Lin Fu estimated that Yue Lengqiu probably made a petition to the south to exterminate the Liu thieves after learning about Li Zhuo's petition to the north to supervise the Ji Town Army. When it comes to political speculation, there are very few in the world.
There was someone as good as Yue Lengqiu, so Li Zhuo probably didn't expect that Yue Lengqiu would take advantage of him again, right?
Maybe Li Zhuo doesn't care about the internal divisions in the Chu Party at all..com
Whether it was Li Zhuo going north or Yue Lengqiu going south, these were military and national affairs that Lin Fu was not qualified to interfere with. He could not see clearly the direction of the situation in the DPRK for a while. Although he was extremely reluctant to see Yue Lengqiu going south, he
At this time, he can only stay out of it and do what he can do well.
The negotiations between Tianjin and Haidu Water Transport Secretary Zhang Wenden and Deng and Laihai merchants were not going well. He came to the seawall to ask for help from Lin Fu and Tang Haoxin. Lin Fu sighed lightly and returned to Wokou Village with Tang Haoxin to see Deng.
, representative of Laihai merchants. The imperial court simply did not have the ability to organize a large shipping team under the Ministry of Civil Affairs or the Tianjin-Haidu Water Transport Department in a short period of time. It could only rely on small and medium-sized maritime merchants in the counties on the entire west coast of the Bohai Bay.
Lin Mengde, Sun Shangwang and the Zhou brothers, the original owners of Wokou Village, were all in the village.
Wokou Village has been requisitioned from the original owner Zhou family and will be gradually transformed into Jinhai Dacang; more than 200 members of the Zhou family have moved out. In addition to the allocation of 200 acres of fertile land and 5,000 acres of farmland on the south bank of the Woshui River,
In addition to the two officials' silver compensation for rebuilding Wuzhai to the Zhou family, both Zhou brothers were awarded the rank of seven-level official, and were awarded the post of Prime Minister of Jinhai County, Deputy Prime Minister of the Water Transport Department of Jinhai City, etc. There were also six descendants of the Zhou clan.
People were awarded civil and military grades ranging from the ninth grade to the eighth grade.
Although the Zhou family is not yet considered rich and powerful, it is still enough to become the first family in Jinhai.
Lin Fu accompanied Tang Haoxin and rushed back from outside. The forty or fifty people who were discussing matters in the capital hall all stood up to greet him.
Lin Fu saw that Sun Fengyi and others from the Sun family in Cangnan were also in the hall. He nodded and asked Tang Haoxin to take a seat. He sat down below Tang Haoxin. Zhang Wenden sat on Tang Haoxin's left hand, and the others were standing.
Downstairs.
Tang Haoxin held the case in his old hands, leaned over and looked kindly at the maritime business representatives from Deng, Lai and other places, and asked with a smile: "I heard the noise here for most of the day, what else is going on?"
Can’t decide?”
Zhang Wenden followed Tang Haoxin's tone and said solemnly: "The imperial court has made a decision this time: No matter how short the food is in Lai, if you go to buy food, the price will not be higher than one thousand yuan per stone. The government has already sent
The imperial envoys went to Deng and Lai. In Deng and Lai, any grain store or merchant who dares to raise the price above this limit or hoard grain and hesitate to sell it will lose his head. No matter how abundant the grain is in Tianjin and Hainan, it will be at least five years old.
Months ago, the price of grain purchased and stored by Hubu and Jinhai Dacang would not be lower than 1,500 yuan per stone. I am here to guarantee you that Hubu and Jinhai Dacang will never be short of a single copper from you!"
Lin Fu didn't say a word, and the merchant representatives from Denglai who were standing in the hall didn't say a word either. They just refused to express their stance. They were not all from Denglai, most of them were fleeing from Hejian Prefecture and coastal counties.
They were small and medium-sized maritime merchants who were avoiding war in Deng, Lai and other places. The Jiangdong Left Army won many great victories in Hejian Prefecture, and used the captured materials to barter with them. Only then did they get together and transport materials to Jinhai.
, one is to do business with Jiangdong Zuojun, and the other is to support Jiangdong Zuojun in fighting in Hejian Prefecture. In less than two months, they established a relationship of trust and mutual dependence.
There is no pure maritime merchant power these days. Most of the maritime merchants who can go to sea to engage in trade have some relationship with local clans and government forces. They form intricate interest groups with each other, providing them with necessary protection for their overseas trade and ensuring that they will not
Suffering excessive oppression and intrusion from other forces.
In this catastrophe, at least the maritime merchant interest groups in the coastal counties of Hejian Prefecture have been destroyed to pieces. The Sun family and the Zhou family are considered newly rising local forces, but their prestige and power are still insufficient.
Here, the Zhou brothers, Sun Fengyi and others are not qualified to speak out.
Lin Fu waited for a while and saw that no one spoke, which made Tang Haoxin look bad. He directly called Sun Fengyi's name and said: "We heard the noise here before we came in, but now it's silent again.
Mr. Sun, tell me, what are you all worried about?"
Sun Fengyi reluctantly stood up and said: "Everyone is still happy to hand over the grain to the Jinhai Water Transport Department, but everyone hopes to see Jinhai Okura come up with real gold and silver for trading. We unload in Jinhai
A shipload of grain, I hope to get the money to board a shipload of grain, and then buy grain to Jinhai. Each family has limited financial resources, even if Mr. Lin guarantees Jinhai Okura, we will post the cost of the first batch of grain.
Yes, if you post two batches, you won’t be able to support it after three batches. After all, we can’t just buy grain with white slips...”
Lin Fu nodded slightly. After a thousand years, it would still be a bad debt that would be hard to repay, let alone a businessman with almost no political status in this world.
In the eyes of the Yuan family, everything in the world is the private property of his Yuan family. How can there be any spirit of contract? It is not unimaginable that one day the Ministry of Revenue will directly refuse the account. Those officials, even more
Treat merchants directly as fat sheep that can be exploited and extorted at will.
Apart from those merchants with tough backgrounds, how many are willing to deal with the government?
Lin Fu looked at Tang Haoxin and Zhang Wendeng, and asked, "Should we wait until Lin Du comes back?"
Zhang Wendeng's face was uncertain. He looked at Tang Haoxin and asked Tang Haoxin to make up his mind.
Zhang Wenden was originally the head of the Ministry of Household Affairs and was directly appointed as the Superintendent of Jinhai Cangcang. As the main assistant officer of the Jinhai Water Transport Department, he was responsible for building granaries and storing grain in Jinhai. Although Jinhai Cang was under the name of the Jinhai Water Transport Department, it was
Under the direct jurisdiction of the Ministry of Household Affairs, Zhang Wendeng did not need to ask Lin Xuwen for instructions on building warehouses and storing grain. Besides, Tang Haoxin was still in Jinhai, so Tang Haoxin nodded and he could make up his mind.
This time, in order to open a sea canal, the Ministry of Revenue finally managed to squeeze out 500,000 taels of silver, but there were too many places where the silver was needed. Only the Jiangdong Left Army and the nearly 60,000 taels of grain reserves and 2,000 head of Guoshui Village were allocated.
All ordinary mules and horses were taken down, and 120,000 taels of silver were used to open rivers, build roads, build harbors, organize inland waterways and mules and horses, and build military forts and walls outside Jinhaicang to protect the granaries.
, which required a lot of money, and Lin Xuwen directly transferred the money away. All matters related to the port repair at the mouth of the vortex were also entrusted to Sun Shangwang.
Zhang Wendeng was left with 180,000 taels of silver. Zhang Wendeng wanted to use this money to transform Wokou Village into a super-large granary and organize a team of 600 warehousemen. If the cash transaction was to be done, Zhang Wendeng only had enough cash to collect the money.
Store one hundred thousand shi of grain.
In addition to storing grain in Jinhai, Beijing also decided to move about 60,000 border troops from Ji Town and Xuan Town to coastal military fortresses such as Ninghe, Changli, Jinhai, etc., so that the Tianjin and Haidu Water Transport Department organized maritime merchants to directly transfer necessary supplies.
The grain was transported to Ninghe and sold to the border troops in Changli, which could minimize the pressure on the grain supply in Gyeonggi.
There were not many businessmen in the world who were willing to do business with the government, let alone the frontier troops whose reputation was so bad. Even if they wanted to transport grain to the border troops, Jinhaicang had to pay cash for the grain first.
None of them were willing to trade directly with the border army.
Tang Hao
Son-in-law Gu Wuchen's close disciples were treated as juniors. Lin Fu was awarded a title for his military merits, Jiangdong Zuojun formed its own system, and the power of the Lin clan was also expanding rapidly. Lin Fu was qualified to form his own line.
Of course, Tang Haoxin was not a fool. He looked at the silence in the hall and discussed with Lin Fu in a low voice: "When I left the capital, I knew what was going on in the Ministry of Household Affairs. Money is used everywhere. I can squeeze in this place."
Five hundred thousand taels of silver is already the limit. As Wen Deng said, Deng, Lai Haishang still fully trusts Jiangdong Zuojun, will Jiangdong Zuojun come forward to be this fan? "
The nature of the intermediary and guarantor between Yaren and later generations is similar.
"It's not that I don't want to take the responsibility," Lin Fu said with a bitter smile, "It's easy to say something, but don't talk about them. I'm also worried about the Ministry of Revenue and the border army who will default on their debts. The initial grain storage in Jinhaicang was 300,000 shi.
, plus the food for the border army is 60,000 shi and the silver is 540,000 taels. How dare I open my mouth to provide this guarantee for the Ministry of Household Affairs and the border army? Besides, Jiangdong Zuojun is a rural camp.
It’s all unknown. If I use the name of Jiangdong Zuojun as a guarantee, will Laihai Chamber of Commerce trust me? Aren’t they worried that one day, Jiangdong Zuojun will be disbanded and cease to exist?”
Tang Haoxin knew that Lin Fu wanted to take this opportunity to solve the status problem of the Jiangdong Zuo Army, and he could not blame Lin Fu. Among all the Qinwang divisions, the Jiangdong Zuo Army had the most outstanding military achievements, but it happened to be a newly recruited rural camp without a formal establishment.
Due to the outstanding military achievements of the Jiangdong Left Army, it is impossible for the Ministry of War to directly disband the Jiangdong Left Army after the war, but it is very delicate how much of the Jiangdong Left Army will be retained in the end.
Tang Haoxin nodded and said: "I know the problem you mentioned. I will immediately send people to Beijing to fight for the official status of the Jiangdong Left Army. You must solve this urgent problem for the Ministry of Household Affairs without hesitation...
…”
Lin Fu pondered for a moment, and then asked Zhang Wendeng to come over to discuss it, and said in a lowered voice: "As Sun Fengyi said, even if Jiangdong Zuojun is willing to come out as a guarantee, Denglai Maritime Merchant can advance the first batch of purchases.
However, they couldn’t afford the second and third batch of grain purchases, and the Ministry of Household Affairs really couldn’t squeeze out any extra money at this time. Since they trusted Jiangdong Zuojun, it would be better to use Jiangdong to purchase grain.
The Zuo Army directly came forward to buy grain from them and then resold it to Jinhaicang and other border troops. I still have a sum of money on hand that can be used as a cushion first, and I can also get a sum of money from the Lin family for emergency use, as long as the Ministry of Revenue guarantees that I can use this money in the future.
Just return the silver to me! I have to pay in cash for the border army, otherwise when the generals are changed, no matter who I cry to, they won't pay attention."
Although Tang Haoxin is old, he is a sensible person. Lin Fu seems to have to take a lot of risks, but in this way, Deng and Laihai merchants will no longer have direct conflicts with Jinhai Cang, Jinhai Water Transport Department and various border armies.
The relationship will be closely gathered around the Jiangdong Zuojun, forming a situation where both will suffer losses and both will prosper with the Jiangdong Zuojun.
The most important neck of this temporarily formed sea-cao system was held by Lin Fu alone. In addition, Lin Xuwen directly controlled the Tianjin-Haidu Water Transport Department Office. It can be said that the newly formed sea-cao system was fully controlled by the Lin family.
By then, not to mention that the Ministry of Revenue would not dare to rely on the Jiangdong Left Army's account, the imperial court would not even dare to easily remove Lin Xuwen from his position in the Capital Water Transport Department.
Tang Hao confidently thought that Lin Xuwen would pat him down and go to Changlu, leaving all the Ukou affairs to Zhang Wendeng. Lin Fu might have deliberately brought about this situation behind his back, and thought to himself: This disciple of Wu Chen is really awesome. I don’t know about him.
There is still some loyalty to Wu Chen, but the relationship between the Lin family and Wu Chen has formed an unbreakable trend, which is a fact that exists even if you close your eyes... ,!