"It's too deceitful!" Back at the county government's back house, Hu Dahai was indignant for Liu Tingzhou, beating his heart and lungs, his words were fierce, depending on the situation, if Lin Jian stood in front of him, he could rush up and bite twice.

Uncle Tang En's appearance that Hu Dahai was too frightened to say anything when he followed Ba'er Dog in front of Lin Jian just now, so he also ignored his words at this time.

Xiao Kuian sat silently, and his mood was not good. Liu Tingzhou has the grace of knowing him, although Liu Tingzhou may not agree with some of his practices, but he is loyal and committed to Liu Tingzhou - Liu Tingzhou reprimanded Lin Tie like this, what good mood can he have?

Liu Tingzhou's face was very ugly, Hu Dahai's words were that he made his heart feel better, but he was not so incompetent that he really relied on Hu Dahai's two sentences to get rid of the anger in his heart.

Compared with Lin Bin's bad attitude, what made Liu Tingzhou even more uncomfortable, he was powerless to refute every reprimand of Lin Bin.

Compared with the impact on the prefecture and county this time, the Huaidong Military Division presided over the construction of such a large fortification to defend the seawall, but it was not affected at all.

In addition to the soldiers, the Huaidong Military Division also recruited laborers from the resettlement floating households in the surrounding tunzhai villages, and now the young Ding Zhuang who is directly piled up on the construction site of the seawall in Yandu, Jianling, and Gaocheng counties is not as good as 100,000, and there is not much difference.

The labor money given to the laborers by the Huaidong Military Division is two and a half liters of japonica rice per worker, and the situation of the soldiers is unclear, and it is not worse than that of the laborers, which means that the Huaidong Military Division spends at least 80,000 stone per month on rice and grain in repairing and defending the seawall.

Why did he, Liu Tingzhou, go to the Huaidong Military Division to complain?

As for Lin Lian's large-scale organization of manpower to reclaim and plant in the Huaidong coastal area, which was suspected of encroaching on the land in the salt area, Zhang Yan began to send people over several times to stop and pull the skin, and in the past two months, it has been completely restrained and no longer publicized.

Why? Without him, the Jinhai Grain Road is completely absorbing grain from grain merchants.

Now that the price of rice in Jiangdong has risen sharply, the profit is already very low compared with the price of grain in Shandong.

Although the grain merchants also kept asking for price increases, the Huaidong Military Division remained silent on this matter, and the Heishui Foreign Ship Society, Jiyun Society, and Lin Ji, which almost monopolized about two-fifths of the supply of the Jinhai Grain Road, were silent, so as long as the small and medium-sized grain merchants could barely maintain themselves, they would not make any trouble.

But the matter is also obvious, no one should provoke Huaidong if they are fine, and Lin Jian should not support the grain merchants behind the scenes to collectively demand a price increase of 30%, and the household officials will have the mind of jumping off the cliff.

The Jinhai Grain Road undertakes the annual supply of 2.5 million stone rice grain for the Gyeonggi and Yanbei defense lines, and the settlement price of rice in Jinhai is 128 yuan of silver per stone, and on this basis, it will rise by 30 percent, and the household department will have to raise an additional 13.4 million taels of silver every year - it is better to jump off the cliff.

Liu Tingzhou suspected that Lin Jian was really determined to kick him out of Huai'an Mansion, would Jiangning or the imperial court object?

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"The military consular department is related to the supply of the Huaidong army, and it is related to the stability of Huaidong, and now the military consular department is not satisfactory, it is really because Liu Tingzhou and Liu Daren have distractions, and at this time, Liu Daren should be in charge of the military consular affairs," Liang Wenzhan said, "I think the imperial court and Jiangning will seriously consider this matter......

Liang Wenzhan said it politely, but in fact, he suggested that the military department directly kick Liu Tingzhou out of the position of the prefect of Huai'an.

Lin Jian frowned and asked, "Who do you think is suitable for the position of the prefect of Huai'an?" "If the position of the prefect of Huai'an is given to someone who is even more inconspicuous, it is better to let Liu Tingzhou keep it.

"Master Liu Shidu," Liang Wenzhan said, "Lord Liu Shidu has a political voice in governing Hailing, and it will be a blessing for the gentry and people of Huai'an to come to Huai'an......

Huai'an Mansion has always been more important than Hailing Mansion, and Liu Shidu's transfer to Huai'an to replace Liu Tingzhou can be regarded as a small step of promotion.

It's just that the prefect is an important position in the fifth rank, which is about the most important center of the imperial court's control of the local area-Lin Lian tried to interfere with the appointment of prefect-level officials in vain, which was a great overstep.

Liang Wenzhan did not say who would be more suitable to replace Liu Shidu as the prefect of Hailing; Lin Tie didn't ask silently - the two of them had the same thoughts about each other: at present, except for Lin Tie and the prefect of Linghailing, there is nothing more Huaidong desires than this.

Liang Wenzhan continued: "The Jinhai Grain Road is trapped by the increase in grain prices in Jiangdong, maybe the imperial court has seen the difficulties, maybe it hasn't seen it yet, how should the adults submit a complaint, if they can't even get involved in hard work, it will be too embarrassing......

Lin Jian frowned and pondered: Whether it was directly submitted by him or not, it was impossible for the imperial court and Jiangning to misunderstand their meaning. To threaten the Jinhai grain road to seek the position of Hailing prefect, no matter how you look at it, it is a little naked!

Lin Jian did not immediately confirm the adoption of Liang Wenzhan's suggestion, but just nodded and said, "I will seriously consider this matter......"

After saying some other things, Liang Wenzhan said goodbye and left.

"The situation is like this, but I can't afford to look ahead and backward," Song Jia was in front of others, but was not in a hurry to speak, at this time put down the pen in his hand, and said, "Even if you want to protect the Jinhai Grain Road, it is bound for you to come to the position of Linghai Lingfu - although Chongzhou has some grain reserves, the supply of Jinhai Grain Road is only enough until the spring and summer of next year." ”

"That's true......" Lin Jian nodded.

Huaidong's grain storage has been carried out secretly since July, and in September, it has been divided into two parts: official reserves and private reserves.

The official reserve was mainly based on the Huaidong Military Division, and borrowed 1 million taels of silver from Huaidong Qianzhuang, storing a total of 1.5 million stone of grain. The private reserves are mainly Heishui Foreign Ship Society, Jiyun Society, and Lin Ji, with grain storage of about 1.8 million stones.

The grain storage of the Huaidong Military Division is mainly used to meet the needs of the Huaidong military and various industries and tunzhai - the civilian reserve is to meet the supply of the Jinhai grain road.

Before next summer, it is the seaworthiness period for shipping, and as long as there are no major changes in the north, 1.6 million stone grains will be transported to Jinhai before the summer and autumn of next year.

At present, the Huaidong Military Department attaches great importance to the overall situation, and presses not to let grain merchants increase prices, and it can only support until the spring and summer of next year - also because many grain merchants, including the Heishui Ocean Shipping Company, because of the timely storage of grain, according to the original price of the supply of Jinhai grain road, there are also quite large profits, and can even supply rice grain to small and medium-sized grain merchants, so the military division can bear it without raising prices, and there is no problem.

However, when the grain storage is exhausted, no matter how big the face of Lin Tie is, it is impossible for the grain merchants to willingly supply the Jinhai grain road at a loss, and it is necessary to ensure that there will be a large amount of cheap rice and grain to supply the Jinhai grain road. In addition to transporting grain from Haidong, the best way is to hope that the summer tax and autumn grain of Hailing Mansion and Huai'an Mansion will increase by a considerable amount next year.

In public and private, they have to snatch the position of the prefect of Hailing.

Lin Jian picked up the charcoal pen from the pen holder, spread out a piece of paper, and thought about how to use the right words.

Song Jia stood aside and didn't speak, knowing that Lin Jian was preparing to write a letter to Gu Wuchen.

To use Liu Shidu to replace Liu Tingzhou as the prefect of Huai'an, Lin Tie from the post of prefect of Hailing, he must not be undisguised at all, and he must save some face for the court and Jiangning. How to operate this matter, Lin Jian naturally had to discuss it with Gu Wuchen.

Let others help Jin Yan to open up this matter, let Gu Wuchen bargain with Yue Lengqiu and Ning Wangfu in Jiangning, and let things have room for negotiation and buffering-you have to guard against a sudden stiffening, and there is no room for each other to go down the steps, but it will ruin a big thing.

After Lin Jian finished writing the letter, he asked Song Jia to help him read it, and there was no problem, so he put it in the sealed letter, stamped it, and was about to summon the guards and send him to Jiangning to deliver the letter - Zhou Pu hurriedly took a letter and copied it in:

"The Jibei Army conquered Songshan, this is the ...... of the Jingshi Chuan Jietang"

Now the cavalry battalion has assumed the role of the guard, Lin Jian went north to inspect, and Zhou Pu personally led five hundred cavalry guards to accompany the guards. If it was an ordinary copy, Zhou Pu would not have taken it himself.

Lin Jian was not happy and surprised, so he took the tang copy over, opened it and read it carefully, and the more he looked at it, the tighter his brows wrinkled.

"I heard that Li Bingbu won a great victory in Liaoxi!" Liu Tingzhou excitedly broke in directly, and the guards outside the door couldn't stop him, so he could only follow up awkwardly.

From Liu Tingzhou's face, I couldn't see the bad luck of the reprimand he gave before, thinking that it was to encourage the news of the great victory.

Lin Jian waved his hand and asked the guards to withdraw, not caring about Liu Tingzhou and the others and going straight to his military tent.

The Jingshi passed on the victory, and the post riders would shout along the way to boost morale. Therefore, many people did not see Tang Copy, but they could also know about the great victory of Liaoxi.

Liang Wenzhan also came later, he couldn't see through the impact of the victory in western Liaoning on the situation in Huaidong for a while, and his expression was a little confused.

"Lord Liu, look ......" Lin Jian handed the Tang copy to Liu Tingzhou and circulated it to everyone, but he sat back in his position and said nothing.

"Okay, the Changle bandits are marching south to Qichun, and the situation in Jiangdong is stagnant, so there should be this great victory to boost morale!" Liu Tingzhou held the tang copy with one hand, and read it on the paper with his fingers with the other, his eyebrows fluttered, Hu Dahai didn't care about the rules, put his head on Liu Tingzhou's body, and shouted excitedly: "Good, wonderful!" Songshan was killed and captured more than 10,000 prisoners, and the main force of the captives was stranded in Datong at this time, it seems that Liaodi is just around the corner! ”

Lin Jian ignored the excitement of Liu Tingzhou, Hu Dahai and the others, he handed over the letter he had just written to Zhou Pu, and said, "Send someone to Jiangning quickly!" ”

Liu Tingzhou didn't know for a while that Lin Jian had any urgent letters to send to Jiangning; Liang Wenzhan could have guessed, but he wondered in his heart, could it be that the victory in Liaoxi was meaningless to the whole situation?

Liu Tingzhou can also be regarded as an insightful and capable official, seeing that he is so excited about the victory in Liaoxi, he doesn't even have the desire to say a word in his heart, but just sits there with a cold expression.

The legend of Jietang was transmitted from Beijing, and the battle situation was so embellished that people could not get a glimpse of the details of the Battle of Songshan.

Even if Tang Zhao truthfully copied the battle report from the north, Songshan City, as the periphery of Liaoyang, the capital of the Donghu king, the soldiers and civilians in the city added up to just over 10,000 people, which was inevitably too few, and Lin Jian clearly knew the mobilization ability of the Donghu people.

Lin Jian even looked forward to the northern expedition of the Jibei army to return from frustration, and a small victory without decisive significance, even if it was not a trap for the Donghu people, would only make the minds of the princes of the imperial court more aggressive, and only then would the northern army and Yan Ji be put in a more dangerous situation......