My life skills in Daming Liver

Officials in Fujian were not happy because of the temporary peace of the Japanese pirates. This is because since October, Zhang Lian's rebel army has swept Fujian, Guangdong, and Jiangxi provinces, making more trouble.

Zhang Lian ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor in the mountains of Minyue.

In the past two years, Fujian and Guangzhou have imposed a lot of exorbitant and miscellaneous taxes in order to fight against the Japanese.

Tax increases in ancient times are not modern tax increases. In modern times, tax increases may mean eating less and reducing consumption.

In the ancient agricultural society, there was not much surplus food that could be left to the common people. It took a year of hard work to grow food, and sometimes even the cost could not be recovered.

And every time the imperial court increases taxes, it will eventually be apportioned to the poorest people, and the gentry can use various methods to avoid taxes.

The reason for this is actually very simple. For the government, tax increases are an indicator and a number.

According to Hongwu's ancestor system, the land tax will never be increased. It can only be said that Hongwu Lord's idea is good, but he underestimated the wisdom of future generations.

There are more and more places where the court spends money. During the Hongwu period, this money may have been enough.

But now, relying on these land taxes alone, the imperial court has long been bankrupt.

Of course, this cannot only be attributed to the emperor's extravagance and waste.

The number of officials is expanding, the affairs that the government needs to manage are increasing, the cost of various infrastructure constructions is expanding, and the money and food for raising troops on the border are increasing.

For example, in this Japanese invasion in the southeast, the imperial court wanted to recruit troops to suppress the bandits, so it was natural to levy new exorbitant and miscellaneous taxes.

The Ministry of Households and the Ministry of War calculated an amount based on the recruitment plan submitted by the local government.

Then, after the cabinet discussion, the supervisor of ceremonies approved the bonus, and the decree to increase taxes was issued to the local governments.

According to the previous taxation levels of Fujian's eight prefectures, the Fujian chief envoy's yamen began to dismantle the money to each prefecture.

When the magistrate receives this tax increase target, it will be divided into various counties again, and each county must complete the task of increasing the tax according to the requirements of the imperial court.

After Hai Rui, the magistrate of Xingguo County in Jiangxi Province, received the tax increase document, he immediately summoned the big households in the city and forced them to pay taxes with government orders.

Hai Rui was a selfless official, and he was proficient in the "Law of the Ming Dynasty" and various ways of the yamen. He had been obedient to the subordinate officials in the county as soon as he took office.

After he took office, he personally measured the land and seized a large number of hidden properties and hidden tenant farmers from the hands of big households.

Even so, Hai Rui still had to fight wits and courage to collect the additional taxes and rations from these big households.

Other magistrates would not work as hard as Hai Rui.

For example, Sunzhi County in Nanping County will find Su Ze to donate money, and finally come to "big households will pay back all the money, and small households will get 70% of the account", and then they will scrape off the heads of ordinary people.

Sunzhi County can be regarded as a good official who loves the people like a son and works diligently. More county officials directly call in the subordinates and Lizheng Baojia to assign the tax increase task again.

Hold a meeting to convey the spirit of the emperor's imperial meeting, emphasizing that this is an important task that the emperor personally grasps, the cabinet attaches great importance to, and the superiors pay attention to, and requires the subordinates to pay close attention to implementation and successfully complete the tax increase target.

When the county government dismantled the tasks, the subordinate staff of those households were often happier.

Raise taxes, and the subordinate staff can continue to search for the common people.

Naturally, they dare not, and they will not go to the local rich and powerful households, so these taxes fall on the ordinary people, and the subordinates can knock more bone marrow from the ordinary people by working hard.

After such a move, the poor people in Fujian have almost no way to survive. Since they have reached the point where they can only pay taxes by buying their children and selling their daughters, it would be better to go against the mother.

Zhang Lian also rose rapidly at this time, making such a huge battle.

In October, Fuzhou's Dusi Yamen received an urgent report that Nanjing, Zhangzhou Prefecture's administrative seat, was breached by Zhang Lian's troops, the Zhangzhou prefect was captured, and Haiwei, the largest military guard town stationed in Zhangzhou Prefecture, was wiped out.

Zhang Lian personally led 30,000 people, based in Nanjing, Zhangzhou Prefecture, to intercept the official army going south to fight.

You Zhende, the governor of Fujian Province, was ordered to mobilize and command Wang Hao to unify the three armies, and together with Fuzhou Tongdeng Peng Dengxun led the township soldiers to jointly conquer Zhang Lian's rebel army, but they were all defeated by the rebel army.

Governor You Zhende of Fujian continued to order again, requiring Qi Ji, who had just won the battle in Xinghua Mansion, to go south at the speed of light, and must block the Feilong Army to the south of Quanzhou Mansion.

Qi Jiguang reluctantly led the troops to set off. Obviously, compared with fighting against the Japanese, suppressing the rebels lowered the morale of the Qi family army.

Qi Jiguang went deep into the front line and set up defenses in Tong'an County, Quanzhou Prefecture, blocking Zhang Lian who was trying to attack Quanzhou northward.

