Walking to the eaves of the corridor, Lin Fu took off the raincoat and frowned slightly as he watched the patter of raindrops hanging down from the eaves like a curtain of beads.
Although everyone is complaining that such rainy weather delays things, who can be angry with God? After the rainy season, the next flood season will be even more troublesome.
"My lord, you are here so early..."
Lin Fu turned around and saw Yang Mu, the clerk of Chongzhou County's workshop, coming from the other side of the corridor. He bowed to him and saluted him. He smiled and said in return: "Come here earlier. You can sit down and drink tea with everyone and chat about it. It's raining."
I don’t know when the break will come, so everyone is sitting in the official room, fearing that when the rain stops, moss will grow on everyone. I brought some good tea over, and I will ask someone to brew it for everyone later..."
"Your Excellency, you are so polite. I would like to express my humble gratitude to you for the wonderful tea." Chief Yang bowed his head and bowed before going to the meeting hall.
"By the way, Secretary Yang, I heard that there have been several floods in the county in the past few days. I have reported the disaster to the county. Have you ever gone down to take a look?" Lin Fu called to Yang Mu.
"I went to see it yesterday, humble job, and it's not serious," Yang Mu reported back, "In the summer and autumn, the accumulated waterlogging in Chongzhou becomes a headache..."
"I would like to ask Secretary Yang for advice. Is there any good way to reduce the flood disaster in Chongzhou?" Lin Fu asked.
Chongzhou is a land filled with sand, and the terrain is low and flat. It is also a rainy area in summer and autumn. When the rain is strong, the accumulated water cannot be drained out, resulting in floods. The flood disaster in Chongzhou is very serious. This is the Feimian at this time.
It has been rainy and has caused waterlogging in some places.
Compared with the reduction in agricultural production caused by waterlogging, typhoons and ocean tide disasters are not worth mentioning. Typhoon disasters like last year's are rare in Chongzhou for several years. The main reason is that the refugees who first landed on Xisha Island are not prepared to deal with typhoons in the flood season.
It was experience that caused such heavy casualties.
"..." Yang Mu pondered. This question was difficult to answer.
Yang Mu didn't find it strange that Lin Fu would ask such a question. For more than half a month, Lin Fu had been in frequent contact with the newly elected officials in Chongzhou County, much more frequently than Han Zai who had been hiding in the garden all day.
He was used to asking questions about people's livelihood, and everyone was not surprised. However, some of the questions Lin Fu asked were very big, which gave everyone a headache and made it difficult to answer.
It is true that the county government office is responsible for farmland, water conservancy, construction and other matters in the county. In fact, the main work of the county government at that time was around grain taxes and taxes. Whenever there was a report of a flood or drought, the government office might allocate manpower to verify it.
, come back to truthfully report or exaggerate the disaster situation, the county magistrate will consider it at his discretion and reduce or reduce some taxes for the disaster-stricken areas. Even if this matter is over, where will they fundamentally consider ways to reduce or eliminate these disasters?
Yang Mu didn't dislike these. People with real talents shouldn't be afraid to answer such questions. It was also an opportunity to show their talents.
Of course, Yang Mu also noticed that after Lin Fu led the Jiangdong Left Army to station in Chongzhou, the way or style of handling county affairs in Chongzhou County was very different from the past, or from other counties.
For example, when it comes to building a city, generally speaking, Lin Fu, Han Zai, and Wu Meijiu should discuss a plan with a few close friends and then submit it to the county magistrate for approval. Once the plan is made, the following people will be ordered to implement it--it's good now.
Not only were the officials summoned to ask for advice, but also the village chiefs from various townships were summoned to discuss the matter.
Yang Mu pondered for a moment and replied: "Accumulated waterlogging will cause disaster. To reduce waterlogging, it lies in the word 'discharge'. Whenever heavy rain comes, as long as the accumulated water is drained out in time, waterlogging will not be caused."
Speaking of 'drainage', more ditches should be dug to facilitate drainage - of course, it is also conducive to irrigation. But these things are not easy, and it is even more difficult for Chongzhou County to do these things at this time..."
"Since Mr. Yang has some ideas, he might as well sort them out," Lin Fu said. "When I was in Jiangning, people said that I didn't do anything about writing and only liked to do some side magic. I also specially asked Zhao Shuhan, the head of Jiangning's Criminal Department, to compile "The Craftsman's Code"
, this waterlogging technique can be regarded as a branch of agricultural water conservancy. It may not be useful at this time, but it will definitely be useful in the future..."
"I know that I will do more homework when I get back, so as not to bring out something too vulgar and make adults laugh," Yang Mu said.
"When Zhiyong recommended Mr. Yang, he said that Mr. Yang was good at farming and had a reputation in Chongzhou," Lin Fu said with a smile, and then asked, "By the way, Special Envoy Han wants to conquer temple land to build a new city. What do you think of this?"
"..." Yang Mu hesitated and didn't know how to answer.
"If you have any ideas, please tell me the truth." Lin Fu saw that Yang Mu had some concerns and bowed to him and asked him to speak out.
"To be honest with you, Master, Yang Mu thinks that Master Han's move is a good thing. Perhaps Master Han is a little too hasty." Yang Mu said.
"It's a good thing, it's a good thing." Lin Fu laughed twice and let Yang Mu into the meeting hall.
Yang Mu is a local, and he should know that the fields under the name of Guangjiao Temple are divided into temple fields and rented fields, and should not be simply referred to as "temple fields." However, Yang Mu's family is poor, and after passing the examination to become a scholar, he has not been able to make further progress.
For a long time, he had made a living by working as a teacher for wealthy families. From his point of view, it was natural for him to take over all the temple fields and farmlands for official use and use them to build the city.
Even within the Jiangdong Zuojun, people like Cao Ziang, Zhou Pu and others believed that all the land under the name of Guangjiao Temple should be returned to the government.
Therefore, Yang Mu thinks that Han Zai's suggestion to requisition all temple fields to build a new city is a good thing, which is not surprising at all - a person's approval or disapproval of a thing is inseparable from his own position.
----But those landowners who send their fields to monasteries to avoid taxes will never think that this is a good thing. To them, it is a terrible bad thing.
The disposal of the properties under the name of Guangjiao Temple has precedent significance. As long as the disposal of the properties under the name of Guangjiao Temple sets a precedent, the disposal of properties under the name of other monasteries suspected of collaborating with bandits will follow suit.
It's just that some people have thought of this, and some people have not thought of it. At least the landowners involved have their eyes fixed on how the county will deal with the Guangjiao Temple property.
After the news spread that Han Zai sent a letter to Jiangdong Zuojun requesting that all the land under the name of Guangjiao Temple be taken over by Chongzhou County to build a new city, the seemingly calm water surface in Chongzhou County was like boiling water.
Since the Li family also has a large amount of land involved, the number of people who came to Li Shutang to inquire about the news in the past two days ranged from 100 to 80. In the past, because the Li family was close to Lin Fu, these people did not dare to go to Li Shutang to inquire about the information.
Afraid of being sold to Li Shutang, now they found out that the new special envoy of Xuanwei was so ruthless, so they all came to Li Shutang to make up his mind.
It's difficult to remove this cover. It's best to let Han Zai, who doesn't know the importance of it, do it.
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The land in Chongzhou is divided into three grades: upper, middle and lower. It has nothing to do with whether the land is fertile or barren, or paddy fields or dry fields. The main difference is the degree of waterlogging disaster. In Chongzhou, there is no drought, water shortage, or unfavorable irrigation. As long as it is conducive to drainage,
Fields with normal accumulation of fertilizers are cultivated fields. There are two seasons a year, one wheat season and one rice season. It is normal to produce three dan of grain a year. High-ripened fields can even achieve high yields of four dan and five dan of grain. The biggest problem is
It's just waterlogging.
Chongzhou County has a total of 1.5 million acres of grain fields. Lin Fu has investigated more than 300,000 acres of land occupied by monasteries. He wants to find out all the good farmland that has been concealed by the powerful and influential people in the township. Chongzhou County has a total of 2.2 million acres of grain fields.
One and a half million acres or even three million acres is not something that can particularly surprise people.
Chongzhou County’s grain production capacity potential and tax revenue potential are promising.
Lin Fu is bound to develop water conservancy projects in Chongzhou in the future. After all, during the slack seasons of autumn and winter, a large number of manpower is idle. They don't even need wages. As long as they provide three meals a day, they can organize a large number of people to build ditches.
But at this time, the fields were occupied or even concealed by the powerful tribes. Even if Lin Fu launched a large-scale water conservancy project and promoted a bumper harvest in Chongzhou, the actual benefits would be taken by the powerful tribes. He could not really promote a substantial increase in taxes and could not
Ensure that the salary source of Jiangdong Left Army will be greatly increased.
The first thing Lin Fu had to do was to restrain the tyrants, check out the hidden fields, and even take as much of the fields into official ownership as possible.
While Han Zai was in Chongzhou, Lin Fu did not dare to make any big moves or offend these powerful people, just because he was afraid that these powerful people would defect to Han Zai.
Lin Fu rushed to by-elect the officials of Chongzhou County before Han Zai, controlled the county warehouse, and secretly manipulated the specific affairs of Chongzhou County through officials and material supplies. Although Han Zai had the name of a comfort envoy, he did not have one in Chongzhou County.
What to do. But once Han Zai gets the collective support of local forces, Lin Fu will not be able to secretly control Chongzhou County through personnel and material supplies. After all, Han Zai can get enough talents familiar with local affairs and necessary support from local forces.
With the money and rice needed to run the administrative system, Han Zai could openly control the affairs of Chongzhou County.
Because of these worries, Lin Fu has been delaying the case of the banditry from being closed, and has been delaying the disposal of the property belonging to Guangjiao Temple and other monasteries or concealed.
Although the powerful families who had sent their property to the temple were in a state of panic during this period and were somewhat dissatisfied with Lin Fu for delaying the handling of the banditry case and for not giving a clear explanation for the treatment of the temple's land, but in the
Under the high military pressure of the Jiangdong Left Army, no one dared to take any action.
Everyone understands the principle of "punching the leader". In Chongzhou County after the city was destroyed and thousands of people were massacred, not everyone would dare to wear the label of being a bandit?
Lin Fu did not dare to act rashly, so he naturally tried every means to instigate Han Zai to jump into the pit and let Han Zai jump out to offend the local forces. In this way, no matter what he did next, he would not have to worry about the local forces turning to Han Zai.
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"Inspector Lin Du, what are you thinking about?"
Lin Fu came to his senses and saw Han Zai and Xiao Baiming walking up the steps. He smiled and said, "I was wondering when Master Han and Inspector Xiao would come over. Master Han really came early!"
"That's not as good as the Lin Du supervisor." Han Zai said.
Han Zai was not used to calling so many people together to discuss matters, but Lin Fu said that he would only hand over the land register of Guangjiao Temple to Chongzhou County for disposal before the bandit case was concluded, so he was forced to agree.
This form of public discussion made him very uncomfortable.
Han Zai was inherited by his ancestors, and he was able to achieve the rank of fifth-rank Xuanfu Envoy Councilor. He was born into wealth and had never experienced any setbacks. How could he know the twists and turns in local affairs? How could he see through Lin Fu's methods?
Xiao Baiming stood behind Han Zai and looked at Lin Fu carefully. He always felt that Lin Fu was hiding some conspiracy, but he couldn't figure it out.
Xiao Baiming can be regarded as a shrewd person, but he has his limitations. He is used to acting forcefully, and he has a gangster mentality. Even if he knows that there are lodging fields in the monastery's property, he is eager to take these lodging fields by force. How can he respect it?
Those small clans in the local area? In the local area, the power held by the county magistrate can indeed destroy people's families and clans. The small clans in the countryside, those small and medium-sized landowners, if they are not in office or in power, they really have few concerns, otherwise they would have
Then he would not think about getting ransom money from the kidnapped boy in Chongzhou.
Lin Fu and Han Zai arrived in advance. Wu Mei did not dare to stay in the back office for a long time, so he also hurried out and stood between Lin Fu and Han Zai, two smiling people, making peace with each other perfunctorily.
When the ministers gathered together, Lin Fu and the others also entered the meeting hall. Lin Fu smiled and said to Han Zai: "Master Han, are you the most respected person here, or should you preside over the meeting?"
"No, no, the case of banditry has always been handled by Inspector Lin Du. It is appropriate for Inspector Lin Du to preside over the discussion." Han Zai said hypocritically.
"Since Mr. Han said so, I'm not polite!" Lin Fu's smile faded, and he walked towards the main case in the middle of the hall, sat down behind the desk, and then said to Han Zai and Wu Meijiu, "
Mr. Han and Mr. Wu, I have grieved you two and sit down at my head!"
Han Zai didn't expect that Lin Fu completely ignored the official rules and courtesy, and was so angry that he almost wanted to drag Lin Fu away from the main case, but he caught Lin Fu and couldn't get angry on the spot, so he could only swallow his anger and talk to Wu Meijiu and Xiao Baiming.
Sitting next to Lin Fu, he didn't want to say a word to Lin Fu.
"Master Han proposed that the county take over all the land of Guangjiao Temple to build a new city in Chongzhou. We invite you here today to discuss this matter. I know that among the officials, some are in favor of Master Han and some are against Master Han. Since
This is an open discussion, so don't have any scruples. The officials in the sixth room agree that Mr. Han should sit in the left column. Secretary Yang, you can take the lead." Lin Fu leaned forward and said to Yang Mu, the secretary of the workshop, "Anyone who disagrees
Sit in the right column, representatives of the township liars and elders, I feel sorry for you to stand on both sides... There are many people, there are nearly a hundred people in the lobby. I know everyone has something to say, but there must be a rule, otherwise everyone will rush to grab it.
Talk and the hall will be in chaos! Anyone who wants to speak, please raise your hand first and ask for my permission before you can speak. Anyone who violates this rule for the second time will be expelled from the hall. Everyone has a chance to speak, and those sitting in the front row
You are not limited to speaking more than three times. People standing in the back row only have one chance to speak. Please think carefully before speaking! Do you understand my rules clearly?"
Although Lin Fu is young, he has accumulated a lot of prestige. This is not an innate momentum. This is the prestige accumulated by tens of thousands of lake pirates, pirates, Donghai and monks who died in his hands. Lin Fu asked lastly,
Everyone in the hall couldn't help but responded: "Listen clearly!"
Han Zai was depressed, wondering if he, the officer, would have to be bound by this inexplicable broken rule you set? He thought about it in his heart, but he saw that many of his subordinates supported his proposal, and he didn't want to put it aside.