More than 60,000 acres of farmland were replaced near Jiuhua Temple, with more than 3,000 tenant households attached.
com Based on the calculation of ten households per Jia and ten Jia per li, more than 3,000 households of tenant farmers can be divided into more than thirty li.
In fact, Chongzhou County has a large population. There are as many as 40,000 registered households in the county. Based on the strict calculation of one hundred households per mile, the total area is more than 400 miles. Counting the hidden households, there are almost six
Seven hundred miles. It is inappropriate to govern Lijia by the county, at least in Chongzhou County. With the small number of people in the county government, it is impossible to form effective governance over the vast and densely populated county.
After a period of investigation, Lin Fu had reason to believe that the hidden population of Chongzhou was between 120,000 and 150,000, which meant that the total population of Chongzhou County was more than 350,000.
Only on the basis of such a population base, could Lin Fu have the confidence to organize 100,000 young people from the entire county to carry out many large-scale projects such as new city construction and river dredging and excavation at the same time during the autumn and winter slack seasons.
Just like hiding fields to avoid grain taxes, the original purpose of hiding Dingkou is to avoid corvee and Ding taxes. The refugees who stay in the local area have a difficult life. Even if they can rent a small amount of land from the local area for farming, they will still bear a heavy burden as foreign customers.
Due to land rent exploitation, the income can only be enough to make ends meet, and they are not willing to bear the heavy burden of tax and corvee due to the investigation of Dingkou.
Lin Fu's first big move in Chongzhou County was to exempt corvees, small taxes and various apportionments on people's heads. This alone wiped out all the increased taxes caused by the inventory of temple fields and land consignments. That's also true.
Only if there is a basis for the increase in taxes in the early stage can the Ding tax and capitation assessment be waived. Otherwise, it is impossible for the county magistrate to accept the fact that Chongzhou taxes have been significantly reduced.
As a result, the Jiangdong Left Army had to suffer a loss of nearly 10,000 taels of military pay every year - this is what Yue Lengqiu and others were happy to see. However, all members were exempted from corvee, small taxes and various head assessments, which made all strata in Chongzhou County
Everyone will benefit, and the obstacles to the census of Dingkou in the county will be removed.
In fact, before the county-wide population census was officially implemented, there were more than 70,000 stranded refugees registered in centralized disaster relief camps such as Jiuhua Temple, Zilangshan, Hechengsi, and Xishanhekou.
The flood season finally ended in late August, and the accumulated waterlogging in various parts of the county was slowly receding. Lin Fu first sent Cao Zi'ang and Liu Zhenzhi to organize 10,000 green men to dig a river channel through the Xishan River and Yunyan River at Jiuhua Temple.
This river channel only needs to be excavated three miles long, and about 700,000 square meters of soil needs to be excavated. It will take about one to one and a half months to organize 10,000 young people, but the significance of connecting the Xishan River and the Yunyan River is very important.
In addition to increasing the drainage capacity of the northwest region of Chongzhou County, this function has already been realized. Prior to this, Liu Zhenzhi dug a ditch with a width of only more than ten steps in the northern section of Xishan River, which greatly alleviated the accumulated waterlogging in the Jiuhuasi area.
Disaster. At present, we need to widen this small ditch ten times and dig it more than ten feet deep. This will completely connect the Yangtze River waterway through the Xishan River with the Yunyan River and Beiguan River, making the east of Pingjiang Prefecture and Jiyang County and
Ships from the southern part of Chongzhou can go northward by entering the main waterway and can save more than 200 miles of the upstream river channel. This also means that warships from the Jinghaihai camp can go northward at the fastest speed into Gaoyou Lake, Hongzepu, Qingjiangpu, and the Huaihe River waterway.
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Its significance is not only agricultural, but also commercial, and even more geographically and strategically.
Lin Fu originally planned to organize manpower to excavate the Xishan River through the river channel after the autumn grain harvest. However, the heavy floods in mid-to-early August allowed Lin Fu to gather a large number of young and strong laborers from the refugees in advance for disaster relief, and the plan was naturally moved forward.
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Compared with the Xishan River running through the river, the comprehensive dredging and widening of the Chongzhou section of the Yunyan River can be considered a truly major project in this world.
The Yanyan River crosses Chongzhou County, the northern section of Hecheng Grassland, and leads directly to Hecheng Fishing Port. It has been in disrepair for hundreds of years, has serious siltation, and is flooded when it rains heavily. The average width of the river is two hundred steps, and even a boat with hundreds of stones can pass through it. There is a shallow forest.
The river channel planned to be dredged and widened is more than 140 miles long, and the project volume is 40 to 50 times that of the Xishan River. In other words, it will take an entire winter to organize 670,000 young people to climb the river embankment.
It is said that it completely exceeds the current organizational capabilities and financial resources of the Jiangdong Left Army.
