Huainan salt field water and grass are abundant, the terrain is high, suitable for farming, the official will be privately cultivated, and the salt households, salt pawns cultivate.

In this investigation of the Huainan Salt District, the total amount of privately cultivated land reached 3,000 hectares, of which the number of acres of private cultivated land in the salt area exceeded 800 hectares by the Mao Wenjing family, the commander of the Zuo Yan Guard.

To rectify the salt matter, all the privately reclaimed fields in the salt area will be under the direct jurisdiction of the Huainan Salt Supervision Department, and the Tuntian Farm will be set up in imitation of Huaidong Tunzhai. Originally, the officials were forced to work for the salt households and salt pawns to be converted into tun households, and the rent was on par with Huaidong Tunzhai, which was controlled within 30%, and the levy was reduced by half in the first two years.

Prior to this, most of the harvest of these privately cultivated grain fields was given to the officials and generals, and the salt farmers and salt soldiers who came to cultivate the fields were not even given 20%, and they became more and more impoverished because they had to bear the labor of giving salt.

This time to rectify the salt incident, this part of the poor salt households and salt pawns benefited a lot.

In fact, before the salt incident, Huaidong had received widespread support among salt households, and its root cause was still the construction of the sea wall.

The poverty of salt farmers has a lot to do with the difficulty of resisting the tide. When the tide hits, people can go to high places to avoid it, and the number of direct drowning may not be too large, but the house will drift when it encounters the tide, and the family with a little savings will also fall into abject poverty in an instant.

After the construction of the seawall, although the boiling salt area is still outside the embankment, the living areas are protected by the seawall, which fundamentally alleviates the direct encroachment of the tide on the salt households.

Including Mao Wenjing, a large number of officials and generals involved in the case were arrested almost without any resistance, and even the production in the salt area was not greatly affected, which is actually directly related to the widespread support of Huaidong among poor salt households after the construction of the seawall.

Zhang Yan's salt management, including the previous generations of salt and iron envoys, is also extraordinarily ambitious, but in the face of the reality that it is difficult to return, he does not dare to easily rectify the salt matter fundamentally, which means that he cannot obtain the mass foundation for the rectification of the salt matter.

Chen Huazhang and Song Fu accompanied Lin Tie to inspect the salt area accompanied by Liu Shidu, Wang Chengfu and others, and they can also have a deeper understanding of why Lin Tie first attacked the salt matter after he mastered Jiangning?

Dong Yuan ran Huaixi, under the guidance of Shen Rong, Zhang Yan, Yuan Hancheng and others, the salt merchants became the most important supporting force behind Huaixi, including during the salt rectification period, the children of Weiyang salt merchants who were worried about being implicated also moved to Haozhou and Shouzhou with their families in groups - this may be the direct cause of Lin Lian's efforts to rectify the salt incident, but it is by no means the most core factor.

Before the rectification of the salt incident, the two Huaiyan areas were separated from the control of Huaidong, and Weiyang Mansion was also self-contained due to the gathering of salt merchants, and its power was extraordinarily huge, so that the core area that Huaidong could control could only extend to the north and south, and could not expand to the east and west, which limited the development of the core area of Huaidong in depth and upward, and could not be connected with Dongyang Mansion.

After the salt matter is rectified, the two Huai salt areas, which were not controlled by Huaidong before, will be completely digested and become the core areas controlled by Huaidong.

The salt and iron division moved to Jiangning, and the salt merchants either moved to Jiangning or fled to Huaixi or were suppressed because of crimes, and the power of the salt merchants was fundamentally weakened and divided, and the political status of Weiyang Mansion was fundamentally reduced, so that it became the same as Pingjiang Mansion and Danyang Mansion, and became a central financial tax supply area. After the potential hostile forces in Weiyang Province were completely weakened, they were sandwiched between Dongyang Province and Huaidong, and they could not pose any substantial threat to Huaidong from other aspects.

Although a large number of salt merchants' children moved to Huaixi with their family wealth, which would increase Huaixi's strength, in the later period, Lin Jian would strictly control the flow of grain, iron and other materials into Huaixi - when the means of restricting the development of the opponent became limited and ineffective, the best means were to develop faster and better than the opponent, and the foundation was more solid.

The chariot and horse team crossed directly through Qingjiangpu and traveled weakly until Huaikou, and then turned west along the north embankment to Shanyang.

The water potential of Huaikou is vast, although it can not be compared with the mouth of the Yangtze River, the two sides of the strait are more than ten miles away, the Yunti Pass stands on the north and south banks of Huaikou, and now it has become the main station of the Huaidong water camp.

Looking at the sails of the warships stationed in Huaikou, Chen Huazhang secretly sighed.

Song Fu rode in a car, pointed to Huaikou, and said with emotion to the people around him: "The traditional southern and northern expeditions, take the middle road, first recover Henan, control the middle reaches of the Yellow River, and then seek other things." However, Henan is so dilapidated, there is not one out of ten people, and even if Henan is recovered, it will be difficult to stabilize its roots in a short time. However, Henan has an open terrain, and it is easy for cavalry from the north to enter in winter and spring, so it is extremely difficult to manage Henan. This way, I can understand the mind of the lord, and the Northern Expedition in the future of Huaidong is probably to bypass the remnants of Henan and go directly to the east road by sea and land......"

Lin Lian rode on horseback, and when he heard Song Fu talk like this, he smiled and said: "The Hu people abandoned the middle road and first sought to pass Shaanxi, and they also wanted to strengthen the hinterland!" Don't look at Yanhu has 400,000 military horses, but the time left for them is not necessarily much looser than ours. ”

"After the battle in Xuzhou, it was difficult for Yanhu to shake the defensive line in a short period of time, and the time for the luxury family to break Jiangning was too short, which also made it difficult for Yanhu to grasp the opportunity. Song Fu said.

Chen Huazhang did not have a deep understanding of military affairs, but he also knew that the core areas controlled by Yanhu, such as Liaodong and Yanji, were actually within the scope of Huaidong's direct attack, and that if the Yanhu cavalry wanted to hit the root of Huaidong and threaten the hinterland of Huaidong and Jiangning, it was necessary to first penetrate the defense line of Xusi and Huaixi or take the western front to capture Guanshan first, and the whole strategic situation was completely different.

Abandoning the old strategic thinking, as long as Huaidong can eliminate the hidden dangers of Jiangxi and Fujian, and prepare a heavy army group of about 200,000 on the eastern front, the time is ripe for the Northern Expedition.

At that time, the situation faced by Yanhu was not to open up the middle or western route to invade the hinterland of Jianghuai, but to worry that the hinterland of Liaodong and Yanji would be directly entered by Huaidong.

At this time, the total strength of Huaidong's troops deployed on the northeast front, including Xuzhou Xingying, Shanyang Town, the Second Water Battalion, and the Yimeng military horses, also reached 100,000.

Although it was not enough for these soldiers and horses to launch a counteroffensive, they at least forced Yan Lu to give up his efforts to directly attack the hinterland of Jianghuai from the eastern front, and even forced Yan Lu to disperse nearly 200,000 soldiers and horses to fortify in Shandong, Yandong, Jidong, Liaodong and other places, weakening Yan Lu's military mobilization ability to carry out Guanzhong on the western front.

Ye Ji Luorong took the western front to attack the western Qin region for the first time, and he could only mobilize 100,000 cavalry infantry. If Yan Yu could mobilize more than 200,000 soldiers and horses on the western front at one time, the Cao family would never have the ease they are now if they wanted to barely hold the front line of western Qin such as Guyuan and Qingyang.

As he was talking, a carriage and horse came from the west, and Wu Meijiu, who replaced Liu Shidu as the prefect of Huai'an, and others came to greet Lin Tie to inspect Huai'an.

Before, in the prefectures and counties controlled by Huaidong, there were still many old officials who were passive in dealing with the ministry and were not really willing to be used by Huaidong, but after Huaidong's soldiers and horses were stationed in Jiangning, Wu Meijiu, Tang Enshu and other officials, like the Haiyu Chen family, had a completely changed attitude.

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In early May, the north also entered the early summer season all of a sudden, and the weather in Yanjing City suddenly became hot in the past two days, but the temperature difference between morning and evening was large, and Ye Zier, who was sick, was still wearing an embroidered brocade robe even at noon.

The long case of Nanmu is covered with a yellow forging embroidery drape, and the desk is covered with threads from Jianghuai......

The Jade Concubine Nahe came in with nourishing soup, watched Ye Zier sitting at the desk, didn't notice her walking in at all, put the soup bowl on the corner table, walked over and kneaded Ye Zier's shoulder, and said softly: "King Khan forgot to eat again......

"Oh," Ye Zier turned his head, looked at the bright and beautiful face of the jade concubine, and then went to see the shadow of the sun falling in front of the corridor outside the hall, the time was really not early, he was thinking about military affairs, and it was strictly forbidden for the palace attendants to disturb, but he didn't expect to alarm the jade concubine again, put down the file in his hand, and said with a smile, "It's really past noon, but I don't have any sense......" took her soft little hand and asked her to sit in her arms.

At the age of fifteen, Nahe gave Yezierna as a side concubine, this year is already the fifteenth year, she is nearly thirty years old, her face is like a girl, there is no trace of time on her smooth and silky face, she is delicate and bright, and there is still the innocence of a girl in her eyes, and there are many beautiful women in the palace, but when she stands in front of her, they have become vulgar things, and Yezier's grace to her has been difficult to reduce for more than ten years.

"In the past two months, King Khan has only cared about the situation in Jianghuai, even Qin and Jin have also cared very little, is this Huaidong really the enemy of our clan?" Seeing that the case was covered with secret letters from Jianghuai, Concubine Yu asked with concern.

"There is a great prince on the western front, and there is no big chaos, but the general trend of Huaidong in the south has been completed, and the time left for us is too limited. If Huaidong was asked to pacify Zhejiang and Fujian first, and let it gather 200,000 soldiers and horses on the eastern front, the problem would be tricky, how could I easily look at it? Ye Zier sighed lightly, "The old ministers of the militarist state are still old brains, and they only think that the general trend is on our side to defeat Guanshan and open up the passage from Xiangfan to seize Jinghu, but in fact, it is not the case - the whole country, there are few generals who can truly understand the crisis on the Eastern Front, but Nahe Xiongqi has also suffered defeats, and his waist can't be stiffened, even Luo Rong also complained that I left too many troops on the Eastern Front, and gave him too few soldiers and horses." It's just that the Dengzhou Navy can't become a momentum, and it can't seal the Haikou between Jinzhou and Dengzhou, how dare I give them the troops of Jidong and Liangliao? ”

"After all, this Lin Tie is a human being, not a god," Concubine Yu comforted, "Don't say that Jiangxi won't give him a quick peace, even if he controls Jiangning, Dong Yuan in Huaixi and Yue Lengqiu in Chizhou may not obey him." There are two or three hundred thousand soldiers and horses in Huaidong, and he dares to push Xuzhou, where most of the main force is concentrated, and dare to push these soldiers and horses out to the north? ”

"......" Ye Zier shook his head, turned out a map from his desk, and didn't bother to explain too much detail to the court generals, but talked about military affairs with Concubine Yu as a pastime, and asked Concubine Yu to sit on her knees to look at the geographical situation between Jianghuai, "Once Huaidong is asked to pacify Zhejiang and Jiangxi first, Lin Tie will have the means to force Yue Lengqiu to cross the river to the north bank and entangle with the soldiers and horses on my middle and west roads." Yufei, you look at Luzhou, Luzhou is located between the Jianghuai River, and depends on the Huai Mountain and Chaohu Lake, Huaidong will inevitably operate Luzhou in the next step. Lin Jian led the main force of Huaidong's soldiers and horses to the north, as long as an elite was deployed in Luzhou and then blocked Jiangdao, even if Jiangning's troops were empty, it would be difficult for Yue Lengqiu and Dong Yuan to lead troops into Jiangning to replace Huaidong. ”

Concubine Yu frowned lightly and sighed: "The time for the luxury family to occupy Jiangning is too short, it's a pity to call people again!" ”

"There's no pity," Ye Zier said, "There are many good soldiers in Huaidong, and what will happen if the Southern Dynasty uses Xie Chaozhong to lead the troops, Huaidong and Huaixi have foreseen, and it will be difficult to find an opportunity if the soldiers and horses from Nanyang and Wuyang to Xuzhou do not move, unless the luxury family can hold Jiangning for more than half a year......"

At this time, the palace attendant came in and reported: "Zhang Xiang is here......"

"Call Zhang Xie in."

The palace attendant went to pass the edict Zhang Xie to enter the palace, and Ye Zier said to Concubine Yu: "You will go to Liaoyang in two days, and I will wait for the eldest prince to return to Beijing to discuss the military affairs of the Western Front......"

The Jade Concubine Nahe said: "The slave family will wait for the Khan King to set off together. ”

"The weather is going to be extremely hot in the blink of an eye, how can your body survive?" Yezir said.

Just as it was difficult for the south to adapt to the cold of the north for a while, the princes and ministers of Yanhu were also difficult to adapt to the scorching heat of Yanjing City in summer for a while. In the first year of taking the swallow thistle, several elderly ministers and veterans failed to survive the scorching heat for a while, and died in the heat, even the jade concubine was also seriously ill and recuperated for a long time before she survived.

Since the year before last, Yezier would temporarily leave Yanjing with the princes and ministers and harem concubines after the summer, go to Liaoyang to escape the summer, and wait until the autumn is cool before moving back.

Of course, there must also be left-behind ministers on Yanjing's side, and Ye Zier also trusts Zhang Xie, who has no way out, and uses him as a left-behind Hanchen every time to preside over the affairs of the future.