What? Is the eunuch party opposed to strict business taxation?
It wasn't Su Jin who was dumbfounded now, most of the people present were dumbfounded. Are these candidates from Jiangxi and Hunan rebelling against the eunuchs and Donglin?
"Don't talk nonsense. Why would the eunuch party oppose the levy of business tax?"
"That's right! The eunuchs have always used brutal methods to win favor, and they have used their hands to profit from it..."
"In those days, the mine supervisors and tax supervisors of the eunuch party were rampant all over the country. They collected taxes without market, lost money when there were no mines, poisoned the southeast, and brought disaster to all parts of the country!"
As expected, there are still some Juren who understand the truth, and soon there will be arguments with those Juren from Hunan and Jiangxi who do not understand the truth.
But immediately more people from Hunan, Jiangxi, and even Juzi with Shandong accents joined the dispute.
"That's nonsense! In those days, the mining tax and business tax were imposed to gain wealth for selfish desires. Nowadays, the strict business tax is imposed to protect Konglin and Southeast China. How can they be confused?"
"Yes! The current eunuchs are colluding with the Tatars to destroy our Han people, and to resist the bandits, we have to spend money! Where does the money come from? In order to fight against the bandits, the imperial court also exempted the people of the southeast from paying taxes for three years. If we don't collect some of the five-year land tax from merchants, how will the imperial court support its troops? How will it protect the Han people?"
"That's right! If the imperial court doesn't have money to raise troops, the Tatars will come over and take over our Han people's territory. Then we will all be the slaves of the Tatars! So only the eunuch traitors who have surrendered to the Tatars will oppose the expropriation of merchants. Tax!"
Okay, now you become a traitor!
If you are a good scholar, you will be smeared as a traitor...
Su Jin was stunned for a moment. Only then did he realize that the leader of Shihlin was not that easy to say, and he couldn't speak clearly: "I, I, I, I...I am not a traitor of the Eunuch Party! You, you, you, you Who is he?"
"We are the successors of Donglin!"
He is a member of the Donglin Party!
They turned out to be genuine Donglin Party members. They were all the eldest sons and Denglai talents who had gone through the formalities and became disciples of the famous Donglin Party members. Not all of the "talents" chosen by Denglienko stayed in Denglai. Lai, some of them worked as sesame mung bean officials in various yamen of the imperial court. Before the Enke Competition, Zhu Cixiang selected a group of strong and somewhat literary young men from the eldest son in Beijing and Denglai talents, named them Juren, and arranged for them to enter Donglin... Just for this one!
"What? Are you Donglin's successor?"
"How could Donglin's successor support excessive taxation and expropriation?"
"Who is your husband? Tell me, I am Fan Yiji who founded Fushe in Suzhou!"
Some people still raised questions! Among them was an important figure in the Fushe Society in Suzhou, Old Master Fan Yiji—that was an old man in the examination room who had failed in the Jinshi examination eight times! Although I always fail in the Jinshi examination, my master is still there! Moreover, when Fan Lao Juren was in poverty, he worked as a private school teacher in many Suzhou silk merchants' homes. Many of his disciples are now wealthy businessmen in Suzhou, so of course they must praise their Juren teacher. So Mr. Fan used the money from his students to travel to Shilin, and became quite familiar with Qian Qianyi, Huang Daozhou, Zhu Shunshui and other famous scholars in the south of the Yangtze River.
Therefore, when some young people who claim to be members of the Donglin Party meet him, they have to call him Mr. Fan and call themselves juniors!
Su Jin, a talented scholar from Suzhou, was his disciple in his early years - when Su Caizi was a little boy, he followed Master Fan in reciting the Three-Character Sutra. Later, Su Caizi won the imperial examination and still respected his "primary school teacher". Now When Master Fan saw a good student being bullied, he couldn't help but stand up.
"So you are the Mao conscience-minded old thief Fan!" A "Wugang talented man" who spoke Xiangyin jumped up immediately and pointed at Fan Yiji, "He is the eunuch and traitor Fan!"
"Hit him!"
"kill him!"
"Hit, hit, hit..."
Okay, now there’s a lot of shouting and fighting!
No, it’s not a cry of beating, it’s a real beating! A young and strong man from Shandong Province made the first move, jumped up and grabbed Old Master Fan's beard, and then slapped him with a big-eared shaver. The beating made Old Man Fan have stars in his eyes, a handful of his beard was pulled off, and there was a burning sting on his right cheek.
When had the old man ever suffered such a loss? He was completely confused. He covered his face and looked at the "strong man-like lifter" who was beating people in horror. He couldn't even speak clearly, "You, you, you...you How to hit someone?"
"Yeah, how do you hit someone?"
"How can you hit someone?"
"This is Jiangnan Gongyuan, how dare you hit someone here?"
Someone is about to stand up to defend Old Master Fan. After all, Old Master Fan is a celebrity in Suzhou Shilin and cannot be beaten!
"Beat the eunuchs and traitors!"
"Yes! Traitors deserve to be beaten!"
"You want to help him, are you his accomplices?"
The group of people who beat people were even more arrogant. They rolled up their sleeves and looked ready to take action!
A protest on behalf of the people and against excessive taxation was about to turn into a group fight in the blink of an eye... Moreover, the person was being promoted and the person was being promoted, and the location was the Jiangnan Gongyuan where the examination of the Ministry of Etiquette was held. This was really a disgrace to politeness.
The candidates who gathered downstairs in Mingyuan were a little confused. They were here to take the exam for the literary Jinshi, not the martial arts. Why did they bring all the martial arts students with them?
Besides, didn't these people gather downstairs in Mingyuan to protest against the imperial court's excessive taxation? Why hasn't the official of the imperial court shown up yet, and the magistrates started pinching themselves first? How to calculate the battle between lifting people and lifting people? Who can a person who has been beaten go to to complain?
"Hit, hit, hit!"
"Beat the eunuch traitors to death..."
"Fight!"
Downstairs in Mingyuan, two to three hundred strong men from Hunan, Jiangxi, and Shandong were shouting and beating together, frightening the other men who had gathered to make trouble. This group of arrogant people who didn't know what they had eaten were frightened when they saw the people making noises downstairs in Mingyuan, and their arrogance became even more arrogant. They yelled and rushed towards them to fight.
This frightened the gentlemen who were talkative but not violent. They ran around holding their heads in their hands, shouting as they walked: "Don't hit, don't hit, I'm not a traitor to the eunuchs..."
This scene that happened downstairs in Mingyuan naturally made Zhu Cixiang, Wu Meicun, Gong Dingzi and Qian Qianyi who had just been rescued take a look at it.
"Okay, okay, as expected, there is still a sensible person!" Zhu Cixiang looked back at Qian Qianyi, who was pale, and said, "Teacher, why don't you go downstairs and take 100 fire rifle soldiers for inspection? By the way, Su from Suzhou It is possible that Ju and Fan Ju are traitors of the Eunuch Party, do you think you should ask Jin Yiwei to investigate?"
Qian Qianyi knew Fan Yiji and had a very good relationship with him. Of course he knew that he could not be an eunuch, but he did not dare to protect his old friend too much, so he could only say feebly: "There is no need to investigate, just revoke the title of Juren." .”
"Where's that Su Juren?"
"Removal also results in a loss of fame."
Zhu Cixiang was satisfied, nodded and said: "Okay, let's revoke their titles...Teacher, you are the leader of Donglin, why don't you inform them of the news!"
