The so-called strike means to stop the operation of the market, usually the businessmen who band together to stop business for a certain demand, and make the other party compromise to achieve their goals, many of which are to express social injustice and harm their own rights. Its purpose is to express personal injustice, and it is a form of expression.

Usually the boycott causes inconvenience to the public and also attracts the attention of the wider community, but in the end, the market usually reopens due to the necessity of making a living.

In the Ming Dynasty, the merchants of the Ming Dynasty had already played the trick of the boycott as much as fire, and whenever the imperial court introduced any measures and policies that were unfavorable to them, the merchants of the Ming Dynasty would often raise the banner of the boycott to threaten the local government and the imperial court.

Some people may ask, didn't Zhu Yuanzhang personally stipulate the four strata of "Shinong, Industry and Commerce" when he was alive? The status of businessmen is the lowest, how dare they openly strike the market so boldly, isn't this blatantly against the imperial court, aren't they afraid of the imperial court's wrath?

In fact, this has to start with the system of the Ming Dynasty, the founding emperor of every dynasty is a person with great power, and Zhu Yuanzhang is no exception.

After the creation of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang thought that the position of prime minister was too annoying, and even would get in the way, so in the thirteenth year of Hongwu, the position of prime minister was revoked through the Hu Weiyong case, and then the six-ministry system was created, and all the power of the court was firmly in his own hands through this system.

But Zhu Yuanzhang forgot one thing, the reason why the prime minister system can be inherited in China for thousands of years must be justified. To put it bluntly, the position of prime minister is actually the emperor's assistant, helping the emperor manage hundreds of officials and freeing himself from cumbersome government affairs, but Lao Zhu thought that this assistant was too eye-catching and robbed him of his rights, so he simply fired the assistant.

But Zhu Yuanzhang didn't understand that anyone who tried to go against the objective laws of history and things would have to suffer. Zhu Yuanzhang is a very diligent wasteland, but his children and grandchildren may not be the same as him!

After his son Zhu Di snatched the throne of his nephew, in view of the fact that there was no prime minister in the imperial court. The emperor's job is too hard, how can he get up earlier than a chicken and go to bed later than a dog every day? Lao Tzu has to find an assistant, but the position of prime minister has long been withdrawn by his father, and he can't do it against his father, right? Now Zhu Di is a little sitting.

But it doesn't matter, human wisdom is infinite, and Zhu Di created another system. That is the cabinet auxiliary system, that is, the establishment of a cabinet, and the establishment of three or four cabinet elders in the cabinet, so that they can help them handle government affairs. This cabinet was actually just a secretariat of the emperor at the beginning, helping to deal with Wen Jiàn, but after Zhu Di's death. The successive emperors after the Ming Dynasty were rats and children, and a litter was not as good as a litter, which led to the growing power of the cabinet, and the expansion of the cabinet's power also led to the expansion of the rights of the civil bureaucracy. And where did the civil official clique come from, in fact, from among those businessmen. Although most of the merchants are mercenary, they still have their eyes, in the Ming Dynasty for more than two hundred years. The merchants are silently cultivating the children of the family for them to study and rely on the imperial examination, and the first thing that the children of these families think of after obtaining fame is not the imperial court, but their own family, so that after more than two hundred years of exhibition, the power of the merchants is getting bigger and bigger, and finally it has evolved into a huge interest group. If the power of businessmen is so huge, it is naturally nothing to them to make a noise from time to time.

After Fang Jiuming put forward the idea of a strike. The merchants in the hall thought about it and thought that it would be good to teach Yue Yang a lesson, let him know that this tax cannot be collected indiscriminately, if you are obedient, maybe we can reward you with a bone to eat, if you are disobedient. Then let you know how many eyes Ma Wang Ye has!

Seeing that all the merchants nodded in agreement, Fang Jiuming showed a smile on his face, among these merchants here were grain merchants, salt merchants, and many people also operated medicines, cloth, furs, pawnshops, hotels, money industry, tea industry, warehouses and other affairs. As long as these people agree to strike the market, then the entire Hunyuan Prefecture will immediately be paralyzed, and the imperial court will definitely be furious at that time and send someone down to investigate thoroughly, and it will only be a matter of time before the official surnamed Yue is dismissed.

Fang Yingdi on the side rolled his eyes, and came up with another idea, he smiled gloomily and said: "Everyone, if the merchants just boycott the market, I'm afraid it won't show our strength, we might as well encourage the students of the school department to come to the boycott, and at the same time report to the imperial court that Yueyang persecuted the students and insulted Sven, so this movement will make a bigger fuss." ”

"Hiss ......"

Everyone gasped, just now Fang Jiuming was just going to boycott the market, although the matter is not small, but this is going to make trouble, Yueyang is at most just a reduction of officials and dismissal, but if Fang Yingdi instigates the students of the Student Department to go on strike and sues him for persecuting the students, once such a crime is confirmed, it will be a crime to be dismissed and beheaded, this is too ruthless, right?

Seeing everyone's hesitant gaze, Fang Yingdi glanced around at everyone and smiled coldly: "What, are you afraid?" ”

"Young Master Fang, I'm not afraid, but I don't dare." At this time, a businessman shook his head and said: "Our academic master Liao is old-fashioned and square, he will not agree to us instigating students to boycott classes." If there is any more chaos, I'm afraid we won't be able to clean it up. ”

"Disagree?" Fang Yingdi laughed cruelly: "What's the use of an old pedant? Most of the students in various school offices or colleges are the children of our merchants, and he said that if he doesn't boycott classes, he won't boycott classes? We're done with this class! ”

In the next few days, although the entire Hunyuan Prefecture was calm on the surface, there was indeed an undercurrent surging in the secret, and a storm was about to happen.

In the Huaishan Academy in Hunyuan Prefecture, an angry voice filled a school, "The harm of commercial taxes has been undoubtedly shown when the emperor is revealed, one goods and one person, taxes and taxes, and the people ......are unbearable, and the people are unbearable."

"Scourge, the tax-payer. The land of the Three Jin Dynasty is not as good as the south of the Yangtze River, the land is barren and the people are poor, how can they bear this kind of exploitation of the bones? General Xuanwei's move is tantamount to competing with the people for profit, if you really want to collect taxes everywhere, it will inevitably lead to sparse business difficulties and sparse people, and the people's livelihood will wither, this move must not be! ”

The one who spoke was a young man dressed as a scholar, dressed in a Confucian shirt, wearing a square scarf, and looking quite handsome, but at this time there was a look of resentment and hatred on his face, and there was almost fire in his eyes, this person was Wang Chenglin, who was driven out of Yingzhou Mansion by Yueyang.

In the past two years, Wang Chenglin's life has not been easy, since Yueyang rose in Yingzhou Mansion, the Wang family moved to Jinling City under the leadership of the patriarch Wang Shoucheng in order to avoid trouble. After Wang Chenglin arrived in Jinling City, he studied hard at home for a period of time, and actually passed the examination in last year's township examination.

According to the rules of the Ming Dynasty, if you raise people, you are already qualified to be an official. But in the late Ming Dynasty, there were too few real shortages in various places, not to mention lifting people, that is, many Jinshi were still waiting at home, he wanted to wait until the real shortage of laissez-faire that had to wait until the Year of the Monkey Ma Yue to go, after his Lao Tzu Wang Shoucheng and his eldest brother Wang Chengdong's repeated activities, he was arranged for a position as an instructor in Hunyuan Prefecture, anyway, it is still very easy to teach those children's voices as a person.

But the good times didn't last long, Wang Chenglin just arrived in Hunyuan Prefecture soon after Yueyang followed here, when Wang Chenglin heard that Yue Yang served as the commander of the Tongzhi, and was in charge of Yingzhou Mansion, Hunyuan Prefecture and other North Road Prefecture Mansions, one of his thoughts was to escape, he knew very well how hated he was to Yueyang what he did back then, if he let Yue Yang know that he was an instructor here, I am afraid that his death is just around the corner.

However, after a few days, Wang Chenglin gradually calmed down from the panic, and slowly he seemed that things were not so strict, Yue Yang was certainly the commander of Tongzhi and General Xuanwei, but he didn't know that he was serving as an instructor in the academy in Hunyuan Prefecture, after all, he was a dignified official from the third grade, how could he be interested in inquiring about his thoughts as a little shrimp, and his feelings were scaring himself these days.

After coming back to his senses, Wang Chenglin couldn't help but have another idea in his heart, he decided to observe Yueyang here, he wanted to lurk around Yueyang like a poisonous snake, as long as he had the opportunity, he would take a bite, and now this opportunity has finally come.

When Wang Chenglin heard that rumors began to circulate in the academy that Yue Yang was going to start forcibly collecting business taxes from the merchants in the city, he knew that the opportunity had come. Born in a big family, he naturally knows what is going on with the commercial tax of the Ming Dynasty today, it can be said that there is no businessman who does not evade taxes in these years, and the power of businessmen is so great that the local government has nothing to do with businessmen, because once the local government or the court has the idea of collecting taxes, they will use the power including public opinion and court officials to spread rumors, slander, and even frame you, and the court can often only compromise with them.

Therefore, Wang Chenglin immediately changed from a teaching instructor to a vanguard against tax collection, and gathered his students to start attacking Yueyang.

At the same time, together with Wang Chenglin, there is another scholar Jia Zizhen, who is 60 this year, has thousands of acres of fertile land, and more than 10 shops, which is said to be a wealthy family, but he is extremely stingy, and if it is not for the New Year's holidays, the family is not even willing to eat more meat on weekdays, and it can be imagined how violent and indignant this kind of person is after learning that he is going to collect taxes from himself.

After Wang Chenglin was impassioned, the old gentleman also said tremblingly: "The disaster of commercial taxation in the Wanli Dynasty, the old man experienced it personally. Fighting carries the road, and disasters flow all over the world, not trapped businessmen, but trapped people. The sage said that taking the wealth of the people is not the way to make money. The way to make money, to be born, to be thrifty, is only at both ends. The harm of the increase is not calculated by tax, but the harm of commercial tax is measured in days. The collection of commercial taxes is to seize the wealth of the people, this move is angry and resentful, and there is no day of light and darkness, and the northwest road of my mountain will also be destroyed and withered! ”

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