In order to enjoy the world-class wealth forever, Ming Shenzong began to build Dingling as early as 2 1 year. In order to bring everything he enjoyed before his death to the underworld, it took six years, served more than 30,000 craftsmen every day, spent more than 8 million yuan, and exhausted countless craftsmen and civilian workers to build this huge underground palace. Zongshen did not consider dealing with the corruption of official management and the abolition of the government, but he was always obsessed with collecting property. From the 24th year of Wanli (1596), he sent a large number of trusted eunuchs to all parts of the country to act as tax inspectors, plundering the rights and interests of the people.
The lackeys of the bad king, under various pretexts, wantonly exploit, accept bribes and seek benefits. Not only ordinary people will be oppressed and trampled to death, but even local officials will be oppressed. At that time, taxes were scattered to more than 60 counties in/kloc-0, some specialized in weaving, some supervised mining, and some collected taxes. There are many kinds of taxes, such as travel, houses, rice, wheat, millet, chicken, pigs, cattle, horses, donkeys, mules and so on. , are heavy taxes.
In February of the 27th year of Wanli (1599), a eunuch named Chen Feng was ordered to mine and collect taxes in Jingzhou. He is multitasking and arrogant to the extreme. He ordered several officials to be beaten because they didn't collect enough money from him. The cold wind roared, and officials were stripped of their official clothes and dragged across the floor. Chen Feng's minions waved whips and sticks wildly until the officials screamed miserably.
One day, Chen Feng went to Jingzhou from Wuchang, and immediately she was thinking about how to further rip off. Suddenly, he heard the denunciation in front. When he looked up, he was just scared out of his mind. Originally, all the people hated him, and when they heard that he was going to pass by, thousands of people gathered to get even with him. Before he could return to absolute being, a burst of masonry rained down on his minions, and Chen Feng hurriedly beat the horse and fled, almost dying, only to avoid being chased by everyone. After this incident, Chen Feng didn't stop. Instead, he falsely accused local officials in Huangzhou, Xiangyang and Jingzhou of inciting civil unrest. When Zongshen got the tip-off, he immediately arrested those officials and put them in prison.
In the 28th year of Wanli (1600) in December, Chen Feng once again provoked a civil rebellion in Wuchang. Wu, a senior official in Nanjing, wrote:? Chen Fengwei threatened to blackmail the government and the people, claiming to be Chitose, and went straight into the people's homes with others to rape women, or plundered them into the tax office. Scholar Wang Sheng's daughter and Shen Sheng's wife were both insulted. As a result, scholars and citizens 10000 people were outraged and wished to die together with Chen Feng. Thanks to the protection of the government, the talent was able to escape. In the long run, the world's disaster will reach to what extent. ? At the same time, Shen, a college student, also said that Chen Feng had provoked more than 10 disturbances and was furious, so he should withdraw immediately. But turn a blind eye to all this and continue to let Chen regard this as his own search.
With the support of the emperor, Chen Feng continued to do evil, and finally the people could not bear it. They gathered and surrounded Chen Feng's office, determined to kill the bastard son of a bitch. Chen Feng is shaking like chaff in the official's son's office. Finally, he sneaked out of the small door and fled to the palace of Chu, only glad that he had picked up another dog's life. The people who surrounded the tax inspection department smashed the door and rushed into the yard. As soon as Chen Feng disappeared, they tied up Geng Wendeng, a minion who was always evil, and 16 people, dragged them to the river and threw them into the river one by one.
The governor gave Chen Feng asylum, and the angry people set fire to the governor's yamen. Later, at the repeated request of ministers, Ming Shenzong recalled Chen Feng. When Chen Feng left the State of Chu, he plundered a mountain of gold and silver. I was afraid of being robbed on the road, so I sent many soldiers to escort me. Chen Feng did all kinds of evil, and even returned to Beijing safely, and went to the emperor to receive the reward and enjoy all the splendor. And those officials who stopped him from running rampant were falsely accused of imprisonment, imprisoned for many years, and tortured to death in prison.
At the same time, the tax in Tianjin and Linqing, Shandong, made Chen Feng, named Matang. After he took office, he gathered a group of outlaws as his minions and rampaged in the market in broad daylight. Waving the shackles in his hand, robbing the citizens of their property. Anyone who dares to resist a little will be punished for disobeying the imperial edict, ranging from beating people to beheading them. Ma Tang not only imposed heavy taxes on vendors, but even farmers who came out with a bag of millet and a basket of eggs for some oil and salt could not escape his search. Not long after, the vendors disappeared in Linqing city, and the citizens could not live.
On this day, Ma Tang sent a gang of outlaws under his command to rob money. Soon, there was only a flood of outsiders' voices in the yamen, and the minions ran back in a panic to report that there were more than 1000 thugs around the yamen. Ma Tang thinks he is the emperor's tax collector, and he is always arrogant about his power. He never dared to pat a fly on the head of this evil tiger. When he heard that the villagers were in trouble, he was furious and ordered the archers in my office to shoot arrows. The archer was ordered not to disobey, so he closed his eyes and shot outside the wall. Because there are too many people throwing arrows around outside, they can't avoid it. Ten people immediately fell to the ground with an arrow. People were angered, everyone roared and set fires back and forth until all the villains in the yamen fled. Wang Chang, the local garrison, came with troops and took a dog's life from Matang in the fire. After the fire was put out, taxes led to the collapse of the yamen wall, with 37 charred bodies lying in the ruins. When you look closely, they are all hooligans with tattoos on their arms. These people are worried that the tiger will eventually be punished for taking the stable.
When Emperor Wanli heard that the people dared to burn and kill the tax collectors he sent to search for money, he was so angry that he immediately wrote a letter to search for the first person who started the chaos. As soon as the people in Linqing gave out the evil spirit, disaster came soon. Some scoundrels took the opportunity to falsely accuse extortion, and many people were implicated. There was a man named Wang Chaozuo, who was generous and upright at ordinary times. When he saw that the people of Linqing suffered from this disaster, he stepped forward and surrendered to the government. I was the first person to attack and punish the evil thief! I will bear all the disasters in the world, and I will not kill innocent people again! ? Wang Chaozuo was taken to the execution ground as the chief culprit and beheaded. When he was executed, he remained unmoved and died. Linqing people wept bitterly for this, and built an ancestral temple for him, offering sacrifices every year to commemorate his death. Li, the magistrate of Linqing, also admired Wang Chaozuo's righteous act and secretly sent someone to send some money to his mother and wife to let them live.
10 years later, Ma Tang went to Yangzhou to do evil again. Xu Luofang, a salt official, accused him of nine counts, but Zongshen turned a blind eye to the misdeeds of these lackeys. In the 27th year of Wanli, Liang Yong, the eunuch of Imperial Horse Supervisor, was sent to Shaanxi to collect famous horse goods. Liang Yong kept 500 horses privately, recruited outlaws and raped and plundered in Shaanxi. They dug up the graves of the ancients and stole the buried gold and jade. Liang Yong overcharged taxes and demanded bribes at will. Fuping county ordered the king to expose his crime, and as a result, the Shinto religion arrested the king and the king died in prison. Xu Douniu, a magistrate in Weinan, is an honest official. Liang Yong didn't ask for a bribe, and several officials in the county were killed alive. Xu Dou was so arrogant that he hanged himself in a rage.
Liang Yong's minions are open thieves, robbing passers-by on the road and taking away countless treasures. In order to send these stolen goods away, they are called offerings. The arrows twined together to form a front. Chengning County ordered Manchu Dynasty to recommend him as a real thief, sent troops to hunt him down, killed several murderers and stopped all the goods. He said that he led his men to the DPRK to present treasures, but Man Chao and others robbed him. God was furious and ordered the arrest of the recommendation of Manchu Dynasty, and ordered the local governor to escort Liang Yong and others back to Beijing. Yang Rong, who was sent to Yunnan, lied that there was a treasure well somewhere, and he could get 654.38+ 2 million yuan every year. After hearing this, Zongshen became greedy and put Yang Rong in charge. Yang Rong falsely accused officials and beat people, and thousands of people were tortured to death by him. As a result, local officials and people couldn't bear it, killing more than 200 people, including Yang Rong and his best friend. When Zongshen learned the news, he was so sad that he couldn't eat for a long time.
Twenty-nine years of Wanli (160 1), anti-tax broke out in Suzhou, which made Sun Long's twenty-nine years of Wanli (160 1), and anti-tax broke out in Suzhou, which made Sun Long's citizens revolt, headed by Suzhou weaver girl Ge Xian. Sun Long fled in chaos and many of his men were killed. However, this uprising was brutally suppressed and Ge Xianying died heroically.
Similar incidents are too numerous to mention. Ming Shenzong tried his best to satisfy his own selfish desires, and it has reached the point where people's grievances are boiling. For respectable people? It means that the rulers beautify and whitewash feudal history books. Also said that he is? Sucking marrow and drinking blood? . When the Ming Dynasty came into his hands, the downhill slide was even faster.