Lord of the House: Chapter 42 Hilltop Countermeasures

(Second, ask for a red ticket)

At the end of April, the weather is getting warmer, and at noon, I can wear a single cloth shirt to go out. At night, Lin Bie stands on the cliff, and I wear a coat again.

Lin Fu spent several days on the island discussing future development plans with everyone. Today was also Wu Meijiu's invitation to discuss the construction of the new city, so he came to the north bank in the afternoon.

The construction of the new city, the choice is a problem, the new city takes 600 steps, plus the digging of the moat and the new road, the new land acquisition of 2,000 mu. It is rainy in Chongzhou. To build a city, it is necessary to build a brick-clad city wall, and it is necessary to borrow soil and burn millions of large bricks for the city wall.

Expropriation of land, expropriation of civilians, borrowing soil and burning walls to build a city would cost 60,000 to 70,000 taels of silver. The tax in Chongzhou County could only maintain daily expenses and salaries. If Zai wants to manage Chongzhou County properly, at least he has to get another 100,000 taels of relief silver from the Minister of Xuanfu Envoy.

Han Zai wanted to fight for local power, so Lin Fu let him fight, and did not let Hu Zhicheng, Li Shuyi, Chen Lei and others do anything behind the scenes. Lin Fu now seized the bandit case and prevented Han Zai from intervening.

Without money, everything Han Zaizheng is worthless.

Even if Han Zai knew that the officials in the by-election such as Hu Zhicheng, Li Shuyi, and Chen Lei were all pre-empted by Lin Fu, he could do nothing. After all, Wu Meijiu was the nominal magistrate of Quanxian County, and he was full of resentment towards Wu Meijiu at this time. Can't do it.

In the hall of the county government office temporarily converted into the Buddhist Hall at Beishan Gate, he sat for an hour, talking a lot of nonsense, and nothing could be resolved, so Lin Fu didn't have the patience to spend time with Han Zai there. Back at the Donglu Temple, and watching the sunset, Lin Fu walked up the mountain with Xiaoman, wanting to stand on a high place and take a good look at the magnificent river view that turned into the evening; He stayed in the house honestly, refusing to follow Lin Tie outside to show his face.

"You frown all day, what are you thinking about?" Xiaoman turned his head and stared at Lin Bie's eyes, her eyes had a strange brilliance in the sunset light.

"Worry about silver!" Lin Bie smiled.

"It turns out that there are things that can make Lord Lin worry..."

Lin Fu looked back and saw that Song Jia and She Mingyue were coming from behind, and said with a smile, "Young Madam is also interested in seeing this late Jiang Jing?"

"Could it be that the two caged sparrows have other assignments to pass the time?" Song Jia smiled sweetly, glanced at Xiaoman, and said with a smile, "It's been a long time since I've seen Xiaoman, and she has come out like a beautiful water spirit... …”

Sun Wenwan knew that Lin Fu was coming, so she came to see her, and smiled kindly at Xiaoman.

Xiaoman treats Sun Wenwan very kindly, seeing her wearing red armor and seeing her delicate face mostly hidden in the cold metal pocket, she has a different kind of heroic appearance, but she treats Song Jia quite coldly, feeling that there is something in her. She has a charming temperament that seduces men, but also feels that her eyes are too sharp, and she doesn't like to deal with her. Because Song Jia is there, she leans behind Lin Bie, and just said lightly: "Xiaoman can't afford it. The young lady praised," then greeted Sun Wenwan, "When will Sister Sun come down the mountain again, this mountain top is deserted, and it will be very boring for people to live for a long time."

Xiaoman and Liu Yueer had long known that Song Jia and She Mingyue were imprisoned in the Zen Garden on the top of the mountain. Liu Yueer was not a troublemaker, so she would not easily come to the top of the mountain. My aunt and sister-in-law, she just doesn't like seeing them.

"Really," Song Jia pretended not to see Xiaoman's indifference, and smiled, "I'm so cold that my teeth are shaking! If I have nothing to do, I will just stand on the cliff and watch Jiangdong Zuojun move around. I'm afraid there will be six or seven. Thousands of people! To raise six or seven thousand people, it is no wonder that Lord Lin is worried about money!" She Mingyue became more and more silent, she was not as open-minded and easy-going as Song Jia, she really regarded herself as a caged bird, watching Lin Fu and others The eyes are somewhat hostile.

Except for Beishanmen and Beilu Temple, the entire Zilang Mountain should be under the control of the Jiangdong Zuo Army. On the top of the mountain.

Except for a few people, no one else knew the identity of the aunts of the She family, and Lin Fu did not prohibit them from moving within the range of the Zen Temple on the top of the mountain.

Zilang Mountain is not high, but the mountain is quite steep. Standing on the top of the mountain, you can see the situation under the mountain. Lin Bing did not expect Song Jia to be imprisoned here. Every day he stands on the cliff and observes the situation of Jiangdong Zuojun Got seven, seven, eight, eight. Maybe Sun Wenwan accidentally leaked something when she was talking to her. This woman is too smart and can always see things that others can't see from the slightest clues.

Lin Fu walked to the stone table under the linden tree and sat down, pointed to the stone bench opposite, motioned Song Jia to sit down, and asked with interest: "Young Madam is smart and wise, what should I do based on what Young Madam can see? Solve this headache?"

"Master Lin is holding Jinhai's food supply, and it seems that he has sent people to measure the fields north of Zilang Mountain. Song Jia also sees that monks from other temples are constantly being detained and questioned. Involve all the monasteries in Chongzhou County!" Song Jia laughed, "If you say that Lord Lin has no means of making money, who would believe it? The contradiction in Lord Lin's heart is how to choose?"

Sun Wenwan's color changed slightly, or she suggested to let She's aunt go out of the temple to move around the mountain top. She didn't expect Song Jia's eyes to be so vicious. Nine and ten, he said to Lin Fu apologetically, "I will take care not to let them connect to the sides of East Cliff and South Cliff..."

Xiao Manyi stood behind Lin Fu, staring at Song Jia vigilantly. Smart and beautiful women are always prone to hostility from the same sex.

Lin Bie was noncommittal, just stared at Song Jia's eyes, and Song Jia was not annoyed by her words.

Then Lin Fu smiled and said to Sun Wenwan: "Don't make such a fuss, if the luxury family could listen to the woman's words, our situation would be much more difficult than it is now - the Shanjian Temple is indeed quite deserted, you remember , the Tangdi Station will let someone copy one more copy to pass the time for the young lady."

"Thank you, Lord Lin for your generosity..." Song Jia also restrained her aggressive aura, thanking Lin Fu for not treating them like birds in a cage. Compared to being bored and trapped in the mountains, the whole person will rust. Report to pass the time, know what's going on outside, life will be much easier.

"There's nothing to be generous or not," Lin Fu smiled and said, "As long as the young lady doesn't think that Lin is mean to others."

When they met for the first time outside Donghuamen, Song Jia showed the calmness, calmness and strong observation skills that are rarely seen in women.

After a thousand years, men and women have long been accustomed to seeing each other from the perspective of treating each other as equals. It is also this psychological inertia that enables Lin Bie to appreciate the excellence of women without discrimination.

Song Jia's strength naturally showed, others might see it as arrogant and arrogant, and Lin Fu thought that she might be a bit arrogant, but in the eyes of other men, only her charming and attractive face and graceful sultry Beautiful body.

"Lord Lin is joking," Song Jia said with a smile. "In terms of tolerance, there are really few people who can match Lord Lin..."

Seeing Lin Fu and Song Jia sitting in front of the stone table pretending to be polite, Xiaoman pursed her bright red mouth unwillingly, but was inconvenient to say anything, thinking about going back and reminding Liu Yueer, be careful to let Lin Fu's soul give this Foxy hooked away.

"Since the young lady is interested, then I might as well talk to the young lady," Lin Fu said, "I am afraid that the young lady will not believe it. Nineteen small-scale monasteries in Chongzhou have been identified. There are more than 310,000 mu in total. Although the monastery occupies a lot of land, it is divided into temple fields and send fields. If it is divided into ten equal parts, it is almost the ratio of one or two fields of temple fields and eight or nine fields of field fields..."

"Ah!" Song Jia was taken aback, she did not expect that if Lin Fu dug down the line of the monastery, he would be able to find so many concealed properties in one county, "I really did not expect that there would be such a many……"

"East Fujian has many mountains, few plains, and many natural disasters. The She family can maintain a protracted war with only Jin'an and the surrounding counties. In essence, the She family and other seven clans have extremely strong control over the area. Three or five households can support one soldier. Chongzhou is located in a plastered plain, if the ability to pay taxes and salaries is not as good as that of a county of the same size in East Fujian, then it would be called Tianfang Night Talk!" Lin Fu said.

Song Jia thought about it too. When the extravagant family was at its peak, it controlled 2 million people and had 100,000 soldiers. Based on the ratio between the army and the people, it was almost four or five households to support one soldier. Only then did she understand Lin Fu's thoughts on military affairs and people's livelihood. tasks are very clear.

"In an eventful and chaotic autumn, the essence is that the central government does not control the localities effectively, and a large amount of taxable and salaries are lost to the powerful, while the people who have lost their land are more and more difficult and difficult... If there is a war and the central government is short of money, forced levies are allocated to In the local area, it can't hurt the powerful and powerful, but just scrape a layer of oil from the poor and poor households - if the people are struggling, chaos will happen frequently. , doubling the supply of Futian would not surprise me much."

"Chongzhou city is broken, She Feixiong helped you, Chongzhou should have no forces that can resist the majesty of Lord Lin, why is Lord Lin still frowning?" Song Jia asked suspiciously, "I think Yue Lengqiu should send someone to Chongzhou came to control you, are you afraid that you will not be able to make a wedding dress for others? Or does Master Lin want to delay and let Yue Lengqiu's people share some of the pressure for you?"

Lin Fu's smile narrowed a little and said, "It's not early, don't delay the young lady to rest..."

Song Jia frowned slightly, stood up and saluted, and said, "I am inconvenient to send Lord Lin, so I will say goodbye here..." She knew that Lin Fu couldn't speak clearly in front of her.

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When going up the mountain, Lin Fu had many hesitations about the choice of various treatments. However, after talking with Song Jia, although there was nothing new in what he was thinking, it was more transparent.

They are holding the throat of Jinhai Food Road in their hands, but if they have the greed to take advantage, they will push all their collaborators to the opposite side.

The whole Jinhai grain route can actually be divided into four links: the first link is from the source of the water to the Huaihe mouth to the Jiaozhou Bay, and this link is basically carried by the Zhuhe Gang. Not only to protect the interests of the river gangs, but even to rectify the officials' bad habit of exploiting and making things difficult for the river gangs, and to support the river gang forces in the Jinhai food route.

Taking the Jiaolai River from Jiaozhou Bay to cross the Shandong Peninsula is the second link. Tang Haoxin was in charge of Shandong’s military and political affairs at this time. Gu Wuchen dispatched Gu Siyuan to lead his entourage to Qingzhou to assist Tang Haoxin, and even further transferred Chen/Yuanliang to Shandong through the personnel department. , the benefits generated by this link will naturally belong to them.

From Laizhou Bay across the Bohai Bay to the Jinhai Sea, it is the third link, and the benefits of this link are shared by the Jiangdong Zuo Army and Hejianfu and the Zhuhai merchants in the Denglai area of ​​Shandong.

It is the fourth link and the last link of the Jinhai grain route from Jinhai to the Weishui River and into the Weihe River. There are many forces participating in the benefit sharing of this link. Lin Xuwen transferred Lin Xuhong and other Lin people to Jinhai. , mainly to divide the cake.

Although the benefits generated by the entire Jinhai food route are enormous, the benefit chain is relatively scattered~www.mtlnovel.com~ Jiangdong Zuojun actually draws 70,000 to 80,000 silver from it every year. After all, in a short period of time Here, Lin Fu was unable to organize the large-scale black water ocean merchant ships sent directly from Chongzhou to Jinhai. Even if he could organize 50,000 stone black water ocean shipping capacity, it would be easy to earn 200,000 taels of silver a year from it.

In addition to the layout of Jiyun Club and Hekou, at most 30,000 to 40,000 taels of silver can be drawn every year.

If the cavalry battalion is abolished and the water battalion is halved, the total strength is maintained at about 3,000 people, and the annual investment of 100,000 taels of silver is barely enough. Then there is a shortfall of 150,000 taels of silver every year. For now, we can only do everything possible to tap the potential of Chongzhou County.

The summer and autumn grain supply in Chongzhou County is about 10,000 taels of silver. To suddenly tap the potential of Chongzhou County’s supply of wages from 10,000 taels to 150,000 taels, there is even a considerable margin in theory, but it is not easy to achieve. of.

Although it was found out that the monastery had concealed as much as 310,000 mu of land, it was impossible for Lin Fu to take all these fields as his own. Involving such a huge conflict of interests, not to mention that the local forces will violently resist, Yue Lengqiu may even directly send troops to Chongzhou to grab this cake.

I don't want this woman, Song Jia, to be imprisoned in the Zen Temple on the top of the mountain to see so much and so deeply - such a smart woman, it is better to be imprisoned in the Zen Temple on the top of the mountain. Lin Fu and Xiaoman went down the mountain, Sun Wenwan saw them off, and Lin Fu instructed her: "Add a post on the top of the mountain, don't make any mistakes."

Sun Wenwan nodded, stopped at the pavilion halfway up the mountain, and watched Lin Bie and Xiaoman go down the mountain. It was Xiaoman who thought no one could see them, so innocently grabbed Lin Bie's sleeve and shook it. When she went down the mountain, Sun Wenwan felt a little sour in her heart. My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter