Eight hundred and eighty-ninth chapter Chen Lifu with heavy responsibility
The special issue was not long, so Chen Lifu quickly browsed through it and then began to think deeply!
The great impact of this Anping victory was definitely the greatest in the battles for hegemony between the Tang army and the Ming Dynasty in recent years, because the hundreds of thousands of Ming troops in the Anping battle were already within the scope of several northern provinces.
The last main force of the Ming Army.
After defeating this Ming army, several northern provinces were completely unable to stop the Tang army. Shandong was definitely captured, and the subsequent Beizhili and even the puppet Ming capital were easily captured.
Henan is not a big problem. The Second Army is currently fighting in Henan. Although it has been resisted by some Ming troops, Emperor Zhengde had previously gathered all the main forces to fight in Shandong. There were not many main Ming troops in Henan.
Most of them were local guardsmen, and the guardsmen were absolutely unable to resist the Tang army's advance.
Next is Shanxi. If it were Shanxi in the past, because of the important town of Datong, this place had a strong military force. However, the troops in the northern border towns have already been exhausted by the Ming Dynasty. In the past few years, hundreds of thousands of people have been mobilized.
, and they are all elites of the frontier army. The remaining ones are only tens of thousands of young and old and weak. It is impossible to stop the Tang army's advance.
The only ones who are in trouble are the Tatars. Chen Lifu does not believe that more than half of the Tatars have been wiped out. It is certain that the Tatars have been severely damaged, otherwise the Tatars would not have taken the initiative to escape, but the specific results are worthy of discussion. Besides,
Well, the Tatars have more than tens of thousands of cavalry. They are all soldiers, and any young man can be pulled out to ride a horse to fight. I dare not say there are more, but there will be no problem at all if they pull out hundreds of thousands more cavalry.
Further to the west, in Shaanxi, Gansu and other places, there are also some Ming troops there, but again, they are not the main force of the Ming army, they are all local guardsmen.
Looking at the world, except for Zhang Zhangyue's troops in Huguang, Sichuan, and Yunnan, although there are many Ming armies in other places, none can really stop the Tang army's advancement.
In this case, except for Huguang, Sichuan, and Yunnan, other places may fall under the control of the Tang Dynasty in the near future, and the taxation work in the newly occupied areas will be the most difficult and complicated.
By then, I am afraid that the tasks of the Grain Collection Department will be very heavy, and as a tax inspector of the inspection office under the Grain Collection Department, Chen Lifu may have to go into battle again.
Although there are many tax inspectors in the Inspection Office, there are always dozens of people, but these people are spread over so many vast areas, which is far from enough. Needless to say, many of them are still higher than Chen Lifu.
If you are a low-ranking patrol officer, it will be difficult for you to take on important tasks.
Chen Lifu's guess was not wrong. After the Ministry of Taxation learned of the Anping victory, they immediately began to organize tax work in several northern provinces in advance, especially Shandong, Henan and Beizhili. Each state capital needed a grade.
High-level tax officials will be in charge, and then a tax inspection team will be established in the local area to improve the tax system and carry out taxation work as soon as possible.
This task is no easy task!
Fortunately, the Ministry of Taxation has accumulated perfect relevant experience over the past many years. In just a few days, with the cooperation of the Ministry of Personnel, the main tax officials in Shandong were selected, even before Beizhili was captured.
The relevant tax officials have been booked in advance.
As for the Ministry of Personnel, relevant officials from several northern provinces have been prepared in advance, and even the prefect of Youzhou Prefecture, a special location, has been prepared.
As for the appointment of local officials such as the governor of Shandong and the governor of Northern Zhili, the Ministry of Personnel naturally cannot interfere. That is Li Xuan's power.
In this wave of large-scale selection of officials to serve in the north, many people got their wish and got promoted!
Because the ruling area is larger, there are more official positions. After all, there are more carrots and pitfalls. If there are more carrots, there will naturally be more pitfalls. In this case, there are many promotion channels for officials.
Even if they are not transferred to serve in the north, officials from the southern provinces or the central government have been transferred to the north to serve, which leaves a lot of vacant positions!
In this wave of promotions, Chen Lifu was no exception. A few days later, he was promoted to deputy director of the Inspection Division of the Grain Collection Department of the Ministry of Taxation, with the rank of fifth grade.
As for the deputy directors of the Inspection Division, except for the deputy director who is responsible for the internal affairs of the Inspection Division, the rest actually hold the title of deputy director, and then go to other places to inspect tax affairs. Therefore, this position does not have a fixed number of personnel.
Place of employment.
After being promoted to deputy director of the Inspection Division, Chen Lifu was immediately sent to the newly established Jiangbei Province to supervise local taxation. The scope of the supervision included Yangzhou Prefecture, Huai'an Prefecture, and Xuzhou Prefecture.
Jiangbei Road is a jurisdiction that was only established this year because of the vast scope of South Zhili. However, out of considerations such as maintaining the authority of the central government, Li Xuan did not say that South Zhili will be split directly, but will continue to use the original jurisdiction.
, the central government will continue to have direct jurisdiction over the state capitals in southern Zhili.
But later it was discovered that this management model was a bit troublesome. It was not appropriate to have the provincial level in the middle. However, Li Xuan did not want to set up a province in Nanzhili, so he established a Dao level between the province and the prefecture.
, respectively administer several state capitals to assist the central government in managing Southern Zhili.
Taoist priests have the title of third grade, one level higher than the prefect and two levels lower than the governor. Currently, under the rule of the Tang Dynasty, there are only four Taoist priests, all of them are in South Zhili, including Jiangbei Province, including Yangzhou Prefecture and Huai'an Prefecture.
Xuzhou Prefecture; North Anhui Road, governs Fengyang Prefecture, Luzhou Prefecture, Anqing Prefecture, Hezhou, and Chuzhou; Jiangnan Road, governs Zhenjiang Prefecture, Changzhou Prefecture, Suzhou Prefecture, Songjiang Prefecture, and South Anhui Province, governs Taiping Prefecture, Ningguo Prefecture, and Dezhou
, Huizhou Prefecture, Chizhou Prefecture.
Chengtianfu (Jinling) is still directly under the central government.
Instead of establishing provinces, Li Xuan established roads. This was to strengthen the central government's control over southern Zhili, and also to provide local jurisdiction over the state capitals.
Other provinces currently do not have this level.
Jiangbei Road is where Chen Lifu is about to take up his duties as a tax inspector!
After receiving the task, Chen Lifu did not delay. The next day, he took the three tax inspectors assigned to him and their entourage to go south on an official ship, and then headed to Yangzhou.
On the way, he analyzed the information given by the boss in detail, and found that the task this time was very heavy, and the task this time was different from the past. The focus was not on agricultural tax, but on commercial tax.
In the three prefectures of Jiangbei Province, apart from Xuzhou, both Yangzhou and Huai'an rely on the canal and the salt industry to make a living. What's even more serious is that they all rely on the salt industry to make a living.
Especially now, with the disastrous defeat of the Puppet Ming Dynasty, water transportation in the canal has almost been cut off, leaving only ordinary commercial exchanges. As a result, the importance of the salt industry has become even more apparent.
However, the Tang Dynasty implemented a government-run operation of the salt industry. From mining to transportation to wholesale, it was all officially organized and private intervention was not allowed.
This resulted in further adjustments to Yangzhou and Huai'an. Although the salt industry in Huai'an and Yangzhou still continued to produce salt, the official channels were monopolized by Datang Salt Company. The local salt merchants were miserable.
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However, Datang's government-run salt industry policy was a long-established national policy, and it was impossible for the salt merchants to change it.
But the salt merchants are not willing to sit back and wait for death, so the sale of illegal salt is very rampant in Jiangbei Road today!
The issue of illicit salt has nothing to do with Chen Lifu. It is a matter of other departments in the Tang Dynasty. However, these salt merchants sold illicit salt, which caused the salt tax to fall far short of expectations. This has something to do with Chen Lifu.
In other words, Chen Lifu doesn't care if the salt merchants sell illegal salt, but if you sell illegal salt and don't pay taxes, then Chen Lifu will take care of it!
However, the issue of illegal salt is not a matter for their tax department alone. It must be dealt with by the Salt and Tea Department of the Commerce Department, which is in charge of salt, tea and other special commodities, and the patrol department.
The tax issue in Jiangbei is no longer a simple tax issue, but has become a very complicated salt industry issue. Before Chen Lifu, the tax department had already dispatched two batches of tax inspections to various prefectures in Jiangbei. However,
It's never very effective.
For this reason, Chen Lifu was sent to Jiangbei!
Chen Lifu's previous work in several prefectures in the south of the Yangtze River was quite outstanding. The senior officials of the Ministry of Taxation just hoped that Chen Lifu could open up the situation in the north of the Yangtze River. As the saying goes, the Ministry of Taxation does not care about you selling private salt, but there is no salt tax.
It just doesn’t work!
Chen Lifu thought about it. He would first go to Yangzhou to find out the situation from the local tax department and the tax inspectors dispatched to Yangzhou, and then go to Huai'an to visit Taoists from Jiangbei Province and other local officials.
Regarding the tax issue, it doesn't mean that you can just kill a group of people. You have to find the right context, and you have to kill the right people to be effective!
In this regard, Chen Lifu, who has presided over tax inspection work in Chizhou, Dezhou, Songjiang and other places, also has experience in this regard.
However, before killing people, there must be a prerequisite, that is, the local tax system must be rectified first. Those local ruffians and other scumbags who got into the tax system during the chaos last year must be cleaned up.
When Chen Lifu shouldered the heavy responsibility and headed to Jiangbei Road, Li Xuan continued to preside over the army's operations in Anping Town, Shandong!
Today's army heading north has been divided into many directions. It marches all the way east to Jinan, Qingzhou, Laizhou, Dengzhou and other places, and all the way west to Damingfu and the capital of eastern Henan Province to cooperate with the Second Army.
There is another road, which is also the main force of the Third Army. It is advancing rapidly to the north, chasing the defeated troops of the Ming Army all the way to Zhili in the north. Its frontline is now Hejian Prefecture, not far from Youzhou.
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When the Tang army was aggressively attacking the city and seizing territory, and the main force of the Third Army was approaching Youzhou, people in Youzhou City were in panic. The new emperor of the Ming Dynasty in the Forbidden City, the eldest son of Zhengde, Zhu Zai (yi, Tongyi), was sitting on the dragon throne.
He was looking at the noisy group of ministers below. Although he wanted to stay calm and maintain his dignity as an emperor, his face inevitably showed anger!
The army of the puppet Tang Dynasty is already close at hand, but these ministers are still fighting for power and profit, and intrigues!
Zhu Zai ascended the throne in a hurry eight days ago. At that time, the tragic news of the disastrous defeat in the Anping War and the death of Zhengde came. The Ming ministers who stayed in Youzhou that day supported Zhu Zai as emperor and awarded him the title of Shaowu.
Now Emperor Shaowu looked at these ministers who were still noisy, only focused on blaming others and shirking responsibilities, but did not mention how to retreat from the enemy for a long time. For the first time, he felt why the late emperor hated these ministers!