What? The Eunuch Party opposes the strict imposition of business taxes?

Now it wasn't Su Jin who was dumbfounded, but most of the people present were dumbfounded. Did these people from Jiangxi and Hunan rebel against the eunuchs and Donglin?

"Don't talk nonsense. Why would the eunuch party oppose the levy of commercial tax?"

"That's right! The eunuchs have always used brutal methods to win favor, and they have also used their hands to profit from it."

"In those days, the eunuch mine supervisors and tax supervisors were rampant all over the country. They collected taxes when there was no market, and lost money when there was no mine. They wreaked havoc in the southeast and brought disaster to all parts of the country!"

As expected, there were still some Juren who understood the truth, and soon they started to argue with those Juren from Hunan and Jiangxi who did not understand the truth.

But immediately more people from Hunan, Jiangxi, and even Juzi with Shandong accents joined the dispute.

"That's nonsense! In those days, the mining tax and the business tax were imposed to make money for selfish desires. Nowadays, the strict business tax is levied to protect Konglin and Southeast Asia. How can they be confused together?"

"Yes! The current eunuchs are colluding with the Tatars to destroy our Han people, and to resist the bandits, we have to spend money! Where does the money come from? In order to fight against the bandits, the imperial court also exempted the people of the southeast from their taxes for three years.

If we don’t collect some of the five-year land tax from merchants, how will the imperial court support its troops? How will it protect the Han people?”

"That's right! If the imperial court doesn't have money to raise troops, the Tatars will come over and take over the territory of the Han people. Then we will all be the slaves of the Tatars! So only the eunuch traitors who have surrendered to the Tatars will oppose the expropriation of merchants.

Tax!"

Okay, now you become a traitor!

If you are a good scholar, you will be smeared as a traitor.

Su Jin was stunned for a moment. Only then did he realize that the leader of Shilin was not that easy to say, and he couldn't say anything right: "I, I, I, I, I, am not a traitor of the Eunuch Party! You, you, you, who are you?"

"We are the successors of Donglin!"

He is a member of the Donglin Party!

They turned out to be genuine Donglin Party members, and all of them had gone through the formalities. The eldest son, who became a disciple of the famous Donglin Party member, and the "talented scholar" selected by Denglai talented man Deng Lianke, did not all stay in Denglai.

Some of them were recruited into various yamen of the imperial court as sesame and mung bean officials. Before the Enke Competition, Zhu Cihong selected a group of strong young people with some literary talents from the eldest son in Beijing and Denglai talents, and granted them the title of Juren.

They also arranged for them to break into Donglin just for this scene!

"What? Are you Donglin's successor?"

"How could Donglin's successor support excessive taxation and expropriation?"

"Who is your husband? Tell me, I am Fan Yiji, the founder of Fushe in Suzhou!"

Some people still raise questions! Among them is a big shot in Suzhou Fushe, Fan Yiji. Fan is an old man in the examination room who failed in the Jinshi examination eight times! Although he always failed in the Jinshi examination, his master is still in the exam.

Yes! Moreover, when Mr. Fan was in poverty, he worked as a private school teacher in many Suzhou silk merchants' homes. Many of his disciples are now wealthy businessmen in Suzhou. Of course, they must praise their Juren teacher. So Mr. Fan took the students'

Yinzi went to visit Shilin, and became quite familiar with Qian Qianyi, Huang Daozhou, Zhu Shunshui and other famous scholars in Jiangnan.

Therefore, when some young people who claim to be members of the Donglin Party meet him, they have to call him Mr. Fan and call themselves juniors!

Su Jin, the talented scholar from Suzhou, was one of his early disciples. When Su Caizi was a little boy, he followed Master Fan in reciting the Three-Character Sutra. Later, Su Caizi won the imperial examination and still respected his "primary school teacher". Now Master Fan

When I saw a good student being bullied, I couldn't help but stand up.

"So you are that Mao conscience-minded old thief Fan!" A "Wugang talented man" who spoke Xiangyin immediately jumped up and pointed at Fan Yiji, "He is the eunuch and traitor Fan!"

"Hit him!"

"Kill him!"

"Hit, hit, hit"

Okay, now there’s a lot of shouting and fighting!

No, it wasn’t a cry of beating, it was a real beating! A young and strong man from Shandong Province made the first move, jumped up and grabbed Old Master Fan’s beard, and then slapped him with a big ear-shaving blow. The beating made Old Master Fan’s eyes flash with stars, and his beard was also scratched.

I pulled out a handful and felt a burning pain on my right cheek.

When had the old man suffered such a loss? He was completely confused. He covered his face and looked at the "strong man-like person" who was beating people in horror. He couldn't even speak clearly, "You, you, you, how can you hit someone?"

"Yeah, how do you hit someone?"

"How can you hit someone?"

"This is Jiangnan Gongyuan, how dare you hit someone here?"

Someone is about to stand up to defend Old Master Fan. After all, Old Master Fan is a celebrity in Suzhou Shilin and cannot be beaten!

"Beat the eunuchs and traitors!"

"Yes! Traitors deserve to be beaten!"

"If you want to help him, are you his accomplices?"

The group of people who beat people were even more arrogant. They rolled up their sleeves one after another and looked ready to take action!

A protest on behalf of the people and against excessive taxation was about to turn into a group fight in the blink of an eye, and it was about a person being promoted and a person being promoted, and the location was the Jiangnan Gongyuan where the examination of the Ministry of Etiquette was held. This was really a disgrace to politeness.

The candidates who gathered downstairs in Mingyuan were a little confused. They were here to take the exam for the Jinshi in Literature, not the Jinshi in Martial Arts. Why did they bring all the martial arts students with them?

Besides, didn't these people gather downstairs in Mingyuan to protest against the imperial court's excessive taxation? Why didn't the imperial court's dog officials show up yet, and the people who raised the people started to pinch them themselves? How do you count the battle between raising people and raising people? I'll suffer.

Who can I call to complain about the beating?

"Hit, hit, hit!"

"Beat the eunuchs and traitors to death"

"Fight!"

Downstairs from Mingyuan, two to three hundred warriors from Hunan, Jiangxi, and Shandong were shouting and beating together, frightening the other warriors who had gathered to make trouble. This group of arrogant warriors who didn't know what they were eating saw Mingyuan.

The people who were making noises downstairs were frightened and became even more arrogant. They yelled and rushed towards someone to fight.

This frightened the gentlemen who were talkative but not violent, and they ran around holding their heads in their hands, shouting as they walked: "Don't hit me, don't hit me, I'm not a traitor to the eunuch party."

This scene that happened downstairs in Mingyuan naturally made Zhu Cixiang, Wu Meicun, Gong Dingzi and Qian Qianyi who had just been rescued take a look at it.

"Okay, okay, as expected, there is still a sensible person!" Zhu Cixiang looked back at Qian Qianyi, who was pale, and said, "Teacher, why don't you go downstairs and take 100 fire rifle soldiers for inspection? By the way, Su from Suzhou

It is possible that Ju and Fan Ju are traitors of the Eunuch Party, do you think you should ask Jin Yiwei to investigate?"

Qian Qianyi knew Fan Yiji and had a very good relationship with him. Of course he knew that he could not be an eunuch, but he did not dare to protect his old friend too much, so he could only say feebly: "There is no need to investigate, just remove the title of Juren

.”

"Where's that Su Juren?"

"Removal also results in a loss of fame."
Chapter completed!