Ming Taizi's Total War

Chapter 95
"Brother Shen, now the imperial court has sent tax collectors, and also set up Lao Shizi to supervise the gold envoys. Now it is said that they only charge [-]% of the passing goods, but who knows if other taxes will be collected one day. What do you think we should do? Woolen cloth."

The person who spoke was Jiang Mengyin, and like Shen Juren, he was also a Juren from Zhenjiang Mansion, but he was selected later, and his network was not as extensive as Shen Juren, so he called Shen Juren his elder brother.

In fact, he and Shen Juren had no money relationship at all. The biggest commonality between the two was that they were registered in Zhenjiang Prefecture.

"What are you afraid of? Soldiers will come to block you, water will come to cover you with earth. It's a big deal. Let's encourage those ignorant people to be our spearmen. As long as those tax collectors die for no apparent reason."

"Hmph, I saw that there was someone who was not afraid of death and dared to come down to collect taxes." Shen Juren's attitude was extremely tough.

Because he had been a civil servant for a long time and had many properties, businesses, and caravans under his name, Zhu Cixiang's lijin system had a greater impact on him.

"It's not that good." Jiang Mengyin felt terrified when he heard Shen Juren say that.

"Sir, master, the second steward was killed on the way to Jinling while he was suppressing the caravan." A slave stumbled up to Shen Juren and said.

Xu Ruogu never imagined that after he killed the Shen family's housekeeper, within a few hours, the news would reach Shen Juren's ears.

In fact, the servants of the Shen family did not inquire about this news. Although Shen Juren was rich, he did not have so much spare money to support a group of inquirers.

It was Shen Juren's tenant who saw the head on the tax card when he was working, so he came to Shen's house to report.

Unlike other places in Jiangnan, there are relatively few self-cultivating farmers here, and large tracts of land are in the hands of famous scholar-bureaucrats like Shen Juren.

These Jiangnan gentry, with connected fields, numerous servants, and houses all over the place, almost controlled the economy of Jiangnan. That's why they had the confidence to fight against the imperial power again and again.

Only then did the Ming Dynasty develop for more than 200 years, and the south of the Yangtze River was extremely prosperous. As a result, the silver received in a year was only more than 500 million taels, which was not as many as the Qing Dynasty.

"What? Who dares to kill my people." No matter what, Shen Juren couldn't think of who killed his people.

The law and order in the south of the Yangtze River is relatively good, and there are no poor mountains and rivers, so people like robbers and bandits are rare. Even if there are, they can't sell the face of a person with status like Shen Juren.

But apart from the robbers and bandits, Shen Juren could never think of who killed him. He never thought about Xu Ruogu's group of tax collectors, because he didn't think that those guys who collected taxes on his own territory had any What a guts.

"It's the new tax collectors. They cut off the head of the second steward, hung it on the flagpole of the tax card, and confiscated the goods. The gold governor went directly to take the horse team away." lie.

"What!" Shen Ju was so angry that he almost fainted. There were six or seven carriages in his caravan, not counting the goods on the carriages. The carriages and horses alone were worth a hundred taels of silver.

If you count the goods on the car, it is worth a thousand gold. Hearing that it was taken away by the tax collector, Shen Juren suddenly felt his heart was bleeding.

"No, we can't just make them so cheap." Shen Juren turned his mind and came up with a plan, which can not only get his caravan back into his hands, but also make Xu Ruogu and those tax collectors pay the price.

So he said, "Let the big housekeeper go to the countryside immediately, encourage the tenants, and the mud legs from the ten miles and eight villages, let them bring farm tools to besiege the tax card. The more people the better, brother Jiang, you also let your tenants come over." Let's attack together."

"I promise that after this time, the imperial court will definitely realize that the Lijin system is unreasonable, and this thing may exist in name only in the future."

"In the worst case, we can make the tax collectors in Zhenjiang Prefecture dare not collect our taxes anymore." Shen Juren persuaded Jiang Mengyin to cooperate with him.

He didn't want to attract more people to appear more powerful, but he took a fancy to Jiang Mengyin's status as a Juren. With him, the political power around him would be greater, and he would have the confidence to talk to anyone.

"Okay, I'll go back and let my family handle this matter." Jiang Mengyin agreed with Shen Juren's words, so he turned around and wanted to go back.

Unexpectedly, Shen Juren stopped him again and said, "Brother Jiang, please wait a moment, just pass on these matters and let the people below handle them."

"When the tax card is besieged by the common people, we have to come forward to solve the problem." Shen Juren had already thought about it. The attitude of the victim descends.

On the surface, being a peacemaker to mediate conflicts between the government and the people will take advantage of the benefits behind the scenes, so that everyone can see his strength.

The tenants of the Shen family have long been trained to be like pigs. When the head steward of the Shen family came, he easily took them out of the tax card.

I saw hundreds of people holding farm tools, standing in disorder, and surrounded Xu Ruogu's tax card.

"My lord, what should we do." Seeing that the tax card was surrounded by farmers holding farm tools, Wang quickly found Xu Ruogu.

"Don't worry, let the Chief Inspector of Taxes speak." Previously, Xu Ruogu sent someone to notify the Inspector of Financial Officers to pick up the confiscated items placed in the tax cards. Wang Ruoyuan, the Inspector of Financial Inspectors of Zhenjiang Prefecture, wanted to inspect the tax cards, so he came over in person.

"These rascals will fail to rebel." Wang Ruoyuan said angrily.

"The tax card is the residence of the officials ordered by the imperial court. Don't surround it anymore, otherwise it will be regarded as a rebellion, and then the officials will not be lenient." Wang Ruoyuan threatened the farmers outside.

This time he brought ten or twenty handymen, ten armored guards, plus the tax man and handymen from the tax card, Wang Ruoyuan was confident that he would kill these hundreds of troublemakers.

"He didn't dare to kill us, and we didn't break any law. Don't listen to him, hand over the things, and punish the murderer." In order to calm people's hearts, the chief steward of the Shen family said loudly in the crowd at this time, as if to It is similar to Wang Ruo's original work.

When Wang Ruoyuan heard the words of the chief steward of the Shen family, he thought to himself that he was born as a top-ranked Jinshi scholar, and he was entrusted with the grace of the sage to serve as the gold governor in the Zhenjiang mansion. Whenever I speak, you will fight against me. How have I ever been wronged like this? If you have the chance, you must be skinned as a thief.

"Xu Ruogu, bring your people and line up for me." Wang Ruoyuan didn't want to talk nonsense anymore.

When he heard the words of the chief steward of the Shen family just now, he had already understood that someone was behind the siege of the tax card today. If he didn't act cruelly, I'm afraid the matter would not be resolved today.

(End of this chapter)