(There should be more chapters in the early morning)

It wasn't until May 12 that Qin Zitan was escorted to Ouhai.

The afternoon drizzle continued, and before you knew it, the light was dim; The raindrops fell from the eaves and hit the green bricks of the steps, and the sound of dripping came in, and it sounded as if there were raindrops falling in my heart.

The ordnance superintendent sent the design drawings of the shovel and spread out a large area on the desk; Lin Jian was studying with a sample shovel, and it was not until the guards came in to light the oil lamp that Lin Jian realized that it was getting late. Put the sample shovel on the desk and asked Song Jia: "People should be escorted, right?" ”

"Maybe it's in town." Song Jia answered, looked out the window, and the rain line was like a silk floating on the dark curtain, continuous.

"You go and see, someone is coming, bring it directly." Lin Jian said.

Song Jia's heart palpitated, looked at Lin Jian in confusion, and said, "Du Rong, can you stay and not kill, can't you spare his life?" Before that, each was his master, and he was loyal to his deeds, not the reason for death! Qin Zitan's talent and learning, although it cannot be said that it is unique in the world, it is also rare; If Qin Zitan can be used by Huaidong, why not use it? ”

“…… Alas," Lin Jian sighed softly and said, "If you don't want to see him, it's up to you to ......" didn't explicitly say whether to leave Qin Zitan alive, but Song Jia also had an acquaintance with Qin Zitan no matter what she said, and people always remembered the old love, and Lin Jian didn't blame her for interceding for Qin Zitan.

Hu Zhiyong walked in at this time, and Song Jia stopped talking about Qin Zitan, but it was obvious that no one in Huaidong was willing to intercede for Qin Zitan, including Gao Zongting.

Whether Qin Zitan is alive or dead, it is all in the thought of Lin Bin.

Lin Jian didn't want to talk about Qin Zitan, so he beckoned Hu Zhiyong to sit over, handed him the shovel of the baggage, and said, "The Ordnance Supervisor has made this thing out, it's not satisfactory, you can take a look ......."

Hu Zhiyong sat on the side of the desk and saw Lin Jian demonstrating the use of the soldier shovel there.

The baggage shovel is about one foot three inches long, and it is no different from an ordinary shovel when unfolded, but one side has a blade, which can be used as an axe knife, and one side has a sharp tooth opening, which can be sawn, and the handle can be folded, which can be used as a hand shield, and there is a ruler on the handle, which can be measured - Hu Zhiyong is good at political affairs, but he knows that Zhou Tong will praise the baggage shovel, and he will immediately make thousands of them and send them if he doesn't want to.

Scouts are used in the field, and when the situation is complicated, but they can't carry too many utensils, such a small shovel has a variety of functions such as knives, shovels, axes, and saws, which is very useful - Hu Zhiyong's only feeling about this is that the cost is too expensive. Don't say that you have to build thousands, it is distressing to build hundreds of them.

Hu Zhiyong took this special shovel, smacked his lips and said: "A small shovel can make several Mo knives...... but Lin Tie named this shovel a shovel, thinking to himself, if you really want to equip the total number of 120,000 soldiers under the jurisdiction of the Huaidong Workers' Battalion with this kind of shovel, Huaidong will not have to do anything else.

"......" Lin Jian laughed and said, "Wen and Wu are always opposite at this time - those who lead troops to fight, they wish to make more magic weapons, send some bad things over, scold their father and mother, in short, there are no good words; Those who are in charge of money and food only see the silver flowing out like water, and their hearts ache! ”

"Isn't that so?" Hu Zhiyong said with a wry smile, "The war in southern Zhejiang is generally over, and only 170,000 mu of land will be granted, and it will be counted on the account, but it is a discounted transaction." The inventory of the public land will continue, but the land encroached upon by the extravagant family is ordered by the lord to buy it with silver money as long as the sufferer stands up. Although it can suppress the land price, in southern Zhejiang, to make up for the shortage of land grants, the military department estimates that more than 100,000 taels of silver will come out. Speaking of wound medicine, now Ouhai has set up a medical bureau, and 20,000 taels of silver will be invested every month......"

"Yes, yes," Lin Jian hurriedly stopped Hu Zhiyong's words and said with a smile, "I don't have time to listen to your grievances today, this shovel looks expensive, but I didn't say how much I would build at once." When it comes to smelting, forging and other work, everything is the same. It is said that this shovel forging is also extremely useful in armor making. The armor pieces used in the scale armor are as dense as fish scales, which is good-looking and has strong protection, but it is too labor-intensive, and ten skilled craftsmen may not be able to make a pair of scale armor in a year. What if you replace the small nail piece with this large nail piece? Lin Jian took the shovel of the baggage, put it on his chest, used it as a heart guard, and said, "All the progress comes from every subtle effort, what do you think?" ”

"I don't worry about this, I came to the adults to talk about ......something else," Hu Zhiyong said.

Living within one's means, how many things the military department wants to do, it depends on how much silver the military department can get every year, Lin Jian has a lot of wonderful ideas, but to implement, the first one to card him is Lin Mengde, not for anything else, but for a lack of silver. Hu Zhiyong then played a trick, turned to the business he came to Lin Lian, and said: "The adults should choose the children of the poor family to study in southern Zhejiang and send them to Chongzhou to study in the new-style school. Room and board are free, and the treatment is the same as that of the generals. So far, more than 400 people have been qualified, twice as many as originally thought. Yang Zichen, Liu Wenzhong and others, including Mr. Gao, want to accept the opinions, and adults have to take this idea......"

"At the end of the day, it's not a matter of silver?" Lin Jian said with a smile, "It will be determined according to the number of people today, and the insufficient expenses will be made up by the inner treasury, so that you don't have to come to me to fight a lawsuit again......

In order to control the localities in southern Zhejiang, it is a means to expand the scale of army recruitment and determine the status of military households in the localities, but in the end, it is necessary to rely on the officials to govern the localities.

The selection of officials in the world mainly relied on the imperial examination.

At present, the war has not been settled, and Huaidong has every reason to exercise semi-militarized control over eastern and southern Zhejiang. Except for a few key officials who need to be appointed through Jiangning, the ordinary officials in the jurisdiction of the localities are directly appointed by the Huaidong Military Division, or even directly under military management.

With the passage of time, the selection and appointment of magistrates will return to the normal track. However, as long as Huaidong did not wait until then, a large number of qualified and accepted officials would fill the pit, and Jiangning's influence would be greatly weakened if the imperial examination system was implemented in the local area in the future.

Huaidong needs a large number of qualified officials; In addition, Huaidong should strengthen its control over southern and eastern Zhejiang, and the stakes are the most effective means, and it is inevitable that a large number of Zhejiang's sons and daughters will be promoted as officials.

In order to cultivate the needs of talents, in addition to the combat training school, Lin Jian has successively established a number of enlightenment schools and specialized schools in Chongzhou and other places in the past two years on the basis of miscellaneous learning.

After the end of the war in southern Zhejiang, Lin Jian planned to select a group of poor students from southern Zhejiang to bring them back to Chongzhou, send them to the new school for training for two or three years, and then send them to the local government to serve as officials.

Reading and literacy is still an extremely heavy burden on the extremely poor families, and the so-called children of poor families who study are actually mainly the children of small and medium-sized landlords and landed and propertied families.

In the long-term war, the squires and wealthy families turned the wind and steered, and they were the objects to be won over by the luxury family; There is nothing for the destitute to lose; The most serious damage to interests is precisely the class that has some land but is not enough to protect itself.

Although he provided the same treatment as the army recruitment, considering the profound influence of the imperial examination in the world, Lin Jian only expected to recruit 200 people from southern Zhejiang to return to Chongzhou, but he did not expect that the situation would be more optimistic than he thought.

The number of people has more than doubled compared to projections, and the previous provision for this project was grossly inadequate. Now Huaidong is living within its means, and there are more than 200 people, and it will cost nearly 4,000 taels of silver a year, which does not seem to be much, but it must be squeezed out from other places.

Saving Lin Mengde from complaining again, Lin Jian simply made up for the deficiency from the inner library.

This incident also shows from the side that the Huaidong Army's series of military victories in southern Zhejiang and many new policies implemented by the people have won the hearts of the people; Huaidong was able to finally arrest Qin Zitan, precisely because Huaidong was more popular in southern Zhejiang.

Under the protection of Hu Zitan, Qin Zitan had escaped from the Huaidong army's search range in the Nanxiyuan River Valley, but he had to cross the Kuocang Mountain to escape back to Xianju or other areas controlled by the Zhejiang-Fujian army. Qin Zitan, under the protection of Hu Cong, crossed the Kucang Mountain between Yongjia and Taizhou, and blocked the mountain people.

Qin Zitan promised the mountain people that they would be rewarded with a thousand gold for escorting them back to Xianju, and in comparison, the Huaidong army offered a prisoner to the mountain people in exchange for a thousand copper yuan or three acres of dry land, which was not enough to see - who would have thought that Qin Zitan was very eloquent, but he and two servants tied up the mountain people and sent them to the Huaidong military camp.

The guard pushed the door and walked in to report: "Qin Zitan has been escorted into the city, have you brought it here?" ”

"......" Lin Jian was frowning and thinking about it, Song Jia got up and said, "I'll go down first......" and walked behind the screen.

Lin Lian commanded, "Bring someone over." ”

Hu Zhiyong moved to the side of the desk, turned his head to look at the door, and waited for someone to bring Qin Zitan up.

After the luxury family abandoned the land and went to the sea in the early years, by controlling the forces of the East China Sea, they wantonly invaded the coast of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and Qin Zitan played a great role here.

Chongzhou was invaded by the East China Sea and suffered extremely heavy losses twice, so Hu Zhiyong had no good impression of Qin Zitan, and advocated beheading Qin Zitan. But how to deal with Qin Zitan, Lin Jian has not expressed his position, and it is difficult for others to say anything.

The overall situation is important, and public and private enmity can be ignored; In the end, how to deal with Qin Zitan must put the overall interests of Huaidong first.

A moment later, Qin Zitan brought it up.

Qin Zitan was unkempt, his clothes were ragged, he had a broken arm, an empty sleeve tube was hanging, he limped and walked to the front of the hall with difficulty, and the flesh on his face trembled with pain; Presumably he suffered a serious leg injury, and the Nanxiyuan military camp did not give him good treatment when receiving prisoners.

Compared with when Jiang Ning met, Qin Zitan at this time was very thin, and there were white threads in his messy hair, thinking about it, Qin Zitan was not yet thirty years old this year.

Qin Zitan raised his head and looked at Lin Jian calmly, but he didn't look at Hu Zhiyong who was sitting on the side. Although he looked bad, his expression was still calm, and before Lin Jian could speak, he opened his mouth first and said: "The time is also powerful, today it falls into your hands, it is my Qin Zitan who is not lucky, there is no nonsense to say, but I want to die quickly!" ”

"You want to die quickly?" Lin Jian smiled faintly and said, "You came down from Kucang Mountain and were escorted into Ouhai today, there are four days, you can beg for death, why bother to suffer?" Just tell me this just to meet? ”

Qin Zitan opened his mouth to wait until he could say more, and at this time Song Jia sighed lightly and walked out from behind the screen.

Qin Zitan suddenly sat down on the place as if he had drained all his essence, and whispered like a mournful voice: "Young lady...... I should have thought of it a long time ago! ”