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Lin Xuhong elaborated on the devastation of Haozhou and other places after the Battle of Haozhou, and everyone listened to it with a heavy heart.

Although there are righteous thieves in the world, in this troubled autumn, there are more brutal and unkind rogues. Even if he is a cowardly and honest person, he has a brutal side in his heart, and once he loses his restraint, anyone may completely expose his brutal side and become an unrecognizable beast and poisonous snake.

Lin Jian exhaled softly, temporarily suppressed the anger in his heart, and looked at the Jiangdong situation map spread out on the bookcase, and the movement of Liu An'er's department was clearly marked on the map. Although Liu An'er had the support of the luxury family at the beginning of the Hongzepu uprising, at this time, Liu An'er moved the hundreds of thousands of liukou gathered under his command to the upper reaches of the Huai River in batches, at least it was certain that Chen Han's three troops and Liu An'er's men and horses with a little combat effectiveness had entered Huaishang Mansion.

I have to admit that Liu An'er still has some strategic vision, and he did not rashly lead his troops to the southeast to attack Weiyang or Jiangning because the Donghai Kou, which was directly supported by the luxury family behind the scenes, made a big move in the Changguo Islands in the southeast.

Jiangdong County was the hinterland of the Da Yue Dynasty, and Liu An'er led his troops to move southeast, which not only meant that most of the Qinwang divisions stranded in Yannan and Gyeonggi would go south to participate in the war, but the local township forces were also very strong, which became a huge obstacle for Liu An'er to overcome in the south.

However, Huaishang has been a place of bandits for decades, and although bandits have been cleared repeatedly, the bandits have appeared to be peaceful on the surface in the past year, but in fact there are still a large number of remnants of bandits in the rugged mountainous areas that are not easy to clear. In addition, the drought in Huaishang has been in place for many years, and the people's lives are poor, but the excesses and miscellaneous taxes have not been reduced at all, and the fierce folk customs are like firewood and grass exposed to the sun in the heart.

At present, not only Liu An'er's troops are moving towards Huaishang, but also Luo Xiancheng, Gong Yuci and other powerful rogues from Jingchu are also moving towards Huaishang - this shows that these groups of people have been secretly in contact with each other for several months, and even if it is unlikely that a larger force will be formed, but the coordinated movement of several gangster forces will have greater destructive power on the local area.

Liu An'er led his troops to Huai'an, but in fact, it relieved Yue Lengqiu's pressure, on the surface, it seemed that Yue Lengqiu led his troops to Huai'an Mansion, and the thief Liu An'er couldn't resist the pressure and fled west.

On the map, in addition to the movement of Liu An'er's department, the Changguo Islands in the southeast also drew a large circle that was obviously a little dazzling for Lin Lian's charcoal branches.

Although the use of troops against Mingzhou Mansion at the beginning of the month was frustrated, it also showed that the Donghai Kou at this time had the ability to attack a large city with heavy defense, which was a very fatal thing.

Last year, when the Donghai Kou Dakou Taihu Coastal Prefectures and Counties, it can only be said that Pingjiang Prefecture and other places have no experience in coastal defense, and they easily tore through the defense line, in fact, the forces of the Donghai Kou are not strong, otherwise they will not be frustrated under Jiyang City, but obviously after the setback, the integrated Donghai Kou forces are even more menacing.

"Maybe at the end of this month, we will go back to Chongzhou...... "Lin Lian said to Cao Ziang and others.

Gu Wuchen was also in charge of the township camp at this time, and he had already asked the court to transfer the Jiangdong Zuoying back to Jiangdong County to participate in the suppression of bandits, and the court would give an answer at the end of the month at the latest. As long as Jinhai can be temporarily stabilized, there is no reason for Jiangdong Zuoying to continue to stay in Jinhai.

At this time, it was no longer a question of whether the court would give Lin Tie the honor of summoning him to Beijing to face the saint, but Lin Tie himself could not spare time to go to Beijing for this trip. The face saint involves extremely cumbersome etiquette, which cannot be completed by riding a fast horse to Beijing in a day.

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Before noon, Lin Xuwen sent someone to invite them to the north for dinner, and Lin Xuwen wanted to personally wash the dust for Lin Xuhong and other Lin family members who came from Jiangning, hoping that Lin Lian and Lin Mengde would participate together. Lin Jian asked Lin Meng to go to the north first, and he still had some things to discuss with Cao Ziang.

Lin Jian rushed to the meal and took the guards through the temporary river closure dam to the Jinhai Ducao Transportation Office in the north, and saw Lin Mengde pulling Ma Chao to Tang Haoxin's residence. Lin Mengde squeezed two glances for him, and Lin Lian was confused for a while and didn't understand what Lin Mengde meant, so he went directly to Lin Xuwen to talk about private food.

Lin Lian wants to transport the private grain to Gyeonggi for sale bypassing the Jinhai warehouse and the household department, and it is easy to hide it from Tang Haoxin, after all, Tang Haoxin has no eyeliner in Jinhai, but it is difficult to hide it from Lin Xuwen.

In addition to Lin Xuwen's actual control of the local power of Hejian Prefecture, Lin Jian wanted to transport a large amount of grain and grass from Jiangdong to Jinhai, which was inseparable from the cooperation of Lin Ji's warehouse, and it was difficult to hide from Lin Xuwen, and there was no need to hide from Lin Xuwen.

Lin Jian even wanted that after the situation in the Jinhai Sea was temporarily stabilized, he would pull out all the sea ships of the Jiyun Society and go south to form an elite water camp, and completely hand over the sale of illicit grain to the Lin family's fleet.

The power of the Donghai Kou was already strong enough to attack the city and seize the land in Liangzhejiang, Lin Jian could no longer slow down the pace of forming a naval division, and his first step was to extract all the sturdy ships under the Jiyun Society that were suitable for transforming into warships.

The matter of private food cannot be openly discussed, Lin Jian walked into the back house of the government office, and saw Lin Xuwen and Lin Xuhong talking and laughing in the hall, so he directly invited him to the secret room to discuss matters.

"Big brother, you may not think that Liu Zhi came to me in the morning about something?" Lin Jian said.

"What's the matter?" Lin Xuwen asked.

Important yamen, including the Jinhai Ducao Yun Division and the Jinhai Salt Iron Division, are all gathering in the vortex new city, and the imperial court has just agreed to move the capital of Hejian Prefecture, which means that an elite army should be re-established on the basis of the remnants of the Jinzhong army to defend Jinhai, which is also in line with Li Zhuoping's three-way layout strategic concept - Liu Zhi is likely to serve as the envoy of the Tianjin Navy to exercise the right to supervise the Jinhai garrison.

Lin Xuwen knew that his military prestige was far inferior to Lin Lian, so his personal mastery of the soon-to-be-established Tianjin Navy was far less than Lin Zhi's mastery of the Jiangdong Left Battalion, Liu Zhi did nothing when he was the Jiangdong Left Army Supervisor, which did not mean that he would not do anything when he came to Tianjin as the Tianjin Navy Supervisor, and most of the imperial court would not want to see Jinhai become the Lin family's private army, which would increase Liu Zhi's power in the Tianjin Navy.

Lin Xuwen was even worried that the Jin Navy that was about to be formed would be the same as the current Jibei Army, forming a pattern of eunuchs actually leading the army.

Lin Xuwen can only try his best to win over and protect Ma Yigong, Yang Yihang and other generals in Jinzhong, preventing them from kicking Liu Zhi out of the Tianjin Navy in the future, as long as they are still in the army, at least they can form a rivalry with Liu Zhi.

Lin Xuwen heard Lin Jian mention that Liu Zhi had come to him in the morning, and his ears were pricked up, wanting to hear what secret things Lin Jian had about Liu Zhi.

"Liu Zhi came here on behalf of Hao Zongcheng and hoped that I would allocate more food to the Jibei Army," Lin Jian said, seeing that Lin Xuwen didn't understand the joints for a while, he said bluntly, "Now almost all the grain stored in Beijing is controlled by the Gyeonggi Okura, which belongs to the Ministry of Households. Although the ration of grain at a reasonable price is provided to the common people every day, this supply is very small, ranging from the elderly, the weak, to women and children, and to put it evenly, four taels of corn per person a day is not enough, but the actual amount of grain released in the Gyeonggi Warehouse is about eight taels per person per day, and the vast majority of this excess goes into the hands of private grain merchants...... In addition to the grain supply at a low price, the grain price in Gyeonggi is already four or five times higher than that of Jinhae. ”

"Hao Zongcheng also wants to meddle in this piece to make a fortune?" Lin Xuwen asked.

"Yes, Hao Zongcheng is quite greedy, he wanted to reap the benefits of private grain before, but there was no food source, and at this time he didn't dare to deduct too much private food," Lin Jian said, "He asked Liu Zhi to come to me, probably because he saw that we transported more than 10,000 stone of grain from Chongzhou this time." This grain is outside the plan of the household department, and whether or not it will enter the Tianjin Sea Warehouse is actually a matter for us to decide......"

Lin Xuwen touched his chin and said, "Will it make Tang Haoxin suspicious?" ”

"What suspicion can arise, Hao Zongcheng is not greedy for food for two days a day, how have you ever seen Tang and Zhang go to this matter with the intention of bringing down Hao Zongcheng?" Lin Jian said.

Nowadays, the daily amount of grain in Beijing is about 4,000 stones, and the supply at a parity price is less than half, and almost all of the excess goes to the grain merchants to make a profit at a high price.

Zhang Xie now controls the household department, and it is almost impossible for Zhang Xie's private individuals to get excess grain from the Gyeonggi Warehouse. The grain merchants made huge profits, and naturally a considerable part of them flowed into Zhang Xie's private pockets. Since these grain merchants can be said to be Zhang Xie's private individuals, and the source of grain is the Gyeonggi Warehouse under the Ministry of Households, Zhang Xie and others actually deliberately did such an abnormally high price of grain in Gyeonggi: not only to control the tolerance among the people within a certain range, but also not to prevent them from collecting oil and water from the people and falling into their pockets.

If the surplus wealth in the hands of the people of Gyeonggi is scraped away by Zhang Xie and others, will Zhang Xie kindly lower the price of grain?

No, once greedy, people's hearts are difficult to control, even if Zhang Xie still has the mind to take the overall situation into account, but the grain merchants below him will become difficult to control.

At this time, Hao Zongcheng should be allowed to stir up the situation, as long as the Gyeonggi households have a second source of food, unless Zhang Xie and Hao Zongcheng can be embarrassed, they will definitely be able to lower the price of Gyeonggi grain and alleviate the increasingly embarrassing plight of the Gyeonggi households.

Lin Jian thought about it this way, but Lin Xuwen was thinking about other things: first of all, they couldn't break away from the Chu Party at this time, but it was also extremely obvious that if the Chu Party was split into two factions, they would naturally be on Tang Gu's side, and at present, the price of grain in Gyeonggi was controlled by Zhang Xie and the officials of the household department for private profit, even if the matter was leaked to Tang and Gu, the matter would not deteriorate to the point where it could not be cleaned up. Besides, Hao Zongcheng and the Inner Servant Province have their own line in the court, even if Tang Gu is put aside, the Lin family is also qualified to take refuge in Hao Zongcheng. It's just that Hao Zongcheng's reputation is too bad, and Lin Xuwen can't wipe his face and wants to go to Hao Zongcheng. However, in the current situation, even if he will not think of taking refuge in Hao Zongcheng, a eunuch, he will undoubtedly have a good relationship with Hao Zongcheng will undoubtedly help the Lin family gain a foothold in Jinhai.

"What are you going to do?" Lin Xuwen asked.

"I can't refute Hao Zongcheng and Liu Zhi's face, but I can't make a hasty decision either," Lin Jian said, "I just promised to allocate an extra 2,000 stone grain to the Jibei Army this time, and I didn't say anything else, so I came over to ask my eldest brother for an idea." ”

"How much food can we pump out each month?" Lin Xuwen asked.

"Hao Zongcheng controls the Jibei Army at this time, and Liu Zhihui will be the supervisor of the Tianjin Navy in the future," Lin Jian said, "Give them an extra 10,000 stone of food every month, and they should be quite happy with each other......"

Lin Xuwen nodded, it is difficult for the price of grain in Gyeonggi to come down in the short term, 120,000 stone grain a year, and the huge profit is also a considerable amount, the key is how to divide it.

Lin Xuwen looked at Lin Jian with his eyes and did not say a word.

Lin Lian said: "Xu Hong came to Jinhai to help you, I think he will do this well......" Lin Jian hopes that the more private grain will be transported to Gyeonggi through the Lin family, the better, in fact, 10,000 stone of private grain per month is not enough to disturb the good things of Huang Zhang Xie and the household officials, and Lin Xuwen actually controls Jinhai and Hejian Mansion, and he doesn't want to fight with Lin Xuwen about this matter, as long as he can ensure his own part of the interests, it is enough.