Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 435 Illinois Riot
Autumn, this harvest season, should have been full of harvest joy and happiness.

But in Yizhou, no matter whether it is the Han farmers who are farming or the nomadic Uighurs, they don't feel a little heavy in their hearts.

Because after the governor of Illinois, Chen Huiyao, was deprived of his right to levy taxes, the taxes in Illinois became heavier and heavier.

This is not to say that Chen Huiyao is a benevolent person, but at least the Chen family is a native of Illinois, and Chen Huiyao also understands the principle of fine water and long flow, and their tax collection is still well controlled.

However, since the opening of the trade route and Gaochang's Pugu family clan set their eyes on Yizhou, everything has changed.

These clansmen are not natives of Illinois, and those who can come to Illinois to collect taxes, without exception, have spent a lot of money to buy tax quotas.

They have to complete the tax package first, and the rest is their own.

Moreover, the purpose of coming to Yizhou is to compete with local snakes like the Chen family for food, so the management of the high-ranking officials in the Khanate's power is also indispensable.

In order to persuade the people of Yizhou to pay taxes, it is necessary to raise some tax collectors and thugs.

At this time, those who can afford a large amount of taxes, whether they are small local tribal leaders or merchants, all have their own force. If you don't raise more thugs, don't expect to be able to collect taxes.

In this way, if the tax is not received, the expenses will go to sea. In addition, every tax officer has a term of office, and it is unknown whether you will do it next time.

Therefore, every tax official who takes office has a variety of names and names by chance.

Especially in this autumn harvest season, everyone has three melons and two dates in their hands, which is often a good time for tax officials to frantically search.

No, a small tribal leader named Long Beard drove his hundreds of sheep towards Yizhou City.

Now the autumn harvest is often a good time to sell sheep. The tax officials in Yizhou City have seen these 'fat sheep' from afar.

However, they are not fools. He still knows who can plunder fiercely and who should be restrained a little.

For example, this kind of small-headed person, then the price should be a little more reasonable.

One is that there is no need to arouse the anger of the crowd, and the other is that each of these chieftains has knives on their bodies. If they are annoyed, if they are stabbed with a knife, wouldn't they be very wronged.

Therefore, the tax official was only going to collect taxes at the price of a sheep at twenty cents.

In fact, there are many.

The price of sheep at this time, based on forty catties, would cost about four guan in Tokyo for a sheep, which is four thousand renminbi.

But in Tokyo, there are not many sheep farmers.

In Guanzhong, it is only worth about [-] Wen.

When you arrive in Liangzhou, the price will drop sharply, because Hexi, Longyou, Lingwu, Ningbian, and Xiasui in Liangzhou are the main sheep producing areas, so you only need more than [-] Wen.

In Gaochang, it is even cheaper, because Gaochang is far away from Hexi, and is blocked by Moheyan moraine. Its own population is not large, and sheep can only be digested internally.

A sheep is only worth two hundred and twenty yuan, and twenty yuan is charged, which is equivalent to one-tenth of the tax.

This is actually not high in the eyes of later generations, but it is different at this time.

Because sheep can’t be sold, it’s inconvenient to keep them fresh, and it’s impossible to kill and stock up on meat. If sheep travel long distances, they will usually lose fat. These tax collectors don’t collect taxes from selling sheep, they collect the money from the city. gate tax.

It doesn't matter whether you sell it or not, anyway, you only need to go out and then want to come in, sorry, pay the tax again, sometimes go back and forth once or twice, and sell a fart sheep.

The bearded man had no cash. In fact, at this time, especially in Gaochang, it was normal for ordinary people to have no money. They usually used fine white cotton cloth and other high-value cloth for money.

So Long Beard was going to sell a dozen sheep outside the city gate first, and then enter the city after collecting enough tax money.

However, his 'luck' was very good. Chen Tingxiao took a few brothers from the clan, wore chain mail inside, and waited for several days with a sharp knife in his pocket. Finally, he waited for such a suitable tool man. How could he be allowed to pay taxes.

So, right under the noses of the tax collectors, Chen Tingxiao instructed several younger brothers to surround them, and negotiated the price after three times and five divisions. They bought all one hundred and thirty sheep with long beards at one time.

However, it may be that the voice was a little louder. Even the soldiers on the top of the city could clearly hear their bargaining voice, let alone the tax collectors at the city gate.

The tax collectors who acted as thugs surrounded them in great dissatisfaction. It didn't matter if you sold one or two outside the city, but you sold them all. How did they collect taxes?
The bearded man was so happy that he couldn't find the north, he saved [-] Wen in taxes at one time, and the important thing was that the business went so smoothly, he didn't have to wait for several days in the city of Yizhou.

However, he was immediately grabbed by the arm of the leading tax collector.

Long Beard's face changed, but he quickly estimated the force comparison between the two sides. He only had three people, and there were six people on the opposite side, which was only ten sheep's money. Although his heart ached, Long Beard was still ready to admit defeat.

But at this moment, Chen Tingjie, Chen Tingxiao's younger brother who was pretending to be a sheep buyer, spoke with some doubts.

"Why did your tax increase again? A few days ago, people from the Liugushui White Sparrow Department came to sell sheep, and you only charged five cents per sheep?"

The long-bearded face changed again. He lived in Liugushui, and the White Sparrows were not far from them. The strength of both sides was similar, and they both belonged to this kind of medium-sized tribe with hundreds of people.

Then why does Liu Gushui pay only five cents for a sheep, while he has to pay twenty cents?Look down on people, right?

Thinking of this, Long Beard looked at the leading tax collector, and reached out to grab the white cotton cloth he had just used as tax money.

These were two bolts of fine white cotton, enough to make a whole suit of clothes for my wife and daughter, whose clothes were worn out long ago and had been reluctant to change.

The long-bearded man in front of him stretched out his hand to grab it, and the thugs around the chief tax collector rushed forward, and pushed the long-bearded man away with two strokes.

The leader of the tax collectors pointed at Chen Tingjie, who was mostly in the Hami Basin and rarely came to Yizhou City, so the tax collectors were not familiar with him.

"Where did the wild dogs come from? When did a sheep in Yizhou City only charge five cents tax? If you talk nonsense, I will kill you!"

Chen Tingjie was afraid that he wouldn't do anything, so he pretended to be stupefied, scratched his neck, blushed, and shouted loudly.

"It's five cents. I saw that what you received was five cents and a sheep. You killed me, and it was five cents."

Seeing that Chen Tingjie was so ignorant, several thugs who pushed away the long beard rushed forward to get him.

Chen Tingjie retreated into the crowd, but he was merciless in his mouth, shouting the tax of five cents for a sheep, loudly.

There are many people outside the city waiting to enter the city to sell sheep.When everyone heard that the tax was only five cents, they started clamoring.

Many of them actually knew that Chen Tingjie might have made a mistake, but how could they tell the truth?

If the tax can be reduced to five cents, everyone will be the beneficiary!

Pushing, pushing, pushing, everyone had a lot of anger in their hearts for these tax collectors.

Seeing someone making trouble at this moment, everyone vented their usual dissatisfaction.

There were only six tax collectors who came from the cave at the city gate, and they were caught in a sea of ​​at least a hundred people, and they were almost submerged in an instant.

At this time, some people who had already paid their taxes in front turned around and clamored when they heard the voice.

Seeing that the crowd was getting chaotic, Long Beard leaped over with his long hands and feet, grabbed the white cotton cloth that was taken away by the tax collector, and snatched it back into his hand.

The tax collector was extremely annoyed, but before he could make a move, a man dressed similarly to him suddenly appeared beside him. He drew out a short knife and slashed at the back of the bearded man, shouting loudly while cutting.

"Dare to snatch the judge's white cotton cloth! Eat me!"

With a puff, the blood on the back of the long beard flashed, he screamed, and instinctively ran forward.

And the people around exploded with a bang, and no one thought that these tax collectors would dare to use their knives directly.

For a while, some honestly wanted to run away quickly, and some who had accumulated grievances on weekdays wanted to come forward.

The leader of the tax collectors also felt that something was wrong, because they would definitely not use knives directly on weekdays, and usually used sticks.

And if you really want to use a knife, it is also a stab, not such a meaningless slash.

The biggest problem is that he doesn't know this person!

He was about to be caught by his subordinates, but he didn't prevent the guy with the long beard who had just cut it, and suddenly accelerated and approached him.

Before the leader of the tax collector could react, the dagger pierced his waist. This time he did not use chopping, but stabbing very skillfully.

The leader of the tax collectors screamed, and the smell of blood began to permeate, and everyone's tense nerves were immediately put to the maximum.

A few thoughtful people saw this operation, but they almost didn't see it.

The tax collectors at the gate of the city gate and the thugs included a total of 30 people. When they heard the screams of the chief tax collector, they all ran over with knives and guns.

Chen Tingjie in the crowd suddenly yelled, "The tax official is going to kill! The tax official is going to kill!"

At this time, a group of fully armed soldiers suddenly appeared on the top of the city, and the leading general pointed at the people below with a horizontal knife. The sharp blade was jumping with dazzling sunlight.

"You unscrupulous people dare to resist the tax, and I will kill you all!"

The magical side appeared. The Illinois tax officials did not say to kill people, but the Illinois defenders, who were robbed of the right to collect taxes by the tax officials, yelled and wanted to kill his fellow villagers.

However, the howling crowd below, who had time to distinguish, turned around and ran away.

Although Long Beard had been stabbed, it just cut through the skin, and the bloody look was scary, but in fact he didn't suffer any serious injuries.

He also wanted to run back quickly, and the twenty or so bolts of silk cloth he got from selling the sheep were all on his shoulders.

"Longbeard, run! Run! Otherwise, these tax collectors will definitely ask soldiers to kill your whole family."

I don't know where there was a cry, it was so clearly transmitted to Long Beard's ears, Long Beard was stunned for a moment.

run?Where is he going?It seems that at this moment, Long Beard has seen the tragic situation of his clan being killed and his wife and daughter taken away.

"Fuck you! I sell a sheep, you collect taxes, I buy a horse, you also collect taxes, and now you go to the city to meet someone, you still have to collect taxes, I will fight with you!"

Just when the long beard was at a loss, a young man in the crowd suddenly broke out.

He drew a dagger from his waist, rushed towards the tax collector, and soon knocked one of them to the ground.

"Hurry up and kill them? Kill them, who knows who you are?"

There was another shout, and it was addressed to Long Beard, the man from Tang who bought his sheep.

In an instant, Long Beard felt that his whole body was transparent. Without thinking about it, he pulled out the short knife at his waist, showed the silk cloth to a clan brother, turned around and killed him.

This bearded man was originally the little leader of the tribe, and many people around him knew him.

Seeing that the long beards are all reversed, it seems that these tax collectors are not strong in combat. In addition, there are people in the crowd who are constantly shouting to kill the tax collectors. They were going to run away with hundreds of people, but they immediately had a different idea.

In the past three or four years, they have been oppressed by tax collectors. The tribal headmen with long beards are only charged a little tax, but for other ordinary people, it is almost all gouge.

Now seeing someone leading the way, many people turned around and killed them one after another.

There are only about twenty tax collectors in the east gate of Yizhou. Although they are equipped with guns and clubs, they are no match for hundreds of angry people.

Not to mention that the Chen family brothers in the crowd were still hiding sharp knives, and several strong tax collector thugs were all dealt with by them.

And the generals who were clamoring to kill them on the top of the city just now, after seeing these people rioting, unexpectedly broke up in a crowd that no one expected, which aroused the excitement of the people even more.

Soon the tax collectors at the east gate were chopped into minced meat, and when the bearded people were laughing heartily, another voice sounded.

"To cut the weeds, we need to get rid of the roots, and we must kill all the people. It's better to kill all the tax officials in the city, and then invite Chen Dudu to come out and preside over the overall situation!"

(End of this chapter)