"Since the grain was changed to silver, all the donations should have been abolished, but all prefectures and counties have been levied. For the sake of today's plan, the prefectures and counties should be asked to pay the donations for public use, and should no longer levy salaries and ...... from the acres of land."

In the back garden of Gu's house, Zhang Yubo made a generous speech, and when he talked about the excitement, he slapped the table and shook the dishes on the table.

"Uncle Yu is impatient, I thought that you would be able to hone one or two when you went to Xuzhou, but I didn't expect it to get worse," Lin Tingli said slowly, "If King Ning could hear your words, he wouldn't have blasted you out of the council hall in public." What good is it that we can understand what you say to us? ”

Gu Wuchen raised his hand and pressed it, asking Zhang Yubo to calm down for a while, and said: "This levy, although it is spread into the acre, but it mainly pursues the principle of 'self-raising and self-use', and the government and county have a surplus, so naturally they will not be forced to spread it!" There is no surplus in the prefecture and county, and there is no way to spread it into the fields. The situation in Xuzhou, the county secretary may have consideration, you can consult with Yue Lengqiu and Wang Tian, you should not make a fuss in the court, let alone face Ning Wang ......" Speaking of this, a little pause, "The Ning Wangfu guard camp has been expanded again and again, and a new internal government division has been established, and today's status is not much different from that of the prince." As courtiers, we must always maintain the prestige of King Ning. ”

Lin Jian sat silently, Gu Wuchen said half of what he said.

"King Ning's prestige, as a courtier, is naturally to be maintained," Zhang Yubo sighed, said, "However, the scourge of tyrannical expropriation must not be overlooked, if King Ning wants to restore the rule of the Dayue Dynasty and levy it on the small and poor, it is not a long-term solution, and the root of it is to learn the politics of Chongzhou: clear the acres of land, and the country is self-sufficient!" ”

"The politics of Chongzhou is good, but it can be done in Chongzhou, but it can't be done elsewhere," Gu Wuchen said slowly, "Governing the country and cooking Xiaoxian, impatience must not be ......"

Lin Jian drank tea with his head bored, he returned to Chongzhou, and he could still be unified by himself, so it was a big deal not to ask about the dire situation outside.

Zhang Yubo pursues the way of loyalty to the monarch, and pities the hardships of the people's livelihood, which is the most difficult.

This time, the "levy of additional salaries" was carried out in accordance with the principle of "local self-raising and local self-use." In the final analysis, neither the Ning Wangfu nor the county department had the confidence and confidence to collect the apportioned silver in a timely manner, so they engaged in the name of "self-raising and self-use" and directly delegated the right to collect the money to the military divisions; If there are any hidden dangers, the military divisions will send troops to suppress them quickly.

In fact, it would lead to a serious consequence, but King Ning and many others, who grew up in a princely family, could not have anticipated: the power of the military division in the local area would be possible to be further expanded.

Lin Jian secretly thought in his heart: Huaidong two prefectures and eleven counties, Huai'an Mansion is better to raise money, then let Huai'an Mansion pay the silver to the county department, except for Chongzhou, other counties in Hailing Mansion should be able to produce some things, he just has an excuse to interfere.

As for his actions in Chongzhou, such as renovating public land, measuring acres of land, and reducing rents and levies, Gu Wuchen said that he was impatient, and Lin Tingli did not agree with it (after all, the Lin family is the landlord of Dongyang Mansion, and the rent reduction and tax reduction must be directly reduced to his own head first), Lin Jian has known it for a long time, and there is no need to argue about these details.

Lin Jian diverted the topic and mentioned the matter of letting Liu Xilin follow Zhang Yubo to Xuzhou.

This time to encircle and suppress Liu Miaozhen's department, Xuzhou has the task of sending troops; Liu Xilin went to Xuzhou, in addition to helping Zhang Yubo fight against Chen Hansan, he could also have the opportunity to lead troops to fight.

Gu Wuchen also hopes that more generals who can fight well in the Dongyang family will come out, and it is better to let Liu Xilin go to Xuzhou than to stay in Jiangning.

Gu Wuchen thought about it for a moment and agreed to this arrangement.

At this time, the old lady sent someone to urge. Xun Niang is pregnant, and she doesn't plan to stay in the house tonight, so she shouldn't stay up too late, and she wants Lin Jian to take Dong Niang back quickly.

Lin Jian was also in a bad mood, he didn't have any expectations for this Jiangning discussion, and he wanted to do a good job in Jiangning. At the urging of his mother-in-law, he said goodbye and left first.

Lin Jian rode a horse, Jun Xun sat in the carriage, and dozens of horsemen surrounded him.

The weather was hot, the curtain was changed to a gauze curtain, Jun Xun opened the curtain and spoke to Lin Bin: "After the new policy in Chongzhou, the warehouse is full, in just two or three years, so many things have been done, and the people's livelihood is not the slightest inconvenience, why doesn't my father agree?" ”

"You're hiding and eavesdropping again?" Lin Jian asked with a smile.

"Where is there eavesdropping, your voice is too noisy, I can't hear it if I don't want to." Jun Xun quibbled, still looking at Lin Lian's face, expecting him to explain the doubts in his heart.

"My father-in-law also has his considerations, the politics of Chongzhou can be done in Chongzhou, but it is not easy to do it in other prefectures and counties, but this is the case," Lin Jian sighed slightly and said, "Not to mention, Jiangdong County Division and many official eunuchs in Fu County, which one is not a thousand acres of fertile land?" Naturally, these fields are cultivated by hired people, and the rent is reduced to reduce their own money bags. In addition, the officials and eunuchs are greedy and despicable, if the tax is reduced, and the rule of the officials is rectified, will it not cost them their old lives? ”

"You said it's not easy, it's just 'not easy', it's not impossible," Gu Junxun asked again, "My father's tone is absolutely impossible, why is this?" ”

"No matter how high your ability is, you have to do things by hand," Lin Jian put his hand into the car window, grabbed Xun Niang's little hand on the car window, and said, "The officials and eunuchs below are all rotten, no matter how clever the means, even if they have great political ambitions, they still can't do anything." It is really not easy to implement the new policy. However, the roots of the imperial court are almost rotten, and if you don't want to get started, you can't do it. My father-in-law thought it was too difficult, so I thought I couldn't do it, but in my opinion, it was because it was too difficult that I had to do it! ”

Gu Junxun felt a little sad in his heart, although his husband would not argue with his father about anything now, but in some things, it would be tantamount to going further and further; She couldn't change anything.

Lin Jian saw the thoughts in Xun Niang's eyes, and said with a smile: "My father-in-law is in the turbulence of Jiangning, he needs to be careful step by step, he has his considerations, he can't be aggressive, he can't be impatient, that's right; However, I can still be the master of the one-acre and three-point land in Huaidong, and come out as an example for the world to see! ”

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Back in Jiyunju, Xiaoman came over first to say hello to Xunniang; Before leaving, he gave Lin Jian a look and signaled that Su Mei was still there for her.

Lin Jian couldn't care too much, he had to call Lin Mengde to discuss the matter first, and tell him about the discussion in King Ning's Mansion during the day.

"The levy and distribution of salaries, everyone is anxious to get benefits, but no one remembers Chen Zhihu," Lin Mengde said with a smile, "Chen Zhihu is really raised by his stepmother, pull him south to fight, and then transfer him back to Datong, I really don't know if he will scold his mother in his heart?" ”

Lin Jian shook his head and said, "Who knows. Huaidong has risen too fast, and it is always an outlier in the eyes of others, so ah, in addition to managing Huaidong's one-acre and three-point land, don't think about pointing fingers at others. Lin Jian was forced to bow his head to King Ning today and admit his mistake, and he was also quite frustrated.

"That's how it should be!" Lin Mengde was excited.

Compared with Lin Lian, who was still looking forward and backward, and even looked forward to the opportunity for the Dayue Dynasty to restore the rule of Zhongxing, Lin Mengde could see a more realistic road paved in front of Huaidong.

In Lin Mengde's view, both Cao and Liang began to plot the status of splitting the territory and sealing the territory, why couldn't Huaidong go faster?

Lin Mengde said again: "After this expansion, even if you don't count Chen Hansan and Sun Zhuang's troops, the total number of soldiers and horses in Jiangdong County's military divisions is nearly 200,000. Jiangdong County can barely cope with such soldiers and horses on a daily basis, and once the war starts, all kinds of expenses cannot be controlled. It is not uncommon for the capital to raise an army to surge three or four times. No matter how capable Ren Dong Yuan is, it is impossible to beat the luxury family back to Dongmin within three or five months. In my opinion, this levy is only the first step, and there will be more in the future......"

"Dong Yuan is a silent man-eating tiger," Lin Jian said, "We have to be more wary of this person!" ”

At this moment, the sound of horses' hooves galloping on the long street outside the courtyard came clearly, and listening to the sound, there were only three or five horses, which came from the dustpan alley. Lin Jian suspected that there was some urgent military information coming from Chongzhou, stood up, and motioned to the head of the guard, Chen Huamian, to go to the front and take a look.

After a while, Chen Huamian brought in two people that Lin Jian hadn't expected.

The person who came was not an outsider, it was Chen Huawen, the military commander of Haiyu County and the commander of the township battalion, and Chen Mingzhe, the former champion.

Although the weather had cooled down at night, the two of them were sweating profusely, thinking that they had come all the way on horseback, and they had never stopped.

Lin Mengde glanced at Lin Lian and hinted: Good things are not coming to the door!

"Why are Lord Chen and Brother Ming Zhe also in Jiangning?" Lin Jian walked down the steps and asked in surprise, please Chen Huawen enter the inner hall to take a seat.

"We also just came from Haiyu, and we entered the city at night, so we came to visit the envoy first!" Chen Huawen said.

Lin Mengde saluted Chen Huawen and Chen Mingzhe, sat down opposite, and asked, "Lord Chen came for the news that Pingjiang Mansion was merged into northern Zhejiang?" ”

"It's for this matter," Chen Huawen said, Ming people don't talk about dark things in their eyes, but now they are asking for help, how can they hide it, and said straight to the point, "Meng Yishan led the Ning Navy to the south, stationed in Jiaxing, and was controlled by him." At first, Meng Yishan and Dong Yuan were equal in strength, but since several battles, Dong Yuan's army has increased by more than 25,000, and Meng Yishan has lost less than half of his troops. I'm worried that after Pingjiang Mansion is merged into the Northern Zhejiang Establishment Embassy, the township battalions of Pingjiang Prefecture will also be concocted in the same way......"

The number of troops under the jurisdiction of the Northern Zhejiang Envoy Department will be expanded by 60,000, and now there are 30,000 troops under the jurisdiction of Dong Yuan.

The local gentry of Pingjiang Prefecture, many people only seek peace and wealth, and their children can study and enter the office, and few people will have the ambition to support the army and respect themselves. The township camp was co-opted, and it didn't matter to many of the gentry in Pingjiang Mansion, and the large-scale formation of the township camp was just to guard against the East China Sea Kou, and now there was no need to even spend money to raise troops; Unfortunately, the biggest problem is not here.

Lin Jian pretended to be confused and said: "Dong Yuanjun is known for being good at fighting and governing the army, and Meng Yishan has suffered repeated setbacks, perhaps because the original Ninghai Town Army is not strong in combat. As far as the situation between the two Zhejiang provinces is concerned, Dong Envoy Jun can still grasp it, I don't think there is anything wrong with adding the envoy of northern Zhejiang? ”

Chen Huawen sighed slightly in his heart, Lin Mengde was a little impatient, but Lin Jian seemed to be more in the city, and he didn't seem to care about Lin Mengde's eager question just now, and forced the conversation back to the rhythm he controlled.

Chen Mingzhen was patient, sitting aside and drinking tea without saying a word.

"All military departments have set up military consular departments to govern grain and straw, but the grain and ordnance of the envoy department in northern Zhejiang are under the direct jurisdiction of the governor's office, why is the system made?" Chen Huawen asked.

Lin Jian smiled and said: "The military leader and the envoy are very set up, and it may be that the governor of Yue and King Ning have other considerations......" said secretly in his heart: Yu Xinyuan didn't see through the trap, but he didn't expect the news to reach the ears of the Chen family, but it was for the Chen family to see through it.

As Lin Mengde said just now, Jiangdong County can barely raise 200,000 soldiers and horses, but the consumption of the war is far more than the ordinary garrison, and this additional levy is only the first step.

The main battle in Jiangning County in the future was the tug-of-war between the northern Zhejiang military division and the luxury families occupying eastern Zhejiang.

This time, Pingjiang Mansion was placed under the jurisdiction of the Northern Zhejiang Governorate, and the principle of "self-raising and self-use" was determined by levying additional salaries, and the hidden deployment was to make Pingjiang Mansion contribute more sources of income to the tug-of-war between Jiangdong County and the luxury family.

In addition to the military department of northern Zhejiang, there is also a military consular department to oversee the grain and ordnance, and the power of the military consular department will inevitably be occupied by the Wu party forces. Unlike the establishment of a military consular division in Huaidong, which could limit the authority of the Huaidong military division, the establishment of a military consular division in northern Zhejiang would not be conducive to raising food and salaries from Pingjiang Prefecture.

Yue Lengqiu personally grasped the supply of grain, straw and ordnance from the Northern Zhejiang Military Division, in addition to wanting to directly restrain Dong Yuan, but also to exclude the Wu Party forces.

During this period of time, the Wu Party, as the main local power in Jiangdong County, seemed to be on the rise, but the imperial court wanted to extract more resources from the local government, so how could it not consider that the Wu Party would actually be more likely to become an obstacle?

As the leader of the Wu Party, Yu Xinyuan's status has been steadily rising, but except for Yu Xinyuan, there are almost no people in the Wu Party who can stand on the stage in Jiangdong County, far less than Gu Wuchen, Lin Bin, Lin Tingli, Zhang Yubo and others in Dongyang to support the situation.

During today's deliberations, Zhang Yubo Niu had a temper and threw him out angrily to King Ning, but he was not substantially punished, and when he returned to the Gu Mansion, he still complained the same constantly - this is the embodiment of the strength of the faction.

Yue Lengqiu, Dong Yuan and Ning Wangfu and the like secretly plotted against the Wu Party, and Lin Jian was happy to see it.

The phenomenon of land annexation in Pingjiang Mansion is only more serious than that in Hailing County, and there is always a limit to the collection from poor peasant households, and once the war cannot be controlled, Yue Lengqiu, Dong Yuan, and Ning Wangfu will eventually attack the wealthy gentry and wealthy households in Pingjiang Mansion - what does Lin Jian not want to see such a thing?

I didn't expect Yu Xinyuan to be able to see through this section, but someone in Chen Huawen or the Chen family had a sharp eye.

Once the naval war township battalion cannot maintain its independent status, it will be deliberately weakened by Dong Yuan; As the richest man in Pingjiang Prefecture, the Chen family can keep the wealth of the rich city with only one champion, it is really difficult to say.

"His Royal Highness King Ning and Governor Yue have other considerations, so it is naturally inconvenient for us to criticize, but the envoy is really willing to see the war between the two Zhejiang, which is completely in the hands of Dong Yuan?" Chen Huawen said.

"What good insights does Master Chen have?" Lin Jian asked.

"Huaidong wants to fight Daishan and Changguo, Haiyu can help control the envoys," Chen Huawen said, "Please also help Haiyu to keep the township camp and not give Dong Yuan to take advantage of!" In addition, the system envoy in Huaidong to run a money bank, is a great good government, my Chen family also intends to take the pen and silver to put in, but also want to ask the system to set up a money village branch in Haiyu! ”

Lin Jian tapped his fingers on the table, thinking in his heart: The Chen family wants to find a balance between Dong Yuan and Huaidong, which is good news for Huaidong.

Chen Huawen invited Huaidong Qianzhuang to set up a branch in Haiyu, undoubtedly inviting Huaidong to extend his hand to Haiyu County. Of course, if you really want to do this, the relationship with Dong Yuan will be antagonistic, but if you don't do this, the supply of forty or fifty thousand taels of silver that the Shengsi defense line gets from Haiyu and Jinhu every year is likely to be deducted by Dong Yuan.

Of course, if there is a advantage, you can't afford not to take advantage of it, Lin Liancai doesn't care how old Dong Yuan is, but what excuse can he have to help Haiyu Township Camp retain a relatively independent status? That's a problem.

Lin Jian pondered for a moment, and felt that it was better to agree to come down first, and said, "Okay! He asked Chen Mingzhe again, "Brother Mingzhe came to Jiangning this time, does he have any plans to join the office?" ”

Chen Mingzhe nodded and said, "After a few years of seclusion in the countryside, I have thought a lot, and it is time for the court to serve loyally." ”

Lin Jian smiled, but thought in his heart: Although Chen Huawen's ability is not bad, and the power of the Chen family is not weak, because of his lower status, he can hardly speak in Jiangdong officialdom. Chen Mingzhe is the champion of the previous convictions, and the Wu Party is in a period of rising power, so he naturally wants to stand up for the Chen family and the Wu Party.

At that time, the factions were united more because of their interests, and the township party and nepotism could only make each other's interests more consistent and closer, and there were no factional parties divided by political ideas. Therefore, Lin Jian didn't ask Chen Huawen and Chen Mingzhe why they didn't go to see Yu Xinyuan, of course, he expected that Gu Wuchen would not mind secretly understanding with the Chen family, as long as the Chen family had enough strength.