When the plan to send troops was formulated, the war machine of the Tang Dynasty was once again running at high speed.

It's not right to say that it will run again, because the war machine of the Tang Dynasty has never stopped, it's just the difference between low-speed operation and high-speed operation.

As the head of this war machine, the Datang New Army has not stopped for a moment.

After the plan to send troops to Liping Mansion was decided, all departments of the Datang New Army began to prepare for this.

The two main infantry regiments began to carry out pre-battle acclimatization training, especially long-distance running, because in the following battles, they will continue to engage in mobile warfare, rather than the previous passive defense or siege warfare.

They want to attack Liping Mansion, and Liping Mansion is just a goal on their way, their goal is to pass through Liping Mansion, and then go south into Liuzhou Mansion in Guangxi, in this series of battle plans, the new army of the Tang Dynasty needs to run while fighting, saying that it is too much to run for thousands of miles, but there must be hundreds of miles, and these hundreds of miles are still mountainous and hilly terrain, not to mention that it is difficult for the army to pass, even ordinary people are very difficult to travel.

And this has extremely high requirements for the long-distance running ability of the troops, and also has extremely high requirements for the physical fitness of the soldiers.

Although the physical fitness of the soldiers of the Datang New Army is said to be better than that of the Ming Army, it is only a little stronger, especially those recruits, who have only undergone a month of nutritional supplementation and physical training, so they are a little stronger than when they first entered the barracks, but they are also limited.

If the physical fitness of soldiers wants to be greatly improved, they need at least three months or even more than half a year of continuous training.

As a result, the physical fitness gap between the veterans and recruits in the Datang New Army is actually a bit large, not to mention anything else, just looking at the muscles can be seen.

Although some veterans are not tall and do not look tall, their muscles are very strong, and they do not have eight-pack abs when they take off their clothes, but they also have four-pack abs.

Physical fitness needs to be trained, and then some tactics of marching and fighting in the field also need to be adapted to training.

Although both infantry regiments were the main forces, and the battalions to which they belonged were all old troops, at least half of them were new recruits.

There is no way, the new army of Datang needs to be expanded, and Li Xuan, in order to let the newly expanded troops form combat effectiveness as soon as possible, they all adopt the method of bringing the old with the new, transferring veterans, non-commissioned officers, and officers from the old army to the new army, and becoming the combat core of the new army.

Here, it also reflects the importance of the Datang New Army to set up deputy positions at all levels, whether it is an infantry platoon or a team, or a battalion, in addition to the main officer, there will also be a deputy position.

And when the army is expanded, if the main position is transferred to a higher position, then the deputy position can be taken to the main position.

At the same time, it is also possible to directly transfer the deputies in the army, and then these deputies can form the framework of a new force on the spot.

The eighth, ninth, and thirteenth infantry battalions newly formed, as well as most of the expanded units of the existing battalions, were created in this way.

Perhaps the newly formed troops will not be able to increase their combat effectiveness for a while because of the large number of recruits, but as long as they are given a month or two of training, they will soon be able to get a qualified regular army.

After all, the core of an army is not actually soldiers, but senior non-commissioned officers and officers.

As long as you have the latter, giving them three months can completely turn recruits into veterans and then pull them into battle.

When the new army of the Tang Dynasty was conducting intensive related training, other departments of the Tang Dynasty were not idle, and they were also preparing for the upcoming large-scale expedition.

In addition to the agricultural tax, they also did not forget the commercial tax, and began to collect the commercial tax on the merchants in Xingquan Prefecture, although the amount of commercial tax is relatively high, so that the merchants have great complaints, but the tax department is said that this is a 'reasonable burden' that the merchants should bear.

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In fact, although the commercial tax formulated by the Ministry of Taxation seems to be higher than in the past, it is still very light compared with later generations, and these businessmen feel that it is high, because they have not paid much commercial tax before, and now they have paid even a penny more, they feel high, and what is said is miserable.

In this regard, Li Xuan's attitude is very tough: there are so many taxes, you have to pay them, and you have to pay them if you don't pay them.

If you businessmen want to do business on his Li Xuan's territory, you have to pay taxes, and if you don't want to pay taxes, you will close your business and change careers, and Li Xuan will not care about you. But if you dare to play tax evasion, the tax inspection team under the grain collection department of the Ministry of Taxation will let you know what is called tax evasion!

In order to collect more taxes better, the grain collection department of the Tang Dynasty has developed and expanded, and the number of personnel has expanded from 100 to more than 300.

Among the more than 300 people, except for dozens of civilian officials, the rest are all members of the tax inspection team, and according to tradition, the people in these tax inspection teams are all kinds of old fritters, ruffians and other scum specially recruited, and they are issued with cold weapons and even muskets.

More than 200 members of the tax inspection team, their traces all over the three counties of Xingquan Prefecture, they in the past six months for the Tang Dynasty war, the expansion of the new army of the Tang Dynasty has made great contributions, they actively and actively use various methods to collect silver grain, the process of the process is not lacking in the pit and deception, a total of more than 100 large and small landlords who refuse to pay taxes, merchants of the home, guard the size of 18 tax checkpoints, do not let any caravan pass the customs, the cumulative fine of more than 3,000 taels of silver worth of goods, can be described as a remarkable result!

The hard work of the tax inspection team also made the Tang Dynasty, which was poor and white, raise an army of thousands of people.

These scumbags were even praised by the emperor, the Eternal Sage Monarch Li Xuan, saying that their work was excellent and efficient, and that they had made great contributions to the healthy development of taxation and the expansion of the Tang Dynasty.

With the tax inspection team present, Li Xuan is not afraid of tax evasion by these businessmen, as for whether the excessively high commercial tax will affect the commercial development of Xingquan Mansion.

To be honest, Li Xuan really couldn't see any actual negative effects.

On the one hand, the commerce of Xingquan Mansion was not good in the first place, and after Xingquan Mansion was captured by the Tang Dynasty, many commercial activities with the outside world were stagnant.

But this is not important, to be honest, the commercial activities in these years have not played much role, although this Xingquan Mansion is barren, but as long as it does not suffer from large-scale natural and man-made disasters, this grain can still be self-sufficient, and in addition to food, other commodities are honestly not important.

As for the various strategic materials needed by the Tang Dynasty, such as iron, copper, saltpeter, sulfur, etc., these were not within the scope of normal commercial activities, these were all contraband, and it was impossible for ordinary businessmen to sell these things in Xingquan Mansion.

What's more, it is not the ordinary people who need these things, but the Tang Dynasty itself, which originally purchased these things at a high price, and in order to attract more businessmen to transport these strategic materials, the tax also set up a tax-free category for these strategic materials.

Therefore, on the whole, the large-scale implementation of commercial taxes may have an impact on merchants, but the impact on the operation of the Tang Dynasty is quite limited.

With the money on the part of the Ministry of Taxation, the Ministry of Industry will be able to build more weapons and equipment.

In recent months, the scale of the transaction between Old Man Sun and the Tang Dynasty is getting bigger and bigger, when the Tang Dynasty just conquered Xingquan Mansion, Old Man Sun was not afraid of death to transport a large number of strategic materials over, and that day he took away more than 3,000 taels of silver from the Tang Dynasty, and also said that he was already expanding the supply channels of goods, and the number of supplies supplied in the future will further increase.

And like Old Man Sun, there are still many businessmen who are not afraid of raiding their homes and exterminating their clans, and although the supply of other people's goods is not as large as that of Old Man Sun, it is enough for their family to be wiped out by the Ming Dynasty.

This made many people in the tax department of the Tang Dynasty mutter, they worked so hard to collect grain and taxes, and most of the money in hand was earned by profiteers like Old Man Sun.

But even if you complain, there is no way, who let the Datang New Army need these strategic materials for the operation, and it is still a large demand.

With the money to buy supplies, all kinds of weapons naturally came out of the weapons workshop of the Ministry of Industry, and then assigned to the Datang New Army.

After entering Xingquan Mansion, the Ministry of Industry directly established many workshops of various types in Xingquan Mansion, and the type and scale of the workshops were much larger than those in Zhengtai County, and the original workshop in Huangzhushan was also directly abolished.

Today, Huangzhu Mountain, the starting place of the Tang Dynasty, has long been abandoned.

The many workshops established in the city of Xingquanfu, coupled with the workshops in Zhengtai County, are producing a large number of weapons every day.

Relying on these weapons, the new army of the Tang Dynasty officially kicked off its march into Liping Mansion five days later.

On this day, Li Xuan wore a military uniform similar to Hao Bonian and rode on a tall horse, originally he personally liked to wear his own modern general's dress, but the people who were under his head said three times and twice that the military uniform was related to Chinese etiquette and other nonsense, so when Li Xuan was on a military occasion, he also changed into the officer uniform of the Tang New Army.

The military uniforms of the officers of the Tang Dynasty are based on dark blue, the right jacket is under the library, the hem of the jacket is about 20 centimeters longer than the hem of the soldier's uniform, the button is also a metal copper button, the cuffs of the jacket are narrow, and embroidered with several unequal horizontal stripes representing the rank, and the color of the collar is also different, there is no additional color for ordinary soldiers, the lieutenant is white, the colonel is red, and the general who has not yet appeared is yellow.

Leather boots are worn underneath and a black cape, but of course, whether you wear them or not is another matter.

Now Li Xuan is wearing the general's uniform in the military uniform, and the collar is yellow, but there is no rank mark on his cuffs, but a dragon pattern embroidered with gold wire.

Riding on a horse, he looked at the thousands of soldiers in the square, and then nodded slightly to Liu Bagou beside him, Liu Bagou immediately strode out, and at the same time spread out the text in his hand and read it out loud: "The industry was founded and the first emperor collapsed, and I succeeded the great treasure, followed the ambition of the first emperor, and the prestige of the Tang Dynasty ......" (note)