After the Tang Dynasty Division formulated a clear retirement system, many soldiers who joined the army in the early days, some of them have begun to retire and demobilize one after another, and then return to their hometowns.

In addition to these ordinary soldiers who are normally retired, there are also quite a few who are disabled and retired!

According to the relevant military regulations, soldiers who have been seriously injured and disabled will be arranged to retire in advance, but this is in the two core groups of non-commissioned officers and officers, according to the principle of voluntariness, if non-commissioned officers and officers are willing to continue to serve, then special positions will be arranged for the arrangement.

The main thing is to arrange to the rear institutions, such as the boot barracks, the command administrative body, and so on.

If you want to retire, then you can also arrange retirement!

And these retired personnel have become the core backbone of the current militia system of the Tang Dynasty!

It is often based on a small number of retired personnel, and then add local ordinary young people to form local militia organizations, which will organize regular training during the slack time.

Therefore, in the current three provinces of Guangzhou, Guangzhou, and Guizhou, because there are relatively large number of retired personnel, the militia organization is already a nascent system, and it has played a major role in maintaining the local situation.

However, in other provinces, because of the general lack of local retired soldiers, the Tang Dynasty took another path, that is, directly retired a small number of active personnel to the local area, became the core of the militia organization, and then formed a militia organization.

However, due to the relatively small number of retired personnel specially arranged by these special arrangements, and the relatively short time since the militia organizations were established, it is still difficult for the militia organizations in many provinces to take on important responsibilities at present.

If it is the newly occupied area north of the Yangtze River, especially Shandong, Henan, and Beizhili provinces, then the militia organization is directly equal to zero, and in a short period of time, the local public security maintenance can only depend on the will of God, and the Tang military will not be able to control so much.

Often, the regular army is only inclined to be stationed at some important nodes, such as capital cities, important transportation points, strategic places, a few county towns, as for other places, and even in the countryside, there is nothing to be done for the time being, and can only mobilize troops to suppress when something happens.

In the medium term, the local security will largely depend on the tax inspection team!

Yes!

That's right, it's the tax inspection team, the fourth largest armed organization in the Tang Dynasty!

The tax inspection team after the Tang Army, the Tang Navy, and the Tang Guards has always played an extremely important role in the newly occupied areas of the Tang Dynasty.

In the newly occupied areas, in order to be able to collect taxes in a timely and effective manner and to resist the local armed resistance to taxes, the Ministry of Taxation will often organize local tax inspection teams on a large scale, and it is possible for a county to be as few as a few dozen or as many as a hundred.

Although this figure is said to drop significantly in a few months or a year, in the early months of the newly occupied areas, the size of the tax inspection team is generally relatively large.

For example, when Jiangbei Province first occupied Jiangbei Province, because there were many salt taxes here, the Ministry of Taxation attached great importance to it, only Yangzhou Prefecture included the following counties, and the members of the tax inspection team added up to more than 1,000 people, and Huai'an Mansion was even more, reaching more than 1,500 people, plus Xuzhou Prefecture, and the Ministry of Taxation temporarily supported hundreds of people in the past, its total number once reached more than 3,000 people, and its number was not less than the mixed regiment stationed there.

The tax inspection team of Gangbuk Province played a very big role in maintaining the early rule of Datang in Gangbuk Province!

Of course, this is already history, because after reaching the peak number, this number is quickly reduced, but the number of tax inspection teams in Gangbuk Province is still about 2,000 people, and the strength is strong.

The unrest caused by ordinary armed resistance to taxes can be solved by themselves without the need for a regular army.

Therefore, in Shandong, Henan, Beizhili and other newly occupied areas, the tax inspection team will also play a very large role, and the officials of the Ministry of Taxation are almost advancing with the pace of the army, for example, in Jinan Prefecture, the Fifth Mixed Regiment has just taken Jinan Prefecture, and the prefect of Jinan Prefecture has not yet taken office, and the Jinan Prefecture Taxation Bureau has been established.

The first thing officials dispatched by several tax departments and dozens of tax inspection teams supported by the Ministry of Taxation was not to collect taxes, but to recruit troops and directly recruit local young and strong and even green-skinned hooligans in the streets and alleys.

The gangsters in Jinan Mansion have already heard of the famous name of the tax inspection team, and they know that this is an important way for them to turn over and realize their dreams in life.

Just in the city alone, the tax inspection team recruited more than 500 people in one go, and all of them volunteered to participate, patting their chests and saying that they would serve the ancient saints.

This result made the tax officials who had just come to Jinan to preside over the local tax affairs very pleased!

After the establishment of the tax inspection team in Jinan Prefecture, through rapid recruitment and expansion, it immediately became a vital local armed force, and was widely active in the front line of the tax war.

When the prefect of Jinan Prefecture arrived, he found that the gentry in the city of Jinan Mansion under his rule were all well-behaved, and when they came to discuss the infrastructure and people's livelihood in the city, they were all the heads of the families in person.

Want to build roads and bridges? Okay, we have covered the materials, what, the government does not use forced labor to build roads but uses hired labor, no problem, we also cover the wages of hired workers.

It is necessary to rectify the appearance of the city in the city, rectify the dirty and messy behavior, no problem, all the illegal buildings in the street shops, we will tear them down ourselves when we go back tomorrow, and keep the streets in front of the door clean.

To repair the school, ready to build Jinan Mansion Middle School and primary school, it's okay, we will send someone directly to repair, how much does it cost to build a primary school and a middle school, the prefect, you say the number, say how much, if we say no word, you immediately copy our home!

The generosity and hospitable attitude of the gentry of Jinan made the prefect of Jinan quite pleased, and he felt that the prestige of the ancient sage was far and wide, and its rain and thunder spread all over the world, so that the local gentry could not wait to offer their knees and silver for the first time!

When it was over, those gentry sent a gray-haired old gentry, who almost said in a voice that was about to cry: "Lord Fuzun, can you please have a message with Lord Song of the Taxation Bureau, we are all good citizens who pay taxes and abide by the law!" ”

When the prefect of Jinan Prefecture heard this, he smiled: "The tax bureau, this matter is not very easy for the official to manage, but since you have said it, for the sake of your dedication to serving the imperial court, the official will help you pass on a word, but you also estimate that you also understand our Datang tax system, and I hope you will do it well in the future!" ”

The prefect of Jinan Prefecture naturally knew what had happened in just a few days before he took office, and even he deliberately delayed his arrival in Jinan Prefecture for a few days, in order to leave room for the tax bureau to use its means, otherwise, it would not be easy to open up the local situation.

In the past few days, the Jinan Prefecture tax inspection team has carried out frequent activities and achieved great results, raiding 36 large gentry households, killing more than 120 tax resistants, arresting more than 500 people, collecting more than 30,000 taels of taxes, fining more than 80,000 taels, and confiscating more than 500,000 taels worth of various assets.

For a time, the prestige of the tax inspection team instantly spread throughout Jinan Mansion, which can stop children from crying at night.

Chen Lifu's old boss, the former director of the inspection department of the grain collection department, and recently transferred to the Shandong Tax Department as the director, Sun Pengbo, commented on the tax inspection team of Jinan Prefecture: This is a tax team with a tough style and can fight tough battles and win battles!

It is hoped that the tax teams of other state capitals in Shandong Province will learn from the advantages of the tax teams of Jinan Prefecture and fight a crucial battle in the tax war in Shandong!

The prefect of Jinan Prefecture is not a new officialdom, people are clear in their hearts, don't say whether he will manage, even if he wants to manage, he does not have the power to manage it, Datang tax is a very special existence, and it does not belong to the jurisdiction of the local government, but is directly governed by the tax, although the director of the tax bureau of a government is only a positive five products, and the grade is lower than that of the prefect of the fourth grade, but people can operate independently, and the prefect of a place can not manage the director of the tax bureau.

Not to mention the prefect, even if the governor comes, he has no right to control any tax official!

It is taboo for local officials to meddle in taxation, and it is a very serious political mistake, and it will be punished.

What local officials can do is to develop the economy, and then wait for the dividends from the tax side: the land tax, and then invest it in the people's livelihood, and as for how to raise the tax revenue, that's none of their business.

Jinan, and even the whole of Shandong, is currently more dependent on the tax inspection team to maintain ordinary law and order, and the only regular army troops are mainly stationed in important strategic locations and control nodes.

And this model of Shandong, for the Tang Dynasty is also a familiar road, before they played in Jiangbei Province, North Anhui Province and the entire south of the Yangtze River, and then pushed forward, Jiangxi, Huguang, Zhejiang, Fujian and other provinces are also doing this, and now Shandong, just re-copied the old routine.

Relatively speaking, the existence of the tax inspection team has also alleviated to a certain extent the problem of the strength of the regular army in the newly occupied areas.

However, it is not possible for the tax inspection team to maintain a strong attitude in the newly occupied areas all the time, and after the first few months, the attitude is relaxed, and then the tax inspection team is reduced and regularized, and some of them are transferred to the newly occupied areas to continue the above steps.

Then, it is to start cleaning up the problems that are still left in the local tax inspection team, and dig deep into the local tax problems!

And the latter is Chen Lifu's job, he recently went to Jiangbei Province and did just that!