Lord of the House

300,000 taels of silver to protect a head, Mafu was unwilling and felt aggrieved, and he was so heartbroken that he wanted to tear Lin Fu into minced meat strips and salted them, but there was no way, because the protection was on his neck. of that head.

If the sun does not come out with 300,000 taels of silver before climbing up the treetops, Lin Fu will kill him.

Ma Rulong didn't dare to lead the troops to make a fuss; the people who had benefited from his Ma family in the past all went home in a daze and thought about it behind closed doors. In the face of the situation, it is impossible for the horse to bow his head. If he does not bow his head, the head on his neck will tell him. goodbye.

The Lin family is a huge wealth in Shanglin, and the silver cellar of the old house has nearly 200,000 taels of private money, but compared to the giants who made their fortunes from salt in the Huaihuai and Huai Rivers, the Lin family is a bit inferior.

Lin Bie used the sun to climb the treetops for a period of time, and the Ma family's silver-carrying convoy rushed into the city to exchange silver when the sun rose.

The horse clothing also learned from Qin Chengbo, casting standard official ingots into large silver **** of a thousand taels and hiding them in the silver cellar to prevent foreign thieves from stealing silver from the cellar. Come on, it's just three hundred big silver balls.

In the courtyard of Dutingyi East Courtyard, 300 silver **** that had been hoarded for too long and blackened were neatly arranged. One was 64 pounds, and its volume was only about one-ninth of the same weight of water balls.

Lin Fu walked over and grabbed a silver ball with his backhand. He felt that it was slightly smaller than the basketball of later generations, but such a silver ball was enough to keep a well-off family safe for a lifetime.

Ma Rulong waited for Lin Fu to speak, and also felt that Lin Fu's hand was so strong. play in.

"I have discussed with Master Liu. Since Wei Shan Yang has the intention of repenting and donated money to help the military, he should also be given the opportunity to commit crimes and make meritorious deeds, and allow him to go back and think about it behind closed doors!" Lin Fu put down the silver ball in his hand and ordered Let go.

The guard took Ma Rulong to the West Court to lead people. Ma Fu and his wife left with hatred. They didn't stay in the city and went directly back to Shanyang County. They have a manor in the east of Shanyang County, built as strong as a city wall. I was afraid that the refugee army would cross Huainan, so they hid in Huai'an City, but I didn't expect to meet the evil wolf Lin Fu in Huai'an City.

Xuzhou was besieged, and the future of the Chu Palace was uncertain. They couldn't find a backer. At this time, they couldn't get it back from Lin Fu. Ma Fu also knows that "a gentleman takes revenge, it is not too late for ten years", so he can only return to the private castle to watch the situation for the time being.

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Ma Fu and his wife, Ma Rulong and other Ma family members all evacuated from Huai'an City by noon. Lin Fu also, for the first time, in the name of Huaidong Jing Kou System's envoy, summoned the county officials and garrison generals of Huai'an Prefecture to Huai'an City to discuss the garrison, money and military affairs. .

Horse clothing is a lesson from the past. Lin Fujun has strict laws, has great power, and has strong soldiers in his hands, so all the counties dare not neglect.

Those close to the road hurried back to Huai'an on the same day, those who were far away were wearing stars and wearing the moon, and could not enter Huai'an City at night, so they waited outside the city, and when the city gate opened, they hurried to Huaidong Jingkou to set up a temporary envoy - Duting of Huai City Yi Ying Mao discussed matters.

There are seven counties in Huai'an Prefecture, Shuyang is in the enemy's rear, and the remaining six counties are separated from the refugee army by Shanyang, Huai'an and Tinghu. , but the pressure on these three counties is still much heavier than in the three southern counties.

Liu Tingzhou is in charge of Huai'an, and he can't fight against local forces. Now that Lin Fu has full control over the Huaidong garrison in the name of an envoy, he must break this traditional situation of fighting each other, and must allocate resources from Nansan County, which is under less defensive pressure, to support the defense construction of Beisan County.

In addition to Huai'an City, which has always received attention, the city walls of Shanyang City and Tinghu City are still built with rammed earth. Heavy rain in summer and autumn can even cause a large section of the city wall to collapse.

Tinghu County is nothing more than that. Shanyang is just at the mouth of Huaisi. The terrain is dangerous and it is as important as Huai'an City. Lin Fu asked Nansan County to burn 600,000 pieces of city walls for Shanyang, Shukou and Tinghu before December. brick.

This is something Beisan County is willing to accept, while Nansan County is forced by Lin Fu's strength and can only agree.

The so-called dead lips and teeth are cold, since we can't violate the strength of the forest tie, think that the three northern counties have strengthened the city defense, and the three southern counties can also become safer and feel better.

The second is to purge local military equipment.

Huai'an belonged to the Changhuai Army's defense area, and there was no Changhuai Army garrison in the territory. In addition to the private soldiers in the Zhaibao, there were more than 14,000 soldiers in the six counties and township camps plus Huaian Prefecture soldiers.

These troops are not divided into good and bad, and they are not uniform, and there is no unified organization. In addition, the money and food are raised by the local government, and the local clan has a profound influence on the military armament of each county, making it difficult for Huaian Prefecture to transfer troops from each county to coordinate operations. . In fact, those who are new to Chad and do not know the bottom of the water have no idea which village camp can fight and which village camp is a nest of pus cells.

This time, Lin Fu will reorganize the troops of the counties and Huai'an Prefecture, eliminate the old and the weak, and set up the Huai'an Prefecture army under the Huai'an Prefecture. , Four battalions of navy, a total of 12,000 soldiers.

The generals, soldiers, and defense areas of the battalions remained basically the same, and the money and food provided by themselves were changed to be shared by the counties in proportion, and the Huai'an prefecture uniformly allocated and distributed them.

The court asked the court to appoint the prefect Liu Tingzhou, and sentenced Zhang Yubo to be the main and deputy regiment trainers, responsible for the training and combat readiness of the Huai'an government army, as well as the construction and repair of the counties and battle equipment.

As long as the military book is compiled, the military attache is naturalized, and it is stated that the command and dispatch authority is in the government office, and the enemy is coming, those who should not be dispatched must consider whether they can bear the consequences of disobeying the order. Unlike before, I didn't know who to call if I wanted to move troops, and I didn't know how many troops to call.

The power to recruit troops is concentrated in the government, and Liu Tingzhou, who knows military affairs, naturally agrees with it.

The formation of the Huai'an House Army is for the basic garrison of the locality, with the emphasis on defending the city and the land and maintaining local security. Lin Fu was not involved in the military power of the Huaian Prefecture Army, with the hearts of An Jiangning and Liu Tingzhou.

In a short period of time, or there has not been a lot of resources to invest, Lin Fu can't expect the Huai'an government army to pull out to fight a tough battle, and it is enough to have the power of restraint for the time being.

Besides, Lin Fu doesn't know when his Huaidong Jingkou system envoy will be removed. Unless the court officially sets up Huaidong system envoys and let him serve, he can consider controlling the local military equipment.

The Ma family "donated" a large amount of military resources, Lin Fu allocated 80,000 taels of silver, and Liu Tingzhou allocated 20,000 taels of silver from the government's warehouse to train the Huai'an government army, buy some excellent armor, and strengthen combat readiness.

Although it was agreed that the money and grain would be shared by the counties and Huai'an Prefecture, but there was not a single penny, and the counties deliberately pulled back.

Lin Fu didn't know how long Xuzhou could hold on, or how long the refugee army would insist on fighting Xuzhou. The sooner the Huai'an Prefecture army's training and training could produce results, the better, otherwise the Jiangdong Zuo Army would not dare to intersperse in depth if it was pinned down in Shukou.

Even if they took out 80,000 taels of silver, the military funds "donated" by the Ma family still had 220,000 taels left.

After the Jiangdong Zuo Army went north, the money, food and salaries were shared among the Huai'an, Hailing, and Weiyang houses, and Lin Fu was embarrassed to hide the 220,000 taels of silver in his personal pocket.

With money in hand, Lin Fu naturally continued to expand his army, and his name justified.

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"What, you want to recruit 6,000 Jianyong from the displaced households?" Liu Tingzhou was surprised when he heard Lin Fu talking about the plan to expand the army. Lin Fu is such a powerful person, and he is arrogant and does not listen to control. The court officials and Jiangning people are all wary of him. The situation in Huaisi was critical and he had to be used, but in the exchange of secret letters and secret letters, everyone wanted Liu Tingzhou to guard against Lin Bie's aggressive expansion by taking advantage of the opportunity of guarding Huai, forming a situation where the tail could not be lost.

Of course, Liu Tingzhou also knew that it was impossible to completely restrict Lin Fu, unless he didn't want him to guard Huai, but he didn't expect Lin Fu to expand his army by 6,000 all of a sudden.

Not counting the workers' battalion, the Jiangdong Left Army, which went north to guard the Huaihe River, consisted of five battalions of infantry, two battalions of naval divisions, one battalion of cavalry, a personal guard battalion and auxiliary soldiers, and also 6,000 elites.

The Jiangdong Zuo Army's Huai-guarding force was about to double at once, and Liu Tingzhou couldn't accept it.

"There has been a surge in the number of refugees in the country. Selecting Jianyong and recruiting them into the camp can eliminate the potential disasters of Huai'an. Governor Yue called me north to relieve the siege of Xuzhou. I have to guard Shukou on the north bank, and the troops that can be used to go north are limited. The army needs to be expanded. I didn't have the funds to expand the army before, so it's rare that the Ma family helped the army generously, and I still have more than 200,000 taels of silver, so I can't hide it in my own pocket." Lin Fie said slowly.

In the past two years, a large number of refugees have continued to flow southward along the Ying, Wu, Bian, and Si rivers in order to avoid military disasters.

The abandonment of inland waterway transportation is also an important factor for the increase of migrants in Nanchong. Many people who live without land and rely on water transport have fundamentally lost their livelihoods, either becoming bandits or fleeing south to survive.

These large refugees came in groups from prefectures and counties and small villages and villages, and many of them had leaders, which became a great hidden danger to local security.

Caoliang goes to the sea from the Huaihe River, which requires a large number of trackers and boatmen, and accommodates tens of thousands of refugees. However, after the refugee army entered Huaisi, Huaikou Yunti Pass fell. Tens of thousands of refugees and young adults suddenly lost their livelihoods, which indeed made the territory of Huai'an Prefecture even more dangerous.

In fact, if the Jiangdong Left Army was not guarding Huaibei, and waiting for the refugee army to cross Huaihe to attack, I am afraid that there would be a lot of bandits in Huai'an Prefecture.

Under various circumstances, Liu Tingzhou also knew that Jiangdong's left army would not expand or not, and that the initiative was in Lin Fu's hands. Lin Fu's discussion with the government office was also to give him face. If Lin Fu directly wanted Shukou to recruit refugees into the camp, what could he do?

Liu Tingzhou reluctantly agreed and said, "Master Lin's recruitment of displaced households into the camp to eliminate local disasters is indeed a good strategy, but I wonder what the Huai'an House can do?" Stop, to prevent Lin Fu from becoming more arrogant.

"We recruit Jianyong from refugees in Xusi and Shuyi. Those who need to be innocence and have a family, need the protection of their neighbors, and those who are orphans or who don't know their neighbors will not be recruited. The scourge of bandits is all rootless. The feet can be found, there is no foundation to guard, and the family must be relocated to the elite. The Hongze Pudong Beach and the Qingjiang Pubei Beach are all in Huai'an County. Choose the land to build the dam, and the barren beach can be turned into a Good farmland, resettle the family," Lin Fu said, "the matter of picking up voters and strong people needs to be completed within half a month of Huai'an Prefecture; the matter of relocating the family needs to be completed in autumn. When recruiting into the army, each soldier will directly receive 10 taels of Anjia silver. The government will resettle the family, and I will subsidize and resettle 10 taels of reclamation silver for each soldier. After the army is formed, these 6,000 soldiers can be the foundation of guarding the Huai River. These two cases will be handled by Master Zhang and the magistrate of Liang County. Master Liu feels that how?"

Liu Tingzhou secretly said: If the court assigns Huai'an to Lin Fu, he will not do the same; Lin Fu will return to Chongzhou in the future, the families of these 6,000 soldiers are all in Huai'an, they can be used to guard Huai'an, but most of them will not go to Chongzhou with Lin Fu.

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