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The peasant movement in Jiangxi ran through the entire Qing Dynasty.

If the riots were small enough to cause changes, and if the riots were too big, they would rebel directly. The Qing approach was to send troops to suppress them.

How did you ease up in the end?

The tenancy change in Jiangxi continued until the Yongzheng and Qianlong periods, and the Little Ice Age had ended.After hundreds of years of experience, the gentlemen also summed up the routine.

Just as capitalists deal with workers, they first raise basic benefits and then conduct internal differentiation.Let the tenant farmers deal with the tenant farmers, and transform class contradictions into contradictions within the class!

Zhao Han didn't want the country he conquered until he died of old age, and the peasants continued to revolt.

Although he hasn't rebelled yet, and he doesn't know if he can succeed, he must formulate the correct course.

Of course, this correct line is definitely not to engage in red, it violates the laws of social development, and if you take too many steps, you will be pulling eggs.

Chapter 073 [Tax Envoy]

"Everyone quit the club?"

"It's all gone, we're the only ones left."

"Alright, the rest are real friends."

"..."

The news that Zhao Han was cancelled, out of a total of 34 Datong Society members, only a few were left within two days: Zhu Zhiyu, Fei Ruyi, Fei Ruhe, Fei Yuanjian, Liu Ziren and Xu Ying.

There is no other reason, just ashamed to be in the company of the slaves.

Of course, all of them were more euphemistic, they didn't fall out with Zhao Han in person, they just looked for various excuses to prove that they didn't have time.

Fei Ruyi, that dead gay man, had not come to the academy for a long time, and said that he was going home to study "Mengxi Bi Tan" slowly. When he was reading "Zhu Ziyu Lei", he was shocked by the theory that the moon does not shine, and suddenly he was not interested in natural science. develop interest.

Fei Ruhe has also been missing for half a month, and is making a fuss to ask the family to invite a horsemanship teacher.

Wrapping the stainless steel spear head in cloth, Zhao Han used the long spear as a crutch, and stepped on the snow to say goodbye to the mountain chief Fei Yuanlu.

This gun is made of mulberry wood. The mulberry tree grows slowly and is easy to grow crooked. The farmers are not willing to cut it down. A gun shaft made of mulberry wood is very valuable.

Even if the ash rod is used for folk competitions, it’s ok to use it for folk competitions, and fighting on the battlefield is pure nonsense—“Huizhou beef tendon wood is the best, followed by sword ridge wood. The red edge is strong and straight, and it is brittle. ."

A truly top-of-the-line battlefield pistol is all composite: a tough wood core, wrapped in leather, and then wrapped with copper wire and rope.

"Crack, crack..."

With one foot deep and one shallow, Zhao Han staggered forward in the snow, and it was really hard to use strength without leaning on a stick.

The snow this year was particularly heavy, and Pang Chunlai's thatched roof was crushed by the snow.Master Pang could only live in a private school, and if he insisted on living alone, he would freeze to death at night.

In just a few days, many people have been frozen to death in Yanshan County.

"Boom boom boom!"

Zhao Han brushed off the snowflakes from his body, leaned his spear against the wall, raised his hand and knocked on the door.

"Come in." A voice came from inside the house.

Zhao Han pushed open the door and entered: "Boy, see the mountain chief."

Fei Yuanlu smiled and asked, "Why don't you claim to be born late?"

"Tong Sheng has been removed from his name, this kid doesn't deserve this self-proclaimed title," Zhao Han cupped his hands and said, "This kid is here to bid farewell to the mountain chief."

"Ugh!"

Fei Yuanlu sighed and said, "I didn't drive you down the mountain. If you like to read, you can still listen to the academy."

Zhao Han said, "The kid is the second shopkeeper of Dingsheng Building. He used to be a lot of slack, but he will have to work harder in the future."

"Forget it," Fei Yuanlu said, "it's a good business to be the shopkeeper of a restaurant, but don't lose your poetry and books."

"Boy, please follow the instructions," Zhao Han bowed, "Farewell."

Fei Yuanlu lost his temper, waved his hand and said, "Let's go."

Except for the money and manuscripts, Zhao Han didn't bring anything, and no one was disturbed, he went down the mountain alone with his spear.

