After the restructuring of Yuanfeng, most of the road transfer was combined into one.

Jinghu Road is different, and the South Road and North Road each retain a transfer envoy. The main reason is that the taxes in Shuzhong and Guangxi have to be sent to Jinghu Road for transshipment.

Hunan Transshipment Division, all three are good officials.

The transfer envoy is called Zhou Yin, who has been an official for 20 years, and he is still a candidate, and he has not even been mixed with Beijing officials. In the two Guangzhous and the two lakes, they have been transferred back and forth, making county orders everywhere, and engaging in water conservancy everywhere. Finally recommended by others, his political achievements were known by the emperor, and he was promoted from a county order to a transfer envoy in five years.

The deputy envoy for the transfer is named Zhang Ju, who is from an official background, is honest, and is currently writing a letter to impeach Wang Huang, Tong Guan and Cai You.

The transfer judge is called Huang Shuao, Huang Tingjian's brother. is old, implicated by Huang Tingjian, and has never been able to rise, he has always been upright and honest, and he has pressed the officials to obey.

However, the three good officials couldn't bear Wang Huang's forced levy to exempt their husbands.

Because it was a decree issued by the imperial court, the official document had to be forwarded according to the process. Among the state and county officials below, there are always those who want to make political achievements and be promoted, and there are always those who want to take advantage of the opportunity to make profits.

Zhu Ming took a boat all the way to Hengyang, and heard a cry at the pier.

The governor of Hengzhou is forcibly recruiting township soldiers, because Fang Qifo has become bigger, and he may lead troops to kill him at any time.

The people inside and outside the city either sent strong men to serve as soldiers, or paid free money.

And it is a second subscription, one to pay the money to the imperial court to cut Liao, and one to pay the money to the Zhizhou to defend the city.

Zhu Ming took his entourage and students and silently watched the chaos outside the city.

There are poor people who sell their sons and daughters in exchange for free money. Several areas were formed outside the city, and the tooth people shuttled through them, picking and picking like cattle.

With a blank face, the crowd rehired the boat, rested for two days and continued north.

Before he arrived at Xiangtan, he met officers and soldiers.

Large and small boats transported grain and grass, and the army and the village soldiers walked along the river. Not to mention that the soldiers were not in good armor, and even their clothes were in tatters, and they went south like walking corpses.

Zhu Ming's ship was surrounded by official ships, and the officers planned to extort money in the name of searching for spies.

"Where did you come from, where are you going? Is there a reason? An officer questioned.

Zhu Ming didn't answer, Bai Sheng stood up and showed his waist card.

By virtue of the reason, it is similar to the road guide of the Ming Dynasty.

And the high-ranking officials have waist cards, and there are also retinue quotas that can be taken for money. The higher the rank of the officer, the higher the level of the retinue's waist card.

Zhu Ming's ivory official card has been taken away, and the entourage waist card will naturally have to be handed in.

However, Bai Sheng had already been asked to engrave a copy privately, and at this time he came out with a fake brand to bluff people.

The fake brand is of a very high level, and it is the entourage of the court officials.

The officer looked at the fake waist card, and saw that Zhu Ming and the students were extraordinary, so he hurriedly bowed and apologized: "Excuse me, all the officials go slowly." ”

When the ship continued to sail, Zhang Bo couldn't help but say: "Xianggong, it is a felony to make official cards privately!" ”

Zhu Ming said: "I can't take care of it. ”

Zhang Bo was actually full of doubts, and he wanted to ask what Zhu Ming planned to do.

"There are deserters, there are deserters!"

There was an uproar on the shore, but taking advantage of the opportunity to stop just now, hundreds of villagers who were behind fled en masse.

Zhu Ming led everyone to the bow of the ship, only to see the only hundreds of horsemen chasing in the direction of the deserters. More than a dozen people were hacked to death one after another, and the rest knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, and were tied up to meet the chief general with the troops.

"Ask the person who took the lead in escaping, and kill three people to correct military justice!"

After a while, he randomly picked out three unlucky eggs and pulled them to the edge of the Xiangjiang River to behead.

Continue north, to Changsha to change ships again.

But there were no ships to be found, and either they had been requisitioned to fight or kept as ships to transport grain. The ships that Zhu Ming had hired in Hengyang before were also reluctant to continue, and the shipwrights were worried about the safety of their families.

Zhu Ming led everyone on foot, and after crossing Qiaokou Town, he entered the boundary of Xiangyin County.

A large amount of land here was abandoned, and after careful inquiry, I learned that Xiangyin County had ordered the expropriation and expropriation, and he had been an official for five years and had not moved his nest.

In order to curry favor with Cai Jing, this person was crazy Fang Tian Abbot, but Cai Jing dismissed him and was impeached and questioned. Now he has curryed favor with Wang Huang and doubled the levy of free money, and the officials have learned the same and levied an average of two times per Dingkou.

Naturally, the common people can't take that much, so they will attack the landlords.

Let those landlords who have no backing pay for the free money of the nearby peasants. The landlords had been exploited for several years, and they did not know how much they had subscribed to pay in taxes and miscellaneous taxes, but now they were asked to pay compensation, and even the landlords and peasants fled on a large scale.

Xiangyin County ordered that regardless of this, he had already bribed Shangguan and went to the capital to send money to Wang Hao's henchmen, and he would soon be promoted and transferred away from here.

Before leaving office, can't you make a good profit and earn back the money you sent out?

The students were numb to watch, they had seen worse things.

When they went south to Zhu Ming, they crossed Gyeonggi Road and Gyeongseo Road. Those places have been plagued by natural disasters for three consecutive years, and they have also been exploited by the eunuch Yang Jian, who has to pay both taxes and rent, which is equivalent to paying taxes twice.

And Tian Fu has already doubled under Cai Jing's manipulation, and Yang Jian is doing this again, and he actually has to pay several times the tax.

This is only a positive tax, not counting the excesses and miscellaneous taxes.

"Sir, is it really useful to advise the officials?" Chen Dong looked at the abandoned fertile soil, and the whole person became extremely dazed.

The other students also looked at Zhu Ming.

Zhu Ming said categorically: "I will let him listen, but if I don't listen, I will think of another idea." ”

Outside the city of Xiangyin, there are beggars everywhere, many of whom are farmers who fled from the countryside, and they can only beg when they enter the city and cannot find work.

It took Zhu Ming two days to finally hire a boat, but he could only cross Dongting Lake to Yuezhou.

……

On the west side of Dongting Lake, there is a large lake in Wuling County, Dingzhou, which is connected to Dongting Lake by Yuanshui.

Due to the government's continuous tax increases, businessman Zhong Xiang found it difficult to do business. More than a decade ago, he had been exposed to Manichaeism in a foreign country, copying the teachings and bringing them back to his homeland, and partially revising them himself.

At this moment, hundreds of people gathered at Zhong's house.

"The light is generally pure, and the joy is extinguished without the curse. He has no trouble in receiving joy, but it is useless if he suffers...... Always be happy and bright, if you say that you are sick, it is useless...... If there is one who can live in another country, it will be worry-free......"

The faithful chanted the scriptures, yearning for a bright kingdom without suffering.

This thing is all over the south, Zhejiang is called Manichaeism, Fujian is called Mingjiao, Huainan is called Erjuni, Jiangdong is called Siguo, and Jiangxi is called King Kong Zen. In addition to the poor peasants, there were also officials, soldiers, soldiers, bandits, and actors...... Three teachings and nine streams, all-encompassing.

Zhong Xiang led the disciples to finish singing the scriptures and began to preach the doctrine: "There are all kinds of laws in this world, and those who divide the rich and the poor are not good laws. If I am asked to practice the Fa, I should be equal to the rich and the low, rich and poor......"

"The people who come into my religion are all brothers and sisters, and they are generally equal. Whoever is an official cannot be on top. Whoever has accumulated wealth will also give relief to the poor brothers......"

"If the entire Wuling County, the people are all in my religion, and keep it so that the silkworms will be prosperous and physiologically rich......"

"Now that the government is chasing the exempt money, we have told the government that the consent of the official is a little less. The money and food saved in the township community is definitely not enough. My family is willing to give 200 yuan to help my brothers and sisters tide over the difficulties. For the rest of the squires, I will also let them help some, and it is impossible to see the brothers and sisters in the sect go without food......"

Hundreds of sect members were excited, and they knelt down and kowtowed: "Thank you for the grace of the Great Sage!" ”

Zhong Xiang smiled and nodded: "Don't thank me if you stand up." Joining the church is all brothers, and mutual assistance is what it should be. ”

Zhong Xiang has been preaching for more than ten years, and Fang La is in front of him, and he also belongs to the Manichaean descendants.

His followers are not only these hundreds, they have spread all over Wuling County, and even opened many branch altars around Dongting Lake.

Many low-level officials also came to join the church, and he could get government news at any time.

The gentry and businessmen all knew about Zhong Xiang's existence, and even the successive county officials understood it, but they didn't dare to attack Zhong Xiang at all. Especially after the Fangla uprising, the county officials were so frightened that they could only pretend not to see it, praying not to rebel during their tenure.

On the surface, Zhong Xiang only formed a mutual aid association - the township community.

Farmers can join the union by paying a little money and grain, and mutual assistance is practiced in the society. When encountering the government's exploitation, Zhong Xiang was responsible for negotiating, trying to make the officials collect less, and then took out the company's internal funds to help members in difficulty tide over the difficulties.

If the funds in the company are insufficient, they will ask rich members to donate some, and even ask the gentry and businessmen to raise donations.

In the villages affected by Zhong Xiang, the people are obviously better off, but they have the same effect as Daming Village.

When the disciples dispersed, Zhong Ziang reported in a low voice: "Dad, I just received the news that Fang La's general, Fang Qifo, has occupied the land of Sanzhou in the south. ”

Zhong Xiang said: "The violent Song Qi is not exhausted, Fang La made a big move, and he was defeated in a year and a half. We can't start it lightly, we have to wait and see how the situation changes. You took some of your brothers and sisters to preach in several counties in Yuezhou this year. The government's expropriation was a good time for missionary work. ”

Zhong Ziang said: "The child understands. ”

Zhong Xiang advised: "You have to be careful, don't alarm the government, we have no foundation in Yuezhou." ”

More than ten miles east of the place where Zhong Xiang preached, fourteen-year-old Mrs. Yang was working on a merchant ship. He is not yet called Yang Qi, that is the nickname after the rebellion.

Mrs. Yang studied in a private school for two years, dropped out of school in a poor family, and was arranged by her father to help in merchant ships.

"The free money has fallen!" Brother Yang Qin ran over happily.

Although the two of them have small chronicles, since they work in merchant ships, they have to pay obediently.

Mrs. Yang asked, "Where did the money come from?" ”

Yang Qin said: "It's enough to give some by yourself, help some from the society, and then talk to the government." ”

"How useful is it?" Mrs. Yang was pleasantly surprised.

The two brothers were both dragged into the church by their parents, and they were usually busy working and didn't listen to anyone preach the Fa.

After experiencing this, Mrs. Yang developed a sense of identification with Manichaeism.

That night, he and Yang Qin, two brothers, got off the boat in the dark to listen to the lecture of the altar master.

After all, Mrs. Yang had read books for two years and listened to all kinds of teachings, which she understood more deeply than ordinary believers. He fantasized about the country of light, free of oppression and suffering, and returned to the ship to stay awake all night, tossing and turning, and could not sleep.

Both rich and poor, waiting for the rich and low, what a good day!

(End of chapter)