Daxing County was an ordinary county under Changbai Mountain. It was a good place. One had to know that the ginseng in Changbai Mountain was top-notch, especially the old ginseng.
The county head of this government had the surname Xu. In ancient times and the previous dynasty, he would be a seventh-grade county magistrate.
What did this person say?
It was inevitable that he was not a good official and liked to scrape the ground. It was impossible for there to be no such people in this era. After all, it was an old society. It would be strange if there were no bad people.
Before the autumn tax was confiscated, he first issued some decrees to collect more taxes according to the heads of each family.
However, it was impossible for him to return the money. It was just an excuse. It would be difficult for him to spit out the money that had entered his pocket.
Perhaps everyone had a certain impression of the farming incident in White Deer Plain.
Non-violent non-cooperation, this was a typical peasant crafty.
Non-violence was not rebellion, because rebellion would be beheaded. Not to mention the large number of soldiers, just the security group in the county was enough to make these villagers suffer.
Handing over farming tools was just handing over farming tools. They would use a non-violent method to tell the government that they were united in numbers. If they wanted to mess around, they should take it easy.
The people of Daxing County were suffering. The government bullied them, and the bandits bullied them. When the army came to suppress the bandits, they naturally had to be skinned.
Where would he get the money to pay extra taxes? Wasn't this tax increase equivalent to forcing the people to revolt?
However, they could not rebel because the 33rd Division was nearby and could crush them at any time. The number of villagers causing trouble might not even be as many as the army.
No matter what era it was, it was impossible for civilians to fight against a violent organization like the army. No matter how weak the army was, it was still an organized armed force.
Unless the numbers disadvantage was too great!
In this day and age, officials generally did not go to the countryside. The ones who called the shots were still the squires. They were either the chiefs or the landowners.
With their organization, the tenants and villagers below would start a rebellion. These Northeasterners were still stubborn. They had no way out, so how could they not risk their lives?
With a few gunshots, the farmers from various villages gathered together with their farm tools and walked towards the county town.
The security guards were immediately frightened. There was only one battalion in the city. The others had followed the 33rd Division out to see the world.
There were more than tens of thousands of people who came to farm.
As the saying went, once there were more than ten thousand people, there would be no end to it. When they imagined the black mass of heads swarming towards them, most of the Security Corps soldiers felt their scalps go numb.
They were also locals. The people here might be their relatives and parents.
Everyone in the city knew that they definitely did not suffer as much as the villagers. Even in the era of the Republic, it was the same. The rural soldiers definitely suffered more.
After all, this was not the era of urban and industrial development. The people on the ninth floor were all farmers.
"This bunch of bumpkins are rebelling. Quickly block the door. Don't let them in. Call Overseer Sun of the 32nd Division.”
Sun Lie, Sun Laosan, also known as Sun Sangou, was the governor of Ji Province and the commander of the 32nd Division. He was a core figure in the army.
"County Head, he must be here for the imperial grain.”
It was very normal to collect imperial grain, which was also known as public grain. It had a history of thousands of years in the country, but Daxing was considered to have a lot of shares.
Once this happened, this Xu guy knew that he was done for.
A hundred years later, the agricultural tax might be abolished, but it was absolutely impossible in this era, because the agricultural tax was the most important source of income for the government.
As soon as the incident happened, the Department of Investigation Services received the news and immediately sent it to Fengtian City. In this era, radio stations were not yet popular, but telegrams were very common.
Zhang Zhengzong also wanted to bring in a radio station, but he was powerless now because he had no money or talent.
This radio station was the ancestor of mobile phones. It was good stuff!
There was no need to explain the importance of the army. Everyone had watched spy movies, and the radio station was the most important prop.
Ma Shan immediately reported this to Zhang Zhengzong, causing him to curse out loud.
What were Sun Sangou and Lin Shumeng doing? One of them was the Military Governor of Ji Province, and the other was the Governor of Ji Province. If something happened, Zhang Zhengzong would look for them first. He would not look for trouble with the county head. How much were these people worth?
However, Zhang Zhengzong wouldn't ask. He would first see how Lin Shumeng handled it. Although he was the boss, he couldn't tell his subordinates what to do.
Rules were rules. Those who were directly responsible for Zhang Zhengzong were the heads of the various departments and the big shots of the provinces, not the small fries below. It was a big taboo to report to someone above his level, and it was also a big taboo to deal with someone above his level.
If they were all messed up, wouldn't the administration be in a mess?
This Sun Sangou was busy exterminating bandits and had a lot of troubles to deal with. How could he have the time to deal with this? It wasn't that Jiaonong didn't exist in the past. Although he had transferred away the security groups of the nearby counties, didn't he still have a battalion left? With real weapons, why would he be afraid of those nobodies?
The county town had been blocked for three hours. In the end, the county head surnamed Xu could only promise not to charge more. Only then did the people below disperse, but things would not end so easily.
Zhang Zhengzong saw a possibility. He wanted to set up a clean government office to take care of this matter. If the government was not changed, the people would have no way out. They would definitely rebel. That was how bandits came about.
With such a person around, the bandits would never be able to wipe them out.
A few days later, Zhang Zhengzong received the written report. It was obvious that the Ji Province side had reduced the matter to a minor one. It was just a simple brush and was mixed with other matters. If it wasn't for the Department of Investigation Services paying special attention to this matter, they would have let them go.
In the past, Old Zhang was a little more casual, but Zhang Zhengzong would not. It was not a simple matter to force the people to rebel. There were too many things involved.
"Call Lin Shumeng over. His subordinates are all rotten to death, and he still wants to pretend? F * ck, the commoners would definitely curse.”Zhang Zhengzong cursed loudly. What did he mean by officials protecting each other? This was it.
Now that he was going to be the great lord of the heavens, anyone who dared to block his way would be his enemy.
"Alright." Shun Zi felt that sending a telegram would be enough. If he asked Governor Lin to come all the way, wouldn't it be too disrespectful?
But thinking about it, he knew that the marshal was going to cause trouble again. This guy had bumped into him.
Lin Shumeng was indeed very puzzled, but he still went there strangely. He even brought a lot of people with him as a report in advance.
A high-ranking official like him had to report to Fengtian every once in a while.
Even though the wedding date was approaching, Zhang Zhengzong still took the time to meet him.
In the office, Lin Shumeng entered Zhang Zhengzong's office.
Shun Zi served him a cup of tea and left. After all, Lin Shumeng was a big shot. It was definitely inappropriate for him to listen to the other party being scolded. No one wanted to let others know about such embarrassing things.
Shun Zi, who was standing at the door, faintly heard the curses inside.
Poor Lin Shumeng. He was already so old, but he was still being scolded. He was completely the scapegoat.
There weren't many big cities in the northeast these days, but there were definitely many medium-sized counties like Daxing.
Lin Shumeng, who had his head lowered, hated the county head to death. If things went wrong, his position might end as well. Although the status of the civil officials of the Feng family was not as high as those military leaders, they were still high-ranking figures.
A person like him was also a governor in the previous dynasty. Although he could not control the garrison, he could still mobilize the security regiment. He was just a little weaker than the overseer.
Previously, this position had always been held by the military governor. In order to restrict his brothers, Zhang Zhengzong had given them power and added a governor. However, he was sure that Lin Shumeng was definitely on Old Zhang's side.
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