Forced Lin Tie to force a person into the Yandu County Yali, Hu Dahai was unhappy in his heart, and secretly wondered:

Lin Jian was appointed as the envoy of Huaidong, and the first step in infiltrating the local area was to bring the inspection department under the jurisdiction of the two prefectures and eleven counties under the direct jurisdiction of the military department. On the basis of the original Nine Inspection Divisions, 17 new Inspection Divisions were newly established, and inspectors, subordinates, errand officers, and sword archers were all selected and transferred by the Military Division.

These inspection divisions mainly control and transport the main rivers and old post roads in Huaidong, such as the Yanhe River, the Beiguan River, the Yanqing River, the Qingjiangpu River, and the Baitang River.

However, it was not enough for Lin Jian to do this, repairing the seawall was the second step for him to infiltrate Huaidong, and even extended his tentacles into the Huainan salt area through this. Now Huaidong has built seven post forts along the construction section of the seawall and set up a tunzhai village, which has actually robbed the local power to resettle the displaced households.

At this time, he went directly to the Sai people in the yamen of the prefecture and county, and directly interfered in the affairs of the prefecture and county - can they bear it, or can they not bear it?

Hu Dahai secretly made up his mind in his heart, when he went back, he would go directly to Liu Tingzhou, he couldn't let Lin Tie do anything wrong in Huaidong, he really regarded himself as the emperor of Huaidong?

Hu Dahai was thinking wildly in his heart, Lin Jian asked him about it, but he didn't hear it.

"Lord Hu......" Lin Jian called again.

"Ah," Hu Dahai shook his head, looked at Lin Jian blankly, and said, "Please give orders from your lordship, and all the officials will obey?" ”

"I asked you how the Yandu County warehouse is accumulating, and you want to ask me what I want in turn?" Lin Jian asked.

"Oh......" Hu Dahai responded, knowing that his distraction would make Lin Tie unhappy, but he couldn't care about this, he did his homework before coming over, and when he saw Lin Tie asking about the county warehouse accumulation, he reported a few numbers with confidence, "...... There are more than 2,100 catties of raw iron and more than 660 catties of refined iron! ”

Lin Jian pressed the table and remained silent.

Lin Tie's silence made Hu Dahai's heart feel empty, afraid that the answer just now was wrong, and he would pick a thorn here.

Among many materials, the importance of iron should be ranked at least in the top three. Lin Jian had some understanding of the iron reserves in various prefectures and counties, but after listening to the real numbers of Hu Da's poster, he still felt pitiful in his heart.

The market price of a pound of pig iron in Huaidong is worth 60 yuan, which is not much cheaper than the price of copper, and the market price of refined iron (i.e., steel) is four or five times that of this. For most poor peasant households, not to mention the big iron plough that ploughs the fields, it is also a shovel, harrow, hoe and other agricultural tools, and it is not easy to use iron tools.

Yandu has to be counted as a first-class county, and the accumulation of iron materials in the county warehouse is only a little, so it is not difficult to imagine that the exile army can conquer more than a dozen cities, why in the end they can't even get together a knife and a spear.

It is necessary to strengthen the scale of the Chongzhou Iron and Steel Smelting Plant, Lin Jian thought secretly in his heart.

After Lin Jian asked about the matter, he sent Hu Dahai, Dong Wenbiao and other officials back, and he also wanted to stay in Yanqing for two days to inspect the reclamation situation here. Qin Chengzu, Wu Qi and others went back to Chongzhou first, and Zhang Gou, Chen Enze and others stayed behind.

In the evening, Sun Jingtang, Ge Siyu, Zhu Ai and other officials who were specially responsible for repairing the embankment and Tuntian rushed to Yanqing to see Lin Bin; Zhou Guangnan, the general manager of the newly established Huaidong Money Bank, also happened to be in Gaocheng in the south, and also followed-Yanqing became lively again.

Although it was August, the weather was still hot, and I don't know where the officials of Yanqing came from to get a basket of melons and soaked them in well water, Lin Jian summoned everyone to eat melons in the courtyard where he lived to relieve the heat.

"Qianzhuang borrows money from the farmer's cooperative, and it is necessary to consider satisfying four points," Lin Jian said to Zhou Guangnan while gnawing on melons, "First, we must ensure that the farmer's cooperative has enough rations, second, we must ensure that it can be built into a surrounding house to protect from the wind and rain, third, we must ensure that iron products can be used for plows, rakes, shovels and hoes, and other agricultural tools, and fourth, we must ensure that each farmer's cooperative has more than 20 ploughing cattle...... Only by meeting these four requirements can we ensure that the reclamation work can be carried out quickly and well! ”

Lin Jian has worked hard to set up Huaidong Qianzhuang, and so far, he has raised a principal of more than 2.5 million taels of silver, and the first thing he has to do is to ask Qianzhuang to support Huaidong's large-scale resettlement of displaced households and carry out reclamation.

If the bank lends money to each household, the lending work will be extremely complicated, and the phenomenon of fleeing households will be difficult to control, which will lead to a surge in costs. Even if the interest rate of the money is kept above 20%, there is no guarantee that the money bank can make a profit, and in the end it can only form a vicious circle, turning a good thing into a bad thing.

Drawing on the model of the collective farms of later generations, Lin Jian set up a farm cooperatives under the tunzhai and raised about 100 displaced households to form a farm cooperative, and carried out reclamation and cultivation. Qianzhuang only has a relationship with the farmer's cooperative, and the tunzhai manages the regional reclamation species.

Zhou Guangnan picked up a branch and wrote and drew on the mud, and replied to Lin Lian: "It's easy to lend out the money, but how to ensure such a huge supply of materials?" By the end of the year, 30,000 households will be resettled, and with the four requirements put forward by the adults, 6,000 head of cattle will be needed, 600,000 catties of iron will be needed, and enough blacksmith households will be raised; The consumption of lime, masonry, and wood will also be extremely staggering. At present, Chongzhou can produce 1.4 million catties of iron every year, but less than 400,000 catties can be saved, and there will be a shortage of 200,000 catties. Now that Jiangdong County is expanding its troops everywhere, the demand for armor is huge, and the price of iron is soaring; The market price of other materials will skyrocket. It's hard to meet the four requirements you put forward! ”

Zhang Gou squatted aside and nibbled on melons, listening quietly, he couldn't intervene in these things.

At dusk, Hu Dahai said that there were less than 3,000 catties of iron stored in the county warehouse in Yandu County, and Zhang Gou was also present.

Hu Dahai's words, he believes. There are more than one or two county towns that have been conquered by his hands, and if you can get one or two thousand catties of good iron if you break through a city, it will be a big harvest. It is precisely because of the scarcity of materials that in the end, everyone can't control it and snatch it from ordinary households.

In the past, when he was in the labor camp, Zhang Gou could know that Chongzhou's materials were sufficient, but he was still surprised to hear Zhou Guangnan say that Chongzhou would be able to produce 1.4 million catties of iron this year.

Of course, these are not kept secret from Zhang Gou, but Zhang Gou is not an official who manages political affairs, and he usually does not pay attention to this information.

Lin Jian didn't care what Zhang Gou was thinking, he said to Zhou Guangnan: "We have to open up our thinking, we lack bricks, stones, wood, iron, lime, cattle, and livestock, everything." The existing brick kilns, lime kilns, cattle farms, and timber yards are limited in scale. The money can be lent to them, so that the brick kiln can expand the scale of soil and brick burning, the scale of lime burning, the scale of cattle raising, and the speed of timber harvesting. If there are some materials that Huaidong does not have, then the money will be lent to a reputable business, so that they can go to other places to buy and transport back to Huaidong! Also, we need to get iron sand, coal and other materials from Haidong to supply Huaidong in the future, why don't we want to lend money to businesses or individuals to encourage them to go to Haidong to open mines? Some people want to take a risk, they want to buy a boat and go to sea but they are short of money, why can't the money be lent to them? If the money bank wants to survive on the interest of money in the future, it is necessary to do everything possible to help others think of ways to use money, and encourage others to borrow money from the bank, so that the money bank can become more and more prosperous! ”

The bank was a natural weakness in supporting small loans to peasant households, and its real strength was to support the development of industry and commerce.

Lin Bin's thoughts, after he said it, there was nothing difficult to understand or particularly shocking, but it definitely made Zhou Guangnan and the others suddenly open up their thinking, and they had a sense of sudden broadening.

"Your Excellency didn't tell us about this before you set up a bank!" Zhou Guangnan asked.

Lin Jian smiled, there are some good models, it is not difficult to imitate, and the war has intensified the competition between many forces.

There is no money bank, Huaidong has 100,000 taels of silver, and can only do 100,000 taels of silver, even if the tax is increased, there is a limit to the increase for a while. However, if the money bank is well developed, the scale of the money bank can continue to expand, and even develop to the extent of absorbing public deposits, then the resources that Huaidong can mobilize will far exceed the limits of its own financial resources.

Lin Jian can't completely avoid other forces from learning Huaidong, but he has to limit the speed of other forces' learning, and even let other forces learn as much as possible, how can he tell the operation model of the money bank in his heart thoroughly when he is in Jiangning?

"I'll tell you about the iron yard now, which requires the active participation of Qian Zhuang," Lin Jian said, "In the future, the Huaidong Military Division will only grasp the smelting of refined iron in its hands, and the technology must be kept strictly secret and cannot be spread, but we must encourage private individuals to build iron yards and iron workshops in Chongzhou, Shanyang or other places in the Huaidong region, and we can also appropriately support coal and iron mining in Yinan, Xuzhou, Jeju, Kitakyushu and other places, and even build a large iron yard in Jeju to transport iron sand ships and coal ships, and Qian Zhuang should also support it...... With only the internal resources of the Huaidong Military Division, perhaps the iron output of Chongzhou will increase to two million catties next year. But Qianzhuang wants to participate and mobilize people and resources from all sides, and I hope that Chongzhou's refined iron output will reach 1.5 million to 2 million catties next year! ”

Zhou Guangnan and Sun Jingtang secretly said that last year's output of refined iron in Chongzhou reached 100,000 catties, which is already a rather astonishing amount, and 2 million catties of refined iron is worth 600,000 taels of silver at the current iron price.

I'm afraid that the output of refined iron in the six southeastern counties combined, now it can't reach this number!

However, it is no wonder that Lin Tie has such a high demand, an elite armor soldier must be fully armed, not to mention the need to consume thirty catties of fine iron, Lin Tie plans to raise 100,000 elites in Huaidong, and the iron consumption of ordnance armor alone is amazingly large.

What general doesn't know how easy it is to hold a sharp soldier and wear iron armor? But which general is capable of doing this?

Lin Jian was a little reluctant to launch a large-scale offensive against Daishan and Changguo after the autumn, and for Huaidong, the material preparations were far from sufficient.

It's a pity that the war can't all be carried out according to the beat of Huaidong.