Feudal society attached great importance to grain taxes.
In the environment of scholars, farmers, industry and commerce, all social pressures are exerted on farmers!
Repair rivers, organize roads, prepare military supplies, support the army and officials, and provide entertainment for the emperor...
Everything is based on the premise that people pay taxes.
Taxation is a big problem. If no one pays the food tax, the dynasty will fall!
The farmers cannot pay taxes, the farmers cannot survive, and the dynasty will definitely be in chaos.
Just like the Ming Dynasty, which suffered from internal and external troubles, the allocation was too heavy, and then it could not find a way to increase revenue, and the dynasty was driven to death by itself.
If these exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes had no choice, the people of the Qing Dynasty could just endure their teeth.
They know these taxes are unreasonable, but they still pay them!
Because no one supports them and no one makes the decision for them!
The Qing Dynasty's butcher knife was too cruel.
If one person refuses to pay grain, a village or even a town will be massacred.
Such a brutal way of harvesting grain is bloody and inhumane.
People are afraid of privileges, but they also long to be privileged!
The gentry were given preferential treatment, and the common people of the Qing Dynasty were eager to become the privileged class and to escape the fate of digging in the mud.
The gentry relied on their privileges to pay less taxes.
Officials who became government officials went crazy and targeted the people.
Under the centralized feudal system, their behavior patterns were already fixed and could not be changed.
And when construction companies appeared, they gave people more choices.
Especially after Chen Mu heard the people talking about taxes, he made it clear, "We reject any unreasonable forced taxation of grain."
The people are worried but eager to try!
The Qing Dynasty imposed too many levies and miscellaneous taxes, so much that the people could no longer survive!
If it weren’t for sweet potatoes in the prosperous times, perhaps the country’s fortunes would have been ruined long ago.
But people are still worried.
"What are you afraid of? Are we afraid of the Qing Dynasty?"
The people thought to themselves, Chen Mu and the others are really not afraid!
Nine months ago, these people used only 500 people to beat up the 20,000 soldiers of the Qing Green Battalion and flee.
They easily captured Guangzhou and stormed into the Governor's Mansion.
They forced Li Shiyao to stop fighting and sign a series of cooperation agreements.
The people see it in their eyes and remember it in their hearts!
Agricultural instructors with the slogan of "neighborly assistance" provided knowledge support and various conveniences and benefits to the workers who worked with Chen Mu.
Those who have family members or relatives working in construction companies keep their surnames in mind.
They agreed from the bottom of their hearts that Chen Mu had strength.
They are eager to become a part of Chen Mu!
And when Chen Mu guarantees this, he can support them and refuse all unreasonable grain requisitions!
The people suddenly became hardened!
We are not rebelling against the Qing Dynasty, we just don’t want to pay unreasonable grain.
We want to live.
Daqing bastards, do you dare to take action?
If you dare to take action, we will bring in reinforcements! We will bury you alive.
June is the day when rice matures in the south!
The government officials originally wanted to collect money and food so that they could complete their performance in the second half of the year and earn food rations for the second half of the year.
Who knew that there would be mud-legged people resisting the grain requisition?
Li Shiyao immediately ordered the green battalion soldiers to sweep away anyone who dared to resist the tax!
The first place to start was the Guangzhou area.
Thousands of Green Camp Marines armed with all kinds of weapons and the remaining Eight Banners soldiers marched proudly to the Qing villages that refused to pay taxes.
Along the way, Yan Shuai, the leader of the government officials, led five hundred green battalion soldiers.
"Mr. Vice President, the people in Lijiagou don't take our Qing Dynasty seriously because one of their family members works in a construction company. When our soldiers bravely enter the village, they will definitely look good to them."
Zhang Dazhu smiled and said: "Well, Xiao Yan is very good. I will leave the task of calling the door to you later."
Yan Shuai, who was bandaged, immediately accepted the task happily.
I can finally take revenge.
With the support of hundreds of green camp troops, he didn't believe that Xiao Jian dared to resist!
Arrogantly leading the team to Lijiagou Village, he took the lead and went to make a speech.
"Listen to the unscrupulous people of Lijiagou. Hand over this year's grain, or I'll make you look good!"
Yan Shuai could only shout loudly, trying to force the turtle grandson named Xiao Jian to get out.
Then~
boom!
The sound of musketry suddenly sounded.
The Qinglong Yanyue Sword carried by Yan Shuai suddenly broke into two pieces.
"I'm a bitch~"
Commander Yan was so frightened that he crouched on the ground and crawled like a loach into the Green Camp formation where food was being collected.
Vice President Qian of Green Camp, who was waiting outside, also panicked.
Was it the sound of gunshots just now?
People in Lijiagou actually have guns!
It’s over~
The people in Lijiagou are really going to rebel.
After a while, Yan Shuai crawled over: "Mr. Zhang, Vice President, the people from Lijiagou have rebelled. He attacked me just now. If I hadn't been lucky, I would have died!"
Zhang Dazhu swallowed his saliva and secretly complained in his heart.
Today, President Qian suddenly said that he was ill and gave him the task of leading the army.
He originally thought that collecting grain was a fat job, but only halfway through did someone say that there might be Nanman people backing him up in Lijiagou.
If it were normal times, he would have led the Qiu Ba from Green Camp to attack the village and rob it.
But who said there was a Nanmanzi uncle in there!
The Governor-General said: You can't afford to offend this Nanman, so be sure to pay attention when collecting grain and don't bump into him!
Li Shiyao asked him to kill all the unruly people who dared to resist taxes without harming the Nanman people! He also asked them to conquer Lijiagou. Isn't this a contradiction?
Zhang Dazhu knew that he had been cheated!
Are those ruthless people easy to bully?
Five hundred people chased tens of thousands of them away, but they couldn't withstand the opponent's terrifying firearms.
"Mr. Vice President, Lijiagou is really rebelling!"
Upon hearing this from Mr. Qian, Zhang Dazhu immediately became angry.
Pa~
Bang bang bang~
"Son, shut up."
Yan Shuai immediately lowered his head in grievance.
Just now, I said seriously that he is a good person and should be trained well in the future.
It only took so long to beat him!
After thinking for a long time, Zhang Dazhu lost a lot of hair, and he couldn't find a good way.
"We can only attack by force. Let a hundred people separate and go around from the left and right. By the way, don't touch the Nanman people with short hair. Everyone else can be killed!"
"twitter!"
Then, these hundreds of people separated in several directions and rushed towards Lijiagou who dared to resist the tax.
Yan Shuai led a group of Green Camp soldiers, walked around for a distance and arrived at the entrance of the village.
I was just about to rush in and kill.
Click~
I felt like I stepped on something under my feet.
Boom~
A triggered land mine directly blew him and several Green Camp officers and soldiers into the sky.
Ah~
Several more long-handled grenades, emitting white smoke, were thrown over.
Boom!
There was another explosion.
The Green Camp soldiers left behind more than a dozen corpses and several wounded people, and fled in confusion.
At the same time, the Green Battalion soldiers attacking from other sections also suffered fatal blows one after another.
Zhang Dazhu felt chills all over when he saw that all the troops in the group fled in panic, losing dozens of people, but not even entering the village gate of Lijiagou.
"Get out of here! You can't stay here for long."
Boom~
Another explosion sounded.
The explosion was mixed with gunshots.
Zhang Dazhu's little packhorse, which was trying to escape, suddenly let out a mournful cry and fell to the ground.
"ah!"
Zhang Dazhu was directly pressed under him by the pack horse and screamed repeatedly!
The ambush battle is not over yet.
Bang bang bang!
There were gunshots and grenades again.
The ferocious firearms made these green camp soldiers cry for their fathers and mothers.
"Surrender without killing!"
"Surrender without killing, hold your head in your hands!"
The Green Camp soldiers quickly held their heads and lay on the ground, not daring to move.
Soon, ten people wearing jungle clothes walked out of the dense forest.
But it was a musketry team led by Xiao Jian that ambushed the food collection team composed of Eight Banners and Green Camp soldiers!
After a while, the fellow villagers from Lijiagou also ran out one after another.
Look at the miserable appearance of these hundreds of Green Camp soldiers.
They cheered loudly: "Victory! We have won!"
"There is no need to pay them food."
"Haha, you don't have to pay them food anymore!"
"Mom, if you had eaten one bite, you wouldn't have starved to death!!!"
Xiao Jian also smiled when he looked at the reveling people.
Qing soldiers fighting against evil and protecting the people, this is life.
Xiao Jian smiled and said: "Folks, we are not done yet, hurry up and control these soldiers!"
"Yep…"
"You all put your heads in your hands!"
"Don't move around. Anyone who moves around will be killed."
"Don't move~"
Soon, Zhang Dazhu was also pulled out from the dead body of the packhorse.
"Sir, I surrender. I am just a grain collector. I have never done anything harmful to anyone!"
"Stop talking and collect all their weapons and armor."
After a while, another soldier dug out the unexploded mine.
Landmines and grenade weapons were provided to Lijiagou by Chen Mu.
The food protection team led by Xiao Jian was also on Chen Mu's side to help the people of Lijiagou.
It’s not that we can’t recruit so many people, but that we need to build confidence among the people.
You see, we only used a squad of 11 troops to defeat more than 600 people in the Green Camp.
Da Qing has nothing to be afraid of.
Believe in our ability to protect you.
Believe that we can lead you to a better future.
Xiao Jian told Zhang Dazhu and other Green Camp soldiers that what you did was wrong.
We are not arrogant and unreasonable people, so put down your weapons and go back.
From now on, we must not pay more for food in the village.
Zhang Dazhu thanked him with tears in his eyes, and then fled in embarrassment with his soldiers.
Soon, what happened here was also reported!
Li Shiyao's temples jumped as he heard that several grain collectors had paid a bloody price.
He paced back and forth, thinking about gains and losses.
Finally come to a conclusion.
If Guangdong and Guangxi cannot collect taxes, his official hat and head will definitely have to be moved.
"Taxes must be collected, otherwise the unruly people will rebel. Look for villages without the protection of Nanman people to collect grain!"
How many workers does Chen Mu recruit?
How far do they radiate?
It only covers Guangzhou, Foshan, and then to surrounding villages.
As for Guangxi, they don't recruit many people.
So, there’s still a lot to be done!
"Sir, is this inappropriate? If we do this, it will easily cause the muddy legs to reverse!"
Li Shiyao shook his head: "If we don't do this, it will be a question of whether our foundation is solid and reliable."
Once the Lijiagou incident spreads, I don’t know how many people will refuse to pay taxes in the future.
Therefore, bloody methods must be used to suppress it!
They must be killed.
In fact, the better way at this time is to cancel the tax and then settle the accounts later.
But Li Shiyao must not do this.
Their tax system must be enforced without question.
Because he was the one who started the bad thing, his reputation is already ruined.
If he cannot collect money and food, it will mean that the situation under his rule is completely out of control!
If your head is moved, wearing a flower feather on your head will not protect you!
This is pain that he absolutely cannot bear.
Therefore, no matter how bloody the plan is, he must carry it out.
Sure enough, it didn't take long for many villages with flexible information to learn to refuse to collect grain.
These people don't have the protection from Chen Mu.
The tax collection team composed of these green camp Qiu Ba may not be able to defeat strong enemies, but they can bully the weak!
They attacked with force.
Then implement Li Shiyao's plan: burn, kill, and exterminate the clan.
For a moment, when the people heard that the food collection team had appeared, they fled in all directions!
On the other side, the villages that were protected by Chen Mu's side saw their living standards rise sharply because they received less food.
Afterwards, Chen Mu sent people to collect grains to supply the workers of the construction company.
The people have more hope for life.
Some villages that were not protected by Chen Mu, or those who refused to bring their neighbors to help each other, suddenly felt angry and beat their chests!
I regret my mistake, I regret my mistake!
This taxation has also completely rooted Chen Mu in the hearts of many people.
When the neighbors who helped each other appeared again, countless people and villages welcomed them with joy.
The rule of the Qing Dynasty in Guangdong, Guangdong, Fujian and Zhejiang quickly collapsed because of this taxation.
It’s just that Li Shiyao had to pretend to be an ostrich!
He must revel in the joy of collecting taxes.
In order to make Emperor Qianlong happy, he also used some of his family resources and said that this year was a good harvest. The people were grateful and paid more grain!
This chapter has been completed!