It was only on 26 September that Chen Mingzhe saw a letter sent by a special person from the Huaidong Military Department such as the "Decree on the Prohibition of Maritime Trade, Fishing and Hunting in the Eastern Ocean and the Frontier" sent by a special person from the Huaidong Military Division.

Although Huaidong had passed with Haiyu in advance on the matter of banning the sea, Chen Mingzhe still took a breath of cold air when he officially saw the details of the Huaidong sea ban.

Chen Mingzhe sighed and said: "Now that the maritime affairs of the Eastern Front are under the full responsibility of the Huaidong Military Division, I don't know whether it is a blessing or a curse!" Although Haiyu's Chen family and even the entire Wu Party chose to cooperate with Huaidong at this time, Chen Mingzhen and others still maintained enough vigilance against Huaidong.

There is a clump of green bamboo in the corner, reflecting the verdant greenery of the courtyard, and Chen Xiyan's sideburns, which have been hidden for many years, are also gray, and his spirit is still strong.

If it weren't for the merger of Pingjiang Mansion into the jurisdiction of the Northern Zhejiang Embassy this time, Chen Xiyan would not have fought for the old bones during this time. He held the teacup, squinted at the notice on the stone table, gently knocked on the porcelain wall with his fingers, and walked around for two or three months, the situation was slightly better for Wu Dang, but thinking that the ships of Pingjiang Mansion would go to sea in the future and also go through the permission of the Huaidong Military Division, which would also be a hidden danger in the future, at this time he couldn't take too much care of it, and said: "At this time, we still have to rely on Huaidong to contain the eastern front of the Zhejiang-Fujian rebels from the sea, Yue Lengqiu and Zhang Xi Tongshi have no means to contain Huaidong - Huaidong out of today's situation, I can't help but say that I did have a far-sighted view at the beginning! ”

Although Lin Bin's nickname of "Swineherd" was shouted by Chen Xiyan first, Chen Xiyan's opinion of Lin Tie has changed fundamentally since the Battle of Jiyang City, which is precisely the reason why Chen Xiyan completely lost his heart to become a leader.

Chen Mingzhe knew that his teacher's mentality had changed, so there was no surprise when he said this about Huaidong.

However, Chen Xiyan's influence is really great, and many of Lin Bin's behaviors in Huaidong are maverick and deviant, which has also fundamentally shaken many people's belief that "learning and excellence are good", and naturally Lin Bin's name as a swineherd is spreading more and more. So much so that Chen Xiyan could only hide behind the scenes, and he couldn't pull his face, so he went to Chongzhou to see Lin Tie in person.

Yu Bijiang is also a rising star of the Wu Party, and Chen Xiyan has no teacher-student relationship, listening to Chen Xiyan comment on Huaidong, he was not convinced, and said: "Huaidong predicts that there will be a grain shortage in Jiangdong County, not to mention Chongzhou's rice storage, and the Lin Ji warehouse in Jiangning also absorbs a large amount of rice and grain, but in recent months, Jiangdong's grain prices have been steadily declining, which shows that Huaidong is not always right!" When the price of rice fell, the price of silk rose, Huaidong exchanged rice and Haiyu for raw silk, and used the grain shortage to be alarmist, but let them take advantage of it! Maybe the Lin family is used to doing the rice and grain business, but this kind of absurdity has a great benefit for them to fear that the world will not be chaotic! ”

Hearing Yu Pijiang's words, Chen Mingzhe didn't like it in his heart, agreeing to trade silk rice with Huaidong, it was his Chen family's decision, Yu Pijiang sneered at Huaidong, and also secretly belittled the Chen family, and others would not be happy when they heard it.

Chen Mingzhe has been familiar with the world in recent years, and his displeasure will not be shown on his face, he and Chen Xiyan may not be close to Huaidong, but they will never despise Huaidong like Yu Pijiang.

Autumn grain is about to be put on the market one after another, and it is a common practice for grain prices to fall, and it is really difficult to say whether grain prices can stabilize after this stage.

"When I was in Chongzhou, when Huaidong said that the price of grain would rise, he suggested that Guohaiyu change to grow mulberry grain," Chen Mingzhen said, "Xu is as Bijiang said, Huaidong may not be able to be in the middle of every time, but take precautions, is it not to convene the people of the silk industry hall, inform them, maybe the Chen family can set an example, first take part of the mulberry garden out to plant rice and grain......

When Chen Mingzhe said this, he was just taking care of Yu Bijiang's feelings, and in fact, he was increasingly feeling the crisis of the rice and grain problem.

There are too many mulberry and cotton fields in Pingjiang Prefecture, and the mulberry orchards in Haiyu County alone have an area of 3.4 million mu, plus cotton fields, tea gardens and sugar cane plantations, accounting for more than half of the arable fields in Haiyu County.

In the world of peace, planting mulberry cotton tea cane is highly profitable, but the labor input is also more, in the past, Haiyu and Chongzhou two counties are the same area, but Dingkou is much more dense than Chongzhou. Especially in Chengfanghu, the former Haiyu County was almost ten times the size of Chongzhou.

As a result, although the land in Haiyu County is fertile, the self-produced rice grain is insufficient.

In particular, in recent years, the Donghai Kou forces have been intruding endlessly, and the water conservancy in Haiyu County has been in serious disrepair, and the great tidal disaster at the beginning of this year has caused the sea pond in the southeast of Haitang to be washed away in many places, and there is no way to organize people to repair it, making the large grain fields behind the original sea pond abandoned, making the grain shortage situation in Haiyu County even worse.

This is not a good thing in the autumn of chaos.

Listening to Chen Mingzhe's words, he believed Huaidong's prediction that the price of grain would rise, Yu Bijiang turned around and looked at the green bamboo in the corner of the courtyard, and held back the displeasure in his heart and did not show it, he wanted to see how Chen Xiyan judged.

Chen Mingzhe was also a little undecided, he was inclined to believe what Lin Mengde told him when he was in Chongzhou, but his prestige was insufficient, and he wanted to change mulberry and grow grain on a large scale, and he also wanted Chen Xiyan or Yu Xinyuan to speak.

Chen Xiyan and Yu Xinyuan's status among the gentry of Pingjiang Mansion was not comparable to Chen Mingzhen for a while.

Even if Chen Mingzhe sometimes goes with the crowd and says a few bad things about the swineherd, deep down he has to admit that Lin Lian's ability to govern is unparalleled in the world. Zhang Xie, Chen Xinbo, Tang Haoxin and others, even including his mentor Chen Xiyan, Chen Mingzhen did not feel that anyone's ability to govern politics was stronger than Lin Lian.

In the past two years, Lin Jian has absorbed displaced households on a large scale in Chongzhou, making Chongzhou the first to surpass Haiyu in the past two years, but the grain field planting area in Chongzhou at this time is twice that of Haiyu. Moreover, after Lin Tie entered Chongzhou, he greatly promoted water conservancy, large-scale reclamation and planting, promoted the intensive cultivation of spring wheat and summer rice on a large scale, popularized iron farm tools, promoted compost and pig grazing, and greatly increased the number of acres of ripe fields that could yield abundant crops in Chongzhou.

In addition, at this time, Lin Jian was almost blatantly reclaiming the grassland of Hecheng, and while repairing and defending the seawall on the northern line, he also set up seven tunzhai villages, and organized the displaced households to reclaim the wasteland in Yandu, Jianling, Gaocheng and Pucheng salt areas.

This year's Huaidong year is good, but while Chongzhou is absorbing reserves on a large scale, Lin Jian also issued a series of notices restricting the export of Huaidong rice grain.

Lin Tie shouldered the heavy responsibility of Ducao, and the Jinhai Grain Road maintained the lifeblood of the Gyeonggi and Yanbei defense lines, even if Lin Tie's system made it impossible to manage the civil affairs and finances, but the grain restriction issued by him, Hailing Mansion and Huai'an Mansion did not dare to slack off. The more powerful grain merchants and landlords in Huaidong were severely admonished, and even the official warehouses of Weiyang Province had to ensure that a certain amount of rice and grain was supplied to Chongzhou.

Judging from Huaidong's many actions, at least Huaidong really thinks that Jiangdong County, the land of fish and rice, will also have a food shortage!

Although Huaidong's view that there will be a food shortage in Jiangdong County will be dismissed as absurd by many well-educated people, Chen Mingzhe has already witnessed too many incredible miracles created by Lin Tie in Huaidong, and he is subconsciously inclined to believe Huaidong's judgment. At this time, he asked Chen Xiyan to come up with an idea.

Chen Xiyan also didn't think that there would be a food shortage in Jiangdong County, the land of fish and rice, but Huaidong's opinion should not be taken lightly, he twisted his beard, and said lightly: "I wrote a letter to Lord Yu about this matter, and I also brought back a reply from Lord Yu, many silk villages have withered over the years, but the mulberry garden is more difficult to change into a grain field than reclamation, and our initiative may not be effective. ”

Huaidong set up a money bank, and the Chen family also invested the principal, so Chen Mingzhen knew that the principal of Huaidong money bank had risen to three million taels of silver.

This time, Huaidong absorbed and stored rice and grain, and directly borrowed one million taels of silver from Qianzhuang at an annual interest rate of one and a half cents; In addition, the Heishui Foreign Ship Society, the Jiyun Society, the Lin Ji Warehouse, and many Dongyang Township Party members who followed the Lin family all accurately prepared a large amount of silver money to absorb and store autumn grain—the silver money used by Huaidong alone may be more than two million taels.

When Chen Mingzhe went to Chongzhou, he passed the grain transportation wharf on the east side of Guanyintan, and the Jincao warehouse was built on the south side of the Jincao wharf, and the scope was not less than the newly built Chongcheng, with a grain storage capacity of more than four million stones.

There is no money village in Pingjiang Mansion to borrow, at most the county officials can learn from Huaidong to store grain, but how much can they store? If you want to have one-tenth of the scale of Huaidong, thank God.

However, Chen Xiyan was careless, and Chen Mingzhen thought that maybe he was too worried.

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Lin Jian was not aware of the discussion of the grain shortage in Jiangdong within the Wu Party, such as Chen Mingzhe, Chen Xiyan, and Yu Pijiang, mainly because of the serious lack of macroeconomic data in the world. Intuitively, no one would think that Jiangdong County, the land of fish and rice, would be short of grain, and no one had seriously counted how many grain ships went down the river in Jiangxi, Lianghu and even eastern Sichuan every year, and no one seriously considered what was the inevitable connection between the continuous rise in grain prices in Jiangdong in recent years and the continuous decrease in grain ships along the river.

After Lin Jian made preparations for Huaidong to absorb and store rice and grain, the follow-up work was handed over to Lin Mengde and others, and his attention was placed on the endless East China Sea.

On September 26, Lin Jian secretly arrived at Daheng Island by boat, which was the prelude to the East China Sea with the luxury family.

Qin Chengzu, Wu Qi and other generals stayed in Chongzhou to coordinate the deployment of troops in the entire Huaidong, but the officials of the Military Intelligence Department, including Zhang Gou and Chen Enze, all arrived at Daheng Island, the main island of the Shengsi Islands, with Lin Tie, and worked together with the generals of the Shengsi defense line to formulate and implement the strategy and tactics of chasing the East China Sea.

After Zhang Gou was transferred to the Military Intelligence Department as a commander and joined the army, he came to Daheng Island once. It's just that I was in a hurry last time, and I didn't have time to take a good walk around Daheng Island, and my understanding of Daheng Island mainly came from the drawings and materials of the military situation.

Compared to when he took it from the luxury family two years ago, Oyokoshima has changed dramatically.

The berthing area of the inner harbor of Qingxi Bay has been more than doubled, and the rugged near-shore reef has leveled the overburden soil, and a large area of flat land has been leveled on the original narrow north and south banks, and the main city of Shengsi has been built that integrates with the inner harbor of Qingxi Bay. At the northeastern foot of Jinji Mountain is the Beitan Walled City, which controls the narrow East Peninsula of Daheng Island.

The mountain forest of Jinji Mountain is dominated by miscellaneous trees and shrubs, and a large amount of timber is needed to build a walled city, barracks, and official halls.

