Valley Emperor

When the plan to send troops was formulated, the war machine of the Tang Dynasty was running at high speed again.

It is not right to say that it is running again, because the war machine of the Tang Dynasty has never stopped, it is only the difference between low-speed operation and high-speed operation.

As the front of this war machine, the Datang New Army has not stopped for a moment.

After the plan to send troops to Liping House was finalized, all departments of the Datang New Army began to make preparations for this.

The two main infantry regiments began to carry out pre-war adaptive training, especially long-distance raids, etc. This is because in the next battle, they will continue to conduct mobile warfare, rather than the previous passive defense or siege. war.

They want to attack Liping House, and Liping House is just a target on their way. Their goal is to pass Liping House, and then go south into Liuzhou House in Guangxi. In this series of battle plans, the new army of the Tang Dynasty needs to fight and run at the same time, said Thousands of miles have passed, but there must be hundreds of miles, and these hundreds of miles are still mountainous and hilly.

And this has extremely high requirements on the long-distance attack ability of the troops, and also has extremely high requirements on the physical fitness of the soldiers.

Although the physical fitness of the soldiers of the Datang New Army is better than that of the Ming Army, it is said that they are better than the Ming Army, but they are only a little stronger, especially those recruits, who have only undergone nutritional supplements and physical training for a month, then It is stronger than when they first entered the barracks, but it is also limited.

If the physical fitness of soldiers wants to be greatly improved, they need at least three months or even more than half a year of continuous training.

As a result, the difference in physical fitness between veterans and recruits in the Datang New Army is actually quite large. If nothing else, you can see it just by looking at the muscles.

Although some veterans are not tall and do not look tall, but their muscles are very strong, they have no eight-pack abs when they take off their clothes, but also have four-pack abs.

Physical fitness needs to be trained, and then some tactics of field marching and combat also need adaptive training.

Although the two infantry regiments are the main force, and the battalions they belong to are also old troops, at least half of them are recruits.

There is no way, the new army of the Tang Dynasty needs to expand, and Li Xuan, in order to make the newly expanded troops form combat effectiveness as soon as possible, adopts the old method of bringing new ones. The core of the battle in the army.

Here, it also reflects the importance of setting up deputy posts at all levels in the new army of the Tang Dynasty. Whether it is an infantry platoon, a team, or a battalion, in addition to the main officer, there will also be a deputy.

When the army is expanding, if the main post is transferred to a higher position, then the deputy post can be taken up as the main post.

At the same time, the deputies in the army can be directly transferred, and then these deputies can completely form the framework of a new army on the spot.

Most of the newly formed eighth, ninth, and thirteenth infantry battalions, as well as the expanded troops of the original battalions, were made in this way.

Maybe the newly formed troops will not improve their combat effectiveness for a while because they are filled with a large number of recruits, but as long as they are given a month or two of training, they will soon be able to get a qualified regular army.

After all, the core of an army is not actually soldiers, but senior non-commissioned officers and officers.

As long as there is the latter, giving them three months can completely turn the recruits into veterans, and then pull them into the battlefield.

When Datang's new army carried out intensive related training, other departments of the Datang Dynasty were not idle, and were also preparing for the upcoming large-scale expedition.

After the Ministry of Taxation has just set up tax agencies in various places, they can't wait to start collecting taxes. In addition to the agricultural tax, they also did not forget the business tax and began to collect the business tax on the businesses in Xingquan Mansion. Although the amount of the business tax is relatively high, Let the businessmen have great complaints, but the tax department said that this is a 'reasonable burden' that the businessmen should bear.

If you are not satisfied, you can come and find the theory of the robbery camp!

In fact, although the commercial tax set by the Ministry of Taxation looks higher than before, it is still very light compared to later generations. These businessmen think it is high because they have not paid much commercial tax before. Even if they pay more than a penny, they all feel high and say what they say is miserable.

In this regard, Li Xuan's attitude is very tough: there are only so many taxes, you have to pay them, and you have to pay them if you don't.

If your businessman wants to do business on his Li Xuan's site, he has to pay taxes. If you don't want to pay taxes, you close your business and change careers, and Li Xuan doesn't care about you. But if you dare to play about tax evasion and tax evasion, the tax inspection team under the Grain Collection Department of the Ministry of Taxation will let you know what is the end of tax evasion and tax evasion!

In order to collect more and better taxes, the Grain Collection Division of the Tang Dynasty has developed and expanded, and its personnel has expanded from a hundred people in the past to more than 300 people.

Among the more than 300 people, in addition to dozens of civilian officials, the rest are all members of the tax inspection team. According to tradition, the people in these tax inspection teams are all kinds of old fried dough sticks, ruffians and other scumbags specially recruited. , Allocate cold weapons and even muskets.

More than two hundred members of the tax inspection team have traced all over the three counties of Xingquan Prefecture. They have made great contributions to the war of the Tang Dynasty and the expansion of the new army of the Tang Dynasty in the past six months. There are many ways to collect silver and grain, and there are many scams in the process. It has copied the homes of more than 100 landlords and merchants who were unwilling to pay taxes, guarded 18 tax gates, and prevented any caravan from passing through. Accumulated fines and confiscated goods worth more than 3,000 taels of silver can be described as a remarkable victory!

The hard work of the tax inspection team has also stunned the impoverished Tang Dynasty to raise an army of thousands of people.

These scumbags have even been praised by the emperor of the empire, Li Xuan, the sage of the ages, saying that their work is excellent and efficient, and they have made great contributions to the healthy development of the taxation of the Tang Dynasty and the expansion of the Tang Dynasty.

With the tax inspection team in place, Li Xuan is not afraid of tax evasion by these businessmen. As for whether the high business tax will affect the business development in Xingquan Mansion.

To be honest, Li Xuan really can't see any actual negative impact.

On the one hand, the business of Xingquan Mansion was not good, and after Xingquan Mansion was captured by the Tang Dynasty, many commercial activities with the outside world were stagnant.

But this is not important. To be honest, the commercial activities of these years have not had much effect. Although Xingquan Mansion is barren, as long as it does not suffer from large-scale natural and man-made disasters, the food can still be self-sufficient. In addition to food, other The merchandise honestly doesn't matter.

As for the various strategic materials needed by Datang, such as iron, copper, saltpeter, sulfur, etc., these are not within the scope of normal commercial activities. These are all contraband, and it is impossible for ordinary businessmen to use these things. Xingquan House for sale.

What's more, it's not the ordinary people who need these things, but the Tang Dynasty itself, who bought these things at a high price, and in order to attract more businessmen to transport these strategic materials, the tax has also set up tax exemptions for these strategic materials. category.

Therefore, on the whole, the large-scale implementation of the commercial tax may have an impact on businessmen, but the impact on the operation of the Tang Dynasty is quite limited.

With money from the tax department, the Ministry of Industry will be able to build more weapons and equipment.

In recent months, the scale of the transaction between Old Man Sun and the Tang Dynasty has been getting bigger and bigger. When the Tang Dynasty first conquered Xingquan Mansion, Old Man Sun was not afraid of death and transported a large number of strategic materials. He took more than 3,000 taels of silver from the Datang Dynasty, and he also said that he was already expanding the supply channels of goods, and the quantity of materials supplied in the future will further increase.

And like Old Man Sun, there are many businessmen who are not afraid of looting their homes and destroying their families. Although the supply of goods from others is not as much as that of Old Man Sun, it is enough for their family to be raided and wiped out by the Ming Dynasty.

This made many people in the Tax Department of the Datang Dynasty mutter that they worked so hard to collect grain and tax, and most of the money they got was earned by profiteers like Old Man Sun.

But even complaining can't help, who made the Tang Dynasty's new army need these strategic materials, and they are still in large demand.

With the money to buy materials, all kinds of weapons will naturally come out from the weapons workshop of the Ministry of Industry, and then assigned to the new army of the Tang Dynasty.

After entering Xingquan Mansion, the Ministry of Industry directly established numerous workshops of various types in Xingquan Mansion. The types and scale of UUkanshu www.uukanshu.com workshops are much larger than those in Zhengtai County, and they are also directly cancelled. The original workshop in Huangzhushan is gone.

Today, Huangzhu Mountain, the starting place of the Tang Dynasty, has long been abandoned.

The many workshops established in Xingquan Mansion City, plus the workshops in Zhengtai County, are producing a large number of weapons every day.

Relying on these weapons, the new army of the Tang Dynasty officially opened the prelude to enter Liping House five days later.

On this day, Li Xuan was riding a tall horse in a military uniform similar to Hao Bainian and the others. Originally, he personally liked to wear his own modern general's uniform, but the people at the bottom repeatedly said that the military uniform was related to Chinese etiquette. Such nonsense, so when Li Xuan was on military occasions, he also changed into the military uniform of the new army of the Tang Dynasty.

The military uniforms of the officers of the Tang Dynasty were based on dark blue, with the right hem of the top and the bottom. There are several horizontal stripes representing military rank, and the color of the collar is also different. There is no additional color matching for ordinary soldiers, white for lieutenants, red for colonels, and as for generals who have not yet appeared, it is Use yellow.

He was wearing long leather boots, and a black cape was distributed, of course, whether or not to wear it was another matter.

Now Li Xuan is wearing the uniform of the generals and officers in the military uniform, and the collar is yellow, but there is no military rank logo on his cuffs, but a dragon pattern embroidered with gold silk.

On the horse, he looked at the thousands of soldiers in the square, and then nodded slightly to Liu Bagou who was beside him. Liu Bagou immediately strode out, and at the same time spread out the letter in his hand and read aloud: "In the beginning of the industry, the first emperor was born. When it collapses, I will overcome the great treasure, follow the aspirations of the late emperor, and rejuvenate the might of the Tang Dynasty” (Note)