Zhang Wendeng ran in with the satin placket of the official robe, bowed to Huang Jinnian, who was sitting in the hall, and arched with all the colleagues present, and said: "Lin Xuwen, Yang Yihang, Ma Yigong, Zhou Guangdong and others have all gone to the island, Sun Fengyi and Zhou Guangnan went to Jinwei Island before noon, and nine times out of ten Lin Tie came over - he pretended to be filial piety, ignoring Chongzhou's military and political affairs, but secretly sneaked to Jinhai, his heart ...... His heart ...... "In the end, he didn't say the rest of the words."

Huang Jinnian was gloomy and silent, did he secretly bully the king? Unless someone is sent to the island to catch Lin Bin, where will the handle come from? Who to send? Even Zhang Xiang was probably unwilling to completely anger this vicious dog at this time, even if he wanted to clean him up, he would have to wait for Liang Xi, the Duke of Lu, to fully control the power of the Shandong Bureau, and he would be more sure.

Everyone in the hall was silent.

Zhang Wendeng was the first to preside over Jinhaicang as the head of the household department, and was promoted to a foreign minister by Zhang Xie, and became an important figure in Jinhai in the Zhang and Yue families, but Zhang Wendeng was far from enough to resist Lin Xuwen's strength in Jinhai.

After Tang Haoxin took charge of Shandong, Zhang Xie transferred Huang Jinnian, the right attendant of the household department and the general envoy of the Gyeonggi Kurachang, to Jinhai and became the core of Zhang Xie's officials in Jinhai.

Huang Jinnian was a member of the imperial court, and was a core member of the Zhang and Yue factions of the Chu Party with the high-ranking head of the right servant of the household department.

In order to strengthen the coordination of the distribution and transfer of money and grain in Xuanfu, Jibei and Jingying, the imperial court set up a general consulate general in Jinhai in May last year, and Huang Jinnian concurrently served as the chief envoy of the general consular department.

The concept and function of the Consul General are equivalent to those of the logistics department in later generations, and it is not only responsible for transshipment affairs, but also actually grasps the logistics and supply power of Xuanfu, Jibei and the Jingying army.

While coordinating the transfer and allocation of grain and grass, it was also in addition to Hao Zongcheng that Li Zhuo's military power in the Northern Army was restricted.

The Consular General was located in Jinhai because the grain and grass and other materials needed by the Xuanfu, Jibei and Jingying armies were heavily dependent on the input of Jinhai grain at this time.

In this way, two factions were formed in Jinhai, one was the Jinhai Ducao system headed by Lin Xuwen, Ma Yigong and others, which controlled the transportation from Shandong to the mouth of the Jinhai vortex and the defense of Jinhai. The second is the warehouse field of the household department headed by Huang Jinnian and Zhang Wendeng, and the first department of the general department, after taking away the inland river transportation from the vortex to the Wei River, is responsible for the storage, allocation and transshipment of grain and grass to Jinhai.

In addition to the Tianjin Navy led by Ma Yigong, Yang Yihang and others, there are also Huang Jinnian's controlled Cangchang Guards, with a strength of about 6,000 people in ten battalions.

The estrangement and strife between the factions greatly reduced Li Zhuo's efforts to build an elite division in Jinhai.

Huang Jinnian, Zhang Wendeng and other cronies and officials sat in the hall for a long time, and when it was dusk, they did not see Lin Xuwen, Ma Yigong, Yang Yihang and others returning from Jinwei Island.

Huang Jinnian overturned the eighteenth generation of Lin Lian's ancestors in his heart, in addition to sending a fast horse into Beijing to inform Zhang Xie that Lin Jian might go to Jinhai, he only let the messenger take the lamp, and continued to sit in the hall and wait patiently, and he didn't have the heart to let people arrange a night banquet.

Zhang Wendeng was the first to be alerted to Lin Lian's coming to Jinhai, he hadn't eaten lunch yet, and he had been holding on until now, his stomach was beating a drum, and he used the excuse to go out to relieve his hunger, and let people go to the back kitchen to find some food to relieve his hunger, and he couldn't guess Lin Lian's intention to come to Jinhai secretly, did he really have the courage to pinch the neck of the Gyeonggi Grain Road?

Thinking about it this way, I can't complain that Zhang Xiang and the palace are going to be ruthless to Tang Haoxin, who wants to pinch his neck in the hands of others all the time?

After Tang Haoxin's death, Lin Jian did not make any moves, and he also escorted King Ning to Jiangning Jing Domain in accordance with the order, why did he delay it until today?

Zhang Wendeng was puzzled, but he knew that Lin Jian really had the courage to cut off the Jinhai Grain Road, and it was likely to be the end of the fish dying and the net being broken, and both sides would be defeated!

For many years, the total amount of grain raised and transported in Gyeonggi including the 13 warehouses of Jinhai has fluctuated at about 3 million stone every year, which is mainly used for the food of the inner court, princes and civil and military officials, as well as the food and livestock feed of the officials and soldiers with a total of more than 200,000 soldiers in Xuanfu and Jibei; Only when there was a surplus of grain in the warehouse or the Gyeonggi disaster did the grain be sold to the common people.

After the Lubei Cao Road was abandoned, it barely survived the Gyeonggi grain shortage crisis by opening up the Jinhai Grain Road and the post road at the northern foot of Taihang Mountain. On the books, Gyeonggi still barely maintained a stock of 400,000 stone grains.

Zhang Wendeng knew in his heart that a considerable part of the rice grain was secretly sold in the private warehouses of grain merchants from Tianjin to Gyeonggi for profit, and the actual grain stock in the 13 warehouses in Gyeonggi was probably insufficient.

Now the Dongyu is wreaking havoc in the north of Jin, most of the grain post road in Taihang Mountain will be abolished, only one or two thousand stone grains are transported to Beijing every month, and the grain road on this side of Jinhai is pinched, even if the surplus grain in the army is counted, the 200,000 troops of Xuanfu, Jibei and Jingying can only support two or three months, and then the inner court and civil and military officials, princes and nobles will have to follow the thrift.

Can Lu Guogong grasp the situation in Dongshan in two months, and use Dengzhou Shuiying to replace the Jinhai maritime merchant forces to undertake the transportation of 200,000 stone rice grain from Shandong to Jinhai every month?

It is also necessary to take into account that Lin Jian and others may directly rebel and lead the Jinghai Battalion north to attack the Dengzhou Shui Battalion; It's good that Dengzhou Shuiying can win, but if it fails, there is no other way to think about it except to move the capital.

It is really unimaginable what kind of disaster it will be to move the capital at this time, not to mention that the situation in the southeast is also chaotic. Luxi and Yudong couldn't settle down, and they didn't even have a route to move the capital south.

The large warships parked on the dock on the west coast of Jinwei Island, even if they were four or five miles away, made people feel obvious oppressive force.

If the imperial court compromises with Zhang Xiang, will it sacrifice some of the people below? When Zhang Wendeng thought of this, his heart was a little tight.

At this time, the doorman outside walked in in small steps, Zhang Wendeng walked over to stop him, and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

"Lord Du Cao is here, and he wants to enter the general system." The official replied.

Lin Xuwen went ashore at this time? Zhang Wendeng didn't care about looking for food to quench his hunger, so he immediately went back to the hall, and waited for Lin Xuwen to come over, this fucking is coming to a showdown, whether it is death or life At this moment, where can I take care of the problem of stomach.

Lin Xuwen wore his four-grade scarlet official robe, and walked into the lobby tremblingly, saw the full hall of officials present, arched his hand towards Huang Jinnian, and said: "I don't know if Lord Huang summoned the officials to discuss matters, it's not the right time for Lin to come, so I'll come to see Lord Huang in a while......" Sun Shangwang followed Lin Xuwen, without saying a word, and everything was based on Lin Xuwen's head after coming over.

Lin Xuwen was the imperial history of Zuo Du and the governor of Hejian Mansion and the governor of the military preparation and the Dujin Haicao Transportation Division, and the official rank was the fourth grade, and was controlled by Tang Haoxin, the ambassador of Shandong and the governor.

After Tang Haoxin's death, Liang Xi, the Duke of Lu Guo, who was the governor of Shandong, was controlled by Liang Xi, who was the governor of Shandong, but Liang Xi had only entered Jinan, and his hand had not yet reached Jinhai.

Zheng Sanpin's right squire of the household department and the general consul of Gyeonggi Kuraba and the Northern Army made it impossible for Huang Jinnian to restrain Lin Xuwen either nominally or in reality; The status of the two in Jinhai is equal.

"Oh, this matter is over," Huang Jinnian patiently asked everyone to retreat, only letting Zhang Wendeng and other three or four cronies stay in the hall, and asked Lin Xuwen, "Lord Lin came to me at this time, could it be that there is something urgent that can't be done?" ”

Lin Xuwen saw that Huang Jinnian pretended to be calm, and didn't care about him, sat down, took the tea brought by the messenger, squinted his eyes slightly, and said: "I brought it to the island this afternoon, and listened to the maritime merchants in Deng, Lai, Hejian and other places, as well as the principal of Jiyun Society here, complained for a while-now the sea route is difficult and dangerous, the sea ice is wider than last year, the weather is slightly warmer, the left bank of the Jinhai Sea is full of ice floes, and the Jinhai warehouse collects net grain, but the loss of this transportation has to be borne by the maritime merchants and the Jiyun Society." Last year's given foot money, also because no one had done this before, drafted by Tang Gong when he was there, after the year, everyone accounted for it, and ran for more than half a year, not only did not earn silver, but also involved everyone to paste a lot of silver into it, the businessman said that he was profitable, and there was no silver to earn, so it was difficult for this person's heart to gather, and I also felt embarrassed, so I came to discuss with ......Lord Huang."

Huang Jinnian's eyes narrowed, staring at Lin Xuwen's face: In order to maintain the sea grain route from Shandong to Jinhai, the imperial court almost had to post a foot fee of 500 yuan per stone of rice, although it was much more frugal than transporting grain by land from Jinzhong, but compared to the sea route, it was already a fairly wide foot fee.

This foot fee, even Dengzhou Shuiying is willing to come in and intervene, but Li Zhuo, Tang Haoxin, Lin Xuwen and others are working together to stop them, Tang Haoxin and Lin Xuwen have no intentions, but in this matter, Li Zhuo exerted resistance, which also made some people complain about him.

Huang Jinnian saw that Lin Xuwen and Lin Jian were threatening to increase the cost of shipping feet, so he suppressed the anger in his heart and said, "Are the hearts of the people of Denglai Maritime Merchants scattered? His eyes were fixed on Sun Shangwang, Lin Shangwang's agent in the north.

Sun Shangwang, who was born in Hejian Mansion and could only go to Jinan in the early years to mix food and clothing for the wealthy Mr. Xixi, is now an important figure in Jinhai in the line of Lin Xuwen and Lin Xu, and the Denglai maritime merchants will transport the grain to the designated warehouse and port to the imperial goods, but there is no direct silver exchange with the warehouse, and the Jiyun Society represented by Sun Shangwang in the north is the middleman who fully settles with the household department and the warehouse.

At the same time of improving efficiency, the coordination in the center of the Jiyun Society also avoids the occurrence of arbitrary exploitation of officials by maritime merchants under the current situation of low status of merchants.

"That's true." Sun Shangwang said quietly.

"How much do you have to earn, so that people's hearts will not disperse?"

"Five cents of silver per stone of grain is enough." Sun Shangwang said.

Hearing Sun Shangwang say this, Huang Jinnian's good temper couldn't help but widen his eyes, counting on the Jinhai Grain Road to import two million stone grains every year, and each stone grain rose by five cents of silver, which means that it would cost an extra million taels of silver a year, Lin Jian really dared to open his mouth!

Zhang Wendeng couldn't figure it out in his heart, did Lin Jian want to talk about it? Where is the surplus money of one million taels of silver squeezed out of the household?