In addition to the people around him, Lin Jian also trusts Lin Mengde more.

In addition to being the same Dongyang Township Party and Lin clan, it is more important to get along for a few months, help each other in Jiangning, and establish more trust and dependence between each other.

In addition to the part of the excellent armor that was secretly hidden and ready to be sent to Changshan Island, and the kidnapping of Fan Zhimei to blackmail the domain family to redeem Xiaoman, in the private room, Lin Jian told Lin Mengde almost everything that had happened in the past few days, that is, the conditions that Gu Wuchen and Wang Xueshan had secretly negotiated, and Lin Jian did not hide it from Lin Mengde.

"Obediently, on the eve of the big day, after listening to Dongshi, I went to Jiyunju to look for you, you didn't go back at that time, I heard Miss Liu say probably, only when things are supported by Gu Wuchen, I should be able to establish a prestige, the next day I got up early and rushed to Tuzhou to collect a batch of goods, I didn't expect to miss such a wonderful thing," Lin Mengde smacked his lips to show surprise, and said, "So it seems that the obstacle to inviting the township party to build the estuary is clear, and you don't even need Jiyun Society to build the road, but you are willing to let Zhao Qinmin take care of this matter?" ”

"In the Dongyang Township Party, most of them have families and businesses, and it is natural for the Township Party to help each other, but how many people will follow each other? On the contrary, for a person like Zhao Qinmin, who is like a parasitic and has no one to rely on, Gu Wuchen is more willing to use it. I set up my own portal in Jiangning, and I am also satisfied to have Jiyun Society. Lin Jian said with a smile.

At that time, the ruling and opposition parties in the world were fighting against each other, and the friends were competing fiercely, and there were not enough interests, so it was difficult to tie others to the boat with all their hearts, and Gu Wuchen had no available people, so it was natural to use Zhao Qinmin.

Lin Mengde also grinned, he didn't believe that Lin Lian was really satisfied, but as a noble person, Lin Lian still had to rely on Gu Wuchen's power in Jiangning.

Inviting the Dongyang Township Party to jointly build the estuary, although Lin Jian promised Gu Wuchen to let Zhao Qinmin be responsible, Zhao Qinmin also had a great inconvenience, that is, Zhao Qinmin was afraid of sending someone to assassinate Wang Xueshan, so he didn't dare to leave the estuary easily, so he also needed someone to run outside to contact. Lin Jingzhong, after all, is too shallow, and the people in the Dongyang Township Party are not good, Lin Mengde has been in charge of Jiangning on behalf of the Lin family for many years, and he is also very enthusiastic about the affairs of the township party, and is quite respected by the Dongyang Township Party, and has a close relationship with Chen/Yuanliang, Zhang Yubo and others. In Lin Xuan's opinion, there is no one more suitable for this candidate than Lin Mengde.

"Although the geographical conditions of the estuary are good, it is also lonely outside the city, and the water surface is open, and it is difficult for the hundred and ten prison guards on the prison island to give people a sense of security," Lin Jian said to Lin Mengde, "To dispel everyone's scruples, Uncle Mengde must work tirelessly to persuade more people...... With the armor and horses, the martial guards of the Jiyun Society began to select people to prepare for the establishment in the past two days. There are a number of paddle cars and boats in Longjiang Shipyard, the bow is clad with iron with bronze angle hitting bars, and in addition to paddling on both sides, there are eight pedal wheels, which move fast on the water like a galloping horse, and knock over a Wupeng boat from the waist, which is really a good thing. This is customized by Jiangning Water Camp, and the first batch has been brought to Jiangning Water Camp, but Qin Chengbo saw that he was about to leave Jiangning, so he naturally refused to let go of the silver bag again. Seeing that he couldn't get the silver, the Longjiang Shipyard naturally refused to send the bait to the door, but the boat was smashed in his hands, and he didn't dare to sell it privately to other families. In the future, if there is an accident in the estuary, the prison island soldiers can rush to help, and they can also intercept the bandits on the water......"

"After Li Zhuo arrives in Jiangning, I'm afraid that he will reorganize his armaments...... Lin Mengde said.

"Well, Li Zhuo is indeed far from being equal to people like Qin Chengbo," Lin Jian nodded, "But here are all arrogant soldiers and extravagant generals, and the factions in the army are also intertwined, and it is difficult for Li Zhuo to rectify the armament, the key is to have silver." However, the mouths in all aspects will definitely become tighter because of Li Zhuo's arrival, and I am afraid that it will be more difficult to get any good things from the Longjiang Shipyard or the Ordnance Bureau in the future. In this punishment, we can still divide more than 4,000 taels of silver, originally we only planned to buy two paddle cars, but I decided to buy two more, because I was afraid that there would be no such shop in this village......"

The flying pulp ship is a small and medium-sized warship, which can carry 16 sailors and 30 soldiers, because the hull has been specially reinforced, and the bow is covered with iron and a striker bar, which is much more expensive than the passenger and cargo ships with the same load, but a ship only needs 400 taels of silver, which is far from being comparable with a three-masted ship of 1,000 stones. After the reinforcement of manpower on the side of Prison Island, there were only more than 180 soldiers, and even if Lin Jian wanted to buy a few more of this light and fast warship, he had no better excuse.

"......" Lin Mengde nodded and said, "I have been in Jiangning all these years, and I have saved thousands of taels of silver in private, and I originally wanted to transfer it to Jiyun Society in private, but now I haven't thought about other things, so I just go directly to the estuary to build a few shops, which can be regarded as an example in the township party, and it is difficult for the people in the clan to say anything if they know......"

"Okay," Lin Lian also nodded and said okay, Jiyun Club was created by him from the Lin family in Jiangning, even if the Lin family was unwilling in their hearts, but they were helpless, Lin Mengde was the Lin family's manager in Jiangning after all, and he also gave a warning not to help Jiyun Club privately, although Lin Mengde did not take this warning too seriously, but he could not blatantly occupy silver shares in Jiyun Society, at this time, Hekou invited the township party to build in the name of Gu Wuchen, Lin Mengde put the money he saved privately into build some shops for rent, The Lin family knew that there was nothing to do.

Lin Mengde also didn't know how long the head of the family, Lin Tingxun, could survive in bed, I was afraid that after Lin Tingxun returned to the west, it would be difficult for the Seventh Lady to continue to be in power, and it would be difficult for him to continue to manage affairs in Jiangning if someone else changed. Lin Mengde is in the prime of life, even if he doesn't give the Lin family to continue to be a steward in Jiangning, where is he willing to go back to Shanglin to retire?

To leave before the city gate was closed, Lin Jian invited the Dongyang Township Party to a banquet in the guild hall, and held a banquet between the sunset, and told everyone about the situation of the estuary during the banquet, and invited the Dongyang Township Party in Jiangning to raise funds to build the estuary platform. Although many people have concerns, but this matter is nominally called by Gu Wuchen, the Dongyang Township Party in Jiangning takes Gu Wuchen as the leader, and usually only hates not much to do with it, and does not respond at all at this time, I am afraid that I will not give an answer if I have something to ask for help in the future, and there are thirty or forty people on the spot who responded in the past two days and went to the estuary to have a look.

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Lin Jian and Zhao Qinmin rushed out of the city before the city gate was closed, rode their horses, and the moonlight fell on the official road of Donghua Gate, and the surroundings seemed to be immersed in water, transparent and clear.

After the city gate was closed, there were fewer pedestrians on the official road, but there were also merchants who were pinching the time to go out of the city like Lin Tie them, and the ruts were rutted.

In the past few days, from the official road of Donghua Gate to the mouth of the river, a hard step out of a road, but this kind of road can not be soaked in water, a crisp spring rain, and then a few load-loaded oxen and horse-drawn carts rolled over, it will become muddy and sparse, but also rammed earth to pave sand or charcoal slag, repair drainage ditches, in order to become a durable carriage and horse road,

Lin Tie believed in the reins of the horse, and looked at the scenery under the moonlit night with great interest; Zhao Qinmin was like a frightened bird, watching a pedestrian approaching, his hair was standing up, and it was inconvenient to urge Lin Jian to hurry, he only hoped that Zhou Pu and the four guards would be more alert.

In this trampled field, some farmers and tenants are ploughing and replanting, and some people in shabby clothes are squatting in the fields.

Lin Tie got off his horse and walked to the fields, only to see these peasants squatting in the fields looking at the trampled farmland with sad faces. Lin Jian asked an old farmer: "Dare to ask the old man, hasn't Moling County lost all the money for green seedlings, and everyone didn't rush to replant before the valley rain, why did they all squat in the fields and worry?" ”

"The field is his own, of course, there are green seedlings to take the money; The field is not his own, and the green seedling money is taken away by the rent collector and the landlord, saying that this is the money that the landlord and the rent collector should get - this land is obviously cultivated by our tenants, but the lord who made the money does not admit this reason! The old farmer's face was wrinkled like an old tree, and his face was gloomy, "I heard that a notice has been posted at the mouth of the river that land will be requisitioned and roads will be built here." The rent collector also spoke on behalf of the landlord, and it was natural for the official family to collect land and build roads, but the rent that should be paid in various places should not be less than a grain of rice......"

Lin Tie was afraid that part of the compensation to the tenant villagers would be deducted into his private pocket, so he specially discussed with Chen \/Yuan Liang and Zhang Yubo, anyway, he couldn't lose a few money, and he was not afraid that Wang Xueshan would not admit this account, and the next day he posted a notice outside the fence to ask the farmers who had losses in the field to go directly to the estuary to receive the compensation for the green seedlings money, and it was clearly explained at that time that the land requisition money was given to the landlord, and the green seedling money was given to the farmers or tenants as compensation for ploughing and replanting, and the field tax should also be exempted from the disaster, and the rent collection stack should not interfere, but I didn't expect it to be under my nose. Others can reach out as much as they want, and they don't have any scruples at all.

Lin Jian remembered that this matter was in the hands of one of Chen/Yuan Liang's curtains, the Moling County Household Clerk's Office, and Zhao Qinmin, after all, there were many things that were inconvenient for Zhao Qinmin to directly participate in.

Even if Zhao Qinmin didn't know, Lin Lian couldn't guarantee that Chen/Yuanliang didn't know, and he could only pretend not to know, Lin Lian didn't say anything, the water was clear, there was no fish, he asked Zhou Pu to take out all the copper coins on his body, and distribute them to the old farmers and a few farmers in the field, and said: "The annoying old man and a few big brothers announced to the tenants here that a chariot and horse road should be built from Hekou to Donghuamen official road, as long as the tenants who have losses in the field go to help, they will give three liters of rice for a meal a day......"

"Really, this little brother won't coax people with words?" The old farmer stared at Lin Tie and asked, Lin Tie entered the city for personal matters, not only him, but even the four guards changed into civilian clothes, and the villagers naturally didn't recognize him.

Lin Lian smiled and said, "You go to the estuary tomorrow to ask, if I don't say anything, it will only cause you to go back for nothing......"

"Lord Lin is the prisoner of Jiangdao Prison, and he coordinates the construction of roads, what is there to deceive you noisy fools?" Zhao Qinmin scolded lightly beside him, but he thought that these people talked a lot.

"Offended, I don't know it's an adult," the old farmer hurriedly lay down and kowtowed to Lin Lian, "It's not that the little old man doesn't know how to raise and suspect the adult, three liters of rice for a meal, last year there was no such good money, this year there are more people in the north, and the price of force has dropped to two liters of brown rice a day and doesn't care about the ...... of rice."

Although most of the displaced people are blocked from crossing the river on the north bank, there are still quite a few displaced people who cross the river in the name of joining relatives and friends or directly crossing the river, causing the price of power on the south bank to drop and the price of rice to rise.

Lin Jian helped the old farmer up from the field, didn't say anything, rode on the horse, and said to Zhao Qinmin: "I see that Mr. Zhao is in a hurry to go back, it is better to take advantage of the moonlight to gallop wildly, it is also a rare pleasure......" and instructed Zhou Pu to them, "You should be careful not to let Mr. Zhao fall off the horse." "Just in the moonlight, the whip was driving the horses, galloping in the direction of the mouth of the river.

Zhao Qinmin has never ridden a fast horse in ordinary times, and he has to follow Lin Tie to spur the horse in the moonlight, and if he falls at night, he even has the heart to cry. Although Zhou Pu and others were guarding, Zhao Qinmin did not plant himself from the horse, and returned to the fence, but his buttocks were in pain, and he vaguely felt that the tender flesh across the straddle had broken the skin for ten miles of running wildly.

"It's really happy," when he arrived at the fence, Lin Jian turned over and dismounted, let out a long exhalation, and his intuition was happy, and he arched his hand towards Zhao Qinmin and said, "Mr. Zhao has also worked hard for a day, let's go back and rest early." ”

Separated from Zhao Qinmin, handed over the horses to the guards and took them to the pen, Zhou Pu glanced at Zhao Qinmin's back and said, "Zhao Qinmin is not a good bird?" I don't know what he's going to gain! He knew that Lin Jian rode a fast horse at night to give Zhao Qinmin some hardship.

“…… He didn't dare to be greedy for money when he first came, and he wouldn't be in a hurry to be greedy for money, but it didn't prevent him from giving benefits to others, he was a smart man. Lin Jian shook his head and sighed, Zhao Qinmin was Wang Xueshan's staff, how could he expect too much from him? Lin Jian placed Zhao Qinmin's family at the mouth of the river, instead of placing them on a safer prison island, that is, he was on guard against him, and many things could be known to Zhao Qinmin, but he was afraid that Gu Wuchen would reuse him, and these things could not be hidden from him, that is, the exchanges with Changshan Island could not let Zhao Qinmin see what was wrong.

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PS: Red ticket, red ticket.