Lord of the House

Yanhu's offensive against the Hehuai line of defense this winter was not strong. Even Qingzhou, which was the most heavily battered, both Jiangning and Qingzhou themselves thought it was not difficult to defend key cities. But after this winter, how the situation will develop, even Huaidong did not seriously think and deduce.

After Song Jia opened up about this issue, Lin Fu thought about it in the middle of the night before falling asleep in a daze, and the next day called everyone to discuss this issue. In addition to Liu Miaozhen, Ma Lantou and other generals in Huaiyang Town, Liu Tingzhou and Xiao Kuian were also invited.

Discussing the defense of the Hehuai line of defense is not a secret of Huaidong after all. Let Liu Tingzhou and Xiao Kuian participate, and through them, some ideas of Huaidong on the Hehuai line of defense can be conveyed to the people in Jiangning.

Sometimes things are like this. If Huaidong directly conveys his thoughts, everyone in Jiangning will first wonder what Huaidong's intentions are. In this way, any advice from Huaidong will be greatly reduced in effect, and it may even prompt everyone in Jiangning to go to the opposite side of the matter.

"If we were to formulate a defense plan for Qingzhou, we should take Linzi City as the core and Yangxin as the outpost to form a buffer zone between the north of Linzi City and Yangxin. This area is 200 miles deep and close to the mouth of Bohai Bay. Although the terrain is flat, it is actually a long and narrow corridor with lake terrain. Resolutely implement the strong walls and clear fields in the buffer zone to ensure that the infiltrating Yan and Hu cavalry will not get food and grass from the buffer zone. Ensuring a certain field capability can basically ensure the safety of farming in the areas east and south of Linzi, and prevent the Yanhu cavalry from infiltrating," Gao Zongting analyzed, "The advantage of taking Linzi City as the center of defense is better. Relying on each other with Pingyuan House and Jinan House..."

Yangxin and Pingyuan were almost at the same latitude, located in the north, directly facing the enemy in Yannan.

Linzi and Jinan are almost on the same east-west horizontal line, located on the inner line.

Taking this defense plan as a starting point, Huaidong speculated that Yanhu would have to conquer the plains and Jinan before he could attack Linzi and Qingzhou on a large scale - while Song Jia believed that the Gu family and his son would probably be able to conquer the city after this winter. , put the Qingzhou Army's defense focus on Yangxin...

"After next spring, if the main force of the Qingzhou army gathers on the front line of Yangxin, it will inevitably lead to a top-heavy stagnation," Liu Miaozhen and Liu Tingzhou sat opposite the case, sitting on the left and right of Lin Bing respectively, and said, "From the perspective of the terrain , Yanhu's troops assembled in Yannan have no big difference in the use of troops in Yangxin City and Pingyuan City. The biggest difference is that Jinan is behind Pingyuan City, and its own troops are relatively sufficient, and once the Qingzhou army is assembled in Yangxin , Yangxin is besieged, and the Qingzhou Army will not be able to draw any extra troops to rescue Yangxin in Linzi. Considering this, once the main force of the Qingzhou Army gathers in Yangxin, it is very likely that Yangxin will become the primary target of Yanhu's attack!"

"The role of a soldier is to guard the border and defend the enemy from the outside. How can Liang Chengchong's guarding the plains and Gu Siyuan's guarding the Yangxin be divided?" Liu Tingzhou listened to Gao Zongting and Liu Miaozhen's speeches, and thought that they still had to protect Qingzhou in essence. Liu Tingzhou was quite dissatisfied with the meaning of Liang's family's intention to be a gully and cause disasters to flow westward, and retorted, "Qingzhou and Jinan are interdependent - even if Yanhu attacked Yangxin first, Lianghou and Lu Guogong would not sit idly by. …”

Lin Bie scratched his temple with a headache, and some did not know how to explain the truth to Liu Tingzhou.

Liu Tingzhou was considered a capable official, but he still couldn't get rid of his limitations. This limitation was very obvious in Dayue officials.

Either it is weak to the end - Jiangning's request for the Hehuai line of defense this time is only to defend the key cities, and even expressly prohibit the soldiers from leaving the city to fight in the field, and completely abandon the countryside outside the city walls. Once the situation improves a little, it will rebound violently, and I wish I could build a solid line of defense at the forefront and completely seal the enemy's army on the outside.

There is a fundamental lack of a realistic and executable strategic plan.

This limitation is not only in Liu Tingzhou, but also obvious in Gu Wuchen.

This difference is manifested in the military, and it is divided into two highly controversial strategic directions: external defense and internal defense.

When the strength is weaker than the enemy, active interior defense is a more realistic and appropriate strategic plan.

Taking Qingzhou's defense plan as an example, Linzi is the center of defense and Yangxin is the outpost, which is a typical interior defense.

Yangxin City is small and strong, and only a small number of troops can stick to it. The main force of the Qingzhou army gathered in the interior hinterland of Linzi City, which could force Yanhu to dare not let go of his hands and feet to attack Yangxin.

While Yangxin was not trapped, the main force of Yanhu would obviously not risk going deep into Linzi to fight against the Qingzhou Army.

The main force of the Qingzhou Army was assembled in Yangxin, which is the idea of ​​​​outside defense.

If the strength is stronger than the enemy army, there is no doubt that the focus of the force should be placed on the periphery and confront the enemy army **** for tat. But when the strength is weaker than the enemy's, the Qingzhou army will gather the main force in Yangxin, in fact, let Yanhu be on the periphery, so that he can get the chance to fight without taking too much risk.

Li Zhuo's five-year pacification strategy is generally an idea of ​​active interior defense.

Lin Fu sometimes thinks that if Emperor Chongguan no longer wanted to take down Liaoyang City after the Jizhen army captured Songshan, he would accept Li Zhuo's suggestion and leave only a small amount of elites and enough food and grass to stick to Songshan. Zhuo led the main force of Ji Town's army back to the inside line and continued to maintain the situation of inside line defense. The situation would never be as unmanageable as it is today.

Lin Fu knew very well, not to mention that Li Zhuo was reluctant to attack Liaoyang in order to ensure that Jizhen's army would not be damaged. Under such a situation, if he led the main force of the Huaidong Army to attack Liaoyang, he would not be able to escape the disastrous ending. ending.

It is a pity that the Manchu civil and military self-proclaimed civil and military strategy, but few people can see that it is a trap.

At this time, the same trap is likely to be placed in front of the Qingzhou people again. Yanhu is likely to induce the Qingzhou army to press the main force to the Yangxin area - Huaidong sent people to dissuade and explain, will it work?

Lin Fu had no confidence in this, and after listening to the people in the hall, he said to Liu Tingzhou: "Jiangning intends to strengthen the defense to the west of Huaiyang to ensure that there are soldiers and horses guarding the front line from Wukou to Shouzhou to Luzhou. Yu. I can understand this approach, and I think it is necessary. But now Jiang Ning has transferred the commander Xiao's department, and he doesn't want me to interfere in the defense of the Western Front. What kind of thing is this? As a general in Huaidong, am I still the envoy of Huaidong? If Commander Xiao is completely transferred out of the Huaidong Military Division and placed under the direct jurisdiction of the Imperial Camp Division, I will not ask, but the ordnance supply will never be with Huaidong from now on. I would like to ask you to move out of Huaidong if you are a child of your family... In addition, Mr. Liu has no time to stay in Huaidong recently. I see the money for grain, grass and grass after Huaidong. The Zhidu envoy can report it to you, and it will save you a few places. Working hard."

Liu Tingzhou pondered the meaning of Lin Fu's words: Xiao Kuian's subordinates can be separated from the Huaidong Army, but their subordinates have to move out. This is hardly a condition. There is a large amount of wasteland in Haosi that can be used to resettle the families of the generals. At the same time, Liu Tingzhou also hopes to do so, so as to ensure that Xiao Kuian's troops are loyal to the court and avoid looting and looting of the families in Huaidong in the future. possibility of coercion.

In addition to this, Lin Fu's condition is that the money and grain taxes of Huai'an and Hailing should be put under the jurisdiction of the Huaidong Military Division Zhidu (Lin Mengde), and the Huaidong Zhidu will be led by the general army. Responsible for reporting.

In fact, Lin Bie will be recruited and used by himself in Huaidong in the future. That is to say, in addition to the military and political power, Lin Fu must fully grasp the financial power of Huaidong.

Liu Tingzhou touched his chin and pondered, and said, "This matter is not a decision of the subordinates. Master Lin may ask the Holy Inquisition." He thought to himself: The tax data of Mingzhou Prefecture is a secret, and it has been completely controlled by Lin Fu. However, the money and grain tax that Huaian and Hailing can draw out to support the army are not high.

After the Jin-Hai food route was cut off, all the taxes from Mingzhou, Huai'an, and Hailing were given to Lin Fu, which might not be able to raise the Huaidong Army with a total of nearly 80,000 troops.

From this point of view, it is not too much for Lin Bie to recruit and use himself in Huaidong. However, once Lin Fu fully grasped the military, political and financial affairs of Huaidong, no one in Huaidong Prefecture would dare to confront Lin Fu head-on even if he was appointed by the court. In this sense, this would be a great harm to the court. , Over time, Huaidong is likely to be completely reduced to a feudal town for the Lin clan.

Gao Zongting was sitting in the most convenient position to observe Liu Tingzhou's face. Seeing Liu Tingzhou hesitated, he thought that even if Jiang Ning knew that this was a cup of poisonous wine, he would be eager to drink it to quench his thirst.

As far as Huaidong is concerned, there is no direct benefit in letting Xiao Kuian's department out of control. However, by combining the money, grain and taxation of the two prefectures under the unified jurisdiction of Zhidu Shi, without the resistance of Liu Tingzhou, it is convenient for Huaidong to comprehensively promote the new policy to Huai'an Prefecture, and even one piece of money, grain and taxation can be used to clean up officials.

Moving out the small capital of Xiao Kuian's subordinate generals, it means that Huaidong has no intention of looting Xiao Kuian's subordinates. In addition, there is a large amount of abandoned wasteland in Huaixi that is uncultivated, and the relocation of more than 10,000 households can restore farming in the Huaixi area, and can also make the agricultural land in Huaidong tense.

Liu Tingzhou left Huaiyang with an ambiguous attitude.

Regarding the possible development of the situation on the Hehuai line of defense, Lin Fu could only speak bluntly, and he was not sure whether he could listen to Jiangning and Qingzhou.

After Liu Tingzhou left, Lin Fu stayed in Huaiyang for two more days, and then crossed Huai'an south to Huai'an City, and asked Liu Shidu, the prefect of Huai'an, to discuss the promotion of the New Deal in Huai'an.

No matter what, no matter what means, Lin Fu must fully implement the new policy in Huai'an after the spring of next year.

No matter how the external situation develops, fundamentally, Huaidong's strength will continue to increase.

It has been nearly a year since Hailing Prefecture has comprehensively promoted the new policy, and the tax and grain income of the county has not increased significantly. After deducting local expenses, the tax and grain (excluding Chongzhou, Hecheng and other places) can be used to support the army throughout the year. ), from 300,000 shi before the New Deal to 360,000 shi. Local expenditures totaled 410,000 shi, the same as last year, but the source of income was very different.

In the past, the local expenditure of Hailing House and the counties mainly relied on Ding tax, head apportionment and various miscellaneous taxes.

In the promotion of the new policy, the proportion of miscellaneous taxes including city tax, over-tax, mining tax and workshop li jin has been greatly increased, and the proportion of li jin levied by the military department will be uniformly collected by the military li jin bureau; the small tax and the per capita apportionment will be reduced or exempted to reduce the burden of the poor people, and the local expenditure is mainly It comes from the land tax and official land income increased by the inventory of fields.

In the past, in addition to subordinate staff's salaries, expenses for maintaining local military equipment, and various dispatching and manufacturing affairs, there was also a large amount of money spent on officials' greed.

The new policy promoted in Hailing Mansion does not seem to be of direct benefit to the Huaidong Military Division for the time being. However, in the past year, Lin Fu disbanded the Hailing Prefecture Army and merged it into the eastern Zhejiang camp army, and vigorously rectified the management of officials. At the local level, he was able to save a lot of money to build water conservancy, reclaim wasteland and cultivate crops, repair cities, and build Changping. warehouses, road building and other public affairs.

In addition, keeping a large amount of money and grain surplus in the warehouses of the counties is also controlled by the Huaidong Military Division, which can be used as an important supplement to the military reserve.

"The new policy will continue to be implemented. Reducing taxes and taxes is the government's business. We must do it resolutely. We also require local landowners to reduce rents for tenant farmers. Farming in the fields throughout the year, even food is a problem; in the event of a disaster In the new year, I have to change my son and eat it~www.wuxiaspot.com~ I will starve to death - who has no resentment or resentment in my heart?" Lin Fu always took the trouble to discuss the details and meaning of the New Deal with the officials below, right The same is true for Liu Shidu, "I think the problem is very simple, no matter how important things are in this world, it is not as important as eating and living. There is a lot of trouble outside, whether it is an official or a family with a thousand calibers, when the soldiers are in chaos, a knife in the neck is just like To die, there is no fate, noble or low. Huaidong must not be chaotic and must be stable. The most fundamental point is to allow everyone to have enough to eat and not starve to death. Only in this way can we ensure that there will be no chaos in Huaidong. When foreign enemies come in, everyone will have the will to work together to defend against foreign enemies. This principle, I will tell everyone, I hope Mr. Liu can also tell these principles to everyone. Let everyone understand that the implementation of the New Deal is a It's a good thing for everyone. You can even invite those big landowners who have fled to Huaidong to come out and tell everyone what's going on outside! Of course, some people are resistant, and it's normal. If you make a fuss, you can slowly persuade them to understand and accept it. But when someone jumps out to make trouble, you must not be soft-hearted. In Chongcheng, those profiteers who hoarded and manipulated the price of rice in front of the yamen have been hacked a lot..."

"What the lord said is very true, Jiang Ning also has the intention to follow Huaidong to promote the new policy, how can the lower officials not do their best?" Liu Shidu said.

Of course, Liu Shidu was not very optimistic about Jiangning's implementation of the New Deal. As soon as Jiang Ning started talking about the New Deal, there was a quarrel. How many Jiangning officials are not big landowners or big landowners? Don't talk about others, Chen Xiyan's Chen family is the owner of a large land with thousands of acres of fertile land in Jiyang County. Chen Xiyan wanted to serve the court and donated 10,000 mu of fertile land to the court to support the army, but after all, there were too few officials with such high consciousness. My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter