Ignoring Jiang Ning's transfer order, Liang Wenzhan secretly arrived in Mingzhou on the first day of May to secretly preside over the new policy.
With the cooperation of the local forces in eastern Zhejiang headed by Ye Jun'an, Huaidong quickly mastered the number of acres and dingkou in Mingzhou Prefecture.
After Shengsi, Daishan and other places were transferred to Hailing Prefecture, Mingzhou Prefecture administered eight counties including Changguo, Cixi, Yuyao, Shangyu, Shengzhou, Fenghua, Ninghai, Xiangshan and Yin, with more than 7 million acres of registered land.
Devastated by the war that lasted for several years, there are still as many as 120,000 registered households in Dingkou, Mingzhou Prefecture.
Among the nine counties of Mingzhou, Cixi, Yuyao, Shangyu and Yin counties, which are located in the core area of Minghui Plain, are the most prosperous, accounting for nearly 80% of the tax and grain of Mingzhou.
The amount of military tax and grain that the She family drew from Mingzhou Prefecture has been documented. The total amount in two years exceeded 1.6 million dan, and the average amount of military tax and grain drawn each year was more than 800,000 dan - and Jiangning agreed to Huaidong
The maximum amount of food and salary that the army could requisition from the eleven counties of Huaidong was only 800,000 shi.
Traditionally, Shangyu, Shengzhou, and Yuyao counties were all placed under the jurisdiction of Kuaiji Prefecture. After the She family occupied eastern Zhejiang, Kuaiji became the center of military confrontation between the She family and Dong Yuan in northern Zhejiang on the eastern front, so Shangyu,
Shengzhou and Yuyao were placed under the jurisdiction of Mingzhou Prefecture in order to better raise military resources.
In eastern Zhejiang, Mingzhou and Kuaiji prefectures are the main areas. Mingzhou Prefecture ranks second among the three, and Kuaiji Prefecture ranks first. The She family lost the area east of the Cao'e River in Eastern Zhejiang. It is said that it has lost an arm, not at all.
Not an exaggeration.
In early May, before the officials of the Mingzhou Prefecture and the counties had yet to be determined, Lin Fu promulgated a new government decree on Tianding in the name of Zhejiang East Zhizhi Envoy. The new policy exempted and exempted the Mingzhou Prefecture and counties from paying taxes and fees.
Various heads were allocated, and Qingtian officials were sent to the counties to preside over the new affairs, and the land areas were checked. The landowners in the counties were ordered to report the actual number of acres and the number of acres to the Qingtian officials before September. Those who hired tenants for farming and calculated the rent in kind would have their rent reduced.
to less than 30%; based on the fixed rent, the annual rent for top-grade ripe land shall not exceed one stone.
A total of 13 rebel families led by the Tian family confiscated their family property and used it as military supplies. The rest were punished as cooperators and exempted from liability;
The mines, shipyards, fisheries, lakes, mountains, islands and other unregistered lands belonging to the Changguo Islands were all expropriated as official property. Any local government that took the opportunity to occupy them would be severely punished.
After stabilizing the situation in Yongjia, Qin Zitan also came to Dongyang County in early May, feeling anxious about the current bad situation.
On the west bank of Taibai River in Dongyang County, the Huaidong Army relied on the elite two brigades of the Changshan Battalion as the main force, with a garrison of 8,000 people. Along the slopes of the northwest foothills of Luohe Mountain, the Huaidong Army built a fish-scale chain of defenses toward the west bank of the Taibai River.
Radiation, competing with Dongyang County for control of the Taibai River waterway, and driving the people to widen and build post roads connecting Shengzhou on the inner line.
To the north of Tiantai County, with the elite infantry of the Changshan Camp 1st Brigade as the main force, the Huaidong Army was building a defensive stronghold facing Tiantai County, with more than 4,000 troops stationed there.
On the inner line of the Tiantai and Luohe Mountain defenses, with Shengzhou City as the camp and the elite infantry of the Third Brigade of Changshan Camp as the main force, the Huaidong Army's garrison in Shengzhou reached more than 10,000 people.
The Huaidong Army's East-Southern Zhejiang camp with Shengzhou as the core was initially formed in early May. With Huaidong Infantry Director Shanying as the main force, the total number of horse infantry soldiers and auxiliaries exceeded 22,000.
Thousands of civilians were also recruited for military service.
