Lord of the House

(Can't sleep, and wrote a chapter of 6,000 words)

Lin Fu only planned to stay in Longzui Mountain for one night, and the livelihood of the people in Suizhou could not be delayed until the battle of Jingxiang was completely over before rectification, and summoned Song Fu, Hu Wenmu, and Wang et al to discuss it overnight.

Luo Xiancheng took possession of Suizhou, and once claimed to have 200,000 troops, including more than 400,000 people in the family. Zaoyang, Lishan counties.

Luo Xiancheng joined Yanhu and dispatched villages to supplement the camp, and the number of troops and horses was increased to 130,000. At this time, the 130,000 Suizhou troops were either killed, defeated, surrendered or attached, but there were still nearly 300,000 people in the original Suizhou army and their families flooded in Suizhou.

"In addition to the 300,000 people in Suizhou's villages and their families, there are still more than 400,000 people in the local area. With the addition of Qichun, Hanjin, Huangpi, Shicheng and other places as well as the refugees in the Huaiyou Mountains, the military strategy can be achieved. There are 800,000 people in Dingkou!" Wang Xiangxiang said to the civil servants of Suizhou.

Before the war, the total number of Dingkou in eastern Hubei and northern Hubei in the eastern part of the Jianghan Plain was more than 3 million. At this time, the population was reduced by less than one third of the pre-war population. Lin Fu sighed softly and said nothing, not even complaining. Luo Xiancheng killed the place.

"In Nanyang, Henan and other places, there are not one household out of ten, and the situation is several times worse than that in Suizhou," Lin Fu said. "It seems that Luo Xiancheng did some things to settle down in the late Suizhou period; of course, there are A lot of credit is due to you, Wang Xiang..."

"If it weren't for the livelihood of the people, the lower officials would be unwilling to follow the thief." Wang Xiang said.

Wang Xiang said this because he wanted to get rid of himself, and Lin Fu didn't mind. He knew that he was still very capable, and that being a thief in troubled times was not a stain. You can't be too demanding on people. After all, many times people have no choice. Even in the Suizhou army, Wang Xiang still has a well-known name. Compared with Zhong Rong, Wei Zhang and others, he can still keep himself clean and take care of the people's livelihood. It is enough to be able to do this.

Including Nanyang, Xiangyang, Suizhou, Shicheng, Huangzhou, Jingzhou and Jiangbei counties in Jiangxia Prefecture, the core area controlled by the original Suizhou Army, that is, Suizhou Prefecture, can quickly restore people's livelihood.

The situation in the southern counties of Xiangyang and Jingzhou Prefecture may be slightly better. After all, the time for Yanhu to occupy is very short, and a large number of people can hide in the Jingshan Mountains in the west to avoid war, and the most harmful and murderous large-scale famine It has not yet been formed. As long as Jingzhou, Yiling, Changlin, and Jingzhou are recaptured, the refugees are organized to return home in time, and the relief is distributed, and the situation will be better for a long time.

Even if Jiangxia, Ezhou, and Xianning on the south bank of the Yangtze River are included, the once prosperous Jianghan Plain cannot exceed 4 million in the war-torn Dingkou, which is halved compared to before the war.

"Suizhou's farmland is privately owned by generals and officials, and at this time it will be confiscated and confiscated as public property; those who have cultivated in the old villages are allowed to be registered as people's register, and the rent of public land for tenant farming is reduced to 30% according to the Huaidong example. Local consumption," Lin Fu said, "the cultivated land that was emptied by the Suizhou army in September, after the clearing of the plan, will reward or sell the civilians who will follow the army to fight this time in response to the order of rewarding the fields. Before spring, They all need to settle down, and we can’t let the dry fields miss the spring crops! In addition, if there are any deficiencies, we will make up for them by reclamation in Huangqi, Shicheng, Jinpi and other places. More than 400,000 people should make the situation in Jingxiang and other places look a little better."

"If 400,000 people can be relocated to Jingxiang immediately, it will naturally enable Jingxiang's livelihood to recover faster after the war, but financial resources are difficult," Wang Xiang said. If they go north, they will not be able to survive in the remnants of Jingxiang without support and relief for their early reclamation. Except for the counties in the south of Xiangyang, Jingzhou and Suizhou, it is possible to smooth the consumption locally; in Huangqi, The newly established two mansions in Shicheng and the Nanyang mansion that is about to be recaptured can only rely on the dependence of the center, and each mansion needs to pull out 100,000 stone grains every year, and it takes three consecutive years to pull it out..."

The price of silver in Jingxiang was still fluctuating, and Wang Xiang was still used to calculating his income and expenditure with grain.

"Huangzhou and Shicheng have few newly resettled Dingkou. Although Xiang, Sui and Jingzhou have Dingkou, they should not be taxed too much within three years. I estimate that an additional 150,000 taels of silver will be added every year. The important place for military preparations, immediately moving people to supplement it is conducive to the preparation, and the people's livelihood will be supplemented by another 200,000 taels every year..." Lin Fu said.

"The land of Jingxiang is only 800,000 taels of silver every year." Wang Xiang said.

"Fortunately, the entire eight prefectures of Jinghu, Edong, Xianning in Jiangnan, and Jiangnan counties in Jiangxia were not affected by the war, and people's livelihood is generally good, which can make up for this gap." Hu Wenmu said.

When Hu Wenmu ruled the Jinghu Army, he could almost get 1,200,000 taels of silver from Ezhou, Xianning, Jiangxia and Jingzhou every year to support the army. The two and a half houses on the south bank of the lake can still have 800,000 taels of silver paid to the center every year.

Of course, Jinghu Lake is located in the two and a half houses on the south bank of the Yangtze River, with more than 250 and a half mouths, and the total scale of finance and taxation is 2 million taels, but a considerable part still has to be consumed by the localities. 40% can be paid to the center, which is quite Not bad.

Lin Fu shook his head and said, "Jiangxia, Ezhou and Xianning have also suffered from wars over the years. The central government has also reduced the levy by half within three years, but the three governments also need to halve the levy for the localities within three years. Endowment to support people's livelihood; in this way, it is enough to spend an additional 400,000 taels of silver to supply Jingxiang every year, and the Ministry of Household should not have much opinion..."

The Ministry of Household is in charge of Lin Xuwen, which is almost the money bag of the Privy Council. Lin Fu said that an additional 400,000 taels of silver will be added to Jinghu every year, which is naturally certain.

Although Hu Wenmu will accompany Lin Bound to the center this time, he is happy to see that Jinghu can gain some more benefits at this time.

After the general discussion about the framework for restoring people's livelihood after the war in Jingxiang, Lin Fu was still unable to lie down, and he had to attend the military conference on the military affairs. Zuo Chengmu, Wang Xiang, and Hu Wenmu wanted to leave.

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Everyone lived in the camp at the northern foot of Longzui Mountain, living in simple and wet shacks.

Hu Wenmu had to stay in Jingxiang for a while, and Zuo Chengmu would go back to Jiangning in two days.

Although the night was deep, but there was no sleepiness, Zuo Chengmu invited Hu Wenmu to talk with him at night. He and Hu Wenmu were officials in Jinghu in the early years, both as colleagues and mentors. Therefore, after Zuo Chengmu was transferred to the center, they would support Hu Wenmu to take charge of Jinghu. Now it has been a few years since they have not been together for a good life. Chatted.

The cold wind was howling, and the weather had been hazy for two or three days, but the snow did not fall. The tin charcoal stove was burning in the house, and the air leaks were blocked everywhere. It's a lot warmer outside.

Zuo Chengmu's son Zuo Lian has been serving the left and right, picking up the kettle to make tea for Hu Wenmu and his father.

Hu Wenmu looked at the tin stove reflected by the fire, and said, "In the early spring, I could also see this stove in my house, it seems to be called a coal ball stove..."

"After you arrive in Jiangning, you will be able to see more of the new toys," Zuo Chengmu said with a smile, "The privy envoy respects miscellaneous arts and craftsmanship, and a few days ago, he said that he would set up a master craftsman under the Privy Council to imitate the Hanlin Academy. The teacher's college, for the master craftsman who survived the world, is the same title, even more important than the imperial scholar, in order to completely change the status quo of the lowly craftsman-Jingxiang victory came before, and proposed that the council should be smaller, but It won't be much smaller. However, the new creations of the craftsmen were regarded by others as ingenious and ingenious in the past. In the short span of a few years, they have indeed shined brightly. The strength of Huaidong is probably also strong here. , you and I really can't see through..."

Zuo Chengmu said that he couldn't see through it. Hu Wenmu has been in Jinghu all these years, how can he know more?

Hu Wenmu said: "As I just discussed, it seems that the Ministry of Household only needs to pay an extra 400,000 taels of silver to Jingxiang every year, but this is only for people's livelihood expenses - the battle of Jingxiang should be called the military expenditure of the Huaidong Army. The time has surged to an unimaginable level, and it is a little unimaginable to say, how can the central finance be supported after the battle of Jingxiang?"

Zuo Chengmu smiled bitterly, and said, "The pattern is high and low, and the difference is thousands of miles. You and I are destined to be eliminated!" He pointed to the youngest son Zuo Lian who had just reached the crown, and said to Hu Wenmu, "Zuo Lian You can also enter the official position at an age, and with my grace, you can make up for the eighth-rank official; but the privy envoy has set up a school in Jiangning, and I want to ask him to go to school for two years, maybe he can keep up with the new pattern..."

Hu Wenmu pondered, what exactly is the new pattern created by Huaidong, and there seemed to be a layer of fog that could not be seen through his eyes.

Hu Wenmu also knew the specific situation of the Huaishan Plank Road at this time.

It is an open fact that Lin Fu intends to run Luzhou. Last year, when Lin Fu put out public debts in the name of the Ministry of Household in the seven prefectures in the south of the Yangtze River, there was one million taels of silver raised specifically for Luzhou to prepare for war preparations.

Everyone thinks that this is Lin Fu's military deployment against Huaixi. Cao Zi'ang and Chen Huawen are in Luzhou, and they have indeed moved their villages and villages in Luzhou, and have reclaimed their fields. Armed.

One million taels of silver seems like a lot, but what can be done is actually much more limited, and it is definitely not enough to build an avenue that traverses Huaishan and leads from the old port in the northwest of Luzhou to Lishan.

This plank road is really hard to repair, and it can't be done without two million taels of silver.

This is probably an important reason why Yan Hujue never thought that Huaidong would have an ambush from Chaishan!

Hu Wenmu and others also know that Lin Fu has been operating Huaidong for ten years, and Duke Chongguo has set aside the five counties of Chongzhou and other core areas of Huaidong and Yizhou as private towns. A great fortune.

However, for more than a year from the late autumn of last year to this time, the Huaidong Army launched the battles of Shangrao and Jingxiang non-stop one after another. Its huge military expenditures, in addition to the annual revenue of the Ministry of Households, could only be seen by everyone. How big is the financial resources from the private towns controlled by Lin Fu, the private towns of Chongguo, so that the Huaidong Army can continuously support this scale of war and win great victories in just over a year?

Zuo Chengmu said that the pattern is different, but Hu Wenmu couldn't understand: how high can the pattern of the five counties of Chongzhou and the barbaric island of Yizhou be, and the scale of revenue can reach the same level as the central finance that controls half of the country Level up?

After the Battle of Jingxiang, the counties south of the Huai River, except for the two Sichuans, were almost able to get out of the shadow of the war.

Jingxiang may be broken, and it will take three to five years to recover, but Zhejiang, Fujian, Jianghuai, Guangnan, and Xiangtan have all recovered quickly, and they have called the Privy Council to centralize control. Maybe in two or three years, the Northern Expedition can be carried out. now...

When Yanji collapsed, the northern land collapsed, and the extravagant rebellion came out of the north, the world fell into pieces, and the mountains and rivers were broken. At that time, Jiangning actually controlled only one county, and Huaidong was still nested in a corner, so everyone was prepared. Defence, who would have thought that in just four or five years, there would be such a weather?

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Lin Fu lifted the curtain and walked into the military staff room of the Ministry of Intelligence. The cold wind blew with him, and the candles swayed.

Lin Fu watched the lights in the glazed hood flickering, thinking that there is always no electric light to use...

Lin Fu actually didn't understand the difference between colored glaze and glass. In the past, Jiangning's craftsmen were not unable to burn transparent colored glaze, but the cost was extremely high, so it could only be used as a decoration, and it was far less attractive than colorful colored glaze. People like it - transparent glass glaze can be produced on a large scale at low cost, and it also benefits from the technological development of iron smelting furnace temperature.

The development of technology is always by analogy, and the development of technology means that only a small amount of manpower can be used to complete the work that required a large number of people in the past.

Today, a glazed lampstand and a transparent glass kerosene lamp in Jiangning only cost two silver dollars.

Two silver-dollar kerosene lamps are not cheap in this world, but compared to the early days when such a glazed lampstand sold for hundreds of taels of silver, it was already too cheap.

What is the new pattern?

The traditional farming civilization has progressed to the industrial civilization, and naturally there will be a new situation that the world cannot foresee. Even if everything in Huaidong at this time can only be said to be seeing the dawn of industrial civilization, it is no longer comparable to the traditional production model.

At this time, Huaidong textile machinery still relies on animal power and water power, but the new cloth produced by Huaidong has completely occupied the market of the seven provinces in the south of the Yangtze River and Zhejiang and Jiangxi. As long as the ship arrives, the local cloth is not competitive at all Arguably.

It is precisely in Jianghuai, Zhejiang, Fujian, Ganxiang, and Guangnan that have not yet emerged from the shadow of the war, local commerce and trade have not yet begun to recover, and the people have just been lucky to escape the war. There is not much vigilance against the rapid invasion and expansion of materials and other properties.

Iron materials are second, and cloth is a bulk material that coexists with food and is indispensable for survival.

Chongzhou has no coal and iron resources, and the development of iron smelting always has natural defects. In the later period, Lin Fu also intends to disperse iron smelting and other industries to Yijiang, Shanyang and Yizhou and other places, while focusing on the cotton textile industry in Chongzhou.

In the early years, the textile machinery produced by artisans and used in handicraft workshops in Jianghuai and other places was several times more efficient than homework. It is equivalent to fifty or sixty home spinning machines; and Huaidong weavers can even weave a piece of cloth in four days, which is far more efficient than traditional manual work.

In addition to planting rice grains, large-scale cotton planting is also used on the newly cultivated and saved millions of large tracts of land that have been reclaimed and saved. Provide sufficient raw materials for the cotton textile industry in Chongzhou and Hecheng.

As early as before the Yongxing year, Huaidong new cloth became a bulk trade material that was as important as raw silk and iron, and was transported to Haidong and Nanyang regions. of profit. The profit of Huaidong New Cloth is not much lower than that of the raw silk trade, and in recent years it has even surpassed the raw silk trade.

After all, raw silk is a luxury product. Haidong and other places produce very little, and a large amount needs to be imported from Jianghuai; cotton and linen and other cloths are originally produced in Haidong. It takes a long process - the real trade potential is much higher than raw silk and silk fabrics.

In the Central Plains, Huzhou cloth and Pingjiang silk were equally famous in the early years.

The war extended to Hanghu Lake, and Huzhou's cloth industry suffered a heavy blow.

Not only did the traditional Huzhou cloth workshops fail to recover, but also the production of native cloth produced by men and women weaving in various places failed to recover, so that the cheap new cloth produced in Huaidong quickly made up for the needs of the people after the war.

After recovering Jin'an from the war in Mindong, Huaidong fought three major battles, the battle of Jiangning, which enabled Huaidong to control the seven prefectures in the south of the Yangtze River, and the battle of Shangrao and Yuanzhou, which enabled Huaidong to control Jiangxi, and made the trade route go directly to Guangnan, The Xiangtan and Jingxiang battles will reverse the confrontation between the north and the south, and give the people's livelihoods in the counties south of the Huai River a chance to fully recuperate.

After the glorious military victory, it was also the process of Huaidong's rapid expansion of Huaidong's business and trade, to the seven prefectures in the south of the Yangtze River, to Weiyang, Dongyang, Luzhou, to Zhejiang and Fujian, to Jiangxi, to Guangnan and Xiangtan, which made Huaidong to The total trade volume within China has rapidly risen to a level comparable to the trade volume with the East China Sea and Southeast Asia.

Originally, no matter how strong Huaidong's control and influence were, the expansion of business in various counties should have a process after the war, but Lin Mengde and Lin Xuwen together came up with a crooked idea, which is to use Huaidong's products. The new cloth will convert the salaries of the central and local officials.

The salaries received by the officials in the current era are different in their true colors and those of folded colors. It has also been a practice since ancient times to use silk cloth instead of rice grains and silver coins to convert salaries to officials. After getting the new cloth produced by Huaidong, officials went to the market to sell cloth for Huaidong to exchange rice and silver, which caused a lot of backlash.

For Jiangxi, Guangnan, Xiangtan and other places newly returned to central control, Lin Xuwen and Lin Mengde mercilessly shipped hundreds of thousands of pieces of Huaidong new cloth to the place to earn money, instead of the money originally planned to be paid. Silver and rice grains were collected to make up for the central financial deficit.

Fortunately, there are also shortages of cloth in Jiangxi, Guangnan, Xiangtan and other places. The price of new cloth will not drop greatly. The officials have little opinion. After all, the new cloth produced in Huaidong is more delicate in texture and softer than the native cloth, so there is excess to take. It can also be sold at a high price in the market.

For this alone, Lin Mengde and Lin Xuwen used Huaidong new cloth to collect 3 million taels of silver, and a considerable amount of new cloth was only the annual output of 20,000 weavers in Chongzhou, almost 20 times the output. profiteering.

In comparison, the looting of the iron trade in various places seems very mild.

Zuo Chengmu and Hu Wenmu guessed that the financial resources of Chongguo's private estates might be equivalent to the central revenue and could not guess why there were such huge profits, Lin Fu's private estates income could indeed exceed 10 million taels this year.

Before the Battle of Jiangning, Huaidong's various incomes combined did not reach 4 million taels of silver; in just two years after the Battle of Jiangning, this number had doubled and a half. In the final analysis, after the Battle of Jiangning, the markets in the seven prefectures in the south of the Yangtze River were completely opened to Huaidong, and these markets were closed to Huaidong before.

The Battle of Jingxiang is about to come to an end, Hu Wenmu is willing to return to the center, and Jinghu will also be completely under the jurisdiction of the center.

At this time, Lin Fu not only did not take half taels of tax from Jinghu, but also subsidized 400,000 taels to Jinghu every year to restore people's livelihood~www.wuxiaspot.com~ and even further strictly ordered Jinghu and other places to reduce the poverty of lack of food or no food peasant rent.

In the final analysis, Lin Fu wanted to restore the production of Jingxiang first and restore people's livelihood. The market of Jinghu's four million mouths was completely opened to Huaidong, and its benefits far exceeded four or five million taels of silver every year.

The same is true for Xiangtan and Guangnan. Lin Fu has no intention of immediately drawing taxes from these two counties. First, he will greatly reduce the tax to reduce the financial potential of the two places to support the army, and then send primary industrial products to these two places in exchange for other materials. ...

After the relationship between Jiangxi, Jinghu, Xiangtan, and Guangnan is straightened out, and production in Jianghuai, Zhejiang, Fujian and other places is further restored, in addition to the continuous increase in the revenue of the Ministry of Household, the additional financial resources of the Privy Council should be 10 million this year. On the basis of the two silvers, it can be doubled to more than 20 million taels.

To say the pattern, this is the new pattern.

After the Battle of Shangrao, Lin Fu had firm confidence in expelling the Hu prisoners and recovering the Central Plains.

After the Shangrao War recaptured Jiangxi, Xiangtan and Guangnan, the population controlled by Jiangning reached nearly 30 million, and with Huaixi and Jinghu, it would reach more than 35 million. However, after years of war in the two Sichuans, the population size has dropped to between 3 million and 5 million. The Cao family has been in control of the two Sichuans for a few years, and there are many conflicts with the local governments, and there is no absolute strong combat power. Entrepreneurship is far from enough; Yanhu is based on Yanji, Jinzhong, Guanzhong, Shandong and Yanbei, and the population size should be between 10 million and 12 million.

At this time, Lin Fu is more concerned about whether the new pattern he has worked hard to create can continue, and has been deeply rooted in the foundation of the entire society, and will not be shaken from now on. Hundred years of historical reincarnation. My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter