Deeper leakage, cool breeze, from the rows of roofs blowing, people stand under the court, looking at the night sky like a well.

Zhang Yan, the salt and iron envoy, wore a green shirt, stood under a laurel tree, looked at the dark shadow of the eaves under the waning moon, and held two letters in his hands behind him.

A letter is sent by Zhang Xitong, the son of Zhang Xie and the governor of King Ning's mansion, Zhang Xitong is worried that if the Jiangdong Left Army secretly dominates the matter of recruiting bandits, it is likely to make Chongzhou's power and ambition swell to the point that it cannot be contained, and become a harm to the imperial court, and wants to discuss a countermeasure with Zhang Yan.

A letter was sent by Liang Wenzhan, the governor of Shanyang County, informing Shanyang that Ma was suspected of transporting a large amount of illicit salt from the Baitang River for profit, and informing the salt and iron envoys to send officials to assist in investigating the case.

Private lords have always been under the jurisdiction of the Salt and Iron Division, and Shanyang County sent an official letter over, which is in compliance with the law, but the Ma family's nest has been confiscated by Shanyang County.

Shen Rong was wearing a crimson official robe and said, "Lord Zhang should personally go to Shanyang......

Zhang Yan looked up at the night moon on the top of the patio and frowned.

He also admired Lin Tie very much at first, but Tang Haoxin knew that there was no room for him to turn around with Lin Tie because he died in Qingzhou.

At the beginning of the year, in the name of filial piety, Lin Jian closed Chongzhou, but secretly sneaked to Jinhai, and threatened the Jinhai grain road to promote the matter of "salt and silver to protect grain", and directly tied the two Huai salt profits to the Jinhai grain road.

Since then, the Lianghuai Salt and Iron Division has become a vassal of the Jinhai Grain Road, and Zhang Yan is also so angry that he vomits blood.

After Dong Yuan Tiweiyang's troops entered eastern Zhejiang and served as the envoy of Xuanfu in Zhejiang, Shen Rong got Yue Lengqiu's help and learned about the affairs of Weiyang's government, and finally became a powerful figure in Jiangdong County.

Shen Rong almost killed a thief in Luoyang Lake, but Lin Jian was secretly making trouble. Shen Rong knew it, but he couldn't say it, and then in Dongyang, he couldn't hold his head up for Gu Wuchen and Lin Tingli to join forces, although he had been an official in Dongyang Mansion for a long time, he was very hostile to the Dongyang family.

Shen Rong and Zhang Yan are both in Weiyang City, although they are giants and do not belong to each other, but in Jiangdong County, they want to face the strong rise of Dongyang forces, so they naturally go very close.

"Liu Tingzhou has already gone to Xuzhou, what does Lord Shen think Governor Yue will think of the surrender?" Zhang Yan asked.

Shen Rong frowned slightly, and Lin Tie threw it out as a dilemma.

Although Yue Lengqiu's three secret seals were folded in Liu Tingzhou's hands, Shen Rong, as Yue Lengqiu's new descendant, knew about it. When Liu Tingzhou recruited the Huai army, he also made a big effort in secret, but he didn't expect Lin Jian to not drill their trap at all.

Yue Lengqiu was besieged in Xuzhou, and in order to get out of trouble, he naturally would not oppose surrendering, but raising thieves in the heart of the hinterland was a problem, and Huai'an had to garrison heavy troops to guard against it. When the time comes, I will drive the Jiangdong Left Army back to Chongzhou, but I am afraid that the official gentry from Huai'an will be the first to jump out and oppose it.

Regardless of whether there is a Huaidong envoy or not, I am afraid that it will be difficult to restrict Lin Bin's tentacles from reaching Huai'an.

"I can't guess how Governor Yue will decide, but at this time, it is necessary to restrain Lin from stretching his hand in Huai'an too deep and too long," Shen Rong said, "After Lord Zhang goes to Shanyang, he is ......eager to find a way to let Liu Tingzhou return to Huai'an first."

