The first step Lin Fu had to do was to clean up the fields under the name of Guangjiao Temple.
The temple farmland covers about thirty hectares, replacing the contiguous land at the northeastern foot of Zilang Mountain, which is enough for building cities and forts, and is even more redundant.
In addition to the temple fields, there are as many as 230 hectares of farmland hidden under the name of Guangjiao Temple to avoid land tax, and most of them are mature farmland. Based on the calculation of thirty-six stone for each hectare of farmland, Chongzhou County because of Guangjiao
The temple will have to collect more than 8,000 stones of grain and tax.
Tax evasion has been going on for thousands of years, and there is nothing surprising about it. It’s just that every time a dynasty ends or in troubled times, this situation becomes more serious.
All the temple fields were transferred to officials, and the land was given as a penalty for five years of land tax and apportionment. This meant that from more than 200 hectares of land, the land tax was about 60,000 dan. This was almost the summer and autumn grain harvest of Chongzhou County last year.
The total number of positive contributions.
Lin Fu hoped that the punished landowner would pay the penalty with farmland. The fine of more than 60,000 dan was reduced to 4,000 acres of farmland.
To build a city and a fort, you need a contiguous piece of land, and there is no distinction between upper, middle, and lower fields. However, the temple fields of Guangjiao Temple are mostly upper fields. After land replacement, after deducting the 4,000 acres of land required for city building, there are even nearly 1,000 acres of upper fields. We are rich.
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This was also the fundamental reason why Lin Fu wanted to keep a tight grip on the banditry case. After clearing the land under the name of Guangjiao Temple, Lin Fu could get an additional 5,000 acres of farmland after deducting the cost of building the city.
Of course, Lin Fu prefers working in the fields. There is no drought in Chongzhou and there is no irrigation. The so-called working in the fields is also land subject to frequent and serious waterlogging disasters. Lin Fu wants to develop water conservancy projects in Chongzhou to reduce the damage caused by flooding. Naturally, the working in the fields will benefit the most.
Five thousand acres of upper farmland can almost replace 12,000 acres of middle and lower farmland.
If Chongzhou County or County Secretary wants to come and check the detailed accounts, Lin Fu can completely change these fields into nothing through the trick of replacing upper fields, middle fields, and lower fields - of course, all this can only be achieved by the active cooperation of the landowners to whom the fields belong.
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Li Shutang, Li Shuyi, Chen Lei and others were all familiar with local affairs. They were all shocked when they learned that the monasteries that had been investigated so far had secretly occupied temple land, and the total amount of land granted reached 310,000 acres.
Li Shutang felt better. After all, the Li family had 2,560 acres of farmland hidden in the name of the monastery, and the monasteries in the county had a total of 310,000 acres of farmland. To him, it was not an incredible thing.
Li Shuyi was a distant relative of the Li family, and when Chen Lei's family was at its most prosperous, they only had three to four hundred acres of fertile land. This figure really shocked them, and they were all thinking: No wonder Lin Fu wants to take the person who was involved in the bandit case.
Thoroughly investigate the matter and hold it tightly in your hands, not letting others interfere.
In Chongzhou, an acre of land with an annual output of three kilo of grain was worth 7 taels of silver. Most of the 310,000 hectares of land with an annual yield of more than 100 hectares of land were worth nearly 2 million taels of silver.
Even if all is not confiscated, according to the public discussion formed today, almost 40,000 acres of temple land can be directly returned to official ownership, with a discount of about 300,000 taels of silver; the penalty of 270,000 acres of land consignment is also 700,000 dan.
It's huge, worth about 300,000 taels of silver.
Such huge benefits are enough to arouse the greed of too many people.
Only then did Li Shutang, Li Shuyi, Chen Lei and others realize how vulnerable Han Zai, who was sent by Yue Lengqiu to Chongzhou to restrain Lin Fu, was.
Han Zai didn't even understand the interests behind it, or the extent of the interests involved, so he easily fell into the trap, completely offending the local forces, completely pushing the local forces to Lin Fu's side, and also made the local forces
The forces were all convinced and formed the public discussion that Lin Fu was looking forward to - after all, compared to the confiscation of land worth nearly two million taels of silver, a fine of only 300,000 taels of silver was much easier to accept.
If Han Zai hadn't jumped out to be such a bad guy, and Lin Fu wanted to directly fine the local forces 300,000 taels of silver, one can imagine how huge the resistance would be - people are always easy to accept things that are not so bad.
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Lin Fu looked at Li Shutang, Li Shuyi, Chen Lei and others, and slowly picked up the tea cup.
The money in his hand can still support Jiang Jiang's left army for a while, and he doesn't need the money. The Heishuiyang route from Chongzhou to Jinhai has not yet been opened on a large scale, and he does not need a large amount of food to be transported to Jinhai.
