On 12 March, Li Shuyi and Zhu Ai also entered Jiangning, and Lin Jian formally summoned Lin Tingli, Lin Mengde, Lin Xuwen, Qin Chengzu, Cao Ziang, Gao Zongting, Song Fu, Sun Shangwang, Wang Chengfu, Sun Jingxuan, and others to the public government to discuss the establishment of a colonization bank on the basis of the original household bank.

In the retreat hall, Lin Jian changed the previous discussion pattern of the lord in the center and the ministers sitting in two columns, and directly placed an oval long case in the hall, so that everyone sat around the table to discuss the matter.

Although it is not in line with tradition, the rise of Huaidong is directly related to the pragmatic style of the generals, and no one raises objections.

The essence of pragmatism lies in pragmatism, and it is precisely the large number of pragmatic and talented people gathered around Lin Jian over the years that has enabled Huaidong to rise and grow to create a new dynasty.

"The work of discussing the military merits and the determination of the public land in various places is also progressing one after another," said Lin Lian, sitting at the end of the long case with the circle, "and the establishment of the Colonist Silver Village should also be set up immediately." Xinyinzhuang is called 'Colonizer', and I think everyone can understand one or two from it; Colonists, prospering wealth and profit, and cultivating goods and profits. The reward of 400,000 generals and 5,000 generals for their military merits is not simply to say that this time it will be included in the principal of 12 million silver dollars in the colony bank; The true reward for military merit must be obtained from the righteousness of the 'colonizers'......"

Regarding the establishment of the Colonization Merchant Silver Village, Lin Lian and Song Fu, Gao Zongting, Lin Mengde, and Lin Xuwen discussed it for many months, and Lin Lian's real thoughts, Song Fu, Lin Mengde, Lin Xuwen, and Gao Zongting naturally knew all about it.

At present, of course, the central finance department cannot take out 12 million silver dollars of real money and silver to invest in the colonists and silver villages, and what is really invested in the silver villages is Yijiang, Shouzhou, Luzhou, Jiangning, Yudong, Yizhou and other places with a total of 6 million mu of public land.

The newly established colonists will set up institutions in various places to take over these public fields, sell or lease these public fields at low prices to landless or a small number of tenants and farmers, and collect the principal from this, and then transfer a large amount of the principal to the shipbuilding industry, port construction, Heishuiyang and Nanyang shipping companies, so as to support the development of the new factory industry and the penetration and expansion of overseas trade, so as to obtain huge profits, and then release these profits in the form of money and interest to the meritorious generals in the form of annual dividends, as a real reward.

The development of Merchant Silver Village and the scale and extent of the future profits of the Meritorious Group are directly related to the expansion of overseas markets and trade penetration.

In other words, the colonists will stand in the whole meritorious group of the new empire in the future, which means that the new policy thinking of Lin Bin's overseas expansion and trade penetration will be difficult for the traditional forces to change.

At present, the annual trade volume with Haidong and Nanyang exceeded 2,500 taels of silver last year, and the huge profits in all links are almost nearly 20 million taels of silver.

Of this, only about 7 million taels of silver were directly collected by the military department through various channels and included in the central treasury to support the current war. More huge profits, nearly 123 million taels of silver, were distributed among the many emerging factory owners, industrial and mining owners, and the traditional raw silk, tea cloth, porcelain, sugar refining and other industrial forces represented by the Dongyang Township Party, the Maritime Business Group, and the Jianghuai Merchant Gentry.

The Dongyang Township Party, the Maritime Group, and the Jianghuai merchant gentry, represented by the Lin, Song, Gu, Zhou, and Chen clans, are precisely the basis of Huaidong's current strong finances and strong power, and they are already very different from the traditional rentier class that is dependent on the land.

Taking the Lin family as an example, although Lin Jian personally had a vast private estate under his name, the land traditionally owned by the Lin family was actually gradually turned into capital for new businesses since the retreat from Jinhai, and was invested in new industries such as shipyards, iron yards, coal yards, weaving yards, and money farms.

Among them, including more than 200,000 mu of grain fields accumulated by the Lin family in Shanglin for several generations, as well as more than 100,000 mu of grain fields swallowed by the Jinhai whale after the Yannan War, and more than 3 million taels of real gold and silver were invested in Huaidong Qianzhuang and shipyard in the name of Lin Tingli, Lin Xuwen, Lin Xulu, Lin Mengde and others.

Over the years, profits rolled over, and Lin calculated total assets of more than 10 million silver dollars.

At this time, the Lin family not only obtained the status of the first family politically, but also had a strong economic foundation to ensure the status of the first family.

During the ten years of Lin Lian's rule in Huaidong, the essence of the Lin clan has fundamentally changed from the traditional merchant gentry power that is semi-dependent on land and half dependent on commerce and trade to a relatively pure capital force that is dependent on emerging factories and commercial rentier.

Of course, a new dynasty can be established at any time, once the dynasty is officially established and Lin Jian ascends the throne, the land in the world will naturally be nominally owned by the Lin family and the entire meritorious group, so without a powerful means and measures, it is difficult to prevent the entire group from going down the old road.

The so-called more powerful means and measures are not to forcibly hold down the heads of the Lin family and the meritorious group, but to attract them with the huge benefits of the new pattern.

The so-called new pattern is nothing more than the commercial revolution brought about by the unified mainland market and the larger overseas merchant market, and only the continuous innovation of new technologies and the abundant materials produced by the emerging industrial and mining industries can continue to obtain excess profits far beyond the benefits of land rent from the unified mainland market and the overseas colonial merchant market.

Of course, at present, the profits obtained from the trade penetration of overseas markets are all given to the Dongyang Township Party, the Maritime Group, and the Jianghuai merchant gentry headed by the Lin, Song, Zhou, and Chen families; The establishment of the Colonist Silver Village was to involve the meritorious groups that had shed their blood and sacrificed their lives for the creation of the new empire.

The Lin clan and Song Fu and others also knew that they had to give up a part of their interests, and asked the meritorious generals, especially the senior generals who controlled the army for Lin Jian to share, and even the one million silver dollars needed in the early stage of the colonization merchant silver village was also borrowed by Huaidong Qianzhuang, which did not occupy the budget of the center.

In view of the current scale of trade with Haidong and Nanyang, it is really necessary to invest 12 million silver dollars in the principal of the colonizer Yinzhuang, which represents the interests of the meritorious group, and at least 3 million silver dollars a year.

Traditionally, Yuanyue's annual offerings and rewards to the clan and relatives are also on this scale every year.

These are the core policies of the future government of Lin Jian and Huaidong, who have repeatedly discussed for several months.

Lin Jian transferred Sun Shangwang, Wang Chengfu, Li Shuyi, Zhu Ai and others into Jiangning, not to say that he would replace anyone immediately.

Governing the government will touch all aspects of the empire, and after the core strategy is formulated, many extremely important new positions will be spawned. These new and important positions will mainly employ Sun Shangwang, Wang Chengfu, Li Shuyi, Zhu Ai and others.

For the time being, Lin Jian will not weaken the power and status of Lin Mengde and other old ministers, but will complete a smooth transition of the power structure of the center in the next few or ten years, which is also a situation that everyone is happy to see.

"I thought about it for a long time, and I discussed it repeatedly with Song Gong and Mengde, and decided to let Chengfu preside over the colonization merchant Yinzhuang," Lin Jian knocked on the table, looked at Wang Chengfu, and said, "The pressure on your shoulders is not light." Before the Colonists were in charge, I suggested that the Envoy give a five-year tax holiday, after which they would be treated the same as the Huaidong Money. ”

The head of the colony merchant silver village is an important position that is definitely not inferior to the deputy envoy of the branch, and Lin Jian will use Wang Chengfu to take charge of it, and will also add the title of governor and deputy envoy of the branch, which is on par with Zhou Guangnan, who presided over the Huaidong Qianzhuang at this time.

"Chengfu will live up to the trust of the lord...... Wang Chengfu said.

"It has nothing to do with me," Lin Jian joked, "The welfare of five thousand meritorious generals is pinned on you, if you mess up this matter, the generals of the military department will naturally tear you ......"

Everyone laughed along, since Lin Tie Yinzhuang has laid a firm step in the new pattern, and it is also a reward given by Lin Tie to Huaidong's meritorious generals, Wang Chengfu smashed it, and there are naturally many people who want to make him ugly, and they are all Huaidong generals who Wang Chengfu does not dare to offend easily.

Lin Jian also said: "Heishui Shipping Agency, I plan to divide it into two and formally establish the Nanyang Shipping Company, which is responsible for the trade penetration and expansion of the Nanyang and Annam regions, as well as the maritime navigation insurance of merchant ships. After the spin-off, the Heishui Shipping Company was headed by Zhou Guangdong, which was responsible for trade penetration and control in the Haidong region, as well as maritime navigation insurance for commercial and civilian ships. The officials of the Jeju Island and Dongju Governors and the garrison generals were responsible to the Privy Council and the Military Staff respectively, and the commercial affairs were to the Heishui Marine Shipping Company, and the Nanyang Shipping Company was also ...... as usual."

In fact, Lin Jian directly granted the trade privileges in Haidong and Nanyang to the Heishui Ocean and Nanyang Shipping Societies, and used these two semi-official and semi-private shipping companies to assist in the management of overseas colonial affairs, so as to reduce the central government's direct investment in overseas trade and colonization; The huge profits from the center's foreign trade and colonization will also be collected directly from the two shipping companies.

At this time, there were a total of 126 shareholders of Heishui Foreign Shipping Company, including Lin, Song, Chen and other families, as well as the Dongyang Township Party that had the vision and invested funds in the early days; The spin-off Nanyang Shipping Society was naturally established as usual, and the colonists Yinzhuang and Huaidong Qianzhuang would directly invest huge sums of money in their shares.

As far as the current situation is concerned, the trade potential of the Nanyang region will be two to three times that of the Haidong region, and it is far from being fully exploited at present. Sun Shangwang will be in charge of the Nanyang Shipping Society, which will also set up an armed fleet in overseas areas to ensure the normal flow of trade, and even ask the center to transfer the Nanyang Naval Division to fight at sea when necessary, so as to open the trade door between Nanyang and Annam by force.

In fact, Lin Jian also wanted to form a pattern of overseas trade penetration and expansion led by Huaidong Qianzhuang, Colonist Yinzhuang, Heishui Foreign Shipping Company and Nanyang Shipping Company. Only by carrying out long-term and continuous trade penetration in the vast overseas market can we provide a steady stream of impetus and sufficient capital accumulation for the development of the emerging field and mining industries in the Jianghuai region.

"The public council must also be customized as soon as possible," Lin Jian said, "Huaidong can have the current pattern, and this pattern must be maintained for a long time, and be further created, in addition to me, and all parties work together to have an inseparable relationship." Therefore, the public government meeting is not a simple place where seniority is discussed, but a place where various families and all parties hold consultations. At present, eight members of the Lin family, eight members of the Military Staff, and eight members of the Privy Council are members of the Council, and one person from Huaidong Qianzhuang, Colonists Yinzhuang, Nanyang Shipping Society, and Heishui Foreign Shipping Company each participate in the deliberations. In addition, it is not realistic to directly set up a master craftsman academy parallel to the Hanlin Academy, I intend to set up the Chongxue Hall under the Guogong Mansion first, and I will lead the Chongxue Hall University Scholars, and set up three university scholars and twenty-four bachelors, in order to reward those who have made great achievements in innovative craftsmanship and prosperity in miscellaneous learning; In addition to me, the three scholars of Chongxueguan are naturally participating in the public council, do you think this arrangement is good? ”

The rise of Huaidong and the eventual formation of the pattern of government governance are directly and closely related to the Lin family, the powerful Huaidong Army, the military secretary and the current important ministers of the Privy Council and the supporting forces behind them, as well as the Huaidong Qianzhuang, the Heishui foreign ship, and the craftsmen represented by Ge Fu, Ge Siyu, Sun Dalu, Jiang Yue and others who have made outstanding contributions to this by Lin Lianxing's miscellaneous craftsmanship.

With the creation of a new empire, power will naturally have to be distributed among these forces - this can also include the core figures of the civil and military generals who have made outstanding contributions to the rise of Huaidong.

Chongxueguan is only an honorary institution, and the scholars of Chongxueguan will actually be the core figures of Huaidong's control of the industrial department, and the real power structure is in the public council, military staff, and privy council set up under the Chongguo Mansion.