Under the candlelight, She Feihu stared at Xisha Island on the map on the case.
After the bloody battle in Jiyang, the thirteen Donghai families in the alliance not only suffered heavy casualties, but their morale was also severely hit.
The Ninghai Town Naval Division was not completely crippled, but its morale improved. In particular, Gu Wuchen's reputation increased greatly and his status became stable. Xiao Taoyuan, the commander of Ninghai Town's Sixth Battalion Naval Division, deliberately curry favor with Gu Wuchen because of his relationship with Lin Fu.
No matter how bad things get, if Xisha Island is attacked again, Jun Shanzhai will probably no longer stand idly by.
In other words, they will have no chance to remove the nail in Xisha Island in a short time.
Xisha Island is located in the mouth of the Yangtze River, and is closely related to Ninghai Zhenjun Village, locking the gateway to the Yangtze River. Junshan Village may not be a concern, but Lin Fu’s attitude is extremely strong and positive. If Xisha Island is fully controlled by Lin Fu, the East China Sea will be affected in the future.
It will be very painful for soldiers to enter and leave the Yangtze River.
If we forcefully attack Xisha Island, the casualties will be too great to bear; if we enter the Yangtze River without attacking Xisha Island, our retreat will be threatened. It's okay to be threatened by others, but if our retreat falls into Lin Fu's hands, how can we feel at ease?
She Feihu said to Qin Zitan: "I think whether it is Shengsi Island or my side, we need to send people to sneak to Xisha Island to find out the situation clearly before we can rest assured..."
Qin Zitan frowned. It was easy to send people to sneak in. It was more than a hundred miles away from Xisha Island. It was impossible for Lin Fu to send people to guard it tightly. However, under the current situation, it was difficult to have in-depth contact with the islanders. Without contact, just
You cannot get accurate information with your eyes.
Most of the guards used on Prison Island are Jiangning locals. No matter how tight Lin Fu's control is, they can still get some information. Xisha Island is like a darkness shrouded in black mist, with no other forces penetrating. Xisha Island has nothing to do with the outside world.
Contacts are almost all controlled by Jiyunshe, and the refugees on Xisha Island have almost no contact with the outside world. How can others find out the news?
Qin Zitan thought that he could only analyze the situation on Xisha Island from the news leaked from the official channels of Chongzhou County. But did Lin Fu honestly report every plant and tree on Xisha Island to Chongzhou County?
Qin Zitan thought with his toes and knew that Lin Fu could not be such an honest person.
Qin Zitan did not talk about intelligence collection and diverted to other topics: "Lin Fu left Jiyunwei Yongdu on Xisha Island, but the Hu family who directly controls the township camp on Xisha Island is hard to see through... The Hu family is originally a small clan in Chongzhou.
, Lin Fu only occasionally rescued Hu Zhicheng in the river. On the surface, it seemed that he could not directly intervene in the affairs of Xisha Island. He had to use the Hu family to ease the tense relationship with Chongzhou. However, the Hu family had little influence in Chongzhou and did not have many resources.
, wouldn’t it be more appropriate to use Li Shuyi as the Li family? Lin Fu owes the whole family a debt of gratitude to the Li family.”
"Maybe the Hu family is easier to control..." Song Jia said, "Besides, Li Shuyi of the Li family is also the official in Chongzhou County who is directly responsible for the household registration of the refugees on Xisha Island."
"This is what people can't see through," Qin Zitan said, "Is Lin Fu ambitious or not?"
She Feihu frowned deeply, and the question Qin Zitan said also made him unable to think clearly.
If Lin Fu was ambitious, he could take advantage of the fact that the Lin family was staying in Jiangning.
Lin Fu himself is a descendant of the Lin clan and has a high reputation among the younger generation. He is also helped by Lin Mengde and other important figures in the Lin clan. During the chaos in Hongzepu, he had every chance to trick Lin Tingli. Without Lin Tingli's restraint,
The Lin clan in Jiangning are all orphans and widowers, so no one can compete with him. With the Lin clan and the Lin family's private soldiers under his control, Gu Wuchen naturally cannot exclude him when training Dongyang Xiangyong. With his strength
With the financial resources of the Lin clan and the connections and influence in Dongyang, given time, Dongyang Xiangyong will naturally be in his pocket.
At that time, regardless of his official position, he will be eligible to sell at a price.
In contrast, it is a road many times more difficult to use the Hu family, a small clan in Chongzhou with little foundation or resources, to control the refugees on Xisha Island to realize his ambitions.
What's more, Xisha Island is right at the mouth of the Yangtze River. When the Donghai soldiers recover from the bloody defeat in Jiyang, they will definitely use their troops against Xisha Island.
Not to mention the outcome of the next war, even if Lin Fu has very strong confidence, if there is a better choice, who will put the foundation of realizing his ambition in the area with the most intense conflict?
She Feihu and Qin Zitan previously believed that Lin Fu's main reason for not withdrawing from Xisha Island was to seize the key point of Xisha Island and help Gu Wuchen stabilize the situation in Jiangdong. They also believed that Lin Fu's personal ambition was mainly to advance in his official career.
Although many things that happened since Lin Fu arrived in Jiangning were not ruled out as having selfish motives, they were mainly to help Gu Wuchen gain a foothold in Jiangning and take the initiative.
If Lin Fu had no other motives for not withdrawing from Xisha Island, it would be inexplicable to use the Hu family instead of the Li family.
Song Jia looked at the two men under the lamp with sullen faces, stretched out and stood up, and said, "Why can't Lin Fu kill two birds with one stone? Are you sure that you can successfully capture Xisha Island in the future?"
"If Lin Fu is so ambitious, why would he let go of the opportunity to control the Lin clan?" She Feihu asked.
"Only men with no future will only think about fighting in the nest," Song Jia put her hand to cover her red lips, blew, and said with a charming and charming look, "Lin Fu may not take it lightly with the Lin family's little wealth.
When the Lin clan withdrew to Jiangning, if Lin Furuo took advantage of the situation and fought for a bloody battle, the result would definitely be better than now? I think you men have all fallen into the trap of fighting for power.
It would be strange if your eyes are not deceived if you use your little chicken's belly to speculate on others... I won't interrupt you, just go ahead and have a headache. I'm going to sleep, I can't hold it anymore. Oh, by the way, Zhao Shuhan, the head of the Criminal Department, is here the day after tomorrow.
Hekou Bamboo Hall is giving lectures on prison science, and I want to go there and join in the fun, will there be any inconvenience?"
She Feihu smiled bitterly. Now that Li Zhuo and Wang Xueshan had sent people to keep an eye on this place, he was not happy to go out for a walk. He nodded and said, "You can go and relax if you want." Watching his wife leave, he looked at her
Back on the map.
There is not much land to support the people on Xisha Island, and it is barely enough to resettle 10,000 to 20,000 refugees. How can there be enough money to support troops?
Judging from the data reported by Chongzhou County to the County Secretary, after the two disasters and the dispersion of the Xisha Island refugees, the remaining number is less than 10,000.
This data is a bit small compared to the information they had previously obtained, but judging from the undeveloped state of Xisha Island, it is already very difficult to resettle 10,000 people in two or three years. Lin Fu really did not hide it.
The need for human beings.
When the She family was at its peak, it controlled more than 2 million people and raised nearly 100,000 soldiers; Lin Fu controlled such a small population, and raising 1,000 soldiers was the limit. Even if he was ambitious, his ambition was too small, and it was really far behind.
He is very effective at controlling the Lin clan.
Qin Zitan held the candlestick and moved it to the map. He couldn't help but glance at the back of Song Jia who was holding the door. Song Jia looked back as if she had a feeling and saw that Qin Zitan's eyes had moved to the map, with a slight smile on his lips.
And go.
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Lin Fu himself didn't feel much about being promoted to the rank of Xuan Yilang from the seventh rank. In his opinion, the Dai Viet Dynasty was in turmoil and the building was about to collapse. There was really no future for him as an official in the Dai Viet Dynasty. Although the San rank was raised, his salary would be improved.
Improvement, but it is not equivalent to the official power and the actual power held.
During this period of time, apart from recuperating from his injuries, Lin Fu had nothing special to do in Hekou. In his free time, he spent most of his free time hanging out with Zhao Shuhan, Ge Siyu and others.
After the banquet, Lin Fu invited Zhao Shuhan and Ge Siyu to the thatched cottage to drink tea and discuss the manuscript under a copper oil lamp.
Ge Fu, Ge Siyu and their sons had been compiling "Annotations to the General Sutra"; after Zhao Shuhan was completely disappointed with his official career, with Lin Fu's suggestion and funding, he began to compile the magnificent encyclopedia-style "Jiang Dian".
At that time, the Qing Dynasty scholar-officials were ashamed of production and regarded miscellaneous craftsmanship as strange/obscene skills. However, even a junior high school student in later generations could say that "technology is the primary productive force" and "the economic base determines the superstructure."
Class words come.
Lin Fu believed that the reason why the Dai Viet Dynasty was unavoidable was not that it was difficult to defeat powerful external enemies, but that the country's finances were on the verge of collapse and it was difficult to find a good strategy to restore it.
In the end, it came down to "money". Lin Fu twisted the pages of the manuscript and wandered thoughtfully under the lamp.
Lin Fu intends to plant his roots in Xisha Island, and is not too worried about arousing the wariness and vigilance of others. The main reason is that Xisha Island has a wide terrain and no danger to defend. It is also located at the forefront of the invasion of East China Sea invaders, so no one with the slightest ambition can do it.
We will set our sights on Xisha Island.
Even if we do not consider the restrictions of terrain and conflict of forces, Xisha Island is hundreds of miles away, with a converted area of about 200,000 acres. Only about half of the land can be cultivated into grain fields. The ability to produce 200,000 shi of grain a year is already the limit.
At its peak, the She family controlled almost half of the counties in East Fujian, with more than two million people. When it mobilized nearly 100,000 troops, it was already on the verge of financial collapse, and finally had to accept the recruitment and retreat back to Shanxi.
Anfu comes to rest and recuperate.
With the limited productivity of Xisha Island, even if it is fully developed, raising 20,000 islanders and organizing more than 1,000 rural soldiers is already the limit.
Lin Fu's envoys Lin Mengde and Hu Zhiyong strictly controlled the total number of newly registered households in Xisha Island, and finally reported more than 2,110 households, with a population of more than 9,800 people. Chongzhou County, Hailing Prefecture and Jiangdong Xuan
The Chief of Staff was not suspicious of this data. They could not be suspicious. After all, considering that Xisha Island was still in an undeveloped state, it would be enough to settle these more than 9,800 people within two or three years.
It's an extremely difficult thing.
Even if Lin Fu accidentally revealed his ambition to control Xisha Island at this time, perhaps more people would just laugh at him for being arrogant and ignorant of economics.
However, Lin Fu knew that there was great potential in controlling Xisha Island.
Differences in production models determine fundamental differences in the population base that can be supported on the same piece of land and in military organizational capabilities.
Since the yield of fertile land in Chongzhou County has reached more than five dan per mu, Lin Fu is also confident that he can transform the barren land on Xisha Island into fertile land with a yield of five dan or more per mu.
On Prison Island, pigs are kept in captivity to make fertilizer for the vegetable garden, and the yield of the vegetable garden is much higher than that of the surrounding farmland.
More efficient and larger-scale manual workshops than traditional handicraft workshops will be able to accommodate a larger surplus population and generate more surplus financial resources.
He used a large spinning wheel operated by six or seven people to spin cotton yarn on Prison Island, and the per capita amount of yarn spun was more than four times higher than before.
In the past, Lin Fu used Prison Island as his experimental field. Now that Xisha Island is available, feasible farming and production organization models tested on Prison Island can be vigorously implemented on Xisha Island.
However, the knowledge mastered by Lin Fu's later generations was seriously out of touch with the handicraft production techniques of his time.
Later generations used bolts to fasten and assemble objects. According to Lin Fu's requirements, Prison Island craftsmen were able to make suitable bolts. However, making one bolt required a skilled craftsman to work around the clock for seven or eight days, and the cost was astonishingly high.
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In the end, Lin Fu just placed the bolt on his desk as a handicraft for viewing, and never mentioned the bolt again.
Based on this premise, Lin Fu urgently needed to have a comprehensive and thorough understanding of the contemporary handicraft production processes and technologies, so he asked Zhao Shuhan to compile "The Craftsman's Code".
Zhao Shuhan was knowledgeable and knowledgeable, and Jiangning was the southern capital of the empire, with a rich collection of humanities and a collection of hundreds of craftsmen, which provided many conveniences for the compilation of the Craftsman's Code.
Lin Fu also wanted to attract more skilled craftsmen to directly participate in the compilation of the "Craftsman's Code" by publicly promoting miscellaneous craftsmanship in Hekou, and recruit some craftsmen to directly enter the workshops opened by Jiyun Society in Hekou.
, and will be transported to Xisha Island later.
One of the things that Lin Tingxun did during his lifetime was to benefit the Lin clan by running a volunteer school to support the Lin clan and Shanglin children in their studies. The purpose was very simple, which was to train shopkeepers and shopkeepers who could read and do arithmetic for Linji Warehouse. There were also a few with even qualifications.
Excellent children are trained for scientific examinations.
The Gu family has been in decline for ten years, and the younger generation has almost no available people. Any young member of the Lin family can stand alone. This is the key reason why Gu Wuchen has to rely on the Lin family.
After the Lin tribe retreated to Hekou, Lin Fu took the initiative to take on the responsibility of setting up a volunteer school. The purpose was also very simple. In addition to literacy and arithmetic, he also added basic miscellaneous subjects.