(I can't sleep, and I'm a big chapter with 6,000 words)

Lin Jian only planned to stay in Longzui Mountain for one night, and the people's livelihood in Suizhou could not be delayed until the battle of Jingxiang was completely over, so he summoned Song Fu, Hu Wenmu, Wang Xiang and others to discuss overnight.

Luo Xiancheng according to Suizhou, once claimed to have 200,000 soldiers, together with a small family of more than 400,000 people, after the Wang Xiang ruled, Luo Xiancheng retained 80,000 soldiers, about 300,000 people settled in Suizhou, Xiaochang, Zaoyang, Lishan counties.

Luo Xiancheng joined Yanhu and transferred Tunding to supplement the camp, and the number of soldiers and horses increased to 130,000 at one time. At this time, 130,000 Suizhou troops were killed or defeated or surrendered or attached, but there were still nearly 300,000 people in Suizhou who were originally Suizhou Army Tunding and their families.

"In addition to the 300,000 people in Suizhou Tunding and Jiaxiao, there are still more than 400,000 people in Dingkou in the place, plus the displaced people in Qichun, Hanjin, Huangpi and Shicheng and other places, as well as in the Huaiyou Mountains, the soldiers can get 800,000 people in Dingkou!" Wang Zhao came with the civil affairs of the state.

Before the war, in the eastern and northern Hubei regions of the Jianghan Plain, the total number of Dingkou was more than three million, and the population was reduced to less than one-third of the pre-war at this time, Lin Jian sighed lightly, did not say anything, and could not even complain about Luo Xiancheng's killing place.

"In Nanyang, Henan and other places, there is not one out of ten households, and the situation is several times worse than that of Suizhou," Lin Jian said, "It seems that Luo Xiancheng still did some things to settle down in Suizhou in the later period; Of course, there is a lot of credit for this, Prime Minister Wang......"

"If it weren't for the people's livelihood, the officials would not be willing to be thieves." Wang Xiang said.

Wang Xiang said this to clear himself, and Lin Jian didn't mind, knowing that he was still very talented, and being a thief in troubled times couldn't be regarded as a stain. You can't be too strict with people, after all, many times people have no choice, that is, in the Suizhou Army, Wang Xiang is still a person with a clear name, compared with Zhong Rong, Wei Zhang and others, he can still clean himself and take care of the people's livelihood. If you can do that, it's enough.

Including Nanyang, Xiangyang, Suizhou, Shicheng, Huangzhou, Jingzhou and Jiangxia Prefecture, Jiangbei counties, the core area controlled by the former Suizhou Army, that is, Suizhou Prefecture, was able to quickly restore people's livelihood.

The situation in the southern counties of Xiangyang and Jingzhou Prefecture may be slightly better, after all, the time given to Yanhu to occupy is very short, a large number of people can take refuge in Jingshan in the west to avoid the war, and the large-scale famine that is the most harmful and murderous has not yet formed.

Even if the three prefectures of Jiangxia, Ezhou, and Xianning on the south bank of the Yangtze River are included, it is unlikely that the once prosperous Jianghan Plain will exceed 4 million in the war-torn Dingkou, which is half of the pre-war period.

"Suizhou Yingtian is privately owned by generals, and it is confiscated as public property at this time; In the old Tunding cultivators, they were allowed to be classified as civil registrations, and the rent of tenant land was reduced to 30% according to the Huaidong regulations, and no additional distribution was allowed, and the income was used to make up for local consumption," Lin Jian said, "The cooked land that was vacated by the state army in September was cleared, and the people who fought with the army in response to the land reward order were rewarded or sold; Before spring, you need to settle down, and you can't let the dry field miss the spring crops! In addition, if there are some deficiencies, they will be reclaimed in Huangqi, Shicheng, Jinpi and other places to make up for them -- this time, 100,000 people will join the army to fight, plus the small family, there are more than 400,000 people, which should make the situation in Jingxiang and other places a little better. ”

"If we can immediately relocate 400,000 people to Jingxiang, it will naturally enable Jingxiang's people's livelihood to recover faster after the war, but the financial resources are difficult," Wang Xiang said. In addition to the southern counties of Xiangyang, Jingzhou and Suizhou capital, it is possible to wipe out the consumption locally; In Huangqi and Shicheng Xinzhi and the soon-to-be-recovered Nanyang Mansion, consumption can only rely on the dependence of the center, and each province has to pull in 100,000 stone grains every year, and it will take three consecutive years to pull it ......"

The price of silver is still fluctuating in Jingxiang, and Wang Xiang is still used to using grain to calculate income and expenditure.

"Huangzhou, Shicheng new resettlement Dingkou less, Xiang, Suijing and Jingzhou although there are Dingkou can be taxed, but within three years should not be too heavy, I estimate that every year to make an additional 150,000 taels ......of silver, Nanyang will be a heavy place for the army, immediately relocate the people to make up for the garrison, and the people's livelihood will be supplemented with another 200,000 taels every year," Lin Jian said.

"The land of Jingxiang is short of 800,000 taels of silver every year." Wang Xiang said.

"Fortunately, in the entire Jinghu Eight Prefectures, Eastern Hubei and Xianning in the south of the Yangtze River, as well as the counties in the south of Jiangxia Prefecture, were not greatly affected by the war, and the people's livelihood was generally safe, so they could fill this gap." Hu Wenmu said.

When Hu Wenmu ruled the Jinghu army, he was almost able to get 1.2 million taels of silver from Ezhou, Xianning, Jiangxia and Jingzhou every year to raise the army, Jingzhou was disabled, Jiangxia and Hanjin, Huangpi and Huangzhou in the north of Ezhou were all disabled, and Jinghu could almost have 800,000 taels of silver paid to the center every year in two and a half prefectures on the south bank of the Yangtze River.

Of course, Jinghu is on the south bank of the Yangtze River, and there are more than two hundred and a half of Dingkou, and the total scale of finance and taxation is two million taels, but a considerable part of it still has to be consumed by the localities, and forty percent can be paid to the center, which is already quite good.

Lin Jian shook his head and said: "Jiangxia, Ezhou and Xianning have also suffered from wars in recent years, and the central government will also reduce the levy by half within three years from these three prefectures, but the three prefectures also need to halve the levy on the local government within three years to support the people's livelihood; In this way, it is enough to take out an additional 400,000 taels of silver to supplement Jingxiang every year, and there shouldn't be much opinion from the household department......"

The household department is in charge of Lin Xuwen, which is almost the money bag of the Privy Council, and Lin Jian said that he will add an additional 400,000 taels of silver to Jinghu every year, which is naturally certain.

Although Hu Wenmu will go to the center with Lin Jian this time, he is also happy to see that Jinghu can get more benefits at this time.

After discussing the framework for restoring people's livelihood after the Jingxiang War, Lin Jian couldn't lie down yet, and he still had to attend the military meeting of the military department, Zuo Chengmu, Wang Xiang and Hu Wenmu wanted to leave.

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Everyone lived in the camp at the northern foot of Longzui Mountain, living in simple and damp shacks.

Hu Wenmu still has to stay in Jingxiang for a while, and Zuo Chengmu will return to Jiangning in two days.

Although the night was late, he didn't feel sleepy, so Zuo Chengmu invited Hu Wenmu to his side for a night talk. He and Hu Wenmu were officials in Jinghu in their early years, both colleagues and mentors, so after Zuo Chengmu was transferred to the center, he would support Hu Wenmu to take charge of Jinghu, and now they haven't gotten together for many years.

The cold wind was howling, and the weather was overcast for two or three days, but the snow did not fall; The tin charcoal stove was burning in the house, and the leaking gaps in the four corners were blocked, and the hot steam in the kettle was bubbling up, and the inside of the shack was much warmer than the outside.

Zuo Chengmu's son, Zuo Lian, has been serving left and right, picking up the kettle to make tea for Hu Wenmu and his father.

Hu Wenmu looked at the tin stove reflected in the firelight and said: "In early spring, I can also see this kind of stove in my house, it seems to be called a briquette stove......"

"After you arrive in Jiangning, you can see more new things," Zuo Chengmu smiled and said, "The privy envoy admires miscellaneous craftsmanship, and a few days ago he said that he would set up a master craftsman academy under the Privy Council to imitate the Hanlin Academy, so as to serve the surviving master craftsmen, who are also knighted, and are more noble than the Hanlin scholars, so as to completely change the status quo of the lowly craftsmen - with Jingxiang's great victory in front of him, the council proposed this thing is smaller, but it will not be much smaller." However, the new things created by the craftsman used to be regarded by others as strange and ingenious, and they are indeed shining in just a few years, and the strength of Huaidong is probably also strong here, you and I really can't see through it......"

Zuo Chengmu said that he couldn't see through it, Hu Wenmu had been in Jinghu all these years, how could he know more?

Hu Wenmu said: "It seems that the household department only needs to pay an additional 400,000 taels of silver to Jingxiang every year, but this is only the expenditure for people's livelihood - the battle of Jingxiang should be called the military expenditure of the Huaidong Army, which has surged to an unimaginable level in a short period of time, and it is also a little unimaginable, how can the central finance be supported after the battle of Jingxiang?" ”

Zuo Chengmu smiled bitterly and said: "The pattern is high and low, the difference is thousands of miles, you and I are destined to be eliminated!" He also pointed to the young son Zuo Chain, who had just reached the crown, and said to Hu Wenmu, "Zuo Lian can also enter the office at an old age, and he also has my grace, and he can make up for the eight officials; However, the privy envoy has set up a school in Jiangning, and I want to ask him to go in and study for two years, maybe he can keep up with the new pattern......"

Hu Wenmu thought about it, what was the new pattern created by Huaidong, there seemed to be a layer of fog in front of his eyes that he couldn't see through.

Hu Wenmu also knew the specific situation of the Huaishan plank road at this time.

It is an open fact that when Lin Tie lent public bonds in the name of the household department in the seven prefectures south of the Yangtze River last year, 1 million taels of silver of the two taels of silver raised were specially allocated to Luzhou for war preparation.

Everyone thought that this was Lin Tie's military deployment against Huaixi, Cao Ziang and Chen Huawen were in Luzhou, and they did move their townships and villages in Luzhou, camp fields and reclaim their fields, and they also wantonly renovated military bases, galloping roads, and streams to expand their military equipment.

The so-called how much silver can do as much as you want, a million taels of silver seems like a lot, but what can be done is actually much more limited, and it is definitely not enough to build a road across Huaishan and from the northwest hometown of Luzhou to Lishan.

This plank road really has to be repaired, and it can't be pounded out without two million taels of silver.

This is probably an important reason why Yan Hu never imagined that Huaidong would have ambushes from Chai Mountain!

Hu Wenmu and others also knew that Lin Lian had been running Huaidong for ten years, and Feng Chongguo Gong divided the core areas of Huaidong such as the five counties of Chongzhou and Yizhou as private towns, so that Lin Lian actually had a large amount of wealth in addition to the household department.

However, from the autumn of last year to this time for more than a year, the Huaidong Army launched the Shangrao and Jingxiang battles one after another, and its huge military expenditure, in addition to the visible household revenue, other deficiencies can only come from the private towns controlled by Lin Jian - what is the extent of the financial resources of Chongguo's private estates, so that the Huaidong Army can continue to support a war of this scale and win a great victory in just over a year?

Zuo Chengmu said that there is a difference between high and low patterns, but Hu Wenmu couldn't understand: how high can the pattern of the five counties of Chongzhou and the barbaric island of Yizhou be, and the scale of revenue can reach the same level as the central finance that controls half of the country?

After the Battle of Jingxiang, the counties south of Huaishui, except for the two rivers, were almost able to get out of the shadow of war.

Jingxiang may be dilapidated, and it will take three or five years to recuperate, but the two Zhejiang, Fujian, Jianghuai, Guangnan, and Xiangtan have all recovered rapidly, and the Privy Council has centralized control, and perhaps in another two or three years, the Northern Expedition can be completed......

When the swallow thistle collapsed, the northern land collapsed, and the extravagant rebellion went north, the world was scattered, the mountains and rivers were broken, and the land that Jiangning actually controlled was only one county at that time, and Huaidong was still nested in a corner, so that everyone was on guard, who would have thought that only four or five years had passed, and there would be such a weather?

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Lin Jian lifted the curtain and walked into the operational staff room of the Military Intelligence Department, and the cold wind blew up with him, blowing the fire candles swaying.

Lin Jian watched the light in the glass cover crumbling to extinguish, thinking that there was always no electric light to use......

Lin Lian actually didn't understand what the difference between glass and glass was, and in the past, Jiangning's craftsmen were not unable to fire transparent glass, but the cost was extremely high, and it could only be used as decorations, and it was far less popular than colorful colored glass - transparent glass glass could be produced on a low-cost scale, and it also benefited from the technological development of iron-smelting furnace temperature.

The development of technology is always a bypass, and the development of technology means that it only requires very little manpower to do the work that used to require a large number of people to complete.

Today, a glass lampstand and transparent glass oil lamp in Jiangning only cost two silver dollars.

The oil lamp of two silver dollars was not cheap in the world, but compared with the early days, such a glass lampstand was sold for hundreds of taels of silver, which was already much cheaper.

What is the new landscape?

The traditional agricultural civilization has progressed to the industrial civilization, and naturally there is a new situation that the world cannot foresee. Even if everything in Huaidong at this time can only be said to see the dawn of industrial civilization, it is no longer comparable to the traditional production model.

Huaidong textile machinery at this time still rely on animal power and water power, but the new cloth produced in Huaidong has completely occupied the market of Jiangnan Qifu and Zhejiang and Jiangxi, as long as the ship arrives, the local native cloth is not competitive at all.

It is precisely because Jianghuai, Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hunan and Guangnan have not yet come out of the shadow of the war, the local trade has not yet begun to recover, and the people have just escaped the war, so they are not too vigilant about the rapid invasion and expansion of Huaidong's cloth, iron and other products.

Iron is still secondary, and cloth is a bulk material that coexists with food and is indispensable for survival.

There are no coal and iron resources in Chongzhou, and there are always natural defects in the development of iron smelting, and in the later period, Lin Jian also intended to disperse the iron smelting and other industries to Yijiang, Shanyang and Yizhou, while focusing on the cotton textile industry in Chongzhou.

In the early years, the textile machinery produced by craftsmen and handicraft workshops in Jianghuai and other places was several times more efficient than household manual work, and the animal power textile machines made in Huaidong recently could even drive fifty or sixty spindles at the same time, which was equivalent to fifty or sixty home textile machines; The Huaidong weavers even reached the level of weaving a piece of cloth in four days, and the efficiency was far from being comparable to the traditional hand.

In addition to planting rice and grain, large-scale cotton planting was also carried out to provide sufficient raw materials for the cotton textile industry in Chongzhou and Hecheng.

As early as before the Yongxing year, Huaidong Xinbu became as important as raw silk and ironware, and it was a bulk trade material sent to Haidong and Nanyang regions, and millions of silver were brought back to Huaidong every year from Haidong alone. The profit of Huaidong Xinbu is not much lower than that of raw silk trade, and in recent years, there is even a trend of surpassing raw silk trade.

After all, raw silk is a luxury product, and the production in Haidong and other places is very small, and a large number of them need to be imported from Jianghuai; Cotton and linen and other fabrics are already produced in the Haidong region, and even if the new Huaidong cloth is of high quality and cheap, it will take a long time to encroach on its market - the real trade potential is much higher than that of raw silk and silk fabrics.

In the Central Plains, in the early years, Huzhou cloth and Pingjiang silk were equally famous all over the world.

The war extended to Hanghu, Huzhou's cloth industry was hit hard, and when the two Zhejiang provinces got rid of the war, the local government first and first made every effort to restore agricultural production.

Not only did the traditional Huzhou cloth workshops not recover, but also the production of homespun cloth for men and women in various places could not be recovered, so that the cheap new cloth produced in Huaidong quickly made up for the needs of the people after the war.

After the war in eastern Fujian recovered Jin'an, Huaidong fought three general battles, the battle of Jiangning, so that Huaidong could control the seven prefectures in the south of the Yangtze River, the battle of Shangrao and Yuanzhou, so that Huaidong could control Jiangxi, so that the trade route directly to Guangnan and Xiangtan, and the battle of Jingxiang would reverse the situation of confrontation between the north and the south, so that the people's livelihood in the counties south of Huaishui would have a chance to completely recuperate.

After the glorious military victory, it was also the process of Huaidong's rapid expansion of commerce and trade out of Huaidong to the seven prefectures in the south of the Yangtze River, to Weiyang, Dongyang, Luzhou, to Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangnan and Xiangtan, so that the total trade volume of Huaidong to the south of the country quickly rose to a considerable degree of trade volume to Haidong and Nanyang.

Originally, no matter how strong Huaidong's control and influence were, there should be a process for the expansion of Shangdao in various counties after the war, but Lin Mengde and Lin Xuwen came up with a crooked idea, that is, to use the new cloth produced in Huaidong to convert the salaries of officials in the center and various places.

It has also been a practice since ancient times to replace rice grain and silver money with silk cloth and distribute salaries to officials - for a period of time, the officials of the six central departments and the seventeen provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Huai only received the new cloth produced in Huaidong, so that the officials' families went to the market to sell cloth for Huaidong to exchange rice and silver, which caused a great backlash, and only recently changed to cloth and silver combined with discounts.

For Jiangxi, Guangnan, Xiangtan and other places newly under the control of the center, Lin Xuwen and Lin Mengde mercilessly sent hundreds of thousands of horses of Huaidong Xinbu to be folded into silver hair, and collected the money, silver and rice grain that were originally planned to be distributed to make up for the lack of central finance.

Fortunately, Jiangxi, Guangnan, Xiangtan and other places are also short of cloth, and the price of new cloth is not much lower when transported, and the officials have little opinion, after all, the new cloth produced in Huaidong is more delicate and soft than the homespun cloth, and it is extra to get a high price when it is sold on the market.

For this alone, Lin Mengde and Lin Xuwen used Huaidong new cloth to collect three million taels of silver, and a considerable amount of new cloth was only the annual output of 20,000 weavers in Chongzhou, which was almost twenty times the windfall profit.

In contrast, the plundering of various places by the iron trade was very modest.

When Zuo Chengmu and Hu Wenmu guessed that the financial resources of Chongguo's private estate might be equivalent to the central income, but they couldn't guess why they could have such a huge profit, Lin Lian's private income could indeed exceed 10 million taels of silver this year.

Before the Battle of Jiangning, Huaidong's income combined did not reach four million taels of silver; And in just two years after the Battle of Jiangning, this number doubled and a half. In the final analysis, after the Battle of Jiangning, the markets in Jiangnan Qifu and other places were completely opened to Huaidong, and these markets were closed to Huaidong before.

The Battle of Jingxiang is about to come to an end, Hu Wenmu is willing to return to the center, and Jinghu will also be completely under the jurisdiction of the center.

At this time, Lin Jian not only did not take half of the tael of silver from Jinghu, but also subsidized 400,000 taels of silver to Jinghu every year to restore the people's livelihood, and even further ordered Jinghu and other places to reduce the rent of poor peasants with little or no grain.

In the final analysis, Lin Jian basically wanted to restore the production of Jingxiang and restore the people's livelihood, so that the market of Jinghu's four million dingkou was completely opened to Huaidong, and its benefits far exceeded four or five hundred thousand taels of silver per year.

The same is true for Xiangtan and Quang Nam, where Lin Jian had no intention of immediately collecting taxes from these two counties, first reducing them by a large margin in order to reduce the financial potential of the two places to raise troops, and then sending primary industrial products to these two places in exchange for other materials......

After the relations between Jiangxi, Jinghu, Xiangtan, and Guangnan have been straightened out, and production in Jianghuai, Zhejiang, and Fujian has been further restored, and in addition to the continuous increase in the annual income of the household department, the additional financial resources in the hands of the Privy Council should be doubled on the basis of 10 million taels of silver this year, reaching more than 20 million taels.

If you want to talk about the pattern, this is the new pattern.

After the Shangrao War, Lin Jian had firm confidence in expelling Hulu and recovering the Central Plains.

After the Shangrao War recovered Jiangxi, Xiangtan and Guangnan returned to the center, the population under the control of Jiangning reached nearly 30 million, and with the addition of Huaixi and Jinghu, it would reach more than 35 million. After years of war in Liangchuan, the population size has dropped to between 3 million and 5 million, and the Cao family has not been in control of Liangchuan for a few years, and there are many contradictions with the local government, and there is no absolute strong combat power, according to Liangchuan, the progress is far from enough; According to Yanji, Jinzhong, Guanzhong, Shandong and Yanbei, the population size of Yanhu should be between 10 million and 12 million.

At this time, Lin Jian was more concerned about whether the new pattern he had worked hard to create could continue, and it would be deeply rooted in the foundation of the entire society, and would never be shaken again - only by going to that point could the entire country and nation get out of the historical cycle of thousands of years.