I want to be emperor

Chapter 186 Excellent and Efficient Tax Collection

In the past few months, the Township Protection Army has continued to expand its army. Many of Zhou Mingxu's colleagues have been promoted, but he has been held in the position of the first musket post commander of the Fourth Infantry Battalion.

This is valued by the Ministry of Military and Political Affairs, and those who enter the training list cannot be promoted within a few months. This seems very unreasonable at first glance in the rapidly expanding Rural Protection Army.

Shouldn't it just soar into the sky?

This is related to the training plan formulated by the Ministry of Military Affairs!

The training plan for potential new officers formulated by the Ministry of Military and Political Affairs is actually very simple. All kinds of training are given one by one, and various part-time jobs are thrown over. At the same time, the most important thing is to allow them to continue to accumulate experience in leading troops.

The experience of leading troops naturally refers to leading new types of troops, preferably musket troops, traditional mixed brigades don't count...

That's why Zhou Mingxu continued to accumulate experience in the position of the first musket post commander of the Fourth Infantry Battalion while his colleagues around him were being promoted one after another in the rapidly expanding Rural Protection Army.

However, his colleagues who have been promoted one after another, except for a few who were promoted and reused in the main force, in fact, many of them have too little gold in their promotion...

In the current Rural Protection Army, promotion often does not reflect whether an officer has been reused and trained.

Conversely, in fact, at least half of the officers who were promoted were actually given up by the Ministry of Military and Political Affairs, and no longer carry out special training. It depends on you how you mix up in the future...

Why do you say that, because most of the promotions are transferred to the mixed brigade!

In the recent period of time, the expansion of the Rural Protection Army is actually mostly mixed brigades, and the expansion speed of the main infantry troops is still relatively slow.

Because the promotion at this stage is mainly transferred to various mixed brigades.

However, transferring from the main force to the traditional old army, even if it is directly promoted to one or two levels after transfer, is not necessarily a good thing, and many people are even unwilling.

Because everyone knows that the new type of troops is the future of the Rural Protection Army, and the main force is the foundation of the Rural Protection Army.

Because as long as they are transferred away, it will be extremely difficult for mid- and low-level officers to return to the new main force from the traditional old-style army.

Unless it is people like An Yongduo and Fei Bingqing who are originally senior generals, but these brigade commanders and deputy brigade commanders were transferred by Luo Zhixue, and they were basically used as commanders. Officers are two different things.

Therefore, the transfer of mid-level and low-level officers from the main force to the mixed brigade is actually a kind of survival of the fittest implemented by the Ministry of Military and Political Affairs to a certain extent. It has great potential to be selected by constantly selecting newcomers to take the top position and then eliminating the bottom. new military officer.

How should I put it, even the position of chief of post in the main force is very important. It is used to cultivate potential rookie officers. long standing high.

In today's First Infantry Brigade, battalion-level officers and sentinel-level officers are almost all newly promoted officers after going south, while the original batch of old-style army backgrounds have gone to middle and low-level officers who have not kept up with the times. ?

Basically they have been transferred to various mixed brigades to serve. Luo Zhixue is also very generous to appease them. As long as they are transferred, regardless of your qualifications or military achievements, you will be promoted to a higher level.

The qualifications and combat achievements are slightly better, and they are directly promoted to two levels.

A few even get a third-level promotion.

After the Battle of Yuzhou, Yang Kanghui, the deputy commander of the third post of the 12st Infantry Battalion of the 12st Infantry Brigade, was assigned to serve in the No.[-] Mixed Brigade, because he directly served as the No.[-] Mixed Brigade's deputy brigade commander and was awarded the rank of major.

From deputy post chief to deputy brigade commander, the promotion span can be described as very large.

The reason for such an appointment is purely because this person is very old, and he was one of the first batch of more than 70 cavalry who fled to Sanshui Village, and there have been countless battles and small battles. He basically participated in all battles...

But, this person still doesn't understand the command of the new army after so long. He has been the deputy head of the post for at least half a year, but he still hasn't been promoted to head of the post!
After being hopeless in the main force for several times, Yang Kanghui understood that he had no hope in the main force, especially the core old elite troops like the First Infantry Battalion...

If he is finally 'promoted' to the mixed brigade, he might as well speak up on his own initiative, so that he can make a good impression in front of the general who understands the general situation and cares about the overall situation!

So he took the initiative to find Luo Zhixue, saying that he really didn't understand musketeers, and asked the general to transfer him to the mixed brigade.

He also said that Yang Kanghui, the musketeer, didn't understand, but it was worth fighting with swords and spears, charging and shooting him on horseback...

Luo Zhixue naturally had an impression of Yang Kanghui. After all, when they first arrived in Sanshui Village, there were only about seventy people in them. At that time, Luo Zhixue was in charge of the camp and logistics affairs as a military adviser. It can be said that he had some impressions of everyone. .

This person took the initiative to ask to go to the mixed brigade, and vacated the precious position of deputy head of the 12st Infantry Battalion for other potential rookies. Naturally, Luo Zhixue would not treat him badly, and directly arranged for him a No.[-] mixed brigade deputy commander position, awarded the rank of major.

It just so happens that he can also be assigned to the No.12 Mixed Brigade and take charge of the newly created No.12 Cavalry Post.

The Township Protection Army has arranged a cavalry post for each traditional old-style mixed brigade. However, due to the shortage of elite cavalry, the Township Protection Army has always concentrated on the use of elite cavalry, so the cavalry posts in each mixed brigade They are all half-baked mounted infantry.

Luo Zhixue thought, let Yang Kanghui, an old cavalry soldier, go to the No.12 mixed brigade, maybe he can bring the No.12 cavalry post.

There are many examples similar to Yang Kanghui!

The Rural Protection Army is constantly developing and growing, and as it continues to advance, there will inevitably be people who cannot keep up with the development speed of the Rural Protection Army and will fall behind.

Luo Zhixue also made proper arrangements for this.

Even if they can't keep up with the pace of development and fall behind, then Luo Zhixue will not treat them badly, and those who can continue to fight will be transferred to the mixed brigade, or as a deputy.

If it doesn't work, transfer to the rear to do things.

If this is not enough, then transfer to the local officials in charge of public security affairs.

Nowadays, in the local government agencies in the prefectures, counties, and towns under the rule of the Rural Protection Army, the towns have inspection departments, and the counties/prefectures have inspection bureaus to be responsible for local security affairs. Officials at all levels in the above-mentioned inspections, All of them were retired and transferred from officers who could not keep up with the development of the Rural Protection Army.

Luo Zhixue's many proper arrangements also dispelled the worries of many old brothers.

These 200-[-] old brothers, as long as you can learn, then the Military and Political Department will arrange for you to study, it doesn’t matter if you can’t read or write. Now the Rural Protection Army has launched literacy education, and ordinary soldiers can learn to read and write.

And serving illiterate officers can get better study arrangements.

As long as you are willing to learn, people are not stupid. I dare not say how much you can learn, but basic literacy can still be achieved.

When you have a basic level of education and understand a little bit about new tactics, you will be able to rise to the top in minutes.
If the new tactics don't work, then go to the mixed brigade. If you can't survive in the mixed brigade, for example, if you are disabled, then you can go to the local area to work as an inspector.

In short, as long as you don't make mistakes in this life, and the township protection army doesn't fall, then not to mention prosperity and wealth, but you can live comfortably, and you can still be guaranteed to be a master in the eyes of ordinary people.

Since the development and promotion of capable rookies, it is also necessary to arrange for the old brothers who cannot keep up with the pace of development.

Such a two-pronged approach will allow the Rural Protection Army to continue to develop while stabilizing the hearts of the people inside.

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The candidates for the three battalion commanders of the Seventh Infantry Brigade were discussed by everyone, and Luo Zhixue finally finalized the specific candidates.

Zhou Mingxu, the former No. 19 musket post commander of the Fourth Infantry Battalion, was transferred to the No.[-] Infantry Battalion commander;

Guan Xinhe, the former director of the Transportation Department of the Ministry of Logistics, was transferred to the No.20 Infantry Battalion Commander;

Dai Zhengning, the former deputy battalion commander of the No. 20 Infantry Battalion, was transferred to No.[-] Infantry Battalion Commander;

All three were awarded the rank of major.

After finalizing the new battalion commanders of the three main infantry, the candidates for the deputy brigade commander of the fourth mixed brigade were also finalized. military rank.

Now the third cavalry sentry happens to be on Yuzhou's side, and Ding Chuwu is also there, so he can take office on the spot without running around.

After the appointment and removal of officers from the [-]th Infantry Brigade and other officers were finalized, Luo Zhixue's first military meeting after returning to Nanyang City was considered to be over.

But the military meeting that lasted for more than three hours had just ended, Luo Zhixue just took a hasty rest for a quarter of an hour, had some refreshments, and immediately held a second meeting.

This meeting is not about military affairs, but about finance and taxation.

In the rural protection army, fighting is the first priority, and money and food are the first priority to maintain the war.

So after the military meeting, the money and food meeting was ranked second.

Compared with the complicated and cautious military affairs meeting, which takes a long time, the money and food affairs are generally relatively simple.

Chen Xingkai, the Minister of Taxation, is quite capable. Whether it is tax collection, or the seizure of the property of various feudal lords, recalcitrant officials of the Ming Dynasty, and local tax-resistant gentry, his methods are very outstanding.

What matters is a ruthless one!
At the beginning of this meeting, when Chen Xingkai reported the recent work of the tax department, he used a set of data to prove the excellent results of the tax work: "In the past month, our tax department has worked successively in various places in Nanyang Prefecture, Xiangyang Prefecture and Yu In the prefecture and other places, a total of 260 large tax-resisting gentry families were confiscated, an average of more than eight homes were ransacked every day, more than [-] tax-resisting people were beheaded, and more than [-] people were arrested and sent to prisoner-of-war camps!"

"The progress of the taxation work is excellent and effective, which has greatly promoted the taxation work of our rural protection army!"

The rural protection army's tax collection has never been warm and affectionate! !
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