(First Update, Big Chapter, Ask for Red Tickets, Happy Christmas Eve, I'm going out to eat too)

The sky was exposed to the white belly of the fish, and the 10 sea ships were headed by the three ships "Jinhai", "Jiyun 1", and "Jiyun 2", and more than 2,000 soldiers of the 1st, 3rd, and 5th battalions of the Jiangdong Left Army and the first outpost of the Gonglu Battalion had completed the boarding and assembly and replenishment of ordnance and materials, and were ready to go.

Lin Bin's command ship raised its mainsail half-raised, and on the aft deck, the herald waved a two-color flag and used the flag language to convey the military order to set sail, and the other nine ships also raised their sails one after another and adjusted their bows.

The people standing on the dock to see off can clearly hear the "click" sound of the winch at the stern of the ship when the iron chain is retracted. At this time, the northwest wind is in full swing, the anchor is drumming, the ship is like a galloping horse from the shore, and the waves at the stern are like jade, dragging out a plain white water belt. When they were about four or five miles away from Haitang, the ships successively adjusted their direction and headed due south, heading straight for Laizhou Bay.

Hao Zongcheng sat on horseback, he stopped on the sea pond about two miles away from the dock of Liujin Harbor, staring at the ships that seemed to be galloping horses from the shore with a gloomy face, and did not say a word.

Hundreds of Jibei Army's elite cavalry stopped behind Hao Zongcheng, looking a little murderous.

Liu Zhi pursed his lips, the weather in spring, there was still a little cold in the early morning, and the frost in the four fields was as white as snow. He glanced back at the cavalry behind him, thinking that Lin Jian led the main force of the Jiangdong Left Battalion to leave, and at this time, only the first battalion of the Jiangdong Left Army and the first battalion of military soldiers remained in Jinhai, and he didn't know how much it would cost to eat these more than 1,000 people cleanly?

This kind of thought, Liu Zhi is just thinking about it in his mind, at the beginning, Lin Jian Shouyangxin only had 2,000 elite soldiers in his hands, and there were more than 20,000 troops in the siege of Dongyu at the peak, and in the end, it was not a big rout?

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At this time, the soldiers of the fourth battalion, who had retreated to the north side of the Tianjin harbor wharf for martial law, also began to board the ship under the leadership of Ning Zechen. They will nominally leave Jinhai to help Cao, but except for a small number of soldiers who stayed on the shore with Sun Shangwang to supervise the more than 6,000 captured prisoners to continue to repair the port and build warehouses, most of the soldiers of the fourth battalion will retreat to Jinwei Island with Ning Zechen.

In addition to the fourth battalion led by Ning Zechen, there were nearly 1,400 Zhejiang soldiers on Jinwei Island.

In order to prevent these Zhejiang soldiers from surrendering to Yue Lengqiu and killing them as military merits, Lin Jian left Yangxin and brought these Zhejiang soldiers to Jinhai as auxiliaries of the Jiangdong Left Battalion.

After Lin Jian received the title of barony of Jinhai County, the entire Jinwei Island was divided into his personal reward Yongye Field, and he used these nearly 1,400 Zhejiang soldiers to build Jinwei Island - Lin Jian invested huge resources during this time, which was to build Jinwei Island into a solid maritime military base and defensive barrier.

Only a little more than a month has passed, and the Jinwei Island base is still early from the date of completion, but the basic living facilities have been built, and the soldiers of the fourth battalion have retreated to Jinwei Island, at least in the short term, not afraid of the threat of the Jibei Army.

In addition to the soldiers of the fourth battalion, when Lin Tie was in Yangxin, he decisively beheaded all the generals who captured and captured the Zhejiang soldiers, and transferred the veterans loyal to the Jiangdong Left Army into it. Although this part of the population is still an auxiliary force, which is currently mainly used for the construction of military barriers on Jinwei Island, it can still be used as an important force to enter the battlefield at a critical moment.

In addition to nearly 1,400 Zhejiang soldiers, nearly 6,000 prisoners who went north from Yangxin with Lin Jian at this time can also be said to be an important reserve force of the Jiangdong Left Army in Jinhai.

At first, it was Lin Jian who solved their worries about possible liquidation after the war, and they had no choice but to trust the Jiangdong Left Army and go north with the Jiangdong Left Army.

