Lord of the House

The officials of the prefecture and county stayed in Chongzhou overnight, and only returned in their respective 30s. The journey was far away, and they were not even able to spend the New Year with their families. On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, the officials of the government office will report to Chongzhou, and then they will all act in Chongzhou. It is the catastrophe of destroying the family.

Lin Mengde, Hu Zhiyong, Li Shuyi, Li Shutang and others were responsible for the rectification of Hailing Mansion, but Lin Fu was required to preside over it. It is also busy until the New Year is approaching, only to take a breath.

It was time to invite Lin Mengde, Hu Zhiyong, Li Shuyi, Li Shutang and others to appreciate the plums in the plum garden behind the mountain.

"Li Shuyi is in charge of compiling Dingdingmu in Hailing counties. Who should be in charge of his affairs in Chongzhou County?" Lin Fu asked Lin Mengde.

"Wang Chengfu is competent." Lin Mengde said.

"What about the inspection of Hecheng?" Lin Fu asked, "The burden of Hecheng is no lighter than that of Chongcheng!"

"I suggest Zhiyong to go to the past," Lin Mengde said, "Jinhai grain road moves westward to Hecheng, and Hecheng will vigorously develop seaports, fishing grounds, weaving, shipbuilding, iron smelting and other affairs in the future, which is similar to Guanyin Beach. Zhiyong's past is the most appropriate!"

Lin Fu looked at Hu Zhiyong and asked, "What do you think?"

"Where the lord wants me to go, I will go." Hu Zhiyong replied.

"What kind of answer is this?" Lin Bie asked with a smile, and added, "That's it! Don't blame me if you're not happy."

"Zhu Ai in Nantun of Hecheng is quite capable, do you want him to do things with the book?" Lin Mengde said again.

Zhu Ai first offered a map of salt ditch to defend the seawall, and then he went to Huaidong to work as an official, and then became a colonel. Lin Mengde recommended him to be Li Shuyi's deputy at this time - Lin Fu nodded and said, "Okay, assign him to Shuyi. It's good to be a lieutenant."

"In half a year, the matter of compiling Dingdingmu can almost be completed," Lin Mengde said, "I don't know how much tax and grain can be increased in the four counties of Hailing?"

The two prefectures in Huaidong, Chongzhou and Hailing, were better, and other counties suffered from more serious disasters. Even in later generations, northern Jiangsu was a traditional poverty-stricken county and city, and its economy was far less developed than southern Jiangsu.

Compilation of Dingmu and reduction or exemption of Ding tax and miscellaneous contributions have the effect of one plus one minus on local taxes. In mid-July, Lin Fu recommended officials in the counties, mainly to find out the situation in the counties; in fact, in half a year, he could only get a rough idea, and it was impossible to know the exact number.

Besides, if you really want to do the work of compiling Dingdingmu, the resistance will still be very great, not as clean as the entire city of Chongzhou was slaughtered in the past - so it is difficult to estimate the specific effect that can be achieved.

"Who knows!" Lin Fu smiled lightly and said, "If the Hailing House can successfully implement the change to the silver levy next year, so that the actual levy of the grain can reach 400,000 stone, I will be thankful, I don't expect more..."

"That's not much more than this year!" Li Shutang said.

This year, except for Chongzhou County, Hailing Prefecture has paid 90,000 taels of silver and 180,000 shi of grain; to achieve the target of 400,000 shi of grain, it can be achieved as long as the local expenditure is reduced, and there is no need for large-scale compilations. Dingmu.

"It's a different concept!" Lin Fu explained, "We should not think about how much grain we can levy, but consider how much the total grain supply in Huaidong can be increased. In addition to levying grain, we can use How much food to raise?'”

Lin Fu paused for a moment and said, "The Qianzhuang will print money to the villages to support the reclamation of the wasteland in the coastal areas. In five years, we should not expect to receive direct income from the land tax from the villages, but during this time, because With the large-scale reclamation of wasteland in the villages, how many more agricultural tools were sold in the iron workshops? How many cotton cloths were sold in the weaving and spinning workshops? Wooden ships transporting coal, iron and sand and wooden ships? How much income do these provide for Huaidong? After so many grain fields have been reclaimed, how much excess grain has been provided for Huaidong? What effect does it have on the stabilization of grain prices in Huaidong? , but here, of course, the court officials are dismissive of these."

"Haha," Li Shutang touched his head and laughed at himself, "I can't always keep up with the thoughts of adults!"

Lin Fu smiled and said, "Since ancient times, everyone has focused their attention on the fields. Food is of course important, otherwise we wouldn't go to great lengths to increase grain production, but to raise the army's financial resources, our vision should be broader. Some... After the Chinese New Year, the military commander will have a detailed summary of the work this year, and then everyone will have a deeper understanding of these issues."

Lin Mengde sighed in his heart and said, "As far as land expedition is concerned, reclaiming wasteland is not as fast as compiling Dingdingmu. After all, reclaiming wasteland, repairing water conservancy, relocating people, the investment is very large, and the time is slow. Mu, it will be much faster, if one acre of concealed grain fields is detected, one acre of land will be added, but more importantly, it is to let the tenant farmers breathe a sigh of relief!"

"Do you understand now?" Lin Bie asked with a smile.

"I understand," Lin Mengde said, "Especially at this time, when the grain is in the hands of the big peasants and the wealthy gentry, they will only sell a small amount of grain to exchange for luxury goods such as silk forging, etc. More grain will be hoarded. If more grain is distributed to tenants, they will have enough to eat, and local stability will be one aspect. They will also work harder and serve the grain fields more carefully, and the grain output will be higher in the coming year. - If there is surplus grain, they will use it to feed the livestock, and they will also sell it, buy farm tools, buy cloth, build new houses, build cabinets, etc. Only at this time, iron smelting workshops, textile workshops, and the collection of industrial and mining taxes and commercial taxes, There are huge profits…”

"Although it's simple, it's almost the same reason!" Lin Fu said.

Lin Mengde didn't agree to give up the tax revenue from the village at first, but he agreed because there was no other way.

The bank released Yinzi money, and the interest on the money was as high as one cent and five percent. The village has to repay the principal and interest, and Huaidong will levy rent tax on the wasteland, and it will be very difficult for the village to maintain the livelihood of the villagers.

On the other hand, there is no rent tax on wasteland reclaimed land, and it is easy to evade the questioning and making things difficult for Jiangning and the Salt and Iron Company: Huaidong does not collect rent tax for a penny of silver, and the suspicion of accusing Huaidong of encroaching on the land in the salt area is always weaker. some.

Eleven villages have been set up along the seawall. So far, 170,000 people, including family members of workers and camps, have been resettled, with a total of 50,000 households, and more than 500 agricultural cooperatives have been organized under the eleven villages. On the basis that each farm society borrowed 2,000 taels of silver from the qianzhuang, the qianzhuang distributed more than 1,000,000 taels of Yinzi money to the Huaidong reclamation work.

With the participation of Huaidong Bank, the speed of reclamation has been greatly improved.

By this time, a total of 180 houses had been built in the dike, and 360,000 mu of wasteland had been reclaimed.

Although the greatest significance of reclamation and plantation is to resettle the families of workers and camps, resettle refugees, and ensure sufficient, stable and reliable soldiers for the Huaidong Army.

However, even if it is the most direct, Huaidong is not unprofitable from the inside.

Although the villages will not be able to provide rent and tax to Huaidong within three to five years, these 50,000 village households have consumed nearly half of the iron produced by Huaidong's iron-smelting workshops in the past year. Only relying on this part of the income, Huaidong Iron Works maintained the cost of the whole year.

The same is true, Huaidong Military Division was able to obtain 200,000 catties of fine iron from the iron smelting workshop at no cost to the manufacture of armor, warships and other weapons.

Of course, for the interest income of Huaidong Bank, the Lijin Bureau first levies 15% of the money tax. Today, Huaidong Bank has lent more than one million taels of silver to Tunzhai. In theory, the Lijin Bureau can levy a money tax of 22,500 taels of silver from the bank on this basis.

At this time, in the past year, the amount of lime, coal, iron sand, tung oil, wood, cotton silk, etc. transported from Chongzhou has more than doubled compared with the past; compared with before Lin Fu came to Chongzhou, the quantity has increased dramatically by dozens of times. , hundreds of times.

The Haidong Commercial Road is still monopolized by the Military Division for the time being, and the income is not included in the Lijin Bureau; after deducting the commercial tax income of the Jinhai Grain Road, the Lijin Bureau has received as much as two One hundred thousand taels of silver.

In fact, these incomes are not surprising; even if the money obtained from the salt and silver grains and the Jinhai grain road are used to repair the seawall, Huaidong is not short of money.

There are many constructions in Huaidong. Lin Fu attaches the most importance to iron smelting and shipbuilding. First, this is the foundation of the Huaidong base. Second, these two constructions have the most direct promotion effect on the improvement of the combat effectiveness of the Huaidong Army.

In contrast, the monopoly of Haidong raw silk trade is the most lucrative source of profit in Huaidong.

In the past year, Huaidong's self-produced silk plus the raw silk purchased from Haiyu Chenjia and Hailing and other places were shipped to Haidong for sale, totaling 3,000 dan. Three thousand dans of raw silk provided Huaidong with a net profit of about 700,000 taels of silver.

If this number is revealed, it will scare away a lot of people's big teeth.

Huaidong is relying on the profits from the monopoly of Haidong raw silk trade. In addition to paying for the garrison of Haidong camp in Jeju, this year, the Jeju Castle was officially built on Thursday, and a smelter with an annual output of 300,000 catties of iron was built in Jeju Castle. Outside the iron factory, 500,000 stone grains, more than 26,000 pieces of leather, 200,000 catties of copper, 6 million catties of coal, and 2 million catties of iron sand were also brought in from Haidong.

In addition, a large amount of tea, cotton cloth, cane sugar, porcelain, etc. were shipped to Haidong for sale, which provided huge profits to Huaidong. Only in this way can Lin Bie try to build a super-large sea area like the "Lin Zhengjun" regardless of the cost, and have the capital to use 80% of the shipbuilding capacity of Guanyintan Shipyard to build warships.

Only in this way, the Jinghai battalion can be expanded to 15,000 people calmly, and it can ensure that the scale of the warships expands equally, and the level of combat effectiveness does not decline.

Only in this way, only the artisans directly under the jurisdiction of Huaidong Ordnance Supervision Center can break through 6,000 people in the first ten days of the twelfth lunar month. Not counting the shipyard, the Ordnance Supervisor alone consumes more than 40,000 kilograms of refined iron every month, so it won't make people feel distressed.

In terms of financial resources, Lin Bie is not worried about anything, he is worried about food. Especially in troubled times, grain, iron, salt and cloth, grain will always come first.

To the north of Haidong, there are many mountains and few fields. Although there are more than 10 million people, the food is not very rich. Every year, one million stone grains can be transported from the Haidong area, and Lin Fu is quite satisfied.

A million stone grains looks like a lot, but it's actually very little.

For Chen Zhihu's subordinates and the Changhuai Army who were trapped in Huaiyang, as well as their families and refugees, there were about 400,000 to 500,000 people.

Only this part of the people, if they want them to survive the grain shortage, to survive the one-year wasteland reclamation period, they must invest at least 1.5 million stone grains.

Pingjiang Prefecture is short of grain, Jiahang Lake is short of grain, Huinan is short of grain, Huaixi is short of grain, Huaisi is short of grain, and Huaidong is only self-sufficient in grain. Lin Fu's competition for the prefect of Hailing this time is to seize the time to compile and fix the acres of Hailing.

We do not expect to increase the amount of grain at once, but also ensure that ordinary tenants and farmers can benefit from farming, and increase their enthusiasm to participate in local water conservancy construction, improvement of farmland and acre, improvement of agricultural tools, reclamation and planting. In a short period of one to two years, the total grain output in Huaidong area can be increased by leaps and bounds.

There are not many people in the east, and there are only more than 100,000 elites who can conquer and fight well. Even if the soldiers and horses of the Hu Hu of Yanxi are counted, the elite soldiers who can fight do not exceed 200,000. However, in the past alien invasions, the pioneers of the alien race were the surrendering troops who failed to resist, turned to kill their family members, but were extremely ferocious.

At that time, to control the battlefield north of the Huaihe River, Huaidong will have enough food and population if he has enough money.

Chen Zhihu was so cruel that he seemed to be killing the chaotic people for the imperial court. His ferocity caused the destruction of central and southern Jin, and the resistance of the entire Henan region was completely lost. Once the eastern invaders invaded south, Hebei, Jinzhong, Henan and other places would have little resistance.

Will the Cao family leave Tongguan? Do you count on the Liang family? Rather than relying on the Cao family and the Liang family, it is better to count on the Red Jacket Army to last a while longer in Huaisi!

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