Lin Tie is tall, thin and handsome, with a resolute and capable temperament, on a cold day, wearing a clamp inside the cyan gown, a saber tied around his waist, and a red horse, he also has a bit of momentum. Before he came over, Zhou Pu, Chen Enze and Liu Yue'er all came over first, hugged him with Zhao Hu and dismounted, and took the jujube red horse away.

The Dongyang Township Party present looked at Lin Tie to the Jian Servant and the beautiful maid with an extraordinary bearing, even if some people had heard the rumors about Lin Tie before, they also felt that the rumors were really not credible, the so-called hearing is false, seeing is believing, and they all thought to themselves that the man in front of him was so generous, how could he be a cowardly and useless person?

Lin Mengde also had to admit that Lin Lian had some means, although the second son Ye Xuzong was forced to kneel with a knife in Luoma City, although there was no rumor, Lin Mengde was also very clear, and he was more vigilant against Lin Lian in his heart, and while leading Lin Lian, Yang Pu and others inside, he introduced a few people around him to them.

These people are several outstanding figures in the Dongyang Township Party in Jiangning, among which Wang Yuanliang, the magistrate of Moling County in the east of Jiangning Prefecture, is the most prominent.

Wang Yuanliang was born in a humble family, and this year is the year of no confusion. He Chongguan was admitted to the Jinshi for 2 years, and accumulated officials to Zhengqipinzhi County, Moling County, Jiangning Prefecture. He crossed the river the day before yesterday to visit Gu Wuchen at Chaotianyi, there were too many visitors, he sat down and talked with Gu Wuchen for half a cup of tea before leaving, I really don't know how deep an impression Gu Wuchen can be. The Chu Party is about to prosper, and Wang Yuanliang is also eager to label himself as the Chu Party, and when he heard that Gu Wuchen's confidant Yang Pu was coming to the hall at night, he chased after him in a car, wanting to get close to Yang Pu. For Lin Bin, Wang Yuanliang naturally appreciated that he could pass the township test in the year of the weak crown, but he could not make a special trip to the city for Lin Tie from Moling County to attend the banquet.

Equivalent to Wang Yuanliang's status in Jiangning, there is also Zhang Yubo, who joined the army of Jiangning Mansion Soldiers and Horses, Zuo Sikou, who was also a Jinshi who had been Chongguan for 2 years. Because of his authority, Zhang Yubo knew better than Wang Yuanliang about Gu Wuchen's assassination in Shiliang County, knew that Lin Jian saw that the assassin had a life-saving grace for Gu Wuchen, and was almost retaliated against by the assassin's party afterwards, and knew that Lin Jian had some status in Gu Wuchen's eyes. Seeing Wang Yuanliang eagerly walking shoulder to shoulder with Yang Pu, Zhang Yubo naturally cordially greeted Lin Lian.

Jiangning paper merchant Zhengye Tang Caidong Ye Kai is slightly behind half a step behind, Zhengye Tang is one of the largest paper shops in Jiangning, concurrently engaged in engraving and printing workshops, all the paper operated by the Lin Ji warehouse, his eldest son married Lin Tingxun's youngest daughter as a wife, and the Lin family has the closest relationship, naturally better than others know what the details of the forest in front of him before. Lin Mengde invited him to come to Lin Tie to wash the dust, but it was inconvenient for him to shirk it, but his attitude was cold, which was also Lin Mengde's original intention.

The three people introduced by Lin Mengde were all written down by Lin Tie. In addition to these three people, Lin Jian naturally had the deepest impression of Xiao Mi, the wealthy owner of Xiao Ji's pawn. Xiao Mi was worried that Lin Tie would hate the past, and he was even more afraid that he would take out the past and publicize it, which would ruin his reputation in the township party, and he was also very eager to come out to greet Lin Tie, and wanted to make up for the past, so he squeezed to Lin Tie's side, handed a gift list to Lin Tie's hand, and said affectionately: "Lin Gongzi is a young talent, Qiao Ju Jiangning, with us as a companion, it is really a fortunate thing, Xiao and the Dongyang Township Party made a congratulatory ceremony and invited Lin Gongzi to smile, Wang Zhixian and Zhang joined the army all expressed ......"

Lin Jian glanced at the gift list when he received it, Lin Mengde and Xiao Mi both gave twenty taels of silver as gifts, and the gifts of others were naturally far from being so generous, and they wrote a long list densely, I am afraid that there are no less than fifty or sixty people. Wang Yuanliang and Zhang Yubo's gifts are different from others, Wang Yuanliang presented a pair of lake pens, although the high-quality lake pens are worth two handfuls of silver, but show some thoughts; Zhang Yubo gave a white jade pendant, but at this time, he couldn't look at the real thing, and he didn't know how much the white jade pendant was worth. Lin Jian folded the gift slip into his arms, and thanked Wang Yuanliang, Zhang Yubo and others: "The two adults love Lin Tie so much, they are terrified, terrified, and ...... are afraid" also knew that today was just a dust washing banquet, if there was no active initiative of Xiao Mi, there would be no He Yizhi to say, and thanked Xiao Mi, "I have bothered Xiao Caidong." ”

"It should be, it should be ......" Xiao Mi said happily when he saw that Lin Lian understood his kindness.

Yang Pu took out a jade plate finger from his arms and handed it to Lin Bin: "Look at your thumb calloused when you practice archery, this jade plate finger is my He Yi with Tianqiao......" He saw that Lin Bin's dust washing banquet was so lively, Lin Mengde, Xiao Mi and others in Jiangning were also considered to be well-known figures in Jiangning who were so dedicated to Lin Tie's saddle before and after the saddle, Wang Yuanliang, Zhang Yubo and other people whose identity and status were higher than Lin Tie's were also slack off to the banquet, so he thought that Lin Tie could be appreciated by adults and really excelled, so he had the heart to put aside his prejudices about Lin Tie in the past, and hoped to get closer in the future.

"Don't dare to be, don't dare to be......" Lin Lian looked at the jade plate handed by Yang Pu and pointed to the beauty of Yuze, which was obviously Yang Pu's treasure, so he hurriedly refused to refuse.

"Master Gu invites you to the scene, you thank you for your own future; I want to wish you to move to Jiangning to Pengcheng, and if you refuse, it will chill my heart and Tianqiao's heart. Yang Pu said.

When others heard Lin Lian's resignation to thank Gu Wuchen for inviting him to the scene, they were all slightly shocked, Wang Yuanliang looked at Lin Lian seriously, thinking that he was young, but he didn't expect that he had the talent and insight that Gu Wuchen appreciated.

Lin Mengde listened to Yang Pu's words and felt bad: Yang Pu deliberately said these words to establish his reputation in the Dongyang Township Party. But he was not qualified to interrupt Yang Pu's words in front of Wang Yuanliang and Zhang Yubo.

Lin Lian took Yang Pu's jade plate finger smile into his arms, and hugged each other into the courtyard, and Lin Mengde and Xiao Mi introduced him to the other Dongyang Township Party in the courtyard.

Lin Jian couldn't remember so many people for a while, with that congratulatory gift list, these characters could go back and ponder slowly, and first went into the private room with Yang Pu, Wang Yuanliang, Zhang Yubo, Ye Kai, Xiao Mi, Gu Tianqiao, and Lin Mengde.

Wang Yuanliang and Zhang Yubo both relied on their identities, and retired first after three rounds of drinking, and the others left one after another when the wine was exhausted.

Lin Mengde was drunk with wine, but his mind was sober, and he and Lin Lian went to the door of the hall to send Yang Pu and Gu Tianqiao to leave by car. Lin Mengde still thought in his heart that Yang Pu said before entering the table that Lin Lian had refused Gu Wuchen's invitation to enter the curtain before Chaotiandang, he thought that Yang Pu could not say big things for Lin Lian, on the one hand, he was surprised that Gu Wuchen appreciated Lin Lian so much, Yang Pu's words did establish a prestige for Lin Lian among the Dongyang Township Party, on the other hand, Lin Lian's refusal of Gu Wuchen's invitation to enter the curtain confirmed Lin Mengde's speculation: Lin Lian came to Jiangning to replace him.

Lin Tie has the support of the Seventh Lady in Shanglin, and he is good friends with the Gu family, an upstart of the Chu Party in Jiangning, and he has a reputation in his body, Lin Mengde thought that Lin Tie was going to fight, and he really didn't have much confidence that he could keep the position of the head of Jiangning. During the banquet, watching Lin Jian socialize with everyone without stage fright, talk and laugh, Lin Mengde was also a little disheartened, gave up, and drank more wine. At this time, he came out to see Yang Pu and Gu Tianqiao leave, and as soon as the cold wind blew, his brain immediately sobered up, and he thought to himself: The second master Lin Tingli and the second son Lin Xuzong should not want to see the situation on Jiangning's side controlled by the seventh lady's people, do you want to send henchmen to contact the second master Lin Tingli or the second son Lin Xuzong tomorrow? Or there may be a glimmer of life.

"Uncle Mengde, today I want to thank Uncle Mengde for Lin Tie, Lin Tie still has something to discuss with Uncle Mengde......" Lin Tie looked at Lin Mengde, who was drunk with a dapped face, Zhou Pu, Zhao Hu, Lin Jing and others stood aside.

Lin Mengde was shocked, and glanced at Lin Jian suspiciously, thinking that he didn't want to wait for a moment and have a showdown now? This kid is too deceitful, I just hand over all the properties of Nuoda to you, what can you manage? Lin Mengde was moved in his heart, and said coldly: "Xiucai and virtuous nephew, if there is anything, you can tell me." ”

Lin Lian only didn't hear the resentment in Lin Mengde's words, and said: "Lin Lian didn't intend to offend the second son in Shanglin, it violated the clan rules, although the head of the family was lenient, Lin Lian also felt shameless to stay in Shanglin anymore, so he expelled himself from Jiangning......"

Lin Mengde thought to himself: You are still "unintentionally offended", so wouldn't intentionally offend you want to cut off the second son's head with a knife? Lin Mengde said in a loud voice: "These things are mentioned in the letter from Shanglin, and the fault is indeed not yours." ”

"After arriving in Jiangning, Lin Lian always wants to survive, but he has no shame to protect the family," Lin Lian said, "Lin Lian wants to set up his own door in Jiangning, set up a business, and ask Uncle Mengde to help him secretly......"

"Ahh Ren is Lin Meng is old and capable, and at this time he also stared at Lin Jian in surprise, he never expected that Lin Jian would come to Jiang Ning to be arrogant, and he would actually set up his own door, and he had no intention of competing with him for a seat.

Lin Lian ignored Lin Mengde's surprise, and continued: "In addition to tea and paper, there are no other famous products in Shiliang County that can be sold to other cities. His eyes were blazing, staring at Lin Mengde.

Lin Mengde's heart was still bitter.

Jiangning is the distribution center of Shiliang County's tea and paper sold to Jiangdong ten prefectures, with an annual sales of tea as high as 100,000 catties and more than 10,000 baskets of paper, accounting for more than 60% of Shiliang County's export tea and paper. When he was replaced, whoever wanted to step in to get a piece of the pie, Lin Mengde would naturally use all his scheming and means to make it bad, but after Lin Lian took advantage of his strength at this time, he proposed to stand on his own, and Lin Mengde found that he really had no excuse to refuse.

Lin Mengde finally understood in his heart why Lin Jian was so arrogant, if he didn't want Lin Lian to compete with him for the position of Jiangning's principal, he had to help him set up his own door in Jiangning.

Lin Jian raised a light smile at the corner of his mouth, and his eyes moved to the night at the end of the long street.

In this era, almost all the businesses that can make money are controlled by the imperial court, the government or the powerful people in various places, and if he wants to set up a business in Jiangning, he will rashly compete with other businesses or government-run workshops, and he will inevitably be strongly suppressed, even if there is a bloody incident, it is normal; What's more, he has already torn his face with Du Rong and swore that he would not stand on the other side, Qingfeng Xing is a huge threat to face when he opens his eyes, but he has not given him time to slowly explore and accumulate experience.

Lin Jian must first get a piece of the pie from the Lin Ji Warehouse to gain a foothold in Jiangning, at least hoping that he can smoothly transport the tea paper out of Shiliang County, and the merchant ship will not catch fire or sink in the river inexplicably on the way.

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PS: Red ticket, collection.