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Chapter 820

When Zhu Yuanzhang conquered the world, he was angry that the people of Wu supported Zhang Shicheng. As a punishment, Suzhou, Songjiang, Hangzhou, Jiaxing and so on, Zhang Shicheng's territory was originally subject to heavy taxes.

In Suzhou, there are seven counties, and the land tax is more than that in Zhejiang Province, while in Songjiang Prefecture, there are only two counties, and the land tax is equivalent to half of that in Suzhou Prefecture. It is heavy and distorted and has reached a terrifying level.

Not only did there be a lot of land taxes, officials from Wu were not allowed to join the Ministry of Revenue as officials. For example, Jiajing had thought of letting Tang Yi enter the Ministry of Revenue, but because of this rule, he finally gave up.

The gentry and people in Suzhou have long been filled with resentment.

The Ming Dynasty has been established for almost two hundred years, but who still remembers Zhang Shicheng? How many years of Chen Zhimao and Milky Ways have passed by almost ten generations, so why should I still impose more taxes on Wu?

Everyone is the people of the Ming Dynasty, but the court cannot treat everyone equally. Who can convince? The most resentment was circulated in scholars and gentry circles, but in recent years, Suzhou has developed its economy and has flourished, newspapers are flying everywhere, ordinary peddlers and ordinary people know that the tax burden we bear is several times higher than other places? This is too much.

Don’t worry about lack of weight but worry about inequality!

Everyone had a lot of thoughts, but Eunuch Wu made such a fuss, and all the new and old hatreds were aroused.

Although the scholars who were arrested were relieved, they were still full of anger. Most of these people were disciples of the Taizhou School, He Xinyin's fellow disciples, and they were full of trouble outside. How could they not join in the fun?

Someone who was flirting with the court found all the taxes collected over the years. Nothing else was needed. When everyone saw the data, they immediately stopped doing it. Zhejiang's seven mountains, two rivers and one branch of land was borne by one tenth of the land tax in the Ming Dynasty. This is heavy enough. Good guy, Suzhou's seven counties and one state, is even more than Zhejiang, and can match the sum of several northern provinces.

This is just land tax. If the tariffs of the Liberation Bureau are included, the Suzhou government will bear more than a quarter of the Ming Dynasty taxes, and will also support the military expenditure of the southeast to fight against the Japanese.

Even if Suzhou has mountains of gold and silver, it cannot withstand such exploitation!

It’s okay to take money from Suzhou, but we also sent eunuchs to arrest our people and seal our academy. Didn’t the court clearly bully people?

Everyone has resentment. When I read He Xinyin's "Mingyi Waiwenlu" again, the students and the people all had an idea: Hero He is right!

As a result, Suzhou's bookstores were running high and kept printing "Mingyi Waiwenlu" day and night. Everyone became more and more convinced that the emperor was a great disaster in the world!

There were more people who wrote chapters, scolding the court for being shameless and Emperor Zhu’s greedy. They demanded that the burden on the people of Suzhou should be reduced. When the silk households saw the people’s sentiment, they decisively stopped supplying silk to the weaving bureau.

The boatmen in Liujiagang, Taicang, refused to load and unload grain. They said it well. If the court doesn’t give me an explanation, we won’t give Emperor Zhu food to see who can’t stand it.

Ge Shouli was also very angry. The old man had been ups and downs in his official career for decades and had never encountered anything. He was determined to calm down. He didn't expect that the troublemakers in Suzhou were so naughty and bold, and he treated me as a face?

The furious Ge Shouli ordered the confiscation of the demon books on the market, and sent someone to the dock to force the boatman to resume work immediately.

To be honest, Lao Ge is quite polite, but public opinion has been provoked. His move just confirmed the accusations from all parties. Your Ge Shouli’s actions are exactly the same as Eunuch Wu. His previous apology was all false and false, coaxing the people.

Feeling that the fooled people could not bear it anymore, thousands of people surrounded Ge Shouli's imperial envoy. At first, they just shouted, but later they threw things inside, organized people to seal the imperial envoy...

Sitting in a distressed city, Ge Shouli was puzzled. The people of Suzhou were even more hateful than the bandits in the Central Plains. They didn't tell any truth. I treated all kinds of courtesy and ended up like this. These troublemakers can be killed and not kept.

Ge Shouli thought about it all night and thought about it several times. He simply waved his pen and ordered it. The army went out and stewed all the rioters.

Standing at the window and looking outside, the old man couldn't bear it anymore. The huge Suzhou City was brightly lit and full of flowers. After ten years of hard work, the whole world was incomparable to the grand prosperity of the city.

If you launch a great war, no matter what the result is, Suzhou will be destroyed and his paradise will be destroyed. God will punish you!

Ge Shouli's heart was bleeding, and he gritted his teeth and wrote the situation truthfully into a memorial.

The outside was blocked by the people, so I found a dog hole. The sender was wearing casual clothes and crawled out in a mess, and quickly sent messages to the capital...

"In a few days, we will arrive in Yangzhou. It's a good place!" Tang Yi stretched and said with a smile: "Teacher, I guess you are old, so you can only see the skinny horse. You can take a bath and practice pedicures."

Tang Shunzhi rolled his eyes and lamented, "I will die one day, it must be angering for you! I am a rebellious disciple, a rebellious disciple!"

Tang Yi didn't care, "You are always swearing more and more, it's a good phenomenon."

Tang Shunzhi was about to hit him, and Tang Yi quickly lifted the curtain of the car. As soon as he came out, Tang Hezheng ran over with a tray. From a distance, he smelled a fragrance, refreshing his heart and his index finger was moving.

