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Chapter 686 Governing the Yellow River

Land policy is the core policy of Jingzhou. Any move that opposes the joint payment of food between officials and gentry is digging Lin Chunhong's corner, and will inevitably be subject to fierce counterattack from Lin Chunhong.

Just one day after the court announced the world, Jingzhou announced through newspapers all over the world that the land policy was established by Jingzhou and would not be changed at all. Any attempt to oppose the policy of collecting food into one official and gentry is an enemy of Jingzhou.

Lin Chunhong’s Political and Propaganda Department is not a decoration. Through the storyteller spreading the policies of Jingzhou to every corner.

Immediately afterwards, major newspapers published detailed land policy articles, clearly informing the world that the core of Jingzhou's land policy lies in the integration of officials and gentry. Jingzhou will redeem the land through the current price, gradually take over the land to the government, and then allocate it to the people to farm, and the people only need to pay a certain amount of taxes.

Each adult citizen can be allocated six acres of land. If he is willing to go to the Nanyang Islands to cultivate, each person can be allocated two hundred acres.

The gentry, who was an official within the control of Jingzhou, completely abandoned the idea of ​​redeeming the land, sighed, and followed the instructions of Jingzhou to work.

However, they could not give up the temptation of land. After hearing that the Nanyang Islands could purchase plantations, some officials and gentry began to invest heavily in purchasing land in the Nanyang Islands.

As for the upstarts and the lower-class people, they were completely relieved. With the powerful force and omnipotent control of Jingzhou, they were not worried about the landlord making trouble and began to fiddle with the fields at hand.

The imperial court's propaganda and execution ability were not inferior to Jingzhou. Many people even learned that there was a farce in the imperial court, and they laughed it off and didn't take it seriously at all.

Zhou Yanru is definitely not a mediocre person. After telling the world, there is obviously a chance to do so.

On October 20, the 14th year of Chongzhen, the Ministry of War ordered Huang Degong to lead the Jingguo Army to the south to Yuzhou to station.

At the same time, the Ministry of War ordered Cao Bianjiao to lead the Ji Liao army to the south and stationed in Fengyang.

Fengyang is Zhu Yuanzhang's hometown and is called Zhongdu. When Lin Chunhong took Jiangnan, he ended northward to Fengyang. Therefore, Fengyang was the dividing line between the court and Lin Chunhong's power. To the north, it was governed by the court, and to the south, it belonged to Lin Chunhong.

Now, the imperial court has sent heavy troops to Fengyang, and its intention is quite intriguing.

Do you want to use troops to Jingzhou? Or do you want to use Fengyang's heavy troops to encourage the officials and gentry in Jiangnan to incite the officials and gentry to stand up and resist Lin Chunhong?

First, they used land policies to challenge Lin Chunhong's bottom line, and now they sent troops southward. People all over the world have almost seen Lin Chunhong's anger.

The knowledgeable people were worried about the situation sliding into the abyss, and they all stared at Jingzhou with concern, fearing that Lin Chunhong would send orders, and from then on, half of the Ming soldiers would cause disaster and bring disaster to the devastation.

However, Jingzhou has not made any noise in the past few days. Even the Yangzhou Times, which has always been the mouthpiece of Jingzhou, have been full of gossip news without any substantive content.

Unexpectedly, five days later, the Jingzhou Times and the Yangzhou Times also published a notice: Recruiting people who are proficient in water conservancy in the world to discuss the plan to govern the Yellow River.

After the announcement, a meticulous painting was published. However, this meticulous painting is not a work of art, but a huge model: a model of the Yellow River water system!

According to the bird map that people have long known, the people judged that this water system model is actually a thousand feet long and more than three hundred feet wide!

After the fine brushwork, an article specifically introduced the water system model. The article claimed that starting from the ninth year of Chongzhen, the Marquis of Jiangling invested 100,000 yuan and ordered Xingzhishutang to send people to the Yellow River water system to survey the terrain and obtain hydrological information. After four years, finally, Xingzhishutang and Jingzhou Governor's Office paid tens of thousands of people to obtain first-hand information on the Yellow River water system.

Then, Xingzhishutang invested a huge amount of money and spent a year to produce this Yellow River water system model in Luoyang to explore ways to manage the Yellow River.

The article claims that whether the Yellow River can be well managed is related to the lives and well-being of millions of living beings along the Yellow River. People who are proficient in water conservancy in the world are also invited to go to Luoyang to discuss the plan, and the Marquis of Jiangling will pay their salaries. Those with outstanding research will be rewarded.

Once this recruitment order was released, the world caused a sensation, even surpassing the letter of announcement issued by the court.

The Yellow River is the mother river of the Chinese nation and also the pain in the hearts of the Chinese nation. It can be said that the well-managed Yellow River is enough to make a dynasty rise. If the Yellow River floods, it is enough to make a dynasty weaken.

What made the Chinese nation even more heartbroken was that since the Song Dynasty crossed south, the Jurchens took over the north and neglected the management of the Yellow River, which led to the capture of the Huai River and the sea, causing thousands of miles of fertile fields along the Huai River to form a country. The prosperous two Huai River quickly fell into extreme poverty, causing huge losses to the Chinese nation.

Zhu Yuanzhang was able to walk out of Fengyang and eventually rule the world, because of poverty. If he pursued the reason relentlessly, it would probably have a lot to do with the Yellow River seizing the Huai River into the sea.

Governing the Yellow River is the unscrupulous responsibility of the central government on the land of China!

Now, the Ming Dynasty's court mobilized troops everywhere, and was in a strong way to fan the flames. As a local warlord, Lin Chunhong actually prepared for the future in the ninth year of Chongzhen and tried to govern the Yellow River. In the middle, the high and inferior verdict was established!

There are scales between heaven and earth, and the common people are the weights.

What the court is doing and what Jingzhou is doing, the people naturally have to think about it. What the people can see is that since the Jingzhou forces arrived here, they have built countless roads and ditches, built countless bridges, and built countless wharfs...

Especially the people in Henan, Shandong and northern Zhili, after hearing that Jingzhou was preparing to invest huge sums of money to govern the Yellow River, they all rushed to tell each other.

The Jingzhou group is an engineering maniac, and the people have long known it. They know that in order to facilitate transportation of materials, Jingzhou has invested tens of millions of yuan to build rail roads from Fangcheng to Xi'an. If it were to manage the Yellow River, how could Jingzhou invest less than rail roads?

With tens of millions of yuan, there is great hope for the management of the Yellow River! They and their descendants will always be away from floods and disasters!

What's more, when Lin Chunhong organized large-scale projects, he not only would not increase the labor service, but would also pay wages to the people. This means that in the next few years, they will all be able to earn some pocket money during the slack farming period.

The news of governing the Yellow River spread and finally reached Yang Sichang's ears.

Yang Sichang has retired, but has not returned home. His hometown is in Wuling and is under the control of Lin Chunhong. How could he go back and let others gossip?

Yang Sichang did not settle in the capital, but instead found a piece of land in Baoding Prefecture and lie in the countryside.

At first, he learned that Zhou Yanru had changed his tolerance strategy and tried every means to tease Jingzhou. He was worried every day, fearing that Lin Chunhong would hear the news that he was rushing his troops north.

When he heard that Lin Chunhong was preparing to control the Yellow River, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and sighed: "It seems that the sword is going in a different direction, but it is actually a bright and bright person. The one who can control the world is the Marquis of Jiangling. I hope that the ancestors can bless the Ming Dynasty and turn bad luck into good fortune and continue the country's fortune..."

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After the court received the report, Zhu Youjian, Zhou Yanru and his ministers were dumbfounded and did not know how to deal with it.

After the initial shock, the court fell into anger and condemned Lin Chunhong for stealing the work of the court. Just as the civil and military officials of the court unanimously condemned Lin Chunhong, news suddenly came from Jingzhou: starting from this autumn tax, 30% of the tax revenue from several dozen provinces including Huguang and Sichuan will be used to manage the Yellow River, build official roads, and rectify waterways.

Thirty percent, almost eight million yuan a year! The court suddenly lost eight million yuan in income, which is a huge thing!

If eight million is missing, it will not cost the court's life. After all, when the court's income was only a few million yuan, it still survived.

However, in this way, how could the court expand its army and how could it continue to use its army to compete with Lin Chunhong?

It seems that Lin Chunhong had already made a calculation: he would not let the court fall into a desperate situation all at once, nor would he have the strength to expand his army and prepare for war!

What is even more infuriating is that Lin Chunhong is under the banner of governing the Yellow River. If anyone opposes it, he will be dissatisfied with the people of the world!

What's even more fatal is that who knows what excuses Lin Chunhong will think of in the future and deduct the money and food of the court again?

Zhu Youjian, Zhou Yanru and his ministers were full of anger, but they were so suffocated that they could not be released. The more uncomfortable it would be!

Just when the civil and military officials in the court were at a loss, Yang Yiren suddenly reported that since the Jingguo Army and the Jiliao Army stood up and looked south, the Qing Tartars were ready to move, asking the court to pay attention to the Tartars' movements.

Zhu Youjian and Zhou Yanru were very anxious and took out the Japanese military situation and took a closer look. They found that the Tartars were indeed showing signs of moving troops.

Zhu Youjian and Zhou Yanru urgently ordered Guanliao to be careful and focus on inquiries about the trends of the Tartars.

As for whether the Jingguo Legion and the Ji Liao Legion were transferred back, Zhu Youjian and Zhou Yanru were hesitant, for fear that the Tartars would break through the defense line and for the loss of the court's face.

Huang Taiji had his own spies in the Ming court. When he learned that Yang Yiren had submitted a memorial, he immediately stopped and retreated to Shenyang.

When Zhu Youjian and Zhou Yanru learned about it, they breathed a sigh of relief.

People are always used to healing the scar and forgetting the pain. Under the induced sensation of Zhou Yanru, Zhu Youjian actually suspected that the Tartars and Jingzhou colluded with each other and sang a double act together, with the purpose of causing the court to transfer back to Jingguo and Ji Liao Legion.

Zhou Yanru was much more sober than Zhu Youjian. He was not willing to believe that Jingzhou would collude with the Tartars. The reason why he misled Zhu Youjian was nothing more than his own position.

Zhou Yanru took office with his attitude of confronting Lin Chunhong. As long as Zhu Youjian felt that it was not appropriate to confront Lin Chunhong, his political life would come to an end.

Therefore, it became Zhou Yanru's only choice to encourage Zhu Youjian to fight against Lin Chunhong at all costs. Fighting against Lin Chunhong also made him have lofty expectations among old officials and gentry. Once he learned from Yang Sichang tolerate Lin Chunhong, he would lose his political supporters.

To this day, Zhou Yanru has no way out and can only go to the dark side.

Zhou Yanru, Wu Changshi, and Dong Tingxian were in a mess and started to start from the border, old officials and gentry, thinking about calculating Lin Chunhong and changing the decline some time ago.
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