For example, the Suzhou weaving maid change on the sixth day of the sixth month of the 29th year of Wanli was also the same - on this day, more than 2,000 hungry and angry textile craftsmen in Suzhou City rushed out of the Xuanmiao Temple with sticks in their hands, and under the leadership of a mechanic named Ge Cheng, they rushed to the southeast Fengmen of Suzhou City, and the tax official Huang Jianjie was stoned to death on the spot.

The cause of this incident is that the tax collectors sent by the imperial court to Suzhou City are greedy and insatiable.

In the twenty-seventh year of Wanli, Sun Long, the weaving eunuch of Suzhou and Hangzhou, was ordered to "levy taxes on Susong and other places", that is, to supervise the collection of various commercial taxes in Suzhou and Hangzhou, and the tax yamen was located in the Suzhou Weaving Bureau. The eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty were in charge of tax affairs, and they were often particularly ruthless in their searches. In the spring of the 29th year of Wanli, Suzhou suffered from floods, and the people were struggling to make a living, but in order to complete the annual tax collection, Sun Long not only did not sympathize with the people, but also stepped up the exploitation of the merchants. His attendant Huang Jianjie colluded with local hooligans and ordered weavers to "one piece per machine, three dollars in silver", that is, to set up a "head tax"; "Each satin is a boil, the tax silver is five cents, the yarn is a boil, the tax is two cents", the woven yarn satin must be stamped by the tax official after the tax is paid, and then it is allowed to be sold.

For a time, everything was expensive, the people were unbearable, and the machine owners changed their careers and went on strike, and the helpers had nothing to eat, so they either took risks or sat back and waited for death.

At the beginning of June, these Suzhou weavers who "floated to eat and sent the people, day and night, life if they got a job, and death if they were unemployed" began to gather in the Xuanmiaoguan and plot to riot and resist taxes. First there were more than 2,000 people gathered by the helpers Xu Yuan, Gu Yuan, Qian Da, Lu Man, etc., and then more and more weaving helpers were added.

From the sixth day of the sixth month of June to the eighth day of the first month, the weavers who resisted taxes made Suzhou City "all the tax officials exhausted". Here's a detail that deserves special attention: the anti-tax team once surrounded the Suzhou Weaving Bureau, where Sun Long, the tax envoy of Suzhou, worked, and Sun Long asked the Suzhou prefect Zhu Xieyuan to send troops to suppress it, but the Zhu prefect refused his request. Su Zhifu said: "No, the soldiers are also the ones who defend the foreigners." I shall not commit adultery, so as to summon rebellion. If you hit it again, it will be poisonous. And the anger of the people is difficult to commit, if so, how can they hold on to the salary to fight the fire? "It basically means that the army is used to defend against foreign invaders, not to suppress popular uprisings. In the end, Sun Long escaped over the wall and finally saved the dog's life.

What Zhu Zhifu said was high-sounding, but in fact, to put it bluntly, this time the tax resistance incident was caused by local scholars and officials, and futures came to fight against Emperor Wanli.

Note that it was against the Wanli Emperor and not against the imperial court.

As mentioned earlier in this book, due to certain policies that have been inherited from the Ming Dynasty, commercial taxes are extremely low, and the Jiangnan region is an extremely developed place for commerce.

Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, it has rewarded reclamation, reduced taxes, built water conservancy, and increased the progress of agricultural production technology. The substantial increase in grain production and the cultivation of cash crops in the Jiangnan region have greatly accelerated the development of the city. And since Zhang Juzheng and Zhang Xiangye were in power, a whip law was implemented, and the levies and land were apportioned into the mu. As a result, landless peasants moved into the cities and provided a large number of laborers to the handicraft cities. In Jiangnan alone, there are 33 large and medium-sized commercial and handicraft towns. The land and water are convenient, and the business is flourishing. During the Wanli period, Hangzhou residents were "millions", and Yangzhou had a population of more than 800,000. "Suzhou City" from Changmen to Fengqiao, will be ten miles, north and south, residents side by side. ”

Cities are extremely prosperous.

As far as Suzhou is concerned, in the Wanli Dynasty, hundreds of craftsmen gathered in the city of Suzhou, and the number of handicraftsmen soared. As an important town of silk weaving industry in the south of the Yangtze River, Suzhou has the most textile workers and thousands of machinists. There is an official weaving and dyeing bureau, but more often it is a family unit. The population in the city is divided into three groups. The largest number of people are the artisans in the cities, who are engaged in the textile industry and the processing of all kinds of daily necessities and luxury goods, but these people have limited profits and can only make ends meet; secondly, the factory owners, either from the squire, or from the wealthy class of the burghers; Finally, there are the students, or those who have already achieved fame, and those who are privileged scholars.

The wealthy give their children a better education so that the next generation can enter the career and obtain political status, which is the conventional way of progress in traditional society.

The commercial tax of the Ming Dynasty was really not high, and the commercial tax did not go to the silver of the imperial court, but it turned into profits and flowed into the pockets of these merchants, and the relationship between these people and scholars is inextricably linked. Those who are officials and hold the power of the court are basically scholars. Moreover, the culture in Jiangsu and Zhejiang is prosperous, and there are especially many people who come out to read.

It is precisely because of these joints that the emperor repeatedly wanted to levy commercial taxes, but they were resolutely resisted by the ministers of the court, and some even scolded the emperor directly. If it were a strong emperor like Hongwu Yongle, I was afraid that he would have to kill on a large scale, but the emperors of the Ming Dynasty later did not have the courage.

In the end, Emperor Wanli had no choice, so he came up with such an idea and directly sent eunuchs to collect taxes, which did not need to be agreed by those ministers.

It is conceivable that this move has provoked such a fierce backlash, and throughout the Wanli Dynasty, the scolding about this is endless. Wanli has not been in court for decades, and it has nothing to do with these.

And this time the Suzhou tax resistance incident is the product of the contradiction to a certain extent, and it is a counterattack by the scholar group against the emperor.

If you want to say that the eunuch was tyrannical, it is for sure, the famous eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty, except for Zheng He and a few others, most of the others are this virtue. But these taxes, in fact, did not fall directly on the heads of those textile craftsmen, but on the heads of those factory owners and gentry. How much does this tax weigh? That's not necessarily, those factory owners and gentry must be able to afford it.

It's just that they simply don't want to bear it. These parasites on the body of the Ming Dynasty, grinding their teeth and sucking blood, eating the meat of the Ming Dynasty and drinking the blood of the Ming Dynasty, but they are unwilling to take out a penny of silver! In their opinion, not paying taxes is a matter of course!

Why do I pay taxes?

Therefore, they cleverly passed on the taxes collected to the heads of those textile craftsmen, and then provoked them, and it was logical that such a major event shocked the government and the opposition!

That Zhu Zhifu is also a scholar.

So in the Ming Dynasty, the hardest thing to mess with is the readers, especially those who are depressed and unambitious. If you compare yourself to them, you really can't compare. Many of them think that the imperial examination is hopeless, and seeing that their former classmates have all been promoted to the rank of jinshi and made a fortune in the examination, they are naturally unbalanced in their hearts, and this unbalanced heart has been unbalanced for a long time, that is, they are depressed with a sense of injustice, which makes them often very hostile to this society and this system, so they will do very extreme things if they are instigated by a little.

When your brain is hot, you can't tell what to do. Anyway, in their opinion, they have nothing to lose, and besides, the hundreds of years of the dynasty have made them have nothing to fear-even such a major event as burning the Dong Mansion is just a dozen people being removed from their reputations, what are they afraid of? Does the imperial court still dare to do anything to us reading seeds?

Therefore, if Dong Ce is really troubled by them, I am afraid that it will be over.

This kind of person is actually just one word: cheap!

They are the most bullying the weak and afraid of the hard, in the Ming Dynasty, they were so horizontal, what did they rely on, isn't it the country's preferential tolerance? But in the Qing Dynasty, people didn't care about them, they killed those who should be killed, and those who should be arrested, and these arrogant scholars suddenly didn't dare to let go of a fart.

For example, in the fourth year of Yongzheng, the cabinet bachelor, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, and the Jiangxi examiner Zha Siting took the proposition test with the sentence "The Book of Songs" "Weimin stops", and the Qing court falsely called the word "Weizhi", which was intended to take the first of the word "Yongzheng" It is disrespectful, and the prison will be investigated and questioned one by one. Soon after he died in prison, his body was killed, and his relatives were killed. In the same year, Wang Jingqi was appointed as an essay for Nian Qianyao, and went west with the year, because of the article ridiculing the court, he was convicted of great rebellion, and was immediately executed, and his wife was sent to Heilongjiang as a slave.

Because the above two people were from Zhejiang, they offended the imperial court with their writings, so the Qing court suspended the Zhejiang Scribe Township Examination.

Stopped Zhejiang's meeting, what kind of concept is this?

It means that in the future, the scholars and scholars in Zhejiang will take the right path and take the imperial examination, and they will no longer be able to be officials!

This is equivalent to the survival of the gentry and scholars in the entire Zhejiang province!

If it was in the Ming Dynasty, I am afraid that it would have been turned upside down a long time ago, but what about in the Yongzheng Dynasty? But not a single one dares to speak! Why? I'm scared to kill! In the end, it was Li Wei who said a lot of good things for the Zhejiang scribes, and only then did he resume the township examination of the Zhejiang scribes. In this way, it can be seen.

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