Chapter 526 A river of blood (please ask for monthly votes)
The tax official headed by took a few steps forward and said without any expression on his face:
"Are you Jacques-Ettore de Poca from Touraine?"
Touraine is the hometown of Polkadot. He immediately nodded and said: "I am Pocahontas."
Then the tax officer took out a copper badge and showed it to him: "I am Pierre Gaspar Chaumet, inspector of the Reims tax office. Now you are suspected of illegal taxation, intentional injury, and fraud." …
"Ah, there are many crimes. I'll go into details about this later. Oh, your ID number is 1037083123, right?"
Thanks to the unremitting efforts of the Minister of Household Registration, France has basically universalized ID cards except in extremely remote areas.
Poca's face darkened and he nodded: "Yes."
"That's right." Xiaomet motioned to the tax officer behind him, "Arrest him immediately."
"Yes, sir!"
"What are you going to do?" Poca took a step back and threatened, "I am friends with the Municipal Commissioner Baron Le Corni! You be careful!"
"City Commissioner?" Xiaomet sneered, turned to his subordinates and shouted, "Move quickly!"
"Hey! Do you know who I work for?" Seeing that the municipal commissioner was ineffective, Boca had to move out the boss, "It's Viscount Borlore!"
"Oh?" Xiaomet became interested after hearing this, took out his notebook and started recording, "Tell me carefully how you did things for Bolore."
Poca was stunned for a moment, and when he saw that the other party was unmoved, he put on a smile again, winked wildly at Xiaomet, and whispered: "Don't be so serious. If you can go to the outside of the town to rest for a while, Hours, I can give you 2,000, ah, no 3,000 francs.”
Unexpectedly, the tax inspector in front of him did not show greed like other bureaucrats he usually saw. Instead, he looked extremely angry.
"How dare you bribe officials?" Xiaomet shouted, "This will add one more charge to your crime!"
He was a "pure-blooded" Jacobin who followed Robespierre - he was full of thoughts on dedicating everything to justice and freedom and creating a beautiful country, and Poca's behavior was undoubtedly an insult to his ideals.
At this moment, Poca's housekeeper rushed over with seven or eight fierce men with weapons.
Seeing that Poca looked unkind, those people immediately stood in front of him and separated the tax officials.
People kept coming from behind, all of whom were tax collectors under Polkadot. Most of these guys were ruffians before. After becoming tax collectors, they became tyrannical and beat up people who owed taxes at will, so they developed extremely arrogant habits.
One of them looked at Poca: "Master, what do you think we should do?"
"Drive these guys away." Poca gritted his teeth.
He could tell that the tax bureau was serious this time. So, he decided to drive away the tax collector first, and then immediately sought asylum from Viscount Borlore.
The tax official brought by Xiaomet stepped forward to push away the tax collectors, but was pushed back and staggered.
As more tax collectors arrived, the number soon reached nearly 20, surrounding Xiaomet and others.
A loud "bang" made everyone in Boca shrink their necks.
Xiaomet retracted his raised right hand, blew away the gun smoke, and said to the tax officials: "If you dare to gather a crowd to attack the tax officials, you will be shot to death immediately!"
The tax collectors behind him immediately lined up back to back in a circle, pointing their flintlock muzzles at the murderer in front of them.
Poca turned around and ran towards the courtyard, shouting at the same time: "Don't be afraid, I will definitely bail him out if he is caught!"
Xiaomet pulled out another pistol and aimed it at the chest of the most arrogant tax collector: "Get out of the way!" Seeing that the other party was unmoved, Xiaomet pulled the trigger without hesitation.
There was another explosion, and the murderer was knocked backward by the lead bullet, his chest already covered in blood and flesh.
The other tax collectors suddenly remembered that they had heard that the tax officer shot the attacker to death in the street, and they immediately connected the tax officer's evil name with the people in front of them.
Several people trembled and touched their waists. They also have pistols, and with their numerical advantage, if a fight breaks out, these tax collectors will definitely not be their opponents.
Upon seeing this, Xiaomet immediately shouted: "Shoot!"
Although the six tax officials were nervous, they still carried out the order. The flintlock guns in their hands spurted out flames at the same time. With only five or six steps between them, the six tax collectors were instantly knocked backwards and flew away.
"Prepare the bayonet!" Chaumet continued to order, and he drew his sword.
The dozen or so tax collectors around looked at the corpses on the ground and felt that their legs were weak. They still had the courage to draw their guns and fight. They all turned around in fear and ran away.
"Everyone, stop!" Shomet shouted, "Otherwise, I will kill you immediately!"
The usually arrogant tax collectors even forgot that the tax collector's gun had not been loaded with ammunition. They all froze where they were, and some even raised their hands.
Xiaomet personally led one of his men into Poca's villa. Not long after, Poca and his butler came out with their pistols pointed at them.
The tax collector had heard the gunfire just now. When he saw the corpse on the ground, he was so frightened that his legs collapsed and he knelt on the ground. There was a foul-smelling water stain in his crotch...
Meanwhile, Stien Town.
Although the tax collector Lecornu had his hands tied, he still shouted arrogantly: "Humph, how dare you arrest me?" "I tell you, you are finished!" In less than three days, someone will take me back. When the time comes, I will definitely make you regret it! "
The tax official on the side remembered the things this guy had done in the documents, raised his hand and hit him in the mouth with the butt of a gun, and the shouting suddenly stopped.
A fierce battle broke out on the Liyong side.
After the tax collector Obuang's men exchanged shots with the tax official, they started fighting hand-to-hand. In the end, after the tax official suffered 4 casualties, he finally killed or arrested all the thugs with the help of the people.
In short, the attitude of the tax bureau no matter where it is is - uncompromising, tough and tenacious, and will not let anyone go!
In the next three days, tax bureaus across France mobilized and arrested nearly a thousand tax collectors or their minions.
These are only the tax collectors whose problems have been identified. There are still long lines of people filing complaints in front of tax bureaus in various places. It can be expected that more tax collectors will be arrested in the future.
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Second floor of the Tuileries Palace.
Joseph looked at the list submitted by Robespierre, and his expression finally relaxed a little.
He picked up the pen and signed at the back of the list, then handed it back to Robespierre:
"You did a good job. Then let's start the trial. Oh, those guys who violently attacked the tax collectors can be tried together to save time."
In the end, he did not completely copy the historical Jacobin approach.
At present, France still maintains good order, and there is no need to destroy it out of anger. It is still necessary to go through the normal trial procedures.
The court will probably have to work overtime, but fortunately the evidence in most cases is clear - the tax collector's accounts, tax documents, etc. are all in the hands of the tax bureau, and it is easy to check whether there are any problems.
(End of chapter)