By early May, Huaidong clearly established the abandoned counties in Shengzhou as towns and used the entire city of Shengzhou as a garrison for the east and south camps of Zhejiang Province. On both sides of the Yanxi River in Shengzhou alone, more than 200,000 acres of Tian's property were confiscated and used as military reclamation.
Used for camp fields - I don’t know how many military households Huaidong will fill in in Shengzhou and other places in the later period!
After the Qianjiang waterway from Xiaoshan to Haining was completely closed, the Huaidong Army established a defense system with Shangyu County as the core and along both sides of the Cao'e River. The troops were stationed in Zhejiang Province under Han Caizhi and Sun Wenyao and the Huaidong Jinghai Third Army.
The water camp is the main force, and the number of troops exceeds 10,000.
Considering that the Huaidong Army has more than 15,000 elite troops from the Third Brigade of the Chongcheng Infantry Camp on the inner line of Mingzhou Prefecture, as well as Chen Kuili, Mao Tengyuan and other troops from the eastern Zhejiang Province camp, as well as the Jinghai No. 1 who is still stationed on the east coast of Mingzhou Prefecture.
In the Second Water Camp, the Huaidong Army's total strength in eastern Zhejiang exceeded 52,000 at one time.
The She family must stabilize the line of defense from Tiantai, Dongyang, Zhuji to Kuaiji, mainly with elites from Fujian and Fujian, plus local defense troops, and the number should not be less than 50,000.
Although the pressure on Dong Yuan in northern Zhejiang was borne by the eldest son, after the loss of Mingzhou in eastern Zhejiang, the number of garrison troops had to be nearly doubled to be enough.
Qin Zitan could roughly guess what Huaidong was thinking, which was to intensify the military confrontation between the two sides on the defense line and drag down the finances of Zhejiang and Fujian.
In southern Zhejiang, Liu Wenzhong, Zuo Guangying and other southern Zhejiang resistance forces are occupying Yueqing City and can easily obtain support from Huaidong by sea. The She family's troops in southern Zhejiang can only abandon the coastal areas and shrink to Ouhai, Yongjia, etc.
Establish defenses in inland cities some distance from the coast.
On the one hand, it was forced to increase troops and strengthen defenses along the line; on the other hand, it was forced to abandon the sacred coastal areas one after another.
Not to mention the loss of Mingzhou Prefecture, the fertile farmland in the delta area below the Yongjia City and Ouhai River from Ouhai accounts for one-third of the entire Yongjia Prefecture. Also because Yueqing City was occupied by the remnants of the Southern Zhejiang Resistance Army, the Qin Dynasty
Zitan also had to force the people in this area to move inland and abandon it as wasteland, resulting in a loss of hundreds of thousands of dan in taxes and grain.
The situation in the coastal areas of eastern Fujian such as Jin'an Prefecture has also become worse due to the loss of eastern Zhejiang's containment of the Huaidong naval force. The Huaidong navy pushed the advance base to the line south of Changguo, and there was resistance from southern Zhejiang.
With Yueqing occupied by the remnants of the army as a springboard, it will become more and more convenient to raid the coastal areas of southern Zhejiang and eastern Fujian, and the scale of the raids will continue to intensify. As the situation has developed to this day, the situation on the eastern front of Zhejiang and Fujian has become extremely bad.
degree.
At present, in addition to counting on the eldest son to continue to expand strategic depth on the western front, we can only hope that the Donghu cavalry can quickly move south to threaten Huaisi. Only in this way can the focus of Huaidong's military deployment be forced to shift to the north, reducing the pressure on Zhejiang and Fujian.
Pressure on the Eastern Front.
Although Zhejiang and Fujian had expanded the total number of troops to nearly 200,000 in two or three years, they were attacked on several sides and suffered heavy casualties among their elites, so they no longer had the ability to regain Mingzhou Prefecture in a short period of time.
The war in eastern Zhejiang was initially settled, and Lin Fu could not wait for Jiangning to officially transfer Liang Wenzhan to serve as the prefect of Mingzhou. He left Mingzhou Prefecture and returned to Chongzhou on the ninth day of May. The main force of the First Water Battalion headed by Zhao Qingshan returned with Lin Fu.
Chongzhou.
Lin Fu's strategy of using the name of King Qin to spread his reputation eastward and attack the west initially aroused huge controversy within Huaidong.
As time went by, and the Huaidong Army achieved a series of major military victories after attacking eastern Zhejiang, and quickly occupied the entire Mingzhou Prefecture, especially in the later period when Jiangning was forced by the situation to approve Huaidong's attack on eastern Zhejiang, the internal situation in Huaidong
The controversy subsided.
Lin Fu's reputation in Huaidong has also reached a new level.
On the day Lin Fu returned to Chongzhou, the people and gentry of the county came to the shore to welcome him. They watched the Jinhai slowly sailing from Shuimen into the parking area between Junshan and Zilang Mountain. Deafening cheers erupted from both sides of the bank.
Of course, there were also some cold-eyed bystanders, but the soldiers and civilians of Huaidong Prefecture were generally happy and their morale was greatly boosted.
However, as far as the Huaidong Military Division is concerned, this attack to the south against the order is of great significance. Ordinary officials and generals have a clearer awareness, and from then on they regard Huaidong as a force independent of the imperial court. Take Tang Shuen, Liu Tingzhou
Jiang Ning and others secretly reported that "from now on, the officials, generals and assistants of Huaidong only have Huaidong in their eyes, not the imperial court, only Lin Fu, not the emperor."
Huaidong achieved a series of military victories in eastern Zhejiang and boosted morale. However, judging from the national situation, worries still outweighed happiness. Lin Fu suppressed the worries in his heart and accepted the welcome from the gentry, soldiers and civilians. The more difficult times became,
, morale is more important.
After landing at Nanya Pier, Lin Fu said to Qin Chengzu, Lin Mengde, Sun Jingxuan, Sun Jingtang, Li Shuyi, Hu Zhicheng, Wang Chengfu, Sun Fengyi, Zhou Guangnan, Wu Meijiu and others who came to the pier to greet them: "In the past ten months, all the people in Chongzhou have
Thank you for your hard work, Lin Fu is here to bow to you and thank you!"
"You're welcome, sir!" Everyone returned the courtesy and welcomed Lin Fu ashore.
Seeing that Zhao Qinmin was also welcoming everyone, Lin Fu asked, "When did Mr. Zhao come to Chongzhou?"
"I came here in the afternoon the day before yesterday. I was going to see you in Mingzhou Mansion. I learned that you would be coming back in the near future, so I waited patiently in Chongcheng for two days." Zhao Qinmin said.
"Then let's go to Dongya for a banquet together. We will discuss other matters in detail at the banquet." Lin Fu said and asked Zhao Qinmin to accompany him to Dongya.
Zhao Qinmin was deeply moved. Lin Fu was planning to use the name of King Qin to attack the east and attack the west. There was no news in advance, and he and Gu Wuchen were caught off guard in Jiangning.
After the news that the main force of the Huaidong Army was attacking eastern Zhejiang reached Jiangning, it happened that She Feixiong had captured Linshui and gathered troops to attack Fuyang. It was likely to break through northern Zhejiang and break through to Jiangning.
When Jiangning was threatened, everyone including Yue Lengqiu, Cheng Yuqian, Yu Xinyuan, Wang Tian, Wang Xueshan and everyone in Prince Ning's mansion were in a hurry and lost every inch, hoping that the Huaidong Army could contain the Zhejiang and Fujian rebellions on the eastern front.
Therefore, they all kept silent about the fact that the Huaidong Army deceived the emperor, so that Gu Wuchen would not be too passive in Jiangning.
When the situation has developed to this point, except for some scholars who are quick to criticize Huaidong, more people are grateful that the main force of the Huaidong Army did not go north to King Qin. If the Huaidong Army had not landed in Mingzhou Prefecture in time,
On the other side, the She family's 100,000 elites may have already crippled northern Zhejiang. They swept through Pingjiang and Danyang and marched to Jiangning City!
Nowadays, Jiangning relies on Huaidong to contain nearly half of the troops of Zhejiang and Fujian from the east. Lin Fu is also in charge of Huaidong, and the two systems of Zhejiang are envoys. At this time, Jiangdong County has about 150,000 soldiers and horses, and Huaidong has occupied
Lin Fu not only directly intervened in the appointment of magistrates and county-level officials in Huaidong and eastern Zhejiang, but also directly requested the establishment of county committees in Hecheng and Shengsi with trusted retainers to strengthen the Huaidong Military Division's control over these two places.
Control——Zhao Qinmin stood aside, looking at Lin Fu who was chatting and laughing with others, and thought to himself: There is no one who can be called a lord minister together with Cao Liang, right?