Chapter 797 If you want to rebel, you have to pay the tax first
Chengtian Mansion, Dongchen Village on the outskirts of Jinling City, in the largest house at the head of the village, a young man wearing a brocade robe breathed cold air towards the open window. Although there was no light snow dancing outside the window, it was still cold.
The wind is quite strong.
The sudden cold wind yesterday made people feel the deep affection from winter.
At this time, a boy came from behind: "Sir, the madam sent someone to report that the madam and the young lady are ready!"
The young man turned back and said: "The carriage is fully equipped. Today is even colder than yesterday. The bedding heater on the carriage was forgotten!"
The young man said: "Don't worry, sir, the second housekeeper has personally prepared the carriage and is waiting. However, the second housekeeper said that Liang Huyuan caught the cold last night, and I am afraid that he will not be able to follow him into the city today. If one person is missing, there will only be four guards."
I am in the hospital, lest I cannot protect the safety of the master, his wife and the ladies."
The young man said: "It doesn't matter. Although it has not been peaceful recently, there were quite a few stragglers looting some time ago, but now there are no more. Four people escorting is enough!"
The boy also said at this time: "What I'm saying is that although those puppet Tang bandits were a little more ferocious, they were still very hard at suppressing the bandits. In just a few days, they wiped out the stragglers on the ground nearby."
, I heard that hundreds of people were killed this time!"
When the boy said this, the young man beside him frowned slightly, and then said: "Forget it at home, be careful what you say when you go out, don't say the four words "Puppet Tang Thief Army" again, don't cause trouble for no reason!
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"Young master taught me a lesson, I won't dare to do it anymore." After hearing this, the young boy also showed a nervousness. Suddenly he remembered that in Xichen Village a few days ago, it was said that a young man was talking loudly and pretended to be false.
Tang, who was a thief at first sight, was immediately arrested by the village patrol, and then labeled as slandering Master Wang, and was beaten more than ten times on the spot.
Hearing that the patrol leader was an outsider and someone who had just retired from the bandit army, he would not be polite if he heard words that slandered the Tang Dynasty King.
As for Dongchen Village and Xichen Village, just by listening to their names, you can tell that these two villages are said to be two villages, but in fact, one east and one west are located in the same place. The village chief and tax official were sent by the pseudo-Tang Dynasty.
As well as patrol police, they all manage the two villages in a unified manner.
It didn't take long for the young man to lead the boy out of the room, and then went to the madam's side first. After picking up the madam and his sister, he officially went out and boarded several carriages that had been prepared.
Outside the carriage, there were two old ladies and three maids who were going out together, as well as four people from the nursing home, two servants, and a housekeeper.
A group of fifteen people rode on horseback and walked. After leaving the Chen Mansion, they drove onto a dirt official road. Looking back, they could vaguely see three archways standing at the head of the village. They were all the same Jinshi archway!
Among them, the most recently completed Juren Archway was the archway erected when the young man Chen Lifu was admitted to the imperial examination. The slightly older archway with some age was the Juren Archway built by Chen Lifu's father, Chen Yonggao.
As for the Jinshi Archway, it is the Jinshi Archway where the young man's uncle, Chen Yonglin, ranked eighth in the top two in the Jinshi Department of High School.
One look at these three Jinshi memorial archways and you will know that the Chen family is a typical scholarly family and an official family, and it is also the top one!
The ancestors of the Chen family were officials during the Song and Yuan dynasties. During the Ming Dynasty, some members of the Chen family also served as officials one after another. In the past 20 to 30 years, it has become even more out of control. Two of the Chen family brothers have passed the Jinshi examination, and
More than ten years later, Chen Lifu passed the Jinshi examination again.
Created a legend of becoming a three-level Jinshi.
It is a pity that although the Chen family was very good at meeting gods and killing gods and Buddhas on the way to the imperial examination, the three Jinshi of the Chen family did not do well in their official careers. Chen Yonglin was the first to become a Jinshi in high school, and
He was still ranked eighth in the second class, ranking quite well. Later, he passed the imperial examination and entered the Hanlin Academy as a scholar. Unfortunately, he died of illness a few years after taking office. Otherwise, this person would have been around for decades.
He may become a senior official in the ministry.
Chen Yonggao was one subject later than Chen Yonglin. After passing the Jinshi examination, he was only a top three and the lowest in the imperial examination, so he was finally sent to Shaanxi as a county magistrate. Unfortunately, this person was suitable for studying but not for being an official. He was not good at flattery.
There were still things to do, so he was the county magistrate for more than ten years!
More than ten years later, the frustrated Chen Yonggao resigned and returned to his hometown. Unfortunately, he fell into the water and died on the way before he returned.
Chen Yonggao's son, the young man in front of him, Chen Lifu, was a Jinshi candidate just last year. Like his father, he was only a top three. After passing the Jinshi examination, he was originally going to be awarded an officer, but this person just took the examination.
Zhong Jinshi, he became the head of the Ministry of Industry only a few days ago. Last year, he imitated other people's tricks and played impeachment, and the person who impeached was none other than Yan Song, the cabinet boss on the spot. Then...
Then there is no more...
This unlucky boy only served as an official for a month, and then he was stripped of his official title!
After returning to his hometown, Chen Lifu turned out not to be a big shot in the imperial court. Naturally, it was impossible for Jian to be in the emperor's heart. There was no hope of recovery. Therefore, although he was unwilling to do so, he could only stay at home honestly.
Living, reading or teaching the children of the clan, and going out to visit friends in his spare time, he lived a relatively leisurely life.
However, in the past two months, he has been at home and has not gone out because the past two months have not been peaceful!
Last month, the bandit army even entered Jinling City. During that period, it was even more chaotic. Only now, the situation has calmed down a little. I heard from outside that there are no bandits on the roads anymore, and the pseudo-Tang Dynasty
It also opened the entry and exit ban on Jinling City, allowing people to enter and leave Jinling.
In the past few days, his wife wanted to go back to her parents' home, and her little sister also wanted to play with her. He simply took the family into the city. Of course, he himself was actually quite curious about the current Jinling City. In addition, he also
I am going to visit some friends in the city to discuss a major matter!
Although he has been at home in the past two months and has not interacted with anyone from the Puppet Tang thief army. Even when the notorious tax inspection team of the Puppet Tang Dynasty came to collect taxes some time ago, he just let the outsiders
The butler sent it.
Although it is a dismissal, it is because of bribery and tax evasion. Of course I don't dare to do so. Instead, I pay taxes honestly. Now is a troubled time. It is better to do less than to do more, because a small amount of agricultural tax will cause disaster and is not worth it.
Of course, what's more important is that he knows very well that there are people around here who don't want to pay taxes, and most of their consequences are not that good. In the light cases, they are fined a high amount, and in the worst cases, their land and properties are confiscated.
If it is more serious, for example, if someone refuses to hand it over, or even refuses to cooperate, then the assets will not be confiscated, then it will not be as simple as confiscating part of the assets, but the house will be ransacked directly, and all the men in the family will be taken away and locked up.
Ten days and a half, and beheading the first offender is not out of the question.
The Puppet Tang Dynasty actually levied taxes on the powerful gentry, which was unbearable, so some people tried to resist. As far as he knew, the Zhao family, more than thirty miles away, gathered hundreds of guardians and tenants Qingzhuang, and even
I plan to unite with many other powerful people to drive out the bandit army and welcome back the official army.
But before the troops could gather together, the door was blocked by a large group of people from the tax inspection team.
At that time, the leader of the tax inspection team had a very arrogant attitude:
"If you want to rebel, you have to pay your taxes first!"
The fate of the Li family is conceivable. This behavior has gone beyond the scope of tax resistance, and has risen to rebellion. Therefore, the Li family was directly confiscated and exterminated, and all the adult men were beheaded in public.
After killing a few chickens, the remaining monkeys became more honest. Later, when tax officials from various places came to collect taxes, it was much easier. Most people paid taxes obediently!
Of course, tax evasion is not uncommon. Usually, at this time, the tax inspection team comes to your door. If you don't cooperate, it will basically end up confiscating your home.
However, the reputation of the tax inspection team has become very great now. Even a prestigious gentry family like the Chen family, when they heard about the reputation of the tax inspection team, they still had the mentality of doing less than doing more and obediently paid the taxes to them.
Submit it to avoid getting into trouble.
Chen Lifu frowned slightly when he thought of the tax inspection team of the pseudo-Tang Dynasty. How could the pseudo-Tang Dynasty tolerate the emergence of an organization like the tax inspection team that harmed the people? Is it possible that they would not advise the pseudo-emperor Li Xuan?
If he were an official in the Puppet Tang Dynasty, he would definitely impeach this tax inspection team. It is simply unjust that such harsh rule cannot be eradicated.
There is also the agricultural tax, which is simply chaos and tyranny.
They are gentry, but they actually have to pay taxes? This is simply the most ridiculous thing in the world!
Also, sharing the land tax on land is a chaotic government thought up by the traitorous official of the Tang Dynasty. It actually involves spreading land tax into the land tax. Isn’t this a clear intention to make countless good people’s families bear the land tax of landless mobs?
Silver.
Even if the Puppet Tang Dynasty was able to run wild for a while with such chaos, in the long run, when public dissatisfaction reaches its peak, it will definitely lead to great chaos.
Alas, the people are suffering in prosperity, and the people are suffering in death. If there is a big trouble in the future, the people of the world will probably suffer again.
In recent times, Chen Lifu has often lamented that although he is no longer an official in the court and is now just an ordinary gentry and country sage, everyone is responsible for the rise and fall of the world.
Sometimes he would also think that if he was an official in the Puppet Tang Dynasty, he would definitely advise Li Xuan, the Puppet Emperor, and then impeach all the ministers in the Puppet Tang Dynasty so that gentlemen could establish a court.
You said why he doesn’t think, ‘It would be great if the Ming Dynasty comes back one day!’ Do you think he is stupid? People also know that this is impossible, right?
Since the Ming Dynasty cannot be defeated, the many chaos and tyranny of the Puppet Tang Dynasty must be stopped. To stop the tyranny of the Puppet Tang Dynasty, becoming an official in the Puppet Tang Dynasty is the best way.
When he came to the city this time, in addition to catching up with old friends, he was also planning to discuss with them the important matter of joining the Tang Dynasty as an official!
Alas, the world is in trouble and the people are suffering. If I don’t go to hell, who will?