When he said this, Jia Zizhen's old face was full of regret, as if the catastrophe of the country was just around the corner.

Hearing this, the students and scholars present all rose up one after another, how many of them who could enter the academy to study in these years were poor, and who of these people did not have dozens of good fields or a few shops in their families? Yueyang is now going to collect taxes from them, which is simply cutting the flesh on their bodies, and for a while, all the students, you and I are all heartbroken, and the voices of scolding are endless.

Of course, among these students, there are really some people from poor families, and these people naturally have no silver taels to open shops or do business, and Yueyang's collection of business taxes naturally has nothing to do with them. Moreover, since Yueyang began to settle the homeless, the demand for small officials has also increased greatly, and the remuneration offered is not low, and many people plan to take refuge in Yueyang's command after a while.

But even so, they still didn't dare to say half a good word for Yue Yang, after all, in the current atmosphere of "crowd excitement", if any of them dared to "go upstream" to speak for Yue Yang, they would be regarded as a typical criticism, at least the infamy of a Sven scum would not be able to run, and it would be difficult to mix in the circle of scholars in the future, and be rejected by the circle of scholars, which is very strict for a scholar.

Therefore, the meeting was very happy, and at the end of the meeting, Wang Chenglin's boycott was quickly approved by everyone. Everyone unanimously agreed that Yueyang's behavior of forcibly collecting taxes during this period of time was unpopular, angry, and must be stopped, and his own people must use the momentum of all the people to sue the Xuanwei general, he did wrong, taxes are not collected like that, and this kind of thing must be voluntary, otherwise it is to compete with the people for profit, and it will be spurned! All in all, after a morning of deliberation, the crowd came up with two words. "Strike!"

December 3 of the seventh year of Chongzhen

Suddenly, the wind and clouds on the North Road of Shanxi, countless shops in the entire city of Hunyuan Prefecture closed their doors and stopped trading, which also led to the panic of the people in the city, and hundreds of people began to rush to buy rice, and at noon the shops in the city were even more silent, and the price of rice in the city had soared to a high price of five yuan per liter of rice.

Panic is contagious, in this case. Not only the price of rice, but even the price of oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea, etc. has soared, and in the end, there is simply no one to sell it.

In the afternoon, the tide of the strike even spread to Beiloukou, Hengshan, Guanglingzhou, Shaguobao and other places, and even Yueyang's old nest Yingzhou Mansion was also affected. It's just that unlike other state capitals, Yingzhou has also been affected. But the impact is not big, after all, Yueyang's influence in Yingzhou is too great, after several years of operation, the merchants in Yingzhou Mansion are inextricably linked with the Yue family, even if they want to boycott the market, they have to consider whether they can afford the consequences of Yueyang's revenge in the future.

This is not the case elsewhere, and as the boycott intensifies, the market is filled with panicked crowds. Anonymous posters suddenly appeared on many streets, and some government officials and officials were attacked by sudden stones as they passed through the streets.

In the afternoon, Huaishan Academy took the lead in starting a strike, and hundreds of students, led by several academic and instructors, came to the prefect's yamen, chanting slogans to petition the prefect Jiang Xin, opposing General Xuanwei's arbitrary expropriation and forced taxation, and saying that this move was a move to compete with the people for profit, if the prefect did not speak for them. They went to Taiyuan Mansion and Datong Mansion to petition Governor Xu Dingchen and Governor Lu Xiangsheng respectively that General Xuanwei must retract his order.

Fang Yingdi, the chief bookkeeper of Hunyuan Prefecture, came to the yamen as soon as possible, and solemnly assured the students that he would definitely inform the students of one thing, and he also disapproved of General Xuanwei's actions very much, and would definitely persuade General Xuanwei to take back his fate.

In the face of a sudden wave of market boycotts and school boycotts. The local governments were at a loss at first and panicked. Jiang Xin, the prefect of Hunyuan Prefecture, hid in the prefect's yamen all day long and did not see any guests, because the situation in the prefect was not very strict, so the prefect Zheng Kui just convened all the businessmen and instructed everyone to operate normally.

But except for the state capital. The situation in the surrounding states and counties is extremely serious, and the people are still panicking.

The situation was the most severe in Hunyuan Prefecture, where in addition to closing the shops in the city, went outside the city to encourage the displaced people who were clearing the wasteland and building roads, so that they could also join in supporting their actions and start a strike, but when the displaced people asked, "If we quit working, will you support our family?" ”

These businessmen were immediately speechless, at this time, there were more than 100,000 displaced people gathered in Hunyuan Prefecture, and this number was driven by an increase, how much food would be consumed every day to feed these people, and who of them would be willing to spend so much food to feed these people.

Seeing those businessmen who couldn't speak, some anxious homeless people even scolded loudly: "You profiteers, when we are hungry and have nothing to eat, I don't see any of you to give us a bite to eat, and now General Xuanwei has given us a job, and we haven't eaten for a few days, so you let us oppose General Xuanwei, you really think I'm a fool." Beat you profiteers! ”

In a burst of old fists, these merchants who had come to incite the displaced people to strike slipped away one by one......

Until the second day of the strike, the market was still in a depression, and the people were panicking, and everyone hoped that General Xuanwei would stand up and do something, and not let the strike continue, otherwise it would affect the lives of the people.

In the hall of the command of the Tongzhi Yamen, Yue Yang sat on a large chair, and next to him sat more than a dozen officers and officials, Hai Lou, as the person in charge of Tuntian, took the lead in speaking.

"Lord Yue, now that the trend of the market strike in the city is rising, the people are panicking all day long, and there are many unfavorable remarks in the city, I think that this situation can no longer be allowed to continue, we should do something."

"That's it, these guys are too bold, yesterday there were dozens of students who wanted to attack the command of the Tongzhi Yamen, if it weren't for the adults not to let the lowly position do it, the lowly position would directly kill a few of them." Wu Chengfeng, who was sitting on the right side of Yue Yang, also said angrily.

Even Chu Di, who had just taken refuge in Yueyang, said: "My lord, at this time, you really can't be underestimated, these profiteers are very capable. It is estimated that this matter is not over yet, and it will not be necessary for the official documents of Datong Mansion and Taiyuan Mansion to arrive on the same day, and the pressure on adults will be even greater at that time. ”

"His grandmother is a bear, these profiteers, let me arrest them all and kill them all, so that they don't have to mess around!" Hu Laosan, who was a little impatient, scolded even more.

In the face of the anger of his subordinates, Yue Yang did not rush to express his opinion, but turned his head to a middle-aged man in a black robe beside him and asked, "Jiang He, how are you doing with these things that this official ordered you to investigate?" ”

This man in black's name is Jiang He, the deputy director of the Youshan Division, who is responsible for collecting intelligence in the Ming Dynasty, and he also has a mission. But he, like people who have been engaged in intelligence work throughout the ages, is not very popular, mainly because this guy's temperament is too gloomy, and he always has a look on his face that someone owes him 800 yuan and does not pay it back, and he is always used to squinting when looking at people, as if thinking about this person's shortcomings. In view of this, in addition to reporting to work, he is always very silent in his office to analyze intelligence, and then hand it over to Hai Lanzhu, who is in charge of intelligence work. But these days, Hai Lanzhu is getting heavier and heavier, so he is asked to report to work.

At this time, he stood in front of Yue Yang and reported: "Lord Qiyu, according to the information obtained by the humble position, this strike and class strike were planned by Fang Jiuming, Fang Yingdi's father and son. The root cause is that the adult's tax collection plan violates their interests, and Fang Yingdi has an old grudge with the adult, so he worked so hard to plan this matter. There is another reason, that is, the adults have withdrawn the share of salt supplied to the Fang family, which has also caused the Fang family to lose a big source of wealth, which is why the Fang family hates the adults so much.

Also, there is evidence that the Fang family has been bought by the Jurchen Tartars, and Fang Yingdi has received secret letters from the Tartars in the past few months, and these secret letters have been placed in the secret room by him. Jia Zizhen, a scholar and administrator of Huaishan Academy, and Wang Shoucheng, an instructor, have been desperately slandering their reputation in recent days......"

"Wait......" Yue Yang asked in surprise, "Wang Chenglin, who is this Wang Chenglin?" ”

Jiang He glanced at Yue Yang and said: "This Wang Chenglin is the old acquaintance of the adults in Yingzhou Mansion, Wang Shoucheng's second son Wang Chenglin, after their family went to Jinling, Wang Shoucheng helped his son operate and transferred him to Huaishan Academy as an instructor. ”

"Hey...... This is really a narrow road! A hint of coldness appeared on Yue Yang's face......

"Also, that Jia Zizhen is not simple. This person seems to be stingy, but he suspects that his fifth concubine is also a fine work sent by the Tartars. His concubine's name is Fan Meier, at the beginning of this year, she suddenly appeared in the Wanhualou in Hunyuan Prefecture, and then met Jia Zizhen and was redeemed and included in the room, Jia Zizhen loved her in every way, and many rumors that were unfavorable to adults in recent days also came out of the mouth of this Fan Meier. Moreover, this Fan Meier also suddenly appeared without a trace, so it can be inferred that there must be something wrong with this person. There are also Zhou Nan, the grain transportation officer of the North Road, Niu Mangui, the defense officer of Hengkou, and Xi Huaiying, the defense officer of Shadukou, who have colluded with the Tartars......"

"Hiss......"

Hearing this, everyone couldn't help but gasp, how could there be so many people who had an affair with the Tartars, if this was the case, the northwest road of the mountain would be rotten......

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