Lord of the House

It was only on September 26th in Haiyu that Chen Mingzhe saw a letter from the Huaidong Military Division, such as the "Reporting Order on Prohibition of Trade, Fishing and Hunting in the Eastern Ocean, Border and Sea," and other letters from the Huaidong Military Division.

Although Huaidong had discussed the issue of the sea ban with Haiyu beforehand, Chen Mingzhe still took a deep breath after seeing the details of the Huaidong sea ban.

Chen Mingzhe sighed and said, "Now the Huaidong Military Division is solely responsible for the maritime affairs on the east front. I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse!" Although the Haiyu Chen family and the entire Wu Party chose to cooperate with Huaidong at this time, Chen Ming Zhe et al still maintain sufficient vigilance towards Huaidong.

A clump of green bamboos in the corner reflected the lush greenery of the courtyard. Chen Xiyan, who had been secluded for many years, had grayed his hair on his temples, and he was still in good spirits.

If it weren't for this time that Pingjiang Prefecture was merged into the jurisdiction of the Northern Zhejiang System, Chen Xiyan would not have walked around with his old bones during this time. Holding the teacup, he squinted at the letter on the stone table, tapped lightly on the porcelain wall with his fingers, and walked around for two or three months. Ships from Pingjiang Prefecture will have to go to sea with the permission of the Huaidong Military Division, which will also be a hidden danger in the future. At this time, they can't care too much, saying: "At this time, we still have to rely on Huaidong to contain the Zhejiang and Fujian rebels from the sea. On the Eastern Front, Yue Lengqiu and Zhang Xitong really have no means to control Huaidong - Huaidong has come out of today's situation, and we can't help but say that he did have a great foresight at the beginning!"

Although Lin Fu's nickname of "Pig Herd" was first shouted out by Chen Xiyan, but after the battle of Jiyang defending the city, Chen Xiyan's view of Lin Fu has undergone fundamental changes, which is precisely the reason why Chen Xiyan completely lost his will to become an official. .

Chen Mingzhe knew that his teacher's mentality had changed, so it was no surprise to him to say this about Huaidong.

However, Chen Xiyan's influence is really great. Many of Lin Bie's behaviors in Huaidong are maverick and unconventional, and they have fundamentally shaken the belief of many people that "learning is good and serving as an official". The name of the pig herdsmen spread more and more. As a result, Chen Xiyan could only hide behind the scenes. He couldn't help himself, so he went to Chongzhou to see Lin Fu in person.

Yu Bijiang was also a rising star of the Wu Party, and had no relationship with Chen Xiyan. Hearing Chen Xiyan's evaluation of Huaidong, he was not convinced and said: "Huaidong predicted that Jiangdong County would have a grain shortage, and Chongzhou absorbed rice and grain, not to mention that in the forest of Jiangning. Kee warehouses also absorb and store a large amount of rice grain. However, in recent months, the price of grain in Jiangdong has been declining steadily. It can be seen that Huaidong is not right every time! When the price of rice falls, the price of silk rises, and Huaidong takes it. The rice grain and Haiyu exchanged silk, and they used the grain shortage to alarmist, but they took advantage of it! Maybe the Lin family is used to the rice grain business, but for them, this kind of nonsense is a great benefit to fear that the world will not be in chaos. !"

Hearing what Yu Bijiang said, Chen Mingzhe was not happy in his heart, agreeing to trade silk rice with Huaidong was the decision made by his Chen family. Others will not be happy when they hear it.

Chen Mingzhe has been familiar with the world in the past few years, and his displeasure in his heart will not show on his face. He and Chen Xiyan may not be close to Huaidong, but they will never despise Huaidong like Yu Bijiang.

Autumn grains are about to be listed one after another, and it is common practice for grain prices to fall. After this stage, it is really hard to say whether grain prices can be stabilized.

