"I just went to the Ordnance Supervision Institute to watch alchemy, and I saw the carriage carrying fine wine passing by at Yihang's house. I thought maybe I had something to celebrate, so I came over to ask for a drink. I didn't expect Shangwang to have come to Jiangning today."
Lin Fu sat down and said with a smile, "Shang Wang's journey went so fast. I just received a letter the day before yesterday saying that you had just landed in Mingzhou..."
"My lord saw the summons, but Shang Wang did not dare to delay. He stayed overnight with Liang Wenzhan, Mr. Liang, and then crossed the river and took a carriage all the way to Jiangning. At Shengtai Gate, he met General Yihang and learned that today the generals were rewarded by the lord.
After taking a break, I will come to General Yihang to have a small gathering with some of my old friends." Sun Shangwang said.
"Shangwang has been working hard in Yizhou all these years." Lin Fu asked everyone to sit around the table and asked Sun Shangwang, "Song Bo can still adapt to taking over the affairs of Yizhou?"
Song Bo was the son of Song Fu and was one of the key figures who prompted the Song family to defect to Huaidong. After the war in Eastern Fujian, Song Bo assisted Hu Zhiyong as a counselor to govern the political affairs in Eastern Fujian. Later, he was transferred to Yizhou and had the power to judge the Yizhou government.
Sun Shangwang was transferred back to Jiangning, and Song Bo came out to learn about Yizhou.
"Song Bo is extremely intelligent, knowledgeable, calm and has the attitude of a general. He will surely bring Yizhou and Nanyang maritime affairs to a higher level. However, Shang Wang is dull and ignorant and will not live up to the expectations of the lord..." Sun Shangwang said.
"You haven't changed your sarcastic tone," Lin Fu said with a smile, "If I wasn't satisfied with your work in Yizhou, why would I transfer you, Cheng Fu and the others to Jiang Ningyi to help?"
Sun Shangwang smiled awkwardly, it shouldn't be, it shouldn't be.
Wang Chengfu also acted fearfully to show that he did not dare to receive such praise.
Over the years, Wang Chengfu first led Yudong County and then served as Huainan Salt Supervisor. He presided over the transformation of Yudong Palace Village into a county and the reform of salt administration. He also did a lot of solid work in these years.
When Wang Chengfu came to Yudong County, he successively built the 60-mile-long Yudong Seawall. On the basis of the original 400,000 acres of grain land, he cultivated an additional 300,000 acres of grain land and 400,000 acres of cotton fields. He converted it into a village.
The county has only been established for five years, but Yudong County has grown from more than 30,000 households in the early days to 150,000 households. As of last year, Yudong County was able to directly provide Chongzhou spinning factories across the river.
As much as 600,000 shi of cotton raw materials can be exported to more than 500,000 shi of rice grain.
In less than two years as Huainan Salt Supervisor, Wang Chengfu vigorously reformed the old method of boiling brine, converting nearly half of the salt fields south of Yandu and north of Hecheng to the salt drying method, transforming the pastures and more than 40,000 salt households.
Yanding was classified into Yandu and Jianling counties, which increased the number of farmland acres in Yandu and Jianling counties by more than 600,000 acres. In the Huainan Salt District, despite the significant reduction of salt households, salting, and pastures, the output was not only
There has been no reduction, and more than 300,000 rock salt were added last year.
It was with such political achievements that Wang Chengfu had the confidence to join the central government. However, compared to Sun Shangwang's hard work and many pioneering works in Yizhou, Wang Chengfu felt inferior.
Yudong County had the foundation of palace reclamation before, and it is close to Haiyu, Chongzhou, Hecheng and other counties, so it is easier to relocate people to settle the land. Yizhou has been regarded as a barbaric land since ancient times, except for the island.
In addition, only maritime merchants, pirates and exiles regarded it as a place to stay. In the early years, it was a miserable place for the East Fujian County Secretary to exile serious criminals.
The She family's large-scale development of Yizhou Island began seventy years ago, when Zhuxi County was established. The city was only two miles away, and there was not even a posthouse. Even the roof of the county government office was covered with thatch to protect it from wind and rain. The She family abandoned Yizhou and
They wreaked havoc on Zhuxi County, and in the end, except for more than 10,000 abandoned people, they moved all the supplies and Dingkou that could be taken away to the land.
When Yizhou Island was newly acquired, not many people in Huaidong were really willing to control that barbaric land. At first, Lin Fu only asked the navy to control Yizhou, making it a place for the navy to harass eastern Fujian and Guangnan.
It was not until Sun Shangwang withdrew from Jinhai that he officially established a county in Yizhou.
It took less than five years for Yizhou to establish a county. On the basis of more than 10,000 Dingkou in the early days, Sun Shangwang accepted nearly 40,000 prisoners of war from southern Zhejiang and eastern Fujian. The prisoners were resettled in Yizhou, and another 140,000 were recruited.
Daofan was naturalized as a citizen, and more than 20,000 households of refugees from the mainland were moved to Yizhou for resettlement. At this time, Yizhou generally formed a layout of one prefecture, four counties, and 250,000 people.
Of course, these political achievements are also full of bloodshed.
Lin Fu is determined to transform Yizhou from a barbaric land into a mature land and develop Yizhou Island on a large scale. The biggest difficulty is not the harsh environment, but the resistance of hundreds of thousands of indigenous people on the island.
In five years, in order to naturalize 140,000 Daoban people, as many as 10,000 Daoban people died due to the suppression by the Yizhou government army and navy, almost wiping out all the original tribal nobles on Yizhou Island.
The clean and surrendered island nobles were all exiled to other places; in the early days, in order to develop coal, iron, forest and other resources, coal mines, iron yards, forest farms, and seaports were built, nearly a quarter of the 40,000 prisoners of war died of disease in five years.
One, in the later period, the main force of the Southeast Navy had to be stationed mainly in two newly built seaports on Yizhou Island.
In order to avoid possible instability when Song Bo took over Yizhou, Sun Shangwang specially requested an amnesty order for the remaining 30,000 prisoners of war before leaving Yizhou, so that they could all be resettled locally and registered as civilians, thus eliminating the Yizhou.
This is currently the biggest hidden danger in Zhoudao.
In the past five years, Sun Shangwang has registered nearly 600,000 acres of farmland for taxation on the basis of the original less than 200,000 acres of land in Zhuxi, and has cultivated more than 400,000 acres of new grain fields, and has been planting sugarcane in Yizhou.
Sugar, the newly cultivated sugarcane fields are twice as large as the grain fields, and the sugar cane is dumped in eastern Fujian, eastern Zhejiang, Jianghuai and other places. The coal fields, iron fields and forest fields here are managed, with an annual output of four million baskets of coal and six million kilograms of iron.
One-third of the giant trees used in the shipyards of Chongzhou and Mingzhou are produced in Yizhou.
And Sun Shangwang was able to develop Yizhou to this extent within five years. Huaidong only invested 500,000 taels of silver in succession, and more investment came from Nanyang maritime trade - Sun Shangwang was also within Huaidong who supported Lin Fu's expansion and colonization in Nanyang.
The most steadfast core figure in the strategy, within five years, routes to Luzon, Champa, Jinzhou and other places were restored.
The southern end of Yizhou Island and the northern end of Luzon Island are only 700 miles apart by sea. To avoid the storm season in summer and autumn, large-scale ships can approach the coast of Luzon in two days starting from the southern end of Yizhou Island.
After Huaidong made huge profits by importing raw silk and primary industrial products to the Haidong region, it was natural that Huaidong would not let go of Nanyang, a piece of fat and oily meat.
However, previous estimates of Nanyang's population were greatly deficient.
Including Annan Kingdom, the area of Annan Kingdom and the Nanyang Islands is about eight to ten times or even more than that of the Haidong Islands. Even if the development of the Nanyang Islands is not as good as that of the Central Plains and Haidong areas, the total population is likely to exceed
Forty million, belonging to the kingdoms of Luzon, Boyi, Annam, Siam, and Johor; this does not include the Jiduo Dynasty to the west from Nanyang, whose land area and population may be equivalent to those of the Central Plains.
This is in line with Lin Fu's memory of future generations, and there must be a colonial market with a total population of over 100 million to support the continued progress of primary industrialization.
Of course, the final determination of Huaidong's status in Haidong is directly related to Huaidong's consecutive defeats of the Saga clan and the Korean water infantry in the battles of Songpu in the Japanese country and Xiguipo in the Danluo country. It was also these two battles that made Dongzhou
The Governor's Office and the Jeju Camp officially took root in Jeju Island and Fusang Matsuura, which also allowed the trade penetration to Korea and Japan to continue through Jeju and Matsuura.
Now Goryeo is caught in the civil war between the Zhen family of Haiyang County and the royal family Li. Huaidong, headed by Ma Yigong, built a Haidong marching army with a total number of 30,000 water infantry troops. Using the proceeds from trade penetration with Goryeo,
Directly supporting the Zhen family's war against the royal family Li family; but the total trade volume with the Fusang Islands reached 10 million, 200 taels of silver last year. In addition to millions of taels of silver materials being exported back to the country, the
Nearly one million jins of copper, hundreds of thousands of jins of silver, and tens of thousands of jins of gold were imported from Japan to make up for the trade gap, and to supplement the shortage of currency for Huaidong's increasingly prosperous trade activities.
Since there are still one or two deterrent wars against the Nanyang kingdoms, it is not possible to completely open the door to Nanyang trade. However, silk fabrics, new cloth, iron and porcelain and other items are used to conduct small-scale trade with the Nanyang kingdoms.
The total trade volume also reached a total of eight million taels last year.
In order for Nanyang trade to continue and deepen, large-scale development of Yizhou Island is a necessary step.
In the past five or six years, nearly 50% of the income from trade with Nanyang and millions of taels of silver have been invested in it, leading to the current layout of Yizhou Island.
After the war in Eastern Fujian was completely over, the entire area under the jurisdiction of the Governor-General of Eastern Fujian had only 20,000 troops. Lin Fu also supported the formal establishment of the Southeast Navy, with 15,000 soldiers and Jinhai-level troops.
The above forty warships are, in the final analysis, meant to keep the trade penetration and expansion of the Nanyang Islands going.
At the beginning of the new dynasty, the Xungui Group tended to become introverted and conservative because they were able to obtain a large amount of supplies from the land after the war to maintain their luxurious living conditions.
Lin Fu does not expect that everyone will be equal, nor does he expect that the Xungui Group who created a new dynasty with him can maintain the hard and simple style. If he wants to change the old pattern and create a new one, how can he change the vision of the Xungui Group from the traditional one?
Land transferred?
At least for now, trade penetration, expansion, and even plundering of overseas areas are feasible, and the profits are much greater than purely cultivating land.
In today's world, if you want to be considered wealthy if you own two thousand fields, you need one or two hundred households of tenant farmers to work them. After the price of grain finally stabilized, the land rent of one thousand shi of grain was only five to six hundred silver dollars, which could support a living standard of
Later generations are not even comparable to the middle class; they are far from being comparable to the emerging factory owners, trading and maritime merchants.
Over the years, Huaidong has not received much income directly from traditional grain rent and land tax. However, last year, after deducting investment in construction and factory expansion of production scale, the annual income reached 10 million silver dollars, which effectively supported the wars in Huirao and Jingxiang.
, mainly rely on the emerging factories’ trade penetration and expansion into the mainland and overseas markets.
Annual income can be said to be the core data that supports the central government's decision-making - to maintain an empire with strong and sustainable dominance, it is absolutely impossible without strong enough financial support.
Ordinary people can only see that the Huaidong Army is powerful and invincible on the surface, but the deeper reason behind it is that last year's military investment of up to 1,600 silver dollars supported the Huaidong Army's such a powerful battle.
Strength - Before the collapse of Yanji, Yanjing maintained a total of 300,000 troops in the frontier army and the Jingying army, which cost only five to six million taels of silver a year; Li Zhuo later reorganized the Jizhen army, which took three years
It only received less than two million taels of additional support from Emperor Chongguan.
Pragmatic generals and officials can see the root cause from this array of data.
Comparing the revenue from traditional land with that from emerging factories and trade penetration and expansion into overseas markets, once the latter far exceeds the former, at least at the central level, pragmatic officials will not go back to the old road.
Quite simply, going back to the old path means that the central government's annual income will be significantly reduced. Once it is reduced to the traditional scale of less than 10 million taels of silver, how will it support the expenditures of the huge bureaucracy and the army?
Without the existence of a large bureaucracy and a capable military, how can the clan and noble groups ensure their interests?
The core people in Huaidong almost all have a clear understanding of the Huaidong New Deal and the current annual income composition.
Of course, it is not possible to control the minds of some people who are stuck in old thinking. Therefore, Lin Fu needs officials who can implement his New Deal thinking to enter the center to maintain and consolidate the New Deal, so that people with old minds can withdraw from retirement care.
Lin Fu plans to replace one generation of central officials every ten to fifteen years. As long as the second generation or more of the central government can resolutely implement the New Deal, at least at the central level, the New Deal thinking can be rooted in. In the new style of school, two to five years
Once every year, the New Deal thinking can be expanded to a broader and deeper level.
It should be said that when Huaidong implemented Lin Fu's New Deal, it was still interfered by many old forces and old traditions. The main consideration was stability, and too many bloody promotion methods could not be adopted. When Sun Shangwang governed Yizhou, he almost implemented Lin Fu's New Deal.
The most thorough area is also the bloodiest area.
Sun Shangwang, Wang Chengfu, and Li Shuyi, in terms of qualifications and achievements, are of course far from being comparable to Lin Mengde, Lin Xuwen, Huang Jinnian, Song Fu, Sun Jingxuan, etc., or even compared to Liu Zhi, but their most distinctive feature is that they have been
They are the officials who have most implemented Lin Fu's New Deal thinking and achieved outstanding achievements, so that their own qualifications and reputation are enough to support their entry into the central government.
General Lin Fu separated the Intelligence Department from the Privy Council in order to maintain the purity of the army and reduce the interference of the conflicts between the old and new regimes on the army.