The Datang tax inspection team, which had explosive combat effectiveness, fought 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 are efficient and proactive, and they can often quickly assist the higher-level tax troops to complete the tax collection task, so that the agricultural autumn tax and various industrial and commercial taxes collected by the Tang Dynasty in Guangxi are almost more than ten times the increase in revenue of the Ming Dynasty!

For example, in Wuzhou Mansion, in previous years, the Ming Dynasty collected tens of thousands of taels of taxes at most, but the officials of the Tax Department of the Tang Cabinet were extremely contemptuous of this, and my Datang taxes could be looted in the remote and poor places of Huaiyuan County, no, taxes worth at least tens of thousands of taels of silver were collected, and this was only the autumn tax in the agricultural tax and the industrial and commercial tax that was only a few months.

If it were a whole year, it would be no problem to easily break through 20,000 taels of silver.

Most of these taxes are offset in kind, but there is not much real money, because the Tang Dynasty adopted a parallel tax system of physical goods and cash silver.

For agricultural tax, it is mainly collected in kind, although this process is a little troublesome, but Li Xuan knows that in ancient times, if the peasants collected taxes directly from the peasants, the peasants would suffer in the disaster year, and the peasants would be even more bitter in the harvest year, because the former output was small, and they could not eat enough to take out the excess grain to sell and pay taxes, and in the harvest year, the grain merchants would lower the price, resulting in the grain could not be sold or sold and even the capital could not be sold.

Therefore, Li Xuan personally ordered that all agricultural taxes should be levied.

If the peasants grow grain, they will collect grain, the peasants will collect cotton when they plant cotton, the peasants will harvest mulberry leaves when they plant mulberry trees, and the peasants will collect chickens and ducks when they raise chickens and ducks.

forced the peasants to death, who paid taxes for Li Xuan to raise the army?

Of course, if the farmer has surplus money in hand and is willing to take the initiative to pay cash, it is okay, and the price is subject to the market price.

The collection of industrial and commercial tax is mainly in cash, and merchants can also use goods to offset their taxes, but the discounted price is relatively low.

Huaiyuan County, such a remote and small place, after the stubborn battle of the tax inspection team, was stunned to get out tens of thousands of taels of silver, all of which were in Wuzhou Mansion, and the tax officials shouted, this Wuzhou does not collect hundreds of thousands of taels of silver a year, and they are not sorry for the thousands of soldiers who died under the city of Wuzhou!

There is also Xunzhou Mansion with the same treatment, although Xunzhou Mansion does not have decent industry and commerce, but who let it have a plain for grain production, as the most suitable area for production in Guangxi, the predetermined amount of agricultural tax will not be less.

Now for the Tang Dynasty has made great contributions to the tax inspection team, has been stationed in Wuzhou and its subordinate counties, to carry out vigorous tax work, according to the Ministry of Taxation Guangxi Shilang Wang Chuanyong said: Wuzhou tax work is very heavy, but the prospect is bright!

In addition to Wuzhou and Xunzhou in Guangxi, Guilin is actually a good place, not for anything else, just because Guilin's grain output is higher than Wuzhou in this year, and Wuzhou's grain output is about 100,000 stone a year, but Guilin can reach more than 100,000 stone.

Although the development potential is not very large, the development of Guilin is relatively mature, and the fields have been fully developed.

For such a place, because the strategic position was not very important before, so it did not get the attention of the Tang Dynasty, which sent a partial division over, which passed for several months, and this partial division was organized into a temporary first regiment, and then slowly increased to the size of 3,000 people.

However, even so, its combat effectiveness is still relatively weak, and to put it mildly, although the first provisional regiment now has two reserve battalions called regular army, its actual combat effectiveness may not even be comparable to that of a garrison regiment under the third garrison brigade.

Although the third garrison brigade is a garrison army, it is also killed in the sea of corpses and blood, and it has made great contributions under the city of Wuzhou, except for the main infantry regiment in the regular army and the freak of the Liuzhou Independent Regiment, other garrisons and temporary regiments are not comparable to this third garrison brigade.

However, although the strength of the provisional 1st Regiment was not good, it also successfully controlled most of the western and southern parts of Guilin, and the Ming army could only retreat in the city of Guilin.

Now when the Fourth Army goes north to Guilin, it doesn't have to fight all the way, it can directly march north and go straight to Guilin, and it can also accept the support of local states and counties along the way, and these places have also established the rule of the Tang Dynasty.

Even the Guilin Mansion City was not taken, but the prefect of Guilin Mansion appointed by the Tang Dynasty was already in office.

Major General Chen Keqiao, commander of the Third Infantry Brigade and commander of the Fourth Army, led the Fourth Army all the way, first along the Guijiang River to the north, and went straight to Pingle Mansion.

