When passing Qingjiangpu, the weather was cold and the water was clear and blue. Lin Fu, Zhou Pu, Sun Jingtang and others changed their horses to go ahead and crossed the Huaihe River to Huaiyang to supervise the war. Xiaoman, Su Mei and other female relatives went to Yandu to change boats.
Walk slowly on Qingjiang Pu Shang to Sanyang.
Thinking of the last time I visited Qingjiangpu, six years had passed——
Su Mei leaned out of the window and gazed at both sides of Jiangpu.
Song Jia asked: "When Miss Su passed by Qingjiangpu with the adults, was it at this time and with such scenery?"
"The seasons are similar, but the scenery is very different," Su Mei pointed to the remote embankment on the north bank and said, "At that time, both sides of the bank were shoals, and the reed marshes stretched for dozens or hundreds of miles from north to south. When the wind blew, reed flowers and heavy snow covered the sky.
It seems like it. After the embankments were built on both sides, the water is a little deeper, but the distance between the two banks is only about twenty miles..."
"It's less than twenty miles at its widest point. Looking at the newly drawn topographic map, the mouth of Puzi is as narrow as the neck of a bottle," Song Jia said. "There are only two narrow waterways connecting to the yellow water outside, but the terrain is still
It is low and difficult to live in. There are still quite a lot of reed swamps in the autumn. However, the salt fields on both sides of the north and south take grass from there, and the grass is cut like a raghead in the autumn. There is really no good scenery..."
Su Mei smiled, and Xiao Man said, "Sister Song is making it easy. We are trapped in a small place all day long, and it's not easy for us to get out of the city. Even the messy barren hills are also very beautiful scenery."
Xiaoman has been pampered in the past two years of marriage, but he is still straight-tempered. Su Mei took over the conversation and said: "People's livelihood is important, but it doesn't matter whether it looks good or not - I heard that after the embankments were built on both sides of Qingjiangpu, Yandu and Tinghu counties were
An additional 20,000 households were moved in. People say that 10,000 households make up a large county. Before, there were only about 15,000 households in Yandu..."
"No," Song Jia said with a faint smile, "In the past, there were only eleven counties in the two prefectures of Huaidong, including Hailing, Huai'an, Chongzhou and Dingkou. The other counties could barely reach the level of large counties. In this situation,
In a dangerous land with many mountains and few fields, a county with ten thousand households is naturally considered a large county. However, in the Jianghuai Plain, which is flat, densely populated with rivers and lakes, and is known as the land of plenty, a county with just over ten thousand households can only be considered a backcountry. This is on both sides of the Qing River and Pudong.
Embankment construction started before the Huaisi War. Your Majesty recruited brave soldiers from the Huaisi people. Tens of thousands of family members had to be resettled, so they could only build embankments on the north bank to fill the beach and create farmland. Embankment construction on the south bank was done after the seawall was built and defended.
A highway connecting Huai'an and Shanyang has also conveniently enclosed more than 100,000 acres of new farmland on the south bank..."
Song Jia knew that among the girls, Su Mei was the most knowledgeable and could not please her by discussing the family's petty issues, so he talked to her about political affairs to please her.
Sun Wenwan said: "When I was young, I traveled to Huai'an with my father and brother. It was common to see people dying of hunger on the roadside. No matter how beautiful the scenery was, my heart was desolate. In my opinion, the scenery along the way is much more beautiful than in previous years..."
"I am the only one who is a caged bird..." Xiaoman pouted and said gloomily.
"Young lady, you are joking. Among us, which one is better off than you?" Song Jia asked with a smile, "It's probably because we are willing to live in exile, why shouldn't I be tied up in Huaidong and unable to escape by that one who has to pay tens of millions?
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What Song Jia said made all the girls laugh, and all the anger turned towards Lin Fu.
Sun Wenwan still went north as a female official, but there were some things she couldn't explain.
The three girls around Song Jia were originally given to Lin Fu by the Danluo Li family and the Jinxiang family, so they were naturally concubines. These three girls, even if Lin Fu did not live in the room, could only
Given to middle- and lower-ranking officers as wives; high-ranking officials will accept her as a concubine, but will not marry such a woman of unknown origin.
Sun Wenwan and Lin Fu had a marital dispute in their early years, and they had spent a lot of time together over the years. Even if her thoughts were not with Lin Fu, which well-matched family in Huaidong would welcome Sun Wenwan in?
Gu Junxun made the decision to let Sun Wenwan accompany him to the north, and the matter was vaguely settled. Regardless of Lin Fu's intention or not, he must take on this responsibility. In short, no man would dislike having too many women around him.
"By the way," Sun Wenwan asked Song Jia, "My lord has always relied on you to make plans for him. This time when I go to Huaiyang, why don't I take you with me instead of staying with us?"
"He probably thinks that my going to Huaiyang will be a hindrance," Song Jia arranged Lin Fu in an ambiguous way, "and he doesn't think about his thin body. No matter where he chooses to fight on this battlefield, he is no match for him!"
Su Mei pursed her lips and smiled, while Sun Wenwan blushed slightly. She knew that Song Jia was talking about Liu Miaozhen, a girl in a red coat. She was still a virgin and her words were not as presumptuous as Song Jia's, so she kept her voice down and stopped talking nonsense.
Xiao Man asked with great interest: "Is the red coat girl really as powerful as the rumors say? I have personally seen General Zhou gently throw up the stone millstone as big as an ox waist, and also knock the red coat girl off his horse.
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"Not so with General Zhou. I only heard that he was knocked off his horse and escaped with his life in panic. Afterwards, Master Qin and others were furious. General Zhou and General Ning who followed him into the battle were reprimanded for being concerned. Later, it was decided
According to the rules, he is no longer allowed to lead troops to engage the enemy," Song Jia said. "This legend of thousands of troops taking the lead alone has been rare since ancient times, but the girl in the red coat still looks like a thin and frail beautiful woman.
, people really can’t judge by appearance..."
Sun Wenwan nodded deeply thinking that it was true. When Liu Miaozhen went to Chongzhou to have a secret meeting with Lin Fu, Sun Wenwan was responsible for his daily life in Chongzhou. Neither Su Mei nor Xiao Man had ever seen him.
The girls were chatting in the cabin to pass the time on the way, but Su Mei was quite attentive in asking Song Jia for political advice.
Su Mei also knew very well that Huaidong and Jiangning wanted to maintain a seemingly peaceful and united situation. There would be no chance of the Su family case being resolved in the past few years. She wanted to stay by Lin Fu's side and have the status of a female officer.
Then she won't be embarrassed. As for the future, she doesn't care about her status or status.
The water in Qingjiangpu is shallow, and sailing can't get much faster. Discussing political affairs can also pass the time. Song Jia did her best to tell Su Mei about the differences between Huaidong and Jiangning.
Based on the old map, the ten prefectures and seventy-eight counties of Jiangdong County, in real terms, will not be less than two million households, with an average of about 25,000 households per county. In the past two hundred years, the Jianghuai area has "
The title of "the richest place in the world, the land of plenty" is not just talk. It's just that they are located in the Jianghuai Plain, and they are also divided into three, six, and nine levels.
The south of the Yangtze River is relatively fully developed. In Pingjiang, Danyang, and Jiangning, none of the counties has a population of less than 30,000 households. In the north of the Yangtze River, Weiyang is the richest. The five counties of Weiyang have a population of 140,000, which is slightly worse than Pingjiang, Danyang, and Jiangning.
.Places such as Haosi and Huai'an along Hongzepu and offshore were much poorer. In the early years of Yandu and other counties, Dingkou had just over 10,000 households.
The differences between households in various counties directly reflect the gap between rich and poor.
After the two prefectures in Huaidong accommodated a large number of households migrating to the south, it was only last year that they barely reached the level of 30,000 households per county.
However, just because a place is rich does not mean it is strong.
In the past two hundred years, the development of Pingjiang, Danyang, Jiangning and other prefectures and counties has been dominated by local clan forces. The construction of lakes, canals and embankments has naturally led to the creation of new acres of land, which is also controlled by local clans and large landowners.
In the hands of big landowners.
Over the past two hundred years since the founding of the Yuan Dynasty, the population of Pingjiang Prefecture alone has more than doubled, and a large number of lakes and swamps around the Taihu Lake and large tracts of coastal beachland have been reclaimed into grain fields. However, the land tax is still collected at the base of the founding of the country.
It can be said that the Yuan family made financial mistakes and incompetence.
However, in the past two hundred years, every time there was discussion in the court about re-measurement of land acres and verification of land taxes, someone would jump out and say that this matter violated the ancestral system, including the collection of industrial and mining taxes and municipal taxes, and also used the term "competing with the people for profit".
"The hat always doesn't work.
The Huaidong two prefectures have only been heavily developed in the past four or five years, led by the military department.
First, there was the dredging of the Yanyan River, then the construction of the sea-protecting embankment, and then the embankments on both sides of Qingjiangpu were built. Now, in Huai'an Prefecture, the construction of embankments and dikes along the east side of Hongzepu was started, with the military department as the main investment.
It was carried out with the supply troops as the main force and supplemented by recruiting civilian households.
This also keeps large areas of new land under the control of the Military Division.
This year's autumn grain collection has begun. In order not to exceed the 800,000 stone grain line originally negotiated with Jiang Ning, Lin Fu decided to reduce the portion of the land tax paid by Hailing and Huai'an to 40%, which means that the counties can
The land tax of 1.2 million stone grain will be withheld for next year's local expenditure.
It is said to be local expenditure, but in fact it is also under the coordination of the Military Department.
First, local water conservancy, road construction and fortification projects in which workers, battalions and troops are involved are more borne by local governments. This part of the expenditure is the largest, estimated to exceed 600,000 stone grain this year. It actually shares the financial pressure of reserve soldiers for the military department.
.In addition, various schools under the jurisdiction of the Military Division recruit outstanding children from the local area, and their food and accommodation quotas are also borne by the local area.
In addition to land tax collection, the organization and mobilization capabilities of personnel from the county to the inspection department to the village community, Huaidong is far from being comparable to seemingly wealthy places like Pingjiang.
In addition to the soldiers, Huaidong also has 120,000 carriage troops. Even if these 120,000 carriage troops are equipped with armor, they will definitely be able to fight better than the old soldiers in the imperial camp.
"Don't look at the area controlled by Jiangning, which is several times larger than that of Huaidong, but in terms of comparison in all aspects, Huaidong is not much behind Jiangning," Song Jia said, "It's just that the people in Jiangning are still in the clouds. Photo
Following his words, it is even more important to keep calm at this time and not make too much limelight. Maybe after next year, we can barely put all the 50,000 supply troops deployed on the northern line into active service, but in the end after discussion, we decided to put it down later.
Pressure, wait until the foundation is more solid, and then consider counterattack."
"Oh..." Su Mei nodded thoughtfully. At this time, cheers came from outside the cabin. When she looked around, she could already see the Huaian City Tower. They had already left Qingjiangpu and entered the Baitang River. Except
Beyond the Huaihe River in the north, the Baitang River is also an important waterway connecting Huai'an and Shanyang. At this time, boats are crisscrossing the river, and the sunset shines on the river, making it sparkling and magnificent.
Lin Fu has obtained Jiangning's permission to move the Huai'an government office to Shanyang County in order to better organize personnel in Shanyang and raise supplies to prepare for the war on the northern front.
Just like the decline of Hailing and the rise of Chongzhou, Huai'an County is destined to decline from now on, and Shanyang County will rise to become a famous city in Huaizuo.