After the rain, the sky is clear, Lin Tie is wearing a green shirt and official robe, standing on the slope of the river, looking at the Zilang Mountain on the north bank; In the past few days, for the relief work, his cheeks have sunken down, and he has lost a lot of weight than if he left the estuary.

Zilang Mountain was originally called Wolf Mountain, the former Chaozhou Mu Yang Jun felt that the name of Wolf Mountain was indecent, changed Wolf Mountain to Lang Mountain, and because the rocks on the mountain were purple, the county people were used to calling Zilang Mountain.

Hu Zhiyong saw Lin Jian overlooking Zilang Mountain, and explained to him: "When I was a teenager, Zilang Mountain was still an island in the middle of the river, and the monks of the previous dynasty crossed the sea and encountered wind and waves, and lived in the mountains for several months, teaching more than ten disciples of Hailing, and these disciples built a temple on the top of the mountain on the island, which is called Guangjiao Temple. The incense of Guangjiao Temple has continued for more than 300 years, just because the temple is trapped in the river, it is inconvenient for boats to come and go, and there are more incense by the fishermen along the riverside. In recent years, the northern foot of Zilang Mountain accumulates sediment and land to connect, Guangjiao Temple incense has a gradual momentum, these two years and a lot of construction, from the mountain to the mountain to build many temples and palaces......"

Lin Jian glanced back, and there were several busy figures of Guangjiao Temple monks in the disaster relief camp.

He only has the name of assisting the local relief of the victims of Xisha Island, so naturally he can't prevent others from coming to the island to participate in the disaster relief, not to mention that Guangjiao Temple is quite famous in the local area, and Lin Jian can only let Wu Qi send secret sentinels to secretly target these monks.

"I have climbed the mountain and entered the incense, there are monks and soldiers in the temple, I can't find out the specific number, the number will not be too small, it is said to be anti-sea bandits. It's just that Zilang Mountain and Junshan Shan Zhai are next to each other, so is it necessary to raise monks and soldiers? Fu Qinghe said softly, they paid close attention to Chongzhou, and naturally they had already seen the abnormality on Zilang Mountain.

When the typhoon passed, others were in Pingjiang Province, and after hearing that the displaced people on Xisha Island had suffered a catastrophe, his first thought was to prevent luxury families from taking advantage of the incident. Unable to contact Lin Tie for a while, he put the others aside in advance and rushed directly to Xisha Island with people, but he didn't expect Lin Tie to move faster, and it has been two days since he was in Xisha Island for disaster relief.

"Raising monks and soldiers, and building construction, relying only on the incense provided by the fishermen and believers there, I am afraid that it is enough for the monks in the temple to tighten their belts and save for three hundred years." Lin Jian said with a light smile on the corner of his mouth.

The stranded people on Xisha Island have suffered a lot, and the luxury family should be the most able to see the opportunity, but in the past few days, Lin Jian has not seen the luxury family show up. Maybe the people of the luxury family saw that they were the first, so they could only hide and spy in the dark.

It is easy to associate the suspicion of Guangjiao Temple with the luxury family, but there is still a lack of sufficient evidence. If this is the case, the luxury family is really calculating, and it is much more convenient for him to invade the Yangtze River in the East China Sea and take Zilang Mountain as a transit, which is far away from Shengsi Island, which is four or five hundred miles away.

"The situation on the river in this ten-mile radius is really not an ordinary complicated ......," Fu Qinghe sighed slightly.

The shape of Guangjiao Temple is suspicious and does not go to it.

Zilang Mountain is actually five adjacent hills in the river, except for the main peak Zilang Mountain is 35 zhang high, and the north foot is connected with the land, the other four hills are all in the river, and the height ranges from 156 zhang to 223 zhang.

Compared with the famous mountains and rivers in the hinterland of the Central Plains, the five mountains of Zilang are really not worth mentioning, but in Hailing Mansion, which is a low-level siltation plain, the topography of Zilang Mountain is very dangerous, and the "Geographical Chronicle" says that it controls the gateway of the river and the sea, which is much more important than Xisha Island.

In the south of Zilang Mountain, in the river, the Junshan Island is only three miles around, the highest is 21 zhang, the previous dynasty set up a naval army here, so it was named Junshan Island. Ninghai Town set up a military landscape village in the meantime, with more than 600 officers and soldiers stationed in the water battalion, more than 400 miscellaneous soldiers, and more than 40 warships of various types, guarding the gate of Hailing Mansion.

Xiao Baiming, the commander of the fifth battalion of the naval division, and Chen Qianhu, the commander of the fifth battalion of the naval division, are the deputy general of Ninghai Town, the commander of the sixth battalion of the naval division of Ninghai Town, and the confidant of Xiao Taoyuan, the commander of the cavalry commander, and the Chongzhou boy robbery. Deputy Governor Xiao Changze is Xiao Taoyuan's eldest son.

Xiao Taoyuan's intentions are really clear at a glance. So that the eldest son and his confidants and cronies led the elite to monitor Chongzhou, and if there was any trouble, Xiao Taoyuan could also withdraw from Pingjiang Mansion to Junshan Island and then calmly go to sea.

Besides, Xiao Taoyuan has been calmly arranged for more than half a year, and more than 600 officers and soldiers in the military landscape village and more than 400 miscellaneous soldiers should also be the elite that Xiao Taoyuan can master.

The situation in this ten-mile radius is not only complicated, it can be said to be extremely sinister.

Only then did Hu Zhiyong understand that this sharp sword had always been hanging over the heads of the Hu family.

"The wind disaster on Xisha Island is really unfortunate and fortunate." Lin Jian said softly.

Fu Qinghe knew what Lin Tie meant, and the wind disaster on Xisha Island was really a great misfortune for the displaced people. In the past few days, they have buried more than 8,600 drowned bodies on the island, and the number of missing people has reached more than 12,400.

On another day, the imperial court would send a special envoy to comfort such a catastrophe, but this time the dead were all homeless, and the local people also pretended to be deaf and dumb, and they didn't want to take responsibility. After Chen Kun heard so many casualties, he blew his beard and glared and only shook his head and denied: "The gale passed, and the non-Xisha Island was affected, and the house tiles of the whole town of Hecheng were removed, and the tide was refilled, and the collapse of the sea ponds in various places in Chongzhou accumulated for more than 30 miles. In such a catastrophe, the number of drowning and missing people in Chongzhou County is only more than 600. Based on this calculation, the number of drowning and missing people on Xisha Island is 2 to 300 people......"

Lin Bin's nose is crooked, it is the local ignorance and irresponsibility, so that the displaced people who have no experience in preventing sea tides and typhoons have suffered such a big loss, this is a natural disaster, and it is a man-made disaster, he can't wait to take Wuwei to pull Chen Kun, the magistrate of Chongzhou, from the county seat to Xisha Island.

Just think about it. The real disaster situation, Lin Jian can only describe it in detail in a private message to Gu Wuchen, and the meaning of taking care of Wuchen is also to let him live in harmony with the place; In the official letter, the disaster situation on Xisha Island can only be reported by Chongzhou County.

The catastrophe of more than 20,000 drowning and missing people was finally whitewashed as more than 200 casualties, how could it not be a great misfortune for the displaced people?

Lin Tie did not have the opportunity to intervene in Xisha Island, this time the typhoon disaster and the tide recharge, the local shirk responsibility, Lin Tie passed through here, took the responsibility of disaster relief, and naturally took the power of Xisha Island in their own hands, for them can not but say that it is a blessing.

Of course, disaster relief is not an easy thing, Lin Jian felt that the burden on his body was very heavy, he rolled up the sleeves of his wide official robe, and said to Fu Qinghe and Hu Zhiyong: "I will drag Li Shuyi to Pingjiang Mansion to raise food, and it will all depend on you here, and we will have to discuss many things carefully when we go back......

The brothers Hu Zhiyong and Hu Zhicheng knew the truth about Changshan Island, and for them, stepping on the thief ship was the only choice for the Hu family.

Besides, Lin Jian was just a powerful move at the beginning, and he had to take some extraordinary measures to protect nearly thirty Chongzhou boys.

In the eyes of Hu Zhiyong and Hu Zhicheng brothers, Lin Jian could have left it alone, entered Beijing to participate in the meeting to try to gain a higher reputation, and did not have to take such a big risk. Instead, they felt that it was this matter that involved Lin Bin.

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worried that Xiao Tao was staring at Chongzhou from afar; Lin Tie happened to save Hu Zhicheng, Hu Qiaoyi's uncle and nephew and the Hu family's hired workers in the river, and took advantage of the situation to get close to the Hu family, which would not make Xiao Taoyuan suspect anything, but the family members of other Chongzhou boys, Lin Tie could not contact them yet.

Hu Zhiyong invited some enlightened gentry in the county to come to the island to comfort the victims and donate materials, Chen Enze's father Chen Lei was also among them, always worried that too many people who knew the secret would make Xiao Taoyuan aware of the flaw, and Lin Jian was also ruthless to let Chen Enze avoid it.

Xisha Island is most lacking in grain, Hailing Mansion and Pingjiang Mansion have been seriously affected, grain prices have soared, before a pound of rough grain three copper, at this time are the same price as polished rice.

At the same time, Xia Cao of Jiangdong County has already set off, Sun Jingxuan and Sun Jing's cousins have escorted the Cao grain to Yanjing with the ship, and Sun Jingtang's son Sun Wenbing helped transport 4,000 stone of grain from Jiangning to come over for emergency, but it is only enough for Xisha Island to consume for ten days.

Xisha Island needs 200 taels of silver every day for the supply of rice and grain alone, Xisha Island can be well managed, wave prevention and windbreak forests are the key, Lin Tie resolutely stopped the cutting down of a few forests that have grown up on Xisha Island, and even firewood and charcoal have to be transported from outside the island, plus other material supplies, Lin Tie has to invest 400 taels of silver a day on the island.

Lin Jian didn't feel sorry for the silver, the key was that most of the silver in his hand couldn't be spent openly, and he still had to go to Pingjiang Mansion in person to raise food for disaster relief.

Afraid that Li Shuyi, the secretary of Chongzhou County, would give him trouble on the island, Lin Tie took Li Shuyi to Pingjiang Mansion together. Before leaving, he gathered Fu Qinghe, Lin Mengde, Hu Zhiyong, Hu Zhicheng, Zhou Pu and others to discuss the arrangements for various matters.

"For disaster relief only, 40,000 catties of food a day on the island is enough, but if all the resettlement matters are taken into account, 60,000 catties of grain a day may not be enough." Lin Mengde has the longest calculation, how much work is used and how much food is consumed, and he has a clear account in his heart.

"There is no oil, no water, no meat food, and people who do heavy physical work can't stay hungry," Zhou Pu said, "Those sturdy men who are organized to carry and bury corpses, many of them can eat more than a dozen steamed buns for breakfast." The county squire invited by Hu Dangjia looked at it and almost flashed his tongue in fright. If you want to talk about resettlement, three catties of food a day for one person is conservative. After these men were disbanded, more than a dozen people came a day to inquire about the news and ask if there was any work to do, just so that we could manage our stomachs, and we were all hungry. ”

At the beginning of the disaster relief, the most urgent thing was to set up 10 relief camps in Guanyintan to house more than 26,000 victims, that is, to bury the bodies in time to prevent the epidemic from breeding. More than 2,000 sturdy men were organized from the victims, and Lin Jian asked Zhou Pu to personally take charge of the matter, and built twelve simple cemeteries on the island to bury the drowning people in the disaster.

This work is dirty and tiring, and there are quite taboos, the treatment given to them by Lin Tie is to eat with an open stomach, there is very little meat, the river is muddy and urgent, and there is no big harvest when fishing in the river, but the steamed buns and white rice are full.

The vast majority of these victims were landless tenant farmers, and even before they left their homes, they did not live a happy life with enough rice; After being displaced for more than half a year, grass stalks, tree bark and other things were used to satisfy hunger, and when they saw white rice, their eyes were as fierce as wolves and tigers. These days of dirty work and tiring work, there are no lazy people, but there are many people who bring steamed buns and buns deep in their pockets and crotch to their families.

Lin Jian knew that the victims were suffering, but it was impossible for him to feed all the victims.

Ordinary victims are all given wild vegetable porridge, twice a day, with half a catty of rice every day, hungry and full, and do not starve to death; Organize to do chores to eat brown rice, with a ration of one and a half catties of rice to two catties of rice, and occasionally meaty; Do the dirtiest and most tiring work, and naturally have the treatment of steamed buns and rice tubes.

After the body was buried, in order to prevent Chongzhou County from having any opinions, Lin Jian disbanded the 2,000 sturdy men who had been temporarily organized on the spot and put them into ten disaster relief camps.

In fact, in addition to luck, physical fitness is also very important to survive a catastrophe. The tide is pouring in and the waves are blowing, and even if you can catch the floating objects in time, you must hold on until the tide recedes to survive. Of the more than 26,000 victims on the island, most of them were sturdy men and sturdy young women, and the elderly, children, and infirm people drowned or disappeared in particular tragically.

It's really hard to imagine how serious the situation would be if these victims were to be controlled by the luxury family!

Lin Jian knew that Zhou Pu had something to say in his heart, he wanted to say that these victims were hungry and afraid, in order to be able to eat enough, what else could not be done?

Things are not as easy as imagined, and now unless the flag is pulled up and the rebellion is made, it is impossible to organize these victims on a large scale.

The local authorities in Chongzhou County will not agree, and even Gu Wuchen will not agree.

Lin Jian agreed with Li Shuyi, the household secretary office of Chongzhou County, that he would go to Pingjiang Mansion to raise food on this trip, and he would select 200 people from the disaster victims to accompany him, so as not to go to Pingjiang Mansion to run out of manpower. This is a relatively safe and not easy to question, Li Shuyi also delayed a day to consult Chen Kun, the magistrate of Chongzhou, and then give Lin Jian a reply.

There is a difference between people, take Lin Jingzhong and Lin Mengde as an analogy, Lin Jingzhong will experience a few more years, and his ability to do things may not be worse than Lin Mengde, but Lin Mengde's influence is something that Lin Jingzhong can't catch up with for a while.

Before the Hongzepu Rebellion, although Lin Jingzhong had strong ability and ambition, he could hardly pull out any manpower when he returned to the forest; Although Lin Mengde is a son of the Lin clan, he can respond to every call, and it is not a problem to pull a hundred and ten people out for Lin Lian - this is the difference in influence and prestige.

At this time, Lin Jian had to select 200 people from the victims to go to Pingjiang Mansion to raise food, and some of the "Lin Mengde" style people and the "Lin Jingzhong" type of people should also pick some of them. This arrangement will not only make the remaining victims more stable, but also envelop these 200 people in the future, so as to maximize the long-term impact of this disaster relief.

The displaced people on Xisha Island had no household registration information, and after the disaster, it was even more chaotic, and when the disaster relief camp was set up, it was only superficially divided by cadastral, and it was not possible to grasp the information of more than 20,000 people thoroughly, but it was not something that could be done in one or two days.

Lin Tie also has enough manpower available, after all, there are 200 pawns who came with the ship, and there are more than 100 shipwrights, handymen and Hu family members, but there are many things in the disaster, Lin Tie selects people from the disaster victims in the way of self-recommendation and mutual assistance, and he and Lin Mengde, Fu Qinghe and others have worked tirelessly to participate in it, seizing the limited time to contact and communicate with more disaster victims. In order to do this, Lin Jian even bought grain from Hailing Mansion at a high price in the early stage and did not rush to Pingjiang Mansion to raise grain.

Lin Jian set up the disaster relief camp in the northeast of Xisha Island Guanyin Beach, in addition to the closest distance from Chongzhou, looking north to Zilang Mountain, Junshan Water Village, the Hu family has hundreds of acres of sugarcane forest in the south of Guanyin Beach. In the future, the resettlement of these victims will naturally be centered on Guanyintan, which will facilitate the Hu family's move to Xisha Island to continue to increase their influence among the victims.

In order to avoid suspicion, Lin Jian will withdraw all the people who belong to him on the surface in the future, except for the people left in the dark, the only one who can directly rely on the control of Xisha Island is the Hu family.

If Chongzhou really wants to settle the displaced people on Xisha Island, it naturally wants the local people to select the gentry to serve as the lieutenant governor and the head of the first to be responsible for the local affairs of Xisha Island, so what excuse is there not to choose Hu Zhiyong and Hu Zhicheng brothers?

The relationship between Lin Jian and the local government of Chongzhou County must be irreparable, and he only nominally has a life-saving grace for Hu Zhicheng and Hu Qiaoyi, so the Lahu family participated in the disaster relief together; But the Hu family still has to belong to the local gentry class, and as soon as Lin Jian leaves, there is no substantive contradiction between them and Chongzhou County.

Besides, Lin Jian was covered by Gu Wuchen at this time, not to mention Chen Kun, the magistrate of Chongzhou, and Hailing Mansion didn't dare to really tear his face with Lin Lian.

At present, in addition to Li Shuyi, Lin Lian's contact with the local government in Chongzhou County is through the Hu Zhiyong and Hu Zhicheng brothers, which is to create a momentum that Hu Zhiyong and Hu Zhicheng are representative figures of local disaster relief.

"The Hu family is very good on the sugarcane land on the island," Lin Jian tapped his fingers on the table, and said while thinking about it repeatedly, "We can't wait for the county department to come up with specific resettlement rules for the victims and then calmly lay them out, and if these hundreds of acres of sugarcane land are used well, we will take the lead." The craftsmen transferred from Jiangning will be able to go to the island tomorrow. After I go to Pingjiang Mansion, you first build a walled house, and the walled house also needs to build an outer wall first, in addition to the river sand and mud on the spot, green bricks, lime, stone carbon slag, bamboo and wood tendons, etc., we purchase and transport from Danyang. I see that the width of the base of the exterior wall should not be less than three feet, and I will roughly draw the figure to you, how to build it, and when the craftsman comes, you will discuss and decide......"

Although Xisha Island is a desert island, the nature of the land on the island belongs to Guantian. Even in addition to this, before the county department, Hailing Mansion, and Chongzhou County did not come up with specific regulations on the resettlement of displaced people, Lin Jian could not build a large enclosed house building that could accommodate 80 to 100 households in Guanyintan on a large scale to resettle the displaced people.

The Hu family had a sugar factory, and they needed to plant large areas of sugarcane forests, so they spent some money to buy more than 300 acres of sugarcane fields from Chongzhou County officials in Guanyintan. Lin Jian can also use the name of the Hu family to build two inner buildings in this sugarcane field first, and have a foothold first.

The luxury family should be able to see the big benefits in the disaster on Xisha Island, but at this time, the luxury family has not come forward, but they have to take precautions. The suspicious appearance of the Guangjiao Temple in Zilang Mountain, and Xiao Taoyuan's deployment in the military mountain village have always been a threat. There is no solid and reliable foothold on Xisha Island, and no matter how strong the elite Lin Jian leaves on the island, he will be attacked deadly at any time.

First build the inner enclosure building in the name of the Hu family, and in an emergency, hundreds of people can be evacuated to guard it, and as soon as the specific resettlement of displaced people comes out, the middle enclosure building and the outer building can be expanded in addition to the inner enclosure building. A large enclosure with an outer layer and a middle layer and an inner layer is like a strong fortress, and the strong and heavy perimeter is not only to prevent bandits, but also to prevent typhoons from crossing and preventing sea tides.

The unstable topography of Xisha Island is also a headache, and the natural polders are very easy to collapse during the river and sea surges and heavy rains, and the short-term and limited way to build stone dams is possible. Lin Jian hopes that a short section of stone dam can be built in the river bay in Guanyin Beach, so that they can have a reliable anchorage point by the river for small and medium-sized ships to dock.

At this time, "Jiyun 1" and "Jiyun 2" stopped in the center of the river, and used an assault boat with a load capacity of only 145 stone to transport materials ashore, and the Dongyang was forced to pull it to the river beach with manpower; Fortunately, there are many people who have been affected by the disaster in Guanyintan, so I didn't feel that it was particularly troublesome.

In addition to picking up some elite people from the displaced people to maintain the basic order of the disaster relief camp, Lin Jian asked Zhou Pu to lead half of the military guards to stay in case of emergency, and also temporarily left the Dongyang to Lin Mengde, Fu Qinghe, Hu Zhiyong, and Hu Zhicheng. Lin Jian took the big loach master Ge Cunxin, Ao Canghai, Wu Qi and half of the Wuwei and more than 200 selected victims to take the two ships "Jiyun 1" and "Jiyun 2" to Pingjiang Mansion to raise food.

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