Feng Heming

Chapter 316

Droughts are usually a major event, not to mention locust plagues. When encountering these two major disasters in the year, there is a sense of anxiety everywhere.

The common people rushed to the rice shop with their money to buy rice.

But I was told that there was no more rice in the shop.

How can the common people believe it? They all think that unscrupulous merchants are preparing to hoard grain and wait for a few days to sell grain at a high price.

But the shopkeeper of the rice shop is really suffering. There is really no rice. People have been buying rice before. Why wait for the people to react?
However, the shopkeeper's explanation was hard to convince the common people, and some of them were irritable and almost couldn't resist beating people.

And the local officials have urgently handed over the memorials, all pleading for rent relief and opening warehouses for disaster relief.

In the court hall, the officials headed by Jiang Taifu were all of one mind at this time, and they all knew that there must be no chaos in this season, and it was very necessary to appease the people.

But Chen Xiong didn't think so.

What are the people?It is nothing more than a source of money and gold for him to eat, drink and have fun, and ask him to reduce or exempt rent?
Doesn't it mean that the national treasury won't be able to collect a single copper plate this year?

And let him open a warehouse for disaster relief?
He only has three granaries. What will happen to his army after the granaries are opened for disaster relief?
Chen Xiong felt that the courtiers were alarmist. He grew up in a poor family, and he knew very well that ordinary people would leave a lot of surplus food after paying taxes. The surplus food was enough for a year's rations. What do you call it? Can't fill your stomach?

However, Chen Xiong has not really lived among the poor people at the bottom for many years, and because of smoking opium poppy for the past one or two years, his mind is very confused, and he has not kept in mind the fact that the surplus food in the rice shop has already been snapped up. superior.

Not to mention that even if the people have surplus food in their families, how can they survive for a year?
At least wait until next year's spring plowing to replant, and then wait until July to harvest.

Perhaps Chen Xiong knew about it, but he didn't take it to heart. He helped the late emperor conquer the world immediately, and he ascended the throne only by relying on his own men to wash the palace with blood. He stubbornly believed that as long as he had an army in his hand, Hao Erlang in the army has enough to eat, so he has nothing to fear.

Can those unarmed civilians still fight against the warriors in the army?

Isn't this looking for death?

Over the past few days, Jiuqing pleaded in his ears for rent relief and opening warehouses for disaster relief, which made him very irritable, and his heart was itchy, and he was eager to go back to take the magic medicine. All localities are required to collect taxes as soon as possible.

After giving this order, he patted his ass and left.

Jiuqing who was left behind had an ugly expression on his face, especially Gan Dongsheng, he knew too well how much trouble this order would cause after it became known to the world, the Holy One is playing with fire and setting himself on fire!
Gan Dongsheng stomped his feet anxiously, but he knew better that Jiuqing's request failed to get the Holy Majesty to agree, and he alone had no weight to make the Holy Majesty change his mind.

Gan Dongsheng seemed to have encountered the ensuing mess, and his mouth was so anxious that blisters formed.

When Chen Xiong's order was spread in the court, the courtiers were in an uproar, even if they usually disagreed with each other, even if they fought back and forth and were ruthless, but at this moment they were united as one.

The scene of turmoil in the world more than twenty years ago seems to be still swaying in front of my eyes, as long as I think of the horror of those days, I will shudder.

I'd rather be a peace dog than a chaotic one.

Rarely, all the officials knelt down in the hall, imploring Chen Xiong to take back his order, and once again asked for rent relief and opening warehouses for disaster relief.

However, it was useless for all the officials to work together, on the contrary, it made Chen Xiong fly into a rage, and once again felt the embarrassment of being threatened by others.

The previous order was still a verbal order, but after all the officials pleaded, Chen Xiong issued an imperial edict on the spot to make it known to the world, Jiang Taifu's right to refute it was useless, and Chen Xiong ordered him to go home and contemplate his mistakes behind closed doors.

When officials from all over the country received this imperial decree, they all thought that they had heard it wrong, and that the imperial decree must have been wrong!

After he couldn't deceive himself and others, he felt that the court officials didn't care about the life and death of the people, so they didn't stop this imperial decree.

They really didn't dare to imagine or admit that this was the Holy Majesty's idea, how could they be so stupid as the emperor?

This is what a foolish king did!
It's a pity that no matter how unbelievable they are, as the date specified in the imperial decree is approaching, they have to arrange for their subordinates to collect taxes.

As expected, there was resistance from the people.

There is no harvest at all, where can the grain come from to pay taxes?

You said the only food in the family?That is the one-year ration of the future family. After paying the tax on the ration, are they going to starve to death?
The collection of taxes was met with resistance, and the progress was very slow. Some local officials who pretended to be in the hearts of the people did not embarrass the people. According to the current situation, it is whimsical to want to pay all the taxes. Thinking that it is not only the place under his rule In this situation, the same is true for other people. What they do is not responsible for everyone. Maybe in the end, the Holy One will see that he really can’t afford the tax, and he will show compassion to the people and exempt the tax?
There are not one or two people who hold this kind of thinking. Everyone thinks that the law does not blame the public. As a result, when the limited date arrives, Chen Xiong asks, have the taxes come up?
Once again, Chen Xiong understood when he received the reply of three requests for mercy from the courtiers.

With a sneer on the spot, he turned around and sent three small teams of the Jingmen Army to the three county towns. After entering the city, he went directly to the governor and asked him to open a granary to check and accept taxes. Opportunity, the hand is raised and the knife is dropped, and the head falls to the ground.

Fu Yin's eyes were wide open, filled with unbelievable despair and gloom.

Fu Yin was the first to be sacrificed with a knife, and then all the officials in the county city were bloodbathed. The most cruel thing was that even their family members were not spared.

Thick blood was flowing on the ground, and no one dared to wash it. The people who witnessed all this had resentment in their eyes, hating these soldiers for killing all those parents who cared about them, and even harming their families.

The three small teams killed the officials and family members of the three counties and cities. As soon as such a statement was made, the officials in other places wanted to show compassion to the people, so they began to collect taxes ruthlessly.

After all, if it is confiscated, they and their family members will die, and everyone will spare their lives.

Even though the common people were crying and begging and looking forward to it, they were finally robbed of the surplus food in the family by the police and the petty officials.

Carloads of grain were transported to the capital, and at the same time, a sense of death began to spread. Chang Mingyi, who was far away in Danyang County, stood on a high mountain in broad daylight, sighed and shook his head, "Heaven is dead!"

(End of this chapter)