In the Gangnam area, the end of September to the beginning of October is the busiest time for the autumn harvest.

And after the autumn harvest is over, it is time to pay the grain and pay the tax, which is commonly known as the autumn grain.

It can be said that ninety percent of the local government's tax revenue comes from autumn grain, and other taxes, such as summer tax and commercial tax, are not worth mentioning compared to the importance of autumn grain.

However, when it was received in the autumn of this year, the slogan of "strongly support Lin Xie Yuan and strike Nanjing grain" had become popular in all prefectures and counties of Suzhou Prefecture within 10 days.

With the efficiency of today's media, this speed of communication is a miracle, and it also reflects the "people's will" from the side.

Although there are states and counties outside the capital such as Kunshan, Jiading, Changshu and other places, many people do not understand who Lin Jieyuan is, and they are even less familiar with Lin Tailai.

But they don't mind shouting slogans together, and they regard Lin Jieyuan, who they don't know, as a hero.

If Lin Jieyuan is not a hero, then where does everyone have an excuse to resist taxes? So Lin Jieyuan must be a hero.

Suzhou Prefecture accounts for one-tenth of the total tax revenue of the world, and supplies one-sixth of the grain of Jingshicao, and there has always been an old tradition of resisting taxes and arrears.

This time, Wu County Wanminshu took the lead, and if other places didn't dare to keep up, it would be in vain for the people of Suzhou.

Therefore, although the autumn grain has not yet been officially levied, under the tide of public opinion, the officials of various states and counties in Suzhou Prefecture have fallen into a collective panic.

It was only at this time that the Zhang brothers understood what the sentence "My goal has never been to win the Xi family, but to make myself stronger" meant by sitting in the hall.

In the commentary, he described someone as powerful, and often said, "If you stomp your feet, the whole city will tremble."

Now it seems that there will be this trend in Suzhou City, if everything goes well this time.

Deng Zhixian of Wu County is probably the most stressed, if not the biggest, at the moment.

He hadn't slept well for several days, and his whole face was gray.

Yuan Zhixian of Changzhou County, which is next door to the same city, sent his staff Li Jixuan to visit Deng Zhixian County in Wuxian County.

Li Jixuan said bluntly: "Nowadays, public opinion is raging everywhere, and the source of it is in Wu County.

Deng Xianzun can't sit here, he should solve the problem quickly, otherwise our other counties will be dragged down! ”

But Li Jixuan kept talking about dry mouth, and Deng Zhixian still didn't say a word.

Li Jixuan said dissatisfiedly: "The words have come to this, how can Deng Xianzun still be indifferent? ”

Deng Zhixian suddenly lost control of his emotions, raised his hand and slammed a stack of documents at Li Jixuan's feet.

"You're late! All states and counties have sent articles to scold their counties! Deng Zhixian yelled with a hideous face.

Li Jixuan: "."

It turned out that Deng Zhi County had become the target of the anger of all the state and county officials in Suzhou Prefecture.

Although the responsibility is not entirely on Deng Zhixian, Deng Zhixian is also a victim.

But the other magistrates and governors didn't dare to scold the prefect and governor, so they could only take Deng Zhixian together.

It can only be said that there are people like Lin Tailai under his rule, and he is really guilty of three lives.

Looking at Deng Zhixian, who was so stressed that he was almost psychologically broken, Li Jixuan didn't want to say anything more, shook his head and left.

All the officials did not dare to approach Deng Zhixian at this time, and in this state, they were beaten to death without reason.

Only Master Zheng, who was in charge of the punishment, stepped forward and whispered, "I have an idea, although it can't solve the problem, but it can relieve the pressure on the proprietor." ”

Deng Zhixian, who was at a loss and felt that he was already cornered, hurriedly asked: "Hurry up!" ”

Master Zheng said vaguely: "You can muddy the water, and let the tall man carry it when the sky falls!" ”

Deng Zhixian frowned, "You can elaborate again." ”

Master Zheng said: "As we all know, the Dongting Merchant Gang has a good relationship with Governor Wei, and when Governor Wei arrived, he was surrounded by Xi Siwei of the Xi family.

And I also heard that on the day Lin Tailai was captured, the governor also sent 1,000 soldiers from the standard battalion to participate in the siege, and he was watching from the vicinity of the scene at that time. ”

Hearing this, Deng Zhixian took a picture of the case. It's all in plain sight, done!

Indeed, as Master Zheng said, although it can't solve the problem, it can relieve your pressure!

The trouble was not caused by himself, so why should he be under the most pressure?

If you can't protect yourself, what do you care about! If you want to die, then die together!

So more details of Lin Jieyuan's arrest began to ferment from Wu County.

Detail 1: On the day Lin Xie Yuan returned to the city, the Dongting merchants and thieves organized people to besiege them, and the governor, the government office, and the county government all knew about it, but they all did nothing, and let the business thieves do whatever they wanted.

Detail 2: The governor even sent a thousand pacesetters to assist the merchant thieves and participate in the siege of Lin Jieyuan, and then the thousand pacesetters sat back and watched Lin Jieyuan be captured by the Nanjing people.

Detail 3: In order to open up the giant consumer market of Nanjing City, the Dongting Merchant Gang cooperated with the Nanjing martial arts family and betrayed Lin Xie Yuan in a profit-seeking.

When these details were widely circulated, the person with the most pressure became Governor Wei.

As a fifty-nine-year-old governor who has no room for advancement and just wants to make a fortune, he is not afraid of scandal.

But he was afraid that something would get completely out of control, and he would have to take the blame, and then cause himself to be tracked down and then return the stolen goods.

The governor of Jiangnan is the first person in charge of Jiangnan money and grain, if there is a big problem with money and grain, who can share the responsibility for him?

But the biggest problem now is that there is no solution to the problem, not even the person who created the problem.

In these days, Lin Jieyuan, who has been passed on by word of mouth, seems to have evaporated from the world, and has never appeared in front of people.

In fact, at this moment, Lin Xie Yuan could already see the city wall of Stone City.

That's right, after more than half a month of absence, he returned to Nanjing.

This time the road was very slow and slow, and it was only after a few days of grinding in Hushu Pass that I walked.

After all, it takes time for things to ferment, and it also takes time for the public opinion storm to be fed back to Nanjing.

As for why Lin Daguan returned to Nanjing, it was because he was the center of the public opinion storm and was not suitable to stay in Suzhou Mansion.

There were more than a dozen sergeants beside Lin Daguan, after all, they were nominally captured by the Jingwei Officers.

These dozen or so sergeants are actually all Wei Guogong's people, but they will never admit their identities to the outside world, and only say that they are the official soldiers of the Jingwei in general.

At the beginning, after Mr. Kesheng of Wei Guogong came to the door, he and Lin Tailai took what they needed to finalize a detailed cooperation plan.

Then there was the matter of Lin Tailai pretending to be captured by the "Jingwei" officers and soldiers outside Fengqiao.

When the ships arrived at Longjiang Pass outside Nanjing, and after they went ashore, these sergeants escorted Lin Tailai to Zhang Jiang, the commander of Longjiang Pass.

Then the sergeants dispersed and never knew what to do.

Only Mr. Zhang, who was left with a bewildered face, didn't understand what the situation was.

As a military attache guarding the checkpoint, he is still very well-informed in terms of news, and has heard of the storm of public opinion in Suzhou Prefecture.

But I didn't expect that the central figure of the storm of public opinion suddenly appeared directly in front of him today.

Lin Tailai explained: "I am now a prisoner of the ranks, and I was captured by the Jingwei Officers and handed over to you, Lord Zhang. ”

Mr. Zhang was still confused, and subconsciously said: "What should the official do?" ”

Lin Tailai said as a matter of course: "Of course, I will be escorted into the city and handed over to Yousi for interrogation." ”

Mr. Zhang asked again: "Let's be clear, which yamen is Yousi?" ”

Lin Tailai responded: "How do I know this? I knew, hey, I was caught here by the guys from Jingwei!

But I don't know who arrested me, and I don't know who is going to punish me! ”

Mr. Zhang: "."

What the hell is this? Why can't you understand it at all?

He didn't want to get involved, but he didn't dare to release people directly like this, because releasing people without permission might also be responsible.

Lin Tailai was very active in helping to come up with ideas and said: "To arrest my yamen, it is nothing more than Li Houye of the garrison mansion, Wang Shangshu of the military department, and the criminal department.

You can't be wrong for escorting me to those three places! ”

After thinking about it twice, Zhang felt that it made a lot of sense. He personally escorted Lin Tailai into the city and went to the nearest garrison.

After reporting at the gate, not long after, Li Yangong, the marquis of Linhuai, the minister of the garrison, sent someone to reply and said:

"When Lin Tailai was killed from the Luming Banquet, it was Wang Shangshu of the Ministry of War who ordered to find Lin Tailai.

What's more, Wuju is under the control of the Ministry of War, so just send Lin Tailai to the Ministry of War. ”

Zhang Jiang was helpless, and asked Lin Tailai: "How is this good?" ”

Lin Tai said to himself: "Then look at me! ”

Then he shouted into the gate: "Master Li! Your son Li Zongcheng has always been at odds with me, smashed my boat, injured my people, and tried in vain to arrest me!

Now that I have been brought to your door, why are you so cowardly as a mouse that you dare not receive me? ”

But no matter how Lin Tailai shouted, there was no response from the garrison.

Lin Tailai could only helplessly say to Mr. Zhang: "I tried my best." ”

Mr. Zhang had nothing to say, so he could only escort Lin Tailai again and go to the military headquarters in the east of the city.

also reported in, and soon got Wang Shangshu's instructions:

"When the headquarters sent a message to look for Lin Tailai, it was just a search, and there was no intention of arresting and arresting him.

But a few days ago, someone went to the Criminal Department to sue Lin Tailai, so if Lin Tailai is a defendant in the Criminal Department, he can send the person to the Criminal Department. ”

Zhang Jiang's general status is too low, and he has no ability to oppose the instructions of the old man.

So he could only continue to run around, escorting Lin Tailai to the criminal department in the north of the city.

When I arrived at the Criminal Department, I reported it again and got a quick response.

The Ministry of Criminal Justice believes that the principle of who is arrested should be held responsible.

It was the Jingwei military that captured Lin Tailai and brought him back to Nanjing, so it should be taken over by the garrison government responsible for the dispatch of the Jingwei official army.

Lin Tailai couldn't help but block the door of the Criminal Department again, and shouted: "Wang Yizhou Gong! I heard that you have officially taken up your post in the Criminal Department?

If you have received a case against me, why don't you dare to take me into custody? ”

In response to Lin Tailai, there was still silence, and there was no response.

Lin Tailai muttered: "What kind of world, even the leader of the old alliance can bear it so much." ”

For the result of running three government offices, Zhang Jiang was going crazy.

He also guessed that the old man might be unreliable, but he didn't expect it to be so unreliable!

Could it be that Nanjing, the dignified national capital, still needs him, a small boss, to come forward and bear everything?

In fact, Mr. Zhang also knows very well in his heart that the hero in front of him who has set off a storm of anti-tax in Suzhou is a hot potato, and he can't keep it in his hands.

He's just a small checkpoint, and he can't get involved in deep political affairs.

You must know that after the news of the anti-tax turmoil in Suzhou reached Nanjing, the price of grain has risen three times as much as before!

At present, the official of Nanjing City imports 1 million stone tax grain every year, of which about 400,000 yuan comes from Suzhou Prefecture.

Once the 400,000 is missing, there is no place to make up for it.

Although there is still grain storage in the warehouses and Taicangs of the household department to support, what about after the grain storage is used up?

We all know that in the whereabouts of the money and grain in Suzhou Mansion, the white grain and gold and silver used by the royal family are first guaranteed;

second, to ensure the grain used by the imperial court; Third, ensure the use of local government offices and health centers.

In the fourth, Nanjing City is the city, because the Nanjing city team has no real power and cannot affect the interests of the officials of Suzhou Prefecture, so the priority is relatively low.

Therefore, once the Suzhou government does not collect enough money and grain, it is likely to suspend the delivery to Nanjing City, and give priority to ensuring the Beijing division and local expenditure.

Therefore, the slogan of "boycotting the payment of Nanjing grain" seems to be inoperable because there is no separate tax on "Nanjing grain".

However, it can be achieved from another perspective through the "self-regulation" of the power operation mechanism.

The Nanjing grain market also gave an honest response, and the price of grain directly increased by three times.

Food is the main concern of the people, and the price of food has always been the most important information for the rulers, and once the price of food skyrockets, it is often accompanied by famine.

Therefore, the entire Nanjing officialdom was shaken by the anti-tax turmoil in Suzhou and the soaring grain prices in Nanjing.

Things have developed to this point, how dare Mr. Zhang, who knows how many catties and taels he has, do?

His only thought now is to send Lin Tailai away from his hands as soon as possible!

For a moment, Zhang Jiang always wanted to say to Lin Tai, can you turn around and run away immediately, he can pretend not to see it.

As everyone knows, at this moment, several government offices that received the news are scolding, which heartless bastard arrested Lin Tailai back to Nanjing?

Whoever accepts the "human criminal" Lin Tailai is equivalent to taking over a heavy responsibility.

And taking over this responsibility means that you can either calm down the situation, or you will take the blame with the officials of Suzhou City.

Mr. Zhang asked Lin Tailai in despair, "What should I do now?" ”

After thinking about it carefully, Lin Tailai replied: "There are so many yamen in Nanjing City, why don't you try them one by one?" I guess there's always going to be someone to take me, right? ”

Mr. Zhang: "."

What is the difference between this kind of performance art and neurosis? Could it be that you, Lin Tailai, are you thinking of this as a tour?

The three related yamen are unwilling to accept people, and the other government offices that have nothing to do with them are even more unlikely to accept people.

Lin Tailai said again: "Then you will go to Wei Guogong and try it again?" ”

Wei Guogong is a descendant of Xu Da, the first hero of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the first family of Nanjing City, and often serves as the official position of the Minister of Nanjing Garrison.

The Lord of the Ming Dynasty with a different surname is headed by the Duke of Wei, and he is a special and transcendent existence in Nanjing.

If there is one person in Nanjing City who dares to accept Lin Tailai, it is only Wei Guogong.

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