The prefecture and county officials stayed in Chongzhou for one night, and did not return until the New Year's Eve. Those who were far away could not even spend time with their families to celebrate the New Year. On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, all officials from the prefecture and yamen would come to Chongzhou to report, and then they would all have to go to Chongzhou to report.
Chongzhou was on official business - time was running out as if to press for orders. Everyone was complaining, but they didn't dare to express it, for fear that if the pigtails were caught, it would be a catastrophe that would destroy the family and exterminate the family.
Lin Mengde, Hu Zhiyong, Li Shuyi, Li Shutang and others were responsible for the specific plan to rectify Hailing Mansion, but Lin Fu had to step in to preside over it. He was busy until the New Year was approaching, so he took a breather.
Dexian invited Lin Mengde, Hu Zhiyong, Li Shuyi, Li Shutang and others to the plum garden behind the mountain to enjoy plum blossoms.
"Li Shuyi is responsible for the compilation of households and households in Hailing counties. Who should be responsible for his original affairs in Chongzhou County?" Lin Fu asked Lin Mengde.
"Wang Chengfu is capable of the job." Lin Mengde said.
"What about the inspection of Hecheng?" Lin Fu asked, "Hecheng's burden is no lighter than that of Chongcheng!"
"I suggest that Zhiyong go there," Lin Mengde said, "and that the Tianjin-Sea Grain Road be moved westward to Hecheng. After Hecheng, we will vigorously develop seaports, fishing grounds, textiles, shipbuilding, iron smelting and other affairs, which are similar to Guanyin Beach.
Zhiyong’s past is the most suitable!”
Lin Fu looked at Hu Zhiyong and asked, "What do you think?"
"I will go wherever you want me to go," Hu Zhiyong replied.
"What kind of answer is this?" Lin Fu asked with a smile, and then said, "Then it's settled! Don't blame me if you don't like it."
"Zhu Ai from Nantun in Hecheng is very capable. Are you asking him to work with Shu Yi?" Lin Mengde asked again.
Zhu Ai first presented the map of salt protection to the sea wall, went to Huaidong to work as an official, and became a village chief. Lin Mengde recommended him to Li Shuyi as his deputy at this time - Lin Fu nodded and said: "Okay, transfer him
It’s good to be Shuyi’s deputy.”
"Within half a year, we can almost complete the task of setting up households and determining the number of acres," Lin Mengde said, "I wonder how much the tax and grain increases in the four counties of Hailing can be achieved?"
The two prefectures in Huaidong, namely Chongzhou and Hailing counties, were better, but the disaster situation in other counties was more serious; even in later generations, the northern Jiangsu region was a traditional poor county and city, and the economy was far less developed than the southern Jiangsu region.
The establishment of dings and fixed acres and the reduction and exemption of ding taxes and miscellaneous contributions have the effect of adding to and subtracting local taxes. In mid-July, Lin Fu recommended officials to each county, mainly to find out the situation of each county; in half a year,
In fact, we can only get a rough idea and cannot know the exact number.
Besides, if we really want to do the work of establishing dings and determining mu, the resistance will still be very great, no more than when the whole city of Chongzhou was slaughtered - so it is difficult to estimate the specific results that can be achieved.
"Who knows!" Lin Fu smiled faintly and said, "Next year, if Hailing Mansion can successfully implement the reform of the silver and grain collection, so that the actual grain tax collection reaches 400,000 dan, I will thank God and don't expect more..."
"That's not much more than this year!" Li Shutang said.
This year, Hailing Prefecture, excluding Chongzhou County, actually paid 90,000 taels of silver and 180,000 shi of grain. To achieve the goal of 400,000 shi of grain, it can be achieved by cutting local expenditures. There is no need to recruit large-scale cadres.
Fixed acres.
"A different concept!" Lin Fu explained, "We should not think about how much food can be collected, but how much the total supply of food in Huaidong can be increased. In addition to collecting grain, we can use
How much more food can be raised to purchase the means?'"
Lin Fu paused for a moment and said: "The bank loaned money to the villages to support reclamation and planting in coastal areas. Within five years, we should not expect to receive direct income from land taxes from the villages everywhere. But during this period, because
With the large-scale land reclamation and planting in the villages, how many more farm tools were sold in the ironworks workshops? How many more cotton cloths were sold in the weaving and spinning workshops? How many new brick kilns were built in Huaidong, and how many new wooden boats carrying lime entered Huaidong?
Wooden ships for transporting coal and wooden ships for transporting iron and sand? How much income do these provide Huaidong? After reclaiming so many grain fields, how much excess grain is provided to Huaidong? What effect does it have on stabilizing grain prices in Huaidong? Political affairs are so big
, but here, of course, the princes of the imperial court will disdain these things."
"Haha," Li Shutang touched his head and said with a self-deprecating smile, "I can't always keep up with adults' ideas!"
Lin Fu smiled and said: "Since ancient times, everyone has focused on the fields. Of course food is important, otherwise we would not go all out to increase food production, but to raise the financial resources of the army, our vision should be broader.
Some... After the New Year, the Military Department will have a detailed summary of this year's work, and everyone will have a deeper understanding of these issues."
Lin Mengde sighed inwardly and said: "In terms of land acquisition, reclaiming wasteland is not as fast as establishing dings and establishing acres. After all, opening up wasteland, building water conservancy, and relocating people require a lot of investment and time. Establishing dings is also slow.
If you find an acre of hidden grain land, you will get an additional acre of land tax, but more importantly, you can let the tenant farmers breathe a sigh of relief!"
"Do you understand now?" Lin Fu asked with a smile.
"I understand," Lin Mengde said, "Especially at this time, if the grain is given to the big farmers and the wealthy gentry has it in their hands, they will only sell a small amount of grain to exchange for luxuries such as silk, silk and forging, etc.
More grain will be hoarded. If more grain is distributed to the tenants, they will have enough to eat, and local stability will be one aspect. They will also have more energy to work, be able to serve the grain fields more carefully, and the grain output will be higher in the coming year.
----If there is excess grain, they use it for livestock and sell it to buy farm tools, cloth, build new houses, build cabinets, etc. Only at this time, iron smelting factories, textile factories, and industrial and mining tax collection, business
Taxes are the only way to make big profits..."
"Although it's superficial, it's probably the same truth!" Lin Fu said.
Lin Mengde did not agree with the complete abandonment of tax revenue from the villages at first, but he only agreed because he had no other choice.
The bank issued usury money, and the interest on the money was as high as one and a half cents. The village had to repay the principal and interest, and Huaidong levied rent and taxes on the reclaimed land. It would be very difficult for the village to maintain the livelihood of the villagers.
On the other hand, there is no tax on land reclamation here, so it is easy to evade the questioning and difficulties raised by Jiangning and the Salt and Iron Division: Huaidong does not charge a single penny of rent and tax, and the question of accusing Huaidong of encroaching on land in the salt area is always weak.
some.
A total of 11 villages have been set up along the sea wall. So far, a total of 170,000 people, including family members of workers and campers, have been accommodated, with a total of 50,000 households. A total of more than 500 agricultural cooperatives have been organized under the 11 villages.
Based on the fact that each farm cooperative borrowed 2,000 taels of silver from the bank, the bank issued a total of more than 1 million taels of usury to the Huaidong Reclamation Village.
With the participation of Huaidong Bank, the speed of land reclamation and planting has been greatly improved.
By this time, a total of 180 enclosed houses had been built within the embankment, and 360,000 acres of wasteland had been reclaimed.
Although the greatest significance of reclamation and farming is to resettle the families of workers and campers, resettle refugees, and ensure sufficient, stable, and reliable soldiers for the Huaidong Army.
However, even if it is the most direct, Huaidong is not unprofitable from inside.
Although the villages will not be able to provide rent and tax revenue to Huaidong within three to five years, these 50,000 villagers have consumed nearly half of the iron produced by Huaidong Smelting Iron Works in the past year. Relying on this part of the income alone, Huaidong
Dongye Iron Works maintained its annual cost expenditure.
Likewise, the Huaidong Military Division was able to obtain 200,000 kilograms of fine iron from the iron smelting factory for use in the manufacture of armor, warships and other war equipment without spending any money.
Of course, the Lijin Bureau must first collect a 15% tax on the interest income of Huaidong Bank. Now Huaidong Bank has loaned more than one million taels of silver to Tunzhai. Theoretically, the Lijin Bureau can use this to lend money to the bank every year
A tax of twenty-two thousand and five taels of silver was levied.
At this time, in the past year, the amount of lime, coal, iron sand, tung oil, wood, cotton silk, etc. transferred from Chongzhou has more than doubled than before; compared with before Lin Fu came to Chongzhou, the quantity has increased dozens of times.
, ranging from hundreds of times.
Haidong Commercial Road is still monopolized by the Military Division for the time being, and its income is not included in the Lijin Bureau; after deducting the commercial tax income from Jinhai Liangdao, the Lijin Bureau's income from other commercial taxes, industrial and mining taxes, etc. was as high as 20% in the past year.
One hundred thousand taels of silver.
In fact, these incomes are not surprising; even if the money earned from the Yanyin Baoliang and Tianjin-Hai grain roads are used to repair and defend the sea wall, Huaidong will not be short of money.
Among the many industries in Huaidong, Lin Fu paid the most attention to iron smelting and shipbuilding. Firstly, this was the foundation of the Huaidong base. Secondly, these two industries had the most direct effect on improving the combat effectiveness of the Huaidong Army.
In comparison, monopolizing the raw silk trade in Haidong is Huaidong's most lucrative source of profit.
In the past year, Huaidong's own raw silk plus raw silk purchased from Haiyu, Chenjia, Hailing and other places were transported to Haidong for sale, totaling 3,000 tons. Three thousand tons of raw silk provided Huaidong with a net profit of about 700,000 taels.
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If this number were revealed, the custody would scare the bejesus out of many people.
Huaidong relied on the profits from its monopoly of Haedong's raw silk trade. In addition to paying for Haedong's garrison in Jeju, this year it officially built Jeju City on Thursday and built a smelting plant in Jeju City with an annual output of 300,000 kilograms of iron.
In addition to the ironworks, 500,000 stones of grain, more than 26,000 pieces of leather, 200,000 jins of copper, 6 million jins of coal, and 2 million jins of iron sand were also transported from Haidong.
In addition, a large amount of tea, cotton cloth, cane sugar, porcelain, etc. were shipped to Haidong for sale, which provided Huaidong with huge profits. Only because of this, could Lin Fu try to build something like the "Lin Zhengjun" regardless of the cost.
Only in extremely large sea areas can we have the capital to use 80% of the shipbuilding capacity of the Guanyin Beach Shipyard to build warships.
Only in this way can the Jinghaihai Battalion be able to expand to 15,000 men and ensure that the scale of the warships is equally expanded and the combat effectiveness level does not decline.
Only in this way can the number of craftsmen directly under the Huaidong Ordnance Supervision Bureau exceed 6,000 in the first ten days of the twelfth lunar month. Not counting the shipyard, the Ordnance Supervision Bureau alone consumes more than 40,000 kilograms of refined iron every month, which is not distressing.
In terms of financial resources, Lin Fu is not worried about anything. What he is worried about is food. Especially in troubled times, food, iron, salt and cloth are always ranked first.
To the north of Haidong, there are many mountains and few fields. Although there are more than 10 million people, food is not very abundant. Lin Fu is quite satisfied if one million stones of rice can be transported from Haidong area every year.
One million stones of grain may seem like a lot, but it is actually very little.
As for Chen Zhihu's command, the number of the Huai Army's refugee troops, their families, and refugees trapped in Huaiyang totaled approximately four to five hundred thousand.
For this group of people alone, if they want to survive the food shortage and survive the one-year reclamation period, they must invest at least 1.5 million stones of rice.
Pingjiang Prefecture is short of food, Jiahanghu Prefecture is short of food, Huinan is short of food, Huaixi is short of food, Huaisi is short of food, and Huaidong is only self-sufficient in food. Lin Fu's fight for the Hailing Prefecture this time is to grab time.
Organize and determine the land area of Hailing.
The purpose of setting up a small land is not to increase the grain income at once, but also to ensure that ordinary tenants and farmers can benefit from farming and increase their enthusiasm to participate in local water conservancy construction, land improvement, agricultural tool improvement, reclamation and planting, etc.
We strive to achieve a dramatic increase in the total grain output in the Huaidong region within a short period of one to two years.
There are not many Donglu people, and they only have more than 100,000 elite soldiers who can recruit and fight. Even counting the soldiers and horses of the Yanxi tribes, the number of elite soldiers who can fight does not exceed 200,000. However, during the previous invasions of foreign tribes, those who have served as vanguards for foreign tribes have
, it was precisely the surrendering army who failed to resist and turned around to kill his own family but turned out to be extremely ferocious.
At that time, the battlefield must be controlled north of the Huaihe River. Huaidong will not only have money in hand, but also have enough food and population.
Chen Zhihu was so cruel that he seemed to be killing the rebels for the imperial court. After his cruelty devastated the central and southern parts of Shanxi, the resistance of the entire Henan region was completely lost. Once the Eastern captives invaded the south, Hebei, Jinzhong, Henan and other places would have no power.
How much resistance.
Will the Cao family leave Tongguan? Are they counting on the Liang family? Instead of counting on the Cao family and the Liang family, it is better to hope that the Red Coat Army can last longer in Huaisi!
The sudden sound of horse hoofbeats seemed to shake the snow off the courtyard wall. Listening to the sound of horse hoofbeats, Lin Fu frowned slightly and complained: "It's the New Year, why don't you let people celebrate the New Year peacefully!"