Liu Bu immediately ordered the troops to enter a combat state. They marched in non-combat states and were never worn in armor. Once they marched in a combat state, they immediately wore armor to deal with the situation that could occur at any time.

They were more than 4,000 people, one thousand cavalry and three thousand infantry, and drove to Qingzhou Prefecture City in combat formations.

In the first year of Hongwu, Taizu changed Yidu Road to Qingzhou Prefecture, which governed three prefectures, Weizhou, Juzhou and Jiaozhou, and 16 counties: Yidu, Linzi, Boxing, Shouguang, Changle, Linqu, Anqiu, Zhucheng, Mengyin, Yishui, Rizhao, Changyi, Gaomi, Jimo, Gaoyuan, and Le'an (Guangrao).

Later, Weizhou, Jiaozhou, Gaomi, Changyi, and Jimo were assigned to Laizhou Prefecture, and still led 13 counties and one prefecture. The head of the prefecture was the prefect, and there were also Tongzhi, Gongzhi and other officials. The prefecture was in charge of "the government of the prefecture, the prefecture was promoted and the prison was purged, and the tax was employed." Tongzhi was the deputy position of the prefecture, and Tongzhi was only responsible for grain transportation and farmland water conservancy.

Qingzhou is one of the nine ancient states. Legend has it that after Dayu controlled the flood, the country was divided into Qing, Xu, Yang, Jing, Yu, Ji, Yan, Yong, Liang Jiuzhou. Qingzhou is one of them. The oldest geographical work in the early summer, "Shangshu Yu Gong" called "Haidai is Qingzhou".

The sea is the Bohai Sea, and Dai is Mount Tai, which refers to an area east of Mount Tai to Bohai. According to the "Literature of Zhou", "It is called Qingzhou in the east", and it is noted: "It is because of the earth living in Shaoyang, and its color is green, so it is called Qingzhou."

Qingzhou is also called Yidu in many cases. According to legend, when Dayu controlled the flood in ancient times, the biggest contributor was Bo Yi. In addition to Bo Yi, there were two powerful helpers, namely Gao Yao and Hou Ji. Gao Yao was Bo Yi's father.

After Dayu successfully controlled the flood, he planned to choose one from Gao Yao, Bo Yi and Hou Ji as his heir. However, Gao Yao was old and died shortly after successful flood control. Dayu planned to use Bo Yi as his heir. However, Dayu's son Qi coveted Dayu's rights and joined forces with other tribe leaders to abolish the abdication system, inherited Dayu's rights and status, established the Xia Dynasty, and became a generation of emperors, allowing the abdication system to move towards a hereditary system in the family style.

When Xia Qi ascended the throne, Bo Yi was the highest administrative officer of Qingzhou, so he returned to Jishan, Qingzhou until he got old. The "Li of Zhou" records: "The temple of the ancestors is called the capital", which means that the place where the ancestors worshipped the ancestors was called Du, and Yidu is the capital that worships Bo Yi.

According to legend, Bo Yi was the sixth-generation grandson of Huangdi. Because he was successful in assisting Dayu in controlling the flood, he was given the surname Ying by Yu. Bo Yi's descendants emerged in many talents. He was the ancestor of Qin, Sima Yi, Emperor Gaozu of Jin, and Cheng Yaojin, Duke of Lu of the Tang Dynasty, were all descendants. They can be said to be one of the ancestors of China.

Qingzhou has been beautiful since ancient times, with great beauty and great success, with great beauty and outstanding people. Fan Zhongyan and Ouyang Xiu have served as officials here, and they have all become role models for later generations. The famous female poet Li Qingzhao has lived in Qingzhou for more than ten years and has left behind many famous works. It is located at the strategic core of the Shandong Peninsula. It can be said to be a very important place. Once it is occupied, it is equivalent to cutting off the Shandong Peninsula and cutting off the Grand Canal at any time. Moreover, it is also the most prefecture in the three eastern prefectures and Fangzhou counties. It was also less affected by the Wuqiao Mutiny.

Originally, the situation in Qingzhou should be the best among several prefectures, but because the prefect Fang Ruowu was not interested in government affairs and made money, his economic level was also lowered to an average level.

Fang Ruowu has always been struggling with no excuses to make money. This time the governor opened an opening, asking him to let go and throw his arms away, so he followed up with all his strength without hesitation. He sent countless tax collection teams to force him everywhere and collect taxes everywhere, causing chaos and complaints.

Fang Ruowu also had the intention to make a lot of money this time. After making this money, he immediately spent money to go to the court to move in another place and continue to become an official. Because he had such thoughts and ideas, he was particularly good at making money. And the requirements were stricter than Deng Bingwen of Dengzhou.

So in just a few days, the place was completely turned against each other. The people from the ten villages and eight miles said the order, all of them rose up. They expelled tax officials and drove away the yamen runners.

