Chapter 893: A good citizen who pays taxes and abides by the law
After the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty formulated a clear retirement system, many soldiers who joined the army in the early days, some of them, began to retire and demobilize one after another, and then returned to their hometowns.
In addition to these ordinary soldiers who retired normally, there are also quite a few who retired with disabilities!
According to relevant military regulations, seriously injured or disabled soldiers will be arranged to retire in advance. However, among the two core groups of non-commissioned officers and officers, this is based on the principle of voluntariness. If the non-commissioned officers and officers are willing to continue serving, then they will
A special location will be arranged for the arrangement.
It is mainly arranged to rear units, such as recruit camps, command and administrative agencies, etc.
If you want to retire, you can also arrange to retire!
And these retired personnel have become the core backbone of the current militia system of the Tang Dynasty!
Usually, a small number of retired personnel are mainly used, and then local ordinary young people are added to form local militia organizations. These militia organizations will organize regular training during slack periods.
Therefore, in the current three provinces of Guangdong, Guangxi and Guizhou, because there are relatively many retired personnel, militia organizations have already formed a system and play an important role in maintaining the local situation.
However, in other provinces, due to the general lack of local retired soldiers, the Tang Dynasty took another path, which was to directly retire a small number of active-duty personnel to the local areas, become the core of militia organizations, and then form militia organizations.
However, because the number of specially arranged retired personnel is relatively small, and the establishment of militia organizations is quite short, for now, militia organizations in many provinces are still unable to take on important tasks.
If it is the newly occupied areas north of the Yangtze River, especially the provinces of Shandong, Henan, and Northern Zhili, then the militia organizations will be directly equal to zero. In a short period of time, local security maintenance can only depend on God's will, and the Datang military is also in charge.
Not so much anymore.
It is often only preferred that regular troops be stationed in some important nodes, such as prefectures, important transportation areas, strategic areas, and a few county towns. As for other places, even places in the countryside, there is nothing that can be done for the time being. They can only be deployed when something happens.
It's time to mobilize troops to suppress it.
In the mid-term, local security will largely rely on the tax inspection team!
Yes!
That's right, it was the Tax Inspection Team, the fourth largest armed organization in the Tang Dynasty!
The Datang Army, the Datang Navy, and the Tax Inspection Team after the Datang Guards have always played an extremely important role in the newly occupied areas of the Datang Dynasty.
In the newly occupied areas, in order to collect taxes in a timely and effective manner and to resist local armed tax resistance, the tax department often organizes local tax inspection teams on a large scale. It is possible for a county to have as few as dozens or as many as hundreds.
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Although this number is said to drop significantly in a few months or a year, in the first few months, the size of the tax inspection team in the newly occupied areas is generally relatively large.
For example, when Jiangbei Road was first occupied, the tax department paid great attention to it because of the large amount of salt taxes. In Yangzhou Prefecture alone, including the following counties, the total number of members of the tax inspection team exceeded a thousand, and Huai'an
There were even more people from the Xuzhou Prefecture, reaching more than 1,500 people. In addition to the hundreds of people from the Xuzhou Prefecture and the temporary support from the Tax Department, the total number once reached more than 3,000 people. Their number was not more than that of the local garrison.
There are few mixed groups.
The tax inspection team of Jiangbei Province played a very important role in maintaining the early rule of Tang Dynasty in Jiangbei Province!
Of course, this is history, because after reaching the peak number, this number quickly dropped. However, the current number of Jiangbei Province's tax inspection team is still almost 2,000, and it is strong.
The unrest caused by ordinary armed tax resistance does not require the dispatch of regular troops at all, they can resolve it themselves.
Therefore, in the newly occupied areas such as Shandong, Henan, and Beizhili, the tax inspection team will also play a very large role. Taxation officials will almost follow the pace of the army. For example, in Jinan Prefecture, the Fifth Mixed Regiment has just
After taking over Jinan Prefecture, the prefect of Jinan Prefecture has not yet taken office, and the Jinan Prefecture Taxation Bureau has already been established.
Several officials dispatched by the tax department and dozens of tax inspection teams supported by the tax department, the first thing they did was not to collect taxes, but to recruit troops, directly recruiting local young men and even green-skinned gangsters on the streets.
The gangsters in Jinan Prefecture have already heard of the famous name of the Tax Inspection Team, and they even know that the Tax Inspection Team is an important way for them to rise to their positions and realize their dreams in life. Therefore, the Tax Inspection Team recruits troops in Jinan Prefecture.
As soon as the sign was put up, thugs and thugs from all walks of life came bravely.
In Fucheng alone, the tax inspection team recruited more than 500 people in one breath, and all of them volunteered to participate, patting their chests and saying that they would serve the Eternal Saint King.
This result greatly pleased the tax officials who had just arrived in Jinan to take charge of local tax affairs!