According to the intelligence, the garrison of Pingle Mansion is now very weak, because most of the defenders before Pingle Mansion have been transferred to Wuzhou, and now the states and counties of Pingle Mansion are at most only a few Ming troops and young strong guards, even if it is Pingle Mansion City, there are not many regular Ming troops.

But even so, in order to take Guilin as soon as possible, and then enter Huguang, Chen Keqiao still didn't waste any time in Pingle Mansion, he led his troops all the way north along the Guijiang River, and only hit Zhaoping on the edge of the Guijiang River, and even Yong'an Zhou, which was not far away, was too lazy to take care of it.

If it weren't for the support of the logistics line, Chen Keqiao would not even fight Pinglefu City, but Pinglefu City was just located on the edge of the Guijiang River, and if Pinglefu was not defeated, even if Pinglefu City was bypassed, the logistics line would not be able to 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 sent to deal with them in the future.

The Operations Department of the Privy Council has already designated a relevant plan, sending a part of the garrison from Wuzhou Prefecture, mainly the garrison, and a very small number of regular troops to take over those prefectures and counties that are still under the control of the Ming Dynasty, including Yong'anzhou, Hexian, Buchuan, Gongcheng and other places.

There are basically no large numbers of Ming troops stationed in these places, and there are only a few hundred people at most, and they are basically old and young, weak or young, because the regular guard army and even the recruited soldiers in Guangxi have basically lost all their losses in many battles with the puppet Tang thief army.

Therefore, like ripe fruit in these places, there is no need to climb the tree to pick it, but 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 Mansion, his Fourth Army was shouldering a great responsibility, but there was no time to waste on these things such as attacking ordinary prefectures and counties.

Soaring all the way, he also defeated Zhaoping, well, it is not right to say that it was defeated, because when he saw the thousands of enemy troops led by Chen Keqiao, the defenders in the city were directly scattered, and they did not launch a siege campaign at all.

After Zhaoping, Chen Keqiao continued to lead his troops north, and it didn't take a few days to arrive at Pingle Fu City, the defenders in Pingle Fu City were not small, obviously there were no troops, but they were also stubborn and did not surrender, and finally Chen Keqiao could only be directly attacked.

Because the defenders' will to resist was not weak, and in the hurry, the artillery units in the rear had not yet kept up, so in order to avoid excessive casualties, they fought more cautiously, so that it took three days to take the city.

That is to say, the vanguard of the Fourth Army was blocked here for three days, and now the vast army of Hu is besieging Xingquan Mansion, and even the traces of the Ming Army's partial division have appeared in Liping Mansion, which is extremely hard in eastern Guizhou, and as a reinforcement of the Fourth Army, every day is extremely precious.

And under the inconspicuous Pingle Mansion City, it turned out to be a waste of three days, and Chen Keqiao was quite angry about this.

Ignoring the obstruction of the military officials who came with the army, the city was broken and ordered: 'Do not take prisoners in this battle'

As a result, of the nearly 2,000 defenders in the city, except for more than 1,000 who fled, the remaining 7 or 800 were all killed.

This also led to the first time that the Tang Dynasty failed to capture prisoners in a victorious battle!

Later, this incident was naturally stabbed in front of Li Xuan by the military officials who accompanied the army, and participated in Chen Keqiao's book, believing that Chen Keqiao's move undermined the preferential treatment of prisoners that the Tang Dynasty had worked so hard to establish, thereby attracting more Ming troops to surrender and causing a major negative impact.

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

Treating the Ming army who are willing to surrender on their own initiative naturally requires preferential treatment, but it is also possible to use appropriate tough measures to treat these people in Pinglefu City who know that they can't resist, but they still resist stubbornly, and finally have to surrender after the city is broken, and also cause great losses or negative effects to the army.

A combination of rigidity and softness is best, and being too rigid or too weak is not a good thing!

This can effectively deter latecomers and let them know that resisting the Tang Dynasty requires the price of their lives, but it does not mean that you can fight if you want to, and surrender if you want to.

After conquering the city of Pingle Fu, the vanguard of the Fourth Army continued to advance northward, and they soon entered Guilin Province.

Then he and the troops of the 1st Provisional Regiment successfully converged outside the Guilin Mansion.

When they saw that thousands of pseudo-Tang thief troops had arrived outside the city, the faces of a group of officials and generals in Guilin Mansion were very ugly.

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

"Yes, I heard that Wuzhou has been captured by the thief army, but there are tens of thousands of troops in Wuzhou City, and our Pingle Mansion is just a small city, with no more than 3,000 soldiers!"

"This official heard that Huguang's supervisor, Lord Zhang, has exhausted Huguang's troops, so maybe he will be able to send troops to reinforce us soon!"