Valley Emperor

The special issue is not long, so Chen Lifu quickly browsed it, and then he pondered!

This Anping Victory had a significant impact, and it was definitely the biggest in the battle for hegemony between the Tang Army and the Ming Dynasty in the past few years, because the hundreds of thousands of Ming armies in the Anping Battle were already within the scope of several northern provinces. The last main force of the Ming army.

After defeating this Ming army, the northern provinces were completely unable to stop the Tang army's front, Shandong must have won, and the follow-up Northern Zhili and even the pseudo-Ming capital were all within reach.

Henan is not a big problem. The Second Army is fighting in Henan now. Although it also encountered some resistance from the Ming army, Emperor Zhengde had gathered all the main forces to fight in Shandong before, and there were not many main Ming forces in Henan. Most of them were the local guards, and the guards were absolutely unable to resist the advance of the Tang army.

Next is Shanxi. If it is Shanxi in the past, because there is an important town in Datong, the troops here are strong, but now the troops in the northern towns have already been recruited by the Ming Dynasty. Over the past few years, more than 100,000 people have been recruited. , and they are all elites from the frontier army. The rest are only tens of thousands of young and old, and it is impossible to stop the advance of the Tang army.

The only troublesome thing is the Tatars. Chen Lifu does not believe that the Tatars have been annihilated more than half. It is certain that the Tatars have been severely damaged, otherwise the Tatars will not take the initiative to escape, but the specific results are debatable. Now, there are more than tens of thousands of cavalry for the Tatars. They are all soldiers. Even a young man can pull out to fight on horseback. I dare not say more, but there is no problem in pulling out more than 100,000 cavalry.

In Shaanxi, Gansu and other places to the west, there are also some Ming troops there, but the same thing is said, they are not the main force of the Ming army, they are all local guards.

Throughout the world, except for Zhang Zhangyue's subordinates in Huguang, Sichuan, and Yunnan, although there are many Ming armies in other places, none of them can really stop the advance of the Tang army.

In this case, except for the areas of Huguang, Sichuan, and Yunnan, other places may fall under the control of the Tang Dynasty in the near future, and the taxation work in the newly occupied areas is also the most difficult and complicated.

At that time, I am afraid that the task of the Grain Collection Division will be very heavy, and as a tax inspector of the inspection division of the Grain Collection Division, he, Chen Lifu, may have to go into battle again.

Although there are many tax inspectors in the inspection office, there are always dozens of people, but these people are spread over so many vast areas, it is far from enough, not to mention, many of them are still higher than Chen Lifu's grade. A low-level inspection is a difficult task.

Chen Lifu's guess was not wrong. After the tax department learned of the great victory in Anping, it immediately began to organize the taxation work in the northern provinces in advance, especially Shandong, Henan and northern Zhili. Each state capital needs a grade. Not low tax officials sit in town, and then establish a local tax inspection team, improve the tax system, and start tax work as soon as possible.

This task is not easy!

Fortunately, the Ministry of Taxation has accumulated complete relevant experience in the past few years. It did not take a few days to select the main tax officials in Shandong with the cooperation of the Ministry of Personnel. It is pre-booked with the relevant tax officials.

On the side of the Ministry of Officials, relevant officials from several northern provinces have been prepared early, and even the prefect in the special location of Youzhou Prefecture is ready.

As for the appointment of local officials such as the governor of Shandong and the governor of Beizhili, the Ministry of Personnel naturally cannot intervene, and that is Li Xuan's power.

In this wave of large-scale selection of officials to serve in the north, many people have been promoted as they wished!

Because the ruling area is bigger, there are also more officials. After all, a radish has a pit, and the more radishes, the more pits. In this case, there are many promotion channels for officials.

Even if they are not transferred to the north, but the officials from the southern provinces or the central government have been transferred to the north to serve, and there are many vacant positions!

In this wave of promotion, Chen Lifu was no exception. A few days later, he was promoted to the Deputy Director of the Inspection Office of the Grain Collection Department of the Ministry of Taxation, with the title of fifth grade.

As for the deputy director of the inspection office, except for a deputy director who is responsible for the internal affairs of the inspection office, in fact, the rest have the title of deputy director, and then go to other places to inspect the taxation, so this position is also not fixed or fixed. place of employment.

After being promoted to the deputy director of the inspection office, Chen Lifu immediately received a dispatch to supervise the local taxation of the newly established Jiangbei Road. The inspection scope included Yangzhou, Huaian, and Xuzhou.

Jiangbei Road, this is a jurisdiction only established this year, because Nanzhili has a wide range, but for the sake of maintaining the authority of the central government, Li Xuan did not say that Nanzhili should be split directly, but continued to use the original jurisdiction. , continue to directly administer the state capitals of South Zhili under the central government.

However, it was later found that such a management model was a bit troublesome. The lack of a provincial level in the middle was not appropriate. However, Li Xuan did not want to set up a province in Nanzhili, so he established the Dao level between the province and the prefecture. , respectively administering several state capitals to assist the central government in the management of Nanzhili.

