Regardless of Jiang Ning's order, Liang Wenzhan secretly arrived in Mingzhou on the first day of May to secretly preside over the new policy.

With the cooperation of the local forces in eastern Zhejiang led by Ye Junan and Ye, Huaidong soon mastered the number of acres of land and Dingkou in Mingzhou.

After Shengsi, Daishan and other places were assigned to Hailing Prefecture, Mingzhou Prefecture governed eight counties, including Changguo, Cixi, Yuyao, Shangyu, Shengzhou, Fenghua, Ninghai, Xiangshan and Yin, with about 7 million mu of land.

Under the devastation of the war that lasted for several years, there were still as many as 120,000 households in Dingkou.

The nine counties of Mingzhou are the most affluent in Cixi, Yuyao, Shangyu and Yinxian, which are located in the core area of the Minghui Plain, and the tax grain accounts for nearly eighty percent of the whole government of Mingzhou.

The amount of military tax grain that the luxury family extracted from the Mingzhou Prefecture is well documented, with a total of more than 1.6 million stone in two years, and an average of more than 800,000 stone per year -- while Jiangning agreed that the Huaidong Army could requisition the grain and salary from the two prefectures and 11 counties in Huaidong was only 800,000 stone at most.

Traditionally, the three counties of Shangyu, Shengzhou and Yuyao were all under the jurisdiction of the Huiji Prefecture. After the luxury family occupied eastern Zhejiang, Huiji was the center of gravity of the luxury family's military confrontation with Dong Yuan's northern Zhejiang on the eastern front, so Shangyu, Shengzhou, and Yuyao were placed under the jurisdiction of the Mingzhou government, so as to better raise military funds.

In eastern Zhejiang, which is dominated by Mingzhou and Huiji, Mingzhou is the second of the three, and Huiji is one of them. The luxury family lost the area east of the Cao'e River in eastern Zhejiang, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it was a broken arm.

In early May, when the chief officials of the Mingzhou Prefecture and the counties had not yet been determined, Lin Jian promulgated a new decree on Tian Ding in the name of the envoy of the Eastern Zhejiang Establishment. The new policy exempted the Ming Prefecture and the counties from the ding tax and various capitation assessments, sent the Qingtian officials to the counties to preside over the affairs of the New Deal, checked the acres of land, ordered the county landowners to report the actual number of acres of land and the Dingkou to the Qingtian officials before September, and reduced the rent of those who hired tenants to cultivate the land to less than 30% if the rent in kind was calculated; Based on the fixed rent, the annual rent of high-grade mature land shall not exceed one stone.

A total of thirteen families led by the Tian clan surrendered their clan property and used it as military funds, and the rest were punished as co-accomplices and exempted from responsibility; The industries that the Fujian gentry encroached upon in the territory of Mingzhou Prefecture, as well as the mines, boat yards, fishing grounds and unregistered places such as Hudang, Shanze and Islands belonging to Mingzhou Prefecture and Changguo Islands were all expropriated as government-owned, and the localities took the opportunity to encroach on them and severely punished them.

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After stabilizing the situation in Yongjia, Qin Zitan also came to Dongyang County in early May and was anxious about the current bad situation.

On the west bank of Taibai River in Dongyang County, the Huaidong Army took the elite of the two brigades of the Changshan Battalion as the main force, and the garrison reached 8,000 people. Along the slope of the northwest foot of Luohe Mountain, the Huaidong Army built a fish-scale chain of defense villages to radiate to the west bank of Taibai River, competing with Dongyang County for control of the Taibai River waterway, and driving the people to widen and build a post road connecting Shengzhou on the inner line.

In the north of Tiantai County, with the elite infantry of the 1st Brigade of the Changshan Battalion as the main force, the Huaidong Army is building a defensive fortress facing Tiantai County, and the garrison also exceeds 4,000 people.

On the inner line of Tiantai and Luohe Mountain Defense Village, with Shengzhou City as the barracks, with the elite infantry of the three brigades of the Changshan Battalion as the main force, the garrison of the Huaidong Army in Shengzhou has reached more than 10,000 people.

The Huaidong Army's eastern, western, and southeastern Zhejiang battalions with Shengzhou as the core took initial shape in early May, with the Huaidong Infantry Army's Changshan Battalion as the main force, and the total number of Ma Bu Army's soldiers and auxiliaries exceeded 22,000, and there were also thousands of civilians conscripted for military service.

By the beginning of May, Huaidong made it clear that Shengzhou would be abandoned as a town, and the entire Shengzhou city would be used as a garrison for the camps in the east, west and south of Zhejiang, and more than 200,000 mu of Tian's land would be confiscated on both sides of the Shengzhou Yanxi River alone, and used it as a military reclamation camp -- I don't know how many soldiers would be filled into Shengzhou and other places in the later period of Huaidong!

After the Qianjiang waterway from Xiaoshan to Haining was completely closed, the Huaidong Army was stationed in the defense system with Shangyu County as the core and along both sides of the Cao'e River, and the garrison was mainly composed of Han Caizhi and Sun Wenyao's Zhedong Xing Battalion and the Huaidong Jinghai Third Water Battalion, with a strength of more than 10,000 troops.

Taking into account the elite of the Huaidong Army's 3rd Brigade of the Chongcheng Infantry Battalion on the inner line of Mingzhou Prefecture, as well as the 15,000 troops of the Eastern Zhejiang Battalion Chen Kuili and Mao Tengyuan, as well as the Jinghai 1st and 2nd Water Battalions temporarily stationed on the east coast of Mingzhou Prefecture, the total strength of the Huaidong Army in eastern Zhejiang exceeded 52,000 for a time.

The luxury family should stabilize the line of defense from Tiantai, Dongyang, Zhuji to Huiji, with the elite of Fujian as the mainstay, plus local defensive equipment, and the number of people should not be less than 50,000.

Although the pressure of Dongyuan in northern Zhejiang was borne by the eldest prince, after the loss of Mingzhou in eastern Zhejiang, the number of garrisons had to be nearly doubled to be enough.

Qin Zitan could roughly guess what Huaidong was thinking, that is, to intensify the military confrontation between the two sides on the defensive line and drag down the finances of Zhejiang and Fujian.

In southern Zhejiang, Liu Wenzhong, Zuo Guangying and other southern Zhejiang resistance troops occupied Yueqing City, and it was easy to obtain Huaidong's support by sea. The soldiers and horses of the luxury family in southern Zhejiang could only abandon the coastal areas and shrink to Ouhai, Yongjia and other inland cities that were some distance from the coast to establish defenses.

On the one hand, they were forced to increase their troops to strengthen the defenses along the line, and on the other hand, they had to abandon the coastal areas one after another.

Not to mention the loss of Mingzhou Mansion, the Yongjia River from Ouhai and Yongjia to the delta area below the two cities, the number of fertile land accounts for one-third of the number of acres of land in the entire Yongjia Mansion, and because Yueqing City was occupied by the remnants of the Southern Zhejiang Resistance Army, Qin Zitan also had to forcibly move the people in this area into the interior and abandon it as wasteland, and the loss of taxes and grain will be counted in hundreds of thousands of stones.

The situation in the coastal areas of eastern Fujian, such as Jin'an Prefecture, has also become worse and worse due to the loss of eastern Zhejiang's containment of Huaidong's disturbing naval army. The Huaidong Navy pushed the advance base to the front line south of Changguo, and Yueqing, which was occupied by the remnants of the resistance army in southern Zhejiang, used Yueqing as a springboard, and the disturbance of the coastal areas of southern Zhejiang and eastern Fujian became more and more convenient, and the scale of the disturbance attack will continue to intensify -- the situation has developed to this day, and the situation on the eastern front of Zhejiang and Fujian has become so bad that it can no longer be worse.

At present, in addition to counting on the eldest prince to continue to expand the strategic depth on the western front, he can only hope that the cavalry of the Donghu people can quickly move south to threaten Huaisi - only in this way can the focus of Huaidong's troops be forced to shift to the north and reduce the pressure on the eastern front of Zhejiang and Fujian.

Although Zhejiang and Fujian have expanded the total number of soldiers and horses to nearly 200,000 in two or three years, they have been attacked on several sides and have suffered many elite casualties, and they have no ability to recover the Mingzhou capital in a short period of time.

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The war in eastern Zhejiang was initially decided, and Lin Jian couldn't wait for Jiangning to officially transfer Liang Wenzhan to serve as the prefect of Mingzhou, so he left Mingzhou Mansion on the ninth day of May and returned to Chongzhou; The main force of the First Water Battalion led by Zhao Qingshan returned to Chongzhou with Lin Lian.

Lin Bin's reputation as the king of Qin was a strategy to attack the east and west, which also caused huge controversy within Huaidong at first.

With the passage of time, and the Huaidong Army won a series of major military victories after attacking eastern Zhejiang, and quickly occupied the entire territory of Mingzhou Prefecture, especially in the later period, Jiangning was forced to recognize the behavior of Huaidong to attack eastern Zhejiang, and the internal disputes in Huaidong also subsided.

Lin Bin's prestige in Huaidong has also reached a new height.

On the day Lin Lian returned to Chongzhou, the county gentry welcomed him from the shore, watching the Jinhai slowly sail from the water gate into the berthing area between Junshan and Zilang Mountain, and there were deafening cheers on both sides of the strait.

Of course, there were many cold-eyed bystanders, but the military and civilians of the two prefectures in Huaidong were generally jubilant and their morale was greatly boosted.

However, as far as the Huaidong Military Division is concerned, this southern attack against the order is of great significance. Ordinary officials and generals had a clearer sense and henceforth regarded Huaidong as a force independent of the imperial court. Take Tang Shuen, Liu Tingzhou and others secretly playing Jiang Ning's words, "From now on, Huaidong officials and generals will only have Huaidong in their eyes, but no court, only Lin Bin, and no emperor."

Huaidong won a series of military victories in eastern Zhejiang, and its morale was greatly boosted, but in terms of the situation of the whole country, it was still more worrying than happy. Lin Jian suppressed the worries in his heart and accepted the welcome of the gentry, the army and the people, the more difficult it was, the more important morale became.

Landing from the South Cliff Wharf, Lin Tie said to Qin Chengzu, Lin Mengde, Sun Jingxuan, Sun Jingtang, Li Shuyi, Hu Zhicheng, Wang Chengfu, Sun Fengyi, Zhou Guangnan, Wu Meijiu and others who came to the wharf to greet him: "In the past ten months, everything in Chongzhou has worked hard for everyone, and Lin Tie is here to thank you!" ”

"You're welcome!" Everyone returned the salute and welcomed the forest bound ashore.

Seeing that Zhao Qinmin was also among the people who greeted him, Lin Jian asked, "When did Mr. Zhao come to Chongzhou?" ”

"I came over in the afternoon the day before yesterday, I was going to see you in Mingzhou Mansion, but when I learned that you would be back in the near future, I waited patiently in Chongcheng for two days." Zhao Qinmin said.

"Then let's go to Dongya for a banquet first, and then talk about other things in detail." Lin Jian said, and asked Zhao Qinmin to go to Dongya with him.

Zhao Qinmin was full of emotion in his heart, Lin Lian's reputation as King Qin's name was a strategy to attack the west, and he and Gu Wuchen were also caught off guard in Jiangning.

After the news of the main force of the Huaidong Army rushing to eastern Zhejiang reached Jiangning, it coincided with the capture of Linshui by the Flying Bear and the gathering of troops to attack Fuyang, which had the potential to break through northern Zhejiang and break through to Jiangning.

When Jiangning was threatened, including Yue Lengqiu, Cheng Yuqian, Yu Xinyuan, Wang Tian, Wang Xueshan and everyone in Ningwangfu, they were all in a hurry for a while, and they all lost every inch, hoping that the Huaidong Army could contain the Zhejiang-Fujian rebels on the eastern front, so they all remained silent about the fact that the Huaidong Army was bullying the monarch, so that Gu Wuchen would not be too passive in Jiangning.

The situation has developed to this point, except for some scholars who are still trying to speak quickly and accuse Huaidong, more people are glad that the main force of the Huaidong Army did not go north to King Qin. If the Huaidong Army hadn't landed in Mingzhou Mansion in time, the 100,000 elites of the luxury family would have been crippled in northern Zhejiang, swept through Pingjiang and Danyang, and the troops would have come to Jiangning City!

Nowadays, Jiangning has to rely on Huaidong to contain nearly half of the troops of Zhejiang and Fujian from the eastern front, and Lin Jian is also the envoy of Huaidong and eastern Zhejiang, Jiangdong County has about 150,000 soldiers and horses at this time, and Huaidong accounts for more than one-third. Lin Tie not only directly intervened in the appointment of officials at the prefect and county level in Huaidong and eastern Zhejiang, but also directly asked the county party committee in Hecheng and Shengsi to strengthen the control of the Huaidong Military Division over these two places - Zhao Qinmin stood on the side, looked at Lin Tie, who was chatting and laughing with others, and said secretly: Those who are called ministers together with Cao Liang are no better than this!