Looking for the five people who took Lin Lian's name card to apply, three sturdy men, a teenager, and a yellow and thin girl, Lin Jingzhong didn't know what Lin Tie wanted these five people to do on Prison Island, but Qian Xiaowu said this, he naturally brought people to the island first, and Cao Ziang didn't settle down, so let them mix with other recruits first.

Looking at the past, there were two boats parked on the pier at the southern end of Prison Island, and there was also a Wupeng boat parked on the beach at the mouth of the river for backup. The three men didn't know why the five of them had to take a boat to the island, and they couldn't see anything on the face of the leader Lin Jingzhong, and they were shocked in their hearts, unless they spread their feet and ran away, they couldn't refuse Lin Jingzhong's arrangement.

From the mouth of the river to the waterway of more than a mile, the swaying slowly, it is also a cup of tea.

The boat docked at the simple dock of Prison Island, and Lin Jingzhong took people to the island, only to find that it had only been six or seven days since he left Prison Island, and Prison Island was very different from before.

Before, a 300-step-square open space was opened up between the prison gate and the Nantou Wharf outside the high wall, and it was usually used as a school ground for martial arts drills, empty, except for the dust blown by the wind, there was nothing else. At this time, the school field is divided into two pieces, and the school field in front of the prison gate is still used as the school field; More than a dozen wooden stakes were erected on the west side, arrows were attached, and lines were drawn with lime on the field, and an archery range was made. Lin Lian was dressed in a short and tight dress, and he was shooting arrows with a bow there, and Zhou Pu, Lin Mengde and others stood by and watched him shoot arrows.

Lin Jingzhong went up to the dock and stood there to watch for a while, and when he saw that four of Lin Tie's ten arrows were off target, he shook his head with a smile and led people towards the archery range.

"It's only been a few days, and it's a big difference here." Lin Jingzhong said with emotion.

"Hehe, I saw you arrive at the mouth of the river," Lin Jian smiled, handed the bow and arrow to the guards waiting beside him, and then looked at the four guards who had been running outside with Lin Jingzhong for five or six days, and said, "You guys return to the team!" The four guards stood with the guard who had helped Lin Tie with his bow and arrows. Lin Jian looked at the five people who were intercepting the road in front of the post house a few days ago and begging to be taken in, pointed at Zhou Pu and said to them: "You guys have worked hard to come over, go to eat and rest with him first, and I have something to ......tell you to do it later."

"Who are they? How can you just ask them to come to the island? Lin Jingzhong watched the figures of the five people taken away for Zhou Pu disappear into the gate, and asked Lin Jian suspiciously.

"I don't know which one stuffed the dark stake in, let Zhou Pu lead it in and clean up ......," Lin Jian said.

"Ah......" Lin Jingzhong was stunned for a moment, he was busy in the past few days, there were too many things to worry about, and he really didn't find out about it, these people came to apply with Lin Tie's name post, he didn't think much about it at the time, he asked again, "The young man and the little girl too?" It's not like that! They also had an old lady who was sick and dying, and she couldn't even walk, so she pulled her over in an ox cart and said that she asked Lang Zhong for the money......

"These two are not, you can take them back later, so that they can settle down...... Come, don't worry about this for now, I'll take you to see the changes on the island first. Lin Lian said with a smile, ignoring the turtles in the three urns that Zhou Pu brought into the high wall, and Lin Mengde led Lin Jingzhong to the east of the school field.

In the past five or six days, more than 40 acres of land have been opened up outside the high wall on the east side of the school field to build a vegetable garden, all planted with vegetables, just watered, and the livestock pen with bamboo poles and thick branches of the tree to build a fence has also been built with seven or eight acres of land, divided into seven or eight columns, each column has twelve or thirteen piglets, Lin Jingzhong heard Qian Xiaowu say before he came, Lin Mengde only used a boat to send the piglets today, and then look closely, there are still breeding pigs in the pen, and there are two prisoners in prison clothes in front of the pen.

"Those two people had been swineherds before they were imprisoned, and they both raised pigs for the rich families in the village, and they knew which aquatic and weed pigs in the river could eat, which pigs would have plague if they ate them, and they could be fed with snails and miscellaneous fish. Sows can give birth to several litters a year, and a litter can give birth to a few babies, and these two people also say that they have to keep twelve or thirteen sows in this shed. These are all useful knowledge, but the moral gentlemen in the city regard them as dross - now the Xuanfu envoy has to rub almost thirty percent of the rotten rice in every pound of prison grain to the prison island, and this day is almost a stone of rotten rice, which people can't eat, and they can raise a hundred pigs by mixing them with aquatic plants, fine snails, and miscellaneous fish to feed the pigs, and after a while, a fat pig can be slaughtered on this island in two days to improve the diet......" Lin Jian said with a smile.

Lin Jingzhong's brain habitually calculated, in Jiangning City, pork is 30 yuan per catty, and a pig can kill 100 catties of meat after fattening for six months, which is worth 3,750 yuan, and 100 pigs are 300,000 yuan, which is about 250 taels of silver. The prisoners did not need to count the cost of fishing for aquatic weeds, snails, and miscellaneous fish, nor did they need to count the labor for raising pigs, and the consumption in six months was only 180 stone rotten rice, which was worth 156 taels of silver, and the net income was 234 taels of silver, and raising two pens of pigs a year was nearly 500 taels of silver.

The book in the Linjing Center was loud, and his eyes lit up, this business thief was doing it, he said: "The rotten rice in the market is not worth much, one dollar can buy more than a liter, or I will let people send a boat to the island every month......

"You have been a bookkeeper in the warehouse for a few years, and the whole person has fallen into the eyes of money," Lin Jian laughed and said, "You send boatloads of rotten rice to the island, I don't want a large number of people to go to the river beach to fish for aquatic weeds and snails?" This side of the pen also needs to be taken care of by a special swineherd. Where is there so much manpower? What I plan to do now, I will take care of the needs of the island first, and the excess will be supplied to the Jiyun Society, which is also what I told Lord Gu. ”

Lin Mengde also had a smile on his face, thinking that Lin Jingzhong was competent as the manager of Jiyun Society, but in terms of the way to make money, others were really inferior to Lin Bin. It has been almost ten years since the construction of this Jiangdao prison, and Ge Zuxin, the former prisoner, only thought of forcing female prisoners to sell themselves in brothels in Quyang Town for profit, but he did not know that more than 1,000 acres of good land, 2,000 or 3,000 acres of beach land, and prisoners who had no labor to work on this island were the foundation of making money. At this time, there were only more than 200 prisoners on the island, and once Gu Wuchen really reopened the prison city in Jiangdong, the prisoners on the island would be ten times greater, and the labor force that could be used at that time would be even richer.

Lin Jingzhong touched his nose, knowing that there were too many factors to consider on Prison Island, and it was not enough to see only one benefit with his eyes. He, Lin Lian, and Lin Mengde continued to walk east, and there were still twenty or thirty prisoners continuing to open up the land on the east side of the vegetable garden, and there were still a few prisoners digging a dirt pit behind the livestock shed.

The prisoners were doing their jobs, with only five guards standing a little farther away on guard.

Lin Jingzhong asked worriedly: "There are so many prisoners working outside, and there are only five soldiers on guard, in case a few people spread their legs and stab the fierce son into the river at the same time, how can they catch up?" ”

"Now the people who are released to work are all misdemeanor and well-behaved prisoners, and they are all held in separate rooms, so the possibility of escaping in tandem is very low......," Lin explained.

Lin Jingzhong frowned slightly, there were some things that Lin Lian said in his mouth that were very ordinary, and it always took people to ponder for a long time to know some of the wonders.

Lin Jian didn't care what Lin Jingzhong was thinking, he pulled him to continue walking, and explained some of the next things to do as he walked, to build another warehouse outside the high wall to store materials, and to move the martial arts courtyard to the outside of the high wall, and the prison hall also to move out, so that more space could be vacated inside the high wall. It is not to keep more prisoners, but to make room for the construction of factories on the high walls, after all, to prevent large-scale escapes, and to make the management of prisoners easier to work within the high walls.

At this moment, Zhou Pu came over from the gate, and Lin Jian asked him, "Solved?" ”

"Catch turtles in the urn," Zhou Pu said lightly, "they are all tied up, and nothing can be taken out of their mouths for a while, do you want to take a look?" ”

"What am I looking at?" Lin Jian shook his head and said, "I can't ask anything when I go." ”

"Could it be someone from Qingfengxing?" Lin Jingzhong asked.

"Qingfeng Xing has the biggest suspicion," Lin Jian said, "but things are still strange. Even if Qingfeng Xing wants to cause trouble for us, it shouldn't leave a trace. Extravagant Feihu has not yet gained a firm foothold in Jiangning City, even if they want to fight for that section of the river embankment to build a wharf and a warehouse, but he dares to openly provoke the head of the inspection envoy for this matter? ”

"First shackle them to the inner prison for the crime of sneaking into the prison island," Lin Jian said, "If no one comes out to negotiate in a few days, then send them to the Yamen of the Inspectorate, where there will be flesh and bones to serve them...... "No matter which family sent these three people, Lin Jian didn't want him to do things too much, the foundation of the Jiyun Society in Jiangning was still too shallow, if the scene was too bloody, Gu Wuchen might not be able to take care of him."

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After decisively detaining the three dark stakes, Lin Jian did not delay any longer, and returned to the south bank by boat with Lin Jingzhong, Lin Mengde, Zhou Pu and others, and also brought the pair of young brothers and sisters back to the south bank.

In the past few days, except for a few thatched sheds, there is no tile on the shore to shelter from the wind and rain, but there are nearly 500 displaced people brought back by their families in the forest scene, and a few thatched huts can not squeeze so many people. Lin Jian will not send these displaced people to Jiangning for temporary resettlement, these people have to be resettled in the same place at the mouth of the river, and some people will have to eat and sleep in the open if they do not build enough shelter from the wind and rain for a day.

The boat dropped anchor in front of the estuary beach, where a layer of bricks and wood was paved to open up a dirt step road leading to the shore, and a simple wharf allowed a three- or four-zhang long cargo wooden boat to dock directly, and dozens of logs were stranded on the river beach.

"From the Chaotianyi ferry to the mouth of the Jinchuan River in a straight line, it is only more than 40 miles of waterway, and more than 400 people have tossed for five or six days with their families, and they don't have to worry about food, clothing, housing and transportation, I feel that I have lost a lot of weight in the past few days, and I really can't imagine how the army of tens of thousands of people can move thousands of miles?" Lin Jingzhong followed Lin Jian ashore while nagging about the hard work of the past few days.

“…… It could have gone faster, from small to large, and no matter how large-scale military transfer, it was also organized by people, carriages, horses, materials, etc.," Lin Jian smiled, logistics management and organization have always been thorny problems, and turned back to Lin Jingzhong and said, "Choose the able-bodied people to form a team, and the sturdy village women can also be organized to take care of the ox carts, materials, children, sick and old, and be responsible for preparing meals for everyone. There is a manager for major types of affairs, and you can't do everything by yourself, according to this line of thinking, no matter how complex the affairs can be sorted out - let you run a few more times and you will have a personal experience. ”

Lin Jingzhong followed behind and thought as he walked, but he didn't pay attention to stepping on the soft soil, collapsed, and almost rolled down. Zhou Pu held Lin Jingzhong from behind, Lin Lian looked back at Lin Jingzhong and said with a smile: "Take it leisurely, this ladder road is too simple, the soil is soft, if it rains hard, it will not be formed, and there is no way to pave bricks and wood, this side is temporarily used, and when the stone steps on the west side come out, it will be much better." ”

Lin Jingzhong followed ashore, the shore had already moved, Qian Xiaowu and a few guys borrowed from Lin Mengde were directing the homeless people to move materials such as bamboo, wood, bricks, stone, lacquer cloth and other materials to the west, he said to Lin Lian: "The west is not our land, things are piled up, and the landlord wants to come to the door......

"Not only do we pile things up, but we also have to build shacks there and settle these people down first," Lin Jian said with a smile, "I went back to the city the day before yesterday and got the official document from the Inspectorate of Inspectors and Envoys allowing the Jinchuan Island Prison to build a stacking wharf on the west side of the riverbank. Nominally, these recruits for the estuary have now been requisitioned by the Kanegawa Island Prison. Naturally, the land on the river embankment was also requisitioned to temporarily resettle hired workers, and the land was mainly found at the door, and the compensation for Qingmiao was ......."

Seeing that Lin Jian said it lightly, Lin Jingzhong also put his mind at ease, no matter how powerful and big the Yamen is these years, on the border of Jiangdong, if you can't do things in the name of the Yamen of the Inspectorate Division, there won't be many people who can do things, and occupying dozens of acres of land is a big thing.

Lin Jingzhong thought about something, and said to Lin Lian: "It's strange to say, who is the landlord of the land on the western section of the river embankment, I have been looking for it for these days, but I haven't found anyone." From the cadastral book of Moling County to inquire about the landlord, it was found that the land at the mouth of the river has changed hands no less than ten times in the past few decades, and the current landlord can no longer be found from the cadastral book. In the village, the tenants only pay the rent to the rent collection house every year, and the tenants do not know who the landlord is, but the rent collection house refuses to disclose the name of the landlord...... It seems that they are only forced to show up. ”

There are more than 100,000 households in Jiangning City, and some of them have surplus wealth and are accustomed to saving silver to bury in kilns, and some are accustomed to buying land in suburban counties and giving it to tenant farmers to collect rent and rentier. Most of the small and medium-sized landlords in the city have scattered land, not into a large-scale grange, every harvest time to personally go to the countryside to collect rent and pay taxes is very troublesome, especially in the case of rent resistance, these public type of small and medium-sized landlords are usually helpless, even if they sue the government, first of all, they have to give the officials a bit of exploitation. When there is demand, new things are generated, and in this case, there are rent collection stacks in suburban towns that collect land rents from tenant farmers instead of urban landlords. Even many local landowners in the area also yearn for the luxurious and convenient life in the city, so they handed over the land in their hands to the rent collector for management, and dragged their families to live in the city as apartments. Rent collection stacks are usually local village tyrants, and many rent collection stacks themselves have a government background behind them. Since the county cadastral book is only updated once in twenty or thirty years, it is impossible to reflect the process of land transactions in the past twenty or thirty years, and there is a rent collection stack between the tenant and the landlord, and it is really difficult to find out who the landlord of a piece is.

Lin Mengde looked up at the sky and said, "I'm going back to the city before dark, so I won't delay." ”

"That's okay, Uncle Mengde be careful on the road." Lin Jian said.

Lin Mengde has spent a lot of energy helping Lin Jian do things these days, but he has always been the head of the Lin family in Jiangning, and Lin Ji Warehouse still has many affairs waiting for him to do.

Although Lin Mengde acquiesced to Lin Tie's self-reliance in Jiangning was forced to be helpless, but after months of getting along, especially seeing the means and courage embodied in Lin Tie, as well as the knowledge that ordinary people are far from and the close relationship with the Gu family, Lin Mengde only regretted that Lin Tie was not a child of his own family, otherwise he would have helped Lin Tie to take the position of the head of the family.

Lin Mengde got into the carriage, and before the entourage raised the whip, he glanced back, and sighed lightly in his heart: Lin Tingxun was still lying half-dead on the bed, and he didn't know who would preside over the Lin family in the end, once the Lin clan was in power by a newcomer, I was afraid that he would send someone else to Jiangning to take his place.

Lin Mengde is a little in love, everyone has selfish thoughts, who wants to return to Shanglin to be a side branch to be excluded from the core affairs of the Lin clan after seven or eight years in Jiangning? Thinking about it, he didn't have the determination and luck to stand on his own like Lin Lian.

All kinds of factors made Lin Mengde determined to help Lin Tie, which could be regarded as leaving a way back for himself.

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PS: Red ticket.