Seeing Gao Zongting's cautious look, Lin Fu thought that if he had to say "yes", Gao Zongting would probably give 10,000 reasons to dissuade him. He shook his head and said: "The mountains and rivers are so broken, how can we withstand the great turmoil? He may not want to leave Jiangning if his salary is extended, but recommending him as an official in Jiangning would be too embarrassing. I have to find an excuse to give him a chance to participate in politics, which can be regarded as comfort..."

The power of tradition is so huge that Lin Fu doesn't want to get involved in it yet. There are some things that he can only open some holes for now, rather than completely sealing them off - only then can he wait until all conditions are mature. There is less resistance and less bloody change.

Gao Zongting sometimes couldn't guess what Lin Fu was thinking, but when the matter reached this point, it could only strengthen the Huaidong and Dongyang Township Party's control over Jiangning, which was not bad. Of course, the Dongyang Township Party was looking to make profits. Some benefits must be given up to achieve balance.

Thinking of this, Gao Zongting smiled and said: "The news of Zhang Yubo beating Gu Tianqiao will probably spread a lot tomorrow..."

"This little trick can't hide those old foxes, but as long as it can reassure people's minds, it's fine." Lin Fu said with a smile.

The car window was opened so that he could see the scene on the street. Passing by Xiubai Building, the lights inside were sparse, but there were still three or five people walking around the window. Gao Zongting looked at it and said, "I don't know when Jiangning City will be restored."

Prosperity in the old days?”

"Why do you feel such emotion?" Lin Fu asked with a smile, "When the imperial clan was trapped in the imperial city, I heard that Chen Qingqing from Xiubai Tower also took refuge there. Now that Mr. Zeng has passed away, Chen Qingqing has not followed Yuan Jinqiu...

…”

"My lord, this is disrespectful to the ancestors!" Gao Zongting said with a smile.

Lin Fu shook his head and smiled, and said: "Mr. Zeng was free and unrestrained during his lifetime, so he will not blame me for disrespectful words. Mr. Zeng and Chen Qingqing were acquaintances in the world of mortals, so he would not want her to continue to fall into the world of mortals. Zong Ting did not have the shame to ask himself, Su

Mae will come to Jiangning in a few days. Powers and mountains are easy to change, and beauty is easy to pass away, so don’t let it down..."

Gao Zongting remained silent, but he heard another layer of spirit in Lin Fu's words, thinking that Lin Fu had to take the last step before he could implement his incomprehensible ideas.

Lin Fu returned to Chenyuan and drove Song Jia from Wanshou Palace to meet him. He worked hard all night and slept until three o'clock in the morning the next day.

The story of Gu Tianqiao's whipping spread throughout Jiangning City. Lin Mengde rushed over at the end of the day. He hadn't slept all night, and his face was full of exhaustion. He said to Lin Fu, who had just entered the government office to handle matters, "Let's discuss it."

The new system is actually the same as the old method of market purchase. For the grain that enters the city, the government office sets up a special department to redeem it at the official price in proportion and put it into the government warehouse as grain for relief..."

"Where can the Jiangning government office raise the money to redeem the money? Could it be that they are plotting against Huaidong Bank again?" Song Fu asked from the side.

"Besides this strategy, is there any other way?" Lin Mengde smiled and said, "Using Jiangning City as an example, the bank will first come up with one million taels of silver for emergency use. After the discount is drawn up, we will wait.

Take Zhang Yubo to the funeral hall..."

Yuan Jianhai, Shen Rong, Huang Jinnian and others discussed many strategies to deal with the aftermath at the Zhengshi Hall. Lin Fu called the Zhengshi Hall the "Hangzhou Remedial Hall".

During the reign of Emperor Yongxing, the Lijin City tax was included in the collection and management of the inner government. The tax revenue from Jiangning Dingkou was one million, and the income from the Lijin City tax was no less than the Tianfu Ding tax. Cutting this area off would not make Zhang Yubo heartbroken.

It is under the jurisdiction of Jiangning Prefecture. But compared to the ordinary land tax and Ding tax, Lin Fu wants to control the Lijin City tax, which is similar in nature to the industrial and commercial tax.

Lin Mengde sat down again and explained in detail the agreement reached by the two parties overnight: the so-called official price is the cost price, and the proportion of the Jiangning government office that can be redeemed at the cost price is 30% of the total amount of food imported. Half of the food purchased will be used for porridge.

For market relief, half of the rice was put into the market at par to raise the price of grain, but the Jiangning Prefectural Government no longer restricted the price of rice.

Gao Zongting nodded and said: "As long as we can survive the spring famine, there shouldn't be any big problems!"

One hundred taels of silver can buy one million stones of grain at a par price. The grain ban in Huaidong is relaxed, which can meet the life-saving gap of the small households in Jiangning City. The amount collected through taxation will always only be part of it, especially in Huaidong. Over the years,

The proportion of tax collection has actually continued to decline, and the surplus grain in the hands of farmers is relatively sufficient. In the past, Huaidong strictly controlled the export of rice and grain, which resulted in more grain stored in Huaidong than the outside world imagined. Now, Huaidong will

The land south of the Yangtze River has been integrated into its own territory, and there is no food ban on Jiangning and other places.

The area Huaidong controlled before was still a little small. The area Huaidong wanted to control had actually more than doubled. Including Jiangning, all the eight prefectures in the south of the Yangtze River were short of food, but the most difficult thing to endure was the spring famine.

The Eastern Fujian area can grow two crops of rice every year. Eastern Fujian has just experienced a war, and it will take some time for production to recover. After the spring famine, the rice input from Huaidong to Eastern Fujian will drop sharply, and the turmoil in eastern Zhejiang and eastern Zhejiang will also

Once things settle down, some production in the outskirts of Jiangning, Chizhou, and Huizhou can also be resumed.

Lin Fu frowned and said: "There are too many Dingkou in the city. We can use the method of raising farmers to evacuate some of them and relieve the pressure. We can't invest money in Jiangning all the time without getting any profit...

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There are many factors that contributed to the emergence of Jiangning, a super city. The development of commodity economy and the huge increase in the number of workshop workers working in various workshops and factories. The more important factor is the high concentration of officials and wealthy gentry in surrounding areas.

In Jiangning City.

The number of family members of the officials and gentry was relatively small, and the number of servants who served the officials and gentry was extremely large.

When Uncle Qin Cheng left Jiangning, not counting the temporary servants hired from Jiangning, there were thousands of domestic slaves, soldiers and family members who moved north with Qin City.

After Emperor Yongxing ascended the throne in Jiangning, the number of servants and maids in the imperial city increased rapidly to nearly 4,000. Together with their families, the number was already equivalent to a large city.

It was also when Emperor Yongxing ascended the throne in Jiangning that the number of officials expanded again. The demand for servants also solved Jiangning's long-standing headache of refugees.

By removing this group of people, we can reduce the supply to the bureaucracy in the future; conversely, if we reduce the supply to the bureaucracy, we must also remove these people, so as not to create new hidden dangers and insecurities in Jiangning City.

Stability factor - can also save a lot of resources for war.

The war in Eastern Fujian ended, but due to the war and the inward migration of the She family, the population of Eastern Fujian was seriously lost. In Quanzhou Prefecture, which was in the best condition, Dingkou was only half of what it was before the war.

"The Huaidong Army has been expanding again and again, and the scale of the labor camp has been shrinking sharply. It also needs to be expanded on a large scale immediately..." Lin Fu expressed his thoughts.

Lin Meng had no doubt. Song Fu said: "There are hundreds of thousands of refugees in Jiangning City. Most of them are tenants and small farmers who have fled to Jiangning after being devastated by the war in the surrounding counties. We can recruit farmers, transport troops, and relocate from among them."

Go to Fujian and other places to form military strongholds and live there; when the surrounding counties resume farming and there are vacancies for tenants, you can guide the poor people in the city to fill them - if you recruit the households in the city as soldiers, the battle will really not work."

Lin Fu recruited the supply troops from Jiangning City and wanted to use them purely as a farming corps. He did not plan to recruit large-scale soldiers as soldiers in the future. He also wanted to quickly relieve the pressure on Jiangning's population. However, according to Lin Mengde's strategy, there was nothing wrong with it.

That's right, after all, if hundreds of thousands of refugees are to be repatriated immediately, a considerable number of them will also face livelihood problems.
Chapter completed!