At the end of Song Dynasty: I want to be the master of ZTE

Chapter 221 Strong resistance

In the second year of the Yuan Dynasty, Jimo County was abolished, but the city still existed and people still lived in it, so there were hundreds of households in the city.

At this time, soldiers from hundreds of households were standing on the top of the city, and there were more than a thousand people from powerful local organizations, looking at the outside of the city with curiosity.

Yes, curiosity rather than fear.

There are only two thousand soldiers. According to common sense, they will never be able to defeat a city guarded by more than a thousand people.

Zhang Xuan stood outside the range of the bow and arrow and shouted: "Listen in the city, the imperial army is here. If you surrender to Kaicheng now, both the Mongols and Han will be spared. If you stubbornly resist, both the Mongols and Han will be killed without mercy!" "

"Come on, whoever shoots this beast will be rewarded with a hundred taels of silver!" A powerful man shouted.

咻咻 咻 ~
Immediately an arrow flew down. Fortunately, the distance was quite far and there was a shield to cover it, so he was not injured.

Zhang Xuan only felt that the three corpses were jumping violently, and smoke was coming out of the seven orifices, and cursed: "You don't know how to live or die, and when you break the city, you will be a dog... After the investigation, all those who dare to resist will be slaves, and they will not stand up for generations!"

He originally wanted to leave no chickens or dogs behind. This was the Yuan army's usual method - to massacre the city if it resisted.

The Song army is a king's army. They are here to regain their homeland. They will not learn the methods of the invaders and intimidate people with unlimited killing.

The people in the city may know this and feel confident, or they may simply not know the power of the Song army. Anyway, they have no intention of surrendering.

Just in Zhangxuan, a group of powerful servants carried a box to the top of the city. Hundreds of households stepped forward and kicked it to the ground.

wow~
Glittering white silver ingots and yellow copper coins jingled on the ground.

Huchi~ Huchi~
The guard couldn't help but breathe heavily and pulled out streaks of white smoke.

Money is always the most desirable thing.

"Brothers!" Hundreds of households shouted: "As long as you defend the city, each person will receive one guan. If you kill a Song soldier, you will be given five more guan. The more you kill, the more you will get. There is no limit to the limit!"

"The general is mighty!" the crowd shouted wildly.

"Morale available."

"This time we must let the southern thieves return in defeat, lest anyone surnamed Zhao thinks we are easy to bully."

"Yes, I have to give them a taste of it."

The powerful people watching in the city were talking a lot.

They are powerful, but they are local tyrants. They have little knowledge and do not know the power of thunder and artillery.

In fact, it's normal. The knowledgeable people ran away when they heard the news of the Song Army's landing. It was impossible to stay here.

However, because of Yuan Ting's deliberate propaganda, everyone knew that the Song Dynasty was implementing a policy of stepped taxation and equal land distribution, which the powerful people could never tolerate.

Yuanting implemented a tax farming system.

The tax farming system began in the Five Dynasties period, during the Qi and Liang Dynasties in the Southern Dynasties, and developed in the Song Dynasty.

At that time, it was stipulated that all small markets with tax revenue of less than [-] yuan would implement a "tax farming system", which was called "maipu". That is, the government would calculate the total annual tax receivable of the market, let the local big businessmen pay for the contract, and then the large-scale tax contracting system would be implemented. The merchants then levy taxes from the vendors and use their income as compensation, and the tax collectors themselves are responsible for the profit and loss of the income.

In the fourth year of Tiansheng's reign (1026), the policy of "allowing people to pay a fixed annual amount, not to mention official supervision" for commercial taxes such as liquor and Taoist shops with an annual tax of less than [-] guan was implemented throughout the country.

For the government, the implementation of the "tax package system" not only saves the cost of setting up tax collection agencies, but also obtains the tax revenue it deserves. On the surface, it is very beneficial.

Therefore, the Mongols learned this practice, and in the tenth year of Wokuotai (1238), the tax farming system emerged throughout the country.

Some want to cover the world's taxes on rivers, bridges, and ferries, some cover Yanjing's wine tax, and even worse, there are still people who want to cover the world's salt tax with 100 million taels of silver.

At that time, Zhongshu Ling Yelu Chucai firmly opposed it and petitioned for the abolition of the tax farming system. He wrote in the memorial, "This is all done by traitors who bully their subordinates and ignore their superiors, which has caused great harm." However, his suggestion did not arouse Ogootai's disapproval. Pay attention to.

The fact is as Yelu Chucai said, tax merchants no longer follow the law and arbitrarily increase taxes and extort money, which increases the burden on the people, affects the development of handicrafts and commerce, and is rapidly evolving in the direction of harming the country and the people.

Land tax and grain tax are the foundation of the country. No matter the Song or Yuan Dynasties, they will not be imposed on others. In order to save trouble, the Yuan court also implemented the tax farming system - not based on the population or the number of acres of land, but only collecting money on a household basis.

That's why the people risked their lives to escape this battle, and Jimo's powerful forces joined forces to organize troops to stop the Song army.For the powerful, a fixed amount of a few taels of silver a year is just a drizzle, but the ladder tax of the Song Dynasty is too expensive, not to mention confiscating the land and giving it to the mud-legged people.

Cui Wulang didn't care what the powerful men thought. Once he was sure that the city would not fall, he immediately organized his troops and moved forward.

The lineup was neat and lined with spears, and they looked powerful. However, the Yuan soldiers were not worried because the Song army only had long ladders and no bows and arrows for cover.

"Rolling Stone Ready."

“The putter is on target, don’t panic.”

"The golden juice is ready, let the Southern Thief taste it!"

"Kill the southern thieves and earn reward money!"

There were shouts at the top of the city, and the musketeers advanced forty steps.

"Line up." Cui Wulang shouted: "Three-stage shooting!"

The three hundred musketeers stopped immediately. After arranging the team in an instant, the front row opened fire.

bang bang bang~
"Ah~"

"Nan Bing has magic, run quickly~"

"Run away~"

In one round, only more than ten people were killed and injured, but the Yuan soldiers were all in chaos.

There was a flash of fire, a bang, and a crackling sound on the city wall. People were killed and injured from time to time. Who wouldn't panic?

After two rounds of shooting, the sky thunder hand followed the infantry to a distance of twenty steps, and immediately lit the sky thunder and threw it on the top of the city.

Boom~ boom~ boom~
After three explosions, the top of the city returned to calm. The cries for father and mother were getting farther and farther away, but the screams on the top of the city were getting weaker and weaker.

After a while, the ladder was set up, and Song Bing easily climbed to the top of the city without any hindrance.

"Stupid bird." Cui Wulang scolded: "Xiangyang has been taken, how can the abandoned county town stop Master Wang?"

"General, please go into the city first and capture the prisoners!" Zhang Xuan looked at him with hot eyes.

Who wouldn't be jealous if one person climbed the city without being injured?

It was too easy. It was too easy to fight with the Song army.

Cui Wulang shook his head and said: "Control the city wall first, don't leave the big family. After everyone returns home, interrogate the information before making a decision."

"The villain accepts the order." Zhang Xuan bowed his head in agreement.

"As soon as you join the army, you can be brothers or have official positions. Don't call yourself a villain." Cui Wulang reminded: "The king's division attaches the most importance to discipline. Anyone who violates military discipline will be severely punished. Don't make a mistake."

"General, don't worry, we will abide by military discipline." Zhang Xuan agreed, feeling a chill on his back.

He asked to be the vanguard because according to general rules, those who entered the city first could take advantage of the chaos to rob, but in a place with strict military laws, doing so would be courting death.

"When the city is controlled, the crime of resisting the king's teacher must be liquidated. All the masterminds will be ransacked and wiped out, and the conspirators will be exiled. This matter will be presided over by you." Cui Wulang said.

"Don't worry, General, it will be done properly." Zhang Xuan agreed happily.

Looting the people is not enough, but you can steal some of them openly and honestly by ransacking their homes, which is a good job.

While Cui Wulang's troops were busy controlling Jimo, the first batch of public trials in Jiaoxi County had ended.

Those who were beheaded and those who were exiled were all escorted onto ships and sent to Zhendong Road, Qiongzhou Road and Nanning Country just in time for the winter when the wind and waves were not bad.

(End of this chapter)