Three hundred and eighty-eighth chapter righteous indignation
Li Jizhen knelt on the ground with a plop and said in a trembling voice: "Xia Guan never resisted Uncle Xing Guo's taxation. He just wrote some letters to the princes in the court and the famous scholars in the south, asking Uncle Xing Guo to spare the family of Xi Guan."
Li Zhi said: "Li Jizhen, you conspired to collude with the gentry all over the world to prevent me from collecting taxes. Although you did not directly obstruct me, you cannot escape the crime of running around to complain. If you hadn't brought the affairs of Tianjin to Zhang
If you go to Pu's place, the incident of smashing Fan's home improvement goods may not happen so quickly."
Li Jizhen was lying on the ground, trembling all over and speechless.
Li Zhi nodded and said: "But after all, you just tipped off the news and didn't directly stop it. I won't kill your family. You think it's impossible for Bai Ling to commit suicide. Let's go to the execution ground at noon tomorrow."
When Li Jizhen heard Li Zhi's words, she knelt on the ground and cried loudly. She didn't know whether it was because she was about to lose her life and was sad, or because Li Zhi had spared his family and was happy. In short, Li Jizhen knelt on the ground and cried loudly.
I burst into tears and couldn't stop for a long time.
Two soldiers came up, arrested Li Jizhen, and took her away.
The next day, Li Zhi set up an execution platform at the gate of the east market in Fanjiazhuang City and put the governor Li Jizhen, the man from the Hejian prefect Lu Hualin's family, Lu Huarong and his three sons, the man from the rich Yu Xuanjin's family and the rich man Du Zeren all on the execution platform.
Cut off the mark and press him on the execution platform.
Now Fanjiazhuang is a large city with fifty or sixty thousand people. The people are prosperous and the city is as prosperous as Tianjin Acropolis. There are many people of all kinds in Fanjiazhuang, and it is already considered an influential city. Li Zhi opened a grand opening in various cities this time
Killing, the last execution will be held in Fanjiazhuang, his home ground.
Hearing that the corrupt officials and evil gentry who obstructed my uncle's important affairs were to be shot, the people of Fanjiazhuang all crowded into the east of the city to watch the excitement.
Workers in Fanjiazhuang have to go to work and do not have the opportunity to observe executions. However, in addition to workers, Fanjiazhuang also has a large number of people engaged in various service industries and retail industries. Those are small traders, small shopkeepers, various restaurants, teahouses, goulan and brothels.
There are tens of thousands of boys working here.
Although these people were not employed by Li Zhi, their business also depended on the prosperity of Fanjiazhuang and they were also very loyal to Li Zhi.
Before noon, tens of thousands of people were already crowding around the execution platform. Not only were the streets crowded with people, but also the villas on both sides of the road were packed with people. Those who were watching the excitement persuaded the owners of the villas to let them go to jail.
People crowded into the windows on the second floor to watch the execution.
Li Zhi, wearing the official robe of an earl, stood on the execution platform and bowed his hands to the people of Fanjiazhuang.
The people below were very excited when they saw their uncle saluting them, and they shouted loudly:
"Uncle is mighty!"
"mighty!"
Li Zhi waved his hand to calm down the people.
Seeing Li Zhi's gesture, the people cooperated very well. Suddenly no one spoke, and the scene of tens of thousands of people was very quiet.
Li Zhi said: "The people all know that there is a big problem with the Ming Dynasty's tax system, which is that it does not collect taxes from the gentry who have extensive land, and puts all the taxes on the powerless common people. This time, I am going to court in Tianjin."
The gentry collects taxes and servitude in order to reduce the burden on the common people so that they can have food to eat in disaster years!"
Li Zhi asked loudly: "Do you think Uncle Ben did the right thing?"
When the people of Fanjiazhuang heard this, they applauded loudly and shouted to the sky.
"Well done uncle!"
"Right done!"
"good!"
Seeing that the people in Fanjiazhuang were very supportive of him, Li Zhi smiled, pressed his hands to signal the people to be quiet, and said: "If the tax burden of the common people can be reduced by half, or more, the common people will have food to eat.
There is no need to eat chaff or drink water anymore. Even if there is a disaster, they will not starve to death. When Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng come, no one will follow them. There will be no stray thieves in the world!"
