18th century total war

Chapter 87 Taxation directly under the Central Government
In addition to bringing sufficient labor and reserve troops to Li Wei, the stringent laws also brought a lot of public opinion!
In fact, ordinary civilians are not so motivated to join the guerrillas to fight against the government. Now is the era when nationalism has just sprouted, and the people who are infiltrated by nationalist ideology are mainly 'city dwellers'. Ninety-nine percent of farmers in the countryside don't know What is nation?

Therefore, the influence of the Paris government's revolutionary call in Brittany is just that. Most people will choose rationally between the bayonet and revolutionary enthusiasm.

When guerrillas are not only life-threatening, but also have no fixed source of food, the place to sleep is the norm...

There is no way, the fixed guerrillas are provoking the government forces!

Drilling a ravine is a very difficult combat task for Li Wei's soldiers, and it is naturally the same for the members of the guerrillas!

This is an environment that is unbearable even for the regular army, so why bother the guerrillas who are mostly composed of ordinary people?

The only difference between the two is that the guerrillas will die if they don't wander in the ravines, and the regular army can withdraw to rest if they can't bear it.

In many cases, the combat attrition of guerrillas is not as large as that of non-combat attrition. Not all guerrilla members are mountain hunters!
Therefore, in today's Europe, the guerrillas have no future, but the guerrillas in the Brittany region can never be wiped out, why?

Because the laws established by Livy are so inhumane!
Many people who committed petty crimes were forced to join the guerrillas in order not to enter the labor camps.

Especially those vicious and vicious people, how could these people be willing to live like cattle and horses in a labor office?
Of course, guerrillas still can’t get up if they have only a source of soldiers but no weapons. After all, this is the age of firearms. Without guns, relying on big knives and spears, you can win a battle with two sticks. If you want to keep winning, that means the high-level military The mind is full of shit!
However, the anti-"Levi" guerrillas in the Brittany region have always had a solid financial father behind them-the revolutionary regime of the Kingdom of France.

The scale of the guerrillas is not large, and the guerrillas hardly fight head-on decisive battles. The weapons and ammunition they consume are not comparable to those of the regular army. That demand is a drop in the bucket for the Paris government.

As long as you can find a way to connect with the guerrillas in Brittany, supplies are not a problem.

Of course, the materials that these guerrillas demand most from the Paris government are often not arms, but food and daily necessities!
It was the Paris government who continued to infuse blood, and the Brittany region originally belonged to the mainland of France. The Paris government could easily find local snakes familiar with the terrain as guides, so the guerrillas in the Brittany region It is always impossible to destroy.

However, the real headache for the guerrillas in the Brittany region is not the Li Wei government, but the traditional feudal nobles that Li Wei enfeoffed.

The city controlled by Li Wei is definitely impossible to build in a ravine. Even if there are towns in the ravine, which are too remote, Li Wei will entrust them to those nobles, so those guerrillas dare not provoke the cities directly under the Li Wei government. and surrounding villages and towns.

The terrain that is too flat is easy for guerrillas who are used to changing places with one shot, to be caught by the tail, and then it will be a disaster!
Only areas close to mountains and forests are good places for guerrillas to be active and survive.

So in the past two years, it was the armed nobles who fought the most against the guerrillas in Brittany, not the local garrison and police established by Li Wei.

Although Li Wei's method of enfeoffment has lost control over remote villages and towns, it is equivalent to lifting a great burden for his regime. The guerrilla raids in the Brittany region cannot affect Li Wei's strategic layout at all. .

And Li Wei's obligation to those enfeoffed nobles is not to contribute knights and warriors, but to set a fixed tax.

The principle of tax distribution is not based on the number of people (the population is easy to hide and it is difficult to count accurately), but according to the area of ​​arable cultivated land in the fief and the prosperity of the villages and towns.

In this way, Li Wei's tax officials became well-founded when they calculated the amount of taxation.

After all, it is impossible to hide Shudi. Just send a few 'plainclothes' to inquire about the prosperity of the village and town, and you will know.

In Li Wei's enfeoffment law, the obligation of the subordinate nobles is to stabilize the local law and order and pay certain taxes, while the power is to do whatever they want in their fief!

Except for the taxation aspect, the Li Wei government will send a special tax department to check, and the Li Wei government will not intervene in other fiefdom powers.

Many enfeoffed nobles desperately squeezed the people in the fiefs for their own enjoyment and to pay a full amount of taxes, providing a sufficient source of soldiers for the guerrillas...

Of course, the people who defected from these aristocratic fiefdoms also caused disasters to this nobleman's territory, and had nothing to do with Li Wei's government.

If the taxes cannot be paid in full, the Li Wei government will personally send troops to the noble fiefs to 'help collect taxes', and will not leave until all the taxes owed are paid.

The tax officials of the Li Wei government are all equipped with a dedicated tax collection team, and the tax officials have the right to mobilize the garrison troops in nearby cities to assist them in armed tax collection!

If it weren't for the fact that the infantry guards couldn't be dispatched, Li Wei would have wanted to form a special tax inspection army.

Among the cities under the Li Wei government, only the taxation department is independent, and does not need to be responsible to the local city government, but directly responsible to Li Wei in Rennes!

The tax department is here in Li Wei, and it is directly under the Central Government!

Moreover, the tax officials from all over the country are tax officials with administrative training, and their loyalty is very reliable.

Because of this, Li Wei gave those tax officials the power to mobilize the local garrison unconditionally to assist him in armed tax collection.

This power alone can give the tax collector of a local city a social status comparable to that of the mayor.

Labor offices, the Ministry of Education, the General Administration of Taxation, the full responsibility system of the mayor, and the economic activities in the Brittany region controlled by the Wallace Business Alliance constitute the main body of the Li Wei regime.

Labor offices are specialized in dealing with male criminals, and Jiaofang Division is specialized in dealing with female criminals!

Of course, older women generally don't come in...

However, the entrance threshold of the Jiaofang Division is higher than that of the labor agency. Some minor crimes will not directly fill the criminal woman into the Jiaofang Division unless the other party agrees!

After all, the nature of the job of Jiaofang Division is extraordinary...

However, many women have applied to join the Jiaofang Division voluntarily, because when the Jiaofang Division is open, the women in it can get a certain percentage of income!

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