"Absolutely not!" Han Zai slapped the table and almost roared. He would never allow Lin Fu to make such a big move in Chongzhou...
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"Why is it not feasible? Lord Han, please make it clear!" Lin Fu narrowed his eyes and stared at Han Zai coldly, "Is it not feasible to allow large households to occupy public land and conduct an inventory? Or is it not feasible to dredge rivers and turn wasteland into fertile land?"
"Is it impossible to rent public land to bandits?" Han Zai stared at Lin Fu angrily.
"Master Han, you are going too far when you say that," Lin Fu said coldly, "I have three to four thousand Jiangdong left army generals, most of whom are refugees in the north. However, they sacrificed their heads and blood for the imperial court, and King Qin became the leader of the four countries.
With great merit, I returned to Chongzhou in the south to protect my hometown. Do you think Mr. Han is going to slander them as bandits even if they say such arrogant things?"
Wu Mei had a splitting headache for a long time. Lin Fu and Han Zai almost had to quarrel with each other the last few times they met. It was the hardest thing for him to be a good person among them. He couldn't offend anyone, but in the end he had to offend one person.
"Although the Jiangdong Left Army has made outstanding achievements, the Jiangzepu Rebellion is a lesson learned from the past. How can Mr. Lin be able to serve as a refugee in Chongzhou and not become a bandit?" Han Zai asked rhetorically.
"The hundreds of thousands of refugees in Hongzepu rebelled and started rebellions. There were many reasons for this, and the main reason was poor local resettlement," Lin Fu said. "I checked the public land and rented it to the refugees for farming to reassure them. This actually solved the problem of the refugees in Chongzhou."
The possibility of causing trouble. With Mr. Han’s fierce opposition, does Mr. Han hope that the refugees will cause chaos in Chongzhou?”
"This matter needs to be done, and it is also a matter of the county. It is not the turn of the Jinghai Governor to stand up and point fingers," Han Zai kicked the ball to Wu Meijiu, stared at him fiercely, and asked,
"Master Wu, do you think this is feasible?"
Wu Meijiu also hated Han Zai, but did not dare to offend Yue Lengqiu, Wang Tian, who was behind Han Zai, and said: "I think Master Lin's words are reasonable, and Master Han's words are also reasonable. If it hadn't been submitted to Hailing Mansion and the County Secretary for resolution,
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"No need," Lin Fu slapped the table, stood up and said decisively, "This has to be done even if it doesn't work. Do you think that Chongzhou County's annual 40,000 to 50,000 shi of food and salary can really support the 3,000 or 4,000 Jiangdong Left Army generals? Imperial Court Committee
The Jiangdong Zuo Army guards the Chongzhou Sea Territory, and their responsibilities are very heavy. Since Chongzhou is the source of payment for the Jiangdong Zuo Army, their responsibilities are also heavy. If they cannot clear out the public land that they should have to make up for the lack of wages, Lord Han and Wu will set up the Chongzhou Sea Territory.
Where to defend?"
"The number of Ninghai Town Water Camp is equivalent to that of Jiangdong Zuojun, and the food and salary are only more than 60,000 dan. Jiangdong Zuojun is a township army. It is slightly inferior, so why not be satisfied?" Han Zai retorted.
"Is Mr. Han really confused or pretending to be confused?" Lin Fu looked at Han Zai, "Ninghai Zhenshui camp's warships and soldiers are uniformed as usual, but the Jiangdong left army has to raise its own funds. Could it be that Mr. Han thinks that a battle is going to be fought?
Come down, there will be no loss of armor and ship equipment. No compensation will be given to the soldiers killed and injured in battle? Or when the East China Sea pirates attack, the left army of Jiangdong should hide aside and stand by and watch? There is a pirate leader named Donghai Fox outside Jiangkou, and he is stationed there.
According to the secret report, the East China Sea Fox wants to invade Chongzhou, does Mr. Han really want Lin to stand by and watch?"
"You..." Han Zai's face was livid with anger, "You are openly threatening me!"
"Your Majesty Han, if you don't allow Jiangdong Zuojun to replenish his armor, and if you don't allow Jiangdong Zuojun to receive compensation for his dead and injured generals, why would Jiangdong Zuojun fight for Mr. Han?" Lin Fu said with a smile, standing up with his hands on the table,
Staring at Han Zai, "I have decided on this matter. Lord Han might as well hand the petition to Lord Wang and Governor Yue. Governor Yue collects millions of taels of silver from the local area at a time. I don't know what excuses there are to stop me from doing this."
Chongzhou is doing this? Even if there are three or five victims, it is not Mr. Han’s turn to stand up for them at this time."
Lin Fu said to Wu Meijiu again: "Mr. Wu, I'm sorry, and I don't want to embarrass you, but I can't let the soldiers go to the battlefield hungry... It is no longer possible to reduce expenditures. Check the public land and turn the waste land into fertile land to increase revenue.
, is the only feasible move at the moment. Is it possible that we just ignore the local tyrants occupying public land?"
Wu Meijiu looked at Han Zai hesitantly. He was unwilling to express his opinion casually before Han Zai's arrogance was completely suppressed by Lin Fu.
"Wait a minute!" Han Zai left the meeting hall with his hands down and returned to his residence angrily.
Lin Fu then said to Wu Meijiu in a kind tone: "Master Wu, I have no choice. There are so many people crying for food. The whole country, both inside and outside the court, are waiting for Jiangdong Zuojun to make great achievements in Chongzhou - but please rest assured, Master Wu, Jiangdong Zuojun
Every achievement is indispensable without Mr. Wu's contribution."
"Han Zai will definitely go to Governor Yue and make a complaint in front of Mr. Wang. I can't do much," Wu Meijiu said. "Sir Lin will just pretend that I don't know about it."
Lin Fu smiled slightly, Wu Meijiu just didn't want to be involved in front of Yue Lengqiu and Wang Tian. As long as Wu Meijiu didn't forcefully stop him from checking the public land, Li Shuyi and the others could start doing it in the name of county households and workshops.
This matter must be done quickly. Lin Fu plans to directly ask Lin Mengde and Sun Jingtang to directly participate in it with a large number of big hands, striving to complete the preparations for public field inventory and dredging before the autumn grain harvest is completed. This matter is
It is of great significance, not to mention the strategic position of Yanyan River. Not only can tens of thousands of displaced households directly benefit from it, it will become the backbone of support for the Jiangdong Left Army, and hundreds of thousands of acres of waste land will be transformed into high-yield, high-yield public land.
The annual rent income directly makes up for the lack of food and salary for Jiangdong Zuojun.
To accomplish this, the material and financial resources used were extremely astonishing. On the one hand, Lin Fu recruited free young men from the homeless households to participate in this matter on the condition of future rent reduction. On the other hand, as long as the large households suspected of invading public land were verified,
, Lin Fu naturally wanted to knock his bones hard and suck out his marrow.
"The pigherder's plan is very big. I'm afraid that if he has established a solid foundation in Chongzhou, it will be difficult to get rid of him..." Wang Xueshan frowned and said with deep concern.
Wang Tian was also at a loss. Lin Fu was so arrogant and domineering in Jiangning in the past. Who could really suppress him for so long? At least in Chongzhou, there is no force that can compete with Lin Fu.
, there can't be any trouble in Chongzhou, and it's also difficult to cause trouble for Lin Fu in trivial matters here.
Speaking of being arrogant and domineering, Lin Fu was no longer an ordinary domineering person because of the Changyi mutiny and the invasion of Shandong with his troops. In the end, what happened?
These many things also gradually allowed local heroes to see clearly the reality of the imperial court, and see through the weak nature of the imperial court. Those who supported the army and respected themselves were not just pig herds, but they tied Lin to Chongzhou to borrow relief, and did everything in public land to be kind to the common people.
Most of the people in the central government would not dare to lift the lid.
Ma Weihan stood behind Wang Xueshan and looked calmly at the people sitting in the hall, including Yue Lengqiu, Cheng Yuqian, Wang Tian, Wang Xueshan and others. Everyone had a higher profile and status than Lin Fu, but they all
There was nothing Lin Fu could do about it - but Lin Fu's actions this time were really bold. He checked the public fields and almost completely ignored the local forces in Chongzhou County.
Less than half a year after Yue Lengqiu arrived in Jiangning, he had already attracted Cheng Yuqian, Wang Tian, Wang Xueshan and other important officials in Jiangdong County to his side. However, he could not completely suppress Gu Wuchen and could not raise his head. In the end, it was still Lin Fu who led the way.
The Jiangdong Left Army gave Gu Wuchen considerable support in Chongzhou. In the entire government and the opposition, after the Chu Party split internally, the Chu Party officials almost overwhelmingly turned to Zhang Xie. The power of Zhang Xie's group was far stronger than that of Tang Haoxin. However,
At this time, the Jinhailiangdao that was holding the throat of the capital was in the hands of a few people from Tang Haoxin's group. It must be said that Lin Fu played a huge role behind this...
Lin Fu was able to create such a situation in an absolutely weak situation, which made Hao Zongcheng, Li Zhuo and other powerful people secretly collude with him. It would be difficult for Yue Lengqiu to suppress his actions in Chongzhou!
In late February, in Yannan, after the 100,000 Donglu cavalry who had plundered Shandong came out of the border, the imperial court, which was almost in despair, naturally wanted to publicize the miracles of the four victories in Yannan created by the Jiangdong left army in order to maintain its weakened state to the extreme.
This also enabled Lin Fu and the Jiangdong Left Army to win great prestige among the government and the public - in this world, defeating more with less, and creating miracles in seemingly desperate adversity can always bring more to the world.
expectations - Even if Lin Fu and the Jiangdong Left Army were more arrogant and domineering in Chongzhou, at least most scholars and officials would tolerate it. Lin Fu used the bandit case to eradicate the monastic influence in Chongzhou, which eventually caused a backlash
It is extremely weak and can be seen.
Ma Weihan thought that Yue Lengqiu had summoned Cheng Yuqian, Wang Tian, Wang Xueshan and others, but they could not come up with any countermeasures. Instead of overtly and covertly stumbling upon Lin Fu, it was better to hope that the Donghai bandits would perform better. As long as the Jiangdong Left Army was allowed to attack Chongzhou
After suffering one or two defeats and destroying the myth of being undefeated, Lin Fu's domineering arrogance will naturally be easily extinguished.
Yue Lengqiu observed what was happening, and only Wang Xueshan expressed his strong dissatisfaction with Lin Fu. Wang Tian and Cheng Yuqian were both quite silent, probably out of lingering fear.
When Lin Fu was in Jiangning, he was the bigger jailer of the prison island. Wang Xueshan also made him look ashamed, and he was forced to compromise and give in to Gu Wuchen in everything. Wang Tian and Cheng Yuqian even felt very sorry for Lin Fu in their hearts.
He was dissatisfied, but he would not take the initiative to stand up and suppress Lin Fu personally - for fear of being bitten by Lin Fu - Han Zai's poor performance in Chongzhou also shows that conventional means cannot deal with this problem.
A swineherd who plays his cards according to the rules.
"The defense of Jiangkou cannot rely too much on the Jiangdong Left Army. If Lin Fu is too ambitious, he dares to ride on our heads and pee and poop. I don't need to say anything about this," Yue Lengqiu said, "But then
At this time when the country is in crisis, many people need to unite sincerely and help each other in the same boat. Lin Fu cannot be beaten to death with a stick just because he has made some mistakes, but he cannot be allowed to be domineering to the point of unrestricted - Ninghai Zhenshuiying
, Jiangning Shuiying’s strength must be strengthened.”
As one goes and the other goes up, the strength of the Ninghai Zhenshui Camp and the Jiangning Water Camp are strengthened, and the status of the Jiangdong Left Army and Lin Fu naturally becomes less important.
