[Updated]2011-12-1404:34:25[Word Count]3964

It was not until the end of April that Jiangning's side stopped for a while, and the salt, silver, and taxes were all merged into the Ministry of Households, and the taxes were also controlled by the Privy Council's Legislative Council......

Lin Jian did not need to stay in the center of the town, and left Jiangning in late April to inspect the defense, and the first stop was to go east along the river, first to the five counties of Chongzhou in Fengguo, and then to the north along the Hanhai wall.

Chen Huazhang also repeated the promise made when he resigned from Jiangning, and when Lin Jian arrived in Chongzhou, he crossed the river and was willing to serve his subordinates, temporarily appointed as a senator, and accompanied him to the north to inspect the defense.

Chen Huazhang traveled the world when he was a teenager, lived in Haiyu after middle age, and rarely went out to travel.

The two Huai Han seawall is far grander than imagined - in fact, at the beginning of the construction of the Han seawall, the mud was piled up to build the embankment, but in the later period, a large amount of money and grain were drawn from the tunzhai in the embankment every year to strengthen and maintain, and a large section of the mixed embankment with outer stones and inner soil has been formed.

The East China Sea Post Road with the seawall as the core has also been built, and every dozens of miles, there is a large market town that is not less lively than a small county, and such prosperity is created by Lin Tie in just a few years.

The sea is near the sea, and Chen Huazhang feels very deeply about the danger of the sea tide - if you want to say that the flood is overflowing, it can also increase the fertility of the land, usually planting wheat and cotton after the flood, you can have a good harvest; Let the tide pour in, and the whole field will become salty soil, and it will be difficult for grass to grow.

The beach is so vast, and it is not always the case that there is a high tide, but these salty soils grow rice and wheat, and there are seven or eight buckets of harvest a year, thank God. Generally speaking, in the depth of tens or even hundreds of miles near the sea, if there is no seawall to block the tide, as long as the tide is irrigated once, the soil quality will become extremely poor, and it can be improved by fertilizing in a short time.

The suffering of the people on the seashore is unimaginable.

Even after walking dozens of miles, the growth of the wheat fields in the embankment was very gratifying, Chen Huazhang finally couldn't help but go down the embankment and grabbed a handful of soil and stretched out his tongue to lick it, astringent, but not salty, and asked Lin Lian: "There is one thing, Huazhang wants to ask the lord?" ”

"Tell me about it." Lin Jian saw Chen Huazhang go down to the embankment to taste the soil, but he was really a capable and practical person, so he smiled and asked him to talk.

Song Fu stood aside with his hands in his hands, and during this inspection, Song Fu accompanied the ministers, and Gao Zongting stayed in Jiangning to dispose of the military aircraft.

"It may not be difficult to build the embankment, but it is not easy to change the soil in the embankment," Chen Huazhang asked, "It has only been a few years since the embankment was built, and the wheat field should not be so happy to grow ...... people."

"It's no secret that every season during the summer floods, Zhutunzhai will do a thing," Lin said, "and they will open the inland river embankment to flood and control the flood from the salty soil, which has two advantages: one is to dig the soil, and the other is to accumulate silt." Zhu Ai, who joined the army with Huawen West into Luzhou, this method was advocated by him, and it was indeed effective - the gap between the grain production of the dwelled and unsilted embankment tuntian is very obvious, and now the dike inner field can almost be called cooked land. ”

Song Fu sighed in his heart: In the tenth year of Chongguan, Lin Lian had just won the victory of Huaisi, and he controlled the Jinhai Grain Road in his hands, so he had already recruited troops to expand his territory, but Lin Lian could not bear to expand the army, and used the more than one million taels of silver obtained from the Jinhai Grain Road to build the Hanhai embankment and build water conservancy.

Not counting the five counties of Chongzhou, from the mouth of the Yunyan River to the north, all the way to Qingjiangpu in Yandu, the length of the seawall is 200 miles, plus the repair of both sides of Qingjiangpu, the new grain field is about 2 million mu. More importantly, the cultivation conditions of millions of acres of inferior land in the three counties of Jianling, Gaocheng, and Yandu, which have always been salty and bitter, have been greatly improved, and grain production has increased by a large margin.

Lin Jian implemented a new policy in Huaidong, re-inventoried the acres of land, checked the grain fields concealed by local forces, re-classified the grain fields, and imposed new nuclear taxes, which greatly increased the annual revenues of Huai'an and Hailing Prefectures.

Lin Jian was also able to restrain himself and set aside a large amount of the new taxes for local affairs such as water conservancy and roads, which actually further increased the tax potential of the two prefectures.

If it weren't for this, even if Huaidong could buy nearly one million stone rice grains from Haidong, Nanyang and other places every year, the grain shortage in the seven prefectures in the south of the Yangtze River would not be so easy to get through......

Jiangning is the most scarce grain in other places, and grain prices in other parts of Jiangnan are high, but the gap is not large, and a total of millions of stone grain can be imported, which can be greatly alleviated. In addition to the hundreds of thousands of refugees in Jiangning, only the 160,000 urban households in Jiangning City need 300,000 stone rice and grain to import every month to bring down the grain price.

After the war, the price of grain in Jiangning once soared to 100 yuan a liter, but with the price limit in the later period and the lifting of the grain ban on Jiangnan in Huaidong, not only did the grain price in Jiangning drop to the pre-war level, but also in Pingjiang Prefecture, which was close to Chongzhou, the grain price fell to a low level of 12 yuan per liter.

In just three months, the rice grain exported to Jiangnan from Chongzhou, Hailing, Huai'an and other places every month was on the scale of millions of stones.

Although the grain ban has been lifted, there has been a push up of the grain price in Huaidong, but it is within the controllable range, and the moderate increase in grain prices is also a benefit to the merchants and people of Huaidong, and more importantly, it can be deduced that the Huaidong private grain storage and transportation capacity are sufficient.

After more than a year of recuperation, production in Xuzhou has recovered; Hangzhou, Huzhou, Huiji, and other prefectures will be separated from the war zone, and the eastern Fujian region will also be further stabilized, and the taxes directly paid may not be as good as before; as long as the people have surplus grain in their hands and have to exchange it for other production materials and daily necessities, a large amount of grain will enter the official reserves or flow into other grain-deficient areas for adjustment.

In fact, since the beginning of the year, grain has been imported to eastern Fujian.

As long as the spring famine is over, and the wheat is harvested and put into the warehouse, the situation will be further alleviated, and perhaps at that time, the plan for the thorough pacification of the Fujian and Jiangxi chaos and the Northern Expedition can be formally formulated.

It is not possible yet, and all aspects are mainly based on rectification and defensive lines.

Chen Huazhang didn't expect that Song Fu might be the first time to set foot in the core area of Huaidong and was full of emotion, and when he heard Lin Lian mention Zhu Ai, he remembered that he had seen Zhu Ai.

Zhu Ai was born as a cowherd, and the thief's cattle were sold as road capital to Chongzhou and were appointed, and he was appointed to join the army, but he was ugly and didn't like to talk, Chen Huazhang was not impressed by him, but he knew that Lin Jian sent Zhu Ai to Luzhou, not just any Cao under the government to join the army.

During this time, it was also a period when Huaidong carried out large-scale adjustments to the generals of various ministries, and it was not a simple matter to digest the seven prefectures and Luzhou in the south of the Yangtze River. From the rise of Chongzhou to the establishment of a foundation in Huaidong, it took almost six or seven years before and after.

It was getting late, and he had to rush to Jianling to meet with Liu Shidu, but he didn't talk about the matter of Luzhou in detail, and he heard that the method of silting was advocated by Zhu Ai, and he could really change the salty soil into good land in three or five years.

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Lin Jian inspected the defense area, the first stop along the Han seawall to the north, and Liu Shidu in Jianling convergence, in fact, it was still for the sake of salt, stopped halfway, and continued to go to Jianling with the escort of the cavalry camp.

The controversy over the salt matter on the Jiangning side has also subsided, but the rectification of the salt matter is far from the end at this time.

There are more than 100,000 salt households in Lianghuai, including 20,000 salt guards and nearly 100,000 salt boilers.

In addition to the salt merchants, there are also many people who dare to break the ban in the two Huai Ding pawns, and of course, more of them are the poor salt farmers who cannot struggle in this land because of the salt household system.

What do you need to raise 20,000 salt pawns for the Lianghuai Salt Farm?

Except for a part of the army that is responsible for transporting salt, almost half of the salt pawns can be cut; The salt works were responsible for defending the sea pirates, and their own sailor warships cruising in the East China Sea were responsible for merging the profits obtained from the government-run salt industry to the local government, so Lin Jian intended to merge the responsibility of investigating smuggled salt into the local security forces.

The key is the problem of salt farmers - the Lianghuai salt works maintain so many salt pawns, and the extremely poor life of salt farmers and frequent riots are also an important factor.

In the evening, Lin Jian rushed to Jianling County, Liu Shidu had already been waiting by the post road, and Liu Shidu was standing with Wang Chengfu of the former Yudong Zhi County.

In the early years of Yongxing, Yudong Gongzhuang withdrew from Zhuang and placed the county, and merged into Huaidong, and now it is divided into private fiefdoms with Chongzhou for the other four years, Wang Chengfu has been in Yudong Zhixian for three years - Yudong was originally also a grassland, and changed the palace village, thinking that the concubines and concubines in the inner court were combing the capital, and the grain field in the early years was only more than 100,000 mu; It was not until the Delong period that it was officially allocated to the private business of the Empress Dowager Liang, and Miao Shuo operated for more than ten years, increasing the grain fields in Yudong to more than 400,000 mu.

In fact, like the Hecheng grassland, Yudong has a large amount of land resources that can be cultivated.

As in the coastal areas of Huaidong, the proportion of top-ripening fields in Yudong is low due to the great influence of tidal recharge, and the overall yield is not high. After Yudong was placed in the county, Lin Tie appointed Wang Cheng to govern Yudong, one is to relocate the people, one is to build embankments to protect the sea, and the other is to cultivate grain and cotton, and three years have been very effective. Today, Yudong has a population of 200,000 people, although it cannot be compared with Chongzhou, Pingjiang, Danyang and other large counties, it is also an absolute big county in the central and western regions.

What's the matter, the most difficult to open up the wasteland, everything in Yudong County is systematic, all have rules, and other officials can also be competent, so Lin Tie transferred Wang Chengfu out and planned to entrust him with another important task.

Lin Tie dismounted, handed the reins to the accompanying guards, and asked Liu Shidu: "I heard that Lord Jiang and Lord Liu have already gone to Yanchi with Chengfu to see it, so I don't have to run again, how do you feel?" ”

"The method of digging the pond to dry salt, there are more than 100 years, the salt field of Dengzhou and Jimo occasionally tries it, but it is not implemented, the effect does not seem to be obvious, the book is recorded, it is also very simple, it is difficult for people to peek at its appearance," Liu Shidu said, "but the salt pond of Guanhecheng is really an eye-opener: hundreds of acres of shallow ponds, several miles away from the sea, open the gate when the pool is empty, lead the salty tide into the pool, close the door and wait for the tide to recede, expose to the sun for more than ten days, that is, become salt brine." If you want to say that this is also boiling salt, you should have the spirit of using heaven and earth as a furnace......"

Song Fu and Chen Huazhang didn't know about the salt pond, and they didn't go to the southeast sea from Hecheng to defend the seawall, but seeing Liu Shidu's demeanor and talking about the method of digging the pond to dry salt, they could also know that the salt pond in Hecheng really shocked Liu Shidu.

Lin Jian shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Here in the Huainan Salt Farm, I also hoped that Mao Wenjing could change from boiling salt to dried salt, hoping to reduce the pressure on Hecheng's grass supply, and even did not hesitate to post 20,000 taels of silver to him every year. Who knew that he didn't do good things when he accepted the money, and the method of drying salt was only done hastily in three or five areas, fooling me! In the end, I was forced to dig a pond south of Hecheng to test the method of drying salt, and it was a success. ”

Chen Huazhang thought to himself: No wonder Mao Wenjing ended up like this? Mao Wenjing and Huaidong can also be regarded as having a friendship with the East China Sea Kou and winning the battle of the East China Sea, if Mao Wenjing can be a little more restrained, Huaidong will not use him to sacrifice the knife of the salt purge matter.

Liu Shidu said: "If the salt factory can implement the method of drying salt, half of the salt households can be transferred to the tun planting, and the grassland originally prepared for boiling salt can be converted into cultivated land......

"For the time being, it is better to cook and dry at the same time, first of all, we must ensure that the output is not reduced, the price of salt cannot withstand the ups and downs," Lin Jian said, "How do you think Lord Liu will serve as your assistant?" ”

"Lord Wang has great talents, enough to win the Huainan Salt Envoy." Liu Shidu said.

Lin Lian nodded and said: "Lord Liu thinks it's feasible, then I will recommend it tomorrow - the private reclamation fields confiscated in the salt field will be directly set up in the tunzhai and the salt pawns will be arranged into tunhu." The cost of the salt pond is also earmarked by appropriations, and the consumption saved by the reduction of salt pawns, I think it is still used to subsidize salt households first. Speaking of which, what is the difference between Tunhu and Yanhu, just look at who is covered with patches and who has a yellow face and thin muscles. In addition, the workers' camp will recruit some people from the salt farmers to relieve the pressure on the salt farms, and I must push off the lowly system when I go back this time......"

Boiling salt consumes a lot of forage, so the two Huai salt farms have enclosed a large area of land around the boiling salt land to grow grass, and the Hecheng grassland, which covers an area of hundreds of acres, is only one of them.

Salt households pay salt to the Salt and Iron Division, only ten yuan per catty, but in the early years, private salt was overflowing, and the salt merchants secretly communicated, and the price of salt farmers could be slightly higher. With the prolongation of the war, the sales area of the two Huai salts was reduced on a large scale, and Huaidong itself used the salt of the island and other real estates, and naturally strictly controlled the inflow of private salt, which led to a sharp decrease in the sales of the entire two Huai salts, and the life of the salt farmers naturally became more and more difficult - after the construction of the Han seawall, Huaidong moved into a large number of tun households to the inner side of the Han sea wall, almost mixed with the salt households. In the past three or five years, I have only heard that there are salt households who have married their daughters, but I have not heard that there are children of salt households who can marry daughters-in-law. There have been many salt farmers who have starved to death and froze to death, and it has reached the point where it cannot be alleviated.

Changing the salt boiling method to the drying method can greatly reduce the manpower, and more importantly, save a lot of land resources to settle salt households.

The 20,000 salt pawns and 100,000 salt households are mainly concentrated in the Huainan salt field, and it is really necessary to have a capable person to quickly straighten out many things.