Daoists are of the third grade, one level higher than the prefect, and two levels lower than the governor. At present, there are only four Taoists under the rule of the Tang Dynasty, all of them are located in South Zhili, including Jiangbei Road, including Yangzhou Prefecture, Huaian Prefecture, Xuzhou Prefecture; North Anhui Road, under the jurisdiction of Fengyang Prefecture, Luzhou Prefecture, Anqing Prefecture, Hezhou Prefecture, and Chuzhou Prefecture; Jiangnan Prefecture, under the jurisdiction of Zhenjiang Prefecture, Changzhou Prefecture, Suzhou Prefecture, Songjiang Prefecture, South Anhui Province, under the jurisdiction of Taiping Prefecture, Ningguo Prefecture, and Dezhou Prefecture , Huizhou House, Chizhou House.

The Chengtian Mansion (Jinling) is still directly under the central government.

Instead of a province, he set up a road. This is Li Xuan's order to strengthen the central government's control over Nanzhili, and also to have jurisdiction over the prefectures.

In other provinces, there is currently no Taoist level.

Jiangbei Road is the place where Chen Lifu is about to go to take office to inspect taxation!

After receiving the task, Chen Lifu did not delay. The next day, he took the three tax inspectors assigned to him and his entourage to the south on the official boat, and then went to Yangzhou.

On the way, he analyzed the information given above in detail, and found that the task this time was very heavy, and the task this time was not the same as before. The focus was not on the agricultural tax, but on the business tax.

In the three prefectures of Jiangbei Road, aside from Xuzhou, whether it is Yangzhou or Huai'an, they all rely on the canal and the salt industry to live, or even more seriously, they all rely on the salt industry to live.

Especially now that with the fiasco of the hypocrisy, water transportation in the canal is almost cut off, and only ordinary commercial exchanges remain.

However, in the Tang Dynasty, the salt industry was government-run. From mining to transportation to wholesale, it was all officially organized, and no private intervention was allowed.

This also led to further orders from Yangzhou and Huai'an. Although the salt industry in Huai'an and Yangzhou still produces a steady stream of salt, the official channels are all monopolized by the Datang Salt Industry Company. The local salt merchants are miserable. .

However, Datang's salt industry official-run policy is a national policy that has long been established, and it is impossible for salt merchants to change that.

But the salt merchants are not willing to sit still, so the sale of illicit salt is very rampant in today's Jiangbei Road!

The issue of private salt is not about Chen Lifu, it is the business of other departments of Datang, but these salt merchants sell private salt, resulting in a salt tax that falls far short of expectations, which has something to do with Chen Lifu.

In other words, the salt merchants sell illicit salt, and Chen Lifu doesn't care, but if you sell illicit salt and don't pay taxes, then Chen Lifu will take care of it!

But the issue of private salt is not a matter of their tax department. They have to find the Salt and Tea Division of the Commerce Department, which is in charge of special commodities such as salt and tea, and the police department to deal with it.

The taxation issue in Jiangbei is no longer a simple taxation issue, but a rather complex salt industry issue. Before Chen Lifu, the taxation department had dispatched two batches of taxation inspections to various prefectures in Jiangbei, but The effect is always small.

For this reason, Chen Lifu was sent to Jiangbei!

Chen Lifu's previous work in several state capitals in the south of the Yangtze River was quite outstanding. The senior officials of the tax department just hoped that Chen Lifu could open up the situation in Jiangbei. Just not!

Chen Lifu pondered, first go to Yangzhou, find the local tax department and the tax inspector dispatched to Yangzhou to understand the situation, and then go to Huai'an to visit the Taoist priests and other local officials of Jiangbei Road.

This tax issue does not mean that it is enough to kill a group of people directly. You have to find the context, and you have to kill the right people to be effective!

In this regard, Chen Lifu, who has presided over the tax inspection work in Chizhou, Dezhou, Songjiang and other places, also has experience.

But before killing people, there must be a premise, that is, the local tax system should be rectified first. Those gangsters and other scum who mixed into the tax system during the chaos last year must be cleaned up.

When Chen Lifu went to Jiangbei Road with heavy responsibilities, Li Xuan continued to preside over the army's actions in Anping Town, Shandong!

Today's northward army has been divided into multiple routes, all the way eastward to Jinan, Qingzhou, Laizhou, Dengzhou and other places, all the way westward to Damingfu and the eastern state capital of Henan, to cooperate with the Second Army's operations.

There is still a road, and it is also the main force of the Third Army. It is rapidly advancing north, chasing the defeated soldiers of the Ming army and killing all the way to Zhili in the north. Its soldiers are now Hejianfu, not far from Youzhou. .

When the Tang army was aggressively attacking the city~www.wuxiaspot.com~ and the main force of the third army was approaching Youzhou, people were panicking in Youzhou city. The new emperor of the Ming Dynasty in the Forbidden City, the eldest son of Zhengde, Zhu Zaicui (yi, with the same name) 1), sitting on the dragon chair, watching a group of ministers making noise below, although he wanted to force himself to remain calm and maintain his dignity as an emperor, his face was inevitably angry. color!

The army of the pseudo-Tang Dynasty is already at hand, and these courtiers are still fighting for power and intrigue!

Zhu Zaicui was hurriedly ascended the throne eight days ago. At that time, there was news of the disastrous defeat of the Anping War and the death of Zhengde. The Ming ministers who stayed in Youzhou that day supported Zhu Zaicui as the emperor and awarded him the title of Shaowu.

Now Emperor Shaowu looked at these courtiers who were still making a fuss, blaming others and shirk their responsibilities, but he didn't mention how to retreat from the enemy for a long time. For the first time, he felt why the late emperor hated these civil servants!

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