Everyone here understands this truth, but in order to strengthen the power of Ninghai Zhenshuiying and Jiangning Shuying, the most important thing is money.
Wang Tian and Wang Xueshan frowned. Nowadays, the central government agrees a lot with whatever local governments want to do, but the money is scarce and the local governments have to raise it themselves.
According to the terms proposed by Yue Lengqiu, Jiangning Water Camp and Ninghai Zhenshui Camp should expand the number of troops, strengthen warships and combat equipment, and include civilian laborers such as boatmen, sailors, etc. into the auxiliary sequence and pay. Ninghai Zhenshui Camp
The annual salary allocation has suddenly increased from the current more than 40,000 taels of silver to 120,000 taels of silver. The salary allocation for Jiangning Water Camp will also be nearly doubled, which means that the Xuanfu Envoy and Jiangning Mansion will have to pay more for each year.
Squeeze out 150,000 taels of silver.
In order to rebuild the Changhuai Army, not only did the local government allocate one million silver dollars at once, but in the future, an additional 400,000 silver dollars would be spent every year.
After Yue Lengqiu came to Jiangdong, local expenses increased by millions. No matter how wealthy Jiangdong County was, it could not withstand such consumption.
When it came to the issue of money, Wang Tian and Wang Xueshan fell into silence at the same time. Probably because they were silent too much and felt that the atmosphere was depressing. Wang Tiancai said: "How much does the Xuanfu Envoy make and spend each year? How much is released to the capital, how much is the savings, and the details are
I didn’t hide it from Governor Yue, can Jiangning Mansion squeeze out more?"
For many years, the status of Jiangning Prefecture and the County Secretary were parallel, until the imperial court broke with the regular system and established the position of Governor of Jianghuai, making both Jiangning Prefecture and County Secretary under the control of the Governor of Jianghuai.
Wang Xueshan was not willing to be suppressed by Gu Wuchen. Yue Lengqiu came over and had the name of governor. Wang Xueshan naturally wanted to defect to him and wipe away the painful feet that Gu Wuchen had grabbed in the past.
It’s just that this change is not easy. Yue Lengqiu’s exploitation of the local area is much worse than Gu Wuchen’s. At least when he established Dongyang Xiangyong, Gu Wuchen raised his own wages and did not waste much space. Even now, Dongyang Xiangyong
Nearly half of Yong's salary comes from the Dongyang Township Party, and the other half comes from Dongyang Prefecture.
Wang Xueshan said: "Jianning Mansion is now so poor that it only has pots and pans. When Li Bingbu was in Jiangning, he withdrew the river tax and fish tax and left it to the people. However, in the sixteen counties of the country, the river tax and fish tax were collected.
Only Jiangning Mansion does not take the tax, which is a bit unexpected. We need to raise more money from Jiangning Mansion and restore the river tax and fish tax. We can raise an additional 350,000 to 50,000 taels of silver every year..."
Ma Weihan stood behind Wang Xueshan without saying a word. When it came to river tax and fish tax, Lin Fu canceled many miscellaneous taxes including fish tax and capitation in Chongzhou, and strengthened the supervision of municipal taxes such as over-tax and resident tax.
The collection of mining taxes. Last year, Li Zhuo proposed to cancel the river tax and fish tax and let the people collect their own taxes. This was also taking into account the chaotic situation of the refugees last year, so as to give the refugees an extra way to live and maintain local stability. Now Liu An'er's troops have been expelled from Haozhou.
The situation in Jiangdong County has generally stabilized, and there seems to be nothing wrong with the restoration of river tax and fish tax in Jiangning.
Yue Lengqiu thought for a moment, nodded, and said, "It would be best for Jiangning Mansion to raise an additional fifty thousand taels of silver."
"I just did it reluctantly and didn't dare to guarantee it first," Wang Xueshan said.
Jiangning Water Camp was the Jiangning garrison. Cheng Yuqian naturally agreed with the strengthening of Jiangning Water Camp. The only thing that made him unhappy was the fact that Ninghai Zhenshui Camp received more silver than Jiangning Water Camp.