Chapter 47: The Assassins

(The third watch, asking for red tickets)

The first step for Lin Jian was to clean up the fields under the name of Guangjiao Temple.

Terada is about 30 hectares, replacing the contiguous plots at the northeast foot of Zilang Mountain, which is enough to build a city and build a camp, and even more redundant.

In addition to Terada, there are as many as 230 hectares of fields hidden in the name of Guangjiao Temple to escape the fields, and most of them are ripe fields. With 36 stones per hectare of Ueda Zhengfu, Chongzhou County will receive more than 8,000 stone grain less because of Guangjiao Temple.

Tax evasion has been the same throughout the ages, and there is nothing strange about it, but every time the dynasty is in the last years or the autumn of troubled times, the situation will become more and more serious.

Terada was all appointed officials, and the field was fined for five years and apportioned, which means that from more than 200 hectares of field, about 60,000 stone can be fined and levyed—this is almost the total amount of summer and autumn grain in Chongzhou County last year.

Lin Jian hoped that the punished landowner would pay the penalty with the field, and the fine of more than 60,000 stone was also 4,000 acres of land.

To build a city and build a camp, it needs to be a contiguous piece of land, and there is no distinction between upper, middle and lower, and the temple field of Guangjiao Temple is mostly upfield, and after land replacement, in addition to deducting the 4,000 acres of land required to build the city, there are even nearly 1,000 acres of Ueda rich.

This is also the fundamental reason why Lin Tie wants to grasp the bandit case tightly in his hands, after cleaning up the land under the name of Guangjiao Temple, deducting the needs of building the city, Lin Tie can also get an additional 5,000 acres of land.

Of course, Lin Tie is more fond of going to the field, there is no drought and irrigation in Chongzhou, the so-called Xia Tian is also the land that is frequently and seriously affected by waterlogging disasters, and Lin Tie should be in Chongzhou to build water conservancy and reduce waterlogging disasters, and naturally Xia Tian benefits the most.

5,000 acres of upper fields can almost replace 12,000 acres of middle and lower fields.

If Chongzhou County or the county department wants to check the accounts, Lin Tie can completely change these fields from the root through the replacement tricks of Shangtian, Zhongtian, and Xiatian - of course, all this must be actively cooperated by the landowners to whom the fields belong.

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Li Shutang, Li Shuyi, Chen Lei, and others were all familiar with local affairs, and they were all stunned when they learned that the monasteries that had been cleared so far had concealed a total of 310,000 mu of temple fields and sent fields.

Li Shutang felt better, after all, the Li family had 25,600 acres of Shangtian hidden monasteries, and the monasteries in the county concealed 310,000 acres of land, which was not an incredible thing for him.

Li Shuyi is a distant family in the Li family, Chen Lei's family is the most real-time, and there are only three or four hundred acres of fertile land at home, this number really scared them, and they were all thinking in their hearts: No wonder Lin Jian wants to grasp the thorough investigation of the bandit case tightly in his hands and not let others interfere.

In Chongzhou, one mu of Shangtian with an annual output of three stone grains is converted into seven taels of silver, and 310,000 mu of land is mostly concealed from the upper field, which is worth nearly two million taels of silver.

Even if all of them are not confiscated, according to the public agreement formed today, there are almost more than 40,000 acres of temple fields that can be directly collected by the government, which is about 300,000 taels of silver; The fine of 270,000 mu of land is also 700,000 stones, which is about 300,000 taels of silver.

Such huge benefits are enough to arouse the greed of too many people.

Li Shutang, Li Shuyi, Chen Lei and others realized at this time how vulnerable Han Zai, who was sent to Chongzhou to restrict Lin Binding, was vulnerable.

Han Zai didn't even understand the relationship of interests behind it, and didn't figure out how big the interests involved were behind it, so he easily fell into the trap, offended the local forces, and completely pushed the local forces to Lin Lian's side, and also made the local forces feel happy and convinced to form the public discussion that Lin Lian was looking forward to - after all, compared to the confiscation of land property worth nearly two million taels of silver, the fine is only 300,000 taels of silver, which is much easier to accept.

If Han Zai hadn't jumped out to be this villain, Lin Jian wanted to directly fine 300,000 taels of silver from the local forces, but one can imagine how huge the resistance would be - people are always easy to accept not so bad results.

Lin Jian looked at Li Shutang, Li Shuyi, Chen Lei and others, and slowly picked up the teacup.

The silver in his hand can still support Jiang Jiang's left army for a while, and he doesn't need silver. The Heishui Ocean route from Chongzhou to Jinhai has not yet reached the time for large-scale opening, and he does not need a large amount of grain to be transported to Jinhai.

He needed the fields, and more precisely, the tenant farmers who were vassals on them; 100,000 acres of farmland can accommodate almost 10,000 or 20,000 tenant farmers.

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Lin Jian roughly calculated, plus the directly confiscated temple fields, he can replace 200,000 acres of middle and lower fields, and he hopes to distribute these fields mainly along the four areas of Zilang Mountain, Xishan Hekou, Jiuhua Temple, and Hecheng.

Jiuhua Temple is located in the northwest corner of Chongzhou County, once the Xishan River and the Yunyan River are connected, Jiuhua Temple will be a strategic point to control the Xishan River and the Yunyan River.

In addition to the eighteen monasteries in addition to Guangjiao Temple, Lin Lian Du stayed in Jiuhua Temple to station a sentry soldier, which was intended to be based on Jiuhua Temple and transformed into a permanent military barracks to control the main roads in and out of Xinghua County, the northern border of Hailing County and Gaocheng County.

In addition to controlling the stronghold of Jiuhua Temple, Lin Jian wanted to form a certain military scale around Jiuhua Temple.

The connection between the Xishan River and the Yunyan River will greatly improve the waterlogging situation in the Jiuhua section of the Yunyan River, so that a large number of fields suffering from waterlogging will benefit from this and become fertile land.

Grain production increased, and in addition to the original tenant farmers, the forest was still accommodating some displaced people. At this time, he could not directly intervene in the affairs of Chongzhou County, but he could organize the military tun and the people to carry out civilian rotation training and reserve military forces.

Hecheng is the mouth of the Yunyan River, about 120 miles northeast of the old city of Chongzhou, more than 130 miles away from the mouth of the river, and less than 200 miles away from Changshan Island. In order to govern the Chongdong grassland and prevent the Haikou from invading the Huainan salt field, the Weiyang Salt and Iron Division built a city at the mouth of the Yunyan River to set up the Hecheng Grassland Division, with more than 1,000 people stationed in Yanding and more than 20,000 grassland salt households.

In the early years, Hecheng was a natural fishing port, forming a large-scale settlement area and cultivating large areas of land. When Chongzhou was placed in the county nearly a hundred years ago, the Hecheng fishing port and the fields around Hecheng were all under the jurisdiction of Chongzhou County, and Chongzhou County set up the Hecheng Inspection Department in Hecheng, with more than 100 archers stationed in Hecheng, and the Hecheng Grassland Division was juxtaposed.

If Lin Jian has the spare strength to set up another battalion of sailors, he will set it up in Hecheng.

The mouth of the Xishan River is very close to Zilang Mountain, and the geographical location is not so important.

To control Chongzhou, it is not enough to control only Zilang Mountain, Junshan and Guanyin Beach on Xisha Island, Jiuhua Temple and Hecheng are the key points of contention. It was easier to control Jiuhua Temple, and he had already sent his soldiers into the station. Hecheng is a little more troublesome, first of all, the inspection of the Hecheng Inspection Division must be replaced.

Military control alone is not enough, tuntian, immigration, people's courage rotation training, and reserve military reserve combat strength are all indispensable.

The first step was to replace the land swallowed by the investigation of the Tongtong case to the vicinity of Jiuhua Temple, Hecheng, Xishan Hekou, and Zilang Mountain—these things had to be carried out secretly through Li Shutang, Li Shuyi, Hu Zhicheng, Chen Lei, and others, who were familiar with local affairs and had a good relationship with local forces.

At this time, Lin Jian no longer needed to hide his ambition to fully control Chongzhou and run Chongzhou.

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The clever plan succeeded, and Lin Jian was inevitably triumphant and satisfied, and the specific matters were left to Cao Ziang, Lin Mengde, Li Shutang, and Li Shuyi to discuss.

Lin Jian originally turned back to the inner house, went out, and suddenly remembered to go to the Zen Monastery on the top of the mountain; It is said that he used such a trick to lure Han Zaiyu to Yan, or he was inspired by Song Jia.

Lin Tie folded out the door of the inner house, and he didn't let the guards follow, and now Zilang Mountain is the same as the back garden of the Jiangdong Left Army, walking in the back garden of his own house, and it is too awkward to let the guards follow.

By the glimmer of the night, I stepped on the slippery steps and walked up until the Zen Temple at the top of the mountain. The women's battalion guard on duty at the mountain gate naturally agreed with Lin Bin, and naturally didn't dare to ask anything, so after Lin Jian entered, she sent someone to inform Sun Wenwan.

Lin Jian has never been to the top of the mountain at night, Sun Wenwan is going to visit, Aunt Zhao is more careful, and asks the sentry: "Is there anyone with you?" ”

"No, just adults."

Aunt Zhao stopped Sun Wenwan from going to see Lin Lian, and said, "My lord didn't want to see us appear." ”

Sun Wenwan was stunned at first, but then she wanted to understand what her aunt meant, waved her hand to let the sentry out, and scolded softly when she covered the door: "None of the men are good things." ”

"You scolded your father and uncle too." Aunt Zhao chuckled.

There is no cat in this world who is not greedy, and there is no man who is not lustful, as long as it is not bad for women, in the world of men, this can even be regarded as a beautiful talk. The two people locked up in the Zen Temple on the top of the mountain, the daughter of the luxury family is still immature, and how many men don't seduce the Ronghua that glows on the young lady?

Those of them who are subordinates, can they still run away to the good deeds of the lord?

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Lin Jian walked to the side courtyard where the Tu family's aunt and sister-in-law lived, and felt that the look in his eyes was strange when the guard looked at him, so he walked to the courtyard gate, so that he could not be regarded as a polite gentleman when he visited the second daughter's residence late at night. Of course, Lin Jian didn't want to be a gentleman, but he didn't have any other intentions when he came over, for fear that it would be bad to misunderstand the luxurious aunt and sister-in-law. Seeing that the lights in the room were still on, and the graceful figure of the luxurious aunt and sister-in-law was reflected in the window, Lin Jian hesitated again and wanted to retreat.

"Who's out there?" Song Jia asked vigilantly in the room.

Lin Jian was hesitating, and when he heard Song Jia's sudden question, he was startled, and he thought that his aunt and sister-in-law of the luxury family had found out, and just as he was about to respond, he heard the sound of a window and door breaking in the house-no, the aunt of the luxury family asked out when she noticed that someone else was sneaking closer! Immediately afterwards, I heard Hao Mingyue screaming in horror in the house: "There are assassins! ”

Lin Tie immediately untied his saber, and couldn't wait for the sentry outside the courtyard gate to come in to support, he slammed the door open and rushed into the house, the back window of the side room with a steep cliff was broken, and two black-clothed men with masks stood in the house, they didn't expect the reinforcements to rush in so quickly, and they didn't have time to do anything else, so they withdrew their knives and killed Song Jia. Song Jia was standing next to the door with luxury Mingyue behind her, and she didn't have time to be surprised when she saw Lin Jian knocking the door in, the killing machine in front of her had already made her so frightened that she couldn't breathe, she subconsciously just wanted to retreat, but behind her was a solid wall, so that she had nowhere to retreat, but she was also frightened and would not dodge to both sides.

Seeing that the two of them didn't say a word, they raised their knives and killed, slashing and stabbing, which was definitely to kill Song Jia. In an emergency, Lin Jian raised his knife to block and block the knife that slashed Song Jia's forehead, but at the same time, the knife that stabbed Song Jia's chest, he could only reach out and grab the blade in a second, and pulled the tip of the knife almost against Song Jia's crisp chest to the armpit, and hit it with his knees. Lin Tie and the assassin collided with his knees, and the pain was so painful that his bones were cracked, and while the man drew the knife hard, Lin Tie dragged the knife away, and cut a hole in his armpit, but also cut the man's wrist.

The other two people, Lin Tie can't form a flanking attack for them, forcing one person away, then raising a knife to stab the second person, slashing three times in a row, pressing that person to retreat and collide with the accomplice into a corner that does not use the attack; At this time, the sentry outside the courtyard gate rushed in and out to support.

Most of the female camp women are selected from the Xihe Society, and they are not weaker than men in terms of physical strength, and they are also familiar with fists, feet, knives and sticks. The three of them rushed in and raised their knives to kill the assassins, no worse than the guards around Lin Lian, and in an instant, they blocked one person for Lin Lian. Lin Jian relied on the strength of his knife to slash and stab, slashing the assassin's knife in the middle, and the blade slashed his right shoulder bone, killing him. Before Sun Wenwan and Aunt Zhao rushed over when they heard the sound, Lin Jian also eliminated the second assassin on the spot.

An assassin was killed on the spot, and an assassin cut off Lin Lian's right shoulder bone and drowned for a while, and he didn't live long, Lin Jian uncovered their face scarves, all of them were five big and three thick men......

"Ahh

Lin Jian glanced back, and saw that it was Hao Mingyue, who saw the assassin's face in horror and disbelief, and exclaimed in disbelief. Lin Jian asked everyone else to withdraw, leaving only Sun Wenwan and Aunt Zhao in the house, and then asked Song Jia: "Are they sent by the young marquis?" ”

Song Jia's face was pale, his eyes saw that Lin Lian's left palm and left armpit were still bleeding, and said with concern and pain: "Don't ask again, go and wrap up your wounds!" ”