He needs fields, to be precise, he needs tenant farmers attached to these fields; 100,000 acres of farmland can accommodate approximately 10,000 to 20,000 tenant farmers.
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Lin Fu roughly calculated that, including the temple fields that were directly confiscated, he could replace 200,000 acres of middle and lower fields, and he hoped to concentrate these fields mainly along the four areas of Zilang Mountain, Xishan River Estuary, Jiuhua Temple, and Hecheng.
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Jiuhua Temple is located in the northwest corner of Chongzhou County. Once the Xishan River and Yunyan River are connected, Jiuhua Temple will be a strategic point to control the Xishan River and Yunyan River.
Among the eighteen monasteries except Guangjiao Temple, Lin Fu stationed a military sentry at Jiuhua Temple alone, intending to use Jiuhua Temple as a basis to transform it into a permanent military fortress to control entry and exit from Xinghua County.
The main road in the northern border of Hailing County and Gaocheng County.
In addition to controlling the stronghold of Jiuhua Temple, Lin Fu wanted to form a certain scale of military garrison around Jiuhua Temple.
Connecting the Xishan River and the Yunyan River will greatly improve the accumulated waterlogging situation in the Jiuhua section of the Yunyan River and benefit a large number of fields that have suffered from waterlogging and turn them into fertile farmland.
Grain production increased. In addition to the original tenant farmers, Lin Fu was also accommodating some refugees. He could not directly intervene in the government affairs of Chongzhou County at this time, but he could organize the people attached to the military camp to conduct rotation training of civilian bravery and reserve military reserves.
Hecheng is the outlet of the Yanyan River, about 120 miles northeast of the old city of Chongzhou, more than 130 miles away from the river mouth, and less than 200 miles away from Changshan Island. Weiyang Salt and Iron Division is under the jurisdiction of Chongzhou
Dongcaochang is convenient to prevent pirates from invading the Huainan salt field. A city was built at the mouth of the Yunyan River, called Hecheng, and the Hecheng Grassland Department was established. There were more than 1,000 people stationed in the salt field and more than 20,000 grassland salt households under its jurisdiction.
In the early years, Hecheng was a natural fishing port, forming a large-scale settlement area and cultivating large areas of farmland. When Chongzhou was established as a county nearly a hundred years ago, the Hecheng Fishing Port and the fields around Hecheng were placed under the jurisdiction of Chongzhou County.
The Hecheng Inspection Department was established in Hecheng, with more than a hundred archers and swordsmen stationed, and it was colocated with the Hecheng Grassland Department.
If Lin Fu had the spare capacity to build another naval force, he would set it up in Crane City.
Xishan River Estuary and Zilang Mountain are very close, so the geographical location is not that important.
To control Chongzhou, only controlling Zilang Mountain, Junshan and Guanyin Beach on Xisha Island is not enough. Jiuhua Temple and Hecheng are the key points that Lin Fu must fight for. Controlling Jiuhua Temple is easier, as he has already sent soldiers to garrison.
Hecheng is a little more troublesome. First of all, the inspection of the Hecheng Inspection Department must be replaced.
Mere military control is not enough. Farming, immigration, rotational training of civilian bravery, and reserve of military reserve combat power are all indispensable.
The first step is to replace the fields occupied by the bandit investigation to the vicinity of Jiuhua Temple, Hecheng, Xishanhekou, and Zilang Mountain - these things must be done through Li Shutang, who is familiar with local affairs and has a good relationship with local forces.
, Li Shuyi, Hu Zhicheng, Chen Lei and others went to implement it secretly.
At this time, Lin Fu no longer needed to hide his ambition to fully control Chongzhou and manage Chongzhou.
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The clever plan succeeded, and Lin Fu was inevitably elated and satisfied. The specific matters were left to Cao Ziang, Lin Mengde, Li Shutang, and Li Shuyi to discuss.
Lin Fu originally went back to his inner house, and when he left the door, he suddenly thought of visiting the Zen Temple on the top of the mountain. It is said that he used a trick to lure Han Zai into the trap, which was inspired by Song Jia.
Lin Fu folded the door to enter the inner house, so he did not let the guards follow him. Now Zilang Mountain is like the back garden of Jiangdong Zuojun. It is too awkward for him to stroll in his own back garden and let the guards follow him.
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In the dim light of the night, we climbed up the slippery steps until we reached the monastery on the top of the mountain with no light coming through. The female camp sentry guarding the mountain gate naturally agreed with Lin Fu and naturally did not dare to ask any questions. After Lin Fu entered,
, and then sent someone to inform Sun Wenwan.
Lin Fu had always come to the top of the mountain at night, and Sun Wenwan wanted to pay him a visit. Aunt Zhao was more attentive and asked the sentry: "Is there someone following you, sir?"
"No, just an adult."
Aunt Zhao stopped Sun Wenwan from going to see Lin Fu and said, "Your Majesty, you don't want to see us show up."
Sun Wenwan was startled at first, but then she thought about what her aunt was referring to. She waved the sentry to go out, closed the door and cursed lightly: "None of the men are good."
"You scolded your father and your uncle too." Aunt Zhao chuckled.
There are no cats in this world who are not greedy, and there are no men who are not lustful. As long as things are not ruined by women's lust, in the world of men, this can even be considered a good story. The two people imprisoned in the Zen Temple on the top of the mountain, Shejia
My daughter is still a little immature. How many men would not seduce the young lady's beauty?
How could they, who are subordinates, go and ruin the Lord's good deeds?
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Lin Fu walked up to the side courtyard where the Tu family's aunt lived. He felt that the way the sentry looked at him was weird, so he walked to the courtyard gate to save him from visiting the two girls' residence late at night, which could not be regarded as observing etiquette.
Gentleman. Of course Lin Fu didn't care about being a gentleman, but he didn't have any other intentions when he came here. He was afraid that it would be misunderstood by the She family's sister-in-law. Looking at the lights in the room, the She family's sister-in-law's graceful figure was reflected in the window.
Lin Fu hesitated again and wanted to retreat.
"Who is outside?" Song Jia asked warily from inside the room.
Lin Fu was hesitating. Hearing Song Jia's sudden question, he was startled with a guilty conscience. He thought his sister-in-law had noticed it. Just when he was about to respond, he heard the sound of a window being broken in the house -
--No, She's sister-in-law asked when she noticed someone else was approaching! Then she heard She Mingyue screaming in panic in the room: "There is an assassin!"
Lin Fu immediately took off his saber. He couldn't wait for the sentry outside the courtyard gate to come in for support. He opened the door and rushed into the house. The back window of the side room that was close to the cliff was smashed. Two men in black clothes and masked faces were standing there.
Inside the room, they did not expect reinforcements to rush in so quickly. They had no time to do anything else, so they withdrew their swords and charged towards Song Jia. Song Jia was standing next to the door with She Mingyue behind her, when she saw Lin Fu knocking on the door and coming in.
She didn't have time to be surprised. The murderous intention in front of her made her breathless. She subconsciously just wanted to retreat, but there was a solid wall behind her, leaving her nowhere to retreat. However, she was too frightened to dodge to both sides.
Seeing that the two of them didn't say a word, they raised their swords to kill, one chop and one stab, definitely killing Song Jia. In an emergency, Lin Fu raised his knife to block, sealing the knife that struck Song Jia's forehead, but at the same time stabbed Song Jia.
With the knife on the chest, he could only reach out and grab the blade within seconds, pull the tip of the knife almost against Song Jia's breasts and put it under his armpit, then hit his knees against each other. Lin Fu and the assassin's knees collided.
The pain was so painful that it cracked the bones. When the man drew the knife hard, Lin Fu dragged the knife away, cutting a gash under his armpit, but also cutting the man's wrist.
Lin Fu couldn't form a pincer attack between the two opponents. If he forced one of them away, he raised his knife and stabbed the second person, three times in a row. He suppressed the other person, retreated and bumped him, and forced his accomplices in without using the attack.
In the corner; at this time, the sentry outside the courtyard gate rushed out to support.
Most of the healthy women in the camp were selected from the Xihe Hui. Their bodies were no weaker than the men, and they were also familiar with fists, feet, knives and sticks. The men carried the canals, so these women took on the important task of guarding the courtyard in the Xihe Hui. The three of them rushed in and lifted
The knife struck the assassin, not much worse than the guards around Lin Fu. In an instant, he blocked someone for Lin Fu. Lin Fu relied on his strong strength with the knife and struck continuously with barbs, breaking the assassin's knife in the middle, and then slashed the blade.
Hit his right shoulder bone and kill him. Lin Fu rushed to kill the second assassin on the spot before Sun Wenwan and Aunt Zhao heard the sound and rushed over.
One assassin died on the spot, and another assassin cut off Lin Fu's right shoulder bone and drowned for a breath. He couldn't live long. Lin Fu took off their face coverings. They were all big and thick men...
"ah!"
Lin Fu looked back and saw that it was She Mingyue who exclaimed in panic and disbelief when she saw the assassin's face. Lin Fu asked everyone else to leave, leaving only Sun Wenwan and Aunt Zhao in the room, and then asked Song Jia: "Who are they?"
Wasn't it sent by the Young Marquis?"
Song Jia's face was pale, and she looked at Lin Fu's left palm and left armpit where blood was still flowing down. She said with concern and pain: "Don't ask anymore, go and bind the wounds!"