Han Shi finally accepted Li Congyi's conditions. As Li Congyi thought, before a large number of people arrived on the island, it was impossible for Han Shi to send a bunch of old and weak women and children to the island first. And after this fierce battle, they will have to loot the towns, and then escape from the minions of the Yangtze River sailors, and it will be impossible to bring many old and weak women and children.

As a result, many elderly and weak women and children can only hide on the island or hide in other water villages. But the next counterattack by the officers and troops is bound to be brutal. Will there be a water village against the water, hand over the old and weak women and children, or if they are not hiding well and are searched out by the officers and soldiers, it will be difficult to escape death.

And with Li Congyi's help, this matter is simple. The boats are sufficient, and speed is not required. After all, the primary goal of the Yangtze River Naval Division in Suzhou is to go to Xiuzhou to intercept the Taihu Lake Zhuzhai, and when the Wu Yue Naval Division enters Taihu Lake, no matter how slow it is, it should enter the waters in the Southern Tang Dynasty.

The wounded soldiers do not need to be tossed with the large army, and when they arrive in the territory of the Southern Tang Dynasty, they can still have medical treatment and medicine, and the possibility of recovery is much greater. These old and weak women and children may be of no benefit to Jiang Guogong, nor will they be harmless. And Zhuzhai goes to sea, it does not mean that it is finished according to a small island, if you can get in touch with Jiang Guogong, it will be much easier to start sea trade. If you think about it carefully, for Jiang Guogong, it is also excellent to have such a pirate team with strong combat power.

Win-win. This Jiang Guogong's words are really interesting. While thinking about these things, Han Shi ordered the ships to sail.

Han Shi's side is very fast, but Li Congyi's side is more troublesome. The trip to Xiuzhou can only be canceled, and it is not a mess in Xiuzhou at present, but it must be a rumor. Under such circumstances, the Huzhou boats still swaggered from the Wusong River, which is suspicious no matter how you look at it. Besides, it doesn't matter if you can't see Shi Liangchou or not, what kind of cooperation you have with the Shi family has already been discussed, so let Qian Hailu and Wen Fangfei talk to the Shi family. In addition, Shi Liangchou was also invited to Xuancheng as a guest through Shi's family.

There are a lot of small boats left in the villages of Taihu Lake, Li Congyi took a small boat by himself, so he asked Shi to take Qian Hailu and Wen Fangfei back to Huzhou in the original big boat, and then take the Chang River (artificially dug canal) from Huzhou to Hangzhou directly. What did Li Congyi stay for, Shi may have guesses, but after all, he didn't say anything, and left with the two daughters.

Han Shi arranged for some lightly wounded and sturdy women to go to the islands to find the old and weak women and children in small boats. According to Li Congyi's thoughts, a young and strong laborer should always correspond to two or three old and weak women and children, and if you think about it this way, I am afraid that there will not be two or three thousand people. However, until the next morning, the number of old, weak, women and children gathered on the lake near the West Island was reduced to 1,000. I don't mean that the days of Taihu Zhuzhai are really difficult to this point, and Li Congyi can't help but sigh that the lives of ordinary people in this era are really not people's lives.

A small boat is crowded with dozens of people, nearly a thousand people and nearly 40 boats, and there is quite a bit of momentum on the lake.

Li Congyi naturally didn't have to follow him to Yixing, but just asked Gu Dazhuang to take the letter of the Jiangguo Mansion and escort the fleet, and after arriving in Yixing, he went up the Lishui River, through Gucheng Lake to the Shuiyang River, and then went up the river to Xuancheng. The section from Gucheng Lake to Shuiyang River is not suitable for large boats, but it is just right for these small boats. On the other hand, Li Congyi, as the assassin of Xuanzhou, appeared in Changzhou for no reason, which is not easy to explain. On the contrary, in Huzhou, even if you are seen, you just don't admit it.

As for how to settle these old and weak women and children, Li Congyi did not panic, first set up some wooden sheds at the ferry, and then found Xuanzhou Construction to quickly build a batch of houses. Of course, these people have to work for Li Congyi, although they can't do the heavy work, they can still do the work of Fangfei clothing.

plus Gu Dazhuang, when he came to Huzhou, there were thirty-three guards, six were killed in battle, nine were seriously injured, and five were taken by Gu Dazhuang to Yixing, but Li Congyi's guards were more than a dozen. The extra is Zhang Qiao's team.

At that time, seeing that the negative floor of the bottom cabin was burning, Zhang Qiao still had about 20 people, and he didn't care that Taihu Kou was outside the boat, so he could only jump out of the oar window to the lake, not wanting to jump out and find that Taihu Kou was escaping.

The reason, of course, is because Li Congyi is back. Under the cover of night, Li Congyi stayed on the periphery of the battlefield. When he saw the two boats walking away, he came over to take a look, so he drove away Taihu Kou's boat and rescued Zhang Qiao and them.

Zhang Qiao thought about going back at first, but Li Congyi asked him what the consequences would be after he went back. Zhang Qiao was worried that he and Xie Tonghe would bear the responsibility for the defeat after he went back, so he hesitated for a while. Li Congyi made a condition to defect to the Southern Tang Dynasty, and the moon did not surrender, and the parents and children were taken back, and they could also send a home gift. Zhang Qiao was still hesitating, and the other soldiers and sailors agreed.

What Zhang Qiao didn't know was that Xie Tonghe fled outside Wuxian that night, knowing that the entire army of the Navy Division was annihilated, and he wanted to understand that he could not survive, so he killed himself outside the city.

In fact, according to Li Congyi's inner thoughts, if he really wants to arm the Taihu Lake villages, his combat effectiveness and will to fight are much stronger than Wu Yue's Taihu Lake Water Division. However, Zhang Qiao's performance last night was really eye-catching. Without Zhang Qiao's hard support, there would be one or two more Taihu Kou besieging Li Congyi, and Li Congyi would really have to be confessed in Taihu Lake. One bird in hand is better than ten birds in the forest. After all, Ning Guojun has no naval foundation at all, and there is always a difference between sailors and naval troops.

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After a trip to Huzhou and a fight, Li Congyi experienced the sense of urgency of "10,000 years is too long, seize the day" for the first time.

After returning to Xuancheng, he went straight to the ferry.

Tang Puze went to Runzhou, and Gao Jingtong, Xu Jianzhang, Hou Hongye and others were already waiting.

The dispatch office of the county government is set up at the ferry, which is called the ferry sub-district office. The first major thing that the ferry street did was land acquisition.

Xuancheng Ferry is just a small ferry port, and there was originally a small village. However, the land along the river is all paddy fields, so the surrounding land is not ownerless. Previously, Li Congyi built Xuanzhou Iron and Steel at the ferry, so he could only buy land from the landlord. Despite the gold-lettered signboard of Jiang Guogong, the landlord did not dare not sell it, but it was still the market price. Li Congyi could only watch as Bai Huahua's silver was given to the landlord, and then buried in the silver cellar. And Li Congyi also had to level the land and build infrastructure by himself.

Now that Li Congyi has the help of Jiangnan Bank, he wants to expand the scale of steel, and this land matter cannot but be solved. The solution is also simple, that is, the government requisitioned land.

A land reserve bureau was set up under Xuancheng County, and Jiangnan Bank granted a credit of 100,000 taels of silver; The Land Reserve Bureau is responsible for land acquisition and land leveling, and then sells it to Xuanzhou Iron and Steel and Xuanzhou Construction at a higher price. As for the specific land acquisition work, it will be operated by the Ferry Street Office. It just so happened that the new army eliminated a group of soldiers from the old Ning National Army, and came to the ferry street office to be this villain in land acquisition, which was just right.

At the same time, it is necessary to make a patch, the Xuanzhou government will issue regulations to allow the free sale of fields, but in order to protect the cultivated land, any field to be converted to urban construction or industrial and commercial plant use must be approved by the state government, otherwise it will be regarded as an illegal transaction, and the state and county have the right to confiscate it.

In this regard, Gao Jingtong and Hou Hongye were simply bright-eyed.

However, the premise of land acquisition is that the land can be sold. However, around the ferry, Li Congyi arranged for Zheng Deshui to make plans early. First, the original ferry port is too small, and it is urgent to expand, and the corresponding warehouse site must be set up. Second, due to the demand for waterwheel power in the iron and steel plant, the management of Liu Zai and Xuanzhou Iron and Steel will divide two factories on the bank of the river, one responsible for military products and the other responsible for civilian products. Third, Daqiang Wood also hopes to set up a factory in Dukou. Finally, Li Congyi plans to develop residential communities by Xuanzhou Construction, solve the housing problem of factory supporting personnel - and open up housing loan business for Jiangnan Bank.

According to the efficiency of the official office in this era, the Dukou Sub-district Office and the Xuancheng Land Reserve Bureau were established in only three days, which is almost the speed of light. The land acquisition action is faster, and the state government compulsorily expropriates land at 80% of the market price, and it is not a one-place negotiation. Some properties in Dukou Village are also within the scope of land acquisition, and the newly established Dukou Street Office is like a wolf and a tiger, and it will "persuade people to leave" in a few days.

The barbaric approach of the ferry street office made Xu Meilan bump into her once, and when she found Li Congyi, she cried: "Those officials first beat other people's men and women, regardless of their age, and then threw their things on the road, and then demolished their houses." It's more robber than a robber! ”

Li Congyi also couldn't.

Without compulsory land acquisition, this efficiency will not be improved, and it will be difficult to achieve the effect of large-scale and rapid construction of the city. In particular, it is difficult for the government to get much benefit from such private transactions, after all, there are only a few deed taxes? And there is no good way to rapidly expand the financial resources of the prefecture and county, and Li Congyi can't continue to expand the special fund account, and cover his ears and steal the bell to pay for this Ning Guojun army.

Through the method of value-added tax, especially the way of distinguishing ordinary taxpayers and small taxpayers, the newly established industrial and commercial taxation bureau in Xuancheng County has achieved remarkable results. On the one hand, the management of industry and commerce has been strengthened through the issuance of industrial and commercial licenses, and on the other hand, the number of ordinary taxpayers has been greatly expanded by encouraging corporatization and restructuring. Xuancheng County's monthly revenue on VAT has been collected for two months, which may not be enough in absolute terms, but the increase in the next month is really gratifying, and it is expected to double in the third month.

For the majority of merchants, the Xuancheng County Industrial and Commercial Taxation Bureau isolated the arbitrary exploitation of the original officials. It's good governance. Gao Jingtong wanted to promote this method. However, Li Congyi reminded that the practice of the Xuancheng County Industrial and Commercial Taxation Bureau benefits the county and businesses, but it hurts the interests of those officials. In Xuancheng, there are states and counties pressing, and there is no problem for the time being, but in other counties, will there be a situation where the officials will continue to exploit?

The Southern Tang Dynasty inherited the Tang system, but it was not much different from the Song Dynasty in the management of states and counties. On the surface, there are very few officials at the county level, but in fact, it is because many officials are not counted among them. Taking Xuancheng County as an example, in fact, the county government finances more than 2,000 people, including all kinds of clerical staff of the official government, as well as armed forces such as fast catchers and sword archers, as well as city management personnel such as guards and sanitation.

There is no government establishment, but the treasury has to spend, so it can only be given a very low monthly salary. But these officials also have to support their families, so they can only find opportunities to do it.

Li Congyi's suggestion was to carry out a pilot project in Xuancheng County, dividing the government officials into contract workers and temporary workers, with contract workers included in the staff establishment of the government and temporary workers regarded as a type of forced labor. At the same time, contract workers are paid at an appropriate monthly rate, while casual workers are paid on a daily basis at a below-market level. To this end, a new bureau was set up in the county government to clarify the functions and establishment of each bureau.

Li Congyi actually put forward the idea of a new deal. However, it is only implemented in the county government, and only in the Xuancheng pilot, so you don't need to report to the central government, and Gao Jingtong and Hou Hongye still have the courage to do so. As for the financial resources needed for the new deal, at present, Xuancheng County is not a big problem.