Most of the generals in Huaidong came from poor families. Even though there were some children from aristocratic families, such as the Lin family, the Song family, the Yu family, etc., most of them had ambitions and ambitions. As a political group, Huaidong was able to
Maintaining a hard and simple pragmatic style. This is also an important reason why Huaidong can maintain strong combat power and political integrity in addition to strict laws and regulations.
However, the title of prince, general, and minister, and the title of wife and son, is a dream rooted deep in the hearts of almost all scholars or people with a little ambition and ambition in this era - even among the Huaidong Army, there are few who have this idea.
Civil and military generals are also very common. [bsp; The so-called "conformity to the dragon" is nothing more than the princes, generals and ministers, and the conferment of wives and wives. It can also be said that this is the most direct driving force within Huaidong to promote the abolition of the Yuan Dynasty and the establishment of a new dynasty.
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Of course, Lin Fu has a reputation and power that no one can replace at this time, and Huaidong generals are pragmatic and far-sighted. At this time, they will eliminate the source of Jiangning's controversy, and even directly issue a ban. This matter will
Now that it has been revealed, the matter of reward can be left to be discussed later.
If Jiang Ningfeng is allowed to discuss this matter at this time, then it cannot be forbidden to discuss this matter within Huaidong.
If this trend continues, there may be no problem in three to five days; after three to five months, the civil and military generals in Huaidong will also be enthusiastic about the enfeoffment of the towns and lands, and their minds will be shaken, and they may even cause troubles because they compete with each other for credit and rewards.
There will even be internal strife within Huaidong due to inconsistent interests, which will be detrimental to the future Northern Expedition and the creation of a new empire.
Out of all the above considerations, Lin Fu asked Jiangning to discuss the title of the city. Gao Zongting objected almost subconsciously: "If this trend arises, it will be difficult to suppress it; unless the lord returns to Jiangning this time..."
"No, Zongting, you are overthinking. It is not the time to establish a new dynasty just yet," Lin Fu shook his head and said, "It is a matter of time to reward meritorious generals, but traditional rewards are not what I expected. Since Liang is here
The palace was unwilling to be left alone and provoked this matter, so I thought, could we follow the example of Song and Chen to reward generals for their merits?"
"That's it..." Gao Zongting was stunned, unable to follow Lin Fu's thoughts for a while.
The Song people once controlled millions of acres of farmland in Quanzhou and Yongtai, which served as the most fundamental basis for gathering people and controlling the local area. After the Song people surrendered, Huaidong Bank invested the principal amount of four million taels of silver.
shares, fully taking over the fields controlled by the Song people, dispersing these fields into small pieces, and selling them to the Song people and Yongtai people, people with little land or ownerless people in Quanzhou, and people who moved to the south as private property, so as not to overdo it.
The purpose is to suppress the Song family, but completely eliminate the potential of the Song family to separatize the local area, and fully integrate the Song family into Huaidong.
In the later period, the Haiyu Chen family and other clans were also treated in this way.
"I think this is feasible," Song Jia said. "Since ancient times, it has been difficult to talk about merit but to reward. The number of food households, the distance of the county, the fatness of the acres, will it be possible to seize the benefits of the village?
Keeping oneself and not invading the local area are the source of disputes and the cause of trouble. As for the rewards for merit, the generals will have to think about the management of the land and the families will return to their hometowns. It is inevitable that people will be a little scattered - calculated in terms of bank shares.
The acres of farmland should be rewarded to the meritorious generals - Oh, that's wrong, all the acres of land rewarded for merit should be folded into the bank, and a corresponding number of shares should be rewarded to the meritorious generals, so that the generals can compete for the amount of merit, but
He won’t compete for rewards, he won’t seize the countryside, he won’t invade the place, and he won’t make people’s hearts disperse…”
Gao Zongting also felt that Song's proposal was indeed reasonable, but he hesitated for a while and asked Lin Fu: "Will the public land in Lujiang, Yijiang and other places be given to the bank?"
Lin Fu nodded and said: "I plan to set off back to Jiangning the day after tomorrow. You and Song Gong and others should discuss this matter first. If there is any controversy over Jiangning, we will not pinch it or throw any blame on it for the time being.
Blow the wind and see how far it can grow. If there is something wrong, we will do this."
What Lin Fu wanted to create was a new empire with a new pattern that could break out of the historical cycle.
The people are far from awakening to the level of selfless sacrifice for the country and the rise and fall of the nation. Ordinary soldiers bravely kill the enemy, throw their heads and shed blood for the reward of acres of land. Civil and military officers also work hard for military and political achievements, forgetting to sleep and eat, and even ignore threats to their lives.
, but in the end, the link of rewards based on merit cannot be circumvented.
Lin Fu also knew in his heart what the people in Huaidong were currently doing to abolish the establishment, and he did not expect all of them to be selfless and sacrifice themselves for others - the most important thing now and after the establishment of the new empire was to maintain the internal structure of the new empire.
To ensure the cohesion and motivation to move forward, we will not go back to the old path.
Since the concept of rewards based on merit cannot be overcome, instead of giving rewards to the local people and turning Huaidong generals into a new class of powerful people who are dependent on the land and relying on the land, and becoming a resistance that pulls the new empire back to the old path, it is better to make Huaidong
The entire group of ministers turned into an emerging financial class that supported the development of industry, mining, commerce and trade, and instinctively needed the development of industry, mining, commerce and trade, and expanded externally to make huge profits. This became the driving force for the transformation of the new empire into a new pattern.
Of course, there will be some very serious problems here, which may cause the emerging meritorious groups to become parasitic on financial capital and suck the flesh and blood of the new empire. But at least it can prevent the new empire from going down the old path.
However, among the financial groups of later generations, how many are not controlled by a few people? As long as this step is taken, even if there are problems in the future, they can be resolved through external expansion.
Gao Zongting said: "Zhou Guangnan is in Jiangxia. Did he call him to ask for advice when he passed through Jiangxia?"
"No, he may want to go to Tanzhou. There is no need for him to stay in Jiangxia and wait for me." Lin Fu shook his head again and said, "Huaidong Bank is already too powerful and difficult to control. I said this in front of Song Gong.
I said the same thing; didn’t the Hubu Bank run a bank and it’s still half-dead? This time, if we really want to reward according to merit, it should be handled by the Hubu Bank..."
Gao Zongting was slightly startled, then he realized that this was a way of checks and balances.
Although the Huaidong Bank concentrated the interests of the Lin family, the Song family, the Chen family and other Dongyang Township parties and maritime merchant groups at this time, the total principal accumulated was nearly 20 million taels of silver, which was approximately twice the annual income of the household department at this time.
It is already a huge number, but Lin Fu's reputation is currently unparalleled. Huaidong Bank can be said to be Lin Fu's creation, and it is not difficult to control.
But everything will be done in advance, and failure in advance will lead to failure. It is precisely because Lin Fu's reputation at this time is unparalleled that no one can match it, so he is able to build a bank to check and balance Huaidong Bank - Dongyang Township behind Huaidong Bank
The party, the interest representatives of the maritime business group, and even Song Fu, the representative of the Song family, will not have much opposition.
And behind the establishment of another bank, the entire meritorious group of Huaidong will stand. In the future, they will naturally be able to compete with Huaidong Bank and check and balance each other, so that Huaidong Bank will not be the only one.
Gao Zongting thought this was a good idea, but he couldn't tell. Song Fu and others couldn't think it was a crooked idea on his part.
Gao Zongting knew that Song Fu and others had nothing to do with Lin Fu, but if they tried to crowd him out, they would still find ways to do so. Fortunately, Song Fu's daughter was present at this time, otherwise it would be hard to explain.
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When Gao Zongting withdrew, he naturally approached Song Fu, Cao Ziang and Sun Jingtang to discuss the matter.
In the later period, construction work in Nanyang and Xiangyang was particularly important. Sun Jingtang came from Huangzhou to Fancheng to take charge of construction work. He would delay Lin Fu and others before he had the chance to return to Jiangning.
The situation in Jingxiang was stabilized, and the situation north of Huaishan was also stabilized. Cao Ziang no longer needed to stay in Suizhou, so he came to Fancheng to meet Lin Fu and then returned to Jiangning.
At this time, in Fancheng, only Song Fu, Gao Zongting, Sun Jingtang, and Cao Ziang were the core. In addition, the civil servants in Fancheng also included Tang Xitai, Sun Wenxuan, and others. Other generals such as Ao Canghai and Zhao Hu fell.
Not very interested in political affairs.
Sun Jingtang was born in the River Clan and had a low status in his early years. However, after all, he and his brother controlled the Xihe Hui Xing Cao with a scale of two to three thousand people, so their life was not poor. Even after the Xihe Hui fell apart, the Sun family still had many industries transferred from Jiangning and integrated into
In Huaidong, at this time, he paid more attention to obtaining a stable political status. It would be best to be knighted, but he did not value rewards.
Cao Zi'ang has endured so much hardship over the years, and his determination is strong. He is not in a hurry to award meritorious titles and honors for a while. He even thinks that a large number of awards and rewards at this time will be detrimental to the management of the army. However, the land for rewarded merits will be folded into the bank, and the bank will be used as a bank.
The number of shares awarded to the general would not have a big impact on the army at once, so he had no special opinions.
If a military-level general of the Huaidong Army should be rewarded with a thousand acres of permanent land or a hundred households with food and beverages based on his merits, he could convert the principal of two thousand yuan into a bank and receive a dividend of tens or hundreds of yuan every year based on the number of shares.
There is no need to worry about land management, and there is no dispute with the local government for profits. It can even be simply regarded as increasing the salaries of meritorious generals.
Song Fu's thoughts were more complicated than Cao Ziang's.
Lin Fu used the land rewarded for meritorious deeds to be folded into the bank and counted as shares to calculate rewards for meritorious generals. In Song Fu's view, another important role was not to harm local political affairs because of the privileged land rewarded, nor to harm local political affairs.
Causes damage to the central nervous system.
However, a separate bank was set up to handle the matter. If Song Jia had not been present, Song Fu might have suspected that Gao Zongting had come up with a bad idea behind his back. However, it was clearly suggested by Lin Fu, so Song Fu didn't have much opinion.
At this time, Huaidong Bank is almost engulfing Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hunan, and Guangnan. As long as we carefully study the rise of Huaidong in the past few years, we will know how huge the real potential strength of Huaidong Bank is -
The establishment of another bank to divide the power of the Huaidong bank is naturally inconsistent with the interests of the Dongyang Township Party, the Maritime Group, and the Lin, Song, Chen and other families who stand behind the Huaidong bank. However, compared with the reduction of interests, Song Fu and others have
From the perspective of knowledgeable people, what is more important now is to ensure that a new dynasty can be established to replace Yuan Yue - this is the fundamental interest of all families.
Song Fu also guessed that Lin Fu was worried that the Huaidong Bank would be in trouble in the future, which would affect the imperial power of the new empire, so he made a preemptive move to check and balance it.
Of course, compared to Lin Fuming's superficial methods, at least he doesn't have to worry about being "dead by cunning rabbits and cooked by lackeys" in the future.
As the saying goes, "It is easy to share hardships, it is hard to share wealth and honor", and it is also said that "if you monopolize the benefits, they will be shared" - thinking of this, Song Fu, who was well versed in self-protection, knew that he should promote a new bank to divide Huaidong.