We all know that bureaucrats love to raise taxes.
Because there is a one cent tax added above, they can collect five cents of tax, and then peel off four cents at every level, leaving one cent to the court for errands.
The Daojun Emperor Zhu Houcon should have a very deep understanding of this, so he recognized the exploitation of bureaucrats, but only required that the amount of bureaucratic exploitation should not exceed his share.
But even with such a "humble" request, the bureaucrats often could not satisfy the Dao Lord and Emperor. At most, they would give a little more, but the big head was still lost under the layers of exploitation by the bureaucrats.
In order to ensure taxation issues, Su Yonglin specially set up a quasi-armed force of the State Administration of Taxation and tax collectors, and spent great efforts on taxation issues across the country to safeguard the interests of ordinary people in taxation.
For individual taxpayers and collectives nationwide, the State Administration of Taxation and tax collectors have great authority. If the other party has tax evasion, the State Administration of Taxation can dispatch tax collectors to arrest them. The judicial department has set up a separate tax court in the State Administration of Taxation to handle tax issues. Conduct a strict and expeditious trial.
Despite this, during the tax construction period in these years, there were still a large number of individuals and collectives evading taxes. Some collective farms also committed illegal activities, and the State Administration of Taxation dispatched tax collectors to directly arrest many responsible persons and struck hard. .
Since Su Yonglin took the initiative to pay taxes, officials in the Ming Dynasty also had to pay taxes on their income. Therefore, during the eight-year rectification movement of Hongwu, there were cases of tax evasion by state-level officials.
For example, the governor of Dengzhou was arrested by the tax collectors of the State Administration of Taxation because of tax evasion. The governor was taken away in chains. Because the amount involved was relatively large, the tax court directly sentenced him severely. Sentenced to eighteen years of reform through labor.
Ming Dynasty paid such a tight attention to taxation work, so it had sufficient fiscal revenue to support Ming Dynasty's huge consumption system to do many, many equally huge consumption tasks.
As for Zou Yana, there is only one decree.
In order to purchase high-quality weapons from the Ming Dynasty, you will share the hardships and infamy of the people. Just collect the money for me.
So the bureaucracy was ecstatic.
Then the bureaucrats of the Champa State happily began to operate, and successfully made it difficult for the people who could only barely eat to eat.
The farmers, not to mention their rations, even their seed grains were taken away.
Small businessmen were unable to pay taxes, their shops were closed, their goods were robbed, and people were beaten.
From the small handicraftsmen, even their meals were confiscated as taxes.
Fishermen and other people who rely on the water will not be allowed to enter the water without paying taxes. If you starve to death without negotiation, if you don't pay taxes, you will not be qualified to eat.
From worries and fears at the beginning, to resentment and anger later, a protest against the tax increase finally broke out in Vijaya City, the capital of the Champa State.
At the beginning, the protest was relatively normal. Everyone gathered together to keep warm, refused to pay taxes to the bureaucrats, and claimed to file a petition to Zou Yana, asking him not to continue to increase taxes.
Of course, the bureaucrats will not let these "unruly people" tell Zou Yana exactly what happened. After all, if Zou Yana knew that the tax increase requested by the bureaucrats and the tax increase he requested were almost not the same thing, I am afraid she would not be very friendly to these bureaucrats. .
I get one point and you get four points?
There is no such thing as being taken advantage of!
The bureaucrats intimidate the people, make them pay taxes honestly, and threaten them to mobilize the army to deal with them. The people have no way out, but they are not afraid of it.
The bureaucrats became increasingly frightened and felt that they could not allow the situation to continue, so they decided to dispatch some troops to use violent means to disperse these "unruly people" and safeguard their own interests.
The army was immediately dispatched, causing tragedy on the streets of Vijaya. Many people were unprepared and were beaten badly by the army, and then were robbed by the soldiers.
Unexpectedly, this traditional skill caused even greater chaos.
The most cruel thing in the world is to forget about the death of a person, but to deprive the whole family. The most cruel thing in the world is this. Some people who did not participate in the protest were also angered. Under the threat of death, they faced the soldiers who rushed to the door. , they were furious.
As a result, larger-scale riots broke out throughout Vijaya City. The angry people united and beat up the lone soldiers, killing many people, and gradually gained the upper hand.
There were even more angry people who attacked the government and killed many corrupt officials.
Now the bureaucrats were panicking, and after realizing that things were getting out of control, they could only rely on Zou Yana, who had also taken a big bite out of this incident, to send He Ba, the top commander of the new army, to request him to dispatch the legendary most powerful person. The elite new army was dispatched.
He Ba was also panicked.
He would not dare to disobey Zou Yana. Now Zou Yana does not know about this matter and is still kept in the dark. But once the matter really gets big and reaches the palace, and Zou Yana learns about it, once he orders a strict investigation, she will It is also inseparable.
Then you must die?
In fear, Heba quickly found Chaquan and ordered him to immediately dispatch new troops to suppress the people and restore peace in Vijaya City.
At this moment, a relatively intense game is also going on within the New Army.
In fact, in the early stages of the public protests against taxation, the revolutionary factions in the Champa State Revival Association branch, which had been developing for some time, could no longer sit still.
They concealed their identities and went into the private sector to investigate the actual situation. They witnessed corrupt officials intensifying their persecution of the people, as well as the people's difficult living conditions.
After this incident was circulated internally, the rise of moderate reform ideas in the Champa State Revival Association branch was curbed.
After the bureaucrats mobilized the army to start killing people wantonly and looting people's property, Cha Quan immediately defined the Zou Yana regime as a bastard regime that was completely reactionary and hopeless.
Anyone who continues to hold reform ideas and believes that the Zou Yana regime can be reformed and saved is an enemy of the revolutionaries and should be expelled immediately and draw a clear line with him.
Chaquan's suggestion was supported by most people. A small number of moderate reformists who were still unwilling to let go did not dare to speak out against the general trend and could only bow their heads and remain silent.
Later, Chaquan decided to do something, such as sending people with weapons into the civilian population to organize the people to rise up against the tax-collecting officials and the army. They should be leaders, inspiring the people to rise up to resist, and fight to the death against the reactionary forces.
And Chaquan also decided to take advantage of this chaotic opportunity to gather the elite main force of the new army to launch a sneak attack, attack the palace, capture Zou Yana, control all the powerful bureaucrats, control the entire Vijaya City, and establish a revolutionary provisional government.
"The time has come to launch a revolution! The reactionary bastards are arbitrarily abusing the people, hurting their bodies, and devouring their flesh and blood. The people are wailing and they are dying! As revolutionaries, can we just sit back and ignore it?"
(End of chapter)
