(The condition is not good, maybe it is related to illness. I lack exercise during this time, and my physical fitness is very poor. I catch colds and fevers all the time. I feel so pitiful. Please give me a red ticket.)
After the East China Sea bandits invaded Chongzhou, they returned to the islands in Changguo County to rest and recuperate. Except for the occasional cross-sea invasion of Mingzhou and Jiahang, there was no major movement throughout May. Li Zhuo, as Minister of the Ministry of War and concurrently in charge of Ji Town, sent more than 60,000 soldiers
The horses were gathered in Jinhai, Jizhou, and Ninghe for training, and the training was carried out in an orderly manner. For the time being, it was not possible to see much effect or any hidden tricks.
Donglu marched three to four hundred thousand holes at a time, which took time to digest. Although the Jiangdong Left Army also sent out sentries to Liaodong and Western Liaoning, due to the unfamiliarity with Zhuhu, the work progressed very slowly, and nothing effective was achieved for a while.
The news came back. After the fiasco of Chentangyi, the imperial court's infiltration and reconnaissance work in the Hu area was almost completely destroyed. Li Zhuo also intended to rebuild the intelligence search network against Donglu and Zhuhu, but it would take time and a lot of resources.
In short, after leaving the customs in February, the Donglu were quite quiet outside the customs and did not make any big moves. In Lin Fu's view, no news is not good news. Once the Donglu succeeded in taking away the thirty or forty plundered
Once Wandingkou is digested, its military potential will reach a new level.
Whether it is eastern Liaoning or western Liaoning, there are a large number of abandoned fields for the Donglu to resettle.
When the Donglu invaded, the ordinary soldiers also gained a lot. In addition to a large amount of property, there were also serfs used for farming. This meant that the next time they entered the customs to plunder, the Donghu people became more active and greedy.
Thanks to the maintenance of the Tianjin-Sea Grain Road, Gyeonggi barely survived the grain shortages in April and May. The skyrocketing grain prices in Gyeonggi are also what the title implies. After Li Zhuo took over the military power of Jibei Town, Lin Fu still ordered Sun Shangwang to transport part of the grain.
The additional grain arriving at Jinhai was allocated to the Jibei Army and was actually handed over to Gao Zongting.
In order to implement the policy of pacifying the captives and realize the strategic concept of the three-pronged layout, Emperor Chongguan allocated an additional 1.6 million taels of silver to Li Zhuo from the inner government. This amount of money seemed to be a lot, but the army of Ji Zhen was 80,000, and Dengzhou
The Zhouying and town troops were 30,000, the Tianjin navy was 10,000, and a total of 120,000 soldiers and horses came to share this money, which seemed very shabby.
Lin Fu's military budget for the Jiangdong Zuo Army was 250,000 taels of silver per year, accounting for more than 6,500 auxiliary soldiers. Based on this standard, the troops and horses of Jizhen, Dengzhou, and Jinhai need silver.
Four million to five million taels of silver. In fact, including the additional money allocated by Emperor Chongguan from the inner palace, it is only about three million taels of silver every year.
In fact, if the government no longer allocates money next year, the total military expenditures for the Ji Zhen, Dengzhou, and Jinhai armies will be reduced to about 1.4 million taels.
Lin Fu hoped to provide Li Zhuo with an additional 200,000 to 300,000 taels of grain, which would be transported to the capital for sale through the Jibei Army. One was to suppress the high grain prices in the capital, and the other was to hope that Li Zhuo could raise hundreds of thousands more taels.
Silver military pay.
The top priority is to resist the invasion of Donglu.
For the imperial court, the top priorities were: first, to break through the transportation bottleneck of the Tianjin-Haihai Grain Road and gradually increase the total transportation volume of the Tianjin-Haihai Grain Road; second, to block the breach of the Yellow River and restore river water transportation within Pingyuan Prefecture.
