As the night deepened, Lin Jian arranged for Huang Jinnian and others to rest first; Since Wu Qi is here, he and Zhou Pu will handle the military affairs of the Xiashan camp together.

Although Lin Jian came over on this trip, and the Military Intelligence Department was accompanied by Wang Chengfu, Chen Enze and others, the most troublesome thing on this side of Xiashan was how to evacuate the more than 100,000 Jinhai people stranded here along the Jiaolai River to the south as soon as possible.

Zhou Pu is stronger than leading troops to fight, and he has a headache when tedious and trivial military affairs are entangled in his body, and seeing Wu Qi come back is more affectionate than seeing his father.

Geng Quanshan and Chen Dingbang were originally military generals, and they joined Huaidong on this trip, and Lin Jian directly arranged for them to assist Wu Qi and Zhou Pu in handling military affairs.

In addition to the more than 4,000 troops of the Huaidong Cavalry Battalion, the Wuwei of the Trading Society, and the Xiaobu Jin Navy, there are also thousands of wounded soldiers who have been withdrawn from the Jinhai first, and the most important thing is to make preparations for the withdrawal of the Tianjin Navy.

In the current situation, Yanhu will resolutely capture Jinhai, and there are enough troops to storm Jinhai - giving up Jinhai is also a helpless move.

Although Lin Jian will not give up Jinwei Island, but Jinwei Island is lonely in the sea, and the station in the island is only more than 200 acres. In the case that the Donghu people had almost no naval forces, it was enough to leave two thousand elite garrisons on Jinwei Island, which was fortified in the walled city; The remaining Jinwei army, nearly 10,000 elites, will be withdrawn to Huaidong for rest.

The one who can compete with Huaidong for control of the Tianjin Navy is Lin Xuwen - now that Lin Xuwen has completely joined Huaidong, the Tianjin Navy has moved the capital of the pawn to Huaidong for resettlement, and the Tianjin Navy has completely dissolved into Huaidong, there is no slightest resistance.

Lin Bin's initial plan was to set up another independent unit in the Infantry Division to house the Tianjin Navy.

The Tianjin Navy was born from the remnants of the Jinzhong Army, formed in the Jinhai and Yangxin battles, guarded the Jinhai, and fought for more than 300,000 people to evacuate to gain ample time.

After joining Huaidong, the Tianjin Navy is also qualified to become an independent army, and it will also add another elite combat force to Huaidong.

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Lin Jian left Lin Xuwen and Gao Zongting alone.

There was originally a large monastery on the gorge mountain, and Huaidong requisitioned this monastery to form the camp of the gorge mountain. After Lin Jian arrived in Laizhou, he regarded the monastery as his line, and he usually lived in the west wing courtyard of the Xiashan Monastery.

There are a few osmanthus trees in the yard, it is the flowering season, and the branches and leaves are full of light yellow flower bones the size of rice grains, and the rich fragrance of osmanthus comes to the nose.

Lin Xuwen and Gao Zongting walked with Lin Jian stepping on the flowers blown down by the wind on the stone path, and saw a beautiful woman walking through the corridor - this woman, in Shanyang, in Yandu, Gao Zongting had seen Lin Lian. I didn't pay attention to it before, and Lin Lian didn't introduce it, Gao Zongting only thought that this woman was Lin Lian's favorite concubine, but he didn't expect Lin Lian to come out this time and take this woman with him.

Lin Xuwen didn't care much about it, when he met a female dependent in the inner house, as a courtesy, he had to turn his eyes to look elsewhere to avoid suspicion. Although Lin was bound back to Jinhai, and Song Jia also followed her, Lin Xuwen had no impression of her.

In these years, heroes love beauties, although in the impression of Lin Xuwen and Gao Zongting, Lin Jian is not the kind of person who covets women, but infatuation with women has never been a weakness of a male lord worthy of the world's dirt - Lin Xuwen will not delve into the secret between Qi Niang and Lin Bin.

Lin Xuwen's identity is different, even if he joins Huaidong, he is still Lin Lian's brother, and his official position will rise to a higher level after arriving in Jiangning. Even if Huaidong Lin Xuwen will not be the most powerful person, he will also be the most transcendent person.

Seeing that the little woman who had no name with Lin Jian came over, Lin Xuwen just bowed his head sideways slightly to show his salute.

Gao Zongting bowed and said, "Zongting pays a visit to Madame......

"Mr. Gao is polite, the concubine Yongtai Song has seen the eldest prince and Mr. Gao......" Song Jia returned the salute and reported to the family.

"Young lady......" Gao Zongting instantly figured out who the woman with a beautiful complexion and a beautiful body in front of him was, and was stunned for a long time, and did not come back to his senses.

Whether it is the luxury family or the Song family, they are covering up the detention of Song Jia and Hao Mingyue in Chongzhou, how can they take the initiative to publicize this ugly matter to the public?

As far as Huaidong is concerned, Song Jia's identity is too sensitive, and only a handful of people in the military department know her true identity, and others only regard her as a female official who accompanied Lin Jian to deal with the documents or a favorite concubine who has not yet been named.

In the past, although the relationship between Gaozongting and Huaidong was good, Gaozongting was loyal to Li Zhuo and the imperial court, and Lin Xuwen and Huaidong were only in an alliance at that time, and they had not yet reached the level of life and death, water and milk, how could Song Jia's identity be leaked to them?

Now that Gao Zongting has joined Huaidong, Lin Jian has to rely on him as his right-hand man; Lin Xuwen also completely gave up the ambition of self-reliance in the territory, and naturally obtained a status equivalent to Lin Mengde, Cao Ziang, Qin Chengzu, Fu Qinghe and others in Huaidong - Song Jia and the Song family behind Song Jia are a factor that cannot be ignored in the changing situation in Zhejiang and Fujian.

Comparatively speaking, Huang Jinnian's peace with Huaidong was more forced by interests and situation, at least for now, he could not let him know the true core secrets of Huaidong.

Not only the existence of Song Jia, but also the intricate relationship between Lin Gu, Huaidong and Dongyang, the dark market transactions with the Red Jacket Army, and the soldiers, military potential and economic potential mastered by the Huaidong Military Division......

For several months, Gao Zongting was worried about the strength of the Yanhu people sweeping the world.

Jiang Ning seems to be able to organize an army of four or five hundred thousand in a short period of time, but with so many soldiers and horses hastily assembled, fragmented, intrigued with each other, wary of each other, and each with ambitions, how can it resist the Zhejiang-Fujian army in the south and the Yanhu army in the north at the same time?

There is a great deal of defeat and despair that cannot be controlled by the general trend - but knowing that Huaidong can mobilize up to 200,000 soldiers and horses at the most urgent time, half of which can be called elite, Gao Zongting knows that the situation still has a lot of room for redemption!

"If it weren't for the hard work of Li Bingbu and Zongting in the north in the past few years, Huaidong would not have the strength it has today," Lin Jian said, "In other days, I will definitely give Li Bingbu a fair ......."

Gao Zongting was full of emotion, the rise of Huaidong has a direct relationship with the Jinhai Grain Road.

In the past three years, through the Jinhai Grain Road, from Shandong, Jianghuai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places, the Jinhai Grain Road has transported nearly 7 million stone rice grain to Gyeonggi and the border army, all of which are under the direct control of Huaidong, Qingzhou, Jinhai and other forces.

Comparing the grain prices of Chongzhou and Jinhai, there is almost a price difference of more than eight million taels of silver, and no one can have an accurate figure on how much profit is given to the Dongyang faction.

Although Zhang Xie and others manipulated the Gyeonggi grain market for several years and plundered millions of taels of silver, they hid all the plundered wealth in silver cellars, or bought fields and houses for personal pleasure - but Huaidong used up one million taels of silver from the Jinhai grain road just to build the seawall.

In addition to other benefits, the construction of the seawall also enabled the reserve strength of the Huaidong Workers' Battalion to exceed 100,000 for a time, laying a solid foundation for the large-scale expansion of the Huaidong Army in the first half of the year.

This is just one example of Huaidong's achievements over gold and silver.

Speaking of which, Lin Xuwen is also ashamed, he knows that Hejian Mansion is also the superintendent of military preparation and the superintendent of Jinhai Caoyun, and he can be said to be one of the few powerful officials in Dayue outside the temple. But in the past three years, in addition to supporting the regular armament of the 6,000 people of the Tianjin Navy, Lin Xuwen has not done anything more in Jinhai.

As a result, before the war, the Tianjin Navy was expanded on a large scale, and nearly half of the reserve soldiers were still the group of captured people that Lin Jian brought from Yangxin to Jinhai for resettlement.

If Lin Xuwen has any achievements, it is that he has an extra 400,000 taels of silver in his private pocket. At the beginning, the Lin family hastily withdrew from Shanglinli, and the silver moved from the silver cellar was only 200,000 taels, and Lin Xuwen's achievements in the three years of searching in Jinhai were also considerable.

But when he came to Jinhai to trap the Donghu soldiers and horses to death, Lin Xuwen suddenly repented, no matter how much gold and silver he had, it was the most useless dead thing accumulated in the silver cellar.

As early as mid-April, Lin Xuwen added 400,000 silver as the principal to Huaidong Qianzhuang. In the name of the Huaidong Military Division, Lin Jian lent this silver to purchase surplus grain from grain merchants along the Jinhai Grain Road as a material reserve for the evacuation of nearly 400,000 soldiers and civilians to the south.

"Without the support of the military department and the Zongting in the north, the Jinhai grain road would not be able to last so long, and without the existence of the Jinhai grain road, Huaidong would not be able to talk about it if he wanted to accumulate strength," Lin Jian said, "At the beginning, the eldest brother's achievements in Jinhai were irreplaceable......

Lin Xuwen said ashamedly: "Seventeenth brother doesn't need to put gold on my face, in the end, there is still a difference between the realm of spending silver......

Lin Jian smiled and diverted the topic to other things.

Song Jia stood behind Lin Tie and secretly sighed: Yan Ji and Jin County have been largely controlled by Yan Hu, but Huaidong has benefited greatly from successfully organizing the evacuation of soldiers and civilians in Jinhai......

The withdrawal of the Tianjin Navy will directly become an elite combat force that can be used by Huaidong.

Nearly 400,000 soldiers and civilians were evacuated to Shengsi, Changguo, and Mingzhou Prefectures and counties for resettlement, which would directly consolidate Huaidong's rule over eastern Zhejiang. The relocation of nearly 400,000 soldiers and civilians will help to quickly restore or even further improve the agricultural production of Mingzhou Prefecture.

There are many abandoned fields in Mingzhou Prefecture that are due to the sharp decline in population, and there is almost no difficulty in clearing wasteland; In addition, a large number of land and houses that have been requisitioned and reduced to official ownership can directly resettle the population.

In order to avoid farming as much as possible, Huaidong adopted the method of moving households to fill in the resettlement of displaced people.

As early as the beginning of May, the households were drawn from the tunzhai in Chongzhou, Hecheng and other places to fill in Mingzhou, and in the summer and autumn, the official fields and abandoned fields confiscated by the Mingzhou government were planted with rice, cotton, hemp, cane and other crops. The people evacuated from Jinhai arrived in Huaidong in early June and first filled in the tunzhai to make up for the shortage of agricultural labor -- it was in this way that more than 300,000 mu of land was planted in Mingzhou Prefecture, and farming and reclamation in Hecheng, Chongzhou and other places were not mistaken.

This is a great relief to ease the pressure on food next year.

The nearly 400,000 soldiers and civilians who moved south will be able to provide Huaidong with 40,000 to 60,000 qualified reservists in addition to the Tianjin Navy.

It will always take a year or two for the south-migrants to settle down in the locality, and during this time, it will inevitably be necessary for Huaidong to further expand the scale of the workers' battalion, so as to help the south-migrated people through the initial difficult years in the form of work-for-relief.

Lin Xuwen, Huang Jinnian and others joined Huaidong, and Huaidong will be able to support his own spokesperson in Jiangning Xindu in addition to Gu Wuchen.

Because of the Jinhai grain road, Jinhai has also accumulated a huge amount of wealth.

Including the Huang Jinnian family, the Huaidong Military Division received a military "donation" of about 300,000 silver at a time, and the Huaidong Qianzhuang even received a principal of more than one million taels of silver.

In the name of the Huaidong Military Division, Lin Jian borrowed 1 million taels of silver from Huaidong Qianzhuang to purchase the surplus grain accumulated in the hands of grain merchants after the suspension of the Injinhai Grain Road.

In addition to the 400,000 stone rice grain used to evacuate the people of Jinhai to the south and the early resettlement, at the moment when the grain pressure in various places was so tight, the rice grain reserve in Huaidong also increased to 1.4 million stone.

Of course, the total amount of money borrowed by the Huaidong Military Division from Huaidong Qianzhuang also surged to 2 million taels of silver, and the annual payment of interest alone was as high as 240,000 taels.

Only at this time can we see the great benefits of Lin Lian's resolute establishment of Huaidong Qianzhuang.

Except for Huang Jinnian, who donated real money and silver for military funds in order to protect the family, the others are Lin Xuwen, no matter how high his consciousness is, he will not take out the family's silver to raise the army in vain.

Compared with the forcible requisition, which would provoke violent resistance, Huaidong used Huaidong Qianzhuang as a medium to raise military funds was much warmer and more affectionate - although Huaidong had to pay high money and interest for this, it also closely united the scattered forces around Huaidong through Huaidong Qianzhuang.

Those grain merchants, also because the Jinhai grain road was broken, the grain in their hands was purchased by the Huaidong Military Division, and they had no source for the silver for a while, and they were in chaos, and they did not dare to walk around with a large amount of silver.

The redemption and sale of the Huaidong Military Division also further won the trust of the grain merchants, who were more willing to deposit the silver in the money bank to eat the money interest.

Using the model of Huaidong Qianzhuang and Tunzhai, the Huaidong Military Division was also able to greatly reduce the expenditure on resettlement of displaced people and reclamation of wasteland.

In fact, after the incorporation of the Jinhai forces, although Huaidong only occupied the land of the three prefectures, plus the Huaisi area controlled by the Huaiyang Military Town, and counting Jeju and the newly acquired Yizhou, there were only 25 counties in Manda, but the actual military potential was not much worse than that of the luxury families in the nearly 100 counties in the area under their control.