After drinking and returning from Gufu, the big trees transplanted on both sides of the carriage and horse road that connect with the official road of Donghua Gate have become shaded, the moonlight is sparsely sifted down, and the gray road surface is mottled with light and shadow, as if there are clumps and fluffy weeds.

In the past three months, more than 130 businesses have moved from Quyang Town to Hekou, and the grass market to accommodate scattered merchants or surrounding people has also opened frequently from the first half a month to every three days, and the estuary has also taken on the appearance of a town, dividing nearly half of the prosperity of Quyang Town.

Zhao Qinmin sat in the carriage, looking at the estuary of the new houses in front of him, the lights of the corner tower can compete with the bright moon in the sky, and the dozen or so surrounding houses on the west side are like fortresses.

After the Qujiatong bandit case, the limited land within the fence of the estuary can no longer meet the needs of merchants to build shops or wealthy gentry to build private gardens, especially when the man-made private gardens are good and wide, often more than ten acres or even dozens of acres, and the scale of the estuary town has expanded from the fence to the outside, but the fence wall is still retained, dividing the estuary into two areas, inside and outside.

Lin Jingzhong, Cao Ziang, Zhao Hu, Ge Cunxiong, Zhao Qingshan, Lin Xulu, Changsun Geng, Sun Jingxuan, Sun Jingtang, Zhao Shuhan, Ge Siyu and others, as well as the people of Hekou, were waiting for Lin Tie to return at the south gate of the fence. So many people blocked the south gate of the fence with three layers inside and three layers outside.

Lin Tie sat at the front of the car, straightened his waist and sat down to salute the crowd and people who greeted him at the south gate, and said, "I'm tired of everyone waiting for a long time, Lin Tie is here to make amends." ”

Zhao Shuhan walked forward with a laugh and said, "I thought you would come back drunk in the Gu Mansion, looking at you, you can accompany us to drink again......

Lin Jian smiled: "If you don't think I'm rude like this, it's okay to accompany you to eat and drink until dawn......

"When we go to Si Yu's new house, we have prepared good wine and food," Zhao Shuhan said, "You don't have to worry about the beauty in your house being affected." ”

"What about Mr. Wu, Old Man Ge, and Zhao Drunken Ghost?" Lin Jian asked, "Drunken Ghost Zhao is a drunkard, I haven't invited him to drink for a while, don't forget him." How many tables of wine have been set up in Si Yu's house, how many of us can eat? He waved at Zhao Qinmin again, "Please also ask Mr. Zhao to come over and drink two more cups......

"I'll go home first, and I'll come back and toast you later." Zhao Qinmin said that he knew that these people were waiting here for Lin Tie alone, and Lin Tie invited him to excuse himself, and he didn't want to be forgotten in the corner and left out in the cold, thinking that he would go home first to rest for a while, and then go over to toast a round of wine to cope with the errand.

Lin Jian did not embarrass Zhao Qinmin and asked him to go home first to reunite with his family.

Lin Jian saw the maid next to the Seventh Lady looking out at the mouth of the alley, and he was also anxious to see Sister Yingsleeve, but Zhao Shuhan, Ge Siyu and others were very gracious, and they couldn't say that they were in a hurry to see "Auntie"; He also greeted Sun Jingxuan and Sun Jing's cousins, and asked if Yun Xiacao had a smooth journey to Yanjing.

Sun Jingxuan and Sun Jing's cousins set off to go to Yanjing for half a month to return.

After the bloody battle of Jiyang, the Donghai Kou withdrew from the Taihu Lake Basin, and the counties along the Taihu Lake were extremely short of wood, ceramics, ironware, paper, tung oil and other materials. Sun Jingxuan took advantage of the fact that the Xihe Society still had some capital and some time before the departure of Qiucao, so he purchased a lot of materials in Jiangning and entered Taihu Lake to sell them together with the boats under the names of Jiyun Society and Lin Family Warehouse.

When passing through Jiyang, Sun Jingxuan failed to catch up with Lin Lian's itinerary, and he didn't see it.

The party struggle between the DPRK and China is fierce, and even those who have the upper hand and gain the upper hand in the party struggle will find it difficult to maintain their prosperity for a long time.

The Sun family is not greedy for temporary wealth, but hopes that the Xihe Society can provide long-term shelter for the poor Xihe boatmen and sailors.

The fundamental interests of the Sun family and the Xihe Society lie in this, so it is impossible to have a too aggressive attitude politically, let alone engage in political gambling, otherwise no matter how many times they succeed, only one disappointment is enough to knock the Xihe Society into the abyss of no return.

Although Lin Jian and Gu Wuchen both won decisive and brilliant victories in the Battle of Hekou, Sun Jingxuan had nothing to be annoyed or regret about withdrawing in advance, and Xihehui had no capital to participate in this level of political struggle.

Of course, Sun Jingxuan didn't want Xihe to fall into the whirlpool of political struggles, but he didn't want to maintain a good personal relationship with Lin Lian.

Putting aside the interests of the Xihe Society, although Lin Lian's behavior was disliked by Qingliu Shilin, Sun Jingxuan admired and agreed with it.

Although there is some resistance from the local masters, most of the boatmen and sailors to which the Xihe Society belongs are people from Shanxihe County, who live in Jiangning and are rejected by the locals, Sun Jingxuan naturally agrees with Lin Tie in his personal emotional position, and how many people can have the courage to personally lead a lone army to move outside the city to fight a bloody battle with an enemy several times his own size for several days without retreating?

It was precisely because Lin Lian was not afraid of life and death and personally led a lone army to move outside the city to contain the Donghai Kou, which made Jiyang County the only county that did not wantonly loot and spoil the Donghai Kou. Maybe Qingliu Shilin won't feel anything, and the people of Jiyang County will be grateful to Lin Lian, and all the other people who have lost confidence in the government will naturally have a good impression of Lin Lian.

After the bloody battle of Jiyang, an obvious change was that many merchant ships and merchants from Pingjiang Prefecture to Jiangning preferred to dock at the mouth of the river.

Another obvious change is that after the bloody battle of Jiyang, the ships under the names of Jiyun Society and Lin Family Warehouse entered Taihu Lake to sell the materials urgently needed by the local area, and also tried to buy local tea, rice grain, cane sugar, cloth yarn, silk and other products, and the local rejection was greatly weakened, and even many local forces took the initiative to cooperate with Jiyun Society and Lin Family Warehouse, the most important of which was the Taihu Lake Water Village forces that Lin Jian had previously contacted by raising grain.

These changes can be touched and felt by Sun Jingxuan.

On the surface, Jiyun Society and the Lin Family Warehouse were able to enter the Taihu Lake basin to purchase materials because of the Donghai Kou's attack, whether it was a great blow to the clan forces along the Taihu Lake or the Shuizhai forces, and the commercial system along the Taihu Lake was seriously damaged, but this is not a key factor, fundamentally speaking, the Jiyang bloody war had a deep impact on the prefectures and counties along the Taihu Lake.

In the past, except for the autumn time, the Xihe Society would be entrusted by the merchants of Jiangning to transport the goods to the prefectures and counties along the Taihu Lake for sale, but Pingjiang Mansion had the river gang of Pingjiang Mansion, and Danyang Mansion had the boat gang of Danyang Mansion.

Many of the Taihu Lake Water Village forces that Lin Jian had come into contact with before raising food had no status in the government or the opposition or in the officialdom, but they belonged to the powerful clan in the township. They were unwilling to become lake pirates, let alone collude with the East China Sea Bandits, but they were not enough to resist the invasion and harassment of the East China Sea Bandits alone, and the government did not trust them and even prevented them.

Such an embarrassing position made these Shuizhai forces have a good impression of Lin Lian, who had blackmailed them in the name of "raising grain", and they were willing to maintain a contact relationship. This is not only related to Lin Lian's status in the Inspectorate Division, and the Taihu Lake Water Village forces have nothing to do with the local Qingliu Shilin, who is the representative of the family, but more importantly, it is related to Lin Lian's defeat of the thieves at the mouth of the river, the sniping of pirates in Anji Meixi, the division of troops to hold Xisha Island, and the bloody battle under Jiyang City, which has become more and more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and has won the favor of the Taihu Lake Water Village forces.

This is the key factor for Jiyun Society and Linjia Warehouse to penetrate into Taihu Lake.

Sun Jingxuan followed everyone to Ge Siyu's new house in Hekou, looking at the back of Lin Lian, who was sitting on a soft sedan chair and surrounded by everyone, thinking about it, if he really had the courage to gamble, betting chips on Lin Lian might be a small and profitable deal, but it was a pity that the 2,000 congregants of the Xihe Society who had no social status and nearly 10,000 family members who were waiting to be fed made unable to let go of this kind of gambling.

Of course, Wen Pei married Lin Jingzhong as his wife, what needs Lin Lian here, as long as it does not involve sensitive party disputes between the government and the opposition, Sun Jingxuan will try his best to assist, such as the resettlement of displaced people on Xisha Island needs to transport a large amount of materials from outside, whether it is Jiyun Society or the Lin family, there are not enough boats, and the Xihe Society will provide great help, which also makes the two sides maintain a good relationship.

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Drinking in Ge Siyu's new house until the morning light was faint, Cao Ziang, Lin Jingzhong, Ge Cunxin and others dispersed, anyway, the discussion was not in a hurry tonight, Zhao Shuhan slept in Ge's house, Lin Jian sat in a soft sedan chair and carried back to the cottage was also drunk, drunk and hazy, lying in front of the bed and looking at the image of Yue'er in front of him, he wanted to take her hand, but he fell weakly at the head of the bed and fell asleep dizzily.

Su Mei's hand shook Lin Lian, and his heart jumped like a heart in his throat, and when he saw him fall asleep unconsciously, he laughed dumbly, and wanted to kick him in his heart.

"Really, I'm also fussy about Sister Su Mei, tomorrow when he wakes up, I have to chop off his dirty hand." Xiao Man smiled and moved Lin's dead body to the bed, took off his robe, and untied the bandage on his injured leg, to see how the wound healed, and prepared to clean the wound and apply medicine again.

Su Mei looked at the scars on Lin Bin's legs and felt pain, and she didn't care about avoiding suspicion, so she helped Xiaoman untie the bandage.

Liu Yue'er came in with hot water to wash Lin Bin's face, and saw Su Mei accompanying Xiaoman to treat Lin Bin's wounds, and hurriedly said, "How can you let Miss Su do these dirty work?" I'll do it with Xiaoman," Seeing that Lin Jian had fallen asleep drunk, he complained distressedly, "It's true, the leg injury is not good, so he was pulled to drink such a drink, and no one can control him." ”

Su Mei withdrew her hand embarrassedly, although the defense of men and women in the Lezhi was not so serious, but it was very unreasonable for her to walk into Lin Lian's bedroom, not to mention touching his naked skin to help deal with the wound.

Su Mei's face was slightly hot under the lamp, and she said, "It's not early, I should go back and rest." ”

After the estuary gradually flourished, the feudal family bought a property in the estuary, and Su Mei also set up a courtyard in the estuary, and lived outside the city from time to time.

Xiao Man looked at the morning light outside the window, and said with a playful smile: "It's still early!" ”

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PS: Ask for a red ticket.

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