The wind and snow blew his face, and from time to time he stepped on the air and fell, but Zhao Han was in a happy mood, like a bird in a cage that escaped from trouble.

In another four months, he will be 15 years old, or sixteen in ancient times.

The second shopkeeper of Dingsheng Building was the way Zhao Han left for him.You can work and make money while making friends with the three religions and nine streams, and watch the changes in the world while you wait.

In the winter season, Hekou Town is still prosperous, as long as the Xinjiang River and the Qianshan River are not frozen.

"Brother, you're here!" Fei Ze (Jiandan) greeted warmly, this fellow is now the cashier of the restaurant.

Zhao Han leaned the spear against the counter and asked, "How's business these days?"

Fei Ze sighed and said, "Business is fine, but the door-to-door tax has gone up again."

Zhao Han smiled and said, "The court is short of money, why won't the tax go up?"

"It's also going up too much," Fei Ze said in a low voice. "A few days ago, a eunuch came to the county to urge taxes, and the county magistrate couldn't do anything about it."

"Today's sage, there is quite a legacy of Lord Wanli." Zhao Han teased.

During the Zhengde period, there were door stall taxes, market taxes, and commodity (product) taxes on the market.Due to the establishment of imperial stores everywhere, the eunuchs randomly apportioned them, resulting in a variety of taxes.

In the early years of Jiajing, reforms were carried out, all taxes were unified, and the "door-share tax" was levied uniformly.

This kind of door-to-door tax is based on counties and stipulates the amount of tax that should be paid by each county.According to the amount of tax receivable, the magistrate will let the county and towns to share, collect it once a quarter, and then transport it to the taxation (department) bureau at the end of the year, and the taxation department will hand it over to the central government.

During the Wanli period, it was directly bombed, and the emperor sent a mine supervisor and tax envoy to exploit it frantically.

At that time, the most terrifying thing was the mining tax. When the eunuch saw which one was particularly rich, he slandered that this person had mines at home, and immediately arrested people without paying the tax quickly. At that time, countless people went bankrupt.

Emperor Chongzhen was now in a hurry, and he also sent eunuchs everywhere to urge taxes.

The tax of the gate stall in Hekou Town has increased a bit at the beginning of the year, and at the end of the year, it was said that it would increase again, and the eunuch went directly to the county government to force it.

The eunuchs are sure to be full, the magistrates follow along with the bones, and the officials can drink soup. It is the shops and vendors who suffer - the central court actually has limited income increases, and those business taxes are all pocketed by layers.

Fei Ze pointed to the street and said, "We're okay, it's just that the restaurant makes less money. The vendors outside are really miserable."

Zhao Han walked to the door of the restaurant, looked left and right, and came back and said, "No wonder there are fewer vendors. How much tax increase is this?"

"I don't know how it went up, anyway, the stalls and shops can't continue," Fei Ze said in a low voice, "These small vendors were all forced to join the Iron Feet Club. Several of the leaders of the Iron Feet Club have been arrested by the vendors. They were too noisy to go out."

"Haha, you have to do things when you receive money." Zhao Han laughed.

The Iron Feet Society has completely transformed from a coolie union to a gangster organization.Those small vendors on the street, if it sounds better to join the Iron Feet Club, they are actually paying protection fees to the gangsters.

Usually the protection fee is well received, shouldn't I express it now?

Zhao Han asked, "Where's the big shopkeeper?"

Fei Ze replied, "Go to the town for a meeting to discuss how to deal with the tax collectors."

In the evening, when the big shopkeeper Fei Xi came back, he immediately ordered: "Prepare the sticks, the shop clerk, let's go to the street tomorrow!"

"Uncle Xi, what's the solution?" Zhao Han asked.

Fei Xi pulled Zhao Han into the corner and whispered in a low voice, "The gentlemen above have already connected in all the towns and towns. Tomorrow, we will go to the streets to fight the tax and send all the tax collectors back to the county seat!"

interesting.

The next morning, the whole town was in action, both the vendors and the men, each with a stick.

The Iron Feet will act as the main force in the tax resistance, and immediately block the pier after the tax collector disembarks.

The tax collectors didn't notice anything unusual and continued to walk until they finally stopped in front of the booth.

The hawker held a stick and said nothing.

The other traders stopped doing business, and all took out their sticks.

"You... what are you going to do?"

