Li Xuan stayed in Youzhou City for a few days, briefly browsed Youzhou City, and directly turned south, ready to return to Jinling!

When I went south, the team was much larger, with a large group of former Ming officials and a large number of treasured belongings!

At that time, the officials of the Ministry of Taxation followed the army into the city, and even when the army could not fully control the entire Youzhou City, the officials of the Ministry of Taxation were already with the support of the soldiers sent by the military, and began to paste seals and raid the house from door to door!

As the base camp of the Ming Dynasty, Youzhou City gathered a large number of nobles and officials, and has accumulated a lot of wealth in the past hundred years, and these riches are urgently needed by the Tang Dynasty.

Therefore, regardless of whether it is a demote or an unwilling official or noble, it is easy to say whether his life can be saved, as long as the attitude is better, the basic life is not worried, but the family wealth cannot be 100% saved.

The officials of the Ministry of Taxation put up seals, and according to the list they had prepared internally, there were more than a thousand names on the list!

This is also the old model of the Tang Dynasty for many years, as soon as the army enters on the front foot, the tax department will follow on the back foot.

Because there were a lot of garrisons in Youzhou City, the Ministry of Taxation simply did not wait for the local tax inspection team to become large-scale before collecting taxes on a large scale, and began armed taxation on the spot with the support of the military.

And the results are also huge, a few days of seizure, is the seizure of tens of millions of taels of silver, this is only cash silver, all kinds of real estate, treasures and the like have not been counted.

And if all are included, the whole number will be very terrifying, at least at present, the Ministry of Taxation is unable to calculate an accurate number.

Because the assets of these nobles and officials are not only in Youzhou City, but also outside the city, even in Hebei, and even in the entire land of China.

According to the preliminary statistics of the Ministry of Taxation, the fields confiscated from these nobles and officials occupy 50 percent of the total number of acres in the vicinity of Youzhou.

These alone are enough to explain their original sin!

The confiscated land, without exception, became the official land of the Tang Dynasty, which would be used to distribute to soldiers and purchase to landless peasants by rent.

Li Xuan led the guards and hundreds of officials and a lot of property to return south, leaving behind Youzhou City and the Third Army, which was almost like an empty city!

According to Li Xuan's personal instructions, the Third Army will be temporarily stationed in Hebei Province, and the army will have a large number of important tasks in the future, including continuing to capture, or taking over some border towns, and also need to move east into Liaodong.

There is Zhengde's sixth son King Hui, and just a King Hui is nothing, the key thing is that King Hui also controls a lot of troops, which is also one of the two major threats facing the Tang Dynasty in the north.

And the remaining huge threat, naturally, is the Tatars!

However, Li Xuan instructed Hao Bonian, the commander of the Third Army, that the follow-up war in the north should be based on stability, seeking progress while maintaining stability, and there is no need to rush for a while.

In order to avoid Hao Bonian controlling the Third Army for a long time, which led to some unnecessary ideas, in fact, Li Xuan was already planning to recall Hao Bonian back to the Beijing Division, but the impact of doing so in a short period of time was not very good, so Li Xuan planned to let Hao Bonian do it first, and after a year and a half, let Hao Bonian come back, and assign another important task.

At the same time, along with the Holy Driver South, there was also Chen Keqiao, the commander of the Fifth Infantry Division, or Chen Keqiao, the former commander of the Fifth Infantry Division.

The goal is very clear, that is, to prepare Chen Keqiao to lead the army, and now the expansion of the Tang Dynasty is in full swing, and a large number of recruits recruited in the Jiangbei region are undergoing final training, and then a new force can be formed.

According to the predetermined plan, the 12th Infantry Division, which was scheduled to be formed at the beginning of the year, is expected to be formed in two months, and will be directly organized into an army with the 11th Infantry Division, and then with independent artillery, engineer and other units, that is, the Fifth Army.

Chen Keqiao is the commander of the Fifth Army prepared by Li Xuan.

Chen Keqiao also knows this, and most outsiders can guess it, and there are many people who congratulate Chen Keqiao on the way back to the south.

This year's large-scale expansion of the army, not only the 12th Infantry Division, especially after getting a large amount of booty from Yangzhou Salt Merchants and Youzhou City, the Tang Dynasty became rich almost overnight!

Therefore, the expansion of the army has not stopped!

Li Xuan had already determined the plan for the further expansion of the regular army, and the two infantry divisions were the 13th Infantry Division and the 14th Infantry Division, which were expected to form the Sixth Army.

In addition, in fact, there are more garrisons such as mixed brigades.

Because at present, Datang needs more troops to garrison the locality, and it is also to further reduce the maintenance cost of the local troops.

Li Xuan has already formulated a series of reform plans for the mixed group!

The five mixed regiments that undertake front-line combat missions will be upgraded to mixed brigades, and will continue to participate in front-line battles and be used as the main regular army.

However, the remaining mixed regiments will be reformed into reserve divisions, expanding to the same standard divisional structure as the main division, that is, with three infantry regiments, an artillery regiment, a cavalry regiment, a baggage regiment, and so on.

However, since it is a reserve division, there is naturally a difference between it and the main division, and the difference is that the combat readiness level of the two sides is not at the same level at all!

Although the establishment of this reserve division is the same as that of an infantry division, it stipulates that when there is no war, only 50 percent of the strength of the backbone troops will be retained, only 30 percent of the strength of the ordinary troops will be retained, and only the most basic backbone of the auxiliary troops will be retained.

Basically, the reformed reserve divisions may be different depending on the specific situation, but the total strength should be about 8,000 people.

In terms of equipment, at present, it is equipped with arquebuses, spears, bows, arrows, swords and other weapons that have been retired from the main force, and the artillery is also used with some scrapped artillery that is almost at the end of its barrel life.

In other words, the reserve division will be a kind of second-line unit that maintains the strength of the infantry division, but in fact is seriously dissatisfied, and at the same time is only equipped with old second-hand equipment!

On weekdays, the main thing is to maintain the framework of a division, core officers and non-commissioned officers and necessary troops, to suppress some small and medium-sized riots, and if there is a large-scale war, it is to mobilize, replenish the veterans nearby, and restore a certain combat effectiveness in a short period of time and directly put it into the battlefield.

The reserve division model is actually an important part of the reserve system that the Tang Army has been planning for a long time.

This kind of reserve force does not need to keep too many active-duty soldiers in peacetime, which greatly reduces expenses, and at the same time can maintain a sufficient division-level establishment framework, and after mobilization, it can be put into dozens of divisions.

Therefore, along with the determination of the reserve division, the Tang Dynasty also officially issued the reserve system, stipulating that after the soldiers are discharged from the army, they will be transferred to the reserve, and they must register with the local retirement agency every year within five years, and they can freely arrange a time period every year for half a month of military training, and pay subsidies during the training period.

In the event of war, when the army is called up, it must be re-served unconditionally as soon as possible.

In the decade from five years to fifteen years, compulsory registration is no longer required, and you can voluntarily go to the discharge agency to register, but when you are called up by the military in the war, you must also unconditionally return to service.

Fifteen years later, it is precisely the withdrawal from the reserves, and there is no need to force service.

The above-mentioned provisions are limited to ordinary soldiers and non-commissioned officers, and officers are not in this case, because officers are relatively special, and the Tang Dynasty has not yet come up with a relatively perfect method for handling the retirement of officers.

Because there is a very important issue involved here, that is, the officer in this year is not only a soldier, but also an officer.

When other officers join the army, they actually come to be officials, and you can't say that the family will be the same as the modern country in later generations, and the family will retire after serving until the age of thirty or forty, and kick it out.

But inevitably, with the increase of age, the middle- and lower-level officers who are too old are definitely no longer suitable for combat, so the Tang Dynasty is still continuing to discuss the retirement of officers.

At present, the biggest call is that officers on active duty, especially officers at the rank of colonel and lieutenant, can retire for a period of time in advance, but after retirement, they do not directly let people go home, but take up the position of officers in the reserve forces and become reserve officers until they are completely discharged.

The emergence of reserve divisions was a compromise method for the Tang Dynasty to maintain as many troops as possible under limited military spending.

And as a result, it also constitutes the current three-tier armed system of the Tang Army, the regular army, the reserve force, and the militia!

According to the regulations of the reserve forces, most provinces will have at least one reserve division, while a few important provinces will have two or even three reserve divisions.

At the same time, some important areas, such as Jiangbei Province and North Anhui Province, although they are not a province, will also have a reserve division stationed.

In some important areas, especially in strategic areas and border areas, regular troops are stationed.

Such a series of changes in the military system can also allow the regular army of the Tang Army to free up their hands and continue to launch the next round of war!

Although the north is initially decided, Zhang Yue of Huguang is still there!

In the following period of time, the strategic center of gravity of the Tang Dynasty will move westward to Huguang, Sichuan and other places, which is also the reason why Li Xuan asked Hao Bonian's Third Army not to worry, because after the strategic center of gravity of the Tang Dynasty moves westward, the Third Army will not be able to get the priority supply of various supplies, and will live the same hard life as the current First Army, and you have to count whether there are enough shells to fight a battle!

For the Third Army, the good old days of tens of thousands of shells in a single siege battle are gone!

But for the First Army, which has been waiting for many years, now, it is their turn to take the stage and start performing!