Zhang Yan nodded, Liu Tingzhou and Lin Tie fought fiercely in Huai'an, Liu Tingzhou is a person who can be trusted, and at present, it seems that Liu Tingzhou can only be used to restrict Lin Tie in Huai'an.

The salt produced in the two Huai salt areas needs to be transported to the Weiyang salt warehouse, and the salt and iron division collects the salt at ten yuan per bucket, and then resells it to salt merchants in various places at a price of two hundred yuan, which is the main form of Huaiyan official camp.

In order to ensure that the Salt and Iron Division can make huge profits from the salt business every year, the Salt and Iron Division maintains a salt team of up to 20,000 people to ensure the production and transportation of salt areas and to combat illegal salt trafficking.

The salt profit is so thick, and the private lord is naturally beaten repeatedly, so there is a saying that the official salt comes out of Weiyang, and the private salt comes out of Huai'an.

Zhang Yan has been in charge of the Lianghuai Salt and Iron Division for thirteen years, can he not know what is wrong with it?

Conservatively speaking, the salt produced in the two Huai salt areas is half of the official and private parts, but if you really investigate thoroughly, the ratio of official and private to one official or even one private to three, Zhang Yan will not be too surprised.

Huai'an Mansion, just the generous profits on private salt are enough to make people greedy.

It is definitely not a coincidence that Lin Tie tried the knife in Huai'an.

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In Shanyang County, there is a courtyard in the east of the county, called the Inquiry Garden, which was originally the private garden of the Ma family in the city, and now it has become the line of Lin Tie in Shanyang County.

The garden is not big, four or five acres of land, but the garden is full of water buildings, mountains and ponds, all available, very exquisite and quiet.

The east chamber courtyard is a ring corridor water pavilion, in the middle is a pond where the lotus flowers are in full bloom, there is a rockery made of lake stone to stand in the water, surrounded by the ring corridor of delicate carving, the corridor is a wooden building, live upstairs on a hot summer night, and do not feel hot.

In the pavilion at the corner of the courtyard, Lin Jian and Liang Wenzhan of Shanyang Zhixian sat at the table, drinking tea and talking about things, and Liu Tao, the county magistrate, stood in front of the pavilion to check the matter carefully.

Liu Tao led the team to confiscate Ma's land and family assets in Shanyang, and counted them for three consecutive days before they came up with a roughly accurate figure. Of course, there were many episodes in between.

During the raid on Ma's house, 12 clerks, officials and officials secretly concealed gold and silver treasures and found out, all of whom had 80 rods and were imprisoned.

Of the twelve, two were killed with canes on the spot, and three died of their wounds in prison. However, this matter is not over, Liang Wenzhan investigated the previous corruption of these twelve people, opened the door of the county government, and accepted the complaint of the county people.

Now there are four people who have been found guilty of corruption, and they are all implicated in the big crime of fornicating with salt lords, and their family property has naturally been confiscated. What is jaw-dropping is that each of these four ordinary Xu histories has thousands or tens of thousands of taels of silver ingots in their homes.

When the world is an official, how many people are innocent?

When Liu Tao led a team to raid other people's property, he also felt a cool breeze on his neck.

Lin Jian looked through the detailed accounts and treasured treasures, he didn't know much about the goods, and he didn't care much.

The so-called gold in troubled times and prosperous collections, in the chaotic season, these treasures are worth depreciating, and you can wait for Zhang Yan to come over and take them to perfunctory him. The jurisdiction of the private tyrant case is in the salt and iron official, and he is rushing to start here, and Zhang Yan can't help but share his benefits.

In addition to the treasures, the three silver cellars that the Ma family turned out actually contained more than 300 silver balls of 1,000 taels and 1,000 pieces, 780,000 taels of loose silver, about 10,000 taels of gold ingots, and about 470,000 taels of silver......

What a big fat pig.

Lin Jian calculated in his heart that it would not be a problem to kill all the private lords and salt merchants in the three mansions of Huaidong, and raise 100,000 elites.

"The treasures are sealed and stored in the warehouse, and the Salt and Iron Division will send personnel to verify," Lin Jian put the confiscated detailed account on the cool stone table, "The war expenses, gold and silver ingots are all borrowed as military funds, and the salt and iron division will send officials to come over and explain the accounts to them clearly, and after the war is over, how much military funds will be used here, and after the discount, the rest can be returned...... What do you think is a good deal? ”

"It's all up to the system." Liang Wenzhan said.

"It's all up to the system." Liu Tao could only follow along.

The meat buns beat the dogs, and 470,000 taels of gold and silver went into the pockets of the Jiangdong Left Army, who had the instinct to let the Jiangdong Left Army spit out a centimeter of silver? Lin Jian can give a detailed account, which is already quite polite, otherwise he waved his pen and changed 470,000 taels of silver to 47,000 taels of silver, and the court could only admit it.

Zhang Yan, as the Salt and Iron Division, has jurisdiction over the private tyrant case, but if he gives Lin Tie the first shot, can he still lead the troops to snatch the gold and silver back?

The Salt and Iron Division must have this ability, and the Hecheng Grassland does not need to be taken by the Jiangdong Left Army.

It is not surprising that the strength of the Jiangdong Left Army in Huai'an, including the Gu Siyuan Department and the remnants of the Duhuai Army, has a total of 33 battalions of infantry and cavalry, with a total of more than 22,000 people; In addition, there are more than 4,000 auxiliary soldiers in the workers' battalion - how huge the cost of military funds is, Liu Tao has some experience.

Shanyang has long maintained the county soldiers of the four battalions according to the standards of the town army, and the money and grain come from the donations of Shanyang giants such as the Ma family.

The grain and grass supply of the Jiangdong Left Army fighting in Huaisi was shared by the counties of the three prefectures of Huaidong. The main soldier pulls six buckets of japonica rice and three silver coins per month according to the head, and the auxiliary soldiers and miscellaneous soldiers pull five buckets of miscellaneous grain and two silver coins, and the loss of armor, arrows, ordnance, ships and the material consumption required to build the camp are accounted for separately.

Previously, Liu Tingzhou was in charge of affairs, but at this time, Zhang Yubo was in charge.

Of course, with this standard, Huai is simply not enough to maintain the operational needs of the Jiangdong Left Army in the Huaisi area.

Lin Jian had previously pulled out 300,000 taels of silver from the Ma family, except for the expansion of the guard battalion and the reorganization of the Huai'an Mansion Army, the rest of the silver just made up for the deficit in the past two months.

If the war continues, this new 470,000 taels of silver will be able to make up for the deficit of two or three months at most.

But for Lin Bin, the biggest advantage is that the troops are divided into two ends, and the soldiers and horses on the Sisheng defense line are subsidized by Haiyu County and Pingjiang Prefecture to provide grain and grass, and the pressure on Chongzhou during this period has been greatly reduced. The surplus money could be used to store grain, grass, ordnance, cloth, wood, coal and iron.

"What should we do with the confiscated land," Liang Wenzhan asked, "and wait for the Salt and Iron Division to send officials to take over?"

After Ma Fu died, the Ma family had no leader, and it was also Shanyang County that started very quickly, and no one in the Ma family who was in charge outside could come back in time, and the Ma family's family in Shanyang could not be transferred out in time, so they were copied correctly.

In addition to the Tibetan silver, the value of the land deed and the house deed is even more amazing.

The Ma family has as much as 230,000 acres of land in Huai'an, Hailing, Weiyang, Jiangning and other places; In addition, there are more than 10 houses in Shanyang, Huai'an, Weiyang, Jiangning and other places, and Ma's salt stores are distributed in Jiangdong, Hunan, Jingbei, Zhongzhou, Shandong, Liangzhejiang, Jiangxi and other counties.

These are the real accumulations of the Ma family's salt lords for several generations.

Outside the two counties of Shanyang and Huai'an, Lin Tie Whip is beyond his reach, so he will naturally lose it to the Salt and Iron Division, and see what ability the Salt and Iron Division has to share fertilizer with these local officials. However, in Shanyang and Huai'an counties, the Ma family has 160,000 acres of granges, seven houses and restaurants, and they must not be underestimated, and Lin Jian will naturally not let go.

"Burdened by the Ma family, more than 14,000 people from the Huai army went north, and less than 4,000 survived," Lin Jian frowned slightly and said, "Confiscating the land and property, I think it can be used to compensate for the casualties in order to atone for the Ma family's sins." It is difficult to count the deaths, and the bereavement begins with the wounded, and each person is given ten acres of land. In addition, the Duhuai army was able to hold on until the reinforcements came, and only the merit of the general school separated the other two houses of the Ma family in Shanyang County, and each person was rewarded with a house and given 20 acres of land. There are also meritorious generals, ranging from 35 mu to 10 mu of land, but they will be counted after the Huai army returns to Shanyang...... The remaining land and property will be confiscated to make up for the shortage of funds, and if you want to come to the salt and iron envoy Lord Zhang, Governor Liu will not have any opinion on this disposal. ”

If you don't have an opinion, it's called hell, do you have the ability to wait for Zhang Yan to come over and Liu Tingzhou to come back, and discuss how to deal with this matter? Liu Tao sneered.

No matter how much Liu Tao has an opinion in his heart, he can only be a voice worm, and he can also see that Liang Wenzhan has completely defected to the Dongyang Party.

The fact that the soldiers of Shanyang County have been able to have such a scale and strength over the years are all supported by Ma and other salt merchants. The remnants of the Duhuai Army were also dominated by soldiers from Shanyang County, and Lin Jian did this to let these remnants of the generals profit from the corpses of the Ma family and completely cut off the relationship with the previous benefactor.

Lin Jian then discussed with Liang Wenzhan and Liu Tao about the rebuilding of the soldiers in Shanyang County.

Shanyang County and Feixiaji are each other's surface and interior, and are the first strategic place in Huaidong. In other places in Huai'an, Lin Tie can not garrison troops, but Shanyang and Feixia Rock on the north shore, Lin Tie must be directly in his hands.

Although the soldiers of Shanyang County are established by the Huai'an Army, in the reconstruction of the soldiers of Shanyang County, Lin Jian was not polite and directly intervened in the reconstruction of the matter.

Today, the city defense of Shanyang County is responsible for more than 400 armored light cavalry led by Zhou Pu; The previous three classes of officials were also disbanded, and twenty or thirty of the wounded soldiers who returned from the south were selected to be transferred to the third class of officials to maintain basic law and order in the urban and rural areas.

Not counting the wounded soldiers of the Jiangdong Left Army, after withdrawing from Siyang, more than 1,100 wounded soldiers of the Duhuai Army entered the wounded and sick camp.

In the past few days, there have not been many cured people, and nearly 200 people have died of their wounds in the camp one after another, but more than 800 people have fortunately survived and their injuries are becoming more and more stable.

Remove those who are disabled, almost 700 people can return to the team after recovering from their injuries, recruit some Ding Yong, and select some people from the wounded soldiers of the Jiangdong Left Army who can lead the team in, and can organize two battalions of elite soldiers. The combat power will not be slightly worse than the previous Shanyang County soldiers, and it can basically ensure the needs of Shanyang County's urban defense.

Liu Tao stood on the side, listening to Lin Tie and Liang Wenzhan discussing the rebuilding of the county soldiers, and became more and more aware of why Lin Tie insisted on compensating for the casualties and starting with the wounded.