"If the gentry also pays taxes, the court's annual taxes will not be in arrears, and the court will have money and food to train troops. If the court has soldiers, the Tatars will not dare to break through the border and rob the capital."
"Uncle Ben wants to contribute to the rise and fall of the country! So in Tianjin, taxes are collected on the gentry and taxes are reduced on the common people!"
At this point, Li Zhi changed the topic and said: "However, these treacherous ministers and evil gentry on the execution platform are trying every possible means to obstruct my tax plan. Some of them collude with the gentry all over the world to boycott Fanjiazhuang's products and block Fanjiazhuang's
Raw materials. Some incited farmers and wanted to provoke a civil uprising. Some even directly hired dead soldiers to assassinate Ben Bo."
"What should we do with these people?"
The people in the audience were silent for a while. Suddenly someone raised his fist and shouted: "Kill!"
Hearing the leader's call, the others shouted one by one: "Kill them!"
"Dare to hinder Uncle Xingguo from saving the country? Kill these pests!"
"Kill them!"
"kill!"
Li Zhi originally prepared a long speech and planned to spend some time convincing the people of Fanjiazhuang to side with him. But Li Zhi did not expect that the people of Fanjiazhuang would react so quickly.
The people of Fanjiazhuang have already formed a community of interests with Li Zhi. As long as Li Zhi does something, these people will follow him with all their strength. These people are also afraid of killing Li Zhi's enemies.
Li Zhi didn't need to incite at all, these people were already excited. The people in the audience kept shouting for death, for fear that one of his uncle's enemies would be missed. The voices of tens of thousands of people gathered together, like thunder, and the people kneeling on the ground were stunned.
The faces of the condemned prisoners on the execution platform were ashen.
Li Zhi's prestige in Fanjiazhuang is really astonishing. The strength of tens of thousands of people gathered behind Li Zhi is the source of Li Zhi's power and the reason why Li Zhi dares to go to war with the gentry all over the world.
It is no exaggeration to say that Fanjiazhuang is a country within a country. Even the emperor's imperial edict is not as effective as Li Zhi's words here.
Li Zhi smiled, waved his hand, and shouted loudly: "The people are right! Prepare for execution!"
The two brothers Lu Hualin and Lu Huarong were pushed out first, and rifles were placed on their heads.
Lu Huarong cried like a tearful man, kowtowed on the execution platform, and shouted loudly: "Uncle Xingguo, please spare my life, and I will give you all my family's property intact! If you kill me, those servants will
I want to hide my property secretly so that you can’t even search my house!”
Li Zhi cursed: "A nest of thieves!"
"Lu Huarong, do you still remember how arrogant you were when you hit me in front of my textile workshop when I was still a teenager in the seventh year of Chongzhen?"
Lu Huarong burst into tears and kowtowed until his scalp was broken. He shouted: "The untouchables have realized their mistake. Uncle, please let the untouchable family go!"
Li Zhi waved his hand: "Execution!"
The soldier behind Lu Huarong pressed the trigger.
With a bang, Lu Huarong was shot in the head. Without even letting out a scream, he fell forward and fell face-on on the execution platform. Several gunshots rang out, including Lu Hualin, and the other seven men of the Lu family, including Lu Hualin, were shot.
Ding all fell on the execution platform and died instantly.
The hatred between Li Zhi and the Lu family ended with the Lu family being completely destroyed.
Next, several more gunshots rang out, and Yu Xuanjin's family and Du Zeren were shot to death on the stage.
Finally it was the turn of Governor Li Jizhen.
Li Zhi looked at the governor and asked, "Li Jizhen, do you have anything else to say?"
Before Li Zhi could finish his words, his voice was drowned out by the people's cries of death. The people all knew that Li Jizhen was the most powerful official, and they all speculated that Li Jizhen was the culprit of the tax resistance movement, fearing that they would not be able to kill him quickly.
"kill!"
"Kill this traitor!"
"kill!"
Li Jizhen looked at the indignant people in Fanjiazhuang, her face turned pale, and she said in a trembling voice: "If we let Uncle Xing Guo run the business for a few more years, the world will only know Uncle Xing Guo, not the great Ming Dynasty."
Li Zhi smiled and waved his hand: "Execution!"
There was another crisp gunshot, and Li Jizhen was shot in the back of the head. He opened his mouth wide and screamed, shook his body a few times, fell to the left and died on the execution platform.