Then they surrounded the county governments in various places. Everyone knew that this was the benefit of Fang Ruowu, so hundreds of thousands of people surrounded Qingzhou Prefecture City and asked the prefect for an explanation from the prefect? ​​Why did the emperor exempt the emperor from the three Eastern Prefectures from three years of money and food, but the prefect refused to let him go, and did he let him live?

If we don't let people live, we will die together. Therefore, the people are very angry. They are full of momentum and chase tax officials, expel tax collectors, and put forward the slogan of tax exemption and life-saving. Because there are many places and dozens of villages launched together, Fang Ruowu couldn't suppress it and was unable to control it. As a result, the spark could burn a prairie fire. A fire made the entire thirteen counties of Qingzhou Prefecture start a fuss. Facing the crowds of people coming in a rush, they were full of anger, full of hatred for the government, and smashed everything they saw in front of them.

If they see officials running fast, they are lucky. If they run slowly and are caught, they will be beaten to death on the spot. If they are other officials, they will be better. If they are responsible for tax collection, they will be beaten to death on the spot.

Such fierce revenge has put the governments of the 13 counties in Qingzhou into a state of paralysis. They fled from tax offices and villages in various places, fled into the city, and relied on the city walls to resist the rushing mobs.

Fang Ruowu has always been lazy in governance, and he also called it "ruling by inaction". He has always respected Laozi's Huang-Lao technique, so he advocated govern by inaction, but he did not lose any money at all. He has always been very concerned about grasping this thing. He has set tax indicators for his subordinates and must make him the designated money.

He wondered, and he was surprised that he did this in previous years, and he did this many things. Why didn’t there happen in previous years? This year, these mud legs all looked like they had a bear heart and a leopard courage. They all raised their heads, raised their heads and chests, and raised their heads to face him.

It is natural for the people to pay taxes. Now they rushed up angrily, smashing the government, smashing tax officials and fighting the servants, claiming that they would no longer pay taxes, and besieging the city, which made him very scared.

He knew that this was the so-called civil rebellion. If it was spread to the higher authorities and let the court know that he would be dismissed at the least and beheaded at the worst.

For such a situation, Fang Ruowu ordered that the gate of Qingzhou Prefecture City would never be opened. Without his orders, no one would be allowed to open the door.

He did not dare to report such a thing to the court. Reporting to the court would be like a slap in the mouth. He was killed by himself, and the court would definitely ask him for his crime, so he had no choice but to ask Liu Bu who was passing by nearby.

But what he didn't expect was that he did not write to the court for help, but others helped him write to him.

Fang Ruowu had more than a dozen county magistrates under his command and collected taxes under the will of the prefect. Now he has acted against the will of the heavens and has caused civil unrest. Naturally, the culprit is responsible for such crimes, not their subordinates.

If they did not inform the court of the court in time, the people who took the blame in the end would be their subordinates, so they all wrote to the court very cleverly, claiming that they would collect taxes according to the orders of the prefect and stir up civil unrest in the local area.

Fang Ruowu didn't know about his subordinates doing this, but he had made up his mind that after this pacification, he would blame all his faults on his subordinates and let them take the blame themselves.

According to the rules of his prefect, it is that the boss will never be wrong. The wrong only is the subordinates, but the subordinates do not obey the orders. If the subordinates obey the orders, persuade the people with kind words, speak out, speak all the good things, and do good people, they will not do such things.

As for what it is now, in essence, we can't blame him for being too bad and greedy. They only received ten taels of silver as long as they received them. How can they not rebel if they knocked on bones and sucked marrow and filled their own pockets?

Fang Ruowu had already made up his mind that when the matter was in this situation or was a little calmer, he would publicly kill a group of vicious tax soldiers in public to make them quell the anger of the public.

Fang Ruowu and his subordinates were calculating each other, even he himself could not have imagined, but there was one thing that everyone knew very well and knew very well now, that is, they must defend Qingzhou Prefecture City at present. If they could not defend and let refugees attack in, their fate would be extremely miserable.

So at this time, they took out all the yamen runners, soldiers, and guards in the city to the city wall, defended day and night, and could not make any mistakes. They knew that once the mob attacked and entered the city, they not only mean that officials would die, but also these wealthy businessmen, but also rich people would be looted by the mobs.

There is one thing that I have always understood very well, that is, whenever the dynasty is in trouble, not only the common people will suffer, but also these wealthy families will suffer, because basically all the robbers are fighting with one slogan, that is, robbing the rich and helping the poor.

Because everyone knows that in this world, you can only grab money by robbing rich people. If you grab a group of mud legs, you can grab it. Even if you grab a few villages, you can’t get any money. But if you can get a wealthy family, it’s different. You can get a lot of money.

Therefore, Qingzhou Prefecture City is united, and they are serious about guarding the city walls.
Chapter completed!