Lin Fu only asked Gu Tianqiao to move his family to Jeju by name, but there are many things that need to be understood by heart. There is really no need to expose them and make both sides look ugly...
For the Gu family, moving to Jeju is a prudent choice to protect themselves without damaging their interests, so why bother staying in Jiangning?
Since late June, Gu Tianqiao has been rectifying and shrinking his tea and rice businesses.
Over the years, only one of the Gu clan members who have managed Gu Tianqiao's teahouse, rice shop and other businesses has gained trust and reliance. Once the storm season is over, Gu Tianqiao will bring these people together with his family.
The purpose of sending them to Jeju to settle down was to first support the situation there. Even if some individuals were unwilling to leave Jiangning, Gu Tianqiao told them to separate their clans and establish their own families.
Even the eldest son Gu Chennian, who had just turned eighteen, also graduated from Jiangning Public School ahead of schedule and asked Gu Tianqiao to send him to Jeju to study under Zhao Shuhan.
Gu Tianqiao himself waited until early October for the Lin Zhengjun-class iron-framed ship he snatched from the Nanyang Shipping Company to complete its trial voyage. After it was officially delivered, it was renamed Hutang, painted with a new paint, and officially sent to the ship.
Lin Fu bid farewell and left Jiangning.
Because the rebel general Su Tingzhan officially served as the admiral of the Yanhu Dengzhou Navy after May. Relying on the sea-locking defense line built by Nahe Xiongqi between Dengzhou and Jinzhou, he sent naval warships to the south in a small area
Sea penetration and invasion, in the southeastern Shandong Peninsula and the sea area before the Koryo Peninsula, mainly sneak attacks on merchant fleets, encounters with Huaidong Navy warships, and guerrilla warfare.
In addition to harassing the normal trade between Jianghuai and Haidong areas, Su Tingzhan mainly used it to train his troops. However, Su Tingzhan also clearly understood the gap between Huaidong and Huaidong on the warships, so he strictly ordered his navy to fight with Jinghaihai
The division's warships immediately evacuated decisively after the slightest contact, which also caused great interference to the Huaidong Navy and the navigation in the southeastern waters of the Shandong Peninsula in the early stage.
After September, the Military Staff officially designated the sea area north of Changshan Island as a war zone, and all maritime exchanges with the Haidong region were restricted to the sea area south of Changshan Island.
Gu Tianqiao took a boat from Chongzhou to the sea, went south to Myeongju, then took advantage of the wind to cross the sea eastward, passed by the sea near Kagoshima, and then turned north to Jeju. Although it took two more days to drift on the sea than direct sailing,
Yanhu Dengzhou Navy has not yet been able to penetrate into the waters south of Changshan Island, which is relatively safer.
After September, firstly, encounters in the southeastern waters of the Shandong Peninsula became increasingly frequent. Secondly, after Ye Ji Baishi led his troops into Goryeo, he joined forces with Goryeo Prime Minister Zuo Jing and actively launched a counterattack in Goryeo. Within half a month,
Push the front line south to the Asan line.
Qingyang City, the important town of Zhen's Haiyang Army in the northern foothills, was surrounded by tens of thousands of Goryeo king's troops in early September.
Asan is a horizontal mountain system that rises from the Taebaek Mountains in the central and southern part of the Koryo Peninsula and goes directly to the East China Sea in the west. The mountain is not very high, but several important passes from the capital of Goryeo to the southwest counties all start from Asan.
Passed by the mountain; Asan is actually the outermost natural defense line of Hanyang County, the capital of Goryeo.
Zhen Feng raised his troops from Haiyang, and took advantage of Zuo Jing and the princes and ministers in the Goryeo court to be unaware, and captured Yashan in one fell swoop. With a weaker force, he was able to establish an evenly matched situation with the royal army, and then moved Shannan and Shannan on the right.
The right and other places were included in the pocket, making the territory under his control account for one-third of the entire Koryo Peninsula.
Asan is related to the future development direction of the Goryeo War. Once Qingyang City is lost, the Haiyang Army will give up a large area of land north of Qingyu Mountain; and as long as the Haiyang Army gains a firm foothold on the Asan line, it can
Attracting the main force of the Goryeo Royal Army to the south of Hanyang County allowed the Haiyang Army to send a partial division to advance north from the east flank of the Taebaek Mountains, bypassing Hanyang County, and disrupting Prime Minister Zuo Jing's control of the northeastern part of Goryeo.
Under this circumstance, Hu Qiaoguan, Yu Wenbei and others led the newly formed Lu 703 Division. Under the cover of naval warships, they landed on the Asan Peninsula in advance, and launched from the northwest foot of Asan to the east to contain and encircle Qingyang.
The Koryo King's army in the city.
The Asan Peninsula is a long tongue-shaped peninsula that extends from the Asan Mountains into the East China Sea and turns southward. Its area is slightly smaller than the Matsuura Peninsula on Kyushu Island.
The Asan Peninsula is mainly hilly, and the bay formed by the peninsula and the land cliff is a natural haven. This is not only the westernmost line of Asan, but also the closest point to the Shandong Peninsula in the entire Koryo Peninsula.
In addition to the land route that can directly attack Puchengfu, a barrier southwest of Hanyang, the capital of Korea, bypassing the Pucheng Peninsula to the north is Hanyang Bay on the east side of the capital of Korea. The sea route is only 250 miles away from the mouth of the Han River;
The sea-locking defense line built between Liaodong and Liaodong is only a thousand miles away, which is six to seven hundred miles closer than the sea-locking defense line where navy warships set out from Haizhou to attack Yanhu.
As early as when the Haiyang Army controlled Asan, Ma Yigong ordered Ge Changgen to build a water fort on the Asan Peninsula as an advance base for the Haidong Army.
Of course, the materials needed for the Haidong Camping Army to build a water fortress on the Asan Peninsula were mainly provided by Zhen Feng; it was impossible for the Haidong Camping Army to help Zhen fight the war, and even the military rations had to be borne by themselves.
In the later period, with the expansion of the Haiyang Army and the intensification of the war, the war mobilization potential of the areas controlled by the Zhen family had actually been tapped to the extreme.
During the stalemate stage of the war, it is difficult for the Zhen family to significantly increase the resources available to them. It is difficult to support their own military equipment, and it is difficult to support the expansion of Yashan Water Village. The previous scale of Yashan Village is basically sufficient.
It cannot meet the needs of the expanded Haidong marching army and military deployment.
In May, Zhen Feng went to Haizhou to meet with Lin Fu in person, and the Haizhou secret treaty he signed included a basket of military aid provisions.
In the early days, Huaidong Bank alone provided one million silver dollars for military loans, but it also increased to two million silver dollars jointly provided by Huaidong Bank and Colonist Bank. This amount of silver was mainly used to help the Haiyang Army expand, but in reality
Shang also mainly purchased soldiers, armors and war equipment produced in Huaidong.
The two banks will also provide an additional loan of one million silver dollars to help Haiyang County open more iron mines, coal mines, large-scale cotton fields, and build primary iron smelting factories to increase the amount of money Haiyang County can repay.
The ability to breathe.
At the same time, Lin Fu decided not to occupy the resources of the Haiyang Army, but to allocate a huge amount of money from the Privy Council to build Yashan Stronghold into a permanent military garrison to support the large-scale deployment of troops from Yashan by the Haidong Army.
As compensation, the lease period of the Asan Peninsula will be increased to 500 years, so that Huaidong can use the Asan Peninsula to build a free trade port in the southwest of the Koryo Peninsula in the future to make up for Huaidong's huge investment in city construction, port construction and military resources in the early stage.
Amount of investment.
For the Zhen family, if they lose, their family will be destroyed. If they win, they will control the entire Korean Peninsula. How can they care about ceding the Asan Peninsula and Jeju Island to Huaidong? How can they care about the Huaidong Bank in the future?
The colonial bank returns hundreds of thousands of silver dollars in interest every year?
Similarly, Huaidong Bank, Colonial Bank, the Military Department, and the Privy Council have invested so many resources in the Zhen family. If they don't want to lose everything, they have to help the Zhen family win the civil war no matter what.
Of course, the Goryeo Civil War was the prelude to the Huaibei Expedition and the expulsion of the captives from the Central Plains. In any case, Lin Fu had to fight with all his strength. Huaidong and the Zhen family had the same interests in the general direction at this time, so they could make extra money It's also good to go back to the book.
As wars became more frequent in the later period, in order to be able to grasp the situation in Goryeo and Xusi war zones, Lin Fu sent Gao Zongting to Haizhou as early as early September to form the Northern Command. Lin Fu was also held back by various affairs until In the late autumn of mid-October, I was able to leave for Haizhou and personally take charge of the work of the Northern Command.
The military and political affairs in Jiangning were led by the Privy Council and the Military Staff Department. Lin Fu also officially authorized the government meeting chaired by Lin Tingli to be responsible for supervising the military and political affairs of the Privy Council and the Military Staff Department during his absence in Jiangning.
Government governance has gradually formed a stable system. Although Emperor Yongxing and the Queen Mother Liang still nominally controlled the highest state affairs in the Southern Dynasties, headed by Zhang Yan, Shen Rong and others, the imperial party still had residual forces lingering in Jiangning. But it has been excluded from the central government.
There is no way to intervene in military and political affairs, and the power is naturally completely emptied.
October is said to be late autumn, but winter has quietly entered Haizhou.
The yellow leaves are falling, and the rice fields on both sides of the road are being harvested one after another, leaving stubble in the endless fields. From time to time, you can see three or five farmers in the fields driving their cattle and horses to plow the fields again, so that they can plant wheat before winter. .
Xiaoman hit his chin outside the soft window and looked at the fields outside the car.
After landing from Shanyang, Xiaoman sat in a carriage for three days, traveling slowly north, looking at the roughly similar scenery outside the carriage window every day. Xiaoman didn't feel tired at all. This was also because he had lived in Jiangning Shenzhai for too long. , go out for a walk again, and feel fresh every time you look at it.
Lin Fu was leaning on the soft couch, holding the scroll in his hand, and bending his legs quite comfortably; various official letters were given to Su Mei, who was sitting next to him for review - a specially made carriage covered with iron plates to enhance the protection against assassination. More importantly, it was built to be extremely spacious, so Lin Fu and Su Mei were able to stay in the car while Xiaoman was traveling, and did not feel any inconvenience at all.
The Northern Command was now chaired by Gao Zongting, and Lin Fu really didn't want to rush to Haizhou. Lin Fu didn't take a break for a long time. After landing from Shanyang, he walked on the road for three days and had just arrived in Haizhou Tun District. the edge of.
"Ah! What is that?" Xiaoman, who had been lying at the window looking at the scenery for a long time, suddenly saw something new and turned back to ask Lin Fu.
Lin Fu looked out and saw an iron pear cart in the field. Xiaoman was surprised and said with a smile: "It's just an iron pear cart. It also caused a public case before. But you don't have the heart to remember it and insist on seeing the real thing." , I was surprised..."
In the south, plowing cattle are mostly used for plowing, and plowing horses are extremely rare; it is not that plowing horses are not suitable for plowing.
Both plowing oxen and plowing horses have their own advantages and disadvantages. Oxen plow the land slowly, but consume less material. In the south, there are few fertile fields, and farmers farm intensively. Each household has more than ten or twenty acres of land, and it is enough to raise cattle to plow the land.
Horses plow the land faster than oxen. Although the efficiency is high, it consumes much more materials than oxen. However, the traditional economic model and the terrain with crisscrossed rivers in the south limit the requirements for horse-drawn carriage transportation. Therefore, in areas with many people, little land, and dense rivers In the south, raising horses will naturally be eliminated.
During the Battle of Jingxiang, the military headquarters captured a large number of war horses and camel and carriage horses, which were more than the Huaidong Army's own needs, so a large number of horses and horses were distributed to various villages.
Craftsmen in the Machinery Manufacturing Department imitated Thai and Western craftsmanship to create a new type of iron pear cart. In addition to the pear knife, there are also wheels on both sides. This new type of iron pear cart is carried by a horse with strong legs and fast feet.
It can produce 70 to 80 acres of pear land in one day, and the efficiency is five to six times that of pear land.
In the Xinkentun District, there are still a lot of people but little land. This kind of iron pear cart and plow horse are naturally very suitable for use in the district, and they were quickly popularized.
However, a public case was also caused on the iron pear car...
In the early years when Lin Fu was in Chongzhou, he directly issued rewards in the name of the inner government to reward the development of various practical new technologies.
After taking charge of the government, Lin Fu directly established a new technology reward structure under the name of the Machinery Manufacturing Department: first, he was responsible for issuing rewards directly to the private sector in the name of the internal government to encourage the military and civilians to develop new technologies that Huaidong urgently needed;
It accepts reports of various new technologies, forces factory owners, industrial and mining owners, etc. who adopt the new technologies to pay a certain percentage of rewards to the inventors of the new technologies.
The iron pear cart was made by the craftsmen of the Machinery Manufacturing Department directly imitating the pear cart technology passed down from Thailand. Although it is very practical, it cannot be considered a new technology.
There was endless debate within the Privy Council about whether to pay a bounty for the new iron pear carriage. It was brought to a public meeting and it was finally ruled that all new technologies introduced from overseas should be included in the scope of the bounty.
This conclusion is actually beneficial to the overseas expansion forces such as Heishuiyang and Nanyang Shipping Company.
As the waterway extends outward, they can come into contact with an endless stream of novel overseas craftsmanship. As long as they are introduced to the country, they can get rewards. Why not?
Of course, Lin Fu's original intention was also the same. Whether it was a new invention or imported from overseas, as long as it could promote the development of new domestic technologies and new learning, it should naturally be within the scope of rewards.
It’s just that the conditions are not yet mature at the moment. There are big loopholes and controversies in the protection period of new technologies, reward ratios, etc., including reporting and supervision. Everything is still crude, and there is no way to directly formulate a complete patent law. Right now.
In the form of a new technology reward structure, some preliminary work will be done first.
Since this year, many of the things Lin Fu has done are preliminary work. They are to adjust the upcoming new empire in the direction of a new pattern. The real strict and stable system that needs to be formed will not be just three or five years old.
It will be successful in a year.
Xiaoman's thoughts were changing rapidly. At first he was still curious about Tieli Che, but later he asked Su Mei uncertainly: "Will Mrs. Qiaoguo not welcome us to Haizhou?"