"Protest against the Governor's Palace!" "Protest against the Governor's Palace's heavy taxes on the people!" "Protest ......"

The men rested for a moment, and then began to chant, apparently vowing not to give up until they had achieved their goal. But at this time, more than a hundred people came from a distance, dressed in grass-green uniforms, and they did not have a weapon in their hands that could kill people, but they were carrying a rubber stick with a strong elasticity, and they came to the soldiers.

"It's them, they dare to oppose Governor Wang's order, call me!"

The men in military uniforms began to hit the hundreds of soldiers with rubber sticks, and the rubber sticks hit the soldiers, and although they did not cause fatal wounds, they were all painful.

"You guys, how dare you beat me?" Immediately, a scholar said angrily.

"Smack!" As soon as the gentleman finished speaking, he was immediately beaten in the face with a stick, and a red stick mark was on his face.

"Help!" "Qiu Ba is beating people!" "Qiu Ba is beating people!" "How can this be reasonable, this group of Qiu Ba actually dares to beat people?" "This group of lowly Qiu Ba actually dares to beat scholars, it's really insulting!" ……

These scholars were usually spoiled by those Manchu officials, and they all looked down on those soldiers, and they still measured the Taiwanese soldiers by the standards of the Manchu era, so they still thought that the soldiers were inferior and could not be compared with noble scholars. However, these "Qiu Ba" did not let them go at all, but continued to beat them cheerfully with rubber sticks, and the harder those who shouted, the worse they were beaten. The group was soon driven away by the soldiers armed with rubber batons.

"Lord Wang, aren't you afraid of influencing Shilin's reputation by doing this?" Ouyang Xuan asked with some concern.

But Wang Guorui sneered and said, "Shilin Wind Review? Do I care? I was just a donor in the Manchu Dynasty. Isn't it too inappropriate to include me in Shilin? Those imperial examination scholars don't look down on those of us who donate, but now that I am the governor of Taiwan, they will not regard me as a real scholar. Therefore, since they do not regard me as a scholar, then I must give them face. What kind of Shilin style reviews do you pay attention to? Therefore, the bigwigs in the court are usually spoiled with scholars, which makes them have this idea of making trouble at every turn. We can't be polite to this kind of guy. What's more, they don't represent the interests of the majority, they represent only the interests of a small group of them, so why should we care? As long as we make sure that ninety percent of the people in the world support us, then we can do it. As for these landlords, or those who still want to be landlords. Let them go to the dustbin of history! ”

Wang Guorui was not a "good background" in the first place, for Manchu officials and scholars, his own ontology was a donation class background that spent money to buy officials, and it was not a good background for them. Of course, spending money to buy officials really shouldn't be a reasonable way, but now that Wang Guorui has inherited this body, he naturally has fewer scruples. He didn't have to worry about any "Shilin style comments", and directly pumped them on their so-called scholars. Don't worry about other people's scolding.

Anyway, these readers can scold you, and they can't do anything to you. Anyway, I got the world in the future. That history is not written by the victors, and you can beat them into stinking shit when the time comes. Even, this era is not the era of the past hundreds of years, in the past hundreds of years, scholars were able to grasp the power of public opinion, so that they could make a stink who wanted to stink. However, in this era, the exchanges between the East and the West have narrowed the survival channels for those who read books. Even the later Manchu Qing abolished the imperial examinations.

Therefore, Wang Guorui will not have mercy on a group that is destined to decline, after all, they simply have no ability to threaten their position. Those scholars and the landlord class behind them did not have much better, and they really relied on the industrial and commercial class, so that they could rely on a stable class. And those landlords are not their own dependence, so naturally they do not need to birds. Since he has come to make trouble. That's to clean them up and don't worry about anything.

Wang Guorui thinks that the status of the so-called scholars in the past dynasties was too high, and the Song Dynasty even said that they shared the world with scholars, and those scholars in the middle and late Ming Dynasty actually got up again, and many emperors who were persecuted were helpless, and even did not come to the early dynasty for decades. But in the Manchu Dynasty, the strength of these scholars was suppressed, because the Manchus were not the weak and incompetent guys of the Ming Dynasty emperors, those Manchus were Hu people, if these scholars did not cooperate, it would be killed, and in the end, those scholars had to cooperate.

Although Wang Guorui did not approve of the Manchu massacre, he did approve of his high-handed policy towards these scholars. These scholars were usually landlords, and did not produce anything. If it is industry and commerce, there can still be actual production of materials, but these scholars exploit the common people through land possession, suck the blood of hundreds of people for a living, and do not produce any fruits of their labor. There is no need for this kind of person to be polite to them, not to mention that the times have come to this modern era, so there is no need to be polite to them, and directly adopt a high-pressure policy. Forcing them to either change careers or be cleaned up in the dustbin of history.

After the soldiers were dispersed by the army with rubber batons, they gathered again in small groups.

"Brother Liu, this is really unreasonable. This Wang Guorui actually dared to instruct Qiu Ba to beat us, it was really unreasonable. We must continue to resist, or we will all be ridden by those Qiu Ba! Someone said.

But the "Brother Liu" said: "I think it's better to forget it, this time it seems that Wang Guorui is coming for real, haven't you been beaten enough?" Who of us today hasn't been beaten with a few sticks? ”

"But is that all? None of us have hundreds or thousands of acres of land, so let's pay 20% of the tax! Twenty percent of the tax, and it can't increase the rent, so how can we live! Someone said right away.

And then they were all silent, because they didn't dare to let them continue to gather outside the Governor's Palace to oppose Wang Guorui. Wang Guorui has already told them with the facts, Wang Guorui will send the army to suppress it, this time he only took a rubber stick to warn, but next time he may take out a rifle or something like a weapon. Wang Guorui is not like those officials in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, he cares about Shilin's reputation, Wang Guorui is also a person who completely buys officials and enters the official career, he can't be regarded as a Shilin person at all, so Shilin's reputation is useless to him.

And these scholars are all a group of talents, they can't have any courage to carry out a violent revolution, how many of them can have the idea of violent revolution in the old days? So they were beaten by those soldiers, and they didn't dare to make trouble. Their group of "noble" scholars don't want to continue to be beaten by those soldiers, since they can't afford to provoke them, they can still afford to hide!

"It's a pity that those mud legs who farm don't listen to our agitation, they all listen to the words of those propaganda teams and listen to Wang Guorui's words, so they don't follow us to oppose Wang Guorui. Just a few hundred of us, a sneeze broke us up. Hey, if there aren't enough people, Wang Guorui won't pay attention to it at all. ”

"So what do we do?" Someone asked.

When Brother Liu heard this, he immediately said, "We might as well not resist directly, but adopt non-violent methods." That Wang Guorui wants to rule Taiwan, so he always needs the help of us scholars, right? If there were no scholars like us, how could they rule Taiwan? Therefore, as long as we mobilize those scholars to work together and not do things for Wang Guorui, then can't we just make Wang Guorui unusable, and finally can only compromise with us? ”

"Yes, Brother Liu is right! As long as we can unite as one and not stand out for Wang Guorui, then Wang Guorui will sooner or later fall into a situation where no one is available, and we will definitely win. Another gentleman said.

This is a non-violent and non-cooperative approach, and they hope to use guò as a means to force Wang Guorui to compromise with them, and then abolish the stepped agricultural tax.

Soon, they all discussed together, preparing to mobilize those scholars to oppose Wang Guorui, not to serve as Wang Guorui's officials, and then let Wang Guorui have no one available. But those scholars didn't know that there was never a shortage of people in this world who betrayed their friends and sought glory, and when they finished discussing, several people immediately reported their plans to Wang Guorui, hoping that Wang Guorui could give them some rewards for their betrayal of friends and glory, and it was best to get an official position. So Wang Guorui also understood their plan, and couldn't help but sigh a little in his heart......

"These ancient scholars are really stupid and naïve! Do you think you can be against me if you don't do things for me? You don't want to serve me, I don't want to use you! These literati of the old era, if I use you to serve me, how can I reform? It's best for you to resign and get out of here, lest you have to say that I crossed the river and demolished the bridge! I don't believe it, will there be anyone else in China who will hold an official position? Wang Guorui snorted. (To be continued......)