The river is vast and the clouds are low, and the birds and gulls are flying.

More than a hundred east coast tax police officers were lying in large patches of thistle and reeds, staring at a rocky beach ahead. There, a group of merchants from the east coast rowed their boats to transport all kinds of goods to the shore. On the surface of the La Plata River behind them, a small tonnage brig was looming.

Obviously, this is a group of smuggling merchants and are delivering goods with contacts, because a group of people obviously wearing Spanish clothes are also moving out of various hiding places on the rocky beach. They brought a large number of mules and horses, and there were also a lot of goods with them, such as leather, tallow, beef tendon, etc., which can offset part of the payment.

The company commander of the tax police who led the team signaled to a subordinate. The man nodded, then blew the copper whistle in his mouth suddenly. A burst of gunfire sounded like a bean-like gunshot. A total of 240 east coast tax police officers surrounded from east, south and west, and squeezed towards the group of smuggling merchants.

From Spain, more than 60 smugglers on both sides of the east coast were caught off guard, and four or five people fell down in an instant, and they were suddenly confused. After discovering that there were tax police officers wearing yellow wool cloth uniforms on both sides and behind, these people were even more afraid. Some people resisted with guns under the command of the leader, while others ran around like headless flies. More people were mourning and running towards the muddy mudflats. Especially those smugglers from the east coast were desperately pushing the boat, and they didn't want the cargo, so they wade directly into the deep water, obviously wanting to escape back to the boat.

"It's done!" Huang Hanhua excitedly said, "It's a pity that he can't do his best. Some scum from our country are probably going to escape. We should contact the navy in advance and transfer a "Star" class light cruiser to come, so that all the scum can be caught and tried."

"It's too late, sir." Cai Dao, the son of Cai Huaze, who has been in charge of Patagonia for many years, whispered to Huang Hanhua: "It's always very difficult to connect with those naval people. Although the "Star" class light cruisers themselves also have anti-smuggling tasks, they belong to the First Fleet, not a full-time anti-smuggling fleet, and it's very unsatisfactory to mobilize, and often require senior management like you, Chief Huang, to coordinate, which is a waste of time."

Huang Hanhua was silent when he heard this. Yes, those light cruisers are not full-time anti-smuggling ships after all, how could they be as good as arm-to-handed? If you really have to be able to be on call, you can still have the fleet raised by the Taxation Administration itself, but how is this possible! You must know that in today's East Coast Republic, even the General Administration of Customs, which has just been independent from the Ministry of Trade, has not yet been equipped with anti-smuggling fleets. How can their General Administration of Taxation Administration give priority to ships? Now that a full-time tax police battalion can be established to stabilize the violent taxation machine, it is already a great fortune. Be content!

Thinking of this, Huang Hanhua also laughed secretly at his dissatisfaction, and then said to Cai Dao: "Company Commander Cai said that this kind of anti-smuggling operation often has not much time to prepare after receiving the tip. It is a blessing to be able to catch them on the spot, let alone others. In fact, this is not bad, at least it has severely shocked these smugglers. In the past, our country was so tolerant of these people and lost a large amount of taxes in vain."

"That's right, Chief Huang." Cai Dao lit a cigarette for Huang Hanhua, and then said with a smile: "In the past, our country was invented, with various systems being rough and inadequate. In order to develop the economy and encourage exports, he turned a blind eye to some smuggling behaviors. It can be said that in the past few decades, half of our country's foreign trade was actually smuggling behaviors that bypassed national supervision, but taxation, customs and other departments were powerless to do anything about it. Now that we have been in the country for more than 50 years, it is naturally impossible to indulge in this. Therefore, we need to deal with these people well and let them know that the world has changed and we must pay taxes according to the rules in the future."

In fact, Cai Dao's brothers Cai Hao and Cai Jue once had a smuggling business. Not long after the country had just developed the Hejian area, the two brothers and young master Xu Zhongwu reselled all kinds of goods between Hejian and the East Bank grassland. It is really hard to say whether these goods have gone to the customs branches of the East Bank government on both sides of the Wujiang River to pay import and export tariffs. Cai Dao estimated that some of them may have paid taxes, some did not, but in short, they were suspected of tax evasion. But in that era

This is true for most people. The government tax collectors are pitifully few. Inadequate supervision, it is impossible to rely on merchants alone. Even business taxes, consumption taxes, etc. can only be discussed with these people with a fixed amount to collect. For import and export tariffs, which are more difficult to collect, it is simply a laissez-free. The customs responsible for collecting tariffs can only focus on the big and small, that is, gathering efforts to tax the goods carried by ships of major trading companies in various ports. To be honest, the others are a little powerless.

Of course, the Cai brothers no longer do this now. They rented a large hillside in the northern part of Hejian, started a tung tree plantation introduced from the Far East, and then bought some specialties such as matte tea, animal husbandry products, wood, herbs and other products produced in nearby areas, and packaged them to the wharf on the banks of the Wujiang River, and sold them to merchants from the East Coast Prairie. These businesses are basically very "innocence". Although there are inevitably tax evasion and tax evasion projects, to be honest, there are fewer ones and can be said to be a tax model.

In fact, there are many people like the Cai brothers, and there are also more and more people. The main reason is the gradual improvement of various rules and regulations, and the increasing number of tax collectors. The risk of tax evasion has been greatly increased many times in the past. Companies that can make a lot of profits through legitimate channels really do not need to take great risks and put themselves in unnecessary bad situations. You should know that the punishment for tax evasion is getting heavier now. If the amount is small, the fine may be fined to be fined (but the amount of this fine is often painful). If the amount is large, the participants may be sentenced to be exiled overseas as cannon fodder, which will be a life-threatening death!

"Company Commander Cai said this very well, but now there are still many people who do not have the idea and lack awe of the government. They always think that the tax system of Ming Dynasty and the taxation in Europe are like this, but is that the same thing?" Huang Hanhua took a sip of the cigarette, looking at the "battlefield" that was already in a one-sided situation ahead, and said: "Now the tax police camp has been established, and the tax police rooms in various townships have been gradually improved. In addition to the cadres of tax bureaus in various places, the number of clerks has been doubled. We must not let these gangsters be happy anymore!"

While the two of them were talking, the battle ahead was OK. It might be a bit exaggerated to say that the battle might have been a bit exaggerated, because the whole process lasted for twenty minutes and it was almost over. Except for the few smugglers who were knocked down at the beginning, most of the others gave up resistance and were taken down on the spot. Only a few people died in the subsequent gun battle with the tax police. Of course, there were about ten people who fled back to the deep water area with a small boat. The tax police could not catch up with them and could only let them leave after they put a random gun. However, the goods of these lucky smugglers could only be left on the beach. It is estimated that they would be heartbroken after returning.

Huang Hanhua quickly squatted out the cigarettes, then strode to the vicinity of the trembling smuggling prisoners. These people were surrounded by gun-carrying tax police, and they were all dejected, which seemed to have predicted their own destiny. However, there were still a few people who seemed unwilling to be exiled to a miasma, and loudly defended something, which made people feel very upset when they heard it.

"Sir, these are Spanish and are also buyers of this batch of goods. They argued that they did not know that the goods they bought were smuggled goods, and that they were subjects of the Spanish Kingdom, so we could not arrest and judge them." Cai Dao stopped his subordinates from using butt stocks to greet these people and translated at Huang Hanhua.

"Haha, it's still a clever word at this time. Don't worry, catch them all. Even if the Spanish come to make trouble, you won't be afraid. How big a big deal can there be!" Huang Hanhua smiled coldly after hearing this and said, "Is it still reasonable to conduct smuggling transactions with illegal merchants in our country? Take them all away. I want to see if the Spanish have eaten the courage of the bear heart or the leopard, and dare to go to our tax police camp to pick people up. Let's go and we're going to conquer the team!"

"As for the order, Chief Huang." Company Commander Cai nodded when he heard this, then waved his hand and asked the troops to start collecting mules and horses, transporting goods, and escorting prisoners. After a lot of work, more than 200 people happily stepped back.

During this period, some Spanish riders were spying on the distance. Huang Hanhua had some vague speculation about the identity of these people, probably the Spanish cavalry attracted by the gunfire just now. However, it is hard to say whether they were from the smuggling gang. Because of the financial situation in Spain, the soldiers of the colonial army had arrears of military pay and were very poor. It was difficult to maintain without smuggling or anything else. Therefore, it was possible that these cavalrymen were garrisoned by Buenos Aires. Because the smuggling caravan they were sheltered by were attacked, they came to take a look. However, they probably did not expect that this time they were trapped in the hands of the East Coast tax police. It seemed that the East Coast people dispatched people in their early 200s, so there was no way. It was impossible to rescue them halfway, so they could only let them go.

However, from this incident, we can also see how cowardly the Spaniards are today, and how their Buenos Aires trial court area was infiltrated by the East Coast people: These pagans from the other side of the La Plata River not only encircled land to build roads, houses, and markets in the remote suburbs of Buenos Aires, but also did not pay a penny of rent or land purchase fees. Later, they actually set up armed forces in the nearby port of Nancun (tax police)

The barracks in the camp were really not worthy of the Spanish at all. Of course, they were garrisoned, or something. Today, Huang Hanhua and Cai Dao led more than 200 armed tax police to openly enforce the law in the territory of the Spanish Kingdom, and they also fought and killed them. This was to completely throw the Spanish's faces into the gutter. It was estimated that some of the big men in Buenos Aires would be hot at this time, but they didn't know what to do. It was so sad that they said.

After returning to the barracks at Nancun Port with their captives and property, Huang Hanhua also took the time to sit down and write a report. Behind him, the camp owner Cai Dao (two companies of tax police stationed in the barracks) began to identify and interrogate these people. According to convention, these arrested smugglers, whether from the east coast or from abroad, will be sent to the other side of the La Plata River. If the Shangcheng County People's Court is not surprised, the fate of these people will be

They will all be exiled overseas colonies, such as New China, Australia, Blackwater and other places with relatively harsh environments and urgently needing manual development, which can be regarded as taking advantage of their surplus value. As for whether there will be any trouble in judging those Spanish people, haha, that's really too much. The Spanish have courage, just come to the theory. Anyway, with their usual performance, they should be timid, even if the people on the East Coast are almost trampling on their faces and ravaging them to the death.

On March 20, 1682, after inquiring about some other matters at the Nancun Port Tax Police Camp and approving part of the report, Huang Hanhua finished his work and then took the liner of the state-owned inland transport company on both sides of the La Plata River to and from the Mall Port.

Shangcheng Port is an important port for the East Coast Republic to trade with Spain. Merchants from both countries gathered, and naturally they are also a place of tax revenue. Therefore, he delayed here for a few days and checked his work. He had the right to do so. As the director and supervisor of the General Administration of Taxation, in principle, he had the right to check the work of any taxation agency except customs and then took a train and returned to the capital Dongfang Port via the Southwest Railway.
Chapter completed!