Compared to 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 their way to Tshwane, overall

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 have liberal arts backgrounds.

Xu Quanke and the others are all retired military personnel. They have received comprehensive field marching and even survival training in the past. After retiring and switching jobs 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.

Along the way, they strictly followed the instructions of a field march.

At the same time, they also carried a large amount of supplies, and there were about a dozen engineers and team members who had been transferred from heavy duty troops to the team, ensuring 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.

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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 relatively steep mountain roads, they would even use explosives to open the way if conditions allowed.

Blow up 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 supplies of explosives, tools and other supplies. In addition to more than a hundred armed tax policemen, ordinary tax policemen and others, they also recruited hundreds of young indigenous people 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 more than a hundred people also carried two field guns. Only armed tax police could do this kind of thing... Even if it was a regular army, they usually only carried one.

However, armed tax policemen are not short of money, so their weapons and equipment are very advanced and numerous.

However, due to limitations in scale and nature of tasks, 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.

Due to 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.

Good, but the price is relatively expensive. Even the purchase price of an army unit reaches 30 Chu Yuan. 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 are more useful. 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 suitable.

As for the armed tax police, they are the main combat force in the police force 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 it, these armed tax police will purchase it 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 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 are many bandits present, but not everyone is a bachelor, many of them have families...

If you let them fight against European immigrants and African indigenous people, 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 pick up guns 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. Facing the armed tax police, who look like regular troops armed to the teeth, it’s a damned thing 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. They 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.<

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As subjects of the Da Chu 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 pay attention to them.

If these armed tax police want to arrest Meng Xiu and other middle-level and senior-level companies, let them arrest them... Let’s put down our guns, take out the melon seeds from our pockets, and eat the melon seeds while watching a show.

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, but there was some bad news, that is, the leader of Meng Xiu's gang, Meng Xiu attacked Tshwane twenty days ago.

When he was there, he was shot and died.

After hearing that Meng Xiu had been killed by a native before, Gan Bowen frowned slightly. It was not a good thing that Meng Xiu died early.

After all, Meng Xiu is the core soul mission 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.

There may also be other people who know, but don’t tell, or the person who knows is not here.

No matter what, we 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 gold that had already been mined in the Tshwane gold mine, and the total amount was more than 160 kilograms.

In fact, most of this gold was excavated by the Dutch who enslaved the local indigenous people. It fell into the hands of the Meng Xiu 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, and a gold coin of Chu Yuan contains 3.5 grams of pure gold.

The tax evasion and evasion by the Meng Xiu gang amounted to more than 100,000 yuan, plus a fine of more than 600,000 yuan, adding 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... That'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 hurriedly led his men to kill him? It was not for the hundreds of kilograms of gold that had been dug out, but for this super large gold mine.

After preliminary interrogation, Gan Bowen 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 officials mine on their own or carry out 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 won'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 closed, they can only be arrested and tried in the name of tax evasion at most.

If other criminal facts are discovered in 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...

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.
To be continued...