In order to ensure the smooth passage of grain, the imperial court's action of comforting Huaidong was not unpleasant, and the official letter stamped with the "seal of the Shangshu Ministry" was delivered quickly before the New Year's Festival to make a major adjustment to the Huaidong officials.

Liu Shidu succeeded Liu Tingzhou to know the affairs of Huai'an Mansion, Lin Jian led the Huaidong system to know the affairs of Hailing Mansion with the title of Doctor Zhengsi Pinzheng, and Wu Meijiu served as the general judge of Hailing Mansion. At the same time, the Jiangning Household Department and the Jiangdong Xuanfu Envoy agreed that the summer and autumn tax and grain levied in the ten counties of the two prefectures of Huaidong (except Chongzhou County) would be allocated to the Huaidong Army Commander within 800,000 stone after deducting the local expenditure of the prefecture and county, and used for the Huaidong Army to raise the army; The excess amount still needs to be paid to the county division.

While further delegating power to Huaidong, the imperial court and Jiangning still regarded the Huaidong military commanders as the main means of restricting Huaidong. Liu Tingzhou was promoted to the rank of the fourth rank of the chief doctor, and the Huaidong military commander was promoted to the fourth rank of the Yamen, which was placed alongside the Huaidong Envoy and was under the jurisdiction of the Jianghuai Governor's Mansion.

Before the New Year's Festival, there was another snow in Huaidong.

"Yue Lengqiu is nothing more than that!" Lin Jian threw the official document on the table, looked at the plum covered with a layer of snow outside the window, and didn't know where a group of sparrows flew from onto the plum branches......

This is a living yard behind the East Ya, and Lin Jian occasionally wants to be quiet here, hiding here to do official business; Song Jia helped take care of this place, and sometimes she didn't bother to go back to the mountain, so she lived here.

There are some things that are not clear, but no one wants to explain them clearly.

Song Jia was wearing a pale green white velvet trimmed jacket, her chest was bulging and propped up, her skin was like snow outside the window, and in the dark room, it had a soft luster.

She sorted out the official documents that Lin Jian had left casually, which was a letter from Yue Lengqiu to transfer Meng Yishan's department to Weiyang Mansion for recuperation.

Yue Lengqiu's intention couldn't be more obvious, that is, to prevent Huaidong from having any disobedience.

After transferring the Northern Zhejiang Army to the west to guard against the southern crossing of the Changle bandits, this was the second time that Yue Lengqiu drew troops from the Qianjiang defense line. After two rounds of transfers, Jiangdong County reduced about 20,000 troops on the eastern front, which greatly increased the pressure on the eastern front.

"Lord Liu is here, waiting in front!" Song Jia's girl Zuolan brought from Jeju came in to pray.

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Two days later is the New Year's Day, Liu Shidu knew that Lin Lian couldn't wait to take over the affairs of Hailing Mansion, and rushed to Chongzhou to hand over affairs with Lin Jian on the 28th day of the lunar month. Anyway, he will pat his ass and go to Huai'an after the New Year's Festival.

Lin Jian stepped on the snow and walked to the front office, and Lin Mengde, Hu Zhiyong, Li Shuyi, Wang Chengfu and others also rushed over.

Since Lin Tie was appointed as the envoy of Huaidong, he has been walking all over Huaidong non-stop, and Liu Shidu, Wu Meijiu is old acquaintance, Fu Liucao and county officials, seeing him is no stranger, seeing Lin Tie in a green robe walked in, standing up together to greet him.

Fu Liucao and the county officials, the thoughts are different, some people are uneasy, some people secretly luck - Lin Jian used to be the military governor of Huaidong, and he preferred to interfere in political affairs, and some of the Fu Liucao and county officials flattered him, and some people ignored him-those who ignored him were panicked at this time.

It's okay to offend other bosses, but it's okay to offend Lin Lian...... It's not just about wearing small shoes. In these years, there are a few officials with clean buttocks, and if they are not careful, their heads will fall to the ground, and the Ma family in Shanyang County is a precedent.

Dong Wenbiao, the county governor of Jianling, belongs to the kind of people who are secretly lucky.

Whether it is Huaidong repairing and defending the seawall, or reclaiming barren camps, or the Huaidong Military Division recommending officials to the prefecture and county, Dong Wenbiao has all cooperated, and even repeatedly ridiculed Hu Dahai, the magistrate of Yandu County, a neighboring county - and Hu Dahai, who laughed at him, said that although he was promoted to the general judge of Huai'an Mansion this time, I am afraid that he is more worried than happy, right?

"During the Chinese New Year, everyone can't live in peace, and I think I have a lot of complaints in my heart?" Lin Jian sat down, with a smile on his face, and asked everyone with a harmonious and amiable attitude.

"How dare you, how dare you, I can't wait to come over to greet the adults, and I can't find an excuse......" Wu Meijiu said in the lead.

Among so many people, Wu Meijiu has been dealing with Lin Jian for the longest time.

When Lin Jian first went to Xisha Island for disaster relief, Wu Meijiu came to Chongzhou to coordinate the contradiction between Lin Jian and the former Chongzhou Governor with the Fu Sikou Army, and then Lin Jian officially settled in Chongzhou, and Wu Meijiu temporarily replaced Chongzhou Governor County for nearly a year. Finally got rid of this side, returned to Hailing Mansion to continue to serve as the secretary of the army to join the army, Lin Lian was appointed as the envoy of Huaidong again, restructured the local military equipment, and Wu Meijiu returned to Lin Lian to control again.

This promotion to general judgment is in the name of restricting the prefect's power, but Wu Meijiu has no such thoughts in his heart. In Wu Meijiu's heart, as long as Lin Jian does not openly raise the flag to rebel, he can do whatever he likes.

Lin Jian smiled slightly, invited everyone to sit down, and asked Liu Shidu: "Lord Liu, Lord Liu Tingzhou Liu is stationed in Huai'an, when will you leave for Huai'an?" ”

"If you go to Huai'an after the New Year's Festival, Lord Liu Tingzhou should have the patience to wait for a few more days......," Liu Shidu said.

Huai'an Mansion is more important than Hailing Mansion, and Liu Shidu's change of knowledge of Huai'an Mansion is a small step.

However, Jiangning adjusted the two prefectures in Huaidong, and from then on, Huai'an Prefecture was not only subject to the control of the Huaidong military envoy in military affairs, but also under the control of the Huaidong military commander in political affairs. It's not easy to be an official in these years.

"Well," Lin Jian nodded and said, "This time, the imperial court adjusted the money and ration of Huaidong, and the money and grain of Xu Huaidong and Huaidong were allocated to the military department after deducting local expenditures. Of course, a ceiling of 800,000 stone tax grain was given, and the excess part still had to be handed over to the county department. Now the tax and silver paid by the two governments are only enough to exchange for 400,000 stone grain, and there is still a lot of space from the upper limit of 800,000 stone tax grain, what does Lord Liu think about this? ”

The summer tax and autumn grain collected by the local government have always been spent by the local government and paid less to the county secretary - according to the tax regulations established by Gaozong, the two prefectures of Hailing and Huai'an need to send 200,000 stone grain to Beijing every year.

After the salt and silver were preserved, the grain was converted into silver, and the foot money and silver were added, and only 180,000 taels of silver were seized from the county department.

In July, the Jiangning military discussed that the two governments would levy more than 240,000 taels of silver at one time, so you can know that the taxes paid by the two governments to the county department before were not heavy.

This time, the imperial court reluctantly agreed to use all the taxes of the two prefectures in Huaidong for the Huaidong region, but in fact, it only added up to 420,000 taels of silver. If the price of rice had returned to a year ago, it would have almost been enough to cover the upper limit of the 80 stone tax on grain. At this time, the price of rice almost doubled, 420,000 taels of silver, and when converted into tax grain, it was only half of what it used to be, less than 400,000 stone grain.

"After the lower officials take office, they will make every effort to abolish the tax and replace it with a tax grain ......," Liu Shidu replied, "and it is necessary to ensure that the taxes paid by the Huai'an Mansion to the military consular department reach the level of 400,000 stone grain." ”

Liu Shidu is an old qualified official, and besides, the political affairs of Huai'an Mansion are nominally subject to the military consular department and controlled by Liu Tingzhou, Liu Shidu can make such a statement, and it is inconvenient for Lin Lian to investigate the details.

Liu Shidu sat for a while, then said goodbye and left, leaving Wu Meijiu, Dong Wenbiao and other local officials of Hailing Mansion behind, and Hailing Mansion will be one acre and three points of land in Huaidong in the future.

Liu Shidu said goodbye and left, the smile on Lin Lian's face faded a little, and the atmosphere in the hall stiffened a lot.

Lin Jian said to Wu Meijiu: "The envoy is in Chongzhou, and I always have to focus on military affairs, and I can't go to Hailing to do official business. You think this is good, is everyone accommodating me and moving to Chongzhou to take care of official business? In the future, if there are any official documents and requests for instructions from each county, will they be sent directly to Chongzhou? ”

"Of course, how can we work hard and travel between the two places, and it is convenient for us to move here." Wu Meijiu said.

It is convenient for Wu Meijiu to say this, and even the officials of Zhu Cao are also convenient, after all, they are all Beijing officials who took office with their families. In comparison, today's Chongzhou is much more prosperous than Hailing City, and everyone is willing to become an official in a prosperous place.

The real trouble is the number of officials who are several times more numerous......

Officials were almost always selected from the local gentry and were the core representatives of local forces. There are nearly 100 people in the history of Xu Shi, to which the six Cao of Hailing Mansion belong, and almost all of their families, foundations, and family interests are in Hailing City, and they will never easily move to Chongzhou.

Wu Meijiu promised to be convenient, and there was nothing inconvenient about the officials themselves, but when they thought of how to persuade their subordinates after going back, they felt that their heads were as big as a fight.

"Since that's the case," Lin Jian didn't seem to see the embarrassment on other people's faces at all, and when he saw Wu Meijiu agreeing, he said, "We will limit it to the fifth day of the new year." After the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, whoever has not come to Chongzhou to report, he will be treated as a sick resignation - I don't care if they are disrespectful to me, whether they are neglectful to me, and if they do not appear in Chongzhou on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, then never appear! ”

"Of course, the adults don't hold them accountable for their disrespectful crimes, they are already tolerant enough, and the lower officials don't think that anyone will be so ignorant!" Wu Meijiu said, "Xiaguan will report to Chongzhou today!" ”

Wu Mei has been sentenced for a long time, and she has the most power to save forests. Wu Meijiu looked obedient, and the following Cao joined the army and the county officials, and there was a sad cry in his heart. No one took the wrong medicine, and at this time, it was decided to stand up against Lin Tie and actually move the Fucheng Governance Office to Chongzhou.

No one would test the edge of Lin Bin's knife with his own head for the sake of his subordinates.

Lin Jian couldn't wait for none of the officials of Hailing Mansion to come, so that he could all be replaced by people from this side - Chongzhou has a sufficient reserve of officials in the past two years, not to mention the Hailing Mansion Yamen, that is, the yamen at all levels in the eleven counties of the two prefectures in Huaidong, all of which are more than enough with the officials trained in Chongzhou in the past two years.

"The situation is becoming more and more severe, and it is necessary to further reorganize the Hailing Prefecture Army," Lin Jian said, "Lord Wu is appointed to pass judgments, review lawlessness, and work hard, so it is not appropriate to serve as the commander of the government army again." From now on, Chen Kuili, the captain of Zhaowu, will take over the post of commander of the Hailing Mansion Army......"

Chen Kuili, who came out of the forest and joined Huaidong with Han Caizhi, stood up and saluted everyone, recognizing everyone's familiar face.

The general judgment or the division of the army are all officials sent by Beijing, but the generals of the local military garrison can be appointed by the local government, and they are nominally under the control of the general judgment of the government and the division of the army, but it is obvious that the Huaidong system has greater control over the division.

Wu Meijiu was prepared for Lin Lian's appointment, and others were surprised, but there was no problem when they thought about it.

Lin Jian was originally the military governor of the Huaidong and Eastern Mansions, and then concurrently served as the prefect of Hailing, so in fact, everything in Hailing Mansion was decided by him. Although Wu Meijiu is appointed to the position of general judge, his biggest power is to monitor whether Lin Jian has bad intentions, and other powers are almost completely empty.

"After Chen Kuili took office, he led the Hailing Mansion Army and his family to be stationed in Jiangmen, and carried out camp training in Jiangmen, and the defense of Hailing City was taken over by the Huaidong Bu Military Division," Lin Jian continued to announce his decision, ignoring the changes in the faces of the officials below, and said, "In the future, Hailing Mansion's expenditure of local military equipment will be accounted for, supported, and ......allocated by the Military Division" Speaking of this, Lin Jian looked at Yuan Keli, who joined the army, "Lord Yuan, what do you think about this?" ”

The taxes of the prefecture and county are divided into two parts: local expenditure and payment, and the payment is usually the official levy or the imperial court explicit levy, and the name of the local expenditure is more, and often dozens of items must be spread out on each household.

In this year, there were fewer people who engaged in real estate development than in later generations, and there were fewer people who paid bribes, and local officials wanted to get rich, mainly by corruption.

Where does corruption come from? The main thing is to come from local expenditure. In addition to summer taxes and autumn grains, a considerable part of the various miscellaneous donations and assessments in the localities were confiscated by "local expenditures."

The Hailing Mansion Army has three battalions and a total of 2,000 miscellaneous soldiers, but the expenditure of Hailing Mansion in this area, including armor, ordnance, money, barracks, etc., is 20,000 stone grain and 30,000 taels of silver per year. Its expenditure standard is even higher than that of the main infantry battalion of the Huaidong Military Division. What kind of cat is hidden in it, it is naturally conceivable.

Sihu joined the army Yuan Keli is a big moth in Hailing Mansion - it is said that "three years of Qing Governor's Mansion, 100,000 snowflakes of silver", Liu Shidu's fortune mainly depends on the following officials' respect, and any expenditure allocated by Hu Cao, Yuan Keli has to scrape a hand of oil. A lump sum can give ninety percent, which is a big face in front of Yuan Keli.

The combat effectiveness of the government army is very limited, and it is impossible to make a change in a short period of time, so the government army and its families will be moved to Jiangmen to garrison and conduct tuntian training, which can also be used as a barrier to the periphery of Chongzhou.

Giving Lin Jian his eyes to stare at, Yuan Keli's forehead was about to ooze cold sweat, who would have thought that in just half a month, the imperial court would really give the position of Hailing Prefect to the swineherd?

Yuan Keli was stunned, Lin Jian squinted his eyes and continued: "I plan to recommend three officials to Hu Cao, one is in charge of Ding Tian, one is in charge of taxes, and one is in charge of branches, what is Lord Yuan's opinion?" ”

"No... Not... No comment......" Yuan Keli stammered.

Lin Jian looked at Yuan Keli and continued: "Then in the future, Li Shuyi and the others will ask Lord Yuan to take care of ......" motioned for Li Shuyi, who was standing in the hall, to stand up and recognize everyone's face.

Li Shuyi is currently the Cheng of Chongzhou County, and he is also the secretary of the military department, and he is a righteous and eight-grade civil official. Hailing Mansion and county officials, there are very few people who don't know him.

Lin Jian assigned Li Shuyi to take people into the household Cao to serve as a Ding Tian warden, responsible for Ding Tian, taxes, branches, etc., and the intention was obvious enough.

The local financial power is in Hucao, and it is mainly divided into three types of affairs: Dingtian, tax, and branch, and Lin Jian wants to directly control Hailing Mansion, and he can't do it if he doesn't put Yuan Keli in the air.

"According to the rules of Chongzhou, from the beginning of the summer tax next year, the counties of Hailing Mansion will be exempted from all Ding taxes and capitation assessments. Before the spring and March, the county households shall report to the government office the number of acres of Dingkou fields, and the summer tax shall be incorporated into the levy and shall not be punished; After the spring and March, those who are deceived and verified will be fined five years according to the actual number; If you deceive and obstruct the verification, you will go back and repair the prison first......"

The big killer finally came, and Dong Wenbiao and other county magistrates all looked at each other.

Dong Wenbiao was bold and said: "What the adults said is an urgent matter in the counties of Hailing Mansion, and it cannot be delayed, but there is a shortage of manpower in the county, and the officials in the county are intertwined with the localities, so they may not be able to make the call ......."

Many things are bad on the heads of the officials. The county jurisdiction is 100 miles away, and the officials sent by the imperial court are usually only two or three people, and the specific affairs must be done according to the local officials. If the officials want to make trouble or disobey the yang and the yin, the officials are often unaware.

"It's okay," Lin Jian said, "Chongzhou has some experience in these things. Since the county has opened its mouth to ask for help, in addition to the historians who have been raised before, ten more people will be recommended to each county to go down and take charge of their affairs......"

Chongzhou built fortifications, repaired and defended the seawall at the most than 100,000 people, not to mention the personnel organization, the supply of embankment materials, all need a large number of logistics personnel.

From the early Shanglinli and Xihehui to the recognition of Huaidong by the local forces in Chongzhou, as well as the large-scale southward migration of maritime forces, a large number of talents were brought to Linjiao. In particular, the recognition of Huaidong by the local forces in Chongzhou, and the participation of Chongzhou's scholars represented by the robbery boy, brought a large number of grassroots officials to Huaidong.

There are five counties in Hailing County, in addition to Chongzhou, in addition to Hailing, Xinghua, Gaocheng, Jianling four counties, a county and then select ten people, but only forty people, the big deal is to let the agricultural school students graduate early.