Deeper leakage, occasionally there are lanterns hanging in front of the eaves of the house, in the dim stone long street with only a little light, the sound of horses' hooves clicks.

Lin Jian and Lin Mengde negotiated the terms, and then left the Dongyang Hall, still a little drunk, he and Lin Jingzhong led the horse.

"Jingzhong, I want to set up my own door in Jiangning, you stay and help me."

"I'm not familiar with life in Jiangning, how can I help you?" Lin Jingzhong said.

"Is there anyone who is not familiar with the place?" Zhao Hu grabbed Lin Jingzhong's shoulder from behind, "I was also a little panicked when I arrived in Jiangning, and after staying for two days, I found that there was no big deal with the people in Jiangning City......

Lin Jingzhong silently looked at the dark night that could not be erased in the distance, thinking about what had happened during this time. Lin Tie pulled a knife in the mule and horse market in Shanglin to force the second son Lin Xuzong to kneel, Lin Jingzhong was still worried that Lin Tie was impulsive, and today seeing Lin Tie forcing Lin Mengde to agree to secretly help him set up his own door in Jiangning, Lin Jingzhong finally knew that Xiucai was no longer the Xiucai he used to be.

The mule and horse city rushed to the crown and drew the sword, which can still be said to be acting with will, but today Lin Jian is taking advantage of the situation to force Lin Mengde into a dead end that cannot be turned around, this kind of means, Lin Jingzhong thought to himself, even if he could think of it, he might not dare to take risks and use it on Lin Mengde's body, thinking that it was not as good as Xiucai, and he was inevitably a little disappointed in his heart.

"The Seventh Lady asked me to come to Jiangning to have a long experience, how can I promise you to stay?" Lin Jingzhong said hesitantly.

"You just have to agree, Seventh Madam, I'll write to say it for you," Lin Jian patted Lin Jingzhong on the shoulder and said with a smile, "You should also be clear about the current situation." As soon as the head of the family still breathes, the Lin family can still maintain the current situation, but I don't know how long the head of the family can breathe and delay......"

"Well, once the head of the family passes away, the Seventh Lady has no heirs, so she will not continue to be in power, and the Second Master and the Sixth Lady have also seen this, so they let the Seventh Lady take care of things," Lin Jingzhong said, "Instead of fighting with Lin Mengde for the power of Jiangning at this time, and still have to give others time at the end, it is better to simply set up their own doors...... Xiucai, what you think in your head and see with your eyes is more thorough than mine. This is the truth, explain it to the Seventh Lady, and the Seventh Lady will also agree with you to set up your own door in Jiangning. ”

Lin Lian smiled, and would not tell Lin Jingzhong what Gu Yingsleeve had sent him in a private message, but only said: "Since this is the case, then we will discuss the matter of self-reliance when we go back......" and pressed Lin Jingzhong's shoulder and asked him, "You have been an accountant in the warehouse for two years, do you dare to do it as the shopkeeper of Jiangning Firm?" ”

"Why don't you dare?" Lin Jingzhong took a long breath and said arrogantly.

"You just said that you are not familiar with the place in Jiangning," Zhao Hu teased him......

"Being unfamiliar with life is adversity, and adversity should not be more refreshed?" Lin Jingzhong said with a smile, once he made up his mind, his mind would not be empty, and he would not have time to return to Jiyunju, so he discussed the matter of the business in this long night that could not be erased, "After Gu Wuchen was released, the Gu family regained the qualification of a tea merchant, but under the suppression of the Lin family, the tea produced and collected by the Gu family could only be sold out of Shiliang County through the Lin Ji warehouse at a low price to make some meager profits." The Gu family has a deep grudge against this, and now that Gu Wuchen has come to Jiangning to serve as the deputy envoy of the inspection, the Gu family will naturally be even more unable to hold back. However, the Gu family has been too bleak in the past ten years, even if they can gain power today, they still want money or not, and they want no people, and other strong clans in Shiliang County are all in the same breath as the Lin family, the Lin family no longer oppresses the Gu family, as long as they secretly make some small stumbles, it is enough to make it difficult for the Gu family to move an inch, even if Gu Wuchen is even if he is a dignified four-grade deputy envoy, what can he do, and the Lin family is not no one in the court? If we can get the secret promise of the Seventh Lady and Lin Mengde, we can help the Gu family transport the tea out of Shiliang, the only headache is that we and the Gu family don't have much capital to collect tea, and we don't have a ship...... It is impossible for the Seventh Lady and Lin Mengde to let the Lin family's boat help us carry tea. ”

"I have five thousand taels of silver in my hand, and the Gu family's tea production is not large, in addition to the principal of the tea, I can add a few ships...... How to use these five thousand taels of silver, I still need you to plan for me," Lin Jian said, "I can't buy any new ships in a day or two, and the Seventh Lady still has forty horses, so you can use the horses to transport the tea to Jiangning for distribution first." "With war horses and camel goods, it's really a waste of good things to think about.

Lin Jingzhong knew what Lin Tie's previous family background was, not to mention five thousand taels of silver, even if he could take out five thousand coppers, it would be laborious, he thought that Lin Tie's self-establishment in Jiangning might be the instruction of the Seventh Lady, maybe it had something to do with those foreign horse sellers - those foreign horse traders sold twenty good horses to Shanglin Township and got three thousand taels of silver - he decided to ignore these for the time being, and said: "There must be a shop in the city as a market entrance; We are mainly engaged in distribution, so we don't need to go into the city to transport tea goods, and we also need to find a warehouse outside the city to store tea bags......"

"I think the business should have its own warehouse," Lin Jian said, "When we entered the city, we came in from the Jinchuan River waterway, and we felt that the Jinchuan River was geographically convenient, so how about buying land and building a warehouse there?" ”

Lin Tie is in Jiangning to set up a business is to cover, the goods transfer and storage must be fully controlled in their own hands, so that they can quietly supply materials to Changshan Island, this warehouse is an important part of it, naturally can not be faked.

"Huh?" Lin Jingzhong's eyes looked at Lin Bin, he didn't expect Lin Jian to have other intentions, he just thought in his heart: The business must have a store, a warehouse, a ship, and a horse team. He pondered for a moment and said, "The mouth of the Jinchuan River, I also passed by when I came, not to mention anything else, the water surface is vast over there, and the warehouse is built there, what should I do if the water on the Yangtze River is attacking?" ”

The wider the water surface, the more convenient it is for the water bandits to turn around and attack, and outside the mouth of the Jinchuan River is a hundred miles of Chaotiandang, where a warehouse is built to store goods, and it is designated to attract Jiang bandits to visit often.

"It's late tonight, and I'll see if it's feasible to go to the Jinchuan estuary in two days...... Lin Jian said.

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The next day, Lin Jingzhong wrote a letter to the guy in the warehouse to take him back to Shanglin, explaining the matter of staying in Jiangning. Even if Lin Jian wanted to write a letter to the Seventh Lady, he didn't dare to ask the Lin family to help bring it back, and when Wu Qi and them obtained their identity in Shiliang, they would send someone to Jiangning to contact them.

Inviting Yang Pu to the dust washing banquet was indeed effective, and in the following days, the Dongyang Township Party came to the house to visit and contact the hometown. On the third day, Lin Jian and the others got up early to go to the mouth of the Jinchuan River outside the east gate of the city to see the terrain.

The mouth of the Jinchuan River is only eleven or twelve miles away from the foot of the wall in the northeast corner of Jiangning City, there is a low hill in the middle, and the city wall cannot be seen, but when the mist dissipates in the early morning, you can clearly see the eaves of the tower located in the northeast corner of Jiangning City. To the south is Moling Lake and the majestic Purple Mountain, and to the north is the vast Yangtze River and Chaotiandang.

Lin Jingzhong's body was weak and cold, Zhao Hu took a carriage to carry him, Lin Lian, Zhou Pu, and Chen Enze all rode horses, and went out of the city to whip and ride the horse, which was very happy.

When he got off the horse, Lin Jian stood on the steep rocky bank, looked at the sky in the north, and said to Lin Jingzhong: "The terrain here is open, the transportation is convenient, and it is very convenient to build a warehouse and stack, and distribute goods into the city or transfer them to other prefectures and counties. Such a convenient place, but no one dares to use it to build a warehouse, that is, they are afraid of the sky and the water, which is open and can accommodate the water in all directions," Lin Jian said, "Therefore, those merchants in Jiangning City would rather be more troublesome, and would rather go to the upper reaches of Longzangpu outside the southern city to build a wharf and warehouse, or directly enter the city from the water gate and unload the stacks in the city." ”

"It's a pity that Moling Lake is listed as a forbidden place for the Son of Heaven, otherwise Moling Lake is a good place to build a warehouse." Lin Jingzhong sat at the head of the carriage and sighed.

Although Jiangning has a water pass to enter the city, but goods from the water pass into the city and out of the city have to pay taxes, and the merchant ships that resell through Jiangning will naturally not enter the city and bear two more exploits; In addition, there are also merchants who need a larger area of warehouse to store a large amount of goods for a long time in order to hoard Juqi in order to make huge profits, and they are obviously not happy to bear the high cost of land rent in the city; In addition, the water gate and the river in the city do not allow large boats and ships to enter, so there is a need to build a warehouse outside the city;

Seven or eight miles into the Jinchuan River waterway is Moling Lake, the three islands in Moling Lake, is the forbidden place where the Jiangning household department stores the yellow book of household registration, since the founding of the dynasty, it has banned fishing and navigation on Moling Lake, otherwise it is an excellent inner lake wharf stack, and the river bandits want to enter Moling Lake to loot the goods store, first consider whether they will give the officers and soldiers an urn to catch turtles.

Unable to build a warehouse on the shore of Moling Lake, Jiangning's firms mostly chose to build warehouses in the upper reaches of Longzangpu.

Longzang Puyuan out of the southwest mountain of Jiangning, when arriving near Jiangning City, it is divided into two, the inner water enters the city from the Nanshui Pass, the outer water surrounds the West City, and flows into the Yangzi River at the West Water Pass. Longzangpu is located at the mouth of the Sanchao River in the southern city, which has become the area with the highest concentration of goods warehouses in Jiangning. Although it is necessary to detour dozens of miles of waterways, it is these dozens of miles of inland waterways and the Jiangning garrison general's palace water camp stationed at the mouth of the river that effectively restricts the invasion of Jiang bandits.

Lin Jian looked at the vast river, it is really sad to think about it, Jiangning is the southern capital of Dayue, the first city in the world, the garrison of nearly 30,000 people on the left, the establishment of the water battalion is also 3,000 people, and there are 100 warships of all kinds, but in the past few decades, they have never been able to get rid of the trouble of Jiang bandits and water bandits, and even the upstream Dongting Lake water bandits, the downstream Taihu Lake pirates, and the East pirates also go to Jiangning from time to time to fish and hunt.

Lin Lian took a breath and said: "Jiangning City is full of businesses, and all walks of life have help to the township party, we say that we want to set up our own door, but it is not an easy thing. The few points of land at the mouth of the Sanchao River in Longzangpu have been divided among the big merchants, and we want to squeeze in and get a piece of the pie, but we are afraid that other warehouses will unite to suppress us. In addition, the Longzangpu waterway has been silted and shallow over the years, and the thousand-stone ships with more than three masts are worried about being trapped when they enter it, and then use the river water to transport goods, and the larger the ship, the more economical the transportation cost, and now it is rare to hear of an eight-masted giant sail crossing Jiangning......"

Lin Jingzhong looked at Lin Lian's expression, as if he had made up his mind, and thought: Although the situation of looting the Jiang bandits and water bandits does not happen all the time, but the warehouse is looted once, and it is enough to pay the goods deposited by the merchants in full, which is enough to make the owner of the warehouse bankrupt, and they do not have enough financial resources to build an elite village soldier like the Shanglin Township Battalion. Besides, Jiangning is the southern capital of the imperial court, and building a private army outside Jiangning City is naturally not as casual as in Dongyang, even if you have a private army in the name of a caravan guard, there will be strict restrictions.

It was inconvenient for Lin Jingzhong to directly hit Lin Lian's self-confidence, he stood up and pointed to the boat that Jiang Xin sailed by, and asked Zhao Hu beside him: "Do you say that there are any people in those boats who do business without capital?" ”

"Perhaps, they won't put up their flags, and besides, ships that trade during the day and rob at night are not unique." Zhao Hu said.

"Actually, don't worry too much," Lin Jian knew what Lin Jingzhong was worried about, and pointed to Jiangxin Island not far away, "There is a prison according to the Inspectorate Division, and there are jailers stationed on the island, if we can persuade Gu Wuchen to add a little more garrison to the prison, or even add two warships, this place will be safer." In addition, we try not to keep high-value and easy-to-sell goods in the future...... In addition, I am sure that there are more than one or two businesses that want to build warehouses in some places, after all, there are too many restrictions in Longzangpu, and if someone dares to start, maybe more businesses will flock to them. ”

"It's hard to say," Lin Jingzhong still didn't have confidence, but since he stepped on the boat, he didn't have too many scruples, and said, "Since you chose this place, then we will plan ...... this place."

At this time, there was an official ship coming from the sky, looking at the gilded aconitum card on the bow of the boat, which was the official ship that Gu Wuchen was on.

Lin Lian rode up the embankment, watched the official ship sail into the Jinchuan River, and saw several people surrounded by Gu Wuchen wearing a crown of black yarn with straight wings, wearing a four-grade vermilion official uniform with a curved collar and wide sleeves, and a waist veil inlaid with gold, silver and jade decorated with cowhide waist, standing on the bow deck with his head held high.

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PS: Red ticket, collection.