Lord of the House

"This boat is so fast..." Zhao Qinmin watched the two sides of the strait retreat quickly, and compared with the carriages advancing on the river embankment, he also felt that the boat was sailing very fast in the Jinchuan River.

"..." Lin Bie laughed. The three masts of this thousand-stone ship are more than 80 feet high, with a total of 15 sails. , so that the speed of this ship is much higher than that of ordinary sailboats. This kind of fast sailing boat has even set a record of sailing five or six hundred miles day and night by taking advantage of the wind force at sea. If it weren't for the Longjiang Shipyard who smashed the ship in his hand and asked to let it go, and if the Caolu Road was prosperous in the past, this ship might not be able to be bought for five thousand taels of silver. Lin Bie booked another two fast sailing boats of the same type in Longjiang Shipyard again, and added a symbolic 500 taels of silver to the Longjiang Shipyard's chief officer. Will boast to Zhao Qinmin that the advantages of this ship in the sea will be more obvious, he just smiled, "Transfer goods, I'm afraid of slowing down. If you transfer goods once a year, you will get 30% of the profit, and if you transfer more than once, you will get doubled...I This man is obsessed with money, and it really humiliates the reputation of the scholar."

"Master Lin is really humble." Zhao Qinmin said with a smile, thinking that Lin Fu was arrogant and domineering after he came to Jiangning. Prison officials and prison guards have always been a position despised by scholars and scholars. In addition, Lin Fu was highly regarded in Jiangning and was despised by the mainstream. His miscellaneous studies and craftsmanship made his reputation among scholars and Confucian scholars indeed not very good.

These did not prevent Lin Bie from mingling in Jiangning. Although Qingliu disdained it, probably no one from the powerful family inside and outside Jiangning City ignored Lin Bie anymore. Gu Wuchen also trusted him.

Of course, Lin Fu was worthy of Gu Wuchen's trust in him. He helped Gu Wuchen to open up a new situation in a short period of time and gain a firm foothold in Jiangning. More than 30 first criminals who were imprisoned at the estuary have been released one after another. Although Zhao Qinmin didn't know how much money Gu Wuchen got out of it, he knew it was definitely not a small number. In short, Gu Wuchen visited Hekou twice these days, and he was very happy and smiling, and he would hold Lin Bie's shoulders to show his intimacy and extraordinary relationship.

The gongs and drums sounded in the distance to welcome the Qianshi boat into the port. Although Gu Wuchen did not come in person, dozens of Dongyang Township Party members came to the estuary to congratulate and waited on the river bank.

On the estuary side, the dams that blocked the water have been removed, and a deep water channel has been dug with tens of thousands of man-hours, so that the thousand-stone ship can directly dock on the river bank without worrying about being stranded on the river beach. Although it will take some time to excavate the stone steps platform of the Jiang'an Wharf, using the ropeway and the temporary plank road built on the rock wall of the river cliff, it is already possible to load and unload the ships berthed at the shore.

Besides, this Thousand Stone Ship will have to train in Chaotian Dang for some time before it can be officially launched.

Zhao Qinmin squinted at Lin Fu, Lin Fu promised to make him responsible for inviting the Dongyang Township Party to build the estuary together, and he took it seriously and did not send anyone else to restrain him. Gu Wuchen sent Gu Siming to the estuary. Although Lin Fu had an old rift with Gu Siming, he did not prevent him from participating in the estuary affairs.

In addition to the great benefits that can be expected in the future, the joint construction of the estuary will also help consolidate the power of the township party. Gu Wuchen really needs these most when he is based in Jiangning. Lin Mengde took the lead, Ye Kai, Xiao Mi and other Dongyang Township Party, who were doing business in Jiangning, also responded positively. In addition to the five hundred silver donations from the carriage and horse sidewalks, the shops and streets that were stacked from the Jiangan pier and connected to the embankment pier were also used. The granite paving and the grass market where the front of the shop is connected to the sidewalk for carriages and horses also used granite to pave the floor and build a awning with blue tiles. To this end, the Dongyang Township Party pledged a total of nearly 4,000 taels of silver. Of course, the land where shops can be built on both sides of the long street are also distributed to each family according to the donation of silver. After the grass market is completed, it will be jointly managed by each company, which is converted into 36 silver shares. Liang and Zhang Yubo each own two shares, and the other twenty-four shares are shared by each company.

In addition to the berth of the river bank pier which can be used to park large ships, the river bank pier has also been built to accommodate many small and medium-sized passenger and cargo ships by using the open waters and beaches of the estuary. If you don't consider the gangsterism of Caotiandang, it is indeed an excellent land and water wharf. The ferry from Chaotianyi to Jiangning City does not need to go to Qixia Ferry, which is more than 60 kilometers away, or Rao to Longzangpu Sanchao in the south of the city. The estuary is docked. After all, the nearest ferry to Jiuweng Bridge is too small to accommodate official ships. The pier in Quyang Town is too limited to the inland, and is limited by the river and bridges across the river. Neither go in.

During Zhao Qinmin's time in Hekou, he truly appreciated Lin Fu's ability to use the world. It was really Gu Wuchen's strong support after he arrived in Jiangning. In addition to many things, it is a clear example that there is no extravagant hope to take full advantage of the estuary, but Zhao Qinmin also has a strange doubt: how much financial resources does Jiyun Society hide?

The early foundation-laying of the estuary, including the construction of the river bank, the embankment pier, the construction of the surrounding house and the bamboo hall, and the recruitment and resettlement of refugees, were almost all provided by the Jiyun Society. It was not until the first ten days of April that the estuary construction funds were transformed into major projects. Raised from the Dongyang Township Party, Zhao Qinmin estimated that Jiyun Club invested no less than six or seven thousand taels of silver in the early stage.

Although after the prison was cleared, there were a lot of vacancies in the prison island's military officers and officers. Lin Fu was able to manage the prison island, and Zhao Qinmin couldn't see the detailed account of the prison island. However, Gu Wuchen came to check twice, and he had the opportunity to accompany him to the prison island. Take a look and see it on the spot, you can see that the lack of vacancies is far from making up for Lin Fu's investment in Prison Island in the early stage.

The case of escaping prison and seeking punishment was also submitted to the Ministry of Punishment in a document by the inspector and envoy, and Lin Fu was also awarded the top grade in the spring performance assessment of the official inspector.

In the current dynasty, in addition to the previous official positions, the dispersal of ranks is also an important basis. Unless you have special achievements, you must follow the rules of rank and grade. Similar to the rules of later generations at the stock level, section level, and division level, if you want to entrust a county magistrate, you must select a deputy division level cadre to promote it. Without the support of super boss-level characters, I really don't believe it.

Although his duties remained the same, it was a rare honor for Lin Fu, who was born in Zhuzi, to be awarded the Ninth Grade Loose Rank after half his career.

Lin Fu didn't care about these, and Zhao Qinmin could also roughly judge from the incident of escaping prison and seeking punishment. In addition, the officials and soldiers on the island were well-fed and treated well, and it was not enough that the food and work money allocated by the Xuanfu Envoy was enough to cover the expenses.

In the past three months, four or five hundred acres of wasteland have been reclaimed on the island, hundreds of sheds have been built, a number of fishing gears, a number of weaving and spinning wheels, a number of furnaces, a number of boats, two new warehouses outside the high wall, and new piglets have been purchased. There are more than 200 sheep and cattle and tens of thousands of poultry on the beach. All these have to be scattered with a large amount of silver. Only four flying chariots and warships have added silver as high as 1,600 taels. In addition to the military soldiers, an additional forty-four oarsmen are required.

In Jiangning City, in addition to the noble and the official households and the official households, the ordinary city households are divided into ten grades. The main basis for the classification here is family property, which is also a concrete manifestation of the superiority of the merchants of the Dayue Dynasty. A family property of 300,000 yuan can be classified as a high-class household, and even in the prosperous Jiangning City, a family property of 10,000 yuan can be regarded as a rich man.

Zhao Qinmin was sure that Lin Fu had invested more than ten million dollars in the river mouth and prison island in the past few months. At this time, he added a large sailboat of 3,000 taels of silver, and bought three more at a time. In addition to the one under his feet, there are two large sailboats of the same size being built in the dock of Longjiang Shipyard. Zhao Qinmin really couldn't guess how much financial resources Jiyun Society was hiding.

It is said that Lin Fu was the abandoned son of the Lin family, and he was expelled to Jiangning only when he offended his family, but Zhao Qinmin couldn't imagine the truth. But in any case, Lin Fu's status is comparable to that of Chen/Yuanliang, Zhang Yubo and others. Although he is regarded as Gu Wuchen's family, he is Gu Wuchen's cronies, but unlike Yang Pu and Yang Shi's entourage and servants, Lin Fu is different. While relying on Gu Wuchen, it does not prevent him from expanding his power.

Lin Fu didn't know what Zhao Qinmin was thinking. He considered that such a large-scale distribution of silver in the estuary would arouse suspicion from others. In addition to the purchase price, the more than 32,000 taels of silver that have been earned in the past few months have been spent, and there are less than 10,000 taels of silver left on the account. Do not be afraid of doubts, it is more troublesome to cause others to covet, bandits come to the door is still a small matter, if there is no power, it is also a common thing to trap the government and go to prison. But as long as Gu Wuchen is still sitting in the seat of the deputy envoy of the Jiangdong inspector, Lin Fu doesn't have to worry that someone will attack Jiyun Club in Mingli. As for the Gu family, not to mention that Gu Wuchen is still a person who loves friendship. Apart from the 1,000 taels of silver shares promised by Jiyun Society to the Gu family, in the incident of Dongchengwei and Shijing’s impact on the estuary, the Gu family’s income is more than 30,000 taels. Silver, and the location of the estuary, Lin Fu also gave it to the Gu family. As for whether the Gu family can control Zhao Qinmin and Gu Siming, it is not something Lin Fu can consider.

After transferring the heavy responsibility of the construction of the river mouth to the Dongyang Township Party, the money spent by Jiyun Society on infrastructure construction has been significantly reduced, but the expenditure on the training of new military soldiers and military guards, as well as the recruitment and resettlement costs of military households and refugees A substantial increase.

Although Jiyun Club has not yet started a large-scale business, after entering April, the new tea produced by the Gu family this year has only arrived in Jiangning in small batches for marketing, but ten large spinning wheels on the prison island can produce more than 300 catties of yarn day and night, which is enough There are 145 spinners in Jiangning City, and the monthly surplus can reach 200,000 yuan, which is more than the former prison guard forced the female prisoners to sell themselves in the brothel of Quyang Town for profit. The prisoners in the prison island increased the number of launching fishing boats to six. In addition to the shallow water fishing on the river beach, in addition to supplying the needs of the prison island and the estuary, nearly 300 catties of salted fresh fish could be sold to fishmongers every day. The salt needed for fish is purchased from official salt merchants, and the profit from kibbing is not even as good as fresh fish, but at this time, it is necessary to lay the foundation for the use of private salt in large quantities in kipper in the future. The iron workshop in the prison can basically meet the consumption of iron tools on the prison island, and can also supply the estuary. The earliest planted vegetables also began to be produced, which can supply prison island and estuary.

At first, the recruited migrants and young adults were all divided into different places, and the workers in Hekou gradually became mainly children from the Dongyang township. However, there were still more than 100 young and middle-aged women and nearly 200 family members of the newly established military households to be resettled. Naturally, there is not enough land here for them to cultivate, but it cannot support them in vain. Lin Fu sent Jiyun Society to build a weaving and spinning workshop in Hekou. Before the workshop was completed, he purchased a large number of ordinary spinning wheels and sent them to each family. www.uukanshu.com is uniformly supplied by Jiyunshe to various spinning houses and then sold to all textile and textile workshops in Jiangning City by Jiyunshe.

Although Jiyun Club is still unable to make ends meet at this time, it has passed through the bottom-up period of the largest consumption of silver, and the support gap is also shrinking at a visible rate every day. If Zhao Qinmin could really see the detailed account of the prison island, his surprise at this time would have increased by a few percent.

It is said that "seeking money with power, seeking power with money", in Lin Fu's view, the money spent is the money, and ensuring the balance of revenue and expenditure of Jiyun Club is the most important thing.

Lin Fu remembered the last time he went back to the city and heard Gu Wuchen say that Qin Chengbo had privately melted all the silver ingots he had collected in Jiangning in the past three years into large silver **** each weighing a thousand taels to prevent theft. With a sigh, he guessed in his heart: Qin Chengbo will leave Jiangning and go north with hundreds of big silver balls?

When the galleon arrived at the estuary, the gongs and drummers on the quay on the river bank made more and more efforts, and the drums were beaten loudly. The big and small loach commanded his subordinates to control the sailboat out of the estuary to the west and turn against the current to the deep water channel that entered the pier on the river bank to enter the berth.

Lin Bing stood on the bow deck, watching from a distance there was a light boat going down the river from the east. A few people stood on the light boat pointing at the prison island. The sailboat sailed out of the estuary, which also attracted their attention to look back. .

These people are all dressed in long shirts and scarves. There is nothing surprising, but there are two fast oar boats on both sides of this light boat. There are more than a dozen men sitting on the boat in an orderly manner. sharp.

Lin Fu was curious: who are these scribes, and the dozens of escorts that Qin Chengbo is close to don't have dozens of guards and Jianrui? It's just that they are far away, and they can't see their details clearly.

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