After nightfall, Lin Mengde and Li Shuyi went over to see Chen Lei taking over the county Okura. They were afraid that he would be overwhelmed when he first arrived, so they rushed to the west courtyard of Beishanmen. They saw that everything was in order here and were quite satisfied. They knew that Chen Lei was a capable person.
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Lin Mengde stood in the yard, looking at the wide and thick walls of the county warehouse, and laughed with Li Shuyi: "I really have to thank the She family for investing a lot of resources in Guangjiao Temple in the past few years. Otherwise, after the destruction of Chongzhou City,
The county government doesn’t even have a temporary office space. I wonder if the She family would be so angry that they would vomit blood if they knew that Guangjiao Temple was taken away from us like this?"
Privately, everyone does not shy away from confusing the Donghai bandits with the She family.
"Master Lin, Master Li is here, what do you want to tell me?" Chen Lei went to the yard to greet Lin Mengde and Li Shuyi. Lin Mengde has accumulated military merit and is now an eighth-rank official. Li Shuyi himself is a scholar and has officially served as a scholar before.
Every household secretary and office can bear the title of "adult".
"Come here and see how you are doing after taking over?" Lin Mengde smiled, "Compared to the chaos elsewhere, this place is pretty good."
"Chen Lei has to do his best to repay your lords' cultivation and trust." Chen Lei said.
Controlling a place is nothing more than starting from two aspects: people and things.
Without manpower and resources, no matter whether the people who came to Chongzhou to serve as magistrates, county magistrates, or county lieutenants in the future were Yue Lengqiu's close confidants, they would not be able to escape the fate of being left alone.
It can be said that the county Okura directly controls the materials that the county can control and call. The appointment of manpower is very critical. The final selection of Chen Lei was also decided after a long time of consideration.
Lin Mengde smiled and said: "I won't say any more polite words. I'll give you my instructions and I'll take you to Shannan..."
Zilang Mountain is not high, but rather steep. It is connected to land on the east and north sides, and faces the river on the west and south sides. There is a river wharf on the southwest corner, and there is a stone path leading directly around the mountain.
At present, except for the Beilu Mountain Gate and the Chanyuan, which are set aside as temporary county offices, the rest of Zilang Mountain is strictly controlled by the Jiangdong Left Army, and ordinary people are not allowed to enter. Especially the wharf in Shannan is a military point controlled by the Jiangdong Left Army.
Chen Lei didn't ask any more questions. He went back to the house and gave instructions, then followed Lin Mengde and Li Shuyi on the stone path for two or three miles, then went around to the south foot.
The light of the lantern was not far away. Listening to the sound of the waves lapping at the shore, in addition to Jiang'an Pier, Chen Lei discovered that there was an independent small yard on the east side of Jiang'an Pier that was heavily guarded. Lin Mengde and Li Shuyi took him there.
Go and walk closer, only to find that Lin Fu is also there.
I originally thought it was an ordinary little courtyard under the cliff, but when I walked into the courtyard, I found that there was a lot of interesting things inside. The main house in the courtyard was built directly against the foot of the cliff. The main door of the main room was open, and there were many giant trees in the house.
The candle light was bright. Chen Lei stood in the yard and looked at the house. It was so deep inside that he couldn't even see the bottom at a glance.
"This is the secret warehouse built by the She family at the foot of the mountain." Lin Fu saw Lin Mengde. Li Shuyi brought Chen Lei over and introduced to him what he saw. "The idea is also very good. I heard about Zilang in the early years.
There is a Snake Fairy Cave at the foot of the southern foothills of the mountain. I didn’t find the entrance to the cave last night. It was only in the early morning that I discovered that the monks had transformed the Snake Fairy Cave into a secret warehouse and built this small courtyard to cover the entrance of the cave..." I sighed again.
He told Lin Mengde, "You are a master who is planning for the She family behind the scenes. If we hadn't taken the lead, if we had given the Donghai pirates a foothold on the islands in Changguo County and put this arrangement into effect, the consequences would have been
It’s hard to imagine!”
"What's the use of their calculations?" Lin Mengde laughed, "Didn't they make wedding clothes for us?"
Lin Fu also smiled slightly and walked towards the secret warehouse together.
Chen Lei has not yet come into contact with the captured monks, and he was only told verbally by others that the monks were colluding with bandits. Only when he walked into the secret warehouse did he truly feel what it means to have conclusive evidence that the monks in Guangjiao Temple were colluding with bandits.
The entire Shexian Cave has been transformed into a secret warehouse. The space inside is almost larger than the entire Beishanmen Zen Temple, and it goes deep into the heart of Zilang Mountain.
Although there are not many supplies stored in the secret warehouse, most of the place is empty. According to Lin Mengde, if the She family organizes a water camp with tens of thousands of people to surprise Jiangning, the supplies stored in the secret warehouse can be carried out once it arrives.
The two mid-way supplies, rice grains, soldiers' armor, arrows and other materials can support the elite combat force of 2,000 people to hold on to Zilang Mountain for half a year.
Lin Fu looked up at the ceiling of Shensui Cave where the firelight could not reach, and sighed slightly. Looking at the layout of Zilang Mountain, at least the She family had thought of attacking Jiangning, but it was a pity that they could not integrate an effective army on the islands of Changguo County in time.
The navy came out with a large amount of combat power.
I really can't imagine what kind of chaos the entire South and the entire Dayue Dynasty would fall into after Jiangning fell to the Donghai Kouqi. Lin Fu wondered if more secrets could be dug out from the mouths of Du Rong or the woman on the top of the mountain?
"All the materials in the temple warehouse that were seized last night have been transferred to the county warehouse for temporary expenses of the county government." Lin Fu took the inventory book from the person in charge and said to Chen Lei, "This secret warehouse will also be used as temporary expenses for the county government."
The secret warehouse is being used without informing the local authorities. We will deploy soldiers from both capitals to take turns protecting the warehouse. Are you willing to take charge of this warehouse as well?"
"It all depends on your orders..." Chen Lei said.
"Then I'll leave it to you," Lin Fu said, "If there is an urgent shortage of supplies in the county warehouse, you and Li Shuyi can allocate them as appropriate, but you need to inform Lin Mengde afterwards," making it clear that Lin Mengde is the general manager.
The person in charge of the Jiangdong Zuo Army’s logistics affairs added, “The secret warehouse materials were urgently allocated and credited to the account. There is a surplus in the county warehouse and they need to be returned to the secret warehouse in time!”
"I understand," Chen Lei said.
Lin Fu stared at Chen Lei twice, and Chen Lei added: "What you mean is that the county warehouse is empty but the secret warehouse is real."
Lin Fu nodded, and Chen Lei really understood, so he handed the secret warehouse material inventory booklet to Chen Lei.
Chen Lei took the booklet, glanced at it casually, and thought it was really amazing.
This secret warehouse only contains 10,000 stones of grain, including cloth, salt and iron, armor, arrows, chariots, etc. It may be that the East China Sea bandits broke into Chongzhou City and looted it, and hid a considerable part of the supplies here.
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Chongzhou City was destroyed, and the former county warehouse was also robbed.
There may be a lot of temporary relief money allocated from Hailing Prefecture, but Wu Meijiu only transferred 10,000 taels to the jurisdiction of County Dacang, and was responsible for the money and food expenditure of 2,000 government troops in Chongzhou. Chen Lei took over the county Dacang, and this amount
There is less than five thousand taels of silver left.
In addition, the materials stored in the Guangjiao temple warehouse handed over by the Jiangdong Left Army were taken over today.
There are not many supplies stored in the temple warehouse of Guangjiao Temple. If it were not for the discovery of the secret warehouse, with the materials stored in the temple warehouse, Guangjiao Temple really does not look like a stronghold built by the East China Sea bandits in Chongzhou. Lin Mengde only deducted 10,000 taels.
In addition to the money, other materials in the temple warehouse were transferred to the county. There were a lot of sundries used in the monastery such as monks' robes and incense candles. There were only more than 30 pieces of cloth and only more than 500 stones of rice and grain. In addition, there were also other materials used in the monastery.
There is a vegetable garden of about fifty acres planted directly by the monks.
This amount of supplies is far from enough to maintain the county government's daily expenses. If there is an emergency, it is simply not enough to cope with it.
Lin Fu envoy Chen Lei was also in charge of the secret warehouse, and Li Shuyi and Chen Lei intended to urgently allocate the secret warehouse materials. They agreed to use the materials accumulated in the secret warehouse as backup storage materials for Chongzhou County, but they would not directly transfer the secret warehouse to the county.
Here, we need to implement the policy of "virtual county warehouses and real secret warehouses".
In any case, as official seal officials, magistrates, county magistrates and other officials appointed by the imperial court in name only have the right to directly allocate materials from the county warehouses. False county warehouses but real secret warehouses are to trap the county magistrates and other official seal officials.
A situation where you have the right to allocate but no materials to transfer, so as to achieve the purpose of being isolated.
Lin Fu no longer concealed his intention to control Chongzhou in front of Li Shuyi and Chen Lei. After all, if he wanted to control Chongzhou, he had to go through Li Shuyi, Chen Lei and others.
Li Shuyi and Chen Lei didn't find anything difficult to accept. Striving for power is the nature of civil servants and generals. In the officialdom, promotion, appointment of subordinates, and claims of loyalty to the court and the emperor are all lies. To put it bluntly, they are subordinates.
Loyalty to superiors, loyalty to the master from subordinates. In officialdom, it is normal to appoint private individuals, and it is also normal to form friends and cliques. They do not think about further things, and they do not dare to think about further things at this time.
Besides, Lin Fu completely took possession of the seized materials as his own, and it was hard for others to say anything.
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After seeing the secret warehouse, Lin Fu and Lin Mengde returned to Beilu with Li Shuyi and Chen Lei. It was difficult to replenish the official staff. There were many things to be discussed urgently, so there was no time to worry about day and night.
Cao Ziang, Hu Zhicheng, Wu Meijiu and the newly appointed Liufang Book Office and other officials gathered in the courtyard that temporarily served as the county government, waiting for Lin Fu to come over; Li Shutang, Hu Zhiyong and others also gathered here as representatives of the township. Candles were lit in the lobby.
He had a high fever and was as bright as day. When he heard that Lin Fu and others were coming into the yard, they all went out to greet him.
Regardless of whether Wu Mei Jiucheng admits it or not, Lin Fu has actually mastered the military and political power on the ground in Chongzhou. He doesn't want to fight with Lin Fu anyway. He is a temporary magistrate of the county, and he can afford to offend such a powerful figure like Lin Fu.
"There is no need to be so polite. Just treat me as a casual person who came to listen. Whatever the county needs, Jiangdong Left Army will try its best to support it. I am just afraid that everyone is new together and some people are not familiar with me, so they come to show their face.
Lin Fu spoke with a smile and walked into the lobby with everyone to discuss the matter. He also refused to let Wu Mei sit in the chair for a long time and preside over the matter.
Although Lin Fu is in a higher position and has more power, Wu Meijiu is still the leader in the county, and he does not have the energy to intervene in everything. Whether internally or externally, Cao Ziang is currently in control of the military, and Lin Mengde is temporarily in charge.
The decentralized structure of logistics to share the heavy workload for Lin Fu; to control the Chongzhou area, Hu Zhicheng is responsible for Cao Ziang, Li Shuyi is responsible for Lin Mengde, and Lin Fu only controls the overall situation. ,!