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In the afternoon, including Lin Mengde, Hu Zhiyong, Hu Zhicheng, Li Shutang, Li Shuyi, Sun Fengyi, Zhou Guangnan, Qian Xiaowu, Ge Siyu, Sun Jingtang, Sun Jingxuan, Qin Chengzu, Zhou Pu, Ao Canghai, Zhao Hu, Ge Cunxiong, Zhao Qingshan and others, all gathered in Dongya to discuss matters.

Wang Chengfu accompanied the last seat, feeling a little excited.

Although some people did not directly serve in the Huaidong Establishment Embassy, they were all the core figures of the Huaidong Army.

This is the first time that Lin Jian has convened a meeting after returning to Chongzhou, and Wang Chengfu has made a special trip to invite him from Hecheng to participate in the discussion, and the blind man can guess that he will be regarded as the core figure of the Huaidong Army from now on.

The generals of the Huaidong Army, the main subordinate officials such as Changshi and Marching Sima have been decided, and Lin Tie Piju is waiting for approval in Beijing.

Even if many powers were assigned to the military leaders who were added to Yue Lengqiu and led by Liu Tingzhou, and were greatly restricted, the Huaidong Army still had a very deep foundation in Chongzhou. All these must be completely incorporated into the system of the Huaidong Command and Establish a complete organizational structure, so that the Huaidong Army can be truly strong.

In addition to Lin Mengde and Qin Chengzu as the left and right long history, Cao Ziang and Fu Qinghe as the left and right marching Sima, the system can also set up a canonical order, a guard, a branch envoy, a deputy envoy of the branch, a battalion officer, a division of the engineer, a treasurer, a pastor and other subordinates.

Improving the organizational system of the Huaidong Establishment Envoy Division and operating effectively was the first thing that Lin had to do when he returned to Chongzhou.

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After the expansion of the personal guard battalion, it was reorganized into the infantry division of the central army, and it was already a unit that was to be pulled out to fight independently.

The responsibility of guarding the inner government is actually borne by the cavalry battalion of the cavalry division. The guard, which is equivalent to the chief of the guard, is naturally concurrently served by Zhou Pu.

Lin Meng was able to serve as the chief steward of the money and grain of the Huaidong Army, which is undoubtedly a thing.

In addition, a bureau was set up to raise military funds from the commercial goods that set up cities and workshops in Chongzhou and passed through Chongzhou.

To put it nicely, it's a voluntary donation; To put it mildly, it is a forced commercial tax.

Since there was no official name, the Lijin Bureau was set up as a subordinate agency of the branch envoy, and four people, including Li Shutang, Sun Fengyi, Zhou Guangnan, and Sun Shangwang, served as the deputy envoys of the branch, and were in charge of the collection of lijin.

Different from the traditional 100 li draw 3 and 100 li draw 5//, the proportion of 100 draws for merchant ships to go to sea is as high as 15 per 100.

At present, the objects of the levy are mainly the grain transported from Chongzhou to Jiaozhou Bay or directly to Jinhai by ships out of the river.

After the implementation of the policy of "salt and silver to protect grain", the foot money was greatly increased, and the price of grain in Jinhai was raised to 128 yuan per stone of silver.

Lin Jian spent so much effort that he couldn't help but take advantage of it.

Under the coordination of the Sun family and the Zhou family, the maritime merchants and shipowners led by the Heishui Foreign Shipping Company agreed to pay Chongzhou a hundred and fifteen centi.

In addition, the grain ship in the open sea also has to pay a 6 percent guarantee, and once the grain ship capsizes in the wind and waves, it can get 80 percent of the cost.

Even if the centigold and the guarantee gold are deducted, the income from transporting grain from Chongzhou to Jinhai is not much worse than before the implementation of the new policy of "salt and silver to protect grain", and it can naturally be accepted by the merchants of the sea.

If the grain goes directly to Jinhai from the Heishui Ocean route, the levy will be returned to Chongzhou in full.

If the grain goes to the sea, goes to Shandong to take the Jiaolai River, and crosses the Shandong Peninsula to the north, the levy of centijin will be divided equally between Chongzhou and Qingzhou, but Qingzhou shall not levy any more taxes and centis on the grain ships departing from Chongzhou.

The significance of "salt and silver grain protection" is that even if Yanjing's control over the counties declines, as long as there is enough salt and silver income to ensure that enough commercial rice and grain flow to Chongzhou or Huai'an, enough grain can be transported to Yanjing to maintain the situation of Yanjing and Yanbei's defense line from collapsing.

This is also the key to Lin Zhuo's sneaking to Jinhai in the name of filial piety at the beginning of the year, and Li Zhuo's final support for Lin Lian.

For the counties, the annual transportation of grain is very expensive and inefficient, almost reaching the level of one stone of grain and three times the foot cost.

Now the central government requires all counties to convert the grain into tax silver and go to Beijing, and in addition to the positive amount of grain per stone, an additional three to eight yuan of silver will be levied, which will greatly reduce the burden on the counties.

The only disadvantage is that a large number of people who rely on inland river transportation for food, from the governors and officials, to the river gangs, to the boatmen and porters, have all lost their jobs for a while, and this has become a bad influence that must be digested by the counties.

The interruption of inland water transportation is an objective and irrevocable fact, and even some sporadic opposition voices have been completely ignored.

Zhang Xie, Yue Lengqiu, and others also had to admit that "salt and silver to protect grain" was a great good governance to maintain the current situation from collapsing. In their opinion, the biggest drawback is that the Dongyang series has made huge profits from the "salt and silver grain protection".

Previously, most of the grain ships went to sea from Huaikou. Since the Huaisi War, Huaikou was sealed, and Chongzhou became the main export of grain to the sea.

The Huaisi War ended, and Huaikou was actually controlled by Lin Tie again.

In this way, except for the grain-producing areas such as eastern Sichuan, Jinghu, northern Zhejiang, and Jiangnan, there are almost no other forces that can share the profits from the Jinhai grain road.

The Huaidong Army actually became the largest grain merchant in the world.

From the end of April to the beginning of October, due to the impact of the war and the storm season in the East China Sea, the actual amount of grain from Chongzhou to the sea reached 800,000 stones. After deducting the profit distribution to Qingzhou, Chongzhou's actual direct income was more than 120,000 taels of silver.

Autumn, winter and spring are the times when the Blackwater Ocean route can play its most role.

After more than half a year of development, the long-term shipping capacity of Heishui Ocean Shipping Co., Ltd. has reached 150,000 stones. It is expected that before the storm season next year, the transportation of 800,000 stone grains can be completed, and this part of the gold income that can exceed 200,000 taels of silver will all go to Chongzhou.

If the situation can be maintained, the total amount of gold in Chongzhou will be even more considerable; In the next year or two, Li Jin will become the most important source of income for the Huaidong Army.

Without this confidence, Lin Jian would not dare to grit his teeth to repair the sea embankment.

The status of the Lijin Bureau in Huaidong is naturally conceivable; Lin Jian appointed Li Shutang, Sun Fengyi, Zhou Guangnan, and Sun Shangwang in Jinhai as deputy envoys to be responsible for the specific affairs of the Lijin Bureau in various places.

In addition, Qian Xiaowu served as the deputy envoy of the branch, responsible for the support of the treasury bank.

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Hu Zhiyong served as the camp envoy and was responsible for the military and civilian tuntian and the resettlement of soldiers and households in the Huaidong Army.

Tuntian is not only the most important source of income for the Huaidong Army at present, but also has a bearing on the foundation of the resettlement of soldiers.

In addition to a large number of tuntian fields along the Yunyan River, both sides of the Xishan River, Xisha Island, and Qingjiangpu North Beach in Chongzhou, the next step is to gradually expand to the scale of tuntian in Hecheng. It is also necessary to set up as many inspection divisions as possible, and use the inspection divisions to organize displaced people to develop waste land such as river beaches and swamps around the station, and carry out planting purposes.

This is also an important measure to expand the influence of Huaidong counties under the existing conditions and under the condition that the civil affairs and financial powers are limited, and the use of the inspection department to resettle the displaced people and plant them.

In addition to Hu Zhiyong as the chief officer, Lin Jian also made Li Shuyi and Wang Chengfu serve as deputy envoys of Yingtian.

Li Shuyi also served as the governor of Chongzhou County, handling the trivial affairs of Chongzhou County on behalf of Lin Lian.

Hecheng actually met the conditions for setting up a county.

The scale of the new city of Hecheng is several times larger than that of the previous walled city, there are river ports, there are ports to the sea, land and water routes with Chongzhou are unblocked, the number of people moving there is also increasing, and a large amount of land can be used to house soldiers and displaced people.

However, without a proper name, for the time being, it can only act in the name of the Inspection Division.

Hecheng and Guanyintan (Xisha Island) are the two most onerous inspection divisions in Huaidong.

Wang Chengfu is very capable of internal affairs, and Lin Jian naturally wants to put more burden on him.

Ge Siyu joined the army as a division engineer and was responsible for project supervision.

The industrial system under the Huaidong military system is far from the traditional division of the function of joining the army, that is, the expansion of the scale of 60,000 people of the industrial battalion, which is also rare in the world.

In the early years of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Gaozu almost pacified most of the world, and the size of the squad army, which was almost the same as that of the workers' battalion, was only 100,000 people.

In addition to the establishment of the ship's envoy, there are also three divisions of ordnance supervision, metallurgical supervision and 100 work supervision, and the same position as Cao joined the army.

Sun Jingxuan also served as the shipmaster envoy and the supervisor of 100 workers.

The foundation of Chongzhou can be said to be half on the ocean, and the matter of the shipping master is still very important, so the post of the shipping master is specially established.

It is a shortcut for the small county of Chongzhou to accommodate more dingkou, to open up more financial resources, and to develop large-scale factory handicraft industry. More importantly, the flourishing of the workshop handicraft industry is a key step in pushing the level of productivity forward.

Lin Jian has always admired craftsmanship and miscellaneous learning in Jiangning and Chongzhou, and it is also a matter of course for the waterway to set up a special supervisor for 100 workers to come to this point. It's just that there are many scholars who study Confucianism and are good at talking about science in the world, but there are very few management talents who are proficient in craftsmanship and miscellaneous science.

The old engineer Ge Fu is old, and Zhao Shuhan still fantasizes about having the opportunity to serve in politics and make a great career, so Lin Jian can only let Sun Jingxuan concurrently serve as a supervisor of 100 workers.

Ordnance production has a direct bearing on the level of combat effectiveness of the Huaidong Army, and it goes without saying that it is important. However, the cost, quality and scale of ordnance production directly depend on the smelting level of iron and steel (known as refined iron in the world), and the iron and steel smelting industry is the basic industry of the industrial society.

Whether it is the ordnance supervisor or the metallurgical supervisor, they can only temporarily let Hu Zhicheng take care of it, but fortunately, there is no shortage of masters, Hu Zhicheng has experience in workshop management, but he can also be competent.

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"The merchant craftsman, the horse thief and the small landowner, is only slightly better than me, who was born as a pig," Lin Jian raised the list of staff in his hand and laughed, "But it also provides a lot of materials for Qingliu celebrities to talk and laugh......"

Everyone laughed.

It's okay for military generals to say something, but they don't pay attention to their background. However, the positions of the Huaidong Envoy's subordinate branch envoys, camp envoys, chief officials, marching Sima, canonical orders, and Zhu Si Cao's joining the army are all official civilian official titles ranging from the fifth rank to the seventh rank.

Under the Huaidong military system, except for Lin Tie, there is no one with more than one background, and it is the only one who is very different. This list of staff members was handed to Beijing and spread, and it is not difficult to imagine that it will be the talking point and laughing stock in the mouths of those scholars.

Hailing Mansion and Huai'an Mansion have some old talents and old people who are idle at home, and they are also willing to be used by Lin Lian, a new upstart in Huaidong, but Lin Lian can't look down on them.

"Don't care about him," Lin Jian said with a smile, "I have been calling Chen Xiyan a swineherd for nearly three years, and I can't take this step if I want to control the eyes of others...... It's not early today," asked Hu Zhicheng sideways, "I heard that a craftsman has changed the furnace for melting iron, and the effect is quite good." After discussing it for so long, I was also dizzy, so let's walk over and look at the new stove, relax, and then come back to discuss the ......"

"Then you have to take a boat over," Hu Zhicheng said, "In the past, refined iron was smelted in a single furnace, and the pig iron was burned on the charcoal to soften, and the refined iron was mixed more, brittle and easy to break. Later, it was changed to smoldered charcoal, which improved a little, but it was not as good as charcoal. This craftsman can't read a single word, but he is very smart. His method was to create another room outside the furnace room, forming two chambers side by side. A room is filled with charcoal to burn the fire, which is a fire room; A room is set for pig iron smelting, which is a smelting room. When making iron, the blast blows the flame flow from the fire chamber into the smelting room to melt the iron, and the refined iron smelted is excellent, comparable to the refined iron smelted from charcoal. The refining room is separated from the fire room, but it can be stirred while refining, and the speed of refining iron is doubled with the same manpower...... This is a secret method, which is inconvenient to write in letters, and has not been elaborated on in letters before. ”

Lin Tie was slightly stunned, charcoal is better than coal (coal), but in the plains of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, there is more land for farming, how can there be so many forests that can be cut to burn charcoal? Coal is an inevitable choice.

Smoldered coal, which is also virgin coking coal, can effectively remove impurities.

The process of smoldering coal was first used to burn porcelain, and Ge Fu mentioned this method when compiling the "Craftsman's Classics". In the world of iron smelting, the biggest problem is to remove impurities. Lin Jian naturally directly asked the craftsmen below to try to use smoldering coal to make iron, and the effect was really much improved, but it was still worse than using charcoal.

Generally speaking, the refined iron used in the Ordnance Division must be smelted with charcoal, which is customized; The refined iron smelted from smoldering coal is mostly used to produce agricultural tools.

Lin Jian didn't know the steel refining method of later generations, and he also followed the craftsmen of the world to ponder and study, but as soon as he heard Hu Zhicheng say it, he understood the benefits of the double-chamber refining method.

The separation of iron and carbon can largely avoid the impurities in the carbon from seeping into the iron, and the steel quality is naturally much better.

The efficiency of key steelmaking can be doubled, which sounds like a huge improvement from a single chamber to a double chamber.

"This is a great thing," Lin Jian said happily, "What is the name of this craftsman, but he has experience in managing people?" No, no, no, the experience of managing people is secondary, and it's a big deal to match him with two assistants who are like two essences. With this brain, the metallurgical supervisor can manage it, so first give him the duties of a deputy superintendent - come, come, come, wait with me to meet this master craftsman......

Lin Jian has set up a metallurgical supervisor to specialize in ironmaking, which is of great significance to steel smelting.

At present, at least that means the same amount of investment, more fine steel armor can be produced.

The double-chamber alchemy sounds very simple, but it can be said to be the grandest fruit since Lin Lian admired the art of craftsmanship and miscellaneous learning!

Lin Lian and Zhu Cong went out of the East Ya and walked towards the South Cliff Wharf. Lin Jian said to Lin Mengde as he walked: "Huaisi produces coal and iron, and it is very convenient to transport it by water, and you can also directly open a furnace in Shanyang to smelt pig iron and smoldering coal. Double furnace iron smelting is a secret method, can not be passed on, the iron produced by Shanyang and smoldering coal transported to Chongzhou, smelting iron or put in Guanyintan is good...... It won't take long for Chongzhou Iron and Armor to become famous all over the world! ”

"Refined iron and armor are also taken out?" Lin Mengde asked.

"Why can't you sell it?" Lin Lian smiled and asked, "Fish, add water to the side for fishing." The former is eaten and finished, and the latter is the fundamental. No matter how good the armor is, it is a consumable, and the manufacturing method is not leaked. Of course, when selling, you have to pick and choose......"