Chapter 8

After a lot of things during this time, Lin Jian also felt that the sixth lady was a lovely beauty, and the melon was ripe, and it was the year of coquettishness, and the previous rejection of her was gradually eliminated.

After that, for a long time, the sixth lady didn't show her face as if she was invisible, and she couldn't wipe her face to see Lin Bin; Lin Jian naturally has no way to hook up.

Wu Meijiu left Chongzhou to resume his old business and went back to his Hailing Mansion Sikou; Lin Jian knew the affairs of Chongzhou County with the left participation in the regime, grasped the military and civil affairs in Chongzhou, and also took into account the construction of the Shengsi defense line, so he was so busy that he couldn't stop like a spinning top.

At the end of November, he received a secret letter from Zhang Yan, the envoy of iron and salt, inviting him to lead his troops to Muyang to prepare for King Ning's southward expedition.

Liu Zhi, the director of the Inner Servant Provincial Bureau, also rushed back from Jiangning to join Lin Jian and go north together, and Lin Jian only knew at this time that Liu Zhi would serve as the permanent attendant of King Ning's Mansion and the military envoy of the guard camp of King Ning's Mansion, which was actually an eyeliner selected by the emperor from the Inner Service Province and arranged by the side of King Yuan Jianwu of Ning.

In addition, the adjutants such as the chief historian of the Ning Wangfu also changed the old practice of being selected by the Zongzheng Mansion in the past, and the officials were directly selected by the household department. The Ningwang Mansion Guard Camp was also transferred from the Jingying camp - in fact, these were all means used by the emperor to restrict the Ning Wang's large and uncontrollable position in Jiangning.

The establishment of King Ning to the southeast of the town is an effective means to solve the current predicament, and the authority granted to King Ning will naturally exceed that of the ordinary vassal kings to play the role of the southeast of the town, but the real authority is destined to be divided into a lot of officials such as Changshi, Nei Changzhi, and Ning Wangfu.

In addition to the intention of establishing King Ning to the southeast of the town, if Emperor Chongguan has no heirs, after a hundred years, King Ning will naturally inherit the throne.

In addition to the cavalry battalion staying in Chongzhou, the two elite units of the Qijinghai No. 1 Water Battalion and the Changshan Infantry Battalion set out from the Zilang Mountain garrison camp in Chongzhou on 29 November and headed for Muyang County at the eastern head of the Qingjiang River.

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From the Xishan River through the western section of the Yanhe River, you can enter the Beiguan River and go straight to Qingjiangpu, and there are waterways feasible all the way.

The sailing fleet sailed in the river, and the foot soldiers went north along the official road.

Lin Jian insisted on a long-distance march to train the team, and he himself insisted on walking on foot with the infantry battalion to boost morale.

Liu Zhi went north with the army from Chongzhou, at first he also stubbornly accompanied Lin Tie on foot, walked for a day, and the soles of his feet were blistered, so he couldn't hold on to the boat, and wondered that Lin Tie was still wearing a suit of armor, how could he follow the soldiers out of one hundred and sixty or seventy miles in two days?

Ordinary generals lie down to rest when they reach the ground, and Lin Jian has to patrol everywhere and deal with the urgent official business handed over from Chongzhou, Liu Zhi also really admires Lin Bin's will. Liu Zhi walked in the army with Hao Zong when he grew up, although it is not possible to lead troops to fight, and he can't endure hardships, but he still has all kinds of knowledge, and it is strange that such a character as the secret road cannot bring out male soldiers.

The team stopped in front of the Huaxi River in the north of Gaocheng, the auxiliary soldiers of the workers' battalion were setting up pontoon bridges, the foot soldiers rested and ate on the spot, and the water battalion warships dispersed to be on guard.

Liu Zhi endured the pain of the blood blisters on his feet, went ashore and walked to Lin Lian's side, watched the workers' battalion laboriously build a pontoon bridge in front, pointed to the ferry in front of him and said, "Isn't it faster to ferry people by boat?" ”

"After walking thirty miles, I just had to stop to rest," Lin Jian explained with a smile, "The march is also a drill, and you can't slack off." If you want to cross the river in a short time, you have to draw a lot of ferries from the water camp, which will disrupt the deployment of the water camp, and paving roads and bridges is the job of the labor camp. In order to be orderly, military affairs should be arranged in a simple and easy-to-follow manner, and not likely to cause chaos. There is no better way to do it than to do your job, and it is just for convenience......"

Liu Zhi thought for a moment, knowing that Lin Lian's words were easier said than done, so he said some flattering words, and when he saw Lin Lian walking towards the field, he also followed step by step.

Liu Zhi has dealt with Lin Jian since the Jiangdong Left Army went north to King Qin, although his words are not deep, but there is still a friendship.

Liu Zhi was reappointed as a permanent attendant in King Ning's Mansion at this time, which can be regarded as having a good time with Hao Zongcheng over the years, and once King Ning ascends the throne, he will be able to sit on Hao Zongcheng's position at this time and become the head of the ministers.

It's just that the position of a permanent attendant in King Ning's mansion is not easy to do, first of all, he has to be responsible to the current saint to prevent King Ning from moving when he sits in the southeast, but he can't let King Ning feel like he is being monitored. Otherwise, when King Ning ascends the throne in the future, the first person to be eliminated will not be someone else, but he will be a regular servant in King Ning's mansion.

He wanted to take refuge in King Ning at this time, and it was impossible to be King Ning's confidant, and the current saint would not arrange only one eyeliner in King Ning's mansion, once he followed King Ning with an iron heart, before King Ning ascended the throne, the current saint would get rid of him first.

Liu Zhi knew that the palace was secretive, and knew that the emperor would no longer have children to give birth to, and if nothing went wrong, King Ning would ascend to the throne in the future, but the emperor's body was still very strong, who knows how long it would take King Ning's turn to ascend the throne?

On the bright side, Liu Zhi was promoted from the seventh-rank bureau lang to the fifth-rank inner attendant, and it was indeed Hao Zongcheng's strong recommendation and the trust of today's saints to sit in this position, but the relationship behind this is complicated, which makes Liu Zhi feel like fire.

Liu Zhi also knows the power technique, if you want everything to go smoothly, you need to stare at King Ning and honestly take everyone to survive the year, but to prevent King Ning from kicking himself away or even getting rid of him with a grudge after he ascends the throne, it is undoubtedly necessary to rely on himself, and it is impossible to ask for the favor of the master on both sides.

In Liu Zhi's view, just as King Ning needs to survive the years, although Lin Lian, who is like the rise of the comet, is among the upstarts, but because of his shallow qualifications, it is still difficult to squeeze into the real power center, and he also needs to survive for years.

Compared with other powerful ministers in Jiangning, Liu Zhi is more optimistic about Lin Lian, and thinks that it will not be difficult to give Lin Jian ten years and eight years, and become a figure like Guyuan Cao Yiqu.

With this figure as a foreign aid, Liu Zhicai doesn't have to worry about kicking him away after King Ning ascends the throne in the future.

Liu Zhi had this in mind, so he did not rush to follow Zhang Yan to the northeast border of the mountains to meet King Ning, but rushed over to join Lin Jian and go north.

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Liu Zhi was a little breathless, and his mind was not difficult to guess.

King Ning Yuan Jianwu sat in the southeast, and before he really ascended the throne, the meaning of the symbol was greater.

Even if the Yuan Jianwu Society gave the power to inquire about the military and political affairs of the southeastern counties (only in this way could the six departments of Jiangning play a role), this power would also be greatly restricted by the two of the prince's chief Shi and the inner permanent servant, so that he would not be unable to hold back during the period of the feudal king Ning.

Liu Zhi served as a permanent attendant in the Ning Wangfu and the military envoy of the palace guard, this position is extremely crucial, and his power is almost comparable to that of the palace governor.

Liu Zhi went from being a little-known provincial bureau to squeezing into the core of Jiangning's power structure at once, and he took the initiative to come over at this time to make friends, and Lin Jian certainly wouldn't stupidly push him out. However, due to the complexity of the situation, it is difficult to predict the future situation, and Lin Jian will not bet all his future chips on Liu Zhi.

Lin Lian walked towards the field, and saw Liu Zhi coming over, his broken blood blistered foot was limping, and said with a smile: "Liu Lang should go to the boat to rest, if you see King Ning, the new flesh on the soles of this foot has not yet grown, and it is not good to walk like this." ”

"It's okay, in the past when I was in the army with Lord Hao, the soles of my feet were often blistered, so I walked around more, and it was good to have a scab and a callus," Liu Zhi said bitterly, seeing Lin Jian squatting in the field to look at the soil quality, and asked flatteringly, "Lord Lin's military and political affairs and field affairs are all incomprehensible, which makes Liu Zhi really admire, I want to ask, what did Lord Lin see when he picked up the soil lump?" ”

"......" Lin Lian smiled, threw the lump of soil on the field, and said, "Although Hailing rice and wheat are all planted, many places are still only wheat in high fields and rice in low fields, and they can't all be harvested in one field and two seasons a year. This field is close to the river, the terrain is slightly low, easy to waterlog, only rice is planted, after the autumn grain is harvested, only the long grass is empty, and the rice is planted after next spring, and the soil is not used enough......

"Sow some wheat seeds, no matter whether there will be waterlogging next year, you can always get more harvest," Liu Zhi said. ”

"In addition to being prone to waterlogging, it is also related to the fertility of the fields. If you have planted wheat and have no fertilizer, you will plant rice after the harvest in the next year, which will affect the harvest of rice, and because it is easy to accumulate waterlogging, it is better not to plant," Lin Jian said, "The matter of accumulating fertilizer is easy to say, but it is not easy to do, and the villagers and people do not have this awareness, so it must be vigorously promoted by local officials......

Lin Jian has long been deeply aware that even if the farming technology seems simple, it is still extremely difficult to promote it in the countryside where illiterate farmers are still the mainstay.

Hejian Province is located in the Yanji Plain, with a vertical and horizontal river network, which is conducive to irrigation and can be used to grow rice.

Although only one crop can be grown a year in the north, the yield of rice is much higher than that of wheat, and no one grows rice in Hajian Province.

At first, Lin Jian thought that his cognition was wrong, and he was still a little unsure when he tried to plant rice in Jinhai.

In addition to the small number of elites stationed on Jinwei Island in Jinhai, Lin Jian also had more than 6,000 prisoners and soldiers who went to Jinhai with him after the Battle of Yangxin, and they were also under Sun Shangwang's control.

In order to accommodate the more than 6,000 captives and soldiers, the local clans of Jinhai, who had to rely on the power of the Jiangdong Left Army and the Lin people, provided 40,000 mu of fertile land to Lin Tie on the banks of the Whirlpool River in the name of tenant loans.

Lin Jian gritted his teeth and turned these fertile fields on the banks of the Whirlpool River into rice fields, transported rice seeds from the south, and planted rice head-on.

At first, he was a little apprehensive, but after the autumn grain was harvested, he realized that his worries were unnecessary.

Compared with the high yield of one stone of wheat millet per acre of land in the north, the yield of Jinhai rice fields is unexpected. Due to the abundant manpower and the ability to obtain enough fertilizer from the dredging of the Whirlpool River, the yield of the trial rice fields in Jinhai is much higher than that of the fertile fields in Chongzhou, and the average rice yield per mu is more than four stones.

The net rice grain of 40,000 acres of fertile land is nearly 80,000 stones, and the more than 6,000 people have enough to eat for a year, and only half of them can be fed, and nearly 40,000 stones of rice and grain can be left, which is enough for the expenses of Jinwei Island for a year.

Liu Zhi didn't know about this kind of thing, and he didn't seem to understand Lin Zhi's words.

I can't blame him, Lin Tie raised pigs and accumulated fat, Jiangning Qingliu Shizi did everything he could to laugh at, and after seeing the Jiangdong Left Army rise like a comet, he lost his voice again, these should be the elites of this era, and how many people know that many fierce and intractable contradictions in the world are rooted in these little things that seem vulgar and vulgar?

I don't know how the situation will develop, and King Ning's ascension to the throne is also a possibility, so Lin Liancai patiently talked to Liu Zhi about farming in the field, but it was not to show off.

Thinking of this, Lin Jian thought that among the more than 6,000 people in Jinhai, there were actually 13,400 Zhejiang soldiers. In order to prevent Yue Lengqiu from killing the prisoners, he took Lin Lian to Jinhai for resettlement. After more than half a year of transformation, there is no shortage of food and clothing in Jinhai, and there is also a deep recognition and dependence on the Jiangdong Left Army, and it can be directly incorporated into the battalion and brigade as a pawn.

At this time, Lin Jian considered that it was actually better to secretly transfer these Zhejiang soldiers from Jinhai to the Shengsi Islands than to recruit the people from Chongzhou to strengthen the defense of Shengsi. It is even possible to select some people from among them to be sent to eastern and western Zhejiang, one is to collect information in the two Zhejiang, and the other is to prepare for the future fight in the two Zhejiang.

After Liu Zhi was separated, Lin Jian told Wu Qi, the chief sentinel, about this idea, and asked him to take charge of his affairs, at this time, the rule of the luxury family in southern Zhejiang was still very chaotic, and it was a good time to send these Zhejiang soldiers from the two Zhejiang regions back to lurk.