Chapter 71: House arrest

(The second update, ask for a red ticket)

Song Bo saw Lin Tie looking at Wang Chengfu and knew that his identity was sensitive, he was stranded in Jiangmen and had a relationship with Wang Chengfu, and it was difficult not to arouse Lin Tie's suspicion.

Song Bo had the obligation to explain two sentences for Wang Chengfu, and said to Lin Lian: "After saying goodbye to Jinan, Song Bo followed Yue to fight in the east and west, and arrived in Jiangning at the end of February. After all, he was a child of the Song family, and he was rarely trusted by his colleagues, so he resigned from his ministry and was relaxed. Not in a hurry to return to the hometown, this time has been traveling in Jianghuai, half a month ago from Qingjiangpu all the way south, through the Hecheng Division, and Chengfu brother in the inn drinking and meeting, talking about each other, then followed to Jiangmen to be a guest, I didn't think of meeting Lord Lin here, "and Wang Chengfu said, "Brother Chengfu treats me sincerely, but I hide my family background, I am really ashamed, my father is Jin An Yongtaibo Song Fu, and please ......forgive Brother Chengfu"

"Since Brother Song is passing through Hecheng, how can there be any reason not to go to Chongzhou as a guest?" Lin Lian laughed, "I'm going to go to sea to inspect, and Brother Song will go with me on this journey!" โ€

"It's better to be respectful than to obey." Song Bo saw that Lin Jian invited him to Chongzhou as a guest, his tone was resolute and could not be refused, knowing that he couldn't get out, thinking that it was to arouse Lin Bin's suspicions, and he wanted to imprison him, he secretly felt unlucky, and he didn't dare to resist, so he untied the saber on his waist, and the old servant who wanted to follow him to travel in Jianghuai also untied the blade and handed it over to the guards around Lin Bin.

Wang Chengfu was beaten with a stick, and he was stunned.

Wang Chengfu only thought that Song Bo was a knowledgeable traveler, and when he met in Hecheng Division, he met very occasionally in the inn to talk about current affairs, and he was very like-minded, so he invited him to Jiangmen as a guest, where did he think that he was one of the eight surnames of the Song family in Eastern Fujian?

After Donghai Kou infiltrated the children of the eight surnames of Eastern Fujian such as the luxury family, their power rose sharply, and they caused great damage to the coastal prefectures and counties in the past two years. The Jinghai Metropolitan Envoy in front of him was even more so, and even cleared out all the monks in Chongzhou in the name of bandits.

In this case, Song Bo traveled to Jianghuai and visited the countryside, and it was strange not to be treated as a spy.

Although Lin Jian did not tie up Song Bo with all kinds of flowers, seeing that he invited Song Bo to Chongzhou as a guest in an unrefusable tone, and asked Song Bo and his followers to hand over their swords and blades, Wang Chengfu knew that this was no different from house arrest.

Wang Chengfu is Yongyun's exile criminal, and if he is involved in this kind of thing, it is really difficult to keep his neck and head, and he can't help but panic at this time.

"Wang Qitou can make friends with Brother Song, and if you want to come, it is also worth getting acquainted, so please invite Wang Qitou to Chongzhou as a guest." Lin Jian stood at the gate of the public hall and said in an unquestionable voice, "Apart from Wang Qitou, who else is in charge here?" โ€

Wang Chengfu's face was like a mournful, knowing that he had also become a prisoner at this moment, he watched the guards around Lin Jian come over, and untied his saber in frustration, worrying about his head.

There is a team of garrisons in Duting, and the commander of the capital took a small team of people to the Hecheng Division for something, and there are three flag heads here, Lin Tie waited at the gate of the courtyard for a while, and the other two flag heads knew the news and hurriedly came from elsewhere to kowtow and ask for guilt.

Lin Jian asked the two banner leaders to gather the soldiers and civilians on the left and right, and said: "The Haikou is rampant and has repeatedly invaded the countryside, and the Jiangdong Left Army has the responsibility of guarding the sea frontier. It was learned that Zhao Hu, deputy commander of the Chongcheng Infantry Battalion of the Jiangdong Left Army, was responsible for this matter, and the military and civilians of Jiangmen Duting were required to cooperate. Here is the official letter from the Weiyang Salt and Iron Division and the official letter signed by my Jinghai Metropolitan Envoy Division, Wang Tianyi is not in Jiangmen, which of you will sign a ...... on it"

Zhao Hu took out two official letters from his arms and showed them to the two flag heads. The two flag heads were illiterate, and they took the official letter and glanced at it twice, but they didn't know what was written on it, and no one explained it to them, so they casually pressed their handprints and drew them.

Wang Chengfu knew in his heart that the Jiangdong Left Army wanted to build a beacon pier in Jiangmen, even if there was an official letter from the Weiyang Salt and Iron Division, it had to be approved by the Hecheng Division first, and besides, the Jinghai Metropolitan Envoy Division and the Hecheng Division were not subordinate to each other, and they did not have the right to requisition the grassland households and Yanding to build the beacon pier.

In addition, the Jiangdong Left Army really intended to build a beacon pier at the mouth of the sea to guard against the enemy's situation, and it was necessary to build one every ten miles, so that the bandit situation could be transmitted to the Jiangdong Left Army's base camp in a timely manner through the beacon fire transmission. If the construction and defense of each beacon pier and garrison were to be carried out by a deputy battalion commander with two or three hundred horse infantry, I am afraid that the strength of the entire Jiangdong Left Army would not be enough.

Wang Chengfu knew that things were very strange, but at this time there was no part for him to speak, and the other two flag leaders knew that Wang Chengfu and the guests he invited back were going to Chongzhou for questioning together with the Jiangdong Left Army, and they were afraid that they would be involved, so they didn't dare to speak for Wang Chengfu, and they didn't want to ask anything.

Lin Jian asked the other two banner leaders to come and speak: "Due to the need to build a beacon pier and a garrison, I have 300 horse infantry to be temporarily stationed here. I think this courtyard is very large, and the southern half of the courtyard is temporarily lent to us. A gate was cut into the south wall, and another wall was built in the middle of the courtyard, so that the north and south sides were not relatedโ€”what do you think? โ€

Where is this temporary borrowing, obviously to forcibly occupy half of the yard! The two flag leaders did not dare to resist, and only said that they would not be able to call the shots until they turned back.

Lin Jian snorted: "Then it's decided first, I'm going to go to the sea to inspect, and I'll have to pass through here in a few days!" If Wang Tianyi disagrees, I will ask him to tell me again when the time comes. He handed over the matter to Changsun Geng and Zhao Hu, and he took Song Bo and Wang Chengfu, surrounded by guards, and then returned to the river bank to board the boat and go to sea.

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The Jinchuan Prison was moved to Chongzhou as a whole, and more than 1,000 prisoners were relocated to Xisha Island to work in various workshops, which were supervised by the Xisha Island.

Zhao Hu, as the deputy commander of the battalion, continued to lead this sentry and continued to lead the guards, and in the name of building a beacon pier and a garrison, he directly built a prison on the north shore of Jiangmen Island to house exiled prisoners.

Before the sentinel found out the details of Jiangmen, Lin Jian didn't expect that Jiangmen's conditions were so good.

In addition to more than 500 grassland households under the jurisdiction of the Yanding of the First Capital Team, Jiangmen Duting also accommodated more than 1,000 homeless households to privately cultivate more than 20,000 acres of wasteland in the area under its jurisdiction to grow grain, cotton and mulberry hemp. In addition to the fortified fort of the Duting Courtyard, the roads and ditches in the jurisdiction are also quite perfect, and the woods are patchy. It's just that all of this is hidden in the depths of the grassland, and outsiders can't find clues at all if they don't go deep into Jiangmen and pass by from the periphery. Since the officials of the Hecheng Division make a lot of profits every year, and the Jiangmen Duting side has a lot of hay to be transported every year, so as not to cause a little trouble, the Hecheng Division also turns a blind eye to the situation in Jiangmen Duting.

Jiangmen Duting can have such a weather, and even in early April, when the East China Sea Kou Dakou Chongzhou, a small group of pirates went ashore in Jiangmen and repelled the military and civilians of Jiangmen Duting - all this shows that there is a person who is good at political affairs behind Jiangmen Duting.

Lin Jian originally thought that Wang Tianyi, the head of Jiangmen Duting, was a character, but after investigating Wang Tianyi's background, he found that there was another person, but the time was limited, and he did not find out who it was, after all, it was difficult for outsiders to quietly approach the exiles and grassland households in Jiangmen Duting to find out the information.

I didn't expect to come here in person this time, and I would meet Song Bo who traveled to Jianghuai, and the person behind Jiangmen Duting who was proficient in political affairs was Wang Chengfu who invited Song Bo to Jiangmen as a guest.

Of course, Lin Jian unceremoniously put Song Bo and Wang Chengfu under house arrest, took them to the boat together, and went on a patrol with them.

Although he was put under house arrest, Song Bo was calmer than Wang Chengfu, and he was still in the mood to look at the Jinhai after getting on the boat. Although Jin'an has also spent a lot of effort on shipbuilding in recent years, due to the late start, the deep mountain forest farms in the hinterland of Eastern Fujian are controlled by the Governor's Office and the county department of Eastern Fujian, and they are not yet able to build such a large and sturdy sea ship.

After raising the sails, the fleet left Jiangmen and continued eastward. Jiangmen is already the easternmost part of the land on the north bank of the Yangtze River, and further east is a tidal flat twenty or thirty miles wide. When the tide recedes, the black-brown earth is very vast, but when the tide rises, it floods the sea, and it is not even possible to plant grass. Unless large-scale seawalls are built to keep the tide out, the tidal flats can be gradually improved into arable land.

When the fleet left the estuary, the vast twilight descended to the clear sea, causing the sea to gradually precipitate from clear blue to ink, and the fleet did not dock, but sailed away from the shallow shore and sailed southeast.

Lin Tie is not limited to Song Bo and Wang Chengfu on the ship's activities, but the action is stared at, Song Bo'an fell asleep in the cabin, woke up in the bright sky, pushed the hatch, looked at the front of a few big islands, calculated the itinerary, it should be the Shengsi Islands, the secret road Lin Tie led the Jiangdong Left Army into Chongzhou for nearly half a year, after the first wind and rain season, it was finally about to make formal contact with the East China Sea Kou.

For decades, the Shengsi Islands have been a pirate den, and they have been repeatedly suppressed.

Last year, the thirteen alliances of the East China Sea were selected on the Shengsi Islands. After the extravagant flying bear with the pseudonym of the East China Sea Harrier Yuan Tingdong conquered the islands of Changguo County, the Donghai Islands gathered on a large scale in the Changguo County Islands in the waters east of Mingzhou Prefecture, and the Shengsi Islands were still the most important outpost of the Donghai Kou, and the number of pirates in the distance was not less than before.

The Shengsi Islands are about 1,780 miles east of Haiyu County, about 200 miles away from Changshan Island in the north, and only about 200 miles away from the mouth of the Yangtze River.

Further south are the larger Tushan and Daishan islands, which form a long and narrow island chain in the East China Sea with the Changguo County islands, which are almost all occupied by the East China Sea Kou, seriously threatening the security of the coastal prefectures and counties of Jiangdong and Zhejiang.

Lin Jian stood on the deck, observing the terrain around the Shengsi Islands with Ao Canghai and Zhou Tong, and saw Song Bo and Wang Chengfu walking to the deck, judging from his performance yesterday, it seemed that he didn't know that Song Jia and Hao Mingyue were under house arrest in Chongzhou, and asked: "After Brother Song resigned from the governor's palace, he traveled to Jianghuai, and in the past few months, has he ever been in contact with Jin'an?" โ€

Song Bo really didn't know that his sister and Hao Mingyue were captured in Guangjiao Temple, he saw Lin Lian's abrupt question, and replied: "In the past few months, I have no fixed place to live, and I have stayed in one place for three or five days at most, and an old servant has followed me, and I asked someone to bring a few letters back to Jin'an to report safety, but I can't receive Jin'an's letter. โ€

"......" Lin Jian didn't mention the matter of Song Jia and Hao Mingyue, and pointed to the Shengsi Islands in the distance, "Throughout the rainy season, the East China Sea Kou failed to brave the wind and waves to invade Chongzhou, but the Mingzhou Mansion and Jiahang Mansion across the strait were repeatedly invaded, and Yuan Tingdong even retreated after capturing Xiangshan County for a month. I can't confirm whether there are any children of the Song family mixed in, and once it is confirmed, Brother Song will resign from his ministry and travel to Jianghuai, so it will be unclear. Don't blame me for not remembering my old acquaintances. โ€

Song Bo was calm and said: "My Song family is in Yongtai County, two or three hundred miles away from the sea, maybe there are three or five / unscrupulous children who are bold and reckless, change their names and surnames, and mix in the East China Sea to do things that harm the place, my Song family is also particularly hateful, but what does it have to do with my resignation and travel to Jianghuai?" โ€

At the peak of the luxury army, there were 100,000 male soldiers, and after the annexation to the imperial court and the sealing of the marquis, the luxury family and other seven surnames retained nearly 20,000 elites, and a large number of soldiers and horses were placed in the coastal areas. Due to the mountainous and small land in Jin'an, the long-term war made the people very poor, and a large number of soldiers were withdrawn, and there was no livelihood. In addition to bringing a small number of elite descendants and a group of military attaches loyal to the luxury family directly overseas, the extravagant flying bear with the pseudonym of the East China Sea Harrier Yuan Tingdong can also easily recruit a large number of elite soldiers from the coastal areas of Jin'an Mansion without directly involving the luxury family and other families with seven surnames.

Judging from the current situation, it is true that Song Bo said that the Song family, whose fief is in Yongtai County, did not directly send his children to infiltrate the Donghai Kou forces, and it is precisely because of this that Lin Jian thought that the Song family could be divided.

Lin Jian wanted to say something to Song Bo, but Ge Cunxiong pointed to the distance and said, "Haikou sent a ship out......"