Zhang Lian and Qi Jiguang fought a battle, but neither side achieved much results, so Zhang Lian had to lead his troops back to Nanjing and continue to confront Qi's army.

At the same time, Zhang Lian asked his trusted generals to lead two rebel armies to attack in other directions.

Lin Chaoxi, a general under Zhang Lian's command, led 30,000 troops and went south to attack Meizhou, Xingning, and Changle in Guangdong.

Another general, Xiao Wan, went west from Zhangzhou Mansion to attack Tingzhou Mansion in southern Fujian. That's why it wasn't captured.

Xiao Wan knew that his soldiers looked like a lot of people, but in fact they were not strong in combat and had no engineering equipment, so he gave up attacking Changting and continued westward to attack Ruijin, Jiangxi.

Xiao Wan then invaded Jiangxi, even Ke Huichang, Shicheng, Ningdu, and the entire southern part of Jiangxi was festered.

At this point, Zhang Lian's uprising reached its heyday. Two of Fujian's eight prefectures fell, and two of Jiangxi's prefectures fell into the hands of the Feilong Army. Three prefectures in Guangdong were in turmoil, and rebels rose everywhere.

Zhang Lian claimed that there were 100,000 rebels, and the governors of the three provinces were astonished. After deliberation, they believed that the wolf soldiers in the southwestern border, which had been in the mountains for a long time and were known for their strength and ferocity, should be recruited and fought.

As a result, the wolf soldiers were also defeated. The rebel armies responded to each other in the border areas of the three provinces, and were also harassed by Zhang Lian's party members at sea. For example, Zhang Lian ordered Wang Boxuan to lead the maritime rebel army to attack Chaozhou City, Guangdong.

At this point, Zhang Lian was no longer an ordinary bandit who gathered in the mountains of Minyue. They were big rebels who had 100,000 mercenaries sweeping three provinces and occupying seven prefectures.

After Su Ze used the [History] skill, he knew that Zhang Lian was indeed a powerful person.

In Su Ze's historical timeline, although the Feilong army was under the full siege of the government army, the uprising still failed in the end.

But this Zhang Lian sailed out to sea, first attacked Macau, which was occupied by the Portuguese, and then went south to Sanfoqi (now Sumatra), establishing a system overseas and becoming king.

In October of the 40th year of Jiajing, the Feilong army swept across the three provinces, and the people of Fujian, Guangxi and Jiangxi scrambled for refuge, and the Feilong regime reached its peak.

However, like many peasant uprisings in history, the Flying Dragon Army did not have a systematic program, and the slogan of the uprising was naturally a slogan such as tax resistance and land distribution.

After Zhang Lian occupied Nanjing, he also began to take in civilian women to set up a harem, and then rewarded meritorious officials, and generously rewarded them with gold, silver and jewelry.

The big families in the area occupied by Zhang Lian fled one after another, and the officials and subordinates were unwilling to follow Zhang Lian, but October was the season for autumn grain collection. Zhang Lian needed more military grain for the war, so he simply allowed the soldiers to go out and rob on their own. The common people found that the rebel army they were looking forward to came, but they did not live a good life.

After Zhang Lian won several victories, he started a large-scale recruiting operation. He forcibly arrested local people and enlisted in the army, and there were not enough officers to control such a huge army. The already bad military discipline was even worse.

However, Zhang Lian didn't care about this. It was already October, and the officers and troops had suffered heavy losses. They would definitely not launch a counter-offensive before spring, which meant that the Feilong regime still had several months to live.

And the city of Nanjing is also extremely lively, with various forces from the three provinces of Fujian, Guangxi and Jiangxi coming and going here one after another.

These are the envoys of the rebels from all over the country. Among them are hundreds of bandit road tyrants, there are also rebels who really rose up because of oppression, and there are even self-protection regiments organized by powerful gentry.

They gathered in Nanjing because they saw that the Feilong Army was in full swing, so they wanted to borrow the Feilong Army's brand name.

Zhang Lian was overjoyed by the "rebels" from all over the country who came to vote one after another. He finally realized what it means for the people to "welcome the king's teacher".

The appointment of the Feilong Regime made crazy printing, all the prime ministers, generals, princes, and dukes were clearly marked with prices, as long as they were paid, they would be given out.

There was a gang of more than one hundred bandits. Because of the large amount of tribute paid, Zhang Lian was canonized as the king of the generals, the general of Pingmin. Zhang Lian also gave the bandit leader several beautiful officials and eunuchs he had captured. .

Lin Chaoxi, the general who came back from Guangdong, advised Zhang Lian, "Your Majesty! These 'rebels' are a mixed bag of fish and dragons, and many of them are villains who have been doing harm to the local area for many years. Now His Majesty easily grants them titles. In the future, they will carry the banner of the Flying Dragon Army to do evil. Don’t the common people put all the blame on us, it’s worthless for this little money!”

Unexpectedly, Zhang Lian said: "I have heard that clear water and muddy water are useful. I respect you brothers who fight against the government and army, and I need these people to fight against the government and army. I want to resist Baoming. There are seven prefectures, but compared to Bao Ming, it is still too weak, and now some people are leading the crowd to vote, do you want to push them out?"

Now Lin Chaoxi was speechless. He originally wanted to persuade Zhang Lian not to be addicted to women, but Zhang Lian spoke first:

"You return to Guangdong quickly, and cooperate with Wang Boxuan on the sea to attack Chaozhou City. If you can capture Chaozhou City, the two lovers will be kings together!"

Hearing Feng Wang, Lin Chaoxi stopped talking, and hurried back to Guangdong with his people, and cooperated with the navy of the Flying Dragon Army to besiege Chaozhou City.

On October 12, the "Flying Dragon Army" in Yanping Mansion broke through the imperial mine, and the eunuch guarding Eunuch Hu "died in battle". , ransacked the imperial mine, and finally burned the entire mine.

At the same time, the New World, which was fully loaded with experimental equipment and various ore samples, set off from Changningwei to Madou Port, a new city on Dayuan Island.

Madou Port is not far to the north of Anping City.

During this period of time, Lin Mojun has been traveling between Fujian and the coastal areas of Guangzhou, loading those people who are willing to go to sea on ships, and transporting them to Dayuan Island.

Now Anping City has changed from a fishing port to a big city with more than 30,000 residents.

Too many people are gathered together, which is a very dangerous thing on a tropical island like Dayuan Island. It is okay in winter now, but it will be bad if mosquitoes flood in summer, and it will be bad if malaria is caused.

So Su Ze went to the island to inspect it himself, and confirmed two new cities on Dayuan Island.

They are Madou Port in the north of Chengtianfu, and Dagou Port (now Kaohsiung) in the south of Chengtianfu.

At the same time, the common people are also encouraged to spontaneously form associations, and use associations as units to spontaneously organize reclamation.

But at this time, Su Ze was in the square of Chengtianfu City, personally hearing the case of the former magistrate of Chengtianfu.

Su Ze has set up a county in Chengtian Mansion, but has not yet appointed a county magistrate, and the daily affairs are managed by three departments.

One is the General Administration of Immigration and Reclamation, which is responsible for the entire Chengtian Mansion and even Dayuan Island's reclamation affairs. It is also responsible for receiving immigrants and health care.

Lin Xianyang is currently in charge of the Immigration and Reclamation Headquarters. Lin Xianyang resigned from the Nanping County Government at the beginning of this year, and was arranged by Su Ze to Dayuan Island.

The second department is the Magistrate's Office. After the population of Dayuan Island increased day by day, a magistrate's office was appointed in Chengtian Mansion based on the standard of 1,000 people. , All these magistrates are handed over to the population of the jurisdiction for election.

The last department is the Dayuan Inspection Department, which is the military department for the safety of Dayuan Island. Lin Mojun is the chief officer of the inspection department. His main duty is to fight against Japanese pirates and pirates who have landed in Dayuan and maintain law and order in the sea area.

In addition, Su Ze would go to the island every once in a while to come to Chengtian Mansion to deal with the backlog of criminal and civil cases.

As soon as he landed on the island today, Su Ze immediately dealt with the case of former sheriff Cai Sancai.

Cai Sancai was Yan Ding who followed Zhu Qi, and he was one of the earliest members of Changningwei.

At that time, Su Ze was giving lectures in Tianlong, and Cai Sancai followed Su Ze to attend, and later participated in the literacy class of Changningwei.

Later, when Dayuan Island was developed, he also took the initiative to sign up and was the first batch of immigrants.

Also because of these qualifications, he was elected as a magistrate, responsible for the security work of a workshop area in the northern part of Chengtian Mansion.

The reason for Cai Sancai's trial was that he colluded with a workshop owner, accepted bribes, suppressed the legal wages of the workshop craftsmen, and killed the leader of the craftsmen who took the lead in asking for wages.

Before the trial, Lin Mojun sighed, and asked Su Ze: "Cai Sancai is considered an old man of Changningwei, why don't we announce that he has been executed and let him go back to Dong'ao Island secretly to do something."

Su Ze shook his head and said: "This kind of thing must not be tolerated. This time of indulgence will have another time. If Cai San is the old man of Changningwei and let him go, there will be more people like him in the future."

Cai Sancai had a public trial in Chengtianfu Square, and finally sentenced to hang, and executed under the crowd of the people.

Su Ze looked at Cai Sancai's body, lowered his head and asked people to restrain him and buried him in the Louze Garden outside Chengtianfu City.

On the returning boat, Su Ze looked at the waves and said:

"Even though the Yellow River is turbid, it can be irrigated; although the Yangtze River is clear, it sometimes floods."

Lin Mojun looked at Su Ze, wondering why he said such words.

Su Ze changed the subject again and said, "What nonsense is it? It's just the art of controlling the people and fooling the people! I just don't use it if the water is turbid!"

Su Ze then said: "The theory of the two phases of clear and turbidity is an ancient herdsman technique. When you think about civil rights, you will feel that the world is wide."