Traveler Zhao Ji knew: If the records in the historical materials when he was studying history were correct, then the Fangla Uprising should have happened on the ninth day of the tenth lunar month in the second year of Xuanhe, which is today.
Even yesterday and today, I issued two urgent edicts of eight hundred miles, and mobilized the main force of the Muzhou garrison to assemble near Qixian Village, She County, Muzhou, to prepare to prevent and extinguish the rebellion as soon as possible;
But the journey is far away, two thousand miles, which is also a thousand kilometers in later generations. Since the Northern Song Dynasty relied on fast horses as transportation, it would take several days for these two imperial edicts to be sent from Bianliang, the capital, to Muzhou.
Deliver it?!
Zhao Ji lamented that if he had not traveled to the Northern Song Dynasty last night and became Song Huizong Zhao Ji, if he had traveled a few days earlier, he should have been able to prevent Fang La's uprising in Qixian Village, She County, Muzhou.
But, I’m afraid I won’t be able to make the trip now, right?
However, with the two imperial edicts he issued, he mobilized the main force of the Muzhou garrison to go to the vicinity of Qixian Village to put an end to the rebellion as soon as possible. Maybe he could put an end to the Fang La Uprising?
Zhao Ji faced the south and seemed to see in the distance the leader of the peasant uprising, Fang La, who was recorded in the history books of later generations in Qixian Village, She County, Muzhou.
Now, Fang La is relying on the superstitious activities he preached to win over the backbone of believers, and he is using today's party and banquet on October 9th to vent his dissatisfaction and impassionedly denounce him, the Zhao official, for his debauchery and immorality.
The treacherous ministers were eunuchs, they humiliated the Liao and Xixia by paying annual taxes, imposed heavy corvee taxes on the interior, and levied Huashi Gang in the southeast, making the people in the southeast miserable...
And the reality is exactly what Zhao Ji, a top student in the history department, had guessed.
In the past few years, the imperial court has set up a production bureau in the southeast to collect flower and stone outlines.
This Bureau of Artificial Intelligence was a department sent by the imperial court to the southeastern region specifically to handle errands for the emperor. It had great power. Any tree or strange stone that took a fancy to a commoner's house would belong to the Bureau of Artificial Intelligence as long as a seal was affixed to it. p>
Moreover, the officials of the Zaozhao Bureau have used their power to the extreme. For example, if they want to blackmail a certain household, then they will put the seal on the house where the certain household is living well.
He euphemistically said, "The stone used to build the gable of your house is very beautiful. It can be transported to Genyue built for the officials in the capital and used as a paving stone for the passage!"
Then, if you, a commoner with a small household registration, know how to handle things, then secretly offer a large amount of filial money to the small official in charge of the matter, and the seal affixed to the house will be torn off the next day, and the people will lose their money.
Avoid disasters and the house may be saved.
What if the people take off the seal on their own, or refuse to obey the levy imposed by the Zaozuo Bureau? Then they will disobey the holy will and the whole family will be punished by death!
When recruiting the Hua Shi Gang, the Production Bureau must also run its errands well. If they really encounter beautiful rocks, flowers, plants, and big trees in the southeast, then they will definitely transport them to Bianliang in the capital at all costs to make Zhao Guan's family happy.
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It would be fine if these strange rocks, flowers, plants, and big trees grow in nature. However, most of these beautiful flowers, trees, and rocks are already a landscape in the back gardens of the homes of officials, wealthy businessmen, and landlords in Southeast counties. It is so artificial.
The bureau also thought that the collection of flowers and stones was in the name of the Holy Spirit, but it was still free of charge.
Moreover, this is also a good way for high-ranking officials in the Bureau to make money for themselves.
For example, if he wants a large strange stone in the back garden of a wealthy businessman, he can obviously break open the courtyard wall and transport it away.
The route they deliberately designed was that the wealthy businessman's house must be demolished before the strange stone could be transported out. If the wealthy businessman privately spent huge sums of money to control the officials of the production bureau, then the route for transporting the strange stone could be changed.
No need to pick up the house...
In the past few years, moving countless huge rocks and trees has required a lot of manpower.
As a matter of course, the Production Bureau was in the southeast, and they forcibly recruited local young men to serve as corvees without compensation. As a result, every household in the southeast was extremely short of male labor force, causing a lot of farmland to become deserted due to lack of labor force.
As a result, grain production in the southeastern region was severely reduced, and people suffered from famine...
If the people are unwilling to provide free services for Zaozuo Bureau, then even if they disobey the decree, it will be a capital crime.
Against this background, the people in the southeast region were in dire straits due to Hua Shi Gang.
Can the people in the southeast still tolerate it?