(The second update, ask for a red ticket)

In all dynasties, the complexity of the secret history of the court is not necessarily slightly worse than that of the official history.

From the assassination of Emperor Qingyu to the rebellion of King Yan and the Marquis of Jingbei, the accession to the throne of Emperor Delong, the rise of the Empress Dowager Liang and the Liang family, as well as the death of Emperor Delong, and the secret edict passed on to his younger brother, there are bloody secrets that are not humane.

In the brutal and bloody struggle for imperial power, the princes and generals are just passing by.

Coming out of the Yongchang Marquis's Mansion, the sun has been slanting in the west, Lin Tie is riding on horseback, squinting at the eaves of the sunset, the eaves are shining with golden light, he took the reins, and Ao Canghai said: ""Artemisia Lixing" is an excellent poem: the white bones are exposed in the wild, there is no rooster crowing for thousands of miles, the people are left behind, and the thought breaks people's intestines...... However, since Chen She, everyone only knows the sentence 'princes and generals, rather have a kind of'. ”

During the banquet, Ao Canghai stood behind Lin Lian, and from all indications, Yuan Guizheng was also a person who was unwilling to be lonely. If you want to say that the lord is Houlu, even if it is the prince of Zong, after nine generations, he will be reduced to a crowd, but the hereditary lord is the most rare, when there are only thirteen families in the world, the Marquis of Yongchang Mansion is one of them, does Yuan Guizheng want to learn from the eight surnames of Dongmin to split the soil and seal the marquis?

"I'm worried that the Marquis of Yongchang has also been in contact with the luxury family...... Ao Canghai said.

"How can this kind of character bet his chips on only one family?" Lin Lian smiled slightly and said, "The waves are coming, the clouds are alive and the waves are extinguished, let him go." Lin Jian didn't want to get entangled in the bloody struggle in the palace at this time, he could exchange for the opportunity for Su Mei to travel back and forth to Chongzhou freely, and it was impossible to get involved at all. What does the sea ship of the Marquis of Yongchang want to do from Chongzhou to and from Gyeonggi, Lin Jian plans to turn a blind eye, too lazy to care, and he can't get in the way of anything for the time being - in the face of the general trend, this kind of conspiracy and calculation hidden in the corner of the palace really can't be put on the table.

Seeing that it was getting late, Lin Jian went to Gu Mansion again.

In the afternoon, a charter was drafted for the evacuation of the prison island and the construction of the prison city, but the location of the prison city in Chongzhou has not yet been finalized. According to Xiao Xuanchou's recital and the opinions of Beijing's reply, you can choose a sand island at the mouth of the Chongzhou River.

There are already more than 34,000 Dingkou on Xisha Island, and the land that can be reclaimed as fertile land is only 156,000 mu, and there is not much rich wasteland. The most important thing is that Lin Jian already has a relatively complete plan for the reclamation of Xisha Island, and in addition to materials, there is no need to continue to increase the investment in manpower.

In addition to Xisha Island, there are dozens of large and small sandbanks near the mouth of the Chongzhou River, but the object of Lin Lian's eye is the Hecheng Grassland east of Chongzhou County, which is the Hecheng Grassland to which the Weiyang Salt and Iron Division belongs.

The salt made in the world is mainly boiled salt, also known as boiled salt.

A large amount of fuel is required for frying boiled salt, and the naturally growing reed grass in large areas of tidal flats in coastal areas provides a large amount of forage for frying boiled salt. In order to ensure the availability of forage, a large area of new silt land around the salt field is designated as grassland land belonging to the Salt and Iron Division, and only grassland households are allowed to plant wild grass, and villagers and displaced people are strictly prohibited from cultivating it.

The Hecheng grassland east of Chongzhou, even if the tidal flats are not counted, is larger than Chongzhou County. Compared with the more than 300,000 Dingkou raised in Chongzhou County, there are only more than 30,000 Dingkou grassland households in Hecheng Grassland, except for a small number of farmers near Hecheng Division, and the land is extremely wasted.

In fact, except for the method of frying sea and boiling salt, which consumes a lot of forage, the drying of salt in the field is not a top-secret advanced technology.