Lin Fu also saw the huge benefits after the completion of the Yunyan River dredging and widening project. Not only would it allow large Jiyun-level warships to freely enter and exit the hinterland of Chongzhou County, but it would also enable large areas of low-lying areas on both sides of the Yunyan River that are prone to flooding.
The land, floodplains, and waterlogged poor fields have been transformed into high-yielding and high-yielding fertile fields, which has completely solved the waterlogging disaster in the northern part of Chongzhou.
After all, Wu Meijiu was the magistrate of Chongzhou County. He did not have the consciousness to take the lead and plead for the people. However, after the autumn air cooled down and the rain stopped and the weather cleared, he did not mind taking a walk in the countryside.
After all, Wu Meijiu was the chief seal officer of Chongzhou County. When he went to the countryside, Li Shuyi, Hu Zhicheng, Chen Lei and other major officials from the county accompanied him. He heard that there was a lot of action in Jiuhua Temple, so he asked Lin Fu to go to Jiuhua during this period.
Walking towards the temple, Wu Meijiu naturally rushed over to meet Lin Fu, wanting to express his stance in front of Lin Fu and show that he also cared about people's livelihood.
Lin Fu invited Wu Meijiu to go to Yunyan River. Seeing that the water had almost receded and there were serious waterlogged remnants on both sides of the Yanyan River, Wu Meijiu's jaw almost dropped when he heard Lin Fu's idea of dredging and widening the Yanyan River.
"How is it possible?" Wu Meijiu shook his head like a drum, "Mobilizing 60,000 to 70,000 young people, doesn't it mean that there are not so many young people in Chongzhou County to requisition? The consumption of money and food alone would cost tens of thousands of dollars.
Wanji. If the Lin family can get this money, I might as well continue to turn a blind eye. But if we want to do this with the savings of Chongzhou County, it will never be possible without the accumulation of fifty or sixty years of belt-tightening.
...In addition, the construction of the city is still the urgent task of Chongzhou. The Hailing Mansion is watching, and the county magistrate is watching. The rainy season has passed, and there should be actual action on the city building. Mr. Lin can't use all the money used to build the city.
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Li Shuyi, Hu Zhicheng, Chen Lei and other historians stood by the rules and did not interrupt.
"If I dare to misappropriate that sum of money, why don't the special envoys of Xuanwei hand over the impeachment papers directly to the Metropolitan Procuratorate?" Lin Fu said with a smile, "I heard from Li Shuyi that the more than 8,000 young men needed to build the city will be available soon.
If the recruitment is in place, Master Wu should not be missed."
"What the Governor said is right," Li Shuyi interjected, "I haven't had time to show it to Mr. Wu yet..."
"As long as you think it's appropriate," Wu Meijiu waved his hand. He knew that he was looking at it in vain. The person doing the work was the person assigned by Lin Fu, and the money was in Lin Fu's hand. As long as the construction period was not delayed, Wu Meijiu didn't care about him.
However, this autumn and winter, the dredging and transportation of the Salt River, a much larger project than building a city, will be launched at the same time. Wu Meijiu could not sit still for a long time. "Building a new city is also extremely difficult. It is not easy to have hope. Mr. Lin really thinks that it can be done."
To complete the task of dredging and transporting the salt river?"
"Compared with the construction of the city, the task of dredging the Salt River is much more difficult," Lin Fu said. "Because of the difficulty, if it is completed, Master Wu will not need to stay in Chongzhou and suffer. Hailing Prefect
I’m afraid it’s also in Mr. Wu’s pocket.”
In addition to his political reputation, Wu Meijiu also knew that he would not get any benefits from staying in Chongzhou. He was over forty years old and had no one in charge. Although he was a Jinshi, he had long served as an instructor, county magistrate, Sikou, and the army.
Except for the incompetent people at the top, the middle and low-ranking assistant officers with him have always been mediocre in their official careers. It has something to do with the lack of opportunities.
Dredging and transporting the salt river can eliminate the accumulated waterlogging disaster in the northern part of Chongzhou County in one fell swoop, turning hundreds of thousands of acres of wasteland into fertile farmland. This achievement was so great that it was evaluated as being equal, and it was easy to get promoted and leave Chongzhou.
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However, Wu Meijiu was not the kind of official who was accustomed to whimsical ideas. Although Lin Fu spoke pleasantly, he just squinted at Lin Fu and said: "Desilting and transporting the Salt River is a great meritorious deed. I also know that it can benefit hundreds of thousands of people on both sides of the strait."
Acres of waterlogged land have been turned into fertile farmland, but how can Mr. Lin accomplish this?"
"There are many unsheltered households in Chongzhou. I advise Mr. Wu to waive the corvee tax in Chongzhou. This will actually clear the way for the investigation of unsheltered households. In addition to the young people in Chongzhou County, the young people in neighboring counties such as Gaocheng and Xinghua will also come.
It is not difficult to recruit one hundred thousand young men during the slack period," Lin Fu said, "The key is money..."
"I also know that the key is silver," Wu Meijiu said. "Master Lin recruited young men in Jiuhua Temple to dig the Xishan River northward. Each worker was paid three kilograms of rice and food per day. Based on this figure, it is necessary to transport the salt river clean
It takes about one million kilograms of rice to complete the siltation process. Where did Mr. Lin raise so much money and food?"
"Master Wu also knows that dredging and transporting the Salt River can turn hundreds of thousands of acres of waterlogged land on both sides of the bank into fertile farmland, but does Master Wu know how much of the hundreds of thousands of acres of waterlogged land on both sides of the bank is public land?" Lin Fu narrowed his eyes and looked at Wu Meijiu.
Wu Meijiu was shocked, secretly thinking that Lin Fu was really going to be cruel to the place.
It is said that all flooded and low-lying riverbank wasteland is public land as long as it is not registered in the land register, as well as the mulberry land and house land assigned to small households. But where is the truly ownerless wasteland in this world? A large number of refugees have poured in.
As a result, Chongzhou County has less land and more people. Not to mention the waterlogged low-lying riverbanks and wastelands, even the deserted river islands are cultivated. How can the big local households be willing to let the refugee customers take advantage of the local area? Most of these wastelands are given to the local government.
The wealthy and powerful families in the countryside occupied the past and rented it out to the homeless customers for farming.
At this time, Lin Fu wanted to take over these flooded and low-lying riverbank wastelands as public land, which would indeed make up for the money and food needed to dredge and transport the Salt River, but how could the local wealthy and powerful people be willing to give in so easily?
Lin Fu squinted his eyes, and the light from his eyes became more and more sharp, and said: "It is quite difficult to comprehensively inventory the fields in the county. Next, I want Hu Zhicheng to inventory the Yunyan River, Fenghuang River, Tongliang River and other major rivers.
The fields between two thousand steps on both sides of the river will be confiscated. All the public fields that have been occupied by the invaders, plus the fields where the evaders have been hidden, will be fined as a case of banditry. All the proceeds will be used for the needs of dredging the river..."
Wu Meijiu was secretly alarmed. Lin Fu was too cruel when he showed his fangs. He didn't want to make a big move, so he said, "Even if we impose a fine as per the precedent, I'm afraid the gains won't be enough."
"The public land obtained through the inventory will be rented to tenants who go south to Chongzhou. Each household can rent twenty acres of public land, with a fixed rent of 30%. Each household will contribute one ding to the river dredging, and the rent will be reduced by 10% within three years. Young and able-bodied women will receive half a ding.
Besides, dredging rivers, eliminating accumulated waterlogging disasters, and turning poor farmland into good farmland will directly benefit these tenants. The county has widely publicized this to let tenants know the benefits and disadvantages. How do you know it is not feasible?" Lin Fu asked.
Wu Meijiu followed Lin Fu to the Jiuhua Temple Disaster Relief Camp. Basically, the villagers came from the countryside to provide disaster relief. Most of the people gathered in the disaster relief camp were refugees from other places. The number of people in the relief camp made Wu Meijiu feel frightened.
Lin Fu had previously turned a part of the temple fields belonging to Guangjiao Temple into military garrison fields for the Jiangdong Left Army by completely clearing up the banditry case. Wu Meijiu vaguely knew that the amount of land obtained by the Jiangdong Left Army that time was far more than the five thousand stated.
Mu. In any case, there were already tenant farmers cultivating these fields. Lin Fu did not drive away the original tenant farmers, but directly reduced the land rent to 30%, which was lower than the 50% fixed rent common in Chongzhou County and even the entire Jiangdong County.
Nearly half of them were raised, and naturally they immediately won the support of the tenant farmers on these lands.
Wu Meijiu did not expect that Lin Fu would take bigger steps this time. Not only did he plan to rent all the confiscated public land to the homeless customers from the south, he also planned to reduce the land rent to 30% on a large scale. Nowadays, a large number of refugee customers are concentrated.
People gathered in several disaster relief camps, and with just a little encouragement, they would become the backbone of the force that firmly supported Lin Fu in conducting an inventory of public lands in the county and dredging the Yanyan River. What did Lin Fu want to do?
Wu Meijiu was not an idiot. He couldn't help but figure out Lin Fu's intentions. The strength of the Jiangdong Left Army was already strong enough, but Lin Fu was still trying to win over people's hearts. Maybe others saw that Lin Fu was constantly squeezing the interests of local forces, and followed him.
Local forces opposed Lin Fu, but in fact the local forces in Chongzhou were far from enough to compete with Lin Fu, and the local forces in Chongzhou County were not worthy of Lin Fu's win over.
Wu Meijiu didn't want to get involved too deeply, and felt that this problem should be left to Han Zai and Lin Fu to argue. As long as Lin Fu could pass Han Zai's hurdle, he could do whatever he wanted in Chongzhou.