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. Although Xu Quanke and the others also encountered some minor difficulties on the way to Tshwane, overall Said there were no surprises.
After all, although Meng Xiu and the others are a gang of bandits and desperadoes, their experience and training in field marches and combat are nothing compared to the regular army.
Although Xu Quanke and others are not regular soldiers, from ordinary tax policemen to armed tax policemen, they are all retired military personnel.
Only a few tax civil servants such as Gan Bowen had a liberal arts background.
Xu Quanke and others are retired military personnel. They have received comprehensive field marching and survival training in the past. After retiring and switching to armed tax police, they actually maintained relatively high-intensity training.
Because overseas armed tax police have to operate overseas, they inevitably have to fight with local indigenous tribes and tax evaders lurking outside the control area. Therefore, field marches and survival training often require more attention than ordinary regular troops.
They marched strictly according to the field march.
At the same time, they also carried a large amount of supplies. There were also about a dozen engineers and members who had been transferred from heavy duty troops to the team, which ensured that the transportation of supplies did not encounter any major problems.
When encountering some small and medium-sized rivers, Xu Quanke and the others would not choose to take a detour or abandon their baggage, but would often build bridges on the spot. Anyway, they carried complete engineering tools, so it was not a problem to temporarily build some bridges for carriages to pass. big.
When encountering some dense forests and mountainous areas, they would take detours if they could, and if they couldn't get around, they would make temporary roads. When carriages could not pass on some steep mountain roads, they would even use explosives to open the way if conditions allowed. Blow out the passage.
So although they are just a group of armed tax police, their behavior is that of the regular army.
At the same time, there is no need to worry about explosives, tools and other material supplies. In addition to more than a hundred armed tax police, ordinary tax police and others, they also recruited hundreds of indigenous young men to carry baggage and artillery.
Yes, Xu Quanke and the others also carried artillery, two very classic 25-year-old 65mm copper light field guns that are used on a large scale by regular armies and armed tax police forces in overseas areas.
The team of a hundred people also carried two field guns. Only armed tax police could do this kind of thing... Even if they were regular troops, they usually only carried one.
However, as for armed tax police, they are not short of money, so their weapons and equipment are very advanced and numerous.
However, due to the scale and nature of the mission, armed tax police are generally only equipped with light artillery, not large-caliber artillery.
But light artillery and firearms are often the best.
The more than 100 armed tax policemen under Xu Quanke are equipped with 23-year-old flash cap percussion guns, and they also have a Tianwu-style breech-loading rifled revolver for military and police use.
Because of its extremely outstanding performance, the Tianwu-type revolver, although expensive, has become a new generation of standard pistols equipped by the military and police of the Dachu Empire.
At present, the military does not have much equipment. It only equips a few special units and officers. For the time being, in the army, the Tianwu revolver is used as a sidearm for officers... It is not because the infantry is not equipped with it because it is not enough. Okay, but the price is relatively expensive. Even the purchase price for the army reaches 30 yuan per unit. 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 fights, the role of pistols is too small.
But in the police world, pistols play a much greater role. Many patrol officers use revolvers when performing tasks. They used to use smoothbore revolvers, but now they use breech-loading rifled revolvers.
After all, when patrol officers perform arrest missions, they face criminals, and they generally do not have powerful weapons. Therefore, the firearms patrol police need do not need to be too powerful, nor do they need to have a high effective range. , it should be lightweight and have long-lasting strength.
A revolver is perfect for this.
As for the armed tax police, they are the leaders of the police force's combat effectiveness and often participate in some arrest missions. Therefore, even ordinary members will be equipped with a revolver in addition to a long gun.
Even if the government does not allocate them, these armed tax policemen will purchase them with their own funds.
After all, this thing can save lives during law enforcement.
This has also led to the fact that in the current Dachu Empire, the police are the largest users of Tianwu-style pistols, especially armed tax police.
Xu Quanke led a large group of people over mountains and ridges, and after crossing many large and small rivers, they finally arrived near Tshwane.
The ensuing battle is simple and easy... For such a group of armed tax police whose combat effectiveness is comparable to that of the second-class division of the regular army, there is no pressure at all to fight such a bandit gang of more than a hundred people.
Coupled with the Mengxiu gang that has just occupied Tshwane, no matter what kind of desperadoes they are, they will naturally have a sense of fear when facing the official armed forces, and they are even more afraid of being accused of armed tax resistance, which will lead to being imprisoned. Confiscating the family and exterminating the clan.
There were many bandits present, but not everyone was a bachelor, many of them had families...
If you let them fight against European immigrants and African natives, there will be no problem, and their morale will be very high and their combat effectiveness will be very strong.
But if you ask them to take up arms and fight against armed tax police... To be honest, they really don't have the courage.
Even if this place is in the lawless interior of Africa.
In addition, they also know that they are just a bunch of mobs. Faced with the armed tax police, who look like regular troops armed to the teeth, it's a shame if they can win.
Not to mention anything else, the two 65mm field guns pulled out by the armed tax police outside could not solve the problem.
This cannot solve the problem of the two artillery pieces in the hands of the armed tax police, who have no confidence to rely on the towns to carry out stubborn resistance.
You can't rely on those wooden walls and wooden buildings to block artillery shelling!
If you resist, you will sooner or later be shot to death by the armed tax police.
Therefore, when the armed tax police arrived, except for some real desperadoes who put up limited resistance, the others simply surrendered when they saw that the situation was not good and that the people coming were armed tax police.
As subjects of the Dachu Empire, they are even more aware of the terror of these armed tax police!
The most important thing is that the tax evaders are Meng Xiu and more than a dozen middle and high-level people in the company. What does it have to do with ordinary company employees and temporarily recruited desperadoes?
They don't evade taxes... Well, at least the officials can't find any evidence, or they are too lazy to deal with them.
If these armed tax police want to arrest Meng Xiu and other middle and high-level companies, let them arrest them... Let's put down our guns, take out melon seeds from our pockets, eat melon seeds and watch a show at the same time.
As a result, the battle in Tshwane lasted only two quarters of an hour and ended with the large-scale surrender of the bandits in the town.
Soon, Xu Quanke's team members arrested the main backbone of Meng Xiu's gang. However, there was some bad news. That was the leader of Meng Xiu's gang. Meng Xiu attacked Tshwane twenty days ago. When he arrived, he was shot and killed.
After hearing that Meng Xiu had been killed by a native before, Gan Bowen frowned slightly. It was not a good thing for Meng Xiu to die early.
After all, Meng Xiu is the core soul of Meng Xiu's tax evasion gang, and many things, including secret funds, are in Meng Xiu's hands.
Once he dies, many things will become difficult to deal with.
After briefly questioning several other senior executives of tax evasion gangs on site, no secret funds were found.
Gan Bowen didn't believe that such a big gang didn't have hidden secret funds.
Perhaps only Meng Xiu knew about this money, but it was taken into the grave with his death.
It's also possible that someone else knows, but doesn't tell, or the person who knows is not here.
No matter what, you may not be able to find any secret funds for a while, but this is not important and will not affect the subsequent recovery of tax penalties.
Because they found a large amount of mined gold in the Tshwane gold mine, which added up to more than 160 kilograms.
In fact, most of this gold was unearthed by the Dutch who enslaved the local indigenous people. It fell into the hands of Meng Xiu's gang more than 20 days ago, and now it has fallen into the hands of their tax officials.
After going round and round, he finally entered the treasury of the Chu Empire.
One hundred and sixty kilograms of gold, which is actually not much, can only be converted into more than 40,000 Chu Yuan.
Chu Yuan has adopted the gold standard. A gold coin of Chu Yuan contains 3.5 grams of pure gold.
The tax evasion and evasion by Meng Xiu's gang amounted to more than 100,000 yuan, plus a fine of more than 600,000 yuan, which added up to more than 800,000 yuan.
Converted into gold, at least close to three tons of gold would be needed to fill this hole.
More than one hundred kilograms is not enough right now, but isn’t there a super big gold mine?
Confiscating this gold mine, and then digging for gold... It's not just a matter of hundreds of thousands of Chu Yuan, it can easily be millions or even tens of millions.
Otherwise, why do you think Gan Bowen came here in a hurry and brought people to kill him? It was not for the mere hundreds of kilograms of gold that had been dug out, but for this super large gold mine.