After the establishment of Jinan Prefecture's tax inspection team, through rapid recruitment and expansion, it immediately became a vital local armed force and was widely active on the front line of the tax war.
After the governor of Jinan Prefecture took office, he found that all the gentry in Jinan Prefecture City under his rule were very well-behaved. When they were asked to come to discuss the city's infrastructure, people's livelihood and other matters, the head of the family was present in person, and the head of the house could not be there.
He also sent his direct disciples there, and every family said they wanted to repay the favor and make donations.
Want to build roads and bridges? Okay, we've covered the materials. What, the government does not use corvees to build roads but hired workers. No problem, we've also covered the wages of the hired workers.
We need to rectify the city's appearance and rectify the dirty and disorderly behavior. No problem. We will demolish all the illegal buildings in the street shops when we go back tomorrow, and we will keep the streets in front of our doors clean.
We need to repair the government schools and prepare to build Jinan Prefecture Middle School and Primary School. If there is nothing to do, we will send people to repair it. How much will it cost to build the primary school and middle school? Lord Prefect, please tell me the number. It will be as much as you say. If we say no, you will immediately
They ransacked our home!
The generosity and hospitable attitude of the Jinan gentry made the prefect of Jinan quite gratified. He was greatly impressed by the prestige of the eternal sage, whose rain, dew and thunder spread all over the world, so that the local gentry immediately offered his knee and
silver!
When it was over, those gentry sent a white-haired old gentry, who almost cried in a voice: "Master Fu, can you please tell Mr. Song from the tax bureau that we all pay taxes and abide by the law?"
Good people!"
When the prefect of Jinan Prefecture heard this, he laughed and said: "Taxation Bureau, this matter is not easy for me to handle, but since you have said it, for the sake of your wholehearted service to the court, I will help you pass the message.
Let’s talk, but you all probably understand our Datang’s tax system, and I hope you will do well in what to do next!”
The prefect of Jinan Prefecture naturally knew what happened in the short few days before he took office. He even deliberately delayed his arrival in Jinan Prefecture for a few days in order to leave room for the tax bureau to use their methods.
space, otherwise, it would not be easy to open up the local situation.
In the past few days, the Jinan Prefecture's tax inspection team has been active and has achieved great results. Thirty-six large gentry households have been raided, more than 120 tax resisters have been killed, more than 500 people have been arrested, and more than 30,000 taels have been levied.
He was fined more than 80,000 taels, and besides his property, various assets worth more than 500,000 taels were confiscated.
For a time, the prestige of the tax inspection team spread throughout Jinan Prefecture, which stopped children from crying at night.
Chen Lifu's old boss, the former director of the Inspection Division of the Grain Collection Department, Mr. Sun Pengbo, who was recently transferred to the Shandong Taxation Department as director, commented on the tax inspection team of Jinan Prefecture: This is a team with a tough style and can fight tough battles and win them.
tax team!
We also hope that the tax teams in other state governments in Shandong Province will learn from the advantages of the tax team in Jinan Prefecture and fight this crucial battle in Shandong’s tax war!
The prefect of Jinan Prefecture is not a newcomer to the officialdom. He has a clear understanding of the situation. Let alone whether he will take care of it or not. Even if he wants to take care of it, he does not have the power to do so. Datang Taxation is a very special existence and does not fall under the jurisdiction of the local government.
, but under the direct jurisdiction of the taxation department. Although the director of the tax bureau of a prefecture is only a fifth-grade official and has a lower grade than the prefect of a fourth-grade official, it operates independently, and the prefect of a prefecture cannot control the tax director of a prefecture.
Not to mention the prefect, even if the governor comes, he has no right to control any tax official!
It is taboo for local officials to interfere in taxation. It is also a very serious political mistake and will be punished.
What local officials can do is develop the economy, and then wait for dividends from taxes: local taxes, and then invest in people's livelihood. As for how to raise the taxes, that is none of their business.
Jinan, and even Shandong as a whole, currently relies more on tax inspection teams to maintain ordinary public security. The only regular army troops are mainly stationed in important strategic locations and control nodes. As for ordinary places, they will not go there.
This model in Shandong is also familiar to the Tang Dynasty. They used it in Jiangbei Road, North Anhui Province and the entire Jiangnan Province. Going forward, Jiangxi, Huguang, Zhejiang, Fujian and other provinces have done this.
It's the same way. Now Shandong is just copying an old routine.
Relatively speaking, the existence of the tax inspection team also alleviates to a certain extent the problem of the number of regular troops in the newly occupied areas.
However, it was impossible for the tax inspection team to maintain a repressive attitude all the time in the newly occupied areas. After the first few months, the attitude softened, and then the tax inspection team began to be downsized, regularized, and redeployed.
Part of it goes to the newly occupied area to continue the above steps.
Then, we started to clean up the problems within the local tax inspection team and dig deep into the local tax issues!
The latter is Chen Lifu’s job. He recently went to Jiangbei Road to do just this! 8)