Chapter 198 The family wants to copy the tax and also collect the tax
In Lianguan County, Xu Zhongshu was a little worried: "Brother Wang, if you do this too harshly, will it have too bad an impact?"
"I'll just arrest that Li Xian Cheng if he catches me. He has never dealt with us, and he dares to steal our taxes in the official warehouse. It would be a shame to die." Xu Zhongshu knew that this Li Xian Cheng had tried several times before.
Want to control Qingshan Oil Company.
The first time was in Sanyang Town, and the second time, that Li County Prime Minister actually dared to send Cao Yuan to be the guard of Qingshan Town.
Today, the guard Cao Yuan continues to be under house arrest.
Now he is so bold that he actually wants to steal all the tax money from the Lianguan County Official Storehouse. That is not a small amount, it is tens of thousands.
Fortunately, the Second Cavalry Company pursued the man quickly and as soon as he got the news, he was captured and the tax money was recovered as well.
Dao Scar said: "How can we make money if we don't arrest them? The tax money recovered is only 60,000 to 70,000 yuan. It's useless. We came a little late. In the first half of the year, a lot of tax money was already taken away by the county.
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"I can't explain it to you with only these 60,000 to 70,000 yuan!"
"I've already inquired about Huang Feipeng. He's been very good at his methods for more than two years since he took office. He's made at least a hundred thousand dollars. Let's get this money out, and then find other people to share one or two. Let's get it together first.
Send 200,000 yuan back, and then hurry up and collect taxes!"
After hearing this, Xu Zhongshu also sighed!
He also knew that the replenishment brigade was short of money. During this period, he was desperately trying to expand the army. He heard that the food and salary department was almost unable to come up with housing expenses.
More important is the replenishment of ordnance and ammunition.
That all costs money.
Those arms dealers can't transport the arms if they don't have money. You can't just take advantage of them if you want.
Even if you want to take advantage of others, you probably won't be able to do it.
Because the Nanzhou Bank saw that the situation in Luo'an County was chaotic, in order to maintain the normal shipping route, it hired a so-called "steam iron-hulled merchant ship" with a thousand tons to be responsible for the transportation of the inland river section of Luo'an County.
That bastard Zhou Li said it was a merchant ship, but anyone who looked at that thing would know that it was a serious armored ship with more than a dozen large-caliber naval guns on it. This kind of firepower was enough to defeat the gunboat troops of the Guang'an Army heading south.
They all have to feel inferior to themselves.
Seeing that Scar had already decided to take action on Huang Feipeng and Li Xiancheng, Xu Zhongshu didn't say anything. Anyway, he was not responsible for this matter. He was only responsible for advising on the battle, and Scar was responsible for other things.
After the two discussed it for a while, Dao Ba asked people to only call on Huang Feipeng, Li Xiancheng and other officials and gentry, while he himself found some middle and low-level officials from the county guard's office and started one of the most important tasks of his trip south.
One: Make money!
wrong!
tax!
According to the rules of Luo'an County for the past ten years, the garrison under Lin Ziran's command cannot directly collect taxes, and they cannot even take money directly from the county government. They must have someone from above to provide military expenses.
Local taxes will be paid directly to the big head and sent to the county governor's office, while the small head will be retained to maintain various expenses such as county administration.
But now Luo'an County is in complete chaos, Cheng Lingfeng is finished, Jian Minggang, Lin Ziran will not admit it for the time being, and I don't know what will happen in the future, but now Lianguan County is under his control, Lin Ziran, this tax money
Naturally, I'll use it first.
Therefore, before Dao Scar and the others set out, Lin Ziran had already told them that after arriving at the county seat, in addition to normal apportionment and the like, they could not let go of taxation work.
This tax must be obtained, and in addition, the agricultural autumn tax and the industrial and commercial tax collection in the second half of the year must be started as soon as possible.
Anyway, let’s get the money first.
Although Scar has little education and has been following bandits like Lin Ziran and others with a knife since he was a teenager, he still knows the importance of money.
At the same time, as one of the core generals under Lin Ziran's accounts, he could not understand the accounts, but he also knew that the current Qingshan Oil Company could no longer maintain their expenses.
Although Qingshan Oil Company makes money, it is just a company after all. Even if it can earn more than 200,000 yuan a month, it is still difficult to support the supplementary brigade that continues to expand rapidly.
Not to mention anything else, the total number of weapons and ammunition that Lin Ziran ordered from Hongxiang Trading Company and many others has increased from the previous two to three hundred thousand to more than six hundred thousand.
The cost of maintaining the troops has also increased sharply.
Judging from the current profitability of Qingshan Oil Company, it is difficult to meet the current needs for large-scale military expansion and maintenance.
Lin Ziran was short of money, really short of money. What he lacked was not 10,000 or 20,000, but tens of millions.
This is also one of the important reasons why Lin Ziran dispatched the southbound detachment to station in Lianguan County and other towns.
In addition to deploying a force in Lianguan County to serve as the southern defense line, it was also to obtain enough territory to collect taxes and support the army.
Compared with the huge military expenditure, just one or two oil companies are enough. There are so many large vassals and towns that have no one who relies solely on the profits of their own companies to maintain their troops.
To expand and maintain the army, we have to rely on tax revenue from the territory.
Regarding this, although Dao Scar didn't understand too many twists and turns, he knew that they were short of money, and Lin Ziran asked him to make money.
that's enough!
So he planned to confiscate his house and collect taxes at the same time!
Daheng is not a poor country. It has very good agricultural conditions and rich mineral resources. It is also one of the earliest industrialized countries on Blue Star. A few decades ago, it was one of the five powerful countries on Blue Star and the overlord of the central continent.
A desperate existence on the endless sea.
Even though Daheng is now in civil strife, which has caused great damage to the agricultural and industrial and commercial economies, due to the special nature of Daheng's current vassal towns not being able to become independent, they still barely maintain unity.
Coupled with the fact that the family has a solid foundation and has been building up a rich foundation after decades of hard work, the vassal towns can still collect a lot of money, even more than during the peaceful times decades ago.
Because the vassals and towns are now much more aggressive in collecting money to support the army, and they are much more ruthless.
Decades ago during peacetime, Daheng's annual tax revenue could reach more than 200 million, and this was only central tax revenue, excluding taxes left to local governments, additional taxes levied by local governments, etc.
In today's troubled times, the major vassals and towns collect taxes very harshly. If the taxes of all vassals and towns were added up, it would definitely be far more than Daheng's tax revenue back then.
This can be seen from the number of troops!
At that time, there were only a few hundred thousand troops in Daheng during peacetime, and even in the Heng'ao War, they were only less than two million after mobilization.
But now, no one knows how many troops Daheng has, and even Nanhai Prefecture cannot count how many troops there are. Anyway, Lin Ziran knows that the total number of troops in Luo'an County starts at least 100,000.
Lin Ziran has more than 5,000 troops under his command. Feng Haozhong also has almost 20,000 troops. Zhao Song probably has more than 30,000 troops. Li Dingjun has a lot of troops. Jian Minggang has at least 20,000 to 30,000 troops. Even if it is
Cheng Lingfeng escaped, but he still had thousands of people under his command.
And that's not even counting the vigilante groups.
There are so many troops in each vassal town, and they all need to be maintained.
This also results in an extremely heavy tax burden on the people.
Otherwise, with Daheng's unique natural environment, people can live a very good life even if they only rely on agriculture.