Lord of the House

Gu Wuchen sat behind the desk. On the desk was a delicate copper lamp with a copper cover that could be opened and closed. The inside of the copper cover was polished so that the light could be focused in one direction to increase the brightness.

Such an exquisite piece of toy was made by the old engineer Ge Fu, and Gu Wuchen felt it was novel. He wanted to play with it in his hand just now, but he burned his hand on the copper cover.

It has been the fourth day since the Qu's family was raided, and the Ministry of Justice, together with the three yamen in Jiangning Prefecture and Moling County, urgently arraigned the Qujiatong bandit case, in order to finalize the case as soon as possible and submit it to the central government for disposal. Gu Wuchen couldn't stay in Jiangning for too long. He had to rush back to Dongyang as soon as possible to supervise the battle. In order to hurry up, Gu Wuchen had been living in Hekou for the past four days.

Sun Jingxuan excused his daughter Wanniang's foot injury and went back to live in the house in Longzangpu, south of the city; Lin Bie didn't pay much attention to Sun Jingxuan's pretending to be ill, they were all bachelors with no way out, but Sun Jingxuan had to keep two things in mind at all times. For the livelihood of thousands of congregations, it is impossible to take risks and take risks.

After Sun Wenwan and her accompanying maid and servant moved out of Zhutang Xiyuan, Lin Fu arranged for Gu Wuchen to temporarily live in.

Until this afternoon, the three yamen obtained all the confessions that the Qu family was going to commit, and they were convicted of the crime of complicity with the bandits. Xiang Zhang Xie arranged calmly in Yanjing, and Jiang Ning waited for the good news here.

The memorial for Jia Pengyu to resign and return to his hometown for pension has been issued.

For Gu Wuchen and Lin Fu, the case of Qujiatong's bandit attack on the Hekou was temporarily over.

Lin Fu, Zhang Yubo, Chen/Yuanliang, Zhao Qinmin and others sat around the table to discuss matters.

Zhao Qinmin offered a suggestion: "The Qu family is a bandit, and the Quyang inspector general and officers are all scumbags. Can you petition to cut the Quyang inspector?"

"Drawing from the bottom of the pot?" Gu Wuchen asked Zhao Qinmin uncertainly.

"Yes," Zhao Qinmin nodded and said, "Establishing a town in Hekou and competing for profits with Quyang is also an important factor for the Qu family to enter the set; now that the Qu family has collapsed, and the Quyang Inspection Division is abolished, it will be possible to operate in Quyang Town. The merchants who had taken the initiative moved to the estuary..."

Lin Bie caught a black mosquito sucking blood on his arm and threw it on the head of the oil lamp, listening to the creaking of the burning mosquito corpse,

Quyang Town is one of the twenty-four cities and towns outside Jiangning City, and is also one of the three major rice markets in Jiangning. Every year, millions of stones of rice, grain, oil, sugar and other goods are transferred and traded in Quyang Town. There are tens of thousands of boats coming from the Jiahang prefectures. In the most prosperous season of autumn grain trade, Longjiang Lake is almost crowded with grain transport boats from all over the world.

Since the Longjiang Shipyard was also located in the south of Quyang Town, a patrol inspection department was set up in Quyang Town, with 90 soldiers.

The Qu family's private army was completely destroyed, and the inspection department was abolished again, and Quyang Town no longer had any defense force. The common people naturally didn't care, but the merchants who did business in Quyang Town lost their sense of security.

The amount of cash and silver traded for rice grains in Quyang Town is quite large. A large grain merchant from outside the country may trade up to dozens of boats of rice grains at a time, which is worth several thousand taels of silver. Although Dongchengwei is not particularly far from Quyang Town, it does not hinder rogues. Giant thieves make surprise attacks during the peak season of rice and grain trade.

Zhao Qinmin's strategy is not so much a slashing of wages from the bottom of the pot, it is better to say that it is a desperate plan.

According to Zhao Qinmin's plan, it is also conducive to Hekou's rapid replacement of Quyang Town's rise, but this strategy will seriously interfere with Jiangning Mi City, and Lin Fu will never ignore the food of the 150,000 households in Jiangning City for his own selfish interests. question.

Lin Bie looked at Gu Wuchen quietly, and sighed slightly when he saw that he seemed to have told Zhao Qinmin his heart.

After explaining to Zhao Qinmin, Chen/Yuanliang was also enlightened and said, "This plan is feasible..."

The collapse of the Qu family can be said to be a blow to the local forces in Jiangning, but it is impossible to control Quyang Town. They can only get rid of the Quwuyang and Quwuming houses. The Qujia side still has a strong influence in Quyang Town. However, Hekou invited the Dongyang Township Party to build it together. If Quyang and Xinghekou are abolished, everyone present here and the party of Dongyang Township will benefit greatly.

Previously, the township party was worried that the river mouth would be easily attacked by Jiang pirates. However, in the battle of the river mouth, Lin Tie’s momentum in Jiangning was greatly boosted, which would completely dispel the township party’s previous security concerns.

Anyone with a little foresight can foresee the rise of Hekou. In the past few days, Gu Wuchen has been concentrating on the crime of ganging up with bandits in Hekou, and he and Lin Fie have no time to take care of other affairs. However, Zhao Qinmin, who represents Gu Wuchen in contacting the township party in Hekou, is very busy. Gotta get over it.

Zhang Yubo said worriedly: "Quyang will suddenly collapse, and the price of rice in Jiangning will fluctuate greatly, which will be detrimental to people's livelihood..."

"Quyang is abandoned and Hekou is replaced. Although the price of rice in Jiangning fluctuates, it will not disturb the people." Zhao Qinmin argued that Gu Wuchen had to agree to this matter in the end, but Lin Fu's lack of expression also made him feel strange. He looked at Lin Fu and asked : "Seishi-Lou, what do you think?"

Officials sent by Yanjing to mourn Chengbo Qin and comfort the bereaved of the Qin family arrived in Jiangning the day before yesterday with the imperial edict.

Although the battle at Hekou made Lin Fu truly lay a foundation in Jiangning and made others dare not look down on him, the credit is still far behind the rescue of the Qin family and Dongyang officials from Luoyang Lake. Masashiro, the eighth grade, was promoted to two levels in one fell swoop.

In front of Gu Wuchen, Zhao Qinmin called Lin Fu "Lord Lin" always awkward, so he used his loose official title to match.

Lin Fu became an official with the fame of raising his son, and he rose to three levels in less than half a year. In the past ten years, only Dong Yuan has been able to compare with him, and it is difficult for Lin Fu not to become famous. If you have the opportunity, you can even directly grant the actual vacancies of the county magistrates.

In his submission in the Qujia Tong bandit case, Gu Wu understated taking Lin Bie with him. He did not describe the great achievements of Lin Bie's pioneers and soldiers in defeating the raiders.

"Mr. Zhao is still comfortable calling me by my name," Lin Fu smiled and said stunnedly, "I always feel that there are good and bad, we want to cut the Quyang Inspection Division, and others may not do as we wish. ."

"I think that's good," Gu Wuchen said with a firm voice, "How to deal with the inspection department in Quyang, it will always be done through Moling County. Even if someone in Jiangning is unwilling to abolish the inspection department, it will be enough to drag it on for a year and a half. The estuary takes advantage of it..."

"Okay, I'll arrange this." Chen/Yuanliang agreed quickly.

Seeing that Gu Wuchen had made up his mind, Lin Fu should also claim that it was good, thinking that the rice market in Quyang Town would not decline immediately, and the construction of the river mouth would be the right way to keep up.

Gu Wuchen is going to take a boat to the north bank early tomorrow morning and turn to the post road to Dongyang. He has not returned home for six days after returning to Jiangning. Mrs. Gu, Gu Junxun and Gu Siyuan all went out of the city to Hekou to gather with their families today. Lin Fu and the others are also interested in seeing things The discussion was about the same, and there were still some trivial matters that I didn’t mention, and we said goodbye and left together.

The Xiyuan of the Bamboo Hall has an area of ​​nearly one mu. Although it is far less than that of Gu Zhai in the Dongcheng City, Zhao Zuigui'er is a master bamboo craftsman of the world, who made this bamboo hall elegant and interesting. Gu Junxun was standing in the corner of the yard looking at a strange stone like a lion. When he saw Lin Fu and the others coming out, he panicked and bowed.

Lin Fu secretly thought: Could it be that Sister Yingxiu has tested her tone about marriage?

According to the custom of the times, it is not appropriate for Gu Ying, who is a new widow, to speak for others, and it is a big taboo within 100 days.

Gu Junxun has been living in Gu Yingxiu's house in Hekou for the past few days. The two are cousins. It is possible for Gu Yingxiu to test her tone first.

The world is no better than the future, flirting is a sin. Although Lin Fu wanted to flirt with such a charming and cute Gu Junxun, he just pretended not to know and walked out of the bamboo hall.

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Back in the cottage, Lin Fu talked with Yueer and Xiaoman for a while, and Lin Mengde and Lin Jingzhong came to him together.

Since Gu Wuchen has been in Hekou these few days, Cao Zi'ang, Wu Qi, Ge Cunxin, Zhou Pu and others naturally hide and show less, so Lin Mengde and Lin Jingzhong are responsible for the heavy responsibility of cleaning up the mess in Hekou.

Lin Fu told Lin Mengde and Lin Jingzhong about Zhao Qinmin's plan to take money from his bottom line. What to eat and what to think about, Lin Mengde and Lin Jingzhong naturally wouldn't consider that the turmoil in the rice market would seriously affect people's livelihood, and they were all overjoyed: "Dali From this point of view, the estuary is already too narrow..."

Rice is a priceless thing. A pound of refined grain is worth four or five cents when it is cheap, and the price of rice in Jiangning is only six or seven cents when it is not green. It consumes 780 million catties of rice grains~www.readwn.com~ Quyang Town is one of the three major rice cities in Jiangning. It only supplies the rice grains needed by Jiangning City every year, which is nearly 2 million taels of silver.

If such a huge rice market can be forcibly relocated from Quyang to Hekou, one of the great benefits can be imagined with a toe. The estuary is on the verge of the open Yangtze River, and the rice market has a unique advantage over the rice market of Longzangpu and Shangyuan in the transportation of grains.

Lin Fu smiled slightly and said: "To be a rice market, if the constant grain storage is 200,000 shi, the stacks and warehouses in the estuary are far from enough. We should not be too active in other things. I think Chen/Yuanliang is also quite Excited, we will concentrate on building more stacks and warehouses. In addition, the two five-masted sailboats in the Longjiang Shipyard will be ordered immediately. When the ship is built, we will send a special person to supervise the whole process. We can't let these turtle grandchildren cut corners for us..."

Lin Bie finally made up his mind to build a five-masted galleon with a capacity of more than 5,000 stones, two at a time.

There are also large belly warehouse ships with a capacity of more than 5,000 stone in the Yangtze River. The cost of a ship does not even cost 4,000 taels of silver. However, Lin Fu will place an order for Longjiang Shipyard. The cost of a ship is roughly 10,000 taels. Shang Linfu gave Lin Mengde and Lin Jingzhong their bottom line, and the budget for a boat was 20,000 taels of silver. Because many reinforcement processes can be added later, there is no need to tell the budget to Longjiang Shipyard at the beginning.

For quite a long time in the future, Lin Fu will not be able to expand his manpower unscrupulously. Apart from the 200 Ji Yun Wuwei, even the prison guards on the prison island may suddenly no longer be under his control. What Lin Fu has to do now, in addition to focusing on cultivating a ladder reserve force in the people's bravery, to ensure that the military force can be expanded to 400 people at any time will not be seriously affected, is to use more brains in combat readiness. My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter