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In the afternoon, including Lin Mengde, Hu Zhiyong, Hu Zhicheng, Li Shutang, Li Shuyi, Sun Fengyi, Zhou Guangnan, Qian Xiaowu, Ge Siyu, Sun Jingtang, Sun Jingxuan, Qin Chengzu, Zhou Pu, Ao Canghai, Zhao Hu, Ge Cunxiong, Zhao Qingshan and others,
They all gathered in Dongya to discuss matters.
Wang Chengfu accompanied the last one, feeling a little excited.
Although some people did not serve directly in the Huaidong Envoy Department, they were all core figures of the Huaidong Army.
This was the first time Lin Fu had convened everyone to discuss matters since he returned to Chongzhou. Wang Chengfu was specially summoned from Hecheng to participate in the discussions. A blind person could have guessed that from now on, he would be regarded as the core figure of the Huaidong Army.
The Huaidong Army's generals, chief officials, marching commanders and other major subordinate officials have all been decided, and Lin Fupiju submitted a report to the capital for approval.
Even if Yue Lengqiu is added, the Military Command Division concurrently led by Liu Tingzhou is divided into many functions and powers, which are subject to great restrictions. The Huaidong Army still has a very deep foundation in Chongzhou. These must be fully integrated into the Huaidong System and Envoy Division.
Only by establishing a complete organizational structure under the system can the body use its arms and the arms use its fingers, so that the Huaidong Army can truly become stronger.
In addition to Lin Mengde and Qin Chengzu as the left and right chief historians, Cao Ziang and Fu Qinghe as the left and right marching marshals, the system and envoys department can also have Dian Shuling, Dianwei, branch envoys, deputy branch envoys, camp field officers and division workers.
, Treasurer, Si Mu and other staff members.
Improving the organizational structure of the Huaidong Establishment and Envoy Department and running it effectively was the first thing Lin Fu had to do when he returned to Chongzhou.
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After the Guards Battalion was expanded, it was also organized into the Infantry Division Central Army, which was already a unit that was to be drawn out to fight independently.
The responsibility of guarding the inner palace was actually borne by the cavalry commander and cavalry battalion. The guard, who was equivalent to the captain of the guard, was naturally held by Zhou Pu.
There is no doubt that Lin Meng was Zuo Changshi and branch envoy, and served as the general steward of the Huaidong Army's money and food.
There is also a Lijin Bureau, which is responsible for raising military resources from the establishment of cities and factories in Chongzhou, as well as from the commercial goods passing through Chongzhou.
To put it nicely, it is a voluntary donation; to put it badly, it is a forced commercial tax.
Since there was no official name, the Lijin Bureau was an agency under the branch envoy. Four people, including Li Shutang, Sun Fengyi, Zhou Guangnan, and Sun Shangwang, served as deputy envoys and were responsible for the collection of lilfinances.
Different from the traditional tax rate of three per hundred miles and five per hundred miles, Lin Fu's tax rate for merchant ships going to sea was as high as fifteen per hundred.
At present, the objects that are levied lijin are mainly grain shipped from Chongzhou out of the river mouth to Jiaozhou Bay or directly to Tianjin Sea.
After the implementation of the "salt and silver to protect grain" policy, the foot money was greatly increased, and the price of grain collection in Jinhai was raised to one or two or eight yuan per stone silver.
Lin Fu spent so much effort and had no choice but to profit from it.
Under the coordination of the Sun family and the Zhou family, maritime merchants and shipowners, led by Heishui Shipping Company, all agreed to pay Chongzhou 15 cents per cent.
In addition, long-sea grain ships have to pay a 6% deposit. Once the grain ship capsizes due to wind and waves, 80% of the cost can be compensated.
Even after deducting the fees and deposits, the income from transporting grain from Chongzhou to Tianjin was not much worse than before the implementation of the new policy of "salt and silver to protect grain", which was naturally accepted by the merchants.
If the grain is transported directly from the Heishuiyang route to Jinhai, the full amount of lijin collected will go to Chongzhou.
If grain is transported from Cao to the sea, along the Jiao Lai River to Shandong, and through the Shandong Peninsula to the north, the lijin levied will be divided equally between Chongzhou and Qingzhou, but Qingzhou is not allowed to collect any more lijin from grain ships departing from Chongzhou.
The significance of "salt and silver to protect grain" is that even if Yanjing's control over the counties declines, as long as there is enough salt and silver revenue to ensure that enough commercial rice grains flow to Chongzhou or Huai'an, enough canal grain will be transported to Chongzhou or Huai'an.
Yanjing, keep the Yanjing and Yanbei defense lines from collapsing.
This is also the key to Lin Fu sneaking into Jinhai in the name of keeping filial piety at the beginning of the year, and Li Zhuo finally supporting Lin Fu.
For each county, the annual grain transportation is very wasteful and inefficient, almost reaching the point where one stone of grain costs three times the cost.
Now the central government requires each county to convert the grain into tax money and send it to Beijing. In addition to the regular amount of each stone of grain, an additional three to eight yuan of transportation silver is levied, which also greatly reduces the burden on each county.
The only disadvantage is that a large number of people who rely on inland water transportation for food, ranging from the canal supervisors to the river gangs, to the boatmen and porters, have all lost their jobs for a while, which has become a negative impact that all counties must digest.
The interruption of inland water transportation is an objective fact that cannot be changed. Even some sporadic objections have been completely ignored.
Zhang Xie, Yue Lengqiu and others also had to admit that "salt and silver to protect food" is a great good governance that can prevent the current situation from collapsing. In their view, the biggest drawback is that the Dongyang group started from "salt and silver to protect food".
Huge profits there.
In the past, most grain-carrying ships went to sea from Huaikou. After the Huaisi War, Huaikou was sealed, and Chongzhou became the main export of grain to the sea.
After the Huaisi War ended, Huaikou was actually controlled by Lin Fu again.
As a result, except for grain-producing areas such as eastern Sichuan, Jinghu, northern Zhejiang, and Jiangnan, almost no other power can profit from the Tianjin-Hai grain road.
The Huaidong Army actually became the largest grain merchant in the world.
From the end of April to the beginning of October, affected by the war and the storm season in the East China Sea, the actual amount of grain shipped from Chongzhou reached 800,000 taels. After deducting the profit share to Qingzhou, Chongzhou's actual direct income was more than 120,000 taels of silver.
Autumn, winter and spring are the times when the Blackwater Ocean route can play its greatest role.
After more than half a year of development, the long-sea shipping capacity of Blackwater Shipping Company has reached 150,000 taels. It is expected that before the storm season comes next year, it will be able to complete the transportation of 800,000 dans of grain, which can exceed 200,000 taels of silver at most.
All the income from Lijin will go to Chongzhou.
If the situation can be maintained, Chongzhou's total lijin will be even more substantial; in the next one or two years, lijin will become the Huaidong Army's most important source of income.
Without this confidence, Lin Fu would not have dared to grit his teeth and build a sea embankment.
The status of the Lijin Bureau in Huaidong is naturally conceivable; Lin Fu appointed Li Shutang, Sun Fengyi, Zhou Guangnan and Sun Shangwang in Jinhai as deputy envoys to be responsible for the specific affairs of the Lijin Bureau in various places.
In addition, Qian Xiaowu served as the deputy envoy of the branch, responsible for the inner treasury's money branch.
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Hu Zhiyong served as the camp envoy, responsible for the Huaidong Army's military and civilian farming and the settlement of military households.
Farming is not only the most important source of income for the Huaidong Army at present, but also is related to the fundamentals of the resettlement of military households.
In addition to the large number of farmland along the Yanyan River in Chongzhou, both sides of the Xishan River, Xisha Island, and Qingjiangpu North Beach, the scale of the farmland in Hecheng will be gradually expanded. It is also necessary to set up as many inspection departments as possible and use the inspection departments
To organize the refugees, develop river beaches, swamps and other wastelands around the settlement, and carry out farming.
This is also an important measure to expand influence on the counties in Huaidong by using the Inspection and Inspection Department to resettle refugees and cultivate crops under the current conditions and with limited civil affairs and financial powers.
In addition to Hu Zhiyong as chief officer, Lin Fu also appointed Li Shuyi and Wang Chengfu as deputy envoys to the camp.
Li Shuyi also served as the magistrate of Chongzhou County, handling the trivial affairs of Chongzhou County on behalf of Lin Fu.
Hecheng actually met the conditions for setting up a county and a city.
The scale of Hecheng's new city is several times larger than the previous walled city. It has a river port and a sea port. The land and water routes to Chongzhou are smooth. The number of people moving there is also increasing day by day. There is also a large amount of land to accommodate soldiers and civilians.
Refugees.
However, without a legitimate name, for the time being, we can only act in the name of the Inspection Department.
Hecheng and Guanyintan (Xisha Island) are the two inspection departments with the heaviest civil affairs in Huaidong.
Wang Chengfu was very talented in domestic affairs, so Lin Fu naturally had to put more burdens on him.
Ge Siyu joined the army as a engineer and was responsible for project supervision.
The engineering and manufacturing system under the Huaidong Military System was far from the traditional functional summary of workers joining the army. It even expanded to a labor camp with a scale of 60,000 people, which was also rare in the world.
In the early years of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Emperor Gaozu had almost pacified most of the world, and the size of his army, which was almost the same as that of a labor camp, was only 100,000.
In addition to the shipping envoy, there are also three departments: ordnance supervisor, metallurgical supervisor and industrial supervisor, with the same position as Cao Canjun.
Sun Jingxuan concurrently served as shipping envoy and industrial supervisor.
It can be said that half of Chongzhou's foundation is built on the ocean, and the shipping administration is still very important, so the position of shipping envoy was specially established.
As a small county in Chongzhou, it is necessary to accommodate more people and open up more financial resources. It is a shortcut to develop large-scale handicraft industry. More importantly, the prosperity of the handicraft industry is a big step forward in promoting the level of productivity.
A crucial step forward.
Lin Fu had always promoted craftsmanship and miscellaneous studies in Jiangning and Chongzhou. At this point, it was a natural thing to set up a hundred workers' supervisors. However, at that time, there were as many scholars who studied Confucianism and were good at talking about it as crucian carp crossing the river.
Management talents who are proficient in craftsmanship and miscellaneous knowledge are rare.
The veteran worker officer Ge Fu was getting older, and Zhao Shuhan still imagined that he would have the opportunity to become a political official and have a great career. Lin Fu could only let Sun Jingxuan serve as a hundred workers supervisor first.
Ordnance production is directly related to the level of the Huaidong Army's combat effectiveness. Needless to say, its importance. However, the cost, quality and scale of ordnance production directly depend on the smelting level of steel (called refined iron in the world), and the steel smelting industry is an industrial industry.
It is the basic industry of society. Lin Fusui set up a metallurgical supervisor specifically to deal with this matter.
Whether it is the ordnance supervisor or the metallurgical supervisor, Hu Zhicheng can only temporarily let Hu Zhicheng take charge of both. Fortunately, there is no shortage of master craftsmen. Hu Zhicheng has experience in workshop management, so he is qualified.
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"Businessmen, craftsmen, horse thieves, and small landowners are only slightly better than me, a pig farmer." Lin Fu took the draft list of staff in his hand, raised it, and laughed, "But it also gives the list to the elites of Qingliu."
It provides a lot of opportunities for conversation and laughter..."
Everyone laughs.
Military generals are easy to talk about and do not pay attention to their origin. However, the Huaidong system of setting envoys, such as branch envoys, camp envoys, chief officials, marching commanders, Dian Shuling, and various ministers and military officers, etc., all range from the fifth rank to the seventh rank.
official civilian title.
Under the Huaidong military system, except for Lin Fu, there was no one with a family background above the rank of a civil servant. Speaking of which, he was unique and very different. This excerpt of the staff list was handed to the capital and spread. It is not difficult to imagine that there will be another
It will be the source of conversation and the butt of laughter in the mouths of those scholars.
There were some old scholars in Hailing Mansion and Huai'an Mansion who were idle at home, and they were also willing to be used by Lin Fu, the new rich man in Huaidong, but Lin Fu didn't like them.
"Never mind him," Lin Fu said with a smile, "I have been calling Chen Xiyan a pigherder for nearly three years. If I want to care about other people's eyes, I can't go any further. In time, you will definitely make the world look at you with admiration... Today is not the time.
"It's early," he asked Hu Zhicheng sideways, "I heard that a craftsman has modified the furnace for melting iron, and the effect is quite good. After talking about it for so long, I'm feeling dizzy. Let's go over and take a look at the new furnace. It's OK to relax.
Then come back to discuss matters..."
"Then you have to go there by boat," Hu Zhicheng said. "In the past, refined iron was smelted in a single furnace. The pig iron was burned on the coal to make it soft. The refined iron was mixed with more, making it brittle and easy to break. Later, smoldering coal was used, which improved the situation.
Some, but there was no charcoal to use. The craftsman didn't know a word, but he was very smart. The method he proposed was to build another room outside the furnace room to form a double room side by side. One room was added
A fire with charcoal is used as a fire room; a room with pig iron for smelting is a smelting room. When iron is smelted, the blast blows the flame flow in the fire room into the smelting room to melt the iron. The refined iron produced is as good as that made from charcoal.
Refined iron. The refining room and the fire room are separated, and the refining and stirring can be done at the same time. The same manpower can refining the refined iron at twice the speed... This is a secret method and is inconvenient to be written in a letter. It was not detailed in the letter before.
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Lin Fu was slightly startled. Charcoal is easier to use than coal. However, in the plains of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, most of the land is used for farming. How can there be so many forests that can be cut down to burn charcoal? Coal is an inevitable choice.
Smoldering coal is also the original coking coal, which can effectively remove impurities.
The process of smoldering coal was first used for porcelain. When Ge Fu compiled "The Craftsman's Book", he mentioned this method. The biggest problem in iron-making at that time was to remove impurities. Lin Fu naturally asked the following craftsmen to try it
Using smoldering coal to make iron has indeed improved the effect a lot, but it is still worse than using charcoal.
Generally speaking, the refined iron used by the Ordnance Department must be smelted with charcoal, which is custom-made; the refined iron smelted with smoldering coal is mostly used to produce agricultural tools.
Lin Fu didn't know much about the steel refining methods of later generations. He also followed the craftsmen of the time to ponder and study them, but after hearing Hu Zhicheng's explanation, he understood the benefits of the double-chamber refining method.
The separation of iron and carbon can largely prevent impurities in the carbon from penetrating into the iron, and the quality of the steel produced will naturally be much better.
The efficiency of key steelmaking can be doubled. It sounds like it is just changing a single chamber to a double chamber, but it is a huge improvement.
"This is a great thing," Lin Fu said happily, "What is the name of this craftsman? Does he have experience in managing people? No, no, no, experience in managing people is secondary. At worst, give him two human spirits.
The same assistant. With such a researching brain, the Metallurgical Supervisor can manage it. First, give him the duties of deputy supervisor——Come, come, come, you will come with me to meet this great craftsman of the world..."
Lin Fu set up a special metallurgical supervisor to take charge of iron smelting, which is why steel smelting is of great significance.
At present, at least it means that with the same investment, more high-quality steel armor can be produced.
The double-chamber refining method sounds very simple, but it can be said to be the greatest achievement since Lin Fu advocated craftsmanship and miscellany!
Lin Fu and his disciples left Dongya and walked towards Nanya Pier. As they walked, Lin Fu said to Lin Mengde: "Huaisi produces coal and iron, which can be transported by water. You can also directly open a furnace and set up a pit in Shanyang to smelt pig iron and
Smoldering coal. Double-furnace iron-making is a secret method and cannot be spread to outsiders. The iron produced in Shanyang and the smoldering coal are transported to Chongzhou. It is better to store the refined iron in Guanyintan... It won't take long. Chongzhou Iron and Soldiers will be named
Raise the world!"
"Is the fine iron and armor also sold out?" Lin Mengde asked.
"Why can't it be sold?" Lin Fu asked with a smile, "Fish, add water to the fish. The former is eaten, and the latter is the foundation. No matter how sophisticated the weapons and armor are, they are all consumables. The manufacturing method must not be leaked.
.Of course, when you sell, you have to choose someone..."