I want to be emperor

Chapter 809 Maputo establishes a government directly under the jurisdiction

Compared with Meng Xiu and the others who encountered many difficulties on the way to Tshwane, which even resulted in one death, one injury and one illness, Xu Quanke and the others encountered some minor difficulties on the way to Tshwane, but overall Said there were no surprises.

After all, although Meng Xiu and the others were bandit gangs and desperadoes, their experience and training in field marching and combat were nothing compared to the regular army.

Although Xu Quanke and the others are not regular soldiers, from ordinary tax policemen to armed tax policemen, they are all retired soldiers.

Only a few taxation officials such as Gan Bowen were born in liberal arts.

Xu Quanke and the others are all military retirees. They have received comprehensive field marching and even survival training in the past. After retiring and transferring to armed tax police, they actually maintained relatively high-intensity training.

Because overseas armed tax police have to operate overseas, they will inevitably have to fight local indigenous tribes and tax evaders lurking outside the control area. Therefore, field marches and survival training often pay more attention than ordinary regular troops.

They traveled all the way, all in strict accordance with the field march.

At the same time, they also carried a large amount of supplies, and there were a dozen or so engineers and members of the supply army who were converted from work in the team, which ensured that there were no major problems in the transportation of supplies.

When encountering some small and medium-sized rivers, Xu Quanke and the others would not choose to detour or abandon the baggage, but often build bridges on the spot. Anyway, they carry perfect engineering tools, and it is not a problem to temporarily build some bridges for horse-drawn carriages to pass through. big.

When encountering some dense forests and mountainous areas, detours can be made, and if they can’t be detoured, they will temporarily open the road. When some steeper mountain roads cannot be passed by horse-drawn carriages, they will even use explosives to open the road if the situation permits. Blow up the channel.

So don't look at them as just a group of armed tax police, but their behavior is all like that of the regular army.

At the same time, there is no need to worry about explosives, tools, and other supplies. In addition to more than 100 armed tax policemen and ordinary tax policemen, they also recruited hundreds of young and strong natives to carry luggage and artillery.

That's right, Xu Quanke and the others also carried artillery, two very classic 25-year-style 65mm copper light field guns that were used on a large scale by the regular army and armed tax police forces in overseas regions.

The team of hundreds of people also carried two field cannons, and only armed tax police could do this kind of thing... Even if it was replaced by a regular army, they usually only carried one.

But armed tax police, they are not short of money, so the weapons and equipment are very advanced and numerous.

However, limited by the scale and the nature of the task, armed tax police are generally only equipped with light artillery, not large-caliber artillery.

But light artillery and firearms are often the best to use.

The more than 100 armed tax policemen under Xu Quanke are equipped with 23-year-style captive percussion guns, and at the same time, they have a Tianwu-style breech-loading rifle revolver for military and police use.

The Tianwu type revolver, because of its outstanding performance, although expensive, has also become a new generation of standard pistol equipped by the military and police of the Great Chu Empire.

At present, the military does not have much equipment. Currently, it only equips a few special arms and officers. For the time being, in the army, the Tian-[-] revolver is used as a gun for officers... It is not because it is not enough for the infantry. Okay, but the price is relatively expensive. Even the purchase price of the army has to reach [-] Chu yuan a piece. It is impossible to equip a large number of infantry.

In fact, even those cheap smoothbore revolvers are not equipped with infantry on a large scale!

When the regular army is fighting, the pistol can play too little role.

But in the police world, pistols are more useful. Many patrolmen use revolvers when performing tasks. They used to use smoothbore revolvers before, but now they use breech-loading rifle revolvers.

After all, when the patrolmen carry out arrest tasks, they are all about criminals, and they generally don't have any powerful weapons, so the firearms that the patrolmen need don't need to be too powerful, nor do they need to have a high effective range , It should be light and durable for a long time.

A revolver would be fine for that.

As for the armed tax police, as the combat power in the police force, they often participate in some arrest missions, so even ordinary team members will be equipped with a revolver in addition to being equipped with a long gun.

Even if the government does not distribute them, these armed tax policemen will purchase them at their own expense.

After all, this thing can save lives during the law enforcement process.

This has also led to the fact that in the current Great Chu Empire, the police are the largest users of Tianwu-style pistols, especially the armed tax police.

Xu Quanke led a large group of people over mountains and ridges, and after crossing many rivers and rivers, they finally arrived near Tshwane.

