As a rule, Xiang Yong prohibits strong bows, crossbows and knives, and one of the benefits of the Inspectorate is to supervise the local armaments, Gu Wuchen went to Dongyang Mansion as a deputy envoy to Dongyang Mansion to lead the rebellion and suppress bandits, and many things can be in power.

When Gu Wuchen set off from the northern border of Beitang County to Dongyang at noon the next day, Lin Jiyuan and Chen Shouyan led the township Yong from the arsenal to lead ten crossbows, 20 arm crossbows, 60 foot bows, 20 Mo knives, 60 armor, and 20 mule carriages. In addition, Lin Jian gave Lin Jiyuan and Chen Shouyan five hundred taels of silver each to Dongyang Mansion in case of emergency.

In addition to the two hundred townsmen, Yang Pu and Ma Chao also led two hundred cavalry to guard Gu Wuchen, but they did not have to worry about the attack of small groups of gangsters in the territory.

Admiral Zuo Shangrong set off for Haozhou Mansion yesterday night; Gu Wuchen had lunch and set off from Daying in the north of Gutang County. Lin Jian did not stay in the camp, and after sending Gu Wuchen and the others on the westbound road, he and Zhou Pu and Zhu Wuwei also rode horses from the mud road on the west bank of the Shiliang River to Chaotianyi to take a boat back to the estuary.

It was already early summer, the ancient willows along the shore were weeping, the wild grass was already shin-high, the river was clear, it had just rained, the road was muddy, and Lin Tie and Zhou Pu rode the horse slowly.

"Lord Lin......"

Listening to Gao Zongting's voice calling from behind, Lin Jian grabbed his horse and looked back, and saw more than a dozen horsemen coming in a carriage with open walls and pillars, and Gao Zongting sat in the carriage and called him.

"Mr. Gao is also going back to Jiangning?" Lin Lian restrained his horse and waited for Gao Zongting to approach in a carriage, he had to keep a distance from Li Zhuo and his family, and there was no need to meet him on the road without talking.

"I went to Chaotianyi, but I didn't expect to be able to walk with Lord Lin. The north bank of Chaotian has the most displaced people, and the governor is always at ease, afraid of chaos, and wants me to go over and have a look. Gao Zongting said.

"Oh." Lin Jian responded coldly, between Li Zhuo and Gu Wuchen, he could only choose Gu Wuchen.

"What do you think about Hong Zepu's counterinsurgency?" Gao Zongting turned a blind eye to Lin Bin's indifference.

"Lin is humble and light, it doesn't matter what Lin thinks, what matters is the opinion of the commander and the adults." Lin Jian said.

"Lord Lin also thinks that if the situation drags on, it will be beneficial to the community and the more than 2 million people along the Hongzepu coast?" Gao Zongting refused to let go of Lin Jian easily.

Lin Jian sighed softly, looked at the Qingyang River in the distance, and said: "My Lin clan's land has been invaded by the water bandits, and I really hope to recover the lost land as soon as possible, but now the saint and the lord of the court have their own plans, and we are all at the end. Speaking of social welfare and people's livelihood, the last time I passed through the north bank of Chaotiandang was seven or eight days ago, I saw that most of the displaced people were still stranded in the river beach area where the water level used to be in the summer flood season. This is a very dangerous thing, I want to come to the Governor and Mr. Gao to be aware, Lin Jian is just one more word here......"

"Oh!" Gao Zongting's back straightened suddenly, and he subconsciously asked, "What's the danger?" ”

"That's Lin Lian thinking too much......" Lin Lian refused to say more, and only looked at Gao Zongting with his eyes.

Gao Zongting was not a stupid person, he thought that Lin Jian was reminding him of some danger, and he was suddenly frightened into a cold sweat.

The displaced people stranded on the river beach spontaneously built embankments, which were naturally extremely simple mud embankments.

In the spring, the water rises inch by inch, the water is gentle, and the mud embankment can keep the water out of the embankment, but once the Yangtze River forms a flood peak and hits down or the water level rises to the limit, the mud embankment is as fragile as paper paste.

At this time, the hundreds of thousands of displaced people stranded in the river beach are as dangerous as sitting on the crater.

Gao Zongting had been paying attention to the situation in Jiangning City for Li Zhuo before, and after Li Zhuo entered Jiangning for more than ten days, many things to take over the Jiangning garrison were enough to keep them busy.

"Gutang officials should all be killed!" Gao Zongting scolded hatefully.

Lin Jian looked at the thin yin and blue sky, and didn't say anything, Gao Zongting didn't feel sorry at all.

The Yangtze River has a flood every year, in order to protect the south bank of Jiangning City from the threat of floods, since the establishment of the dynasty, it is strictly forbidden to build stone embankments on the north bank of Chaotiandang, that is, Chaotiandang is regarded as a flood storage area, and the north bank of Chaotiandang is regarded as a flood discharge area.

For more than 200 years, the people on the north shore of Chaotiandang have also figured out a law, with the flood storage capacity of Chaotiandang Lake, they have built mud embankments from the southern foot of Chaotianyi and Lingyan Mountain, which can basically resist the flood water pouring into Chaotiandang in summer and autumn. The government also built a post road west to Tuzhou along the river embankment, which further strengthened the river embankment. The ancient Tu post road has become an obvious dividing line, the north side of the ancient Tu post road is the fertile field, the manor, the south side of the post road is a large area of river flats, although the winter dry period is exposed hundreds of thousands of acres of more than 10,000 acres, but in fact, together with the sky, are the flood storage period.

Ordinary people don't know hydrology, so it's not surprising that they can't see the danger. When the scholars saw the homeless people building mud embankments on the outside of the river beach, most of them praised this move for encircling hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile land to raise the people, but it was impossible for the local officials not to know the details.

From around the New Year's Festival to the present, there are more than 100,000 displaced people stranded on the river beach, and the shacks are one after another, like a forest grave under the moonlit night. However, for several months, the officials of Gutang County pretended to be deaf and dumb and turned a blind eye, but there was no warning word about this, and their hearts could certainly be punished.

Gao Zongting straightened his back and said to Lin: "Zongting has a request, I hope that Lord Lin will not shirk it for the livelihood of hundreds of thousands of people; I'll rush to Chaotianyi first, and ask Lord Lin to stay overnight in Chaotianyi today...... "The Chu party is powerful, Lin Lian took advantage of Gu Wuchen to rise in Jiangning, and it is impossible to break away from Gu Wuchen at this time, he knows that Lin Lian will definitely not go to the north bank of Chaotiandang with him openly to inspect the situation on the river beach, but Lin Lian pays attention to this issue and has his own opinions, Gao Zongting hopes to discuss his ideas with him at that time,

Lin Jian sighed lightly in his heart and said, "I went to Chaotianyi to find Lord Zuo Sikou Zhang to drink, and I probably won't be able to cross the river tonight." "There are still nearly 100 miles to Chaotianyi here, and it is almost dark when they arrive at Chaotianyi.

Gao Zongting did not delay any longer, he abandoned the carriage immediately, rode on the horse and hurried to Chaotianyi.

The flood season will begin in one month, and if the river beach is really dangerous, it will not be easy to resettle 200,000 displaced people in another place within a month.

This matter was originally the responsibility of Jiangning Prefecture and County, but before this matter was clarified, there was no way to have a showdown with the local government.

Gao Zongting and the others ignored the muddy road and the fast horses that did not hesitate to ride away, and Lin Jian always had a depression in his chest that was difficult to exhale, and he and Zhou Pu also accelerated their speed and rushed to Chaotianyi. To Lin Bin's surprise, they walked twenty miles and saw several merchant ships of Qingfeng Xing slowly heading south in the Shiliang River.

Looking at the Qingfeng merchant flag hoisted on the main mast of the merchant ship, Lin Tie reined in his horse on the river embankment and glanced at Zhou Pu.

Calculating the time, the merchant ships of Qingfeng should have passed through the pontoon checkpoint in the north of Gutang County before noon. Lin Tie and they retreated all the way south from Luoyang Lake, and they were sure that there were no large merchant ships stranded in the Shiliang River, and these merchant ships from Qingfeng Xing were either in other rivers in Shiliang County, or they came out of Luoyang Lake after them.

It is not unbelievable that the luxury family secretly supported Liu An'er and other Hong Zepu Shuizhai forces to gather people to rebel, and the luxury family's secret participation can also explain why the displaced people south of Shanglinli are in chaos so quickly.

Lin Lian whipped the horse's buttocks with hatred and galloped south.

When I overtook the Qingfeng merchant ship, I saw a few people standing at the bow of the ship, and the two sides were only more than ten zhang apart, one of them was a young man in a green shirt, Lin Jian had seen him several times by the side of Luxury Feihu, and he should be an important adviser to Luxury Flying Tiger to bring Jiangning.

Lin Jian is also more and more sure that there is an inseparable relationship between the luxury family in the chaos of Hongzepu.

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At the bow of the merchant ship, the young man in green shirt watched Lin Tie and Zhu Wuwei gallop away, frowned slightly, and followed the middle-aged man next to him and said, "He is Lin Tie." He was well-founded in Luoyang Lake, without any panic, and seemed to be prepared, and there was news that someone in Hongzepu Water Village was hiding the loot, maybe he was making trouble inside. ”

"I saw it when I was in Baisha County, where he had a very different bearing from this time, and it was best to kill such a character with one sword, so as not to become a big trouble in the future," the middle-aged man said, "I heard that the young lady wants to win him over?" ”

"The young lady doesn't care," said the young man in green shirt, "the eleven people around him are all well-armed, none of them are mediocre, and they are also good horses, how many people can you be sure to get rid of him without leaving a trace?" ”

The middle-aged man looked at the Shiliang River full of boats going to Jiangning for refuge, and the river embankment reported that the horsemen were constantly coming and going, and it was very difficult to disguise themselves as rogues to rob and kill Lin Tie in the wilderness without leaving a trace; Of course, if you really want to give a killing order, you have to nod your head from the young marquis and the young lady.

The middle-aged man changed the topic and asked the young man in green shirts: "At this time, he secretly funded Liu An'er and sent people to help him train his troops. ”

"What about making him the climate?" The young man in the green shirt smiled and said, "If the imperial court can be overthrown so easily, you and me, as well as the Dongmin men who have died in the past ten years, will accept their fate......

The middle-aged man also smiled with relief, he really thought too much, and said that although the hundred-legged insect is dead, the basic order of the government and the opposition is still there, and the central government's constraints on the local area are still strong. If you want to talk about gathering people to rebel, in the past ten years, how have Zhongzhou, Huaishang, Jinzhong, and Western Qin ever been broken? At its peak, there were as many poles as cattle hairs, and there were also people who seized the county from time to time, and tens of thousands of elite bandits in Eastern Fujian crossed the border, but didn't they all hide in the mountains?

The young man in green shirt smiled again: "The most important thing at the moment is to dig up the foundation of the Yuan clan little by little to make it float, so that all the males in the world have a chance to compete for the deer." He is not sure that the luxury family has much chance, but the court is relieved, and most of them will not tolerate the luxury family to be self-contained in Jin'an, but the heroes are together, and the luxury family can protect itself no matter how bad it is.