In the wooden training camp building on the east beach of Prison Island, there were two copper oil lamps placed on the thick wooden platform. The light shone on the wooden platform. Lin Mengde unfolded the long scroll in his hand on the wooden platform, but it turned out to be a five-foot square
A large map. People who are familiar with the topography of the river mouth south of Chongzhou can see at a glance that this map accurately depicts the topography of Xisha Island and the surrounding river sandbanks and Zilang Mountain..com
In order to draw this accurate map, Lin Mengde spent more than a month on Xisha Island and deployed many people to explore the entire island.
"The problem of Xisha Island, in addition to wind and tide disasters, is that the terrain is unstable. The upper reaches collapsed due to the impact of the river water, while the lower reaches were swollen by the sea tide. I found old pictures for comparison, and used the Zilang Mountain to calibrate
, I am sure that Xisha Island moves more than a hundred steps toward the river mouth almost every year..." Lin Mengde introduced their topographic survey results of Xisha Island during this period,
Without knowing the terrain, you cannot blindly transform Xisha Island.
Xisha Island was nearly 40 miles wide from east to west at this time. Based on the current erosion of Xisha Island by the Yangtze River water at this time, it would not take two hundred years to completely wash away such a large island, and then the tide could build an even bigger island downstream.
Come to the big sand island.
When building a fortress on the West Beach, there is always the threat of being washed away by the river. When building a fortress on the East Beach, due to the constant siltation of the tide, there will be no beach suitable for building a wharf. Although the collapse conditions of the North and South Beaches are not
The East and West Beaches are so serious, but they are not without problems.
Lin Fu and many of the people here certainly don't want to spend a lot of effort building the Wugang pier and then have it be abandoned in a year or two.
At that time, the sand islands in Jiangkou were not developed enough and there was insufficient experience. Perhaps in the future, when the land shortage in Chongzhou or Pingjiang Prefecture reaches a certain level, people will be forced to compete for land from the sand islands, and they will naturally gradually accumulate effective governance experience; for future generations,
Some experiences become common sense that ordinary people can possess.
Lin Fu said: “To overcome the geological defects of Xisha Island, we must start from both internal and external aspects. First, complete drainage facilities on the island must be built to eliminate the impact of internal waterlogging on the beach; and secondly, we must try to reduce river currents and ocean tides.
For direct impact on the beach, we can build a horizontal embankment outside Guanyin Beach..." Lin Fu took his finger to draw two traces north of Guanyin Beach on the north side of Xisha Island and extended into the river. "When the water is dry, this side
The shoals are all exposed, and the horizontal embankments are built on the shoals. The east horizontal embankment blocks sea tides and siltation, and the west horizontal embankment redirects the river flow to prevent the river flow from directly impacting the dock. In the windy and rainy season, ships can also avoid entering it.
, after the winter this year, two roads will be built first. In the future, it will be necessary to add horizontal embankments on both sides to expand the size of the dock, but the amount of work will be slightly larger."
"The amount of work is not a little larger," Lin Mengde stared at the two marks made by Lin Fu with his fingernails. "The main work at the mouth of the river is to dig water channels, and it took so many hours of work. In addition to the horizontal embankments in Guanyin Beach,
, the water channel also needs to be dug, and stone dams need to be built on the bank, and the west horizontal embankment needs to block the river embankment. I am afraid that a big stone dam will have to be built..."
"Build a stone dam and fill it with earth in the middle. Large ships can be parked in the deep water within two horizontal lines, and small boats can be parked on the outside where it is easy to accumulate silt." Lin Fu said, "We can invest four thousand taels of silver in a berth at the Jiang'an Wharf. The dock on Xisha Island
Hong Kong can invest 40,000 taels or even 80,000 taels of silver..."
Cao Ziang said: "There is no shortage of manpower in Xisha Island. Organizing five thousand laborers and working for six months should be enough." During this time, Cao Ziang has organized people to work on the construction of river ports at the mouth of the river. He himself is very good at it.
He has studied the art of using it deeply and can keep up with Lin Fu's ideas. The others are thinking carefully about the use of building a horizontal embankment outside Guanyin Beach.
Lin Mengde calculated in his mind: The food expenses for five thousand strong laborers for six months would cost at least 20,000 taels of silver. A large amount of stone would recently be transported from the mountainous counties southwest of Taihu Lake. The budget of 40,000 taels of silver was really expensive.
insufficient.
