Lord of the House

"This reckless man is brave enough, but what is there for you to love?" Song Jia asked Lin Fu privately, she knew that Sun Zhuang had an irreplaceable value in contacting the Red Jacket Army, but if Lin Fu just wanted to Using Sun Zhuang would not take so much thought.

Lin Fu smiled slightly and said: "When the water is clear, there will be no fish, and when people are inspected, there will be no apprentices. The superior should use it according to his talents, and should not be blamed for everything. The Huaisi refugee army has dozens of canals and canals, and can really make The Huaidong Army finds it difficult to gnaw on Sun Zhuang and Liu Miaozhen. Chen Zhuang, Zhang Gou and others are not bad. Seriously, Zhang Gou's knowledge of the art of war is stronger than Sun Zhuang's, and his mind is also deep. But Sun Zhuang has been willing to serve as a general under Sun Zhuang for several years, in terms of these two points, Sun Zhuang has more than martial arts!"

Song Jiamei's eyes were slightly confused.

Lin Fu said: "For the courage of the army, if the army is full of far-reaching planners, an army will be slightly lacking in martial arts. Liu Tingzhou also underestimates Sun Zhuang, which is the traditional thinking formed by literati contempt of martial arts. Come on, Liu Tingzhou will not be able to control the Northern Army without Xiao Kuian..."

"Speaking of the Northern Army," Song Jia asked, "will you always let the Northern Army controlled by Liu Tingzhou and Xiao Kuian hide behind Huaisi?"

"It's not a question of whether I let or not," Lin Fu said, "Jiangning will do everything possible to transfer the Northern Army out of Huaidong's grasp. If Liu Miaozhen can successfully accept the recruitment and let the Northern Army move westward, Strengthening the defense of the middle lane is also what it should be. Liu Tingzhou and Xiao Kuian are much more reliable than others, and they can also gain Jiangning's trust..."

Sun Zhuang abandoned Sui Ning and Su Yu, and let Liu Miaozhen lead his troops eastward. In order to quell the anger of Liu Tingzhou and others, Lin Fu transferred Xiao Kuian to guard Shuyang and assigned the Northern Army to them.

From the beginning, Lin Fu never thought about being able to control the Northern Army, and he did not deliberately ease the conflict with Liu Tingzhou. Naturally, he had long expected that Jiang Ning would win over the Northern Army from Huaidong.

Datong was lost, and the Northland was one step closer to the collapse of the entire line, leaving Huaidong more and more limited time to prepare.

Qin Chengzu and Sun Zhuang went to Huaisi to help the Red Jackets make more preparations; Jinhai also had to start the retreat immediately, but it was just in time for the storm season, and it was too risky to go directly to Mingzhou by sea.

The 300,000 to 400,000 refugees in Jinhai had to be evacuated by sea to the Denglai area in the northern part of the Shandong Peninsula, then down the Jiaolai River to Jiaozhou Bay, and then evacuated to Huaidong by sea or land.

There is no extra land in Huaidong, and the 300,000 to 400,000 refugees will eventually be relocated to Daishan, Changguo, and Mingzhou... Of course, some people will be moved to Yizhou, Jeju, and Dongzhou, but only for a short period of time. , the resettlement of Yiju, Jeju, Dongju and other places is very limited.

It is not much easier than a big battle to evacuate 300,000 to 400,000 people from Jinhai, and to resettle them well.

This is also one of the reasons why Lin Fu is eager to attack eastern Zhejiang. He can't attack Mingzhou Prefecture, Changguo and Daishan Islands, and Huaidong can't accept so many people.

Not to mention Mingzhou Prefecture for the time being, the Changguo and Daishan Islands have been harassed by East China Sea raiders for decades, and almost all of Dingkou have moved inward. After the luxury family occupied eastern Zhejiang, they resumed farming on these islands on a large scale. Many people moved here from eastern Fujian. This time, they were picking peaches for Huaidong.

