In Lianguan County, Xu Zhongshu was a little worried: "Brother Wang, will it have too bad an impact if you are too ruthless like this!" ”

"That Li Xiancheng will be arrested if he is caught, this person has never dealt with us, and he dares to steal our taxes in the official warehouse, it is not a pity to die." Xu Zhongshu knew that this Li Xiancheng had tried several times to control Tsingshan Petroleum Company.

The first time was in Sanyang Town, and the second time, Li Xiancheng dared to send Cao Yuan over to be the town guard of Qingshan Town.

Now Cao Yuan, the town guard, is still under house arrest.

Now it is bold again, and he actually wants to roll away the tax money in the official warehouse of Lianguan County, which is not a small amount, but tens of thousands.

Fortunately, the Second Cavalry Company pursued quickly, and as soon as they got the news, they arrested the people back, and even found the tax money.

Scar said: "If you don't catch it, how can you make money, the taxes recovered are only sixty or seventy thousand, it's a fart, we came late, and a lot of taxes have been taken away by the county in the first half of the year." ”

"I can't explain to adults with only these sixty or seventy thousand!"

"I've already inquired about Huang Feipeng, this person has been in office for more than two years, and his methods are very powerful, at least 100,000 yuan, let's get this money out, and then find someone else to apportion one or two, first make up 200,000 yuan and send it back, and then hurry up to collect taxes!"

Xu Zhongshu also sighed after hearing this!

He also knew that the supplementary brigade was short of money, and he was desperately expanding the army during this time, and he heard that the food and salary department was about to be unable to even get the settlement fee.

More important is the replenishment of ordnance and ammunition.

That's all about money.

If you don't have money, those arms dealers can't transport the arms over, and you can't do anything if you want to eat the black.

Even if you want to eat black, you probably can't do it.

Because the Nanzhou Bank saw that the situation in Luo'an County was chaotic, in order to maintain the normal route, it did not have enough to hire a so-called 'steam iron-hulled merchant ship' of more than 1,000 tons from where to be responsible for the transportation of the inland river section of Luo'an County.

Zhou Li's bastard said that this was a merchant ship, but anyone who saw it knew that it was a serious ironclad ship, with more than a dozen large-caliber naval guns on it.

Seeing that Scar had already decided to take Huang Feipeng and Li Xiancheng to open the knife, Xu Zhongshu didn't say anything, anyway, he was not in charge of this matter, he was only responsible for staff operations, and Scar was responsible for other things.

After the two discussed, Scar asked people to only greet Huang Feipeng and Li Xiancheng and other officials and gentry, while he himself found some middle and low-level officials who guarded the yamen of the county and began one of his most important jobs in the south: making money!

Wrong!

Tax!

According to the rules of Luo'an County in the past ten years, the garrison under Lin Ziran could not collect taxes directly, and they could not even take money directly from the county yamen.

The majority of local taxes are paid directly to the county magistrate, and the small ones are kept for various expenses such as maintaining the administration of the prefecture.

But now Luo'an County is completely messed up, Cheng Lingfeng is finished, Jian Minggang, Lin Ziran will not admit it for the time being, I don't know what will happen in the future, but now Lianguan County is under the control of his Lin Ziran, and this tax is naturally used first.

Therefore, Scar and they had already been instructed by Lin Ziran before they set off, and after they arrived at the county seat, in addition to the normal apportionment, the tax work could not be put down.

In addition, it is necessary to start the autumn tax on agriculture and the collection of industrial and commercial tax in the second half of the year as soon as possible.

Anyway, get the money in hand first.

Although Scar has no culture, he carried a knife in his teens and followed Lin Ziran and other bandits, but he also knew the importance of money.

At the same time, as one of the core generals under Lin Ziran's account, he couldn't read the accounts, but he also knew that the current Tsingshan Oil Company was no longer able to maintain their expenses.

Although Tsingshan Petroleum Company makes money, it is only a company after all, even if it can earn more than 200,000 yuan a month, it is still difficult to support the supplementary brigade that continues to expand rapidly.

Not to mention anything else, just the many weapons and ammunition that Lin Ziran had agreed to order from Hongxiang Commercial Bank and many other people, and the total amount of orders had increased from the previous two or three hundred thousand to more than 600,000.

The cost of maintaining the troops has also increased dramatically.

Judging from the current profitability of the Tsingshan Petroleum Company, it is already difficult to meet the needs of the current large-scale expansion and military support.

Lin Ziran is short of money, really short of money, not 12,000, but tens of millions of dollars.

This is also one of the important reasons why Lin Ziran sent a southbound detachment to Lianguan County and other towns.

In addition to deploying a force in Lianguan County to act as a southern defense line, it was also to obtain enough territory to collect taxes and support the army.

Compared with the huge military spending, one or two oil companies are enough, and so many large feudal towns have not seen anyone who purely relies on the profits of their own enterprises to maintain their troops.

If you want to expand the army and raise the army, you have to rely on the tax revenue of the territory.

For these, although Scar didn't understand too many twists and turns, he knew that they were short of money, and Lin Ziran asked him to make money.

That's enough!

So he is ready to raid the house and collect taxes at the same time!

Daheng is not a poor country, the agricultural conditions are very good, the mineral resources are also quite rich, and it is also one of the earliest industrialized countries on the Blue Star, a few decades ago, it was one of the five great powers of the Blue Star, the overlord of the central continent, and the desperate existence in the endless sea.

Even if Daheng is now in civil strife, which has led to great damage to agriculture and the industrial and commercial economy, it still barely maintains unity because of the particularity of Daheng's current feudal towns that dare not be independent.

Coupled with the fact that the family has a solid foundation and still has a rich heritage after decades of tossing, the feudal towns can still loot a lot of money, even more than in peacetime decades ago.

Because the current feudal towns are more desperate to collect money in order to raise the army, and their hearts are much more ruthless.

Decades ago, in peacetime, Daheng's annual tax revenue could reach more than 200 million, and this is only the central tax, excluding the tax left to the local government, the additional tax collected by the local government, and so on.

In today's troubled times, the taxes collected by the major feudal towns are particularly ruthless, and if all the taxes of the feudal towns are added up, then it must be far more than the taxes of Daheng back then.

This can be seen in the number of troops!

At that time, there were only hundreds of thousands of troops in the national peacetime, and even if they were mobilized in the Hengao War, they were less than two million.

But now, no one knows how many troops Daheng has, and even Nanhai Prefecture can't count how many troops there are, anyway, the people from all sides of Luo'an County that Lin Ziran knows add up, at least 100,000.

He Lin Ziran has more than 5,000 troops under his hands, Feng Haozhong has almost 20,000 troops on his side, Zhao Song is estimated to be more than 30,000, Li Dingjun is not a few, Jian Minggang has at least 20,000 or 30,000 troops under his hands, even if it is Cheng Lingfeng who escaped, there are still thousands of people under his hands.

And that's not even counting the militias.

There are so many armies in various feudal towns, and this is all to be raised.

This also leads to an extremely heavy tax burden on the population.

Otherwise, with such a unique natural environment as Daheng, even if they only rely on agriculture, the people can live a good life.

Pity!

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