Lord of the House

Deeper leaks, cool breezes blowing from the row upon row of roofs, people stand under the courtyard, looking at the night sky like a well.

The salt and iron envoy Zhang Yan, dressed in a green shirt, stood under a laurel tree, looking at the shadow of the eaves under the waning moon, with two letters in his hands behind his back.

The letter was sent today by Zhang Xitong, the son of Zhang Xie and the head of Ning Wang's mansion. Zhang Xitong was worried that if the Jiangdong Zuo Army secretly took the lead in recruiting bandits, it would likely expand Chongzhou's power and ambition to an unstoppable level. , became a harm to the court, and wanted to discuss a countermeasure with Zhang Yan.

A letter is an official letter sent by Quan Zhi Shanyang County Commissioner Liang Wenzhan sent by Kuai Ma, informing that Shanyang Ma is suspected of transporting a large amount of illicit salt from the Baitang River for profit, and informing the salt and iron envoy to send officials to assist in the investigation of the case.

Private gangsters have always been under the jurisdiction of the Salt and Iron Company. Shanyang County sent an official letter, which is in compliance with the law, but the Ma family's nest has been inspected by Shanyang County. At this time, the Salt and Iron Company will be invited to send officials over, but It is the crime of using the sword of Shiotetsu to sit in the Shima family.

Wearing a crimson official robe, Shen Rong said, "Master Zhang should go to Shanyang in person..."

Zhang Yan looked up at the night moon above the patio and frowned.

He also admired Lin Fu very much at first, but because Tang Haoxin died in Qingzhou, he knew that there was no room for change between him and Lin Fu.

At the beginning of the year, Lin Fu used the name of Shou Xiao to stay in Chongzhou, but secretly sneaked to Jinhai, and threatened the Jinhai grain road to promote the matter of "salt and silver to protect grain", and directly tied the Lianghuai Yanli to the Jinhai grain road.

Since then, the Lianghuai Salt and Iron Division has become a vassal of the Jinhai Food Road, and Zhang Yan is also so angry that he vomits blood.

After Dong Yuan Tiweiyang entered the eastern Zhejiang and served as the propaganda and envoy of the two Zhejiang provinces, Shen Rong got the help of Yue Lengqiu and learned about Weiyang's government affairs, and finally became a powerful figure in Jiangdong County.

When Shen Rong was almost killed by a thief in Luoyang Lake, it was Lin Fu who was secretly making trouble. Shen Rong knew it well, but he couldn't express the bitterness. Later, in Dongyang, he was overwhelmed by the joint efforts of Gu Wuchen and Lin Tingli. Although he had been an official in Dongyang Mansion for a long time, he was very hostile to the Dongyang family.

Shen Rong and Zhang Yan are both in Weiyang City. Although they are giants and do not belong to each other, in Jiangdong County, they have to face the rising Dongyang faction together, and naturally they are very close.

"Liu Tingzhou has already gone to Xuzhou. How does Lord Shen think Governor Yue will view the surrender?" Zhang Yan asked.

Shen Rong frowned slightly, and Lin Bie threw out a dilemma.

Although Yue Lengqiu's three seals were broken in Liu Tingzhou's hands, Shen Rong, as Yue Lengqiu's new direct descendant, knew about it. When Liu Tingzhou recruited the Huai Army, he also secretly made a great effort, but Lin Fu didn't think that Lin Fu would not get into their trap at all.

Yue Lengqiu was surrounded by Xuzhou. In order to get out of the predicament, he naturally would not object to surrendering. At that time, if we rush the Jiangdong Zuo Army back to Chongzhou, I am afraid that the officials and gentry from Huaian will be the first to oppose it.

Whether or not Huaidong's envoys are set up, I'm afraid it will be difficult to restrict Lin Bing's tentacles from reaching Huai'an.

"I can't guess how Governor Yue will decide, but at this time, it is necessary to prevent Lin Tie's hand in Huai'an from stretching too deep and too long," Shen Rong said, "After Master Zhang goes to Shanyang, he will find a way to let Liu Tingzhou first. I am eager to come back to Huai'an..."

Zhang Yan nodded. Liu Tingzhou and Lin Bie fought fiercely in Huai'an, but Liu Tingzhou was someone he could trust. At present, in Huai'an, Liu Tingzhou could only limit Lin Bie.

All the salt produced in the Lianghuai salt area needs to be transported to the Weiyang salt warehouse.

In order to ensure that the Salt and Iron Company can make huge profits from the salt business every year, the Salt and Iron Company maintains a team of salt soldiers of up to 20,000 people to ensure the production, transshipment and crackdown of private salt trafficking in the salt area.

The profit of salt is so thick, and the private lords naturally fight repeatedly, so there is a saying that the official salt goes out of Weiyang, and the private salt goes out of Huaian.

Zhang Yan has been in charge of the Lianghuai Salt and Iron Division for thirteen years, how can he not be clear about the tricks in it?

Conservatively speaking, the salt produced in the Lianghuai Salt Area is divided between the government and the private sector, but if a thorough investigation is carried out, the ratio of the official to the private reaches two or even three, and Zhang Yan will not be too surprised.

Huai'an Mansion, just the huge profits in private salt, is enough to make people greedy.

It was definitely not a coincidence that Lin Bie took the horse uniform to try out the sword in Huai'an.

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In Shanyang County, there is a yard in the east of the county government, called Wenqing Garden, which was originally the private garden of the Ma family in the city, but now it has become Lin Bie's house in Shanyang County.

The garden is not big, with four or five acres of land, but in the garden, there are water towers and pavilions, courtyards, mountains and ponds, and it is very delicate and quiet.

The East Wing Courtyard is a waterside pavilion with a corridor. In the middle is a pond with lotus flowers in full bloom. A rockery made of lakes and stones stands in the water. Surrounded by a corridor with exquisite carvings, the corridor is a wooden building. , do not feel hot.

In the pavilion in the corner of the courtyard, Lin Fu and Liang Wenzhan, the magistrate of Shanyang, sat opposite the table, drinking tea and talking about things.

Liu Tao led the team to check Ma's property in Shanyang. After three consecutive days of inventory, they came up with a roughly accurate figure. Of course, there have been many interludes in between.

During the inspection of Ma's house, twelve people from the book office, the subordinate officials, and the yamen secretly concealed gold and silver treasures and found them.

Of the twelve, two were caned on the spot, and three died of their injuries in prison. However, this matter is not over yet, Liang Wenzhan investigated the bribery and perversion of the law by these twelve people before, opened the gate of the county government, and accepted the lawsuit from the county residents.

Now four people have been convicted of corruption and contempt, and all of them have been implicated in the crime of fornicating Yan Xiao, and their family property has naturally been confiscated. It is astounding that these four ordinary Xu Shi have thousands, tens of thousands of taels of silver ingots in their homes.

When the world is an official, how many people are innocent?

When Liu Tao led the team to search other people's property, he also felt a cool breeze on his neck.

Lin Fu looked through the detailed accounts, treasured goods and other things. He didn't know much about the goods, and he didn't care much.

The so-called gold in troubled times and collections in prosperous times are in troubled seasons, and these treasures are worth a lot of depreciation. You can wait for Zhang Yan to come and use them to perfunctory him. The jurisdiction of the private gangster case lies with Yan Tieguan, who is rushing to take action here, and Zhang Yan can't ignore him if he comes over.

In addition to the treasures, the three silver cellars that the Ma family dug out even contained more than 300 silver balls, 700,000 to 80,000 taels of loose silver, about 10,000 taels of gold ingots, and about 400 taels of silver. Seventeen thousand taels...

What a big fat pig.

Lin Fu calculated in his heart that it would not be a problem to kill 100,000 elites by killing all the private lords and salt merchants in the three Huaidong houses.

"Treasures and treasures are all sealed and stored in the warehouse, until the Salt and Iron Division sends staff to check," Lin Fu put the inspection account on the cool stone table. After the war is over, how much military funds will be used here, and after discounts, the remainder can be returned... Do you think this is a good way to deal with it?"

"It is entirely up to the system and the envoy to decide." Liang Wenzhan said.

"It's all up to the system to make the decision." Liu Tao could only follow.

The meat buns beat the dog, and 470,000 taels of gold and silver were put into the pockets of the Jiangdong Zuojun. Who would have the instinct to let the Jiangdong Zuojun spit out a cent of silver? It was quite polite that Lin Fu could give a detailed account, otherwise he would change the 470,000 taels of silver to 47,000 taels of silver with a stroke of the pen, and the imperial court could only recognize it.

As the Secretary of Salt and Iron, Zhang Yan has jurisdiction over the smuggling case, but given Lin Bie the first move, can he lead his troops to **** the gold and silver back?

If the Yantie Division has this ability, the Hecheng Grassland does not have to be taken by the Jiangdong Zuo Army.

It's not surprising to say that the Jiangdong Left Army's strength in Huai'an includes Gu Siyuan and the remnants of the Duhuai Army, 33 battalions of navy infantry and cavalry, a total of more than 22,000 people; There are more than 4,000 soldiers - how huge the waste of military resources is, Liu Tao has some experience.

Shanyang has long maintained four battalions of county soldiers according to the standard of the town army. The money and food are donated by the Ma family and other giant merchants in Shanyang. Liu Tao knows how much money it takes to support the soldiers.

The supplies of food and grass for the Jiangdong Left Army to fight in Huaisi were shared among the three prefectures and counties in Huaidong. The main soldier is calculated according to the monthly amount of japonica rice and three coins per head, and the auxiliary soldiers and the miscellaneous soldiers pull out five cups of miscellaneous grains and two coins each month.

Before, Liu Tingzhou was in charge of the affairs, but at this time, Zhang Yubo was in charge of the affairs.

Of course, with this standard Huai, it is simply not enough to maintain the operational needs of the Jiangdong Left Army in the Huaisi area.

Lin Fu had previously withdrawn 300,000 taels of silver from the Ma family's head. Except for the expansion of the guard camp and a part of the money to reorganize the Huai'an government army, the other silver just happened to make up for the shortfall in the past two months.

If the war continues, the newly acquired 470,000 taels of silver can at most fill the deficit for two or three months.

But for Lin Fu, the biggest advantage is that the troops are divided into two sides. The troops and horses on the Sisheng defense line are subsidized by Haiyu County and Pingjiang Prefecture for food and grass supplies, and the pressure on Chongzhou during this period has been greatly reduced. The surplus money can be used for the storage of grain, ordnance, cloth, wood, coal, iron and other materials.

"How to deal with the confiscated property," Liang Wenzhan asked, "Wait until the Salt and Iron Division sends officials to take over?

After the death of Ma Fu, the Ma family was headless, and the Shanyang County side started very fast. No one of the Ma family who was in charge of the outside came back in time. Right.

In addition to Tibetan silver, the value of land deeds and house deeds is even more astonishingly high.

The Ma family owns up to 230,000 mu of land in Huai'an, Hailing, Weiyang, Jiangning and other places; in addition, there are more than ten houses in Shanyang, Huai'an, Weiyang, Jiangning and other places, and Ma's salt shop is even more distributed Jiangdong, Xiang, Jingbei, Zhongzhou, Shandong, Liangzhe, Jiangxi and other counties.

These are the real accumulations of the Ma family's salt owls of several generations.

Outside of the two counties of Shanyang and Huai'an, Lin Fubian is beyond the reach of the whip, so he will naturally throw it to the Yantie Division to see what ability Yantie Division has to share with these local officials. But in the two counties of Shanyang and Huai'an, the Ma family has 160,000 mu of farmland, seven mansions and restaurants, and they must not be overlooked. Naturally, Lin Fu will not let go.

"Being burdened by the Ma family, more than 14,000 people from the Huai Army went north, and there were less than 4,000 survivors," Lin Fu frowned slightly and said, "I think it is used to pay for the casualties in order to atone for the crime of the Ma family. It is difficult to count the collapse, and the compensation starts from the wounded and dead, and each person will be given ten acres of land. In addition, the Huaihuai Army can hold on until the reinforcements come, and only the school's merits separate the Ma family from the other two houses in Shanyang County. As soon as people enter the house, they will give 20 acres of land. Other meritorious generals will be rewarded with 35 acres or 10 acres of land, but they have to wait for the Huai Army to return to Shanyang and then count the merits... The rest of the land will be confiscated. To make up for the lack of funds, if you want to come to the salt and iron envoy Master Zhang, Liu Zhifu will not have any opinion on this disposal."

If you don't have an opinion, it's called hell. Do you have the ability to wait for Zhang Yan to come over and Liu Tingzhou to come back, and discuss how to deal with it? Liu Tao slandered.

No matter how much Liu Tao has an opinion in his heart~www.wuxiaspot.com~, he can only answer the question. He also understands that Liang Wenzhan has completely joined the Dongyang Party.

The Shanyang County Soldiers have been able to have such a scale and strength over the years, all because of the support of Ma's and other salt merchants. The remnants of the Duhuai Army were also dominated by soldiers from Shanyang County. Lin Fu did this in order that these remaining generals and soldiers would profit from the Ma family's corpse and completely sever their relationship with the previous benefactor.

Lin Fu then discussed with Liang Wenzhan and Liu Tao about rebuilding the soldiers in Shanyang County.

Shanyang County and Feixiaji are the top and bottom of each other, and are the first strategic location in Huaidong. In other places in Huai'an, Lin Fu can not station troops, but Shanyang and Feixiaji on the north bank must be directly controlled by Lin Fu.

Although the soldiers of Shanyang County were organized by the Huaian Prefecture Army, in the reconstruction of the soldiers of Shanyang County, Lin Fu was not polite and directly intervened in the reconstruction.

Today, Zhou Pu leads more than 400 light cavalry in armored cavalry to take charge of the city defense of Shanyang County; the previous three classes of yamen have also been disbanded, and the wounded soldiers returning from the south have selected twenty or thirty generals who have recovered from their injuries to be incorporated into the third class of yamen to maintain Basic security in urban and rural areas.

Not counting the wounded soldiers of the Jiangdong Zuo Army, more than 1,100 wounded soldiers of the Duhuai Army entered the wounded and sick camp when they were withdrawn from Siyang.

In the past few days, not many people have been cured. Nearly 200 people have died of serious injuries in the wounded and sick camps, but more than 800 people have survived and their injuries have become increasingly stable.

After removing those who were disabled, almost 700 people could return to the team after recovering from their injuries, and then recruit some Ding Yong, who could lead the team from the wounded soldiers of the Jiangdong Zuo Army, and could form two battalions of elite soldiers. The combat power will not be slightly worse than the previous Shanyang County soldiers, which can basically guarantee the city defense needs of Shanyang County.

Liu Tao stood on the side and listened to Lin Fu and Liang Wenzhan discussing the reconstruction of the county soldiers, and he became more and more aware of why Bai Linfu insisted on compensating for the casualties first. My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter