It turned out that these Suzhou battalion soldiers who suddenly appeared were already attacking these mining thieves.

For a while, the sound of guns was incessant.

In a moment, it is filled with white smoke.

The entire Suzhou gate is like being placed in the clouds.

Therefore, the surrounding people could not see how bloody this scene was, only someone fell in the clouds and mist, and from time to time there were chilling screams.

Before the Wanli reform, most of the people who privately opened mines were still poor people who had to go into the mountains to open mines because of heavy taxes and heavy forced labor, and the ruthless exploitation of officials and gentry.

But now, conscription has long been exempted, as have many miscellaneous taxes.

The imperial court also relocated large numbers of landless people overseas or recruited them as artisans.

Therefore, most of those who dare to open mines privately are actually outlaws who only make huge profits, or forces that collude with local gentry and eunuchs.

Now that these mine thieves have been killed, it is not unkind.

As the most violent Ming court, while helping the poor, it is also necessary to use violence to cleanse the lawless.

Otherwise, the rules cannot be maintained.

This time, when he came to Suzhou Changmen, Shi Shanyan, the leader of the mine thieves who was about to pretend to be an official army to massacre the strikers, was moved by Zhang Yuanshan, and shouted anxiously for a while:

"Don't kill me! I am Donghaiwei Baihu, and I am willing to confess! ”

The Suzhou garrison who was ordered to suppress these mining thieves immediately took out a big bow and aimed it at Shi Shanyan, who was shouting.

In a flash.

Shi Shanyan was hit by an arrow and fell to the ground, and the arrow pierced his chest.

And he fell to the ground in amazement: "Why did you kill me? ”

In a short time, the thieves were all killed.

When the fog cleared, you could see a piece of bloody porridge and corpses in the city.

frightened many people in the market who had never seen a sword soldier in their lives, and their faces turned pale.

"It's a pity that Cui Xianxue and these people ran away."

The old worker Xue Qin was relatively calm, and only said this sentence when he looked at this scene, and then turned his head to Li Yaomin of the East Factory:

"If you do, please tell the emperor that he should not deal with us ignorant and foolish people, we have been misled by those powerful people! I thought that the introduction of the luxury tax would ultimately affect my own income, so I thought that with their support, I dared to make a fuss. ”

"Who knows, the powerful people behind this don't dare to support us, they have long wanted to kill us, they want us to hate the emperor and the court, and then they will sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight."

"Fortunately, there are your factory guards, otherwise we would not only die tragically in the market today, but also misunderstand the emperor."

"Don't worry!"

"However, you also have to eat a trench and grow wise, don't be so easily deceived and use people as guns."

After Li Yaomin agreed, he also taught these workers.

"We remember."

"Yes, we don't trust these owners anymore."

The workers agreed in a rambling manner.

Li Yaomin nodded and said, "Don't be discouraged, although Cui Xianxue and these thieves have escaped, they will be caught soon, and anyone who dares to fight with the court will not end well!" ”

……

"Sir!"

"Oh no, there are real officers and soldiers from outside the Changmen!"

Cui Xianxue had already come to Cheng Tianlie at this time, and Cheng Tianlie was shocked when he heard it: "How does the imperial court know, is there someone from their factory guard among the mine thieves?" ”

Cui Xianxue replied: "I don't know if it's small. ”

Cheng Tianlie said at this time: "The factory guard is serious now, the factory guard and the battalion commander in Suzhou may have been replaced, but we don't know." ”

"That's what the lord said."

Cui Xianxue agreed, and then asked Cheng Tianlie: "Master, didn't you say to stop others from persuading the workers to give up the strike and give me a hundred taels of silver as a reward?" ”

"What silver bounty?"

Cheng Tianlie asked.

Cui Xianxue said anxiously: "You said it yourself." ”

Cheng Tianlie smiled: "This idiot, is it really because we will give you a silver reward?" Don't say that something went wrong now, even if it hadn't gone wrong, a shameless villain like you wouldn't have gotten a silver reward. ”

"You guys!"

Cui Xianxue was shocked and asked, "Aren't you afraid that I will sue the official?" ”

Cheng Tianlie said: "It's up to you!" If you are not afraid that the government will govern you, collude with the mine thieves to massacre the workers and blame the court, you can sue casually. ”

Cheng Tianlie shouted "Prepare the horse" as he spoke, and then walked out of the courtyard, only sneering: "Don't ask yourself if you are qualified to participate in our transaction." ”

Cui Xianxue froze in place.

At this moment, several men with fleshy faces surrounded him with knives.

Although Cheng Tianlie said that he would let Cui Xianxue sue casually, he was still worried that Cui Xianxue would die in the net, so he had already arranged for someone to guard him.

Seeing this, Cui Xianxue did not dare to move again.

Here, as soon as Cheng Tianlie came to Nandu, he informed Hui'an Bo Zhang Yuanshan of the matter.

After Zhang Yuanshan learned about this from Cheng Tianlie, he was also very frightened: "How can this be good." ”

At the same time, Jin Yiwei walked in at this time.

Seeing this, Zhang Yuanshan hurriedly asked, "Who are you?" ”

Chen Yizheng, a thousand households in Jinyiwei, took out his waist card and shook it in front of Zhang Yuanshan and Cheng Tianlie at this time: "We have found out that the culprit who colluded with the mine thieves has entered Tanfu, so we ask Hui Anbo to come with us." ”

Zhang Yuanshan asked: "Where is Shi Qianhu, the original station?" ”

"I went to Myanmar to pick pearls."