Except for a small number of yeoman farmers who chose to return to their hometowns after the war, most of them were poor peasants who had lost their land or had no land, and there was no other way to live after the war except to stay in Jinhai as a hard laborer or a laborer. Besides, most of them have already lost their families, and even if there are still families in the world, most of them have been taken captive to the northland, and it is difficult to see each other again in this life. These encounters, as well as the trust that Lin Jian had in the Jiangdong Left Army, made it easier for them to unite and unite than ordinary returning refugees.

These 6,000 captives are the most important labor resources, whether it is to seal the whirlpool river, or to build a port and build a wharf, build a camp and dig a ditch, all play an important role.

As more and more yamen, garrisons, and returning refugees poured into Jinhai, Lin Jian directly moved these captives to the south bank of the Whirlpool River with the Jiangdong Left Army, nominally to facilitate employment management, but in fact to ensure the purity and cohesion of these captives.

In the process of cashing out work, Lin Jian also paid attention to selecting some prestigious and capable people from among the captives to appoint them with posts. A small number of people directly joined the Jiangdong Left Army, and a small number of people directly used to assist in the management of these captives, and did not discriminate against them because they had driven the Dongyu to contribute to the attack on Yangxin. He also directly selected 300 strong people from the captured people to form the Vortex River Township Battalion, which was nominally under the jurisdiction of the Jinhai County Lieutenant, but in fact was directly led by Sun Shangwang.

It is not a simple matter to respond to the call and meet the expectations of everyone.

Lin Jian has always paid great attention to the distinction between the generals, the soldiers, and the prisoners, and the prisoners as victims, so that they can unite and gather more strength, and must not push the forces that can be united to the enemy because of a momentary brain fever or righteous indignation.

Regardless of whether or not Lin Xuwen cooperated, when the local forces and government forces were destroyed and to be rebuilt, it was easy for Lin to do these tricks in Jinhai.

In order to solve the crisis of grain shortage in Gyeonggi, to store grain to Jinhai as soon as possible, and to open up the passage from Jinhai to Gyeonggi, many yamen even connived at Lin Tie's behavior, after all, the efficiency of the well-organized and highly controlled people to serve as laborers was far higher than that of the temporarily recruited returning refugees.

In fact, not only Lin Xuwen, who was from the same Lin clan as Lin Tie, would not mind Lin Tie cultivating power in Jinhai, but local forces would not mind Lin Tie cultivating power in Jinhai.

On the one hand, Lin Jian has the grace of rescuing and recovering the local forces in Jinhaiyuan. Representatives of local forces such as the Zhou brothers in Vortex directly supported Lin Jian and the Jiangdong Left Army. At least when Hejian Mansion was destroyed by the Eastern Prisoners, only the Jiangdong Left Army united with the remnants of Jinzhong to win the dawn of victory for them under the predicament of thousands of horses. Even if they don't remember their kindness, they must be afraid that they can count on the Jiangdong Left Army to come to their rescue when they fall into trouble again in the future.

On the other hand, the local forces have been so devastated this time, countless people have been abducted and killed, and Jinhai is full of ownerless fields, which are actually the huge benefits that can be shared by everyone who are left. Local forces such as the Vortex Zhou brothers will naturally not be greedy enough to eat all the benefits, and if Lin Jian and Lin Xuwen participate together, they will feel that it is more secure to carve up this cake.

The Zhou brothers dedicated the whirlpool village to which the Zhou family belonged to the Jinhai Ducao Transport Division to transform it into a Jinhai warehouse for grain storage, and the Ducao Transport Division and Jinhai County set aside 400 acres of land on the south bank of the Whirlpool River to compensate the Zhou clan, in fact, the Zhou brothers occupied a large amount of ownerless wasteland on the south bank of the Whirlpool River in this name, and became the first-class landowners in Hejian Mansion in one fell swoop.

As long as the Zhou brothers don't make a dispute over the fields, as long as there is no bitter master to sue, Lin Jian and Lin Xuwen will turn a blind eye to what the Zhou brothers and others do, and it can even be said that they deliberately connived. After all, the Lin family or the Jiangdong Left Army went directly to Hejian and Jinhai to encircle the ownerless wasteland at this time, which was too naked/naked, too blatant, and vulnerable to attacks by other officials in the DPRK and China.

A large amount of ownerless wasteland, rather than falling into the hands of others, should fall into the hands of local forces close to them in Jinhai and Cangnan.

After more and more refugees returned to Jinhai and could provide sufficient labor for Kaihaicao, Lin Jian and the Zhou brothers proposed to rent a large amount of land from the Zhou clan in the name of the Jiangdong Left Army.

The Zhou brothers are not stupid either, they know who is their real solid backing. When Lin Jian made such a request, they immediately reciprocated by assigning more than 20,000 acres of fertile land around the Jiangdong Left Army's garrison on the south bank of the Whirlpool River to the Jiangdong Left Army, which could be regarded as a lease.

At this time, Lin Jian did not have an excuse to move more than 6,000 people to Chongzhou, Jiangdong, and in order to make these people a potential force that could mobilize the Jiangdong Left Army, it was necessary to solve the problem of their resettlement, and not to disperse them in the process of resettlement. He leased more than 20,000 acres of fertile land from the Zhou clan in the name of the Jiangdong Left Army, so that more than 6,000 people could be concentrated and settled on the south bank of the Whirlpool River in the name of Mintun.

However, in terms of the form of cultivation, he did not intend to divide the fields into households. Although the form of collective farms has its drawbacks in the long run, in the short term it has been effective in concentrating on improving the fields, constructing irrigation facilities, and helping each other to maintain internal cohesion.

After Lin Jian decided that the Jiangdong Left Army would withdraw from the south bank of the Vortex River, he would move the people from the outer shacks to the camp to live, and if the camp could not accommodate it, a large enclosed house conducive to collective living would be built around the camp for resettlement. Lin Jian also planned to build a strong fortress on the south bank of the Vortex River based on the garrison of the Jiangdong Left Army on the south bank, and form a complete Jinhai defense system together with Zhou's new village, Jinhai New Town on the north bank, and Jinwei Island.

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Ning Zechen led most of the soldiers of the fourth battalion to board the ship and also went to Jinwei Island.

At this time, the second battalion of the Jiangdong Left Army, which was also the cavalry battalion that the Jiangdong Left Army finally retained, more than 600 cavalry soldiers turned over their horses, and under the leadership of Zhou Pu, they left the Jinhai Port Wharf and went south along the Vortex River Sealing River Dam. The cavalry of the second battalion will travel south along the coastline by land under the leadership of Zhou Pu, and will join the main force of the Jiangdong Left Battalion in Laizhou Bay at Bohai County and Laizhou County in Laizhou Bay.

Hao Zongcheng's face became more and more gloomy, Liu Zhi sat on horseback, and couldn't guess what Hao Zongcheng was thinking.

Although the Jiangdong Left Army nominally escorted Tang Haoxin to Shandong to solve the crisis of the Changyi mutiny, the implication of Lin Tie's support of troops to threaten the Shandong County Division was too obvious and blatant.

"Even if the Jinzhong Army is not biased anywhere, if there is a conflict between the Jibei Army and the Jiangdong Left Army in Jinhai, how sure are you of victory?" Hao Zongcheng suddenly asked Liu Zhi.

Liu Zhi was shocked, and secretly said Could it be that Hao Zongcheng has always had the intention of doing it?

With the name of escorting Tang Haoxin to Shandong, Lin Jian naturally had to inform the Jinhai Yamen of the deployment and movements of the Jiangdong Left Battalion, so as to legitimize his behavior of supporting troops to Shandong.

Lin Xuwen and other Tang and Gu officials naturally thought that this was extremely necessary; Zhang Wendeng and other officials sent by the household department to sit in Jinhaicang, as well as the supervision of the imperial history sent by the Metropolitan Procuratorate to Jinhai, were naturally strongly opposed, and did not point the finger at Tang Haoxin, but claimed to write to the imperial court to impeach Lin Tie for rash transfer of troops, and even falsely said that Tang Haoxin was bound by Lin Tie to go to Shandong; Hao Zongcheng's attitude became the key to whether Lin Lian's support for troops to go to Shandong was legalized.

Liu Zhi had always thought that Hao Zongcheng would oppose Lin Tie's support of troops to Shandong, but he didn't expect that when the collegial discussion last night, Hao Zongcheng himself did not show his face, but sent someone to hand over to approve Lin Tie escorting Tang Haoxin to Shandong, which made the officials of the Household Department and the Metropolitan Procuratorate stationed in Jinhai speechless and powerless to refute.

At this time, Liu Zhi asked Hao Zongcheng suddenly, and he was directly confused in his heart, and he couldn't figure out whether he agreed with Lin Tie to support the army and go to Shandong or opposed Lin Tie to go to Shandong.

Hao Zongcheng led 20,000 Jibei troops to Jinhai, on the one hand, and nominally, to Jinhai to solve the problem of military food nearby and relieve the pressure of food supply in Gyeonggi, on the other hand, it also had the meaning of guarding and containing the Jiangdong Left Army and the Jinzhong Army.

No matter what excuse there is, even if Tang Haoxin is brought out, Lin Jian will go directly to Shandong without being transferred by the Ministry of War, which can be regarded as somewhat restless, Hao Zongcheng has the intention of getting rid of Lin Bin, which is normal-but this world is not to get rid of anyone who you want to get rid of, you must first have this strength.

"This, this, I'm afraid it's too risky......" Liu Zhi said hesitantly, he was afraid that Hao Zongcheng would tie him to the chariot of the Jibei Army, in case of defeat, the imperial court would appease the Jiangdong Left Army, and he would follow to become a traitor who framed Zhongliang, maybe he would push Hao Zongcheng out as a substitute for the dead ghost, he was not so stupid. Don't say that he has received a lot of benefits from Lin Bin, Jinhai will change, Jinhai Haicao will be abolished, except for Jinhai, where can he guarantee to send two or three hundred thousand stone rice grain to Gyeonggi every month?

Lin Jian divided Jinwei Island into his private land, and this time he withdrew five or six hundred soldiers to Jinwei Island to garrison.

To put it nicely, it is to defend the port of Jin, so that foreign enemies will not attack from the sea; To put it mildly, it was the throat of the port of Jin that was stuck.

Based on this alone, the imperial court cannot move the forest binding.

"I'm just casually saying, what are you nervous about?" Hao Zongcheng's face that had been tense all morning eased down at this time to show a gloomy smile, glanced at Liu Zhi, and then looked at Jinwei Island in the southeast direction, he was greedy for money and afraid of war, but he didn't have any knowledge at all, at this time, what morality is not moral, what loyalty or disloyalty, all rely on the strength in his hands to speak, after a while, he sighed softly, "This Lin Tie is not Li Zhuo after all!" ”

"Ahh Liu Zhi breathed a sigh of relief, and joked that it was naturally okay, as long as he didn't play it, it would be true. Although Liu Zhi can only talk about soldiers on paper, he also knows the truth that "soldiers are not expensive, but they are expensive", he has personally witnessed how the Jiangdong Left Army fought with the East of the Kou, just with the group of bastards of the Jibei Army, what qualifications do they have to fight with the Jiangdong Left Army in the Jinhai field?

Liu Zhi has stayed in Jinhai for most of the time during this time, and he can still see some of the small movements of the Jiangdong Left Army in Jinhai, and the Jiangdong Left Army will retain 3,000 troops in Jinhai on the surface, but the combat strength that can be mobilized will not be less than three or four thousand.

Liu Zhi can see some things, but he has never said a word, nothing more than to leave a way back for himself, leave some room for being a good person, who knows how the world will change?

Liu Zhi squinted at Hao Zongcheng's side face, and couldn't guess what he was thinking, of course Lin Jian was not Li Zhuo. In that year, a holy decree, Li Zhuo relieved himself of military power and went to Jiangning to serve as a garrison general, and the Chu Party tossed him as much as he wanted; Can a holy decree make Lin Tie and the Lin family obediently give up their military power?

"But it's also true that Lin Zhuo is better at talking than Li Zhuo......" Hao Zongcheng said abruptly, "At first, I couldn't confirm it - now that there is a gap within the Chu Party, even if we don't add a handful of firewood, we can't stop them from pinching it." ”

At this time, Liu Zhi understood Hao Zongcheng's thoughts of sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight, and felt that his back was cold, and he said with a smile on his face: "Lord Chang Shi said very much, Li Zhuo regards adults like tigers and wolves, how can Lin Tie be so easy to deal with?" What Lin Tie wants is nothing more than fame and fortune, whatever he wants, give it to him......"

"I can't give it to him," Hao Zongcheng smiled coldly, "People's hearts are like deep ravines, if you give him all you can, when will you fill it?"