It turned out that these Suzhou battalion soldiers who suddenly appeared were already attacking these mine thieves.
For a moment, the sound of gunfire continued.
In a moment, white smoke filled the air.
The whole Suzhou Changmen seems to be in the clouds and mist.
Therefore, the surrounding soldiers and people could not see how bloody the scene was. They could only see people falling in the clouds and mist, and from time to time they made chilling screams.
Before Wanli's reform, most of the people who mined privately were poor people who had to go into the mountains to mine because of heavy taxes and corvees and excessive exploitation by officials and gentry.
But now, corvées have long been exempted, and many miscellaneous taxes have also been exempted.
The imperial court also moved a large number of landless people overseas or recruited them as craftsmen.
Therefore, most of those who still dare to mine privately are actually desperadoes who only want to make huge profits, or they are forces colluding with local gentry and powerful officials.
Now that these mine thieves are killed, it can't be considered unkind.
As the most violent court in the Ming Dynasty, while helping those in need, it was also necessary to use violence to purge lawless people.
Otherwise, the rules cannot be upheld.
This time when he came to Changmen, Suzhou, Shi Shanyan, the leader of the mine thieves who was planning to pretend to be an official army to massacre the strikers thanks to the advice of Anbo Zhang Yuanshan, suddenly shouted anxiously:
"Don't kill me! I am Donghaiwei Baihu, and I am willing to confess!"
Suzhou garrison commander Wang Su, who was ordered to suppress these mine thieves, immediately took out his big bow and pointed it at Shi Shanyan who was shouting.
In an instant.
Shi Shanyan was hit by an arrow and fell to the ground. The arrow penetrated his chest.
And he fell to the ground dumbfounded: "Why did you kill me?"
Not long after, these mine thieves were all killed.
When the thick fog dissipated, you could see bloody porridge and corpses lying in the market.
Many people in the city, who had never seen weapons in their lives, turned pale with fright.
"It's a pity that Cui Xianxue and these people mentioned it and ran away."
The old worker Xue Qin was relatively calm. Looking at this scene, he only said this, and then turned to Li Yaomin from the East Factory and handed over his hand:
"Have bowed, and please tell the emperor to tell him not to argue with ignorant people like us. We have been misled by those powerful people! I thought that the introduction of luxury tax would ultimately affect our own income, and also I just thought that with their support, I would dare to cause trouble."
"Unexpectedly, the powerful people behind this do not dare to support us. They have already thought of killing us. They want us to hate the emperor and the court, so that they can sit back and watch the fight between tigers and tigers."
"Thankfully we have your factory guards, otherwise we would not only have died tragically in the street today, but we would also have misunderstood the emperor."
"rest assured!"
"However, you should also learn from the mistakes you make, and don't be so easily deceived and used as a spear by others."
After Li Yaomin agreed, he also began to teach these workers.
"We remember."
"Yes, we no longer believe the words of these bosses."
The workers agreed unanimously.
Li Yaomin nodded and said, "Don't be discouraged. Although scabs like Cui Xianxue have escaped, they will be caught soon. Anyone who dares to fight with the imperial court will not end well!"
…
"master!"
"Oh no, there are real soldiers coming from outside Changmen!"
Cui Xianxue had already arrived at Cheng Tianlie's place, and Cheng Tianlie was shocked when he heard this: "How did the court know? Are there people from their factory guards among the mine thieves?"
Cui Xianxue replied: "Younger ones don't know either."
Cheng Tianlie said at this time: "The factory guards are serious now. The factory guards and battalion commanders in Suzhou may have been replaced, but we don't know."
"That's what the master said."
Cui Xianxue agreed and asked Cheng Tianlie: "Sir, didn't you say you would stop others from persuading the workers to give up the strike and give me one hundred taels of silver as a reward?"
"What silver reward?"
Cheng Tianlie asked.
Cui Xianxue said anxiously: "You said it yourself."
Cheng Tianlie chuckled: "You idiot, is it really because we will reward you with a silver reward? Don't say that something went wrong now. Even if there was no mistake, a shameless villain like you would not get a silver reward."
"you!"
Cui Xianxue was shocked and asked, "Aren't you afraid that I will sue the government?"
Cheng Tianlie said: "It's up to you! If you are not afraid of the government punishing you for colluding with the mine thieves and massacring the workers and putting the blame on the court, then you can go ahead and sue."
As he spoke, Cheng Tianlie shouted "Prepare your horses" and then walked out of the yard. He only sneered: "You don't even have to ask yourself whether you are qualified to participate in our transaction."
Cui Xianxue was stunned on the spot.
At this time, several men with rude faces surrounded him with knives.
Although Cheng Tianlie said that Cui Xianxue could sue him casually, he was still worried that Cui Xianxue would be defeated, so he had already arranged for someone to be guarded.
Cui Xianxue didn't dare to move anymore when he saw this.
Here, as soon as Cheng Tianlie arrived in Nandu, he informed Hui'an Bo Zhang Yuanshan about this.
After Zhang Yuanshan learned about this from Cheng Tianlie, he was also very frightened: "What should I do?"
At the same time, Jin Yiwei walked in at this moment.
Seeing this, Zhang Yuanshan hurriedly asked: "Who are you?"
Chen Yizheng, a member of the Jinyi Guard Qianhu, waved his badge in front of Zhang Yuanshan and Cheng Tianlie: "We have found out that the culprit who colluded with the ore thieves has entered Tan Mansion, so we ask Uncle Hui An to come with us."
Zhang Yuanshan asked: "Where is Shi Qianhu, the original resident?"
"I went to Myanmar to hunt for pearls."
Chen Yizheng replied.
