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Chapter 550: There are countermeasures

The chaos in Jining was calmed down like this. In addition to the five people called righteous men, only a few people died around the Ma Tax Supervisory Bureau. There was a big chaos in Jining City, and the main people who suffered were innocent people. All the weavers who wandered in Jining City were driven out of the city by the officers and soldiers of the garrison.

In the face of the bright swords and guns, no one dared to resist. After arriving outside the city, many people had no way to go and had to go to the homes of cotton gentry landlords in those places to be slave workers. This surprised the landlords in the countryside, thinking about when would they see them volunteer to be slave workers in their daily lives?

This time, Jining City received a big businessman and wealthy family, only the Gu family and Rong family, and the rest were silently waiting for the court. Jining is a key transportation hub, close to the cotton-producing area, and is also a major commercial town with a prosperous years. Staying there to start a business is the best choice. Even if the tax is slightly higher, it is enough to be worth the profits.

However, after the third tax supervisor was sent over, everyone's heart was cold. The horse tax supervisor was so shaved so much that it was almost damaged by the energy of Jining City. If this incident was not supported by the wealthy families, it would not have been so great.

For example, these salt merchants, grain merchants, and large ship owners, and there are many thugs and servants in their homes. Such large-scale accidents and looting shops will definitely harm the interests of these people. However, they did not send anyone to protect their property and industries. They just watched it so much, hoping to make the matter bigger, and hope that the court would make a statement or make concessions on this matter.

Then they waited for the third tax prison, and then these people suddenly realized it.

The third tax supervisor was much more cautious. After all, the previous lessons of the horse tax supervisor being chopped into meat paste by the rioters warned him that he knew what the consequences would be. Moreover, the court sent thousands of soldiers and horses, but in the end he only killed less than a hundred people. Five people were regarded as righteous men, and they built tombs and erected monuments in a pride, and everyone paid tribute to him. However, the new tax supervisor could not understand what he meant.

Despite the changes, there are no measures to reduce the tax collection and supervision tasks to comfort the people. If you don’t get enough money, or you make less money by yourself, the tax amount is actually not a heavy tax for Jining City. After all, there are many merchants and a major transportation route. However, this was before the arrival of Jining, the several searches of the Horse Tax Commission had already ruined many people.

But after the Ma Taxation Supervision was killed by the rioters, the money he reaped was not given back to the miserable, but was confiscated. The new tax supervision did not want to collect too much, nor did he dare to collect too much. However, the tax amount was here, and the tax base was greatly reduced, so it could only be an additional payment.

Since the small merchants were destroyed, the tax collectors were transferred to these wealthy merchants. Many of the big merchants who used to run shops and workshops closed their businesses, relocated or stayed behind closed doors, and the tax collectors were transferred to salt merchants and grain merchants.

Salt merchants and grain merchants are very different from those wealthy landlords and the rising industry and businessmen. Salt merchants and grain merchants have many official backgrounds behind them. Moreover, salt merchants and grain merchants are both one and two sides. They have always relied on their power to bully others, and there is no reason for them to be bullied by themselves. Moreover, these people have various relationships with the Cao Bang Salt Gang and other gangs, and there are also many secret forces that can be used in their hands.

The tax supervisor is very clear about these things, but he was sent down only after paying the money. At this time, he was not worried about how much he could earn for his pocket. He could only hope to settle the account. You must know that if the tax is not completed, then the one who waited for him would be convicted and confiscated.

At this time, I couldn't care about anything. The three thousand soldiers and horses in Qingzhou outside the city were still stationed there. The generals who led this army received the order that the safety of the tax bureau was the primary priority. Although the horse tax bureau was killed by the tax bureau was very pleased by the people, the people in the officialdom were all unlucky.

The governor of Shandong, governor of the government, and the prefect of Yanzhou were all rebuked. If there was any rebellion, it would be necessary to take off the black veil and send the Ti cavalry to capture it in Beijing.

The third tax supervisor named Wang was completely broken. He had no smile on his face. He directly posted a notice on the screen wall in front of the prefectural yamen, saying that Jining should collect taxes, how much should a certain household pay, and how much should a certain household pay, and who fail to pay within the deadline will be punished.

Wang Shijian, who had always been very low-key, suddenly posted this, which caught everyone off guard and didn't even have time to react. Wang Shijian also had quite a way to post an announcement that Jining's waterways and city gates were all set up, and no one in Jining's city was allowed to go out in the announcement.

This time, the Jining civilians no longer had the courage to cause trouble. The graves of five heroes stood on the bank of the river for people to admire them. However, the Rong family and the Gu family were safe and sound. The five civilians ran away. However, the five civilians were all destroyed. The prophet looked at the tax collectors and grain merchants. To put it bluntly, they were all merchants with no credibility and reputation. Who would have indignated to do anything?

Wang Shujian actually collected taxes very cleverly, and the tax amount was much higher than what he really wanted. He planned to understand that the person who collected taxes this time, the salt merchants and grain merchants had a close relationship with the government, and there must be people who pleaded with love. When the time comes, they will make some concessions on their own. Those merchants may feel that they have made a profit and will naturally spend less effort.

However, what he thought was too ideal, and the merchants were unwilling to spend a penny at all. Of course, the officials who pleaded with each other should ask for help, and then they were wondering if there were any other means.

Having said that, this rebellion can even be said to be the biggest beneficiary of the imperial court's tax supervision tax. Of course, no one knows that the servant who assassinated the tax supervision in Luxi was a member of the White Lotus Sect, and no one knows that the branch leader of the White Lotus Sect, who advocated the promotion of tax resistance in the name of the Holy Dao Sect, used to serve in the army of Liu Shisan. His real identity was Sima under the jurisdiction of Sima, Huazhou.

Of course, the matter in Jining has nothing to do with the White Lotus Sect. If it were incited by the White Lotus Sect, the turmoil would never be disturbed until the evening, and they would go home quietly.

The leaders of the White Lotus Sect who knew about this were very regretful, and then arranged a large number of people to come here. In all prefectures and counties in the northern three provinces, the White Lotus Sect's missionary was unusually smooth. Inciting right and wrong and inciting riots, it was the specialty of the White Lotus Sect.

There are constant besieging tax prison houses everywhere, and gathering people to cause trouble. The tax prisons are not all cruel characters, and they are also afraid of arousing public anger. After all, there are precedents that have not made money but died in office. It is better to save your life and be safe, even if you make less money.

Such a move will naturally not be charged so much. The merchants and cotton gentry, who were originally worried, saw that the White Lotus Sect's method was useful, and naturally the number of believers increased. To be honest, the White Lotus Sect also knew how to absorb the advanced experience of the Holy Dao Sect, and they brought many doctors into the sect everywhere and went to treat people medical treatment. No matter what, this is a valuable thing for people. Many believers from the Holy Dao Sect joined in.

In Jining City, although Wang Taxun was not allowed to go out by the big merchants, the civilians couldn't help it. As a result, many ordinary people were walking back and forth between high-ranking and wealthy families. This was a very strange scene. The tax supervisor was staring at the silver and the magistrate was staring at the situation in Jining. Who would think about the merger of the rich and the poor?

The White Lotus Sect doesn’t have to talk about the great disasters of the end of the world this time, nor does it have to talk about merits. There is no need to say anything else that Maitreya doesn’t believe in the coming of the world. It just points out that this tax supervision tax will probably not give up if you don’t squeeze your property out of it.

The Rong family has such a good reputation and such a large network of forces and relationships. In the end, the family was destroyed and the people were destroyed. Now even people don’t know where they go. This is a great disaster. If you want to avoid this great disaster, you can only join the White Lotus Sect or cooperate to fight against taxes. People are practical, and this is even more so for these merchants. The conditions proposed by the White Lotus Sect are so realistic, so there is no reason not to be moved.

Even if a few people were afraid of disaster, they would send people to contact each other. Looking at the soldiers at the city gate and the river dock, these wealthy families felt like they were in trouble.

The cotton gentry in Zhending, Cangzhou and Dezhou are all combined with private soldiers and civilians. Originally, the cotton gentry lived in their respective farms, but now they are all living in villages. They live together. The places where they live are slave labor, and the tenants are built like cities. Private soldiers and civilians are invited to train every day. The first batch of tax supervisors can also go to the countryside to collect taxes, and the second batch can start to collect some money. If they go to the countryside, tax collection is one thing. If they don’t bring hundreds of people, their lives will not be guaranteed. There are always fierce masks and fierce "green forest sound horses" intercepting each other halfway without mercy.

In some places, tax supervision has changed three times a month, and the local governments have no choice but to report to officials and send troops to encircle and suppress the enemy. They should do nothing, but they have no effect. If you send yamen soldiers down, you can't even catch a hair on the body of the "Xiangma". Hundreds of people and horses seem to have disappeared out of thin air...
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