When Chen Mingzhe was in Haiyu, it was only on September 26th that he saw the "Notice on Commercial Trade, Fishing and Hunting in the East Ocean" and other letters sent by a special person from the Huaidong Military Division.
Although Huaidong had communicated with Haiyu beforehand about the ban on sea in Huaidong, Chen Mingzhe still took a breath of air when he officially saw the details of the ban on sea in Huaidong.
Chen Mingzhe sighed and said: "Now the Huaidong Military Division is fully responsible for the Eastern Front Maritime Affairs. I don't know whether it is a blessing or a curse!" Although the Haiyu Chen family and even the entire Wu Party chose to cooperate with Huaidong at this time, Chen Mingzhe
Zhe and others are still wary of Huaidong.
A clump of green bamboo in the corner reflected the lush greenery of the courtyard. Chen Xiyan, who had been living in seclusion for many years, had gray hair on his temples and was still in good spirits.
If Pingjiang Prefecture hadn't been merged into the Zhejiang North Zhejiang Envoy District this time, Chen Xiyan wouldn't be walking around with his old bones during this period. He held the tea cup, squinted at the notice on the stone table, and tapped the porcelain with his fingers.
After two or three months of busy resting and moving around, the situation has improved slightly for the Wu Party. However, considering that Pingjiang Prefecture’s ships will need permission from the Huaidong Military Division to go to sea in the future, it will also be a problem for the future.
At this time, he didn't care too much about the hidden dangers, and said: "At this time, we still have to rely on Huaidong to contain the Zhejiang and Fujian rebels' eastern front from the sea. Yue Lengqiu and Zhang Xitong actually have no means to control Huaidong - Huaidong
To get out of today's situation, we have to say that we did have a far-sighted vision back then!"
Although Lin Fu's nickname of "Pig Herdsman" was first uttered by Chen Xiyan, after the Jiyang city defense battle, Chen Xiyan's view of Lin Fu changed fundamentally. This was precisely the reason why Chen Xiyan completely gave up his intention to become an official.
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Chen Mingzhe was aware of the changes in his mentor's mentality, so it was no surprise to him to say this about Huaidong.
However, Chen Xiyan's influence was really great. Many of Lin Fu's actions in Huaidong were maverick and deviant, which fundamentally shook many people's belief that "learning well will lead to officialdom". Naturally, Lin Fu's
The name of the pigherder became more and more popular. As a result, Chen Xiyan could only hide behind the scenes to manage the situation. He couldn't help but run to Chongzhou to see Lin Fu in person.
Yu Pijiang was also a rising star of the Wu Party, and had no relationship with Chen Xiyan. Hearing Chen Xiyan's evaluation of Huaidong, he was not convinced and said: "Huaidong predicted that there would be a grain shortage in Jiangdong County. Not to mention that Chongzhou was absorbing rice grains. Forests in Jiangning
Remember that the warehouse is also storing a large amount of rice grain. However, in recent months, the price of grain in Jiangdong has been steadily declining. It can be seen that Huaidong is not always successful! When the price of rice falls, the price of silk rises. Huaidong takes it.
The rice grains were exchanged with Haiyu for raw silk, and they used the grain shortage to scaremonger them, which gave them some advantages! Maybe the Lin family is used to the rice grain business, but for them, this kind of nonsense is of great benefit to the world.
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After hearing what Yu Pijiang said, Chen Mingzhe was not happy at all. It was his Chen family's decision to agree to trade silk rice with Huaidong. Yu Pijiang ridiculed Huaidong and secretly belittled the Chen family.
Others will not be happy if they hear this.
In the past few years, Chen Mingzhe has become familiar with the world of human beings, and he will not show his displeasure on his face. He and Chen Xiyan may not be close to Huaidong, but they will never despise Huaidong like Yu Pijiang did.
Autumn grains are about to be launched one after another, and it is common practice for grain prices to fall. After this stage, it is really difficult to say whether grain prices will be stable.
"When he was in Chongzhou, when Huaidong mentioned that grain prices would rise, he actually suggested that Guohaiyu should switch to mulberry farming," Chen Mingzhe said. "Perhaps as Bijiang said, Huaidong may not be able to win every time
, but to prepare for a rainy day, should we summon the people from the Silk Industry Association to inform us? Maybe the Chen family can set an example and first use part of the mulberry garden to plant rice..."
Chen Mingzhe said this just to take care of Yu Pijiang's feelings. In fact, he also felt increasingly crisis-ridden about the rice issue.
There are too many mulberry and cotton fields in Pingjiang Prefecture. The mulberry plantation area in Haiyu County alone is 300,000 to 400,000 acres. Together with cotton fields, tea gardens and sugarcane gardens, they account for more than half of the arable land in Haiyu County.
In the era of peace, planting mulberry, cotton, tea and cane was highly profitable, but it also required a lot of labor. In the past, Haiyu and Chongzhou counties were about the same area, but Dingkou was much denser than Chongzhou. Especially for urban households, the former
Haiyu County is almost ten times the size of Chongzhou.
This makes Haiyu County's own rice production insufficient despite its fertile land.
Especially in recent years, the Donghai pirates have been intruding, and the water conservancy in Haiyu County has been in serious disrepair. The large tide disaster at the beginning of this year caused many parts of the seawall in the southeast of the seawall to be washed away. There was no way to organize manpower to repair it, leaving a large area of food behind the original seawall.
The fields were abandoned, making the food shortage in Haiyu County even worse.
This is not a good thing in the autumn of chaos.
Listening to Chen Mingzhe's words, he believed Huaidong's prediction that food prices would rise. Yu Bijiang turned around and looked at the green bamboo in the corner of the courtyard, suppressing his inner displeasure so as not to show it. He wanted to see how Chen Xiyan would judge.
Chen Mingzhe was also a little undecided. He was inclined to believe what Lin Mengde told him when he was in Chongzhou, but his prestige was insufficient. If he wanted to change mulberry farming on a large scale, Chen Xiyan or Yu Xinyuan would have to speak.
The status of Chen Xiyan and Yu Xinyuan among the gentry in Pingjiang Prefecture was beyond that of Chen Mingzhe for a while.
Even Chen Mingzhe would sometimes follow the crowd and say bad things about pigherders, but deep down he had to admit that Lin Fu's political ability was unparalleled in the world. Zhang Xie, Chen Xinbo, Tang Haoxin and others, and even his mentor
Not even Chen Xiyan, nor Chen Mingzhe felt that anyone's political ability was better than that of Lin Fu.
Lin Fu has absorbed large-scale immigrants in Chongzhou in the past two years, making Chongzhou the first to surpass Haiyu in the past two years. However, the grain field planting area in Chongzhou at this time was twice that of Haiyu. Moreover, after Lin Fu took control of Chongzhou, great prosperity
Water conservancy, large-scale land reclamation and planting, large-scale promotion of intensive cultivation of spring wheat and summer rice, promotion of iron farm tools, promotion of composting and pig raising, greatly increased the number of acres of high-yield mature fields in Chongzhou.
In addition, Lin Fu was almost blatantly reclaiming Hecheng grassland at this time. While building and defending the sea wall on the northern line, he also set up seven villages to organize displaced households to reclaim Yandu, Jianling, Gaocheng and Pucheng Yan.
The wasteland of the district.
Huaidong has done well this year, but while Chongzhou is absorbing reserves on a large scale, Lin Fu also issued a series of orders restricting the export of rice and grain from Huaidong.
Lin Fu shoulders the heavy responsibility of the capital's canal. The Tianjin-Hai Grain Road maintains the lifeline of the Gyeongsang Province and Yanbei's defense line. Even though Lin Fu's system cannot control civil affairs and finance, he issued a grain restriction and exit notice, Hailing Prefecture, and Huai'an Prefecture.
He did not dare to slack off. The more powerful grain merchants and large landowners in Huaidong were severely warned, and even the official warehouse of Weiyang Mansion had to ensure that a certain amount of rice grains were supplied to Chongzhou.
Judging from Huaidong's many actions, at least Huaidong truly believed that Jiangdong County, a land of plenty and plenty, would also experience a food shortage!
Although Huaidong's view that there would be a food shortage in Jiangdong County would be dismissed as absurd by many knowledgeable people, Chen Mingzhe had witnessed too many incredible miracles Lin Fu had created in Huaidong, and he subconsciously tended to
I trust Huaidong's judgment. At this time, Chen Xiyan needs to make an idea.
Chen Xiyan did not think that there would be a food shortage in Jiangdong County, a land of plenty, but Huaidong's opinions could not be ignored. He twirled his beard and said in an evasive way: "I wrote a letter to Mr. Yu about this matter, and Pijiang also brought back Mr. Yu's
Reply to the letter, many silk shops have been in decline over the years, but converting mulberry orchards into grain fields is more difficult than reclaiming wasteland. Our suggestions may not be effective. I think learning from Huaidong and storing more rice grains will always be prepared!"
Huaidong opened the bank, and the Chen family also invested the principal, so Chen Mingzhe knew that the principal amount of Huaidong Bank had risen to three million taels of silver.
This time Huaidong absorbed rice grains and directly borrowed one million taels of silver from the bank at an annual interest rate of one and a half cents; in addition, Heishuiyang Shipping Company, Jiyun Society, Linji Warehouse and many Dongyang companies followed the Lin family.
The township party has accurately prepared a large amount of money to absorb autumn grain - the money used in Huaidong alone may be more than two million taels.
When Chen Mingzhe went to Chongzhou, he passed by the grain transportation terminal on the east side of Guanyin Beach. The Jincao warehouse was built on the south side of the Jincao terminal. Its scope was not smaller than that of the newly built Chongcheng, and its grain storage capacity was four million stone.
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There is no bank in Pingjiang Prefecture to draw on. At most, the county government warehouses can imitate Huaidong's grain storage, but how much can be stored? If it is one-tenth the scale of Huaidong, thank God.
However, Chen Xiyan was careless, and Chen Mingzhe thought that maybe he was worrying too much.
Lin Fu was not aware of Chen Mingzhe, Chen Xiyan and Yu Pijiang's internal discussions on the food shortage in Jiangdong. It was said that it was mainly due to the serious lack of macroeconomic data in the world. Intuitively, no one would think that Jiangdong County, a land of plenty, would
There is a shortage of food. No one has seriously counted how many grain ships go down the river from Jiangxi, the two lakes and even eastern Sichuan every year. No one has seriously considered the continuous rise in grain prices in Jiangdong in recent years and the continuous decrease in the number of grain ships going down the river.
Is there any necessary connection?
After Lin Fu made preparations for absorbing and storing rice in Huaidong, he left all the follow-up work to Lin Mengde and others, while his attention was focused on the boundless East China Sea.
On September 26th, Lin Fu secretly arrived at Daheng Island by boat, which was the beginning of his battle with the She family in the East China Sea.
Qin Chengzu, Wu Qi and other generals stayed in Chongzhou to coordinate the deployment of troops throughout Huaidong, but officials from the Military Intelligence Department, including Zhang Gou, Chen Enze and others, followed Lin Fu to Daheng Island, the main island of the Shengsi Islands, and joined Shengsi
The generals on the defense line jointly formulated and implemented strategies and tactics for the East China Sea.
After Zhang Gou was transferred to the Military Intelligence Department as commander and joined the army, he came to Daheng Island once. But he was in a hurry last time and did not have time to take a good walk on Daheng Island. His understanding of Daheng Island mainly came from military intelligence
drawing information.
Compared with when it was taken from the She family two years ago, Daheng Island has undergone earth-shaking changes.
The berthing area of the Qingxi Bay Inner Harbor has more than doubled, and the rugged offshore reefs have been leveled with earth. Large areas of flat land have been leveled out on the originally narrow north and south banks, and Shengsi has been built that is integrated with the Qingxi Bay Inner Harbor.
The main city. At the northeastern foot of Jinji Mountain is Beitan Walled City, which controls the narrow eastern peninsula of Daheng Island.
The mountain forests of Jinji Mountain are dominated by miscellaneous trees and shrubs. Building cities, barracks, and government offices requires a large amount of wood. The trees are cut down from Jinji Mountain, but they are all replanted with tung trees.
Tung oil is also a strategic material that is urgently needed in Huaidong. Lin Fu has long planned to plant large tracts of tung oil on the land in Huaidong that is unfavorable for growing rice and grain, such as on both sides of the post road and in the windproof forest land that defends the sea dike.
But to plant tung trees in a larger area, it is better to use the island mountains that are difficult to develop. As Zhang Gou looked around, the slopes at the northern foot of Jinji Mountain were almost covered with tung trees.
On the grassy slopes of the long and narrow East Peninsula, there are livestock such as mules, horses, cattle, and sheep grazing.
On the east and west sides of Daheng Island, the other islands of the Shengsi Islands are like stars scattered on the vast sea. Most of the islands only have beacon forts and a small number of soldiers are stationed to garrison them. The main garrison of the Shengsi Defense Line is stationed in
Daheng Island.
Fu Qinghe took charge of the Shengsi Defense Line for nearly two years. Zhou Tong and Zhao Qingshan respectively commanded the infantry and naval forces stationed at the Shengsi Defense Line. In order to prepare for this war, Han Caizhi, Zhang Jiheng, Chen Zhi and other more than 80 military commanders
The officers were all added to the Shengsi defense line.
"Nuo," Chen Zhi, wearing armor and walking loudly, greeted Zhang Gou loudly. He came over and asked, "Do you have any news for me to reveal first? When are you going to beat his mother? Come here thinking that there will be a fight."
It’s been almost three months since I started fighting, and I can’t help but feel something in my mouth!”
"After your lord has talked with Lord Fu, General Zhao, and General Zhou, we should convene a meeting with the first-level generals of the camp in the afternoon. Why do you need to rush?" Zhang Gou said with a smile, "You should have a chance to fight?"
"Dadai Mountain?" Chen Zhi asked without giving up.
Zhang Gou smiled and did not ask him any questions.
Daishan is on the sea south of Daheng Island, and you can see each other from a distance during the day. The walled city built by the She family on the main island of Daishan is not much worse than that on Daheng Island. Chen Zhi was known as a city-climbing tiger when he was in the refugee army.
I can see the enemy city right before my eyes every day, how can I not feel itchy?
Like Zhang Gou, Chen Zhi was afraid that after joining Huaidong, he would be forced to attack his former colleagues, so he decided to join the Shuiying camp.
On the vast sea, commanding a battalion or even larger warships to hunt the enemy is much more complicated than commanding infantry. Chen Zhi cannot even master direct navigation of the stars, so naturally he is not qualified to command the water camp.
In desperation, Chen Zhi had no choice but to accept his fate and be incorporated into the Chongcheng Infantry Camp. In early July, he first served as the battalion commander. Chen Zhi was nicknamed the "Chengcheng Tiger". He was extremely brave and good at leading people to attack difficulties. After Fu Qinghe became familiar with his temperament,
Let him be appointed as the deputy battalion commander leading the troops.
In late August, Lin Fu adjusted and deployed the troops of the Huaidong Army Division. There was a vacant battalion commander in the Chongcheng Infantry Battalion, so Chen Zhi was appointed as the battalion commander.
Chen Zhi was the commander of Chongcheng Infantry Camp. Hearing Zhang Gou say that he had a chance to fight, he naturally subconsciously thought of attacking Daishan. However, Zhang Gou refused to reveal more information, which made Chen Zhi feel unbearable.
Zhang Gou was assigned to the Military Intelligence Department, so he would naturally have access to Huaidong's more core military secrets.
It was necessary to have the cooperation of a strong landing combat force in order to give full play to Huaidong's maritime advantages. Lin Fu intended to imitate the Marine Corps of later generations and specially set up a landing camp in the Huaidong Army.
The Chongcheng Infantry Camp and the Water Camp have coordinated training for the longest time, and the most trained areas are various landings on islands and landing operations. If a landing battalion is to be organized, it must be the Chongcheng Infantry Camp.
Zhang Gou knew that even if Huaidong wanted to increase its troops in the Huaisi area in the future, it was more likely to transfer the Changshan Battalion stationed in Chongzhou to the north. The possibility of the Chongcheng Infantry Battalion being transferred to Huaisi was very low, so Chen Zhi
No need to worry about meeting your former colleagues with swords in the future.
This time Chen Zhi had the opportunity to lead his infantry to cooperate with the Shuiying camp, but he did not go to attack Daishan Island, which was heavily defended by the Zhejiang and Fujian rebels.