(The second update, ask for a red ticket)

Lin Lian estimated that Yue Lengqiu should have learned that Li Zhuo had asked him to go north to supervise the Ji Zhenjun before he asked him to go south to exterminate Liu Thief - if it comes to political speculation, there are really few people in the world who can match Yue Lengqiu, and Li Zhuo probably didn't expect Yue Lengqiu to take advantage of him again, right?

Maybe Li Zhuo didn't care about the split within the Chu Party at all.

Whether it is Li Zhuo going north or Yue Lengqiu going south, it is a military matter that Lin Lian is not qualified to interfere in, and he can't see the trend of the situation in the DPRK and China for a while, although he is extremely reluctant to see the situation of Yue Lengqiu going south, but at this time, he can only stay out of the matter and do what he can do in front of him.

Zhang Wendeng, the ambassador of Caoyun Sicang in Jinhai, did not negotiate well with Deng and Laihaishang, so he came to Haitang to ask Lin Jian and Tang Haoxin for help. Lin Jian sighed lightly, and returned to Wukou Village with Tang Haoxin to meet the representatives of Deng and Laihai. The imperial court simply did not have the ability to organize a huge shipping team subordinate to the Ministry of Officials or the Jinhai Capital Caoyun Division in a short period of time, and could only rely on the small and medium-sized maritime merchants in the prefectures and counties on the west coast of the Bohai Bay.

Lin Mengde, Sun Shangwang and the Zhou brothers, the owners of the original vortex village, are all in the village.

Vortex Village has been requisitioned from the original owner Zhou, and will be gradually transformed into a Jinhai warehouse; More than 200 members of the Zhou clan have moved out. In addition to allocating 200 acres of fertile land on the south bank of the Whirlpool River and 5,000 taels of official silver to compensate the Zhou family for the reconstruction of the dock village, the two Zhou brothers were awarded the Zhengqipin Sanjie, and were awarded the Jinhai County Cheng, Jinhai Ducaoyun Sicang Deputy Cheng and other substantive positions, and the Zhou clan also had six children were awarded the civil and military sanjie ranging from the ninth to the eighth grade.

Although the Zhou family is not yet wealthy, it is enough to become the head of Jinhai.

Lin Jian accompanied Tang Haoxin to rush back from outside, and the forty or fifty people who were discussing in the hall of Ducang all stood up to greet him.

Lin Jian saw that Sun Fengyi and others from the Sun family in Cangnan were also in the hall, and he gestured with his chin and asked Tang Haoxin to sit down, he sat down under Tang Haoxin, Zhang Wendeng sat on Tang Haoxin's left hand, and everyone else was standing under the hall.

Tang Haoxin's old hand held the case, leaned over and looked at the maritime representatives in Deng, Lai and other places kindly, and asked with a smile: "I heard the noise here outside, it's been a long time, what else can't be decided?" ”

Zhang Wendeng followed Tang Haoxin's tone and said with a solemn expression: "The imperial court has made up its mind this time: no matter how short of food is in Deng and Lai, if you go to buy grain, the price of grain will not be higher than a stone." The DPRK and China have already sent special envoys to Deng and Lai, and any grain store or grain merchant in Deng and Lai who dares to raise the price above this limit or hoard grain and refuse to sell it will lose its head. No matter how sufficient the grain in Jinhai is, at least until May, the price of grain collected and stored by the household department and the Jinhai warehouse will not be lower than 1,500 yuan per stone, and I guarantee you here, the household department and the Jinhai warehouse will not lack you a copper! ”

Lin Jian was silent, and the representatives of Deng and Laihai merchants standing under the hall were silent, but they refused to express their position. They are not all purely Deng and Lai people, most of them are small and medium-sized maritime merchants who fled to the coastal counties of Hejian Province to avoid military disasters in Deng and Lai. The Jiangdong Left Army won many great victories in Hejian Province, and they bartered with captured materials, so they gathered together and transported materials to Jinhai, one was to do business with the Jiangdong Left Army, and the other was to support the Jiangdong Left Army to fight in Hejian Province, and they established a relationship of trust and mutual dependence between them in less than two months.

In those days, there were no simple maritime forces, and most of the maritime merchants who could go to sea to engage in trade had some relationship with local clans and government forces, forming intertwined interest groups with each other, providing them with necessary protection for their overseas trade, and also ensuring that they would not be excessively oppressed and bullied by other forces.

In this catastrophe, at least the maritime interest groups in the coastal counties of Hejian Province have been destroyed, and the Sun family and the Zhou family are considered to be newly rising local forces, but their prestige and power are still very insufficient, and it is here that the Zhou brothers, Sun Fengyi and others are not qualified to stand up and speak.

Lin Jian waited for a while, and saw that no one had spoken, which made Tang Haoxin's face look unpleasant, so he directly called Sun Fengyi's name and said: "Before we came in, we listened to the noise here, but now it is silent again, Mr. Sun, tell me, what are you all afraid of?" ”

Sun Fengyi reluctantly stood up and said: "Give the grain to the Jinhai Ducao Transportation Division, everyone is still happy, but everyone hopes to see the Jinhai Warehouse come up with real money and silver to trade." We unloaded a shipload of grain in Jinhai, hoping to get a boatload of grain silver to go to Deng, Lai, and buy grain to come to Jinhai. Each family's financial resources are limited, even if Lord Lin guarantees the Jinhai Warehouse, we can paste the capital of the first batch of grain, but we can't support it with two or three batches, after all, we can't take the white strip to buy grain......"

Lin Jian bowed his head slightly, after a thousand years, the government still has a bad debt that is difficult to recover, not to mention the current world where businessmen have almost no political status?

In the eyes of the Yuan family, everything in the world is not the private property of his Yuan family, how can there be any spirit of contract, maybe one day directly let the household department pay off the account, it is not an unimaginable thing. Those officials and gentlemen directly regard the merchants as fat sheep who can be exploited and extorted at will.

In addition to those merchants who are tough in the background, how many are willing to deal with the government?

Lin Jian looked at Tang Haoxin, looked at Zhang Wendeng, and asked, "Do you want to wait for Lin Ducao to come back?" ”

Zhang Wendeng's face was cloudy, he looked at Tang Haoxin and asked Tang Haoxin to make an idea.

Zhang Wendeng was originally the head of the household department, and was directly reappointed as the supervisor of Jinhai Warehouse, as the main adjutant of the Jinhai Metropolitan Cao Transportation Division, responsible for building a granary and storing grain in Jinhai. Although Jinhaicang is under the name of the Jinhai Capital Caoyun Division, it is directly under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Households. In the matter of building warehouses and storing grain, Zhang Wendeng did not have the need for Lin Xuwen to ask for instructions, and Tang Haoxin was still in Jinhai, Tang Haoxin nodded, and he could make up his mind.

This time, in order to open the sea, the household department finally squeezed out 500,000 taels of silver, but there were too many places that needed silver. Only the nearly 60,000 stone grain reserves and 2,000 ordinary mules and horses of the Jiangdong Left Army and the Vortex Village were taken down, and 120,000 taels of silver were used. The opening of the river, the construction of roads, the repair of ports, the organization of inland river boats and mules and horse carts, as well as the construction of military fortresses and walls to protect the granaries on the periphery of Jinhai Cang, all required a large amount of silver, which was directly rowed away by Lin Xuwen. The repair of the port on the side of the vortex was also entrusted to Sun Shangwang.

Leave Zhang Wendeng 180,000 taels of silver. Zhang Wendeng wants to use this silver to transform the vortex village into a super-large granary, and organize a team of 600 warehousemen, if the cash is traded, the cash in Zhang Wendeng's hand is only enough to store 100,000 stone of grain.

In addition to storing grain in Jinhai, Jingzhong also decided to move about 60,000 border troops from Jizhen and Xuanzhen to the coastal military fortresses of Ninghe, Changli, and Jinhai, so that the Jinhai Ducao Transportation Division organized maritime merchants to directly transport the necessary grain to Ninghe and Changli and sell it to the border army, so as to reduce the pressure on the grain supply in Gyeonggi to the greatest extent.

At that time, there were not many businessmen who were willing to trade with the government, let alone with the border army whose reputation was so bad that they were willing to trade with the border army, even if they wanted to transport grain to the border army, they had to pay the cash for the purchase of grain in Jinhaicang, and they were not willing to trade directly with the border army.

Tang Haoxin looked at Deng and Lai Haishang's attitude was quite consistent, and he also knew the reason, he couldn't figure out Lin Bin's thoughts, he couldn't figure out what Lin Tie was thinking in his heart, he wouldn't simply treat Lin Tie as his son-in-law Gu Wuchen's cronies and juniors. Lin Tie was knighted for his military exploits, the Jiangdong Left Army was self-contained, and the power of the Lin clan was also expanding dramatically.

Of course, Tang Haoxin was not a fool, he looked at the silence in the hall, and discussed with Lin Jian in a suppressed voice: "When I went out of Beijing, I knew what the situation was in the household, and silver was used everywhere, and it was already the limit to be able to squeeze out 500,000 taels of silver here." As Wen Deng said, Deng and Lai Haishang still fully trust the Jiangdong Left Army, did the Jiangdong Left Army come forward to be this tooth man? ”

The nature of the tooth man is similar to that of the intermediary and guarantor of later generations.

"It's not that I don't want to take responsibility," Lin Jian smiled bitterly, "It's easy to say a word, but don't talk about them, I'm also worried that the household department and the border army will pay their debts." The initial grain storage in Jinhaicang is 300,000 stones, plus the border army grain is 60,000 stones, and the silver is 540,000 taels. Besides, the Jiangdong Left Army is a township camp, and it is unknown whether it will go or stay, and I will use the name of the Jiangdong Left Army as a guarantee, and the Deng and Laihai Chamber of Commerce will not trust it? Aren't they worried that one day, the Jiangdong Left Army will be eliminated and no longer exists? ”

Tang Haoxin knew that Lin Tie wanted to take this opportunity to solve the status problem of the Jiangdong Left Army, and he also complained about Lin Tie, among the Zhulu Qin Wang Division, the Jiangdong Left Army had the most outstanding military achievements, but it was precisely a newly recruited township battalion that had no formal establishment. Due to the outstanding military achievements of the Jiangdong Left Army, it is impossible for the military headquarters to directly disband the Jiangdong Left Army after the war, but it is very delicate how much the Jiangdong Left Army can retain in the end.

Tang Haoxin nodded and said: "I know the question you said, I know it in my heart, and I will immediately send someone to Beijing to fight for the official title of the Jiangdong Left Army." At this moment, you have to solve this urgent need for the household department......"

Lin Jian pondered for a moment, and then asked Zhang Wendeng to come over to discuss secretly, and said in a suppressed voice: "As Sun Fengyi said, even if the Jiangdong Left Army is willing to come out as a guarantee, the Denglai maritime merchants can advance the first batch of grain purchase money, but they can't afford the second and third batches of grain purchase money, and the household department really can't squeeze out the extra silver at this time - since they trust the Jiangdong Left Army, it is better for the Jiangdong Left Army to directly come forward to buy grain from them and then resell it to Jinhaicang and the Zhubian Army." I still have a sum of silver in hand that I can cushion first, and I can also pull a sum of silver from the Lin family out for emergency, as long as the household department guarantees that this silver can be returned to me in the future! On the side of the border army, I have to trade in cash, otherwise if the generals are changed, I will not pay attention to anyone who cries. ”

Although Tang Haoxin is old, he is a person who understands, and Lin Jian seems to have to take a lot of risks, but in this way, Deng and Laihai merchants will no longer have a direct relationship with Jinhaicang, Jinhai Ducao Yunsi and the border armies, and will closely gather around the Jiangdong Left Army, forming a situation of both losses and glory with the Jiangdong Left Army.

The most important neck of this temporarily formed Haicao system was pinched in Lin Lian's hands, plus Lin Xuwen directly controlled the Yamen of the Jinhai Capital Caoyun Division, it can be said that the newly formed Haicao system was controlled by the Lin family.

When the time comes, don't say that the household department will not dare to rely on the account of the Jiangdong Left Army, and the imperial court will not even dare to easily remove Lin Xuwen from the position of the Ducao Yunsi.

Tang Hao confidently wanted Lin Xuwen to pat his ass and go to Changlu, and threw all the vortex affairs to Zhang Wendeng, maybe the situation in front of him was deliberately promoted by Lin Tie behind his back, and said secretly: This protégé of Wuchen is really powerful, I don't know how loyal he is to Wuchen, but the fact that the Lin family and Wuchen have formed a tail that cannot be lost is a fact that even if you close your eyes......