In the follow-up search, Lin Ziran's soldiers did not find Li Dingjun, and after a brief inquiry, many people said that Li Dingjun was still commanding the battle in the city before the city was broken, but under the chaos of the situation later, many people did not know where Li Dingjun went.

Li Dingjun disappeared, no one was born, no one died, no corpse was seen!

But it doesn't matter anymore.

The important thing is that Lin Ziran finally pulled out the nail of the Dingjiang Fortress, and then relying on the Dingjiang Fortress to completely block the intersection of the Luo River and the Dingjiang River.

At the same time, the ships of their own Luo'an fleet were able to pass through the estuary smoothly, and then enter the Dingjiang River, and cover the troops to cross the river to the south.

It's strategically significant!

In the evening of the same day, the clean-up work continued, and at the same time, the reorganization of the troops began.

Reorganize the surrender or surrender troops, Lin Ziran and the generals under his command are quite experienced people.

First, the officers and ordinary soldiers are separated, and the officers are left behind to deal with it slowly, while the soldiers' are selected on the basis of merit, and the other party must be willing to take the initiative to join, and those who are unsuccessful or qualified but unwilling to take the initiative to join the army will be dismissed and let them return to their hometowns.

And these soldiers who are willing to join the army will be dispersed and supplemented to each unit.

Nowadays, many troops under Lin Ziran's command also have shortages, such as the first division has served as the main attack force all times, although the overall loss ratio is not large, but there will be some losses, and the same is true of other troops.

Therefore, it is to select a part of it first to supplement it to the first and second divisions.

In addition, the 3rd and 4th divisions will be replenished.

Some of them will also be supplemented by the 2nd Mixed Brigade on the east bank of the Luo River and the 5th Division stationed in the north, which now has no more than 10,000 troops, and is still several thousand short of the full quota of more than 14,000 people.

After these anyway, the soldiers who are qualified and willing to take the initiative to continue to serve in the army are probably only about a few thousand, and there will be no more casual points.

In addition, there are about 10,000 soldiers left ready to be discharged and let them return to their hometowns!

The reason why these people were not accepted all at once, but were selected on the basis of merit, was because the scale of the current Luo'an garrison was already quite large.

At present, the Luo'an garrison under Lin Ziran has five divisions, two mixed brigades, one garrison regiment, three cavalry brigades, three heavy artillery regiments, and one experimental artillery battalion.

If all of these troops were to be full, the total strength would have exceeded 100,000.

With so many troops, there are tens of thousands more troops directly controlled by Jian Minggang when he was the county guard, and even slightly more than the entire county army in Cheng Lingfeng's era.

During the era of Cheng Lingfeng, the Luo'an Army was only five divisions plus a number of independent cavalry regiments and artillery regiments, that is, the Northern Expedition to Guang'an, during the Battle of Chongguangcheng, a large-scale recruitment expansion was carried out for the Northern Expedition to Guang'an, and the strength once exceeded 100,000 people.

As for the melee in many feudal towns later, the total number of troops in each feudal town was more, and it was estimated that it was more than 150,000 people, but at that time, everyone was trying their best to expand the army, and at that time, Jian Minggang did not even pay the salaries of administrative officials, and Li Kun did not even pay the salaries of many non-descendant troops.

In the end, they're all finished!

Therefore, it seems that the more troops, the better, but the premise is that you can afford it, and if you can't afford it, you have to maintain hundreds of thousands of troops, and you will be played mutiny by your subordinates!

The current Luo'an garrison will have a full strength of more than 100,000 troops, which is far beyond the limit of Luo'an County's population and economic base.

Even if Luo'an County is the second largest county in Nanhai Prefecture, its population is only a few million, and although the fiscal revenue is not bad, it is impossible to say that it maintains more than 100,000 troops.

In recent years, the people of Luo'an County have lived a miserable life, obviously their families have planted hundreds of acres of land, and they have produced a lot of grain, but they can't eat enough, because most of this grain is collected as taxes.

And when Lin Ziran was in Lianguan County before, he made a tax restriction order!

The tax limit was to limit the agricultural tax and the industrial and commercial tax to a certain level in order to ensure that the people could have enough to eat, rather than to sustain the war through the collection of all food and profits.

In the era of Jian Minggang and Cheng Lingfeng, taxes were increased to the point that everyone complained, while Lin Ziran maintained the overall tax level at the same level as in the early years of Daheng unification through the tax restriction order, and reduced the taxes of all strata by about 50 percent on the whole.

To put it bluntly, if you could collect 10,000 Hengyuan in taxes before, you can only collect 5,000 Hengyuan now.

In this way, even if you can get additional income in other areas, such as oil, you have to admit that there is less money for sure.

In fact, some people have suggested that Lin Ziran said that the tax restriction order is a special product of a special period, and when the situation is stable, it will be canceled and the tax standard of Cheng Lingfeng's era will be restored, in this way, with the strength of Luo'an County, it is barely possible to maintain an army of 100,000.

But Lin Ziran was not happy!

Don't look at the tax restriction order to reduce the general tax, but in fact, this is already the tax standard of the Daheng unification period, and it is also the standard after many additional taxes during the Hengao War, which is a lot higher than the tax standard of ordinary countries.

At that time, countless Daheng people felt that this standard was too high, and then took out muskets to participate in various rebel armies.

Therefore, even the tax standard under the tax restriction order is actually very high, far exceeding the tax standard of a normal country, which is a veritable heavy tax.

However, even so, all strata of Luo'an County are still happy and even hopeful about Lin Ziran's tax restriction order.

Because in the past, the feudal towns would only raise taxes, but the feudal towns that took the initiative to reduce taxes were honestly only Lin Ziran.

People, they are all simple and pure, they feel that Lin Ziran can bring them benefits, so they support Lin Ziran.

Therefore, despite the fact that this tax restriction order is just a simple decree, in fact, this is the basis for Lin Ziran's foothold in Luo'an County to gain widespread support, especially in rural areas and the industrial and commercial circles.

It is the basis for subsequent external expansion!

It's like the newspaper under Lin Ziran's control to publicize it to the outside world!

If you want to save Luo'an, and if you want to take the people of Luo'an to live a full life and warm clothes again, only Lin Ziran can live.

Cheng Lingfeng in the past was not good, and Jian Minggang in the middle was even worse, only Lin Ziran was their only hope for a good life again.

The tax restriction order is the concrete embodiment of Lin Ziran's only hope!

After all, everyone can shout slogans, and Daheng's literacy rate is quite high, everyone is not stupid, you shout a slogan but there is no reality, who follows you to play Daheng unification.

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