Lin Jian inspected the prison cell, and then took Ao Canghai and the guards back to the mouth of the river by boat.

When he returned to the grass hall, he saw Zhao Hu and his mother waiting for him in the grass hall, it was past midnight at this time, and Liu Yue'er and Xiaoman, who were accompanying him, were relieved when they saw Lin Jian coming back, and they couldn't help but yawn.

Lin Jian took off the waist knife and handed it to Liu Yue'er to take the back room, and when he saw Zhen Niang coming over with tea, he pointed to Ao Canghai and instructed Zhen Niang, "This is Ao Ye, you go and tell your family, if you see Hei Ye, let Hei Ye come over." Then ask your family to prepare a quiet room for Ao Ye in the outer house; In the future, in the outer house, whatever Ao Ye commands, you must all follow it......"

Zhen Niang answered, put down the teacup and withdrew. Zhen Niang was originally a female prisoner on the island, but she was released from prison but abandoned by her family, and she couldn't go back to her home. Now that there are many things in the cottage, Lin Jian officially took Wang Mazi and his wife in the cottage to help Liu Yue'er do some chores.

Lin Jian sat down and asked Zhao Hu and his mother, "It's so late, what's the important matter for my aunt to come over?" ”

"It's not a big deal, sitting and talking with Madame and Little Man, I forgot the time." Zhao Hu and his mother glanced at Ao Canghai, although for Ao Canghai, Lin Jian almost turned his face with Ao Feihu, but there are only a handful of people here in the estuary who know the existence of Ao Canghai, Zhao Hu and his mother have only been to Hekou for ten days, and they have not been to Prison Island, so they naturally don't recognize him.

"It's not a big deal, it scares me," Lin Jian said with a smile, "Zhao Hu left me on the island, it's rare to come back in normal times, what does my aunt want to do at the mouth of the river, can't find me, it's inconvenient to tell the Seventh Lady, and directly instruct Yue'er and Xiaoman to do the same." ”

Lin Jingzhong and Zhao Hu's family have moved to the estuary this time, the new house has not yet been built, and they are all temporarily placed in the surrounding house, Lin Jingzhong's parents and Zhao Hu's father are honest people, Zhao Hu and his mother have been working beside the seventh lady Gu Yingsleeve for many years, and they have seen a lot of things, and they are also neat in handling affairs, and they continue to follow the seventh lady Gu Yingsleeve when they come to the estuary.

"It's still for Qingshan's business," Zhao Hu said his mother, "He didn't do today's thing properly, and he should reprimand his family...... I heard that the third lady was going to drive all the people with foreign surnames out of the township camp, Qingshan was originally a person with a future, and Huzi was introduced by him to enter the township camp, and he was more secure than Huzi. It would be a pity if he was really kicked out of the village camp. ”

Lin Jian thought that the angry words that the third lady said in the courtyard of the new house had finally spread out, and the Lin family had experienced so many things in a short period of time, even if they were suspicious of the foreign surname and township, it would be too undeserved to say it angrily, no wonder Zhao Qingshan felt uneasy, and asked Zhao Hu and his mother to guard themselves in the grass hall until late at night.

"That's just the angry words of the third lady, and I didn't see the third lady mention this stubble later. You don't have to take this kind of thing seriously, and I don't know who spread it. Auntie, you tell Brother Qingshan, don't worry about this, even if the third lady wants to drive people out, don't you still want Sister Yingsleeve in the new house? Lin Jian said, "And if Brother Qingshan has anything to do in the future, you can come directly to me to discuss, you really don't need to bother Aunt Zhao to sit until late at night." ”

Zhao Qingshan and Zhao Hu are distant cousins, Zhao Hu and his mother are his cousins, today the township gathered to make a commotion, although Zhao Qingshan was not able to control the situation, but he did not let the situation worsen, and there was nothing improper in handling it; It's just that those people in my family were frightened by the many things that have happened continuously during this period of time, and they have become frightened birds.

Although Lin Jian had the intention to entrap Zhao Qingshan, he would not directly pull him over for the time being, and it would be beneficial for him to continue to do things for his family.

Today, there are about 400 people on the estuary and Prison Island.

In addition to the more than 50 elites of the Dongyang led by the big loach master Ge Cunxin, and the sixty soldiers on duty were led by Yang Shi, the new military soldiers and military guards totaled 300 people, Lin Jian had the ability to personally control them, and Zhao Hu and Zhou Pu were responsible for training all things in peacetime.

Lin Jian thought for a while, thinking that since Zhao Qingshan had the intention of taking refuge, maybe it would be better for Hekou to let him participate in the matter of cultivating Minyong.

However, organizing the estuary youth and strengthening the estuary more broadly, using spare time or setting aside three or five days a month for a certain degree of military training can not only strengthen the defense force of the estuary, but also serve as a reserve force for the prison guards and guards.

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Lin Jian sent Zhao Hu and his mother back to the enclosure house, returned to the grass hall, and halfway through the crow Wu Qi flashed out of the shadows and said, "The Dongyang is back!" He asked Ao Canghai again, "Ao Ye figured it out?" ”

When Ao Canghai and other assassins were besieged and killed by the luxury warriors at the southern foot of the mountain, it was Wu Qi who led people to take the risk to save them.

"In the future, I will ask Wu Ye to take more care." Ao Canghai arched his hand and said.

"I hope you will come on the thief ship," Wu Qi said with a smile, "There are many people in Jiangning City who want to be unfavorable to the estuary, and everyone will have to be much easier if they can get Ao Ye's help......

Ao Canghai smiled, and he had the implication that everything was unspoken.

When Ao Canghai assassinated the Flying Tiger for the first time, Lin Jian and others had a meeting at the right time, and the clever trick made Ao Canghai and others escape by taking advantage of the terrain of the mountain. After that, while Ao Canghai was planning to assassinate again, he would naturally inquire about the situation of Lin Bin. When Ao Canghai rescued Wu Qi for the second time, he knew that they had not been able to get rid of the tail of the luxury family that time. Although Ao Canghai still didn't know how Lin Tie would deal with the Flying Tiger, he knew that Lin Tie and the others were secretly hiding a big secret, which was by no means as simple as it seemed on the surface.

Ao Canghai has been recuperating on Prison Island for more than a month, except for the training camp and prison cell on the east beach of the island, the rest of Prison Island has not grounded him, many things, Ao Canghai has seen many things, and since Lin Lian can take him in and is not afraid to let the luxury family know, these many things have prompted Ao Canghai to make up his mind to temporarily put aside his family feud and follow Lin Lian.

Lin Jian wants to open up the situation in Jiangning as soon as possible, and there are many people who have offended, although he has Gu Wuchen as a backer, and he is not afraid of retaliation from others, but these forces are not good men and women, Wu Qi, Cao Ziang and others are afraid that they will send assassins.

Although in the eyes of outsiders, Lin Jian is just a disciple under Gu Wuchen, but in the eyes of Wu Qi, Cao Ziang, Zhou Pu and others, there is only Lin Jian and no Gu Wuchen. The situation of Changshan Island and the estuary was not easy to come by, and they all knew in their hearts that Lin Tie could never be replaced by others, and naturally they were most concerned about Lin Tie's personal safety.

Zhou Pu now spends most of his time on Prison Island training new soldiers with Zhao Hu, and Lin Jian usually has four or five guards with him, and when he travels, Wu Qi either personally guards or sends other secret sentinels to accompany him. But after all, there are few people, and even if the other party can't send more assassins, as long as twenty or thirty people ambush the narrow road, Lin Jian can be in danger of life and death. If this happens, a brave general who is fearless of life and death is needed to fight a bloody escape for Lin Lian, this responsibility was originally to be borne by Zhou Pu, and now Lin Lian let Zhou Pu stay on Prison Island, and Ao Canghai can just take this place.

Ao Canghai's skills, Wu Qi and others have witnessed with their own eyes, and they are not under Zhou Pu, sometimes their skills are secondary, the key is that Ao Canghai has the spirit of fearless life and death.

The so-called heroes sympathize with each other, Wu Qi did not hesitate to take the risk to save Ao Canghai for nothing else, these days everyone is looking forward to Lin Jian being able to pull him into the gang, and today is what he wants.

Wu Qi only reported more specific things to Lin Jian at this time, "I'm afraid you can't imagine that the three tigers also came with the boat." ”

Wu Qi and other old people used to call Fu Qinghe's old name.

"Mr. Fu is here?" Lin Jian was pleasantly surprised, he and Fu Qinghe had not met since they separated in Qingjiangpu, and they had written several times that they wanted to come to Jiangning, but they didn't expect him to come this time, and asked again, "What about Cao Ye?" ”

"Ziang is at the dock, I'll come to you." Wu Qi said.

Lin Jian immediately passed through Lin Mengde's residence at the mouth of the river with Wu Qi and Ao Canghai, and Lalin Mengde went to the river embankment wharf to meet Cao Ziang together, and took a paddle boat directly to the northeast side of Prison Island.

After the Dongyang returned to the estuary from Shanglinli, it anchored at the estuary for two days, and then left Jiangning.

On the east side of Changshan Island, there is no other place to park boats except for the training camp wharf, and the training camp wharf is too small, and the waterway it enters is also narrow, and the Dongyang cannot stop the Dongyang, which anchors the ship in the waters near the island.

Ao Canghai sat on the paddle boat, watching the Dongyang moored on the water like a giant beast, leaning over to find that there were six small boats docked on the other side of the Dongyang, and someone was unloading the solid and heavy bags from the Dongyang to the small boat.

"It's a salt bag, it's private salt," Lin Lian explained to Ao Canghai, and said with a smile, "This kind of business is also the first time we have done it." ”

"Ao Ye probably can't guess how we will sell the illicit salt we transported......," Wu Qi said.

Indeed, all the people Lin Jian offended in Jiangning were local forces, and it was absolutely impossible to engage in private salt trading and offend local forces.

Ao Canghai frowned and thought for a moment, and said, "Fish, salted fish." ”

"Ah......" Wu Qi was quite surprised, but he didn't expect Ao Canghai to think of the key point at once, "How did you think of it?" ”

"My lord doesn't want to hide anything from me, I can walk around many places on the island casually," Ao Canghai said with a smile, "I have always wondered why there are so many people on the island who have iron workshops, carpentry workshops and so on, why do they have to invest so many people to go down to the river to fish, is it that salted fish is so profitable?" I couldn't figure it out before, but now I understand when I see this. ”

Cao Ziang nodded secretly, Ao Canghai joined the army in vain, and he was not a cronie, so he could be the deputy general of the forward battalion of Chen Zhihu's department, and he would not be brave and unscrupulous.

Lin Jian smiled, looked at Fu Qinghe who was standing at the bow of the boat, and said with a smile: "Mr. Fu is finally here, Xiaoman knows, I don't know how happy he will become......"

Fu Qinghe looked more than fifty years old, his sideburns were dyed with frost, but his skills were strong, and he didn't wait to put down the rope ladder, so he got down to the oarboat because of the side of the boat.

The big loach master Ge Cunxin wanted to watch the people transport the four hundred bags of private salt to the island by night, and Lin Jian and they took Fu Qinghe to the training camp first.

The imperial court monopolized the sale of salt and iron, and set up a special salt and iron division yamen in Weiyang Mansion, which had jurisdiction over the salt works and transshipment affairs of Hailing, Pingjiang, Huai'an, and Jiashan Prefectures, and was not subject to local control, and had special salt pawns and salt troops, and even reserved tens of millions of acres of fertile mudflats in the prefectures to prohibit local reclamation, just to plant grass to provide enough fuel for boiling salt, so as to ensure that the imperial court could extract heavy taxes of up to two million taels of silver or more from Jianghuai Salt every year.

In Jiangning, salt is the same price as meat, and people can go without meat for a year, but they can't go without salt for a day. Further to the hinterland of Jiangxi and Huguang, salt is several times the price of meat, and where the salt shortage is serious, even a load of grain can not be exchanged for a catty of salt.

If the 400 bags of illicit salt can be successfully dispersed through the salted fish, the profit will be at least 1,000 taels of silver.

Although Lin Tie and their fishing in the troubled waters of Luoyang Lake this time was as high as nearly 100,000 taels of silver, that kind of trading could only be done occasionally, and it was far less real than the transaction of a boatload of smuggled salt to make a profit of 1,000 taels of silver.

Lin Lian's private salt alone is enough to support six or seven hundred elites on both sides of Changshan Island and the estuary.

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