The battle that followed was simple and easy... For such a group of armed tax policemen whose combat strength was comparable to that of the second-class division of the regular army, it was no pressure to fight such a group of bandit gangs with hundreds of people.

In addition, the Mengxiu gang who just occupied Tshwane, no matter what desperadoes they are, but when facing the official armed forces, they naturally have a sense of fear, and they are even more afraid of being charged with an armed tax resistance, which will lead to being arrested. Family ransacking.

There are many bandits present, but not everyone is single, many of them have families...

You let them fight European immigrants and African natives without any problem, and their morale will be very high, and their combat effectiveness will be very strong.

But you let them take up guns against armed tax cops... they really don't have the guts to be honest.

Even if this place is in the outback of lawless Africa.

In addition, they also know that they are a group of mobs. Facing the armed tax police, which looks like a regular army armed to the teeth, it will be hell if they can win.

Apart from other things, the two 65mm field guns pulled out by the armed tax police outside can't solve it.

This cannot solve the two cannons in the hands of the armed tax police, and they have no confidence to rely on the town to resist.

You can't expect to rely on those wooden walls and wooden buildings to block the shelling of artillery!

If you resist, you will be shot to death by armed tax police sooner or later.

Therefore, when the armed tax police came to kill them, except for some real desperadoes who made limited resistance, others saw that the situation was not good, and after the armed tax police came, they simply expressed their surrender

As citizens of the Great Chu Empire, they are more aware of the horror of these armed tax policemen!
The most important thing is that it is Meng Xiu and a dozen middle and high-level executives in the company who are evading taxes. What does it have to do with ordinary company employees and temporarily recruited desperadoes?

They don't evade taxes... Well, at least the authorities can't find evidence, or they don't bother to talk to them.

If these armed tax police want to arrest Meng Xiu and the middle and high-level executives of other companies, let them arrest... We put down our guns, take out sunflower seeds from our pockets, and watch the show while eating sunflower seeds.

Ever since, the battle in Tshwane lasted only a quarter of an hour before the bandits in the town surrendered on a large scale.

Soon, the team members under Xu Quanke captured the main backbone of Mengxiu's gang, but there was a piece of bad news, that was the leader of Mengxiu's gang, who attacked Tshwane 20 days ago At that time, he was shot and died.

Gan Bowen frowned slightly when he heard that Meng Xiu had been killed by the natives before. It is not a good thing that Meng Xiu died early.

After all, Meng Xiu's tax evasion gang, Meng Xiu is the core soul mission, and many things, including secret funds, are in the hands of Meng Xiu.

With his death, many things will be difficult to deal with.

After a brief questioning on the spot of several other high-level tax evasion gangs, they did not find any secret funds or the like.

Gan Bowen couldn't believe that such a big gang didn't even have hidden secret funds.

Perhaps only Meng Xiu knew about the money, but it was brought into the grave after his death.

It is also possible that other people know about it, but they don't say it, or the person who knows is not here.

In any case, there will be no secret funds for a while, but this is not important, and it will not affect the subsequent recovery of taxes and fines.

Because they found a large amount of mined gold in the Tshwane gold mine, the total amount was more than 160 kilograms.

In fact, most of the gold was excavated by the Dutch enslaving the local aborigines. It fell into the hands of the Mengxiu gang more than 20 days ago, and now it has fallen into the hands of their tax officials.

After going round and round, it finally entered the treasury of the Great Chu Empire.

160 kilograms of gold, which is actually not much, only more than 4 Chu Yuan.

In Chu Yuan, which has adopted the gold standard, a gold coin of one Chu Yuan contains [-] grams of pure gold.

The tax evasion of the Mengxiu gang is more than 60 Chu yuan, plus a fine of more than 10,000, which adds up to [-]+.

Converted into gold, at least three tons of gold are needed to fill this hole.

More than 100 kilograms is not enough now, but there is still a super big gold mine!
This copying of the gold mines, and then digging for gold... That's not a matter of hundreds of thousands of Chu Yuan, but millions or even tens of millions.

Otherwise, why do you think that Gan Bowen brought people here in a hurry, not for the hundreds of kilograms of gold that have already been dug up, but for this super large gold mine.

After preliminary interrogation, Gambowen confiscated the Tshwane gold mine as an asset of a tax evasion gang in the name of the Maputo Tax Office.

When all the documents are issued!

As a result, the Tshwane Gold Mine became the official property of the Great Chu Empire!

Follow-up, whether the official mines on its own or conducts auction mining can easily withdraw funds, and then make up for the hole of hundreds of thousands of tax fines.

As for those people in Mengxiu's gang, except for more than a dozen middle-level and high-level people with criminal facts, other ordinary employees and temporarily recruited desperadoes, as long as they did not resist, they would be released directly...

Gan Bowen and the others are just tax authorities, and they only care about tax issues.

As long as they don't evade taxes, or resist taxes with arms, they don't care about other things, even various criminal offenses... Well, they don't have that authority either.

Non-tax violation issues are the law enforcement authority of the police department. If the tax authorities manage them, they will easily cause trouble. Even if they want to be closed, they can only be arrested and tried in the name of tax evasion.

If other criminal facts are dug up in the middle, they need to be handed over to the patrol department for processing.

Based on the principle that more things are worse than less things, Gan Bowen released those people on the spot...

Even if they discovered that these people had killed more than half of the local Dutch immigrants before, and used the remaining Dutch immigrants as abilities for slavery and other things.

These have nothing to do with Gan Bowen and the others!

Besides, this place was not under the control of the Great Chu Empire after all, and the people who were killed were not Chu people.

The laws of the Great Chu Empire were not used to protect the natives in areas other than their own jurisdiction.

Besides, this place is too remote, and there are no colonial strongholds of the Chu Kingdom in the surrounding area. Gan Bowen and the others only have more than 100 people, so they need to guard so many criminals, and at the same time supervise a large number of mining natives.

It's really powerless!
So after Gan Bowen released these people, he turned around and set up a recruitment point: recruiting armed tax police officers!
When those desperadoes saw that there was such a good thing, Qiqi immediately turned around and signed up, thus becoming a glorious and great armed tax policeman of the Great Chu Empire... and Gan Bowen also said that if they perform well in the follow-up , then there is still a chance to become a full-time employee and become an armed tax policeman with a well-established staff and a public meal.

A rare opportunity, don't miss it when you pass by!
Speaking of which, Gan Bowen's hands-on operation is also a traditional skill of the taxation agency.

In the past, when the tax authorities followed the footsteps of the army and arrived in the newly occupied area, they often recruited a group of local green-skinned hooligans as armed tax police on the spot, and used their familiarity with the local news to target the local big households and the like. In order to find out the tax problem, by the way ransacked the house.

On the other hand, these green-skinned hooligans don’t have to feel bad when they use it. They use it casually, and they will die if they die, and they don’t need to pay pensions... After the situation is initially stabilized, select a group of good performers to become regulars. gradual dismissal.

A large number of veterans will be added to serve as the backbone of the armed tax police, and finally the regularization of the local tax authorities will be realized.

Now in Tshwane, Gan Bowen is actually playing the same set of things. Those desperadoes actually know that their chances of becoming a regular are very small.

But there is always a chance, isn't it!
Even if you can't become a full-time employee, the salary offered by the tax authorities is not low!
They came out to fight the natives not to make money, and to make money for Meng Xiu and the others was no different from working for the tax authorities.

Ever since, dozens of desperadoes came out under Gan Bowen's men... Well, the Maputo tax office temporarily hired armed tax police.

With the joining of this group of people, the Tshwane Great Chu Empire now officially has an armed force of more than 200 people.

Whether it is suppressing the remaining 1000 Dutch immigrants and as many as 2 African natives, or taking care of the young and strong African natives in Maputo who were forcibly recruited, they all have greater confidence .

After dealing with the basic situation, Gan Bowen repaired a letter, together with a joint report with Xu Quanke and other key officials, dispatched people to return to Maputo immediately, and reported to the township government in Maputo, and at the same time reported to Peng Ba County Taxation Bureau.

In the letter, Gambowen elaborated on the local situation in Cnesva and the situation of the gold mine.

According to their preliminary survey, it has been determined that the Tshwane Gold Mine is a super large gold mine. Even with the most primitive manual mining, the annual output can reach hundreds of kilograms.

If modern mining is adopted and there are enough miners, it may be able to reach more than ten to twenty tons.

At the same time, this Tshwane gold mine is just the flat land of this small valley, and there are many places around it. Gan Bowen also sent people to conduct a preliminary inspection, and also found traces of gold mines.

Although it is impossible to determine the specific size of this gold mining area and the specific reserves, Gan Bowen dares to use his political life to guarantee that the gold reserves in this place are definitely not inferior to the gold mines in the Jinshan area of ​​​​North America.

Gan Bowen's letter was sent to Maputo very quickly, and it immediately attracted the attention of the government officials in Maputo town... But for some reason, the news spread quickly.

As a result, only the next day, hundreds of Chu people in the town of Maputo marched towards Tshwane in groups... Gold, who doesn't like it!

At the same time, Gan Bowen's letter and the report document of the Maputo town government also boarded a steamship and arrived all the way to Pemba Port, the capital of East Africa Province under the administration of the African governor's office.

Soon, a group of people headed towards Maputo by boat from Pemba Port.

The official report from the prefect’s yamen in East Africa was sent to Mogadishu, Somalia in North Africa, which is the residence of the African governor, and then to India, the mainland!

More than two months later, Luo Zhixue in Jinling City, the mainland of the empire, received a report from the governor of Africa, saying that he had found a super large gold mine in the southern part of Africa, with extremely huge reserves!
Local officials said in the report that the local gold reserves are definitely more than the North American Gold Mountain area.

For this reason, the African Governor’s Yamen officially requested that the town of Maputo and the inland Tshwane area be included in the overseas territories, that the troops be stationed, and that official immigrants be sent to effectively develop the local gold.
Luo Zhixue looked at the report!
"It seems that they should have found out the gold mine in South Africa!"

When the South African Expeditionary Force went to South Africa, Luo Zhixue knew that sooner or later the local gold mine would be found, but he did not expect that the progress of the search for the gold mine would be so fast. It only took about a year, and he actually found the gold mine. Out.

Naturally, Luo Zhixue didn't know, it was purely a coincidence, if it wasn't for the fact that the Dutch just discovered gold mines when they migrated north, and exhausted the gold prospectors of Chu State, it would have been impossible to find Tswa in the inland area of ​​Africa in such a short period of time. Inner gold mine!
A series of chances and coincidences led to the discovery of this gold mine.

Now that the gold mines have been found, it is time to set up overseas territories directly under the Central Government. Luo Zhixue will not tolerate such a large gold mining area falling outside the rule of the empire, and immediately approved the application for governor of Africa with a swipe of a pen. Establishment of the Overseas Territory of 'Maputo Province'.

The Immigration Department of the Ministry of Civil Affairs organized official immigrants to go to Maputo for development.

He also ordered the army and navy to dispatch appropriate troops to Maputo and surrounding areas in a timely manner according to the special situation of Maputo Prefecture, so as to strengthen the defense of the local and surrounding areas and carry out the task of expelling the indigenous people.

The biggest difference between overseas directly-administered territories and ordinary colonies is that there are no directly-administered territories, or there are only a very small number of foreign businessmen who have defected to Chu people in advance, or have normal business contacts with Chu people.

Well, the indigenous war criminals of the military and the indigenous laborers of the labor service company are not counted...these people are in a special situation.

After making these macro strategic arrangements, Luo Zhixue knew that the Maputo Mansion would soon become the top choice for imperial immigrants!

There are abundant gold reserves in Tshwane, and the local agricultural conditions in Tshwane are actually very good... The Dutch first took a fancy to this place for planting and grazing, so they settled there, and found that gold is all behind thing.

The combination of good agricultural conditions and gold would have been a great attraction for poor newcomers.

You can make a fortune by panning for gold... You can farm and farm on the spot without getting gold. Being a farmer is not much better than working hard in the country and not having enough to eat for the whole family!

Such a place, if the follow-up development is good and no big mistakes are made, then Maputo Prefecture will become a new Jinshan area in North America!
Luo Zhixue is looking forward to this!
When Luo Zhixue's series of decrees were conveyed, the huge machine of the Great Chu Empire also started to operate for this matter.

The first is the official establishment of the Maputo government, and finalized the issue of the political status of the local overseas territories.

After the local administrative level is settled, the following things will be settled smoothly.

The army decided to transfer a second-class division from the tropics of Southeast Asia to garrison in Africa to join the local African expeditionary force, the No. 20 Fifth Army of the Great Chu Empire Army.

The No.20 Fifth Army is fully responsible for local affairs in Africa, and Maputo Prefecture is naturally also within their defense zone. Therefore, this division was also decided to be sent to East Africa. The division headquarters and most of the main force are stationed in Maputo Putuo House.

At the same time, the Chaobao Division also officially published the news that a super gold mine was discovered in southeastern Africa!
Why public reporting?

Naturally, it is to attract more people to apply for immigration!

Only with immigration can we talk about developing the local area with all our heart, right?
(End of this chapter)