Chapter 65: Enlightenment
(The second update, ask for a red ticket)
In addition to the children of the clan, the meritorious service is divided into nine ranks, and the men from Wupin County of the 300 households are the last.
The actual benefits of the county baron are actually not much, first of all, this knighthood is a lifelong knight, except for the death of the knight, it is not a hereditary knight, and the title cannot be passed on to the descendants. The food euphorium is only a false seal, and each household is calculated as 25 yuan a month, and the 300 households in the food eup, in fact, are an extra 90,000 yuan a year, which is about 80 taels of silver. It is a good reward to allocate 500 acres of Yongye land from Jinhai, but compared with the scale of 10,000 mu and 100,000 mu of land annexation in the world, 500 mu of Yongye field is nothing. Lin Lian couldn't compete with the villagers for good land, and what could be drawn from Jinhai to his private name could only be ownerless wasteland, river beach land or island land.
On the 24th, the Dongyu completely withdrew from the Guanwai, and the court refused to admit that it was the Dongyu who took the initiative to withdraw and go to the Guanwai. Whether it was to cover up the ears and steal the bell, or to encourage the people, the court insisted that it was the Gyeonggi defenders and the Zhulu Qinwang Division who fought bravely to repel the captives, so they had to admit that the Yangxin Defensive Battle was a crucial and decisive battle related to the transition of the Eastern Captives from advance to retreat.
Not to mention the others, in addition to trading with 1,000 Shengman's heads, Lin Jian also has more than 2,600 Shengman's heads and nearly 100 rebel heads, killing and defeating more than 30,000 captives and rebels, two Zhudonghu royal families, nearly 100 Zhudonghu nobles, and one captive general.
In that year, Su Hu Yubian accumulated several military merits in the six years of victory, and was named the Marquis of Jingbei County, and the first-level merit was only more than 5,000.
The military exploits of Cangnan, Xiaobotouzhai, Jinhai, and Yangxin were created by the 3,000 weak brigades of the Jiangdong Left Army led by Lin Tie, which is even more rare and valuable. In addition, King Qin's military exploits are one level higher than those of Dangkou, counterinsurgency, and Yubian - if it weren't for Lin Tie's poor foundation, it would not be surprising that he would be directly crowned as a county marquis.
In any case, the lord is not rewarded for his non-military merits, and even the lowest county baron is a rare honor for civil officials. There are very few civil officials who have been rewarded with knighthood, and Li Zhuo has accumulated ten years of merit in suppressing Fujian, and he was only awarded the title of county marquis - in addition to failing to fully pacify Fujian, he was also suppressed by the Chu Party to a certain extent. Lin Jian was a man of honor, and he was rewarded as a civil official, and he naturally had a kind of prominence in the group of civil officials, which made up for his clumsiness of being a non-jinshi.
Anyway, at the age of twenty-two, less than a year and a half after entering the ranks, he was knighted for his military merits, and he was promoted to the fifth grade, although it cannot be said to be unique, but in addition to the early years of Taizu's founding of the country, there are not many in this dynasty for more than two hundred years.
The matter of opening the sea and the cao, the DPRK and China were in a hurry, and there was no perfect plan yet, but it reflected a little thought in rewarding Lin Lian for his military exploits.
Lin Lian may feel that he has not received any substantial benefits except for the 50,000 taels of military merit reward, but he has to admit that this advanced knighthood has brought him a huge change in his identity, that is, Lin Xuwen, who can already be regarded as a local member of the real power faction at this time, is also very envious of Lin Lian's reward, so he can't complain that the imperial court is not rewarding.
In the past, others compared Lin Tie with Dong Yuan, but at this time, Lin Tie has become a new flaunt.
Tang Haoxin announced the edict on his behalf, and congratulated Lin Tie with everyone, and Lin Tie naturally pretended to be very excited to return the gift.
The generals of the Jiangdong Left Army, except for Zhou Pu who led the armor guards to return to Chongzhou with the big loach master Ge Cunxin, Cao Ziang, Ao Canghai, Zhao Qingshan, Ning Zechen and others were not particularly interested in the official titles of the Great Yue Dynasty.
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After the announcement of the reward, Lin Lian was so hungry in the lobby that he was grunting, and asked Tang Haoxin to take the carriage to Jinhai and had not yet eaten, seeing that Tang Haoxin didn't have the heart to eat at all, so he asked Lin Mengde to go to the kitchen and instruct someone to give each of them a bowl of meat sauce noodles. No matter how urgent it is, only when you have a full stomach can you have the strength to talk about things and work, and let people call Cao Ziang, Sun Shangwang and others over to discuss matters together.
Tang Haoxin's mind was completely focused on the Haicao matter, and if the Gyeonggi grain shortage was delayed for a day, it might give rise to a great chaos that would shake the foundation of the ancestors, and the harm would not necessarily be much lighter than this time when the Dongqi invaded the country.
Chen Jintang, the director of the Ministry of Industry, was originally a subordinate of Lin Xuwen when he was in the Ministry of Industry, and he pulled Tang Haoxin over because he was familiar with water control. In addition to Chen Jintang and Ma Chao, there is also Zhang Wendeng, the head of the household department, and the deputy envoy of Gyeonggi Okura and more than ten officials are all technocrats who directly fill in the yamen of the Caoyun Division of Jinhai Capital, and Lin Xuwen cannot be allowed to be the commander of the light pole.
Kaihaicao involves many technical projects, and Jinhai has sufficient manpower and materials, but lacks the guidance of technical officials, and no matter how strong the manpower is, it is impossible to exert its strength.
Chen Jintang and Zhang Wendeng represent the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Households, but their official positions are very low, which also shows that the central government's attitude towards Kaihaicao is mainly based on Lin Xuwen and Lin Bin, and the officials of the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Household are here to cooperate, not to control.
If someone else came over, Lin Tie and Lin Xuwen would not be so easy to deal with, Tang Haoxin came over in person, and Lin Tie happily confessed to him, at least at this time, Tang Haoxin was still trustworthy. Especially the cracks within the Chu Party have been seen, and Lin Jian can only stand closely on the side of Tang and Gu.
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At the vortex mouth, there is no shortage of labor.
As early as the time of the great victory in Jinhai, there were nearly 30,000 villagers and township troops gathered in Wukou, Changlu, Qingqi and other villages.
Lin Jian returned from Yangxin, and nearly 6,000 captives followed him all the way to Wukou Village. The rarest thing is that almost all of these 6,000 captives are young and strong men.
When they were in Yangxin, they were like drowning people grasping at the only straw, pinning all their hopes on Lin Jian and the Jiangdong Left Army. Lin Jian did not disappoint them, and after arriving in Jinhai, they were also resettled in the name of refugees who fled to their hometowns to avoid military disasters, so that they no longer had to worry about post-war liquidation.
Cash-for-work is Lin Lian's consistent line of thinking, even if he doesn't open the sea, he also has the intention of managing the vortex well.
As early as the 14th, he led his troops to arrive at the vortex, and handed over 6,000 captives to Lin Mengde and Sun Shangwang for resettlement. When the main force of Dongyu did retreat to the line of Ninghe and Jizhou, Lin Mengde and Sun Shangwang had already begun to prepare to use 6,000 young and strong men to repair the sea pond and harbor, and planned to build another military village on the opposite bank of the vortex village as the station of the vortex inspection department.
There are still 2,000 cavalry and more than 600 wounded and sick in the remnants of the Jinzhong army.
There were more than 2,400 foot cavalry and more than 400 wounded and sick people in Jinhai with 800 soldiers escorted by Zhou Pu to escort more than 1,100 wounded and sick to Xisha Island in Chongzhou by sea boat for recuperation and recuperation, and the remnants of Shao Wu's army were incorporated into the Jiangdong Left Army, so there was no need for Lin Jian to explain to Tang Haoxin in detail.
After the victory of Jinhai, in order to prevent the captives from counterattacking, and also to prepare for the large-scale return of refugees after the war, Lin Jian chose the island outside the vortex village to build a military village to evacuate the people and hoard a large number of materials, with a natural harbor, six miles southeast of the vortex mouth of the Jinwei Island, mainly hoarding more than 40,000 stones, and the vortex village also has 20,000 stones of grain.
In addition to the horses that were transported to Chongzhou for sale, there were more than 2,600 horses and nearly 2,000 mules and horses in the three villages of Vortex, Changlu and Qingqi.
Although the fleet of Jiyunshe temporarily returned to Chongzhou, Lin Jian attracted maritime merchants from Dengzhou and other places to transport materials to Jinhai very early, and although the sea ships at the mouth of the Jinhai vortex had a small single load, they were large in number, with a total capacity of 20,000 stones.
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Tang Haoxin was relieved when he heard that Lin Jian had handed over the matter, he could have thought that only Jinhai had the conditions to open the sea, but he didn't expect that the resources accumulated on Jinhai's side were so sufficient.
"The victory of the Jiangdong Left Army is by no means fortunate, I am from the household department, and I ......still understand the principle of supplying the army first," Tang Haoxin said.
Lin Tie left Jinan and interspersed with Hejian Mansion, it was to consider the convenience of borrowing the sea route for fixed-point supply, listening to Tang Haoxin say this, he just smiled, the cook brought the meat sauce noodles, Lin Tie and everyone swallowed a bowl of first, and drew up a general division of labor plan all night.
Changlu Village is also on the bank of the Vortex River, but it is closer to the inland eleven or twelve miles than the Vortex Village near the seawall.
Lin Xuwen led the township soldiers, villagers and the Jinzhong army to be responsible for digging the river and repairing the road to Gyeonggi Post Road, mainly to widen the course of the Whirlpool River and increase the capacity of transportation and navigation.
Ma Yigong first led the first part of the Jinzhong Army and 1,000 township soldiers to go to Weitai with Chen Jintang, the director of the Ministry of Industry, to prepare for the interception of the Wei River into the Whirlpool River.
At this time, more than 30,000 villagers, township soldiers and the Jinzhong army all moved to Changlu Village, and built new settlements along the Vortex River to prepare for the simultaneous excavation of river channels in multiple places.
Lin Xuwen himself was born in the Ministry of Industry, and he was good at governing rivers and building roads, so he went to Changlu Village to sit in town. Yang Yihang led a Jinzhong army to cooperate with Jinhai Zhixian County to lead the villagers to transport materials from Wukou Village along the Vortex River to the inner line to ensure the supply of materials for river excavation and post road construction.
Lin Lian, Tang Haoxin, and Zhang Wendeng, the head of the household department, stayed in Wukou Village and were responsible for building granaries, intercepting the flow of vortex water into the sea, repairing the harbor, and organizing ships to transport grain to the vortex.
Those who remained in Wukou Village, in addition to the Jiangdong Left Army, were 6,000 captured people.
Lin Bin's opinion is to empty the Vortex Village, all the personnel are moved outside the village, temporarily live in tents, and directly transform the Vortex Village into a super-large granary, so as to win enough time, and the storage of food to the Vortex Village should start immediately.
In just over a month, it is not possible to forcibly organize sea vessels, and the only way is to sell grain to maritime merchants at low prices in Dengzhou, Laizhou, and other places, and purchase it at a high price in Jinhai, and use a high price difference to bring grain from Shandong to Jinhai; And it is necessary to Dengzhou Water Camp to ensure the safety of the northern sea route.
As long as there is enough grain in the vortex, even if it is pushed by a wheelbarrow, the grain can be transported to Yanjing, which is two hundred miles away.
First of all, it is necessary to ensure that there is enough grain in Denglai and Lai, and that the grain sold to maritime merchants in Denglai and other places is cheap enough. Originally, Shandong was exempted from Cao to provide relief to Jinan Prefecture and Pingyuan Prefecture, so it was necessary to immediately request a change in the original arrangement, so that nearly 300,000 Shicao grain from eastern Shandong would gather in Deng, Lai, and other places, and the first batch of grain from Jiangdong County to the north could go to Jinan Prefecture and Pingyuan Prefecture for relief.
These things had to be supervised by the imperial court's special envoys.
This is an urgent strategy to alleviate the grain shortage in Gyeonggi, as long as it can deliver 350,000 stone of grain and grass to Yanjing in April, no matter how high the cost, at least it can ensure that there will be no major chaos.