The night snow is silent, the spring is like a tide, the dragon and tiger are tossed until midnight, and the forest is also asleep like a dead dog.

Sun Wenwan is soft-skinned after all, and when the morning light is slightly revealed, she will go back to her residence to freshen up her red makeup, for fear of bumping into the maid below.

When Lin Jian woke up, there were only two sisters, Su Mei and Xiaoman, hugging each other and sleeping with him. Xiaoman himself is greedy for sleep, and with pregnancy, he sleeps more; Su Mei's body is weak, a new wife, can't stand the whipping, after last night's tossing, this time is sleeping heavily - the past is vivid, in the past, I also thought about sleeping so beautifully, once I got it, I felt that there were no regrets in this life.

"What is the husband thinking?" Su Mei woke up, looked up and saw Lin Lian's eyes staring at the top of the tent in a daze, and asked out loud.

Xiaoman slept soundly, and half of them were lying on Lin Lian's chest - Su Mei and Xiaoman sisters, who had shared the same bed for more than ten years, were intimate, and at this time, there was one more Lin Lian, and I didn't feel any inconvenience, although last night was absurd and embarrassing, Sun Wenwan left first, and there was not too much embarrassment.

"When I woke up, I felt that I had no regrets in life." Lin Jian said.

"The concubine doesn't want her husband to indulge in this and forget the great cause." Su Mei said.

"Of course," Lin Lian said, "Family and business are one thing, with you and Xiaoman as wives and friends, other women can't get into the eyes anymore." ”

"I can tell nonsense and deceive people," Xiao Man opened his mouth and gently bit Lin Lian's chest, and said with a smile: "Sister Yue'er, Sister Yingsleeve, Sixth Lady, Sister Gu Family, Sister Sun Family, and the mother-in-law surnamed Song, as well as the maids in the room surnamed Song, which one can't get into your eyes?" ”

Lin Jian smiled cheekily and unveiled this section. After getting up, Lin Jian practiced knife skills for a while in the courtyard where the remnants of snow were swept away, and his spirit was complete, not at all like yesterday when he tossed until midnight to sleep.

Before noon, I read two books quietly in the house, and I couldn't be so leisurely in the afternoon.

Lin Jian said that he was hidden in the lake village for fishing for pleasure, and pushed away trivial affairs, but this was just talking. Before that, a large number of official letters had to be read and approved every day, and Xuzhou had recovered for nearly a month, and the local area was gradually calming, and Lin Jian had to take time out to meet with the representatives of the local squires.

Lin Jian demanded that all the people north of Pei County retreat south, and the area between Pei County and Xucheng to ensure that the people stranded in the area were all gathered in the village, and prepare to clear the wilderness, and build more enclosed houses and village enclosures to the south of Xuzhou City, so as to suppress the infiltration ability of the captive cavalry.

In addition, the implementation of new policies in the Xuzhou area, the reduction of rents, the resumption of production, the collection of mines and forest land, the stabilization of local rule as soon as possible, and the alleviation of financial pressure in Huaidong -- all these things are inseparable from the cooperation of local forces.

Although the gentry and countrymen were severely suppressed during the Huaisi War and Chen Hansan's rule of Xuzhou, they escaped devastating blows on both occasions and retained considerable power.

It is also the hardships of the past few years, under the brutal war and the brutal rule of Chen Hansan, the gentry and countrymen of Xuzhou are more accustomed to yielding and clinging to power, and the idea of loyalty to the monarch is weak. The gentry of Xuzhou lacked enough trust in the generals of Huaiyang Town, who were born in the Wandering People's Army, but they had high hopes for Huaidong behind Huaiyang Town.

The new policies implemented by Huaidong and the many new things that emerged one after another were regarded as deviant and difficult to accept by the old scholars and Confucian scholars in Jiangning, but in the war-torn areas, many of Huaidong's practices seemed so mild.

Measuring acres of land, reducing rents and taxes, and making up households are all carried out in an orderly manner, and Lin Jian also hopes that Xuzhou can recommend a group of talents to be selected into various schools in Huaidong as reserve officials for training.

The officials of the world are all from the imperial examination, and even if they are officials, they also need to be famous.

On the one hand, the objective fact that Huaidong wants to develop requires this, and on the other hand, it is also intended to make Huaidong's official system clearly distinguish from Jiangningjing.

When Huaidong's bureaucratic system was very different from Jiangning's and difficult to integrate, Huaidong actually fulfilled the purpose of being independent of Jiangning from the inside.

In addition, Lin Jian demanded that all the mining resources in Xuzhou be collected as government-owned, and private excavation required a letter from the government and taxes to the government.

Compared with the land, Xuzhou's coal and iron resources are more important.

After taking Xuzhou, Huaidong does not have to worry about being controlled by others in the supply of coal and iron ore.

Needless to say, the importance of iron ore resources to Huaidong is that for ordinary people, the importance of firewood and rice is equal. Rural farmers use rice and wheat stalks to cook rice, but urban households mostly use firewood and charcoal.

Charcoal is divided into charcoal, charcoal, and coal is often called coal in later generations, which has been widely used in the world for a long time, and coal is used for iron-smelting kilns, and there are many coals for boiling water and cooking rice in urban households.

Huaidong is located in the plain, the forest is scarce, charcoal is far from enough, Lin Tie intends to promote honeycomb coal in the Huaidong area on the basis of the original briquettes and briquettes. Based on the 200,000 urban households within the jurisdiction of Huaidong and the demand for industrial and mining fuels, the total annual coal demand in Huaidong is expected to reach hundreds of millions of stone in the initial stage.

In the southwest of Xuzhou and the east of Huaiyang, Xiangshan, Taoxu Mountain and Huangsangyu and other low hills and hills, hundreds of years ago, there was a history of digging coal and making charcoal, and there are more than a dozen coal cellars so far. Destroyed by the war, only two are still in normal production, at this time and Xuzhou, Yizhou between several iron kilns together by the Huaidong Military Department to pay for redemption, as an official ownership, under the Xuzhou government set up a coal and iron bureau to take charge of its affairs.

Although the implementation of the new policy in Xuzhou did not encounter much resistance, Lin still felt great pressure on his shoulders to restore production in Xuzhou during the war.

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The New Year is approaching, Lin Jian finally ended his vacation, moved from the lake village on the north bank of Shigou Lake to Xuzhou City, and piled up a stack of official documents on his desk, telling him to turn around and go out of the city and extend the holiday indefinitely.

Sun Jingtang, Gao Zongting, Ye Junan, Li Wei and others held him back.

"The backlog of displaced households in the Huaisi area is already extremely large, far exceeding the capacity of local resettlement. This trip from Linzhou to the south, in order to turn the area north of Peixian into remnants, as a buffer, in the past few months, almost 140,000 people moved to the south of Xuzhou," Li Weizhao put the current problems that Xuzhou urgently needed to solve in front of Lin Bin, "On the other hand, after the battle in Xuzhou, the new annexed army and the Xuzhou army surrendered more than 19,000 people one after another, and the camp also handed over all these soldiers to the local resettlement the day before yesterday - don't talk about resuming production and repairing the city, Xuzhou must maintain, Next year, it's going to be a million taels of silver......"

Lin Jian placed 15 counties, including Yizhou, Haizhou, Yancheng, Suyu, Suining, Huaiyang, Xiaoshan, Tongshan, Guanyun, Xiapi, Peixian, and Guangqi, under the rule of Xuzhou, forming a pattern of greater Xuzhou, so that the civil affairs could be well integrated with the military and the government.

The fifteen counties under the jurisdiction of Xuzhou, Suining, Huaiyang, Suyu, Haizhou, and Guanyun, although they were subordinate to Huai'an earlier, were bordered by Xuzhou and Yinan.

At this time, the outer defense line was pushed to the north of Xuzhou to the area of Peixian, and from the counties south of Xuzhou, it was necessary to pay equal attention to war preparedness and the resumption of production, and the resources needed to resume production in the initial stage were extraordinarily large.

Not to mention anything else, in order to make the coal and iron mining in Xuzhou area able to ensure the internal supply of Huaidong area, the silver invested will be in the millions of taels.

Fortunately, there are several other sources of coal and iron supply, and the development of Xuzhou can be gradual and does not need to be rushed. Even if you want to invest money, the military department will not directly take out the silver, but will give full play to the function of Huaidong Qianzhuang.

Even if we do not mention the investment in coal and iron mining, the resumption of initial production in the fifteen counties of Xuzhou and the resettlement of displaced people will be extremely large.

Liu Miaozhen sat at the bottom of Lin Tie and thought: It is really not easy to be this family.

The Xuzhou envoy has jurisdiction over Huaiyang Town, Fengli Camp, Huaidong Cavalry Camp, Yimeng and Miaoshan and other special marching troops, with nearly 70,000 soldiers and nearly 50,000 soldiers.

In order to maintain the armament of the Xuzhou area, the regular expenses such as repairing the city, ordnance and armor, and soldiers' food and clothing will be 2.6 million taels of silver next year. It is also hoped that there will be no large-scale fighting next year, otherwise the cost will far exceed the budget.

In the battle of Xuzhou, more than 30,000 enemies (including prisoners) were annihilated, and the successful capture of Xuzhou Xiongcheng was definitely a victory worthy of special mention. It's just that calculating the cost of the war after the war still makes people secretly complain.

During the war, 20,000 bags of salt were consumed, and the salt reserves in the Huaisi area were almost exhausted.

The 6,000 elite cavalry that Huaidong has worked hard to accumulate for several years is the key to Xuzhou's victory, and the casualties of the soldiers are not large, but the loss of more than 2,000 horses is the first battle, that is, the battle potential of the Huaidong cavalry battalion in the next year will be exhausted.

Although the family property of Chen Hansan and his generals was confiscated after the war, the income was very small, far from enough to make up for the consumption of the war, and it can also be seen how difficult it was for Chen Hansan to occupy Xuzhou to support 20,000 soldiers and horses in these years!

The consumption of armor and arrows can be offset by capture, and there is a lot of wealth, which is a big gain in this battle.

Although the casualties of the Huaiyang Army were relatively light, there were more than 3,000 people in total, and the treatment of the wounded and the pensions and awards for the sacrificed or disabled soldiers were even more of a large expense.

Liu Miaozhen, Ma Lantou, Li Liang and others, who used to be generals of the exiled army, led the army to fight in the world, and wrapped them in herbal medicine rags when they were injured; If the injury is slightly more serious, it depends on whether the life is hard or not, how can there be such a perfect treatment system for the Huaidong Army?

The sacrifice of the pawn was also wrapped in a straw mat and buried, and there was no such thing as a pension; Even the situation of his wife and children will become even worse.

When it comes to rewarding merit, one is to be promoted to a general, but more often there is nothing to reward, so when the city is broken, indulging the people to burn and plunder is also a form of reward and morale encouragement.

Seriously and carefully compared, the Wandering People's Army could not compete with the Huaidong Army with a strict system, Liu Miaozhen said secretly: It was really not unjust at all to be defeated back then.