Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 1562 The Battle Between the White Mountain and the Black Water ([-])

"Report! The new information summary has been delivered." After Liao Degong nodded, the orderly put a stack of documents on the table, then turned and walked out.

"Many places in Kuandian and Dandong counties were attacked, with a total of more than 300 casualties; a wheat field was burned, and more than [-] land reclamation victims fled; a North Korean convoy transporting supplies was ambushed, and more than [-] people were killed and injured. The carts and food were destroyed; Jiulian City requested to expedite the transportation of bricks, cement, and lime to repair the fortress, and there were many Tartar sentry cavalry in the field to spy on..." Liao Degong glanced at the document line by line, until the end, "snap" He slapped it on the table, and said cursingly: "The Tartars are too deceitful and insane, but they just took over a few of your villages. How can you be so violent! If you work together, you will be allowed to kill us." We are not allowed to fight against the settlers and settlers? It is really unreasonable!"

However, although scolding belongs to scolding, Liao Xiaoyao also knows that given the current situation in the Liaodong War Zone, he may not be able to make a strong countermeasure.After all, the two counties of Dandong and Kuandian have a huge reclamation area and a large number of people. It can be said that they need protection everywhere and are full of loopholes. There are very few troops coming to mobile combat, so they can only go on with the Tartars in such a hypocritical way.

Some people may ask, why not raise all the soldiers and take away the Phoenix City of the Qing Dynasty directly?This is a bit embarrassing to say, and it also makes Liao Degong a little angry. The reason is that there are only a few thousand combatants in the Liaodong theater, and they are all newly reorganized and chaotic troops. According to the newly appointed Deng Lai The leader of the pioneering team, Liao Xiaoyao, ordered the reorganization of military forces at all levels in the three major feudal towns in the Far East. The first phase started with Denglai and Liaodong.

At present, there are about 5000 troops directly under the East Bank of the Liaodong Theater (including conscripted Shandan natives, hired Japanese ronin, strong men selected from Shandong disaster victims, part of the volunteer team, and some officers and non-commissioned officers). , On the spot, it was reorganized into the First Infantry Regiment, the Second Regiment and the First Cavalry Regiment of the First Division of the Liaodong New Army.

Among them, the first regiment was basically formed with the original crew of the Heilongjiang Security Regiment from the former Amur River Theater (now renamed the Heilongjiang Theater), but all its original officers were transferred to serve in the second regiment and the cavalry regiment; The composition of the Second Regiment is a little more complicated. In addition to nearly a thousand recruits from the Northeast and Sakhalin Islands (not all of them are natives, but also include a small number of Han soldiers recruited in Dabo, Heishui and other counties), there are hundreds of soldiers. The cannon fodder collected from Japan, as well as the carefully selected young men from the victims of the disaster in the four prefectures of Shanxi, and then enriched with some officers and non-commissioned officers supported by Yantai, and the troops were formed in this way; as for the cavalry regiment, basically It is the third brigade of the former Standing Squad Cavalry Wing. The unit originally had about 2000 people. After the repeated battles in Liaodong, it was already dilapidated. In the first division of the army, it served as a cavalry regiment.

In addition, according to Liao Xiaoyao's new military system, the Liaodong First Division also has a third infantry regiment. In principle, this department will be formed based on 2000 people sent by the former Shandong New Army Fourth Division Chen Quanzhong. In the midst of intense preparations.Once the official formation is completed, it will completely take over the defense line of the First Infantry Regiment and escort the people on the east coast to reclamation operations in Liaodong. On the front line of people, it is not enough to rely on militia groups alone.

It is worth mentioning that Chen Quanzhong sent [-] soldiers across the sea to Liaodong to support defense in order to curry favor with the people on the east coast.As a result, this army has been stationed for more than a year, and its combat effectiveness has been improved to a certain extent after repeated training by the East Coast Officer Corps. Chen Quanzhong is looking forward to his return, but Liao Xiaoyao directly swallowed it if he didn't want to , Thinking about it makes me want to cry without tears.You know, for warlords like Chen Quanzhong, the army is their lifeblood and their greatest capital, so it hurts to lose it.But the problem is that the one who annexed his army was the Eastern Kingdom, so not only could he not complain, but he had to force a smile on his face, which was miserable when he thought about it.

Misfortunes never come singly. Chen Quanzhong’s Fourth Division originally had 3000 troops, but now 3000 were swallowed up by the East Coast people, leaving only 3000 people (what’s worse, the [-] sent were elites, and the [-] left at home It's an idiot...), and his strength has been greatly reduced.What made Chen Quanzhong and his cronies even more overwhelmed was that Yantai did not allow him to recruit soldiers again, limiting his number of soldiers to [-].In this regard, Chen Quanzhong was even more unable to resist. Because Jimo County is sparsely populated and there are insufficient products and taxes, it is very difficult to support him with [-] people. It is impossible to raise [-] soldiers without relying on the East Coast People's Association. It arrived, so Chen Quanzhong could only pinch his nose and recognize it, who made him unlucky!

Well, let's go back to the previous topic.At present, there are only 7000 people in the Liaodong area. Among them, only the 3000st Infantry Regiment and the 8000st Cavalry Regiment, with a total of [-] people, are able to fight. , can only look at the home and guard the city.But to attack and win an important stronghold like Phoenix City, it is actually very difficult without three or four regiments of elite fighters and a large number of artillery, not to mention that with the current foundation of Liaodong, it cannot support more than [-] people. The material basis for long-term combat by soldiers and horses.

Therefore, the basic functions and the Tatars are at a deadlock here. People on the east coast cannot take down Phoenix City, and the Tatars have no ability to drive the yellow-clothed thieves into the sea. The two sides can only play small tricks and send small groups of people to hurt each other, that's all up.Therefore, after Liao Xiaoyao cursed for a while, he stopped talking. Let's first think about how to reorganize the defense after the first regiment returns to the Heilongjiang River Basin.This matter cannot be delayed, because part of the vanguard of the first regiment has already marched into the territory of the Kingdom of Korea, and is preparing to board a ship from its east coast and return to Temple Street Port.

After sweeping away the pile of disturbing documents, Liao Degong took out a pack of Virginia fine tobacco from the drawer, and looked at other information while puffing: "Dandong County is growing well in summer this year. There will be a bumper harvest in the future, and officials from the County Agricultural Bureau optimistically predict that the yield of spring wheat per mu will exceed [-] jin, which will greatly make up for the food gap in our Dandong and Kuandian counties, and reduce the pressure on food imports from North Korea..."

Following the report is the prediction of the wheat planting area, growth condition and yield of each reclamation village.Liao Degong took a casual look, and found that many of the villages were expected to have extremely low output. Looking at the notes, Nima turned out to be a village that had been "cared for" by the Tartars. This aroused his anger again, and he wondered if it was Let the First Cavalry Regiment go out again after a while, exercise your muscles and bones, and let those stubborn Eight Banners soldiers know how powerful we are from the east coast.

Compared with Dandong County, the reclamation work in Kuandian County is much worse. Not only is the reclamation area small, but the grain output is also quite limited, which is far from enough to feed the tens of thousands of local people.The reason for this is that the foundation of the local area is not as good as that of Dandong County, the degree of development is low, and there are many habitats. In addition, the counties and counties of North Korea on the other side of the Yalu River are not very rich, and the support for reclamation in Kuandian County is seriously insufficient. , These undoubtedly greatly affected the local land reclamation industry, and eventually led to a huge difference in agricultural output between the two counties.

However, although the land reclamation operations in these two places have had many twists and turns, the progress has not been satisfactory, and the loss of personnel and materials is even more painful, but generally speaking, it is still within the tolerance of the top management of the Denglai pioneer team, even from In a way it was a victory.After all, the people from the east bank organized tens of thousands of victims to toss for so long on the right bank of the Yalu River, and the Tartars were so anxious that they couldn't do anything.

In fact, Liao Degong was worried earlier that the Manchu court was putting all their eggs in one basket. Like Huang Taiji who conquered North Korea, he hoarded food and grass, selected elites, pushed all the way from western Liaoning to eastern Liaodong, and pulled out Kuandian, Dandong, Jiuliancheng and other strongholds established by the people on the east coast.It's a pity, it seems that the Manchu Qing court is not as good as one generation after another. The courage of Oboi, who will govern, is not as bad as the four Baylors who swallowed thousands of miles in Huang Taiji's time. It's not 01:30. The people from the bank don't have the courage to fight to the death in Liaodong, so what a mess!Of course, this may also be related to the decline in the combat effectiveness of the Tartar army and the overall greater reliance on the Han army, but this is not known to the people on the east coast.

"The battle between the white mountains and the black waters seems to be under our control. Having North Korea as a good dog to provide supplies is indeed the key to our firm foothold on the banks of the Yalu River. Now time is on our side. Give me two years, and I'll almost gain a firm foothold. At that time, if I have enough troops, I still want to go to Phoenix City to see the scenery!" Throwing the document in hand aside, Liao Degong Said harshly.

Turning this page, the following is a summary of information about the economy.The two counties in Liaodong have nothing now, not even enough food, let alone other things.The richest thing here may be the old forests all over the mountain, but the problem is that the timber resources in the east coast control area are already very rich, can these things really be sold?Liao Degong was deeply skeptical, but he still signed one of the reports requesting the establishment of a state-owned forest farm, expressing his agreement, thinking that maybe Shandong always needs some?It is worth two dollars to earn back two dollars, and it can also speed up the development here.

In addition, there was a piece of news about the new tax system that caught Liao Degong's attention.After studying it carefully, he finally understood that the system of the San Francisco in the Far East—at least the economic system—needed to be reformed. At that time, the economy was changed to a peaceful economy, and since the system has been reformed, the tax reform is naturally an important part of it.

According to the meaning revealed in the document, the tax system of the Far East San Francisco will be different from that of the mainland (after all, the economic ecology here is also very different from the local), focusing more on the collection of land tax, salt tax and customs duties.Especially the land tax, which is very old in the old continent, but it is a new thing in the young East Coast Republic (in fact, it is not that the land tax was not collected from farmers before, but it was included in the personal income tax).

In the collection of land tax, it has been made clear that it does not refer to the local progressive tax system (the more the land, the higher the tax rate), that is, the uniform tax rate is calculated according to the number of acres of land under the individual's name.In addition, in Wei Boqiu's design, the tax rates for cash crops and food crops planted in farmland will also be different. The tax rate for cash crops is slightly higher, while the tax rate for grain is lower, which is also in line with the actual market situation.

Compared with the land tax, which has a wide range of collection and more complicated situations, the collection of salt tax is much simpler.Gein, the salt in the San Francisco of the Far East is now monopolized by the local pioneering team government—for example, the Dinghai Salt Field in Ningbo Prefecture—there is no private salt merchant, so it is equivalent to only levying salt from the salt fields in Denglai and Ningbo. That's it.Therefore, the change in this item is actually the least. After all, these salt farms have been in the hands of the government for many years. This time, it is only clear which of the salt price is cost and which is tax.

As for import and export duties, they are mainly collected through the five customs offices of Dabo, Busan, Yantai, Dinghai, and Chongmingsha. Among them, Busan Customs is mainly involved in trade with North Korea, Dabo Customs is involved in smuggling trade with Japanese local daimyo, Yantai, Dinghai It is mainly trade with the Dutch East India Company, while Chongmingsha is trade with the Qing Dynasty (the trade is open and closed, which is relatively unstable).In addition, there is another freak that is beneficial to the outside of the tariff system, that is, the Bank of Taiwan. Considering that the bank has monopolized the trade of Haizhu Island Commercial Station, controlled a considerable part of Heishui and Ningbo's foreign trade, and has a lot of money, so it is with the main business. After negotiation with Shao Shuguang, the two parties agreed to pay a fixed amount every year, and then local customs would no longer impose import and export duties on it.

Wei Boqiu predicted that among these taxes, the land tax should be the most important, and the income will also account for the bulk of the local finances, followed by the salt tax. Because it is a government monopoly system, the price is not determined by the market, so the income should not be underestimated.All in all, the above two types of taxes are levied on the head, that is, the more people in the control area and the more land they cultivate, the higher the total tax revenue will be.Although it cannot be said that customs import and export tariffs have nothing to do with population, they still depend on the degree of development of foreign trade, and the correlation with population is not so strong anymore.

At present, Wei Boqiu has initially designed these three types of taxes, and plans to carry out pilot projects in the counties of Ningbo Prefecture in advance to see how the situation is.If the local resistance is not so fierce and the government does get back a lot of tax revenue, then in the next step, he will design some more tax types according to the situation to strengthen the government's financial resources - like competing with the Tartars in the white mountains and black waters , no money can do it!

(End of this chapter)