Lord of the House

Zhang Wendeng slid in with the satin front of his official robe and gave a salute to Huang Jinnian, who was sitting in the hall, and then bowed with all the colleagues present, saying, "Lin Xuwen, Yang Yihang, Ma Yigong, Zhou Guangdong and others are all When they went to the island, Sun Fengyi and Zhou Guangnan went to Jinwei Island before noon. Nine times out of ten, Lin Fu came over. He pretended to be filial and ignored the military and political affairs of Chongzhou, but secretly sneaked to Jinhai. His heart... His heart..." In the end, he didn't say the following words.

Huang Jinnian has a gloomy face and does not say a word, is he secretly deceiving the king? Unless you send someone to land on the island to catch Lin Bie, where will you get the handle? Who to send? Even Zhang Xiang probably didn't want to completely anger this vicious dog at this time. Even if he wanted to deal with him, he would have to wait until the Duke of Lu, Liang Xi, fully grasped the situation in Shandong before he could be more confident.

Everyone in the hall was silent.

Zhang Wendeng was the first to come to preside over Jinhai Cang as the head of the household department. He was promoted by Zhang Xie as a member and became an important figure in the family of Zhang and Yue in Jinhai. However, Zhang Wendeng was far from being enough to fight against Lin Xuwen's strength in Jinhai.

After Tang Haoxin took office in Shandong, Zhang Xie transferred Huang Jinnian to Jinhai and became the core of Zhang Xie's officials in Jinhai.

Huang Jinnian is a high-ranking member of the court's third grade. He is a core member of the Zhang and Yue factions of the Chu Party as a high-ranking general manager of Yannan Caoyun and Gyeonggi Thirteen Warehouses.

In order to strengthen the coordination of the distribution and transfer of money and grain in Xuanfu, Jibei towns, and Jingying, the imperial court set up the General Consulate in Jinhai in May last year, and Huang Jinnian also served as the general envoy of the Consulate General.

The concept and function of the General Consultant is similar to that of the logistics department of later generations. It is not only responsible for transshipment affairs, but actually holds the logistics supply power of Xuanfu, Jibei two towns and the Jingying army in its hands.

While coordinating the transfer and allocation of grain and forage, it also imposed an additional restriction on Li Zhuo's military power in the Northern Army in addition to Hao Zongcheng.

The General Consulate was located in Jinhai because Xuanfu, Jibei towns, and the supplies of grain and grass needed by the Jingying army were all heavily dependent on the import of grains from Jinhai at this time.

In this way, Jinhai formed two forces. One was the Jinhai Metropolitan Cao system headed by Lin Xuwen, Ma Yigong and others, which controlled the transportation from Shandong to Jinhai Turbine and Jinhai's defense. The second is the department of household warehouses and the general department headed by Huang Jinnian and Zhang Wendeng, who took charge of the storage, allocation and transshipment of grain and grass arriving in Jinhai after taking away the inland water transportation from Weikou to Weihe.

In Jinhai, in addition to the Jin navy led by Ma Yigong, Yang Yihang and others, there were also Cangchang Guards under the control of Huang Jinnian, with a strength of about 6,000 in ten battalions.

The division and strife between factions greatly reduced Li Zhuo's efforts to build an elite division in Jinhai.

Huang Jinnian and Zhang Wendeng and other trusted officials sat in the hall for a long time. When the twilight was four, they did not see Lin Xuwen, Ma Yigong, Yang Yihang and others returning from Jinwei Island.

Huang Jinnian turned over the eighteen generations of Lin Fu's ancestors in his heart. Apart from sending a fast horse to Beijing to inform Zhang Xie that Lin Fu might go to Jinhai, he had to let the officer hold the lamp and wait patiently in the hall. People arrange a dinner party.

Zhang Wendeng was the first to be alerted to Lin Fu coming to Jinhai. He hadn't eaten lunch, and he has been suffering until now. His stomach was pounding, and he excused himself to go out to relieve his hunger. Do you really have the courage to pinch the neck of Gyeonggi's grain road?

Thinking like this, I can't blame Zhang Xiang and Gong Zhong for being ruthless against Tang Haoxin. Who wants to keep their neck in the hands of others?

After Tang Haoxin's death, Lin Fu didn't make much movement, and he escorted King Ning to Jiangning Jingfan as ordered. Why did he delay it until today?

Zhang Wendeng was puzzled, but he knew that Lin Fu really had the guts to cut off Jinhai's food supply.

For many years, the total amount of grains raised and transported in Gyeonggi, including the Thirteen Cangchang Field in Jinhai, has fluctuated at about 3 million stone each year, mainly for the food of the inner court, princes and civil and military officials, as well as the total number of soldiers in Xuanfu and Jibei exceeding 200,000. Official salaries, soldiers and livestock fodder; only when there is surplus of grain in the warehouse or when there is a major disaster in Gyeonggi, can the grain be sold to civilians.

After the Lubei Cao Road was abolished, the Jinhai grain road and the post road at the northern foot of the Taihang Mountains were used to transport grain, barely surviving the grain shortage crisis in Gyeonggi. On the books, Gyeonggi barely maintains a stock of 400,000 stone grains.

Zhang Wendeng knew in his heart that a considerable part of the rice grains traveled from Tianjin to Gyeonggi and secretly entered the private warehouses of grain merchants and sold them for profit.

Now that the eastern invaders are raging in northern Jin, most of the grain transportation post roads in the Taihang Mountains will be abolished. Only 10,000 or 20,000 stone grains are transported to Beijing every month. The 200,000-strong army of the government, Jibei and Jingying can only support it for two or three months. At that time, the inner court, civil and military officials, and princes and nobles will have to cut down on food and clothing.

Can Duke Lu grasp the situation in Dongshan within two months, and replace the Jinhai maritime merchant forces with the Dengzhou water camp to undertake the monthly transportation of 200,000 stone grains from Shandong to Jinhai?

It should also be considered that Lin Fu and others may defect directly and lead the Jinghai Sea Battalion north to attack the Dengzhou Water Camp; it is good that the Dengzhou Water Camp can win.

It's hard to imagine what kind of disaster it will be if the capital is moved at this time, not to mention the situation in the southeast is chaotic. Luxi and Henan could not settle down, and there was no route to move the capital southward.

The large warships parked by the pier on the west coast of Tsuwei Island, even if they were separated by four or five miles, still felt obvious pressure.

If the court compromises with Zhang Xiang, will they sacrifice some of the people below? Thinking of this, Zhang Wendeng felt a little nervous.

At this time, the gate official outside walked in in small steps, and Zhang Wendeng walked over to stop him and asked, "What's the matter?"

"Lord Du Cao is here, and I want to enter the general system," the inquirer replied.

Lin Xuwen went ashore at this time? Zhang Wendeng didn't even care about finding food to relieve his hunger, so he went back to the hall and waited for Lin Xuwen to come over. It was a **** showdown. Whether it was death or life was at this moment, how could he take care of his stomach.

Lin Xuwen wore his fourth-grade crimson official robe with a gauze cap and walked into the lobby tremblingly. Seeing all the officials in the hall, he bowed his hands to Huang Jinnian and said, "I don't know that Mr. Huang has summoned officials to discuss matters. Lin came at an untimely time. Then wait a moment and see Mr. Huang again..." Sun Shangwang followed Lin Xuwen without saying a word, and after coming over, everything followed Lin Xuwen's lead.

Lin Xuwen, who is the censor of the Zuodu capital and the governor of the Hejian House, the military and the military and the transportation department of the capital Jinhai, is ranked as the fourth-rank official, and he is controlled by Tang Haoxin, the ambassador of Shandong and Ducao.

After Tang Haoxin's death, the Jinhai Metropolitan Water Transport Company returned to Shandong in the name of Shandong and served as the governor of Shandong.

Huang Jinnian, the right servant of the Ministry of Household, Gyeonggi Cangchang, and the General Commander of the Northern Army, could not control Lin Xuwen in name or in practice; the status of the two in Jinhai was equal.

"Oh, the discussion here is over," Huang Jinnian patiently told everyone to retreat, leaving only Zhang Wendeng and other three or four of his cronies to stay in the hall, and asked Lin Xuwen, "Lord Lin came to me at this time, is there something urgent? Can't it?"

Seeing Huang Jinnian pretending to be calm and ignoring him, Lin Xuwen sat down, took the tea brought by the clerk, narrowed his eyes slightly, and said, "I was caught on the island this afternoon, and the merchants from Tingdeng, Lai, Hejian and other places And the principal of Jiyun Club here has been complaining for a while - now the sea road is difficult and dangerous, the sea ice is wider than last year, the sky is slightly warmer, the left bank of Jinhai is full of floating ice, and the Jinhai warehouse collects pure grain. The loss has to be carried by Haishang and Jiyun Club. The money given last year was also due to the fact that no one had done this before. It was drafted when Mr. Tang was there. After the year, everyone calculated it and ran it for half a year , not only did not earn money, but also caused everyone to put a lot of money in it. The merchants made a profit, and without money to earn, it is difficult to gather people's hearts, and I also feel embarrassed, so I came to ask Mr. Huang to discuss with you..."

Huang Jinnian closed his eyes and stared at Lin Xuwen's face: In order to maintain the sea food route from Shandong to Jinhai~www.wuxiaspot.com~ the imperial court almost put a foot fee of 500 yuan per stone of rice. It is much more economical to transport grain from Jinzhong by land, but compared with the sea route, it is already quite wide.

For this fee, even Dengzhou Shuiying is willing to step in, but to stop Li Zhuo, Tang Haoxin, Lin Xuwen and the others together. , Li Zhuo exerted resistance, which also caused some people to criticize him.

Seeing that Lin Xuwen and Lin Bing threatened to increase the shipping fee, Huang Jinnian pressed the anger in his heart and said, "Have the hearts of Denglai Maritime Merchant all gone?" But his eyes were fixed on Sun Shangwang, Lin Bing's agent in the north.

Sun Shangwang, who was born in the Hejian Mansion and could only go to Jinan in his early years to be a wealthy Mr. Xixi to provide food and clothing, is now an important figure of Lin Xuwen and Lin Xu's family in Jinhai. Denglai Maritime Merchant transports grain to designated warehouses Hong Kong Royal Goods, but there is no direct money exchange with Cangchang. Jiyun Club, represented by Sun Shangwang in the north, is the middleman who fully settles with the Ministry of Household and Cangchang.

At the same time of improving efficiency, the coordination in the Jiyun Society also avoids the occurrence of arbitrarily exploiting the officials by the maritime merchants when the current status of the merchants is not high.

"Indeed." Sun Shangwang said calmly.

"How many points do you have to earn to keep people's hearts going?"

"Five cents of silver per stone grain is enough." Sun Shangwang said.

Hearing what Sun Shangwang said, Huang Jinnian couldn't help but widen his eyes no matter how good-tempered he was. Every year, he counted on the Jinhai Grain Road importing 2 million stone grains, and each stone grain increased by 5 cents, which meant an extra 1,000,000 taels a year. For the fee of silver, Lin Fu really dared to open his mouth!

Zhang Wendeng couldn't figure it out in his heart. Is Lin Fu going to talk about the collapse? Where does the Ministry of Accounts still have the remaining money of one million taels to squeeze out? My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter