Three days later, it was the mid-spring sting day, the grass and trees sprouted, and a few peach trees on the north beach of Prison Island also spit out crimson stamens.

In the rest of the month, the tung trees will bloom, and then Jiangning Mansion will enter the rainy season.

At this time, although the spring cold has not been removed, the river water in the sky has revealed light green. The reeds on the north beach of Prison Island are full of tender green seedlings, and flocks of free-range duck chicks forage among the green reed seedlings, and some duck chicks occasionally hit the bottom of the surging white waves, and only resurface after a while.

Gu Wuchen squatted on the beachhead stone by the water, and looked at the duck chicks everywhere in the beach for a while, and there were a small number of yellow fluffy chicks and goose chicks with light yellow fluff in the middle, all of which had grown a little bigger.

Unlike those officials who don't know the grains, Gu Wuchen has been exiled to Saibei for nearly ten years and has experienced a lot of hardships, and he knows that this beach full of cockroaches, clams, miscellaneous fish, shrimp and crabs, aquatic weeds and river algae provides sufficient food for the young birds that are free-range. There are three or four thousand acres of beach land on Prison Island, and even if it is this kind of beach stocking, it is enough to raise twenty or thirty thousand birds. Jiangning's duck seedlings and goose seedlings are very cheap, even if they can be thrown directly on the river beach to stock, one is only two coppers, so that the duck farmers will transport a boatload of duck chicks and put them directly on the river beach, and a small number of people will be sent to take care of them on the prison island.

The so-called talent of helping the world is really not so easy to talk about, a glimpse of the whole leopard, it has been less than two months since Lin Jian went to prison island to take office, and he can run this prison island to such a scene, Gu Wuchen feels that there is nothing to worry about.

What surprised him even more was that Ge Fu, a veteran worker of the Jiangning Ministry of Industry, had been closed for many years, and he was willing to come to Prison Island to settle down.

This is the second time Gu Wuchen has gone to Prison Island to inspect in two months, he wants to be casual with his entourage, he himself is fast, but Lin Lian, Yang Pu and others are left behind.

Gu Siyuan, who brought it over to Gu Wuchen, felt that there was a faint smell of aquatic plants on the side of the river, and he was afraid that he would step on duck feces if he didn't pay attention to his feet, so he couldn't leave immediately, and thought to himself: This forest tie is also true, he is also a civil official who was born in a lift, and he is a serious civil official, and he doesn't do serious things when he goes to Prison Island, but he specializes in this cheap thing of raising pigs and feeding ducks, and his father is really confused. If the news comes out, won't it be a joke?

"After autumn, it is becoming more and more difficult to forage by the river, and the ducks and birds are afraid that they still have to build duck houses to raise, right?" Gu Wuchen turned back, saw his son frowning, and didn't pay attention to him, and talked to Lin Jian about raising ducks.

"After autumn, these chickens, ducks and geese can be slaughtered in batches to replenish the meat, and then change the crop next year." Lin Jian replied.

"Hehe," Gu Wuchen laughed, "It's that simple, but my brain can't turn for a while...... Jiangning Mansion has always been a rich land, and every inch of land grows gold, which is true. ”

"Not to mention anything else, it's just that hundreds of thousands of acres of beach land and hundreds of miles of water around this Chaotiandang can really be managed well, and it will not be a problem to raise tens of thousands of people......," Lin Jian said.

Gu Wuchen saw Lin Jian saying this, his eyes looked at the north of the sky, and asked, "Do you want to talk about the opening of the Jiang Ban?" Tell me not to go around in circles. ”

"I talked to Ge Fu Lao Gongguan, when he first came to Jiangning, it was 60 years ago, at that time, the river berth was still in good faith, and there were no less than 1,000 duck farmers around Chaotiandang, and there were more than 100 river beach ducks in one household to feed four or five people. In the past 60 years, the duck raising tax levied by Hebo has risen from one and a half dollars to one and a half dollars, and then Jiangning Shuiying also came to collect water money, and there are no duck keepers in sight in the sky...... "Lin Lian squinted and looked at the north, people's eyesight is limited after all, and he can't see the hundreds of thousands of homeless people who are drowned on the north bank of the vast sky, and said, "The criminal law of this dynasty allows prisoners in prison to take money to atone for their crimes, and only those prisoners who can't get the money to pay for their crimes and are sentenced to more than three years in prison will be sent to this prison island." Over the years, the number of prisoners held on this prison island has long been maintained at the level of 200 people who have just been exported, and in the past two months, the number of prisoners sent to prison island by various prefectures and counties has increased by an extremely large number, reaching almost 400. Other prefectures and counties are okay, and there may be other reasons behind the surge in prisoners sent by Jiangning Prefecture and other subordinate counties, but the displacement of people on the north bank has been drowned for too long, so it cannot be said that it is not an important reason......"

"It's difficult to open the river, no one wants to spit out the fat meat that eats in the mouth," Gu Wuchen sighed, as the deputy envoy of the inspection, it is impossible not to ignore the situation of the displaced people drowning on the north bank, hundreds of thousands of displaced people are drowned on the north bank, and there are naturally many things of stealing chickens and dogs, not to mention the surge of prisoners on this side of the prison island, and the troublemakers are killed on the spot almost every day, and the contradictions between the homeless people and the local households are also becoming increasingly intensified, he looked at the direction of the Jinchuan estuary at the southern end of the island, and said to Lin Bin, "The estuary tragedy, there is basically no sound now, According to the Inspectorate, he couldn't take it over if he wanted to. In this month, the displaced people and villagers in Gutang County fought twice, and more than 100 people were killed and wounded on both occasions...... It is so troublesome, but the river ban cannot be opened, and the other ministers are afraid that once the mouth is loosened, it will attract more displaced people to rush here, and they are still tired of paying for a bigger mess in the end. Besides, now that the bulk of the money is drawn from the river donation, it is the Jiangning Garrison General's Mansion, and now this Jiangning General is waiting for others to take his position, where would he be willing to stop this good thing of collecting money? ”

"He's not afraid of the homeless people making a big mess?" Lin Jian sighed softly.

"He's really not afraid," Gu Wuchen's voice was soft, but he also had deep dissatisfaction, and said, "If the displaced people on the north bank flood the north bank and make trouble, he doesn't have to bear much responsibility, maybe he is more looking forward to making some trouble, and let him save some military merits and military prestige to leave ......."

It is said that Gu Wuchen's words are groundless, and he is a little angry, Lin Jian also thinks in his heart that the current Jiangning garrison general may have such dirty thoughts, after all, the garrison here only has 30,000 people under the jurisdiction of the garrison general's mansion, and there are 10,000 garrisons in the Yamen of the Admiral's Mansion, and they are not afraid of the hundreds of thousands of displaced people drowned on the north bank to make a big mess.

These people are eager to make a mess and make it easier for them to fish in troubled waters.

Lin Jian secretly took a breath and asked again, "When will this new official take office?" ”

After the luxury family was officially returned to the feudal marquis, the DPRK issued a document demanding that Jiangdong, Liangzhejiang, Jiangxi, Huguang and other counties cut off the supply of money and grain to Eastern Fujian, and that after the Eastern Fujian armies arrived at the new garrison, the military department would make up the arrears, so as to urge the Eastern Fujian armies to go north. In the past few months, the imperial court has successively transferred as many as 50,000 or 60,000 elite soldiers and strong generals from Eastern Fujian, but only the edict of the Jiangning Military Department Shangshu and the Governor of Eastern Fujian Li Zhuo to be transferred to Jiangning as the garrison general has not been issued, and I don't know how long it will be delayed.

"It's all about it......" Gu Wuchen spread out, saying that he didn't know the exact time with his identity.

Lin Jian guessed that on the one hand, the imperial court hoped that Li Zhuo could spend more time in Eastern Fujian, and on the other hand, the imperial court may want to remove all the elite soldiers and strong generals under Li Zhuo's command as much as possible, so as to prevent Li Zhuo from staying in the southeast after Li Zhuo went to Jiangning. As long as Li Zhuo intercepts the money and grain of a county in Jiangdong, he can barely raise 100,000 soldiers, and then there is a possibility that a situation will be formed in which the tail cannot be lost.

Li Zhuo has been famous for a long time, and Lin Jian is expecting that after he arrives in Jiangning, he will make some changes to the situation here.

Lin Jian and Gu Wuchen walked south along the river beach, Gu Wuchen saw many fishing boats on the water, and asked Lin Lian: "The weather is getting warmer, and there are more fishing boats on this water, can the daily fishing on Prison Island increase?" ”

"In the past, sending fifteen people to fish could get three or four hundred catties of fish a day, and in the past two days, you can get five or six hundred catties, which is ......an increase," Lin Jian said, he also looked at the fishing boats on the water in the distance, and said secretly in his heart: These fishing boats are not all here to fish in Chaotiandang, the Qu family secretly spread the news that they are going to pay the ransom for money in Chaotiandang today, and the rogue bandits around Jiangning Mansion don't know how many people want to fish in troubled waters in Chaotiandang, after all, 20,000 taels of silver is not a small number for anyone.

Lin Jian had just been talking to Gu Wuchen about the civil affairs while observing the situation on the river.

The boat of the Qu family's silver was parked on the water four or five miles away from the southeast corner of the island at this time, pretending to be fishing, and this small boat dressed as a fishing boat had a special mark that was not very obvious, and when the boat crossed the estuary at noon, Lin Jian saw it. Lin Jian was thinking: Where is Qu Wuyang hiding at this time, observing every move in the sky?

"My lord," Yang Pu walked over and asked, "Is it time to go back to the city?" ”

"It's still early," Gu Wuchen looked up and said, "I said I would go to the shore to have a look...... "He had heard that the Jinchuan estuary was busy, and he had wanted to come and see it for a long time, but he had never had a proper name, so he wanted to take a look by the way.

"I'll arrange ......," Yang Pu said.

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After tossing twice, Qu Wuyang didn't do anything else directly this time except for secretly spreading the news. In order to prevent other forces who rushed to fish in troubled waters from discovering the boat containing silver first, this boat was no different from other fishing boats except for the fact that it was not very clearly marked, and even two cronies were also fishermen and went out with fishing gear. The boat that put the silver went out from the mouth of the Jinkou River to Chaotiandang before noon and waited for the other party to bring people over to exchange for silver, and Qu Wuyang led the people to observe whether there was anything abnormal on the water surface on the high embankment on the east bank of the Jinchuan estuary.

In the morning, the wife of Yin Wang Xueshan of Jiangning Prefecture took an official boat to the north shore to burn incense, and before noon, Gu Wuchen, the deputy envoy of the inspectorate, went to Jiangdao Prison to inspect it, and when Gu Wuchen took the official boat to Prison Island, he also closed the waterway between Prison Island and the estuary for a period of time. The boats loaded with silver were fortunate to leave the estuary earlier, otherwise the waterway outside the estuary would have been blocked and would not have been able to pass until the afternoon. Qu Wuyang stood under a hundred-year-old willow, saw that there were no other boats on the water around the silver boat, and looked in the direction of Prison Island, and could see Gu Wuchen and Lin Jian standing at the end of the conversation. Although it was far away, Gu Wuchen was wearing a vermilion official robe, and Lin Jian was wearing a cyan official robe, which was in stark contrast to the guards in armor and with knives.

"Why didn't he kill anyone with a knife in Shiliang County, and he secretly stirred up so many storms for him in Jiangning." Qu Wuming took a sip.

Qu Wuyang looked up at the sky, estimating that it had been two hours since the silver boat entered Chaotiandang, and no one came to take the silver at this time, although everyone was comparing patience, he still couldn't help but be a little anxious.

Not only Qu Wuyang was anxious, but even the rogue forces from all sides who heard the news and fished in troubled waters also began to be anxious, and some boats began to move closer to the fishing boats next to them, wanting to find out the silver boat before the transaction to preempt it, and they didn't think that after either party got the silver first and exposed the target, it would become the target of others scrambling to kill first.

Li Lingzhi was dizzy, Qu Wuyang didn't expect these Kou Yong to have much sanity, and at this time, he was also worried that their silver ship would be discovered by the rogue water bandits who came to fish in troubled waters. In that case, it would be self-defeating for the Qu family to secretly release the news. At this time, the river began to be closed on the side of Prison Island again, and four oarboats full of soldiers closed the waterway between Prison Island and the south coast, driving out the fishing boats and merchant and passenger ships in the range, Qu Wuyang saw that Gu Wuchen wearing vermilion official robes and Lin Tie wearing cyan official robes did not board the larger official ship, but boarded a black peng boat to the south shore, and wondered: Gu Wuchen wants to come to the estuary?

"No......" Qu Wuming began to pay attention to the matter of Gu Wuchen, the deputy envoy of the inspection, taking the Wupeng boat, and noticed that the two cronies who had been pretending to cast nets to fish on the silver boat were a little abnormal, and their movements stopped, and let the fishing nets disguised to fish be washed away by the river, and from a distance, their demeanor seemed to be looking at the water on the other side of the boat, Qu Wuming instantly understood, "Someone is hiding underwater!" ”

Qu Wuyang stared at the water with great urgency, and saw two people wearing clothes similar to the color of the river and turning over on the boat. He had been staring at the water over there just now, there was nothing abnormal in the water around the silver ship for two or three miles, and even the water-sealed warship that Gu Wuchen traveled on was more than two miles away from that side recently, and he didn't know where these two people dived from.

There were more than two people on the other side, and Qu Wuyang saw that the other side of the silver ship was attached to the side of the ship, revealing two reflections that seemed to be clusters of iron arrows, of course he didn't believe that anyone could threaten his two cronies with bows and arrows in the water, and he didn't dare to move. It's either a bow or a crossbow, and the other party actually has crossbow arrows! The crossbow arrows were the most strictly controlled in the armaments of this dynasty, and the government army and the village soldiers were forbidden to use crossbows. Although the law is relaxed and abolished, the power to possess crossbow arrows will never be simple.

Suddenly a few people appeared under the water of the silver boat, and two more people got on the boat, and the surrounding river bandits who wanted to fish in troubled waters, even if their brains were stupid, could see that there was a mystery in this, and several bandit boats dressed as fishing boats around them instantly moved, and they all rushed to row there.

The two cronies of the Qu family forced the underwater people to be unable to move with crossbow arrows, and the two people who turned over and got on the boat successively brought out five heavy silver bags from the cabin. Each silver bag weighed two hundred and fifty pounds, and I saw that the two people on the boat threw the silver bags directly into the water one after another, and the people jumped down after them.

How many people are in the water on the other side? Qu Wuyang and Qu Wuming looked at each other, even if the river was buoyant, the real silver would never be much lighter underwater, he didn't believe that there could be someone in the world who would take a silver bag weighing two hundred and fifty pounds and dive out of the waterway for a mile in the main waterway of the Yangtze River, unless there were four or five people potentially carrying a silver bag in the water at the same time! If the other party wants to transfer 20,000 taels of silver in the water, it is necessary to send twenty or thirty water masters to approach the silver loading ship at the same time - this is also impossible, they are far away from the shore and cannot see any clues in the water, but the two cronies they sent out are themselves good water nature, and it is impossible for twenty or thirty people to approach the ship at the same time without noticing.

At this time, there were seven or eight bandit boats rowing desperately towards the waters over there, Qu Wuyang's eyes were staring tightly, he suspected that one of the boats was the kidnapper's, he didn't care about the problem of silver, he released the news, he didn't think that the 20,000 taels of silver would return to their Qu family, he now hoped that the other party could abide by the promise and release the people back.

Seven or eight fishing boats surrounded the silver-loading boat, and at the same time seventeen or eighteen people jumped up, and these seventeen or eighteen people obviously did not belong to the same force, and several people pushed and shoved into the cabin together, seeing that the sky was empty, and then they rushed to the other boats to check first. They also suspected that one of their ships must have been sent by the kidnappers to collect the silver. Twenty thousand taels of silver can make everyone's eyes red-eyed, some people from the first day of knowing the news pretended to be a fishing boat waiting in the sky, more and more impatient, at this time suddenly found the silver ship of the transaction, the mood was suddenly ignited, they did not believe that anyone could transport 20,000 taels of silver from the river to the shore, the south bank is four miles away from this side of the waterway, the far prison island is farther away, and it is against the water. When Qu Wuyang's eyes were staring at the water to find out which boat his son might be hiding on, the people on the seventeen or eighteen bandit boats who had been entangled suddenly started to kill, and one of them drew his knife, so they all hurriedly drew his knife and fought it. When the other bandit ships had found the silver here, they also rushed over like flies that had seen blood.

"Fucking thief!" Qu Wuyang looked at the chaotic scene on the river, the two people and their accomplices who had jumped into the water before had never surfaced at all, Qu Wuyang suddenly came to his senses, the other party just tried his best to get the silver, and he didn't think about letting people go at all, he watched the two cronies sent out because they didn't bring weapons, and they were the first to kill the bandits who fell into the chaos, Qu Wuyang punched the willow trunk hard, and didn't care about the blood flow, he hated it so much in his heart, his eyes were red, and he scolded the river like a mad dog: "Untrustworthy people, The turtle egg that doesn't dare to show his head, Qu Ye, he will wait for the corpse to be broken into thousands of pieces......"

It happened very suddenly, and the warrior boats that sealed the waterway were surprised to see so many fishing boats on the water gathering together and suddenly scuffle, and hesitated for a while, and the four warrior boats all gathered in the direction of the estuary at the same time, making the appearance of protecting Gu Wuchen's back road.

Lin Jian and Gu Wuchen had just climbed the embankment on the west bank of the estuary at this time, and Gu Wuchen was also confused by the chaotic battle that suddenly broke out on the river, so he stood on the high embankment and watched for a while...... After a while, I remembered to ask Yang Pu to send someone to ride a fast horse to inform the Jiangning garrison of the general's mansion to send a war boat to clear the bandits.

Lin Jian looked up at the east bank of the Jinchuan River estuary, and could faintly hear Qu Wuyang's scolding, he just didn't hear anything, turned his head sideways and said to Gu Wuchen: "Thirty-six people died in the homeless tragedy, except for one who was transported back to Shanglin for burial, the other thirty-five people were buried in the cemetery in front, Lin Jian dared to ask the adults to go and sacrifice these innocent dead souls......"

Gu Wuchen was worried that the murderers fighting on the river would storm the prison island, but Lin Jian looked like he was fine, and then he saw that the prison island was already on guard, and the prison guards were escorting the prisoners who were working outside the high wall back to the high wall in an orderly manner, and he put his mind at ease and said, "Naturally, I have to go to worship ...... first."

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