"Since Master Fu attaches so much importance to this Lin Bin, I don't think things will be bad no matter how bad they are," Sun Jingtang said, "This matter can't force Wan Niang, it's a good thing that Wan Niang is willing to do it herself, I don't think this matter is known for the time being." ”

Sun Jingxuan can only think about it, the girls of other people's families are filial and obedient, but the daughters of their own families are spoiled by the Xihe Society, and their self-assertion is too strong, and they can't screw her too much for a while.

At this time, a pair of young men and women came out of a Wupeng boat, stood on the bow of the boat and asked Sun Jingxuan: "Uncle, are we ......waiting here?"

"It's better to wait, after all, I told the Shuiying Sentinel that I was here to discuss business, and besides, I want Wen Yao and them to go back to Longzangpu first......" Sun Jingxuan ordered.

The young men and women are Sun Jingtang's second sons, Sun Wenbing and Sun Wenpei. Sun Jingxuan has only one daughter, and his wife has not been renewed after his death, and Sun Jingtang has a wife and a concubine, and has two boys and two girls. The eldest son, Sun Wenyao, passed on to Sun Jingxuan, the eldest child, and will inherit the Xihe Society in the future, and the second son Sun Wenbing also helped in the meeting, and both sons are married and have children. In addition to the third daughter Sun Wenpei, who is only seventeen years old, there is also a younger daughter who is less than ten years old, all of whom were born to concubines.

The River Gang forces are involved in good fortune, and even if they can accumulate some money temporarily, they don't know when they will lose it again. Every few years, the River Gang forces fall apart, and it is not easy to mix the River Gang, there are sixteen branches of the Jiangning River Gang, which can last for more than four generations, including three of the Sun family. It is impossible for the Sun family to withdraw in advance, first, the government will not agree, and second, so many congregations can't just leave it alone. In all cases, the river gang forces are much more united internally, and they are in the middle and lower echelons of the food structure, and there is also competition between the river gang forces, and if they fight for power internally, they will cheapen outsiders.

After a while, Lin Jingzhong ran over and asked Sun Jingxuan what he needed here, and Lin Lian asked the estuary to make all the arrangements. Thinking that they had gone out yesterday, and there was no food prepared on the ship, there must be an arrangement for nearly thirty ships and six or seven hundred congregations to anchor here for half a day.

"Do you have steamed buns, steamed buns, and porridge here? We'll buy it from you. Sun Jingtang's daughter Wen Pei thought Lin Jingzhong was an errand boy. Sun Wenpei's temperament is also wild, handsome, but she has been on the boat with her father all the year round, her complexion is slightly dark, but she is also full of luster like youthful honey, although she didn't come over last night, but she also knew about it, and she also gave Wen Wan a cover for leaving, until something happened, she panicked, at this time, seeing that things had calmed down, she was a little eager to try, thinking about going to the grass hall to see Wen Wan, but she was afraid of provoking her father to remember what happened last night and scold her, so she took the initiative to greet Lin Jingzhong, wanting to find an excuse to go ashore.

"What kind of money do you want, you don't have breakfast, do you? There are more steamed buns and buns on the shore today, please pick a few people to move ......with me," Lin Jingzhong said.

"Okay." Wen Pei was about to jump ashore.

"You stay on the boat and let Wen Bing take someone with you," Sun Jingtang said lightly, although everyone loves Wen Wan, but at this time, these two girls can't be allowed to get together again, Sun Jingxuan and Sun Jingtang's two cousins don't recognize Lin Jingzhong, and Lin Jingzhong said politely, "Trouble little brother......

"It's irrelevant, if you need anything, just bring it up with me." Lin Jingzhong said.

Sun Jingxuan heard that the meaning of Lin Jingzhong's words was a little wrong, and hurriedly asked, "I haven't asked for this brother's title yet, it's really rude." ”

"Sun Huishou is polite, in Xia Lin Jingzhong, he is the steward of Jiyun Society......" Lin Jingzhong said.

"It's rude, look at how similar you look like Lord Lin, could it be Lord Lin's brother......" Sun Jingxuan and Sun Jingtang hurriedly bowed their hands, and it was really rude to treat the chief steward of Jiyun Club as a guy who ran his feet. The little girl Wen Pei stood at the bow of the boat, staring at Lin Jingzhong, only thinking that he was much younger than his second brother, how could he be the big shopkeeper of Jiyun Society?

"You're welcome, Lin Lian and I are clan brothers," Lin Jingzhong said, "Lin Lian is waiting for the first two of Sun Hui in the grass hall, and Uncle Mengde is also there, saying that he is here for the second master; Settle your congregation, and leave it to me to make arrangements......"

Sun Jingtang and Lin Mengde are not very familiar with each other, but they know that Lin Mengde has a lot of relationship with Lin Mengde, and he also found someone to ask Lin Mengde for help, and he would rather spend more money than hope that Lin Mengde can talk to resolve the matter, because he is separated by one person, so Lin Mengde is too late to believe it, and he has only rushed to the estuary now. I didn't expect the matter to be resolved smoothly a long time ago.

The two brothers did not delay here, so they asked the two congregants to carry the silver that had been prepared on the boat last night ashore, put the silver ingots on a tray and cover them with red silk cloth, and went back to the cottage together.

Lin Lian, Lin Mengde, and Wu Yanqing were talking in the front hall, and watched the two halls behind Sun Jingxuan's brothers walk in with a tray of silver, and asked, "Sun Huishou, what does this mean?" ”

"Excuse Lord Lin, it's a little meaning." Sun Jingxuan said.

"I said to Sun Huishou at the bow of the boat, there is no lie, I regard Mr. Fu as an uncle, so I feel very guilty about what happened last night. If Sun Huishou is like this, Mr. Fu will recover from his injuries and return to Jiangning in a few days, what face do I have to see him? Besides, Mr. Wu is also sitting here...... Please go back to Sun Huishou. Lin Jian immediately gave the order to evict the guest with a straight face.

Sun Jingxuan was also embarrassed, and Lin Lian's words were also clear, last night's incident was completely Fu Qinghe's face and did not pursue it, although it seemed to be caused by Fu Qinghe's letter - Sun Jingxuan was busy asking the congregation to bring the silver back, Lin Lian changed his smile and invited Sun Jingxuan and Sun Jing's cousins to take a seat, and Lin Mengde also greeted each other.

Although the Sun brothers are not familiar with Lin Mengde, they are asked to come forward to take this trip, which is a great affection, and they are naturally very polite and grateful.

"What I said to the sentry just now is not all coping, there is really something to discuss with the two of you......" After Lin Jian invited the Sun brothers to sit down, he personally poured tea for them.

Sun Jingxuan was shocked, but he thought that Lin Jian wanted to mention family affairs directly regardless of the etiquette system, calculated in his heart, and asked in his mouth: "What is the matter?" ”

"Two things," Lin Jian said, "One is that the river embankment ferry terminal here has also been preliminarily completed, and the carriage and horse road connected to Donghua Gate will also be completed, and there is no fixed ferry on the north bank of Chaotiandang and other ferries, if the West River will be interested, can you put a few boats in the estuary and Chaotian Yidu, Gutang Ferry, Qixia Ferry, Shangyuan Ferry, and Quyang Town Ferry, the business will be very light at the beginning, and there will be no gold left at the mouth of the river, and I will give the Xihe Club a monthly subsidy of two taels of silver for each boat, Sun Huishou, do you think it can be done?" ”

"Before this year's Cao Yun is gone, it will be completed." Sun Jingxuan agreed without hesitation, the estuary is still very deserted, but even if Lin Lian does not subsidize a copper coin, just because Lin Lian refused to accept the two plates of silver just now, Sun Jingxuan will not hesitate, "What else is the matter?" ”

"Jiyun Society has a batch of new tea to be shipped to Jiangning in Shiliang County, the transportation capacity is insufficient, I want to ask Sun Huishou to send a few ships, the ship fare is according to the price of Jiangning, and it will not be given more, and it will not be given less, I want to ask Sun Huishou if he can take out the ship?" Lin Jian said.

The Dongyang is a thousand-stone ship, which is calculated in terms of the capacity of hulled rice, and the thousand-stone is about 100,000 buckets of hulled rice, totaling 150,000 catties. In terms of rice, the Dongyang can carry 100,000 catties in a full cabin. With newly picked tea, it can load 30,000 catties. In fact, the new tea is most afraid of stacking to ensure quality, and the tea bags are placed in the cabin with partitions, and enough ventilation space is left to prevent moisture, and the Dongyang can only hold 10,000 catties of new tea in the full cabin. Dongyang mainly takes the Jiangning-Chongzhou route to support Changshan Island, and the other two thousand stone ships are Xiao Loach Ye with people to supervise the construction of the Longjiang shipyard, although the semi-finished products have been smashed in the hands of the shipyard before the order, but there are many transformations proposed here, and it will take two months to deliver the ship at the earliest, and the new tea of the Gu family will be listed in late April, and Lin Tie will hire another cargo ship in Jiangning. Jiang Ning can hire a lot of cargo ships, after all, until the autumn, it is a gap period for Cao Yun, and the River Gang forces have a strong surplus capacity, Lin Jian wants to take this opportunity to establish a good relationship with the Xihe Society, but he asked Sun Jingxuan for help.

Once the river gang forces are related to Caoyun, they will not get official business subsidies from the government, except for the Cao Yun can carry private goods along the Cao River in proportion, Cao Yun is forbidden to trade goods by themselves during the gap period, and can only rent the transport capacity to other merchants to use, so as to ensure that the Cao Ship can be mobilized during the Cao Yun. Although the law of the world abolished the ban, and the river gang privately trafficked goods was not a big rebellion, but the short-distance profits and long-distance profits at various checkpoints were far more serious than that of regular firms. Generally speaking, the River Gang will still be more honest to lease the transportation capacity to other firms or merchants, or to the government and the army to requisition. For example, during the ten-year chaotic war in Eastern Fujian, the transportation of grain in the southeastern counties was greatly reduced, and the surplus transportation capacity did not give the River Gang forces too much selfish benefits, but was requisitioned to support the logistics supply of the Eastern Fujian battlefield. Even if the route to provide supplies to the Dongmin battlefield was much shorter, and the wages and food were calculated according to the capitation, the River Gang still benefited, but the various ship yards openly reduced the proportion of 8% of new ships allocated to each year by half, in short, in the end, the River Gang took less than half of the advantage.

Of the two things entrusted by Lin Bin, Sun Jingxuan couldn't ask for each of them.

The war in Eastern Fujian is over, and a new round of water transportation has not yet begun, and there are also a large number of ships idle in the Xihe Society, otherwise it would not be possible to mobilize hundreds of ships at once yesterday. There is no work to do, but the boatman still has to eat, to support his family, over the years each ordinary boatman can get a total of only 3,000 yuan from the Caoyun food, usually to run for more than half a year, to make themselves full is barely enough, let alone to support the family, but also forced the river gang to find a new job in the gap between the Caoyun.

Lin Jian just started these things, and handed them over to Lin Jingzhong to discuss with the Xihe Society, and after waiting for a while, he didn't see Lin Jingzhong's figure, and he felt strange in his heart: The matter of settling the Xihe Congregation, Lin Jingzhong took the lead and handed it over to the guys of Jiyun Club to do, why did he get out? When he wants to send steamed buns, steamed buns and other food, personally send them to the boat, and feed them?

Coincidentally, Qian Xiaowu came to report the matter, Lin Lian went to the eaves outside the front hall to talk to Qian Xiaowu, and saw that Lin Jingzhong really personally arranged for someone to send food and soup to the boat, and saw that every boat was personally delivered, and there was a girl in green clothes behind him, who seemed to be from the Xihe Society, and wondered in his heart: Who could it be? Sun Wenwan's personal maid was also in the side hall, talking with Su Mei and Xiaoman.

"Go to the dock and call Lin Jingzhong back before you run errands." Lin Jian instructed Qian Xiaowudao.

Lin Jian waited outside the door for Lin Jingzhong to come back, and asked, "Have you inquired about the girl's name, family, and Xu Weixu?" ”

"What's so embarrassing to ask?" Lin Jingzhong replied casually, and then understood that Lin Jian was squeezing him, thinking that he had been grinding on the dock for too long, after all, his skin was tender, and his face immediately turned red.

"You know you're sorry, huh? Then don't stick there! Lin Jian said, "Come in, I expect you to come over and talk about things." ”

Lin Lian had already established his majesty in the center of the forest view, and Lin Lian said these words lightly and seriously, Lin Jingzhong couldn't figure out what he meant, so he followed into the front hall without saying a word and honestly.

Sun Jingxuan saw Lin Jingzhong come in, and was very sorry for ignoring him on the dock just now, stood up and said, "Let Lin Da Steward be busy until now......

Lin Jian said: "Just now, I asked Sun Hui to take two things, and Sun Hui sent someone to discuss with Jing Zhong in detail. For the ferry, if the Xihe Society intends to set up a point at the estuary, the estuary can allocate an acre of land to the Xihe Society, and the land will not be used by the Xihe River, and Moling County can issue the title deed, but if the shack is built on the ground or a green brick house, the Xihe Association will have to contribute its own money and efforts. The invitation of the Dongyang Township Party to the estuary is also such a condition. Sun Huishou, what do you think? ”

"Okay." Sun Jingxuan agreed, build a medium-sized house with a size of one acre here, and a hundred taels of silver is quite good, and if the estuary is really prosperous, the Xihe Society will have one more source of income here, which is better than squeezing into Longzangpu and other gangs to grab business during the gap between the Cao Yun period. Even if you take this favor to return Lin Binding, it is far less than the thousand taels of silver that you rejected just now, in order to show your attention, Sun Jingxuan said, "Yunxin tea is not a trivial matter, Xihe will be here, I will let Jingtang go in person, these many things, I have to trouble Lin Steward to explain to Jingtang in detail." ”

"By the way," Lin Jian asked Sun Jingxuan, "I saw a green-clothed girl on the dock just now, like a person from the Xihe Society, I don't know whose girl it is, but have you ever promised to marry someone?" ”

"......" Sun Jingxuan subconsciously looked back at his cousin Sun Jingtang, and thought to himself, how did Wen Pei come ashore and fall into Lin Lian's eyes?

Sun Jingtang was calm, Xiaoman and Liu Yue'er made tea just now, the beauty of their faces is really not under Wan Niang, although Wen Pei Mao is also very likable, he also thinks that it is slightly worse as a father, and Wan Niang was imprisoned last night and was not bullied by others, just talking, Wu Yanqing also admires Lin Lian's character very much, he should not be a womanizer...... He was hesitating, when he suddenly saw Lin Jingzhong, who was calm and calm just now, his face turned red instantly, and he hurriedly smiled: "Is Lord Lin talking about Wen Pei?" It should be a little girl, only seventeen years old, she should have promised someone earlier, but her mother was reluctant to ......"

"Jingzhong is my brother, with good character and excellent knowledge, although he has not obtained any fame, but he is also a child of the Xun clan, but his vision is quite high, he is twenty-two this year, and he is a single," Lin Jian smiled, "I just asked casually, I know that the twisted melon is absolutely not sweet, and everything must be harmonious and beautiful, and the parties concerned must be satisfied." I've often heard that there are a lot of girls in the River Gang who choose their own husbands, and that's a good thing......"

Lin Jian was afraid that Fu Qinghe's reconciliation mentioned in his letter to Sun Jingxuan would leave Sun Jingxuan's heart barrier, which would not be conducive to him winning over the Xihe Society, so he took Lin Jingzhong and the green-clothed girl Wen Pei out to talk about the matter, dispelled Sun Jingxuan's doubts, and clearly told him: Sun Wenwan does not agree to this family business, and he will not use his strength to force it. Besides, Sun Wenwan has such a strong personality and deep grievances, Lin Lian is really afraid of self-defeating and unpeaceful in the house.

Sun Jingxuan hurriedly said: "The girls of the River Gang are wild ......" The people who run the boat can't talk too much about the rules, and the same is true for Wen Wan, as the head of the Xihe Society, he usually stays in Jiangning, but he never dares to be idle when he is lucky, and he has been gone for more than half a year, and the girls have no mother to take care of, and they follow their cousins and other congregation children to fool around, can they not be wild? Sun Jingxuan heard that Lin Tie knew that Fu Qinghe had thoughts about rubbing with him and Wen Wan, but he couldn't hear for a while whether Lin Tie disliked Wen Wan or any other reason, in short, he didn't have any psychological pressure on this matter.

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PS: The third update, there should be 11,000 words today, which can be regarded as paying off the arrears of the cold first;

You may have to go out to breathe in two days, and if you have a debt at that time, you will pay it back later.