On April 17, Li Zhi was processing official documents in the study room of the General Military Mansion when he heard news that surprised him.
The prefects, prefects, and twenty magistrates from one prefecture, two prefectures, and twenty counties in Tianjin all left with their seals.
Although a group of civil servants besieged the emperor at the court meeting, the emperor still refused to express his position. In the end, the court meeting lasted for several days. The court never gave a policy on how to deal with Li Zhi, and the matter was ignored. When the civil servants in Tianjin saw that the court would not deal with Li Zhi,
Since Du was unable to resist Li Zhi's "tyranny", he simply hung his seal on the yamen beam, took off his official robe and went on strike.
Since they couldn't defeat Li Zhi and couldn't help Li Zhi "help the tiger", leaving with their seals was the only way for these civil servants to save their lives and future.
Li Zhi sneered after hearing the news.
"Since the magistrates and county magistrates in Tianjin have gone on strike, it is even more natural for Uncle Ben to take over the tax collection in Tianjin."
During this period of time, the civil servants in Tianjin were reluctant to hand over the yellow tax rolls, fish scale albums and taxation records to Li Zhi. Li Zhi was thinking about whether to use force and whether to lead troops to conscript by force. But what happened was that he
News. Now that the chief officials of various prefectures, prefectures, and counties in Tianjin are away, it will be easier for Li Zhi to forcibly extract tax documents.
Li Zhi stretched out his hand and said: "Come here! Prepare your horses! Cui Changwu, let's go to the Jinghai County government office first to get the fish scale book, yellow book and tax documents."
Jinghai County is the closest county to Tianjin Acropolis. If Li Zhi wanted to forcibly extract tax documents, he would naturally start from Jinghai County.
When Li Zhi's "Secret Guard Ambassador" Han Jinxin heard this, he knelt on the ground and said, "Uncle, there is so much noise and dust outside now. It is better for me not to leave the General Military Mansion to avoid any mistakes."
Li Zhi was stunned and asked: "Someone wants to assassinate me?"
Han Jinxin said very directly: "My uncle wants to collect taxes from the gentry. Not only do some people want to kill my uncle, but they even want to wipe out his family. These days, my spies have been asking everywhere, and some gentry even publicly claimed that my uncle
His death is not far away. Our people captured these gentry for interrogation, but could not find any clues. We concluded that it was not just one or two gentry who wanted to assassinate the uncle, but no one has done it yet. "
Li Zhi pondered for a moment and said, "Are these gentry going to risk their lives?"
Cui Changwu said: "Uncle seizes the gentry's land tax, and the unruly people in the gentry's name will leave those gentry families with their land. Many gentry may have nothing all of a sudden. The right to tax exemption is the life of the gentry, and the uncle wants to take theirs."
They have no choice but to fight to save their lives."
Li Zhi stood in the study and pondered for a moment, then said coldly: "These are so small, I'm really not afraid of them!"
"With my command of 20,000 tiger soldiers, I will compete with these guys to see who can kill more efficiently."
Li Zhi waved his hand and said: "Don't be afraid of them! Take more people out and take a hundred soldiers with you. Let's go to the Jinghai County government office to get the documents!"
Han Jinxin looked at Li Zhi worriedly, but did not dare to say anything more.
Li Zhi no longer delayed, took Cui Changwu and the soldiers out of the General Military Mansion, and went to Jinghai County with support.
Walking in Tianjin city, Li Zhi saw passers-by and waiters standing together on both sides of the road, talking about Li Zhi's support.
Li Zhi asked: "Cui Changwu, what are these ordinary people talking about?"
Cui Changwu raised his hands on his horse and said: "Uncle, they are talking about the war between you and the gentry, uncle, who will win and who will lose!"
Li Zhi took a breath and asked: "Who do they think will win and who will lose?"
Cui Changwu said: "These common people don't know how high the sky is and how high the sky is. They all say that the gentry are numerous and powerful, and the world is rich. Uncle, you can't defeat them."
Li Zhi snorted coldly and was about to speak when he suddenly heard the sound of a sharp object piercing the air coming from the left. He only felt a blur in front of his eyes, and a heavy arrow slashed across the front of Li Zhi's cheek.
It hit the wall of a nearby shop. The arrow was so powerful that the arrow struck the bricks on the wall, and the tail of the arrow trembled slightly.
A figure in black jumped from the roof on the left side of the street and disappeared behind the house.
Li Zhi's personal guard captain shouted: "Catch the assassin!"
When the people watching the excitement saw something happened here, they ran away for fear of harming the fish in the pond.
Twenty personal guards kicked open the courtyard gate on the left and rushed into the courtyard to arrest the assassin. After a quarter of an hour, an archer wearing black clothes and holding a rifle was caught by the guards and stood in front of Li Zhi.
With a sound, he was pushed to the ground and knelt down.
The assassin was tall, strong and well-dressed. Judging from his skills, he must have been a soldier for several years.
Li Zhi was worried about encountering more assassins, so he began to wear protective armor. Li Zhi's armor was a full-body steel armor with a matching steel helmet that covered the front and back of the body, not even exposing his legs.
When you put on this armor, you won't be afraid of bows and arrows, but it's quite heavy.
While Li Zhi was putting on his armor, he asked the assassin, "Who sent you here?"
The assassin refused to answer.
Upon seeing this, the captain of Li Zhi's personal guard went up and punched and kicked the assassin. While kicking and beating, the captain of the personal guard cursed: "If you tell me, you will die. If you don't tell me, you will be punished and your whole family will be killed!"
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The assassin was beaten for a long time and was beaten until he vomited blood. Finally he said: "Stop beating! I say!"
The guard captain shouted: "Who sent you here?"
"It was He Wenteng from Hejiatun who asked me to assassinate my uncle."
Li Zhi asked: "I have never heard of this He Wenteng, what does he do?"
The assassin coughed again, coughed up a mouthful of blood, and lay on the ground and said: "He Wenteng is a scholar. His family has 700 acres of fertile land. He gave me one hundred taels of silver to shoot my uncle."
When Li Zhi heard this, he snorted coldly.
A small landowner with 700 acres of land was not worth mentioning in Li Zhi's eyes, so he dared to kill him? It seemed that he had really stepped on the lifeblood of the gentry. However, this small landowner's power was limited, and he also hired
Instead of being a powerful killer, he exposed himself.
Such a small landowner was just used by Li Zhi to kill chickens and scare monkeys.
Li Zhi said calmly: "Catch He Wenteng and confront him. If there is no problem, we will kill the three members of the He Wenteng clan!"
When the assassin heard these murderous words, he knew that his life was definitely lost. His body trembled, and his blood-red face suddenly turned pale with fear.
Li Zhi put on his armor and was about to climb on his horse when he saw a fast horse rushing over from behind. The person who came was none other than one of Li Zhi's personal guards. He rode up to Li Zhi and said:
"Uncle, something happened in the General Military Mansion!"
Li Zhi frowned and asked, "What's the matter?"
"Someone poisoned the well and killed the poison-testing dog!"
