The night snow is silent, the spring is like a tide, the dragons and tigers are vigorously tossing until midnight, and the forest is sleeping like a dead dog.
After all, Sun Wenwan was tender-skinned, so when the morning light showed, she went back to her residence to freshen up her red makeup, fearing that she would be embarrassed to death by bumping into the maid below.
When Lin Fu woke up, there was only Su Mei beside him, and the two sisters Xiaoman hugged each other and slept with him. Xiaoman was a sleepy person, and she was pregnant, so she slept more; Su Mei's body was weak and she had just become a human.
Woman, I can't stand the whipping. After last night's torment, I am now sleeping deeply - the past events are still vivid in my mind. In the past, I also thought about sleeping with beauty like this. Once I realized it, I felt that I had no regrets in this life.
"What are you thinking about, husband?" Su Mei woke up, looked up and saw Lin Fu staring at the tent ceiling in a daze, and asked aloud.
Xiao Man was sleeping soundly, with half of him lying on Lin Fu's chest. Su Mei and Xiao Man, two sisters, had been sleeping in the same bed for more than ten years and were very close. Now that there was Lin Fu, they didn't feel any inconvenience.
Although last night was ridiculous and embarrassing, Sun Wenwan left first without too much embarrassment.
"After I woke up, I felt that I had no regrets in life." Lin Fu said.
"I don't want my husband to indulge in this and forget about his great cause." Su Mei said.
"Of course," Lin Fu said, "Family and business prosperity are one thing. With you and Xiaoman as your wife and friends, other women will no longer be able to see you."
"I know how to tell lies and deceive people," Xiaoman opened his mouth and bit Lin Fu's chest gently, and said with a smile: "Sister Yue'er, Sister Yingxiu, Mrs. Six, Sister Gu family, Sister Sun family, and the mother-in-law named Song.
, as well as the maids named Song in the room, which one can't catch your eye?"
Lin Fu smiled cheekily and dismissed the situation. After getting up, Lin Fu practiced his sword skills for a while in the courtyard where the remaining snow had been swept away. He was very energetic and completely different from the way he slept until midnight yesterday.
I stayed in the house and read two books quietly before noon, but I couldn't be so leisurely in the afternoon.
Lin Fu said that he secluded himself in the lake village to fish for fun and put away trivial matters. This was just a talk. Before that, he had to read and give instructions to a large number of official letters every day. Xuzhou had been recovered for more than a month.
The local area was gradually becoming peaceful, and Lin Fu still had to take time to meet with representatives of the local gentry.
Lin Fu asked all the people north of Peixian County to evacuate south. In the area between Peixian County and Xucheng, ensure that the people stranded in the area gather in strongholds and be prepared to strengthen the walls and clear the country. To the south of Xuzhou City, build more
The villages were surrounded by enclosed houses to suppress the infiltration ability of the soldiers.
There is also the need to implement new policies in the Xuzhou area, reduce or reduce rents, resume production, take over mining and forestry land as official property, stabilize local governance as soon as possible, and reduce the financial pressure on Huaidong - these things are inseparable from the cooperation of local forces.
Although the gentry and country tycoons were severely suppressed during the Huaisi War and Chen Hansan's rule in Xuzhou, they escaped devastating blows both times and still retained considerable power.
In the past few years, there have been many hardships. Under the brutal war and the brutal rule of Chen Hansan, the gentry and country tycoons in Xuzhou were more accustomed to surrendering and relying on power, and their loyalty to the emperor was weak. The gentry in Xuzhou lacked respect for the generals of Huaiyang Town who were born in the refugee army.
Enough trust, but has high hopes for Huaidong behind Huaiyang Town.
The New Deal implemented by Huaidong and many new things that emerged one after another were regarded by the old scholars in Jiangning as deviant and unacceptable to the Confucian scholars. However, in the war-torn areas, many of Huaidong's practices seemed so gentle.
The measurement of acres of land, reduction of rents and taxes, and household registration were all going on in an orderly manner. At this time, Lin Fu also hoped that the Xuzhou local government could recommend a group of talents and select them as reserve officials to be trained in various schools in Huaidong.
In today's world, all officials come from the imperial examination. Even if you are an official, you need to have merit and fame.
Lin Fu recruited talents in an eclectic way, promoting miscellaneous studies and suppressing Confucianism. On the one hand, the objective fact that Huaidong wanted to develop required this, and on the other hand, he also intended to make Huaidong's official system distinct from Jiangning.
When the official system of Huaidong was completely different from that of Jiangning and difficult to integrate, Huaidong actually accomplished the purpose of being independent from Jiangning internally.
Furthermore, Lin Fu requested that all mining resources in Xuzhou be owned by the government. Private excavation would require a letter from the government and pay taxes to the government.
Compared with land, Xuzhou's coal and iron resources are more important.
After capturing Xuzhou, Huaidong no longer had to worry about being restricted by others in the supply of coal and iron ore.
It goes without saying that iron ore resources are important to Huaidong. For ordinary people, firewood and rice are equally important. Rural farmers use rice and wheat straw to cook, but urban households mostly use firewood and charcoal.
Charcoal can be divided into charcoal and pebble. Coal is often called coal in later generations. It has been widely used in this world. Coal is used for smelting iron and burning kilns, and for boiling water and cooking in urban households. Coal is also used in many places.
Huaidong is located in a plain with sparse forests, so charcoal is far from enough. Lin Fu intends to promote briquettes in Huaidong first on the basis of the original briquettes and briquettes. With 200,000 households within the jurisdiction of Huaidong
Calculating household and industrial and mining fuel demand, the total annual coal demand in Huaidong is expected to reach hundreds of millions of tons in the early stage.
In the southwest of Xuzhou and east of Huaiyang, in the low hills and mountains such as Xiangshan, Taoxu Mountain and Huangsangyu, there was a history of coal mining and charcoal extraction hundreds of years ago. There are still more than a dozen coal cellars. They were affected by the war.
They were demolished, and only two of them were still in normal production. At this time, several iron kilns between Xuzhou and Yizhou were redeemed at the expense of the Huaidong Military Division and became official property. Coal kilns were set up under the Xuzhou government office.
The railway bureau is responsible for its own affairs.
Although the implementation of the New Deal in Xuzhou did not encounter much resistance, Lin Fu still felt great pressure on his shoulders to restore production in Xuzhou during the war.
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As the Chinese New Year was approaching, Lin Fu finally ended his vacation and moved from Huzhuang on the north shore of Shigou Lake to Xuzhou City. The pile of official documents piled on his desk made him want to turn around and leave the city, extending his vacation indefinitely.
Go down.
Sun Jingtang, Gao Zongting, Ye Junan, Li Wei and others held him back and refused to let him go.
"The backlog of displaced households in the Huaisi area is already extremely large, far exceeding the local resettlement capacity. This time the troops were withdrawn from Linzhou and returned south, in order to turn the area north of Pei County into residual land as a buffer. In more than a month, almost
Another 140,000 people moved to the south of Xuzhou." Li Wei followed the script and put the urgent problems that Xuzhou needs to solve in front of Lin Fu. "On the other side, after the Xuzhou war, the newly captured vassal troops and
The number of soldiers surrendered by the Xuzhou Army reached more than 19,000, and the camp also handed over all these surrendered soldiers to local resettlement the day before yesterday - not to mention restoring production and repairing the city, if Xuzhou wants to maintain it, it will cost one million taels of silver next year...
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Lin Fu placed fifteen counties, including Yizhou, Haizhou, Yancheng, Suyu, Suining, Huaiyang, Xiaoshan, Tongshan, Guanyun, Xiapi, Peixian and Guangqi, under the rule of Xuzhou, forming
The layout of the Greater Xuzhou is so that the civil affairs can be well integrated with the military and political affairs.
Although the fifteen counties under the jurisdiction of Xuzhou, Suining, Huaiyang, Suyu, Haizhou, and Guanyun, were formerly affiliated with Huai'an, they bordered Xuzhou and Yinan. In the past, they focused on war preparations and neglected production.
At this time, the peripheral defense line was pushed to the area from the north of Xuzhou to Peixian County. From the counties south of Xuzhou, it was necessary to pay equal attention to war preparations and the restoration of production. The resources that needed to be invested in restoring production in the initial stage were particularly large.
Not to mention other things, if the coal and iron mining in Xuzhou area can ensure the internal supply of Huaidong area, millions of dollars will be invested.
Fortunately, there are several other sources of coal and iron supply. The development in Xuzhou can be carried out step by step and there is no need to rush. Even if money is invested, the military commander will not directly take out the money, but will give full play to the functions of the Huaidong Bank.
come into play.
Even without mentioning the investment in coal and iron mining, if only the fifteen counties in Xuzhou resume initial production and resettle the refugees, the amount of money consumed will be extremely huge.
Liu Miaozhen sat at the foot of the forest, thinking: It is really not easy to run this family.
The Xuzhou Zhizhi Envoy was under the jurisdiction of Huaiyang Town, Fengli Camp, Huaidong Cavalry Camp, Yimeng and Miaoshan and other special marching armies, with a total of nearly 70,000 soldiers, in addition to nearly 50,000 supply troops.
In order to maintain the Xuzhou area's armaments, city repairs, ordnance and armor, as well as soldiers' food, pay and clothing, and other regular expenses, next year's military budget is 2.6 million taels of silver. We also hope that no large-scale war will occur next year, otherwise the expenses will be far away
Well over budget.
In the Xuzhou War, more than 30,000 enemies (including captured prisoners) were wiped out, and the successful capture of the heroic city of Xuzhou was definitely a victory worth writing about. However, accounting for the war expenses after the war still makes people secretly complain.
Twenty thousand bags of salt were consumed during the war, almost depleting the salt reserves in the Huaisi area.
The 6,000 elite cavalry Huaidong had accumulated over the years was the key to Xuzhou's victory. The casualties were not large, but the loss of more than 2,000 horses meant that one battle would exhaust the Huaidong Cavalry Battalion's combat potential for the next year.
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Although the property of Chen Hansan and his subordinates were confiscated after the war, the income was very little, which was far from enough to make up for the war expenditure. This also shows how difficult it was for Chen Hansan to support 20,000 troops and horses after occupying Xuzhou in these years!
The consumption of armor and arrows can be offset by the capture, and there is also a lot of wealth, which can be regarded as one of the biggest gains in this battle.
Although the casualties of the Huaiyang Army were relatively light, there were still more than 3,000 casualties. The treatment of the wounded, as well as the pensions and awards for the sacrificed or disabled generals were a huge expense.
Liu Miaozhen, Ma Lantou, Li Liang and others used to be refugee generals and led their armies to fight all over the world. If they were injured, they would be wrapped with herbal medicine and rags. For more serious injuries, it would depend on whether the life was strong or not. How could the Huaidong Army provide such perfect treatment?
system?
The generals who died were wrapped in straw mats and buried without any compensation; even the situation of the wives and children left behind would become even worse.
When it comes to rewarding merit, one is to promote generals, but most of the time there is nothing to reward. Therefore, when the city is broken, allowing the tribesmen to burn, kill and plunder is also a form of reward merit and morale stimulation.
After a serious and careful comparison, the refugee army could not compete with the well-organized Huaidong Army. Liu Miaozhen secretly said: The defeat was not unfair at all.