Gu Wuchen sat behind the bookcase, on which a delicate copper lamp was placed, with a copper cover that could be opened and closed, and the inside of the copper cover was polished, which could concentrate the light in one direction to increase the brightness.

Such a delicate piece of art was made by the old engineer Ge Fu drawing a pattern, Gu Wuchen felt novel, and just now he wanted to play with it in his hand, but he burned his hands on the copper cover.

In the past four days since the raid on Qu's family, the Inspectorate and the three yamen of Jiangning Prefecture and Moling County urgently interrogated the Qujia gangster case, with a view to finalizing the case as soon as possible and then submitting it to the central committee for disposal. Gu Wuchen couldn't delay too long in Jiangning, he wanted to rush back to Dongyang as soon as possible to supervise the battle, in order to hurry, Gu Wuchen had been living at the mouth of the river for the past four days.

Sun Jingxuan used the excuse that his daughter Wanniang recovered from her foot injury and went back to live in the house in Longzangpu in the south of the city; Lin Jian didn't care very much about Sun Jingxuan's pretending to be sick, they were all bachelors with no way out, but Sun Jingxuan always had to worry about the livelihood of the 2,000 congregations, and it was impossible to act on the wrong side of the sword and take risks.

After Sun Wenwan and the accompanying maids and servants moved out of the West Garden of Zhutang, Lin Jian arranged for Gu Wuchen to move in temporarily.

Until this afternoon, the three yamen obtained all the confessions of the Qu family's key crimes, and confirmed their charges of gangsterry, and the three yamen jointly issued a document to the Yanjing Criminal Department and the Metropolitan Procuratorate and copied the Jiangning Criminal Department and the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

Jia Pengyu's resignation and return to his hometown for retirement have been issued.

For Gu Wuchen and Lin Bin, the case of Qu Jiatong's bandit attack on the estuary can be regarded as a temporary end.

Lin Lian, Zhang Yubo, Chen/Yuanliang, Zhao Qinmin and others sat around the front of the case to discuss matters.

Zhao Qinmin offered advice: "The Qu family is a bandit, and the officials of the Quyang Inspection Department are all tigers, can you please reduce the Quyang Inspection Division?" ”

"Draw a salary from the bottom of the kettle?" Gu Wuchen asked Zhao Qinmin uncertainly.

"Yes," Zhao Qinmin nodded and said, "Hekou built a town and competed with Quyang for profit, which is also an important factor for the Qu family to enter the set; Now that the Qu family has fallen, and the Quyang Inspection Department will be abolished, the merchants operating in Quyang Town will be able to take the initiative to move to the estuary......

Lin Jian caught a black mosquito that was sucking blood on his arm and threw it on the head of the oil lamp, listening to the creaking of the mosquito corpse.

Quyang Town is one of the 24 towns outside Jiangning City, and is also one of the three major rice markets in Jiangning, every year Quyang Town transfers and trades rice, grain, oil, sugar and other things in millions of stones, tens of thousands of boats and boats from Huzhou, Danyang, Pingjiang, Jiahang and Zhufu every year, the most prosperous season of autumn grain trade, Longjiang Lake is almost crowded with grain ships from all over the country.

And because the Longjiang Shipyard is also in the south of Quyang Town, an inspection department was set up in Quyang Town, with 90 members.

The Qu family's private soldiers were completely wiped out, the inspection department was abolished again, and Quyang Town no longer had any defense force, so the common people naturally didn't care, but the businessmen who did business in Quyang Town lost their sense of security.

The amount of cash and silver transactions of rice and grain in Quyang Town is quite large, and the large grain merchants in other places may trade rice and grain as much as dozens of boatloads of rice and grain at a time, which is worth thousands of taels of silver, although Dongcheng Wei is not particularly far from Quyang Town, but it does not prevent the rogue thieves from taking advantage of the peak season of rice and grain trading to carry out surprise attacks.

Zhao Qinmin's policy is not so much a salary draw from the bottom of the kettle, but a desperate plan.

According to Zhao Qinmin's plan, it is also conducive to the rapid rise of Hekou to replace Quyang Town, but this strategy will seriously interfere with Jiangning Rice City, and Lin Lian will never ignore the food problem of 150,000 households in Jiangning City for his own selfish interests.

Lin Jian looked at Gu Wuchen quietly, seeing that he seemed to have told Zhao Qinmin's heart, and sighed slightly in his heart.

Giving Zhao Qinmin a thorough point, Chen/Yuan Liang also suddenly brightened his heart, and said: "This plan is feasible......

The fall of the Qu family can be said to be a heavy blow to the local forces in Jiangning, and it is impossible to control Quyang Town through this. Sitting on the charge of banditry in the Qu family, they can only eradicate Qu Wuyang and Qu Wuming, and the Qu family still has great power in Quyang Town, but the estuary is invited to be built by the Dongyang Township Party, and Quyang and Xinghekou are abolished, and everyone here and the Dongyang Township Party can get huge profits.

In the past, the township party was worried that the estuary was vulnerable to attacks by river bandits, but after the battle of the estuary, Lin Tie was greatly boosted in Jiangning, which would completely dispel the previous security concerns of the township party.

In the past few days, Gu Wuchen has been in the estuary bent on the charge of gangsters, and he has no time to pay attention to side affairs with Lin Lian, but Zhao Qinmin, who represents Gu Wuchen in the estuary to contact the township party, is very busy.

Zhang Yubo said worriedly: "Quyang is suddenly abandoned, and the price of rice in Jiangning will fluctuate sharply, which is not conducive to people's livelihood......"

"Quyang is abandoned, the estuary is replaced, and although the price of rice in Jiangning fluctuates, it will not disturb the people." Zhao Qinmin defended that this matter was finally for Gu Wuchen's approval, but Lin Lian's non-statement also made him feel strange, looked at Lin Lian, and asked, "Zhengshilang, what do you think?" ”

The officials sent by Yanjing to mourn Qin Chengbo and comfort the bereaved families of the Qin family arrived in Jiangning the day before yesterday with the holy decree.

Although it was the battle at the mouth of the river that Lin Jian really laid the foundation in Jiangning and made others dare not underestimate it, but the merit was still far less than the rescue of the Qin family's bereaved family and the Dongyang gentry from Luoyang Lake.

In front of Gu Wuchen, Zhao Qinmin called Lin Tie "Lord Lin" always awkward, so he used his official title to commensurate him.

Lin Lian entered the office with his fame, and the scattered rank was promoted to three levels in less than half a year, and in the past ten years, only Dong Yuan could be compared with him, and it was difficult for Lin Lian not to become famous. If you have the opportunity, you can even directly confer the actual shortage of the county magistrate.

Gu Wu understated Lin Tie in his submission in the Qu Jia gang case, not to mention Lin Tie's great contribution to defeating the attacker, but also worried that Lin Tie would be too sharp and easy to break.

"Mr. Zhao still calls my name freely," Lin Jian smiled, and said in a daze, "I always feel that there are good and bad, we want to cut the Quyang Inspection Division, and others may not be as we wish." ”

"I think it's good," Gu Wuchen said with a decisive word, "How to deal with the Quyang Inspection Division must be carried out through Moling County, even if someone in Jiangning is unwilling to remove the Inspection Division, and it will drag on for a year and a half, it will be enough to make the estuary take advantage of it......"

"Okay, I'll arrange this." Chen/Yuan Liang Lisuo agreed.

Seeing that Gu Wuchen had made up his mind, Lin Jian should also claim that it was good, thinking that the rice market in Quyang Town would not decline immediately, and the construction of the estuary was the right way.

Gu Wuchen is going to take a boat to the north shore early tomorrow morning and take the post road to Dongyang, he has not returned home for six days when he returns to Jiangning, Mrs. Gu, Gu Junxun and Gu Siyuan all went out of the city to the estuary to get together with their families today, Lin Tie They are also interested, seeing that things are almost discussed, there are still some sesame trivial things that they will no longer take out, and leave together.

The West Garden of the Bamboo Hall has nearly one acre of land circle, although it is far less than the Gu Mansion in the East City, Zhao Drunken Ghost is the master of bamboo in the world, and the bamboo hall is built into an elegant and interesting place. Gu Junxun was standing in the corner of the courtyard looking at a strange stone in the shape of a lion, and when he saw Lin Lian and them come out, he hurriedly saluted, his beautiful eyes flashed from Lin Lian's face, and his pretty face turned red.

Lin Jian secretly said in his heart: Could it be that Sister Yingsleeve tested her tone about marriage?

According to the customs, Gu Yingsleeve is a newly widowed person, and it is not suitable to say pro-media for others, and it is a big taboo within 100 days.

Gu Junxun has been living in Gu Yingsleeve's house in Hekou for the past few days, the two are cousins, and it is possible that Gu Yingsleeve will test her tone first.

The world is not as good as the future generations, flirting and scolding is a crime, although Lin Jian wanted to tease such a delicate and lovely Gu Junxun, at this time, he just pretended not to know and walked out of the bamboo hall.

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Back in the cottage, Lin Jian talked to Yue'er and Xiaoman for a while, and Lin Mengde and Lin Jingzhong came to find him together.

Since Gu Wuchen has been in the estuary these days, Cao Ziang, Wu Qi, the big loach master Ge Cunxin, Zhou Pu and others naturally hide and rarely show up, and the heavy responsibility of cleaning up the mess in the estuary will have to be borne by Lin Mengde and Lin Jingzhong.

Lin Jian told Lin Mengde and Lin Jingzhong about Zhao Qinmin's plan to draw salaries from the bottom of the kettle, what to eat, what to think, Lin Mengde and Lin Jingzhong naturally did not consider that the turmoil in the rice market would seriously affect the people's livelihood, they were all overjoyed: "The matter of great benefits, it seems that the land of the estuary is already too narrow......

Rice grain is a small thing, a pound of fine grain is only worth four or five yuan when it is cheap, and the price of rice in Jiangning is only six or seven yuan when the green and yellow are not connected, but even if the grain is not transferred, only 150,000 households in Jiangning City will consume seven or eight billion catties of rice grain every year, and Quyang Town is one of the three major rice markets in Jiangning, and the rice grain required in Jiangning City is only supplied with nearly two million taels of silver every year.

If such a huge rice market can be forcibly moved from Quyang to the estuary, the huge profits can be thought of with your toes. The estuary is close to the open Yangtze River, and the rice market also has the unique advantages of Longzangpu and Shangyuan rice market in the transfer of grain.

Lin Jian smiled slightly, and said: "If you want to do a rice market, if you always store grain in 200,000 stones, now the stacks and warehouses in the estuary are far from enough, and we should not be too active in other things, I see that Chen / Yuan Liang is also quite excited, so we will concentrate on building more stacks and warehouses." In addition, the two five-masted sailing ships in the Longjiang Shipyard must immediately place an order, and when building the ship, we must send a special person to supervise the whole process, and give an extra one or two thousand silver, and the construction period cannot be delayed, and we cannot let these turtle grandsons cut corners for us......"

Lin Jian finally made up his mind to build a five-masted galleon with a load of more than 5,000 stones, and two at a time.

There are also big-bellied barn ships with a load of more than 5,000 stones in the Yangtze River, and the cost of a ship does not even cost 4,000 taels of silver, but Lin Tie will place an order for the Longjiang Shipyard to cost a ship of 10,000 taels, in fact, Lin Tie gave Lin Mengde and Lin Jingzhong their bottom, and the budget of a ship is 20,000 taels of silver. Because many reinforcement processes can be added later, there is no need to tell the Longjiang Shipyard about the budget at the beginning.

For a long time to come, it would be impossible for Lin Jian to expand his manpower unscrupulously, except for the two hundred Jiyun Martial Guards, even the prison guards on Prison Island would probably suddenly no longer be under his control. What Lin Jian has to do now is to focus on cultivating ladder reserve forces in the people's bravery, and ensure that the military guard can be expanded to 400 people at any time and the combat strength will not be seriously affected, that is, to use more brains in combat preparation.