Chapter 170 Tang Locust
PS: It’s said that it’s a parallel space. Let’s talk about it again. In this world of historical parallel space, the people and things over there are not exactly the same here. Of course, this is roughly similar, but Tsarist Russia is a constitutional monarchy. As for why, Jin Batian is not very clear. Jin Batian had known about the changes, but he couldn’t find relevant personnel to ask.
After Kong Xiangxi, the governor, came back from the position of governor, the principal used the second move. Of course, it was not the rituals and then the soldiers. The principal did not think of using a knife and a gun to Qufu. The Confucius Family in Shandong has been incumbent for two thousand years, so it naturally has its own advantages. Of course, this extraordinary difference is not military but ideological. Since the abolition of all schools of thought and respect for Confucianism, the Kong Family has been in full swing for two thousand years.
Faced with such a holy land in the minds of scholars, the principal did not dare to move, but there were some bad waters. Didn’t the people from the Second Tax Police Regiment be gathered? Such soldiers were dragged onto the battlefield to be dragged down. Tang Enbo was transferred out of the Second Division of the 17th Army and became the chief commander of the Second Tax Police Regiment.
The personnel of this Second Tax Police Regiment come from all over the world, and the number is far greater than that of a reorganized division in the Central Army. Tang Enbo now has more than 60,000 people, and a small part is on the way. According to the list, the Second Tax Police Regiment will exceed 80,000 after full service. But don’t think too much about the combat effectiveness. Tang Enbo thinks that he can defeat the fully equipped Second Tax Police Regiment by leading a reorganized brigade. This is really thankless to work.
The Second Tax Police Regiment went north to Shandong in the name of replacing defense training, and Tang Enbo's general regiment headquarters was stationed in Qufu. Because all parties didn't care much about this force - they were not allowed to go to Shandong anyway, so the equipment was naturally very casual. Some time ago, the Wanguo brand rifles of different calibers paid by the army were replaced and handed over by various calibers and sizes, and this time it was fully staffed. There were many new rifles in Nanjing warehouses, but they were not equipped, so they were left on the battlefield of the Anti-Japanese War.
As mentioned earlier, according to the law at this time, the local government has the obligation to work the army, and the unfavorable work of the army will cause a mutiny. The more than 60,000 tax police regiment that Tang Enbo brought to the second tax police regiment almost lost the Kong family in a few days. The family secretly talked about the group of soldiers, and all the words were filled with tears.
The garrison did not bully people like this, okay? Qufu is so big. At night, more than 60,000 soldiers sleep almost all over the streets, and it would be even more lively when they eat. If they don’t eat well, they will make trouble. These guys are not very good at fighting. They are not very good at marching and fighting. They are all experts in the civilians who rob, eat, and blackmail them, and use their power to bully others.
In such a large place in Shandong, there is no way to divide a part of the troops. If it were just a general regiment stationed in Qufu, nothing would happen. But now tens of thousands of troops are gathered in this small Qufu, and some are on the road, which is clearly coming to bully people. Although the Kong family has always promoted the full granaries and knew etiquette, no matter how full the granaries of the Kong family can't withstand such troubles.
The head of the Kong family also met Tang Enbo several times, hoping that this person could separate the troops and move them to defend. Qufu and leave a small number of troops. However, Tang Enbo said with a serious look: "There is news that the Japanese are going to attack Qufu and destroy the holy mausoleum. We are here to defend Qufu. Don't worry, he can't get in with our Japanese plane. It's just that our second tax police regiment has just been established and has not yet formed combat power. After three or five months of combat power, we can disperse the garrison."
The head of the Kong family thought to himself that when you were not there, there was no Japanese plane to bomb. Three or five months, you really ate our house. Not to mention three or five months, I am afraid that the family's granary and charity warehouse will be at its bottom after a month. This is revenge. If your Kong family refuses to reduce the rent, let the army station there to eat poorly. Anyway, as long as one day the army cannot supply the needs of the army, these people can demolish Qufu. You and cultural people can explain the truth of the saints, but the tax collector's profession is a ruthless and simple rude person, otherwise they will starve to death sooner or later.
Now the head of the Kong family also knew that he was wrong. In the past few days, a resentment in the family rushed to the sky. The streets inside and outside the county were soldiers of the Second Tax Police Regiment. These people were born as tax collectors, so they were naturally not those who held this Analects of Confucius. They were either full of evil light or scars on their bodies. It was not surprising that they had tattoos such as dragons and tigers on their bodies.
These days, the women in Qufu did not dare to visit the streets, and even their voices were shorter than eight degrees, for fear that the vicious tax collector's army would suddenly break in.
The head of the Kong family said, "Please ask the general to pity the people in our place. If this continues, Qufu will be eaten up by the soldiers."
Tang Enbo couldn't hear someone say a few soft words and leave. If the Kong family gave an explanation, it would probably be exhausted. Tang Enbo took a sip of tea and said slowly: "We are training troops here for the war of resistance, and Qufu is also working hard for the country."
The head of the Kong family really couldn't stand it anymore, and gritted his teeth and paused: "Commander Tang, you can tell me the rules."
The bayonet turned red, and Tang Boyne put down the teacup and said, "Now the government has exempted the land tax for all people in the world. It is a good rule that has not been in a thousand years. Even the monks and Taoist ancestry in temples and halls are all taken according to these 20% of the rent. Why can't your Kong family be successful? I remember that Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism are one, why are the descendants of your Kong family nobler than their descendants of Shakyamuni and the descendants of Taishang Laojun?"
The head of the Kong family really wants to say that the land was exempt from land tax since the previous dynasty and even the previous dynasty. In fact, no feudal emperor dared to collect land tax from the saints. The biggest victims of the land tax exemption of land tax this time were the monasteries and the Confucius family, such as the noble landlords who did not have to pay the imperial grain land tax since a long time ago.
The head of the Kong family staggered out of Tang Enbo's camp after hearing this. Now the Kong family collected 50% of the land tax. After the land tax was changed to the unified land rent of the state government, most of the land tax was gone. The head of the Kong family could not make the decision alone. In fact, the last time Kong Xiangxi came to the Kong family's head's opinion was the opinion of all the people in the family. The tenants of the Kong family had never heard of any evil example of starving people to death, which means that it was no problem to leave 50% of the harvest for them.
Seeing the old man go out, Tang Enbo also snorted. If it weren't for this, he wouldn't have been sent here. The Ministry of Military Affairs of Peking was preparing a counterattack plan, and 80% he had no chance. The old man was not in a hurry. He was worried that even if he had eaten up all Qufu, it would be just a county. Besides, it would not be so easy to eat it all. According to the news that Tang Enbo received, the Kong family had saved a lot of food, and it would be absolutely fine if he had 10,000 people left for two or three years to eat, but he didn't know where to hide it.
What Tang Enbo didn't know was that the grain was not in the granary at all. The Kong family made all the grains into bricks, and then built a house with these grains. When the famine was famine, they could break the grains and cook porridge to survive the famine. This is also a small secret hidden by the great families of aristocratic families - even if they know, they can't afford to play.
But these things are used at critical moments of saving lives. Use such grain bricks to cook porridge for the Second Tax Police Group to drink designated mutiny for you.
Chapter completed!