Lord of the House

Regardless of Jiangning's transfer order, Liang Wenzhan secretly arrived in Mingzhou on the first day of May to preside over the New Deal.

With the cooperation of the local forces in eastern Zhejiang headed by Ye Junan Ye's family, Huaidong quickly mastered the number of acres and dents in Mingzhou.

After Shengsi, Daishan and other places were placed under Hailing Prefecture, Mingzhou Prefecture has jurisdiction over eight counties including Changguo, Cixi, Yuyao, Shangyu, Shengzhou, Fenghua, Ninghai, Xiangshan and Yin.

Under the devastation of the war that lasted for several years, there are still as many as 120,000 households in Jidingkou in Mingzhou.

Among the nine counties in Mingzhou, Cixi, Yuyao, Shangyu, and Yinxian, which are located in the core area of ​​Minghui Plain, are the most prosperous, and tax and grain account for nearly 80% of the whole prefecture in Mingzhou.

The army tax grain that the luxury family extracted from the Mingzhou prefecture can be investigated. The total amount of the two years exceeded more than 1.6 million shi, and the average annual military tax grain drawn was more than 800,000 shi – and Jiangning agreed to Huaidong. The army can requisition from the eleven counties of the Huaidong two prefectures and the highest rate of grain is only 800,000 shi.

Traditionally, the three counties of Shangyu, Shengzhou and Yuyao were placed under the jurisdiction of the Kuaiji Prefecture. After the She family occupied eastern Zhejiang, Kuaiji was the focus of the She family's military confrontation with Dongyuan in the north of Zhejiang on the eastern front, so Shangyu, Shengzhou, and Yuyao were placed under the jurisdiction of Mingzhou Prefecture in order to better raise military funds.

In Eastern Zhejiang, which is dominated by Mingzhou and Kuaiji Prefectures, Mingzhou Prefecture ranks second in three, and Kuaiji Prefecture ranks first. It is not an exaggeration to say that the She family lost the area in eastern Zhejiang from the east of the Cao'e River.

In the first ten days of May, Lin Fu issued Tian Ding's new decree in the name of the envoy of the Eastern Zhejiang System, before the officials of Mingzhou and the counties had been determined. The New Deal reduced or exempted the tax and apportionment of the Mingzhou government and various counties, dispatched Qingtian officials to preside over the New Deal affairs, checked the fields, and ordered the county landowners to report the actual number of fields and acres to the Qingtian officials before September. , for those who hire tenants to farm on the basis of the rent in kind, the rent shall be reduced to less than 30%; on the basis of fixed rent, the annual rent of the first-class mature fields shall not exceed one stone.

The thirteen families led by the Tian clan rebelled and surrendered a total of thirteen clan properties and used them as military assets. The mines, shipyards, fishing grounds, as well as lakes, mountains, islands, and other unregistered lands to which Changguo Islands belonged were all levied as official property, and the localities took the opportunity to occupy them and punished them severely.

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After stabilizing the situation in Yongjia, Qin Zitan also came to Dongyang County in early May, feeling anxious about the current bad situation.

On the west bank of Taibai Creek in Dongyang County, the Huaidong Army was dominated by the elites of the Changshan Battalion and the two brigades, and the garrison reached 8,000. Along the slopes at the northwest foothills of Luohe Mountain, the Huaidong Army built a fish-scaled chain of defense villages that radiated to the west bank of Taibai Creek, competed with Dongyang County for control of the Taibai Creek waterway, and drove the people to widen and build a post road connecting Shengzhou on the inside.

In the north of Tiantai County, with the Changshan Battalion 1 Brigade Elite Infantry as the main force, the Huaidong Army was building a defense village facing Tiantai County, and the garrison also exceeded 4,000 people.

On the inner line between Tiantai and Luohe Mountain Defense Village, Shengzhou City was used as the fortress, and the Changshan Battalion Three Brigades were the main force. The Huaidong Army garrisoned more than ten thousand people in Shengzhou.

The East-West and South-Zhejiang battalions built by the Huaidong Army with Shengzhou as the core took shape in the first ten days of May. There are also thousands of civilians conscripted for military use.

By the first ten days of May, Huaidong clearly set the abandoned county of Shengzhou into a town, and used the entire city of Shengzhou as a base for the camps in the east and west of Zhejiang. Only on both sides of the Shanxi River in Shengzhou, more than 200,000 mu of Tianshi's fields were seized and used as military reclamation. The field used for the camp - I don't know how many soldiers will be filled in Shengzhou and other places in the later period of Huaidong!

After the Qianjiang waterway from Xiaoshan to Haining was completely closed, the Huaidong Army in Shangyu County as the core and along the two sides of the Cao'e River built the defense system. The water camp is the main force, and the troops also exceed 10,000.

Considering that the Huaidong Army has more than 15,000 elites from the three brigades of the Chongcheng Infantry Battalion in the inner line of Mingzhou Prefecture, as well as Chen Kuili and Mao Tengyuan of the Zhedong army, and the Jinghai No. The second water battalion, the Huaidong Army, had a total of more than 52,000 troops in eastern Zhejiang for a while.

The luxury family must stabilize the line of defense from Tiantai, Dongyang, Zhuji to Kuaiji, with the elites of Bamin as the main force plus local defense troops, and the number of people should not be less than 50,000.

Although the pressure on Dongyuan in northern Zhejiang was borne by the eldest son, after the loss of Mingzhou in eastern Zhejiang, the number of troops stationed in Zhejiang had to nearly double to be sufficient.

Qin Zitan can roughly guess what Huaidong is thinking, that is to intensify the military confrontation between the two sides on the defense line and drag down the finances of Zhejiang and Fujian.

In southern Zhejiang, the resistance troops from southern Zhejiang such as Liu Wenzhong and Zuo Guangying were occupying Yueqing City, and it was easy to obtain support from Huaidong by sea. The She family's troops in southern Zhejiang could only abandon the coastal areas and shrink to Ouhai, Yongjia and other inland cities some distance from the coast to build defenses.

On the one hand, it was forced to increase troops to strengthen the defense along the line, and on the other hand, it had to give up the plastered coastal areas one after another.

Not to mention the loss of Mingzhou Prefecture, the delta area of ​​Yongjia River from Ouhai City and Yongjia City below the two cities, the number of fertile fields accounts for one third of the total number of acres in Yongjia Prefecture, and because Yueqing City was occupied by the remnants of the resistance army in southern Zhejiang, Qin Dynasty Zi Tan also had to forcibly move the people of this area into the inland, abandoning them as wasteland, and the loss of tax and grain would be in the hundreds of thousands of stone.

The situation in the coastal areas of eastern Fujian such as Jin'an Prefecture was also worsened by the loss of Zhejiang eastern's containment of the harassing naval forces in Huaidong. The Huaidong Navy pushed the advancing base to the south of Changguo, and Yueqing, which was occupied by the remnants of the resistance army in southern Zhejiang, was the springboard. It became more and more convenient to harass the coastal areas of southern Zhejiang and eastern Fujian, and the scale of the harassment will continue to increase— - The situation has developed to this day, and the situation on the eastern front of Zhejiang and Fujian has been so bad that it can no longer be bad.

At present, in addition to relying on the eldest son to continue to expand the strategic depth on the western front, we can only hope that the cavalry of the Donghu people can quickly go south to threaten Huaisi. Eastern pressure.

Although Zhejiang and Fujian have expanded the total number of troops and horses to nearly 200,000 in two or three years, they have been attacked on several sides, and their elites have suffered many casualties.

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At the beginning of the war in eastern Zhejiang, Lin Fu couldn't wait for Jiangning to formally assign Liang Wen to show his appointment as the prefect of Mingzhou. He left Mingzhou on the ninth day of May and returned to Chongzhou; the main force of the first water battalion headed by Zhao Qingshan returned with Lin Fu. Chongzhou.

Lin Fu's strategy of attacking the east and west in the name of the fake king of Qin also caused huge controversy within Huaidong at first.

With the passage of time, and after the Huaidong Army attacked eastern Zhejiang, it achieved a series of major military victories and quickly occupied the entire territory of Mingzhou Prefecture. The controversy also subsided.

Lin Bie's reputation in Huaidong has also reached a new level.

On the day Lin Fu returned to Chongzhou, the county gentry greeted him on the bank, watching the Jinhai slowly sail from the water gate into the berthing area between Junshan and Zilang Mountain, and there was a deafening cheer on both sides of the strait.

Of course, there were also many onlookers, but the military and civilians of the two Huaidong prefectures were generally rejoicing and boosting morale.

However, as far as the Huaidong Military Division is concerned, the southward attack against the decree is of great significance. Ordinary officials and generals had a clearer consciousness, and from then on Huaidong was regarded as a force independent of the imperial court. Take the words of Tang Shuen, Liu Tingzhou and others who played Jiang Ning secretly, "Huaidong officials and generals will only see Huaidong from now on, but no court, only Lin Fu, and no emperor."

Huaidong achieved a series of military victories in eastern Zhejiang, which boosted morale. However, from the perspective of the national situation, he was still more worried than happy. Lin Fu suppressed his worries and accepted the gentry's military and civilian welcome. The more difficult it is, the more important morale is.

Landing from the Nanya Pier, Lin Fu said to Qin Chengzu, Lin Mengde, Sun Jingxuan, Sun Jingtang, Li Shuyi, Hu Zhicheng, Wang Chengfu, Sun Fengyi, Zhou Guangnan, Wu Meijiu and others who had come to the pier to greet them: "With the coming of the tenth month, the people of Chongzhou will be It's hard work, everyone, Lin Fu is here to thank you all!"

"Your Excellency, you're welcome!" Everyone returned the salute and welcomed Lin Bie to land.

Seeing that Zhao Qinmin was also among the crowd, Lin Fu asked, "When did Mr. Zhao come to Chongzhou?"

"I came here in the afternoon the day before yesterday. I was going to see you at Mingzhou Mansion~www.readwn.com~ I learned that you will be back soon, so I waited patiently in Chongcheng for two days." Zhao Qinmin said.

"Then go to Dongya for a banquet first, and then discuss other things in detail." Lin Fu said, asking Zhao Qinmin to accompany him to Dongya.

Zhao Qinmin sighed with emotion in his heart. Lin Fie, the famous Qin King, acted as a strategy to attack the east and west. He and Gu Wuchen were also caught off guard in Jiangning.

After the news of the main force of the Huaidong Army attacking eastern Zhejiang reached Jiangning, it coincided with She Feixiong winning Linshui and gathering troops to attack Fuyang.

When Jiangning was under threat, including Yue Lengqiu, Cheng Yuqian, Yu Xinyuan, Wang Tian, ​​Wang Xueshan, and the rest of Prince Ning's mansion, they were all in a hurry and lost everything. Therefore, they kept silent about the fact that the Huaidong Army was bullying the emperor, so that Gu Wuchen would not be too passive in Jiangning.

The situation has developed to this stage, in addition to some scholars still trying to talk quickly, accusing Huaidong of not, but more people are glad that the main force of Huaidong's army does not have the King of Qin. If the Huaidong Army had not landed in Mingzhou in time, the 100,000 elites of the She family would have crippled northern Zhejiang, swept across Pingjiang and Danyang, and landed in Jiangning City!

Today, Jiangning relies on Huaidong to contain nearly half of Zhejiang and Fujian's troops from the east. Lin Fu is also the envoy of Huaidong and Zhejiang. At this time, Jiangdong County has about 150,000 troops and horses, and Huaidong occupies the one third stronger. Lin Fu not only directly intervened in the appointment of officials at the magistrate and county level in Huaidong and East Zhejiang, but also directly demanded that the county committees in Hecheng and Shengsi be appointed as trusted retainers to strengthen the Huaidong Military Division's control over these two places - Zhao Qinmin Station On the side, looking at Lin Fu, who was chatting and laughing with others, he secretly said: There is nothing more than Cao Liang who is called Xiaochen! My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter