Song Bo saw Lin Fu looking at Wang Chengfu and knew that his identity was sensitive. He stayed in Jiangmen and interacted with Wang Chengfu. It was difficult not to arouse Lin Fu's suspicion.
Song Bo had the obligation to explain a few words to Wang Chengfu, and he bowed to Lin Fu and said: "After leaving Jinan, Song Bo followed the Yue Governor to fight in the east and west, and arrived in Jiangning at the end of February. After all, he is a son of the Song family, and it is rare for his colleagues to trust him.
So he resigned from his job and felt relaxed. He was not in a hurry to return to his hometown. During this period, he had been traveling in Jianghuai. Half a month ago, he went south from Qingjiangpu and passed through Hechengsi. He met brother Chengfu while drinking in an inn and they talked happily.
, I followed him to Jiangmen as a guest, and I didn’t expect to meet Mr. Lin here.” He bowed to Wang Chengfu and said, “Brother Chengfu treats me with sincerity, but I conceal my family background. I am really ashamed. My father is actually the uncle of Anyong Taibo of Jin Dynasty.”
Song Fu, please forgive me, Brother Chengfu..."
"Since Brother Song is passing through Hecheng, why not go to Chongzhou as a guest?" Lin Fu laughed, "I want to go out to sea for inspection, so Brother Song will come with me!"
"Being respectful is worse than obeying orders." When Song Bo saw Lin Fu inviting him to Chongzhou as a guest, his tone was firm and he could not refuse. Knowing that he could not escape, he thought it aroused Lin Fu's suspicion and wanted to imprison him. He felt unlucky and dared not let him go. He resisted and took off the sword from his waist. The old servant who wanted to follow him on the Jianghuai trip also took off his weapon and handed it to the guards around Lin Fu.
Wang Chengfu was slapped and stood there stunned.
Wang Chengfu only thought that Song Bo was a knowledgeable traveling scholar. When they met in Hechengsi, they occasionally met at an inn to discuss current affairs. They were very agreeable, so he invited him to Jiangmen as a guest. Who would have thought that he was from East Fujian?
A direct descendant of the Song family, one of the eight surnames?
After the Donghai bandits infiltrated the Geshe family and other people with the eight surnames from East Fujian, their power increased greatly. They caused great damage to the coastal counties in the past two years. Everyone who knew about it hated the children with the eight surnames from East Fujian. The Jinghai capital in front of them
The eunuchs were even more so, and even used the name of banditry to clear out all the monks in Chongzhou.
Under such circumstances, Song Bo traveled around the Yangtze and Huaihe Rivers and visited the countryside. It would be strange not to be regarded as a spy.
Although Lin Fu did not tie up Song Bo, but when he saw that he invited Song Bo to Chongzhou as a guest in a tone that could not be refused, and asked Song Bo and his generals to hand over their swords and weapons, Wang Chengfu knew that this was not the same as house arrest.
What's the difference.
Wang Chengfu was the exiled convict of Yong Yun's assassination. Being involved in this kind of thing, it was really difficult to save his head on his neck. No matter how calm he usually was, he couldn't help but panic at this time.
"Wang Qitou can make friends with Brother Song. I think he is a person worth getting to know. Then please invite Wang Qitou to go to Chongzhou as a guest." Lin Fu stood at the door of the official hall and said in a spoken language that could not be questioned, "Except Wang Qitou
Besides, who else is in charge here?"
Wang Chengfu's face was mournful, knowing that he was also a prisoner at this moment. He watched the guards around Lin Fu come over, took off his sword in frustration, and became worried about the head on his neck.
There was a group of soldiers garrisoned in Duting. The captain took a small group of people to Hecheng Division for some reason. There were three flag-bearers here. Lin Fu waited for a while at the gate of the courtyard. The other two flag-bearers hurriedly rushed from elsewhere after hearing the news.
Come and kowtow to apologize.
Lin Fu asked the two flag leaders to gather the soldiers and civilians on the left and right, and said: "Marine pirates are rampant and have repeatedly invaded the countryside. The left army in Jiangdong has the responsibility of guarding the sea. Now it is planned to set aside a piece of land in Jiangmen to build beacon towers and garrison towers.
To warn against banditry at Jiangkou. This matter is led by Zhao Hu, deputy commander of the Chongcheng Infantry Battalion of the Jiangdong Left Army, and requires the cooperation of the military and civilians in Duting, Jiangmen. Here are the official letters obtained from the Weiyang Salt and Iron Company and our Jinghai Capital Supervisor
The Secretary signed the official letter of pledge. Wang Tianyi is not in Jiangmen. Which one of you will sign the pledge..."
Zhao Hu took out two official letters from his arms and showed them to the two flag-bearers. The two flag-bearers were illiterate. They took the official letters and glanced at them twice. They had no idea what was written on them, and no one explained it to them.
They listened and casually pressed their fingerprints.
Wang Chengfu knew in his heart that the Jiangdong Left Army was going to build a beacon fire pier in Jiangmen. Even if there was an official letter from the Weiyang Salt and Iron Company, it would have to get the approval of the Hecheng Department first. Furthermore, the Jinghai Governor's Department and the Hecheng Department were not under each other.
There is no right to expropriate grassland households and salt farmers to build beacon fire piers.
In addition, the Jiangdong Left Army really intends to build beacon piers at the seaport to alert the enemy. They need to build one every ten miles, so that the enemy information can be conveyed to the Jiangdong Left Army base camp in a timely manner through beacon communications. If every beacon pier and garrison tower
The construction and defense of the camp were all handled by a deputy battalion commander leading two to three hundred horse infantry. It was feared that the entire Jiangdong Left Army would not have enough troops.
Wang Chengfu knew that something was very fishy, but he had no right to speak at this time. The other two flag leaders knew that Wang Chengfu and the guests he invited back were going to be captured by Jiangdong Zuojun in Chongzhou for questioning, and they were afraid that they would be questioned.
Being involved, he didn't dare to speak for Wang Chengfu and refused to ask any more questions. Wang Chengfu thought of Lin Fu's rumored behavior and thought that Wang Tianyi was from Hecheng Division, so he didn't have the right to say anything.
Lin Fu asked the other two flag leaders to come forward and speak: "Due to the need for building beacon piers and garrison towers, I have 300 horse infantry who need to be temporarily stationed here. I think this courtyard is very big, and the southern half of the courtyard is temporarily lent to us.
Use the south wall to cut a door, and build another wall in the middle of the yard, so that the north and south sides have nothing to do with each other - what do you think of this arrangement?"
This is not a temporary loan, they are clearly trying to occupy half of the courtyard! The two flag leaders did not dare to resist, they only said that they would have to wait until everyone turned around before they could make the decision.
Lin Fu laughed and said, "Then it's decided for now. I'm going out to sea for inspection and will pass by here in a few days! If Wang Tianyi doesn't agree, ask him to tell me when the time comes." He handed the matter over to his eldest grandson.
Geng and Zhao Hu were in charge. He took Song Bo and Wang Chengfu, surrounded by guards, back to the river bank and boarded a boat to go to sea.
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The entire Jinchuan Prison was moved to Chongzhou, and more than a thousand prisoners were moved to Xisha Island and placed in various workshops to work, under the supervision of Xisha Island.
Two hundred guards were organized into a sentry and directly incorporated into the Chongcheng Infantry Camp. Zhao Hu served as the deputy battalion commander and continued to lead this sentry. In the name of building beacon piers and garrison towers, they were built directly on the north bank of Jiangmen Island.
A prison city to house exiled prisoners.
Before the sentry found out the details of Jiangmen, Lin Fu did not expect that Jiangmen's conditions were so good.
In addition to the 500 grassland households under the jurisdiction of the Yidu Team Yanding, Jiangmen Duting also allows more than 1,000 households to privately cultivate more than 20,000 acres of wasteland in the jurisdiction to grow grain, cotton and mulberry. In addition to Dutingyuan
Outside the fortified fortress, the roads, ditches, and woods in the area are quite complete. However, all of this is hidden deep in the pasture. Outsiders who don’t go deep into Jiangmen and pass by the outside can’t find any clues at all. Because of the crane
The officials of Chengsi make a lot of profits every year, and Jiangmen Duting has to transport a lot of hay every year without causing any trouble. Hechengsi also turns a blind eye to the situation in Jiangmen Duting.
Jiangmen Duting can have such a scene. Even when the East China Sea invaded Chongzhou in early April, a small group of pirates landed in Jiangmen and were repelled by Jiangmen Duting's army and civilians. All this shows that there is someone behind Jiangmen Duting.
People who are good at political affairs are in charge.
Lin Fu originally thought that Wang Tianyi, the head of Jiangmen Duting, was a person. After investigating Wang Tianyi's background, he found out that there was another person. However, time was limited and he did not find out who it was. After all, it was difficult for outsiders to approach Jiangmen Duting quietly.
Find out the information of displaced households and grassland households.
I didn't expect that when I come here in person this time, I will meet Song Bo who traveled to Jianghuai. And the person behind Jiangmen Duting who is proficient in political affairs is most likely Wang Chengfu who invited Song Bo to Jiangmen as a guest.
Of course, Lin Fu unceremoniously put Song Bo and Wang Chengfu under house arrest, and took them to the ship to patrol the sea together.
Although he was under house arrest, Song Bo was calmer than Wang Chengfu. After boarding the ship, he was still in the mood to look at the Jinhai. Although Jin'an had spent a lot of effort on building ships in the past few years, he started too late.
, the deep mountain forest farms in the hinterland of East Fujian are controlled by the Governor's Office and County Secretary of East Fujian, and they are not yet capable of building such a large and sturdy sea-going ship.
After raising the sails, the fleet left Jiangmen and continued sailing east. Jiangmen is already the easternmost point of land on the north bank of the Yangtze River, and further east is a tidal flat twenty to thirty miles wide. When the tide recedes, the exposed dark brown land is vast.
But when the tide rises, it is flooded by the sea water, and it is impossible to even plant grass. Unless seawalls are built on a large scale to keep out the tide, the tidal flats can be gradually improved into arable land.
The fleet left the river mouth, and the vast twilight fell on the clear sea, causing the water to gradually settle from blue to ink. The fleet did not anchor at the shore, but instead moved away from the shallow coast and sailed southeast.
Lin Fu did not restrict Song Bo and Wang Chengfu from moving around on the ship, but their movements were watched. Song Bo slept peacefully in the cabin. When he woke up, it was bright and clear. He pushed the hatch and looked at the things emerging in front of him.
After visiting a few large islands, and calculating the itinerary, it should be the Shengsi Islands. Lin Fu led the Jiangdong Left Army to station in Chongzhou for nearly half a year. After the first stormy season, they finally had formal contact with the East China Sea bandits.
For decades, the Shengsi Islands have been a haven for pirates, and they have been raided repeatedly.
Last year, the thirteen clans of East China Sea bandits gathered on the Shengsi Islands for their alliance. After Shefei Xiong, whose alias was Donghai Harrier Yuan Tingdong, captured the Changguo County islands, the East China Sea bandits gathered in large numbers on the Changguo County islands in the sea east of Mingzhou Prefecture.
, the Shengsi Islands are still the most important outpost of the East China Sea pirates, and the number of pirates in Panju is not less than before.
The Shengsi Islands are about 1,780 miles east of Haiyu County, about 200 miles away from Changshan Island in the north, and only about 200 miles away from the Yangtze River estuary. The area of its three main islands is larger than Changshan Island.
The mountain islands are five or six times larger. If they want to compete with the She family for supremacy in the East China Sea, the Shengsi Islands are the first dangerous maritime area to be fought over.
Further south are the even larger Tushan and Daishan islands, which together with the Changguo County islands form a long and narrow island chain in the East China Sea. Almost all of them have been occupied by the East China Sea bandits, seriously threatening the security of coastal counties in Jiangdong, Zhejiang and Zhejiang counties.
Lin Fu stood on the deck, observing the terrain around the Shengsi Islands with Ao Canghai, Zhou Ting and others. He saw Song Bo and Wang Chengfu coming to the deck. Judging from his performance yesterday, it seemed that he didn't know about Song Jia and Lu She
Mingyue was put under house arrest in Chongzhou and asked: "After Brother Song resigned from the Governor's Office, he traveled to Jianghuai. In the past few months, has he had any contact with Jin'an?"
Song Bo really didn't know that his sister and She Mingyue were captured in Guangjiao Temple. Seeing Lin Fu's abrupt question, he replied: "I have been living in no fixed place for the past few months. I can only stay in one place for three to five days at most, with only one person by my side."
The old servant followed and asked someone to send a few letters back to Jin'an to report that he was safe, but he could not receive any letters from Jin'an."
"..." Lin Fu did not mention the matter of Song Jia and She Mingyue, but pointed to the Shengsi Islands in the distance, "During the stormy season, the East China Sea bandits failed to brave the wind and waves to invade Chongzhou, but Mingzhou Prefecture and Jiahang Prefecture were only across the strait.
However, they were repeatedly invaded. Yuan Tingdong even retreated after taking Xiangshan County for a month. I can't confirm yet whether there are any children of the Song family among them. Once confirmed, it will be unclear whether Brother Song resigned from his post and traveled to Jianghuai.
.Don’t blame me for not remembering our past acquaintance.”
Song Bo was calm and said: "My Song family's fiefdom is in Yongtai County, which is two to three hundred miles away from the sea. Maybe there are three or five unscrupulous sons who are bold enough to change their names and mix with the East China Sea bandits to do things that harm the place.
, my Song family also hates it especially, but what does it have to do with me resigning and traveling to Jianghuai?"
When the She family's army was at its peak, there were 100,000 strong soldiers. After joining the imperial court and becoming marquises, the She family and the other seven surnames retained approximately 20,000 elite soldiers. A large number of the reduced soldiers and horses were placed in coastal areas. Because Jin'an is more mountainous and less
In the land, the long-term war has made the people very poor. A large number of soldiers have been laid off and have no livelihood. She Feixiong, whose pseudonym is Donghai Harrier Yuan Tingdong, in addition to taking a small number of direct line elites and a group of military attachés loyal to the She family directly overseas, he can also very
It was easy to recruit a large number of elite bandit soldiers from the coastal areas of Jin'an Prefecture without directly involving the She family and other seven-surname families.
Judging from the information currently available, it is true as Song Bo said that the Song family, whose fiefdom is in Yongtai County, did not directly send their children to infiltrate the Donghai bandit forces. It was precisely because of this that Lin Fu thought that the Song family was divided.
possible.
Lin Fu wanted to say something else to Song Bo, but Ge Cunxiong pointed to the distance and said: "The pirates have sent ships out..."