Gu Wuchen was sitting behind the desk. There was an exquisite copper lamp placed on the desk. It had a copper cover that could be opened and closed. The inside of the copper cover was polished, which could focus the light in one direction to increase the brightness.
Such a delicate gadget was made according to the drawings made by the old engineer Ge Fu. Gu Wuchen found it novel and wanted to hold it in his hand just now, but the copper cover burned his hand.
On the fourth day since the raid on the Qu family, the Procuratorate, together with Jiangning Prefecture and the three Yamen of Moling County, urgently interrogated the Qu Family Tong bandit case, with a view to finalizing the case as soon as possible and then reporting it to the central government for disposal. Gu Wuchen could not stay in Jiangning for too long, he had to rush back as soon as possible.
Dongyang went to supervise the battle. In order to rush for time, Gu Wuchen stayed at the mouth of the river for the past four days.
Sun Jingxuan used the excuse that his daughter Wan Niang had recovered from her foot injury and returned to live in the house in Longzangpu in the south of the city. Lin Fu didn't pay much attention to Sun Jingxuan's pretending to be ill. They were both bachelors with no way out, but Sun Jingxuan had to keep the two of them in mind at all times.
The livelihood of thousands of members cannot be taken in an unreasonable way or by taking desperate risks.
After Sun Wenwan and the accompanying maids and servants moved out of Zhutang Xiyuan, Lin Fu arranged for Gu Wuchen to move in temporarily.
By the afternoon of this day, the three yamen had obtained all the confessions of the Qu family's wanted criminals, convicting him of the crime of collaborating with bandits. The three yamen jointly issued a document to the Yanjing Criminal Department, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate also copied the Jiangning Criminal Department. The Metropolitan Procuratorate had its own deputy for the impeachment of Chen Xiyan.
Prime Minister Zhang Xie is calmly making arrangements in Yanjing, while Jiangning is waiting for good news.
Jia Pengyu's memorial to resign and return to his hometown for retirement has been issued.
For Gu Wuchen and Lin Fu, the Qujiatong bandit attack on Hekou case has come to an end for the time being.
Lin Fu, Zhang Yubo, Chen Yuanliang, Zhao Qinmin and others sat around the case to discuss matters.
Zhao Qinmin offered advice: "The Qu family is a bandit, and all the officials and soldiers of the Quyang Inspection Department are working as collaborators. Can you please reduce the number and not establish the Quyang Inspection Department?"
"Pull the fire under the cauldron?" Gu Wuchen asked Zhao Qinmin uncertainly.
"Yes," Zhao Qinmin nodded and said, "Building a town at the mouth of the river to compete with Quyang for profit is also an important factor for the Qu family to get involved. Now that the Qu family has fallen, and the Quyang Inspection Department is abolished, it will be able to operate in Quyang Town.
The merchants took the initiative to move to the mouth of the river..."
Lin Fu caught a black mosquito sucking blood from his arm and threw it on the flame of the oil lamp. Hearing the slight sound of the mosquito corpse being burned by the fire,
Quyang Town is one of the twenty-four towns outside Jiangning City and one of the three rice markets in Jiangning. Every year, Quyang Town transfers and trades millions of stones of rice, grains, oils, sugars and other goods. Every year, Quyang Town transfers millions of stones from Huzhou, Danyang, and Pingjiang
, tens of thousands of boats came from Jiahang Prefecture, and during the most prosperous season of autumn grain trade, Longjiang Lake was almost crowded with grain transport ships coming from all over.
Since Longjiang Shipyard was also located at the southern end of Quyang Town, an inspection department was set up in Quyang Town with ninety personnel.
The private soldiers of the Qu family were completely wiped out, the inspection department was abolished, and Quyang Town no longer had any defense force. The civilians naturally didn't care, but the merchants doing business in Quyang Town lost their sense of security.
Quyang Town’s rice grain cash transaction amount is quite large. A large foreign grain dealer may trade dozens of rice grains for dozens of shipments of rice grain, which can be converted into thousands of taels of silver. Although Dongchengwei is not particularly far from Quyang Town, it does not hinder the rogue bandits.
The thieves took advantage of the peak rice trading season to launch a surprise attack.
Zhao Qinmin's policy is more of a plan to wipe out every household than it is to draw money from under the cauldron.
Following Zhao Qinmin's plan will also help Hekou quickly replace Quyang Town, but this plan will seriously interfere with the rice market in Jiangning. In Lin Fu's case, Lin Fu would never disregard the food of the 150,000 households in Jiangning City for his own personal gain.
question.
Lin Fu looked at Gu Wuchen quietly and sighed slightly in his heart when he saw that he seemed to have told Zhao Qinmin that he was moved.
After giving Zhao Qinmin some insight, Chen/Yuanliang suddenly became enlightened and said, "This plan is feasible..."
The demise of the Qu family can be said to be a heavy blow to the local forces in Jiangning. It is impossible to control Quyang Town. If the Qu family is accused of being a bandit, they can only eradicate Qu Wuyang and Qu Wuming.
However, Hekou invited the Dongyang Township Party to co-establish it. If Quyang was abolished and Hekou was revitalized, everyone here and the Dongyang Township Party would gain huge profits.
In the past, the township party was mostly worried that the river mouth would be easily attacked by river pirates. However, fighting at the river mouth and Lin Fu's momentum in Jiangning would completely dispel the township party's previous security concerns.
Anyone with a little foresight could have foreseen the rise of Hekou. In the past few days, Gu Wuchen was bent on convicting the Qu family of being a bandit in Hekou. He and Lin Fu had no time to attend to side affairs. However, Zhao Qinmin, who represented Gu Wuchen in liaising with the township party in Hekou, was full of people and busy.
It's overwhelming.
Zhang Yubo said worriedly: "With the sudden collapse of Quyang, the price of rice in Jiangning will fluctuate significantly, which will be detrimental to people's livelihood..."
"Quyang was abolished and replaced by Hekou. Although the price of rice in Jiangning has fluctuated, it will not disturb the people." Zhao Qinmin argued that this matter ultimately required Gu Wuchen's approval. However, Lin Fu's lack of expression also made him feel strange. He looked at Lin Fu and asked
: "Zhengshilang, what do you think?"
Officials sent by Yanjing to mourn Uncle Qin Cheng and to comfort the Qin family survivors arrived in Jiangning the day before yesterday with an imperial edict.
Although it was the Battle of Hekou that Lin Fu really laid the foundation in Jiangning and made others dare not underestimate him, his contribution was still far less than that of rescuing the survivors of the Qin family and the Dongyang officials and gentry from Luoyang Lake. The Holy Spirit rewarded him with ten gold and silver coins.
The eighth-grade Zhengshilang was promoted to two levels in one fell swoop.
In front of Gu Wuchen, Zhao Qinmin always felt awkward calling Lin Fu "Master Lin", so he used his official title to match.
Lin Fu entered the official position with the title of Juzi, and was promoted to the third level in less than half a year. In the past ten years, only Dong Yuan could compare with him. It was difficult for Lin Fu not to become famous. The San level was promoted to the eighth level.
If there is an opportunity, he can even be directly awarded the position of county magistrate at the lower level.
In his report on the Qujiatong bandit case, Gu Wu downplayed Lin Fu and did not describe Lin Fu's great achievements in defeating the attackers. He was also worried that Lin Fu would be easily broken due to his sharpness.
"Mr. Zhao is still comfortable calling me by my first name," Lin Fu smiled and said in a confused tone, "I always feel that there are good things and bad things. We want to cut down the Quyang Inspection Department, but others may not do what we want.
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"I think this is good," Gu Wuchen said decisively, "How the Quyang Inspection Department will be dealt with will always be done through Moling County. Even if someone in Jiangning is unwilling to abolish the Inspection Department, it will be enough to delay it for a year and a half.
Hekou takes advantage..."
"Okay, I will arrange this." Chen/Yuanliang agreed neatly.
Seeing that Gu Wuchen had made up his mind, Lin Fu should also claim it, thinking that the rice market in Quyang Town would not decline immediately, and that the right way would be to step up the construction of the river mouth to keep up.
Gu Wuchen will take a boat to the north bank early tomorrow morning and take the post road to Dongyang. He has not returned home for six days since he returned to Jiangning. Mrs. Gu, Gu Junxun and Gu Siyuan all left the city to the mouth of the river today to gather with their families. Lin Fu and the others also know what is going on.
When the discussion was almost complete, there were still some trivial matters that we didn’t bring up anymore, and we said goodbye together and left.
The Xiyuan of the Bamboo Hall has an area of nearly an acre. Although it is far inferior to Gu's house in the east city, Zhao Zuiguier is a master bamboo craftsman in the world and has made this bamboo hall elegant and interesting. Gu Junxun is standing in the corner of the yard looking at a building like
When the lion-shaped stone saw Lin Fu and the others coming out, he hurriedly bowed and his beautiful eyes flashed across Lin Fu's face, and his pretty face turned red.
Lin Fu thought to himself: Could it be that Sister Yingxiu had tested her voice about marriage?
According to current customs, it is not appropriate for Gu Yingxiu, a newly widowed person, to be a matchmaker for others, and it is even more taboo within a hundred days.
Gu Junxun has been staying in Gu Yingxiu's house in Hekou these days. The two are cousins, so it is possible that Gu Yingxiu tested her tone first.
In this world, no more than in later generations, flirting was a sin. Although Lin Fu wanted to tease such a cute and cute Gu Junxun, he could only pretend not to know and walked out of the bamboo hall.
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Back in the thatched cottage, Lin Fu talked to Yue'er and Xiaoman for a while, and Lin Mengde and Lin Jingzhong came to find him.
Since Gu Wuchen has been in Hekou these days, Cao Zi'ang, Wu Qi, Big Loach Master Ge Cunxin, Zhou Pu and others are naturally hiding and rarely showing up. Lin Mengde and Lin Jingzhong have to bear more of the responsibility of cleaning up the mess in Hekou.
Lin Fu told Lin Mengde Zhao Qinmin's plan to remove salary from the bottom of the cauldron, and Lin Jingzhong listened. What to eat and what to think about. Lin Mengde and Lin Jingzhong naturally did not consider that the turmoil in the rice market would seriously affect people's livelihood. They all said with great joy: "It will be great for you."
It seems that the land at the mouth of the river is already too narrow..."
Rice is a very low-priced commodity. A pound of fine grains is worth four or five yuan when grain is cheap. During the lean years, the price of rice in Jiangning is only sixty-seven yuan. However, even if the transshipment of grain is not taken into account, only 150,000 households in Jiangning city will produce an annual
The food consumption is 780 million jins of rice. Quyang Town is one of the three rice markets in Jiangning. It only supplies the rice needed by Jiangning city at the equivalent of nearly 2 million taels of silver each year.
If such a huge rice market can be forcibly moved from Quyang to Hekou, you can even think of the huge benefits with your toes. The river mouth is close to the open Yangtze River, and the rice market also has Longzangpu and Shangyuan in terms of grain transportation.
It has a unique advantage that the rice market cannot match.
Lin Fu smiled slightly and said: "If you want to be a rice market, the daily storage of grain will cost 200,000 dan. The warehouses and warehouses at the mouth of the river are far from enough. We should not be too active in other things. I think Chen/Yuan Liang is also quite interested.
Excited, we concentrated on building more warehouses and warehouses. In addition, the two five-masted sailing ships at Longjiang Shipyard need to be placed immediately. When the ships are built, we will send special personnel to supervise the whole process. We will give an extra one or two thousand dollars, and the construction period cannot be delayed.
We can’t let these idiots cut corners for us..."
Lin Fu finally made up his mind to build a five-masted sailing ship with a carrying capacity of more than 5,000 stones, and built two ships at a time.
There are also big-bellied warehouse ships with a capacity of more than 5,000 shi in the Yangtze River. The cost of building a ship is not even 4,000 taels of silver. However, the order Lin Fu placed for Longjiang Shipyard will cost a rough 10,000 taels of silver.
Shang Linfu gave Lin Mengde and Lin Jingzhong their bottom line. The budget for a ship was 20,000 taels of silver. Since many reinforcement processes can be added later, there was no need to tell the Longjiang Shipyard the entire budget at the beginning.
end.
For a long time in the future, Lin Fu will not be able to expand his manpower unscrupulously. In addition to the 200 sets of cloud guards, even the guards on Prison Island may suddenly no longer be under his control. Lin Fu
What needs to be done now is to focus on cultivating a stepped reserve force among the people's bravery to ensure that the armed guards can be expanded to 400 people at any time without being seriously affected. It is also to use more brains in combat preparations.