087 Direct taxation
In addition to bringing Li Wei sufficient labor and reserve troops, the strict laws also gained a lot of public opinion!
In fact, ordinary civilians are not so enthusiastic about joining guerrillas and fighting the government. Now, in the era when nationalism is just in its infancy, the main infiltration of nationalist ideas is the "city people". Ninety-nine percent of the farmers in the countryside do not know what the nation is.
Therefore, the influence of the Paris government's revolutionary call in the Brittany region is just that. Most people will make a sensible choice in terms of the two options of bayonet and revolutionary enthusiasm.
When guerrillas are not only in danger of life, there is no fixed source of food, but also the normal place to sleep is the sky as the ground as the bed...
There is no way, the fixed guerrillas are provoking the government forces!
Drilling mountains and valleys is a very difficult combat mission for Levi's soldiers, and naturally the same is true for the members of the guerrillas!
The unbearable environment for regular troops, let alone those guerrillas composed of most ordinary people?
The only difference between the two is that if the guerrillas do not wander in the mountains, they will die. If the regular army cannot stand it, they can retreat and rest.
Many times, the combat reduction of guerrillas is not as high as non-combat reduction. Not all guerrilla members are mountain hunters!
Therefore, in today's European region, guerrillas have no future, but there are still countless guerrillas in the Brittany region. Why?
Because the laws formulated by Levi are too inhumane!
Many people who have committed minor crimes are forced to join the guerrillas in order not to enter the labor camp and are forced to work and reform.
Especially those extremely vicious people, how could these people be willing to live like a cow in a labor service office?
Of course, the guerrillas still cannot get up with only the source of troops but no weapons. After all, this is the age of firearms. Without guns, you can win a battle with a big sword and a spear. If you want to win forever, it means that the top leaders of the encircled army are all pretending to be shit!
However, behind the anti-Levi guerrillas in the Brittany region, there is always a stable financial father, the revolutionary regime of the French Kingdom.
The size of the guerrillas is not large, and the guerrillas will hardly fight head-on decisive battles. The weapons and ammunition they consume are incomparable to the regular army. That amount of 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 the Brittany region, the supplies will not be a problem.
Of course, the supplies that these guerrillas requested the most from the Paris government are often not arms, but food and daily necessities!
It was the Paris government that kept transfusions from behind, and the Brittany region was originally owned by France, so the Paris government could easily find local snakes familiar with the terrain as guides, so the guerrillas in the Brittany region were always unable to be wiped out.
However, the real headache for the guerrillas in the Brittany region is not the Li Wei government, but the traditional feudal aristocrats whom Li Wei enfeoffed them.
The cities controlled by Li Wei will definitely not be built in mountains and valleys. Even if there are towns in the valleys and are too remote, Li Wei will enfeoff them to the nobles. Therefore, those guerrillas dare not provoke cities directly under the Li Wei government and their surrounding villages and towns.
Too flat terrain is easy to catch the tail for guerrillas who are used to shooting and changing places, and then it will be a catastrophe!
Only areas close to mountains and forests are good places for guerrillas to be active and survive.
So in the past two years, the most battles with the Brittany guerrillas were the armed forces of the feudal nobles, rather than the local garrison troops and police established by Li Wei.
Although Li Wei's fiefdom lost control over remote villages and towns, it was equivalent to lifting a huge burden on his regime. The guerrilla attacks in the Brittany region could not affect Li Wei's strategic layout at all.
The obligations Li Wei required to those nobles to divide the feudal nobility were not to contribute knights and warriors, but to set fixed taxes.
The principle of distribution of tax amounts is not based on the number of people (the population is easy to hide and it is difficult to count accurately), but based on the area of cultivated land in the fiefdom and the prosperity of villages and towns.
In this way, Li Wei's tax officials became well-founded when counting the tax amount.
After all, it is impossible to hide a familiar land. Just send a few "plainclothes" to inquire about the prosperity of villages and towns. You will know.
In Li Wei's fiefdom law, the obligation of subordinate nobles is to stabilize local public security and pay certain taxes, and the power is to do whatever they want in their fiefdom!
Except for the taxation aspect, the Li Wei government will send special tax departments to investigate, the Li Wei government will not interfere in any other fiefdom powers.
In order to enjoy their own enjoyment and to fully pay taxes, many nobles who were granting their votives desperately exploited the leaders of the fiefdom, providing a abundant source of troops for the guerrillas...
Of course, the defectors of these noble fiefs were also the territory of the noble, and they had nothing to do with the Li Wei government.
If the tax cannot be paid in full, the Li Wei government will personally send troops to the noble fiefdom to "help collect taxes" and will not leave until all the taxes owed.
The tax officials of the Li Wei government are equipped with a special tax collection team, and the tax officials have the right to mobilize garrison troops in nearby cities to assist themselves in arming tax collection!
If the Guard Infantry was not transferred, Li Wei would have wanted to form a special tax auditing army.
Among the cities under the rule of Li Wei's government, only the tax department is independent and does not need to be responsible to the local municipal government, but is directly responsible to Li Wei in Rennes!
The tax department is directly under the jurisdiction of Li Wei!
Moreover, tax officials in various places are administratively enlightened tax personnel, and their loyalty is very reliable.
It is precisely because of this that Li Wei gave the tax officials the power to unconditionally mobilize local garrison troops and assist him in arming the tax collection.
This power alone can allow tax officials in local cities to have a social status comparable to that of mayors.
Labor office, Jiafangsi, State Administration of Taxation, Mayor's full responsibility system, and economic activities in the Brittany region controlled by the Wallace Business Alliance form the main body of the Li Wei regime.
The labor service specializes in handling male criminals, and the Jiaofangsi specializes in dealing with female criminals!
Of course, older women generally don't come in...
However, the entry threshold for Jiaofangsi is higher than that of labor offices. Some minor crimes will not directly convert the criminal woman into Jiaofangsi unless the other party agrees!
After all, the nature of the work of Jiaofangsi is extraordinary...
However, many women apply to join the Jiaofangsi voluntarily because when Jiaofangsi is open, the women inside can get a certain commission income!
Chapter completed!