"In Chongzhou, when Huaidong said that grain prices would rise, he suggested that Haiyu should change to mulberry cultivation," Chen Mingzhe said, "Xu is like Pijiang said, Huaidong may not be successful every time. , but plan ahead, is it the person who convened the Silk Industry Association, let me know, maybe the Chen family can set an example and take some mulberry orchards out to plant rice grains first..."

Chen Mingzhe said this just to take care of Yu Bijiang's feelings. In fact, he was increasingly feeling the crisis over the issue of rice grains.

There are too many mulberry and cotton fields in Pingjiang Prefecture. The planting area of ​​mulberry orchards in Haiyu County alone is 30,000 to 400,000 mu. Together with cotton fields, tea gardens and sugarcane orchards, they account for more than half of the arable fields in Haiyu County.

In the era of Zhiping, planting mulberry, cotton, tea and sugarcane was highly profitable, but it also required a lot of labor. In the past, Haiyu and Chongzhou counties had the same area, but Dingkou was much denser than Chongzhou. Especially for Chengfang households, the former Haiyu County was almost ten times that of Chongzhou.

This makes Haiyu County, although the land is fertile, the self-produced rice grain is insufficient.

Especially in recent years, the East China Sea bandits have been constantly infested, and the water conservancy in Haiyu County is seriously in disrepair. The tidal disaster at the beginning of this year caused the seawall to the southeast of the seawall to be washed away in many places, and there was no way to organize manpower to repair it. The deserted fields made the food shortage situation in Haiyu County even worse.

This is not a good thing in the turbulent autumn.

Hearing Chen Mingzhe's words, he actually believed Huaidong's prediction that food prices would rise. Yu Pijiang turned to look at Cuizhu in the corner of the courtyard, holding back his displeasure, he wanted to see how Chen Xiyan judged.

Chen Mingzhe was also a little undecided. He tended to believe what Lin Mengde told him when he was in Chongzhou, but his prestige was not enough. He wanted to change mulberry crops on a large scale, and Chen Xiyan or Yu Xinyuan had to speak.

The status of Chen Xiyan and Yu Xinyuan among the gentry of Pingjiang Mansion was not comparable to that of Chen Mingzhe for a while.

Even though Chen Mingzhe would sometimes go along with the crowd and say a few bad words about the pig herds, but deep down he had to admit that Lin Fu's political ability was unparalleled in the world. Zhang Xie, Chen Xinbo, Tang Haoxin and others, even including his mentor Chen Xiyan, Chen Mingzhe didn't think that someone's political ability was stronger than Lin Bie.

Lin Fu has attracted displaced households on a large scale in Chongzhou in the past two years, making Chongzhou the first to surpass Haiyu in the past two years, but the area of ​​grain fields in Chongzhou at this time is twice that of Haiyu. Moreover, after Linfu entered Chongzhou, the water conservancy was greatly promoted, large-scale land reclamation and planting were carried out, intensive cultivation of spring wheat and summer rice was promoted on a large scale, iron agricultural tools were promoted, composting and pig breeding were promoted, so that Chongzhou can produce a large number of acres of mature fields. increase.

In addition, Lin Fu was almost blatantly reclaiming Hecheng pastures at this time. While building and defending the seawall on the northern line, he also set up seven villages and organized the displaced households to reclaim Yandu, Jianling, Gaocheng and Pucheng salt. area of ​​wasteland.

This year, Huaidong had a good year, but while Chongzhou was absorbing large-scale storage, Lin Fu also issued a series of orders restricting the export of Huaidong rice grains.

Lin Fu shoulders the heavy responsibility of Ducao, and the Jinhai grain road maintains the lifeline of the Gyeonggi and Yanbei defense lines. Even if Lin Fu's control cannot control the civil affairs and finances, he issued an order restricting grain exit, Hailing and Huai'an. Is not to slack off. The grain merchants and landowners who were slightly stronger in Huaidong were strictly admonished, and even the official warehouse of Weiyang Mansion had to guarantee to supply a certain amount of rice grain to Chongzhou.

Judging from Huaidong's many actions, at least Huaidong truly believes that Jiangdong County, a land of fish and rice, will also experience food shortages!

Although Huaidong thinks that there will be a food shortage in Jiangdong County, it will be dismissed as absurd by many well-educated people, but Chen Mingzhe has witnessed too many incredible miracles created by Lin Tie in Huaidong, and he subconsciously tends to. Trust Huaidong's judgment. At this time, Chen Xiyan had to come up with an idea.

Chen Xiyan didn't think that there would be a food shortage in Jiangdong County, a land of fish and rice, but Huaidong's opinion could not be ignored. Reply, over the years, many silk farms have been very bad, but changing mulberry fields into grain fields is more difficult than reclaiming wasteland. My suggestions may not be effective. I think learning from Huaidong and storing more rice grains are always prepared!

Huaidong opened the bank, and the Chen family invested the principal, so Chen Mingzhe knew that the principal of the Huaidong bank had risen to three million taels of silver.

This time, Huaidong borrowed 1,000,000 taels of silver directly from the bank at an annual interest of 1 cent and 5%. In addition, Heishuiyang Shipyard, Jiyun Society, Linji Warehouse, and many Dongyang who followed Lin's news The township party has accurately prepared a large amount of silver money to absorb and store autumn grain - the silver money used in Huaidong alone may be more than two million taels.

When Chen Mingzhe went to Chongzhou, he passed the grain transportation terminal on the east side of Guanyin Beach. Jincao Dakang was built on the south side of Jincao Wharf. above.

There is no money bank in Pingjiang Prefecture to borrow, at most the county officials store grain in Huaidong, but how much can they store? To have one-tenth the scale of Huaidong, thank God.

However, Chen Xiyan was careless, and Chen Mingzhe thought that maybe he was thinking too much.

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Lin Fu was not aware of the discussions within the Wu Party, such as Chen Mingzhe, Chen Xiyan, and Yu Bijiang, on the issue of grain shortages in Jiangdong. It was mainly due to the serious lack of macroeconomic data in the world. Intuitively, no one would think that Jiangdong County, a land of fish and rice, would be short of grain, and no one had seriously counted how many grain boats went down the river in Jiangxi, the two lakes, and even East Sichuan every year, and no one had seriously considered the price of grain in Jiangdong in recent years. What is the inevitable connection between the continuous rise of grain ships and the continuous reduction of grain ships along the river.

After Lin Fu made preparations for Huaidong to absorb and store rice grains, the follow-up work was fully handed over to Lin Mengde and others, and his attention was on the boundless East China Sea.

On the 26th day of September, Lin Fu secretly arrived at Daheng Island by boat, which was the prelude to the competition with the luxury family in the East China Sea.

Qin Chengzu, Wu Qi and other generals stayed in Chongzhou to coordinate the deployment of troops throughout Huaidong, but officials from the Department of Military Intelligence, including Zhang Gou, Chen Enze and others, accompanied Lin Fu to Daheng Island, the main island of the Shengsi Islands, and joined the Shengsi Islands. The generals of the defense line jointly formulate and implement strategies and tactics for the East China Sea.

Zhang Gou came to Daheng Island once after being transferred to the Military Intelligence Department as commander to join the army. It's just that I was in a hurry last time, and I didn't have time to take a good walk on Daheng Island. My understanding of Daheng Island mainly came from the blueprints of the military.

Compared with when it was taken from the luxury family two years ago, Daheng Island has undergone earth-shaking changes.

The berthing area of ​​the inner port of Qingxi Bay has more than doubled, and the rugged near-shore reefs have been leveled. On the originally narrow north and south banks, large areas of flat land have been leveled, and Shengsi, which is integrated with the inner port of Qingxi Bay, has been built. main city. At the northeastern foot of Jinji Mountain is Beitan Fortress, which controls the narrow eastern peninsula of Daheng Island.

The mountain forests of Jinji Mountain are dominated by miscellaneous trees and shrubs. The construction of city walls, barracks, and official halls requires a lot of wood. All trees are cut down from Jinji Mountain, but they are replanted with tung tree.

Tung oil is also an urgently needed strategic material in Huaidong. Lin Fu planned to plant large tracts of tung oil on the land that is not suitable for rice cultivation in Huaidong, such as the two sides of the post road and the windbreak forest that defends the seawall. But the real and larger area of ​​tung tree planting is still using the island mountain which is difficult to develop. Zhang Gou can see that almost all the tung trees are planted on the slopes of the northern foot of Jinji Mountain.

On the grassy **** of the long and narrow eastern peninsula, there are livestock such as mules, horses, cattle and sheep.

On the east and west sides of Daheng Island, the other islands of the Shengsi Islands are like scattered stars scattered on the vast sea. Most of the islands only have beacon towers and a small number of soldiers stationed there. The main garrison of the Shengsi line of defense is stationed in Daheng Island.

Fu Qinghe presided over the Shengsi line of defense, and for nearly two years, Zhou Tong and Zhao Qingshan respectively commanded the infantry and navy troops stationed at the Shengsi line. In order to prepare for this battle, Han Caizhi, Zhang Jiheng, Chen Zui and other more than 80 military commanders were added to the Shengsi line of defense.

"No," Chen Zhu wore a piece of armor, and walked loudly as he walked, greeted Zhang Gou loudly, came over, and asked, "I have any news to reveal to me first. When are you going to fight his mother? Come here and think there will be a fight. It's been almost three months since I beat him, and I've got a bird coming out of my mouth!"

"After talking with Master Fu, General Zhao, and General Zhou, you should convene the first-level generals of the camp post for a meeting in the afternoon. Why do you need to be in a hurry?" Zhang Gou said with a smile, "There should be a chance for you to fight?"

"Daishan?" Chen Zhuo asked without giving up.

Zhang Gou smiled and did not ask him a question.

Daishan is just south of Daheng Island and can be seen from afar during the day. The fort built by the She family on the main island of Daishan is not much worse than that of Daheng Island. When Chen Zhui was in the refugee army, he was known as a city tiger, and he could see the enemy city under his nose every day~www.wuxiaspot.com~ How can you not be itchy.

Like Zhang Gou, Chen Zhuo was afraid that after joining Huaidong, he would be forced to attack his former colleagues, so he decided to enter the water camp.

In the vast sea, commanding a battalion or even larger ships to hunt down the enemy is much more complicated than commanding infantry. Chen Zhuo couldn't even grasp the direct flight of the satellite, so he was naturally unable to take on the important task of commanding the water camp.

In desperation, Chen Zhu had to accept his order to be incorporated into the Chongcheng Infantry Battalion, and first served as the battalion commander in early July. Chen Zhuo, nicknamed "Dengcheng Tiger", is extremely brave and good at leading people to attack tough times. After Fu Qinghe became familiar with his temperament, he let him be the deputy battalion general leading the troops.

In late August, Lin Fu adjusted the deployment of the Huaidong Army Division, and the Chongcheng Infantry Battalion vacated a battalion commander and let Chen Zi take the post.

Chen Zhe was the battalion general of the Chongcheng Infantry Battalion. Hearing Zhang Gou say that he had a chance to fight, he naturally thought that he would attack Daishan by force.

When Zhang Gou was incorporated into the Ministry of Military Intelligence, he would naturally have access to more core military secrets in Huaidong.

Only with the cooperation of a strong landing combat force, can Huaidong's maritime advantages be brought into full play. Lin Fu intends to imitate the Marine Corps of later generations and specially prepare landing battalions in the Huaidong Army.

The Chongcheng Infantry Battalion and the Water Battalion have coordinated training for the longest time, and the most training is various island landings and landing operations.

Zhang Gou knew that even if Huaidong wanted to increase its troops in the Huaisi area in the future, it would be more likely that the Changshan Battalion, which was stationed in Chongzhou at this time, would be transferred to the north, and the Chongcheng Bu Battalion would be transferred to Huaisi. You don't need to worry about meeting your former colleagues in the future.

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