As the night grew darker, Lin Fu arranged for Huang Jinnian and others to rest first; since Wu Qi had come, he and Zhou Pu would handle the military affairs of the Xiashan camp together.
Although Lin Fu came here and was accompanied by Wang Chengfu, Chen Enze and others from the Military Intelligence Department, the most troublesome thing on the Xiashan side was how to move the more than 100,000 Jinhai people stranded here along the Jiaolai River as soon as possible
To evacuate people to the south, Wang Chengfu and Chen Enze were sent to Lin Fu to assist in the evacuation of the people, leaving only Zhou Pu in charge of the Xiashan camp.
Zhou Puqiang was not good at leading troops in battles, and he had a headache when he was involved in complicated and trivial military affairs. When he saw Wu Qi coming back, he felt more affectionate than when he saw his own father.
Geng Quanshan and Chen Dingbang were originally military generals. They joined Huaidong on this trip, so Lin Fu directly arranged for them to assist Wu Qi and Zhou Pu in handling military affairs.
In addition to the Huaidong Cavalry Battalion, the Xiashan Camp has more than 4,000 troops from Shosha Wuwei and Obezu Navy, as well as thousands of wounded soldiers who have been evacuated from Jinhai. The most important thing is to prepare for the withdrawal of Jinhai Navy.
Huaibei.
Based on the current situation, Yanhu will resolutely capture Jinhai, and it also has enough troops to attack Jinhai - giving up Jinhai is a helpless move.
Although Lin Fu said that he would not give up Jinwei Island, Jinwei Island was isolated in the sea, and the island village only had more than 200 acres of land. During the stage of accumulating strength in Huaidong, Jinwei Island's role was mainly to contain and harass attacks from the coast.
Since the Donghu people have almost no naval force, it is enough to leave two thousand elite troops to garrison the fortified Jinwei Island; the remaining nearly 10,000 elite Jinwei troops will be withdrawn to Huaidong for rest and recuperation.
The only one who can compete with Huaidong for control of the Tianjin Navy is Lin Xuwen - now that Lin Xuwen has completely joined Huaidong, the Tianjin Navy has moved the small capital of the soldiers to Huaidong, and the Tianjin Navy has completely integrated into Huaidong, there is no such thing
The slightest resistance.
Lin Fu's initial plan was to set up an independent department in the Infantry Department to house the Tianjin Navy.
The Tianjin Navy was born out of the remnants of the Jinzhong Army and formed in the Tianjin Sea. During the Yangxin battles, it defended the Jinhai Sea and bought ample time for the evacuation of more than 300,000 people. They all made brilliant achievements and had a profound impact. Although Wu Tian unfortunately died in the battle,
But Ma Yigong and Yang Yihang are both excellent generals.
After joining Huaidong, the Tianjin Navy is also qualified to form an independent army, and will also add another elite combat force to Huaidong.
Lin Fu left Lin Xuwen and Gao Zongting alone.
There used to be a large monastery on Xiashan Mountain, and Huaidong requisitioned this monastery to form the Xiashan camp. After Lin Fu arrived in Laizhou, he made the monastery his residence, and he usually lived in the west of the Xiashan monastery.
In the courtyard.
There are several osmanthus trees in the yard, which are in flower season. The branches and leaves are full of light yellow flowers the size of rice grains. The rich fragrance of osmanthus is assailed.
Lin Xuwen, Gao Zongting followed Lin Fu walking on the flower grains blown by the wind on the stone path, and saw a beautiful woman walking through the corridor - this woman, in Shanyang, in Yandu, Gao Zongting was
I saw her next to Lin Fu. I had never noticed her before, and Lin Fu had never introduced her. Gao Zongting only thought that this woman was Lin Fu's concubine, but he didn't expect that Lin Fu would come out this time and take this woman with him again.
Lin Xuwen didn't care much. When he met a female family member in his house, he would turn his eyes elsewhere to avoid suspicion as a courtesy. Although Lin Fu went back to Jinhai and Song Jia followed him, Lin Xuwen had no impression of her.
Heroes these days love beauties. Although in the impressions of Lin Xuwen and Gao Zongting, Lin Fu is not the kind of person who is greedy for women, but being obsessed with women has never been a weakness of a hero worthy of being criticized by the world - Lin Xuwen will not study it in detail.
The secret between Qiniang and Lin Fu.
Lin Xuwen's identity is different. Even if he joins Huaidong, he is still Lin Fu's clan brother. After arriving in Jiangning, his official position will rise to a higher level. Even if Lin Xuwen will not be the most powerful person in Huaidong, he will still be the most powerful person in Huaidong.
A person with the most transcendent status.
Seeing the little woman who had no identity with Lin Fu walking towards her, Lin Xuwen just turned sideways and nodded slightly as a sign of courtesy.
Gao Zongting bowed his head and said: "Zongting pays homage to Madam..."
"Mr. Gao, you're welcome. I, the Yongtai Song family, have met the eldest son, Mr. Gao..." Song Jia bowed her head and returned the greeting, and also introduced herself to her family.
"Young Madam..." Gao Zongting immediately wanted to understand who this beautiful and graceful woman in front of him was. He was stunned for a long time and did not come back to his senses.
Both the She family and the Song family tried every means to cover up the detention of Song Jia and She Mingyue in Chongzhou. How could they take the initiative to make this scandal public?
As far as Huaidong is concerned, Song Jia's identity is too sensitive. Only a handful of people within the military department know her true identity. Others only think that she is a female official accompanying Lin Fu to handle documents, or a person who has not yet
A named concubine.
Although Gao Zongting had a good relationship with Huaidong in the past, Li Zhuo was loyal to the court when it came to Gao Zong's court affairs, and Lin Xuwen and Huaidong were only in a close alliance at that time, and had not yet reached the level of sharing life and death, and being in harmony with each other. What about Song Jia's identity?
Could it be leaked to them?
Now that Gao Zongting has joined Huaidong, Lin Fu has to rely on him as his right-hand man; Lin Xuwen has also completely given up his ambition to stand on his own in Huaidong, and he will naturally gain a status comparable to Lin Mengde, Cao Ziang, Qin Chengzu, Fu Qinghe and others in Huaidong - Song Jia and
The Song family behind Song Jia is a factor that cannot be ignored in the changes in the situation in Zhejiang and Fujian. Gao Zongting and Lin Xuwen should naturally be aware of all the subtleties involved.
In comparison, Huang Jinnian's peace negotiation with Huaidong was more forced by interests and circumstances. At least for now, he was not allowed to know Huaidong's real core secrets.
Not only the existence of Song Jia, but also the intricate relationship between Lin and Gu, the Huaidong and Dongyang factions, the black market transactions with the Red Coat Army, and the troops, military potential and economic potential controlled by the Huaidong Army Division, Lin
Lin Xuwen and Gao Zongting were invited to sit down and tell the truth in detail...
For several months, Gao Zongting had been worried about the power of the Yanhu people sweeping the world.
Jiangning seems to be able to organize an army of four to five million in a short period of time, but with so many soldiers and horses hastily assembled, fragmented, scheming, fighting with each other, and having their own ambitions, how can they simultaneously withstand Zhejiang and Fujian in the south and the army in the north?
Yanhu army?
There was a sense of loss and irreversible decadence and despair - but knowing that Huaidong could mobilize up to 200,000 soldiers and horses in the most urgent situation, half of which could be called elites, Gao Zongting knew that there was still room for recovery of the situation!
"Without the hard support of Li Bingbu and Zongting in the north in recent years, Huaidong would not be as strong as it is today," Lin Fu said, "In the future, I will definitely give justice to Li Bingbu..."
Gao Zongting was deeply moved. The rise of Huaidong was directly related to the Jinhai grain road.
In the past three years, nearly 7 million tons of rice grains have been transported to the capital and border troops from Shandong, Jianghuai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang through the Tianjin-Hai Grain Road. These are all in Huaidong and Qingzhou.
and under the direct control of Jinhai and other forces.
Comparing the price of grain in Chongzhou and Jinhai, there is a price difference of more than 8 million taels of silver. No one can have an accurate figure on how much profit the Dongyang group of forces will get from this.
Although Zhang Xie and others have manipulated the grain market in Gyeonggi for many years and plundered millions of taels of wealth, they hid the plundered wealth in silver cellars or bought land and houses for personal enjoyment - Dan Huai
Just to build and defend the sea wall in Dongfeng, one million taels of silver obtained from the Jinhai grain road were used.
In addition to other benefits, the completion of the sea dike also enabled the reserve strength of the Huaidong Engineering Camp to exceed 100,000, laying a solid foundation for the Huaidong Army's large-scale expansion in the first half of the year.
This is just an example of Huaidong's emphasis on gold and silver but on performance.
Lin Xuwen is ashamed to say that he was sent to Hejian Prefecture to supervise military preparations and water transportation to Tianjin and Hainan. It can be said that he is one of the few real-power officials in Vietnam outside the temple. But in the past three years, except for
Apart from supporting the 6,000-strong regular force of the Tianjin Navy, Lin Xuwen did not do anything more in the Tianjin Sea.
As a result, even after the large-scale expansion of the Tianjin Navy before the war, nearly half of the reserve troops were still the same group of captured civilians that Lin Fu had brought from Yangxin to Tianjin for resettlement.
To talk about Lin Xuwen's achievements, it is that he has an extra 400,000 taels of silver in his personal pocket. When the Lin family hurriedly withdrew from Shanglinli, the silver they moved out of the silver cellar was only 200,000 taels. Lin Xuwen's achievements in the three years of searching in Jinhai
It’s also quite impressive.
But when he came to Jinhai and was trapped to death by the Donghu soldiers and horses, Lin Xuwen realized that no matter how much gold and silver he had, they were the most useless dead things accumulated in the silver cellar.
As early as mid-April, Lin Xuwen added 400,000 silver as principal to Huaidong Bank. In the name of Huaidong Military Division, Lin Fu lent this silver to purchase surplus grain from grain merchants along the Jinhai Grain Road.
As a material reserve for the evacuation of nearly 400,000 soldiers and civilians southward.
"Without the support of the Ministry of War and Zongting in the north, the Jinhai Food Road would not have been able to last for so long. Without the existence of the Jinhai Food Road, Huaidong would have been unable to accumulate strength," Lin Fu said, "In the beginning,
Big brother’s achievements in Jinhai are irreplaceable..."
Lin Xuwen said ashamedly: "Seventeenth brother, there is no need to put gold on my face. In the final analysis, there is still a difference in the realm of spending money..."
Lin Fu smiled and changed the topic to talk about other things.
Song Jiasi stood behind Lin Fu and secretly sighed: Yanji and Jinjun have been generally controlled by Yanhu, but the evacuation of soldiers and civilians in Jinhai was successfully organized, and Huaidong benefited greatly...
With the Tianjin Navy withdrawing, it will directly become an elite combat force that can be used by Huaidong.
The evacuation of nearly 400,000 soldiers and civilians to Shengsi, Changguo and Mingzhou Prefecture counties will directly consolidate Huaidong's rule over eastern Zhejiang. The relocation of nearly 400,000 soldiers and civilians will help quickly restore or even further increase the agricultural production of Mingzhou Prefecture.
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There are many abandoned fields in Mingzhou Prefecture due to the sharp decline in population, and there is almost no difficulty in opening up wasteland. In addition, a large number of confiscated fields and houses owned by clans that were demoted to officials can directly resettle the population.
In order to ensure that farming work is not interrupted as much as possible, Huaidong adopts the method of relocation and land filling to resettle the refugees.
As early as early May, small households were drawn from villages in Chongzhou, Hecheng and other places to fill Mingzhou. In the summer and autumn, all official fields and abandoned fields confiscated by Mingzhou Prefecture were planted with rice.
Cotton, linen, sugarcane and other crops. The people evacuated from Tianjin arrived in Huaidong one after another in early June, and first filled in villages to make up for the shortage of agricultural labor. In this way, in Mingzhou Prefecture
More than 300,000 acres of land were planted, and farming and reclamation of wasteland were also carried out in Hecheng, Chongzhou and other places.
This is a big relief to alleviate the food pressure next year.
The nearly 400,000 soldiers and civilians who moved south can provide Huaidong with 40,000 to 60,000 qualified reserve soldiers in addition to the Tianjin Navy.
It will take one or two years for the people who moved south to settle down. During this period, Huaidong will inevitably need to further expand the scale of the labor camp in order to support the people moving south through the initial period of relief through work.
A tough year.
Lin Xuwen, Huang Jinnian and others will join Huaidong, and Huaidong will be able to cultivate his own spokesperson in the new capital of Jiangning in addition to Gu Wuchen.
Because of the Jinhai grain road, Jinhai also accumulated a huge amount of wealth.
Including the Huang Jinnian family, the Huaidong Military Division received a military "donation" of about 300,000 silver at one time, and the Huaidong Bank received a principal of more than one million taels of silver.
Lin Fu, in the name of Huaidong Military Division, borrowed one million taels of silver from Huaidong Bank to purchase the surplus grain accumulated by grain merchants after the Jinhai Grain Road was shut down.
In addition to the 400,000 shi of rice and grain used to evacuate people from Tianjin and Hainan to the south and the preliminary resettlement, at a time when food pressure in various places was so tight, the rice grain reserve in Huaidong also increased to 1.4 million shi.
Of course, the total amount borrowed by the Huaidong Military Division from Huaidong Bank also surged to two million taels of silver, and the annual interest payment alone was as high as 240,000 taels.
Only then can we see the huge benefits of Lin Fu's determination to establish Huaidong Bank.
Except for Huang Jinnian, who donated real gold and silver to the military to protect his family, others, including Lin Xuwen, would not use their family's money to support the army in vain no matter how high their consciousness was.
Compared with forced expropriation, which would arouse violent resistance, Huaidong's method of raising military funds through Huaidong Bank was much more gentle. Although Huaidong had to pay high amounts of money and interest, it also used Huaidong Bank.
, tightly uniting the scattered forces around Huaidong.
Those grain merchants also had to sell their grain stocks to the Huaidong Military Division because the Tianjin-Hai grain route was cut off. They had no source of money for a while, and they did not dare to walk around with large sums of money in the chaos of the war.
The redemption and sale by the Huaidong Army Division also further won the trust of grain merchants, who were more willing to deposit their money in banks to earn interest.
Utilizing the Huaidong bank and village settlement model, the Huaidong Military Division was also able to significantly reduce expenditures on resettling refugees and cultivating wasteland.
In fact, after the merger of Jinhai forces, although Huaidong only occupies the land of three prefectures, plus the Huaisi area controlled by Huaiyang Military Town, including Jeju and the newly acquired Yizhou, there are only 25 counties in total.
, but the actual military potential is not much worse than that of the She family, which controls nearly a hundred counties in the area.