In the training camp walled house built of wood on the east beach of Prison Island, there are two copper oil lamps on the thick wooden platform, and the light is sprinkled on the wooden platform, Lin Mengde unfolded the long scroll in his hand on the wooden platform, but it is a large map five feet square, and people who are familiar with the topography of the southern estuary of Chongzhou can see at a glance that this map accurately draws the topography of Xisha Island and the surrounding river sandbar and Zilang Mountain.

In order to draw this accurate map, Lin Mengde has dispatched a lot of manpower to Xisha Island in the past month or so, and has traveled all over the island.

"In addition to wind and tidal disasters, the most important problem on Xisha Island is that the terrain is unstable, with the upstream causing the river to collapse and the downstream tidal tide silting up. Looking for old maps for comparison, and calibrating them with Zilang Mountain, it is certain that Xisha Island has to move more than 100 steps in the direction of the estuary almost every year...... "Lin Mengde introduced the results of their topographic survey of Xisha Island during this time.

If you don't know the terrain, you can't blindly transform Xisha Island.

Xisha Island was nearly 40 miles wide from east to west at this time, and with the erosion of Xisha Island by the Yangtze River at this time, it would not take 200 years to completely collapse such a large island, and then the tide would accumulate a sand island that might be even larger downstream.

Building a village on the west beach, there is a threat of collapsing the river at any time, building a village on the east beach, due to the continuous silting of the sea tide, there will be no beach shore suitable for building a dock port wharf, although the siltation situation of the north and south beaches is not as serious as the east and west beaches, but it is not nothing.

Of course, Lin Jian and many people here did not want to spend a lot of energy on building the dock port and the wharf would be scrapped after a year or two.

At that time, the development of Jiangkou Shadao was not enough and the experience was insufficient, and perhaps in the future, when the land shortage in Chongzhou or Pingjiang Prefecture reached a certain level, people would be forced to compete for land from Shadao, and naturally gradually accumulate effective governance experience; For future generations, some experiences have become common sense that ordinary people can have.

Lin Jian said: "To overcome the geological defects of Xisha Island, we must start from two aspects: first, the drainage facilities on the island should be complete to eliminate the impact of internal waterlogging on the beach; In addition, we can reduce the direct impact of the river and tide on the beach, and we can build a horizontal embankment on the periphery of Guanyin Beach to go out......" Lin Lian took his finger and drew two marks to the north of the Guanyin Beach on the north side of Xisha Island to extend into the river, "When the water is dry, the shallows on this side will be exposed, and the horizontal embankment is built on the shallows." The east side of the embankment regulates the sea tide and siltation, and the west side of the embankment redirects the river to avoid the direct impact of the river on the dock port. In the rainy season, the ship can also avoid it, after the winter of this year, two roads will be repaired, and in the future, it will be necessary to increase the embankment on both sides to expand the scale of the dock port, but the amount of work will be slightly larger. ”

"The amount of work is not slightly larger," Lin Mengde stared at the two marks drawn by Lin Lian's fingernails, "The estuary is mainly to dig waterways, and it takes so many man-hours, in addition to the horizontal embankment of Guanyin Beach, the waterway also needs to be dug, and the shore has to build a stone dam, and the west embankment has to block the river embankment, I am afraid that a large stone dam will be built......"

"Stone dams are built, the middle is filled with soil, large boats can be parked in deep water within two horizontals, and small boats can be parked on the outside of the siltation area," Lin Jian said, "We can invest 4,000 taels of silver in a berth at the riverbank wharf, and we can invest 40,000 taels or even 80,000 taels of silver in the dock port on Xisha Island......

Cao Ziang said: "There is no shortage of manpower on Xisha Island, and it should be enough to organize 5,000 laborers to work for six months." During this time, Cao Ziang organized people to engage in the construction of the river port at the mouth of the river, and he himself was very good at applying the technique, and he studied it deeply, so he could keep up with Lin Bin's ideas, and the rest of the people pondered the use of building a horizontal embankment outside the Guanyin Beach.

Lin Mengde calculated in his heart: the food expenses of 5,000 strong laborers for six months will cost 20,000 taels of silver, and a large amount of stone materials will be transported from the mountainous counties in the southwest of Taihu Lake recently, and the budget of 40,000 taels of silver is really insufficient.

"Fortunately, there is no shortage of silver in my hands, and this silver always has to be spent, otherwise it will be a cold dead thing." Lin Jian smiled, "There is no shortage of labor, but you can't just do this one thing." Whether the more than 24,000 people can finally settle down depends on the next half a year......"

Luoyang Lake fished in troubled waters and got 100,000 taels of silver and has not yet begun to spend, attacked Anji Shujiazhai, got more than 20,000 taels of silver, and in Xisha Island in the fishing mode of "black eats black", robbed and crossed the Donghai Kou, and obtained more than 80,000 taels of silver, and now there are almost nearly 200,000 taels of cash in hand, and the nearly 24,000 or so victims to be resettled on Xisha Island are mostly young and strong laborers, and they will not lack manpower on Xisha Island.

It's just that there are a lot of things to do, and the vast majority of the 24,000 people still live in simple shacks, and it is not a simple matter to reclaim wasteland, 100,000 acres of wasteland, to be transformed into fertile land for winter wheat and summer rice, and only digging shallow ditches for drainage and irrigation are spliced together to be 200 miles long, and counting other projects, it will consume a lot of manpower and materials.

Even if everything is left to fate, scattering the relief wheat seeds distributed by Chongzhou County into the wasteland and watching the sky to eat, there will be more than seven months to wait for next year's harvest, and more than 20,000 people on one island will not be able to drink the northwest wind for more than seven months.

Based on the calculation that one person has one pound of rice a day to maintain the most basic survival needs, 24,000 people will consume 240 stone rice a day, and 50,000 stone rice grain in seven months.

If everything had been done in accordance with the regulations submitted by Chongzhou County and approved by the Xuanfu Embassy, the more than 24,000 displaced people would not have been able to survive on Xisha Island at all.

Lin Jian will not really get out and leave Xisha Island, nor will he let Li Shuyi, Hu Zhiyong and others resettle the displaced people according to the rules approved by the Xuanfu Envoy.

Lin Lian's idea was to carry out large-scale commercial reclamation, and in the name of Jiyun Society, all the land that should have been subleased to the displaced people was leased, and the Jiyun Society organized the displaced people to plant mulberry, cotton, hemp and other cash crops on the leased land, and then purchased a large number of raw materials from other counties to develop large-scale cotton spinning, silk weaving, and linen yarn industries.

The Chongzhou government only subleased the land on Xisha Island to displaced people and did not grant land rights, which also created conditions for commercial reclamation.

The waterways of Xisha Island extend in all directions, and the surrounding area is the land of fish and rice, Xisha Island does not grow grain for the time being, and the required rice and grain can be imported from outside the island.

Otherwise, it would be impossible to resettle the more than 20,000 displaced people with 100,000 acres of barren and uncultivated land.

If the Jiyun Society had no interests to pursue and selflessly assisted so many displaced people, it would be even more ill-intentioned.

Only by intensively carrying out large-scale commercial reclamation or developing Xisha Island can so many manpower on Xisha Island be effectively organized.

In the past, it was the premise of obtaining the consent of the Xuanfu Envoy and the Chongzhou local government to settle the displaced people on Xisha Island, but now it is necessary to get the local government of Chongzhou County to agree to resettle the displaced people in their own way.

Lin Tie's bloody battle under Jiyang City not only made it impossible for the Donghai Kou to pose a fatal threat to Xisha Island in the short term, but also wanted the local forces in Chongzhou to see that under the threat of the Donghai Kou, his forces could get more security barriers by infiltrating Chongzhou on Xisha Island.

Lin Jian needs to make various efforts to alleviate local resistance, otherwise it will be difficult for the local government to allow outsiders to gain a foothold in the local area.

A big factor in the dispute with the Qu family was the rejection of Lin Lian, a foreigner who fought for a foothold in the estuary. Otherwise, even if Qu Wuyang was willing to help Chen Xiyan deal with Lin Jian and Gu Wuchen, the rest of the Qu family would not be able to agree with Qu Wuyang to abuse the Qu family's resources like this.

"Has Chongzhou County's attitude loosened?" Lin Jian sat on the chair car and asked Hu Zhicheng that the communication with the local government in Chongzhou County was done by the Hu family.

"Chen Kun has already decided that the adults are coveting the tens of thousands of acres of resettlement land on Xisha Island," Hu Zhicheng said, "according to the information revealed by his staff, he is thinking about how to make a bid......

"Then wait for him to make an offer," Lin Jian said with a smile, "When the displaced people are compiled, the number of households should be strictly controlled, and it is best not to exceed two thousand households, and when talking to Chongzhou County, it should also be ...... in the names of the Hu family and the Jiyun Society."

"This is not a problem, Li Shuyi's manpower at this time is all ours, except that Li Shuyi may know a little about the details, the Chongzhou local and county Xuanfu envoys do not know the actual number of displaced people on Xisha Island," Lin Mengde said, "Jiangdong County has a little power, and it is normal to control thousands of civilian households. Xisha Island is located in an open position, there is no terrain to facilitate it, and when the East China Sea invades the estuary, it is less likely that Xuanfu will be wary, but this side also has to try to be accommodating......"

Locally, the displaced people are resettled on newly silted land such as river beaches and sand islands, and most of them are planted with land rent, but when the new emperor ascends the throne, the emperor or empress, or the empress dowager's birthday, the imperial court grants the displaced people land rights to show the emperor's great grace.

At this time, Jiyun Society took this large piece of subleased land into its hands, and when the imperial court granted amnesty, it was naturally easy to get the land rights into its own hands.

In the more than 200 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, land annexation has been serious, and most of the local families have taken land as the foundation, and their greed for land has almost reached a peak. The Lin family controls Shanglindu in Shanglinli, and the biggest interest comes from Shanglindu and the monopoly on Dongyang's property export, but the Lin family still holds as much as 400 hectares of land; There are not a few large landowners in Jiangdong County who have thousands of acres of fertile land.

Chen Kun suspected that Lin Jiao's fundamental purpose was to encroach on the land of Xisha Island, which was normal.

In order to conceal the disaster on Xisha Island, Chongzhou County initially caused more than 20,000 people to drown and go missing, but finally reported to Hailing Mansion and the county Xuanfu Envoy that more than 200 people were killed and missing on Xisha Island, and the scale of the displaced people on Xisha Island was greatly concealed from the beginning.

In order to reduce the resistance of Gu Wuchen and others to his disaster relief on Xisha Island, Lin Jian would rather come in for disaster relief by himself, and the private letter with Gu Wuchen only said that the scale of the victims on Xisha Island was about 10,000, and Taihu Lake raised grain and distributed more than 40,000 stones on Xisha Island for future wheat harvest in June of the next year. During the 10-month disaster preparedness period, even if the most basic survival needs of more than 24,000 disaster victims were met, Lin Jian had to privately paste another 40,000 stone of rice grain into it. At this time, Lin Jian only got less than 10,000 taels of silver from the grain raised by Taihu Lake and distributed it to Xisha Island, which was far from enough.

It can be said that except for Lin Binding, other people do not know anything about the situation on Xisha Island, and how many displaced people will be resettled on Xisha Island in name must be calculated based on the actual number of households, which is what Li Shuyi, the household secretary of Chongzhou County, did; Maybe they know something about the luxury family that Xisha Island has been paying attention to, but everyone knows the trouble of the East China Sea Kou, and it is difficult for the luxury family to have a positive influence in Jiangdong.

To control the number of households, the scale of land leased from Chongzhou County is also limited, but there is no other force on Xisha Island, as long as Chongzhou County finally nods and agrees, how to develop Xisha Island is not a matter for Jiyun Society?

Talking to Chongzhou County at the same time in the name of the Hu family and the Jiyun Society is also a distraction target and weakens the vigilance that some people may have, after all, no one would have thought that Lin Jian would be so deeply implicated in addition to occasionally helping to rescue Hu Zhicheng and Hu Qiaoyi's uncle and nephew in the Yangtze River.

Much of this is external work, and in the case of Paracel Island, the first priority is to resettle so many displaced people and build a dock port that can transport supplies to the island on a large scale, as well as a defensive walled complex that can control the dock port to a limited extent.

Lin Jian carefully calculated, to be able to gain a foothold on Xisha Island and settle down so many people, 200,000 taels of cash was barely enough to spend. In order to achieve this goal, in the short term, he must not lose Gu Wuchen's backer.

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