After preliminary interrogation, Gambowen directly 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 an official asset of the Chu Empire!
In the future, whether the government will mine on their own or conduct auction mining, they can easily withdraw funds and make up for the hole of hundreds of thousands in tax fines.
As for the people in Meng Xiu's gang, in addition to more than a dozen middle-level and high-level people with criminal records, some other ordinary employees and temporarily recruited desperadoes, as long as those who did not resist were let go directly...
Gan Bowen and the others are just tax authorities and only deal with tax issues.
As long as they don't evade taxes or use arms to resist taxes, they don't care about other matters, even various criminal crimes...well, they don't have that authority.
Non-tax illegal issues are the law enforcement authority of the patrol department. If the tax authorities take control of them, they will easily get into trouble. Even if they are shut down, they can only be arrested and tried in the name of tax evasion at most.
If other criminal facts are discovered during the process, they need to be handed over to the patrol department for processing.
In line with the principle that doing more is worse than doing less, Gan Bowen let those people go on the spot...
This was true even if they found out that these people had killed more than half of the local Dutch immigrants and used the remaining Dutch immigrants as slaves and other things.
These have nothing to do with Gambowen and the others!
Besides, after all, this place was not under the control of the Chu Empire before, and the people killed were not Chu people.
The laws of the Dachu Empire were not designed to protect the indigenous people who were not under its own jurisdiction.
Besides, this place is too remote, and there are no Chu colonial strongholds nearby. Gan Bowen and the others only number a hundred or so, which requires the custody of so many criminals and the supervision of a large number of indigenous people who are mining.
It’s really beyond my capabilities!
So after Gan Bowen released these people, he turned around and set up a recruitment point: recruiting temporary armed tax police officers!
When those desperadoes saw that there was such a good thing, they immediately turned around and signed up, thus becoming a glorious and great armed tax policeman of the Chu Empire... Moreover, Gan Bowen also said that if they perform well in the future , then there is still a chance to become a regular official and become an armed tax policeman with a well-established system and working for the public.
This opportunity is rare, don’t miss it if you pass by!
Speaking of which, Gan Bowen's operation is also the traditional skill of the tax agency.
In the past, when the tax authorities followed the footsteps of the army and arrived in newly occupied areas, they would often recruit a group of local green-skinned gangsters as armed tax police, and use their familiarity with local news to target large local households. Tax problems were discovered in this way, and the house was searched at the same time.
On the other hand, these green-skinned hooligans don’t have to worry about using them. They can use them casually. If they die, they will die. No pension will be paid... After the situation is initially stabilized, a group of good performers will be selected to become full-time employees. As for the bad performers, of gradual disbandment.
A large number of veterans will be recruited to serve as the backbone of armed tax police, and the local tax authorities will eventually be formalized.
Now in Tshwane, Gambowen is actually playing the same thing. Those desperadoes actually know to some extent that their chances of becoming a regular employee are very small.
But there is always a chance!
Even if you can't become a regular employee, the salary offered by the tax authorities is not low!
They came out to fight the indigenous people not just to make money. Working for Meng Xiu and others to make money is no different from working for the tax authorities to make money.
As a result, dozens more desperadoes appeared under Gambowen's men... Well, the Maputo Tax Office temporarily hired armed tax police.
With the addition of this group of people, the Tshwane Chu Empire now officially has an armed force of more than 200 people.
Whether it is suppressing the remaining more than 1,000 Dutch immigrants and more than 20,000 indigenous Africans, or taking care of the young indigenous Africans who were forcibly recruited from the Maputo area, there is a larger force. Confidence.
After handling the basic situation, Gambo wrote a letter, plus a joint report with Xu Quanke and other major officials, and sent people back to Maputo immediately to report to the Maputo town government authorities and also to Peng. Ba County Taxation Bureau.
In the letter, Gambowen elaborated on the local situation in Tsnewa 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 possible to reach more than ten or twenty tons.
At the same time, the Tshwane gold mine is just the flat land in this small valley, and there are many other places around it. Gambowen also sent people to conduct a preliminary inspection, and also found traces of the gold mine.
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 vouch for it: the gold reserves here are definitely not inferior to the gold mines in the Jinshan region of North America.
Gambowen's letter was quickly sent to Maputo, and it immediately attracted the attention of Maputo town government officials... But somehow, the news spread quickly.
As a result, just the next day, hundreds of Chu people in Maputo town marched towards Tshwane in groups... As for gold, who doesn't like it!
At the same time, Gambowen's letter and the report document from the Maputo town authorities also boarded a steam clipper and arrived at Pemba Port, the capital of the East African Prefecture under the governance of the Governor of Africa.
Soon, a group of people took a boat from Pemba Port towards Maputo.
The official report from the East African prefecture's yamen was sent to Mogadishu, Somalia, in North Africa, where the African governor was stationed, and then to India, the mainland!
More than two months later, Luo Zhixue in the imperial city of Jinling received a report from the governor of Africa, saying that a super-large gold mine had been found in southern Africa with extremely huge reserves!
Local officials said in a report that the local gold reserves are definitely more than those in the Jinshan region of North America.
To this end, the African Governor's Office formally petitioned to include the town of Maputo and the inland Tshwane area into overseas directly administered territories, petitioned for additional troops to be stationed, and petitioned to dispatch official immigrants to effectively develop local gold and so on!
Luo Zhixue looked at the report!
"It looks like they have found the gold mine in South Africa!"
When the South African Expeditionary Force marched towards South Africa, Luo Zhixue knew that sooner or later the local gold mine would be found, but he did not expect that the search for the gold mine would progress so quickly. In just about a year, he actually found the gold mine. Out.
Of course Luo Zhixue didn't know that this was purely a coincidence. If the Dutch hadn't discovered gold mines when they moved north, and exhausted the gold surveyors of Chu State, they would not have been able to find Tswa in the interior of Africa in such a short time. What a gold mine!
Through a series of chance coincidences, we found this gold mine.
Now that the gold mines have been found, overseas territories directly under the Central Government should also be developed. Luo Zhixue would not allow such a large gold mining area to fall outside the rule of the empire, so he immediately approved the application for governor of Africa with a stroke of his pen. The establishment of the 'Maputo House' overseas territory.
The Immigration Department of the Ministry of Civil Affairs organized official immigrants to go to Maputo House to carry out development affairs.
It also ordered the army and navy to dispatch appropriate troops to Maputo House and surrounding areas in a timely manner based on the special circumstances of Maputo House to strengthen local and surrounding area defense and carry out indigenous expulsion tasks.
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 merchants who have taken refuge in the Chu people in advance, or have normal business dealings with the Chu people.
Well, indigenous war criminals in the military and indigenous workers in labor service companies are not counted...these people are in a special situation.
After making these macro-level strategic arrangements, Luo Zhixue knew that Maputo House would soon become the first choice for imperial immigrants!
Tshwane has rich gold reserves, and the local agricultural conditions in Tshwane are actually very good... The Dutch initially saw this place as suitable for planting and grazing, so they settled there. They discovered gold later. Something happened.
The combination of excellent agricultural conditions and gold will be extremely attractive to poor new immigrants.
You can make a fortune by digging for gold... You can still farm on the spot even if you can't get gold. Being a farmer is not much better than working hard in China and not having enough to eat for your family!
If a place like this is developed well and doesn't make any big mistakes, then Maputo will become a new Golden Mountain region in North America!
Luo Zhixue is looking forward to this!
After Luo Zhixue's series of decrees were conveyed, the huge machinery of the Chu Empire also started operating for this matter.
The first is to formally establish Maputo House and finalize the political status and level of local overseas territories.
Once the local administrative level is settled, everything will go smoothly.
The army decided to mobilize a second-class division from the tropical areas of South China Sea to garrison in Africa and join the local African Expeditionary Force, the 25th Army of the Dachu Empire.
The 25th Army is fully responsible for local affairs in Africa, and Maputo House is naturally within their defense area. Therefore, the division was decided to be sent to East Africa. The division headquarters and most of the main forces were stationed in Maputo. Putuo House.
At the same time, the North Korean Press Department also officially published the news of the discovery of a super gold mine in southeastern Africa!
Why public reporting?
Naturally, it is to attract more people to sign up for immigration!
Only with immigrants can we fully develop the local area, right?
