The county officials stayed overnight in Chongzhou, and did not return until the Chinese New Year's Eve, and the distance was so long that they could not even accompany their families for the New Year. On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, the officials under the government will go to Chongzhou to report, and then they will all be in Chongzhou to act as official affairs - time is as fast as urging orders, everyone is complaining, but they dare not show it, for fear that the pigtails will be caught, which is a catastrophe of breaking the door and exterminating the clan.

The specific plan for the rectification of Hailing Mansion is the responsibility of Lin Mengde, Hu Zhiyong, Li Shuyi, Li Shutang and others, but Lin Jian must come forward to preside over it. It is also busy until the New Year is approaching, and I take a breath.

You have to invite Lin Mengde, Hu Zhiyong, Li Shuyi, Li Shutang and others to enjoy the plum blossoms in the plum garden behind the mountain.

"Li Shuyi is in charge of the compilation of Ding Ding Mu in Hailing County, who should be responsible for his original affairs in Chongzhou County?" Lin Jian asked Lin Mengde.

"Wang Chengfu can do it." Lin Mengde said.

"What about the Crane City Patrol?" Lin Jian asked, "The burden of Hecheng is not lighter than Chongcheng!" ”

"I suggest that Zhiyong go to the past," Lin Mengde said, "the Jinhai Grain Road will move westward to Hecheng, and Hecheng will vigorously develop seaports, fishing grounds, textiles, shipbuilding, iron smelting and other affairs in the future, which is similar to Guanyintan, and Zhiyong is the most suitable in the past!" ”

Lin Jian looked at Hu Zhiyong and asked, "What do you think of yourself?" ”

"I'll go wherever the adults want me to go." Hu Zhiyong replied.

"What kind of answer is that?" Lin Jian asked with a smile, and then said, "Then it's decided!" If you're not happy, don't blame me. ”

"Zhu Ai of Hecheng Nantun is quite capable, is he transferred to do things with Shuyi?" Lin Mengde said again.

Zhu Ai initially offered salt to defend the seawall, entered Huaidong as a worker, and became a tun chief, Lin Mengde recommended him to Li Shuyi as a deputy at this time - Lin Lian nodded and said: "Okay, it's good to transfer him to Shuyi as a deputy." ”

"In half a year, the matter of compiling Ding Ding and fixing acres can almost be done," Lin Mengde said, "I don't know how much the tax and grain can be increased in the four counties of Hailing?" ”

The two prefectures of Huaidong, as well as Chongzhou and Hailing counties, are better, and the disasters in other counties are more serious; In later generations, northern Jiangsu was a traditional poor county and city, and its economy was far less developed than that of southern Jiangsu.

The effect of the compilation of the Ding Mu and the reduction or exemption of the Ding tax and miscellaneous donations on the local tax is one plus and one subtraction. In mid-July, Lin Jian recommended officials to the counties, mainly to find out the situation in the counties; In half a year, in fact, I can only get a rough idea, and I can't know the exact number.

Besides, if you really want to do the work of compiling Ding Dingmu, the resistance will still be very large, no more than Chongzhou when the whole city was slaughtered - so it is difficult to estimate what kind of results can be achieved.

"Who knows!" Lin Jian smiled faintly and said, "If Hailing Mansion can successfully realize the change of silver to levy grain next year, so that the actual levy of grain will reach 400,000 stones, I will thank God, I don't expect more ......."

"That's not much more than this year!" Li Shutang said.

This year, in addition to Chongzhou County, Hailing Mansion paid 90,000 taels of silver and 180,000 stones of grain; In order to achieve the target of collecting 400,000 stone grains, it can be achieved as long as local expenditures are cut, and there is no need to compile and set acres on a large scale.

"A different concept!" Lin Lian explained, "We should not think about how much grain can be collected, but we should consider 'how much can the total supply of grain in Huaidong increase, and how much more grain can we raise by means of purchase in addition to requisitioning grain?'" ’”

Lin Jian paused slightly, and said: "Qian Zhuang put money on the tunzhai to support the reclamation of the coastal areas, in five years, we don't expect to get direct income from the field tax from the tunzhai everywhere, but during this time, because of the large-scale reclamation of the tunzhai, how many more farm tools will the iron workshop sell?" How much more cotton does the weaving mill sell? How many new brick kilns have been set up in Huaidong, and how many new lime and wood ships, coal and wood ships, and iron and sand wood ships have been added to Huaidong? How much income do these provide for Huaidong? After cultivating so many grain fields, how much surplus grain was provided for Huaidong? What is the effect on the stabilization of grain prices in Huaidong? The political affairs are so big that they are nothing more than this, of course, the princes of the court are disdainful of these. ”

"Hehe," Li Shutang touched his head and laughed self-deprecatingly, "I always can't keep up with the adult's train of thought!" ”

Lin Lian smiled and said, "Since ancient times, everyone has focused on the fields. Of course, food is important, otherwise we would not have made great efforts to increase grain production, but in order to raise financial resources for the army, we should broaden our horizons...... After the Chinese New Year, the military department will have a detailed summary of this year's work, and everyone will have a deeper understanding of these issues at that time. ”

Lin Mengde sighed in his heart and said: "As far as land acquisition is concerned, reclamation of wasteland is far less fast than compiling acres and fixing acres. After all, the investment in clearing wasteland, building water conservancy, and relocating people is very large, and the time is slow. It is much faster to set up an acre, and if an acre of concealed grain field is verified, an acre of land endowment will be increased, but more importantly, it is necessary to let the tenant farmers take a breath! ”

"Figured it out now?" Lin Jian asked with a smile.

"I figured it out," Lin Mengde said, "Especially at this time, when the grain is in the hands of the big farmers and the rich gentry, they will only take out a small amount of grain and sell it in exchange for luxury goods such as silk and silk forging, and more grain will be hoarded." If more grain is distributed to the tenants, they will have enough to eat, and the stability of the place will be one thing. They will also work more energetically, and will be able to serve the grain fields more attentively, and the grain output will be higher in the coming year - they will use the surplus grain to feed the livestock, and they will also take it out and sell it, buy farm tools, buy cloth, build new houses, build cupboards, and so on, and only then will the iron-smelting workshops, textile factories, and the collection of industrial and mining taxes, and commercial taxes be very profitable......"

"Although it is superficial, this is almost the truth!" Lin Jian said.

Lin Mengde did not agree to completely give up the tax income of the tunzhai at the beginning, but he had no choice but to agree.

The money bank released the seal money, and the interest rate of the money was as high as one and a half cents. The tunzhai has to return the principal and interest, and Huaidong will collect rent and tax on the wasteland, and it will be very difficult for the tunzhai to maintain the livelihood of the tunzhai households.

On the other hand, this side does not levy rent taxes on wasteland, and it is easy to shirk the doubts and difficulties of Jiangning and the Salt and Iron Division: Huaidong does not collect a penny of rent and taxes, and the question of accusing Huaidong of encroaching on land in the salt area is always weaker.

A total of 11 tunzhai villages have been set up along the Hanhai wall, and so far, a total of 170,000 people, including the families of workers and camps, have been resettled, totaling 50,000 households, and more than 500 agricultural cooperatives have been organized under the 11 tunzhai. Based on the fact that each farmer borrowed 2,000 taels of silver from Qianzhuang, Qianzhuang distributed more than 1,000,000 taels of silver to the Huaidong reclamation and barren tun planting business.

With the participation of Huaidong Qianzhuang, the speed of reclamation and planting has been greatly improved.

By this time, a total of 180 houses had been built in the embankment, and 360,000 acres of wasteland had been reclaimed.

Although the greatest significance of reclamation is to resettle the families of the workers and camps, and to resettle the displaced people, so as to ensure sufficient, stable and reliable soldiers for the Huaidong Army.

But even the most direct, Huaidong is not unprofitable from the inside.

Although the tunzhai has not been able to provide rent and tax revenue to Huaidong for three to five years, these 50,000 tun households have consumed nearly half of the iron produced by the Huaidong ironworking plant in the past year. Relying on this part of the income alone, Huaidong Iron Smelting Factory maintained the cost expenditure for the whole year.

In the same way, the Huaidong Military Division can obtain 200,000 catties of refined iron from the iron-smelting workshop for the manufacture of armor, warships and other weapons without spending any cost.

Of course, the money and interest income of Huaidong Bank, the Lijin Bureau must first levy a money tax of 10% and 5. Today, Huaidong Qianzhuang has lent more than one million taels of silver to Tunzhai. Theoretically, the Monetary Bureau could levy a money tax of 22,500 taels of silver from the bank every year.

At this time, in the past year, the amount of lime, coal, iron sand, tung oil, wood, cotton silk, etc. transferred from Chongzhou has more than doubled compared with the past; Compared with before Lin Jian came to Chongzhou, the number has increased by dozens of times and hundreds of times.

For the time being, the Haidong Commercial Route is still monopolized by the Military Division, and the income is not included in the Lijin Bureau; After deducting the commercial tax revenue of the Jinhai Grain Road, the other commercial tax and industrial and mining tax revenue of the Bureau in the past year was as high as 200,000 taels of silver.

In fact, these incomes are not surprising; Even if the silver obtained from the salt and silver grain and the Jinhai grain road were used to repair the seawall, Huaidong was not short of silver.

There are many industrial constructions in Huaidong, and Lin Jian attaches the most importance to iron smelting and shipbuilding, firstly, this is the foundation of the Huaidong base, and secondly, these two industrial constructions have the most direct role in promoting the improvement of the combat effectiveness level of the Huaidong Army.

In contrast, monopolizing Haidong's raw silk trade is the most lucrative source of profits in Huaidong.

In the past year, Huaidong produced silk and purchased raw silk from Haiyu, Chenjia and Hailing and shipped it to Haidong for sale, totaling 3,000 quintals. 3,000 quintals of raw silk provided Huaidong with a net profit of about 700,000 taels of silver.

If this number is revealed, custody can scare the big teeth of many people.

Huaidong relied on the monopoly of the profits of Haidong's raw silk trade, in addition to paying for the needs of the Haidong camp garrison in Jeju, this year officially built the Jeju City on Thursday, built an iron-smelting workshop with an annual output of 300,000 catties of iron in Jeju City, and also transported 500,000 stone rice grain, more than 26,000 pieces of leather, 200,000 catties of copper, 6 million catties of coal, 2 million catties of iron sand and other materials from Haidong.

In addition, a large amount of tea, cotton cloth, cane sugar, porcelain, etc., were shipped to Haidong for sale, which provided Huaidong with huge profits. Only in this way can Lin Jian try to build a super-large sea area like the "Lin Zhengjun" regardless of the cost, and only then can he have the capital to use eighty percent of the shipbuilding capacity of the Guanyintan Shipyard to build warships.

Only in this way can the Jinghai Battalion be calmly expanded to 15,000 people, and it can ensure that the scale of warships will be equally expanded, and the level of combat effectiveness will not decline.

Only in this way can the craftsmen directly under the Huaidong Ordnance Prison exceed 6,000 people in the first half of the lunar month. Not counting the shipyard, the Ordnance Supervision alone consumes more than 40,000 catties of refined iron every month, so it will not make people feel distressed.

In terms of financial resources, Lin Jian is not worried about anything, he is still worried about food. Especially in troubled times, grain, iron, salt and cloth, grain is always in the first place.

Although there are more than 10 million people in Haidong, the grain is not very rich, and one million stone and rice grains can be transported from the Haidong area every year, and the forest is quite satisfied.

A million stone of grain looks like a lot, but it's actually very little.

The displaced soldiers, their families, and refugees trapped in Huaiyang by Chen Zhihu's subordinates and the Changhuai Army were almost four or five hundred thousand.

For these people alone, if they want to survive the grain shortage, they must invest at least 1.5 million stone rice grains in order to survive the one-year reclamation period.

Pingjiang Prefecture is short of grain, Jiahang Lake is short of grain, southern Huinan is short of grain, Huaixi is short of grain, Huaisi is short of grain, and Huaidong is only self-sufficient in grain. Lin Lian's fight for the prefect of Hailing this time is to grab time to compile and determine the acres of Hailing.

It is not expected that the grain allowance can be increased all at once, but it is also necessary to ensure that ordinary tenants and peasant households can benefit from farming and increase their enthusiasm to participate in local water conservancy construction, improvement of acreage, improvement of farm tools, reclamation of land and planting, and so on. In a short period of one to two years, we will strive to increase the total grain output in Huaidong by leaps and bounds.

There are not many Dingkou in the east, and there are only more than 100,000 elites who can fight well, even if the soldiers and horses of Yanxi Zhuhu are counted, there are no more than 200,000 elite soldiers who can fight. However, in the previous invasions of foreign races, it was precisely the surrendered army that failed to resist and turned around to kill their own family members but was extremely ferocious.

At that time, in order to control the battlefield north of the Huai River, Huaidong will not only have enough silver in his hands, but also enough food and population.

Chen Zhihu is so brutal, it seems that he killed the rebellious people for the imperial court. His ferocity, after the destruction of the southern part of central Jin, and the complete loss of resistance in the entire Henan region. Once the Dongyu invade the south, Hebei, Jinzhong, Henan and other places will not have much resistance.

Will the Cao family go out of Tongguan? Counting on the Liang family? Instead of counting on the Cao family and the Liang family, it is better to expect the Red Jacket Army to hold out in Huaisi for a while longer!

The sudden sound of horses' hooves seemed to shake down the lying snow on the courtyard wall, Lin Jian listened to the sound of horses' hooves, frowned slightly, and complained: "The New Year, why don't you let people live in peace!" ”