(The condition is not good, maybe it is related to illness, this time lacks exercise, physical fitness is very poor, I catch a cold and fever at every turn, sell pitiful, ask for a red ticket)

After the Donghai Kou invaded Chongzhou, they retreated to the islands of Changguo County to rest, except for the occasional cross-sea invasion of Mingzhou and Jiahang, there was no major movement throughout May. Li Zhuo used the secretary of the military department and the governor of Jizhen to gather more than 60,000 soldiers and horses in Jinhai, Jizhou, and Ninghe for training, and it was also carried out in an orderly manner, and he couldn't see much effect for a while, and he couldn't see any drawbacks.

Although the Jiangdong Left Army also sent sentinels to Liaodong and Liaoxi, due to the unfamiliarity with Zhuhudi, the progress of the work was very slow, and there was no effective news for a while. After the defeat of Chentangyi, the imperial court's infiltration and scouting efforts against Hu were almost completely destroyed, and Li Zhuo also intended to re-establish an intelligence search network for Donglu and Zhuhu, but it would take time and invest a lot of resources.

In short, since the exit in February, Dongyu has been quite quiet outside the customs and has not made any major moves. In Lin Lian's view, no news could not be regarded as good news, and once the Dongyu succeeded in digesting the three or four hundred thousand Ding Kou that had been taken captive, its military potential would be raised to a higher level.

Whether it is Liaodong or Liaoxi, there is a large amount of barren land for the resettlement of the captured Dingkou.

In addition to a large amount of goods, there are also serfs used for farming, which means that the next time they enter the customs and plunder, the Donghu people become more active and greedy.

Gyeonggi barely survived the grain shortage in April and May under the maintenance of the Jinhae grain road, and the sharp rise in grain prices in Gyeonggi is also a proper implication of the question. After Li Zhuo took charge of the military power of Jibei Town, Lin Jian still ordered Sun Shangwang to allocate an additional part of the grain that arrived in Jinhai to the Jibei Army, which was actually handed over to Gao Zongting to be responsible.

In order to implement the Pingyu policy and realize the strategic concept of the three-way layout, Emperor Chongguan allocated an additional 1.6 million taels of silver to Li Zhuo from the Inner Palace. This amount of silver seems to be a lot, but it looks very shabby when the Jizhen army is 80,000, the Dengzhou boat camp and the town army are 30,000, and the Tianjin navy is 10,000.

The military budget made by Lin Tie for the Jiangdong Left Army was 250,000 taels of silver per year, counting more than 6,500 auxiliary soldiers. According to this standard, Jizhen, Dengzhou, and Jinhai need 4 million to 5 million taels of silver, and in fact, plus the additional silver allocated by Emperor Chongguan from the inner government, it is only about 3 million taels of silver per year.

As a matter of fact, if the government does not allocate money again next year, the total military expenditure of the soldiers and horses of Jizhen, Dengzhou, and Jinhai will be reduced back to about 1.4 million taels.

Lin Jian hoped to provide Li Zhuo with an additional 200,000 or 300,000 stone of grain, which could be transported to Beijing for sale through the Jibei Army, one was to suppress the high grain prices in Gyeonggi, and the other was to hope that Li Zhuo could raise hundreds of thousands of taels of silver for military salaries.

The top priority was to resist the invasion of the Eastern Prisoners.

For the imperial court, the top priority is to break through the transportation neck of the Jinhai grain road and gradually increase the total transportation volume of the Jinhai grain road; The first is to block the breach of the Yellow River and restore the river transportation in the plains.

For Zhang Xie, the Jinhai Grain Road has fallen under the control of Tang Haoxin, Gu Wuchen and the Lin clan, and the matter of blocking the Yellow River breach and restoring the inland river transportation in Pingyuan Fu can no longer fall into the hands of Tang Haoxin.

In mid-April, the imperial court sent Chen Zhongnian, the right attendant of the Ministry of Works, to know the affairs of Jinan and Pingyuan, supervise the affairs of Shandong Caoyun, and recruit 200,000 people to block the breach of the Yellow River and restore the Pingfu Cao Canal.

So far, Zhang Xie has two chess pieces in Shandong, Chen Zhongnian and Xu Jianshen, to compete with Tang Haoxin.

Throughout May, the suppression of bandits in Jiangdong County was also carried out in an orderly manner, and Yue Lengqiu successfully recovered Shiliang, Sizhou and other cities, and expelled Liu An'er's subordinates from Haozhou Mansion.

Liu An'er and other rogues did not have the concept of base construction, and in the early days, in order to raise food and salary, the Dakou place almost made Haozhou a ruined city, and connived at the rape of women, and countless murders by subordinates. Although the number of rogues was large, they actually lost the foundation of the Haozhou Prefecture.

Yue Lengqiu is not an incompetent person, the reorganized Changhuai Army has sufficient money and salary, and it is also quite combative, and it is not unimaginable to expel Liu An'er's subordinates from Haozhou Mansion. However, Yue Lengqiu's military victory in Haozhou Prefecture did not curb the rampant momentum of the Zhuliu Kou in the slightest.

In mid-May, Liu An'er, Luo Xiancheng, Gong Yuci and other seven rogues met in Fangling and held the "Fangling Conference". After the Fangling Conference, a large number of Liukou avoided the heavily defended Jianghuai, Jinghu, Zhongzhou and other places, and the main force moved to Sichuan, Shaanxi and other places where the army was empty.

This can also be seen that Liu An'er and other rogues have strategic arrangements to abandon Haozhou, Huaishang and other remnants, and transfer to Hanzhong, Sichuan, Shaanxi and other places to continue to grow their power. The imperial court sent Yue Lengqiu to meet the soldiers and horses of Jingchu, Zhongzhou and other counties to continue to attack the Liukou.

Throughout May, Chongzhou returned to a rare calm after the catastrophe, and all the work of building a new city, investigating the cases of bandits, checking the power of the monasteries, confiscating Terada, sending fines to the fields, replacing the property, reorganizing the army, building military fortresses, and setting up literacy classes for war training were actually carried out in an orderly manner under the control of the Jiangdong Left Army.

In early June, the imperial court approved Huai's request to reopen the prison city in Chongzhou Jiangkou, and abolished the Jinchuan Island Prison and put it into the prison city, accommodating prisoners in Jiangdong County and exiled prisoners in Jiangdong, Zhongzhou, Shandong, Liangzhejiang, Jiangxi, and Jingchu. There are a number of small officials such as the first city supervisor of the eighth grade, the first deputy supervisor of the ninth grade, the warden, the order officer, etc., and half a battalion of jailers.

Lin Jian concurrently served as the prison supervisor, and promoted the chief Sun Geng to the deputy supervisor.

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The news of the reopening of the prison city was transferred from Jiangning to Chongzhou, and when the letter was handed over, Lin Lian was standing barefoot in the rice seedling field attached to Guanyin Beach to watch the rice seedling growth.

Lin Jian sat on the ridge of the field, washed his hands with the water full of apples floating in the seedling field, dried it on his coat, opened the letter, read the letter, and said to Hu Zhiyong beside him: "I'm going to Jiangning...... I still want to go to Hecheng in a hurry, it seems that I will not be able to find time to go to Hecheng until I come back from Jiangning......"

Hu Zhiyong asked: "This time I went to Jiangning, can I persuade the county department to set up more inspection departments in Chongzhou?" ”

"I'm afraid it's not that easy, this time if we can smoothly replace the Hecheng Inspection Division with our people, thank God, we can't ask for more other things," Lin Jian shook his head, setting up more inspection departments under the county can effectively strengthen local control and curb local powerful forces. According to Lin Bin's idea, six to eight inspection divisions will be added under Chongzhou County, and the actual jurisdiction area will be equivalent to that of the district-level administrative units accustomed to later generations, and the jurisdiction will be four to 60,000 Dingkou, so that the resources of Chongzhou County can be fully mobilized for the use of the Jiangdong Left Army, and the purpose of raising the elite of one army in one county will be realized, but this goal must be achieved slowly, "Many things are difficult to accomplish overnight, and everyone still dedicates themselves to the current work of preparing for famine and preparing for war......

Lin Jian sat on the ridge, washed his feet and put on his shoes, returned to Zilang Mountain with the letter and newspaper handed by Jiang Ning, and before getting on the boat, he stood on the high place of Guanyin Beach Dock Port and looked at Xisha Island.

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Last year, Xisha Island reclaimed more than 10,000 acres of wasteland, and harvested 8,000 stone of wheat in early June. It's not good, it's not bad. Today, Xisha Island accommodates more than 34,000 Dingkou, and before Xisha Island was self-sufficient in grain, Lin Jian had to transport 20,000 stone of rice and grain to the island every month.

More than 8,000 stones of grain in one season of wheat is nothing compared to the huge grain consumption on Xisha Island.

At this time, 30,000 acres of rice fields were cultivated along the Xiaoman River and its tributaries, and with the addition of the old fields near Guanyintan, more than 40,000 acres of rice could be planted in June, more than 10,000 acres of cotton and hemp fields could be cultivated, and more than 30,000 acres of mulberry gardens could be opened up in the southeast beach.

Lin Lian still attached great importance to this area, and the quality of production and construction in Chongzhou and Xisha Island directly determined the future military potential of the Jiangdong Left Army.

Lin Jian has nothing to do, and often comes to the island to inspect the farming situation, and in the words of Shizi Qingliu, he is a very swineherd and a farmer.

In addition to its daily training, the Jinghai Battalion also undertook an important task, that is, to organize manpower to dig up guano on offshore islands and transport it to Xisha Island for fertilizer accumulation.

Of course, it was naturally a joke to use the precious water camp warship that had been organized with great difficulty to transport guano and reach the ears of the Jiangdong County scholar Qingliu. However, throughout May, the two battalions of sailors took turns to go to sea to dig up guano for a total of more than 30,000 stones, which provided the necessary conditions for improving the soil quality of Xisha Island and accumulating enough fertilizer for the newly reclaimed fields.

Only by accumulating fertilizer and building water conservancy can the barren land of Xisha Island be turned into fertile land and upper fields with a yield of more than three stones of rice grain per mu, and can Xisha Island become self-sufficient, and can it provide necessary agricultural materials for the Jiangdong Left Army and major workshops.

In addition to digging and transporting guano at sea, the biggest action in agriculture is pig and poultry breeding.

In order to maintain combat effectiveness, the Jiangdong Left Army must provide a large number of poultry eggs and all kinds of meat to keep the physical fitness and physical fitness of the soldiers from declining.

There are 6,500 people who are auxiliary and assisted, and each person is provided with five taels of meat per day, which is nearly 2,000 catties of meat every day, and more than 7,000 stone meat is needed a year, which is about 30,000 taels of silver.

Although this money was all in the military budget, which was an important factor in the high military budget of the Jiangdong Left Army, the key was that the scattered pig breeding and other animal husbandry in the entire Chongzhou County were provided to the Jiangdong Left Army, and it may not be able to meet the needs of the Jiangdong Left Army.

In these years, the families who can eat white rice at a time are already wealthy; The people who eat chicken, duck and fish meat all the time are considered to be the families of the township heroes.

Lin Jian can only organize large-scale pig and poultry farming on Xisha Island.

Due to the large number of beaches on Xisha Island, the work of raising poultry on the beach has already begun, and the total number of free-range poultry in such beach areas as Guanyin Beach, Crane Beach, and Yue'er Beach has reached more than 200,000. It is also the main source of eggs and meat for the left army in Jiangdong at present, saving a lot of expenses.

Xisha Island is resettled in the form of enclosed houses, and a large enclosed house can accommodate 80 to 100 displaced households, which provides the most convenient conditions for the establishment of collective farms on Xisha Island.

In addition to the relatively dense enclosure houses near Guanyin Beach, the enclosure houses scattered along the Xiaoman River and its tributaries to the island were all built on the basis of a single enclosure house covering 1,200 to 1,500 acres of land.

With 80 to 100 households and 3,400 dingkou in a surrounding house as a production team, and 10 to 12 production teams as a production team, as far as possible, people from the families of the Jiangdong Left Army or veterans should be selected to serve as production team leaders or team leaders. The students of the primary combat training literacy class are also recruited to include the production team leader and team leader.

To completely resettle the more than 34,000 Dingkou, 80 to 100 large-scale enclosed houses should be built, and almost 100,000 to 120,000 mu of land should be reclaimed.

In addition to being responsible for cultivating and planting 1,200 to 1,500 mu of wheat, rice, and cotton and linen fields, the pig breeding capacity of each enclosed house should also be increased from the current 10 to about 60 or 70 pigs, and it should also be responsible for the breeding of some poultry.

In this way, we can provide sufficient meat for the Jiangdong Left Army, and we can also make fertilizer and accumulate fertilizer to supplement some fertilizer in the fields.

Of course, Xisha Island will become self-sufficient at least until next year's summer grain harvest.

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By early June, the Guangjiao Temple bandit case, which had been delayed for nearly two months, was finally concluded.

220,000 acres of land were inspected, more than 80,000 stones were fined, and about 9,000 acres were collected as official fields. In addition to providing the needs of building the city, there are more than 5,000 acres of official land surplus allocated to the Jiangdong Left Army military tun field, Chongzhou County has increased more than 220,000 acres of Zhengfu land, this summer grain tax directly increased by nearly 20,000 stones, and it is expected that the annual grain tax will increase by 50,000 stones.

Even if the various apportionments are not counted, the income and empowerment of Chongzhou County have increased to about 100,000 stone per year. With the local expenditure and the levy divided into 46 yuan, the Jiangdong Left Army could draw more than 60,000 stone of grain from Chongzhou County a year, which was more than double the previous amount.

However, all this is only a superficial account of the Jiangdong Left Army to make Chongzhou County, Hailing Mansion and the county secretary.

In fact, throughout May, through Li Shutang, Li Shuyi and others, they bypassed the special envoy Han Zai and Chongzhou County, negotiated directly with the powerful families, and exchanged an additional 140,000 mu in Xishan Hekou, Zilang Mountain, Jiuhua Temple, and Hecheng as tuntian.

Most of these 140,000 mu of land are middle and lower fields, but they are all cooked land cultivated by tenant farmers, and this summer grain harvest has directly made a large amount of input from these 140,000 mu of land.

In addition to bearing the grain allowance and various apportionments, the tenants in Chongzhou rented land for farming, and had to pay an additional 50 percent of the harvest to the landlord as land rent, and the actual tax burden was as high as 60 percent. In disaster years, taxes may be reduced slightly, but the land rent is not reduced in the slightest, making the life of the tenant farmers who account for most of Chongzhou's rich land and Chongzhou's Dingkou extremely difficult, and the social contradictions are fierce.

After the replacement of 140,000 yuan of land was completed, Lin Jian directly reduced the land rent from 50 percent to 30 percent, exempted all other apportionments except for the Ding tax and grain tax, and reduced the actual burden of the tenant farmers to less than 40% of the harvest.

Even so, the Jiangdong Left Army still collected more than 40,000 stone in rent and tax from these 140,000 fields after the summer grain harvest.

In addition to reducing rents and taxes, Lin Jian also promoted the right of perpetual tenants on these 140,000 fields. Promote the right of perpetual tenants, although the tenant farmer does not have the ownership of the land, but the right to renew the lease forever, as long as the rent is paid normally, there is no need to worry about the land being taken away by the landlord, so that the last resort to support the family.

Only by increasing the right to perpetuate tenants and reducing rents and taxes can the tenant peasants' enthusiasm for production be raised, and they can be organized to build water conservancy, accumulate fertilizer and improve the land, and ultimately increase the overall harvest of the land.

For the tenant farmers on these lands, the movement of rent reduction and tax reduction directly raised by the Jiangdong Left Army and the promotion of perpetual tenant rights have made them all directly and hugely beneficial. Although the summer grain harvest did not increase much, the average summer grain income of each tenant farmer increased by about 50 percent due to the reduction of rents and taxes.

Tenant farmers and tenants are simple and simple, and whoever can bring them the most direct benefits, they will support them from the bottom of their hearts. This is also the same reason that Liu An'er was able to gather hundreds of thousands of displaced people in half a year. The key is that Liu An'er was unable to raise food and grass from normal channels to settle these hundreds of thousands of homeless people, and although there were many people, they only became rogues in the end.

Through simple actions such as reducing rents and levies and popularizing the right of permanent tenants, although the summer grain of 140,000 mu of land was less than 10,000 stones, the more than 6,000 tenant farmers and nearly 30,000 dingkou attached to it quickly became the foundation for the Jiangdong Left Army to gain a foothold in Jiuhua Temple, Xishan Hekou, Zilang Mountain, and Hecheng, and actually enabled the Jiangdong Left Army to complete its in-depth penetration of Chongzhou County ahead of schedule in May.

In addition to stationing a sentry in Jiuhua Temple and transforming Jiuhua Temple into a small military fortress conducive to the long-term protection of the garrison, Lin Jian was also the first to select the strong and strong tenants attached to the Tuntian of Jiuhua Temple to form the Jiuhua Township Battalion.

The establishment of the Jiuhua Township Battalion is only more than 400 people, what Lin Jian really wants to do is that after the summer is busy, he began to organize more than 3,000 strong young people in the tenants of Jiuhua Temple to carry out Minyong rotation training, and after the autumn grain is harvested and put into storage, he will organize the tenants of Jiuhua Temple to dig the river channel that runs through the Xishan River and the Yunyan River.

If we want to say that after the conclusion of the bandit case, the interests suffered the most serious damage to the monks and nuns of the 19 monasteries, and almost 900 monks and nuns were either expelled from Chongzhou County or returned to their families; In addition, a large number of hosts in the name of the monastery were also identified.

This case of gangsters made Lin Jian believe that a county-wide census of Dingkou and farmland could squeeze out a large amount of oil and water, and that Chongzhou's tax revenue would be doubled on the basis of doubling, which was not a surprising thing.