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The Cao family sent troops to Hanzhong to get a glimpse of the affairs of Sichuan and Shu, and Jiang Ning was shocked.

Jiangning supported the establishment of a new emperor, and the officials of the Cao family and the Western Qin County Division remained silent from beginning to end, which caused Jiangning to talk a lot, but as far as Jiangning held the attitude of calming the people, Emperor Yongxing sent an envoy to the north after ascending the throne, bringing a canonization edict from Jin to seal Cao Yiqu as the Duke of Qin, hoping to exchange for the Cao family's recognition of the Jiangning regime and send troops from the west to clamp down on Yanhu.

Although Emperor Yongxing and the people of Jiangning had long been worried that the Cao family would have different aspirations in the west, they were still shocked when they saw that the Cao family took Hanzhong without telling them.

Although the Hanzhong Mansion had invaded Liu An'er and Gong Yu's Judgment Department successively, after Gong Yu's Cutting Department was transferred from Hanzhong to Eastern Sichuan, the Jinghu County Division recovered Hanzhong Mansion.

Then Luo Xiancheng came in and occupied Xiangyang, but did not continue to go west to fight Hanzhong. After Jiangning supported the new emperor, he was planning to set up another system envoy in Hanzhong, strengthening military pressure on Luo Xiancheng from the west, forcing Luo Xiancheng to accept Zhao'an, and also restraining the Cao family - the Cao family sent troops across the Qinling Mountains into Hanzhong at this time, disrupting Jiangning's strategic deployment on the western front.

The Cao family should have had the mind of Sichuan Shu a long time ago, but it lacked the right time. After April, the Donghu people focused on the complete occupation of Yan and Hebei, and on the western front, only 40,000 Yanxi Zhuhu cavalry attacked the city and plundered the land, and the threat to Qin County was greatly reduced.

As a result, the Cao family was able to carry out a strategic contraction from the north, transfer troops to Fengxiang Mansion in the southwest, and assemble to carry out a grand plan to plan Sichuan and Shu.

At present, the Jiangning regime is only barely maintaining a stable and united situation, and the Jingzhou envoy under Jiangning's remote control is making every effort to guard against Luo Xiancheng's Changle army, and there is no time to divide troops westward into eastern Sichuan.

The officers and troops of Hanzhong Prefecture were not strong, and even if there were some soldiers and horses, they were all concentrated on the eastern front to prevent the Changle army from coming from Xiangyang.

Sichuan and Shu are known as the land of abundance, but after Gong Yu led his troops to enter, the richer and denser areas were plowed several times by the exile army. After three years of large-scale war and destruction, almost the entire eastern Sichuan region was disabled. Gong Yu led his troops to occupy Yuzhou (now Chongqing), and the main force of the official army in eastern Sichuan was attracted to the area around Yuzhou, and the defensive forces in the entire northern Sichuan were seriously insufficient.

Although the letter mentioned that the Cao family had only sent troops from Chencang into Hanzhong, Lin Jian believed that the Cao family had been secretly preparing for so long, and the action would be very fast. The eastern Sichuan side wants to transfer troops to strengthen the defense of northern Sichuan in the direction of Hanzhong, but I am afraid that it will be too late in time. Besides, the exile army penetrated into eastern Sichuan, and it has not been able to eradicate it after all these years of fighting, and the damage to the eastern Sichuan region is so serious, maybe there are quite a lot of people in eastern Sichuan who hope that the Cao family's soldiers and horses can enter Sichuan to quell the chaos......

The letter of the Cao family's troops sent out from Jingzhou on the 15th, and it was already the 22nd when it arrived in Chongzhou; It will take such a long time to pass on a letter, everything that happened in eastern Sichuan and Hanzhong, Huaidong is naturally beyond the reach of the whip, and the most urgent thing in Huaidong at the moment is to take over Yudong and withdraw Zhuangzhi County.

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After the Empress Dowager Liang and King Lu snatched away Qingzhou, Lin Jian ordered the Huaidong Water Camp to block the passage into the Yudong Palace, until the beginning of September, Jiang Ning was requested by the Empress Dowager Liang to remove the Yudong Palace, and Huaidong immediately sent troops to land from the mouth of the Dongjiang River, entered the Yudong Palace, and controlled the palace steward Miao Shuo and Yuan Jinsheng and others.

The takeover of Yudong Palace Village is no worse than the capture of a winning battle.

From the moment Yanjing had the intention of moving the capital, the Liang family and Yuan Guizheng began to use Yudong Palace Village to arrange. Although there are only two battalions of guards, they are rare and well-armoured, and they did not play the role of strange soldiers, nor did they dare to resist, so they relieved Huaidong of their armor.

After the seizure was lifted and the storage of Yudong Gongzhuang was accepted, Huaidong obtained 2,000 sets of fine armor at one time, which was enough to cover the output of the Huaidong Ordnance Supervision Armor Factory for four months; There are more than 5,000 guns, spears, swords, and shields, more than 1,200 pieces of foot bows, arm crossbows, and kick crossbows, as well as 100 flying vehicles made in imitation of Huaidong, and nine armed merchant ships with more than two masts.

Fortunately, the Empress Dowager Liang fled in a hurry with King Lu, and Yuan Guizheng and others were not prepared to respond, and after the Empress Dowager Liang and King Lu gave control to Qingzhou, Huaidong quickly sent troops to block the passage into Yudong Palace, otherwise it is possible to recruit Ding Zhuang from the Zhuang family and form ten battalions of soldiers to cover the surprise attack on Jiangning by relying on the deployment of Liang and Yuan Guizheng in Yudong Palace......

The Gu family's father and son, the Yongchang Marquis Mansion and the Liang family are not bad in calculation and Huaibei, but the difference is in guessing the wrong Huaidong.

Lin Jian sat in the side hall of Dongya's daily office, looking through the detailed accounts after taking over Yudong Palace.

In addition to the grain fields, the households, the soldiers, the soldiers and the armed merchant ships, the palace village also built a walled city in the hinterland of Yudong for nearly four miles, in order to prevent the sea from the sea, there are also several strong outposts along the coast, in the main walled city of Yudong, in addition to the official hall and other buildings, there are also complete types of workshops, and even in the Yudong River into the Dongjiang River estuary of the river port to build a small shipyard.

Judging from the data alone, Yudong Gongzhuang is a standard manor economy. Since everything within the scope of the palace is owned by the palace, the village is only a tenant farmer, and even has to bear heavier exploitation than ordinary tenant farmers, in Huaidong to take over the Yudong palace, including all kinds of buildings in the walled city and the fields that belong to it, are all official, and Huaidong can openly and honestly suppress the dissident forces within the scope of the Yudong palace.

"It's not necessarily worse than Weiyang Mansion!" Lin Jian threw the inventory details of Yudong Gongzhuang on the case, and said with emotion.

Lin Mengde, Gao Zongting, Sun Jingxuan and others who went to the side hall to report to Lin Jian were also quite emotional.

Although Yongyang Mansion is rich, the land annexation is serious, and the phenomenon of land invasion and hidden households is serious. Although the annual grain quota is more than 1 million stones, it is 60% of the local expenses for a large number of items and the greed of officials.

Even if Weiyang Mansion was officially included in Huaidong's defense area, under the confrontation of the prefect Shen Rong and stubborn local forces, it was difficult for Huaidong to promote a new policy in Weiyang Mansion. In the current situation, instead of fighting for Weiyang Mansion, it is better to benefit Yudong Palace.

"Yudong's personnel should be arranged as soon as possible," Lin Mengde said, "Who do you agree to arrange to go to Yudong?" ”

"Find Wang Chengfu and Sun Shangwang," Lin Jian said, "In addition to Yudong and Yizhou, the candidate for this chief official must be decided as soon as possible......

Sun Shangwang also escorted Empress Dowager Liang and King Lu to Chongzhou with Zhou Pu last night.

Sun Shangwang has worked hard in Jinhai over the years, and his talents are sufficient, and he is more than enough to serve as the chief official of a county.

Sun Shangwang and Wang Chengfu were both in Dongya, and soon invited the guards, Lin Jian briefly said the situation in Yudong and Yizhou, and Sun Shangwang took the initiative to ask to go to Yizhou.

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Before the founding of the Yuan Dynasty, the two lakes and Jiangsu and Zhejiang were more fully developed in the south, and Dongmin and Guangnan were all barbarian lands inhabited by Shanyue Baiyi, and were not integrated into the orthodoxy of the Central Plains.

Yizhou was even more barbarian among barbarians before the founding of the Yuan clan, except for all the records in the maritime atlas in the early years, the vast majority of people did not even know which direction Yizhou was in.

The entry of the eight surnames into Fujian has played a vital role in the development of eastern Fujian, and has also caused Yizhou Island to receive a certain amount of radiation.

In the early years, some fishermen and poor farmers who had lost their land crossed the ocean and settled down on the northwest coast of Yizhou Island and built some settlements, probably the first group of developers influenced by the Central Plains culture.

The development of the coastal areas of eastern Fujian and Quang Nam and the development of coastal trade led to the breeding and development of pirate forces. Naturally, there were pirate forces seeking help from Yizhou Island, or directly building a walled city on the island as a foothold.

The real large-scale development of Yizhou Island is precisely because the eight surnamed forces led by the luxury family have contributed the most - the eight surnamed forces are based on the coastal areas of Jin'an Prefecture and are most threatened by pirates, so they naturally attach importance to cracking down on pirate forces.

In order to limit the space and development of pirate forces on the sea, it was also the previous generation of Minhou Hao Mucheng who actively promoted the construction of a garrison on Yizhou Island and then moved the people to the county. For a time, the pirate forces off the coast of eastern Fujian were greatly suppressed, and they turned to the coastal areas of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Guangnan, and only then did the bandit forces in the eastern seas of Jiangsu and Zhejiang arose.

Yizhou Zhixian has a history of thirty or forty years, and although it is the largest island around the mainland, it is very underdeveloped.

Obviously, at that time, there was a large amount of wasteland in Huaidong, Hudang District, Changguo, Daishan, Shengsi and other coastal islands that had not been fully developed, and it is not difficult to imagine the backwardness of Yizhou Island's reclamation and development.

Compared with Yudong, the conditions of Yizhou are arduous, and the importance is not as good as that of Yudong. But to go to Yizhou, in addition to reclamation and hoarding, but also to cooperate with the navy to invade the coast of eastern Fujian, and to use Yizhou as a base to explore routes to the south and develop maritime trade, Sun Shangwang thought that he was familiar with these affairs, so he took the initiative to ask to go to Yizhou, not to compete with Wang Chengfu for the position of Yu Dong.

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Yizhou is a bitter place, Lin Jian plans to persuade Wang Chengfu to go to Yizhou, after all, Sun Shangwang has worked very hard outside these years, but Sun Shangwang took the initiative to ask to go to Yizhou, that would be better, he said to Sun Shangwang: "The conditions in Yizhou are poor, the land reclamation is thin, the cycle is long, and the merchants in Huaidong are not very interested, this is also human nature, don't force it; The military department could not come up with a large amount of money to subsidize it for a while. After you go to Yizhou, you can change your thinking. Yizhou is a vast land, there should be no shortage of coal and iron, plus wood, which are all urgently needed materials in Huaidong. Harvesting coal, iron and timber materials are transported to Huaidong for sale, which is a lucrative thing, and there should be merchants in Huaidong who are willing to recruit workers to give it a try......"

“…… "As far as reclamation is concerned, we are not in a hurry to reclaim large areas of grain fields first. The world is all for profit, and Qingliu scholars are very disdainful of this, but we must know that it is far better to guide the government to benefit from it. Planting cotton to weave cloth is a good thing; Planting cane to make sugar is also a good thing, and planting tea and mulberry is a good thing. The cloth, tea, sugar, raw silk and other goods transported from Chongzhou and Mingzhou to Haidong for sale were heavily taxed by the Lijin Bureau. We can formulate a policy that if cotton weaving, cane and sugar are grown, mulberry is planted and silkworms are planted to obtain raw silk, and tea is grown and shipped to Haidong for sale, part of the tax can be reduced or exempted for a certain period of time to encourage reclamation. If you stay in Chongzhou for a few more days, think more, think more, and ask me what conditions you need. I won't be stingy with the convenience I can give......"

After chattering a lot with Sun Shangwang on the issue of developing Yizhou, Lin Jian said to Wang Chengfu: "Shangwang asks to go to Yizhou, then I recommend you to go to Yudong to be the magistrate." After you go to Yudong, you must settle down the original household. The first is the issue of this year's grain requisition, and the second is how to get the farmers to let the surplus fields go out to resettle the displaced households. I thought about it, and the way of forced conscription is not good. Do you think that's good? Let the farmers buy grain and land, and ensure that each household gets between 10 and 15 acres of land for private ownership, and the rest is levied as official ownership to resettle the people who have moved south. Do this well, and the rest will be ...... according to the new deal."

Wang Chengfu looked through Yu Dong's information, and after taking over Yu Dong Gongzhuang, he found out that Yu Dong actually had more than 6,000 households, and under the heavy oppression of Gong Zhuang, almost every household had to cultivate 50 acres of land, and nearly eighty percent of the harvest had to be exploited by Gong Zhuang.

The yield per mu of the grain fields in eastern Yudong is much lower than that of Haiyu and Chongzhou, but the fertility of the land in the ripe fields is not much worse than that of Haiyu and Chongzhou.

There are 300,000 acres of land in Yudong, which is more than enough to feed 30,000 households under the normal tax payment mode of Chongzhou and Haiyu. However, Yudong only had 6,000 households, and he had to spare 1,000 strong laborers to be incorporated into the army to protect the villages, and in addition, the various workshops and shipyards in the walled city also occupied a considerable amount of labor.

It is such a heavy exploitation that makes Yudong Gongzhuang collect almost 200,000 to 300,000 stone rice grains from 6,000 village households every year.

Yudong is mostly water acres, and the autumn grain has not yet begun to be harvested. Yudong withdrew from Zhuangzhi County, and in order to win the hearts of the people, Huaidong should reduce or exempt this year's taxes. However, Lin Lian was reluctant to let Yu Dong earn more than 300,000 stone of autumn grain after the harvest of autumn grain this year, so he thought of selling the land for grain.

It was planned to directly distribute 80,000 mu of land to the village households in exchange for 300,000 stone of autumn grain income, and at the same time officially take over the other fields as official ownership and resettle the people who moved south.

As a matter of fact, if the Huaidong New Deal is pushed to Yudong County, in addition to relocating another 24,500 households to the south, the annual direct rent will not be less than 300,000 stone rice and grain. The resettlement of the southward migrants will provide Huaidong with a large number of soldiers and sufficient labor.

The situation in Yudong is the same as that of Hecheng and Yandu, because of its proximity to the sea, large areas of coastal land that are susceptible to tidal refill, as well as lakes, wetlands, and swamps that are prone to flooding near the inland, have not been sufficiently reclaimed.

If a seawall can be built offshore, twice as much land will be available as it is today. At that time, Yudong will be able to develop into a large county of Dingkou comparable to Haiyu and Chongzhou.

"When Yudong was still a pasture in the early years, it was bounded by the Dongjiang River with Haiyu County, and the grassland was changed to Gongzhuang, and the Haiyu Chen clan and other clans occupied a large amount of land on the east bank ......of the Dongjiang River to plant mulberry cotton," Lin Jian said, "The encroached fields are counted, but the boundary with Haiyu County still needs to be demarcated with the Dongjiang River, and you go to negotiate with the Chen family."

With the Dongjiang River as the boundary, the tax of 20,000 or 30,000 stone rice grain for Yudong can be provided by the extra land that can be allocated to Yudong. The Dongjiang River, as the main waterway that runs through Pingjiang Province, leads directly to Taihu Lake. Yudong and Haiyu are bounded by the Dongjiang River, and there is naturally half of the waterway in the lower reaches of the Dongjiang River to be counted as the Huaidong Water Camp Defense Area.

This significance is much more important than the annual tax of 20,000 or 30,000 stone of rice grain, and the lawsuit will go to Jiangning, and Huaidong will also fight for it from the Chen family.

Now Huaidong exchanges silk for rice, and provides nearly 20,000 stone of low-cost rice grain to Haiyu every month to alleviate the grain shortage in Haiyu and the pressure of raising the army. At this time, if you don't pinch your neck in exchange for favorable conditions for Huaidong, when will you wait?