After a meal at noon, Lin Jian left Prison Island on a boat with a leaf of Wupeng.

The river water is surging in thin waves, like broken jade clusters, it seems that it has only been a few days, the river wind blowing on the face is no longer so cold, some water ducks float under the river embankment, watching the Wupeng boat sail coming, fluttering and flying for a while, and then falling into the water a little farther away.

"Lord Crow has been on Changshan Island, how is life over there? I was afraid that Mr. Qin would suffer and refused to tell us. Lin Jian sat at the bow of the boat and talked to Wu Qi and Zhou Pu, and the person who operated the boat at the stern of the boat was also Changshan Island Kou, who had changed his career by Liuma Kou. In the afternoon, Zhou Pu and Wu Qi personally went to Prison Island to pick up Lin Jian and take him to the shore.

Before the New Year's Festival, Wu Qi personally escorted Qin Chengzu to Changshan Island with a boatload of supplies, and when Wu Qi returned, Lin Jian had already gone to Prison Island, which was the first time he met Wu Qi after the New Year's Festival.

"Catching the northwest wind, I went to the island on the day of the New Year's Festival, and I didn't stop for a moment to make bread dumplings, and I also made new clothes overnight...... Before we went to the island, the island did not eat rice and noodles for a whole month, the sea fish were hungry, some people could adapt, some people went to the island and they had been having diarrhea, and there was no medicine, and there was a lack of winter clothes, and some grass sheds were built, and the wind was strong and it was blown away, and there were more than 10 people in poor health on the island, and they could not get through. Wu Qi said that the matter of Changshan Island, he came over in the sea of blood in Daoshan Mountain, the dead have seen a lot, life and death are also light, and after being sad, you can put sadness in your heart, and you will not be sad on your face, after all, if you transport a boatload of materials to Changshan Island before the New Year's Festival, the situation on Changshan Island will change a little.

Lin Jian thought about the situation on Changshan Island, even if there were no new people on the island, it would take almost two years to feed nearly 400 people, and it would take almost two years to replenish hundreds of stone rice grains, cloth, medicine, some iron tools, etc., every two months; Once the island is hit by a typhoon, the islanders will have to rely on land assistance to rebuild after their homes have been destroyed – which is why the development of the surrounding small islands is extremely slow to rely solely on private forces.

Wu Qi saw that Zhao Hu did not get on the boat with Lin Tie, and asked, "What about Brother Zhao Hu......

"Take this opportunity to let Zhao Hu enter the martial arts," Lin Jian told Zhou Pu and Wu Qi about the two days of prison clearance storms, "Let him stay on the island during this time, and I will run on both sides of the prison island and the estuary, not far, and I don't need him to follow ......."

In order to make Gu Wuchen completely reassured of himself, Lin Jian trained the martial soldiers guarding the prison island to reuse Yang Shi, but he also had to guard against Yang Shi's disobedience, so he directly let Zhao Hu also enter the martial arts and enter the martial arts sequence.

Speaking of which, Zhou Pu and Wu Qi's direct entry into the military is more conducive to him to firmly control the prison guards in his own hands in the future, but after all, the identities of Zhou Pu and Wu Qi cannot withstand too much scrutiny, and Zhao Hu is innocent.

Lin Lian, a small prisoner from Jiupin, can't afford to be accused of being a bandit and hiding a coward.

Everything is not absolute, when Li Zhuo was appointed as the procurator of Jiangxi, he went to the execution ground one day to be beheaded, and a Jiangyang thief begged Li Zhuo for a bowl of wine before being beheaded. The two looked at each other, Li Zhuo regretted his arrogance, and suspended the beheading on the spot, and the court cleared the Jiangyang thief to be accepted as a house slave. Li Zhuo entered Eastern Fujian to quell the rebellion, and this Jiangyang thief became the leader of his personal guards, and also brought many brothers from the grass to Li Zhuo as personal guards.

It's a pity that when Li Zhuo did that, he was already a third-grade local official, and Lin Zhuo was a big official, but he didn't have the qualifications to become a beautiful talker.

Zhou Pu and Wu Qi have been lurking at the mouth of the river for the past few days, staring at Prison Island, but they didn't expect such a big move on Prison Island, Wu Qi scratched the back of his head and said, "This Jinchuan Prison Island will be completely in your hands in the future?" ”

Lin Lian smiled, at this time, the boat arrived at the mouth of the Jinchuan River, and Lin Jingzhong, Lin Mengde and others, who were waiting on the shore, climbed to the river beach with one foot deep and one foot shallow, and the boatman dressed as a flowing horse behind the boat stretched out the board to the river beach and picked up Lin Jingzhong and Lin Mengde on the boat.

Lin Mengde and Lin Jingzhong stepped on the swaying board of the boat, and they were worried that they would fall into the water in this weather - this is the disadvantage of not having a dock.

The boat must eat a certain depth of water, and cannot completely lean on the river beach, but the small boat can be connected to the river beach with a hitch; The draft of the thousand-stone boats, especially the sharp-bottomed boats, is almost more than one zhang deep, and the slope of the river beach is very small, and the water of one zhang deep is often thirteen or fourteen zhang away from the shore, so it is necessary to take a long wooden plank of thirteen or fourteen zhang to connect with the river beach, and such a long wooden board must be used for hundreds or even thousands of years old trees. Even so, it will be quite laborious for goods and people to go down to the river beach, from the river beach to the river embankment, and it is far less convenient than having a wharf. Although there is a wharf outside the east city of Jiangning in the north of the Jiuweng Bridge, the Jiuwengqiao wharf is on the middle road of the Jinchuan River, where the Jinchuan River is only seventeen or eighteen zhang wide, and a few more boats can block the entire river, so the Jiangning government only allows official ships and military ships to be moored there.

In order to transport goods conveniently, it is necessary to build a wharf in an open estuary or directly on the riverbank.

"Listen to the scene, you build a wharf and a warehouse here?" Lin Mengde jumped on the boat, and Zhou Pu and Wu Qi stood up and gave up their seats to him and Lin Jingzhong.

"Well," Lin Tie nodded, he was not so particular about the boat, he lifted the iron kettle and scalded the cup with hot water, and took the cup that Zhou Pu and Wu Qi had drunk to refill the tea for Lin Mengde and Lin Jingzhong, "I can't leave Prison Island casually, so let Jingzhong invite Uncle Mengde over to discuss." ”

"If it was yesterday, I think this thing is too difficult to do, maybe I don't bother to go this way," Lin Mengde didn't play any sloppy with Lin Lian, he just regretted why Lin Lian was not a child of his own family now, he picked up the cup and took a sip of tea, it was the Iron Curtain High Foam Tea, put down the cup, looked at Lin Lian, and asked, "The matter on Prison Island, it's all your idea?" ”

"Uncle Mengde's news is really fast." Lin Jian smiled.

"How can it not be happy? Gu Wuchen escorted nearly two hundred people into the city, and I could hear it even if I was blindfolded......" Lin Mengde said.

"Right now, Master Gu sent Yang Shi to help me on the island." Only then did Lin Lian answer Lin Mengde's question just now.

Lin Mengde nodded, he didn't visit Gu Mansion once or twice, he knew everyone around Gu Wuchen, if Gu Wuchen didn't trust Lin Bin, he would send Yang Pu or Ma Chao to Prison Island to contain Lin Bin, and he wouldn't send Yang Shi, a hairy boy.

Although Jiangdao Prison is a sesame petty official from Jiupin, Lin Mengde is not the kind of person whose eyes will only be blinded by the size of the official rank, especially when Gu Wuchen made such a big move to clear Jiangdao Prison, he could also guess that Gu Wuchen was going to rebuild the prison city on Jinchuan Prison Island. The size of the official position is secondary, the key is to have real power, and it depends on whether this real power has other uses.

In the future, if all the heavy prisoners above the exile sentence in Jiangdong are imprisoned in the prison city, it is not difficult to imagine how strict the garrison of Jinchuan Prison Island, which is located at the southern end of Chaotiandang, will be strict in the future.

Lin Mengde touched the beard on his chin and thought for a moment, and then said to Lin Lian: "I heard that Jiyun Society took a business post from Moling County, and the principal amount is 20,000 taels of silver, but if you want to build a wharf and a warehouse by the river, you can't make a bottom of 20,000 taels of silver......" Lin Mengde naturally knew that the 20,000 taels of silver was a vain, he really couldn't imagine where Lin Lian could get 20,000 taels of gold, and he even suspected that Jiyun Society was an empty shell, except for the money that those foreign horse dealers got from buying horses in Shanglin; Besides, what is the origin of those foreign horse dealers, Lin Mengde has been suspicious in his heart so far.

"I can't fight to the end, and even if I have some silver in my hand, there are too many places to use it," Lin Jian said, "That's why I asked Uncle Mengde to discuss." ”

After Lin Mengde and Lin Jingzhong got on the boat, the boat went out of the estuary and stuck to the river bank to the west.

When the wharf was built in Shanglinli, Lin Mengde was still young at that time, and later when the wharf was expanded, he participated in it and knew how difficult it was to build a wharf at the mouth of the river between Shiliang River and Shanglin River, and it was even more difficult to build a wharf by the river at this time.

Lin Mengde looked at the bank stones that had been eroded by the river, pointed to the river beach under the boat, and said to Lin Lian: "If you want to pile up rocks until you reach the heart of the river where you can stop a thousand stone boats, you have to pile up a stone wharf thirty or forty zhang away - the river waves are too big, and it is definitely not possible to use soil, even if you use stones, you have to drive large wooden stakes to the bottom of the river and press the bottom with boulders." This project is too big, I'm afraid that it will be difficult for Jiangning Mansion to come forward to preside, if you want to rely on the strength of a few firms...... "Lin Mengde This is the first time to conduct a field trip, and the more he thinks about it, the more he retreats, building a small wharf by the river, and the silver consumption is also hundreds of thousands of taels, how many merchants are willing to take the silver out and take this risk.

"No, no, no, it's not as arduous as you imagined, Uncle Mengde, there are two ideas for building a wharf, one is to build a high platform on deep water, and the other is to dig a waterway to raise a platform. Nowadays, the conventional practice is indeed to build a high platform with stones and extend it to the deep water to facilitate the anchorage of ships. I have carefully studied with Jingzhong, Uncle Mengde, look at this river beach, we hired people to dig a deep channel from under the river beach to let the ship sail in and moor directly at the shore rock, which will greatly save manpower. The only difficulty is that the deep water channel will silt the river mud from time to time, and it is necessary to send people into the water to clear the water frequently......"

"......" Lin Mengde was stunned there, he thought he was well-informed, but he didn't expect that the construction of the wharf could follow such a line of thinking, think about it, in the final analysis, isn't it just to find a way to avoid making the cargo ship with a deep draft shallow and convenient to load and unload the cargo?

"Have you ever asked the construction master about it?" Lin Mengde asked.

"I asked, I looked for experienced masters, and at first people didn't believe that they could build a wharf by the river like this, and they took good wine and meat to take a closer look at the riverside, and they all thought they could give it a try," Lin Jingzhong said, "and according to the changes in the river water in different seasons, a complete countermeasure was prepared." If the stone bank is too high, you can chisel stone steps, which is much less labor-saving than building a stone platform to the center of the river. ”

Lin Mengde nodded, of course it is easy to chisel stones, first pile firewood to burn, and then boil cold water, one cold and one hot, a large piece of stone collapses, and it does not take much manpower to chisel a stone step that leads directly to the river beach.

Compared with building a high platform in the middle of the river, it is indeed much easier to dig a deep waterway, even if the waterway is dredged in the future, it is also easy to prevent the sun-to-moon erosion of the river after building a high platform.

Lin Mengde was strange in his heart: why is such a simple method not commonly used? If the embankment is a mound of earth, dig a deep channel under the root of the embankment, isn't it convenient for the embankment to collapse?

Lin Mengde looked at the river bank, thinking that it was no wonder that Lin Jian wanted to choose here, these rugged stone banks are all stone tires in the end, even if they dig ten zhang deep, they are not afraid that the stone bank will collapse the river.

Lin Lian, Lin Mengde, and Lin Jingzhong took a boat to inspect the location of the wharf suitable for digging deep waterways, and they heard the sound of horses' hooves, and the sound of horses' hooves stopped on the embankment overhead.

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PS: Chapter 2 is sent, red ticket, red ticket.