"What good thing?"

Tang He was like a treasure offered, lifting the lid. Tang Yi glanced at him, "Are you a yellow eel?"

"It's a loach." Tang Hezheng smiled and said, "I heard from fellow villagers that eating golden loaches is extremely powerful and can be invincible for all diseases. A hundred years ago, they had a martial arts genius who ate golden loaches as thick as a child's arm. They waved their arms and had hundreds of kilograms of strength!"

"This is the biggest loach I have selected to ensure that I can strengthen my body."

"That's great!" Tang Yi smiled and entered the carriage. The three of them sat around the small table and tasted the "loof golden loach". It was indeed extremely delicious. Even Tang Shunzhi drank half a bowl and sweated his nose. Seeing Tang Yi and Tang Hezheng were so happy.

After eating, I still have to rush to the road. After ten miles, I will arrive at the place where I stay.

The convoy walked forward, with more than a dozen horses behind him, and they rushed to catch up at lightning speed. They walked around the front of the convoy, and the leader jumped off the horse's back and clasped his fists with both hands.

"Secretary Yang Jisheng, pay homage to the Tang Pavilion Master, Tang's Temple!"

Seeing that the carriage was not moving, Yang Jisheng shouted twice in a row.

In the car, Tang Yi and Tang Shunzhi stared at each other, and no one wanted to see Yang Jisheng. Seeing that the outside was screaming anxiously, Tang Shunzhi closed his eyes and sighed: "Yuanqing, my father's body can't hold on anymore. I'm going to sleep for a while, you guys go down."

"This is the move again!"

Tang Yi is speechless, there is really nothing he can do with the teacher.

Forget it, he lifted the curtain of the car, jumped out of it, and walked to Yang Jisheng.

Before he could speak, he sighed first, "Mr. Jiaoshan, you are here in a hurry. I guess there must be something wrong. However, I have already asked for leave and I want to be filial to my master. I also ask Mr. Jiaoshan to understand my difficulties and go back quickly."

"Go back? Wouldn't that be in vain!"

Yang Jisheng and Tang Yi have been dealing with for many years and knowing that this boy is very knowledgeable, he said with a dark face: "Xingzhi, I came after him from the capital."

Tang Yi shrugged.

"There are a big big deal that is urgent."

Tang Yi still spread his hands.

Yang Jisheng was furious, "What's wrong with you? Eat the king's fortune and be loyal to the king."

Tang Yi scratched his head and finally spoke, "Duke Jiaoshan, it seems that the court owes me half a year's salary. The landlord can't use long-term work in vain, you say yes!"

"Pooh!"

Yang Jisheng spat fiercely at Tang Yi, "You Tang Xingzhi still cares about that little salary? Don't think I don't know how many industries your Tang family has in the southeast, how much money you have in your hands, and how rich you have is that country. The taxes collected in the Ming Dynasty may not necessarily have your wealth. You deserve it! It's good, not good, I'll say all over the world and reveal your old secrets. Let's see who is afraid of whom, I, Yang Jisheng, are barefoot, not afraid of you wearing shoes!"

This person jumped and jumped on the ground. Tang Yi's face turned red and white as he said, and he was so angry that he gritted his teeth.

"Yang Jisheng, just say, who is afraid of whom, you don't need to spread the word all over the world. Do you dare to say something in front of your sister-in-law, and see if she lets you kneel on the washboard?"

One thing is reduced to another, Yang Jisheng sprayed a mouthful of old blood, like a deflated ball, his head drooping, and everyone was afraid. Yang Jisheng felt that the most owed to his wife in this life was his wife. He followed him, suffered and suffered, and was frightened. When he was arrested and imprisoned, his wife also wrote a letter to exchange her life for her life. No matter how much love she had, she would not be able to pay it back in the next life!

He pulled Tang Yi to the tree by the roadside, lifted his robe, "Okay, I'll beg you yet!"

Tang Yi was startled and quickly reached out to support Yang Jisheng, "You just calculated that I was soft or hard, and said, what exactly is it."

Yang Jisheng was stunned, "Hold, you really don't know?"

"What do I know? My master is so ill. I have no time to take care of other things with the old man." Tang Yi said angrily.

Yang Jisheng didn't have any doubts, "As it happens, I'll say that the chaos in Suzhou has become a big deal again."

"What? Didn't you send Ge Shouli?" Tang Yi exclaimed: "This old man is respected and experienced, and can't handle the small mess in Suzhou. It's a joke."

"Not a joke at all." Yang Jisheng shook his head with a wry smile, "The old man went to Suzhou, released all teachers and students, and ran to the academy to apologize..."

"It's over!"

Tang Yi's face suddenly collapsed, "How could Old Man Ge make this mistake? Let him ask Yang Bo, when Jiubian has made a fortune, don't kill a few to establish his authority before he can be kind. Blindly accommodating and giving in will only make those people more aggressive, greedy, and cause bigger troubles. Old Man Ge has been an official all his life, and he still doesn't understand this little thing?"

Can you not understand?

Yang Jisheng was also deceived by Tang Yi's skillful acting skills. He lamented: "Are you still eager to achieve success? To put on Yang Bo's face? This time, I'm going to wipe off my face with dust. As expected, Suzhou is in chaos, and no one can succeed except you. Master Xu asked me to chase you overnight. For the sake of the people, you have to take on this burden!"

Tang Yi closed his eyes and thought, and smiled bitterly for a while, "Mr. Jiaoshan, I am unwilling to do my best. I am from Suzhou. I asked me to deal with it. Whether it is good or bad, Zhu Bajie looks in the mirror."

"How to say it?"
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