Lin Lian, Zhou Pu, Lin Jing and others stood on the east beach of Prison Island to watch the sunset, and the sunset fell on the bushes and barren grasses.

The wild grass of the East Beach grows up to about half a man's height, and although it is all dead grass, it does not stand upright, but there are green young reeds sprouting out of the flooded mudflats.

"......" Lin Jian looked at the bright red sunset, knowing that it was not easy to have such a situation in a few months, and he was also full of emotion for a while.

On the side of Prison Island, Sun Geng, the chief clerk of the prison office, is responsible for the daily prison affairs and prisoner labor, Yang Shi is responsible for the supervision of the military guards, and Zhao Hu and Zhou Pu are responsible for the new military guards and the training of the warship; Cao Ziang, Lin Jingzhong, Qian Xiaowu and others are responsible for the management of displaced people and laborers settled in the estuary, and the party of Dongyang Township is invited to come to the estuary to build a joint construction by Zhao Qinmin and Lin Mengde, and the training of the three-masted thousand-stone boat and the boatmen and sailors is responsible for the big and small loach masters; The security force on this side of the estuary is weak, so it has been supervised by secret agents and secret sentinels, and Wu Qi, the crow master, is in charge.

Among these many people, Yang Shi and Zhao Qinmin are Gu Wuchen's cronies, Lin Jian is not qualified to take Zhao Qinmin for his own use, and the situation at the mouth of the river also makes Gu Wuchen quite satisfied.

Ge Fu, a veteran worker, Zhao Zuigui'er, a bamboo craftsman, Ge Siyu, Zhao Shuhan, Wu Yanqing and others actually made up for many technical deficiencies such as the construction of the estuary and the labor of prison islands.

The first batch of young and strong people who recruited to recruit workers and displaced people were almost completely separated, 40 military guards, more than 40 oarsmen of chariots and boats, more than 60 boatmen and sailors who were taken to the Longjiang Shipyard for training by the big and small loach masters, more than 40 men and miscellaneous servants of the Jiyun Society, and some of the disabled people who were disabled in the homeless tragedy were also placed to work on guards, guard the sentry bell and lights of the corner tower, and guard the gate of the surrounding house, of course, there were also a very small number of lazy or unreliable homeless people who were ruthlessly expelled.

Dongyang Mansion is close to Jiangning, and Dongyang people will also flock to Jiangning in large numbers to work as laborers and porters, or to find work in the workshops run by the party in Dongyang Township. Thanks to the guarantee of the Dongyang Township Party, these Dongyang children were able to cross the river by distinguishing them from the displaced people stranded on the north bank.

In order to prevent the infiltration of local forces with ulterior motives in Jiangning on the estuary side, Lin Jian naturally used the local villagers guaranteed by the Dongyang Township Party as much as possible. Lin Mengde played a very important role, and most of the laborers on this side of the estuary were recruited from the banks of the Shiliang River by using the merchant ships under the name of Lin Ji Warehouse.

The estuary invited the Dongyang Township Party to build together, and the Dongyang Township Party was naturally accustomed to working with the children of the township. Although due to the influx of displaced people, the price of labor in the suburbs of Jiangning is very cheap, but out of local feelings, whether it is Jiyun Society or other Dongyang Township Party employees, the price of labor for the children of the hometown is always two or three percent higher than the local price of labor, so that they can mix food and clothing in Jiangning and send the surplus home to subsidize the family. It is precisely this kind of local sentiment that also enables the township party and the children of the township to firmly form a group and form a force in other places.

The three-masted thousand-stone ship has to train in Longjiang Lake for half a month, and then it has to go to the sky to train in order to operate like an arm in a bigger wind and waves, after all, when you encounter wind and waves at sea, you will not have time to train.

In late March, before the arrival of the plum rainy season, Lin Jian sent three more Wupeng cargo ships to transport hundreds of stone rice grain, seeds, cloth, medicinal herbs, iron tools and other goods, as well as 1,000 taels of silver to Changshan Island. Transporting the silver over is also convenient for Changshan Island to sneak into Songjiang and Chongzhou and other counties to exchange for some scarce materials to go back, so that everyone who is dumbfounded will not count on this side to transport it. In the end, Lin Tie was still worried that he would encounter a black-hearted robbery by officials and bandits in the Yangtze River, and the Wupeng cargo ship was only escorted by three or five people, and he had no power to fight back. Rice grain, ironware, medicinal materials, cloth and even silver are nothing to cherish, they are all easy to obtain, and they are robbed by people, and fine scale armor, stainless steel Mo knife heads and other fine armor are not good things that can be bought even if there is silver, or wait for the thousand stone ships to sail into the Yangtze River and prepare the military guards before sending them to Changshan Island to be safer.

Lin Jingzhong looked at the barren beach and used wooden stakes to enclose two temporary camps, one large and one small, in three or five days, and there were leveled training grounds between the camps, and four cars and boats were dragged to the shallows, thinking that it was really not difficult for something to reach Lin Lian's hands.

"Yang Pu sent Gu Siming here, what are you going to do with it?" Lin Jingzhong asked Lin Tie.

"Let him make trouble for Zhao Qinmin, he dares to disobey the rules on this side of the estuary, you can tell me again." Lin Jian said.

Gu Siming is the son of Gu Wuchen's cousin, and came to Jiangning with Gu Wuchen, Gu Wuchen can't let him be idle and idle in the city all day long, Gu Tianqiao is very diligent in taking care of the tea shop for Jiyun Society, and after the New Year's Festival, he will also bring his wife and young son to Jiangning to settle down, Gu Wuchen asked Yang Pu to send Gu Siming to the estuary, and asked Lin Tie to arrange for him to do a job.

Gu Wuchen sent the person over, Lin Jian naturally wanted to take the person down, and the Jiyun Society and the Prison Island side naturally would not let Gu Siming interfere, so they had to lose it to Zhao Qinmin.

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By the end of March, the personnel transfer in the southeast, which had been discussed by everyone for nearly half a year, had finally been finalized.

After the defeat of Chentangyi last year, Yue Zhiqiu, who was appointed to the military department, was also a member of the Chu Party, and after the defeat of Chentangyi, he personally went to the Yanshan defense line to supervise the army and supervise the war, and played an important role in stabilizing the northern defense line, and was also the backbone of the Chu Party to gain the trust and reuse of the party.

It stands to reason that Yue Zhiqiu is more familiar with the defense of the north, and if he wants to reuse him to make it more reasonable for him to take charge of the Governor Yan Ji Defense Zone, Lin Jian and Gu Wuchen know the subtlety of it. All this comes from the internal arrangement of the Chu Party, the Yanshan defense line is the weight of the society at this time, there are too many noble old ministers and veterans, Yue Zhiqiu is still young, and it is difficult to control the defense of Yan Ji. Besides, even if the situation in Yanshan is replenished by the elite of the southeast, it is particularly difficult, and if Yue Zhiqiu is defeated in the Yanshan defense line, it will collapse the advantage that the Chu party has so hard won in the court. Instead of having many scruples, it is better to let Yue Lengqiu go to Dongmin to accumulate prestige.

Lin Jian was quite speechless, when the dynasty was in turmoil, the Chu Party still took the power of one faction as the top priority, and the temporarily stabilized Yanji Defense Area still looked like it was still in crisis and the situation of fighting for power was serious.

Li Zhuo, the former governor of Eastern Fujian, was also honored, and was appointed as the Jiangning garrison with the title of the prince's young master and the secretary of the Jiangning Military Department.

From late March to early April, Jiangning City returned to a rare calm, as if everyone was holding their breath and waiting for Li Zhuo to come to Jiangning to take up his post, and no one dared to cause trouble here, becoming the first fire burned when Li Zhuo went to Jiangning.

These days, Lin Jian has exchanged a large amount of copper coins for atonement at the mouth of the river into official silver to send to Chen/Yuanliang and Zhang Yubo, but Jiyun Society needs a large amount of copper coins to settle wages, nearly 30,000 catties of copper coins are piled up in the warehouse, and hundreds of catties of copper coins are scattered every day.

The construction of the bamboo hall and the second enclosure house is being intensified, and the third and fourth enclosure houses are also beginning to build exterior walls. The south gate of the fence wall is connected to the carriage and horse road of Donghua Gate official road and quickly started to build it, dig drainage ditches, tamp the excavated soil to the roadbed, pave stone charcoal slag, recruit a large number of laborers, as long as there is a large amount of silver to scatter down, Jiangning suburbs are rich in materials, from Donghua Gate official road to the north, ten steps wide carriage and horse road can advance 100 steps every day. Lin Tie was not fast enough, the rainy season was coming soon, and the speed of road construction would be greatly reduced during the rainy season, so he started paving the road from the south of the estuary fence gate and the middle of the road to the north and south at the same time.

The money for road construction was shared by Jiangning Mansion, Moling County, Prison Island and Hekou merchants, Wang Xueshan and Chen/Yuan Liang sent the first batch of five hundred taels of silver very simply, and even if some of the Dongyang Township Party had not yet decided to finally throw the silver into the estuary, they also pledged five hundred taels of silver one after another, and the five hundred taels of silver from Prison Island were naturally cushioned by the Jiyun Society.

In the past half a month, the turmoil in Jiangning City has almost completely subsided, and in the turmoil in which Dongcheng Wei bewitched the market to storm the estuary, more than 20 of the 32 people who were finally imprisoned in Jiangdao Prison as the first criminal were released one after another, and by early April, nine more people were imprisoned in the Prison Island Prison.

These first criminals, Lin Jian entertained them with good wine and meat every day, but the wine and meat provided to these first criminals in the prison were not free, and every time they let go of them, they had to pledge a share of the road construction money that Prison Island should bear, and after conversion, the price of wine and meat supplied by Prison Island was only twice as expensive as that of the feudal building, compared to the style of the prison in the city, it was already much more restrained, after all, the big head had to be left to Gu Wuchen for blackmail. But if you don't knock on the bamboo pole at all, it's too well-behaved. Lin Jian also specially instructed Changsun Geng to personally take charge of this matter, and the other jailers were really very well-behaved after the prison was cleared. At the end of March, the order to transfer Liu Xilin, the deputy lieutenant of the Yunqi of Dongyang Prefecture, to Jiangning to serve as the lieutenant of Dongcheng was jointly signed and issued by the Jiangning Garrison General's Mansion, the Jiangning Mansion, and the Jiangdong Inspectorate Department, but Liu Xilin could not come to Jiangning to take up his post until the Dongyang Mansion was completed.

On 12 April, after nearly 20 days of training in Longjiang Lake, the big and small loach master and 60 boatmen and sailors finally moved the three-masted thousand-stone ship from Longjiang Lake to the mouth of the river with the assistance of craftsmen from Longjiang Shipyard.

Because the main mast of the thousand-stone ship is as high as ten zhang, and the main bridge tunnel of Jiuweng Bridge across the Jinchuan River connecting Donghuamen official road is only six zhang high in this season, under the operation of many craftsmen and boatmen and sailors, it took two hours to ballast and obliquely pass through the main bridge of Jiuweng Bridge; Thousands of people along the coast gathered to watch this as a rare event.

Lin Tie came to the Nine Urn Bridge and rode on the river embankment to watch the thousand-stone boat pass through the bridge hole. After the ship passed through the bridge hole, it was temporarily moored at the Jiuweng Bridge ferry, and Lin Jian invited Zhao Shuhan, Ge Siyu, Ge Fu, Wu Yanqing, Zhao Qinmin, Lin Mengde, Gu Siming and others to board the first large commercial sailing ship under the Jiyun Society to watch the grand event.

The big and small loach masters commanded the boatmen and sailors to quickly raise their sails, and the southeast wind was in full swing, and they used the wind to swing towards the sky quickly.