After the Mingzhou government was recovered, the work of clearing the fields has just begun. It is not clear how much public land the Mingzhou government can obtain, but the fields, mountains, lakes, houses, and castles belonging to Changguo and Daishan Islands have been given to Lin. Bound clearly ordered to be an official, and there was no particularly fierce opposition in eastern Zhejiang.

In the middle of the Yue Dynasty, the number of registered fields in Changguo County was as high as 300,000 mu. If used well, the water and dry fields on these islands alone can accommodate 60,000 to 70,000 people; moreover, the fishery resources of the Changguo Islands are more abundant than the sea outside Hecheng Port.

Of course, the bulk of the resettlement of refugees is still in Mingzhou. The war that lasted for many years has caused heavy losses to the Dingkou of Mingzhou Prefecture, and even the fertile paddy fields along the coast have been abandoned due to the lack of Dingkou. Filling in 300,000 people, there is little pressure. The key is to deal with the contradiction between the newly relocated port and the local forces.

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Sun Zhuang said goodbye to the blind old mother and the little woman, and took two soldiers, and then returned to Dongya to join Qin Chengzu, that is, he rode north on horses under the **** of dozens of cavalry guards.

The group went north from Chongzhou, and after reaching Hecheng, they took Hanhaidi Avenue and went straight to Yandu County in the northwest.

The Hanhai Embankment, which started construction after the Huaisi War, runs from Jiangmen to Hecheng and then north to Yandu, with a total length of 312 li. Millions of taels of silver were invested in the front and back, and it was basically completed in early May.

Although Sun Zhuang behaved rudely, he was by no means stupid. With the seawall defending, Lin Bie spit out the words "Anmin Jingtu" in his mouth, so he could not tolerate anyone's doubts.

Defending the seawall is of great significance to Huaidong.

Lin Fu was the first envoy of the Huaidong system, and he built the seawall aggressively. Except for Chongzhou, the counties in Huaidong were basically on the sidelines. More local forces are worried that their interests will be infringed, and either overtly or covertly, the Huaidong Military Division infiltrated the region by taking advantage of the opportunity to repair and defend the seawall.

In order to build and defend the sea wall, Huaidong not only accepted the surrender of more than 60,000 refugee troops, but also directly absorbed 40,000 soldiers from the local area and incorporated them into labor camps. people's survival.

If Huaidong does nothing and push these 200,000 refugees and floating people to the counties, the conflicts and turmoil that will be caused in the local areas will be unimaginable.

This alone is enough to reverse the stubborn and confrontational attitude of the local forces against the Huaidong Military Division.

After the seawall is built, nearly one million mu of land in the embankment will fundamentally solve the damage of marine invasion, and conditions will be gradually transformed into high-yield and fertile land. The large lakes, wetlands and swamps in the embankment can also be transformed into fertile farmland by gradually enclosing the polder to build the embankment.

Even though a large number of lakes, deserted beaches, wet marshes, etc. are all given to the Huaidong Military Division as officials for the resettlement of refugees and floating households, the local landowners' own fields have also been significantly affected by the construction of seawalls. direct benefits.

Some enlightened squires and landowners even took the initiative to cooperate with Huaidong's new policy of reducing rent and bursary, recruiting more tenants to renovate and cultivate their fields, so that their own fields can have more output.

Lin Fu was unable to carry out a thorough land reform in Huaidong. In addition to promoting the new policy of reducing rents and taxes, he encouraged tenants to buy land from landowners and reduced the degree of land mergers in Huaidong.

Some landowners are reluctant to reduce rents, but some are willing to sell their fields to avoid conflicts with the new policy of reducing rents and taxes implemented in Huaidong.

For the landowner, the money from the sale of the land can be deposited in the Huaidong Bank to earn money and interest, which is no worse than the direct management of the land; of course, Huaidong also supports the tenants to borrow and redeem funds from the Huaidong Bank in terms of tax policy. form a complete cycle.

Of course, fundamentally, after the tenants have redeemed their fields, their enthusiasm for cultivating and improving their fields will be greatly increased, and the output of the land will also be greatly increased, so as to provide enough money and interest income for the bank, as a way to promote the continuous expansion of the entire cycle. prime mover.

Only those who are truly proficient in political affairs can have a deep understanding of this point.

When other places are still trying their best to collect more money and grain from the farmers who are struggling to survive, Huaidong can collect more than 80,000 taels of lijin from the Huaidong Bank this year.

Of course, there is a world of difference in the tolerance of thin fields and plastered fields for dingkou.

In Chongzhou, especially after the dredging of the Yunyan River, the replanting of rice, wheat and cotton was promoted on a large scale. One household was able to cultivate ten acres of fertile land, and it was even able to withstand 30% of the pressure of rent and be rich. In the Huaisi area, where water conservancy has been severely damaged, a family can barely make ends meet by farming 30 to 40 acres of land, and has a very poor tolerance for natural disasters and social unrest.

In the past, the three counties of Gaocheng, Jianling and Yandu were located in the low-lying area of ​​the Hudang Plain, and the three counties combined could not even compare to the counties of Shanghailing or Chongzhou.

Once the seawall is built, the land capacity of the three counties of Gaocheng, Jianling and Yandu will be greatly increased. Coupled with the large-scale development of Hecheng grassland in Huaidong, 40,000 to 500,000 floating households, It is only possible when the refugees are gradually resettled. This will also completely alleviate the increasingly severe social conflicts and unrest in the counties and localities.

In this era, no matter whether it is rented or owned fields, ordinary people can only settle down completely by farming the fields. In order to cherish the current opportunity to cultivate fields, those people who have suffered from hunger and cold will support Huaidong Military Commander at the cost of bloodshed and even their lives.

Only a small number of people in the Huaidong Military Division can access the core data and can understand the profound significance of the construction of the seawall and the series of actions around the seawall to Huaidong.

Today, there are still more than 10,000 soldiers along the causeway, and they continue to carry out the follow-up work such as the maintenance of the causeway and the planting of sea forests to protect the dykes~www.wuxiaspot.com~ These more than 10,000 soldiers are distributed along the 12 post forts and many fortresses along the seawall. It is also the basic defense force that constitutes the seawall defense system.

There are also about 40,000 soldiers transferred into the embankment to build embankments, build water conservancy, reclaim wasteland and plant crops, etc., which is also the reserve force of Huaidong.

In addition, from the beginning of the year to this time, in addition to the large-scale expansion and new formation of Changshan Camp, Chongcheng Foot Camp, Jinghai Second and Third Water Camps, and the East Zhejiang Marching Camp, Fengli Camp was also expanded at one time. Twenty battalions, doubled in strength, consumed about fifty thousand troop reserves.

Today, the Huaidong Army consists of 18,000 soldiers from Changshan Battalion, 9,000 soldiers from Chongcheng Infantry Battalion, 12,000 soldiers from Fengli Battalion, and 12,000 soldiers from Zhejiang East Army Battalion. The third water battalion has 15,000 soldiers, the Haidong Xingying battalion has 5,000 soldiers, and the Heishuiyang Shipping Society and Jiyun Society have 3,000 soldiers.

It's just that the scale of the expansion was too large in a short period of time, the supplementary armor was insufficient, and the overall combat effectiveness declined.

More importantly, about three-quarters of the Huaidong Army's troops, including the Haidong battalion, were deployed on the southern front, including the Chongzhou and Siyang lines. Less than 20,000 people.

Compared with the combat power directly under the jurisdiction, the reserve force centered on the labor and transportation battalion has dropped to 50,000, which is already insufficient.

Qin Chengzu and Sun Zhuang went to Huaisi this time. In addition to persuading Liu Miaozhen, Ma Lantou and others to deploy the main force of the Red Jacket Army on the northern front to guard against the Donghu cavalry that might infiltrate from the Hehuai area at any time, they also had to convince Liu Miaozhen and Ma Lantou. It was agreed that Huaidong would recruit Ding Zhuang from the displaced people in Huaisi, and set up a labor camp with a scale of 20,000 to 30,000 people in Siyang.

This is also an important measure to prevent the Red Jacket Army from defecting, to enhance Huaidong's local control over Huaisi, and to increase Huaidong's military reserve. My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter