(The first update, ask for a red ticket)

It took half a year to prepare, and the foundation was dug and built in early August, and in late October in early winter, the city wall of Linjiang has been built nearly one zhang high, lying at the eastern foot of Zilang Mountain, and the military mountain peaks and peaks in the shallow waters of the Zhili River are close to each other.

The boat travels on the river, and people stand on the bow of the boat and look into the distance, and the new Chongcheng that has not yet been finally built has a bit of majestic spirit.

Chongcheng is near the river, although it is according to the foot of the mountain, but the land is mostly the soil accumulated by silt, it is difficult to build the city in the foundation, dig out the floating soil, pave a large number of blue strip stones as the base, only to ram the triple soil on it for the core of the wall, and cover the blue brick wrap - the same silver, in exchange for other places can build a big city of two thousand steps around the week, after the completion of the new Chongcheng, the circumference is only one thousand two hundred steps, and the city wall is only planned to be built to a zhang five feet high.

Xinchongcheng is placed in the Jianghuai big city, which generally does not pay attention to city building, and it is far from being a big city.

If you go to Chongcheng alone, it is indeed not a male city, but the danger of Chongcheng is not in the city, but in Zilang Mountain.

Under the cover of Guangjiao Temple, the luxury family has been operating Zilang Mountain for several years, intending to build Zilang Mountain into a military base to support their boat division to occupy the mouth of the river and even attack Jiangning.

The luxury family not only dug a wharf and built a secret warehouse in the south cliff, but also built a solid and unusual temple at the east foothill, the north foot and the top of the mountain. Again open up the mountain road to hook up and down, build the mountain gate is really a pass to guard the dangerous road, the gentle slope is cut soil and covered bricks for the steep cliff, except for the northeast foothills, the enemy climbs the way of mountaineering.

After Lin Jian exterminated the monks of Guangjiao Temple, on the original basis, he wanted to further transform Zilang Mountain into a mountain city and fortress defense system.

At the north foot, the east foot, the south cliff wharf, the southeast slope, the northeast slope and the top of the hill to form a triple defense fort, the inner line to open a relatively stable paving ramp to connect, so that the troops in the inner line of rapid movement, to achieve mutual support between the forts, the road danger to build a pass, or cut the slope and bricks for the city wall, or build a barrier wall.

More than 1,000 elite troops are stationed, which is enough to block thousands of troops and horses under the mountain, and is the most solid and reliable western barrier of Xinchongcheng.

Chongcheng and Zilang Mountain City are dependent on each other, and it is not yet a complete concept of the comprehensive defense system of Lin Tie Chongzhou.

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On the 25th, Lin Jian led the Jinghai No. 1 Water Battalion to escort nearly 3,000 prisoners of war back to Chongzhou, and Lin Mengde, Qin Chengzu, Sun Jingtang, Sun Jingxuan, Hu Zhiyong, Hu Zhicheng, Li Shuyi, Li Shutang and others in Chongcheng went to Guanyin Beach to greet them.

As soon as Lin Jian returned to Chongzhou, Zhao Qingshan led the first water battalion of Jinghai to enter the military cottage, and Lin Jian asked everyone to accompany him to the military mountain.

Junshan Mountain is opposite to Zilang Mountain, independent in the middle of the river, the mountain body above the exposed river covers an area of about 300 acres, slightly higher than Zilang Mountain, and the measured height is 35 zhang and 4 feet.

Looking at the land of China, Junshan is really not a majestic mountain, but in the corner of the river and sea that has been silted into land, the topography of Junshan and Zilang Mountain is extra dangerous. Because of its resemblance to an elephant, it was called Elephant Mountain in the early years, far away in Qin, the King of Qin garrisoned the army in the military mountain to guard the danger to plug the mouth of the river, so it was named the military mountain.

The East China Sea was in trouble, and Chongzhou County built a water village in Junshan to prevent the invasion of the Kou; Two years ago, it officially became the garrison of the water camp in Ninghai Town. Xiao Taoyuan also has the intention of operating the military mountain, stationed in the elite of his cronies, most of the military funds obtained in the past two years have been invested here, and the military mountain village has been further rebuilt and expanded.

In terms of the establishment of the town army, the inner harbor of the military cottage can be berthed with three battalions of boat divisions, which is the most important camp dock in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River except for Jiyang.

With Fu Qinghe leading heavy troops to guard the outer line of Shengsi, Xisha Island does not need to be specially stationed with heavy troops, Zhao Qingshan led the Jinghai No. 1 Water Battalion to directly stationed in the military cottage, directly with the military cottage as the garrison, Guanyin Beach and the port on the east side can be converted to civilian use, and the money can be received to real military funds.

"The pattern of the military cottage is still too small," Lin Jian stood at the head of the military mountain cliff and pointed to the river under the mountain, and said to the old engineer Ge Fu, "When I came to Chongzhou, I wanted to build a dam between the two mountains, so that the two mountains could meet......

The old engineer Ge Fu stroked his chin and white beard and smiled.

His revised plan was to build two stone dams to the river, one stone dam from the north foot of the military mountain and the south wall of Chongcheng directly connected, and the other stone dam connected the western foothills of the military mountain and the south cliff of Zilang Mountain, completely connecting the general mountain with the topography of Zilang Mountain and Chongcheng.

The northwest foot of the military mountain is sandwiched between the steep cliff of the south cliff of Zilang, and the wall is built on the stone dam, which can form a garrison port city with a thousand acres of water, which can berth hundreds of warships, and the scale is more than ten times that of the current military cottage.

To the east of the barrage stone dam, the water surface sandwiched between the south wall of Chongcheng and the northeast foot of Junshan is also five or six hundred acres wide, which can be used as an outer harbor for mooring merchant ships and develop Jiang City outside the east gate of Chongcheng.

Including the new Chongcheng, the triple fortress of Zilang Mountain and the Junshan Port City, the river is divided by the mountains, which is the concept of a complete water and land city defense system planned by Lin Tie for Chongzhou, so that the idea of sea control can be integrated into it.

The future pattern of Chongzhou is far from being reflected in the new Chongcheng with 1,200 steps per week.

Sun Jingxuan, Sun Jingtang, Hu Zhiyong, Hu Zhicheng, Li Shuyi, Li Shutang and others were all in high spirits when they heard this, and they all knew the overall plan.

Although the situation in eastern Zhejiang collapsed, a series of victories of the Jiangdong Left Army on the northern front completely stabilized the position of Lin Jian in Chongzhou, and perhaps everyone in Chongzhou was quite optimistic about the direction of the situation.

For many days, not only could the local people in Chongzhou not hear the voice of opposing Lin Tie, but everyone could affirm that even the county department and the imperial court could not do without Lin Tie leading the Jiangdong Left Army to guard the Jianghai gateway - this is the most fundamental foundation for Lin Tie to calmly manage Chongzhou. With this foundation, all other causes and sufferings are temporary.

Lin Mengde had a bitter look on his face, he had always believed that compared to the majestic concept, the silver in his hand was the most solid foundation.

Lin Meng's heart ached, Lin Jian turned his head and said to him: "I plan to organize all the prisoners of war into the workers' camp, after the Hecheng Kou soldiers surrender, the scale of the workers' camp will be expanded to 8,000 people, and the supplies will be reduced to one level according to the auxiliary soldiers, regardless of the salary for the time being, I plan to let Jingtang lead the workers' camp, but the greater pressure is on your shoulders......"

"What can I say, I can't dig a hole and fill it." Lin Mengde said helplessly.

"......" Lin Jian smiled, ignoring Lin Mengde's grievances, and said to Sun Jingtang, "If an army is erected, it must be based on the grassroots military attaché, which is also the original reason why I built a war training literacy class in Chongzhou. The grassroots military attachés who are the skeletons are all taken out and imprisoned, and ordinary Jin'an veterans may still have attachment to the luxury family, but it is also limited. I will draw flags from each battalion, and more than 100 people from Wu Zheng will give you, and add them to the workers' battalion as the commander of the capital, thinking that it is the skeleton of the workers' battalion. But you must keep in mind that these prisoners of war may be reformed from hard labor, but they must not be despised or insulted. You should also be kind to the commanders of the capitals, and do not engage in opposition in the labor camp. Those who are willing to serve Chongzhou, work actively and do not slack off, need to be rewarded, and can be promoted to Wu Zheng and the flag head as an example. There is no absolute barrier between the establishment of the army and the transformation of prisoners of war, steamed buns and big sticks - in addition to building blockages and roads in the labor camp, simple drills and training cannot be stopped, and in daily life, it is necessary to publicize the evil of luxury and the preferential treatment of Chongzhou. These prisoners of war were used well, and they worked wonders. ”

Sun Jingtang nodded in agreement, but his expression was quite solemn, and he didn't feel that the burden he had to bear was lighter than Lin Meng's.

If the 2,000 soldiers trapped in Hecheng can be successfully surrendered, the number of prisoners of war to be taken over by the Gongjia battalion will reach more than 7,000, which will exceed the number of soldiers after the expansion of the Jiangdong Left Army.

Some of these prisoners of war were pirates from Jiangdong and Liangzhejiang, and more were Jin'an veterans who were loyal to the luxury family.

At the beginning of the founding of the country, Dongmin can be said to be a wild land, only to establish Jin'an, Jian'an, Quanzhou three prefectures, after the eight surnames into Fujian, so that Dongmin has been truly developed in more than 200 years, so the influence of the eight surnames in Dongfu is unimaginable to ordinary people.

In addition, Li Zhuo was afraid and did not dare to gather seven or eight thousand prisoners of war for hard labor, in case of chaos, it would be a big mess, and it would be difficult to clean up. However, for the Jiangdong Left Army, which had a very thin foundation, so many cheap young and strong laborers could not be used, and it was probably the best means to be incorporated into the workers' camp.

First, it can be centrally controlled by the strict means of the army, and second, the workers' battalions can mostly follow the movement of the garrison, and if there is chaos, the garrison can be mobilized in time to suppress it. As for the miraculous effect that Lin Jian said, Sun Jingtang didn't care about it at this time.

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Coming down from Junshan, Lin Jian took a boat directly to Dongya, and did not have time to rush up the mountain.

Because Wu Mei had been ill for a long time, and the war had just entered the stage of stalemate, many affairs in Chongzhou County were still concentrated in the Dongya.

The war on the outer front was in full swing, but the collection of autumn grain in Chongzhou was not greatly affected, and it was successfully completed at this time.

Chongzhou County has lost a lot of losses due to the reduction and exemption of Ding taxes and various capitation assessments, but the inventory of acres of land in the past six months has caused the number of acres of naturalized fields in Chongzhou to surge by nearly 500,000 mu to 2 million mu, which can increase a lot of income.

However, after the autumn grain was collected, the income from the field was far beyond the previous prediction and everyone's imagination. The total amount of grain collected and converted into silver and rice grain reached 180,000 stone - the waterlogging in the summer and autumn of this year was more serious than in previous years, and the total annual income of the field tax in Chongzhou County in a normal year was only 780,000 stone.

Chongcheng was slaughtered in April, the old officials were emptied, and the by-election officials were able to do their duty, and the very little greed and exploitation from it was a factor - it boiled down to one point, that is, Lin Lian's tentacles to control Chongzhou have penetrated into every corner of Chongzhou.

In addition to the autumn grain endowment, the inventory of public land centered on the main rivers in Chongzhou, such as the Yunyan River and the Xishan River, was basically completed, and 240,000 mu of public land was found.

Although the vast majority of these public fields are wasteland prone to waterlogging, and the rent is calculated as the following fields, the accumulated rent is calculated at 30% of the annual harvest, and the cumulative penalty is five years, and a total of 360,000 stone of rice and silver are also obtained.

The great military victory of the Jiangdong Left Army also suppressed the opposition that might have jumped out in Chongzhou and the county division.

In addition, the largest piece is the land rent income of Tuntian and Gongtian, Lin Jian led the Jiangdong Left Army into Chongzhou, through a thorough investigation of the bandit case, the investigation of the monastic field, so that Chongzhou's naturalized fields increased greatly at the same time, but also obtained a large number of Tuntian directly belonging to the Jiangdong Left Army.

The total number of these tuntians, together with the public land that has been inventoried, is more than 400,000 mu. Although these fields are mainly middle and lower acres with thin yields, and the rent reduction and tax reduction campaign carried out by Lin Tie in Chongzhou has reduced the proportion of rent collection to 30 percent, this piece has also provided nearly 120,000 stone of autumn grain income for the Jiangdong Left Army.

Ordinary officials were already dumbfounded when they only knew that Chongzhou's autumn grain was being given 180,000 stones, but Lin Mengde, Sun Jingtang, Sun Jingxuan, Hu Zhicheng, Hu Zhiyong, Li Shuyi, Li Shutang and a few others knew that the actual number of warehouses for this autumn grain collection had reached 660,000 stones—if others knew this amount, they were afraid that their tongues would be scared off.

Even if the penalty is partially deducted, the income of autumn grain will reach 300,000 stones, and with the addition of summer grain, Chongzhou County's annual rent income will exceed 450,000 stones, which is more than 200,000 taels of silver.

Coupled with the other industries of the Jiangdong Left Army in Chongzhou, it will be more than enough to support 10,000 elites in one county.

Lin Jian was not surprised by this result.

In many places in Eastern Fujian, there is a saying of "nine mountains and one land", when the luxury family was at its peak, it controlled most of the land in Eastern Fujian, and if it was counted as good land, it was actually not as much as Hailing - the luxury family could support 100,000 elites in Eastern Fujian and Li Zhuo for ten years.

It is appropriate to calculate Chongzhou's potential by the standard of luxury families operating Eastern Fujian, and the key is to have the ability to tap out Chongzhou's potential and prevent the tax source from flowing into the hands of the township tycoons and greedy officials.