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Chapter 254 8.30 Preliminary Determination of the Foundation for the Closing of Yangzhou
Chapter 8

8.30 Yangzhou is finished and the foundation is initially determined

"My lord, this time we cleared the salt merchants, we seized a total of nearly 2000 million taels of cash, of which 800 million taels have been escorted to the capital, and we still have a little more than 1000 million taels.

I have heard for a long time that the big salt merchants like to melt silver and cast it into a big ball shape of 'no help'. During this period of time, I have gained knowledge. If it weren't for the help of the Eastern Manager to find it, I can only say that I have it in my dreams.

However, these are talking about cash. If you convert all kinds of valuables and soft goods, you can get more than 3000 million taels, but it will take a long time to operate, which is estimated to take about two years.

If the land and real estate of each family are converted into it, hundreds of millions of taels is not an exaggeration. Unfortunately, these things are not easy to move, and many of them are only nominally owned by the salt merchants. It is not easy to say who actually belongs to them. "Xu Fei, who was in charge of finishing it, said depressedly.

"It doesn't matter, sort out the land deeds at the magistrate's yamen, all the properties that do belong to the various salt merchants will be divided among the brothers, and it is estimated that each person can get a few acres of land.

If you are not sure, don't worry, someone will definitely come to you, and if you don't spit out some benefits at that time, you don't have to deal with it. I will take care of anything. "Wei Xu remembered the "Outline of Land Law" of later generations. Although it cannot be copied directly for the time being, it is no problem to use it in a small area.

"It's been cleared!" Xu Fei said excitedly, "The total land property exceeds 40 mu, most of which are high-quality paddy fields, which are not sold for 20 taels, but only less than 15 mu have confirmed title deeds.

I am going to give two acres to each of the brothers, and the rest will be under the name of the young master. The land deed is a bit troublesome. Even if we keep urging, the group of government servants will not be able to deal with it within three months. "

"You don't need to keep it for me." Wei Xu waved his hand. He really has no interest in the local landlords. Good thing.

Also, leave [-] mu as a maneuver, I plan to set up a military camp here, the number is tentatively set to be one guard, and these fields will be sold to the remaining small families or landlords to buy people's hearts and raise funds by the way. "

"Young master, don't worry, I'll arrange it!" Xu Fei said excitedly, "There are only more than 6000 guards, and a lot of officers are needed. I don't know when the young master will arrange it?"

"Not enough!" Wei Xu shook his head helplessly, "I can only give you officers from more than a hundred families, and the rest will give you a veteran from a thousand families. You can watch the training and promotion of the general flag and small flags. "

"Thank you, son!" Xu Fei showed ecstasy. The so-called "you look at the training and promotion", naturally appointed him as the commander of the guard. Anyway, according to the plan, there will be no need for any big salt merchants in the future.

Wei Xu's plan is to take advantage of the opportunity to pacify the war, to carry out comprehensive reforms to the armies in various places in the south of the Yangtze River, and basically cancel the thousands of households and hundreds of households that are everywhere but almost useless.

Then, re-establish guards in major core cities in the south of the Yangtze River. At present, Yangzhou, Suzhou, Tongzhou, Songjiang, Xuzhou, Pizhou, Lianyungang, Suzhou, Bozhou, Anqing and Huizhou have been set up to set up guard commanders. Smaller but more critical places Arrange for thousands of households.

The above-mentioned guards are all field troops, which is more than 6 people, and then set up a hundred first-level garrison troops in non-core cities to assist the government to appease the local areas, which is almost enough on weekdays.

In this way, there are about [-] troops scattered throughout Jiangnan. If necessary, more than [-] elite soldiers can be quickly pulled out. If there is no direct fallout with the court, such a force is enough to make anyone give up unrealistic ideas.

Now the major military camps in the entire Jiangnan have actually been "sorted out". To put it bluntly, he has actually "separated" Jiangnan, but it has not yet been revealed on the surface.

In the next period of time, these integrated thousand-household first-level units will be gradually mobilized, and the nearby county towns and even prefectures will be pacified, and then they will be integrated and transferred to the arranged big city guards.

Just like modern society, in fact, most prefecture-level cities and most county-levels do not have garrisons at all, and even WJ may not have them, because it is unnecessary and too wasteful.

Once a war breaks out, the integrated field forces will attack immediately and burn the flames of war to the enemy's territory, and the local security will be handed over to the garrison to assist the local government, without too much consideration.

If you blindly defend everywhere and scattered soldiers everywhere, the result is that the original fists are scattered into little fingers, and sooner or later they will be eaten by the enemy separately. For details, you can refer to the Battle of Saerhu in the late Ming Dynasty.

On the contrary, it is an administrative issue. Wei Xu is not so worried now. He is going to take advantage of the time to calm down the chaos and clean up all the "township" first-level aristocratic families in major prefectures and counties, leaving only some small and medium-sized landlords.

Then, use the Excalibur Gang to go deep, control the government servants and officials at the county level, use the situation of buying officials to arrange county magistrates and county lieutenants, completely remove the county magistrates arranged by the court, and extend administrative power to the county level.It will take about a year. As long as it can be done, even if Emperor Yongzheng has ideas, he can ignore it. At worst, he will be arranged in the palace to gain more time for development. Anyway, he is not the only emperor in the royal family.

"Brother Xu!" Just as he was thinking, there was a sudden soft call, what fell in Wei Xu's eyes was a pretty face with pear blossoms and rain, if it wasn't Lin Daiyu, who else?

"Yu'er!" He couldn't help showing a smirk, and stretched out his arms in a "hug" posture. Usually, Lin Daiyu would turn around in shame immediately, and everyone played very skillfully.

"Brother Xu!" Unexpectedly, this time Lin Daiyu jumped into his arms with a cheer. The 14-year-old but nearly 1.6 meters [-] figure was very predictable, which made him even a little ready to move.

"Okay, Yu'er, there's nothing to cry about. Today's separation is for the sake of never being apart in the future." The coldness in his chest dispelled his unrealistic thoughts, and he couldn't help but hug her tightly. girl.

Now that Yangzhou has been recovered, the major military camps in the south of the Yangtze River have also been sorted out. There is no need for Lin Daiyu to stay there, and it is justified to come back to see her father.

After a long time, she gently pushed Wei Xu's chest, and flew backwards lightly and landed on the chair, because both of them felt someone coming from outside, but the tears on their faces betrayed her.

"It doesn't seem right for me to come? Do you need to wait a little longer?" The corners of Dongfang Bai's mouth slightly curled up, showing a mocking smile, "Or just help you to the door? It's just, my admiral, who started in three years, what is the highest?" coming?"

"Sister Bai!" Lin Daiyu blushed with shame, but she didn't run away directly like in the past.

"It's all arranged?" Wei Xu didn't mean to be shy, he was used to it anyway, and even pulled Dongfang Bai into his arms for a soft kiss, and raised his eyebrows at Lin Daiyu to tease her.

"I have already arranged for your five thousand military officers to go to Bozhou, Suzhou, Xuzhou, Pizhou, and Lianyungang respectively. It will take time to establish the five guards, but the soldiers and horses will be in place soon.

For at most three months, after the strength of the five guards has stabilized, even if the capital has any ideas, they can only hold back and shut up. "Dongfang Bai appreciated his arrangement very much.

That's right, these five Jiangnan frontline guards are actually not guarding against rioters, but guarding against the imperial court. No matter what the capital thinks at that time, these more than 3 elite soldiers can make them think carefully.

After the adjustment and deployment of these troops is completely completed, Wei Xu has completed the foundation building in the true sense, and he will no longer have to worry about any pressure or methods from the court in the future!
By the way, the [-] elite soldiers from the Beijing camp who had been out of Xuzhou for several months had been withdrawn to Jining Mansion last month on the grounds that "the south of the Yangtze River was corrupt and not enough to raise troops, so they had to return their food."

Jining Prefecture has Yutai, the only large-scale rice planting base in the entire Jiangbei, and it is a famous place for grain production. For this reason, even the civil servants can only shut up - Wei Xu helped find it, and it happened to clear Xuzhou City.

"Then let's delay for a few more days, and notify those thousands of households that have already sorted out, and recover the counties to which they belong in order, but do not touch the prefecture level except for special circumstances. Our troops must not be enough.

But it’s not that we really don’t care about it, but we personally led the troops there, and gradually regained the planned core cities. Every time we recovered one, we established a guard camp and arranged the troops.

By the end of spring and early summer of next year, when we have completely integrated our forces and arranged our defenses, it will be the day when we will truly sweep Jiangnan and lay the foundation! "Wei Xu said confidently.

"It's not just these, is it?" Dongfang Bai raised his eyebrows, waved his hands and signaled all the subordinates and servants to go out, then looked at the jade pendant on Wei Xu's wrist and smiled, "You said just now that we can solve it in the spring and summer of next year? Because this?"

It's not just her, the reason why Lin Daiyu was uncharacteristically, even in the face of many restricted-level scenes, the fundamental reason is that she also felt the message "returned" by Yupei.

"Not bad!" Wei Xu's expression is also very satisfied, "I have been worrying about the training of administrative staff, now I can rest assured that it is not easy to train here, we will bring it back after training there!"

"Brother Xu, this is also an ancient environment. Are you planning to sweep the world over there?" After Wei Xu put the jade pendant on their foreheads to transmit the "short video scene", Lin Daiyu asked with beautiful eyes.

"Then we can only go back to Jinling!" Wei Xu hugged the two girls in his arms and said with a smile, "And it's not now, at least we need to arrange all kinds of affairs. I plan to start again at the beginning of next year!"

(End of this chapter)