Lin Fu couldn't directly reach out to the local area. The resettlement of the refugees or disaster victims could only be based on the local area. He quarreled and blew his beard for a long time in the camp. Before Ning Zechen came over, he had discussed and decided on many disposal matters.
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Xisha Island and the sandbanks in the river are all government land. The local forces represented by Chen Kun only allow the refugees to register their households on the spot, but the residential land is provided on a lease and sale basis. Each household is given two acres of mulberry residential land, and each household is given five acres of irrigated dry land.
In addition to the field tax, households must also receive an additional 20% to 30% of their annual harvest to pay field rent.
Xisha Island is a newly opened wasteland. According to the system, newly registered households can be exempted from the land tax for three years, but Chen Kun insisted that the land rent is unavoidable.
It's no wonder that Lin Fu's temper is getting worse and worse. Hearing Chen Kun bite Tian Zu to death, he couldn't help but slap the table and throw the hot tea directly into Chen Kun's face.
The mature fields in Chongzhou are fertile, with winter wheat and summer rice. One acre of land can produce five to six hundred kilograms of wheat and rice annually. A family in Chongzhou can have 20 acres of paddy fields, which is considered a well-off family.
Xisha Island has serious natural disasters. In addition to typhoon floods in summer, the river water is low and shallow in winter, and sea water recharges. Salt tides form almost every year, causing serious salinization of the land along the beach and making it unfavorable for farming. In addition, Xisha Island is formed by accumulated sand.
The land is barren and there are no water conservancy facilities. Even if the weather is good for a year, the yield will be far lower than that of ordinary mature fields.
Chen Kun insisted that the land rent was unavoidable. In the final analysis, he still had to force these refugees away from Chongzhou.
At the moment, Lin Fu only wants to allow more than 20,000 disaster victims to officially settle in Xisha Island. The land rent is only two to three thousand taels of silver per year, which cannot bring down Jiyun Society.
The reason for the quarrel was that Lin Fu wanted to use this as a condition to coerce Chongzhou County and Hailing Prefecture to agree to Hu Zhiyong. Hu Qiaoyi and his son and others moved out of the Hu family in Chongzhou East Society and moved to Xisha Island with Hu Zhiyong as the head of Lijia.
It was agreed that Li Shuyi would have the exclusive authority to handle the resettlement and household registration of refugees on behalf of Chongzhou County, and a rural establishment with a quota of 300 people was allowed, and the leaders of the township braves would be selected from among the resettled victims.
Li Shuyi was originally an official in Chongzhou County, and Hu Zhiyong was originally a gentry merchant in Chongzhou County. Although he had become close to Lin Fu during this period, and was suspected of licking the Chu party's butt, after all, they were local people. Wu Meijiu, Chen Kun and the others
He was not worried about Li Shuyi, and Hu Zhiyong would be determined to form an alliance with Lin Fu. He thought that everyone would inevitably follow the trend at this time, but after the Chu Party lost power, Hu Zhiyong would know what choice to make when Li Shuyi came to him.
After all, Chen Kun and Wu Meijiu were the most worried about the refugees. In addition to being controlled by the county captain in organizing and training matters, they also took the initiative to ask Hu Zhiyong to serve as commander and directly control the rural camp. Lin Fu naturally "reluctantly" agreed.
After passing the examination, Ning Zechen's talent, especially Ning Zechen's thin and fair image, reduced their resistance. Chen Kun and Wu Meijiu also agreed that Ning Zechen should serve as the deputy commander of the Xisha Island rural camp and be responsible for the training of rural braves.
After many matters have been discussed, a written letter still needs to be submitted to the Xuanfu Envoy Department for approval.
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The East China Sea bandits were raging in the waters of Taihu Lake again. Chen Kun, Wu Meijiu and others did not dare to spend the night outside the city. Seeing that it was getting late, they said goodbye and left. Lin Fu saw them outside the camp and stopped, but Li Shuyi and Hu Zhiyong had to bite the bullet.
Send them on board.
"You two should take care of yourself..." Chen Kun left these words and boarded the ship, ignoring Li Shuyi and Hu Zhiyong.
Li Shuyi looked embarrassed. As far as he was concerned, compared to scheming in the county, he had no real power and actions. He would rather stay on Xisha Island and take charge of the resettlement of refugees. However, it was inevitable that he would never leave again.
Even if he didn't get involved with Lin Fu, he would inevitably be labeled as a member of the Chu party.
The Chu Party is powerful, and those who follow it may think this is a rare opportunity, but things are far from that simple.
One of Gu Wuchen's most important tasks when he came to Jiangning was to increase the supply of grain imported from Jiangdong County to Yanjing from the current 600,000 shi per year to the level of 2 million shi. Approximately 30,000 shi would be apportioned to Chongzhou County.
This was something that the local government strongly resisted, but Wang Xueshan, Yin of Jiangning Prefecture, gave Gu Wuchen a handle and softened his stance on the Xia Cao incident. Other prefectures and counties failed to toughen up, but they all hated Gu Wuchen from the bottom of their hearts, and Zhang Xiechu was a first-rate party member.
The grain burden can still be spread as much as possible to the tenant farmers and homesteaders, but now there are rumors that Zhang Xie intends to raise municipal taxes and mineral taxes in the southeastern counties in order to raise military pay, which will cost his life.
The Dongyang Lin people have more than 20,000 acres of annexed land, but their annual land rent income is only four to five thousand taels of silver. The Lin people have been able to accumulate huge wealth and raise more than 500 local warriors privately, relying on their monopoly on local business.
Most of the city tax revenue from Shanglinlicao Market falls into the private pockets of a few families, including the Lin clan.
This is true for the Dongyang Lin clan, this is true for the Jiangning Qu family, and this is also true for the slightly powerful clans in the southeastern counties.
In addition, municipal taxes are the most important source of revenue for local governments, and they are also the most important source of revenue for local officials to accept bribes and line their own pockets.
The Chu party wanted to raise city taxes and many other commercial taxes in the southeastern counties, which can be said to have directly violated the interests of the gentry and local bureaucratic forces in the southeastern counties.
Although this matter has only been rumored, it has already been discussed in the local area and regarded as a scourge.
It was also the bureaucracy of the aristocratic clans in the southeastern counties who were very resistant to the Chu Party. Although the Chu Party was gaining power, Gu Wuchen was also very popular in Jiangning. Local officials such as Chen Kun and Wu Meijiu shunned Gu Wuchen and Lin Fu like poisonous scorpions and never took refuge.
, the willingness to please.
Hu Zhiyong and Li Shuyi's conflicting and hesitant thoughts were completely different. When he saw Li Shuyi's sad face, he said with a smile: "In the future, we will have to rely more on Li Shuyi to handle everything on the island..."
"Mr. Hu is joking, Shuyi should rely on Mr. Hu." Li Shuyi said with a bow.
In Li Shuyi's view, no matter how resentful the Chongzhou people were against the Chu Party and Lin Fu, resettling the refugees on Xisha Island according to Lin Fu's policy would be of great benefit to Chongzhou and not a single harm.
The first benefit is to eliminate the hidden dangers of refugees, and the second benefit is to establish a rural camp on Xisha Island, which is actually Chongzhou's southern barrier against the invasion of East China Sea pirates...
Li Shuyi sighed slightly in his heart, thinking that this was all he could do now. He had done these things with no regrets. How could he care about too many things in the future? Seeing Lin Fu, Ning Zechen, Ao Canghai and others standing in front of the tent, Li Shuyi
He and Hu Zhiyong hurried over.
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Lin Fu stood in front of the camp and looked around. It had only been six days since Hu attacked the island. There were shocking remnants everywhere on Guanyin Beach. Li Shuyi and Hu Zhiyong came over. He pointed to the slope not far away and said: "Then
Build a cemetery on a sunny slope. All those who died for Xisha Island this time and in the future will be buried there. Their names and deeds will be engraved on the tablets so that future generations can pay their respects and remember them. This cemetery should be built with blue bricks and stones, not
To save money, prepare coffins for burials and do not allow them to be buried together. Do this together with the enclosure of the building. Don’t delay. How much money will it cost? Please add it up first and give me the amount..."
