Lord of the House

In Chongzhou in April, the night wind blows and the face is not cold. Lin Fu goes down the mountain by the moonlight. There is a stone path at the southern foot of the mountain that twists and turns down to the riverside pier.

Although it had only been a year and a half since the She family had surrendered, but in the middle and late stages of the ten-year East-Fujian war, the She family felt that the previous strategy had fatal limitations. When the luxury family realized this, it was difficult to ride a tiger, but it also allocated resources as much as possible to adjust the strategic layout. Jia, Guangjiao Temple, and East China Sea bandits have expanded rapidly in recent years, all of which are directly arranged by the luxury family.

In the Central Plains, Zilang Mountain is really not a famous Sichuan Mountain. It is only 34 to 50 feet tall, which is a little higher than 100 meters. The Jinhai is more than 60 meters long from the bow to the stern. Well, in Hailingfu, where alluvial land is formed, the topography of Zilang Mountain is extra important, and if it is obtained, it can control the mouth of Jiangjiang and Chongzhou in Pingfan.

The topography of Zilang Mountain is so important, and there are monasteries to cover it. Shejia has really invested a lot of resources in these years, building construction projects, and building temples along the mountain. A pier was also built next to the river.

Although the wharf is not big, the location is very elegant, so that the Jinhai ship with a full load draft of one foot, three or four feet deep can be docked directly.

Lin Fu came down the mountain, the Jinhai was docked at the dock, and other ships were anchored in the river not far from the port, and they were all ready to leave the port and set sail.

Yue Lengqiu acted very quickly, and before the Qingzhou Council could find out the results, he began to seal up the Xihe Council and the Sun family's property. This is also something that can't be helped. Yue Lengqiu, as the governor of Jianghuai, if he can't even do this, he doesn't have to mess around.

When Sun Wenbing arrived in Jiangning, except for forty or fifty of Sun's private boats that were promptly transferred to the name of Jiyun Club, most of the property was seized and destined to be confiscated and confiscated. Most of the congregation of the Xihe Society were poor families, and they had no financial resources to purchase private property. The Xihe Society and the Sun family were sealed up, and thousands of family members were driven out and temporarily sheltered in the mouth of the river.

In order to avoid a long night of dreams, at least before arriving at Yue Lengqiu and responding to the news that the Jiangdong Zuo Army has completely controlled the situation in Chongzhou, they will be picked up from Jiangning. Before returning to Chongzhou to land, Lin Fu had already sent people to Jiangning to contact him, and asked Jiangning to immediately organize a boat to transfer the family members of the Xihe congregation.

There is a waterway of nearly 500 miles from Jiangning to Chongzhou, and there are many waterways in and out of Taihu Lake. It is not very safe. It is also necessary to prevent Yue Lengqiu from sending chasing troops from Jiangning-involving the transfer of thousands of people. As a Jianghuai Governor Yue Lengqiu has too many excuses to obstruct. The situation here was a little settled, and Lin Fu asked Ge Cunxin, Ning Zechen, and Zhou Tong to lead the soldiers up the river by boat overnight to meet them.

Lin Fu came to the pier and gave Ge Cunxin, Ning Zechen and others a few instructions, and then let them lift anchor and set sail, taking advantage of the east wind and heading west against the current.

Occasionally, there was a sound of fighting between the mountains and the resistance of monks and bandits. Watching the ship sail westward under the moonlight, Lin Bie blew the night wind on the pier for a while, and then walked the mountain path with nothing to turn to the Donglu Temple.

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Lin Fu walked up the gentle slope, and the Donglu Temple was displayed in front of him. It was a building complex with eight or nine courtyards. Outside the Zen courtyard was the Donglu Mountain Gate, and the high and thick courtyard walls extended to the southeastern river beach.

Lin Fu set up the command camp at the Donglu Temple, but he did not actually go there, but stood on the hill to observe the terrain at the foot of Zilang Mountain.

"Ah, you're here!" Lin Mengde hurried out of the house, saw Lin Fu standing on a high place admiring the moonlight, and didn't ask what useful news Lin Fu got from She Feihu's wife and sister, smiled. Said, "We are all so busy that our buttocks are smoking, but you have a leisurely time to watch the moonlight..." He approached and stood beside Lin Fu, looking at the sparkling river under the moonlight, he said with emotion, "This is The moonlight is really good, I’m busy, I don’t know how many beautiful scenery I’m going to miss.”

"I want to build an earth-rock dam here, so that the two mountains can be integrated into one. The shoal inside the dam can be silted into flat ground, and the outside of the dam is the military port of Shuying..." Lin Fu pointed to the southeast side between the military cottage and the village. Shallow water, said to Lin Mengde.

"You're thinking about this..." Lin Mengde sighed, before taking a closer look at the surrounding terrain. He is very good at calculations. To build such an earth-rock dam, it will take two or three thousand people to work for more than a month, and it may cost thousands or even tens of thousands of taels of silver. In the past, he would feel that the amount of engineering was astonishingly large. For Chongzhou County, where the autumn grains are being given thousands of dollars, the construction of such a dam is indeed a huge project that consumes a lot of money. But from last autumn to this year, in order to transform Xisha Island and resettle the refugees, they have actually invested 100,000 taels of silver in Xisha Island. It's nothing more than imagined.

"Is the initiative to build Chongzhou New City in our hands?" Lin Mengde asked uncertainly.

Building an earth-rock dam between Junshan and Zilangshan is the most beneficial thing to do together with the construction of Chongzhou New City. However, the construction of a new city is a local matter, and it is under the jurisdiction of Hailing House, the Xuanfu Envoy and the Governor’s House.

"Let's see how much money Hailing House and the county governor can give Chongzhou to build a new city," Lin Fu said, "unless Yue Lengqiu wants to completely ruin the situation in Jiangdong County, he still has to talk about the rule that whoever takes the money speaks. of……"

"I don't think he would mind smashing these heavy-looking burdens into our hands!" Cao Zi'ang walked over from behind and took Lin Bing's words, "There are some simple truths in this world. It takes money to raise soldiers. People need to eat, as long as they are iron armored, iron swords and iron spears, they will rust. In wars, people will die, armor and equipment will be worn out, and a lot of money will be spent on pensions, supplementary armors and equipment, and recruiting and replenishing soldiers. Yue Lengqiu also understands this very well, so after he seized the property of Xihehui and Sun Jiatian's house, he drove everyone to the river mouth for us to receive, just to smash the robes into our hands, to see us support The day I don't live..."

The reason is very simple. Once the source of salaries is exhausted, even if the Jiangdong Left Army is elite, it will only be gradually consumed and cannot grow stronger if it cannot be effectively supplemented.

Most of the peasant troops who initially raised the banner of righteousness and rebelled eventually became robbers who harmed the local area. The most fundamental reason was that they could not get effective and stable supplies, and they had to rely on looting to survive. Maybe the corrupt officials and bullies in the local area will be selectively looted first. When the corrupt officials and bullies have been looted and there is no oil and water to dig, they will then pick good gentlemen and rich households to loot, and then the small and medium-sized landowners and self-cultivators will suffer, and finally the local If the order is completely destroyed, it will naturally become a rogue that local officials and people hate.

She Feixiong knew this and rushed to destroy Chongzhou City before the Jiangdong Zuo Army returned.

Yue Lengqiu knew this, so he shouldn't mind that the initiative to build Chongzhou New City fell to Lin Fu. As long as 20,000 to 30,000 taels of silver are allocated to this side symbolically, Lin Fu can't raise enough money from the local area, and if he can't build a new city, he can still find an excuse to deal with Lin Fu's sin.

Lin Mengde smiled slightly and said, "Maybe Yue Lengqiu thought the Lin family was the source of money behind the Jiangdong Zuojun at this time. He probably waited to see the money of the Lin family run out..."

"Yue Lengqiu's ability to sit in this position is not a mediocre ignorant of practical work," Cao Zi'ang said. "It will take a lot of money to make the Jiangdong Zuo Army into today's elite, and to keep the Jiangdong Zuo Army's combat power from declining, it must continue. He knew how much money he invested... He led the Changhuai Army to recapture Shanglinli, and recruited Shanglinli to camp for the Changhuai Army. In addition to the fact that Shanglinli was indeed an important place to control the south entrance of Hongze Pu, he did not rule out He restricts the possibility of Dongyang Xiangyong. Another possibility is that he does not want to return Shanglinli to the Lin family. It is expected that in the next step, he will definitely restrict the development of Jiyun Club and the Lin family in Jiangning..."

"That's right, Haicao seems to be under our control for the time being, but it's still in the early stage of making ends meet," Lin Mengde said, "As long as the Yellow River bursts and seals up, the river in the Plain House is restored, or the imperial court moves the capital to Jiangning, the capital of Haicao will be restored. Abolished... Yue Lengqiu is trying to crush us in the general trend!"

"The truth is sometimes very simple," Lin Bie said with a slight smile, "but they thought it was too simple..." I thought of the beautiful women on the top of the mountain, Yue Lengqiu, She Feixiong and the like. It can be said that she is a first-class hero and general, but her eyes are not as good as that of a woman. He also didn't tell Cao Zi'ang and Lin Mengde that he had ridiculed him on the top of the mountain just now. He saw Cao Zi'ang was holding a pile of booklets in his hand, and he was also followed by guards, but he was not willing to let the guards help him to take them. Said, "What baby are you holding, looking so tight?"

"The field records of Guangjiao Temple," said Cao Zi'ang, "Guess how many fields are there under the name of Guangjiao Temple?"

"How much?" Lin Bie asked.

"Including the host, Guangjiao Temple has almost occupied all the fields around Zilang Mountain, there are more than 260 hectares! Most of them are very familiar." Cao Zi'ang said.

"The city of Chongzhou is abandoned, and a new city needs to be built. Apart from the surrounding area of ​​Zilang Mountain, where can such a large land be carved out?" Lin Fu smiled and said, "Whether Yue Lengqiu is willing or not, and whether Hailing Mansion and the How many people do not like us in the Xuan Fu envoy, at least in the issue of building a city and choosing a site, they don't have much initiative."

"In order to avoid taxes, the households sent the property and tenants to the name of the monastery. This is not a secret. I didn't expect that so much land was hidden under the name of Guangjiao Temple!" Lin Mengde sighed that there were so many fields under the name of Guangjiao Temple. He said excitedly, "It seems that as long as you hold the fields under the name of the Chongzhou Monastery in your hands, it is enough to raise 10,000 soldiers..."

More than 260 hectares is more than 26,000 hectares. In the Jianghuai land where land consolidation is serious, it is also considered a first-class landowner and landowner. The Lin family had more than 200 hectares of land in Shanglin.

Chongzhou's middle and upper-grade fertile fields have one crop of rice and one crop of wheat. As long as there is no disaster, the annual harvest of one mu of land is about three stone of rice grains. Tenant farmers rent their land and pay rent, taxes and grains, which account for almost 50 to 60 percent of the annual harvest.

The 26,000 acres of land are all in the hands of the Jiangdong Zuo Army, which means that in normal years, more than 20,000 stone of rent, tax and grain can be collected, which is almost equivalent to the autumn grain in a county in Chongzhou.

In Chongzhou, there are as many as 18 monasteries of a small scale, and without a thorough inspection at the end, I really don’t know how much land is occupied or hidden by the monasteries.

It's no wonder that Lin Mengde is so excited. In these days, having fields means having food, and only having food can you raise troops.

Lin Fu shook his head and said, "It's as simple as this, first find out which fields are owned by Guangjiao Temple, and which fields are owned by nearby farmers and landowners under the name of Guangjiao Temple, and don't let any rumors go out... …”

"Why, can't you return the land to the host?" Cao Zi'ang asked in surprise, "Kou Tong, a monk from Guangjiao Temple, has confirmed that the land under the name of the monastery belongs to the monastery, whether it is actually owned by the monastery or the host is falsely entrusted. Under the name of the monastery, no one dares to come and ask for it! We will distribute these fields directly, even if we receive five liters of grain per mu, and the high tax and apportionment of eight liters of grain will make the farmers rejoice!"

Land acquisition in Chongzhou County is serious, and most of the people are reduced to tenant households. They rent farmland with landowners, pay about five liters of wheat and one stone of rice per mu, and have to pay the small tax and various apportionments, making life very difficult. It is difficult for the Jiangdong Zuo Army to get the support of these farmers if they can distribute the fields to them and reduce the actual burden by about half. Moreover, Chongzhou City was destroyed by the East China Sea bandits, and the local forces suffered heavy setbacks. There would not be much resistance for them to do these things in Chongzhou.

Cao Ziang's half-life career has made him very familiar with the suffering of the people at the bottom, and he is more inclined to allocate these fields directly to the farmers who support the Jiangdong Zuo Army, directly laying a solid foundation for the Jiangdong Zuo Army in Chongzhou. The village tyrants and landowners of blood and food people's cream.

Lin Bie shook his head slightly, and didn't say anything directly~www.wuxiamtl.com~ said: "This matter, I want Mr. Qin and Master Fu to call over to discuss it together. At this time, we can't make a hasty decision..."

Cao Zi'ang could know that Lin Fu did not agree with his opinion of directly dividing the fields, but he just took care of his face and did not directly refute it. He also won't argue with Lin Fu in person. As subordinates, they must respect and maintain Lin Fu's dignity. Besides, Lin Fu didn't say anything to death. The opinions of Qin Chengzu and Fu Qinghe are also very important. It's not too late for everyone to get together and discuss this matter.

Lin Fu knew that if he did what Cao Ziang said, it would not be much different from the reform of the nature of land redistribution. Unless a complete regime is established, and there are no strong enemies around, it is not a good opportunity to carry out land reform. Even if the Jiangdong Zuo Army has the conditions to redistribute land in Chongzhou, it will offend the local forces around Chongzhou. Could it be that the Jiangdong Zuo Army will not consider developing outside Chongzhou in the future?

Of course, Lin Fu will not be too cheap for those who entrust their fields to the name of the monastery. The key is to find a middle way that can ease the conflicts between conveniences, rather than intensifying the conflicts during this time of internal and external troubles.

In order for Lin Fu to control the place, he needed the support of officials who could read and write. In a world where literacy rates are generally low, the vast majority of these officials actually came from landlords or the property-owning class. The lessons of success or failure of peasant uprisings for thousands of years are vividly presented in Lin Fu's mind. At this time, how can they recklessly and directly deprive the land of the main local forces and distribute them to the poor tenants? The first step should be to limit and suppress, and always keep the contradictions within the range that can be grasped.

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