The history of the tax inspection team can be traced back to the early days of the empire. When the empire just left Huangzhushan and began to take control of Zhengtai County, the tax department had officially established a tax inspection team.
The subsequent tax inspection team continued to grow with the development of the empire. During the Civil Unification War, the tax inspection team made great contributions.
This kind of credit is not only reflected in the legal and reasonable collection of taxes, providing financial support for the empire, and providing weapons and ammunition for the troops, but also in stabilizing the newly occupied areas.
During the Unification War, the number of regular troops in the empire was limited and the combat tasks were heavy. Therefore, after occupying a certain area, the task of suppressing the local area and maintaining public security needed to be handed over to the garrison troops in the rear. But in fact, the garrison troops
In fact, the number is not very sufficient, so in many places, the task of suppressing the local area, maintaining law and order, and eradicating the remnants of the Ming Dynasty is undertaken by the tax inspection team.
At that time, the scale of the tax inspection team in the newly occupied areas was very large. In a newly occupied ordinary county, the size of the tax inspection team could reach hundreds of people. Although the personnel involved had basic military qualities such as physical fitness and tactical movements,
Relatively low, but with a very strong sense of war, they are active and flexible in combat, and they can also obtain some weapons and equipment that are only available to regular army units, such as artillery, muskets, etc.
It can forcefully suppress illegal organizations such as landlord armed forces trying to resist taxes and bandit gangs trying to evade taxes.
After several months of clearing up the newly occupied areas, the newly occupied areas become ordinary areas, and the number of local tax inspection teams will be reduced to normal levels.
However, this still makes the size of the tax inspection team very large!
In the fifth year of Xuanping, when the imperial dynasty had just established its capital in Jinling City and the imperial army had just taken control of the Jiangnan region, the tax inspection team in Jiangnan Road alone reached more than 10,000 people!
It was more powerful than the local garrison troops stationed in Jiangnan Road at that time...
Although this number began to plummet after a few months, the impact was memorable.
This is just Jiangnan Road. In fact, when the empire first took control of the Chief Secretary of Hubei Province, this area was once the base camp for the resistance of the new Ming army, so the security tasks here were very heavy. Those who first entered this area
At that time, the size of the tax inspection team expanded to more than 40,000 people in a short period of time.
The tax inspection team back then could easily number tens of thousands of people in a province. This shows how huge the tax inspection team was back then.
Although there is no accurate figure, based on statistics from various aspects, the tax inspection team in the early years of the empire had about 800,000 people at its peak, and it has remained at more than 300,000 people for many years.
scale.
At that time, the tax inspection team, which numbered hundreds of thousands, made great contributions to stabilizing local security in the newly occupied areas of the empire. Even the army had to admit this with pinched noses.
It was not until the empire was initially stabilized ten years after Xuanping that the size of the tax inspection team continued to decline and large-scale transformation began.
Up to now, the tax inspection team has actually completed its transformation. Among them, the ones that ordinary people often see and come into contact with are usually tax investigators. This thing is actually no different from ordinary patrol police. They mainly investigate tax cases.
Equipped with pistols and the like, so in the past ten years or so, many people have called these tax investigators tax police, and many people even do not regard them as members of the tax inspection team.
However, in addition to tax investigators, the tax inspection team still retains professional armed tax inspection teams, which are internally called tax action teams.
This tax action team is the successor to the tax inspection team back then!
Naturally, its scale cannot be compared with the hundreds of thousands of armed tax inspection teams back then, but they are found in various places, and the total number is quite large.
They generally follow a small but refined model. After all, their mission has changed from suppressing local armed tax resistance and exterminating tax evasion bandit gangs in the early days to mainly fighting against tax criminals. If they are exhausted, they will attack some armed smugglers or other tax collectors.
Criminals.
For example, the Songjiang Prefecture Tax Inspection Team Action Team is small in size, with only more than 300 people. However, the personnel are strong and well-equipped. They are equipped with the latest joint type II rifles, machine guns, mortars, and a large amount of armor.
Cars, armed patrol boats and other advanced equipment.
Tax action teams like the Songjiang Prefecture Tax Inspection Team Action Team are found in every prefecture in the empire... Of course, the scale of action teams in other places is definitely not as large as the action team here in Songjiang Prefecture. Larger state capitals may
There were dozens of people, and the smaller ones were probably only a dozen or even a few people.
However, every provincial and state capital will have a tax inspection team action team, which is the standard configuration under the tax bureau of each provincial and state capital.
Taken together, the scale of the tax inspection team's action team is still very large. In Asia, there are about more than 30,000 people, and overseas, including the Americas, the total number of people is about more than 10,000.
In other words, the size of the tax inspection team's action team is about 40,000 people worldwide!
It is worth noting that this is purely the armed forces and does not include those tax investigators.
They are equipped with military standard weapons, including rifles, artillery and machine guns, gunboats and armored vehicles...
The size of the 40,000-strong armed force is already half that of the Guards.
It is precisely because of these 40,000 armed forces that the tax inspection team can still maintain its reputation as the fourth largest armed force in the empire, surpassing the patrol police.
For this reason, the patrol police naturally did not sit still and began to organize their so-called special patrols very early to fight against heavy firepower militants or other dangerous criminals. However, the development time is short, and many places think they have tax action teams.
It is a waste of money to set up a special patrol. After all, although the tax action team belongs directly to the tax bureau, it will also help handle some dangerous cases when necessary.
Today's tax action teams, especially those in cities without special patrols, are responsible for far more than just tax cases, but include all dangerous criminal cases.
It can be seen from this that in fact, whether it is the tax inspection team action team or the special patrol police created by the patrol police, they are all of the same nature.
They all belong to demilitarized armed forces stationed in cities, and there is no mutual reporting relationship between the action teams in each city. The tax action teams and special patrol police in each city are independent of each other.