Lin Jian mentioned Jiangdao Prison, and he also said that Gu Wuchen's itch was there.

When Gu Wuchen first came to Jiangning and served as the deputy envoy of Jiangdong, he had to gain a firm foothold in Jiangning step by step before he could consider doing something new. Even if there is a saying that the new official has three fires in office, it is just a small fight, and it is easy to hurt the interests of most people, and it will be met with a strong backlash, which is really a wise man's inaction; What's more, Gu Wuchen will not forget that there is still an envoy on his head, and a large group of people in Jiang Ning are waiting for him to make a mistake.

Of course, Gu Wuchen is not a person who does not seek to forge ahead when he sees the difficult situation, and in the past few days when Jiang Ning took office, he was also thinking about which inconspicuous place to open up the situation.

Jiangdao Prison was originally a prison city jointly promoted by the Jiangning Criminal Department and the Jiangdong Prosecutor's Envoy Department to replace exile with long-term prison and hard labor.

Seven or eight years ago, the officials of the Western Qin faction were in the right situation, controlled the center, and regarded the Jiangning tomb guards as nothing. The so-called "Thirty Hedong, Thirty Hexi", today's officials of the Western Qin faction are no longer trusted by today, the Chu Party is rising in the center, Gu Wuchen thought in his heart that at this time, there is the least resistance to reopening the prison city.

Gu Wuchen is not a simple and optimistic character, and he knows that the principles of these mausoleum guards in Jiang Ning are really limited, and they spend more time arguing with the Yanjing Center. In the past, when the center was opposed, they kept asking for it, and maybe the center agreed, and they would turn around and oppose it. Gu Wuchen felt that he had to make sufficient preparations before he reopened the prison city, after all, he did not have the conditions to reopen the prison city for the time being.

Jiangdong is in charge of the garrison of Jiangning Prefecture and the garrison of Jiangning Garrison, and there are only 60 pure garrison jailers; In order to ensure the safety of Jiangdao Prison, there are twice as many jailers stationed there as in the city.

Since a considerable number of prisoners in Jiangdong County were scattered and detained in various prefectures and counties, only those prisoners who had been sentenced to more than three years or less than five years in prison and had no money to atone for their crimes were released to Jiangdao Prison for centralized detention (in order to avoid leaving their hometowns and being imprisoned, even if their families were poor, prisoners from other prefectures and counties in Jiangning would try their best to use money to atone for their crimes to less than three years).

It is precisely because of the limited number of prisoners that the materials accumulated on the island are also limited, and the prison guards are sufficiently guarded, although there are river bandits crossing the border, the vast majority of them will not take the initiative to harass the island.

Once the prison city is reopened, the situation will be completely different.

After the reopening of the prison city, all the felony prisoners sentenced to exile in Jiangdong County will be concentrated in the Jiangdao prison city, and even those prisoners who have already fled to the frontier will be transferred to the prison city through various channels. The number of prisoners in Jiangdao Prison City will soon exceed 1,000, and the island's reserves will be greatly increased, which will greatly increase the attractiveness of Jiangdao Bandits. Another is that it is obviously more difficult to manage serious criminals sentenced to exile than minor criminals sentenced to prison sentences, and even many people are the leaders of Jiangyang thieves or bandits who kill people and overstep their goods, and there will be many incidents of prisoners escaping prison in collusion with internal and external parties.

As a result, the current garrison of the Ejima Prison alone will be very weak, and it can even be said that it is full of loopholes. Especially when everyone in Jiangning was in the mood of watching a good show, Gu Wuchen couldn't expect the Jiangning garrison stationed outside the city to provide rescue in time.

Jiang Ning wanted to see too many officials who wanted to see his own good show, once he asked the center to reopen the prison city, as a result, a large number of exiled felons fled or invited a group of criminals to attack the prison, Gu Wuchen thought that it would be good if he could keep his position at that time, and there was no need to talk about any reform.

Asking the center to reopen the prison city is a matter that requires extreme caution, and Gu Wuchen will not risk his future until he is sure, but Lin Tie proposed to go to Jiangdao Prison to be the prison officer, and his mind became alive again, if Lin Tie is really capable, maybe he can make the conditions for reopening the prison city ready.

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Hearing Lin Lian say that with only three or five hundred elites, he could defend the Jiangdao Prison and the Jinchuan estuary as solid as gold, Yang Shi stood aside with some disdain, but Gu Wuchen discussed it with Lin Jian with great interest.

"According to the Inspectorate Department is the Department of Civil Ministers, although there is still a small amount of directly administered force, perhaps only the guards and soldiers around the officials can be called elite, and the arrest of bandits generally depends on the local government army or township soldiers, and the force of the jailers is even less trustworthy," Gu Wuchen said, "You said that with three or five hundred elites, you can defend Jiangdao Prison as impregnable, but I can't transfer three or five hundred elites to you ......"

"Lin Tie knows a little about the method of military training," Lin Tie knew what Gu Wuchen meant, and he only wanted a quota for military training in his heart, "Lin Tie can go to Dongyang Mansion to recruit soldiers to serve as prison guards on behalf of the Lord. ”

Although the town army under the jurisdiction of the Admiralty is the main body of the military force of the Dayue Dynasty, but this dynasty has always had a traditional tendency to control the military with literature, outside the town army system, there are many precedents of the direct management of the army by the civil ministers, such as the Dongyang Prefecture Governor Shen Rong directly under the jurisdiction of the military army under the jurisdiction of the military is the acquiescence of the imperial court, which is probably also the reason why the imperial court has more trust in the civil ministers. Lin Jian proposed to go to Dongyang Mansion to recruit hometown soldiers, and Gu Wuchen didn't feel particularly surprised, at least to his ears, Lin Jian had no selfish intentions.

In Jiangning, Gu Wuchen is the leader of the Dongyang Township Party of course, and the Dongyang soldiers recruited by Lin Jian will be directly included in the control of the Ministry of Inspection, and these three or five hundred elites can be said to be his Gu Wuchen's personal soldiers.

Gu Wuchen didn't have other ambitions, but thinking that it would be more convenient to have three or five hundred hometown soldiers in his hands in the future, he said: "Don't be busy talking, you talk about your training method first...... If he can, he will let Yang Pu, Ma Chao or Yang Shi directly lead these three or five hundred hometown soldiers to Jiangdao Prison as prison guards, but Yang Pu and the three of them have no reputation, and the rank of the military attache is too low, and he thinks that Lin Jian is still trustworthy.

"Su Hou's "Notes on the Seven Classics of Martial Arts" is a collection of the military masterpieces of the ancestors," Lin Jian looked at the books in Gu Wuchen's hand and said, "Lin Jian was fortunate to read a few fragments and have a little understanding of the method of soldiers...... so he told Gu Wuchen in detail about some of the soldiers, the management of soldiers, and the method of using soldiers that Zhou Pu had discussed during this time.

Since ancient times, literati have a penchant for talking on paper, and they also have the fantasy of lifting the reins and leveling the world, and Gu Wuchen is no exception. The exception is that he has been in the army for ten years, and he has a deeper understanding and deeper understanding of the method of managing the army than those literati who can only talk about the army on paper, which is also what he is proud of. He originally thought that Lin Tie had some understanding and perception of the art of war, but he didn't expect that what Lin Tie was really proficient in was the art of managing and training troops in a small-scale battalion, and these detailed cognitions were exactly what those scholars who could only talk about on paper lacked the most. Lin Lian said that the head was the way, so that Gu Wuchen, who had been in the army for nearly ten years, was moved, Yang Pu and Ma Chao came over to urge him to go to the yamen to sit in the hall, but he talked to Lin Jian very quickly, so he asked Yang Pu and Yang Shi to go to the yamen for him to guard and come back to report if there was something to do.

Gu Wuchen sighed: "I still suggest that you go to Yanjing and make a trip, you take my letter to Yanjing, as long as Tang Gong and Zhang Xiang recognize your talent, even if you fail to pass the township test, you still don't have to worry about having no way out in Yanjing......"

Lin Lian smiled and said, "Lin Lian would prefer to assist the Lord in Jiangning......"

"Just use you as the prisoner, don't you feel wronged?" Gu Wuchen asked, he didn't want Lin Jian to stay and help him, he lacked a handy assistant in Jiangning. In his opinion, there is great hope for the reopening of the prison city by using the forest to govern the Jiangdao prison and reopening the prison city. The successful reopening and maintenance of the prison city is a major innovation in the name of the punishment of this dynasty.

"Lin Jian wants to be this prison, and he still has some selfishness." Lin Jian said.

"Oh?" Gu Wuchen looked at Lin Bin.

"Lin Jian intends to build a warehouse at the mouth of the Jinchuan River...... Lin Jian said.

Not to mention at this time, when he built a warehouse at the mouth of the Jinchuan River in the future, Gu Wuchen could also see the Mingtang at a glance, and when it made Gu Wuchen feel angry, he would tell him frankly when he was not so.

"Hehe," Gu Wuchen was very satisfied with Lin Lian's frank confession, and besides, his Gu family had silver shares in Jiyun Society, if Lin Lian was not allowed to take care of private affairs at all, how could his family be embarrassed to take stock money from Jiyun Society in the future, and said with a smile, "Although Wenchen is a model of selflessness, but the real selfless people are only sung in the play, and they have not been seen in their lives, you just have to remember not to abolish the public for personal reasons." ”

"Lin Jian remembers the teachings of the adults." Lin Jian said.

"Well, the matter of recruiting military soldiers is not urgent, but this prison job is to take it, you have been waiting for my news for the past two days," Gu Wuchen naturally said with a full face, "You go to prison, and many things need to be peeled off and slowly planned." You are full of talent, and you are dedicated to serving the imperial court, don't worry about the future, isn't Dong Yuan also from a child? ”

"Lord Xie promoted." Lin Jian stood up and saluted Gu Wuchen.

Gu Wuchen stayed with Lin Jian for lunch, and after lunch, Gu Wuchen went to the Yamen to sit in the hall, and Lin Jian and Zhou Pu returned to Jiyunju. Lin Jian didn't expect that convincing Gu Wuchen to let him serve as the head of Jiangdao Prison would be so smooth, and when he thought about it, he could guess that Gu Wuchen intended to use Jiangdao Prison City as his first move to reform the old and make a new move in Jiangning.

Lin Jian didn't know how long the terminally ill Dayue Dynasty could last, but he knew how difficult it was for Gu Wuchen to reform the current bureaucratic system, he and Zhou Pu returned to Jiyunju and led the horse into the courtyard, Qian Xiaowu said that there were visitors waiting, Lin Jian looked at it, but it was Qian Xiaowu's old creditor, Chen Laiwu, who put the money in Xicheng, standing in the courtyard with a salivating face.