(The first update, ask for a red ticket)

At most, 40,000 or 50,000 people gathered near the Vortex Village, except for the military camp on the south side of the Vortex River Estuary, the north side was a mess of shacks. The Dongyu completely withdrew from the pass, and the villagers gathered at the mouth of the vortex thought about returning to their hometowns to see what was left at home. It was impossible for the captives to tear down all the adobe houses, put them away, and put them up with reeds, so that they could shelter from the wind and rain.

The weather is getting warmer, the rivers are thawing, and it's time to prepare for spring planting. However, at this time, there was still surplus food at home, or before escaping, the grain was buried in the ground in time, and there was no one in the family who found it, there was no place to eat, and there was no seed for spring ploughing. Not only the villagers gathered near the village followed the embankment, but also the refugees who returned from other places one after another.

On the 28th, the mouth of the Wei River and the Whirlpool River was cut off, and there was a low-lying land in the southeast of Wangdengtai Mountain, which introduced the river water into the low-lying land from the breach of the river embankment, forming a small lake. In just one day's work, the shallow part of the whirlpool river was exposed.

As soon as the tide receded, the four boats were literally shallow on the riverbed of the mouth of the river, and when the water at the mouth of the river ran out in the middle of the night, he organized nearly 10,000 soldiers and civilians to drive wooden piles, carry earth and break bricks and stones, and build a temporary dam to seal the river on the basis of the four sea boats.

In April, it was necessary to use the Whirlpool River to transport grain to and from Gyeonggi, and there was only one month to clean up the Whirlpool River, and it was impossible to completely improve the navigation conditions of the Whirlpool River. Only a few particularly shallow riverbeds can be dug up in a focused way, and embankments can be built to ensure that the boats can be navigated smoothly when they are fully loaded. In addition, the avenue on the north bank of the Whirlpool River was smoothed and tamped, so that there was a straight road between the whirlpool and Weitai, and the grain from the whirlpool could also be transported to Weitai by mule and horse carts and then loaded on ships to Gyeonggi. After all, the distance from the vortex to Weitai is short, only more than 50 miles, and the direct passage is wider, and the mule and horse carts are counted as two days to go back and forth, and 200 mule and horse carts are prepared, and there can be a capacity of 3.5 million stones a year. The queue of 200 mules and horses is four or five miles long, and the straight road of more than 50 miles can only accommodate 200 mules and horses at most, otherwise it will be a mess.

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Lin Tie wore a crimson official robe on the Qingjia jacket, accompanied Tang Haoxin to walk on the sea pond, and Ma Chao and the others were scattered left and right, not hindering Lin Tie and Tang Haoxin from talking.

The sea breeze blows on the face, and it doesn't feel cold anymore, and the whole north is officially spring.

"This war is over temporarily," Tang Haoxin stroked the white beard under his chin, looking at the blue sea with cloudy eyes, for state affairs, he looked exhausted and old, and said slowly, "Chang has a giant Kou East Sea Harrier, Hongzepu has a giant Kou Liu An'er, Jing Chu has a giant Kou Luo Xiancheng, Gong Yuxi, etc., and there is no day of peace." Among them, Liu An'er's disaster is the most intense, Hao Si has fallen, Chen Hansan surrendered and rebelled, Liu thief claimed to have 300,000 people, if it were not for Li Zhuo to sit in Jiangdong, Huai'an, Dongyang is afraid that it would have fallen long ago, and now Liu thief led his troops along the Huai River, Huaishang fell into seven counties in a row, and the traitors became more and more rampant. According to Jing Chufei's report, Luo Xiancheng, Gong Yuci and other thieves also led their troops north, and it seemed that they were going to join forces with Liu Thief in Huaishang......"

"......" Lin Jian looked at the waves outside the sea pond silently, most of the people who followed Liu An'er in Hongzepu were fishermen, poor peasants and homeless people who were forced by life and could not find a way to live, it is said that they are also pitiful people, but if the world is allowed to go on like this, it will only overturn the entire Central Plains, and let Dongyu reap the benefits of fishermen. The key to quelling the chaos in the counties is to suppress and appease at the same time, so as to completely quell the rebellion of the displaced people.

Lin Jian didn't know what Tang Haoxin was doing when he suddenly mentioned this, did he want to lead the Jiangdong Left Army back to Jiangdong to participate in the war? He didn't really want to quell the rebellion of the exiles, and he couldn't play any other role except for using it as a butcher's knife, so he asked Tang Haoxin tentatively: "What can the DPRK do with the rebellion of the thieves?" ”

"Yue Lengqiu's performance, please lead the division to Jiangdong to suppress Liu An'er's department," Tang Haoxin said, "The Holy Lord sent a special envoy to the vortex today, just to inquire about this matter......

"......" Lin Tie was stunned, and the hairs on his back stood up, he didn't expect that Yue Lengqiu, a thief, would actually meddle in Jiangdong affairs, this was definitely not a situation he wanted to see.

Lin Jian didn't expect that Yue Lengqiu would not dare to engage in battle with the Eastern Prisoners, but he was keen on suppressing bandits, probably because he saw that the combat effectiveness of the exiles was far from being comparable to the captives, and he wanted to borrow the heads of the exiles to make military achievements, which was really a complete villain.

Tang Haoxin squinted at Lin Bin's expression, and seeing that he didn't hide the surprise in his heart, he asked, "What do you think?" ”

"Such an important state affair, I dare not discuss it in a humble position." Lin Jian said.

"It's just you and me here, and you won't get into the ears of a third person when you speak, what dare you do?" Tang Haoxin said.

"Why don't you use Li Zhuo?" Lin Jian asked rhetorically.

Yue Lengqiu's unkindness towards Gu Wuchen is obvious, and Tang Haoxin should not have a good impression of Yue Lengqiu; At this time, Li Zhuo was a better choice than Yue Lengqiu. Besides, the Changhuai Zhen Army was completely annihilated, or Li Zhuo stabilized the situation in the south, and there was no reason to suppress Li Zhuo at this juncture.

"Li Zhuo's performance has entered Beijing on the 25th, and he invited him to Jizhen to supervise the battle, and the table offered a plan for leveling the captives, saying that he would be able to calm the captiv......es in five years," Tang Haoxin said without extra expression.

"......" The surprise in Lin Zhuo's heart could only turn into a long sigh and spit out, he didn't know what kind of determination Li Zhuo had to make such a recital, and insisted that he would be able to take it in five years, he asked, "What about the opinion of Lord Zhou Zongfan of the Zhou Military Department?" ”

"Zhou Zongfan has been dismissed from his post by the Holy Emperor," Tang Haoxin said, "Zhou Zongfan has the responsibility to break through the border and enter the prison, but the dismissal is already a holy benevolence......

Lin Jian didn't know that in just these two or three days, the situation between the DPRK and China would have been turned upside down, and he was still an insignificant pawn at this time, if it weren't for Tang Haoxin in Jinhai, it would take him two more days to know about these things, and of course the imperial court would ask his opinion on these changes.

Tang Haoxin asked him again what he thought about Yue Lengqiu and Li Zhuo, and Lin Lian insisted that he "did not discuss state affairs" and refused to talk about it.

The situation is already very obvious, the military department is still dismissed, and those who can influence the decision-making of Emperor Chongguan at this time are Zhang Xie, Tang Haoxin, Chen Xinbo, Hao Zongcheng and other Liao Liao people, Li Zhuo has presented such a performance, what else can Lin Jian say?

The Yanshan defense line is full of holes, although Hao Zongcheng is in charge of the Jibei Army, with his timid and fearful nature, he will never bear this heavy burden, and he does not have the ability to revitalize the Yanshan defense line.

Chen Xinbo hoped that Li Zhuozhen could make achievements on the Yanshan defense line and support him to continue to stay in power in the DPRK.

Zhang Xie and Tang Haoxin naturally didn't want Li Zhuo to go north, but they didn't have a more suitable candidate, could they expect Yue Lengqiu to take the lead? What's more, Li Zhuo praised such a sea port, and directly blocked their mouths.

Lin Lian looked at Jinwei Island in the southeast with a heavy heart, and was unwilling to express his personal opinions on the matter of Yue Lengqiu and Li Zhuo in the imperial court.

Tang Haoxin also looked at Jinwei Island in the southeast, although Lin Jian was unswervingly on Gu Wuchen's side and on their side in many things, but he had to admit that Lin Jian was no longer a small role that could be manipulated by others. Thinking about it, Tang Haoxin also felt strange, since the rise of Lin Tie, it seems to have an indissoluble bond with the "island", first Jinchuan Prison Island in Jiangning, then Xisha Island in Chongzhou, and now Jinwei Island.

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Jinwei Island is a small island located six or seven miles southeast of the mouth of the Vortex River, even much smaller than Jinchuan Prison Island and Changshan Island in Jiangning, about four miles long in circumference, counting the island mountain and the beach land in the southwest, it is almost five or six hundred acres in size.

Lin Lian has no substantial benefits for being knighted for military merits, and he can't take care of any taboos at this time, in the name of allocating 500 acres of Yongye Field, he will occupy the entire Jinwei Island and count it as his personal private property, which is also the biggest and most substantial benefit of his knighthood this time.

After the victory in Jinhai, a large number of captives counterattacked to monitor the vortex, the number of villages in the vortex, Changlu and Qingqi was limited, and could not accommodate too many people, so Lin Tie could only establish a logistics base on the island to evacuate the villagers and hoard materials.

Although Jinwei Island is very small, it is a bedrock island, the northeast is the highest, 17 or 8 zhang high from the sea, it is the commanding height of the terrain around the vortex, and it is higher than Wang Dengtai Mountain. To the northeast and east are steep cliffs, and the rocks are rugged, which is not suitable for ships to approach, but in the southwest, the terrain is steep and flat, and there is a natural harbor for ships, which can be used by six thousand-stone ships or two five-thousand-stone boats to anchor and shelter from the wind.

It is uncertain when the next time the Eastern Captives will break through the border and enter the Kou, but Lin Jian wants to transform Jinwei Island into an island fortress that can garrison a battalion of elite soldiers before the next time the Eastern Captives invade, even if the land is occupied by the captives, they can still gain a foothold in the Jinhai.

No matter how short of manpower was in Jinhai Kaihaicao, more than 1,300 rebels who were escorted north from Yangxin were still thrown to Jinwei Island by Lin Tie, and the envoys came to dig rocks, reclaim the sea, build fortifications, and build small harbors.

Now that Lin Lian has a lot of resources at his disposal, right under Tang Haoxin's eyes and nose, the first-level military merit deal with Hao Zongcheng has also been completed; Hao Zongcheng also urgently needed a barbarian head to cover up his ugly state of being afraid of war and cowardly enemies.

50,000 taels of silver for military merit, 200,000 taels of silver for military merit, plus repeated seizures, Lin Tie had more than 300,000 taels of cash in hand in Jinhai alone.

The more than 40,000 stone of grain hoarded on Jinwei Island was exchanged with Denglai Maritime Merchants by the Jiangdong Left Army with captured materials such as foreign horses, horse meat, and leather goods.

The imperial court decided to set up the Jinhai Capital Caoyun Division, and the first batch of silver was 500,000 taels, which seems to be a lot, but based on the high grain prices in the Gyeonggi area, 500,000 taels of official silver can also buy 200,000 or 300,000 stone of grain.

Lin Tie is not particularly black-hearted, one stone millet is counted as one tael and five coins of silver, and forty thousand stone corn wheat is a total of sixty thousand taels of white flower official silver, and there is no need to talk about it. This price was much lower than the price of Gyeonggi millet at this time, but it was three or four times the price of Gangyeong millet.

At this time, several people walked up to Haitang, and Tang Haoxin saw that it was Zhang Wendeng (Deng), the former head of the household department and the current warehouse supervisor under the Caoyun Division of Jinhai Capital, and others, and when they approached, he asked, "How are you negotiating with Deng and Laihai?" ”

Zhang Wendeng smiled embarrassedly: "One stone millet is calculated as one or two or five coins of silver, which is already the highest price that the household can afford, but the meaning between the words of the merchants of Deng and Laizhu seems to be only willing to trade with the Jiangdong Left Army, and they will not let go of their mouths, so they have to make it difficult for Lord Lin to ......."

"Ah, there's such a thing?" Lin Jian asked in surprise, thinking about it, reputation is not something that can be established in a day, and the credibility of the imperial court and the border towns and the merchants and the people is really far from being compared with the Jiangdong Left Army, and it is normal for Deng and Laihai merchants to have such a mentality.