The moonlit night is clear, the night breeze is not cold, and people also change into light spring clothes.

Back to the thatched cottage, Xiao Man sat bored in front of the bookcase and took a pen and ink to paint on the pale yellow rice paper, Liu Yue'er sat on the other end of the bookcase to be a female red, this pair of beautiful people are delicate and charming under the lamp, Liu Yue'er is plump and mature, her face is slightly round, sitting there, her waist is soft, and her chest is bulging to support the light green spring shirt, forming a perfect and attractive curve; Xiaoman's body has not yet grown, a little thinner, but the face is extremely delicate under the lamp, and the eyes are extraordinarily clear, looking at Lin Lian back, she stood up, yawned, and exclaimed in her mouth: "Why did you come back, I was about to fall asleep......" Qingyin was soft, as if to melt people's ears, Xiaoman came over enthusiastically and hugged Lin Lian's arm, as if dragging him into the house to see her paintings.

It is a peony picture, it has not yet been colored, but Xiao Nizi's painting skills are exquisite, this one has a very good appearance, Xiao Man is also familiar with Su Mei in the domain, and he is also familiar with piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and he is really versatile. Lin Tie watched the painting under the lamp, and said to Xiaoman: "The next day, I will ask people to go to the city to buy some danqing and come back to let you color this painting......" Xiao Nizi is also eager to treat Lin Tie, when Lin Tie looks at the painting, her delicate body is enthusiastically attached to his body, even if she is still young and her delicate body is not soft enough, but she has a girl's unique elastic softness.

Liu Yue'er just couldn't see it, and still sat there with an embroidery needle and embroidered the lotus leaf pattern on the skirt of the skirt.

Xiao Manyan's red lips leaned into Lin's ears and asked, "Brother Lin, when do you think Sister Su Mei will come to see me?" She wanted to speak so that Liu Yue'er wouldn't hear her, and her breath fluttered on the root of Lin Bin's ear.

Liu Yue'er put down the embroidery cloth in her hand and said, "There is only one thatched cottage here, where is it embarrassing to invite people over?" He asked Lin Jian again, "Have you ever been thirsty, and I'll make you a cup of tea?" ”

"Don't be busy first, they will come over to discuss things later, and they want to trouble you to make tea together......" Lin Jian asked Liu Yue'er to rest first, and then said to Xiaoman, "When the bamboo hall is built, there is also an excuse to invite Su Mei to come, if you want to live here and get bored, I will let you take a trip back to Baiyuan......"

"No," Xiao Man pursed his pink lips slightly, the full and curved lip line was very beautiful, shook his head, and said, "It's too troublesome, I want to help you do things, I shouldn't trouble you...... Why don't you find something for me to do? ”

"Miss Liu didn't ask you to help?" As soon as Lin Jian asked this sentence, he stepped lightly on Liu Yue'er with his feet under the table, thinking that the two girls had not been able to get along, and the two girls were in the same room at this time, mostly to save an oil lamp, so they hurriedly changed their words and said to Xiaoman, "You write well in small characters, I have some manuscripts scribbled, you help me transcribe them and let Miss Liu ......keep them."

At this time, there was a voice in front of the cottage, and seeing that it was Cao Ziang's voice, Lin Jian asked Xiaoman to help Liu Yue'er make tea and bring it to the front hall.

Lin Jian asked Lin Jingzhong, Cao Ziang, Ge Cunxin, Ge Cunxiong and others to sit down in the front hall, and told them some of the things that happened in the city today, and the bulk of this batch of atonement silver must be given to Gu Wuchen, and here they can also divide another four thousand taels of silver from the atonement silver. Lin Jingzhong also thought about it, no matter how he said it, it was a good shade under the big tree, and the value of the armor and horses obtained here was far more than four thousand taels of silver; In addition, a few days ago, he obtained 20,000 taels of silver from the Qu family, and he will not be able to use it for a while.

Lin Lian said what he saw in the field when he returned, and instructed Lin Jingzhong: "At present, we can only take this compromise method to give them some compensation, anyway, we have been preparing for road construction for a long time, and the start of construction is a matter of these two days, and it will also require labor." Before the rainy season, after the roadbed was raised, sand and gravel and charcoal slag were laid, drainage ditches were dug and willows were planted. Wait until the rainy season has passed in the autumn, and then ram the earth to pave the Sanhe soil that stirs up the charcoal slag, and then it can be repaired as neatly as the official road...... These tenants come to work, and tomorrow they will record their names and pay for their work for ten days, and be careful not to let others get in and fish in troubled waters. ”

"Those who want to fish in troubled waters can't get in, Cao Ye is familiar with the two Zhuangzi nearby, there are a few treacherous criminals, and we are all registered here," Lin Jingzhong said with a smile, "But why do we suffer every time?" ”

"If you want to do something, you have to learn to suffer losses first," Lin Jian said with a smile, "Every time you take advantage, who dares to help you do things?" ”

"I'm not afraid of this loss, I'm also from a small family, how could I forget my roots? These tenants come over, don't say three liters of rice, four liters of rice, five liters of rice, you let me send it, I don't frown. Obviously, there is a word in advance, the Qingmiao money will be distributed to the village households, how can the money be given to the rent collection stack to get it first? In this matter, I think Zhao Qinmin should turn a blind eye, and it is most likely that the curtain seat surnamed Zhou under Lord Chen is in the middle and takes the benefits of the Qu family...... We have suffered a loss, and the benefits cannot be given to these moths! Lin Jingzhong said.

"You will be willing to take so much silver from the Qu family and give them a little back at this time; Besides, the fact that the composers wanted to take advantage of us shows that they really didn't have the slightest suspicion of us. Lin Tie said, the water is clear, there is no fish, even if Chen / Yuan Liang does not know the virtue of his surname Zhou, Lin Tie must be as "good as possible" at this time, most of the officials of the Dayue Dynasty are greedy, they have to be jealous and hateful, but they can't do anything. In addition to the benefits gained at the moment, what happened in the past two days has also alleviated other crises, and Fan Ding and Fan Zhimei are afraid that they will have to swallow their anger for a longer time.

"I also know the reason, and it feels better to say it." Lin Jingzhong said.

Cao Ziang, Ge Cunxin, and Ge Cunxiong all laughed, they had experienced a lot of injustices, and the matter in front of them was nothing.

Lin Jian told everyone about the banquet in the Dongyang Hall today, and Lin Jingzhong asked: "Zhao Qinmin can't do so many things alone, do you want to pick two people to help him?" ”

"Master Cao, what do you think?" Lin Jian asked Cao Ziang, Cao Ziang and Qin Chengzu were both resourceful people, and he left Cao Ziang on the shore in the hope that Cao Ziang could share the pressure for him.

"I think it's better to be careful," Cao Ziang shook his head and said, "It's not that Gu Wuchen will be suspicious of Lin Ye at this time, Gu Wuchen should be a person who understands the way of balance, so he will never entrust everything to Lin Ye." In the past two days, Jiangning City has been turbulent and the situation has changed abruptly, which is far beyond Gu Wuchen's expectations, so that he has no time to make arrangements in his hands, but when he settles his mind and sees that Zhao Qinmin is still controlled by our side, he will probably have some thoughts in his heart, Lin Ye originally wanted to hand over this piece to Zhao Qinmin, so it would be better to hand it over to him. On the other hand, Zhao Qinmin is not a simple person, in just two or three days, he touched the estuary of the river, so that I had to deliberately transfer our people away from him, for fear of probing him out of something.

"If you don't need our people, then pick two strong ones from the recruiters and homeless people, and give them to Zhao Qinmin as guards, always to avoid him from killing the assassins sent by Wang Xueshan at the mouth of the river," Lin Jian said, "The day after tomorrow, I will go to the Longjiang Shipyard with you, and hand over the silver to the shipyard first, and the big and small loach masters will take everyone to the shipyard for training, and then eat and live on the ship, and we will also control the dock stack, so we are not afraid that there will be any flaws in the eyes of others." ”

Although the big and small loach masters and their subordinates are all fishermen and have rich experience in boating, they have no experience in driving large sailing ships. The three masts of the thousand stone ship can be hung on a total of 15 large and small sails, the main mast is ten zhang high, the front and tail masts are one high and eight zhang, one is six zhang high, and the single oar on the tail side needs to be operated by two people, which can carry a thousand stones, that is, 100,000 catties of rice or other goods. Although it only takes sixteen people to drive this galleon with a load of thousands of stones, it is not an ordinary sixteen people who can get on the ship. The big and small loach masters and their subordinates have the foundation to sail the boat, which is better, when Lin Tie and they drove the three-masted sea ship, but fortunately, after the early winter, the sea area north of the Yangtze River was calm, so they wasted some more time and safely ran aground in Qingjiangpu. The big and small loach masters listened to Lin Bin's experience, and they all said that it was thrilling, and it was also thanks to them that when they saw that the wind was a little stronger, they lowered their sails to avoid the wind, otherwise even if it was the wind and waves after the early winter, with their ability, four or five of the ten ships would have to capsize in the sea. Qin Chengzu and the others invited a few reliable shipwrights from the smuggler who was familiar with Qingjiangpu to join them, and they also tossed around on Changshan Island for a long time before they were able to master the three-masted sea ship.

Lin Jian took the sixty taels of gold that Gu Zhai had shared to Lin Jingzhong, and said: "This is a reward, not in the warehouse, you will take it to Quyang Town another day and exchange it for six baht of unpatterned gold and silver money, all of which will be raised with the private seal of Jiyun Society, and the font number will be numbered, so that twenty people who work diligently on weekdays, are willing to use their brains, and are willing to practice hard will come out, and each person will be issued a silver coin first." If the excess gold and silver money is saved, whoever makes meritorious service in the future will receive money for great merit and silver money for small merit. Six baht of gold and silver is not worth much, but it can motivate the heart. ”

Twenty-four baht is one in two, one tael of silver is worth 1,200 yuan of copper, and a silver coin weighing six baht is worth 300 yuan of copper; One tael of gold is worth eight taels of silver is worth nine thousand six hundred yuan of copper, and six baht of money is worth two thousand four hundred yuan of copper.

Next, we will discuss the matter of selecting Wuwei, which is already ripe. Ten of the thirty men brought by the Ge brothers will be selected to join the Wuwei, so that it is convenient to organize most of the Ge brothers' subordinates into one ship, so as to ensure that the matter of traveling to and from Changshan Island will not be leaked to outsiders; In addition, thirty military guards were to be selected from among the displaced people who recruited laborers.

After the tragedy of the displaced people, Lin Jian also quickly trained the brave soldiers in the form of village warriors to train the brave soldiers in the form of bamboo guns, although the extra training time every day was not long, it was enough for the selection of military guards. Besides, Cao Ziang has been sharing weal and woe among the recruiters these days, what kind of characters are among the recruiters, and he has already given him a thorough look with a pair of sharp eyes.

From the eve before the big day, Chen Zhi led 500 Dongcheng lieutenants to arrest people, and the homeless people stood behind Lin Jian unswervingly, which can also prove that these recruiters are trustworthy, in fact, Cao Ziang suspects that Lin Jian will directly pull these people to Changshan Island as pirates at this time, and probably few people will hesitate - the most important thing at the moment is how to train these people into elites.

After all, the number of Wuwei is limited, Wuwei can be handed over to Zhou Pu for training with the guards and soldiers, and Lin Jian usually has time to teach in person, but Lin Jian will not honestly wait for the bandits to attack and only use Wuwei to defend against the enemy, or equip Wuwei with weapons in merchant ships, so as to organize the brave among the displaced people more effectively, as a reserve and supplementary strength of Wuwei, which is another headache.