"Fortunately, there is no shortage of money in hand. This money always has to be spent, otherwise it would be a cold dead thing." Lin Fu said with a smile, "There is no shortage of labor, but we can't just do this one thing.
.Whether more than 24,000 people can finally settle down depends on the next six months..."
Fishing in the troubled waters of Luoyang Lake won 100,000 taels of silver and has not yet begun to be spent. He attacked Shujiazhai in Anji and got more than 20,000 taels of silver. He used fishing mode to "eat the black" on Xisha Island and robbed bandits passing through the East China Sea.
There are more than 80,000 taels of silver, and now I have nearly 200,000 taels of cash in hand. The nearly 24,000 disaster victims on Xisha Island who are waiting to be resettled are mostly young and strong laborers. They will not be short of manpower on Xisha Island.
There are just a lot of things to do. Most of the more than 24,000 people still live in simple shacks. Reclaiming wasteland is not a simple matter. One hundred thousand acres of wasteland needs to be transformed into two-season cultivation of winter wheat and summer rice.
In fertile farmland, only the excavation of shallow ditches for drainage and irrigation is two hundred miles long. Counting other projects, it will consume a lot of manpower and materials.
Even if everything is left to fate, and the relief wheat seeds distributed by Chongzhou County are randomly scattered on the wasteland, and it depends on the weather, there will still be more than seven months until next year's harvest, and more than 20,000 people on the island cannot survive more than seven months.
During the time, drink the northwest wind and spend the day.
Calculated based on one pound of rice per person per day to maintain the most basic survival needs, 24,000 people will consume 240 stone of rice in one day, which is 50,000 stone of rice in seven months.
If everything was done in accordance with the regulations submitted by Chongzhou County and approved by the Xuanfu Envoy, the more than 24,000 refugees would not be able to survive on Xisha Island.
Lin Fu would not really escape and leave Xisha Island, nor would he allow Li Shuyi, Hu Zhiyong and others to resettle the refugees in accordance with the terms of the Xuanfu envoy Si Pihuai.
Lin Fu's idea was to carry out large-scale commercial reclamation and lease all the land that should be subleased to the refugees in the name of Jiyun Society. Jiyun Society would organize the refugees to cultivate mulberry, cotton, hemp and other cash crops on the leased land.
planting, using these as raw materials, and then purchasing a large amount of raw materials from other counties to develop large-scale cotton spinning, silk weaving, and linen yarn industries.
Chongzhou local government only sub-lease the land on Xisha Island to the refugees without granting land rights, which also created conditions for commercial reclamation.
Xisha Island has waterways extending in all directions, and the surrounding area is a land of fish and rice. No food is grown on Xisha Island for the time being, and the required rice can be imported from outside the island.
Otherwise, it would be impossible to use 100,000 acres of barren and uncultivated land to resettle more than 20,000 refugees.
If Jiyun Society had no profit pursuits and selflessly assisted so many refugees, it would appear to have ulterior motives.
Only by concentrating on large-scale commercial reclamation or development of Xisha Island can so many manpower on Xisha Island be effectively organized.
Previously, the premise was to obtain the approval of the Xuanfu Envoy and the Chongzhou District for the refugees to settle on Xisha Island. Now, the current task is to obtain the agreement of the Chongzhou County District to resettle the refugees in their own way.
Lin Fu's bloody battle under Jiyang City not only prevented the Donghai bandits from posing a fatal threat to Xisha Island in the short term, but also made the local forces in Chongzhou see that under the threat of Donghai bandits, Chongzhou could gain more if his forces penetrated into Xisha Island.
safety barrier.
Lin Fu needs to make various efforts to reduce local resistance, otherwise it will be difficult for the local area to allow foreigners to gain a foothold in the local area.
A big factor in the dispute with the Qu family is that the local forces in Jiangning exclude Lin Fu, a foreigner, from fighting for a foothold in the river mouth. Otherwise, even if Qu Wuyang is willing to help Chen Xiyan deal with Lin Fu and Gu Wuchen, the rest of the Qu family cannot
Agree with Qu Wuyang's misuse of the Qu family's resources.
"Has Chongzhou County's attitude softened?" Lin Fu asked Hu Zhicheng while sitting on the chair. The Hu family was responsible for communicating with the local authorities in Chongzhou County.
"Chen Kun has decided that your Excellency is coveting the tens of thousands of acres of Xisha Island resettlement land," Hu Zhicheng said. "According to information from his staff, he is deciding how to price..."
"Then let's wait for him to make an offer," Lin Fu said with a smile. "When the refugees are registered, the number of households must be strictly controlled. It is best not to exceed 2,000 households. In addition, when negotiating with Chongzhou County, the number of households must be strictly controlled.
In the name of the Hu family and the Jiyunshe family..."
"This is not a problem. The manpower used by Li Shuyi to compile households at this time are all our people. Except that Li Shuyi may have some details, Chongzhou District and the County Xuanfu Envoy do not know the actual number of refugees on Xisha Island," Lin Mengde said, "
It is normal for the powerful families in Jiangdong County to control thousands of civilian households. Xisha Island is located in a wide open area with no convenient terrain, and when the East China Sea bandits invade the Jiangkou, it is less likely that Xuanfu will become wary. However,
We also need to work hard to be accommodating..."
Local governments used newly silted land such as river beaches and sand islands to resettle the refugees, and provided them with rented land. However, during major events such as the new emperor's accession to the throne, the birthday of the emperor or the empress, the empress dowager's birthday, or the general amnesty of the imperial court, land rights would usually be granted to the refugees as a token of public concern.
The emperor's kindness is great.
At this time, Jiyun Society took this large piece of subleased land into its hands. When the imperial court granted amnesty, it would naturally be easy to get the land rights into its own hands.
Over the past two hundred years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, land annexation has been serious. Most of the local aristocratic families are based on land. Their greed for land has almost reached its peak. The gentry has always prioritized selling land before accumulating wealth, which is euphemistically called "farming and reading".
, in fact, it is just a matter of owning land and making profits. The Lin family controls Shanglindu in Shanglinli. The biggest benefit lies in Shanglindu and the monopoly on Dongyang/product export. However, the land in the hands of the Lin family still reaches 400 hectares.
There are many; there are not a few big landowners in Jiangdong County who own thousands of hectares of fertile land.
Chen Kun suspected that Lin Fu's fundamental purpose was to invade and occupy the land of Xisha Island.
Chongzhou County initially tried to conceal the disaster on Xisha Island, in which more than 20,000 people drowned and disappeared. Finally, it was reported to Hailing Mansion. The county Xuanfu Envoy only said that Xisha Island was weak and that more than 200 people were missing. It was extremely serious from the beginning.
concealed the scale of the refugees in Xisha Island.
In order to reduce the resistance of Gu Wuchen and others to his disaster relief work on Xisha Island, Lin Fu would rather contribute his own money to provide disaster relief. In his private letter to Gu Wuchen, he only said that the number of victims on Xisha Island was about 10,000, and that Taihu's food collection was divided into more than 40,000 on Xisha Island.
Shi Bei will harvest wheat in June next year. During the ten-month disaster preparation period, in fact, even if the most basic survival needs of the more than 24,000 disaster victims are met, Lin Fu privately has to provide another 40,000 Shi of rice grains. This is
At that time, Lin Fu could only get less than 10,000 taels of silver from Taihu Lake to distribute to Xisha Island, which was far from enough.
It can be said that except Lin Fu and others, no one else knows anything about the situation on Xisha Island. The number of nominally resettled refugees on Xisha Island will be calculated based on actual household registration. This is done by Li Shuyi, Chongzhou County Household Secretary Office
thing; maybe the She family, which has been paying attention to Xisha Island, knows something about the situation, but everyone is well aware of the dangers of bandits in the East China Sea, and the She family can no longer have a positive influence in Jiangdong.
By controlling the number of registered households, the scale of land leased from Chongzhou County is nominally limited. However, there are no other forces on Xisha Island. As long as Chongzhou County finally nods its consent, how to develop Xisha Island is not a matter for Jiyun Society to decide?
Talking to Chongzhou County in the name of the Hu family and Jiyunshe at the same time also spreads the target and weakens the wariness that some people may have. After all, no one would have thought that Lin Fu would save Hu Zhicheng and Hu Qiaoyi's uncle and nephew except for the occasional rescue in the Yangtze River.
, and so deeply involved.
Many are external tasks. As far as Xisha Island is concerned, the most urgent thing is to resettle so many refugees and build a dock that can transport supplies to the island on a large scale and a defensive building complex that can limit the control of the dock.
Lin Fu carefully calculated that in order to establish a foothold on Xisha Island and settle so many people, 200,000 taels of cash would barely be enough. In order to achieve this goal, he must not lose Gu Wuchen as his backer in the short term.
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