After making an appointment with Cao Ziang, Lin Jian returned to Chaotianyi Ferry with Zhou Pu and Wu Qi. The ferry port here is the main ferry port from the south to Jiangning City, and the Shiliang River also flows into Chaotiandang from here, and the north-south east-west post road crosses the past, even if there are no south-chong homeless people, it is very lively. Lin Jian and the three of them bought a few meatloaf at the ferry, and waited for Lin Jingzhong to entertain the Chen Shuban of Moling County and the two officials before bringing them over.

"I just saw the people of the clan family in the restaurant," Lin Jingzhong came over and said to Lin Lian, "They picked people on the other side of the road, and I heard Chen Shuban say that the clan family has several granges in Shangyuan County, and they hired Zhuang Ke from among the displaced people, saying that they were looking for Zhuang Ke, but it was better to find a martial artist, and the stone lock of 100 catties was placed on the side of the road, and they carried one in both hands and walked up to 100 steps without panting, and they sent a bucket ......of rice on the spot."

"Let them go," said Lin Lian, "and they don't have a line with us." ”

The hereditary fief of the Marquis of Yongchang is in Yongchang County, Jiangxi, the restrictions on the hereditary marquis of this dynasty are very strict, the mansion is separated from the fief, and the fief is also levied by the local government on behalf of the silver, and it is strictly forbidden for the descendants of the lord to interfere, in addition, there are many restrictions, but at this time, the law is relaxed and abolished, and there are very few people who abide by their duties anymore. Besides, it's not just the Jiyun Society and the Fan Mansion that come to the north shore to recruit people.

"Lord Lin, can you start picking people, do you want me to let them help shout twice?" Moling County Hufang Chen Shuban asked Lin Lian, hoping that the yacha he brought over could also help.

"The rough work of yelling, let's just do it-" Lin Jian looked at Cao Ziang's figure at the other end of the dock, and said with a smile to the Chen Shuban of the Moling County household, "We choose people, and the Chen Shuban will record their names and township registrations, and we will bother the Chen Shuban to take them across the river tomorrow, so we will delay the Chen Shuban and the two senior brothers of the government and can't return to Moling County at night......"

"Lord Lin is really polite, your side is very important, if you can, I still think of your Lord Lin's subordinates on errands, what is the delay of two or three days-but, you can't say this to Chen Zhixian!" Chen Shuban said with a smile, he and the two officials did not dare to be sloppy when he and the two officials ordered the county Chen/Yuan Liang, and they were eating in the restaurant just now, and Lin Jingzhong gave each of the three of them a silver coin saying that it was the reward for these two days, and he was even more happy.

Lin Tie and they found a tea shop by the wharf, and took a tael of silver to take over the business of the tea shop in the afternoon, and Lin Tie and they wrote more than a dozen recruitment notices on Prison Island, and asked the guys from the tea shop to help post them on the wharf. It was only a time for tea, and the door of the tea shop was surrounded by the power sticks that came to apply, but fortunately, Lin Tie brought four guards and two officials from Moling County to maintain the order, otherwise the tea shop would have to squeeze out these power sticks.

There are locals who go to the wharf and ferry to work as coolies, but more of them are displaced people from Nanchong in this wave of displaced people. Cao Road is not passable, a liter of rice in the land of fish and rice in the south is only three or four coppers, in the north of the severe famine, a liter of rice is three, four times or even ten times the high price, straight to the death of people, this year to see the year will be a famine year, the government has increased the intensity of the bandits, they can only drag their families to the south, to find a way to avoid starvation, to block the north bank of the river can no longer go south to find that it is not easy to come to make a living.

If you can earn two liters of rice every day, it will be fine, at least you can feed your family, so many people on the key wharf, spread it evenly on everyone's head, and it would be good to find a job to do in three or four days.

Don't say that you can enter the county yellow book, even if you can have a long-term job, you have broken your head. Even as long as you drag your family across the river, even if you beg for food, it is a hundred times better than earning a bite to eat for so many people blocked on the north bank of the river.

Fanjia Grange said on the side of the road that it wanted to recruit customers, thousands of people surrounded it, some of them were weak, holding more than 200 catties in both hands and walking a hundred steps until they were about to vomit blood, and they were still holding on in front of the steward who recruited the bankers and pretending to be fine, but there were too many people who earned that mouthful of food, and I heard that this side was also recruiting workers, of course, they all flocked over to see if there was any hope here.

Looking at the crowded crowds outside the door, Lin Jian sighed in his heart, in troubled times, manpower is cheap, human life is also cheap, they were afraid that there would be too many people squeezed over, and the wage for work and food in the notice was only two hundred yuan per month, which was equivalent to two liters of rice a day, mixed with some rice bran and wild vegetables, barely enough to maintain the family from starving to death, this wage was more than half of the cheaper than the suburbs of Jiangning, but the tea shop still squeezed the hired force stick, Lin Jian asked Zhou Pu and Wu Qi to maintain order at the door, and also to ensure that the people arranged by Cao Ziang and them could come in to apply.

"You take ten taels of silver to exchange for copper coins," Lin Jian instructed Lin Jingzhong to take the silver and go to the back door to go to the copper coins, "Wait for a while to recruit workers, no matter whether you collect it or not, as long as you enter the tea shop, you will be given a pound ......of rice money for each."

"Great!" Lin Jingzhong agreed, and hurriedly pulled someone to accompany him out to exchange copper coins, ten taels of silver in his arms and no feeling, even if it was exchanged for ten Tongbao coins of one tael of copper, it would weigh eighty or ninety catties.

Ten taels of silver, the money for a table of wine in the feudal building, can buy 30 stone of rice, mixed with bran and wild vegetables, but it can provide 3,000 families with a day.

Lin Jingzhong exchanged copper coins, and Lin Jian asked the guys in the tea shop to take a few iron basins and put them in front of the table, to test people's literacy, and take a branch to let people draw two strokes on the sand. Ready, Lin Tie let people in outside, a servant at the table at the door to check the identity of the vagrants, Lin Tie and Lin Jingzhong respectively followed up to ask a few words, just look at the body to see if the body is strong, whether there is strength, the eyes are not flexible, the literate let people write a few words on the sand basin in front of the table, the unqualified people will be issued three coppers from the back door, and the qualified people will go to the Moling County Hufang Chen Shu's desk to record their names, receive three coppers, and then lead a special bamboo skewer to go, Let them take all their families to the teahouse early tomorrow morning and prepare to cross the river.

Moling County Hufang Chen Shuban also thought that hundreds of people would be recruited, not to mention that it would take three days, where did they think that Lin Jian and others would move so fast in the tea shop, watching the recruitment of people is the same as flowing water, and nearly 500 people were released in two hours to see, and this side is still in order and not chaotic at all.

It is said that looking at people and looking at the details, Chen Shuban thought to himself, this Lin has earned such a reputation in just a few months from Jiangning, it seems that it is really not in vain.

Lin Jian asked the outside to temporarily stop letting people in, let the tea shop guys bring tea soup and snacks over, let Lin Jingzhong and them rest for a while, took the roster recorded by Chen Shuban and looked at it, and said: "It seems that it will take two more hours to get things done...... Although only a hundred porters and forced laborers can be recruited in name, he and Lin Jingzhong have made their hearts, and the recruits are either brothers, or fathers and sons are in the prime of life, not to mention poor families, how can women pay attention to not leaving home? Those industrious and healthy rural women, who are lively and spicy, are no less than half a point worse than men, and when they have recruited more than 100 people, they can actually use more than 300 people.

After a short rest, after eating some refreshments to fill his stomach, Lin Jian asked the tea shop guys to help light the wind lanterns inside and outside the door, and they continued to work, and before the time came, they recruited a hundred people. At this time, the tea shop was still surrounded by recruited homeless people, and Lin Jian had nothing to do about it, at least on the surface, Jiyun Society could only recruit a hundred people, and he was not qualified to trample on those rules in Jiangning that were only superficially bluffing, in fact, he personally crossed the river to participate in the fundraising, and he was only sure that Cao Ziang and they could smoothly stuff people in. Moling County's Hufang Chen Shushu Office and the government officials do not see any doubts in today's recruitment process; To be honest, even if there is any suspicion, most of them will turn a blind eye when they get paid, and what the county magistrate Chen/Yuan Liang told them to do together, how can they say more than half a word?

Lin Jian asked Lin Jingzhong to stay in the tea shop and distribute the remaining thousands of copper coins before ending, and he first accompanied the Moling County Hufang Chen Shuban and two officials to the post house to eat and rest.

Lin tied them out of the back door of the tea shop, went around to the official road in front of the teahouse, there were people in front of the teahouse, and the houses and sheds built by the displaced people on both sides of the official road leading to Chaotianyi were very simple, the stumps, bamboo poles were used as pillars, thatched roofs, and the four walls were conditionally rammed on the earth wall.

There is no moon in the sky, but the starlight is bright, Lin Jian found a high ground, looking down, this kind of messy grass shed extends from the official road to the water's edge facing the sky, densely packed under the starry night, it looks like ten thousand wild graves as desolate. Compared to what I saw when I passed through here last winter, in less than three months, it has changed too much.

The spring water will rise, and most of the beaches under the official road will be flooded, but these homeless people can't care about this, and only the beach south of the official road to the sky and the water is a borderless place for them to stop temporarily.

In the middle of the night, it should have been silent, but when Lin Jian and them walked back to Chaotianyi, they encountered several groups of officers and soldiers arresting the homeless people. Jiangning Prefecture and the counties on the north bank of the river also strengthened their vigilance, and Lin Tie them returned late at night, and there were many patrols on the way.

The Chen Shuban of Moling County watched the officers and soldiers arrest people passing by, and joked with Lin Lian: "Lord Lin, this year's Jiangdao Prison is only afraid that it will be more lively than before......

"Hey!" In troubled times, the prison is always full, the homeless people want to beg for a way to live, steal and steal, the body is sturdy and carefree to take a meal of meat from the yamen, and even take the initiative to find something to go into the prison to eat prison food, Lin Jian only felt a little desolate in his heart, but he wanted to talk to people with a smile, "The yamen kidnap people, we are only responsible for storage, and the prison food is also allocated by the Xuanfu Envoy, so I don't have to pay for the prisoners out of my own pocket, what does it matter?" Tomorrow when you cross the river, you can't see it. ”

Lin Tie and the others walked to the front of the post house, and several black shadows rushed out from the side of the road to intercept the road.

"Eat the leopard's guts, get out of the way!" Zhou Pu immediately pulled out his knife and rushed in front of everyone, and Lin Tie also untied the knife from his waist behind him.

"The villains have no bad intentions, they just ask the adults to take them in and enjoy the food! The villains have nothing else, so they will provide for the messengers with all their strength. A few black shadows came out and didn't make any other moves, and they knelt down and begged to be taken in.

Under the light of the tall wind lantern on the flagpole of the Yuanmen of the post house, the five people kneeling in the middle of the road, the first two are a young man with yellow muscles and thin muscles, one is a little girl wearing a torn jacket, and the other three are men in the prime of life.