The Huainan Salt Farm is rich in water and grass, and the terrain is high, suitable for farming. Officials and generals privately cultivated the land, while the salt households were enslaved and the salt soldiers cultivated the land.
An inventory of the Huainan salt area revealed a total of 3,000 hectares of privately cultivated farmland, of which the family of Mao Wenjing, the left-protecting salt school captain, owned more than 800 hectares of privately cultivated land in the salt area.
To rectify the salt affairs, all privately cultivated fields in the salt areas were returned to the government and placed under the direct jurisdiction of the Huainan Salt Supervision Department. Following the example of the Huaidong villages, farms were set up. All salt households that were originally forced to work by the officials were converted into villages.
For each household, the rent tax is the same as that of Huaidong Village, controlled within 30%, and levied at half for the first two years.
Prior to this, most of the harvest from these privately cultivated grain fields went to the officials and generals, and to the salt farmers who cultivated the land with servants. The salt farmers did not even get 20%. Moreover, because they had to bear the labor of collecting salt, it became even more difficult.
Made poor.
This rectification of the salt problem has benefited a lot from these salt households and salt workers who are in a difficult situation.
In fact, before the salt incident was rectified, Huaidong had received widespread support among salt households, and its roots were still in the construction of seawalls.
The poverty of salt households has a lot to do with the difficulty of resisting the tide. When the tide hits, people can run to higher places to avoid it, and the number of direct drownings may not be too large. However, if the cottages are flooded by the tide, a house with a little savings will
They will also be reduced to abject poverty in an instant.
After the sea dike was built, although the salt cooking area was still outside the dike, the living areas were protected by the sea dike, which fundamentally alleviated the direct damage caused by the sea tide to salt households.
The current salt crackdown was almost a fundamental cleanup of the Lianghuai Salt Fields. It was able to go so smoothly without causing any major riots. A large number of officials and generals involved, including Mao Wenjing, were arrested without any resistance, and even the production in the salt area
It has not been greatly affected. In fact, it is directly related to the widespread support Huaidong received among poor salt households after the construction of the sea dike.
Zhang Yan, including the previous generations of salt and iron envoys, was also very ambitious in managing salt. However, facing the hard-to-return reality, they did not dare to fundamentally rectify the salt affairs easily, which was because they could not obtain the mass basis for rectifying the salt affairs.
Chen Huazhang and Song Fu accompanied Lin Fu on a tour of the salt area accompanied by Liu Shidu, Wang Chengfu and others. They can also have a deeper understanding of why Lin Fu first took action on the salt matter after taking control of Jiangning?
Dong Yuan ran Huaixi. Under the guidance of Shen Rong, Zhang Yan, Yuan Hancheng and others, salt merchants became the main supporting force behind Huaixi, including the children of Weiyang salt merchants who were worried about being implicated during the salt incident.
They also moved their families in groups to Haozhou and Shouzhou - this may be the direct inducement for Lin Fu to start rectifying the salt incident, but it is by no means the core factor.
Before the salt incident was rectified, the Lianghuai salt areas were separated from the control of Huaidong. Due to the gathering of salt merchants, Weiyang Mansion also formed its own system and was extremely powerful. The core area that Huaidong could control could only extend to the north and south, but could not
Expanding east to west limits the depth and upward development of the core area of Huaidong, and it cannot be connected with Dongyang Mansion.
After the salt incident is rectified, the Lianghuai salt areas that were previously not controlled by Huaidong will be completely digested and become the core area controlled by Huaidong.
The Salt and Iron Division moved to Jiangning, and the salt merchants either moved to Jiangning or fled to Huaixi, or were suppressed for crimes. The power of the salt merchants was fundamentally weakened and divided, and the political status of Weiyang Prefecture was fundamentally reduced, making it different from Pingjiang Prefecture.
Like Danyang Mansion, it has become a tax supply place for the central government. After the potential hostile forces in Weiyang Mansion were completely weakened, it was sandwiched between Dongyang Mansion and Huaidong, and it was unable to have any substantial impact on Huaidong from other aspects.
Sexual threats.
Although a large number of salt merchants' children moved to Huaixi with their family wealth, which would enhance Huaixi's strength, in the later period, Lin Fu would strictly control the flow of grain, iron and other materials into Huaixi - when the means to restrict the development of opponents became limited and had little effect.
, then the best way is to develop faster and better than your opponents, with a more solid foundation.
The chariots and horses marched directly across Qingjiangpu until they reached Huaikou, then turned westward along the North Embankment to Shanyang.
The water in Huaikou is vast, although it cannot be compared with the Yangtze River estuary. The two banks are more than ten miles away from each other. Yuntiguan City stands on the north and south banks of Huaikou, and now it has become the main station of Huaidong Water Camp.
Looking at the warships stationed in Huaikou with their sails and rafts like a forest, Chen Huazhang sighed secretly.
Song Fu was driving in a car, pointed at Huaikou in the distance, and sighed with the people around him: "Traditionally, the Southern and Northern Expeditions mostly took the middle route, first recovering Henan, controlling the middle reaches of the Yellow River, and then looking for other options. But Henan is so dilapidated, and the people are very helpless.
One thing is that even if Henan is regained, it will be difficult to establish a firm foothold in a short period of time. The terrain of Henan is open, and it is easy for the cavalry from the north to invade in winter and spring. It is extremely difficult to manage Henan. After traveling along the way, Fu Da can understand the thoughts of the lord, Huai
The Northern Expedition after going east will probably bypass the remaining land in Henan and directly take the east route to advance by sea and land..."
Lin Fu rode on horseback and listened to Song Fu's discussion. He smiled and said: "The Hu people abandoned the middle road last year and planned to pass Shaanxi first. They also wanted to strengthen the hinterland! Don't look at Yan Hu's 400,000 troops and horses, but what is left for them
Time is not necessarily much more relaxed than ours."
"After the Xuzhou War, it was difficult for Yanhu to shake the Huaihe defense line in a short period of time, and the She family's time to defeat Jiangning was too short, which also made it difficult for Yanhu to seize the opportunity. Apart from trying to pass Shaanxi first, there was nothing they could do. I hope the Cao family will
Guanzhong can hold on for a little longer," Song Fu said.
Chen Huazhang did not have a deep understanding of military affairs, but he also knew that the core areas controlled by Yanhu, such as Liaodong, Yanji, etc., were actually within the direct attack range of Huaidong, and the Yanhu cavalry wanted to hit the base of Huaidong.
To threaten the hinterland of Huaidong and Jiangning, one must first penetrate the defense lines of Xusi and Huaixi, or take the western front and attack Guanshan first. The entire strategic situation is completely different.
Abandoning the old strategic thinking, as long as Huaidong can eliminate the hidden dangers in Jiangxi and Fujian and prepare a heavy troop group of about 200,000 on the eastern front, the time will be ripe for the Northern Expedition.
At that time, the situation that Yan and Hu will face is not to open up the middle or western route to invade the Jianghuai hinterland, but to worry about Liaodong and the Yanji hinterland being directly penetrated by Huaidong.
At this time, the total strength of Huaidong's troops deployed on the northeastern front, including Xuzhou Camp, Shanyang Town, and the Second Water Camp, as well as Yimeng troops and horses, reached 100,000.
Although these troops and horses were not enough to launch a counterattack, they at least forced the Yanlu to give up their efforts to directly invade the Jianghuai hinterland from the east. They even forced the Yanlu to disperse nearly 200,000 troops in Shandong, Yandong, Jidong, Liaodong and other places.
The fortification weakened the Yanlu's ability to carry out military mobilization in Guanzhong on the western front.
Ye Jiluorong's first major roundabout attack on the Western Front to attack the western Qin area could only mobilize 100,000 infantry and cavalry. If the Yanlu could mobilize more than 200,000 troops on the Western Front at once, the Cao family wanted to force
Defending Guyuan, Qingyang and other Qinxi front lines will never be as easy as it is now.
While they were talking, there were carriages and horses coming from the west. Wu Meijiu, who had succeeded Liu Shidu as the prefect of Huai'an, and others came to greet Lin Fu for his inspection of Huai'an.
Previously, in the counties controlled by Huaidong, there were still many old officials who were passive in dealing with their duties and were not really willing to be used by Huaidong. However, after Huaidong's troops stationed in Jiangning, officials such as Wu Meijiu, Tang Enshu, and Haiyu
Like the Chen family, their attitudes have completely changed.
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In early May, Northland suddenly entered the early summer season, and the weather in Yanjing suddenly became hot these two days. However, the temperature difference between morning and evening was large, and the sickly Ye Jier was still wearing an embroidered jacket even at noon.
The long nanmu desk is covered with a yellow embroidered shawl, and the desk is covered with intelligence reports from Jianghuai...
Jade Concubine Nahe came in with nourishing soup and looked at Ye Jier sitting at the desk. She didn't notice her coming in at all. She put the soup bowl on the corner table, walked over and kneaded Ye Jier's shoulders and said softly.
: "King Khan forgot his meal again..."
"Oh," Yejier turned his head and looked at the bright and beautiful appearance of the Jade Concubine before looking at the shadow of the sun falling in front of the corridor outside the palace. It was really getting late. He was thinking about military matters and strictly prohibited the servants in the palace.
Excuse me. Unexpectedly, Concubine Yu was awakened again. She put down the file in her hand and said with a smile, "It's really past noon, so I don't feel much..." He took her little jade-soft hand and asked her to sit in his arms.
When Na He was fifteen years old, she was given to Ye Zirna as a concubine. This year is already her fifteenth year. She is nearly thirty years old, and her appearance is like that of a girl. There is no trace of time on her smooth and silky face. She is delicate and charming.
She was bright and beautiful, with the innocence of a young girl still in her eyes. There were quite a few beautiful women in the palace, but as soon as she stood in front of her, they all became commonplace. For more than ten years, Ye Zir's favor towards her could not be reduced.
"In the past two months, King Khan has only cared about the situation in Jianghuai, and even Qin and Jin have paid little attention to it. Is Huaidong really the enemy of our clan?" Everything that Concubine Yu saw when she saw the case came from Jianghuai.
Confidential letter, asked with concern.
"With the prince on the western front, there won't be any big trouble, but the situation in Huaidong in the south is already there, and the time left for us is too limited. If Huaidong is asked to calm down Zhejiang and Fujian first, let it gather 20 troops on the eastern front.
With tens of thousands of troops coming, the problem will be difficult. How can I take it easy?" Yejier sighed softly, "The veterans of the military and state are still old-minded. They only think of conquering Guanshan and opening up the channel to seize Jinghu from Xiangfan.
, the general trend is on our side, but it is not the case - in the whole country, there are not many generals who can truly realize the crisis on the Eastern Front. However, He Xiongqi has suffered a defeat and cannot strengthen his back, even Luo Rong.
Complaining that I left too many troops on the eastern front and gave him too few troops and horses. However, the Dengzhou navy cannot become powerful and cannot seal the seaport between Jinzhou and Dengzhou. How dare I Jidong,
Will the troops of the two Liaos be spared for them?"
"This Lin Fu is a human being after all, not a god," Concubine Yu comforted, "Don't say Jiangxi won't calm him down soon. Even if he controls Jiangning, Dong Yuan in Huaixi and Yue Lengqiu in Chizhou may not be convinced.
As for him. There are two to three hundred thousand soldiers and horses in Huaidong. How dare he push all these soldiers and horses out to Xuzhou, where most of the main force is concentrated, and march north?"
"..." Yejier shook his head and pulled out a map from his desk. He had time and did not bother to explain it in detail to the generals in the court. Instead, he talked about military and state affairs with Concubine Yu as a pastime, and asked Concubine Yu to sit on his knees.
Looking at the geographical situation between the Jianghuai River and the Huaihe River, "Once Huaidong is asked to pacify Zhejiang and Jiangxi first, Lin Fu will definitely have a way to force Yue Lengqiu to cross the river to the north bank and tangle with my soldiers and horses on the middle and west roads. Yufei, you see
Luzhou, Luzhou is located between the Yangtze and Huaihe Rivers, and is close to Huaishan Mountain and Chaohu Lake. Huaidong will inevitably manage Luzhou in the next step. Lin Fu leads the main force of Huaidong soldiers and horses to advance north. He only needs to deploy an elite force in Luzhou to block the river channel.
Even if Jiangning's troops are empty, Yue Lengqiu and Dong Yuan will hardly have the opportunity to lead troops into Jiangning to replace Huaidong."
Concubine Yu lightly frowned and sighed: "The time the She family occupied Jiangning was too short, what a pity!"
"It's no pity," Ye Jier said. "There are many good soldiers in Huaidong. If Xie Chaozhong is used to lead the troops in the Southern Dynasty, what will happen? Huaidong and Huaixi have foreseen the consequences. They have a line of troops from Nanyang, Woyang to Xuzhou."
If you don't move, it will be difficult to find opportunities, unless the She family can hold Jiangning for more than half a year..."
At this time, the palace attendant came in and reported: "Prime Minister Zhang is here..."
"Call Zhang Xie to come in."
When the palace attendant went to summon Zhang Xie to enter the palace, Ye Jier said to Concubine Yu: "You will go to Liaoyang in two days. I have to wait for the prince to return to Beijing to discuss military affairs on the western front..."
Jade Concubine Naheshi said: "The slave family is waiting for King Khan to set off together."
"The weather is going to be extremely hot in a moment, how can your body endure it?" Yezier said.
Just as the south had difficulty adapting to the severe cold in the north, the princes and ministers of Yanhu also had difficulty adapting to the scorching summer heat in Yanjing City. In the first year of conquering Yanji, several old ministers and generals were unable to adapt to it.
After surviving the scorching heat, she died of the heat. Even Concubine Jade fell seriously ill and had to rest for a long time before she got over it.
From the year before last, Ye Ji'er would temporarily leave Yanjing with the princes, ministers, concubines and concubines after the summer arrived to escape the summer heat in Liaoyang, and would not move back until autumn cooled.
Of course, Yanjing also needed ministers who stayed behind. Ye Jier also trusted Zhang Xie, who had no way out, and used him as a left-behind minister every time to take charge of affairs together.