"Well, I'll find someone to do the survey tomorrow." Hu Zhiyong responded. Death was a serious issue at that time. Even if he couldn't be buried in his hometown, no one wanted to be a lonely ghost. It was even more important to build a tomb and a temple for future generations to sacrifice.
Scholar Qingliu's ideal expectations for what happened after his death were used by Lin Fu to sacrifice the people's bravery. Although Qingliu would still be ridiculed and rejected by Qingliu if word spread, it inspired the people of Xisha Islands to fight bravely to defend the island.
Lin Fu added: "The resettlement of the refugees has almost been finalized, but the families of the brave people who died this time and the victims who died actively resisting the lake pirates will not be allocated according to the terms just agreed upon, and special care must be taken. Hu
My family has 300 acres of mature farmland in Guanyintan. The Jiyun Society paid for it and then cultivated an additional 200 acres of mature farmland. They gave each of these families a certain share. They gave the land title directly and waived the land rent. In addition, this part
It would be more appropriate for the villagers to jointly bear the tax paid on the fields..."
"The three hundred acres of mature land are donated by the Hu family for the island defense. The Hu family should do something for Xisha Island." Hu Zhiyong said, although the three hundred acres of mature land in Guanyintan has been the work of two generations of the Hu family, and it is also the last work of the Hu family.
He had a little bit of property at his disposal, but Lin Fu paid so much for Xisha Island regardless of the cost. How could he not have this courage?
In front of Li Shuyi, Lin Fu didn't say much. Besides, if Hu Zhiyong wanted to gain popularity on Xisha Island, he needed the Hu family to contribute to resettling the refugees on Xisha Island. He added: "After two catastrophes, many families have been torn apart.
, Husband and wife, parents, children and grandchildren are not identical. Some old customs can be changed appropriately. Of course, we will not force them. If they can take the initiative to form a household, we should encourage them and give certain rewards. You can discuss what to do specifically.
Just make up your mind..."
Li Shuyi nodded. He was responsible for household registration and resettlement. Many families were left alone. Without household integration, it would be very troublesome.
Under the influence of Lin Fu, Li Shuyi also became pragmatic and hard-working. There were still things waiting for him to do at the refugee resettlement site in the Western Peninsula. Seeing that the sky was still bright, he thought that he could learn more about the situation by staying there at night.
He said goodbye and rode over.
After dinner, Lin Fu called Hu Zhiyong to his tent. Hu Zhiyong came over and saw Lin Mengde also in the tent.
"There are no outsiders, let's all sit down and talk," Lin Fu asked Hu Zhiyong to sit down and said, "The Hu family has donated 300 acres of cultivated land in Guanyintan. Isn't it possible that the sugar workshop will no longer be able to operate?"
"It can't be maintained anymore," Hu Zhiyong said honestly without being hypocritical. "Closing the workshop will also allow everyone to focus on this."
"You transfer all the foreign debts owed by the Hu family and the workshop to Jiyun Society," Lin Fu said. "Not only should the workshop not be closed, but it must also be expanded. You need to invest all your energy in Guanyintan.
Let’s take a short break and let the second master, Hu Zhicheng, take charge of the workshop.”
In fact, by donating the 300 acres of land on Xisha Island, the foreign debts owed will put a lot of pressure on the Hu family. It will be really ugly for the family to gather debts during the holidays. Lin Fu wants to take over the workshop and the Hu family's foreign debts.
, what else could Hu Zhiyong do besides nodding in agreement? He also thought: It would be better for the second brother to work in Jiyun Society. Xisha Island is always dangerous, and the Hu family should be spread out, just like eggs are not put in one basket.
"According to the part of the money allocated by the Inspectorate from Pingjiang Prefecture's grain collection, the rice grains are provided to Xisha Island for disaster relief and famine preparedness. Those can be recorded and shown to the local officials. In addition, I will allocate another 20,000 taels of silver to you.
, Don’t skimp on cost when constructing the enclosure, and the Guanyintan water dock must be built as soon as possible. After the water dock is completed, it will be convenient to transport supplies to the island on a large scale..." Lin Fu continued, "I came from the Shu family in Anji County this time.
They cut off more than 20,000 taels of silver, which they owed to Xisha Island, and used it for Xisha Island."