Chapter 259

Liu Bu immediately ordered the troops to enter the combat state. They marched in the non combat state and never wore armor. Once they marched in the combat state, they immediately wore armor to deal with the situation at any time.

With more than 4000 men, 1000 cavalry and 3000 infantry, they drove to Qingzhou Fucheng in a combat formation.

In the first year of Hongwu, Taizu changed daiyidu road into Qingzhou Prefecture, governing Weizhou, Juzhou and Jiaozhou and 16 counties of 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, which still led 13 counties and 1 Prefecture. The governor of the Prefecture was the magistrate, and there were other officials such as Tongzhi and fujudge. The magistrate is in charge of "the government of one government, publicizing weathering, settling prison lawsuits and paying taxes and servitudes". He is also known as the deputy of the magistrate, and is only responsible for grain transportation and farmland water conservancy.

Qingzhou is one of the ancient Kyushu. It is said that after Dayu's flood control, according to the trend of mountains and rivers, the whole country is divided into Qingzhou, Xu, Yang, Jing, Yu, Ji, Yan, Yong and Liang Kyushu. Qingzhou is one of them. It is called "Haidai is only Qingzhou" in the earliest summer's oldest geographical work Shangshu Yugong.

The sea is the Bohai Sea, and Dai is Mount Tai, that is, an area from Mount Tai to the Bohai Sea in the East. According to Zhou Li, it is recorded that "Qingzhou is called in the East", and notes: "Shaoyang is covered with earth, and its color is green, so it is called Qingzhou."

In many times, Qingzhou was also called Yidu. According to legend, Bo Yi was the greatest contributor to Dayu's flood control in ancient times. In addition to Bo Yi, there were two effective helpers, gaotao and Houji. Gao Tao was Bo Yi's father.

After Dayu succeeded in controlling the flood, he planned to choose one of gaotao, Boyi and Houji as his successor, but gaotao was old and died shortly after he succeeded in controlling the flood. Dayu planned to take Boyi as his successor, but Dayu's son coveted Dayu's rights, united with other tribal leaders, abolished the concession system and inherited Dayu's power status, Established the Xia Dynasty, became a generation of emperors, and made the Zen system move towards the hereditary system of family and world style.

When Xia Qi ascended the throne, Boyi was the supreme chief executive of Qingzhou, so he returned to Jishan mountain of Qingzhou until he grew old. According to the book of rites of the Zhou Dynasty, "there was a temple of the former king called capital", that is, the place where the sages and saints were worshipped was called capital, and Yidu was the capital for Boyi.

It is said that Boyi was the sixth grandson of the Yellow Emperor. He was given the surname Ying by Yu for his meritorious service in helping Dayu control the flood. Boyi's descendants have a large number of talents. Maliai is the ancestor of the state of Qin, Sima Yi, the high ancestor of the state of Jin, Yaojin, the Duke of the state of Lu in the Tang Dynasty, and so on. It can be said that he is one of the old ancestors of China.

Since ancient times, Qingzhou has been full of talents and talents. Fan Zhongyan and Ouyang Xiu have been officials here, and they have become models for future generations; Li Qingzhao, a famous poetess, once lived in Qingzhou for more than ten years and left many famous works. Moreover, she is located in the strategic core of the Shandong Peninsula. It can be said to be a very important place. Once she occupies this place, it is equivalent to cutting off the Shandong Peninsula and cutting off the Grand Canal at any time. Moreover, it is also the largest house in xiafangzhou County of the three Eastern governments. She was also less affected in the Wuqiao mutiny.

Originally, Qingzhou's situation should be the best among several state capitals, but because the magistrate has no intention of government affairs and is bent on making money, it has also lowered its economic level to the general level.

Fang Ruo Wu has been suffering from no excuse to make money. This time, the governor made an opening and asked him to let go of his hand and get rid of his big arm. Therefore, he did not hesitate to follow up with all his strength. However, he sent countless tax collection teams to destroy and collect taxes everywhere. There was a lot of smoke and complaints in the place.

Fang ruowu also had a heart. This time he made a big profit. He planned to spend money to move towards the middle of the court and continue to be an official in another place. Because he had such thoughts and ideas, he made special efforts to make money? Moreover, the requirements are more strict than Deng Bingwen of Dengzhou.

So it took only a while and a few days to completely force this place against it. I saw the people in ten townships and eight miles rise up at the command. They expelled the tax Ding and drove away the Yamen.

Then they surrounded the county governments everywhere. As we all know, this is the benefit of Fang ruo's work, so hundreds of thousands of people surrounded Qingzhou City and asked the magistrate for a statement? Why did the emperor exempt the money and food of the third east mansion for three years, but the magistrate refused to do so and let people live?

If you don't let people live, everyone will die together. Therefore, the people are very angry. They are aggressive. They go all out to chase down tax collectors, expel tax collectors, and put forward the slogan of tax exemption and life protection. Because it is launched by dozens of villages in many places, Fang can't fight and control without thinking about it. As a result, a spark can start a prairie fire, A fire made the whole thirteen counties of Qingzhou Prefecture become noisy. Facing the crowds of surging people, they were full of anger and hatred for the government, smashing everything they saw in front of them.

If they see officials, they are lucky to run fast. If they are caught running slowly, they will be killed on the spot. If other officials are better, nine out of ten in charge of tax collection will be killed on the spot.

Such fierce retaliation paralyzed the governments of 13 counties in Qingzhou. They fled the tax offices and villages everywhere, fled into the government city, and relied on the city wall to resist the mob.

Fang Ruo Wu has always been lazy in politics and called it "inaction and governance". He has always respected Lao Tzu's Huang Lao's skill, so he advocates inaction and governance. However, he has not fallen behind in making money. He has always been very focused on grasping this silk thing. He sets tax targets for his subordinates and must get the specified money for him.

He wondered that he was strange. He did the same thing in previous years, and he didn't do less of it. There was no accident in previous years. This year, such a thing happened. These mud legs looked like bear hearts and leopard courage. They all looked up, held their heads high, and raised their heads against him.

It's natural for the people to pay taxes. Now they rush up angrily, smashing the government, smashing the tax collectors and officers. They claim not to pay taxes, but also siege the city, which makes him very afraid.

He knew that this was the so-called popular uprising. If it was spread to the upper level and let the court know, he would be dismissed or killed.

For such a situation, if fang had not ordered him to be afraid, the gate of Qingzhou Fucheng would never be opened. No one would be allowed to open the door without his order.

He didn't dare to report such a thing to the court. Reporting it to the court was tantamount to beating his mouth. He was killed by himself. The court would certainly ask him for his crime, so he had no choice but to ask Liu Bu who passed nearby for help.

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

If fang had no subordinates, there were more than a dozen county magistrates who collected taxes according to the will of the magistrate. Now they acted against the sky and provoked a popular uprising. Naturally, the magistrate should bear such responsibility, not their subordinates.

If they don't inform the imperial court and the higher authorities of all this in time, it is their subordinates who will finally bear the black pot. Therefore, they are very clever to write to the imperial court, claiming to collect taxes according to the order of the magistrate and stir up civil unrest in the local area.

He didn't know what his men were doing, but he had made up his mind that after the settlement, he would put all the blame on his men and let them carry the black pot by themselves.

According to the rules of his magistrate, the boss will never be wrong. It's only his men who are wrong, but his men don't obey the orders. If his men obey the orders, they will not do such things when they persuade the people, say good or bad, say good words and do good people when collecting taxes.

As for this situation now, we can't blame him in essence. We can only blame his subordinates for being too bad and greedy. As long as they receive one or two silver, they just receive ten Liang. How can they not make the people rebel?

If Fang Ruo Wu has also made up his mind, that is, when things are calm here or a little calm, he will publicly kill a group of heinous tax soldiers in public to calm the people's anger.

If Fang Wuwu and his men calculated with each other, he could not have expected it himself. But one thing, he and his men, we all know very well now, that is, they must guard the Qingzhou mansion. If they can't guard it and let the refugees attack, their fate will be very miserable.

So at this time, they took all the Yamen servants, strong men, soldiers and the servants of the guard house out of the city and put them on the wall. They defended day and night and guarded them strictly. They must not make any mistakes. They knew that once the mob attacked the city, not only the officials would die, but also the rich businessmen and rich people would be robbed by the mobs.

One thing has always been very clear, that is, after the chaos of the imperial dynasty, not only the common people but also these rich families suffer, because basically all robbers fight a slogan, that is, robbing the rich to help the poor.

Because everyone knows that in this world, you can only grab money if you rob the rich. If you rob a group of mud legs, you can't grab any silver. But if you can marry a rich man, it's different. You can get a lot of money.

Therefore, the whole city of Qingzhou was united. They earnestly guarded the city wall.

They also put down a large number of sentinels through the hanging basket and went to the nearby area for help. When they heard that Liu Bu's army was passing by, they immediately asked him for help.