Zhang Yuanshan took a few steps back after hearing this.
…
The official residence courtyard.
Chief Assistant Qi Jiguang, Privy Councilor Li Chengliang, and Jinyi Guard Left Commander Zhang Jingxiu were sitting in the Central Park in the courtyard of the official residence, drinking tea and enjoying the spring.
As members of the military, the three of them are relatively close now.
"This time, more than 120 Jinyiwei were dismissed and exiled, and more than 57 people from the Dongchang Official School were all due to laziness or active concealment of local people's conditions. Fortunately, not all Jinyiwei were lazy or actively concealed it. There are still hidden lines. Quite a few serious ones.”
At this time, Zhang Jingxiu smiled and talked about Jin Yiwei to Qi Jiguang and Li Chengliang, and said with a smile:
"So, those powerful people who oppose the imposition of luxury tax may not know that some of us in Jinyiwei are secretly mining with desperadoes for the purpose of finding out who are the desperadoes who still dare to mine in the country. Who else?"
"As long as Jin Yiwei takes it seriously, many things will be much easier. If Jin Yiwei hadn't taken the strike seriously, it might have seriously affected the reputation of the imperial court, and the consequences would be unimaginable."
Qi Jiguang also smiled and said something at this time.
Li Chengliang smiled and said: "You can't be serious. The military reform is ahead. We, including the Jin Yiwei, have become nobles higher than the scholar-bureaucrats. We can no longer do business. We can only be courteous, filial to our parents, and blessed our children and grandchildren." It is said that we are truly separated from the country! If we don’t take it seriously, even if the country is not destroyed, we will have to go back to the past, and we will have to be like the civil servants, we will be spanked when we say we will be spanked."
"What the Prime Minister said is, that's what I told them, and it did work. The official schools below also understand this."
Zhang Jingxiu said.
Qi Jiguang said with a serious face at this moment: "But levying a luxury tax is, after all, an enemy of carnivores, so this matter is not that simple. You have to be strong to strike the iron. There is no need to be afraid of the wealthy gentry. The most they can do is smear it. We cursed in secret and arranged it in our notes, but although we ourselves are all swordsmen and valued by the country, we are not necessarily so sensible and righteous."
Li Chengliang nodded and said: "Then use what Xu Huating said, return the power to the Lord. As long as His Majesty wants to kill anyone, even if it is a disloyal and disloyal son of my Li family, I will never complain or plead for mercy."
Zhang Jingxiu also followed: "The same goes for the Zhang family."
Qi Jiguang nodded and smiled.
Next, Zhang Yuanshan and others were arrested by Jin Yiwei and brought to Beijing. Together with Gong Yunzhi, the censor who had abused the punishment staff to punish Mei Hai, they were thrown into prison for interrogation.
"I said! I said!"
"I gave my instructions for the strike. Li Yingchen, the Bo of Xiangcheng, and Yan Shideng, the Chief Inspector of Henan, also cooperated in ordering their workshops to go on strike. Please give me Wuxiang."
Zhang Yuanshan was raped as soon as he came to prison, and he soon became addicted to it, and couldn't help but confess everything.
Wang Yongji, the Secretary of the Ministry of Punishment, therefore petitioned Zhang Yuanshan to be put to death, and Li Yingchen was exiled to Ezo (Hokkaido) to raise horses and serve in the army. Because the two were military officials, they were lenient;
Yan Shideng and Gong Yunzhi were both executed according to law.
The reason is that Yan Shiden resisted the national policy and colluded with the mine thieves, so he should be punished with the death penalty;
Gong Yunzhi not only wanted to kill military households with the rod, but also killed military households of Xiaoling Guards with the rod. He also indulged in drunkenness and made a fuss about Xiaoling Guards. This was disrespectful to Taizu and was of a particularly bad nature, so he had to be sentenced to death according to the law.
Zhu Yijun therefore approved it, so Zhang Yuanshan was given poisoned wine and died in prison.
Yan Shideng and Gong Yunzhi, who were arrested from their homes and brought to Beijing, were taken to the city.
Li Yingchen was carried away to the newly established Ezo Guards in the Ming Dynasty with tears in his eyes.
At the same time, the luxury tax continues to be levied.
Xushuguan, as one of the seven major banknotes of the Ming Dynasty, Shen Mao, the director of the National Tax Department stationed here, has begun to collect luxury taxes in accordance with the new decree.
"Huanghuali from Uncle Chengyi's Mansion?"
On this day, a batch of huanghuali from Nandu was stopped by officers and soldiers of the National Taxation Department at Xushuguan.
"That's right, it's the business of Uncle Chengcheng's Mansion. Do you really want to impose additional taxes?"
Liu Shangyi, the son of Liu Shiyan, who personally escorted the batch of huanghuali, replied at this time, and asked again while waving his folding fan.
"Why don't you dare!"
Shen Mao, who had just been transferred from the Busan Xuanfu Division, came over and said something.
Liu Shangyi has always been lawless because of his young age and the fact that he was doted on by his parents since childhood.
Historically, he was the first to be impeached by the eunuch Dang Cunren for "helping evildoers and occupying Tianzhou for personal gain and violating the law." And because he was so lawless, even the civil servants Fu Zuozhou and Dai Shiqi couldn't stand it and did not help him just because he was impeached by the eunuch. , also impeached him.
Therefore, now he also shouted: "Hit me!"
The large group of servants raised by Liu Shangyi were also very brave and fierce. They actually picked up the guys and beat them up at Shen Mao and the Hushu customs officer.
boom!
At this time, Shen Mao turned back, took out the fire, and lit the closed artillery directly.
I will add another chapter tonight. I will update 10,000 words today.
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