Tung oil is also a strategic material that is urgently needed in Huaidong, and Lin Jian has long planned to plant large areas of tung oil on the land that is not conducive to growing rice and grain in Huaidong, such as the two sides of the post road and the berm and windproof woodland that defends the seawall. However, the real larger area of planting tung oil, or the use of difficult to develop the island mountain, Zhang Gou full of eyes, the slope of the northern foot of Jinji Mountain is almost full of tung trees.

On the Kusaka of the long and narrow East Peninsula are free-range mules, horses, cows, sheep and other livestock.

On the east and west sides of Daheng Island, the other islands of Shengsi Islands are scattered on the vast sea like stars, most of the islands only build beacon forts, stationed a small number of armor guards, and the main garrison of the Shengsi defense line is stationed on Daheng Island.

Fu Qinghe presided over the Shengsi defense line, and for nearly two years, Zhou Tong and Zhao Qingshan respectively commanded the infantry army and navy stationed in the Shengsi defense line. In order to prepare for this battle, more than 80 military commanders such as Han Caizhi, Zhang Jiheng, and Chen Yan were supplemented to the Shengsi defense line.

"No," Chen Yan wore a nail piece, walked loudly, greeted Zhang Gou loudly, walked over, and asked, "What news do you have to reveal to me first?" When to hit his mother? I thought there was a battle to fight, but it had been almost three months, and the birds were holding back from my mouth! ”

"After the adults have talked to Master Fu, General Zhao, and General Zhou, you should convene a meeting of the first-level generals of the battalion in the afternoon, why do you need to be in a hurry?" Zhang Gou smiled, "There should be a chance for you to fight?" ”

"Hit Daishan?" Chen Yan asked without giving up.

Zhang Gou smiled and didn't ask him.

Daishan is on the sea south of Daheng Island, and you can see each other in the distance during the day. The city built by the luxury family on the main island of Daishan is not much worse than that of Daheng Island, and Chen Yan has the name of the tiger who climbed the city when he was in the wandering army, and he can see the enemy city under his nose every day, how can he not itch his hands.

Chen Yan, like Zhang Gou, was afraid that after joining Huaidong, he would be forced to attack his former colleagues, so he decided to enter the water camp.

Commanding a battalion or even larger ships to hunt enemy troops on the vast expanse of the sea is much more complicated than commanding foot soldiers. Chen Yan couldn't even master the direct voyage of star surveying, so he was naturally not qualified for the heavy task of commanding the water battalion.

In desperation, Chen Yan had no choice but to accept his order to be assigned to the Chongcheng Infantry Battalion, and in early July, he first served as the battalion commander. Chen Zhen was nicknamed "Dengcheng Tiger", brave and brave, and good at leading the crowd to attack fortifications, after Fu Qinghe was familiar with his temperament, he asked him to be the deputy battalion general who led the troops.

In late August, Lin Jian adjusted the deployment of the troops of the Huaidong Military Division, and the Chongcheng Infantry Battalion vacated a battalion commander, so Chen Yan was appointed.

Chen Yan is the battalion general of the Chongcheng Infantry Battalion, and when he heard Zhang Gou say that he had a chance to fight, he naturally subconsciously thought that it was to attack Daishan, but Zhang Gou refused to disclose more information, which made Chen Yan feel itchy and unbearable.

Zhang Gou was assigned to the Military Intelligence Department, and naturally he would be able to come into contact with the more core military secrets of Huaidong.

It is necessary to have a strong landing combat force to cooperate, in order to give full play to Huaidong's maritime superiority, Lin Jian intends to imitate the marines of later generations, and specially set up a landing camp in the Huaidong Army.

The Chongcheng Infantry Battalion and the Water Battalion have been coordinating training for the longest time, and the most trained are all kinds of landing and landing operations.

Zhang Gou knew that even if Huaidong wanted to increase its troops in the Huaisi area in the future, it was more likely that the Changshan battalion stationed in Chongzhou at this time would be transferred north, and the possibility of the Chongcheng infantry battalion being transferred to Huaisi was very low, so Chen Yan did not need to worry about meeting his former colleagues in the future.

This time, Chen Yan had the opportunity to lead his infantry to cooperate with the water battalion, but he did not go to attack Daishan Island, which was heavily defended by the rebels of Zhejiang and Fujian.