Li Zhi led a thousand soldiers and rushed into the Tianjin Acropolis, and began to arrest the civil servants who obstructed, made things difficult, and forced him to collect commercial taxes.
The Tianjin garrison had long heard about the defeat of Cha Deng Bei's 10,000-strong army, and thought that Li Zhi was rebelling. How could the old, weak, sick and disabled men under his command stop Li Zhi's tiger and wolf troops? He simply sent 600
All the soldiers returned to their camps and stayed behind closed doors, leaving the city defense of Tianjin to Li Zhi.
Li Zhi took over Tianjin Acropolis and put the whole city under his control.
Among the officials Li Zhi wanted to arrest, the first one to be arrested was Tianjin Governor Zha Dengbei. Zha Dengbei tried every means to thwart Li Zhi this time: he had already asked the Tianjin civil servants to jointly submit a memorial to force the emperor to take sides, and asked the emperor to issue an edict to ban Li Zhi.
Collecting taxes. Even at the critical moment, he did not hesitate to call in the army, forcing Li Zhi to open fire on Tianjin soldiers and horses.
If it weren't for Zha Deng Bei's various arrangements, Li Zhi could have collected commercial taxes as a loyal minister. Originally, Li Zhi collected some commercial taxes and handed some over to the emperor, which would have been a happy situation for everyone. But Zha Deng Bei forced it to
Li Zhi was pushed to the brink of rebellion, forcing Li Zhi to become a powerful official who challenged the court's bottom line.
What Chadenbei did made Li Zhi very angry. Since Chadenbei wanted to show the civil servants all over the world his righteous deeds against commercial taxes, Li Zhi asked him to ask for mercy. Li Zhi decided not to let Chadenbei go and wanted to
His life.
Li Zhi wanted all the civil servants in the world to see what would happen if they went against him.
Five hundred heavily armed bandit soldiers surrounded the governor's yamen and began to attack the yamen of Tianjin's highest official.
The gate of the governor's Yamen is a gatehouse, three rooms wide, with a door open in the middle. The door is very strong and has been closed tightly at this time, and there is probably something blocking the back. Li Zhi asked the soldiers to move a strong wood from outside the city
Use it as a battering ram to hit the gate of the governor's office.
However, the wood was not suitable for my hands, and the people behind the door were blocking the door with objects, so the effect of hitting the wood was very average. Dozens of people banged against it for half an hour, but they still couldn't open the door.
Li Zhi thought for a moment, then returned to Fanjiazhuang to gather two hundred hand grenades used by navy sailors, lit twenty of them and threw them into the Yamen compound.
Twenty grenades exploded one after another, and Li Zhi felt the ground tremble for a while. The huge explosion rumbled, screams followed the rumble, and clouds of black mist rose in the governor's office.
When the black smoke gradually dissipated, all that could be heard was the moans of the wounded coming from the yard.
Li Zhi then asked people to hit the door with wood, and the door was suddenly opened.
After knocking the door open, I saw that the door was in a mess behind the grenade. Lying on the ground were more than twenty servants of the Cha family who were killed by the explosion, and a dozen wounded were twitching and struggling in a pool of blood. The uninjured servants were already there.
Retreat to the second courtyard, block the passage leading to the second courtyard with furniture, and defend there with bows and arrows.
A captain of the servants hid behind the furniture and shouted loudly: "Li Zhi, you led the crowd to attack the Yamen of the imperial governor. This is rebellion. I advise you to stop in time! Otherwise, the imperial court will declare you a rebel. Once the powerful troops from nine sides arrive,
Both jade and stone will be destroyed!"
Li Zhi snorted coldly and had ten grenades thrown behind the furniture, which blew up the servants until they howled like ghosts. The shouting voice did not sound again, so he was probably killed by the bomb.
The soldiers of Huben Division kicked aside the furniture blocking the way and rushed into the second courtyard.
The servants in the yard now knew that Li Zhi was very powerful and knew that they could not resist him today, so they protected Cha Denbei and fled to the back door. However, the back door of the governor's office had long been blocked by Li Zhi's men. Where could Chaden Bei go?
Can he escape? Forced by the soldiers of the gang, Zha Dengbei hid in the governor's office again.
As if knowing that any further resistance would only increase casualties, Chadenbei's servants became desperate. They put down their weapons one by one, allowing Li Zhi's soldiers to successfully enter the third hall.
In the third hall, Cha Denbei had taken off his official uniform and was kneeling on the ground wearing only a jockstrap, crying. Beside Cha Denbei, Cha Yunke was also kneeling on the ground, bowing his head and saying nothing.
Seeing Li Zhi walking over, Zha Denbei lost any trace of his former majesty and cried:
"Grand Governor! No, Taibao! Don't kill me, Taibao! I'm old and useless! It's just a cheap life! If Taibao doesn't kill me, you can show your kindness to the world!"
Li Zhi sneered and said: "Are you afraid now? I thought you still wanted to show your iron bones to the civil servants all over the world to win your reputation!"
Cha Dengbei burst into tears and said: "Zha does not want to be named, I just ask the Governor to spare his life. In this tax resistance, I have no intention of murdering the Governor from the beginning to the end. I use various means to hope that the Governor will not impose commercial taxes."
.Now that the Taibao have won a complete victory, why should they take Cha’s life?”
Li Zhi looked at Cha Dengbei coldly and said: "You only have selfishness in your eyes, but do you have a trace of public morality? Now the court is short of soldiers and pay, but you civil servants are resisting taxes for your own interests. If everyone in the world were like you, this Han
The world will be destroyed."
"It's true that you didn't want my life, but you wanted the lives of the people in the world. If I don't kill you for the people of the world, it would be against the laws of heaven."
When Chadenbei heard this, his face turned pale, he knelt on the ground and coughed violently.
Cha Yunke, who was kneeling aside, raised his head and said, "Master Governor, at that time you said you owed me a favor."
Li Zhi nodded and said, "Yes."
Cha Yunke said: "Then I will use this favor to ask you to let my second uncle Cha Deng Bei go and keep his life."
Li Zhi smiled and said: "Originally, your overseas business depends on Chadenbei's position as governor. Once Chadenbei is deprived of his official position, your overseas business will not be able to continue. Although you have four ships,
, but it is impossible to go to sea without the protection of Chadenbei, and your business income will be completely cut off. According to this idea, I should return the money you invested in my merchant ship to you now, without giving you any dividends. But for your favor
For the sake of you, I allow you to continue to participate in my merchant ship and receive dividends!"
"As for Chadenbei's life, it cannot be saved by your favor."
When Cha Yunke heard this, his face turned pale, and he kowtowed to the ground, not daring to get up. Li Zhi was right, once Cha Dengbei lost power, Zha Yunke would lose his business income. But now Li Zhi still pays tens of thousands of taels of silver to
This is a huge honor for him. A favor can be exchanged for tens of thousands of taels of silver a year. Li Zhi is already very generous, and Cha Yunke can't ask for more.
When Cha Deng Bei heard Cha Yun Ke's plea for mercy was in vain, he put his head on the ground and burst into tears.
Soon, the soldiers who captured Tianjin's Xiadong Road Bingdao Yu Tao and Jingzhou Zhizhou Liang Yishou also succeeded. The two civil servants were the vanguard of the resistance to Li Zhi's commercial tax. These days, they accompanied Cha Dengbei's army on the expedition to Fanjiazhuang.
After Dengbei's troops were defeated, both men hid in the Bingbei Daofu on Tianjin Middle Road. However, Han Jinxin's informant revealed their whereabouts, and Li Zhi's soldiers still captured the two civil servants.
