armyinform Chapter 191 Rebuking the Student
Chapter 191 Rebuking the Student
Chapter 191 Rebuking the Student
After Hai Rui gave such instructions, he continued on his way with Lu Kun and Tang Chuanxun, stayed overnight in Xiaoxing, and came to Danyang, Zhenjiang.
During this period of time, except at night, Hai Rui would carefully read and comprehend the contents of Zhu Yijun's handbook, and during the day, he basically asked people's sentiments while walking.
Not long after, they joined the main force of the Jinwu Guard led by Hu Shouren in Danyang, Zhenjiang.
Therefore, Hai Rui, Lu Kun, and Tang Chuanxun all changed into official uniforms.
Not long after Hai Rui changed into his official uniform, he asked Hu Shouren, "Has the perpetrator of the bombardment of the State Taxation Officer's boat been caught?"
"No, they have already prepared a secret passage in the Buddhist temple there."
Hu Shouren replied.
Hai Rui wasn't surprised and just said, "Got it."
Then, Hai Rui learned that Sun Guangyou, Governor of Yingtian, Lv Huo, Admiral of Caojiang, Tian Le, Li Yi, Yin Liji of Yingtianfu, Cao Daye, Prime Minister of Yingtianfu, Zhong Gengyang, Prefect of Zhenjiang, etc. came to welcome him.
Hai Rui also met with these officials, and asked Yingtian Mansion and Zhenjiang Mansion to report the tax payment situation to him without exchanging much greetings.
On the other hand, Hai Rui, on the day of his arrival in Nanjing, saw no other officials except Pan Jixun, who had been promoted to Minister of the Ministry of War in Nanjing, and ordered Hu Shouren to send troops to the countryside to urge taxes on the big households that had not paid their taxes.
Like Yangzhou Prefecture, most of the officials and gentry in Zhenjiang and Yingtian Prefectures still paid their taxes as scheduled, but there were still many high-ranking officials and gentry who did not pay their taxes.
Therefore, there are not many people who need to send officers and soldiers to collect taxes by force, and they are still just some targets that need to be broken through.
Hai Rui has now obtained the Imperial Approval, that is, the imperial decree requesting approval for the establishment of a credit investigation system.
Therefore, Hai Rui directly sent people to arrest the high-ranking officials and gentry with more than 500 taels of tax money, and waited for the Ministry of Industry to arrange uniform service matters.
However, when Hai Ruigang ordered Hu Shouren to send troops to arrest Tian Yijun's home, who owed tens of thousands of yuan in taxes, Luo Shanggong, the head of Qian, led his troops to the home of Tian Yijun, the head of the Nanjing Hanlin Academy in Yingtianyuan. I saw Tian Yijun hanged to death under the eaves of his own house.
Luo Sigong was quite astonished seeing this, and immediately felt bad.
But at this moment, a member of the first life suddenly appeared and shouted: "The tax collector from the National Taxation Department forced Mr. Jing Min to hang himself!"
Immediately, many students appeared here.
A student named Ran Yuan even rushed towards Luo Sigong and the others: "You forced Mr. Jing Min to death, we will fight you!"
Seeing him rushing over, Luo Sigong had no choice but to kick the student away, and shouted loudly: "What are you doing! We just came here, and he hanged himself here, what does it have to do with us?!"
"The Department of State Taxation forced Mr. Jingmin to death and beat scholars. We don't care about these warriors. We go to find Haigang Peak and ask him if he is still the same Hai Qingtian who made decisions for the people back then!"
At this time, the life member suddenly smiled coldly, and then said loudly.
"go!"
Immediately, other students followed suit.
Luo Shanggong responded: "..."
"They forced my father to death and broke my arm. I will go with you!"
At this time, Zhou Zhiyi, the son of Zhou Maoyan, came out from the inside. After being slightly taken aback, he also said a few words loudly, and then gave Luo Shanggong a cold look.
"Since Brother Zhengzong wants to be together, let's go together and seek an explanation for Mr. Jing Min!"
The members of the first generation joined in.
Luo Sigong couldn't help but sullen for a moment, and immediately arrested Zhou Zhiyi: "You can't leave, your Zhou family owes taxes, if you don't copy the proceeds, you can't mortgage the owed amount, all the men in charge must serve in the military!"
Seeing this, the students hurriedly shouted for Luo Sigong to let Zhou Zhiyi go.
Luo Sigong asked his firearms team to directly raise their firearms.
Seeing this, the students hurriedly left.
Among them, Ran Yuan, who was helped away, held his stomach and shouted: "Brother Zhengzong, we will tell Haibutang about your father!"
……
On this day, when the sky was clear and bright, the blue sky and white clouds spread over the roof of the governor's office.
And Governor Hai Rui had just finished his work at his desk and got up, turned his neck, and was about to go to the courtyard to look at the blue sky, when Lu Kun walked in quickly: "Ministry, something serious happened, many students came outside, said It’s to complain for former bachelor Zhou Jingmin!”
Hai Rui turned cold when he heard this, and said to Hu Shouren, "Go out and have a look!"
Hu Shouren bowed his hands and said yes.
Then, Hai Rui walked out, and saw that the outside of his governor's office was already crowded with students, no less than 3000 to [-] people.
"What are you doing!"
"The imperial decree has already made it clear that students are not allowed to discuss politics. They should concentrate on academic affairs to nourish their minds and avoid being misled by treacherous people!"
"Leave immediately, otherwise this hall will first remove your fame. Don't think that this hall does not have this power. The emperor has let this hall do things cheaply and hang up the constitutional post in the courtyard. The power to expel your fame is still there!"
At this moment, Hai Rui asked loudly and reprimanded the students.
"Butang, although these people are wearing square scarves, they don't look like freshmen. Many of them are obviously Lianjiazi!"
Hu Shouren spoke from the side at this moment.
Hai Rui replied in a low voice: "I know, you transfer the Luo Shangzhi's troops who are staying in the yamen to the front, block both sides of the street, and be ready to suppress with force at any time!"
Hu Shouren bowed his hands and said yes, and then retreated.
At this time, these students carried out the body of Hanlin Zhou Maoyan, and the students cupped their hands and said: "We just asked the Ministry to make decisions for us Wu people! People from the National Taxation Department forcibly collected taxes, abused Confucian officials, beat scholars, And then Mr. Jing Min hanged himself unbearably humiliated! Is the Ministry going to press the tax money again, so that more scholar-bureaucrats will hang themselves because of this, and the etiquette will be greatly broken?!"
"How did the IRS people mistreat you?"
"Bring out your evidence!"
After Hai Rui asked, he gave orders loudly.
At this time, the student Ran Yuan stood up and said: "Mr. Jing Min's son, brother Zhengzong, can testify that he was forcibly taken away by the people from the National Taxation Department, and his arm was broken by the people from the National Taxation Department!"
After hearing this, Hai Rui asked Tang Chuanxun, "Is there such a thing?"
Tang Chuanxun replied: "There is such a thing, this person's name is Zhou Zhiyi, but the Jinwu Guard brought him back because they did not pay taxes after the deadline, and they did not copy enough money and food."
Hai Rui nodded: "Bring him here! I'm here to ask him personally!"
Ran Yuan and other troublemakers all smiled knowingly when they saw this.
Not long after, Zhou Zhiyi was escorted here.
As soon as Hai Rui saw Zhou Zhiyi, he asked, "Did your father be forced to death by the National Taxation Department?"
"Yes!"
Zhou Zhiyi replied.
"Your arm was broken by someone from the Internal Revenue Service?"
Hai Rui asked again.
Zhou Zhiyi nodded: "Yes!"
"Then why did they force your father to death, and why did they beat you?! Tell the truth."
Hai Rui asked sharply.
Zhou Zhiyi said: "Without knowing the reason, they broke in and beat us, and forced my father to kneel down. My father hanged himself to death unbearable to be humiliated."
Saying that, Zhou Zhiyi started to cry.
Ran Yuan and other students laughed more and more triumphantly, and then raised their arms and shouted: "Give me justice as a Confucian official! Don't strictly press the tax bank!"
"Give back my Confucian ministers justice! Don't strictly press for tax money!"
All the students present shouted loudly.
At this time, Hu Shouren came with a group of firearms team, and nodded to Hai Rui to indicate that he was ready.
Hai Rui also nodded, and said, "Don't worry now!"
Hai Rui continued to look at Zhou Zhiyi: "Are you sure that everything you said is true and you didn't lie to me? I will give you another chance to tell the truth. If you tell the truth, I will regard you as a meritorious service. Please ask the imperial court to exempt you from the tax compensation service, and only allow other leaders of the Zhou family to serve."
Zhou Zhiyi was taken aback when he heard this, and immediately prostrated himself on the ground: "Forgive me, the student has indeed lied. My father was not forced to death by the National Taxation Department, but he suffered from back gangrene when the National Taxation Department came, and he died. And then decided to hang himself, in order to let the court know that such taxation has made the gentry unable to bear the humiliation!"
Ran Yuan and other troublemakers were taken aback when they saw this.
Zhou Zhiyi's act of resolutely betraying herself in order to escape from forced labor really surprised them.
Hai Rui glanced at these troublemakers, and then continued to ask Zhou Zhiyi, "Do you have any evidence?"
"some!"
"My father had a suicide note written before he hanged himself. What he wrote in the suicide note was only to complain that the imperial court canceled the preferential treatment and disrespected the officials and gentry. It was a protest. He hanged himself to show his aspirations to remonstrate, not to accuse the National Taxation Department of forcing Taxes are too strict."
"This suicide note is with me now."
(End of this chapter)