Chen Yizheng replied.

After hearing this, Zhang Yuanshan took a few steps back.

……

The official residence compound.

Qi Jiguang, the first assistant, Li Chengliang, the privy envoy, and Zhang Jingxiu, the governor of Jinyi Weizuo, were sitting in the Central Park of the official residence compound drinking tea and enjoying spring.

As fellow military personnel, the three of them are now relatively close.

"This time, more than 120 Jinyiwei were dismissed and exiled, and more than 57 people from the Dongchang Official School were all lazy or took the initiative to conceal the local people's feelings and did not report them.

Zhang Jingxiu smiled at Qi Jiguang and Li Chengliang at this time and talked about Jinyiwei, and said with a smile:

"Therefore, those elites who oppose the introduction of the luxury tax may not know that some of us in Jinyiwei are aiming to open mines privately with the people and outlaws, just to find out who are the outlaws who still dare to mine in China."

"As long as Jinyiwei is serious, many things will be much easier, and if Jinyiwei is not serious, if Jinyiwei is not serious, it may really affect the reputation of the imperial court, and the consequences will be unimaginable."

Qi Jiguang also said with a smile at this time.

Li Chengliang said with a smile: "If you don't take it seriously, you can't do it, the military reform is in front, and our people, including Jinyiwei, have become nobles who are one level higher than the scholars, and we can no longer do business, we can only be honored by the court, and we can only honor our parents and children and grandchildren, so it can be said that we are truly resting with the country!" No matter how serious the group is, even if the country is not destroyed, we have to go back to the past, and we have to be like civil officials, saying that if we are spanked, we will be spanked. ”

"What the cardinal minister said is that I told them so, and the result did work, and the official schools below also understood this truth."

Zhang Jingxiu said.

Qi Jiguang lowered his face at this time and said: "But the luxury tax, after all, is the enemy of meat eaters, so this matter is not so simple, iron still needs to be hard, the gentry and eunuchs do not have to be afraid, they are at most to smear us, secretly scold, and arrange it in the notes, but although we ourselves are all swordsmen and are valued by the country, they are not necessarily so sensible." ”

Li Chengliang nodded and said: "Then use Xu Huating's words, Weifu is still the master, as long as His Majesty wants to kill anyone, even if my Li family's children are disloyal and want to kill, I will never complain." ”

Zhang Jingxiu also followed: "The Zhang family is the same. ”

Qi Jiguang smiled.

Next, Zhang Yuanshan and the others were arrested by Jinyi Wei and taken into Beijing, and were thrown into the imperial prison together with Gong Yunzhi, the imperial historian who had abused the penal rod to punish Mei Hai, and was interrogated.

"I say! I say! ”

"I instructed me to strike, and Li Yingchen, the Bo of Xiangcheng, and Yan Shideng, the envoy of Zhishi Henan, also cooperated with their workshops to strike, you give me black incense."

Zhang Yuanshan was incense as soon as he came to prison, and soon became addicted to it, and couldn't help but confess everything.

The king of the criminal department Shangshu Yongji asked Zhang Yuanshan to die because of this, and Li Yingchen was exiled to Ezo (Hokkaido) to raise horses and fill the army, all because the two were military lords, so they were lenient;

Yan Shideng and Gong Yunzhi were both sentenced to death in accordance with the law.

The reason is that Yan Shideng resisted the national policy and colluded with the mining thieves, so he deserved to be punished with capital punishment;

And Gong Yunzhi is because he not only wants to kill the military household with a cane, but also kills the military household of Xiaoling Wei with a cane, and even indulges in drinking and making trouble with Xiaolingwei, which has the nature of disrespecting Taizu, which is a particularly bad nature, so he cannot be sentenced to capital punishment in accordance with the law.

Zhu Yijun therefore gave it all the approval, so Zhang Yuanshan was given poisoned wine and died in prison.

Yan Shideng and Gong Yunzhi, who were arrested from their homes and brought to Beijing, were beheaded in the city.

Li Yingchen was escorted to the newly established Ezo guard in Daming in tears.

At the same time, the luxury tax continues to be levied.

Hushu Pass, as one of the seven major banknotes of the Ming Dynasty, Shen Mao, the national tax secretary stationed here, has begun to collect luxury tax in accordance with the new decree.

"Huanghuali from the Sincerity Mansion?"

On this day, a batch of Huanghuali from Nandu was stopped by the officers and soldiers of the National Taxation Department of Hushu Pass.

"That's right, it's the sale of the Sincerity Mansion, do you really want to levy it?"

Liu Shangyi, the son of Liu Shiyan, the sincere uncle who personally escorted this batch of Huanghuali, replied at this time, and asked with a folding fan.

"What don't you dare!"

Shen Mao, who had just been transferred back from the Busan Xuanfu Division, came over at this time and said a word.

Liu Shangyi has always been lawless because of his young age and being spoiled by his parents since he was a child.

Historically, he was first impeached by the eunuch Dang Cunren for "occupying Tianzhou for selfishness and bending the law", and because he was so lawless, even the civil officials couldn't stand Fu Zuozhou and Dai Shiqi in the matter, and they didn't help him because he was impeached by the eunuchs, and they also impeached him.

Therefore, now he also shouted directly: "Call me!" ”

A large group of family members raised by Liu Shangyi were also brave and ruthless, and they really picked up the guy and hit Shen Mao and Hushu Tariff Ding.

Bang!

At this time, Shen Mao turned back, took out the fire, and directly ignited the closed cannon.

I have to add a more chapter in the evening, and I will update 10,000 words today

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