The twelfth day of the twelfth lunar month is the Kaiji Festival, that is, the anniversary of Taizu's accession to the throne, which is somewhat similar to the National Day after a thousand years, and some differences are that on the day of the Kaiji Festival, in addition to the official lanterns and the people in the official mansion, the common people do not have much enthusiasm.

On this day, more than 1,000 catties of tea from the Gu family arrived in Jiangning, with the acquiescence of the Seventh Lady and Lin Mengde, the merchant ship carrying the tea goods took the waterway without any accidents, and Wu Qi and others also came with the ship.

At the beginning, there were a total of seven people who accompanied Wu Qi to the Huai Shangliu Ma Kou and Wu Qi in Shanglin to disguise themselves as horse dealers, and four people came over this time, and three people stayed in Shanglin and stayed by the side of the seventh lady Gu Yingsleeve. Although Gu Yingsleeve has Gu Wuchen to rely on, Lin Tingli, Lin Zonghai, Lin Xuzong and others will not offend her excessively, but they must also guard against the villain and dog jumping off the wall to make a black hand behind his back, and the seventh lady Gu Yingsleeve also needs to summon people.

On the twelfth day of the twelfth lunar month, the weather was thin and cloudy, and when Wu Qi and they came, the north of the river was already drifting snowflakes, but there had not been a single snow on the south bank of the river this winter.

"The day before yesterday, Shen Rong, the prefect of Dongyang, arrived in Shanglin by official boat to inspect, saying that he asked the Xuanfu envoy Si Song to reward Lin Zonghai, the commander of the Shanglinli Township Battalion, with the hat of a cloud cavalry lieutenant and a military attache of the seventh grade...... "Wu Qi only had time to take a sip of tea after arriving in Jiangning, and rushed Lin Jingzhong back from the tea shop.

"Shen Rong has never given up his efforts to integrate the township battalion into the Dongyang Mansion Army," Lin Jingzhong shook his head and sighed slightly, "He has done this kind of thing once before......

"A hat of a seventh-grade military attache is a fart," Zhao Hu had spent two years in the Shanglinli Township Camp, knowing what the Shanglinli Township Camp was like, he was a little disdainful of Shen Rong's efforts, and he spoke a little rudely, "The five hundred Jianyong in the Shanglinli Township Camp were raised by the Lin family with nearly 10,000 taels of silver every year, if Shen Rong could take out so much silver every year, even if the township camp was forcibly incorporated into the Soldiers and Horses Division, what could the Lin family do?" If Shen Rong couldn't come up with the money to raise soldiers, and insisted on integrating the township camp into the Soldiers and Horses Division, and the Lin family would cut off the offerings, it would be a big trouble for Shen Rong. ”

Although Zhao Hu does not see the problem as meticulously as Lin Jingzhong, he understands the superficial truth that raising soldiers requires a lot of silver.

Lin Lian shook his head and said: "When Lin Tingxun can be in charge, Shen Rong's small actions are nothing, the key to the problem now is Lin Zonghai - Lin Zonghai is not a child of this sect, no matter who it is in the future, it will not be Lin Zonghai's turn to be the head of the Lin family, on the contrary, when others become the head of the family, Lin Zonghai is even the first one to be guarded against; In addition, the Shanglinli township camp is based on the children of the Lin clan as the backbone, and the township warriors are mostly the children of Shanglin, generally speaking, Lin Zonghai cannot independently control the township camp from the Lin family - I am afraid that if Shen Rong shows favor a little, Lin Zonghai will desperately cater to the past ......"

"What will be the second master's attitude towards this matter?" Lin Jingzhong asked, Lin Tingli is the general judge of Dongyang Mansion, and his status in Dongyang Mansion is second only to Shen Rong, even if he strongly vetoes Shen Rong's writing of adding the rank of military attache to Lin Zonghai, it is okay.

"It's hard to say, if it is just to ask Lin Zonghai to add the rank of military attaché, it will be difficult for Lin Tingli to oppose - Shen Rong may not immediately incorporate the Shanglinli Township Battalion into the government army, I think his light move is just to make the situation in Shanglinli more complicated and the Lin family more fragmented." Lin Jian said, he thought in his heart that Shen Rong should know the truth that he couldn't eat hot tofu in a hurry, and he was afraid that he would take advantage of the open and secret fighting within the Lin clan and slowly try to figure it out.

Of course, Lin Jian didn't think this way to worry about the future of the Lin clan, no matter what, the divided Lin family was also beneficial to him, the more united the Lin clan was gathered around his family, the more he would be marginalized as a side branch disciple, and the less he could use the resources of the Lin clan. If Lin Tingxun could preside over the affairs of the Lin family, it would be a dream for him to ship the Gu family's tea to Jiangning with the help of the Seventh Lady and Lin Mengde.

"Alas......" Lin Jingzhong sighed softly, the concept he had instilled since he was a child was that everything came first to the Lin clan, and when he thought of the gloomy and uncertain future of the Lin clan, he was naturally a little worried.

"It's useless to think too much about this," Lin Lian thought that Lin Tingxun, who had a stroke in bed, was the biggest uncertain factor, and it was useless to worry too much, and he could only take one step at a time to see what was going on in the forest, and it was the first thing for Jiang Ning to lay the foundation as soon as possible, and said to Lin Jingzhong, "There is a shortage of coachmen in the tea shop, I will send someone over, and then transfer two horses over, people are driving in the past, don't let Gu Tianqiao and them notice anything unusual......"

"Okay," Lin Jingzhong already knew the identity of Zhou Pu and the others and Lin Bin's plan to gain a foothold in Jiangning, in exchange for him, when he was in the forest, he would naturally be panicked and didn't know what to do, after arriving in Jiangning, his whole person's mood changed a lot, and he was cautious by nature, under the influence of Lin Bin, he also had some heroic temperament, what if he didn't think so? Taking Zhao Hu's words, he had already boarded the thief ship, he looked at the thin man who looked like a farmer on Lin Lian's finger, and asked, "What is your surname?" ”

"Fifth Master Lin, you are the manager of Jiyun Society, you can call me blind Zhou." The man said, his left eye covered with an ugly scar that at first glance looked shocking.

Lin Lian pointed to the eyes of the blind man Zhou and said to Lin Jingzhong: "The blind man Zhou was wounded by an arrow in his left eye, and in order to cover up the wound of the arrow, he cut the upper and lower skins of his left eye with a knife......

Lin Jingzhong could hear the slight twitching of the two eggs below, and thought to himself that these Liuma Kou were really cruel to him, no wonder they could be crisscrossed for nearly ten years. Compared to these real outlaws, those ruffians in Jiangning City were really too pediatric, but he didn't understand what Lin Jian was doing by putting such a number one person in the tea shop as a coachman.

"Now we are like walking on a steel ...... in Jiangning City," Lin Jian continued, he wanted to say "wire rope" but was afraid that Lin Jingzhong would not understand what a wire rope was, so he changed the word, "We want to open up the situation in Jiangning as soon as possible, and we are in danger everywhere, such as walking on a hanging wire, and I don't know when we will encounter unimaginable dangers, I put Zhou Blind and two fast horses on the side of the tea shop, as a trick to prepare for emergencies." If you don't encounter something particularly difficult, don't let Blind Zhou be sent by someone other than the coachman......"

Zhou Blind smiled: "I'm also a good driver." ”

Lin Jingzhong nodded, thinking that it was more prudent for Lin Lian to think about it this way, so he said to Lin Lian: "I will lead him over, and I will say that it is your distant relative, who has a very wooden temperament and is not easy to get close to......"

"Let Blind Zhou lead his horse to the tea shop by himself," Lin Jian said, "You go out of the city with us." ”

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Wu Qi and the others brought a lot of horses with the boat this time, and rode their horses on the icy and solid dirt road, Lin Jian looked up at the hazy sky, thinking that it would not snow on the south coast, right? Le Ma walked slowly, waiting for Lin Jing and others to follow from behind.

"Jiangning's tea shop is open, the next thing we have to do is to open a tea shop in Chongzhou, so that the trade route from Shanglin to Jiangning and then to Chongzhou is a prototype," Lin Jian said, "Further down is to build a warehouse in Jiangning, bulk goods from Jiangning to Chongzhou, before transferring from the inland river to Chongzhou County, the ship stops in the center of the river to divide the goods, it is easy to transport the required materials to Changshan Island unconsciously......

Wu Qi lightly clamped the horse's belly between his legs, followed Zhou Pu from behind, and said with a smile: "It's a pity that in the past ten years, Lin Ye has not planned for us rogue horses, otherwise we wouldn't have to be this lost dog like today." ”

"It's easier said than done, we must have an excuse to stop the ship in Jiangxin and divide the cargo." Lin Jian said.

"Naturally, the boat is too big, and I am afraid that it will be shallow when it enters the inland river, so it must stop in the middle ......of the river and be loaded by a small boat," Wu Qi said with a smile.

"Then you have to buy a five-masted ship to run the goods," Lin Jian asked, "You can't say that the three-masted ship is too big and afraid of entering the inland river." ”

"Well, it's a five-masted ship," Wu Qi nodded, and said, "In addition, Chongzhou should use as many people as possible who are not related to Jiangning, so as to avoid showing their ......feet when distributing goods."

"On the Chongzhou side, it is completely up to you to be responsible," Lin Jian said, Le Ma stopped on the ridge on the side of the official road, "I don't have time to go to Chongzhou again, the Jiangning Ministry has already sent a document to summon me to go over tomorrow to ask the right question, after becoming the prison officer, Jiangning's side will easily get out of the way - Chongzhou's side, either your crow master will go in person, or send two people over to take care of the ......"

"I'm still staying in Jiangning, Master Lin, you need manpower more," Wu Qi thought for a moment and said, "Anyway, Mr. Qin, they are also close to Chongzhou, although Mr. Qin didn't send someone to find us during this time, I think they should also send someone to go ashore in Chongzhou, I just need to send someone to contact and bring all these plans to Mr. Qin and them......"

"Hmm!" Lin Tie nodded, there were only Zhou Pu and Zhao Hu by his side, and he always felt that there were not enough manpower, Zhou Blind did not move as a secret move, and there were two more Wu Qi, and he would be more comfortable in what he wanted to do.

At this time, a hundred knights in front of him came with five or six carriages, and the two leading horsemen in front of the team carried two vermilion pennants. The flag was wrapped in the wind and not unfurled, and it was impossible to see who the carriage was sitting on, looking at this momentum, the origin was not small, Lin tied them and got off the horse, and led the horse to the side to make way for the people entering the city.

The carriage followed the cavalry to a close place, a gust of north wind blew, the flag was unfurled, Lin Jian was surprised, the flag was written "Jin'an Houfu Jiangning Jin Envoy" two columns of different sizes of splendid characters, I didn't expect that in addition to Qingfeng Xing, the luxury family openly sent people into Jiangning. You must know that the document of the imperial court to enshrine the luxury family as the hereditary Marquis of Jin Anhou has only arrived in Jiangning for two days, and it has not yet been officially announced.

The nature of the Jinjuyuan is similar to that of the Beijing Office in later generations, and it is the liaison place of the three divisions of each county (Xuanfu Envoy Division, Zhicha Envoy Division, and Admiral's Mansion) in Beijing, and the three divisions and yamen of each county all set up Jinjuan Envoys in the Jinju Yuan, which is responsible for reporting the military and civilian information of the county to the imperial court, and submitting the county's documents, and they also convey any edicts and documents from the imperial court to the county.

As the only real power knight in this dynasty who broke the earth and supported the army, the Marquis of Jin An's status was not under the three divisions of each county, so he naturally had the right to send the Jinjuan to the Jinjuan.

This dynasty set up the Jinju Yuan in Yanjing and Jiangning, but Jiangning was far away from the center, and the mausoleum guards were all figures who had lost power.

There are no ancients before, but there is no one who will come after them, the luxury family who has just returned to the imperial court and split the soil and sealed the marquis actually sent an envoy to Jiangning, how can Lin Jian not be surprised: What does the luxury family want to do?

As the team slowly passed by, those guard knights vigilantly stared at Lin Tie who was wearing a sword on the side of the road, but the people in the carriage didn't care at all, Lin Tie listened to the voice of a woman talking in the second carriage: "I heard Uncle Zhong say that when the second brother came to Jiangning secretly last time, he met a beautiful woman and never forgot it, but I don't know what the second brother did, in short, he was reprimanded by his father; The sister-in-law instigated the second brother to come to Jiangning as an envoy, so she was not afraid that the second brother would find that woman again? ”

The voice was clear and beautiful, but Lin Lian's brows frowned slightly.

"Men are always insatiable, when you marry someone in the future, you will know, how can I worry about this, he will marry a few rooms if he likes to marry, anyway, don't come over to compete with me for the position of boss......" Another woman's voice that sounded soft and lazy, but the meaning of the words was sharp.

At this time, it was the people in the car who wanted to take a breath, and lifted the curtain of the car to look out, revealing two flower-like faces crowded together.

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PS: Red ticket, collection.