The Salvation Army took over Pucheng County, and interestingly, it was still under the command of Da Ming to the outside world, and the original county order was 'died of a violent illness'.

The literati transferred from Huanglongshan mainly assumed the deputy positions such as county officials, and the formal county orders were handed over to the imperial court for appointment.

However, according to the current rhythm of chaos in Shaanxi, it is doubtful whether the imperial court will send someone to serve as the county commander. But in any case, the official report has been reported to the Xi'an government, and then the Xi'an government will report it layer by layer.

As a result, no matter who will serve as the county commander or promote the county commander, there will be only one result, that is, this must be the territory of the Salvation Army.

This is an interesting phenomenon, the Salvation Army has absolute control over Pucheng County, Chengcheng County and Baishui County, in fact, everyone knows that this is the territory of the Salvation Army, whether it is Xi'an Mansion or the imperial court, and even among the rebels.

Interestingly, the imperial court did not judge this place as an enemy-occupied area, but turned a blind eye to this place as the land of the Ming Dynasty. As for the Salvation Army, in the eyes of many people in the Ming Dynasty, it is just a group of rogues, a group of rebels who are not good.

Zhang Hongbin also knows some of the reasons for this phenomenon, mainly because the prefect and the military department of the imperial court do not want this matter to be known by Chongzhen. After all, according to Chongzhen's fiery temper, if this is exposed, how many people will lose their heads or be dismissed? Everyone will be attached to their official position, so as long as they can cover it, no one will be smart enough to expose this matter, not to mention, at least the three places are still the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

As for why Zhang Hongbin did that?

The Salvation Army under Zhang Hongbin is not a thief, but an army with the mission of seizing the world. This means that he has to think about people's livelihood and logistics, rather than looting to get the supplies he needs for development, as the so-called rebels do.

When conscripting, Zhang Hongbin had to take into account the pressure of logistics, as well as the proportion of soldiers to the common people. They don't need to think about it, they can be combatants from the young and strong, to the old and weak, women and children.

On this basis, Zhang Hongbin currently only has about four counties, and these four counties are not rich counties in the first place. Besides, this place has gone through famine and disaster, and after occupying this place, it will take about a year or two to restore it. This means that there is no way to get paid during this time.

At this stage, even the funds obtained from his private trade can only supply an army of 10,000 people. Of course, there is also the basic cost of the militia team below, which totals about 2,000 people. If you want to expand your recruitment, you must find ways to increase the availability of money and food.

Zhang Hongbin already has a draft, and he will go to make a sum later. But at this stage, the most important thing is to train these 10,000 people more well.

The number of soldiers cannot be increased, which means that Zhang Hongbin may face both the rebel army and the imperial court. Now he does not openly say that he occupies the four counties, and the result is that the imperial court puts all its attention on the anti-army body in northern Shaanxi and other places, and selectively ignores his existence.

This can buy him about two years of respite, and when he is confident that he can expand the army of 50,000, even if he has to fight hard, he will have the strength to fight.

For this stage of purpose, even if others say that they are cowardly? Success and momentary pleasure must be distinguished.

The soldiers who attacked Pucheng County have returned one after another, and according to the previous custom, Zhang Hongbin gave them three days of vacation, even if no one died this time. There were a few who stumbled and kowtowed, all of which were innocuous and minor injuries.

The non-commissioned officers were allowed to rest, but all the officers were called. Everyone gathered in the military chamber and sat down according to your positions.

"You have worked hard, this attack on Pucheng County has occupied a territory for my salvation army, and at the same time, it has also collected a lot of taxes from those families, alleviating the financial problems of the territory." Zhang Hongbin first made a positive assessment of this battle.

"It is our duty to expand the territory for the young master." It's almost used to it, and everyone answers in unison.

"Ling He, how did we get this time?" Zhang Hongbin asked casually.

"According to the amount that has just been counted, we have obtained 50,000 taels of silver this time, which is the commercial tax paid by the family in Pucheng County. In addition, there is a total of 2,000 stone of agricultural tax for grain, which is 5,000 stone under normal circumstances, and the reason why it is so small is because Pucheng County was ruined by the big red wolf. Ling He replied truthfully.

At this moment, he has almost become the first civilian official, after all, he is a literati in the real system, and he can gain more trust than those county orders who have surrendered. Now the entire Salvation Army's collection and management of money and food has been entrusted to him, and of course, some subordinate literati have been arranged to supervise it, so as to save the prison from stealing.

"Look, one county collects so many things, what if the entire Xi'an Mansion? Further, how much tax will the entire Ming Dynasty have? In addition, there are those expenses for the monopoly of salt and iron, and if the sea ban is lifted and customs are set up to collect taxes on incoming and outgoing ships, what kind of income will this be?

If Da Ming does that, we don't have to revolt, just wait for death. Because what greeted us was a strong army that invested hundreds of millions of taels of silver.

Thankfully, our opponents are stupid, or the rulers are stupid, and the officials below are selfish.

Now the Donglin Party, which gradually occupies the mainstream of the imperial court, is based in the area of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, where there are countless big businessmen, and even many merchants have sea ships to go to sea. Their combined money is more than the money of more than thirty inner treasury, that is, they have more money than the emperor.

These businessmen have money, what have they done?

Supporting the Donglin Party and letting them complain to the emperor is even threatening that poor child, a child of my age.

A wicked 'ancestral family law' directly leads to the Ming Dynasty's annual tax revenue of more than 2 million taels. The salt tax was even deceived by a group of officials and salt dealers, and tens of millions of taels of silver were only willing to take out one million taels of silver to the imperial court, and even needed repeated urging from the imperial court to set off.

The court has no money, and the emperor has no money, which has led to chaos in Shaanxi for more than a year, but in fact, the court has no way to send troops to clean up us. Even, when we reach a certain stage of development, the tax revenue of the imperial court will be further reduced, and the imperial court will have no money to levy us, and in the end we have grown to the extreme, and this country is ours. Haha......" Zhang Hongbin did not get into the topic, but talked eloquently about the tax issues of the Ming Dynasty.

"Hahaha......" Everyone doesn't know what Zhang Hongbin is doing when he says this, so he can only laugh a little.

"Don't laugh, I just said so much, what do you mean, do you understand?" Zhang Hongbin immediately asked a question.

"This ......" Many people decisively fell silent, they were all martial artists and did not understand politics.

"What the young master said about the center, but the word tax?" Ling He understood a little.

"Yes, taxes. Taxation is the nutrition of a country, if you don't have it, you will starve, and if you don't have it, you will starve to death. As I have emphasized before, the state is a deposit that provides benefits to a few, and one of these so-called benefits is taxation. The state is an institution of violence, and the maintenance of the institution of violence depends on taxes, and at the same time, the state is not a pure mechanism of violence, it must pay some obligations and responsibilities, and the basis for the performance of these obligations and responsibilities is also taxes.

In essence, it is very likely that the relief money in the disaster area will come from our taxes, that is, our own money. However, this does not need to be so clear, I just need to emphasize one point, no country can ignore taxes. Zhang Hongbin said seriously.

"Young master, just spare us rough people, if there is anything to say, we will accompany us when we go up to the bottom of the mountain. But after talking like this, we were tired of listening! Wang Er said with a wry smile.

What he meant represented the meaning of many military, in fact, even Yang Hong felt very tired to listen to it at the moment.

"To put it simply, who remembers the taxes of Baishui County, Chengcheng County and Huanglongshan this year?" Zhang Hongbin asked casually.

At that moment, everyone lowered their heads, and everyone felt that it was a great merit to liberate the three places, so that more than 700,000 people could have no worries about food and clothing, and they could still live and work in peace and contentment in this season of suffering.

As for taxes or anything, they have never been responsible for it, so naturally they will not care. In other words, most of them, the generals and officials from the common people, hate the word tax the most.

It's just that now Zhang Hongbin has to make them realize the meaning of these two words, and they must save zài.

"Ruthless, is it comfortable to bring 10,000 people?" Zhang Hongbin asked casually.

"Too little!" Desperate replied coldly.

"Is it comfortable to eat meat every three days?" Zhang Hongbin asked Li Dingguo again.

"Why can't you eat meat a day!?" Li Dingguo seemed to realize something and immediately replied.

"Is the military salary two taels of silver per month satisfied?" Zhang Hongbin asked Liu Ruoqi again.

"Why not five taels of silver!?" Liu Ruoqi is not stupid, and he understands.

"Where does the money come from?" Zhang Hongbin asked with a smile.

"Taxes!" Now everyone understands.

"So, I'll let you collect your taxes, will you go?" Zhang Hongbin asked casually.

"Go to ......" was not answered very neatly.

"Is the tax rate set by Lao Tzu very high?" Zhang Hongbin is a little angry.

"Not high!" This must be worthy of one's conscience.

"Then, the taxes of Baishui County, Chengcheng County and Huanglongshan are collected by the local government, this is your responsibility, don't forget it! As for places outside of our territory...... I don't plan to raise your 10,000 people in vain, go out to collect taxes for me, since Emperor Chongzhen's idiot forgot to collect it, let's help him collect it! Zhang Hongbin waved his hand and set the tone.

"Yes!" Everyone cheered.