Early in the morning, Lin Jian woke up early, and Liu Miaozhen was sweetly asleep, like a begonia after the spring rain, Lin Jian walked to the eaves of the porch in his clothes, and saw Song Jia looking at the early morning scene by the window railing in the corner of the courtyard.

Lin Tie hugged Song Jia in a thin shirt and long skirt from behind, his hand was close to her warm abdomen, there was no ups and downs, but there was a delicate fleshy feeling, and the body was full of clear fragrance, Lin Tie buried his face in her neck, sticking to her waterfall hair, sniffing greedily.

Song Jiaben leaned on the window railing to watch the morning light, unguarded Lin Tie from behind, she glanced back, but was speechless, and tilted her head, pasted Lin Tie's head, felt his hot lower abdomen pressed against her plump buttocks, clasped his calloused hand, and whispered: "Yu'er's matter, I haven't thanked you well......

"Oh, what a big deal...... Lin Jian smiled, talking in his mouth, but he didn't stop in his hand, but reached into Song Jia's half-cut gown, touching the skin and flesh that was as tender and snapping as jade fat.

After the Battle of Jingxiang, there were still three remnants of the enemy after Huaishui:

After the Battle of Jingxiang, the remnants of the Yuanzhou army who resisted according to the Makubu Mountain were completely desperate, and the rebels killed Chen Zishou and other rebel generals to surrender.

Chen Hansan is really an immortal little strong, Jingxiang battle, he only led more than a thousand remnants from Fengli defeated and fled into the depths of the southern vein of Huaishan, and then took advantage of the chaos of Huaidong to take over Xinyang and Shouzhou, so that part of it scattered to the north to break through. Although Huaidong was asked to arrest five or six hundred people, he still asked Chen Hansan and dozens of cronies to cross Huaishui and flee to Hezhong Mansion in early March.

After the last letter of the luxury family was sent to Jian'an, thousands of remnants of the luxury family in northern Fujian walked out of the mountains and surrendered; Although about 60 children with surnames were listed as war criminals and exiled to Nanyang, women, children, and ordinary generals were exempted from their crimes and moved to Jieyang for resettlement.

Although the widow Song Yu and her youngest son were Song Fu's concubines and grandsons, Huaidong and Zhejiang and Fujian had died in bloody battles over the years, and Lin Jian finally decided to let Zhao Qingshan secretly send Song Yu's mother and son to Xuzhou, and asked Song Jia to arrange for their mother and son to change their names and surnames and then cross the sea to Jeju by boat.

Since then, except for the Special Intelligence Department under the General Staff Department, no one else knows their identity as criminals. It's not that Lin Jian is worried about anything, the luxury family has been in Eastern Fujian for more than 200 years, and it is inevitable that there will be some traitors and filial sons who want to restore the luxury family. Lin Jian didn't want to kill Song Yu's mother and son or put them in prison for the rest of his life, so he could only send them overseas for resettlement......

By May, the fighting south of Huaishui had completely subsided, and production had resumed.

Although Shouzhou was not directly involved in the war, Dong Yuan ordered Lin to drive away, and about 100,000 young men and women in Shouzhou were incorporated into the Henan army and moved north to Huaishui - it was also a lot of losses for Shouzhou, which had just been restored in the past three or five years; Xinyang was further affected by the war and recuperated for a period of time.

At this time, the attendant handed in a letter, and the letter was opened, presumably because Gao Zongting had read it and felt that it was very important, so that people were puzzled and handed it in immediately.

"What's the matter?" Song Jia leaned in to take a look.

"Heh, it seems that we were too conservative before," Lin Jian put the letter to the railing and hugged Song Jia to read it together, "The combined data of Dinghu and Tianmu in Pingjiang and Danyang counties ......"

"That's so much!" Song Jia looked at the merged data and was also surprised.

"It's not too much, it's these gentry who hide it too ruthlessly!" Lin Jian gritted his teeth and said softly, "If you don't change the salt system, first send three or four hundred salt officials, and then set up township divisions, I'm afraid that it will be far from a year to find out a single truth; From this point of view, the Privy Council's previous prediction of the total number of Jianghuai, Liangzhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, and Liangxiang counties was 35 million, which is quite conservative......"

There are 1.5 million registered households in Pingjiang Prefecture, which is second only to Yanjing and Jiangning in the 16 counties and 105 prefectures under the jurisdiction of Yuan and Vietnam before the war.

After the Jiangning War, Huaidong actually controlled the seven prefectures in the south of the Yangtze River, and Lin Jian was determined to promote the inventory of the acres and households in the seven prefectures in the south of the Yangtze River, and of course it was estimated that the number of mouths in Pingjiang Prefecture was between 2.2 million and 2.5 million.

As the inventory work continued for more than a year, although Lin Jian repeatedly reminded Lin Mengde that they should be psychologically prepared for the actual data, they were still shocked when the combined data came out.

Pingjiang Province alone actually recorded a population of 3.34 million, which is not only far more than the number of registered students, but also more than 30% higher than the upper limit of the previous estimate.

In addition to the displaced people who fled to the shores of Taihu Lake due to the war, the main reason here is the hidden family and host household who fled from the conscription.

Former Prime Minister Chen Xiyan's family in Jiyang alone has 1,200 households and more than 6,000 slaves; In a remote place, it is enough to be worth the people of a small county.

Corresponding to the hidden households and resident households, Pingjiang Prefecture alone has as many as 3 million acres of sent land to be inventoried; Jiyang Chen's total has more than 50,000 acres of foreign fields, and all of them are ripe fields.

"What are you going to do with it?" Song Jia looked at Lin Tie.

Lin Jian touched his chin: Chen Xiyan has passed away, pulling the rest of the Chen clan out to kill chickens and monkeys, the positive impact outweighs the negative or the opposite, it is really difficult to judge - and Lin Mengde After they got this merged data, they stepped up to send it here, and they couldn't make up their minds if they thought about it.

The core figures of the meeting's governance, except for Chen Huazhang and Chen Huawen, the other generals and ministers had no good impression of the Jiangnan gentry, and they would not oppose killing the Jiangnan gentry.

Lin Jian asked the maid to bring charcoal and reported the reply in the letter: "The previous crime will not be investigated, and the book will be recorded according to the facts; If there is any objection, the local government will be severely punished! ”

"With a new policy, don't you stand up for prestige?" Song Jia asked puzzledly, even if Chen Xiyan died very well in the end, but to deal with this matter, there is no need to pull out his nephew and behead him, and copying the field house can have the effect of setting an example, Lin Jian didn't do it, she was strange.

The land book set up by Pingjiang Mansion is still the beginning of the Yuanyue Dynasty, but for more than 200 years since the Yuanyue Dynasty, the people along the Taihu Lake have surrounded the lake to build fields, repaired ponds and blocked the sea, and newly created millions of acres of new fields, but they are all outside the field book. Although for more than 200 years, many ministers have been aware of this problem and want to check the acres of land to confirm the treasury, but they will give strong resistance to Jiangnan officials and gentry.

Due to the increasing trend of cultivation and reading in Jiangnan, the proportion of those who have studied and entered the ranks is much higher than that in other regions, and the Wu Party has always been active inside and outside the center; In the early days, Emperor Gaozu of the Yuan Dynasty also started according to Jiangnan, which made the noble families in Jiangnan especially large - the superposition of these factors made it difficult to return to many drawbacks in Jiangnan.

It was also Lin Tie who carried the military might of the Huaidong soldiers, and the Zhejiang-Fujian army in front of the Jiangnan massacre of cities and lands, which made the Jiangnan gentry completely shut up about this investigation.

Lin Jian sighed lightly, Hailing has been operated by him for ten years, including the five counties of Chongzhou, and the actual total population is only less than 2.5 million. I thought that the actual population of Pingjiang Prefecture would be the largest number, but I didn't expect that there would be another 800,000.

Lin Jian said: "In fact, the business style in Jiangnan is quite prosperous, and it can't be easily attacked; If I take Chen out to kill chickens and monkeys, I'm afraid that the people below will be mistaken. However, it is no wonder that without such a dense and vigorous Dingkou, it is difficult for Liang Chen to become the power of the merchant gentry......"

The two Chens mentioned by Lin Jian refer to the Jiyang Chen family and the Haiyu Chen family.

Jiyang Chen is headed by Chen Xiyan, and Haiyu Chen is headed by Chen Huazhang, Chen Huawen, and Chen Mingche. Although they have the characteristics of traditional official gentry, they actually have a strong business atmosphere, and Lin Jian called them business gentry.

Taking Haiyu Chen as an example, the Chen family operates silk cloth, in addition to having three or four hundred thousand acres of mulberry gardens hired to take care of, there are also special nest silk and silk weaving workshops, more than 2,000 looms, thousands of weavers, and silk villages along the Yangzi River and Caodao cloth all over the world, it can be said that the traditional handicraft workshop has been done to the extreme.

If it weren't for the impact and drag of the war, the Chen family would be the first Shang family; The solid foundation obtained from operating silk cloth is heavier than that of Dongyang Lin.

The Jiyang Chen family, in addition to annexing land, also operates the cloth industry; Another example is that in the early years, Dongyang Lin operated warehouses all over Jianghuai and Liangxiang, Ye's business was a paper business, Xiao's business was a pawn shop, Xihehui was a shipping business, Zhou Guangnan's family was a shipping business, and Su Pinxiao's family had an industry in Xiling Mine.

These are the basis for the implementation of the new policy, and they are a manifestation of the need to seek new breakthroughs in the old pattern to the extreme. If Lin Jian really wants to suppress this kind of business gentry management in the Jianghuai region, it is not conducive to the development of industry, mining, and commerce.

"It seems that the matter of Jiangdong's division and rule is going to ......be accelerated," Song Jia said with emotion.

"Yes, it's time to speed up," Lin Jian said, "The Privy Council previously estimated that the population of the seven prefectures in Jiangnan was 12 million, and judging from the combined data of Danyang and Pingjiang, 16 million could not be beaten. We have done a relatively solid job in Huaidong, but for the population of Weiyang Mansion (Yangzhou), I am afraid that if we have to estimate another million, then the population of Huaidong, including the five counties of Xusi and Chongzhou, should be 7 million, instead of the previous estimate of 6 million; The total population of Shouzhou, Xinyanghaozhou, and Luzhou in Huaixi, plus Chizhou and Yijiang on the south bank of the Yangtze River, may also reach as much as 4 million - in this way, the total population of the area covered by the original Jiangdong County alone is as high as 27 million; You can't rule without splitting......"

"Before the war, there were only 12 million people registered in Jiangdong County, right?" Song Jia asked, "It's not unreasonable for Yuan Yue to die. ”

In addition to the large number of displaced people from Henan, Shandong, Yanji and other places, the difference between the registered Dingkou and the actual population is so huge, in fact, that in the late Yuan Yue period, the local area has lost effective control, resulting in a large number of hidden fields and households out of the center and the grasp of the local government.

Of course, the combined inventory data of Pingjiang and Danjiang provinces far exceeded the previous estimate, which is a good thing, which means that Jiangning directly controls the population, which is likely to be close to 50 million, instead of the previous estimate of 35 million.

At this time, Lin Jian planned to increase the size of the central income from the current 20 million silver dollars by 50% in three years; If the actual population was higher than the estimated forty percent, in three years, Lin Jian was confident that the central income would increase to 40 million silver dollars, and the Northern Expedition might not have to be delayed until three years later.