Lord of the House: Chapter 21 Patrol\'s Field

At the end of the day, the chariot team set off from Sanghepu to Shouzhou, and when the sun was about to twilight, they arrived at the city of Shouzhou.

Shouzhou controls the upper reaches of the Huai River, and has a tendency to be condescending. It sends a ship to the 500-mile waterway in Shanyang. If the downstream changes, Shouzhou will send troops very quickly. Therefore, after taking Huaixi by chance, the defense focus of Fengli's army begins. Moving westward, the main force of the Jinghai Division and Chen Zhu's Dengcheng Division were stationed in Xinpu (Lianyungang) and Yuntiguan on the east side.

After the Battle of Jingxiang, in addition to Chen Zui being ordered to go to Yunti Pass to form an independent Denghai Town Division, Zhang Gou and Tang Fuguan were also transferred to the Fengli Army and Huaiyang Army respectively, along with Liu Xilin, Chu Zheng, Han Caizhi, and Geng Quanshan. , Chen Kuili and other departments, the number of Jia soldiers assembled on the east front has reached seven divisions, in addition to the second division of the cavalry led by Li Liang, the Jinghai division with Ge Cunxin and Yang Shi as the commander and military staff respectively .

In addition, among the 140,000 prisoners, in addition to the 80,000 prisoners mainly from the newly attached Han army and captives, they were transported to overseas by the Nanyang Shipping Society and the Heishuiyang Shipping Society for labor service, and the remaining 60,000 The prisoners were mainly from the Suizhou army, and the Xuzhou labor camp was also used to increase the reserve soldiers on the Eastern Front to a level of 120,000 or even higher.

The composition of Suizhou army prisoners is also simple. Most of them are poor people who rebelled in Suizhou in Jingxiang and Huaixi. They stopped in Suizhou with Luo Xiancheng for six or seven years, and almost all their families settled in Suizhou. The ghost was fascinated by the stealing, and he took a step to become a prisoner of war. Unlike the Xinfu Han army and the Hulu prisoners, the Suizhou army prisoners were not only easy to transform, but also became an important soldier in the Huaidong Army. source.

In order to better transform the 60,000 prisoners into brave soldiers who are loyal to the government and can fight for the government, at the same time Wang Xiang is in Suizhou. The Suizhou army generals who were attached to Dong Yuan by Zhong Rong and Luo Jian were still young, and Lin Fu always asked him to be properly resettled, registered as a citizen, and given priority in granting land if conditions allowed.

Previously, Luo Xiancheng's large-scale colonization in Suizhou was actually privately occupied by generals at all levels.

The military reclamation in Shouzhou will also be dealt with at the same time.

When he was about to enter the city, Lin Fu stopped, stood on the side of the road, looked at the gradually golden wheat fields on both sides of the gallop, and said to Gao Zongting, Ning Zechen, Meng Yan and others around him: "Dong Yuan has been in Huaixi for several years, but he still works. got some work..."

"I don't know how Dong Shijun will feel when he hears the words of the lord?" Meng Yan said with a smile.

After working hard for several years, Huaidong took it all without any effort. Today, Shouzhou and Haozhou have a total of 1.5 million mu of land. Rewards for generals; Dong Yuan must be in a good mood to be called to hell?

"I don't care what Dong Yuan thinks," Lin Fu laughed. He still felt that calling Dong Yuan into the house was a proud work in his life, and he said to Meng Yan, "After Yinzhuang took over the army and reclaimed the farmland, although the price of the farmland was reduced to two or three. One acre of silver dollars, but still a considerable number of people are extremely poor, unable to invest in the purchase of land, and they cannot simply drive them away. They are allowed to pay rent in addition to taxes. After ten years, the land will be owned by Yongye, and the rent of ten years will be transferred to Yinzhuang to calculate the land sales! Of course, the officials do the work for the Zhuangshang Yinzhuang, and the Zhuangshang Yinzhuang also needs to draw some extra money to Shouzhou Prefecture, which is counted as a subsidy. , don't hide and tuck."

The annual output of Shangtian is three shi, and each household is granted less than 40 acres of land. After the new tax policy, the tax will only be 20%, and the land rent will not exceed 30% of the actual income, that is, it must not exceed six times the basic land tax. Dong Yuan was in the fields of Shouzhou. In order to support the army, he directly took 60 to 70% of the harvest from the fields every year.

Lin Fu wanted to relocate all the fields in Shouzhou and Haozhou to Yinzhuang, but allowing farmers to pay less than 35% of the rent they received was already a kind of favor; After ten years of continuous rent payment, the farmland has been converted into private permanent property, which is almost a happy news for the farmers.

Meng Yong said: "The lord is kind and generous, loves the people like a son, and the people will love the lord like a father..."

Do you love the people like a child? Lin Fu smiled in his heart, it was just the memory of later generations, which made him not have a high-level perspective on ordinary people, which is precisely what some heroes in the world do not have.

Most farmers live and die on a piece of land that does not belong to them. Their desire for land is unimaginable for the upper class, so these people will also be the most staunch supporters of the New Deal.

In the past, these people were destitute, who were oppressed at the bottom of the society and could not show their strength and voice. They oppressed to the extreme, resisted, and only produced extremely strong destructive power. However, now they are the most staunch constituents and supporters of the Huaidong Army, and their strength and voice can be expressed through the Huaidong Army as a whole, which is also the core guarantee for Lin Fu to push the New Deal further.

After the new tax policy came out, in particular, Lin Fu, in the name of a reward, directly demanded hundreds of thousands of farms from the Yuanyue clan in the outer counties of Jiangning, and pulled them into the merchants' silver farms to the nearby farmers who had no fields and few fields. Selling, although the colonial bank used this to collect the principal, the farmers without fields and few fields actually got great benefits. The most direct manifestation is the land price in Jiangning, which plummeted in just half a month. to pre-war levels.

Those whose interests are damaged naturally hate Lin Bie to the bone; but those tens of thousands of poor farmers who have never had such extravagant hopes and fantasies in their first half of their lives are not ardent supporters of Lin Bie?

Because Lin Fu will gradually implement the recruit system, the old soldiers of the former Huaidong Army, who cannot become non-commissioned officers, will also be gradually arranged to retire and be resettled to the local area for land granting. In addition, new soldiers need to be recruited and filled in the army to ensure the renewal of the army. Replacement, and gradually expand the scale of soldiers to 500,000, or even higher.

At that time, people regarded military service as hard labor, and conscription into the army was also a form of exile. Especially in the wealthy areas of the south of the Yangtze River, the children of peasant households would not eat military rations until they were desperate. Originally, Lin Fu did not intend to recruit from the relatively rich Jiangning counties. No matter how many soldiers there are, the recruitment points set up have been few for months. No matter how well the Privy Council and the Military Department have done their propaganda work, they have repeatedly emphasized that the status of generals is very different from the past, but the effect of conscription around Jiangning Prefecture is no better than that in Huaidong, southern Zhejiang, and Jiangxi, which are relatively bitter and cold. The area where the field work is really going on. However, after the promulgation of the new tax administration and the law on the sale and lease of land by commercial banks, several recruitment sites in Jiangning Prefecture were surrounded by children of poor peasant households every day.

Lin Fu called it the foundation of the masses: the reason why the Huaidong Army can have such a strong cohesion is precisely because Lin Fu has been doing this work in a solid manner since he was established in Huaidong for ten years. Right now, it is just to make some adjustments and improvements to the work done in Chongzhou and Huaidong before, and then promote it nationwide.

Lin Fu and Meng Yan said, "I'm coming to Shouzhou, but I don't care much about defense. What I care most about is the issue of how to deal with the army and reclaim the 150-60 acres of land from Dong Yuan. In the early stage of the Xiang Battle, Dong Yuan directly took 50,000 colonies from these colonies, and then brought these colonies to Xuchang. The Shouzhou fields were disposed of and had good results. Hearing it in my ears, especially those soldiers, a considerable part of their families are still in Shouzhou, I don't think they will be willing to go against Huaidong again..."

In the past, Meng Yan only thought that Dong Yuan had a great talent that others couldn't match, and he had an excellent grasp of people's hearts. He could control the army by attracting and suppressing different generals, but it was only when he integrated into Huaidong~www.mtlnovel.com~ that he truly experienced So, Lin Fu fundamentally controls the army, and he controls almost every soldier's heart!

When Dong Yuan was so worried about the money to support the army that he would spend one or two million taels of silver a year, the Privy Council had already set the target of 30 million silver dollars for the increase in revenue after three years.

Meng Yan didn't know if Dong Yuan was desperate or depressed at this time, but in short, he felt that Dong Yuan had no hope of winning.

Meng Yan thought of something, and told Lin Fu in person: "Dong Shijun entered the town of Huaixi, Weiyang has many salt merchants' children to invest, Dong Shijun went to Xuchang to take office in Cangji, so many salt merchants' children stayed in Shou The state, at this time, intends to go north to Xuchang to invest in Dong’s envoys; the lord asks for instructions to Meng Yong to deal with it like this?”

"Those who want to stay are welcome to stay; those who want to leave will not be sent." Lin Fu said. When these salt merchants escaped from Weiyang, they were afraid of liquidating Huaidong. After investing in Shouzhou over the years, the financial resources of these salt merchants’ children have almost been exhausted; even if they did not consume large-scale farms and houses in Huaixi, as long as they could follow the New Deal system, Lin Fu didn’t want to make extra efforts to renovate the old ones. account.

Shortly after entering Shouzhou City, a letter cavalry rushed into Shouzhou from the east and presented a secret letter to Lin Fu.

"Zhen Feng came quickly, and has already landed at Xinpu," Lin Fu and the people around him said, "I wanted to stay in Shouzhou for two more days, but now it seems that I have to rush to Xinpu first."

Zhen Feng was the governor of Goryeo Haeyang County, and was captured by Lin Fu in the Battle of Seogwipo. Later, Lin Fu supported Zhen Feng to form the Haiyang Army to seize the Goryeo kingship. Called Zhen Feng to occupy the three counties in the south of Goryeo, but even with the help of the Haedong camp and the Saga clan, the Zhen family still suffered too much in terms of military strength. The two sides formed a tug of war in Hanyang County, Goryeo. no one. My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter