Parker and the Shadows of Yesterday Chapter 145

The sixth year of the Republic of China is destined to be an unusual year, both for China and other countries in the world.

Just after the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, something happened in Shandong.

Han Anshan only had the title of commander-in-chief but no real power. The Shandong army did not obey the orders of the provincial government at all. Most of the members of the provincial assembly continued the old tradition of the Advisory Council and they quarreled all day long. Once a motion was put forward, it would take half a month to review it. By the time they had come to an end of their quarrel, the proposal was already cold.

The most typical example is that the coalition government formally issued an order in the form of legislation to abolish the likin tax and reform the taxation in various provinces. Not to mention several economically developed provinces, even some remote provinces began to implement it according to the rules. Only in Shandong, except for the cities and counties with garrisons in the six northern provinces and the six southern provinces, other counties and towns are still implementing the old rules of the late Qing Dynasty and the old rules of the military government period.

Taxes were collected, fines were collected, and sometimes grain was collected under various names. As a result of layer upon layer of exploitation, the farmers in Shandong were starved of food and clothing, and finally the anti-tax movement broke out. The farmers who gathered not only drove away the tax collectors who collected grain, but also broke into the county government and beat the county governor to death.