The tax collector finally felt bad and was so frightened that he turned around and ran away, but was blocked by the iron feet behind him.

"beat!"

The crowd rushed up to fight, the tax collectors cried out for their father and mother, and the screams gradually became weaker.

Two were killed on the spot, and the rest were injured.

Zhao Han witnessed the whole process and did not know how to define this action.

The gentry were in series, the merchants commanded, and the trade unions, vendors, and clerks all went into battle in person.

Violent protests?

The question is are tax increases legal?

Even if the gate tax was raised twice in a row, the total tax of the entire Qianshan County was still less than 400 taels of silver. The tax increase of Emperor Chongzhen was really not much.

But when it comes to the eunuchs, the actual tax collection can be more than 1 taels, and the county magistrates, civil officials, and soap officials also make money, and the county's gate tax is close to [-] taels.

The gentry of the whole county joined forces to fight the tax violently, which scared the magistrate too scared to go out.

But the eunuch was not afraid, and took the family in person and went straight to the ancestral house of Fei's family in Henglin.

The eunuch held a whip in his hand, pointed at Fei Yuanzhen and said, "Hekou Town is the most affluent in Qianshan County, and the annual gate tax is raised to 100 taels. You are the head of the Fei clan, and I will give you half a month. If the collection is not complete, I will come directly to the Fei family to ask for money!"

"Cough, cough, cough!"

Fei Yuanzhen coughed repeatedly, and said weakly, "I want to teach you to know that the old man is weak and sick, and he is in Henglin, so he really can't control the river mouth. Please respect..."

"Carry in!" the eunuch interrupted.

The servants brought by the eunuch were gangsters recruited in the county.These bastards showed off their might, and actually brought in a thin-skin coffin.

Fei Yuan was really frightened.

"After half a month, if the tax is not paid by the door stalls, you can lie down and go in by yourself!" The eunuch left with one sentence.

Fei Yuan was so angry that he stomped his feet: "How can there be such a reason, how can there be such a reason!"

The gentry discussed it immediately, but they couldn't imagine it, so they could only go to the governor and the censor to complain.

Those patrolling censors were originally promoted by Chongzhen, so how could they care about the business of tax eunuchs?

The governor of Jiangxi has been replaced by Xie Xuelong, who is quite capable.But now that the Donglin Party is on the wane, he dares not offend the eunuch again, and is busy rebuilding the Tengwang Pavilion, taking the opportunity to get some money back.

After a short battle, the eunuch won.

Each family pooled money to pay taxes, only two thousand and one hundred taels, and they could still take it out.What's more, small vendors also share their shares, and for the gentry, each household can't share much.

But what about continuing to raise taxes next year?

The eunuchs can't get enough to feed, and the magistrates and soap officials are also eyeing them!

This is just the tax on the door. Their tea factories, paper factories...why don't they increase the labor tax?

Pass it on to the workers and peasants!

The wages of workers fell as a whole; the rent of tenants' land rose as a whole.

Even the monthly money of the domestic slaves has also decreased, and dissatisfaction is generally brewing at the bottom of the society.

As the Chinese New Year is approaching, the eunuchs privately set up four banknote gates in Qianshan.

One was located in Ehu Town, the other was located in Shitang Town, the other was located in Henglin Town, and the other was located in Shanglu Town, which blocked all the commercial waterways of Qianshan.

Eunuchs did not dare to collect taxes on paper (cultural goods), and set up a separate item to collect "cabin tax", and all passing ships had to pay.

This time, foreign merchants are also miserable, and can only bite the bullet and pay.At the same time, while raising the price of goods, while squeezing the wages of boatmen.

Boatmen, boat clubs, resentment builds.

Zhao Han watched this with a cold eye, just waiting for the eunuch to burn a few more fires.

Chapter 074 [Miss]

Goose Lake Fee House.

Jingxingyuan, the inner courtyard.

Lou was flipping through the second issue of Goose Lake Xunkan, and Fei Chun knelt in front of her and dared not speak.

After a long time, Lou said, "Brother Han was removed, why didn't you come back and tell me earlier."

Fei Chun replied bravely: "Brother Han said that this matter cannot be reported to the wife. The removal of Tong Sheng is irreversible. If the wife knew earlier, she would definitely have a conflict with the old man. Discord in the house is not what Brother Han intended. "