In order to recover the losses, there is only one way that the government can take, and that is - increase taxes!

And it's to die!

As for the reasons for raising taxes, there are too many tricks, anyway, the official has two mouths, whatever he says. For example, when the northern Tatars invaded, the center wanted to requisition materials, so it could first "levy a grain tax".

The grain tax has already been levied, so let's change it and add a "husband tax". I don't want to bring my own dry food, I travel thousands of miles to transport food, and I don't want to go for fear of death! If you pay the money obediently, you can be exempted from military service, and what can the townspeople do, and they will pay all the taxes if they dig three feet into the ground in order to survive.

Yang Qi experienced this scene at the beginning of the game. After being tossed by thousands of players, the plan to raise taxes was aborted.

Now it's the real world, and without the player's hindrance, the tax hike plan will go ahead as scheduled.

There is only one unscrupulous player who ruthlessly exploits the poor townsfolk in order to fulfill his ambitions.

.........

Shangyun Town Armory.

The warden looked around the empty armory with a blank expression.

"Can anyone tell me what the hell is going on!" There was a trace of anger between the officials' eyebrows, and they asked the surroundings in a gloomy and stern tone, and they were suddenly silent.

Seeing that no one answered, the warden finally couldn't hold back his anger and reprimanded loudly: "Who is in charge of the armory in Shangyun Town? ”

Seeing this, Li Wu secretly said that he was going to plant it this time. He didn't expect that someone would have the audacity to steal the weapons of the government, let alone steal a single one, so he couldn't fool the past.

"Yes, subordinate." Li Wu walked out hesitantly.

When the warden saw that it was Li Wu, he raised his eyebrows. It turned out to be him, this kid has been very close to the county lieutenant recently, and I heard that he has a tendency to replace him every year with filial piety to the silver tael.

This year, there was another major incident of Longshan thieves killing officials and stealing grain, and the county commander was furious and ordered a thorough investigation of the matter, and he took people out to investigate and found nothing, the county commander was very dissatisfied, and the county lieutenant looked at him with a special meaning.

The warden felt that his position was unstable now, and he was faintly hostile to Li Wu, who was most likely to replace him.

Today is really a good opportunity, the loss of weapons in the armory is a big deal, you can take this opportunity to arrest Li Wu and put him in prison, and you can give an explanation to the above.

Immediately made up his mind, snorted coldly, and the warden said: "Li Wu, you are derelict in your duties, and you can be found guilty in the destruction of jade!" ”

"The subordinates are guilty, but..." Li Wugang wanted to argue a few words to relieve himself.

The warden rudely interrupted Li Wu's words, he didn't want to listen to the words of defense, so he turned around and shouted: "Come on, press Li Wu down, and retry him after returning to the county yarong." ”

Li Wu came up with anger and stopped the warden in front of him.

"You dare to do it! What do you think of the laws of the Empire!" Seeing that Li Wu had stopped him, the warden scolded him in a sharp tone.

Li Wu's expression was extremely struggling, when he heard the "Imperial Law", he gave up resistance, it was indeed his responsibility to lose the imperial weapon, once he resisted, the consequences were unimaginable.

The warden immediately showed his victory, and immediately waved his hand to the other catchers, urging viciously: "Why are you still stunned? Hurry up and take him down! ”

I wanted to use the armory to equip and bring a team of people to catch fast, but I didn't expect to get rid of the people who threatened his official position like this, and his mood suddenly improved.

Fortunately, he also brought a team of heavily armed officers and soldiers from Pingxian County, which was enough to suppress this group of mud legs.

...........

The townsfolk poured into the center of the town, circling several times inside and out, while the officials were intercepting the approaching people, and could not let the untouchables approach and collide with the officials.

Because there has just been an incident of Longshan bandits attacking the government and killing people and stealing food. In order to strengthen the guard, this time he brought two teams of men and horses, and even one team was an officer and soldier of the county battalion.

The military system of the empire was a group of five, a team of ten, a battalion of a hundred, and a battalion of a thousand.

Pingxian is of little strategic significance, nor is it a front-line position. The county battalion has a total of two hundred-man troops, plus four teams of light cavalry. In the three hundred years since the Dahong Empire was peaceful, the county camp defense had long been rotten, and it was all empty salaries in the name of the people, and the actual 100-person department was less than half. In half of them, there are many old, weak, sick and disabled local ruffians who eat and drink together, and they can only pull out to intimidate and oppress the common people, but they also play a pivotal role in the local area.

Four teams of light cavalry, only a few horses, most of them did not even have horses.

In order to smoothly raise taxes and deter the villagers of Shangyun Town, the warden officials took great pains to carefully select ten meters from a group of unusable big-headed soldiers who looked still spiritual, selected a new set of armor and swords from the arsenal, and drove overnight under the banner of the imperial army, running for more than ten kilometers before barely keeping their reliance on coming here.

Yang Qi looked at the useless catch in the front team with disdain, while the officers and soldiers of the other team of county battalions were purely bluffing, without the slightest soldier should have a fierce momentum.

In Yang Qi's ten-year career as a commander of the army, this kind of officers and soldiers are not even as good as the elite militia