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

"Many attacks were attacked in Kuandian and Dandong counties, with more than 200 casualties; a wheat field was burned, and more than 300 wasteland victims fled; a North Korean convoy transported to raising was ambushed, killing and wounding more than 30 people, and large trucks and grain were destroyed; Jiuliancheng requested to speed up the transportation of bricks, stones, cement and lime to repair the city blocks, and there were many Tartar whistle knights in the wild... " Liao Degong's eyes swept over the documents line by line, and finally swept to the table with a "bang" and said cursingly: "The Tartars are too bullying and are extremely crazy, but they just took over your villages. Why are they so irritable? Let's let you kill our settled immigrants, and we are not allowed to fight back? It's really outrageous!"

However, even though he was scolding, Liao Xiaoyao also knew that with the current situation of the Liaodong War Zone, he would probably not be able to make any strong countermeasures. After all, the two counties of Dandong and Kuandian have been actively reclamation, and the number of people arranged is large. It can be said that they need protection everywhere and flaws everywhere. Most of the troops in the Liaodong War Zone have to be restrained in the local area, resulting in very few troops that can be used for mobile combat, and they can only be so vain with the Tartars.

Some people may ask, why don’t they launch all the troops and directly take down Phoenix City of the Qing Dynasty? This is a bit embarrassing and also makes Liao Degong a little angry. The reason is that it is a Liaodong war zone, which currently has only thousands of war-capable soldiers, and they are all chaotic troops that have not been reorganized for a long time. According to the order of Liao Xiaoyao, the newly appointed captain of the Denglai Development Team, the military forces at all levels of the Far East were reorganized. The first phase was first in Denglai and Liaodong.

At present, the original East Coast direct troops (including the Shandan natives recruited, the Japanese ronin hired, the strong men selected from the Shandong disaster victims, a part of the forward team, and some officers and non-commissioned officers) of the Liaodong War Zone were reorganized on the spot into the First Infantry Regiment, the Second Regiment and the First Cavalry Regiment of the First Division of the Liaodong New Army.

The first regiment was basically formed by the original team of the Heilongjiang Security Regiment, which was originally the Amur River War Zone (now renamed Heilongjiang War Zone), but all its original officers were transferred away and they went to the Second Regiment and the Cavalry Regiment to serve. The components of the Second Regiment were more complicated. In addition to nearly a thousand people recruited from the Northeast and Sakhalin Island (not all natives, but also a small number of Han soldiers recruited in Dabo, Heishui and other counties), hundreds of them were also collected from Japan.

Cannon fodder, as well as the strong men carefully selected from the victims of the four disasters in Shandong and East China, then enriched some officers and non-commissioned officers who came to support Yantai. As for the cavalry regiment, it was basically the third battalion of the former cavalry regiment. The unit originally had about 2,000 people, and was already ruined after the battle in Liaodong Dijing. Therefore, in this so-called "Liao Family Military Reform", it was incorporated into the First Division of the Liaodong New Army and acted as a cavalry regiment.

In addition, according to Liao Xiaoyao's new army system, the Liaodong First Division also has a third infantry regiment. In principle, this unit will be formed with two thousand people sent by Chen Quanzhong's troops of the former Shandong New Army Fourth Division as the foundation. It is currently under intense preparations. Once officially formed, it will completely replace the defense line of the First Infantry Regiment and escort the eastern bank's land reclamation operations in Liaodong. The first regiment from the outside of the northeast will continue to return to the Heilongjiang River Basin to garrison, which is the front line against the Russians. It is not possible to rely on militia alone.

It is worth mentioning that in order to curry favor with the East Coast people, Chen Quanzhong sent two thousand soldiers across the sea to Liaodong to support defense. As a result, after more than a year of garrison, the combat effectiveness of this army has improved to a certain extent after repeated training by the East Coast officers' regiment. Chen Quanzhong is looking forward to his return, but he is swallowed up by Liao Xiaoyao directly. He is crying without tears when he thinks about it. You know, for warlords like Chen Quanzhong, the army is their lifeblood and the greatest capital. It is so heartbreaking to lose it. But the problem is that the Eastern Kingdoms who annexed his troops are the court. Not only can they complain, but they also have to pretend to smile. It is also miserable to think about it.

What's more, Chen Quanzhong's Fourth Division was originally a 5,000 troops, but now it was swallowed by the East Coast people, with only 3,000 people left (even worse, the two thousand sent out were elite soldiers, and the three thousand left behind were idiots...), and its strength was greatly reduced. What made Chen Quanzhong and his confidants even worse was that Yantai did not allow him to recruit soldiers again, limiting his 3,000 troops to death to the number of 3,000 troops. Chen Quanzhong was even more unable to resist, because Jimo County was sparsely populated and lacked property and taxes, it was very difficult to raise these 3,000 troops. It was impossible to do so without the East Coast people's cooperation in funding. Therefore, Chen Quanzhong could only accept this with a nose. Who made him unlucky!

Well, let's go back to the previous topic. There are only these 7,000 people in the Liaodong area at present, of which only the First Infantry Regiment and the First Cavalry Regiment can fight a little. Other troops are either newly formed in chaos, or have average combat power and cannot bear great responsibilities at all. They can only look at their homes and defend the city. To attack and capture an important stronghold like Phoenix City, it is actually very difficult without the elite soldiers and a large number of artillery soldiers of three or four regiments. What's more, with Liaodong's current foundation, it cannot support the material basis for long-term combat with more than 8,000 troops.

Therefore, the basic functions are now inseparable from the Tartars. The people on the east coast cannot take Phoenix City, and the Tartars do not have the ability to drive the yellow-clad thieves into the sea. Both sides can only play some small moves and send small groups of people to hurt each other. That's all. Therefore, after Liao Xiaoyao cursed for a while, he did not continue to say anything. It would be better to think about how the First Regiment would change to reorganize the defense after returning to the Heilongjiang River Basin. This matter cannot be delayed, because some of the vanguard troops of the First Regiment had marched into the territory of the Kingdom of Korea and were preparing to board the boat from its east coast to return to Miaojie Port.

After scanning the annoying stack of documents aside, Liao Degong took out a pack of Virginia's top-quality tobacco from the drawer, and looked at other information while swallowing the clouds and spitting out mist: "Dandong County is growing well in summer this year, and it is expected to have a bumper harvest in autumn. Officials from the county agricultural bureau optimistically predict that the per mu of wheat in spring will exceed 100 kilograms, which will greatly make up for the grain gap in Dandong and Kuandian counties, and reduce the pressure on importing grain from North Korea..."

The report is followed by a forecast of the wheat planting area, growth and yield of each reclaimed village. Liao Degong took a casual look and found that many of the villages were expected to have extremely low yields. After looking at the notes, it turned out that Nima was a village that was "careful" by the Tartars, which aroused his anger again. He wondered whether the First Cavalry Regiment would be dispatched for a while to move his muscles and bones, so that those stubborn Eight Banners soldiers knew how powerful our East Coast people were.

Compared with Dandong County, Kuandian County's land reclamation work is much worse. Not only is the land reclamation area small, but the grain output is also quite limited, which is far from enough to feed tens of thousands of local people. The reasons for this are that the local area is not as good as Dandong County, with a low level of development, and many breeding land. In addition, the North Korean counties on the other side of the Yalu River are indeed not very rich, and the support for Kuandian County is seriously insufficient. These undoubtedly greatly affect the local land reclamation cause, and ultimately lead to a huge difference in agricultural output in the two counties.

However, although the land reclamation operations in these two places have many twists and turns, the progress is not satisfactory, and the losses of personnel and materials are even more painful. However, overall, it is still within the endurance of the senior management of the Denglai Development Team, and to some extent it is a victory. After all, the East Coast people organized tens of thousands of victims to toss on the right bank of the Yalu River for so long, the Tartars were so anxious that they jumped straight, but there was nothing they could do.

In fact, Liao Degong was worried that the Qing court would do everything in a desperate way, learning from Huang Taiji to conquer Korea, hoarding food and grass, selecting elites, pushing them from western Liaoning to Liaodong, and eliminating the Kuandian, Dandong, Jiuliancheng and other strongholds established by the East Coast people. Unfortunately, it seems that the Qing court is inferior to the previous generation. The courage of Oboi, who is in power, is not a little worse than the four major beiles that were so arrogant that they were as arrogant as tigers in the Huang Taiji period. They didn’t even have the courage to fight to the death with the East Coast people in Liaodong. That’s still a big deal! Of course, this may also be related to the decline in combat effectiveness of the Tartar army and they rely more on the Han army as a whole, but this is not something that the East Coast people can know.

"The competition between the white mountains and black waters seems to be under our control. With the supply provided by North Korea, this good dog, it is indeed the key to our ability to gain a foothold on the Yalu River. Now it is on our side. As long as I have two more years, I will almost have a foothold. At that time, if the troops are abundant, I still want to go to Phoenix City to see the scenery!" Liao Degong said fiercely by throwing the document aside.

After turning this page, the following is a summary of the information about economics. The two counties in Liaodong now have nothing, not enough food, let alone other ones. The richest one here may be the old forests all over the mountains, but the problem is that the wood resources in the East Coast control area are already very rich. Can these things be sold? Liao Degong expressed his deep doubts, but he signed one of the reports requesting to open a state-owned forest farm and agreed, thinking in his heart that maybe Shandong always needs some, right? It is two dollars to earn back, and it can also accelerate the development here.

In addition, there was another news about the new tax system that attracted Liao Degong's attention. After carefully studying it, he finally understood that at least the economic system of the Far East Sanfan system would have to be reformed, that is, Wei Boqiu, an old cadre responsible for the economic work of Sanfan, would end the military control state in some areas and change it from a wartime economy to a peaceful economy. Since the system has been reformed, tax system reform is naturally an important part of it.

According to the meaning revealed in the document, the tax system of the Three Feudatories of the Far East will be different from the local area (after all, the economic ecology here is also very different from the local area), and it focuses more on the collection of land tax, salt tax and tariffs. Especially the land tax, this tax is very old in the old continent, but it is a new thing in the young East Coast Republic (in fact, it was not a land tax that was not imposed on farmers before, but it was just divided into personal income tax).

In the collection of field tax, it has been clearly stated that the local progressive tax system is not referenced (the more fields, the higher the tax rate), that is, the unified tax rate is calculated based on the number of acres of fields in the individual's name. In addition, in Wei Boqiu's design, the tax rates for planting cash crops and grain crops in farmland will also be different. The tax rates for cash crops are slightly higher, while the food is lower, which is also in line with the actual market conditions.

Compared with the wider collection and more complicated land tax, the collection of salt tax is much easier. Because the salt in the Sanfan tribe in the Far East is now specialized by the local pioneering team government, such as the Dinghai Salt Farm in Ningbo Prefecture, there is no one, so it is equivalent to levying taxes on the salt farms in Denglai and Ningbo. Therefore, the change in this item is actually the least. After all, these salt farms have been operating in the hands of the government for many years. This time, it only clarified which salt prices are costs and which taxes are.

As for import and export tariffs, they are mainly collected through five major customs, Dabo, Busan, Yantai, Dinghai and Chongmingsha. Among them, Busan Customs mainly trades with North Korea. Dabo Customs involves smuggling trade with Japanese local Daming. Yantai and Dinghai mainly trades with Dutch East India Company, while Chongmingsha is traded with Qing Dynasty (this trade is open and closed, which is relatively unstable). There is also a freak that is conducive to the outside of the tariff system, that is, the Taiwan Bank. Considering that the bank monopolizes the trade of Haizhu Island Merchant Station and controls a considerable part of the foreign trade of Heishui and Ningbo, the money is abundant, so after negotiating with its chief Shao Shuguang, the two sides agreed to pay a fixed amount every year, and then local customs will no longer impose import and export tariffs on it.

Wei Boqiu predicts that among these taxes, land tax is the top priority, and income will also occupy the majority of local finances, followed by salt tax. Because it is a government-owned system, the price is not determined by the market, so income cannot be underestimated. In short, the above two taxes are levied on people, that is, the more people in the controlled area, the more land it plants, the higher the total tax amount will be. Although the import and export tariffs of customs cannot be said to have nothing to do with the population, they still have to look at the degree of development of foreign trade, and the correlation with population is no longer so strong.
Chapter completed!