Valley Emperor

The Datang tax inspection team, whose combat effectiveness is outstanding, went from north to south, all the way from Guizhou to Guangxi, followed the pace of the Datang Army and stationed in every conquered state capital.

They acted efficiently and were very proactive, and they were often able to quickly assist the higher-level taxation troops to complete taxation tasks, making the agricultural autumn tax and various industrial and commercial taxes collected by the Tang Dynasty in Guangxi almost ten times more than that of the Ming Dynasty. !

For example, in Wuzhou Prefecture, in previous years, the Ming Dynasty only collected tens of thousands of taels in tax revenue, but the officials of the Tax Department of the Datang Cabinet despised this. Can search, no, at least tens of thousands of taels worth of tax has been collected, and this is only the autumn tax in the agricultural tax and the industrial and commercial tax for only a few months.

If it is a whole year, it is not a problem to easily break through 20,000 taels of silver.

Most of these taxes are deducted in kind, but there is not much real money, because the Datang Dynasty adopted a tax system in which both in kind and cash are parallel.

For agricultural tax, it is mainly levied in kind. Although this process is a little troublesome, Li Xuan knows that in ancient times, if farmers were taxed directly to collect money, farmers in disaster years would suffer, and farmers in bumper years would suffer even more, because In the former, the output is small, and the food is not enough to sell and the excess grain cannot be sold to pay taxes. In a bumper year, the grain merchants will lower the price, resulting in the grain not being sold or even the cost of selling the grain.

Therefore, Li Xuan personally ordered that any agricultural tax should be levied agricultural tax.

Farmers collect grain when they grow grain, cotton when farmers grow cotton, mulberry leaves when farmers grow mulberry trees, and chickens and ducks when farmers raise chickens. Li Xuan wants his head not to speak, but also to copy his family and destroy his clan!

The peasants were forced to death, who paid Li Xuan his taxes to support the army?

Of course, if farmers have extra money on hand and are willing to take the initiative to pay cash, the price is based on the market price.

The industrial and commercial tax collection is mainly based on cash. If the merchant is willing to deduct the tax on the goods, the discounted price may be lower.

Huaiyuan County is such a remote and small place. After the tenacious battle of the tax inspection team, they were stunned to get tens of thousands of taels of silver, all of which went to Wuzhou. The tax of ten thousand taels of silver is not worthy of the thousands of soldiers who sacrificed in Wuzhou City!

There is also Xunzhou Prefecture with the same treatment. Although Xunzhou Prefecture does not have any decent industry and commerce, who makes it a plain for grain production? As the most suitable area for production in Guangxi, the predetermined amount of agricultural tax will not be small. .

Today, the tax inspection team that has made great contributions to the Tang Dynasty has been stationed in Wuzhou Fucheng and its subordinate counties one after another, and has carried out vigorous taxation work. It's heavy, but the future is bright!

In addition to Wuzhou and Xunzhou in Guangxi, Guilin is actually a good place, for nothing else, because Guilin's grain output is higher than Wuzhou this year, and Wuzhou Prefecture only has about 100,000 shi of grain a year. The output, but the Guilin side can reach hundreds of thousands of stone.

Although the development potential is not very large, Guilin is relatively mature, and the fields can be fully developed.

For such a place, because its strategic position was not very important, it did not get the attention of the Tang Dynasty. This sent a partial division to the past. It has been several months, and this partial division was organized into the first group temporarily. Then it slowly increased to 3,000 people.

But even so, its combat effectiveness is still relatively weak. To put it bluntly, although the first regiment currently has two reserve battalions called the regular army, the actual combat effectiveness is probably even a garrison regiment under the third garrison brigade. Can't compare.

Although the 3rd garrison brigade was a garrison, it was killed in a sea of ​​corpses anyway. It had made great contributions under the city of Wuzhou. Except for the main infantry regiment in the regular army and the freak of Liuzhou Independence Regiment, other garrison The army and the provisional regiment are no match for this third garrison brigade.

However, although the strength of the first regiment was not very good, it also successfully controlled most of the western and southern parts of Guilin. The Ming army could only hide in the city of Guilin.

Now, when the Fourth Army goes north to Guilin, there is no need to fight all the way up. It can march directly north and go straight to Guilin Fucheng. Along the way, it can also receive support from the local prefectures and counties. These places have also established the rule of the Tang Dynasty. .

Even Guilin City was not won, but the prefect of Guilin Prefecture appointed by the Tang Dynasty has already taken office.

The brigade commander of the 3rd Infantry Brigade and the commander of the 4th Army Major General Chen Keqiao led the 4th Army all the way, first along the Guijiang River to the north, and headed straight for Pingyuefu.

According to the information, the current garrison strength of Pingle House is very weak, because most of the former defenders of Pingle House have been transferred to Wuzhou. Now, in the prefectures and counties of Pingle House, there are at most only a few Ming troops and young soldiers guarding, even if it is flat In Yuefu City, there are not many regular Ming troops.

But even so, in order to win Guilin as soon as possible, and then enter Huguang, Chen Keqiao still didn't waste any time in Pingle House. It's just that, even Yonganzhou, which is not far away, is too lazy to take care of it.

If it weren't for the protection of the logistics line, Chen Keqiao would not even fight Pinglefu City, but Pinglefu City is just located on the edge of the Guijiang River. If Pinglefu is not destroyed, even if it bypasses Pinglefu City , but the logistics line cannot be transported through the Guijiang River.

Therefore, Chen Keqiao will only attack the cities along the Guijiang River. As for other places, he is too lazy to take care of them. Anyway, there are no Ming troops in other places, and any troops can be dispatched in the future.

The War Department of the Privy Council has already designated a relevant plan to dispatch a part of the garrisoned troops in Wuzhou Prefecture, mainly garrison troops, and a small number of regular troops to clean up those prefectures and counties still under the control of the Ming Dynasty, including Yonganzhou and Hexian. , Bucheon, Gongcheng and other places.

There are basically no large numbers of Ming troops stationed in these places, and there are at most a few hundred people, and they are basically young and old, weak or young, because the regular guard troops in Guangxi and even the recruits, the recruited soldiers are basically in harmony with The pseudo-Tang thieves lost their entire lives in many battles.

Therefore, these places are just like ripe fruits. You don't have to climb up the tree to pick it. If you shake the tree at the bottom, it will fall off by itself.

And this is also the reason why Chen Keqiao ignored the rest of Pingle House. His Fourth Army shouldered a heavy responsibility, but he didn't have time to waste time on breaking common prefectures and counties.

All the way, Zhaoping was also destroyed. Well, it is not true to say that it was destroyed, because when they saw the thousands of enemy troops led by Chen Keqiao, the defenders in the city immediately dispersed. No serious siege campaign was launched.

After passing Zhaoping, Chen Keqiao continued to lead his troops northwards, and arrived at Pinglefu City within a few days. The defenders in Pinglefu City were not too timid. Although they had no strength, they still resisted and refused to surrender. In the end, Chen Keqiao refused to surrender. Only a direct attack.

Because the will of the defenders to resist is not weak, and in a hurry, the artillery units in the rear have not kept up. In order to avoid excessive casualties, they fought cautiously, so that it took three days to win. the city.

In other words, the vanguard of the Fourth Army was blocked for three days here, and now the Huguang Army is besieging Xingquan Mansion, and even there are traces of the Ming army's partial division in Liping Mansion. This is in eastern Guizhou. It was extremely hard to fight. As the Fourth Army of the reinforcements, every day was extremely precious.

In the humble city of Pingle House, three days were wasted, and Chen Keqiao was quite angry about this.

Ignoring the obstruction of the military officials who came with the army, when the city broke down, he ordered: 'Don't take prisoners in this battle'

As a result, among the nearly 2,000 defenders in the city, in addition to the 1,000 who escaped, the remaining 700 or 800 people died in battle.

This is what led to the first time that the King of the Tang Dynasty failed to capture the prisoners in the winning battle!

This incident was naturally stabbed in front of Li Xuan by the military officials who accompanied the army~www.wuxiaspot.com~ participated in Chen Keqiao's book, believing that Chen Keqiao's move undermined the preferential treatment that the Tang Dynasty had worked so hard to establish. Captives, thereby attracting more Ming troops to surrender, caused a significant negative impact.

To this, Li Xuan smiled slightly and said to Zeng Ziwen: "It is necessary to buy horse bones for a thousand gold, but it is also necessary to kill chickens occasionally to warn monkeys."

To treat the surrendering soldiers of the Ming army who are willing to surrender, naturally they need preferential treatment, but to those in the city of Pinglefu who clearly know that they can't resist, but they still resist. If there is a great loss or negative impact, it is also possible to use appropriate tough measures.

It is best to combine rigidity and softness. It is not a good thing to be too rigid or too weak!

This can effectively deter latecomers and let them know that resisting the Great Tang Emperor requires the price of life, not that you can fight if you want, and surrender if you want.

After the settlement of Pingle House City, the vanguard of the Fourth Army continued to advance to the north, and they soon entered Guilin House.

Then they successfully merged with the troops of the provisional first regiment outside the Guilin Mansion.

When they saw that there were thousands of fake Tang thieves arriving outside the city, the expressions of a group of officials and generals in Guilin Prefecture were very ugly.

"There are so many thieves here again, what should I do!"

"Yeah, I heard that Wuzhou has been captured by the bandit army. There are tens of thousands of troops in Wuzhou City. Our Pingle House is just a small city with only three thousand soldiers!"

"I heard that Huguang's supervisor, Master Zhang, has already used Huguang's troops. Maybe he will be able to send troops to reinforce us soon!"