Qiming 1158

Chapter 1612 It's time to start a revolution!
As we all know, bureaucrats like to raise taxes the most.

Because one cent of the tax is added, they can collect five cents of the tax, and then strip off four cents layer by layer, and throw one cent to the imperial court for errands.

In this regard, Daojun Emperor Zhu Houxuan should have a very deep understanding, so he admitted the exploitation of the bureaucrats, but only required that the amount of exploitation by the bureaucrats should not exceed his share.

But even with such "humble" requirements, the bureaucrats often couldn't satisfy the Daojun Emperor, and at most gave a little more, but the big head was still lost under the layers of exploitation by the bureaucrats.

In order to ensure tax issues, Su Yonglin specially set up a quasi-armed force called the State Administration of Taxation and Tax Soldiers, and spent a lot of thought on tax issues throughout the country to safeguard the interests of the common people in tax matters.

For 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 sets up a separate tax court in the State Taxation Administration to deal with tax issues. Have a strict and swift trial.

Despite this, during the taxation construction in these years, there were still a large number of individuals and collectives who evaded and evaded taxes. Some collective farms also committed crimes, and the State Administration of Taxation dispatched tax officers to directly arrest many responsible persons. .

Since Su Yonglin took the initiative to pay taxes, the income of officials in the Ming Dynasty was also taxed, so during the eight-year rectification campaign of Hongwu, there were still cases of tax evasion and evasion by officials at the state level.

For example, the governor of Dengzhou was directly arrested by the tax guards of the State Taxation Bureau because of the outbreak of tax evasion. Sentenced to 18 years of labor reform.

Daming has been so tight on taxation that it has enough fiscal revenue to support Daming, a system that consumes a lot of money, to do many, many things that also consume a lot of money.

As for Zou Yana, there is only one decree.

In order to buy high-quality weapons from the Ming Kingdom, you have to suffer a lot of hardships for the people, and you share the infamy. Just give me the money and take it up.

So the bureaucracy is ecstatic.

Then the bureaucrats of the Champaign State were ecstatic and started the operation, and they succeeded in tossing the common people who could barely eat their food to eat.

Not to mention the rations, the farmers even took away the seeds and grains.

Small merchants could not pay taxes, shops were closed, goods were robbed, and people were beaten.

The small handicraftsmen even confiscated their food as a tax.

Fishermen and other people who depend on water for drinking are also not allowed to enter the water without paying taxes. If you starve to death without negotiation, if you do not pay taxes, you will not be eligible to eat.

From the initial worry and fear to the resentment and anger behind, the people finally broke out in the city of Vijaya, the capital of the Champa, to protest against the tax increase.

At the beginning, the protests were relatively normal. Everyone gathered together to warm up, refused to pay taxes to the bureaucrats, and claimed to be suing Zou Yana, asking him not to continue raising taxes.

Of course, the bureaucrats won't let these "tricksters" tell Zou Yana what happened. After all, if Zou Yana knew that the tax increase requested by the bureaucrats and the tax increase he asked for were hardly the same thing, I'm afraid she wouldn't be very friendly to these bureaucrats. .

I get one point and you get four points?

There is no such a big deal!
The bureaucrats intimidated the people, made them pay their taxes honestly, and threatened to mobilize the army to deal with them. The people had no way out, but they were not afraid of it.

The bureaucrats became more and more frightened and felt that they could not let the situation continue, so they decided to dispatch some troops to use violence to disperse these "terrorists" and protect their own interests.

The army was dispatched immediately, causing a tragedy in 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 confusion.

Even if you die, you still have to eat the dead. There is nothing more cruel in the world than this. Some people who did not participate in the protest were also provoked. Under the threat of death, they faced the soldiers who rushed to the door. , they were out of anger.

As a result, a larger-scale riot broke out in the entire city of Vijaya. The angry people united and beat the soldiers alone, killing many people and gradually gaining the upper hand.

There were even more angry people who attacked the government and killed many corrupt officials.

This time the bureaucrats panicked. After finding that the situation was out of control, they could only rely on Zou Yana, who also took a big bite in this incident, to send the new army's top commander, He Ba, to ask him to dispatch the legendary most powerful soldier. A new army of elites and good combatants was dispatched.

He Ba was also panicked.

He didn't dare to disobey Zou Yana. Now Zou Yana doesn't know about this matter, and is still kept in the dark, but once it really gets into trouble, it reaches the palace, and Zou Yana finds out that once he orders a strict investigation, he Also inseparable from the relationship.

That can't be dead?

Heba quickly found Chaquan in fear and ordered him to immediately dispatch a new army to suppress the people and restore peace in the city of Vijaya.

At this moment, the new army is also carrying on a more intense game.

In fact, in the early days of the public protests against the taxation, the revolutionaries in the Champaign Revival Branch, which had been developing for some time, could not sit still.

They hid their identities and entered the people to investigate the actual situation. They witnessed the persecution of the people by the corrupt officials and the hardships of the people.

After this matter was circulated internally, the rising trend of moderate reform ideas within the Champaign Revival Branch was curbed.

After the bureaucrats mobilized the army and started wanton killing the people and looting the people's property, Cha Quan took the time to define the Zou Yana regime, believing that it was a bastard regime that was completely reactionary to the point of hopelessness.

Anyone who continues to hold reform ideas and believes that Zou Yana's regime has the possibility of reform and salvation is the enemy of the revolutionaries, and should be dismissed immediately to draw a clear line with him.

Chaquan's proposal was supported by most people, and a small number of moderate reformers who were still unwilling to let go did not dare to speak out against the general trend, and could only bow their heads in silence.

Later, Chaquan decided to do something, such as sending people to bring weapons into the people, organizing the people to rise up against the tax collectors and the army, they should be the leaders, encourage the people to rise up, and fight the reactionary forces to the death.

And Chaquan also decided to take advantage of this chaotic opportunity to concentrate the elite main force of the new army to launch a sneak attack, attack the palace, take Zou Yana, control all the powerful bureaucrats, control the entire Vijaya City, and set up a revolutionary provisional government.

"It's time to start a revolution! The reactionary bastards are wanton humiliating the people, hurting their bodies, eating their flesh and blood, the people are crying, they are dying! As revolutionaries, can we just sit back and ignore it?"

(End of this chapter)