Updated: 2012-04-14

At the corner of the day, the chariot and horse team set off from the Sanghe shop to Shouzhou, and arrived at the city of Shouzhou at dusk.

Shouzhou controls the upper reaches of the Huai River, there is a condescending trend, send a boat to Shanyang 500 miles of waterway, if the downstream changes, Shouzhou will send troops very quickly, so after skillfully taking Huaixi, the defense center of the Fengli army began to shift to the west, but the main force of the Jinghai Division and the Dengcheng Division of Chen Yan are stationed in Xinpu (Lianyungang) and Yuntiguan and other places on the east side.

After the Battle of Jingxiang, in addition to Chen Yan, who was ordered to go to Yuntiguan to form the ** Denghai Town Division, Zhang Gou and Tang Fuguan were also transferred to the sequence of Fengli Army and Huaiyang Army respectively, together with Liu Xilin, Chu Zheng, Han Caizhi, Geng Quanshan, Chen Kuili and other units, the number of soldiers assembled on the eastern front has reached seven town divisions, in addition to the second town division of the cavalry battalion led by Li Liang, and the Jinghai Division with Ge Cunxin and Yang Shi as commanders and staff officers respectively.

In addition, among the 140,000 prisoners, in addition to the 80,000 prisoners, mainly the Xinfu Han Army and captive soldiers, were handed over to the Nanyang Shipping Company and the Heishui Foreign Shipping Company to be transported overseas for labor, the remaining 60,000 prisoners were mainly Suizhou Army, and the Xuzhou Workers' Battalion was also used, so that the reserve soldiers on the Eastern Front would rise to the level of 120,000 or even higher.

Suizhou army prisoners, the composition is also simple, most of them are Jingxiang and Huaixi with Luo Xiancheng rebelled poor people, after Luo Xiancheng stopped in Suizhou for six or seven years, almost all the family settled down in Suizhou, but Luo Xiancheng lost his heart and stole his heart, one step worse, became a prisoner of war - unlike the new Han army and Hu Lu prisoners, the prisoners of the Suizhou army are not only easy to reform, but also can become an important source of replenishment of soldiers in the Huaidong Army.

In order to better transform the 60,000 captives into soldiers who are loyal to the Guogong Mansion and can fight on the battlefield for the Guogong Mansion, at the same time, Wang Xiang is in Suizhou, whether it is the family of the 60,000 prisoners who are assigned to the Gonggong Battalion, or the Suizhou army generals who will be attached to Dong Yuan with Zhong Rong and Luo Jian, Lin Jian will ask him to be properly settled, incorporated into the civil register, and have the conditions to give priority to granting land.

Previously, Luo Xiancheng carried out a large-scale tuntian in Suizhou, which was actually privately occupied by generals at all levels, and the generals who worked and cultivated were small, and they were actually just serfs of generals at all levels-

The military reclamation of Tuntian in Shouzhou will also be dealt with at the same time.

When he was about to enter the city, Lin Jian stopped, stood on the side of the road, looked at the gradually golden wheat fields on both sides of the road, and said to Gao Zongting, Ning Zechen, Meng Yi and others around him: "Dong Yuan has been in Huaixi for several years, and he still has done some work......

"I don't know what kind of emotion Dong Yuanjun will feel in his heart when he hears the words of the lord?" Meng Yi said with a smile.

After several years of hard work, Huaidong took it all without much effort, and now a total of 1.5 million acres of land in Shouzhou and Haozhou are called Lin Tie to pull out the colonizer Yinzhuang as a whole, and become Lin Tie's reward to Huaidong's generals; Dong Yuan has to be in a good mood to call it a ghost?

"I don't care what Dong Yuan thinks," Lin Jian laughed, he still felt that calling Dong Yuan into the field was a proud work in this life, and said to Meng Yi, "After Yinzhuang took over the military reclamation of the tuntian, although the price of the land was reduced to two or three silver dollars per mu, a considerable number of people are still extremely poor, unable to fund the purchase of land, and cannot simply and rudely drive them away. They planned to make a wedge letter with the cultivators in the name of the colonizer Yinzhuang, allowing them to compensate for the rent in addition to the tax, and after ten years, the land would be classified as a permanent industry, and the ten-year rent would be included in the Yinzhuang to calculate the sale of the land! This work must be carried out in cooperation with the government and the county and the newly established township divisions below. Of course, the officials do the work for the colonist Yinzhuang, and the colonist Yinzhuang also needs to pull out some extra silver money to the Shouzhou government, which is counted as a subsidy - as for how to make up for it, you can talk about it, and announce it after the negotiation, don't hide it. ”

After the new tax policy, the tax is only 20 percent, and the land rent is also established by the law system not to exceed 30% of the actual income, that is, it must not exceed six times the basic field endowment - in fact, Dong Yuan was in Shouzhou Tuntian, in order to raise the army, he had to directly take away up to 6 to 70% of the harvest from the tuntian every year.

Lin Tie wanted to uproot all Shouzhou and Haozhou Tuntian to the colonist Yinzhuang, but allowing the cultivators to pay less than 30% of the actual rent was already a favor; He also made a wedge letter to allow the cultivators to return their fields to private ownership after paying rent for ten consecutive years, which was almost joyful news for the cultivators.

Meng Yi said: "The lord is benevolent and loves the people like a son, and the people will love the lord like a father......

Do you love the people like children? Lin Jian smiled in his heart, it was just the memory of later generations, which made him look at ordinary people without a lofty perspective, which was exactly what some heroes in the world did not have.

Most peasant households, in life and death, live and die on a piece of land that does not belong to them, working at sunrise and resting at sunset; Their desire for land was unimaginable to those at the top, and they would be the staunchest supporters of the New Deal.

In the past, these people were destitute, oppressed at the bottom of society, and could not show their strength and voice. They oppress to the extreme, and resisting will only produce extremely destructive power. However, now that they are the most staunch part and supporter of the Huaidong Army, their strength and voice can be manifested through the Huaidong Army as a whole, and it is also the core guarantee for Lin Jian to promote the deepening of the new policy.

After the new tax policy came out, in particular, in the name of reward, Lin Lian directly begged for hundreds of thousands of farmlands from the Yuanyue clan in the outer counties of Jiangning, and pulled them into the colonization silver village to sell them to the nearby landless and landless peasant households.

Those whose interests are damaged naturally have hatred for the forest to the bone; But how could those thousands of poor peasant households, who had never had such extravagant hopes and fantasies even in the first half of their lives, not be fanatical supporters of Lin Xuan?

Since Lin Jian has to gradually implement the recruit system, the veterans of the original Huaidong Army cannot become non-commissioned officers, and will gradually arrange for retirement and resettlement to local areas for land granting, and in addition, it is necessary to recruit new soldiers, fill in the armies to ensure the renewal of the army, and gradually expand the scale of war soldiers to 500,000, or even higher.

At that time, people regarded military service as hard labor, and conscription was also a kind of exile, especially in the rich land south of the Yangtze River, where the children of peasant families would only eat military rations until they were desperate - Lin Jian did not plan how many soldiers could be recruited from the relatively wealthy counties of Jiangning, and the conscription points set up were also very few conscripts for months. Even if the Privy Council and the Military Department did a good job of propaganda work and repeatedly emphasized that the status of the generals was very different from the past, the conscription effect in the vicinity of Jiangning Prefecture was no better than that in Huaidong, southern Zhejiang, Jiangxi, and other areas where the work of granting land was really carried out. However, after the promulgation of the new tax policy and the law on the sale and rental of land by the Colonial Commercial Bank, several conscription points in Jiangning Prefecture were filled with poor peasant children every day.

Lin Tie called it the mass foundation: The reason why the Huaidong Army can have such a strong cohesion is precisely because Lin Tie has been doing this work in a down-to-earth manner since he was based in Huaidong for ten years. At present, it is just a matter of making some adjustments and improvements to the work done in Chongzhou and Huaidong, and then promoting it throughout the country.

Lin Jian and Meng Yi said: "When I came to Shouzhou, I didn't care much about the defense, but I was most concerned about the problem of how to deal with the 1560 acres of military reclamation land that I grabbed from Dong Yuan. In the early stage of the Battle of Jingxiang, Dong Yuan directly took 50,000 tun soldiers from these tuntians, and then took these tun soldiers to Xuchang. Shouzhou Tian has been disposed of, it has a good effect, it spreads, listen to those tun guards know, hear in the ears, especially those tun pawns, a considerable part of the family is still in Shouzhou, I don't think they will be willing to do against Huaidong again......"

Meng Yi only felt that Dong Yuan had a great talent that others could not match, and his grasp of people's hearts was also excellent, and he could control the army by co-opting and suppressing different generals, but when he integrated into Huaidong, he really realized that Lin Jian fundamentally controlled the army, and he controlled the heart of almost every soldier!

When Dong Yuan was worried about the money and food for raising soldiers of one or two million taels a year, the Privy Council had already set a target of 30 million silver dollars for the increase in income after three years.

Meng Yi didn't know if Dong Yuan was desperate and depressed at this time, in short, he felt that Dong Yuan had no hope of winning.

Meng Yi thought of a matter and told Lin Jian face to face: "Dong Envoy Jun entered the town of Huaixi, and there were many salt merchant children in Weiyang to vote, and Dong Envoy Jun went to Xuchang to take up the post in a hurry, so how many salt merchant children stayed in Shouzhou, and at this time they intended to go north to Xuchang to vote for Dong Envoy; The lord asked for instructions to train Meng Yi to deal with it like this? ”

"Those who want to stay, they are welcome to stay; If you want to leave, you won't send it. Lin Jian said. At the beginning, these salt merchants' children escaped from Weiyang because they were afraid of liquidating Huaidong. After investing in Shouzhou over the years, the financial resources of these salt merchants' children have almost been exhausted; Even if there is no consumption and a large-scale farm house is purchased in Huaixi, as long as the system of the New Deal can be followed, Lin Jian does not want to go through the old accounts.

Soon after entering Shouzhou City, a letter rode into Shouzhou from the east and presented a secret letter to Lin Lian.

"Zhen Feng came quickly, and he has already landed in Xinpu," Lin Jian said to the people around him, "I wanted to stay in Shouzhou for two more days, but now it seems that I have to rush to Xinpu first." ”

Zhen Feng was the governor of Haeyang County, Goryeo, and was captured by Lin Tie in the Battle of Seogwipo, and then Lin Tie supported Zhen Feng to form the Haiyang Army to seize the royal power of Goryeo - the Goryeo war was also in full swing for five or six years, although Zhen Feng occupied the three counties in the south of Goryeo, but even if Zhen Feng had the help of the Haidong Camp Army and the Saga clan, he still suffered too much in terms of troops, and the two sides formed a tug of war in the border of Hanyang County in Goryeo, and no one could help anyone for the time being.