Chapter 33 Deliberate provocation
Li Wu is just a small character, and he is incomparable to the Liu family. Not to mention Li Wu, even Li Wu's backstage, Zhou Wentong, the county magistrate of Jimo County, he dare not bully the Liu family. The Liu family has been rooted in this area for decades and has become a local snake among the local snakes.
But Li Wu and his behind-the-scenes backstage now believe that the Liu family has lost power and they can move.
The Liu family has always been strong. They have been in this land for decades, but now as the situation is not good, it is said that both governors are very dissatisfied with him.
Especially after the Wuqiao mutiny, Shandong was in chaos and people were living in poverty. Everyone knew that the Liu family was rich in the world. The two governors always hoped that Liu Yuanqiao could donate more money and food to help the local area recover.
But all these were rejected by Liu Yuanqiao. Liu Yuanqiao, a tax official, was under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Personnel, and had relationships in the palace, so he has always been as stable as Mount Tai. But now, local forces have begun to become stronger and they can challenge some of the big figures in the court, so the official sent by Liu Yuanqiao is a bit unpopular.
The two adults didn't like Liu Yuanqiao, so his life would be difficult. Someone saw that Liu Yuanqiao did not allow his son to enter the tax customs, but went back to his hometown to be a thousand households. This was inappropriate. The position of deputy chief has been decades. The so-called chief officer and the iron-killed deputy chief officer. Three generations of them have worked in this official position. They never wanted to be promoted or transferred. The disciples, old officials and close friends are all over the tax customs.
However, by Liu Bu's generation, Liu Yuanqiao no longer allowed his son to enter the tax customs, but instead asked him to return to his hometown to become a small Thousand-Class official. Although his rank and official title have increased, he is not as good as one percent of the deputy head of the tax customs office compared with the oil and water of the tax customs office.
Many people think that the Liu family has lost power, so as the magistrate of Jimo County, one of the land-torn snakes, he thinks that they can explore the foundation of the Liu family now, and maybe they can become the first to try it out.
Zhou Wentong, the magistrate of Jimo County, was born as a prison student. Because he knew that the superiors did not like this master, they probably would resign soon. When he lost his official body to protect him, the seemingly powerful Liu family would be a paper tiger.
As for Liu Yuanqiao's son Liu Bu, he became the Thousand Houses of Fushan Institute, Zhou Wentong did not take him seriously at all. Now he is a civil servant. Not to mention that you are a small Thousand House, even if you are a general, he will not take your own tricks. Another master of the Liu family, Liu Yuanshan, the commander of Jimo and Jiying, but in Zhou Wentong's eyes, it is no different from an ordinary rich family or a military household. If he hadn't paid some taxes in private and some benefits, everyone would have been able to get in with their face, and Zhou Wentong would have been good-looking for him.
Over the past few decades, civil officials and military officers have never lost, which greatly encourages their arrogance.
Now I heard that after Liu Bu came, he recruited soldiers and horses, and also raised chicken farms, pig farms, fishing farms, etc., which made him very prosperous. Now it is the time to do it. If they dare to resist, they can ask him about the crime of rebellion.
The Liu family is losing power now. Maybe once Zhou Wentong takes action, it will be in line with the bosses above. If the bosses are happy, they will even get promoted.
So Zhou Wentong secretly instructed his minions Li Wu to lead his tax officers to collect taxes in the Fushan Institute.
Now is not the time to collect taxes, and this year's taxes have been paid, but this is not a problem. They immediately made a name called "Practice and Xiang stake". Isn't the court now organizing a large army to encircle and suppress bandits? All regions are organizing a group training, and it requires money to organize a group training, right? This is called "Practice and Xiang stake" and additional collection.
So the exercise levy he now collects, everyone has to pay a tax of one or two taels of silver. If they don’t pay it, they will be tax-resistant.
After Li Wu received the instructions from the boss, he immediately came to Fushan to cause trouble. He was not for tax collection, but his real purpose was still like this.
After Li Wu came to Fushan, he also saw that the richest one was the Liu family. Only the Liu family had oil and water. Some other military farmers smashed their bones and could not make any oil from the stones. Only when the Liu family was moved could there be oil and water. Taking the power of the Liu family, he never dared to do anything. Now this time with the instructions of the boss, he would come immediately without fear.
This time, Li Wu was interested in causing trouble, so he was particularly cruel in collecting taxes. When he entered the Fushan District, he immediately started to catch people from house to house. He did not collect taxes, but he caught people first and then collected taxes after they caught them.
This is the experience that Li Wu has gained from collecting taxes for many years. If you collect one by one, and ask them to pay it on their own initiative, it is impossible to pay it. All the mud-legged and untouchables are crying and poor, and they all pretend to be dead and have no money, as if they have no money and only one is dead.
But if you arrest the men or men in their family, then beat them to death, and torture them to death, these people will immediately pay the money, borrow money if they have no money, borrow usury or sell their children, and they will also get the money.
This is the best and most effective method. He has done this kind of thing several times and successfully received the tax and silver every time. The superiors are very satisfied and recognize his ability.
In the past, Kong Qianhu, the Fushan Institute had no backstage and dared not fight him. He could only watch him do this and ravage the place. Now Kong Qianhu's family is dead, and then Liu Bu takes over. Now Liu Bu is in charge of the business.
Because the main men were training and training in the Zangbing Valley, the Fushan Station was just an unguarded place. They broke in directly and captured some people and took them to the churchyard.
After all, the Qianhu Office Command is the military aircraft, so he dare not act randomly or break through.
This time, Li Wu was willing to cause trouble and provoke the Liu family, so they directly ordered everyone to pay a cap tax of one or two taels of silver. If they did not pay, they would catch a person from the family and whip them on the spot on the teaching ground. Some of them used the method of Liga. Some women in the family looked a little pretty, and they took advantage of them, which made Fushan so messy and messy.
Liu Bu still had people in Fushan. While mobilizing them to defend the command center, the ordnance office, and the Divine Arm Crossbow Workshop, they immediately sent people to Zangbinggu to report to Liu Bu and the others.
The Zangbing Valley and Fushan District were only a few miles away. The sentry came to report, and it took less than a cup of tea. After half an hour, Liu Bu knew that someone was causing trouble in his base camp, which made him very angry and immediately summoned the servants urgently.
The servants of the Liu family had just finished training, and it was their half-hour rest time. They would use this half hour to take a nap after dinner and continue training in the afternoon. Who knew that the bells of emergency gathering rang out as soon as they fell asleep.
Amid the urgent bells, several hundred households rushed in and shouted loudly: "All up! All up! Wear armor! Get weapons!"
The servants didn't know what happened, but the bell was the military order. They immediately began to put their armor on their bodies, then quickly lined up and took weapons to the ground.
Since Liu Bu gave the order, he immediately came to the school site to control the Taiwan flag. They have a rule here, that is, if the bell is less than ten times (three minutes) and the bell will be beaten ten sticks on the spot; if the bell is less than twenty times (six minutes), the bell will be beaten 30 sticks; if the bell is less than thirty times (six minutes), the bell will be driven out of the monks and will never be used again, which shows the strictness of his military discipline.
In less than half a cup of tea, all 800 servants wore armor and entered the teaching ground with weapons, forming four platoons, each with 200 people.
They stood there neatly, waiting for Liu Bu's inspection.
Liu Bu was very satisfied. The long-term training gave these soldiers a conditioned reflexive response. They quickly gathered in just three minutes, and most of them were put on armor and took weapons, but none of them fell behind. Liu Bu was very satisfied with this.
Liu Bu said loudly: "We have always been obedient in Fushan, but today someone bullied us and came directly to Fushan to collect taxes, smash, burn and rob. What do you think of?"
"Beat him damn!" Liu Bu's cousin Liu Yu said first: "No matter who he is, let's talk about him damn."
The Liu family spoke, and then the soldiers shouted loudly: "Beat him! Beat him! Beat him!"
Liu Bu nodded with satisfaction and said, "Yes! Just beat him! I won't offend anyone, no one will offend me. If someone offends me, I will offend someone! Get ready to set off."
As the deputy deputy Qianhu Adjutant in everyone's mind, Liu Zhongyong came out to introduce the situation. He said: "Li Wu from the tax office, comes directly to us to collect taxes. Each person has to pay one tael of silver. They do not collect taxes first, but they will hit others first. This is too much to bear it. What we have to deal with is the tax officers of the tax office. They collect their weapons. If there are any rebels, they will be killed. This is the combat order, let's go!"
Liu Zhongyong quickly formulated a combat plan and conveyed it to Liu Yu, Liu Kang, Mao Shengli, and Yang Shun, and then they conveyed the orders.
With the order, they immediately divided into three groups and rushed directly to Fushan.
They also have training programs for outdoor training. This time they performed the same standard as training training and marched straight to the Fushan Site.
Fushan Institute is Liu Bu's base camp, and he was worried that Li Wu would be ruined. There was his divine arm crossbow manufacturing workshop here. Something happened and the consequences were serious, so he immediately led more than 50 of their cavalry to set off.
Chapter completed!