In the early years, there were records of salt drying in the fields in Wudi County, Shandong, perhaps because of the old bad habits, maybe it was a small range of salt drying in the fields, and the output was greatly affected by the wind and rain season.

Changlu and Huainan salt farms have also successively recorded the drying of salt in the field, but they have not been promoted.

Lin Lian knew that drying salt in the field was the general trend of the salt industry, and he couldn't control this for the time being, he was interested in a large area of land under the jurisdiction of Hecheng Grassland.

If hundreds of thousands of displaced people had been guided to the Hecheng Grassland to reclaim wasteland in the early spring of last year, the Hongzepu Rebellion would not have been able to make the scene it is today.

Chongzhou County's land resources are limited, most of the land has owners, all have tenant farmers to cultivate, Lin Tie in Chongzhou County is mainly to check the hidden fields, tenants, increase Chongzhou County's taxes, but can not accommodate too many displaced people, but Hecheng grassland is very promising.

Of course, the Hecheng Grassland provides six or seven million pieces of forage to the Weiyang Salt and Iron Division every year, and the Weiyang Salt and Iron Division provides the center with a salt tax of two million taels of silver every year.

The first step was to replace a thousand fields from the Hecheng grassland on the north bank of the Yangtze River to build a prison city, and other thoughts were not mentioned for the time being.

Lin Jian didn't want to be qualified to deal directly with the Weiyang Salt and Iron Division, he hoped that Gu Wuchen could come forward in the name of the Inspector Division, as for how much money would be spent behind his back, he asked Lin Mengde to take care of it personally.

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Lin Jian had dinner in Gu's Mansion at night before going out of the city, and when he returned to the estuary, he learned that Su Mei had asked the fourth lady to come to the cottage and asked him to take a trip to Xiaobaiyuan after he returned.

Rushed to Xiaobaiyuan, Lin Jian found that there were three more thirteen or fourteen-year-old girls around Su Mei, and without Su Mei saying anything, Lin Jian could also guess that these three girls were all girls from the Su family who were sentenced to the Jiaofang Division because of Su Hu's rebellion, and they must have been sent by Fan Ding.

"At dusk, Fan Ding asked someone to send it," Su Mei sent the person away, sat under the lamp, two lines of tears flowing down his cheeks, "I don't have any other unfulfilled wishes for such a result......

Lin Lian walked over and reached out to wipe the tears from her cheeks, Su Mei hugged his waist with her backhand, and fell into his arms and cried. Lin Jian made her cry for a while, and then said with a smile: "This is a good thing, you want to cry my new robe......

"You ......" Su Mei embarrassedly let go of her hand and wiped the tears off her cheeks with an embroidered handkerchief. Lin Tie grabbed her shoulder, and she snuggled meekly into his arms.

Lin Jian was tired from standing, and sat on a chair with Su Mei thick-skinned, and told Su Mei about going to the Yongchang Marquis Mansion for a banquet today, and said: "Yuan Guizheng thinks that he dragged me to the rebellion case of the year, and it doesn't make much sense to detain people or not, so it's better to pretend to be generous and send people over to show him." If you enter and leave Jiangning in the future, the clan family will not be particularly restrictive, I will prepare a ship for you......"

"You're in dire need of a ship there, what am I doing with a ship when I have nothing to do?" Su Mei shook her head and refused to Lin Jian to prepare a ship for her, "The merchant fleet of the Jiyun Society comes and goes to Chongzhou frequently, I want to go to Chongzhou to see you and Xiaoman, so I can take the merchant fleet of the Jiyun Society......"

Lin Lian held Su Mei's plump and round chin, looked at her charming and bright eyes under the lamp, and wanted to let her sit on her lap, but she was afraid that she would be surprised, so she only said: "It's okay, this time you go to Chongzhou with me first, and the Su family should also officially recognize each other - these things must be told to Xiaoman in person before they become ......."

"Okay." Su Mei was a little embarrassed to stare at Lin Lian, and struggled a little to lower his head, put his ear to his chest and listen to his heart beating vigorously and vigorously, thinking about sitting like this for the rest of his life. When the lamp and candle burned out, he thought that Lin Jian still had a lot of things to do in Jiangning, so he stood up and pushed him to leave.

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On June 28, Lin Xuwen's reply came back to Jiangning from Jinhai, and he also agreed that the body of his father Lin Tingxun should be immediately moved to Chongzhou for burial.

Jiangning invited a monk to do the practice for eleven days before and after, and other things were also prepared, and the coffin was officially moved to Chongzhou for burial on the second day of the seventh month.

Lin Jian and Su Mei rushed ahead on 29 June, and in addition to the second battalion of the Jinghai Sea Camp, there were more than 1,700 prisoners and officials on the prison island.

In addition to the fleet of the Jinghai Battalion, Jiyun Society also organized more than 60 additional Wupeng boats to transport prisoners.

In July, the river is in full bloom, down the water, like a galloping horse, although the moon is shining at night, the stars are bright, which is conducive to night sailing. Set sail early in the morning of June 29 and arrived at Guanyin Beach on Xisha Island at noon on June 30.

Prison Island has long been used as a large prison outside the city by the Inspectorate of Justice, where prisoners are held for minor crimes who have been sentenced to one to three years in prison. These prisoners are not very harmful, and even more than half of them are tenants who cannot afford to pay taxes to the officials and detainees.

When I was in Prison Island, although the food and clothing were not good, I had enough food to eat, clothes to wear, free decoction and medicine when I was sick, and even a small amount of wages every day, and I was quite diligent and orderly. It was they who propped up more than a dozen workshops on Prison Island.

After Lin Jian arrived in Chongzhou, he also set up some workshops in Xisha Island.

In the early stage, these workshops were mainly used to solve the needs of ordnance, warships, war equipment, armor, shoes and hats, clothing and other materials within the Jiangdong Left Army, as well as the production and construction of Xisha Island and the survival and living needs of the islanders.

These workshops have only been in operation for less than two months, and what they lack is skilled craftsmen. The vast majority of the displaced people resettled on Xisha Island are farmers, and very few of them can do handicrafts. A group of artisans were hired on Xisha Island, but the number was very limited, after all, most people in this era who could eat a bowl of hot soup and rice at home were reluctant to leave their hometowns.

Nearly 8,000 members of the Xihe congregation and their families moved to Chongzhou to solve some problems, but the craftsmen of the Xihe Guild mainly concentrated in the field of building inland waterway ships. The establishment of a shipyard has drained more than half of the craftsmen of the Xihehui, but craftsmen who burn bricks to build houses, make coking coal and make iron, make armor pieces, knives, and make various copper and iron castings and tools are still extremely scarce.

Prison Island has been in business for a year and a half, and among the nearly 1,500 prisoners, there are more than 300 skilled craftsmen, and the others are more or less skilled in manual work, and can be directly arranged to work in the workshop, which can be regarded as a relatively complete solution to the most troublesome problem on Xisha Island.

Sun Geng, the chief of the Zhengjiupin Prison City, also moved his family to Chongzhou this time, and he also crossed the threshold from an official to an official with difficulty. In the afternoon, he stepped on the soil of Xisha Island and took a long breath, hard to believe that a year ago, it was a desert island, and more than 20,000 people had drowned due to typhoons and tidal recharge.

After Lin Tie arrived in Chongzhou, the boat docked directly at the South Cliff Wharf of Zilang Mountain, and asked Hu Zhiyong to arrange a small courtyard for the eldest Sun Geng's family in the enclosed building on the east bank of the Xiaoman River in Guanyin Beach.

Everything on Xisha Island is taken care of by someone, as long as more than 1,000 prisoners are brought to Chongzhou, they are all arranged in an orderly manner. After arriving at Xisha Island, Lin Jian also asked Changsun Geng to rest for two days first, arrange his family and then do his work, and asked Hu Zhiyong to give Changsun Geng a clear introduction to the situation on Xisha Island.

"The roads on the island are more neat on the Guanyin Beach, and the eldest grandson wants to go out and walk around and talk to me, or go directly to the horse camp to borrow a ......horse," Hu Zhiyong said.

"Everything on the island will be troublesome in the future." Changsun Geng said.

Hu Zhiyong is the Li Zheng of Xisha Island, and the eldest Sun Geng is naturally commensurate with Li Zheng, but he knows in his heart that in addition to the two battalions of garrisons, Hu Zhiyong and Sun Jingxuan are Lin Lian's henchmen on Xisha Island.

After getting along for so long, the eldest grandson Geng is also quite happy and convinced of Lin Lian's behavior, and he came to Chongzhou, not to covet an official title of Zhengjiupin, but also to hope that he can do more with Lin Lian, and naturally wants to cooperate with Hu Zhiyong in many things.

"Your Excellency is polite," Hu Zhiyong said with a smile, "or I will take you to the enclosed house where the prisoners are housed and have a look, and your Excellency will instruct you not to build an additional wall to separate it from Guanyin Beach; However, he also instructed the prison on the island to be the eldest grandson, and after the eldest grandson saw it, please tell me if he has any orders......

"Let's go to the surrounding house and take a look first......" Changsun Geng also couldn't sit still.

Guanyin Beach is specially vacated on this side of the three surrounding houses, all concentrated on the beachhead on the east side of Guanyin Beach, and then to the east is a peach forest, the beachhead silt ground has a stone brick dam, three or four rows of miscellaneous trees are planted on the shore, all of them have grown seven or eight feet high, and the crown of the trees also looks quite good.

The enclosing house is very large, a surrounding house covers an area of almost fifteen or sixteen acres, arranged in the shape of a zigzag, the middle is a common rammed earth drying field, there are five or six acres of land, and the doors of the three surrounding houses are facing the drying field. According to Lin Bin's instructions, there were no additional walls outside the three surrounding houses, and on the whole, there was not much difference from other buildings in Guanyin Beach except for the enclosed towers and military fortresses.

Xisha Island arranged a lot of reception personnel, Zhao Hu also led the jailers to supervise the side, and more than 1,400 prisoners were orderly holding quilts, pots and other things to enter the surrounding room. The eldest grandson Geng and Hu Zhiyong came over, almost already arranged, and the smell of meat came from the room, Hu Zhiyong smiled: "Everyone is a newcomer, and there is wine and meat in the first meal...... I heard from the adults that the eldest grandson doesn't mind eating and drinking with the prisoners, so why don't we have dinner here too? ”

"Very good," Changsun Geng said with a smile, "There is wine and meat, what more can you ask for?" ”

After a while, Sun Jingxuan also rushed over to meet with Changsun Geng, and discussed with Changsun Geng about the prisoners entering the workshop to work.

Except for the prison island warriors led by Changsun Geng and Zhao Hu, the ordinary prison officials and yacha did not follow, but the prison island prisoners have formed a system of prisoner autonomy, and there are a group of people who voluntarily stay and work after the end of the prison sentence, and some people are also selected from them to serve as prison officials, and they are more conscientious than the previous prison officials and yacha.

This is also the reason why the more than 1,400 prisoners who have been evacuated from Prison Island and moved to Xisha Island have not been chaotic at all.

Even after settling down on Xisha Island, the more than 1,000 prisoners gathered in the enclosed house at night to rest, organized drills in the early morning, and after having a meal, the prison officials and cell leaders led them to work in various workshops, ate in the workshop at noon, and returned to the enclosed house for collective dinner after dusk.

For most of the misdemeanor prisoners who are sued because they can't afford to pay the rent and taxes, they have a job to do, they have enough to eat, and a small amount of salary can be saved to subsidize their families, work for half a month, and even give them a day off. Perhaps the biggest worry is that I don't know what to do after my sentence is over.

Prison Island has been operating for more than a year, and this whole set of methods has also proved to be very effective.

The real headache is the steady stream of exile prisoners who will be sent to Chongzhou next. The vast majority of exile prisoners are felony prisoners, and many of them are rogues and bandits who kill people without blinking, and the geographical distribution is very complicated, with criminals in Jiangdong, Liangzhejiang, Jiangxi, Shandong, Zhongzhou, Jinghu, and Jingchu counties.

Changsun Geng didn't know how Lin Lian would deal with those exiles, and looking at Lin Lian's arrangement, he probably wouldn't place the exiles on Xisha Island.