At dawn, in the training camp on the east side of Prison Island, the candles were flickering.

"The local pond copy reports good news and does not report bad news, Changguo County has not been lost, but the big island in the east of the county has occupied several Donghai Kou, last month, I went to Changguo County to go on a field trip, the situation is not optimistic. At the end of last month, about 300 Donghai Kou invaded Shengsi Island in the north on three large ships, and when I left Changshan Island, this shareholder Haikou was still entrenched in Shengsi Island and had not left, and during this time, the ships entering and leaving Dianshan Lake and Taihu Lake from the Dongjiang River were also quite suspicious, and the frequency of invasion of the coastal areas of Pingjiang Province by minority shareholders was also higher than before," Fu Qinghe said, "The eldest son of the Luxury Family, Luxury Feixiong, recuperated from his injuries behind closed doors after receiving the title of Hou Shizi, and did not assist Luxury Wenzhuang in acting as the official business of Jin'an, and the number of times he opened the door to meet guests in the past four months was only a handful......

"The person behind the Donghai Kou's invasion of the Changguo Islands should be the Extravagant Bear," Lin Jian sighed, "The Extravagant family also realized that the strategy of invading Zhejiang and Jiangxi by land was not advisable, so they took the opportunity of the war to retract their fists and extend their ambitions by sea instead. The Changguk Islands are indeed a good springboard......"

Changguo County belongs to Mingzhou Prefecture in eastern Zhejiang, that is, the Zhoushan Islands commonly known in later generations, the county border is mainly located in the sea area east of Mingzhou Prefecture, but the archipelago extends from south to north in the open sea for nearly 300 miles, the southern end of the six horizontal islands and Mingzhou Xiangshan County across the sea, the northernmost Shengsi Islands and Pingjiang Prefecture Xinyi County across the sea, once let the Donghai Kou gather in the Changguo County Islands and gain a firm foothold, Mingzhou, Yuezhou, Jiahang, Pingjiang Prefecture will be placed under the threat of the East China Sea Kou.

The Dongjiang River is a large river south of the Yangtze River and in Pingjiang Prefecture, connecting Dianshan Lake, Chenghu Lake and Taihu Lake, which is also known as the waters of Taihu Lake in later generations. The waters of Taihu Lake are located between Jiahang, Huzhou and Pingjiang and Danyang in Jiangdong County in eastern Zhejiang, these four mansions are the essence of the Jiangnan after full development, Jiangning garrisons more than 30,000 town troops, nearly 700,000 taels of money and grain are converted into silver every year, all of which come from Pingjiang Province.

Fu Qinghe came over, Lin Jian did not rush to take him to the estuary, but discussed the situation of the Donghai Kou by candlelight in the training camp, not to say that he wanted to share the worries of the court and the locality. Not in his position and not in his government, Mingzhou, Yuezhou, Jiahang, and Pingjiang Prefectures are threatened by the Donghai Kou should be something that the county secretary and the imperial court should consider, and Lin Jian and they just have to carefully consider the threat of the northward expansion of the Donghai Kou forces under the control of the luxury family to Changshan Island.

The rough big wooden platform spread out a map of the sea frontier of Jiangdong County that Lin Tie obtained from within the Ministry of Inspection, the map of the world was difficult to be accurate, Qin Chengzu and others went to Changshan Island for more than half a year, and there were many reconnaissances in the nearby sea areas, which made this map of the sea territory much more accurate.

Zhao Hu lay on the wooden platform to Shengsi Island and Changshan Island respectively with a red pen to draw red, Shengsi Island at the end of April to the East China Sea Kou attack and entrenched, Changshan Island is only more than 300 miles away from Shengsi Island, with the help of the wind to sail, ordinary sea ships can complete this sea route day and night.

At present, it seems that the Donghai Kou under the control of the luxury family are likely to be the first to invade Pingjiang Mansion on a large scale after completing the gathering, and the erosion of Pingjiang Mansion will not only destroy the salary source of the Jiangning garrison, so that Li Zhuo, who is jealous of the luxury family, will have no food to cook, but also cut off the transportation to the north of the provinces south of Pingjiang.

Under this situation, Changshan Island is still safe for the time being.

Changshan Island is located in the north of the mouth of the Yangtze River, and it is not a threat to the East China Sea Kou gathered on the Shengsi Islands, and because Shengsi Island is much better than Changshan Island in terms of the conditions for attacking Pingjiang Province or entering the Yangtze River waterway, the East China Sea Kou should not have the firm determination to pull out Changshan Island at this time.

Immediate security is also temporary, and no one can predict how the situation in the East China Sea will develop in the future.

********

The 400 bales of illicit salt were unloaded before dawn, and the Dongyang anchored and carried rice, sugar, tie-dyed cloth, medicinal spotted cloth and other goods trafficked from Chongzhou to berth at the riverside wharf.

This was the first time that the Dongyang had returned from a commercial voyage, and many people gathered outside the dock to watch, and Lin Jian led Fu Qinghe from the river embankment dock to the thatched cottage quietly.

Xiaoman got up early in the morning, his eyes were relaxed, and when he saw Fu Qinghe's figure at first glance, his eyes immediately turned red, and tears fell uncontrollably. Lin Lian also sent people into the city to tell Su Mei, Su Mei soon came with the news, so many years, she and Xiaoman were also under the protection of Fu Qinghe to get out of the mud without staining, the three of them have a deep relationship, like father and daughter.

Fu Qinghe returned, and Sun Wenwan, who had been staying in Zhutang to recuperate, also came to say hello.

Fu Qinghe settled in Jiangning for ten years, and formed a deep friendship with Sun Jingxuan of the Xihe Association of the River Gang by chance, and the relationship was very deep.

The tortuous misunderstanding between Lin Jian and Sun Wenwan also made it clear to Fu Qinghe in the letter that it was a bit ridiculous to see each other at this time. Although this matter was mentioned in Fu Qinghe's letter to Sun Jingxuan, in fact, Su Mei had the intention to urge it, and it was naturally impossible to do it at this time.

After Sun Jingxuan received the letter, he rode a fast horse from the south of the city and chatted with Fu Qinghe, and Lin Liancha also had something to discuss with Sun Jingxuan.

"Head Sun, there's something I just want to discuss with you...... Lin Jian said.

"Lord Lin, please command." Sun Jingxuan said.

Although the matter between Lin Jian and Sun Wenwan is over, Sun Jingtang's daughter Sun Wenpei and Lin Jingzhong have agreed on a family affair, and the marriage date is also agreed to be after the autumn, so the two sides are a lot closer, and everything also helps each other.

Although Gu Wuchen went to Dongyang to supervise the war, the court issued a special decree on Xia Cao's trial implementation, and also sent the inspector of the imperial history to Jiangning, and also sent a special inspector to supervise the affairs of the inspector department. Wang Xueshan can't play tricks, with the capital of Jiangning as an example, other prefectures and counties can no longer shirk, and many things have entered the preparation in a short time.

Due to the abundance of grain in Jiangning and the grain trade center of Jiangdong County, the grain of the prefectures and counties where the official warehouses of Hailing, Dongyang and Tuzhou were insufficient, and the grain of the prefectures and counties was also prepared from Jiangning, including Jiangning Prefecture itself, and the first batch of grain shipped from Jiangning was as high as 200,000 stones.

For the river gang, Xia Cao is a good errand, tailwind, big water, although Hongzepu is in chaos, but from Weiyang through the Cao Road unimpeded, and there is a special purpose to protect the body, do not be afraid of the officials along the road to exploit, the amount of grain transportation is small, which means that you can carry more private goods to sell in the north and south, this trip can simply reach the past several times.

Since Xia Cao is not a regular system, and there are other prefectures and counties preparing cao grain in Jiangning, the officials in charge of Xia Cao's affairs will naturally not let go of this good opportunity to extort money from the various factions of the river gang, and the distribution of grain transportation among the various factions of the river gang will not be distributed according to the regular system.

Since Gu Wuchen was not in Jiangning, it was inconvenient for Lin Lian to directly participate in Xia Cao's affairs, but he had a lot of influence as Gu Wuchen's cronies, and the officials of Dongyang Mansion who were responsible for organizing Cao Liang in Jiangning were Lin Tingli's cronies, not only did the transportation of Dongyang Mansion's 40,000 Shi Cao grain be given to the Xihe Society, but also the affairs of preparing the Cao Grain were all handed over to the Xihe Society.

Although the Xia Cao silver of Dongyang Mansion was given to the officials of the Cao Cao Office, under the promotion of Lin Bin, the remaining 30,000 taels of cash silver were directly allocated to the Xihe Society, without any delay or other difficulties. Sun Jingxuan had just returned from Huzhou, where the price of grain was lower, and he had cash in hand and the convenience of running a river, in addition to the 40,000 stone grain needed by Dongyang Mansion, he also bought an extra 60,000 stone of rice grain to Jiangning, and earned an extra 3,000 taels of silver when he changed hands.

Sun Jingxuan worries about the livelihood of the 2,000 congregations and their families of the Xihe Society all day long, and he will not worry about this good deal for at least two years.

"Lord Gu is supervising the battle in Dongyang, my second uncle is training Xiangyong in Dongyang, I have prepared a sum of silver here, seventy percent of the cash silver will be sent directly to the past, and thirty percent of the silver is going to buy some materials in Dongyang in Quyang Town and transport them over," Lin Jian said, "I have few people at hand, and the estuary is very busy, and I want to entrust the purchase and transportation of materials to the Xihe Society...... Sun Hui first thinks that it is not troublesome, and I will immediately ask someone to hand over the list and silver to you. ”

Xihe will be responsible for Xia Cao's transportation capacity of only 40,000 stones, and there are still 20,000 stones left.

Lin Tie's request is to support Gu Wuchen to supervise the war in Dongyang, and besides, only the northeast of Dongyang Mansion is full of war, and the area south of the Fucheng to Jiangning is still safe, and Lin Tie sent a boat to escort him, where will Sun Jingxuan shirk it? I immediately agreed.

Sun Jingxuan agreed, and Lin Jian went to Lin Xulu to discuss.

The family promised to allocate a total of 24,000 taels of money to Yong in Dongyang for three years, and Lin Jian asked Lin Xulu to take out 10,000 taels of silver to purchase scarce materials in Quyang Town, and Lin Tie posted another 4,000 taels of silver.

Dongyang / The materials are not scarce, Lin Xulu didn't understand why Lin Lian wanted to buy materials in Quyang Town, but Lin Lian posted an additional 4,000 taels of silver, Lin Xulu couldn't refuse, and only said: "Why are you embarrassed to let you take out the silver?" ”

"This is not my silver, some of the silver in Dongyang Mansion has been intercepted, and Lord Gu has a lot of shares under his name, I sent someone to Dongyang Mansion to report to Lord Gu, and Lord Gu ordered that this silver should be posted to the second uncle to train Xiangyong - so I thought it would be better to buy materials in Jiangning, and I couldn't send it directly to the second uncle." Lin Lian said nonsense.

Lin Xulu thought so, he was still a little ashamed, the officials of Dongyang Mansion sent him a thousand taels of silver, he knew that it was Xia Cao's silver, but he didn't expect Gu Wuchen and Lin Lian to take out the silver selflessly and not harm their colleagues, and said at the moment: "I came over this time, and I also took out more than a thousand taels of silver, and I also took it out to buy materials together, which made the momentum louder, and it also made Gu's face shine." ”

At that moment, Lin Jian and Lin Xulu discussed with Lin Xulu that the list of materials would be drawn up, including rice candy, cloth, wound medicine, steel bars and other things, and there were seventeen or eighteen items in a mess, and after the list was prepared, he informed the third lady, the sixth lady and the young lady and the three clan elders, and finally made Lin Xuhong lead Qian Xiaowu and an entourage brought by Lin Xulu to carry 15,000 cash with the list to the West Garden of Zhutang where Sun Wenwan temporarily lived, and entrusted it to the Xihe Society to procure.

Time is tight, the things procured are miscellaneous, and the amount is large, in order to do this errand well, Sun Jingxuan personally sat in Zhutang, and transferred his nephew Sun Wenbing to run errands, Sun Jingxuan thought that if the time was in time, he would go to Dongyang in person to meet Gu Wuchen in person.

Sun Wenwan picked up the list that Lin Jian had prepared, but she became suspicious, suggesting that her father avoid the three people sent by Lin Jian to supervise and go to the back hall to talk.

"There are too many doubts," Sun Wenwan said to her father with the list, "First, there is no shortage of materials in Dongyang Mansion, isn't it safer to quietly send the silver to Dongyang on a ship to purchase materials?" Second, the Lin family is not short of manpower in Jiangning, and the fleet also has more than 20 boats, so do you have to make our Xihe Club earn this silver? Third, since time is so tight, why bother to buy seventeen or eighteen items of materials in a mess? Do you want me to list any other doubts? ”

"Maybe he wants everyone to get closer...... Sun said with a smile.

"You can't make jokes about your daughter," Sun Wenwan said coquettishly, "Lin binds him and makes people can't see through it at all, and his daughter can't marry him alive or dead......"

"But what will Xihe have to do for him?" Sun Jingxuan put away the joke and asked seriously.

"Maybe he doesn't have the intention of harming the Xihe Society, but he wants to use the Xihe Society to make this matter known to everyone in Jiangning." Sun Wenwan said, "Especially to let the Qu family know that today he deliberately said that he would go to Quyang Town to buy these materials......

"Qu family?" Sun Jingxuan asked suspiciously.

"Dad, are you really confused or fake?" Sun Wenwan said, "The kidnapping case of Qu Wuyang's only son two months ago, can't you think about it kindly? The Qu family originally issued 5,000 taels of suspended silver through the government, and the bonus issued privately was as high as 10,000 taels, and the final redemption silver was in Chaotiandang, four miles east of Prison Island. Before the ransom was handed over, the Qu family privately released a rumor, and as a result, the ransom silver was robbed from under the water in Chaotiandang, and the forces that came to hear the news fought for their heads in Chaotiandang, leaving fifty or sixty corpses to return empty-handed, and also formed a grudge against each other. If it weren't for the hard work of your daughter and aunt to dissuade you, your father and your second uncle would have sent ginseng in if they were greedy, and you would be embarrassed to forget about it at this time! ”

Sun Jingxuan saw that the old scars were exposed to his daughter, his old face turned red, and he asked weakly: "You said that the robbery of Qu Wuyang's only son is related to Lin Bin?" ”

"Second Uncle has personally been on the Dongyang ship to see it, Daddy, don't you suspect that the robbery was committed by Lin Lian?" Sun Wenwan asked, "I think the Qu family should also suspect Lin Jian after the Luoyang Lake water battle, and I even know that the Qu family has suspected him after watching Lin Lian, so I made a big show and lured the snake out of the hole......

"Why did Lin Tie lead the snake out of the hole?" Sun Jingxuan asked.

"My daughter is just a woman, how can I know so much?" Sun Wenwan said, "Since Lin Jian wants to lure the snake out of the hole, this trip to Dongyang must be extremely risky, and it is not as calm as it seems on the surface......

"......" Sun Jingxuan frowned, he was indeed not as thoughtful as his daughter, but he had to consider the consequences of rejecting Lin Bin.

"The Xihe Society can purchase materials on their behalf and help them release the rumors, but the matter of transporting materials to Dongyang must be refused......" Sun Wenwan saw his father's indecision and persuaded him, "You can't escape casually when things happen, but does my father want to take the initiative to use the lives of the congregation to curry favor with Lin Jian and Gu Wuchen?" If you think this matter is difficult, you let the second uncle, Wen Yao, and Brother Wen Bing leave Jiangning tonight, and you will start pretending to be sick at noon tomorrow, if Lin Jian can bear to let me escort the fleet for him, my daughter will accompany him. ”

******************

PS: Ask for a red ticket.