As soon as He Chengbiao walked into the magistrate's office, the gentry in Suzhou knew that He Chengbiao was going to report Zhang Pu, so they quickly told Zhang Pu. Zhang Pu and the other three got the news and knew that Qian Qianyi's family had been targeted, and they could not stay in Suzhou city.
They tried their best to sneak out of the city. Zhang Pu and the other three took the risk and changed their appearance, dressed up as women, and tried to take advantage of the chaos to escape from the city.
But the soldiers at the city gate were particularly strict these days, and they arrested three men dressed as women.
The world-famous leader of Fushe, dressed in women's clothing, fell into the hands of Master Hu Ben in embarrassment.
Li Laosi laughed loudly and said: "Now I can finally fulfill my boss's entrustment and shoot these three culprits!"
Cui Changwu smiled and said: "Commander Li, why don't you bring the three of them up, so that we can see what the leader of the Fushe looks like."
Li Laosi slapped the coffee table and said, "Bring someone up here!"
Three Fushe leaders with rouge and lipstick were brought up, their hands were tied behind their backs, and they stood dejectedly in the main hall of the Yamen. The three Fushe leaders had often come to this Suzhou magistrate's Yamen before. But they didn't expect that today they would
He actually came here as a prisoner.
That Zhang Pu was a middle-aged man of about forty years old, with a pair of slender eyes. At this time, in order to disguise himself as a woman, his beard had been shaved off. Two balls of rouge were applied to the yellow man's face.
It looks a little funny.
Li Laosi shouted and asked: "You three incited the world's gentry to resist taxes. Do you now know your guilt?"
Zhang Pu snorted coldly and said: "Li Zhi corrupted moral ethics and imposed taxes on the gentry who were exempted and exempted by our government. He has become the enemy of the world. What crime do we have to obey the people and obey them?"
Cui Changwu slammed the table hard and shouted: "Zhang Pu, you and other evil gentry are proud of evading taxes regardless of the situation in the world. Now the court is so short of money that it can't even pay the border troops. In the world of Nuo Da, there are millions of people in the world."
The people cannot gather 200,000 border troops to suppress the bandits."
"If it had not been for the bravery of the country's uncle, who led the elite Huben division to put down the bandits, countless people in the world would have suffered from military disasters. How many homes would have been destroyed, and how many people would have died. The culprit for the people in the Central Plains who were displaced and had nowhere to survive in the troubled times was
You tax-resistant evil gentry."
Zhang Pu glanced at Cui Changwu coldly and said, "You look like a scholar."
Cui Changwu said: "Of course, I am a student."
Zhang Pu burst out laughing and said: "You, a student, actually hang out with these Qiuba people who are poisoning the gentry. You are really a scum of the scholar family and a lackey of martial arts!"
Cui Changwu said coldly: "Uncle Xing Guo saves the country and saves the people, which is the hope of the people in the world. I joined Uncle Xing Guo's sect because it was under his command that I planned for the people of the world. Confucius said to be benevolent, Mencius said to be righteous, and to follow Uncle Xing Guo is to be a practical saint.
The way! You dressed-up beasts, with only selfish motives and no public interests, how can you understand Uncle Xing Guo's righteousness and determination, and his courage to go alone despite tens of thousands of people."
Zhang Pu closed his eyes and said: "If this world is no longer the world of the gentry, why bother to save it?"
When Li Laosi heard this, he slammed the table angrily and cursed loudly: "Beasts in clothes! Do you know the suffering of millions of people? This world belongs to the people. For the sake of the people, I want to kill all you evil gentry."
, Uncle Xing Guo will not be lenient!"
Zhang Pu's face turned red after being scolded by Mr. Li, and he said loudly: "I supported Zhou Yanru, and now he is going to be the chief minister. Do you dare to kill me?"
Li Laosi shouted loudly: "Not to mention Zhou Yanru, even if the emperor protects you with all his strength, I will kill you on behalf of my employer!"
Li Laosi was irritated by these selfish restoration leaders. He waved his hand and said to his battalion commander: "Put up a high platform at Caishikou in the east of the city so that the people of Suzhou can see clearly how these three people died. We are setting up a platform today.
I’ll ask him at noon tomorrow.”
When Zhang Pu and the others heard this, their faces turned pale and they almost collapsed on the ground.
"Zhou Yanru will not let you Li Zhi lackeys go."
Li Laosi snorted coldly and ignored Zhang Pu.
The next day, Zhang and Pu were escorted to the high platform at the entrance of the market, where they placed the beheading mark and knelt on the platform.
The common people in Suzhou City were surprised to see Zhang Pu and Zhang Tianru being captured by Tiger Tiger Master, and also inserted a beheading mark. Word of mouth spread, tens of thousands of people flocked to the food market entrance in the east of the city to watch the excitement, and filled the market with people.
The surrounding area is impenetrable.
Some gentry boys were shouting and cursing loudly in the crowd. If it weren't for the hundreds of soldiers from the gangster group who were armed with live ammunition to maintain order, I'm afraid these gentry boys would have rushed to save people.
At noon, Li Laosi, wearing a bright red second-grade military attaché robe, rode a tall horse to Caishikou.
Li Laosi separated from the crowd and walked up to the high platform. He bowed to the people of Suzhou below and said, "People of Suzhou, today Zhang and Pu will be executed!"
After Li Laosi finished speaking, the Suzhou gentry below were scolding and filled with righteous indignation. The common people were not very literate and usually obeyed the gentry. Now when they heard the gentry shouting and cursing, many common people were glaring at the people on the stage.
Li Laosi's eyes were full of hostility.
Zhang Pu is the leader of Jiangnan and the pride of the people of Suzhou. How could the people want to see Zhang Pu beheaded?
Li Laosi said: "People in Suzhou, Zhang Tianru is a person from Suzhou. It is understandable that you defend him!"
"You, Suzhou, were not devastated by the war. You don't know the tragic situation in Gyeonggi and the Central Plains. You are excusable in resisting taxes!"
"But do you know that if the gentry continues to evade taxes and put taxes on the common people like now, the world will be in danger?"
Li Laosi said seriously:
"Zhang Xianzhong rebelled with thousands of people in Gucheng, and within a year there were 50,000 people in Huguang and Sichuan! Li Zicheng rode into Henan with 500 men, and in four months 30,000 hungry people joined the bandits! What is the reason for this? This is because
The small farmers in Huguang, Sichuan and Henan have been overwhelmed by land tax, so as long as someone rises up and calls out, there will be a crowd of responders."
"The standard of land tax in our Ming Dynasty is so low. But why do the people say, 'Welcome King Chuang, but we don't pay for the food'?" and the people are afraid that the people will not come. If the land tax is very low, how can the people yearn for the people who do not pay for the food under the rule of the king?
Life? It’s because the gentry don’t pay taxes, the taxes are all on the common people, and the common people’s land tax is already ridiculously high!”
"Taxes from various places are in arrears every year. The imperial court has crushed the common people and cannot collect taxes, and has no money to raise troops. The year before last, the Qing troops entered the customs and conquered 27 counties in five states. The capital was in ruins!"
"You are in the south of the Yangtze River, rich and well-fed, but do you know the suffering of the people in the Central Plains who have no food and clothing, and whose sons sell their daughters? Do you know the misery of the common people who were whipped and driven by the Qing army, and were tied up and walked thousands of miles out of the seclusion as slaves? Do you know the misery of thieves?
Is it death? If you don’t become a thief, you will also die a miserable death?”
