Although Dongyang Prefecture only has Shiliang County, a long and narrow enclave, embedded between Jiangning, Weiyang, and Huai'an, it controls the Shiliang River. Shen Rong had long been aware of the difference in Hong Zepu's situation, if it weren't for Lin Lian's encounter with Liu Xilin on the road, he wouldn't even know that Shen Rong secretly arranged an elite in Shiliang County.

Lin Jian told Cao Ziang the thoughts that suddenly broke into his mind, and everyone thought about it carefully, and the current situation along the Shiliang River turned out to be more like the deliberate connivance of Shen Rong, the prefect of Dongyang.

"Why does he want to fish in troubled waters?" Zhao Hu asked.

"Shen Rong won't be greedy for this money." Lin Jian shook his head and said, Shen Rong is from the prefect of the fourth grade, he is an official with real power, and he actually has more money than Gu Wuchen, so he will not take this risk, in fact, Shen Rong is quite an official and has a reputation for being honest.

"He has a personal vendetta with Uncle Qin?" Zhou Pu asked.

"Perhaps," Lin Lian said, "but I'm more worried that he has ulterior motives." "Lin Lian has never seen Shen Rong, and his impressions of him are all passed on by others, and he really doesn't have an accurate understanding of him.

"What's the intention?" Big Loach Lord Ge Cunxin asked.

"Over the years, Shen Rong has always been an official who advocates the reorganization of the government army, he has done some things in Dongyang, and he has also made some achievements, but after all, he has received great resistance and cannot really practice his ideas. Another one, Shen Rong belongs to the wall-riding faction in the party struggle between the DPRK and China, and whichever faction gains power will fall to which faction, although the official fortune has been prosperous in recent years, and he has a good reputation for politics, it is actually difficult to get real reuse - if he is not afraid to speculate on others with the most malicious thoughts, based on the above two points, it is enough for Shen Rong to connive at Qin Chengbo to take the Shiliang River and Hongzepu Waterway. Lin Jian said.

"Ah......" Hearing Lin Lian say this, everyone gasped, if the truth was the same as Lin Lian speculated, Shen Rong's ultimate goal was to condone the rebellion of the fishermen and boat owners in Hongzepu, so that he would have the opportunity to suppress the rebellion and reorganize the government army. Shen Rong's achievements in the Dongyang prefect could not be more dazzling than successfully quelling a rebellion of tens of thousands of people.

"He's playing with fire." Cao Ziang said.

Lin Lian nodded, thought deeply, and said: "Maybe Shen Rong looks down on the fishermen in Hongzepu from the bottom of his heart, what big things can be done, what kind of climate can become......

After Qin Chengbo stepped down from the position of Jiangning garrison general, he was crowned an auxiliary general, but he was a first-class official, and there was no higher rank official in the southeastern counties. It is almost certain that the forces of Hongzepu robbed the Qin family's fleet, whether they succeeded or not, would take this as a sign to officially take action.

Once the forces of the Hongzepu family are successful, who knows what good things they will get from the Qin family's fleet? Qin Chengbo's private collection of armor will not be a few, and hundreds of thousands of silver coins will also greatly increase the strength of the Hongzepu family. In any case, although there are endless exiles in the Jianghuai area, there has been no large-scale civil unrest for a long time, and it is no wonder that Shen Rong and other local officials despise the Shuizhai forces, but they ignore the problem that the number of displaced people stranded in Hongzepu, Shiliang River and the north bank of Chaotiandang after the New Year Festival is much higher than in previous years, which is also a very unstable factor.

Lin Jian felt a faint pain in his head, not everyone can walk around and watch the general trend of the world gradually collapse in front of him, because there will be countless people's lives and flesh and blood filled in, but the general trend of the world is like this, and it is no longer possible for human beings to recover.

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Lin Jian wrote a private letter to Gu Wuchen and sent a fast horse back to Jiangning, in which he did not explain Hong Zepu's situation thoroughly, but also wrote down many doubts along the boat ride along the Shiliang River in the private letter, and asked Gu Wuchen to make his own judgment and decision.

Lin Lian walked the Shiliang River back to the forest, and if he wanted to say that he was not aware of what was going to happen, it would be difficult to win Gu Wuchen's trust in the future.

In addition, he didn't want to watch the general trend of the world collapse further. For the collapse of the general trend of the world, he can't take a leisurely walk and deal with it calmly, after all, there will be tens of millions of lives and flesh and blood to fill in, but all he can do is to write a private letter to Gu Wuchen, and what he can do as a small Jiupin Ru Linlang is very limited.

Lin Jian could only go to the forest with Zhou Pu, Cao Ziang and others to wait and watch the development of the situation.

Because they had to wait for Zhou Pu and Cao Ziang to come over, Lin Lian and them delayed on the road for more than half a day, and only arrived at Shanglindu after nightfall. Even so, it is much faster than the average Upong boat.

The atmosphere in Shanglindu is also very different from last autumn, the security is much stricter, compared to the messy savage ferry, Shanglindu is much more orderly, there are no chaotic homeless shacks on the river beach outside the ferry, the wharf and the long street behind the wharf, and there are not many ragged people after dark.

Lin Tingxun was sick in bed, unable to write or speak, but it did not hinder the normal operation of the Lin clan after the decentralization.

There are no special lighting buildings such as corner towers or lighthouses at the ferry, but there are more than a dozen high pillars along the embankment and inner street of the ferry, and the lanterns are hung at night, which also illuminates the ferry and the stacks as bright as day.

Lin Zonghai, the commander of the Shanglinli Township Battalion, looked at the big ship that was slowly moored at the dock, and looked at the Lin Tie bearing standing in the wind at the bow of the ship, which was really extraordinary, and he had mixed feelings in his heart, he thought that driving this son out of Shanglin would eliminate a potential competitor, who would have thought that this son would go to Jiangning and firmly tie up Gu Wuchen, and mix it up extraordinarily well.

Lin Mengde rushed back to Shanglin two days early to do something, he and Lin Zonghai went to the ferry to greet Lin Bin, except for the two of them, no important person from the Lin clan came forward. In addition, the Gu family sent two people to Shanglindu to greet Lin Jian and the others.

It is said that Lin Lian can be prosperous in Jiangning, which is also a great help to the Lin family, but Lin Lian has already set up his own door in Jiangning, and this marketing of Gujia tea goods is also to pry the foot of the family's wall, Lin Xuzong has a former feud with him, and the elders of the clans are also thinking of their own family, and there is nothing incomprehensible about refusing to come out to meet Lin Lian, and not jumping out and poking Lin Lian's face and scolding is already a power that cares about his initial appearance.

There were many lively neighbors at the ferry, and when they saw Lin Lian standing at the bow of the boat, they talked about it: "Lin Xiucai is really majestic, such a big ship, I have never seen ......it a few times in my life" "The official ship that sent Lord Gu back last time was far inferior to this majesty." "I heard that he can boost the prestige of our Dongyang Township Party in Jiangning. Don't look at Dongyang next to Jiangning, but the Dongyang Township Party is not a climate in Jiangning, one is because of Lord Gu, the other is because of Lin Xiucai, the Dongyang Township Party in Jiangning is really different from the past, the former village dog Lingzi wrote back and said that he was working in Jiangning, and his salary was one percent higher than that of the locals, just because he was a child of Shanglin, you said that this is a face-saving thing. "The second son drove Lin Xiucai out of the forest before, but he didn't expect Lin Xiucai to go to Jiangning to have such a career, and he didn't have the face to come out to see Lin Xiucai at this time." "But no, when Lin Xiucai used a knife in Luoma City to force the second son to kneel down to save Rao, I knew that Lin Xiucai had a great future, you see, how much time has passed?" "If the old man is lying on the bed and still has thoughts, I don't know what he will think in his heart? Lin Xiucai was driven out by him after all. "Can he have any idea to get up from the hospital bed and greet him?" "It's really strange, why didn't the Seventh Lady come to the ferry and didn't see her for a long time?" "When the eldest lord is in good health, the seventh lady can have fewer scruples, the eldest lord is like a half-dead person, and the seventh lady always has to avoid suspicion. Lin Xiucai can look like this in Jiangning, most of them also rely on the Seventh Lady to support him behind his back, and if he doesn't shy away from it, who knows what tongues people outside will chew? "Who dares to chew the tongue of the Seventh Lady, I don't dare, you Zhao Laosan dare?"

Lin Lian stood at the bow of the boat, just looked at everything at the ferry, and when the boat came ashore, he got off the boat with a smiling face, and said: "How dare Lin Lian Uncle Lao Zonghai and Uncle Mengde come to the ferry to greet each other, guilty of sin?" He also introduced Sun Jingtang, Cao Ziang and others to Lin Zonghai.

The seventh lady Gu Yingsleeve was inconvenient to come forward to greet the ferry, Zhao Hu and his father and his second brother Zhao Bao stood behind Lin Zonghai and Lin Mengde, and there was an old man in a neat green shirt standing with them. "Let people move off the boat the few gifts that Zhao Hu bought for Zhao Hu in Jiangning, and ask Zhao Hu to lead ten guards to lead the horses and camels to go home first.

From Shanglindu to the north, the Dongyang will go at most twenty or thirty miles without worrying about running aground, and further north is the shallow lake, and the Dongyang will lose its usefulness, so in the Shanglin to watch the situation in Hongzepu, the actual use of the Dongyang is not much, it will stop in the Shanglin and honestly hire people to load tea goods on the ship, Cao Ziang, Ge Cunxin and others have to be transferred from the ship in batches or covertly.

Cao Ziang led ten sword-wielding guards to carry financial gifts ashore in the name of boosting Zhao Hu's marriage. There were eight horses on the boat, and they were all humped off for the time being, and they were all on the financial gifts purchased from Jiangning for Zhao Hu. In addition, there are nearly twenty good horses kept in the forest at all times, so as to ensure that each person who goes ashore has two good horses available. Big Loach Master Ge Cunxin and the others stayed on the boat for the time being, waiting until late at night to find an opportunity to transfer out of the ship in batches, and Lin Jian didn't confirm whether Hong Zepu or Shen Rong had eyes on Lin Du's side. Besides, Lin Zonghai and Lin Xuzong are not good at stubble, and if they want to do something, they must first hide it from their eyes.

In the weather of mid-April, the clothes were already thin, and the ten military guards got off the boat, and it was easy to see whether there was armor in the clothes, and whether the armor was fine or not. According to the law, private soldiers such as Xiangyong and business name Wuwei and courtyard guards are forbidden to have strong armor such as armor, strong bows, and Mo knives, but the township tyrants and private soldiers all regard this prohibition as waste paper, no armor piercing, no strong bows, no swords and other blades, even if the training is hard, it will be greatly discounted. The Lin family has always paid attention to the well-equipped armor for the township Yong, even so, the township camp is full of 500 people, and the actual number of people has more than 700 people, but the private armor accumulated over the years is only more than 60 pairs. Seeing that the ten Wuwei who got off the boat were all wearing armor in their civilian robes, in addition to wearing sabers around their waists, they also held long weapons such as Mo knives, and many of the people who stayed on the boat also looked like they were wearing armor, so that Lin Zonghai was not frightened? Lin Bin's fame from Jiangning is really not an exaggeration at all.

Lin Jian smiled slightly, first chatted with Zhao Hu's father and mother and Old Man Guo about the marriage arrangement, and asked them to go home first, he only let Zhou Pu stay to accompany him, and his safety in Shanglindu was still guaranteed.

Old man Guo originally disliked Zhao Hu and deliberately ruined the marriage by driving the Lin family out of the village camp, but later Zhao Hu gave Lin Hu a follower to Jiangning and showed signs of making a fortune, and Old Man Guo intended to promote this marriage. Speaking of which, this matter is also depressing, but Zhao Hu is still thinking about Guo Hongying, the daughter of the old man Guo, and begging the Seventh Lady to promote good things, and naturally there is no reason for the son-in-law to have a grudge against his father-in-law. After getting off the boat, he gave a big gift to his father and mother and Old Man Guo.

Old man Guo looked at Zhao Hu changing into a civilian robe and was also very energetic, there were more than a dozen male and high-spirited attendants leading the horses to follow, and the financial gifts brought back from Jiangning were all camels on horseback, the vanity of this generation has not been so inflated at this time, his eyes glanced at the lively neighbors, and his son-in-law was more and more happy, and he couldn't close his mouth with a smile.

Zhao Hu's father was an honest man who kept his head silent, and when he received Lin Bin's salute, his face turned red and he was at a loss for what to do, and he only punched his son Zhao Hu twice in the shoulder, and he couldn't say anything with a smile. Aunt Zhao straightened Zhao Hu's collar, dusted off the dust, and watched her son follow Lin Tie, knowing that her son's decision to be Lin Tie's follower was not wrong, she was naturally very happy, and said to Lin Tie: "Lin Xiucai, after you are busy here, no matter how late it is, come home at night to eat and drink......

"Okay," Lin Jian agreed, "Zhao Hu's marriage, I will also help plan one or two." He knew that Aunt Zhao deliberately asked him to go over no matter how late he was, most likely the Seventh Lady would be there waiting for him to meet, he hadn't seen him for a long time, and he missed him very much, but now he had to deal with Lin Zonghai first.

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