Lord of the House

After Lin Mengde left, Lin Fu and Zhou Pu went down the river beach, stepped on the pebbles, walked to Jiang Ya where they had chosen to build a stack dock, and set aside the guards and soldiers to be alert; after a while, Lin Jingzhong led Cao Zi'ang, Hu Qiaozhong, and two strong men in ragged clothes with straw ropes tied around their waists to the river beach below.

"Master Lin, these two are brothers Ge Cunxin and Ge Cunxiong whom I mentioned to Master Lin a few days ago. Their real names are rarely known to outsiders. Others call them Bailang Loach, also known as Big Loach and Xiao Loach. The fishermen supported them, but they hated them to the core of the government, and arranged to enter the Jiyun Club with 30 people, most of whom were the brothers of Master Big Loach and Master Xiao Loach..." Cao Zi'ang said.

"What Bailang loach, it's just a loach in the mud. It can't get along on Huai River. Cunxin and Cunxiong ask Master Tan to keep him." The Ge brothers clasped their fists and saluted Lin Fu.

Lin Fu was stunned for a moment, and immediately wanted to understand that the Ge brothers only thought that Lin Fu was his pseudonym, and Tan Zong, the Donghai fox, was his real identity. It's the bitter brothers hanging out together, call me Lin Fu in Jiangning..."

"Master Cao has already ordered us to call Master Tan as Master Lin in Jiangning." Ge Cunxin said.

"Hehe, what is called is nothing more than a title..." Lin Fu smiled and stood by the river beach to discuss how many brothers of Ge's brothers were incorporated into Jiyun Society as guards and how many sailors were incorporated into the fleet. In the end, Cao Zi'ang had to be guaranteed. With the Ge brothers, you can completely control a three-masted thousand-stone ship.

If the loach master Ge Cunxin was in his early 40s, he would be in the wind and waves all day, with dark and rough faces and thorny stubble. Sturdy, with bright eyes, his impression is that he is directly the head of the merchant ship's escort; the little loach master Ge Cunxiong is only in his early thirties. Apart from his face-like appearance with his elder brother, his image is much more polite, and he can be a merchant ship together with Cao Zi'ang. In charge.

In fact, Ge Cunxiong, the little loach master, really went to the county school and studied for a few years. The Ge family in Xuchang Mansion on Huaishang should be classified as a "rich and powerful family". Although they are civilians, they have a great influence on the fishermen in the Nanru River Basin. After Xuchang Prefecture established the Hebo Institute to collect river donations, Ge Cunxiong, as a child of the Ge family who had attended the county school, was also appointed as the Hebo Institute. Since the war on the northern front has been intensified, the She family has once again launched wars in the southeast, and the taxation of the people in the central and western regions has become more and more serious. The fish tax is levied, the fishermen are struggling to survive, and there is a sharp conflict with the government. The Ge family resolutely stood on the fishermen's side, and Ge Cunxiong resigned from office, and together with his elder brother Ge Cunxin and other children of the Ge family secretly organized fishermen to steal fishing and fight donations.

After the horse bandit Chen Hansan returned to the government, the power of the anti-theft camp in Xuchang Prefecture increased greatly, and the Ge family suffered a great blow. Ge Cunxin's three sons hanged two of them at the anti-theft camp, and Ge Cunxiong's wife also hit Zhu died before the government office.

This time, Cao Ziang returned to Huai to pull the troops. In addition to the Ge brothers who brought nearly 30 people directly to Jiangning to join the Jiyun Club, Ge Changgen, the eldest son of Ge Cunxin, led the fishermen and dragged their family to go to sea in batches along the Huai River with 300 or 400 people. Changshan Island.

"People are coming to the island one after another, and Changshan Island will soon exceed 1,000 people - just unilaterally importing materials from Jiangning to Changshan Island consumes too much. On the one hand, Jiyun Club needs to operate for a long time to be the backing of Changshan Island for a long time." Cao Zi'ang frowned slightly, and said with a worried expression on his face, "I have been thinking about this matter these days, and there are some in Changshan Island. What kind of materials are sent to Jiangning in order to maintain balance..."

"Make a cabin and bring salt here!" Lin Bie said.

"Private salt?" Cao Ziang frowned and asked, "Will it be too risky?"

In the past, salt, iron, tea, horses and other goods were exclusively sold by the government. Salt merchants paid 3,000 yuan for copper to salt and iron envoys and received 200 catties of salt from the salt field. This means that production and marketing costs are not calculated, and only direct The salt tax paid to the yamen of salt and iron envoys reached 15 yuan per catty of salt, and eventually the price of salt in Jiangning and other places reached a level equivalent to that of meat and oil.

Although the criminal law of this dynasty can sell 30 kilograms of illicit salt on the spot*, but such huge profits lure, the illicit salt peddlers are also repeatedly banned, and there are even wealthy families who have been selling illicit salt for generations in Huai’an Prefecture and other places. When Qin Chengzu and the others rescued Cao Zi'ang and Siniangzi in Qingjiangpu, they got some assistance from the local private salt dealers. Qin Chengzu and the others had no difficulty in obtaining private salt. They could even organize people to cook sea salt on Changshan Island.

It is not a problem to get smuggled salt or even smuggle it to Jiangning, but it is extremely difficult to sell the smuggled salt secretly in Jiangning.

"Every day, ten prisoners on the prison island can catch three or four hundred fish every day with simple tools such as net bags and fishing rods. If more people are used to pull the net with fishing boats, they can even buy fresh fish directly from the nearby fishermen," said the prisoner. How many catties of fish can the island use to make kippers every day?" Lin Bie asked with a smile.

"Wonderful, it's a wonderful plan, I've been exhausted these days, and it's not as good as Master Lin's strategy..." Cao Zi'ang gave Lin Fu a word, and shouted in his voice, "A pound of pickled fish consumes two taels of salt. , Picking 2,000 catties of fresh fish every day requires 400 catties of salt. Even if you buy 100 catties of official salt to hide people’s eyes and ears, you can mix in 300 catties of private salt, and you can mix tens of thousands of catties of private salt in a month…”

When the Ge brothers heard it, their eyes were bright. Cao Ziang and the others brought a letter from Qin Chengzu when they joined the team. In the letter, they said that the Donghaihu was so clever and talented. They came over with doubts in their hearts. The clever strategy of using pickled fish to hide and sell private salt, I thought that Qin Chengzu might not be bragging. They heard Cao Zi'ang talk about the situation between Prison Island and Jiyun Club. The transportation of salt, fishing, pickling, and transportation and sales were separated. How could outsiders see that they were playing tricks on the pickled fish?

"If Changshan Island can transport 100 stone salts every month, it will almost be able to balance the account," Lin Fu said with a smile. He also tried his best to think about these things. Changshan Island maintains a scale of thousands of people. To ensure sufficient combat power, there must be sufficient material support, otherwise Qin Chengzu and the others have the ability to train and lead soldiers, and they will not be able to make hungry soldiers like tigers. To use salt is to feed the pigs on the island. You need to add 100 pounds of salt to the forage to make the pigs grow faster, but this official salt is too expensive. …”

Lin Fu said that the words of pickling fish and raising pigs fit the temper of the Ge brothers, and he laughed when he heard it.

Lin Fu asked Cao Zi'ang again, "Where are my sister-in-law and nephew Wenlong?"

Lin Fu will buy a thousand stone ship in the name of Jiyun Club and give Cao Zian full responsibility. At least in name, Cao Zian is the number one important person in Jiyun Club. If other forces want to explore the foundation of Jiyun Club, they will check Jiyun at all. If Cao Ziang, an important figure in the company, is alone, even if the household registration of the tooth card is made perfectly, it will make people suspicious.

"On the shore, for the time being, I'm still hanging out with the refugees. Your sister-in-law and I are used to suffering. The conditions here are good." Cao Zi'ang said.

Lin Fu didn't go to make special arrangements for Cao Zi'ang's wife and son for the time being. These refugees who have recruited many workers must first select some people as leaders temporarily, so as to organize so many in an orderly manner, so Lin Fu, Lin Jingzhong, General Cao Ziang, the Ge brothers and others will call them over to speak, and others will not feel abnormal. .

After they came up, Cao Zi'ang and the Ge brothers scattered among the migrant workers.

At this time, there were crowds of refugees who were recruiting workers on the river bank. Some families of refugees who had been tired all the way sat on the ground to rest, but more people were hurrying to build a few more shelters to shelter from the wind and rain. A little further away, some people dig the ground For the stove, bricks and stones are built, and iron pots are placed on the rack to heat hot water. Some people also take buckets to the riverside to draw water and wash rice to prepare for cooking.

In order to prepare these people to come, Lin Bie, with the help of Lin Mengde, prepared a lot of materials and tools at the river mouth. At this time, Qian Xiaowu organized people to erect two flagpoles, pulled the rope, and waited for the dark Light the wind lamp and hang it up. The weather is good today, but no one knows if it will rain tomorrow. The weather has not turned warm yet. If it rains, there will be no place to shelter from the rain, and the situation will become severe. , this moment cannot stop.

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Although he knew that Hekou affairs were very complicated, after dark, Lin Fu still handed over the Hekou side to Lin Jingzhong. He and Zhou Pu went back to the prison island. Fortunately, Cao Ziang, the Ge brothers and others were officially selected to be the leaders of the migrant workers. Helping Lin Jingzhong makes people feel a little more at ease.

Back at Prison Island, there were a lot of things waiting to be dealt with. When Lin Fu and Zhou Pu returned to the house and were about to have dinner, Yang Shi brought Zhao Hu over to report the matter to him.

Yang Shi came to complain. The military soldiers had to practice every day, be on duty, and go out to guard prisoners for labor. It was especially hard. The rations given to the military soldiers before could no longer meet the daily consumption. Since these soldiers were newly transferred to the island, there was some resentment, but it was not serious, but Yang Shi knew the hardships involved, and knew that it would not work in the long run. Can you become an elite teacher? Lin Fu is the highest officer on Prison Island, he can only come to find Lin Fu to help him increase the food supply for the soldiers.

Zhao Hu didn't say a word when he came to Yang Shi. After listening to Yang Shi's complaint, Lin Fu asked, "Is there a meal in the military hospital right now?"

"It hasn't started yet, why don't you go and see for yourself?" Yang Shi said.

"Okay," the clerk serving at Lin Fu's door shouted in, pointing to a table of dishes that he and Zhou Pu had not yet touched with chopsticks, and said, "Take these dishes to the martial arts courtyard, I will be with the guard martial arts tonight. Dine!"

Lin Fu and Zhou Pu's dinner in the evening was not a luxury, only three dishes and a pot of soup, but there was a plate of braised fish and a bowl of braised pork, even if it was very rich. Yang Shi thought to himself that apart from the military guards on duty, there are forty soldiers in the military guards' hospital who are ready to eat, and each of them can't be divided into a piece of meat.

After entering the military soldier's courtyard, without entering the dining room, Lin Fu stood outside the door and heard the soldiers inside complaining about the lack of oil and water and the lack of food. They are all quasi-elites selected because of their tall stature and strong body.

"There are many factors in the way of elite soldiers, one of which is that the soldiers cannot be left hungry," Lin Fu said to Yang Shi and Zhao Hu, and asked the guards to bring the dishes in first, "They all talk about how to be a good general. , I looked through the notes of the predecessors, but I told the fact that the most common thing that the famous generals and marshals did the most was how to solve the problem of the soldiers getting enough to eat."

I heard that Lin Fu ran to the military courtyard, only when there was something, Changsun Geng also ran over.

Seeing someone bring the food in, the soldiers inside knew that the officer was standing outside the door, and all of a sudden there was silence, and the sound of needles falling could be heard.

"Strict training these few days is still effective." Lin Bingbian talked to Yang Shi, Changsun Geng and others with a smile, and then pushed the door and walked in.

There were ten large square tables, forty soldiers surrounded five tables, and there was one table where Yang Shi and Zhao Hu were sitting.

Lin Fu came over and sat down facing the martial pawns. Standing in the doorway, Yang Shi gave an instructive command: "Master Lin is sympathetic to your hard work in training and supervision, and I came here to have dinner with you - Master Xie Lin is sympathetic!"

"Master Xie Lin has a t-shirt!" The martial soldiers said in unison.

"What kind of sympathy is not sympathetic, I didn't make you eat enough to exercise, go to guard duty, and you didn't scold your mother behind your back, even if you were very polite to someone Lin," Lin Fu said rudely, but it made the military pawns look After relaxing, Lin Fie pointed to the vacant seat in front of the table and said to Yang Shi and Zhao Hu, "Only this table is richer and can't fit all the people. Sit down here..." He pointed to the seat next to him and said to Changsun Geng, "Changsun Shuban, come and have dinner together, Yang Dianwei and Zhao Hu will wait first."

Changsun Geng sat down according to what Lin Fu said, thinking that some details of Lin Fu's actions were to make these soldiers realize that Zhao Hu and Yang Shi had equal status on the prison island.

Lin Fu added: "Today, two new rules have been established. As long as I am on the island, I don't need to prepare meals for me alone. I will come to eat with everyone; another one is that the military officers must have meals on the military pawns. After dinner, if the soldiers are all hungry, there is no reason to let the military officers have enough to eat - what do you think?"

"Follow the orders of your lord." Yang Shi and Zhao Hu replied loudly. Yang Shi himself had a dream of becoming a famous general, and he was full of energy. It was not difficult for him to accept what Lin Fu said; Zhao Hu didn't care, he said. To be honest, he was not used to military officers openly eating small stoves in front of the military pawns.

Yang Shi and Zhao Hu each selected three soldiers who were usually operating and on duty seriously from the soldiers they led and came out to have dinner with Lin Fu and Chang Sun Geng.

Lin Bie picked up a piece of braised pork in the bowl, but he didn't rush to put it in his mouth, he put it in front of him and stared at it for a while before he said leisurely: "As the saying goes, the emperor is not bad for hungry soldiers, the eldest grandson book office, such a small piece To ensure that the soldiers can eat three pieces of meat for each meal, each table must have a fish, double the cooking oil, and enough white rice, practice twice in the morning and evening, and use steamed buns, flower rolls or meat buns for extra meals. Can it be done?"

Chang Sun Geng threw down his bowls and chopsticks and wanted to go out. He didn't know the price of oil and salt when he was not a home. Prisoners allocated food for prisoners, officers allocated food and silver for workers, and military soldiers allocated wages and food. UU reading www. uukanshu. All coms have a quota, and they have to be paid in addition to the quota, which is the deficit of Jiangdao prison. After Zhou Shide was arrested, Changsun Geng was the only scribe left in the prison. The matter was ultimately decided by Lin Fu, but the accounts in the prison would give Changsun Geng a headache.

The standard of food and vegetables provided by the military soldiers is already on par with that of ordinary officers. If you follow the standard of adding food and meat according to what Lin Fu said, it may not be enough to apply to the upper level to relax the standard twice. The fish can be caught by prisoners. , regardless of the cost, four taels of meat is worth three pounds of rice. Obviously, it is impossible for the top to agree to relax even an inch, and the deficit will be borne by the prison.

The gap created by improving the lives of prisoners is actually limited. After all, there is more than enough to make up for this gap by using prisoners to work, but the military soldiers let go of their stomachs are enough to eat a big hole in Jiangdao prison, not to mention that the military soldiers have to gradually fill up One hundred and fifty. Even if you only prepare four taels of meat, one catty of rice, and half a catty of noodles for the military soldiers, after making up for the military soldiers, there will be a deficit of almost one thousand taels of silver a year. Ge Zuxin, the former prisoner, and Zhou Shide, who were in a state of embarrassment, forced female prisoners to sell themselves as prostitutes in Quyang County.

No matter how bitter Changsun Geng's heart was, all the soldiers were overjoyed and excited, and shouted together, "Thank you for your sympathy!"

Changsun Geng originally thought that raising pigs outside the high wall was a dirty thing, but now he wanted to go outside to have a look; but he also confirmed that Lin Fu was not a greedy person, he really wanted to be greedy, and he would hug him once a year. Thousands of taels of silver into the personal pocket. One thousand taels of silver can buy more than 100 acres of land in Moling County, which is equivalent to the property of a wealthy family. Lin Fu did not feel bad about letting the soldiers eat it, and he had to do everything possible to find a way. to make up for this deficit.

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