver a year, right? ”

Mao Yilu smiled bitterly and nodded: "Returning to China, it is ninety-six taels, and the rest of the salt and grain, it stands to reason that it is enough for the family to eat and drink." It's just that the governor's yamen has a lot of things to do every day, and the subordinate officials can't do it by themselves, so they have to hire a master scribe, one is not enough, two is not enough, and even ten or eight. To say something ashamed, relying on the court's fortune, I'm afraid that I will drink the northwest wind! ”

Zhang Ke thought so deeply and said with a smile: "Did you hear it, let's be open and honest today, and say everything in our hearts." You exploit the merchants and the people, and it is understandable, but the sin is unforgivable! ”

"Ahh

There were several people who were immediately paralyzed, and they were still lucky just now, why did they change their faces so quickly?

"Don't worry too much, except for the crimes and notorious, Ben Jue must deal with them according to the rules. The rest also allowed you to return to the Yamen, and your income was tripled, and you were given an allowance for doing well, so that you could live in dignity. But ......"

Zhang Ke stretched his voice, and everyone's hearts hung in the air.

"Don't think about these things for you to eat and take cards in the past, Benjue will set up supervision and inspection departments in the yamen at all levels, and when you receive reports from the people, you will immediately arrest them, embezzle more than 100 taels of ink, or rob men and women, and have a lawsuit, all of them will be dealt with severely and strictly, and will not be tolerated!"

slapped him and gave sweet dates again.

Triple the salary, plus allowances, is a little little for those who are greedy for ink, but for the relatively honest officials, the income has increased by a large amount, and they are still taking money openly, and the big guy suddenly feels that this Pingliao Duke is not a hateful!

Seeing these people looking at each other and thinking about it, Zhang Ke and Mao Yilu exchanged glances, and Mao Yilu stood up.

"Grandpa Guo is sympathetic to his subordinates, otherwise how can he make an army of 100,000 willing to die! Starting today, 100 tax collection groups will be divided, each with 50 officers and soldiers, three bookkeepers, one government student, and three to five officials. You must work together, it should be the tax of the imperial court, not a penny less, it should be a merchant, not more than a penny! ”

"Do you understand?"

"Got it!"

"Louder!"

"Got it!"

……

Suzhou's tax collection action was carried out rapidly, and no one could run away from the investigation of each family. First from the peripheral shops, it gradually pointed to the core of the big silk weaving households.

In an inconspicuous garden flower hall, more than a dozen gorgeously dressed characters with red faces sat together.

The first one is the noble party who has seen Bao Shiqing, and the others are representatives of the major families in Jiangnan, among the dozen or so people, the family behind them is millions or even tens of millions of family properties, controlling hundreds of thousands of acres of land, without such strength, they can't sit on the stage at all.

Gao Guifang stood up first, and without waiting to speak, he smiled bitterly first.

"The big guys must know that Zhang Ke and Mao Yilu's minions have been taxed aggressively. It's just that those ordinary small shops are only a dozen taels of silver tax, which is about the same as sesame seeds. But the silk weaving workshop in our hands, as well as the fleet in the Yangtze River, are at least more than 100,000 taels of silver! Is the big guy willing to watch his hard-earned money fall into Zhang Ke's hands? ”

"I don't want to!" The representative of the Xu family was the first to jump.

"Princes, I think it's just like last time, mobilize tens of thousands of people, drive Zhang Ke out of Suzhou, and let him see what is called the will of the people!" (To be continued......) R1292