In the early morning, Lin Fu woke up early, and Liu Miaozhen was sleeping soundly like a begonia after a spring rain. Lin Fu walked to the eaves of the corridor in his clothes and saw Song Jia leaning against the window railing in the corner of the courtyard, watching the early morning scene.
Lin Fu hugged Song Jia from behind, who was wearing a thin shirt and long skirt, and placed his hand on her warm abdomen. There was no rise and fall there, but there was a delicate voluptuousness, and a clear fragrance was exuding from her body. Lin Fu buried his face in her
The neck stalk is attached to the waterfall of hair, sniffing greedily.
Song Jia was leaning on the window rail to look at the morning scenery, but she didn't expect Lin Fu to come from behind. She turned around and glanced, but was speechless. She tilted her head and pressed against Lin Fu's head, feeling his hot belly pressing against it.
She clasped his calloused hand on her plump buttocks and whispered: "I haven't thanked you properly for Yu'er..."
"Oh, it's such a big deal..." Lin Fu smiled and spoke, but did not stop with his hand. Instead, he reached into Song Jia's half-cut bra and touched the jade-like jade
Generally tender and elastic skin.
After the Battle of Jingxiang, there were still three remaining enemies after the Huai River:
After the Battle of Jingxiang, the remnants of Yuanzhou's army who resisted at Mubu Mountain were completely desperate. The rebels killed Chen Zishou and other rebel generals and surrendered.
Chen Hansan is really an immortal little strongman. In the Battle of Jingxiang, he only led more than a thousand remnant troops to escape from Fengli and fled deep into the southern mountains of Huaishan Mountain. Later, when Huaidong took over Xinyang and Shouzhou was in chaos, he led his troops to
They dispersed and broke out to the north. Although they asked Huaidong to capture five or six hundred people, they still asked Chen Hansan and dozens of his cronies to cross the Huai River and fled to Hezhong Prefecture in early March. They were also commended by the captive king Ye Jier.
He was granted the title of Luochuan Bo, and was allowed to recruit old troops on the east bank of Luoshui River to guard Yichuan.
After Shewenzhuang's posthumous letter was sent to Jian'an, thousands of remnants of the She family in northern Fujian walked out of the mountains and surrendered; although about sixty descendants of the clan were classified as war criminals and exiled to Nanyang, women, children and ordinary generals were exempted.
He was convicted and moved to Jieyang for resettlement.
Although She Feihu's widow Song Yu and her young son were Song Fu's concubine and grandson, tens of thousands of people died in the bloody battle between Huaidong and Zhejiang and Fujian over the years. Lin Fu finally decided to let Zhao Qingshan secretly send Song Yu's mother and son to Xuzhou.
, asked Song Jia to arrange for mother and son to change their names and then cross the sea by boat to Jeju.
From then on, except for the records of the Special Intelligence Department under the General Staff Department, no one else knew about their identity as criminals. Not that Lin Fu was worried about anything. The She family had been established in Eastern Fujian for more than two hundred years, so something would inevitably happen.
The treacherous minister and filial son wanted to restore the She family. Lin Fu didn't want to kill Song Yu and her son or put them in prison for the rest of their lives, so he could only send them overseas alone...
As of May, the fighting south of the Huai River has completely subsided, and production has entered a period of recovery.
Although Shouzhou was not directly involved in the war, Dong Yuan ordered Lin Fu to drive him away. About 100,000 young men in Shouzhou were incorporated into the Henan army and moved north to the Huaihe River - the vitality of Shouzhou has only been restored in the past three to five years.
Shouzhou Prefecture also suffered a lot of losses; Xinyang was more deeply affected by the war and had to rest for a while.
At this time, the attendant handed over a letter. The letter had been opened. Gao Zongting must have read it and thought it was very important, so he handed it in immediately in a puzzling manner.
"What's going on?" Song Jia looked over.
"Oh, it seems that we were too conservative before," Lin Fu spread the newspaper on the railing and hugged Song Jia to read together, "Inventory and combined data of households and fields in the counties of Pingjiang and Danyang..."
"So much more!" Song Jia was also shocked when she looked at the merged data.
"It's not that there are too many, it's that these gentry are hiding too hard!" Lin Fu gritted his teeth and said softly, "If the salt system had not been changed, three or four hundred salt officials would have been sent down first, and then they would be established all over the countryside.
Secretary, I am afraid that it will take a year to find out the truth; from this point of view, the Privy Council's previous prediction of a total of 35 million in the six counties of Jianghuai, Zhejiang, Fujian and Jiangxi, and Hunan is quite conservative..."
There are 1.5 million registered Ding households in Pingjiang Prefecture. Among the 16 counties and 105 prefectures under the jurisdiction of Yuan Yue War, the number of Ding households is second only to the two Zhili prefectures of Yanjing and Jiangning.
After the Jiangning War, Huaidong actually controlled the Seven Prefectures in Jiangnan, and Lin Fu vigorously promoted the inventory of the fields and households in the Seven Prefectures in Jiangnan. Of course, it is estimated that the population of Pingjiang Prefecture is actually between 2.2 million and 2.5 million.
between.
As the inventory work continued for more than a year, although Lin Fu repeatedly reminded Lin Mengde and others to be mentally prepared for the actual data, when the combined data came out, they were still shocked.
The actual recorded population of Pingjiang Prefecture alone is as high as 3.34 million, which not only far exceeds the registered population, but is also more than 30% higher than the upper limit of previous estimates.
In addition to the refugees who fled to the shores of Taihu Lake due to the war, the main reason here was the hermit households and shelters of Ding Fu who escaped from the corvee.
Former Prime Minister Chen Xiyan's family in Jiyang alone had 1,200 households with more than 6,000 slaves, which in a remote place could be worth the population of a small county.
Corresponding to the hidden households and the registered households, Pingjiang Prefecture alone has up to 3 million acres of registered farmland that has been inventoried; the Chen family in Jiyang has more than 50,000 acres of registered farmland, and all of them are mature fields.
"How do you plan to deal with it?" Song Jia looked at Lin Fu.
Lin Fu touched his chin: Chen Xiyan has passed away, and the remaining Chen family members are pulled out to kill chickens and monkeys. It is really difficult to judge whether the positive impact is greater than the negative impact or the opposite. After Lin Mengde and the others got this combined data, they stepped up their efforts.
I can't make up my mind about sending it here.
Except for Chen Huazhang and Chen Huawen, the core figures in the conference's governance, the other generals and ministers had no favorable impressions of the Jiangnan gentry and would not object to killing the Jiangnan gentry.
Lin Fu asked the maid to bring charcoal and wrote a letter of approval: "Previous crimes will not be punished, but records will be based on the facts; if there are any opponents, the local government will order severe punishment without mercy!"
"When implementing the New Deal, don't you want to establish a prestige?" Song Jia asked puzzledly. Even if Chen Xiyan died in a very dignified manner in the end, there is no need to pull out his nephew and behead him to deal with this matter. He can just confiscate the land and house.
She was surprised that Lin Fu didn't do it because of its warning effect.
The field registration established by Pingjiang Prefecture was at the beginning of the Yuan Yue Dynasty, but for more than 200 years since the Yuan Yue Dynasty was established, people along the Taihu Lake have cultivated fields around the lake, built ponds to block the sea, and created millions of acres of new fields.
But they are all outside the field registers. Although many ministers have been aware of this problem for more than two hundred years and want to inventory the acres of land to replenish the national treasury, they have met with strong resistance from Jiangnan officials and gentry.
Due to the growing trend of farming and studying in Jiangnan, the proportion of people who studied and became officials was much higher than in other areas. The Wu Party has always been active inside and outside the central government. In the early days, Emperor Gaozu of Yuanyue also started his family in Jiangnan, which made the noble families in Jiangnan especially
Many-the combination of these factors has made Jiangnan's many shortcomings difficult to recover from.
It was Lin Fu's military power with Huaidong's fierce soldiers, and the Zhejiang and Fujian troops who destroyed the city and massacred the land in the south of the Yangtze River, that made the gentry forces in the south of the Yangtze River completely shut up about this investigation.
Lin Fu sighed lightly. Hailing had been managed by him for ten years. Including the five counties of Chongzhou, the actual total population was less than 2.5 million. I thought that the actual population of Pingjiang Prefecture would be this number at most, but I didn't expect that there would be more.
Eight hundred thousand more.
Lin Fu said: "Actually, the management style in Jiangnan is quite strong and cannot be easily attacked. If I take the Chen family out to kill chickens and monkeys, I am afraid that the people below will get the wrong idea. But it is no wonder that there is not such a dense and vigorous Ding family.
It's hard for the two Chens to become the power of the merchant gentry..."
The two Chens mentioned by Lin Fu refer to the Chen family of Jiyang and the Chen family of Haiyu.
The Chen family in Jiyang is headed by Chen Xiyan, and the Chen family in Haiyu is headed by Chen Huazhang, Chen Huawen, and Chen Mingche. Although they have the characteristics of traditional officials and gentry, they actually have a strong business atmosphere. Lin Fu calls them business gentry.
Take the Chen family in Haiyu as an example. The Chen family is engaged in silk fabrics. In addition to owning 300,000 to 400,000 acres of mulberry gardens that they hire people to take care of, they also have specialized silk and silk weaving workshops with more than 2,000 looms and hire weavers.
With thousands of workers and silk shops spreading all over the world along the Yangzi River and Cao Road, it can be said that the traditional handicraft workshop has reached its peak.
If it weren't for the impact and drag of the war, the Chen family would be considered the number one merchant family; the solid foundation gained from operating silk fabrics is even greater than that of the Lin family in Dongyang.
The Chen family in Jiyang, in addition to annexing land, also engaged in the cloth industry; another example is that the Lin family in Dongyang operated warehouses throughout Jianghuai and Hunan in the early years, the Ye family operated the paper industry, the Xiao family ran a pawn shop, and the Xihehui family engaged in shipping.
The Zhou Guangnan family is engaged in shipping, while the Su Pinxiao family has an industry in Xiling Mine——
These are originally the basis for the implementation of the New Deal. They are a manifestation of the need to seek new breakthroughs when the old pattern has reached its extreme. How can we attack it casually? Lin Fuzhen wants to suppress this kind of business gentry management style in the Jianghuai area, which is detrimental to development.
Industry, mining and commerce,
"It seems that the split and rule of Jiangdong will be accelerated..." Song Jia said with emotion.
"Yes, we need to speed up," Lin Fu said. "The Privy Council previously estimated that the population of the seven prefectures in Jiangnan is 12 million. Judging from the combined data of Danyang and Pingjiang, it is impossible to reach 16 million. Huai
We have done quite a solid job in the work in Huadong, but the population of Weiyang Prefecture (Yangzhou) is probably estimated to be one million more. Then the population of Huaidong, including the five counties of Xusi and Chongzhou, should be
Seven million, instead of the six million previously estimated; and in Huaixi Shouzhou, Xinyang Haozhou, Luzhou plus Chizhou and Yijiang on the south bank of the Yangtze River, the total population may also reach as many as four million -
—After this calculation, the total population of the area covered by the original Jiangdong County alone is as high as 27 million; it is impossible to rule without dividing it..."
"Before the war, the number of registered residents in Jiangdong County was only twelve million, right?" Song Jia asked, "The demise of Yuan Yue is not unreasonable."
In addition to the large number of refugees who poured in from Henan, Shandong, Yanji and other places, the difference between the registered Dingkou and the actual population was so huge. In fact, in the later period of Yuanyue, effective control over the local area was lost, resulting in a large number of hidden fields.
The settlement was out of the control of the central government and local governments.
Of course, it is a good thing that the combined inventory data of Pingjiang and Danjiang prefectures far exceeds previous estimates. It means that Jiangning directly controls the population, which is likely to be close to 50 million, not the 35 million previously estimated.
Lin Fu is now planning to increase the annual revenue of the central government by 50% from the current 20 million silver dollars in three years; if the actual population is higher than the estimated 40%, within three years, Lin Fu is confident that the central government will be able to
With annual income increasing to 40 million silver dollars, the Northern Expedition might not have to be postponed until three years later.