For Zhang Xie, the Jinhai grain road has fallen into the control of Tang Haoxin, Gu Wuchen and the Lin clan. Blocking the breach of the Yellow River and restoring river water transportation in Pingyuan Prefecture can no longer fall into the hands of Tang Haoxin.
In mid-April, the imperial court sent Chen Zhongnian, the right minister of the Ministry of Works, to have the power to inform Jinan, Pingyuan Prefecture, and supervise Shandong canal transportation. He enlisted 200,000 civilians, blocked the breach of the Yellow River, and restored the Pingfu Cao Canal.
At this point, Zhang Xie had two chess pieces in Shandong, Chen Zhongnian and Xu Jianshen, to compete with Tang Haoxin.
Throughout May, the suppression of bandits in Jiangdong County was carried out in an orderly manner. Yue Lengqiu successfully regained Shiliang, Sizhou and other cities, and expelled Liu An'er's bandits from Haozhou Prefecture.
Liu An'er and other rogue bandits did not have the concept of building a base. In the early days, they only raised food and wages. The bandits almost turned Haozhou into an abandoned city. They allowed their subordinates to rape/prostitute women and killed countless people. Although the rogue bandits were large in number, they actually lost their base in Haozhou Prefecture.
The foundation to stand on.
Yue Lengqiu is not an incompetent person. The reorganized Changhuai Army has sufficient money and combat effectiveness. It is not unimaginable to expel Liu An'er's rogue bandits from Haozhou Prefecture. However, Yue Lengqiu's military victory in Haozhou Prefecture
, failed to curb the rampant momentum of various bandits at all.
In mid-May, Liu An'er, Luo Xiancheng, Gong Yucai and other seven bandits met in Fangling and held the "Fangling Conference". Liu An'er, Luo Xiancheng, Gong Yucai and other seven bandits all called themselves kings, and Liu An'er called himself "Emperor".
"King Jue", with millions of troops in the crowd. After the Fangling Conference, large groups of bandits avoided the heavily defended Jianghuai, Jinghu, Zhongzhou and other places, and the main force moved into Sichuan, Shaanxi and other places where the troops were empty. In late May,
The rogue bandits captured the Hanzhong area and opened a passage to the west to Sichuan and Shaanxi.
This also shows that Liu An'er and other bandits had a strategic plan to abandon the remaining areas such as Haozhou and Huaishang and move to Hanzhong, Sichuan, Shaanxi and other places to continue to grow their power. The imperial court envoy Yue Lengqiu met with troops from Jingchu, Zhongzhou and other counties
Continue to suppress rogue bandits.
Throughout May, Chongzhou regained a rare calm after the disaster, built a new city, investigated banditry cases, investigated the influence of monasteries, confiscated temple land, sent land as fines, replaced land, reorganized the army, built military forts, and set up war training and literacy classes, etc.
This work was actually carried out in an orderly manner under the control of Jiangdong Zuojun.
In early June, the imperial court approved Huai's petition to reopen the prison city at the mouth of the Chongzhou River in Jiangxinzhou, abolished the Jinchuan Island Prison and merged it into the prison city, and accommodated prisoners in Jiangdong County and Jiangdong, Zhongzhou, Shandong, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, and Jingchu
Waiting for the exiled prisoners in the six counties. There will be one city prisoner of the eighth grade, one deputy prisoner of the ninth grade, a number of clerks, clerks, and clerks, and half a battalion of jailers.
Lin Fu concurrently served as prison supervisor, and promoted Chang Sun Geng to deputy supervisor.
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The news of the reopening of the prison city came from Jiangning to Chongzhou. When the news was delivered by express, Lin Fu was standing barefoot in the paddy field near Guanyin Beach to watch the growth of rice seedlings.
Lin Fu sat down on the field ridge, washed his hands in the water full of green apples in the rice field, wiped them dry on his coat, opened the letter and newspaper, read the letter and said to Hu Zhiyong beside him: "I want to go there
I’ve already taken a trip to Jiangning... I also want to rush to Hecheng. It seems I have to wait until I come back from Jiangning before I can spare the time to rush to Hecheng..."
Hu Zhiyong asked: "When I go to Jiangning this time, can I persuade the county magistrate to set up more inspection departments in Chongzhou?"
"I'm afraid it won't be that easy. If we can successfully replace the Hecheng Inspection Department with our people this time, thank God. We can't ask for anything else." Lin Fu shook his head and set up more inspections in the county.
The department can effectively strengthen local control and restrain local powerful forces. Based on Lin Fu's idea, six to eight inspection departments were added under Chongzhou County. The actual jurisdiction area is equivalent to the district-level administrative units that later generations are accustomed to, and it has jurisdiction over four
By reaching 60,000 Dingkou, the resources of Chongzhou County can be fully mobilized for the use of the Jiangdong Left Army, and Lin Fu's goal of raising an elite army in one county can be achieved. However, this goal must be achieved slowly. "Many
Things are difficult to solve overnight, so everyone should do their best to prepare for the current shortage and prepare for war..."
Lin Fu sat on the edge of the field, washed his feet and put on his shoes, and returned to Zilang Mountain with the message from Jiang Ning. Before boarding the ship, he stood on the high ground of Guanyin Tanwu Harbor and looked at Xisha Island.
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Xisha Island reclaimed tens of thousands of acres of wasteland last year, and the wheat harvest in early June was 8,000 dan. It is neither good nor bad. Nowadays, Xisha Island accommodates more than 34,000 Dingkou.
Before becoming self-sufficient, Lin Fu had to transport 20,000 shi of rice to the island every month.
One harvest of wheat yields more than 8,000 dan, which is nothing compared to the huge food consumption of Xisha Island.
However, the situation will gradually improve. At this time, 30,000 acres of rice fields have been cultivated along the Xiaoman River and its tributaries. Adding the old fields near Guanyin Beach, more than 40,000 acres of rice can be planted in June, and additional cotton and linen fields can be created.
More than 10,000 acres, and more than 30,000 acres of mulberry orchards have been opened in Southeast Beach.
Lin Fuyou attaches great importance to this aspect. The quality of production and construction in Chongzhou and Xisha Island directly determines the future military potential of the Jiangdong Left Army.
When Lin Fu had something to do, he often came to the island to inspect the farming situation. According to Shizi Qingliu, he was a very good swineherd and farmer.
In addition to daily training, the Jinghaihai camp also assumed an important task, which was to organize manpower to dig out guano on offshore islands and transport it to Xisha Island for fertilizer.
Of course, it was a joke to hear that the precious water camp warships that were finally organized were used to transport guano when it reached the ears of Qingliu, a scholar in Jiangdong County. But throughout May, the two naval forces took turns going out to sea to dig for guano.
A total of more than 30,000 stones have been collected, providing necessary conditions for improving the soil quality of Xisha Island and accumulating sufficient fertilizer for newly reclaimed fields.
Only by accumulating fertilizers and building water conservancy projects can the barren land of Xisha Island be turned into fertile land with a yield of more than three stones of rice per mu. Only by entering the fields can Xisha Island be self-sufficient and provide necessary farming materials for Jiangdong Zuojun and major workshops.
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In addition to digging and transporting guano at sea, the biggest agricultural activity is pig and poultry breeding.
To maintain combat effectiveness, the Jiangdong Left Army must provide a large amount of eggs and various meats to keep the soldiers' physical fitness and physical fitness from declining.
There are 6,500 main and auxiliary soldiers, and each person provides five taels of meat per day, which means nearly two thousand kilograms of meat per day, and more than 7,000 stone meat per year, which is equivalent to about 30,000 taels of silver.
Although this money is all included in the military budget, which is an important factor in the high military budget of Jiangdong Zuojun, the key point is that the scattered pig breeding and other livestock breeding industries in Chongzhou County are provided to Jiangdong Zuojun, which may not satisfy Jiangdong Zuojun.
What the left army needs.
These days, a family that can eat white rice every meal is already a wealthy family; a family that can eat chicken, duck, and fish every meal is considered a wealthy and powerful family in the countryside.
Lin Fu could only organize large-scale pig and poultry breeding on Xisha Island on his own.
Due to the large number of beach areas on Xisha Island, the work of raising poultry on the beach has begun long ago. The total number of poultry raised on beach areas such as Guanyin Beach, Hetan, and Yue'er Beach has reached more than 200,000. It is also the current Jiangdong Zuojun poultry eggs and meat.
The main source, saving a lot of expenses.
Xisha Island resettles refugees in the form of enclosed houses. A large enclosed house can accommodate 80 to 100 households of refugees, which provides the most convenient conditions for setting up collective farms on Xisha Island.
Except for the densely packed enclosed houses near Guanyin Beach, the enclosed houses scattered along the Xiaoman River and its tributaries to the island. During construction, one enclosed house covered an area of 1,200 to 1,500 acres of land.
Density standard.
Take eighty to one hundred households and three to four hundred households in an enclosed house as a production group, and use ten to twelve production groups as a production team. As far as possible, select people from the family members or veterans of the Jiangdong Left Army to serve as the production team.
In addition to being responsible for organizing production and warehousing shortages, the leader or team leader is also responsible for organizing rotation training of civilian bravery and anti-bandit security work. The candidates for the primary combat training literacy class include production team leaders and team leaders.
To fully resettle more than 34,000 Dingkou, 80 to 100 large-scale enclosed houses should be built, and approximately 100,000 to 120,000 acres of land should be reclaimed. This is also a task that must be completed before next summer's grain harvest for the construction of Xisha Island.
In addition to cultivating and planting 1,200 to 1,500 acres of wheat, rice, cotton and linen fields, the Dingkou accommodated in each enclosed house will also increase the number of pigs raised in each enclosed house from the current ten to six.
There are about 70 birds, and they are responsible for part of the poultry breeding.
In this way, we can provide sufficient meat for the Jiangdong Zuo Army, and also fertilize and accumulate manure to supplement some of the fertilizer for the fields.
Of course, in order for Xisha Island to achieve self-sufficiency, it will have to wait at least until next summer's grain harvest.
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By early June, the Guangjiao Temple gangster case, which had been delayed for nearly two months, was finally closed.
An inventory of 220,000 acres of farmland was carried out, and a fine of more than 80,000 shi was imposed. About 9,000 acres were collected as official land. In addition to providing the necessary resources for building the city, there were more than 5,000 acres of official land remaining and designated as land for Jiangdong Zuojun military garrison.
Chongzhou County has increased its official farmland by more than 220,000 acres. This time, the summer grain tax has directly increased by nearly 20,000 dan, and the annual grain tax is expected to increase by 50,000 dan.
Even not counting various apportionments, the tax collection capacity of Chongzhou County has been increased to about 100,000 dan per year. Dividing local expenditures and taxes into 46%, the Jiangdong Left Army can draw more than 60,000 dan from Chongzhou County in one year.
It has more than doubled than before.
However, all this is only a superficial account seen by the Jiangdong Left Army in Chongzhou County, Hailing Prefecture and the county magistrate.
In fact, throughout May, through Li Shutang, Li Shuyi and others bypassed the special envoy Han Zai and Chongzhou County to directly negotiate with various powerful families, and additional replacements were made at the mouth of Xishan River, Zilang Mountain, Jiuhua Temple and Hecheng.
140,000 acres were allocated for farming.
Most of these 140,000 acres of land are middle and lower fields, but they are all cultivated land cultivated by tenant farmers. With this summer grain harvest, the Jiangdong Left Army has a large amount of income directly from these 140,000 acres of land.
When tenants in Chongzhou rent land, in addition to paying grain taxes and various apportionments, they also have to pay an additional 50% of the harvest to the landowner as land rent. The actual tax burden they bear is as high as more than 60%. In disaster years, taxes may be reduced or reduced.
A small amount, but the land rent has not been reduced at all. As a result, the tenant farmers who occupy most of the small towns in Chongzhou, a prosperous land in Chongzhou, live in extremely difficult conditions and have fierce social conflicts.
After the replacement of 140,000 yuan of land was completed, Lin Fu directly reduced the land rent from 50% to 30%. Except for the Ding tax and grain tax, all other apportionments were exempted, and the actual burden of the sharecroppers was reduced to less than 40% of the harvest.
Even so, Jiangdong Zuojun still collected more than 40,000 dan from the 140,000 fields after the summer grain harvest.
In addition to reducing rents and taxes, Lin Fu also promoted permanent tenant rights on these 140,000 fields. By promoting permanent tenant rights, although tenant farmers do not have ownership of the land, they have the right to renew the lease forever. As long as they pay the rent normally, they do not have to worry about losing the land to other farmers.
The Lord took it away, thus leaving him with the last resort to support his family.
Only by increasing the tenure rights and reducing rents and taxes can the tenant farmers' enthusiasm for production be increased, and only then can they be organized to build water conservancy projects, accumulate fertilizer and improve the land, and ultimately increase the overall harvest of the land.
For the tenant farmers on these lands, the rent reduction and tax reduction movement directly initiated by the Jiangdong Left Army and the promotion of permanent tenant rights have brought direct and huge benefits to them. Although the summer grain harvest has not increased much, due to the rent reduction and tax reduction, the average household
The summer grain income of tenant farmers has increased by almost 50%.
Tenant farmers and tenants are simple and unsophisticated. Whoever can bring them the most direct benefits will be supported from the bottom of their hearts. This is the same as Liu An'er's ability to gather hundreds of thousands of refugees in half a year. The key is Liu An'er.
Unable to raise food and grass from normal channels to settle these hundreds of thousands of refugees, despite the large number of people, they eventually became just rogue bandits.
Through simple actions such as reducing rents and taxes and promoting permanent tenant rights, although the summer grain harvest of 140,000 acres of land was reduced by more than 10,000 dan in rent and taxes, more than 6,000 households of tenant farmers and nearly 30,000 households of dependent farmers quickly became Jiangdong.
The Zuo Army's foothold in Jiuhua Temple, Xishan Hekou, Zilang Mountain and Hecheng actually enabled the Jiangdong Zuo Army to complete its deep penetration into Chongzhou County in May ahead of schedule.
In addition to stationing a sentry soldier in Jiuhua Temple and transforming Jiuhua Temple into a small military fortress that was conducive to long-term protection of the garrison, Lin Fu also first selected the best among the tenants who were dependent on Jiuhua Temple's farmland to form the Jiuhua Township Camp.
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The Jiuhua Township Camp has only two posts and more than 400 people. What Lin Fu really wants to do is to organize more than 3,000 strong young people from the Jiuhua Temple tenants to conduct rotational training in civilian bravery after the summer busy season. After the autumn grain harvest is put into the warehouse,
, organized the tenants of Jiuhua Temple to dig a river channel that ran through the Xishan River and Yunyan River.
To say that those who suffered the most severe losses after the banditry case was concluded were of course the monks and nuns in the 19 monasteries. Almost 900 monks and nuns were either expelled from Chongzhou County or returned to their homes; in addition, the names of the monks and nuns who were hiding in the monasteries were also traced.
A large number of depositors.
This banditry case made Lin Fu believe that a county-wide census of Dingkou and farmland could squeeze out a lot of oil and water. It would not be a big deal to double Chongzhou's taxes on the basis of doubling.