In the back garden of Gu's house, Gu Wuchen, Lin Lian, Zhang Yubo, Zhao Qinmin and others sat around the table, talking, playing a fan in the shade, and they didn't feel how difficult it was in this hot summer.

"The Qingzhou Army mutiny trial is over, Liu Yefei seized the official position for his crimes, and he just arrived in Jiangning two days ago," Gu Wuchen said of a matter that Lin Jian had not been able to know in time, "Before others arrived in Jiangning, they first sent their families to buy a big mansion at Zangjin Bridge, saying that they wanted to cultivate their minds and cultivate their temperament and hide in the downtown area, and they were afraid that they were thinking of reviving......"

Liu Yefei, the former envoy of Shandong, was resigned due to the mutiny of the Qingzhou Army, but he only seized the official position and did not go to his nationality. Lin Jian originally thought that Liu Yefei would stay in the camp in Beijing in order to get the opportunity to be reinstated as soon as possible, but he did not expect that he would come to Jiangning to watch the situation.

Jiang Ning really has any cows, horses, snakes, and gods.

"The Qingzhou Army mutiny is a big case, Liu Yefei wants to recover, I'm afraid it won't be so easy......," Lin Jian said.

"It's hard to say, but no matter whether Liu Yefei can recover or not, our situation is not half as bad as it gets; But as long as the Jiangdong Left Army can support Chongzhou, the situation here is not so bad," Gu Wuchen said, "On the side of Prison Island, Qinmin contacted the Zhuxiang Party to make up 100,000 taels of silver, and the matter of merging Prison Island into the estuary is settled. Speaking of this silver, the Lin family still paid a lot, and the family took out 50,000 taels of silver, otherwise it would not be so easy to get it together. ”

"There's no way to blackmail a sum of money," Lin Jian sighed lightly, "As long as you don't make any extraneous branches, it's fine......

"As soon as this matter comes, it is the leader of the Inspectorate; Another Chongzhou Jiangkou built a prison city, and the Xuanfu envoy could not spare a tael of silver. Xuanfu made the treasury of the treasury not fat, and Wang Tian was also sad all day long. Without a large amount of input, it is difficult to allocate a large amount of silver. What I want to fight for now is to fight for more silver for you to build a prison city at the mouth of the Chongzhou River......" Gu Wuchen said, "At present, Wang Tiancai is willing to give 50,000 taels of silver, I'm afraid it's still a little short." ”

Jiangdong County is located in a wealthy area, and has the reputation of 'Su Hai is ripe, the world is full', but the ten years of war in Eastern Fujian mainly draw money from Jiangdong County and Jiangning Mansion, and the financial consumption is very large. The end of the war in Dongmin, and last year, the invasion of Taihu Lake by the Donghai Kou and the chaos of Dongyang and Haozhou by the Hongzekou Kou made Jiangdong County have no respite.

After the defeat of Haozhou, Yue Lengqiu reorganized the Changhuai army, and the number of men and horses was three times that of before, and he directly asked Jiangning Mansion, Jiangdong County Division and Jiangning Ministry of Industry Weiyang Salt and Iron Division for a salary of one million taels, and in the future, he would have to draw salaries from various prefectures and counties according to the standards of the Jiangning garrison.

Chongzhou wants to build a new city, even if it is seventy or eighty thousand silver, the Xuanfu envoy is unwilling to take it out, and Han Zai has not been able to take the initiative from Lin Jian in Chongzhou.

"I can really pay 50,000 taels of silver to come out, I also admit it, after all, if people are exiled to Chongzhou, I won't raise them in vain," Lin Jian said, "Now that the problem of Prison Island has finally been solved, I can't care if I lose some silver...... I have passed several letters with Dongyang and Jinhai, and I still think it is better to capture Prison Island in our hands. ”

The fertile land reclaimed from Prison Island is only two or three thousand acres, plus the buildings and wharves on the island, the Dongyang Township Party scraped together 100,000 taels of silver to merge Prison Island into the estuary, which can be regarded as a ruthless extortion for the Xuanfu Envoy. However, when it comes to the importance of Prison Island to the estuary, the 100,000 taels of snowflake silver will be taken out with gritted teeth.

However, in the past year or so, Prison Island has matured for Lin Bin.

One acre of farmland in Jiangning is worth six to seven taels of silver, but the nearly 2,000 mu of vegetable gardens on Prison Island are a few points more fertile than those in Jiangning. Relying on Jiangning, a large city with a population of about 6.7 million yuan, the comprehensive income from vegetable planting, pig and beach poultry breeding, and river fish fishing on Prison Island is far higher than that of simple farming. In addition, Lin Jian also built two wharves on Prison Island, which could be used as large storage land when the prison rooms were vacated, and more than a dozen large-scale workshops were built, and the largest spinning and weaving workshop on Prison Island was also extremely rare in Jiangning.

After the abolition of Prison Island, most of the prisoners held had to be moved to Chongzhou. As long as the Lin family and the Dongyang Township Party moved one or two thousand dingkou from the estuary to the island, they would be able to smoothly maintain the normal operation of the island and make profits.

In this sense, 100,000 taels of silver to merge the entire Prison Island into the estuary is not much of a loss.

It was Lin Jian who suffered a big loss, he worked hard to run Prison Island for more than a year, and he didn't enjoy much benefit. However, the prison island was abolished and moved to Chongzhou as a whole, and all kinds of craftsmen trained in more than a year could make up for the lack of Xisha Island.

The Lin family took refuge in Jiangning for more than a year, and the expenses were also large, and the 200,000 taels of silver brought out from Shanglin were also used after this consumption, and there was not much left.

However, Lin Lian, Lin Xuwen, and Lin Tingli also discussed this matter several times in their letters, and the advantages of arresting Prison Island in the hands of the Lin clan far outweigh the disadvantages.

Not only did Lin Tie formally set up a water camp in Chongzhou, but after the Lin family took refuge in Jiangning, they also focused on the development of the fleet, and now the total capacity has reached 60,000 stones, which is three or four percent higher than the total capacity of the two battalions of the Jinghai Sea Camp, but there are fewer sea ships that can sail at sea. After Lin Jian transferred large sea ships to form a water camp, the size of the merchant fleet under the name of Jiyun Society decreased sharply, and the total capacity dropped to about 10,000 stones, and there was also a lack of sea ships that could sail at sea.

Jiangning City Dingkou 6,700,000, the demand for materials is huge, has been Jiangning nearby suburbs can not meet, need to import a large number of materials from the county of Waifu County, but also the world's agricultural civilization under the most large, mature commercial market, and the adjacent Weiyang, Pingjiang, Jiahang are more than 150,000 super cities in the city of Dingkou. These cities are mainly connected to each other and with the surrounding prefectures and counties, mainly by waterway and river transportation.

The Lin clan, who rose to prominence in Shanglin City because of business, can naturally know the meaning of Prison Island more clearly.

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Next, Lin Jian talked to Gu Wuchen, Zhang Yubo, Zhao Qinmin, and Lin Xulu about many things in Chongzhou, but he didn't mention the matter of the luxurious sister-in-law.

To raise the Jiangdong Left Army, this is a huge expense, outsiders may think that the Lin family has provided a certain amount of sponsorship to the Jiangdong Left Army, but it doesn't make much sense to hide from Gu Wuchen.

"If we can comprehensively check Chongzhou's fields and Dingkou, let alone find out 500,000 mu of escaped grain fields," Lin Jian said, "In recent years, disasters and bandits have continued in the north, causing displaced people to flood south, and many people have become tenants in the south, but the household register has not reflected it in time." Like Chongzhou, 220,000 Dingkou is still the number counted 20 years ago. When I first arrived in Chongzhou, I estimated that there should be 300,000 Dingkou in Chongzhou. After this inventory of Terada and Yoshida, I found that my previous estimate was still a little conservative. ”

"The 220,000 acres of land found in the bandit case is amazing enough, I didn't expect you to hide so much in private," Zhang Yubo said with a slight sigh, "Checking the monastery is a big thing to fish, I don't know if Yue Lengqiu and Wang Tian will be inspired?" ”

If we can check the fields and Dingkou of Jiangdong County and Jiangning Prefecture, the increased taxes will be enough to make up for the deficit in the treasury over the years, and at the same time it will be enough to support the war against the Dongyu and the Central Plains against bandits, but how can this matter be easily done? If Yue Lengqiu and Wang Tian had this thought, Lin Jian wouldn't mind pushing them, but Yue Lengqiu and Wang Tian were not so stupid.

Gu Wuchen shook his head and said: "It can be done in Chongzhou, but there are many factors that contribute to it, but if it is pushed to the whole county, it can't be done...... If Yue Lengqiu and Wang Tian could act hastily, things would be easier. ”

Jiangdong County is located in a wealthy area, many families have spare money to support their children to study, the literacy rate is much higher than that of other counties, and there are many people who have become officials. Either they are the landlords themselves, or they collude with the local powerful clans to conduct a comprehensive inventory of the land and the Dingkou, which will directly strip them of a large piece of interest that they have swallowed into their stomachs. It is conceivable that their counterattack will also be deadly and insane.

If there were no external troubles, and there would have been no large-scale civil strife such as the Seven Great Empires and the East China Sea Empire, the powerful and powerful imperial court might have been able to accomplish this, but at this time, the internal and external troubles were serious, and the situation of party struggle between the DPRK and China was bad and cruel, and it was absolutely impossible to do this.

Lin Jian was able to do this in Chongzhou, and he didn't even encounter much resistance, and he really wanted to thank the Donghai Kou for capturing Chongzhou and slaughtering the city. While greatly reducing local forces, it also made Donghai Kou the most important contradiction in Chongzhou, and no one in the local area dared to come forward to exert resistance to the bandit case. This was done smoothly.

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At night, the Dongyang Township Party organized a dust washing banquet for Lin Tie at the mouth of the river, Gu Wuchen was proud of his identity and did not participate in this kind of banquet, Lin Tie, Zhang Yubo, and Liu Xilin went out of the city at dusk. Gu Wuchen also specially asked Zhao Qinmin to accompany him at the mouth of the river.

The seventh lady, Gu Yingsleeve, also rode a horse and followed Lin Tie and them out of the city, but under the gaze of everyone, there was no chance of intimate contact. When he arrived at the mouth of the river, Gu Yingsleeve went straight back to the Lin house, and asked Lin Jian with a smile through the curtain: "The Chongzhou Monastery has ruined you, and you still have the heart to ask about Buddhism?" ”

Lin Jian knew that Gu Yingsleeve was asking him to meet in the nunnery, and replied with a smile: "Of course, there are still things to do to worship the Buddha. ”

Hekou town has formed a scale, the riverbank wharf can berth six Jiyun-class sailing ships at the same time, the summer grain is listed, the daily rice and grain in and out of the estuary is as much as 10,000 stones, becoming one of the four major rice markets in Jiangning, replacing the status of Quyang Town, becoming the leading land and water wharf outside Jiangning. Now, the various families have raised funds to merge the prison island into the estuary, which has made the estuary's position outside the city of Jiangning increasingly consolidated. As a result, the Dongyang Township Party gained huge benefits from it, and it also became an important source of money and salary for the Dongyang Township Yong and the Jiangdong Left Army.

The Dongyang Township Party also condensed into a powerful force in Hekou, but it was a pity that there were few prominent people in official positions, and only a few people such as Gu Wuchen and Lin Xuwen could not form a force group that could confront Zhang Yue in the court.

The Dongyang Township Party was still a little worried about the status of Gu Wuchen and Tang Haoxin, but they had high hopes for the military victory of the Jiangdong Left Army, which was famous all over the world by King Qin of the north, and they also knew in their hearts that the Lin clan and Tang Gu's alliance would have the ability to protect themselves even if they were still a little weak in front of Zhang Yue.

The marriage between Lin Tie and Gu Junxun is not only the expectation of the Lin family and the Gu family, but also the expectation of the entire Dongyang Township Party.

Lin Jian drank abstinently, but he couldn't resist the enthusiasm of the township party, and when the wine was finally dispersed, he was also drunk, and took light steps to the nunnery behind him to have a tryst with the Seventh Lady.