In the past, except for Gu Junxun who followed Lin Fu and was granted the title "Mrs. Chongguo", Liu Miaozhen among the other girls was awarded the title "Mrs. Qiaoguo" because of her special merits in leading the Huaiyang army to surrender; the other girls were not granted the title "Mrs. Qiaoguo" because of their status as concubines.
to a formal seal.
Lin Fu inherited the destiny of heaven by receiving Jiuxi, and opened the prelude to the government's governance. The daughters of Zhou Li, Liu Yuer, Sun Wenwan, Su Mei, and Xiaomei were awarded the title of "Madame of the Courtyard"; the Zuo sisters and Ruijiang Lingzhi also became
Because she had an affair with Lin Fu, she became a married woman.
All the girls lived in the palace of the Duke of Guo and got along well with each other. Only Liu Miaozhen, who had been in Xuzhou for a long time, could not get close to the girls. Only Liu Miaozhen's unique life and experience made Xiaoman fear her.
When Lin Fu was in Haizhou in May, Liu Miaozhen became pregnant. She became pregnant in September and could no longer bear the heavy daily military duties.
It coincided with Lin Fu's intention to set up the Northern Command, which included the Huaiyang Army, Fengli Army, Jinghai Division, Denghai Town Division, Haidong Marching Camp Army, the Second Cavalry Town Division, and the second and second towns of the Jingjiang Navy.
The divisions were all integrated into the Northern Army Corps and put under unified command.
The Northern Command had a commander-in-chief, and Lin Fu personally took charge of it. He first transferred Liu Miaozhen to Haizhou to serve as the deputy commander-in-chief of the Northern Command, focusing on raising children. Gao Zongting also led the Northern Army Staff Headquarters and presided over the Northern Army's operations.
General coordination affairs, veteran Wu Qi served as Gao Zongting's deputy.
Later, Lin Fu divided the entire northern army into east and west parts based on the terrain of sending troops in Shandong.
Tiao Ning Zechen left the town of Xuzhou and succeeded Liu Miaozhen as the commander of the Huaiyang Army.
In addition to the Huaiyang Army, Lin Fu also transferred the 2nd Town Division of the Cavalry Battalion and the 2nd Town Division of the Jingjiang Navy to form a northern and western front army with Xuzhou and Huaiyang as the core, with a total strength of 80,000, responsible for the west to Huai
Xinyang in the west and Yishui defense area in the east. In addition to Ning Zechen as the chief general, Tang Fuguan, who had outstanding military exploits, was also promoted to deputy commander of the Huaiyang Army and the leader of the first town division of the Huaiyang Army. Together with Ma Xingyuan (Ma Lan), the staff officer
The head) and the censor (military discipline envoy), who knew the affairs of Xuzhou Prefecture, Li Wei, and the commander of the second cavalry division Li Liang and Chen Kuili, Geng Quanshan and other military commanders, together assisted Ning Zechen in presiding over the northern and western front army.
The Fengli Army gradually moved to the east and assembled with Haizhou as the center, forming a northern eastern front army with the Fengli Army, Jinghai Division, and Denghai Division as the core. It moved east of Yishui River and northward into the Yimeng Mountains.
The attack on Pochexian Pass and the attack on Shandong from the sea were all included in the Eastern Front Theater.
Liu Miaozhen was temporarily unfit to take charge of military affairs, so Lin Fu asked Gao Zongting to temporarily take command of the Fengli Army, and promoted Zhang Gou, who had outstanding military exploits, to serve as military staff. Ge Cunxin, Yang Shi, Chen Zhi, Chu Zheng, Han Caizhi and other generals jointly took charge of the northern eastern front army.
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There is no major change overall from the east-by-east strategy implemented by Lin Fu from the beginning.
The biggest change was that because of Liu Miaozhen's pregnancy, Lin Fu had to adjust the generals on the east and west fronts. He also had to come to Haizhou in person to take charge and directly command the military operations of the northern and eastern front armies.
Liu Miaozhen was pregnant, so Lin Fu had no choice but to go to Haizhou to take charge in person. When Xiaoman shouted that he was tired of sitting in the deep house in Jiangning for a long time, Lin Fu brought Su Mei and Xiaoman to Haizhou.
Xiao Man was naturally very happy to be able to accompany Lin Fu to Haizhou to supervise the army, but she felt a little uneasy and worried that others would accuse her sisters of obstructing military affairs. The closer they got to Linhai Prefecture, she was also afraid that Liu Miaozhen would be unhappy with her sisters' accompanying them.
dissatisfied.
Lin Fu looked at the fields outside the car window and smiled at Xiaoman's worries.
As the New Deal continues to be implemented, it will take time for the roots to take root deeper. Lin Fuwu had no intention of launching a large-scale Northern Expedition against Yanhu before the year after tomorrow. He went to Haizhou to serve as a military governor in name, but in fact he wanted to steal a few pieces of land.
The day was free; and another thing, Lin Fu wanted to see if the government meeting, the Privy Council, and the military staff could sustain the situation in Jiangning after he left Jiangning.
Furthermore, although Lin Fu escaped from Jiangning and left all normal military and political affairs to the Privy Council and the Military Staff Department, bundles of official documents and official letters were still being chased by fast boats and horses every day.
Lin Fu wanted to be lazy for a while, but he couldn't. Even if he marked these official letters as "read", he still had to find someone to help him browse them briefly. During this period, it was time to harvest autumn grain and winter crops.
During the sowing season, political affairs in most areas of the Southern Dynasty still revolve around farming, and government affairs are obviously extremely complicated.
Lin Fu piled bundles of official documents on Song Jia's head, and Lin Fu was still a little reluctant to part with it. Xiao Man couldn't calm down, but Su Mei was good at trivial matters. This time, even if Xiao Man didn't come out with him, Lin Fu still wanted Su Mei.
Mei accompanied me to Haizhou to share some official duties.
At dusk, the cavalry escort entered Guanyun City in the southwest of Haizhou. Everything was kept simple. Lin Fu had already ordered that Gao Zongting and others were not allowed to leave the station to come to greet them. He only asked the personnel of the Internal Security Department to be responsible for the daily life, food and accommodation along the way.
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After entering Guanyun City, Lin Fu only occupied the entire post house for a temporary stay, and summoned Zhou Wenyun, the magistrate of Guanyun County, to ask questions.
Lin Fu didn't want to stop in Guanyun City, but when he saw that the autumn harvest in the south of Guanyun was over, and the local government did not organize manpower to build roads and canals after the autumn harvest, he stopped to ask about the political affairs of Guanyun County.
Zhou Wenyun was born as a Jinshi during the Chongguan period. He was in his fifties and had a goatee with some white hair.
"At this time, the output of Guanyun's fields is enough to feed the population and pay taxes. However, no matter how much grain there is, it will be cheap and hurt farmers, which is not a good thing. Furthermore, according to the article issued by the Privy Council, after autumn and winter, when the weather is cold and the ground is freezing,
The farmers were forced to go up the river to build embankments, which would cost their lives and money. None of the households were willing, and the subordinate officials did not dare to force them..."
Lin Fu had a sullen face and put his hands on the table, listening to Zhou Wenyun sitting at the bottom talking.
Lin Fu had long expected that officials' ideas were outdated. The New Deal was still being forcibly promoted by the Privy Council. It was effective, but there were also some complex and serious problems in various prefectures and counties.
It was not like Lin Fu had never encountered such a stupid official like Zhou Wenyun before, and this was not the first time he had heard the comment that "insufficient food would hurt the farmers". It was impossible to beat such an official, and it was useless to scold him.
, scolding them only made them think they were proud.
In the eyes of these officials, farmers are only worthy of eating coarse grains and omnivores, and only worthy of wearing coarse kudzu and turmeric.
We can't blame these elm bumps. Except for Lin Fu, who can clearly realize that in order for the entire society to form a preliminary industrial system and a higher-level material production system, it must first ensure adequate food supply and ensure
Grain production efficiency has increased to a certain level.
In fact, the current level of farming, at least in the Jianghuai region, is sufficient to ensure the development of emerging industries such as industry and mining.
A young and strong farmer can cultivate ten acres of land relatively easily without the help of oxen. Based on ten acres of upper-mature land that can be harvested twice a year, an annual harvest of thirty kilograms of grain can feed six or seven people by one person.
One year.
In fact, in the pre-Qin period, bronzes were still the mainstay. Under the slash-and-burn farming model, one man was granted a hundred acres of land (one hundred acres in the pre-Qin period was now thirty acres of land). In the current era, with the help of more sophisticated iron farm tools and more modern
With sufficient animal power, in rural areas such as Xusi with ample land, a young and strong labor force can generally complete the task of cultivating 30 acres of land per capita, and can still be spared during the slack season to build roads, dig canals and other construction work.
At present, most of the Central Plains area controlled by Jiangning has a population of only about 50 million, and the per capita land occupation is relatively sufficient.
In other words, there is no need to introduce high-yielding crops such as corn and potatoes from the Americas. As long as the multiple cropping farming method of two or even three crops a year is promoted in plain areas such as Jianghuai, Zhejiang, and Fujian, the production of
The surplus grain produced is enough to be consumed by a huge primary industrial system.
Although the tradition of multiple cropping of winter wheat and summer rice or winter cotton and summer rice, with two or even three crops a year, has existed for a long time in the Jianghuai, Zhejiang and Fujian regions, it is not suitable to grow cotton and wheat in waterlogged fields, and it is not suitable to grow rice in dry land.
The ability of traditional farmers to transform their fields is very limited. The proportion of fertile land that can actually be multi-cropped twice or even three times a year in the Jianghuai region is still very small.
In plain areas, promoting double-cropping or even three-cropping fertile land a year is not as difficult as imagined, but it is also not as easy as imagined - the key is to have a complete irrigation and drainage canal system.
This work must be handled by the local government, and scattered farmers will never be able to complete it.
Therefore, among many new policies, one of the more core ones is to ask local governments to organize local farmers to build roads and improve transportation through various forms of work-for-relief, work-for-tax, and work-for-fee during the slack seasons.
, build water conservancy facilities and transform more fertile farmland that is protected from drought and floods.
The benefits of this work can be seen from the effect of Lin Fu's major water conservancy projects and the expansion of multi-cropping methods in Chongzhou in his early years.
Most of the five counties of Chongzhou actually belonged to Chongzhou in the past. The population of the entire region has nearly doubled in the past ten years. Within the five counties of Chongzhou, people are not engaged in farming, but are engaged in emerging industry, mining, maritime trade, etc.
Its population has reached 250,000.
Under such circumstances, the grain produced in Chongzhou, in addition to being consumed within the country, is also capable of exporting nearly two million dan of grain each year.
If the entire Jianghuai, eastern Zhejiang, and eastern Fujian regions can reach the same level as Chongzhou, only the eastern coastal region can maintain the existing industrial, mining, and commercial primary systems, and should be able to export more than 20 million shi per year.
of surplus grain.
This was supposed to be a new deal and good governance that all parties should try their best to promote, but as Zhou Wenyun came to see it, it turned out to be "enough food to support the mouth, and enough taxes are enough. If there is more, the food will be cheap and hurt the farmers.
"Insufficient food will hurt farmers."
Local governments collect land and grain taxes and oral taxes from farmers, and have replaced grain with silver. Therefore, when it is time to collect land taxes and pay taxes, rice grains are concentrated on the market, causing a sharp drop in grain prices. Therefore, there is a saying that "not enough grain hurts farmers."
It's just that this truth is only on the most superficial level, but it represents the mainstream cognitive level of Confucian scholars in the world.
Of course, in addition to keeping the grain produced by farmers for self-feeding, all the grain produced by farmers must be used to pay rent and taxes. This will naturally create the illusion that "the grain is insufficient and harms the farmers" - but in fact, this "grain is sufficient".
It was far from the sufficient supply of food that Lin Fu expected.
After the new field tax, the basic field tax is classified as a financial resource of the local government, so there is no problem of the central government extracting tax money from the agriculture of prefectures and counties. When the local government collects the basic field tax, it can avoid the harvest period and the problems caused by the centralized marketing of grain.
The problem of "insufficient grain hurting farmers" will be greatly alleviated. Even in some areas, market warehouses can be built to levy grain taxes from farmers at official prices to avoid damage to farmers' interests while ensuring that the local area has sufficient supply.
Surplus grain reserves.
With stable and high-yield farming, farmers will not only pay taxes, but also have enough grain to exchange for new cloth, iron, porcelain, paper and pens and other items; food can maintain stable and high-yield, and people can feed coarse grains in addition to fine grains.
Livestock, to supplement the lack of meat...
Traditionally, people eat more mutton and less pork because sheep can be fed completely with grass and do not compete with people for food. Although pigs also eat pigweed and river algae in spring and summer, they cannot completely skip the feed supply.
Lin Fu promoted pig raising in Chongzhou, mainly because the captive breeding method can accumulate fat, and the increased grain production can offset part of the feed consumption. In fact, the wheat bran, bean dregs cake and other materials used as feed for pigs in Huaidong are simply the same in other places.
staple food for the poor.
In the Jianghuai Plain where agriculture is developed, pigs are not raised, and sheep that are raised solely on grass are the main source of meat. How much meat can be provided? If pigs are to be raised for meat on a large scale, the region needs to have an adequate and stable supply of surplus grain.
The proportion of large livestock such as cattle, mules and horses raised in the Jianghuai region is actually directly related to the surplus of food supply. There is no large area of pasture, and if you want to raise a large number of horses, there will be a problem of competing with people for food.
When the food supply surplus in a region is insufficient, horses will naturally be unable to be raised; if the supply surplus is sufficient, there is no need for the central administrative horse administration to force promotion, and the number of private horse breeding will increase significantly.
Lin Fu asked Chen Huazhang to organize the writing of these principles. He used the restructured Post to publicize these principles over and over again. He went to Guanyun County Magistrate and blocked the situation with a simple sentence: "Not enough food hurts the farmers."
Lin Fu was so depressed that he lost all the good mood he had had in the past few days.
Guanyun County used to belong to Huai'an, but was recently included in Haizhou. Unexpectedly, in Huaidong, where the New Deal was implemented most extensively and deeply, there would still be such a lump like Zhou Wenyun, which made Lin Fu dumbfounded.
It is not easy to implement the New Deal.
There was no other way. At this time, there were more than 700 counties under the jurisdiction of Jiangning, which were under the jurisdiction of more than 100 prefectures. There were nearly 900 chief seal officials at the magistrate and county level alone. In addition to the prefecture, county, yamen and other
Lin Fu planned to expand the number of bureaucracies in the new empire to around 80,000 or even 100,000 people.
, is enough.
Although Lin Fu has been vigorously strengthening the training scale of New Deal officials, the number of people is still far from enough to carry out a complete replacement of the country's bureaucratic team now.
In addition to the core counties, Lin Fu had to appoint old officials to govern a large number of ordinary counties. It was in these places that the New Deal encountered the greatest resistance.