Chapter 224 The difference between bullies and heroes
At first, when others thought that a storm was about to hit the city government in Suzhou, it turned out to be calm for several days.
No matter which side it is, there is no action. It seems that dividing the camps is just dividing the camps, and there is no follow-up.
Magistrate Zhu did not make any move, others can understand.
Because now Magistrate Zhu doesn't need to do anything, he just needs to wait for Zhang Siwei to return to the court and become the chief minister.
Time is on Magistrate Zhu's side, so he doesn't have to worry. Maybe after Zhang Siwei becomes the first assistant, Magistrate Zhu will be promoted to governor in a flash.
However, Lin Daguan, who could not afford the time, did not take any actual actions against the enemy camp, which was a bit strange.
According to common sense, Lin Daguan should quickly exert his efforts to defeat the hostile camp before Zhang Siwei took office.
Recently there have been rumors in the city that the government office is a black stronghold and that Magistrate Zhu and others are Zhang Siwei's minions.
This may be a public opinion attack launched by Lin Daguan, but it is far from enough as a means of struggle, and it has no actual lethality at present.
In fact, Lin Daguan has not been idle these days, and is even very busy.
He stayed at Sun Lianlian's house for a few days and was always crowded with people. It seemed that everyone in Suzhou City wanted to find him. He was the brightest boy in Suzhou City.
For example, the responsible persons of the three major foreign business gangs in Suzhou City, the Xin'an Business Gang in Huizhou, the Longyou Business Gang in Zhejiang, and the Jiangyou Business Gang in Jiangxi, visited twice together to discuss cooperation matters.
After all, Lin Tailai defeated the Xi family, the local Dongting business gang giant, and discredited the local business gang. Naturally, foreign business gangs saw opportunities.
But this opportunity depends on whether Lin Daguan will give it to him or not, so they come to ask for advice.
Some wealthy families in nine cities on the east coast of Taihu Lake and along the Xujiang River also sent people to visit Lin Daguan to discuss the issue of paying taxes this year.
Now it's time to pay taxes. Although those wealthy families have the ability to pay taxes on their own, they don't need to go through the hall.
But with Lin Tailai's reputation so great, big business owners also want to coordinate with Lin Tailai on the issue of tax payment amounts. It would be best to have a unified approach to avoid causing problems.
If the amount paid by Bilin's community is too much or too little, it will be trouble!
In addition, Lin Tailai started his new business. He summoned the officials of two county government offices one after another.
Then we met with more than 20 experienced technical craftsmen, preparing to recruit them to become the backbone of the project.
His initial idea was to set up two engineering teams, called Team One and Team Two respectively.
Among them, the first engineering team is responsible for the construction of the new city gate, and the second engineering team is responsible for the dredging and embankment construction of Sanjiangkou.
Lin Tailai first asked the old craftsmen to make the design plan. After the two county governments approved the project, they could immediately recruit corvees and start construction.
Then he sent people back to his hometown, Linsong Village, to recruit people from the village and surrounding villages to serve as on-site supervisors.
When his eldest brother Lin came, he was temporarily designated as the supervisor. He spent the past few days surveying the terrain with the old craftsmen.
All in all, in the past few days, Lin Daguan was comparable to the Duke of Zhou. He dealt with various affairs all day long, almost to the point of "taking a bath for three times, spitting out food for one meal".
There was even one time when he got excited and was about to have an in-depth conversation with Sun Lianlian for an hour when he was interrupted.
After seeing her guests go back, Miss Sun, who was neither up to nor down, said angrily: "Official, you are really busier than the county magistrate!"
Lin Tailai replied helplessly: "It doesn't matter whether the county magistrate is there or not, it doesn't matter if a pig is sitting in that position.
But it would be unimaginable without me in Wu County!"
When Sun Lianlian untied his belt again, he heard the maid report that Uncle Song, the deputy head and chief planner of Anle Hall, had come to visit again.
Lin Tailai had to meet such an elder, so he had to go to the front hall again.
"The reason I'm here this time is to persuade you to go back to Mudu Town and have a look." Uncle Song said straight to the point.
Lin Tailai asked back: "Did those two women ask you to come?"
Uncle Song nodded and said, "It's a bit shameful for you to leave them alone like this, and it's not good for the morale of the society."
Lin Tailai asked again: "Are they two going to fight?"
Uncle Song replied: "I haven't fought in the past few days."
Lin Tailai said: "I can't leave during this period. I will go to Mudu Town after I settle everything here!"
Uncle Song talked about other things, "Now that you have returned to Suzhou City, the reconstruction of Hengtang Town should also be put on the agenda."
When she was attacked by the coalition forces organized by the Xi family, Huang Xiaomei took the initiative to set fire to half of the town in order to preserve her strength and retreat from the enemy. Of course, she was framed by the enemy in the end.
Uncle Song was afraid that after Lin Daguan's status rose, he would be greedy for the prosperity of the metropolis and abandon Hengtang Town, so he advised:
"Hengtang Town is the fundamental place where you started your career. Its position cannot be replaced elsewhere and cannot be abandoned.
Besides, if the two ladies, Huang and Fan, gather in Mudu Town, it will not be a long-term solution, and the territory will not be divided enough."
After Lin Tailai thought for a while, he gave instructions: "Didn't the government confiscate the Xi family's property? They can take part of it as compensation for the reconstruction of Hengtang Town."
Song Quan obviously had the idea of the money, "The county government is responsible for searching the house. I also went to the county government to ask, and County Master Deng did not agree to allocate money to rebuild Hengtang."
This is normal. The current magistrate Deng of Wu County is from the hostile camp and is the backbone of Zhang Siwei's minions gang. How could he be willing to allocate funds to rebuild Lin Tailai's lair?
Lin Tailai said nonchalantly: "Then just wait! Deng County Zun has been identified as a gang of Zhang Siwei's minions. As long as Zhang Siwei is solved, nothing will be a problem!"
Song Quan: "."
Although they are all members of the family, they can speak freely and will not spread rumors randomly when they go out, but you, Lin Tailai, are a person with status after all. Can you be a little more cautious?
In the distant capital, who is the chief minister, unless the chief minister is a local, most ordinary people will not care or know.
But through the vigorous propaganda of Lin Daguan, everyone in Suzhou already knew that a profiteer named Zhang Siwei was going to take away the position of chief assistant from fellow countryman Shen Shixing.
So Song Quan, the leader of the society, also knows who Zhang Siwei is. Lin Tailai just said "get rid of Zhang Siwei", which is really too unstable!
Lin Tailai was too lazy to explain too much and sent Uncle Song away.
After returning to the back room, Lin Tailai looked at Sun Lianlian who was sitting in a daze, and urged: "Hurry up and take off your clothes, hurry up and seize the time."
Sun Lianlian said angrily: "The slave family is exhausted, you can do it yourself!"
Just as Lin Tailai stretched out his hand, he heard the maid report outside the window: "The official's eldest brother is here!"
It turned out that his eldest brother Lin Shilai was visiting. Lin Tailai had no choice but to go to the front hall again.
Suppressing his anger, Lin Tailai asked his elder brother: "Didn't I ask you to survey the terrain? Why did you come to me?"
It had been arranged before, so that the eldest brother would first survey the terrain with the old craftsmen, learn more engineering knowledge, and then become the chief engineer after the construction started.
Lin Lao, Lin Shilai, is thirty years old, eleven or twelve years older than Lin Asi and Lin Tailai. Logically speaking, he should be the eldest brother like his father, but at this time, the eldest brother can only obey the orders of his younger brother.
"While surveying the terrain along the city wall, I found many problems that were difficult to solve, so I can only come to ask you." Boss Lin sighed and said.
A big business can also be a headache, especially in the early stages of starting a business, when all major and minor matters must be handled personally.
Lin Tailai said a little impatiently: "If I have to step in for everything, what do you need to do?"
Boss Lin responded: "We don't know what to do. You can follow us to see and figure out a way. Then we will know how to do it."
Lin Tai came to look at the sky outside and felt that there was still time today, so he agreed: "Okay, okay! Let's go and take a look now!"
When Boss Lin mentioned the survey along the city wall, he was referring to the site selection for the new city gate.
The flow of people, goods, ships, carriages and horses inside and outside the city of Suzhou is terrifying. There are very few examples in the world of Suzhou City where the urban area spreads outside the city.
Now the Suzhou City Wall, especially the West City Wall, has actually transformed from a side wall into a wall across the middle of the city.
The Chang Gate and Xu Gate on the west city wall were extremely congested, and even Lin Daguan himself was suffering from it.
Therefore, it is indeed necessary to build a new city gate to alleviate traffic congestion. This is a great thing that benefits the city and the people, but good things are not necessarily easy to handle.
Generally speaking, this new city gate should be opened between Changmen and Xumen, but the specific location still needs to be carefully considered after surveying the terrain.
Outside the west city wall is a wide moat, and along the moat is Nanhao Street. Lin Tailai, Lin LaoDa and his party came to Nanhao Street.
Boss Lin pointed to a city wall behind the moat and said: "After preliminary survey, I feel that this is the most suitable place. The city wall can be dismantled here to build new gates, road bridges and waterways."
Lin Tailai didn't understand engineering technology, so he chose to listen to the "experts".
He first raised his head and observed it for a few times, then asked doubtfully: "What's the problem?"
Boss Lin moved his fingers to the bottom of the city wall and to the edge of the moat, and said to Lin Asi:
"The problem is not with the city wall, but with the shops below. They are unwilling to be demolished. They are even asking for exorbitant prices, and some are starting to build a second floor! How should we deal with it? I need you to make an idea."
The right guardian Zhang Wu said: "Of course the easiest way is to gather people, rush in and smash it a few times and then it's over!"
Lin Tailai scolded: "Shut up! Do you know the difference between a hero and a bully? Isn't it the behavior of a hero to directly beat the weak like this?"
By the way, let’s first find out if they are the remnants of the Dongting Merchant Gang.”
Zhang Wu: "."
Are you convincing when you say you can't beat the weak? Have you beaten few weak people in the past?
Suddenly it dawned on me that sitting in the hall actually means that if you were a bully in the past, you can be more arrogant when it comes to beating people.
Now that you have upgraded to a hero, you need to pay attention to your image and social impact.
Zhang Wen, the Zuo protector, made a circle and suggested: "Why don't we dig trenches around this area of the store and fill it with water, and surround this area of the store to make it difficult for people to get in and out, and they won't be able to endure it for long."
Lin Tailai said happily: "This is feasible, and we must be as gentle as possible in dealing with the weak."
Then he added: "Also, on the wall of every door, a big circle should be drawn, and a big word "break" should be written in the circle, so that it is complete."
This is what happened outside the city wall, and then Boss Lin took Lin Tailai into the city to see what was going on inside the city wall.
The purpose of building a city gate is to open up the inside and outside. Of course, it is impossible to just look at the situation outside the city wall.
Inside the West City Wall, the main north-south road next to the West City Wall is called Bachelor Street.
As introduced earlier, the name of Xueshi Street comes from Wang Hao, a great scholar in the Zhengde period, who came from the Wang family of Dongshan Dongting, a wealthy family that was half Confucian and half businessman.
Walking along Bachelor Street, we came to the best planned location for the new city gate.
Lin Ada pointed to the front and introduced carefully: "This place is located at the midpoint between Changmen and Xumen, and the terrain is the best. It can also open the water gate, so that there will be no situation where Xumen cannot open the water gate.
So for various reasons, this is the single best place to open a new city gate.
Otherwise, if we build a new city gate anywhere else, the terrain will easily cause water from the moat to pour into the city, so the water gate cannot be built, and the new city gate will lose most of its significance."
The moat of Suzhou City is also different from that of most cities. Taihu Lake water continuously flows into the moat through the Xujiang River, and the amount of water is particularly large.
Therefore, when the Xu Gate was first built, in order to prevent the moat from pouring into the city when there was a flood, the water gate was not dared to be opened, resulting in the Xu Gate losing a large part of its traffic capacity.
If a new city gate is to be built, this situation must be avoided as much as possible.
Although what Lin Ada said was very reasonable, Lin Tailai still fell into deep thought as he looked at the grand garden in front of him that clung to the city wall.
The best place for the new city gate that the elder brother said is the big garden under the city root?
No wonder the eldest brother tricked himself into working on-site. The real reason is here. A few shops outside the city are nothing, this garden in the city is the big problem.
Lin Tailai gritted his teeth and said, "If you weren't my good brother, I would sink you into the moat right now."
As we all know, there are no ordinary people who can cultivate gardens in the city, and at the worst they have to be at the level of Tang Bohu.
Even if Lin Tailai had never been in the large garden in front of him close to the west city wall, he knew it was the Yi Lao Garden of the Wang family in Dongshan.
This is one of the most famous gardens in Suzhou today. Wang Jiazhi, a great scholar, lived here after he returned to Suzhou sixty or seventy years ago.
As mentioned earlier, the smallest garden in Suzhou City is Peach Blossom Temple, and the largest garden is Humble Administrator's Garden, covering an area of 200 acres.
Yi Lao Garden is almost the second largest garden in area, covering an area of 80 acres, so you can imagine its scale.
Such a large garden was built at the best address reserved for the new city gate.
If it's just big, that's it. The key is that this garden belongs to the Dongshan Wang family, which is one of the four major families in Wu County along with the Fan family, Wen family, and Shen family.
Lin Tailai looked behind him and saw more than twenty followers, and then ordered: "We have enough manpower today, so let's go and have a look at Yi Lao Garden!"
If you meet someone who can take care of things, just touch it, and maybe you will take action again."
Zhang Wu asked doubtfully: "Zi Guan just said that as a hero, you should not beat others arbitrarily?"
Lin Tailai said angrily: "You remember wrongly, I said don't beat the weak at will! Are the Wang family considered weak?
If you beat a few little people at will, you are a bully, but if you dare to beat someone from the Dongshan Wang family, who can say that you are not a hero?"
When everyone heard Lin Daguan's logic, they all admired it, but when they thought about it more carefully, it seemed to make sense.
