After seeing all the landowners and businessmen leaving, Mei Pingdong, the magistrate of Huaiyuan County in the Tang Dynasty, touched the short beard on his chin again, and then murmured: I'm afraid they won't give in easily if they leave today.
Be careful to avoid causing any trouble!"
He waved immediately, and then one of his followers trotted over: "Sir, what are your orders?"
Mei Pingdong said: "Go to the tax bureau and the patrol bureau and send a message saying that those landowners and businessmen who came to the county government have been dismissed by me, but we must prevent them from causing trouble!"
The taxation process of the Tang Dynasty was not so harmonious from the beginning. Basically, taxation would bring fierce bloody conflicts in every place.
Especially at the beginning of the tax collection, there will always be those who are unwilling to give up or think that the Tang Dynasty does not dare to do anything to them, and have the mentality that the law will not punish the public, and there are many of them.
Of course the Tang Dynasty knew that the law would not punish the public, otherwise they would kill them all and who would they ask to collect taxes?
But there is also a saying called killing the chicken to scare the monkey!
Now a group of officials from the Tang Dynasty in Huaiyuan County are just waiting for that chicken to stupidly jump out on its own!
Sure enough, the next day, when members of the tax inspection team were collecting taxes in Wangjia Village, a few miles east of the county seat, they were resisted and even attacked by a mob. One member of the tax inspection team was killed and one injured on the spot.
In this case, the tax officer who led the team decisively and quickly withdrew from Wangjia Village!
Seeing a pseudo-Tang Dynasty official wearing a weird scholar's uniform and running away with a dozen of his thugs, Wang Shuangxi grinned so much that his buck teeth looked a little scary.
"Just these bastards dare to go to my Wang family and run wild without even looking at what kind of family our Wang family is. How can they be compared to those bastards!" After Wang Shuangxi said this, a young man next to him immediately said: "
Dad, if we beat these fake Tang thieves like this, will it cause trouble?"
Wang Shuangxi said with a straight face: "What kind of trouble can this cause? We are not the only Wang family who are doing this. Just look at it, today, no family in Huaiyuan County can pay taxes!"
"Our Wang family has been working in Huaiyuan for hundreds of years and has a deep foundation. We are afraid of what he will do. Moreover, even if the pseudo-Tang Dynasty conquers the world and comes to Huaiyuan County, if the Shangguan wants to govern the place, gentry like our Wang family will be indispensable. Is it possible that they will
The county magistrate of the Puppet Tang Dynasty can still personally control those scoundrels!"
At this time, someone next to him also answered: "Brother is right. Since ancient times, imperial power has not been sent to the countryside. Now that person named Mei has set up a town office and set up a village chief. This clearly wants to interfere with our clan."
How can they, as officials, be allowed to interfere with internal affairs and family matters?
Besides, if we go by what they say, how much tax will our Wang family have to pay? I’m afraid it will cost several hundred taels of silver in another year! Even if our Wang family has a big business, we can’t withstand such a torment!”
Hearing what the elders above said, the young man could only sigh and stop talking.
At noon that day, Mei Pingdong got news from the county tax bureau, saying that the six tax inspection teams sent out today were met with violent resistance. Not only did they not collect a penny in tax, but they also injured one person.
Not long after, Mei Pingdong saw the two directors of the County Taxation Bureau and the County Patrol Bureau. When these two directors arrived at the county government office, they immediately said as subordinates: "I pay my respects to the county magistrate!"
Mei Pingdong naturally didn't know how to show off his reputation as a Shangguan, so he immediately stepped forward and said: "Master Lin, Master Feng, you're welcome, come and take a seat!"
Although the County Taxation Bureau, County Patrol Bureau, and Supervisory Office are all part of the subordinate agencies of the county government, everyone knows that in the Tang Dynasty, the taxation and patrol police and the Supervisory Office worked independently.
The Supervisory Yuan, taxation, and patrol agencies are dual-led agencies. In addition to the county government, their respective direct superior departments can also lead them. Therefore, Mei Pingdong does not have absolute power to command these three agencies.
In terms of rank, the chief officials of these three organizations are only one level lower than Mei Pingdong, starting from the seventh rank.
Therefore, Mei Pingdong naturally would not treat them like ordinary subordinates, but would come forward to speak in a friendly manner!
"The two adults came together today, presumably because of the gentry's tax resistance?" Mei Pingdong took the initiative before they could speak: "I just found out about this matter. These people really think that we, the Tang Dynasty and the Pseudo Ming Dynasty,
Just as cowardly, just kidding!"
Seeing Mei Pingdong's attitude, Master Lin and Master Feng were relieved!
Immediately, Lin Chaotian, director of the Huaiyuan County Taxation Bureau, said: "Yes, it is a national policy of the Tang Dynasty that the gentry and gentry pay taxes together. How can it be shaken just because of the resistance of a few landlords? I thought that we must take the most severe and swift measures."
We must use various means to crack down on these false spies who are resisting the tax policy of the country and let them know that under our rule in the Tang Dynasty, tax evasion and tax evasion are absolutely not allowed to occur!"
Having said this, he took a deep breath, and then said in a very serious tone: "Even if he dies, he still has to get up and pay the taxes he owes!"
At this time, Feng Laoliu, director of the Huaiyuan County Patrol Bureau, said with a straight face: "What Mr. Lin said is true. Under the rule of the Tang Dynasty, how can we tolerate these lawless armed confrontations? This matter must be severely punished, otherwise we will
Huaiyuan County will never have peace!"
At this point, he paused, then took a few breaths and continued: "Just this morning, I received an order from the Logistics Department of the Privy Council, ordering this county to improve the security of Huaiyuan County as soon as possible."
"Two adults, the military is now very dissatisfied with the public security order in Huaiyuan County. The Logistics Department's small-scale transportation unit in Huaiyuan County has been attacked by local bandits many times. Although no actual losses were caused, this situation
Changes must be made, otherwise, the military will think that the county is no longer able to maintain public order in the county, and will send regular troops here!
And I have also found out that these people who attacked our Wang Division’s transportation team are related to several big landowners in Huaiyuan County, one of them is the Wang family!"
Feng Laoliu, like most of the chiefs of the county patrol bureau, is a retired military officer. Before retiring, he was a lieutenant. However, his status as a lieutenant was not high. He was promoted temporarily before retiring. After his promotion, he became a lieutenant.
Retired.
He was an old bandit back then, and he had the title of an officer because of Cong Longzao. But later, with the regularization of the officers of the Tang Dynasty King's Division, a wild man like him lost the opportunity to continue to be promoted, so he and
Like many people in similar situations, they chose to quit the front line and then work in the local patrol department.
Now that the various systems of the Tang Dynasty have been formalized, the messy titles of police officers, thief officers, sheriffs, patrol officers, etc. in various places have been unified and unified into patrol police. At the same time, due to the shortage of manpower and the excessive number of grassroots police officers
This caused problems such as the overflow of civil servants and financial expenditure difficulties. The police force at the village level was abolished and only one village peace officer was established in each village.
At the same time, the number of manpower at the town level will be increased, and several or more than a dozen patrol police will be deployed according to the size of the town, and they will be under the jurisdiction of the town sheriff.
The county has a patrol bureau with a director who oversees a number of patrol officers. The director also serves as the commander of the burglary battalion.
The government has a patrol bureau with a chief.
As for the province, there is no one at the moment, but it has been planned in advance to establish a patrol department.
Naturally, these titles were all arranged by Li Xuan!
Although it sounds strange to everyone, it doesn't matter if the name is strange, as long as you know that this is an official organization and what it does.
Feng Laoliu retired from active service, because he did not retire from active service due to injury or other reasons, but actively requested to withdraw to make way for the new officers below, so the military gave him a temporary promotion to the rank of lieutenant before he retired.
In this way, after he was discharged from the army, his remuneration was relatively generous when he was resettled. At first, he worked in the Patrol Police Bureau under Liping Prefecture, and later he was transferred to Huaiyuan County to become the director of the newly established Patrol Police Bureau in Huaiyuan County.
As the person in charge of maintaining public security in Huaiyuan County, he naturally could not ignore the landlords who were armed to resist taxes.
He immediately continued: "I have also discussed it with Commander Fang of the county bandit camp. He said that he has received military orders in advance. As long as our local government requests assistance in a formal document, then they can send troops!"
Because the local bandit camps are under the dual jurisdiction of the local government and the military, if you want to use them in any situation, you must first obtain permission from the military.
However, actions to maintain public security like this can be regarded as the daily work of the pirate camps on the ground. In some more troublesome places, the pirate camps will often obtain permission in advance.
However, after the military has given permission in advance, it still needs a formal document from local officials so that they can formally dispatch to suppress the armed tax resisters.
Of course, if there is a rebellion or enemy siege, there will not be so much trouble. Protecting the country without losing it, especially the county magistrate or other strategic places, is the military strategy of the county capture and bandit camp.
It makes sense.
Listening to what these two people said, Mei Pingdong nodded slightly and said: "In that case, without further ado, let's go to the bandit camp!"
Soon, these three people appeared in the south teaching field of Huaiyuan County, which is also the military camp of the Huaiyuan County Bandit Camp!
After hearing the words of these three adults, Fang Dongzhi, the commander of the Huaiyuan County Pirate Camp, frowned slightly and said: "I'm afraid this matter is a bit difficult to deal with. Now, instead of two families rebelling, there are six or even more families rebelling.
I am afraid that it will be unsustainable for me to rely on my newly established bandit capture camp. Our camp has only recruited soldiers for a few days, and there are less than 200 people in total, and they are all new recruits. If we want to handle this matter, I am afraid we will have to call in the west dock of the city.
Only the help from the garrison will do!"
At a traffic thoroughfare where three rivers meet in Huaiyuan County, the military was naturally worried about letting a bandit camp guard only a few days in the city, so a garrison camp of about 500 people was left here, and there were also
Several bowl-mouth cannons were left behind.
"You want to ask the garrison for help?" Mei Pingdong seemed a little hesitant when he heard this: "This is not good!"