Lord of the House

(There should be a chapter in the early morning)

It was not until May 12 that Qin Zitan was escorted to Ouhai.

The drizzle did not stop in the afternoon, and before you knew it, the light was already dim; the raindrops fell from the eaves and hit the green bricks of the steps, and the sound of pattering came in, as if there were raindrops falling in my heart.

The Ordnance Superintendent sent the design drawings of the troop shovel, and spread a large piece on the desk; Lin Fu was studying with the sample shovel, and Lin Fu didn't realize that it was too late until the guards came in to light the oil lamp. Putting the shovel on the desk, he asked Song Jia, "Should someone be brought here?"

"Maybe it's in the city." Song Jia responded, looking out the window, the rain was like silk floating on a dark curtain, continuous.

"Go and have a look, people will bring you here, bring them directly." Lin Fu said.

Song Jia's heart throbbed, she looked at Lin Fu puzzled, and said, "Du Rong, can you keep him or not kill him, but can't you keep him alive? Previously, each of them was his master, and he was loyal to his own affairs. It was not the reason for death! Qin Zi! Tan’s talent and knowledge are not unique in the world, but they are rare; if Qin Zitan can be used by Huaidong, why not use it?”

"...Sigh," Lin Fu sighed softly and said, "If you don't want to see him, it's up to you..." He didn't explicitly say whether to keep Qin Zitan's life or not, but Song Jia said it was also related to Qin Zitan knew each other once, and people would always think of their old love, and Lin Fu didn't blame her for begging for Qin Zitan.

When Hu Zhiyong walked in at this time, Song Jia stopped talking about Qin Zitan, but it was clear that no one in Huaidong officials wanted to intercede for Qin Zitan, including Gao Zongting.

Qin Zitan's life or death is all in Lin Bie's thoughts.

Lin Fu didn't want to talk about Qin Zitan either, so he beckoned Hu Zhiyong to sit over, handed him the soldier shovel, and said, "The Ordnance Superintendent actually tinkered with this thing, it's not quite satisfactory, come and see. …”

Hu Zhiyong sat on the side of the case and saw Lin Fu demonstrating the use of the shovel.

The troop shovel is about one foot and three inches long. It is no different from ordinary shovels when unfolded. However, it has an edge on one side, which can be used as an axe. Used as a hand shield, there is a ruler on the handle, which can be measured - Hu Zhiyong is good at political affairs, but he knew that Zhou Tongtong would be full of praise for the shovels of the soldiers, and he wished that he would make thousands of them immediately.

The scout is used in the wild, and the situation is complicated, but you can't carry too many utensils with you. Such a small shovel has many functions such as knife, shovel, ax, saw, etc. It is very useful - Hu Zhiyong's only feeling about this, It's just too expensive. Don't say that thousands of them are made, it is distressing to make hundreds of them.

Hu Zhiyong took the specially made shovel, smacking his lips and said, "A small shovel can make several Mo knives..." Lin Bing named this shovel the "Bingbing Shovel", thinking, I really want to give it to Huaidong The total number of 120,000 troop soldiers under the administration of the workers' battalion are equipped with such troop shovels, and Huaidong does not need to do other things.

"..." Lin Bie laughed and said, "Wen and Wu are always at odds at this time - leading troops to fight, wish to make more weapons, send some bad things over, scolding father and mother, in short, there is no good thing to say The person in charge of money and food, only to see the silver rushing out like water, heartache!"

"Isn't that so?" Hu Zhiyong said with a wry smile, "The war in southern Zhejiang is basically over, and the grant of land alone will cost 170,000 mu, and it will be counted on the account, but it is a business at a discount. Going forward, but the land occupied by the extravagant family, the adults ordered that as long as there is a bitter master to stand up, the military commander can only buy it with silver money. Although the land price can be reduced, but in southern Zhejiang to make up for the lack of land grants, the military commander estimates that he will have to pay for it. More than 100,000 taels of silver will come out. Let’s talk about the wound medicine, and now Ouhai has set up a medical bureau, and every month they have to invest 20,000 taels of silver…”

"Yes, yes," Lin Fu hurriedly stopped Hu Zhiyong's words and said with a smile, "I don't have time to listen to your complaints today. This shovel seems to be expensive to build, but I didn't say how much it will be built at once. Smelting, forging and other forging work, everything is the same. It is said that the forging of the shovel body is also very useful in making armor. The armor used in the scale armor is as dense as fish scales. It looks good and has strong protection, but it is too It takes time and ten skilled craftsmen to make a pair of scale armor in a year. What if I replace the small armor with this large armor?" Lin Bie took the troop shovel and put it on his chest. Looking like a heart guard, he said, "All the progress comes from every little effort, what do you think?"

"I don't worry about it either. I came to see the adults to talk about other things..." Hu Zhiyong said.

Living within his means, how many things the military commander wants to do depends on how much money the military commander can get every year. Lin Fu has a lot of fantastic ideas, but to implement it, the first person who gets stuck is Lin Mengde. silver. Hu Zhiyong then played his tricks and turned to the business where he came to find Lin Fu, saying: "My lord is going to select students from poor families in southern Zhejiang and send them to Chongzhou to study in a new school. The board and lodging will be free, and the treatment will be the same as generals. This announcement is made. Posted it out, and the responders gathered. So far, more than 400 people have qualified for the post, which is twice as many as originally thought. The idea is to be taken by adults..."

"At the end of the day, it's not about the money?" Lin Fu said with a smile, "It's based on the number of people today, and the internal treasury will make up for the lack of expenses, so you don't have to come to me for a lawsuit..."

To control the area in southern Zhejiang, expanding the scale of army recruitment and determining the status of military households in the local area is a means, but the final governance of the area still has to rely on officials.

The selection of officials mainly depends on the imperial examinations.

At present, the war is not peaceful, and Huaidong has good reasons to carry out semi-militarized control over eastern Zhejiang, southern Zhejiang and other places. Except for a few key officials who need to be appointed through Jiangning, the ordinary officials in the jurisdiction are directly appointed by the Huaidong Military Division, and even directly under military control.

With the passage of time, the selection and appointment of local officials will return to the normal track. However, before that, Huaidong filled in a large number of qualified officials who were accepted by the local government, filling up the pit. In the future, if Jiangning implemented the imperial examination system in the local area, its influence would be greatly weakened.

Huaidong needed a large number of qualified officials; in addition, Huaidong wanted to strengthen the control over southern Zhejiang and eastern Zhejiang, the most effective method was to have a stake in it.

In order to cultivate talents, in addition to the war training school, Lin Fu has successively established a number of enlightenment schools and specialized schools based on miscellaneous studies in Chongzhou and other places in the past two years.

After the war in southern Zhejiang, Lin Fu planned to select a group of students from poor families from southern Zhejiang to bring them back to Chongzhou, send them to the new school for two or three years, and then send them to the local government to serve as officials.

Reading and literacy is still an extremely heavy burden for the extremely poor. The so-called children of poor families are actually children of small and medium-sized landlords and families with land and property.

In the long-term war, the squires and wealthy families turned the tide, and they were the targets of the extravagant families to control the locality; the destitute families had nothing to lose; the most serious losses were those who had some land but were not enough to protect themselves.

Although he offered the same treatment as recruiting troops, considering the profound influence of his background in imperial examinations, Lin Fu only expected to recruit 200 people from southern Zhejiang to return to Chongzhou, but he did not expect the situation to be more optimistic than he thought.

The number of people more than doubled than expected, and the previous allocation for this project was severely underpaid. Huaidong is now living within his means, with more than 200 more people, and an additional cost of nearly 4,000 taels of silver a year. It doesn't seem like much, but it has to be squeezed out from elsewhere.

Without having to listen to Lin Mengde's complaints, Lin Bie simply used the internal library to make up for the shortage.

This incident also shows from the side that the Huaidong Army's series of military victories in southern Zhejiang and the many new policies implemented are very popular among the people; Huaidong was able to finally capture Qin Zitan, precisely because Huaidong was more popular in southern Zhejiang. .

Under the protection of his servants, Qin Zitan had already escaped from the Huaidong Army's search area in the Nanxiyuan River Valley, but he had to cross Kuocang Mountain to escape back to Xianju or other areas controlled by the Zhejiang and Fujian Army. Under the protection of his servants, Qin Zitan blocked the mountain people when he climbed the Kuocang Mountain between Yongjia and Taizhou.

Qin Zitan promised that the mountain people would be rewarded with thousands of dollars for escorting them back to Xianju. In comparison, the Huaidong Army offered a prisoner to the mountain people in exchange for a thousand copper dollars or three acres of dry land, which was not enough. Who would have thought that Qin Zitan was very eloquent, but he was kidnapped by the mountain people with two squires and sent to the Huaidong military camp.

The guard pushed open the door and walked in to report: "Qin Zitan has been escorted into the city, will you bring it here?"

"..." Lin Fuzheng frowned and considered, Song Jia got up and said, "I'll go down first..." Walking behind the screen.

Lin Fu ordered: "Bring people here."

Hu Zhiyong moved to the side of the case, turned his head to look at the door, and waited for Qin Zitan to be brought up.

After the She family abandoned the land and went to sea in the early years~www.wuxiaspot.com~ by controlling the forces of the East China Sea bandits, they invaded the coasts of Jiangsu and Zhejiang wantonly, Qin Zitan played a great role here.

Chongzhou was invaded by East China Sea invaders and suffered heavy losses twice, so Hu Zhiyong had absolutely no good feelings for Qin Zitan, and advocated that Qin Zitan be beheaded. But how to deal with Qin Zitan, Lin Fu has not expressed his position, and others are not good to say anything.

The overall situation is the most important, and both public and private hatred can be ignored; how to deal with Qin Zitan in the end must take the overall interests of Huaidong first.

After a while, Qin Zitan brought it up.

Qin Zitan's face was disheveled, his clothes were ragged, he had a broken arm, and an empty sleeve was hanging from a pipe. He limped and walked to the front of the hall with difficulty. The flesh on his face was trembling with pain; he must have suffered a serious leg injury. , and Nanxiyuan Barracks did not give him good treatment when taking prisoners.

Compared to when Jiang Ning met, Qin Zitan was very thin at this time, with white strands in her messy hair. Thinking about it, Qin Zitan was not yet thirty years old this year.

Qin Zitan raised his head and looked at Lin Fu calmly, but he didn't look at Hu Zhiyong who was sitting beside him. Even though he looked like a fool, his expression was still calm. Before Lin Fu could speak, he opened his mouth and said: "The time is also in your hands, it's my Qin Zitan's bad luck, there is no nonsense to talk about, But please die quickly!"

"You beg for a quick death?" Lin Fu smiled lightly and said, "You came down from Kuocang Mountain and escorted you into Ouhai today. You have four days. You can beg for death. Say this?"

Qin Zitan opened her mouth to speak again, at this time Song Jia sighed softly and walked out from behind the screen.

Qin Zitan suddenly seemed to have drained all his energy, slumped to the ground, and let out a mournful whisper: "Young madam... I should have thought of this!" My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter