(The first update, ask for a red ticket)

In Chongzhou in April, the night wind blows the face and is not cold, the forest binds go down the mountain by the moonlight, and there are stone paths at the southern foot that zigzag down, and go straight down to the riverside wharf.

Although it has only been a year and a half since the luxury family surrendered and surrendered, in the middle and late stages of the ten-year war in Eastern Fujian, the luxury family felt that the previous strategy had fatal limitations. When the luxury family realized this, it was already difficult to ride the tiger, but they were also able to allocate resources to adjust the strategic layout, and carried out the layout in advance in the islands of Changguo County, as well as Mingzhou, Jiahang, Pingjiang, Hailing and other prefectures and counties, such as Du Rong, Shujia, Guangjiao Temple and Donghai Kou's power has expanded dramatically in recent years, all of which were directly arranged by the luxury family.

Put the land of the Central Plains, Zilang Mountain is really not a famous river, only thirty-four or five zhang, it is a little higher than 100 meters, and the Jinhai will be more than 60 meters long from the bow to the stern, but in the alluvial Hailing Mansion, the topography of Zilang Mountain is extra important, and it can control the mouth of the river and Chongzhou.

The topography of Zilang Mountain is so important, and there are monasteries to cover, the luxury family has really invested a lot of resources in these years, built a large number of buildings, built temples along the mountain, in addition to the Zen temple buildings at the east foot and north foothills, a wharf was also built on the river bank under the southwest cliff.

Although the wharf is not big, the site selection is very elegant, so exquisite that the Jinhai, which is three or four feet deep with a full draft of water, can be docked directly.

Lin Lian came down the mountain, the Jinhai was docked at the wharf, and the other ships anchored in the river not far from the port, all ready to leave the port and set sail.

Yue Lengqiu acted quickly, and before the Qingzhou Guild came out with the results, he started to seal the Xihehui and the Sun family's Tian Zhai property. This is also something that there is no way to do, Yue Lengqiu, as the governor of Jianghuai, if he can't even do this, he doesn't have to mess around.

When Sun Wenbing rushed to Jiangning, except for forty or fifty private ships of the Sun family that were transferred to the name of Jiyun Society in time, most of the property of the Tian Mansion was seized and destined to be confiscated from the government. The vast majority of the congregations of the Xihe Society were poor families who did not have the financial resources to buy private property, so the Xihe Society and the Sun family were confiscated, and thousands of family members were driven out and temporarily sheltered in the estuary.

In order to avoid a long night of dreams, at least before Yue Lengqiu reacted to the news that the Jiangdong Left Army had completely controlled the situation in Chongzhou, he picked people up from Jiangning. Before returning to Chongzhou and landing on the shore, Lin Jian had sent people to Jiangning to contact him and asked Jiangning to immediately organize a boat to transfer the families of the Xihe congregation.

There are nearly 500 miles of waterway from Jiangning to Chongzhou, and there are many waterways in and out of the waters of Taihu Lake, which is not very safe, and it is also necessary to prevent Yue Lengqiu from sending chasing troops from Jiangning - involving the transfer of thousands of people, Yue Lengqiu, as the governor of Jianghuai, has too many excuses to obstruct. The situation here is a little settled, and Lin Jian asked Ge Cunxin, Ning Zechen, and Zhou Tong to lead the soldiers to go up the river by boat overnight to respond.

Lin Lian came to the dock and gave a few words of advice to Ge Cunxin, Ning Zechen and others, and then asked them to set sail and take advantage of the east wind to sail westward.

There are also occasional sounds of fighting in the mountains to search the mountains and encounter the resistance of the monks, watching the ship sail westward under the moonlight, and the forest is bound to blow the night breeze on the pier for a while, and then he walks the mountain path and turns to the Donglu Zen Temple.

Lin Tie picks up the steps and walks up the gentle slope, the east foot of the Zen courtyard is displayed in front of you, it is the building complex that has the first to enter the courtyard, outside the Zen courtyard is the east foot mountain gate, and the high and thick courtyard wall extends to the southeast foot of the river beach.

Lin Jian set up the command camp tent in the Donglu Zen Temple, but he did not fight for it, but stood on the hill to observe the terrain of the eastern foot of Zilang Mountain, and the military cottage was in front of him, wading through shallow water, only three hundred steps away.

"Ah, you're here!" Lin Mengde hurriedly walked out of the house, saw Lin Lian standing on a high place and admired the moonlight, and didn't ask Lin Lian what useful news he got from his wife and sister of the extravagant flying tiger, and said with a smile, "We are all so busy that our buttocks are smoking, you have the leisure to look at this moonlight......" Approached and stood beside Lin Lian, looked at the sparkling river under the moonlight, and said with emotion, "This moonlight is really good, this is busy, I don't know how many good scenery to miss." ”

"I want to build an earth-rock dam here, so that the two mountains can be integrated into one, the shallows inside the dam can be silted into flat land, and the outside of the dam is the water camp military port......" Lin Jian pointed to the shallow water between the southeast and the military cottage, and said to Lin Mengde.

"Are you thinking about this...... Lin Mengde said with emotion, and then he took a closer look at the surrounding terrain. He is very good at calculating, to build such an earth-stone dam, it will be enough to transfer two or three thousand people to work for more than a month, and it may cost thousands or even tens of thousands of taels of silver. In the past, he would have felt that the amount of work was amazing, and for Chongzhou County, where the autumn grain was being converted into 10,000 taels of silver, building such a dam was really a huge and expensive project. However, from last autumn to this year, in order to renovate Xisha Island and resettle the displaced people, they have actually invested 100,000 taels of silver on Xisha Island, and he feels that building an earth-rock dam between Junshan Mountain and Zilang Mountain is no longer beyond his imagination.

"Is it certain that the initiative to build Chongzhou New City can be grasped in our hands?" Lin Mengde asked uncertainly.

It is the most advantageous thing to build an earth-stone dam between Junshan and Zilang Mountain, which should be done together with the construction of Chongzhou New Town. However, the construction of a new city is a local affair, under the jurisdiction of Hailing Mansion, Xuanfu Envoy, and Governor's Office, and the Jiangdong Left Army only uses Chongzhou as the source of money and is stationed in Chongzhou, and does not have the initiative to build a new city.

"Let's see how much silver Hailing Mansion and the county secretary can allocate to Chongzhou to build a new city," Lin Jian said, "Unless Yue Lengqiu wants to completely mess up the situation in Jiangdong County, he still has to talk about the rules of who takes the silver and who speaks......

"I don't think he would mind smashing all this seemingly heavy baggage into our hands!" Cao Ziang walked over from behind, took Lin Lian's words and said, "Some truths in this world are very simple, raising soldiers requires silver. As long as it is a human being, it is necessary to eat, and as long as it is an iron armor, iron knife and iron gun, it will rust. Fighting will kill people, and there will be wear and tear on armor and combat equipment, and a lot of silver will be spent on pensions, replenishment of armor and equipment, and recruitment of supplementary soldiers. Yue Lengqiu also understood this reason, so after he seized the Xihehui and Sun Jiatian's house property, he drove everyone to the estuary for us to receive, just to smash the robe into our hands, to see the day when we can't hold on......"

The reason is very simple, once the source of food is exhausted, even if the Jiangdong Left Army is elite, but it cannot be effectively replenished, it will only be gradually consumed and can no longer grow.

The vast majority of the peasant armies that initially rebelled under the banner of righteousness eventually became a scourge to the local bandits, the most fundamental reason being that they could not get effective and stable supplies, and could only rely on looting to survive. Perhaps the first selective looting of local corrupt officials and bullies, when the corrupt officials and bullies have been looted clean, and there is no oil and water to dig up, and then the good gentry and rich households are selected to loot, and then the small and medium-sized landowners and yeoman farmers will suffer, and finally the local order will be completely destroyed, and naturally it will become a rogue hated by the local officials and the people.

Knowing this truth, he rushed to destroy Chongzhou City before the Jiangdong Left Army returned.

Yue Lengqiu knew this truth, so he shouldn't mind that the initiative to build Chongzhou New City fell into Lin Lian's hands. As long as the time comes, a symbolic allocation of 20,000 or 30,000 taels of silver will be given to this side, and Lin Jian will not be able to raise enough silver from the place to build a new city, and he will still be able to find an excuse to cure Lin Bin's sin.

Lin Mengde smiled slightly, and said, "Maybe Yue Lengqiu thought that the Lin family was the source of wealth behind the Jiangdong Left Army at this time, and he probably waited to see the Lin family's wealth exhausted......"

"Yue Lengqiu can sit in this position, not a mediocre talent who doesn't know how to practice," Cao Ziang said, "How much silver will it cost to govern the Jiangdong Left Army into today's elite, how much silver will be spent to keep the combat strength of the Jiangdong Left Army from declining, and how much silver will be continuously invested, he has a number in his heart...... He led the Changhuai army to recover Shanglinli, and enlisted Shanglinli as the camp of the Changhuai army, in addition to Shanglinli is indeed an important place to clamp the south entrance of Hongzepu, it is not ruled out that he may restrict Dongyang Xiangyong. There is also a possibility that he doesn't want to return Shanglin to the Lin family. It can be expected that in the next step, he will definitely restrict the development of the Jiyun Society and the Lin family in Jiangning......"

"Yes, Haicao seems to be in our hands for the time being, but it is also in the early stage of making ends meet," Lin Mengde said, "As long as the Yellow River is broken, the river in Pingyuan Mansion is restored, or the imperial court moves the capital to Jiangning, Haicao will be invalidated...... Yue Lengqiu wants to crush us in the general trend! ”

"The truth is sometimes very simple," Lin Jian smiled slightly, and said, "But they can't help but think too simply...... "I thought of those beautiful and dazzling women on the top of the mountain, Yue Lengqiu, Extravagant Fei Xiong and others can be said to be first-class heroes and generals, but their vision is not as good as a woman. He didn't tell Cao Ziang and Lin Mengde that he had been ridiculed at the top of the mountain just now, and saw Cao Ziang holding a bunch of brochures in his hand, and there were guards around him to follow, but he was reluctant to let the guards help him take these books, and asked, "What kind of treasure are you holding, looking so closely?" ”

"The field book of Guangjiao Temple," Cao Ziang said, "Guess how much land is under the name of Guangjiao Temple?" ”

"How much?" Lin Jian asked.

"Including the host households, Guangjiao Temple has almost enclosed the fields around Zilang Mountain, with more than 260 hectares! It's mostly good and familiar," Cao Ziang said.

"Chongzhou City is in ruins, and it is necessary to choose a site to build a new city, in addition to the surroundings of Zilang Mountain, where can such a large amount of land be carved out?" Lin Jian said with a smile, "No matter whether Yue Lengqiu is willing or not, and no matter how many people in Hailing Mansion and Xuanfu don't like us, at least they don't have much initiative when it comes to choosing a site for building a city." ”

"In order to avoid taxes, the tenants put their fields and tenants in the name of the monastery, which is not a secret, and I didn't expect that so much land was hidden under the name of Guangjiao Temple!" Lin Mengde sighed with emotion about the large amount of land under the name of Guangjiao Temple, and said excitedly, "It seems that as long as you grasp the fields under the name of Chongzhou Monastery, it is enough to raise 10,000 male soldiers......"

More than 260 acres is more than 26,000 acres, and in the Jianghuai land, where the phenomenon of land annexation is serious, it can also be regarded as a first-class big landlord and large landowner; The Lin family was originally in Shanglin, and there were only more than 200 hectares of land.

Chongzhou's middle and upper grade fertile land, one season of rice and one season of wheat, as long as there is no disaster, the annual harvest of one mu of land is almost about three stone of rice grain. Tenant farmers rent land and pay rent taxes and grain taxes, accounting for almost 5 to 60 percent of the annual harvest.

The 26,000 mu of land is in the hands of the Jiangdong Left Army, which means that in a normal year, more than 20,000 stone of rent and grain can be collected, which is almost equivalent to the autumn grain in Chongzhou County.

In Chongzhou, there are as many as 18 monasteries of a slight scale, and there is no final thorough inventory, and I really don't know how much land is occupied and hidden by the monasteries.

It's no wonder that Lin Mengde is so excited, having land in these years means having food, and having food can raise soldiers.

Lin Jian shook his head and said, "It's good to have that simple, first find out which fields are owned by Guangjiao Temple, and which fields are placed in the name of Guangjiao Temple by nearby farmers and landlords, don't let any rumors go out first......"

"Why, can't you return the land to the tenant?" Cao Ziang asked in surprise, "Guangjiao Temple monk Kou Tong bandit, it is confirmed that the land in the name of the monastery, whether it is actually owned by the monastery, or under the name of the pretended monastery, no one dares to come to ask for it!" We will directly distribute these fields, even if the high tax and apportionment of five liters of grain and eight liters of grain per mu will make the farmers happy! ”

Chongzhou County has serious land annexation, and most people have become tenants, renting land from the landlord to cultivate the land, paying about five liters of wheat and one stone of rice per mu of rent, and also having to bear the ding tax and various assessments, and living a very difficult life. If the land can be distributed to them and the actual burden can be reduced by about half, it will be difficult for the Jiangdong Left Army to win the support of these peasant households. Moreover, Chongzhou City was destroyed by Donghai Kou, and the local forces were severely defeated, so they would not have much resistance to doing these things in Chongzhou.

Cao Ziang's half-life career made him very familiar with the suffering of the people at the bottom, and he was more inclined to directly distribute these fields to the peasant households who supported the Jiangdong Left Army, and directly consolidated the foundation of the Jiangdong Left Army in Chongzhou, and he was really unwilling to return the fields to the villagers and landlords who ate the people's blood and ointment.

Lin Jian shook his head slightly, didn't say anything directly, and said: "This matter, I want Mr. Qin and Master Fu to call over and discuss it together, and you can't make a hasty decision at this time......"

Cao Ziang knew that Lin Jian did not agree with his opinion of directly dividing the field, but he only took care of his face and did not refute it directly. He won't argue with Lin Tie face to face, they are subordinates, they must respect and maintain Lin Tie's dignity, and Lin Tie didn't say anything to death, Qin Chengzu and Fu Qinghe's opinions are also very important, and when the matter here is settled, everyone can get together and discuss before deciding on this matter is not too late.

Lin Jian knew that if he did what Cao Ziang said, it would not be much different from the reform of the nature of land redistribution. Unless a complete political regime is established, and there are no strong enemies around, it will not be a good opportunity for land reform. Even if the Jiangdong Left Army has the conditions to redistribute land in Chongzhou at the moment, it will offend all the local forces around Chongzhou, so won't the Jiangdong Left Army consider developing outside Chongzhou in the future?

Of course, Lin Tie will not be too cheap for those who pretend to entrust their fields to the name of the monastery, the key is to find a middle way that can alleviate the contradictions between the various conveniences, rather than intensifying the contradictions at this time of internal and external troubles.

In order for Lin Jian to master the place, he needed the support of officials who could read and write. At a time when literacy rates were generally low, the vast majority of these officials were actually from the landlords or the propertied class. The lessons of the peasant uprisings, whether they succeeded or failed for thousands of years, were vividly presented in Lin Xuan's mind, and at this time, how could he rashly and directly deprive the main local forces of their land and distribute them to the tenants and the poor? The first step should be to restrict, suppress, and always control the contradictions within the scope of control.

Lin Jian couldn't help but think at this time, what kind of insight would the woman on the top of the mountain have?