After a hearty drink at the Gu Mansion, the large transplanted trees on both sides of the carriage road connecting to the Donghua Gate official road have become shady. The moonlight is sparsely filtering down, and the gray road is mottled with light and shadow, as if there are clumps of trees growing on it.
A clump of wild grass.
New houses on the north-south long streets and back streets have been built one after another. In the past three months, more than 130 merchants have moved from Quyang Town to the mouth of the river. The grass market that accommodates scattered merchants or people from the surrounding areas has also increased from its initial opening in half a month.
It opens so frequently that it opens every three days, and the river mouth has the appearance of a town, taking away nearly half of the prosperity of Quyang Town.
Zhao Qinmin sat on the carriage and looked at the river mouth lined with new houses in front of him. The lights of the turrets competed with the bright moon in the sky. The dozens of enclosed houses on the west side were like fortresses. Last year, who could have imagined that the wilderness of the river mouth would be what it is today.
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After the Qujiatong bandit case, the limited land within the fence at the mouth of the river could no longer be used by merchants to build shops or wealthy gentry to build private gardens. Especially nowadays, private gardens were built with vast land, often covering ten or even dozens of acres.
The town size of the river mouth has expanded outward from the fence, but the fence still remains, dividing the river mouth into two areas, the inner and outer areas.
Lin Jingzhong, Cao Ziang, Zhao Hu, Ge Cunxiong, Zhao Qingshan, Lin Xulu, Changsun Geng, Sun Jingxuan, Sun Jingtang, Zhao Shuhan, Ge Siyu and others, as well as the people of Hekou, were waiting eagerly at the south gate of the fence, waiting for Lin Fu's return. So many people
Block up the south gate of the fence three levels inside and three levels outside.
Lin Fu sat at the front of the car. He straightened his waist and bowed to the people who were waiting for him at the south gate. He said, "We have been waiting for a long time. Lin Fu is here to apologize."
Zhao Shuhan laughed and walked forward and said: "I thought you would come back drunk at the Gu Mansion. Judging from your appearance, you can join us for another drink..."
Lin Fu said with a smile: "If you don't think it's rude of me to look like this, there's no harm in drinking with you until dawn..."
"Go to Si Yu's new residence. We have prepared good wine and food," Zhao Shuhan said. "You don't have to worry about disturbing the beautiful lady in your house."
"Mr. Wu, Mr. Ge, where is Zhao Zuigui'er?" Lin Fu asked, "Zhao Zuigui'er is an alcoholic. I haven't invited him to drink for a while. Don't forget about him. It's done at Si Yu's house.
How many tables of wine can we feed for how many of us?" He bowed to Zhao Qinmin again and said, "Please invite Mr. Zhao to come over and have two more drinks..."
"I'll go home first and come over later to toast you all." Zhao Qinmin said. He knew that these people were waiting here just for Lin Fu. Lin Fu invited him but he couldn't refuse and didn't want to go.
He was forgotten and neglected in the corner, thinking that he would go home and rest for a while, then go over to toast a round of drinks and take care of his errands.
Lin Fu did not embarrass Zhao Qinmin and asked him to go home to reunite with his family.
Lin Fu saw the maid next to the Seventh Lady looking out at the entrance of the alley, and he was anxious to see Sister Yingxiu. However, Zhao Shuhan, Ge Siyu and others were so kind that they could not refuse, so he could not say that he was anxious to see "aunt".
Then he called Sun Jingxuan and Sun Jing's cousins and asked if the transportation of Xia Cao to Yanjing went smoothly.
It took half a month for Sun Jingxuan and Sun Jing's cousins to return from their shipment of grain to Yanjing.
After the bloody battle in Jiyang, the East China Sea bandits withdrew from the Taihu Lake Basin. The counties along the Taihu Lake were extremely short of wood, ceramics, ironware, paper, tung oil and other materials. Sun Jingxuan took advantage of the fact that the Xihe Society still had some capital and there was still some time before the autumn canal was launched.
A lot of supplies were purchased in Jiangning and sold in Taihu Lake together with the ships under the names of Jiyun Society and Lin Family Warehouse.
When passing through Jiyang, Sun Jingxuan failed to catch up with Lin Fu's schedule, so he could not see the top.
The party struggle between North Korea and China is fierce, and even those who have the upper hand in the party struggle cannot maintain long-term prosperity.
The Sun family does not covet temporary wealth, but hopes that the Xihe Society can provide long-term shelter to the poor and humble boatmen and sailors from Xihe.
The fundamental interests of the Sun family and the Xihe Society lie in this, so it is impossible to be too aggressive in politics, let alone engage in political gambling. Otherwise, no matter how many successes there are, only one failure is enough to break the Xihe Society.
In the abyss of eternal destruction.
Although Lin Fu and Gu Wuchen both achieved decisive and brilliant victories in the Battle of Hekou, Sun Jingxuan had nothing to regret about withdrawing in advance. Regrettably, the Xihe Society did not have the capital to participate in this level of political struggle.
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Of course, Sun Jingxuan did not want Xihe to fall into too deep a political struggle, but it was not that he did not want to maintain a good personal relationship with Lin Fu.
Putting aside the interests of the Xihe Society, although Lin Fu's behavior was disliked by the Qingliu scholars, Sun Jingxuan quite admired and approved of it.
For example, Lin Fu provided disaster relief on Xisha Island and vigorously promoted local resettlement of refugees on Xisha Island. Although there was some resistance from local people, most of the boatmen and sailors affiliated to the Xihe Association were foreigners living in Jiangning, Xihe County, Shandong, which was rejected by the locals.
Sun Jingxuan naturally agreed with Lin Fu in terms of his personal emotional attitude. In addition, how many people had the courage to personally lead a lone army to move outside the city when the East China Sea bandits were coming in large numbers and fight in bloody battles with enemies several times their size for several days?
Not retreating?
It was precisely because Lin Fu, fearless of life and death, led his lone army to move outside the city to contain the East China Sea bandits that made Jiyang County the only county where the East China Sea bandits passed through in large numbers but were not looted and destroyed. Maybe Qingliu Shilin would not think anything of it.
, the people in Jiyang County will be grateful to Lin Fu, and all other people who have lost confidence in the government will naturally have a good impression of Lin Fu.
After the bloody battle in Jiyang, an obvious change was that many merchant ships and merchants coming from Pingjiang Prefecture to Jiangning were more willing to dock at the mouth of the river.
Another obvious change is Jiyunshe. After the bloody battle of Jiyang, the ships under the name of Lin's Warehouse entered Taihu Lake to sell supplies that were urgently needed by the local area. They also tried to purchase local tea, rice grains, cane sugar, cloth yarn, and silk satin.
When it comes to products, local rejection has been greatly weakened, and many local forces have even taken the initiative to cooperate with Jiyun Society and the Lin Family Warehouse. The most important among them are the Taihu Water Village forces that Lin Fu came into contact with when raising food.
Sun Jingxuan can touch and feel these changes.
On the surface, it seems that the Jiyun Society and the Lin Family Warehouse are able to enter the Taihu Lake Basin to purchase supplies. This attack by the East China Sea Bandits has dealt a heavy blow to both the aristocratic forces and the water village forces along the Taihu Lake. The commercial system along the Taihu Lake has been severely damaged, but this is not the key.
The sexual factor is basically the bloody battle of Jiyang that had a profound impact on the prefectures and counties along Taihu Lake.
In the past, except for the autumn canal time, Xihehui would be entrusted by Jiangning merchants to transport goods to the counties along Taihu Lake for sale. However, Pingjiang Prefecture has Pingjiang Prefecture’s river gang, and Danyang Prefecture has Danyang Prefecture’s boat gang. Generally speaking, Xihehui will
He was unable to receive business from merchants in Pingjiang Prefecture, Danyang Prefecture, and Huzhou Prefecture, but it also allowed Sun Jingxuan to have some contact with the water village forces in Taihu Lake and get to know them quite well.
Lin Fu had previously come into contact with many Taihu water village forces in raising food. They did not have much status in the government or officialdom, but they were powerful clans in the countryside. They were not willing to become lake pirates, let alone fight with the East China Sea bandits.
They worked together in collusion, but on their own they were not able to resist the invasion and harassment of the East China Sea bandits, and the government did not trust them and even took precautions against them.
Such an embarrassing position made these water village forces feel good about Lin Fu, who had previously blackmailed them in the name of "raising food", and they were willing to maintain contact. In addition to Lin Fu's status in the Inspectorate, this had something to do with it.
The power of Taihu Water Village has nothing to do with Qingliu Shilin, who is the representative of the local aristocratic family. More importantly, it is with Lin Fu who defeated the pirates at the mouth of the river, sniped at the pirates in Meixi, Anji, divided his troops to defend Xisha Island, and in Ji
Many events surrounding the bloody battle under Yangcheng became increasingly popular among the people, and he won the favor of the Taihu water village forces.
This is the key factor for Jiyunshe and Lin's Warehouse to penetrate into Taihu Lake.
Sun Jingxuan followed the crowd to the new house of Ge Siyu Ge's family at the mouth of the river. He looked at the back of Lin Fu who was sitting on a soft sedan as everyone gathered in. After thinking about it carefully, if he really had the guts to take a gamble, he would place his chips on
Lin Fu might be a small-time, big-profit business, but it was a pity that the Xihe Society's two thousand congregants with little social status and nearly ten thousand family members who were waiting for food made him unable to let go of such a gamble.
Of course, Wen Pei married Lin Jingzhong. If Lin Fu needed anything, as long as it did not involve sensitive party disputes between the government and the opposition, Sun Jingxuan would try his best to assist. For example, resettling refugees on Xisha Island requires a large amount of supplies to be brought in from outside, whether it is Jiyun
Neither the Society nor the Lin family had enough ships, so the Xihe Society provided a lot of help, which also allowed the two parties to maintain a good relationship.
After drinking in Ge Siyu's new house until the morning light faded, Cao Zi'ang, Lin Jingzhong, Ge Cunxin and others dispersed. Anyway, there was no rush to discuss matters tonight. Zhao Shuhan slept in Ge's house, and Lin Fu was carried back to the thatched cottage in a soft sedan.
I was very drunk and my eyes were hazy. I lay in front of the bed and looked at the figure in front of me that looked like the moon. I wanted to hold her hand, but I fell weakly on the head of the bed and fell asleep in a daze.
Su Mei's hand was squeezed by Lin Fu, and her heart was beating like it was in her throat. When she saw him falling asleep drunkenly and laughing again, she wanted to kick him.
"Really, I'm so careless with Sister Su Mei. When he wakes up tomorrow, I will chop off his dirty hands." Xiaoman smiled and moved Lin Fu's heavy body to the bed and took off his robe.
I took it off and untied the bandage on his injured leg to see how the wound was healing, and prepared to clean the wound and apply medicine again.
Su Mei felt hurt when she saw the scar on Lin Fu's leg. She didn't care about avoiding suspicion and helped Xiaoman untie the bandage.
Liu Yue'er came in with hot water for washing Lin Fu's face. When she saw Su Mei and Xiao Man treating Lin Fu's wounds, she hurriedly said: "How can you let Miss Su do such dirty work? Xiao Man and I can do it.
"It's gone," he complained distressedly when he saw that Lin Fu had fallen asleep drunk, "It's true, his leg injury hasn't healed yet, so he was dragged to drink like this, and no one can control him."
Su Mei retracted her hand in embarrassment. Although the conflict between men and women in the Le Ji family was not that serious, it was inappropriate for her to walk into Lin Fu's bedroom, let alone touch his naked skin to help him.
Wound.
Su Mei's face was slightly hot under the lamp and she said, "It's getting late, I should go back and rest."
After the river mouth became more prosperous, the vassal family built a property in the river mouth, and Su Mei also built a villa in the river mouth, and lived outside the city from time to time.
Xiaoman looked at the faint morning light outside the window and said with a joking smile: "It's still very early in the morning!"
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