Official Lin did not deceive Mr. Shen. After he left the Shen Mansion, he actually went to the county government office of Changzhou County to visit the county magistrate Yuan Hongdao.
When he was in Yangzhou before, Lin Daguan and Yuan Hongdao communicated by letter, but some things still needed to be discussed in detail in person.
"Didn't your hometown send people to investigate? Where are they?" Lin Daguan asked.
Of course, the Yuan family cannot agree to a big deal that costs tens of thousands of dollars in the first batch and may be traded in the future for a long time. Yuan Hongdao cannot just listen to a word.
Even if Yuan Hongdao becomes the county magistrate here, it does not mean that there are no risks. After all, the county magistrate is not permanent and will leave office in a few years at most.
Therefore, the Yuan family also needs to conduct a risk assessment and has previously sent people to Suzhou for inspection.
When official Lin asked about this, Magistrate Yuan replied: "The inspection has been completed and we are leaving!"
Lin Daguan was suspicious and said: "You haven't even seen me as a partner. This inspection is too hasty? You don't want to refuse cooperation, right?"
At this time, Lin Daguan had already begun to think about where to find a partner with Huguang background if the Yuan family was unwilling to cooperate.
Yuan Zhixian quickly replied: "Don't get me wrong, their inspection was very professional and detailed!
Although they only stayed in Suzhou City for a few days, they learned a lot about your deeds.
For example, those things that bully and dominate the market, monopolize money and food, monopolize projects, seize fields and houses, and fight and kill are all too numerous to describe.
Then they randomly selected two houses to have a meal, drink and have fun with the famous girls on the flower list, and then deliberately failed to pay the bill, reported your name, and used me as a guarantee. In the end, the bill was waived."
Official Lin was puzzled. Is this a business inspection or a judicial investigation? Are you prostituted for nothing? Do you dare to call yourself professional?
Magistrate Yuan continued: "In the end, they were very satisfied with the results of the inspection and believed that you are a collaborator with dominant strength in Suzhou and worthy of doing big business together."
Lin Daguanren: "."
As expected of a large grain merchant who could donate two thousand dan in one breath, he is indeed professional in his work.
Now that the cooperation is confirmed, Lin Daguan emphasized: "When there is a lean season after spring next year, I will use the Jinong warehouse to store grain.
So after this year’s autumn harvest, you must transport grain to Suzhou as soon as possible, so as not to delay my plan for next year.”
Seeing that Lin Daguan was so concerned about the Jinongcang, Yuan Hongdao thought about it and reminded: "When the Jinongcang was first established in the Xuande Dynasty, the method of jointly running it by the government and the people was adopted, but later it gradually became unworkable.
There are many reasons for this, but one of them is that the large households involved in running the warehouses keep subsidizing it, which makes it difficult to sustain it over time.
If you take over the Jinongcang, you will indeed have a sense of vanity, but how many years can you continue to subsidize it?"
Lin Tailai said confidently: "Don't worry, Mr. Shi, I won't make the same mistake again!"
Those subsidies that cannot generate income will certainly not last long and will collapse within a few decades at most.
But here, even if I add subsidies to the farmers’ warehouse, I can still get income from other sources.”
After all, we are people who have experienced the "primary stage of socialism." How can we still not understand this?
Yuan Zhixian was very curious about how Lin Tailai would solve this problem. He wanted to ask a few more questions, but Official Lin didn't want to say more and stood up to leave.
So Yuan Zhixian didn't care about anything else and hurriedly asked: "What kind of projects will the county government do during the slack season this winter?"
The humanistic dredging project of the ancient Sanjiangkou last year brought benefits to Yuanzhi County, and the inscription is still erected at the ancient Sanjiangkou.
In the future, when scholars see the "Sanjiangkou" in "Shangshu Yu Gong" again, they will associate it with Yuan Hongdao.
Therefore, Magistrate Yuan is thinking about launching another cultural project this year.
Lin Daguanren had never considered this issue before, but now that he was suddenly asked, he didn't have a good idea for a while.
After holding it back for a while, he replied: "How about rebuilding the Canglang Pavilion? No, expanding the Canglang Pavilion!"
This is also a historical place. Shi Gong can write "The Record of the Reconstruction of Canglang Pavilion in Wanli" and have it engraved in the garden."
Yuan Hongdao: "."
Asking the county government to help you repair your garden? What good thing are you thinking of?
It was getting late at this time, the city gate was locked, and Lin Daguan could only spend the night in the city.
The next day, after thinking about it, Official Lin decided to go to Nancheng for inspection and then leave the city through Panmen.
There are two places in Nancheng, one is Fu Xue. The professor said at the beginning that although you can be as relaxed as possible, it is best to show your face once a month to maintain your superficial skills.
Another point is the Canglang Pavilion that I have longed for. I heard from reports that the relocation and renovation project of Dayun Temple next to Canglang Pavilion has started.
When Lin Daguan came to Nancheng, he looked at the mansion in the east and Canglang Pavilion in the west, and decided to put public affairs first and then private affairs.
When I entered the gate of Fuxue, I saw twenty or thirty scholars standing scattered in front of Minglun Hall.
"Hey! I'm late! What's going on today?" Mr. Lin approached and greeted loudly.
All the scholars turned around and after taking a look, they immediately knew who this person was.
Everyone has extremely complicated feelings about this classmate who has never seen the beginning of the dragon and has always lived in urban legends.
I don’t know how to deal with this person, or even whether I should deal with this person.
Locally, the nature of Lin Daguan's influence focused on black and white collusion, and he did not care much about the camaraderie of classmates among scholars.
So Mr. Lin glanced at the crowd, thinking that if he met someone he knew, he would say a few words. If there was no one he knew, he would go see the professor and then leave.
As a result, I found two acquaintances. One was Feng Menglong, a 13-year-old child prodigy who had recently entered school, and the other was Wang Yusheng, a rising star from the Wang family in Dongshan.
What's even more interesting is that these two acquaintances are actually standing together and seem to be socializing.
Lin Daguan walked over curiously, touched Xiao Feng Menglong's head, and asked: "You are an innocent boy from a poor family, how come you get together with such a dandy?"
Wang Yusheng almost had his nose twisted with anger. He, Wang Yusheng, was a gentle scholar, so how could he be like a dandy? Not every child of a wealthy family is a dandy!
Even Xiao Feng Menglong was dissatisfied and felt that Lin Tailai lacked the necessary respect for him. Did he still need Lin Tailai's approval for his social interactions?
Now his identity, Feng Menglong, is different from before. He was a child prodigy who passed the scholar examination at the age of thirteen!
In a place like Suzhou City, where the competition for imperial examinations is extremely fierce, the value of a scholar is already very high, let alone a thirteen-year-old scholar!
It's hard to say how high the upper limit of a child prodigy will be in the future, but there is a ready-made example of the lower limit of a child prodigy in the future, and that is Zhang Youyu, a famous celebrity in Suzhou today.
In other words, Feng Menglong, at worst, will be a person above his level in the future.
As the saying goes, don’t bully a young boy who is poor, let alone a young prodigy!
Didn't anyone see Feng Menglong smiling at him recently? Even Wang Yusheng from the famous Dongshan Wang family took the initiative to make friends with him.
From this perspective, Lin Tailai really disrespected Feng Menglong.
Thinking of this, Xiao Feng Menglong coughed, raised his head and said in a mature manner:
"Jun Lin! Now that we are all classmates, how can you be so frivolous? You should apologize to classmate Wang for your inappropriate words."
Official Lin looked at Xiao Feng Menglong in surprise. Is this the second phase of the middle school period?
"Why do you say these things to me?" Lin Daguan asked in confusion.
Xiao Feng Menglong replied seriously: "You received my help during the county and government examinations, and I don't ask for anything in return. How about you just listen to my advice today?"
This "help" refers to the fact that in the dictation part of the exam, Lin Daguan copied the answers from Feng Menglong's test paper.
According to etiquette, this is the favor that Mr. Lin owes to Xiao Feng Menglong.
Wang Yusheng, who had always been cheated by Lin Daguan, suddenly felt that he might be able to regain some face today, unless Lin Daguan stopped using etiquette at all.
Then I heard Senior Official Lin saying to Xiao Feng Menglong in surprise: "But I have already repaid you, don't you know?"
Xiao Feng Menglong was puzzled, what kind of reward? Why didn't he know? Could it be that the improvement in the business of his father, a healer, because of Lin Tailai, was considered a reward?
So Lin Daguan sighed deeply and said to Xiao Feng Menglong: "It was a cold February in early spring. I met the great master Fang Tixue in Yangzhou City. We hit it off and talked happily.
When I talked about Suzhou scholars, I strongly recommended you to Fang Tixue. At that time, Fang Tixue also agreed and admitted you this year."
Boom! Xiao Feng Menglong’s eyes widened, as if there was a thunder in his mind!
His inner lake was like a broken mirror, filled with cracks as dense as a spider web.
Lin Daguan continued in a fuss: "Oh! I originally thought Fang Tixue was a joke. After all, entering school at the age of thirteen is too early. I didn't expect Fang Tixue to be serious."
Xiao Feng Menglong was dumbfounded and had fallen into a state of confusion.
It turns out that my admission to school was not based on talent, but still on worldliness.
It turns out that I was admitted as a scholar not because of my outstanding talent, but because of the secret recommendation of others.
Xiao Feng Menglong subconsciously murmured to himself: "I'm not a prodigy? I'm not a prodigy?"
Official Lin touched Xiao Feng Menglong's head again and said kindly: "Don't worry, as long as I don't tell anyone, no one will know the inside story, and you will still be a child prodigy in the eyes of others.
To be continued...