Li Xuan stayed in Youzhou City for a few days, briefly browsed around Youzhou City, and then turned south to prepare to return to Jinling!
When heading south, the team became much larger again, with a large group of former Ming Dynasty demoted officials and a large amount of valuables and valuables!
The Taxation Department continued to perform its work efficiently in Youzhou City. At that time, the Taxation Department officials followed the army into the city. Even before the army could fully control the entire Youzhou City, the Taxation Department's officials
Officials, with the support of soldiers dispatched by the military, began to paste seals and ransack every house!
As the base camp of the Ming Dynasty, Youzhou City gathered a large number of nobles and officials, and accumulated a lot of wealth over the past hundred years, and this wealth was urgently needed by the Tang Dynasty.
Therefore, no matter whether it is an official who is demoted or an unwilling official, honorable ladies, it is hard to say whether one can save one's life. As long as one has a better attitude, one's life will basically be safe, but one's family wealth cannot be saved 100%.
The officials from the tax department posted the seal based on a list they had prepared internally. There were more than a thousand names on the list!
This is also the old pattern of the Tang Dynasty for many years. As soon as the army stepped in, the tax department followed suit.
Because there were a lot of troops stationed in Youzhou City, the tax department simply did not wait for the local tax inspection team to reach a large scale before imposing large-scale tax collection. They started armed tax collection on the spot with the support of the military.
And the results were huge. In just a few days of seizure, tens of millions of taels of cash were seized. This was just cash, various real estate, curios and the like were not taken into account.
And if all of them are taken into account, the whole number will be very scary. At least currently, the tax department is unable to calculate an accurate number.
Because of the assets of these nobles and officials, they have their assets not only in Youzhou City, but also outside the city, even in Hebei Province, and even in the entire land of China.
A simple data can illustrate how much social wealth the nobles and officials occupy. According to preliminary statistics from the Ministry of Taxation, the fields seized by these nobles and officials account for 10% of the total acres in the area outside Youzhou City.
Fifty percent.
These alone are enough to explain their original sin!
The seized land, without exception, became official land of the Tang Dynasty, and would later be used to distribute it to soldiers in the army and rent it to landless peasants.
Li Xuan led the Guards, hundreds of officials and a lot of property back south, leaving Youzhou City and the Third Army almost like an empty city!
According to Li Xuan's personal instructions, the Third Army will be temporarily stationed in Hebei Province. This army will have a large number of important tasks in the future, including continuing to capture or take over some border towns, and also need to march eastward to Liaodong.
There is King Hui, the sixth son of Zhengde, and just one King Hui is nothing. The key is that King Hui also controls many armies. This is also one of the two major threats that the Tang Dynasty currently faces in the north.
The remaining huge threat is naturally the Tatars!
However, Li Xuan instructed Hao Bainian, commander of the Third Army, that the follow-up northern war should focus on stability and seek progress while maintaining stability, and there is no need to rush for a moment.
In order to prevent Hao Bainian from controlling the Third Army for a long time and generating some unnecessary ideas, Li Xuan actually planned to recall Hao Bainian to the capital. However, the impact of doing so would not be good in a short time, so Li Xuan planned to first
Let Hao Bainian do it for a year and a half, then let Hao Bainian come back and assign important tasks.
Also accompanying Shengjia to the south was Chen Keqiao, commander of the 5th Infantry Division, or Chen Keqiao, the former commander of the 5th Infantry Division. This time Li Xuan went back and took Chen Keqiao with him.
The goal is very clear, which is to prepare Chen Keqiao to lead the army. Now the Tang Dynasty's military expansion operation is in full swing. A large number of recruits recruited in the Jiangbei area are undergoing final training, and then new troops can be formed.
According to the scheduled plan, the 12th Infantry Division, which was scheduled to be formed at the beginning of the year, is expected to form an army in two months. At that time, it will join the 11th Infantry Division and be directly organized into an army with independent artillery, engineering and other units.
That is the Fifth Army.
Chen Keqiao was the commander of the Fifth Army prepared by Li Xuan.
Chen Keqiao also knew this, and most outsiders could guess it. On the way back south, many people congratulated Chen Keqiao.
This year's large-scale military expansion was not limited to the 12th Infantry Division. Especially after receiving a large amount of loot from Yangzhou salt merchants and Youzhou City, the Tang Dynasty became rich almost overnight!
Therefore, the military expansion operation has not stopped!
Li Xuan had previously determined a further expansion plan for the regular army, and would expand two more infantry divisions, namely the 13th Infantry Division and the 14th Infantry Division. These two infantry divisions are expected to form the Sixth Army.
In addition, there are actually more garrison units such as mixed brigades.
Because Datang currently needs more troops to defend local areas, and at the same time it is also to further reduce the maintenance cost of garrisoning local troops.
Li Xuan has already formulated a series of mixed group reform plans!
The five mixed regiments that undertake front-line combat missions will be upgraded to mixed brigades, and will continue to participate in front-line combat as the main regular army.
But the remaining mixed regiments will be reformed into reserve divisions and expanded to the same standard division-level organization as the main division, that is, with three infantry regiments, one artillery regiment, one cavalry regiment, one baggage regiment, etc.
However, since it is a reserve division, it is naturally different from the main division. This difference is that the combat readiness levels of both sides are not at the same level!
Although the establishment of this reserve division is the same as that of the infantry division, it is stipulated that when there is no war, the backbone troops only retain 50% of their strength, the ordinary troops only retain 30% of their strength, and the auxiliary troops only retain 100%.
Let’s break down the most basic backbone.
Basically, each reserve division after the reform may be different depending on the specific situation, but the total strength should be around 8,000 people.
In terms of equipment, they are currently equipped with arquebuses, spears, bows, arrows, swords and other weapons that have been retired from the main force. The artillery is also equipped with some scrapped artillery that is approaching the end of its barrel life.
In other words, the reserve division will be a second-line unit that maintains the organization of the infantry division, but is actually seriously understaffed and only equipped with old second-hand equipment!
On weekdays, it mainly maintains the framework of a division, with core officers and non-commissioned officers and necessary troops to suppress some small and medium-sized riots. If there is a large-scale war, it will mobilize, recruit veterans nearby, and restore a certain level of strength in a short time.
Combat power is directly thrown into the battlefield.
The reserve division model is actually an important part of the reserve system that the Tang Army has been planning for a long time.
This kind of reserve force usually does not need to maintain too many active-duty soldiers, which greatly reduces expenses. At the same time, it can maintain a sufficient division-level organizational structure. After mobilization, it can invest dozens of divisions.
Therefore, along with the establishment of the reserve division, the Tang Dynasty also officially issued a reserve system, which stipulated that after soldiers retired from the army, they were transferred to the reserve. They must register with the local retirement agency every year within five years, and they can freely arrange the time period each year to conduct
Military training lasts for half a month, and subsidies are paid during the training period.
If there is a war or the troops are called up, they must rejoin the service unconditionally as soon as possible.
In the ten years from five years to fifteen years, compulsory registration is no longer required, and you can voluntarily register at the veterans' institution. However, when the military calls for war, you must also unconditionally serve again.
After fifteen years, he will be withdrawn from the reserve service and no longer need to be forced to serve.
The above-mentioned regulations are limited to ordinary soldiers and non-commissioned officers. Officers are not an example. Because officers are special, the Tang Dynasty has not yet come up with a relatively complete treatment method specifically for the retirement of officers.
Because this involves a very important issue, that is, an officer these days is not just a soldier, he is also an officer.
When officers join the army, they actually come to serve as officials. You can't say that they will be discharged after serving until they are thirty or forty years old, like in later modern countries.
But it is inevitable that as age increases, middle- and lower-level officers who are too old are definitely no longer suitable for combat. Therefore, the Tang Dynasty is still continuing to discuss the issue of the retirement of officers.
The loudest call at present is that active-duty officers, especially those at the two levels of colonel and lieutenant, can retire a period of time early. However, after retirement, it does not mean that they will be sent home directly. Instead, they will serve as officers in the reserve forces and become officers.
Reserve officer until complete retirement.
The emergence of reserve divisions was a compromise by the Tang Dynasty in order to maintain as many troops as possible within limited military expenditures.
From this, the current three-tiered armed system of the Tang Dynasty Army is formed: the regular army, the reserve force, and the militia organization!
According to the relevant regulations of reserve forces, most provinces currently have at least one reserve division, while a few important provinces have two or even three reserve divisions.
At the same time, some important areas, such as Jiangbei Road and Wanbei Road, although not a province, will also have a reserve division stationed there.
Some important areas, especially strategic locations and border areas, are garrisoned by regular troops.
Such a series of changes in the military system can also free up the regular army of the Tang Dynasty Army to continue launching the next round of war!
Although the north has been initially decided, Zhang Yue from Huguang is still there!
In the following period, the strategic focus of the Tang Dynasty will move westward to Huguang, Sichuan and other places. This is why Li Xuan told Hao Bainian's Third Army not to worry, because after the strategic focus of the Tang Dynasty moves westward, the third army will
The three armies will no longer be able to receive priority supplies of various supplies, and will live the same hard life as the first army now, having to calculate whether they have enough artillery shells to fight a battle!
For the Third Army, the good days of firing tens of thousands of artillery shells in a siege battle are gone forever!
But for the First Army, which has been waiting for many years, it is now their turn to take the stage and start performing!