There were suddenly more than 1,000 villagers in the upper forest on this side of the estuary, and although everyone fled here, they were also worried about the safety of their relatives and friends who remained in the upper forest, after all, the estuary side was much more lively than before, just like a prosperous town.

The night was thick, the candles in the grass hall were burning, and there were two exquisitely crafted copper oil lamps on the bookcase, Lin Bin, Lin Xulu, Lin Mengde, Lin Xuhong, the third lady, the sixth lady, the seventh lady, the young lady and the three clan elders sat in the hall to discuss the future of the Lin clan.

In May, the weather is getting hotter, the hall is deliberating, the doors and windows are open and transparent, and occasionally a gust of night wind scares in, blowing the copper oil lamp and candle flame flickering and extinguishing, which also makes people feel that the situation is shaky, and the Lin people are also in the waves, which is frightening.

Speaking of sadness, the three female streamers, the third lady, the sixth lady, and the young lady, couldn't help but cry again.

And no matter what, the situation is uncertain, and everyone has to settle down temporarily in Jiangning. There was no one who could make up his mind before many things, and the third prince came on behalf of the second master Lin Ting, even if he had an idea, the matter of placement was urgent.

Lin Tingxun's coffin was parked at the mouth of the river, no matter how difficult the conditions at the mouth of the river were, it was necessary for several ladies and young ladies and young ladies to be young masters and young masters and even Lin Xulu and his wife to keep filial piety at the mouth of the river. Unless Lin Tingxun's body is moved to the city, but it is disrespectful and unfilial to move the coffin casually, and the world will not dare to commit this taboo casually.

Lin Tie pulled the Dongyang Township Party to build the estuary, Lin Mengde was the first to put the silver in, and several houses he funded in the back street were about to be completed, and immediately said that he would give the best house to a few ladies and young ladies, little sons, and young masters Sun to move in temporarily.

The pattern of Lin Mengde's houses is similar to that of Jiyunju, with three courtyards in the front yard, the main courtyard and the back yard, and there are two houses next to each other, which can be opened up to form a big mansion.

Although this mansion is far from being compared with the Lin family's mansion in Lin Du, it is a rare good house in the newly built place on this side of the estuary, allowing several ladies, little sons, young masters Sun, maids, and mothers-in-law to live in, and then hire a few reliable helpers from the fleeing villagers, and life can barely settle down.

"Uncle Mengde's house can't be lived in vain, I think my family will buy it directly at double the cost and get ......," Lin Xulu said.

"Don't dare, don't dare, I can have some savings in my hand, and it's also from my family," Lin Mengde said, "A few ladies want to live, take it to live, I will transfer the deed to my family's name the next day, and the matter of silver or not silver, the third young master should not mention it." ”

"Uh......" Lin Tingxun's cousin, the chief steward of Lin Kee Warehouse, and the seventh eldest in the family, Lin Xuhong coughed lightly and said: "The situation is uncertain, this side is next to Jiangning City, and it is ten or a hundred times safer than the countryside. This side of the estuary is also a newly built place, the Lin family buys a house here, and then buys some land, and there is the old seventeen to take care of it, and it cannot be regarded as a customer in Jiangning. It is also good to have an extra place to stay...... "The implication is not just to settle down temporarily in the estuary, but to buy a permanent family business here."

Gu Yingsleeve glanced at Lin Lian and saw that Lin Lian was sitting precariously, as if this matter really had nothing to do with him.

Among many people, the three clan elders may still say that they still have some old brains, after all, they are old and unwilling to toss; Lin Xuhong, who has not yet reached the age of establishment, is the best to win over.

In addition to the surrounding houses of ordinary people on this side of the estuary, the shops and houses funded by the Dongyang Township Party along the north and south long streets and back streets have also begun to take shape.

Not to mention that the current estuary side is not compared with the city, the prosperity is far less than that of Longzangpu and Quyang Town in the south of the city. The Dongyang Township Party originally intended to throw the silver over, first, Lin Tie gave the land for free, and then they wanted to give Gu Wuchen face. The Xiangyang Township Party is very enthusiastic in participating, anyway, they have invested money to come in and have a house there, but they have not yet moved in or moved their business here. With Lin Tie and Lin Mengde in the middle, it is not difficult for the Lin family to buy the soon-to-be-built shop and mansion at a high price from them.

From the perspective of future generations, this group of Dongyang Township Party will be regarded as the most original real estate investors.

Lin Xuhong, the seventh elder, suggested that the family buy a family business directly in the estuary, Lin Xulu frowned and thought for a moment, and asked several ladies: "Third aunt, sixth aunt, seventh aunt, second sister-in-law, what do you think?" Without waiting for the four women to answer, he added, "It is not easy for Old Seventeen to have a foothold in the estuary for less than five months, and the estuary has been like this. I don't know when the chaos in Hong Zepu will be calmed down, since Lao Seventeen and Gu Daren both proposed that the Dongyang Township Party jointly build the estuary, our Lin family should not be left behind...... "He is already inclined to buy a family business directly in the estuary.

The chaos in Hongzepu was a little menacing, and he also complained that there were too many displaced people on both sides of the Shiliang River and around Hongzepu, Liu An'er raised the flag almost in response, and there were not enough troops in Jiangdong County to quell the rebellion, so Lin Xulu had to consider that if the rebels threatened Dongyang Fucheng, his family would also take refuge in Jiangning.

It is better to buy a family business now than to be like a lost dog when the time comes.

Of course, Lin Xulu originally wanted to go directly to the city to buy a house, but Lin Tingxun's mortuary was at the mouth of the river, and no one could live in the city.

According to the "service system", sons, wives and concubines must keep filial piety for twenty-seven months, which is often said to be three years of filial piety, and Lin Xulu must at least keep filial piety on behalf of his father for 100 days, but Lin Xulu knows in his heart that the coffin will stop at the mouth of the river one day, and several ladies will stay at the mouth of the river, and he will not be able to leave here.

Lin Xulu thought to himself that almost before the chaos in Hongzepu was calmed down, everyone would have to live at the mouth of the river.

"The Lin family is also prosperous because of the water, and I heard the old man say that Shanglin Ferry was also very desolate at first," the young lady Ma thought that staying at the mouth of the river could rely on Lin Binding, otherwise her mother-in-law and the third lady alone would be able to eat her to death, she interjected, "I am a woman and don't understand anything, but looking here these days, there may not be no weather miles in Lindu in the future." ”

The father of the young lady Ma is an old talent, who has studied for several years since he was a child, has a strong temperament, and is considered to have some insight among the women in the world.

Many of the buildings on this side of the estuary have not been built, but the plan has already taken shape.

This side of the estuary is a cross street pattern, the north and south long streets that come out of the riverbank wharf are directly connected to the carriage and horse road directly to the Donghuamen official road, and there is a back street from the river embankment wharf to run through the estuary from east to west.

It is said that it is a long street in the north and south, but it is actually only 400 steps long, and the back street is only 300 steps long. From the perspective of Lin Lian's later generations, he is really pitiful. However, in the present day, the long streets and backstreets in the north and south, the riverbank wharf, the river embankment wharf, two stacks covering an area of thirty or forty acres, and several large enclosed houses on the west side, each with a capacity of 100 households, gave the estuary the bearing of a large town.

Ma Shi's words, even the third lady who had the worst relationship with her had to nod yes.

And the carriage and horse road that connects with the official road of Donghua Gate has also been finally built, and Jiyun Society is hiring people to plant trees such as willow, peach and elm on both sides of the carriage and horse road, and it is very convenient to take a carriage from the mouth of the river into Jiangning City in the fourteenth and fifteen miles.

Besides, the cash brought out by the Lin family this time was nearly 200,000 taels, and this number was not much scary when written on paper. If calculated at the price of Jiangning fields, 200,000 taels of silver can buy 30,000 mu of paddy fields in Jiangning, which is almost equivalent to 70 or 80 times the area occupied by the estuary.

Buying a real estate property in Hekou costs at most three or five thousand taels of silver, which is not even comparable to the gift given to the Gu family.

It has been really hard to come to the estuary for a few days, but the head of the family is in the estuary, and no one can mention it to live in the city.

The third lady and the sixth lady felt that they had spent money, had a big house to live in, and could hold the deed in their hands, and besides, they might prosper here, and there was no need to hesitate, so they all agreed.

Lin Lian also hurriedly promised to ask Jingzhong to help them coordinate in the center, transfer more craftsmen, and build the house that the Lin family passed over from the Dongyang Township Party first, so that everyone can move in as soon as possible.

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Lin Mengde insisted on letting out the affairs of the Lin family in Jiangning, after all, he couldn't let Lin Xuhong and a few other stewards and shopkeepers who escaped from Shanglin have nothing to do in Jiangning; It also shows that Lin Jian did not get involved in the Lin family's property.

It is a well-known thing that Lin Mengde got close to Lin Jian in Jiangning.

Lin Xulu and several ladies persuaded Lin Mengde for a while, and seeing that Lin Mengde was very persistent, they naturally agreed to it, so that they didn't have to worry about Lin Lian encroaching on the clan property. After all, Lin Jian no longer has any other means of encroachment except forcible seizure. The Lin family is a family of Shixun, and there are Lin Tingli and Lin Xuwen in important positions in the court and local officials, of course, there is no need to worry that others will come to openly rob the family property.

The affairs of the Lin family in Jiangning were naturally taken over by Lin Xuhong and several other stewards and shopkeepers.

Specific and micro affairs, not to mention a few ladies, Lin Xulu can't take care of it, Lin Xuhong and other stewards have always been very trusting, so there is naturally no need to change people at this time.

In fact, most of the Lin family's affairs in Jiangning were the resale of products produced by Dongyang Mansion, especially the sales of tea, rice, paper, oil and other products.

Saying that the Lin family is the first wealthy family in Dongyang Mansion is not empty nonsense, and it can bring out nearly 200,000 taels of silver in a hurry, which shows that the Lin family has accumulated a strong family power in the past ten generations.

The Lin family resells hundreds of thousands of stones of rice and grain in Jiangning Zhufu every year, and it is once a monopoly on the Dongyang tea sold to other places, the Lin family has eighteen oil mills along the Shanglin River, and there are 60 large waterwheels that drive the grinding disc in the oil press mill, and there are 400 cattle that pull the mill, and the Lin family paper mill produces tens of thousands of baskets of paper every year and is resold by the Lin Ji warehouse to the provinces in Jiangdong.

The fall of Shanglinli caused the Lin family is difficult to estimate.

Similarly, after the fall of Shanglinli, many of the Lin family's affairs in Jiangning were also seriously affected.

In Jiangning, the main industry of the Lin family is a large warehouse covering an area of 20 acres at the mouth of the Sanchao River in Longzangpu, in the south of the city, and there are 17 or 8 shops in the prosperous place in the city, dealing in rice, grain, oil, tea, paper and other Dongyang products.

There are also three mansions, one exquisite and unique courtyard Lin Mengde lives in; A large mansion facing the street opened a Dongyang Hall and operated a restaurant and an inn, and a private garden was empty and ready to receive the family who came to Jiangning.

Not counting the value of the real estate in the warehouse, shop, and house, the Lin family's silver deposits and inventories in Jiangning add up to more than 40,000 taels of silver.

Lin Mengde immediately handed over the bottom of the Lin family's industry in Jiangning.

Lin Mengde was so knowledgeable that Zhao Xulu, the third lady, the sixth lady, the young lady, the three clan elders, Zhao Xuhong and others were quite pleased, and they all felt that the head of the family did not trust or use the wrong person when he was alive.

Lin Mengde stepped out, and Zhao Xuhong and other stewards took over, and there was no special difficulty, after all, there are large and small shopkeepers in various industries, and most of these big and small shopkeepers are children of their hometowns, and many of them are clansmen.

Zhao Xuhong and the other stewards who came from Shanglin were not without worries.

In these industries of the Lin family in Jiangning, there are two hundred and forty or fifty people in the shopkeepers, men, and guards in various places, especially the warehouse in Longpu, south of the city, which employs the most people. The inventory over there is usually worth tens of thousands of taels of silver, and there are more than 40 people in Wuwei alone (actually an elite villager drawn from Shanglin).

Before the outbreak of the Hongzepu riot, the Lin family's own fleet had just transported a batch of goods to Jiangning. The fleet of Lin Ji Warehouse mainly took the waterway from Linli to Jiangning, and the boats were Dongyang wooden boats with a load of 100 or 200 stones, 22 boats, and more than 140 boatmen and sailors.

In addition, seventy or eighty shopkeepers and men fled to Jiangning from Shanglin.

In addition to Dongyang Guild Hall, which also operates restaurants and inns, the Lin family's other industries in Jiangning are mainly reselling products from Dongyang. Now that Shanglin has fallen, the warehouse, shop, and fleet have all cut off their livelihood for a while, after all, the Lin family will have to go back to Shanglin in the future, and nearly 500 people, such as shopkeepers, men, guards, boatmen, sailors, etc., can not be disbanded, even if it is difficult to make a living, the settlement allowance must be paid regularly.

"Do you want to raise so many people?" The sixth lady Shan Rou sighed in surprise when she heard Lin Mengde finish speaking, she was born in a small family, she was born well, she was pampered since she was a child, and after Lin Tingxun was accepted as a concubine, she didn't care about the affairs of the Lin family, and she didn't know how big the Lin family's family was.

Lin Xulu was not very clear about the specific affairs of the Lin family, and when he heard Lin Mengde confess, he was quite surprised, and pretended to be calm and said: "With these shops, you can buy some supplies from other places to maintain, and it is not a problem to raise these people......"

"It should be okay to barely make ends meet." Lin Mengde said.

The Lin family's business in Jiangning was mostly large-scale transactions, and the bulk trade of products in various places was monopolized by local wealthy merchants. If other families rashly come to Shanglin to buy Dongyang products such as tea, paper, rice, and oil, the Lin family will naturally obstruct and destroy it in every way, and vice versa. Lin Mengde knew that things were far from being as simple as Lin Xulu said, but he and Lin Jian felt that it would be good to let the Lin family run into more walls elsewhere.

In short, Lin Mengde let go of these cumbersome affairs, and he could also assist Lin Jian to do other things.

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PS: It's already October,

I wish my brothers and sisters a happy National Day,

Everyone should make it a habit to vote red,

I would also like to thank the brothers and sisters who recharged and cheered,

Zongheng changed "reward" to "support", which feels really good.