Lord of the House

As the night got darker, Lin Fu arranged for Huang Jinnian and others to rest first; since Wu Qi came over, he and Zhou Pu would handle the military affairs of the Xiashan camp together.

Although Lin Fu came here, and the Ministry of Military Intelligence, Wang Chengfu, Chen Enze and others accompanied him, the most troublesome thing in Xiashan is how to get the more than 100,000 people from Jinhai stranded here along the Jiaolai River as soon as possible. To evacuate to the south, Wang Chengfu and Chen Enze sent Lin Fu to assist in the evacuation of the people, leaving only Zhou Pu to preside over the Xiashan camp.

Zhou Puqiang was in charge of leading troops to fight, and the tedious and trivial military affairs caused him a great headache. When he saw Wu Qi back, he was more affectionate than when he saw his father.

Geng Quanshan and Chen Dingbang were originally military generals, and they joined Huaidong on this trip, so Lin Fu directly arranged for them to assist Wu Qi and Zhou Pu in military affairs.

In addition to the Huaidong Cavalry Battalion, the Shangshe Wuwei, and the Obujin Navy, the Xiashan Camp has more than 4,000 troops, as well as thousands of wounded soldiers who were first evacuated from the Jinhai Sea. The most important thing is to do a good job of evacuating the Tianjin Navy. Ready.

In the current situation, Yan Hu will resolutely capture Jinhai, and there will be enough troops to attack Jinhai by storm - giving up Jinhai is also a helpless move.

Although Lin Fu would not give up Jinwei Island, but Jinwei Island was isolated in the sea, and the station in the island village was only more than 200 acres. In the stage of accumulating strength in Huaidong, Jinwei Island's role was mainly to contain and harass from the coast. Under the circumstance that the Donghu people had almost no naval forces, it was enough to keep 2,000 elites stationed on Jinwei Island, which was a fortified city.

Lin Xuwen is the only one who can compete with Huaidong for control of the Tianjin Navy. Now Lin Xuwen has completely joined Huaidong. The slightest resistance.

Lin Bie's initial plan was to set up an independent division in the Infantry Division to accommodate the Tianjin Navy.

The Jin Navy was born out of the remnants of the Jinzhong Army, formed in the battles of Jinhai and Yangxin, defended the Jinhai, and bought more time for the evacuation of more than 300,000 people. But Ma Yigong and Yang Yihang were both excellent generals.

After joining Huaidong, the Jin Navy is also qualified to become an independent army, and will also add another elite combat force to Huaidong.

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Lin Fu left Lin Xuwen and Gao Zongting alone.

There was a large-scale monastery on the Xiashan Mountain, and Huaidong requisitioned the monastery to form the Xiashan Camp. After Lin Fu arrived in Laizhou, he took the monastery as his travel yard. He usually lived in the west wing of the Xiashan monastery.

There are several osmanthus trees in the yard, which are in the flowering season. The branches and leaves are full of pale yellow flowers and bones the size of rice grains.

Lin Xuwen and Gao Zongting walked with Lin Bing on the flowers blown by the wind on the stone path, and saw a beautiful woman walking through the corridor-this woman, in Shanyang, in Yandu, Gao Zongting I saw it around Lin Fu. I didn't notice it before, and Lin Fu didn't introduce it. Gao Zongting only regarded this woman as Lin Fu's favorite concubine. He didn't expect Lin Fu to come out this time and bring this woman with him.

Lin Xuwen didn't care too much. When he met a female family member in the inner house, as a courtesy, he had to look elsewhere to avoid suspicion. Although Lin Fushang went back to Jinhai and Song Jia followed her, Lin Xuwen had no impression of her.

Heroes love beauties these days, although in the impressions of Lin Xuwen and Gao Zongting, Lin Fu is not the kind of person who is greedy for women's lust, but being obsessed with women's **** has never been a weakness of a hero who is worthy of the world's stigma-Lin Xuwen will not study it in detail. The secret between Qiniang and Lin Fu.

Lin Xuwen's identities are different. Even if he joined Huaidong, he is still Lin Fu's clan brother, and his official position will rise to the next level after arriving in Jiangning. Even if Lin Xuwen would not be the most powerful person in Huaidong, he would still be the one with the most detached status.

Seeing the little woman who had no name with Lin Fu approaching, Lin Xuwen just turned his body sideways and nodded slightly to show his respect.

Gao Zongting bowed and said, "Zongting sees his wife..."

"Mr. Gao is very polite, the concubine Yongtai Song has seen the eldest son, Mr. Gao..." Song Jia turned back and returned the salute, and reported her family.

"Young madam..." Gao Zongting instantly wanted to understand who this beautiful, beautiful woman was in front of him.

Whether it is the She family or the Song family, they are covering up the fact that Song Jia and She Mingyue were detained in Chongzhou. How could they take the initiative to announce this scandal to the public?

As far as Huaidong is concerned, Song Jia's identity is too sensitive, and only a handful of people in the military department know her true identity. The named favorite.

In the past, although the relationship between Emperor Gao Zongting and Huaidong was good, but Emperor Gaozong's court served Li Zhuo and was loyal to the court, while Lin Xuwen and Huaidong were only in the same alliance at that time. Possibly leaked to them to know?

Now that Gao Zongting has joined Huaidong, Lin Fu has to rely on him as his right-hand man; Lin Xuwen has also completely given up his ambition to be independent, and in Huaidong he will naturally obtain a position comparable to that of Lin Mengde, Cao Zi'ang, Qin Chengzu, Fu Qinghe and others - Song Jia and others The Song family behind Song Jia is a factor that cannot be ignored in the changing situation in Zhejiang and Fujian. Gao Zongting and Lin Xuwen should be aware of all the subtleties in it.

In comparison, Huang Jinnian's peace with Huaidong was more forced by interests and circumstances. At least for now, he could not be allowed to know the secrets of Huaidong's true core.

Not only the existence of Song Jia, but also the intricate relationship between Lin Gu, Huaidong and Dongyang, the dark transaction with the Red Jacket Army, and the troops, military potential and economic potential mastered by the Huaidong Army Division. I invited Lin Xuwen and Gao Zongting to sit down and explain in detail...

Gao Zongting has been worried about the power of the Yanhu people sweeping the world for several months.

Jiangning seems to be able to organize an army of 400,000 to 500,000 in a short period of time, but so many soldiers and horses are hastily assembled, fragmented, intrigued, wary of each other, each with their own ambitions, how can they simultaneously resist Zhejiang and Fujian in the south and those in the north. Yan Hu army?

There is a great loss of the general trend and the uncontrollable decadence and despair - but knowing that Huaidong can mobilize up to 200,000 troops in the most urgent situation, half of them can be called elites, Gao Zongting knows that the situation has a lot of room for recovery!

"Without the hard support of Li Bingbu and Zong Ting in the north for the past few years, Huaidong would not have the strength it is today," Lin Fu said. "In the future, I will definitely give Li Bingbu justice..."

Gao Zongting sighed deeply that the rise of Huaidong was directly related to the Jinhai food route.

In the past three years, Jinhai Grain Road has transported nearly 7 million stone rice grains to Gyeonggi and border troops from Shandong, Jianghuai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang and other places, all of which are in Huaidong and Qingzhou. And under the direct control of Jinhai and other forces.

Comparing the price of grain in Chongzhou and Jinhai, there is almost a price difference of more than 8 million taels of silver. No one can have an accurate figure on how much profit there is for the Dongyang faction.

Although Zhang Xie and others have manipulated the grain market in Gyeonggi for many years and plundered their wealth not less than millions of taels of silver, they hid all the plundered wealth in silver cellars, or came to buy fields and houses for personal enjoyment - but Huai Just repairing and defending the seawall in the east used up one million taels of silver obtained from the Jinhai grain road.

In addition to other benefits, the completion of the construction of the seawall also allowed the reserve force of the Huaidong Industrial and Yiying Battalion to once exceed 100,000, laying a solid foundation for the large-scale expansion of the Huaidong Army in the first half of the year.

This is just an example of Huaidong's light on gold and silver and more on actual performance.

Speaking of which, Lin Xuwen is also ashamed. He came to know the Hejian Mansion and supervises the military preparations and the Jinhai waterway transportation. It can be said that he is one of the few officials with real power outside the temple in Dayue. But in the past three years, in addition to supporting the 6,000-strong regular army of the Tianjin Navy, Lin Xuwen has done nothing more in Jinhai.

As a result, until the large-scale expansion of the Jinhai Navy before the war, nearly half of the reservists were still the same group of prisoners that Lin Fu had brought to Jinhai from Yangxin for resettlement.

To say what Lin Xuwen has achieved is that he has an extra 400,000 taels of silver in his personal pocket. At the beginning, the Lin family hurriedly withdrew from Shanglin, and the silver removed from the silver cellar was only 200,000 taels. Lin Xuwen's three-year search in Jinhai was also quite impressive.

But when it came to Jinhai and the Donghu soldiers and horses were trapped to death, Lin Xuwen came to his senses. No matter how much gold and silver were accumulated in the silver cellar, it was the most useless dead thing.

As early as mid-April, Lin Xuwen added 400,000 silver to Huaidong Bank as principal. Lin Fu, in the name of the Huaidong Military Division, lent the money to buy the surplus grain from grain merchants along the Jinhai grain road, as a material reserve for the evacuation of nearly 400,000 soldiers and civilians to the south.

"Without the hard support of the Ministry of War and the ancestral court in the north, the Jinhai Food Route would not have been able to last for so long. Without the existence of the Jinhai Grain Route, Huaidong would have no way of accumulating strength," Lin Fu said, "In the beginning, No one can replace the eldest brother's achievements in Jinhai..."

Lin Xuwen said ashamedly: "Seventeenth brother doesn't need to put gold on my face. After all, there is still a difference in the realm of spending money..."

Lin Bie smiled and changed the subject to talk about other things.

Song Jia was standing behind Lin Fu, and secretly sighed: Yanji and Jin County have been largely controlled by Yan Hu, but the evacuation of troops and civilians in Jinhai was successfully organized, and Huaidong benefited greatly...

The withdrawal of the Jin Navy will directly become an elite combat force that can be used by Huaidong.

Nearly 400,000 soldiers and civilians were evacuated to Shengsi, Changguo and Mingzhoufu counties for resettlement, which would directly consolidate Huaidong's rule over eastern Zhejiang. The immigration of nearly 400,000 soldiers and civilians will help to quickly restore and even further improve agricultural production in Mingzhou.

There are many abandoned fields in Mingzhou Prefecture due to the sharp decline in population, and there is almost no difficulty in reclaiming wasteland; in addition, a large number of land and houses that have been requisitioned and confiscated as officials can be directly resettled.

In order to avoid mistakes in farming as much as possible, Huaidong adopted the method of relocating households and filling villages for resettlement of displaced persons.

As early as the first ten days of May, small households were drawn from the villages in Chongzhou, Hecheng and other places to fill in Mingzhou, and in the summer and autumn, the official fields and abandoned fields confiscated by Mingzhou were planted with rice, Cotton, hemp, sugarcane and other crops. The people evacuated from Jinhai only arrived in Huaidong in early June, and filled the villages first to make up for the shortage of agricultural labor. In this way, more than 300,000 mu of land was planted in Mingzhou Prefecture. , but also the farming and land reclamation in Hecheng, Chongzhou and other places.

This is a great relief to ease the food pressure next year.

The nearly 400,000 soldiers and civilians who moved south could provide Huaidong with 40,000 to 60,000 qualified reservists in addition to the Tianjin Navy.

It will take a year or two for the people who migrated south to settle down in the local area. During this period, it is necessary for Huaidong to further expand the scale of the labor camps, so as to help the people who migrated south through the initial period of relief by means of work-for-work. Hard years.

With Lin Xuwen, Huang Jinnian and others joining Huaidong, Huaidong will be able to support his own spokesperson in Jiangning Xindu besides Gu Wuchen.

Because of the Jinhai food route, Jinhai also accumulated a huge amount of wealth.

Including Huang Jinnian's family, the Huaidong Military Division received a military "donation" of about 300,000 silver at one time, and the Huaidong Bank received more than one million taels of principal.

In the name of Huaidong Military Division ~www.wuxiaspot.com~, Lin Fu borrowed 1,000,000 taels of silver from Huaidong Bank to purchase the surplus grain that had been accumulated by grain merchants after the shutdown of the Jinhai grain road.

In addition to the 400,000 shi of rice grains used to evacuate the people of Jinhai to the south and resettle in the early stage, at a time when the food pressure in various places was so tense, Huaidong's rice grain reserves also increased to 1.4 million shi.

Of course, the Huaidong Military Division's total borrowings from Huaidong Bank also surged to 2 million taels of silver, and the annual payment of interest alone was as high as 240,000 taels.

Only then can one see the huge benefits of Lin Fu's resolute establishment of Huaidong Bank.

Except for Huang Jinnian who donated real gold and silver as military funds to protect the family, the others, even Lin Xuwen, no matter how high his consciousness is, he will not use his family's money to support the army in vain.

Compared with the violent requisition that would arouse violent resistance, using Huaidong Bank as a medium, Huaidong's means of raising military funds was much more affectionate-although Huaidong had to pay a high amount of interest for this, but also through Huaidong Bank. , to unite the scattered forces tightly around Huaidong.

Those grain merchants, also because the Jinhai grain route was cut off, bought the grain in their hands to the Huaidong Military Division, and the money was gone for a while.

Huaidong Military Division's ransom behavior further won the trust of grain merchants, and he was more willing to deposit the silver in the bank to earn interest.

Taking advantage of the Huaidong Bank and the village village, the Huaidong Military Division can also greatly reduce the expenditure on resettling refugees and reclaiming wasteland.

In fact, after the Jinhai forces were merged, Huaidong only occupied three prefectures, plus the Huaisi area controlled by the Huaiyang Army Town, including Jeju and Xinde's Yizhou, there were only twenty-five counties in total. , but the actual military potential is not much worse than the luxury homes in the nearly 100 counties in the control area. My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter