Win the Ding 1617

A headless post with a few chicken feathers pasted on an envelope was quietly spread among the villages in various states and counties in the Pearl River Delta region. A chicken came and plucked some feathers from its tail, and sent a child to a neighboring village.

The content of this chicken feather post is to call on people from all over the country who saw the post to go to the county and state cities to hand in their farm tools, announcing that they will no longer grow crops.It can be regarded as a form of farmers' call (strike).

"In this tax reform, in addition to the national tax on imperial grains collected according to the number of acres, we also need to pay rich households, education surcharges, wine tax, and lamb tax (this probably refers to the new tax value-added tax in this tax reform. ), commercial tax, income tax, business tax, slaughter tax, there are dozens of them.”

"Farmers work hard to farm the fields; exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes make life difficult for the people; all regions unite and unanimously agree; abolish exorbitant and miscellaneous taxes and return me to a peaceful world!"

"Down with corrupt officials!"

"Exemption from exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes!"

On the morning of the ninth day of November, the farmer incident first broke out in Yuan Dushi’s hometown Dongguan. Tens of thousands of farmers carrying forks, brooms, picks, milling tools and other agricultural tools, led by various leaders, beat gongs, drums and held Holding banners, they flocked to Dongguan County, and people continued to join along the way.These farmers who were mobilized by caring organizations according to the number of households happily encouraged each other to walk on various roads, making the already congested roads even more congested.

By noon, nearly 3 people surrounded Dongguan County.

Today coincides with the day of the market, and the surrounding area of ​​the county is very lively.The farmers who traded from the four townships to the county fairs mixed with these farmers who came to work, which further fueled their momentum.

For a while, I couldn't tell which one was here for trade and which one was for farming!

The colorful flags representing various villages and ethnic groups were blown up in the air like dead branches and rotten leaves, which was quite spectacular.The leaders of all walks of life were very proud for a while, and for the convenience of commanding and responding, after a little discussion, they set up the command and coordination organization "Qiangshengtang" of Jiaonong in the Town God's Temple outside the city.

The peasants with straw wrapped around their left arms surrounded the four gates of the county seat, and some even tried to rush into the gates.And the county magistrate in the county just happened to go out yesterday to ask for instructions on an unimportant business in the provincial capital.

However, the captain of the city work team is a guy who has experienced battles and seen big scenes.When he learned that a large number of people were coming to the county seat, he decisively ordered the officials to close the four gates of the county seat.At the same time, he ordered all the sentinels of the escort team to gather on the top of the city to prevent any accidents!

After all, a civil unrest has just been quelled.Who knows what the tens of thousands of people outside the city are here for?

"The work team is out! We are here to turn in the farm tools!"

"The work team is out! We are here to turn in the farm tools!"

"Dou Na mother! I will no longer grow food! I will never pay any more imperial food!"

With bursts of yelling and loud scolding, brooms made of countless wooden branches and bamboo branches were thrown towards the city, while those high-end farm tools such as shovels and shovels were still firmly held in their hands.joke.A wooden branch is enough to cut a branch.A broom is simpler.Just chop some bamboo branches, this is a farm tool made of high-quality wrought iron, very precious!Where would you be willing to throw it on the city?

Another group of people carried a piece of wood.They began to rush towards the city gate, using the wood as a battering ram to push and smash into the city gate together.The north city gate, which was not tightly closed just now, was pushed open a crack. Seeing that the situation was critical, a soldier guarding the gate hole raised his mourning gun and pointed it at the crack of the door. The head stabbed continuously from the crack of the door, and immediately dispersed the crowd.

The soldiers in the city gate took advantage of the opportunity to push a carriage next to it to withstand the city gate, and moved the bags full of rice from the farmers who had just entered the city to sell grain, and built the city gate one by one. A handful of cold sweat on his forehead.

If these tens of thousands of people rush into the county, who knows what will happen? !

"My lord, how should we deal with it?"

The county magistrate of Dongguan hurried to the provincial capital Guangzhou last night, saying that he had some business to ask Shangfeng for instructions.At this time, there were only two officials, Dian Shi and the county magistrate, in the county seat, and the rest were the leaders of the third team and the Minzhuang team. Everyone turned their attention to Hong Yilin, the captain of the work team.

"Bring the seal of Guanfang of this county!" Hong Yilin did his part, and immediately ordered someone to fetch the seal for inspection and tie it around his waist.

"It was ordered that the people in the city, regardless of whether they are good or bad, masters and servants, from every household, go to the street according to the standard of drawing one out of two. The rest of the people are not allowed to walk in the market at will. Those who are caught will be locked and tied!"

"Follow the order!" A squad leader led more than ten yamen servants and temporary workers to search for the security chief in various streets and alleys of the city, and sounded the gong to notify.

"Check the four gates, seal the city gate tightly, and do not enter or leave at will! The strong citizens of the county, the officers and soldiers of the city guard battalion, follow the command of the guard post of the work team, and go to the city in sections, but don't show your body."

"My lord, do we want to transfer the defensive equipment to the city?"

Dian Shi looked nervously at the menacing peasant team outside the city wall, his face changed slightly.

Hong Yilin squinted his eyes to look at the teams outside the city, picked up a wooden branch that had been thrown into the city, and looked at it.

"Siege the city? They haven't thought of a step yet! Tell the brothers, everything is done on the top of the city wall. It is time to eat, drink tea, and recharge your energy! Just remember one thing for me, hide well, and don't let the city people saw them!"

It's a joke, those shovels and hoes are so reluctant to throw them on the city, they just discarded some old tools made of bamboo and wood that were about to be thrown away or set on fire. Idiots talk about dreams.Seeing their messy appearance and the constant noise, they are completely a mob. These people are used between villages, between different clans, fighting for water, fighting for mountains and forests, and gang fights are fine. Really want real swords and guns Go into battle.Hong Yilin was very confident that the sentry under his command could completely defend the county and defeat them.

There was no sound at all above the city, as if there was no one under the city.

The tens of thousands of people under the city are not strictly trained troops who can obey orders.Seeing that there was no movement in the city for a long time, there was not even a bird, they came out of the house early in the morning, and they didn't drink a few mouthfuls of water. People's mouths were so thirsty that they were smoking, and their stomachs kept rumbling.It is unavoidable to find a place near Guanxiang outside the city to find a shop to find some food.Take a few sips of tea.

However, the few teahouses that had been thriving in the past had already been frightened by the tens of thousands of people who were roaring in chaos. Fearing that someone would take the opportunity to cause chaos, they closed their doors one after another.Close the door tightly from the inside.Use tables, chairs and benches to die.

Looking at the shops that are closed everywhere.Rubbing Tongbao on his waist, several farmers who went to the city to pay for their purchases walked aimlessly around in the market.The messy streets paved with bluestone slabs are all these people.

People crowded around several wells, vying for fresh water drawn from the wells.The popular person who couldn't get in after squeezing for a long time stomped his foot, "Dou Na mother! I came here dozens of miles just to endure hunger? Can't even drink a sip of water? Forget it! I'm going home! Anyway, I won't be lenient when I pay taxes!"

The laxity of the peasants exposed its bad roots at this moment, not to mention this kind of mob without any organization and command system at all?Seeing that there was no benefit for many people who came to make trouble with farmers, some people deserted. For a while, people in twos and threes did not know whether they came to the county town to go shopping or to make trouble with farmers, and they came and went one after another. on the way.

The crowd is like the ebb tide of the sea, coming fiercely and retreating very quickly.Thin ropes made of straw, broken bamboo baskets, half-broken poles, and worn-out straw sandals were left on the streets.

"Do it all at once, second time tired, third time exhausted."

Hong Yilin, who was guarding behind the crenel at the top of the city, looked at these people walking back and forth in small groups with some gloat. Only a group of leaders came in and out of the Town God's Temple in a panic like ants whose nests had been doused in hot soup, trying to Bring back the farmers who are going home.

Those left around the Town God's Temple are mostly small landlords in various villages and towns, people with low fame, and more tenants who lease and plant other people's land, or donate the land under their own name to others quasi-owner farmers.Interests are related, even if they are hungry and thirsty, they dare not slack off in the slightest.

"Quick! Arrange for someone to get some food and drink!"

Several leaders of Qiushengtang kept yelling, and arranged for people to go to the nearby Chengguan Town to buy some snacks such as glutinous rice chicken and barbecued pork buns, and made a lot of hot tea to satisfy everyone's hunger and thirst.

Fortunately, Chengguan Town is right in front of you, and things will be delivered soon. Seeing that there is food and water, the thousands of people who are still in the county rush to rush up, and the food and hot tea on more than a dozen carts are immediately filled. There were splashes and scrambles everywhere, and from time to time, fierce shouts came from the swarming crowds. It was because someone snatched food from others, or hot water was spilled on other people's heads and bodies, scalding them. The man screamed strangely.

He was chewing glutinous rice chicken in his mouth, but he hadn't chewed and swallowed it, but he heard a drumming sound from the direction of the city, which immediately aroused people's curiosity, and people flocked to the city gate one after another.

On the top of the city, Hong Yilin changed into an official uniform, and the ironed seventh-rank robe looked full of style.Behind and beside him, the county's Dian Shi, the county magistrate, the head of the third squad, the head of the Minzhuang squad, the garrison officers of the city guard battalion, and the guards of the work team surrounded him like stars holding the moon.

"Uncles, big brothers, have you ever met me?"

Hong Yilin ordered someone to move a high stool, the kind used in pawnshops to sit at court, and Shi Shiran sat on the top of the city, putting the teacup in his hand on the crenel, as if the thousands of people below the city were not here to besiege the city and make trouble, but Come to him to gossip and chat about family matters.

"I recognize you! You are Captain Hong who came to our village and said that the government wants all the children to read!"

"The hoe in my hand was bought after you left! It's easy to use! It's cheap!"

"Old Hong, the village plans to build roads. In winter, gather all the strong men and repair a few canals. You have to send someone over to check the terrain!"

"Brother Hong, according to what the gentlemen you sent say, my family's food this autumn has increased by tens of catties. My old lady keeps saying that I will set up a longevity tablet for you!"

There was a burst of shouting and roaring.There was a wave of noise, these words undoubtedly made the leaders of the Qiusheng Hall turn pale.

"You're on the street! Who wants you to be so unofficial! Get so close to these mud legs!"

When Hong Yilin arrived in Dongguan, he visited almost all the towns, such as Chang'an, Zhangmutou, and Houjie (hehe! Do you think it looks familiar?) more than once. In his village, there are also his sworn brothers who know his mother and godson.

"Old Hong is one of us. If anyone wants to harm him, we will be the first in the village not to agree!"

Someone yelled aggressively in the crowd, which immediately aroused a burst of resonance. This was to some extent a recognition of Hong Yilin and his staff's work for more than half a year.

Hong Yilin waved his hand, it was like saying hello to a group of familiar or semi-familiar people in the city.

"Come here today. Are you coming to ask me for tea? Or one of you has a good soup at home. Are you planning to invite me to take a tonic?"

Hong Yilin's words.It was obvious that he was pretending to be confused, and several officials, such as the county magistrate and Dian Shi, couldn't help laughing out of anger, and a large group of people surrounded the county.Countless broomsticks and twigs are thrown on the city, but you are here to say that people come to drink tea with you?Soup?Why don't you say they bought you a drink?

Hong Yilin consciously confuses the purpose of this group of people, and ordered people to hang more than a dozen buckets from the top of the city, which contained boiling hot tea, "I invite brothers and uncles to have a sip of tea first. talk."

Seeing a group of self-cultivators who were supposed to be the main force of the disturbance and quasi-proprietors who donated land happily scooped up hot tea in wooden buckets with bamboo tubes and began to drink tea, a group of guys rushing to the front of the disturbance suddenly felt something was wrong.

"Your surname is Hong! We know you are a good person! You have also done some good things for our folks and elders in Dongguan, but now Uncle Ning Yuan wants to hunt down our Cantonese guys for his own sake. This, Man said it was you Let's drink tea, even if you pour tea for us and admit your mistakes at the banquet, we will never agree!"

"That's right! We've lost all our land, food and clothing! Could it be that we really went to those mines tens of thousands of miles away to live with the bull's head and horse noodles?"

Waiting for you to say this!Hong Yilin cursed in his heart.

He stood on the chair and bowed his hands to the people in the city, "Fathers, brothers and uncles, you all know what kind of person I am, Ah Hong. Am I a liar? Am I a big talker?"

Talking big, in Cantonese, it means bragging, running the train with your mouth full, etc.

Everyone in the city was silent for a while, shaking their heads.In their hearts, this Ah Hong's words were much more reliable than the magistrate's announcement.

"If you trust me, Ah Hong, then ask me about everything you have heard. If I can explain it clearly, I will explain it clearly here. If I can't explain it clearly, I will write to Shangfeng. Please come and explain it to me." What do you all think of it?"

Hong Yilin's words were calm, down-to-earth, and reasonable. Coupled with the foundation of trust that he led in various townships and villages over the past six months, the so-called spring breeze and autumn rains made the people in the city burst into cheers.

"Then, who will talk first?"

Don't look at the excitement before, but when it comes time for someone to stand up, they don't have the courage, and they all hope that others will rush to the head first and solve their own doubts.Finally, someone broke the brief silence.

"Brother Hong!"

A stocky boy jumped out from the crowd.

"My old lady has recovered a lot from the medicine given by the husband you brought with me. Aunt wants me to kowtow to you when I see you. But, brother Hong, do we have to double our royal rations?" ? There is a heavy tax on selling grain? In that case, farmers will really have no way out!"

"Tiger Cub! You're a rascal! You don't listen to Mr. Night School's explanation of the regulations!"

Hong Yilin reprimanded this young man named Hu Zai in the tone of a big brother scolding a naughty little brother, "The five acres of paddy fields that your family has planted in one year, all kinds of money and food are counted together, isn't it worth it?" Hand over at least [-]% of the harvest?"

The casually uttered numbers made the county magistrate who was in charge of the daily affairs of the county feel ashamed. He had only been here for more than half a year, and he knew the number of acres of fields, money and food for any family.

He didn't know that this tiger cub happened to be Hong Yilin's landlord's neighbor when he went to the countryside. Young people like to wield knives and guns. Seeing that Hong Yilin is also an old fritter who has fought in battles, he would come to ask him for advice from time to time. , can also be regarded as an acquaintance, and Hong Yilin is quite clear about the situation in his family, not to mention his family treasures.

"In addition to your parents, there are six brothers and sisters in your family. Except for your one older sister and one younger sister, you are all adults. According to the law of the Ming Dynasty, you have to pay five poll taxes, right?"

The people in the city stopped talking, and they all pricked up their ears and listened carefully.

Hong Yilin cheered up and prepared to dissect the Huzai family as a specimen, and make a comparison with the taxes his family should pay.

Poll tax can be regarded as one of the oldest taxes in China. Since the implementation of the one-whip law, "Ding corvettes are divided into three classes and nine classes, there are one whip, there are Ding Suijia, and there are Ding Cong Ding". For those who send it, there are different cases within a province..." Such a chaotic tax system will naturally be included in the category of elimination and banning. (to be continued..)