"What do you have to say, stand up and talk..." Lin Fu was secretly vigilant and asked the five people who stopped them in front of the post house to stand up and talk. The guards in front of the post house looked here for a moment, but after all there was no
Come over and check.
"Thank you... for the copper coin that the master rewarded me. I bought a kilogram of it. My mother asked me to come over and kowtow to the master again!" But the three strong men behind them rushed the young man and the little girl to stand in front and replied,
The young man had a sallow complexion and stammered in front of strangers. He knelt down and kowtowed three more times before he got up covered in dirt and said, "Young man... you really have the strength to work. I don't want that much money.
My sister and I work for the master, and we only need one person’s wages. Even if we don’t have money, we can get food as rewards, so I beg the master to accept us. If there is no more food to eat, my mother and sister will starve to death...
..." When the boy said this, he wiped his tears with his dirty and torn sleeves. The little girl looked thirteen or fourteen years old, with beautiful features, but she was too thin, and her little face looked a bit scary. She was even more timid, and caught
The people who lived in Juvenile stared at Lin Fu, not even daring to say a word, and their eyes were covered with tears.
Listening to the young man's tone, they also went to the tea shop to apply, but were screened out. Now they came to beg for admission. There were almost thousands of people they had seen today. No matter how good Lin Fu's memory was, he could not identify thousands of people.
Remember them all.
"Master, please do well and take us in. The poor mother has been lying in the shed sick for several days and has no strength at all. Otherwise, even if she crawls, she will crawl over and kowtow to the master..." At this time, then
Only one of the three strong men stood up to answer Lin Fu, "If you take us in, please take the poor man with you. He is weak. If there is any work, we can help him do more. He will not have a bite to eat."
The three of them are really going to starve to death on the roadside here."
Lin Fu had no impression of the young man, but he didn't seem to be lying. However, he had never seen these three men in the tea shop. The refugees came all the way to seek a living, and they were all very miserable. Even those people Cao Ziang wanted to push in,
Their faces were all weathered and frosty. In the severe cold weather, after walking thousands of miles and sleeping in the open air, even a mule would lose dozens of kilograms of fat, let alone a human being. Even though these three strong men were wearing shabby clothes, they looked energetic under the lamp.
But it’s quite sufficient.
Lin Fu thought to himself, who is going to dig a hidden stake next to him? Even She Feihu would not willingly give up the land by the river without a fight. Are these three hidden stakes sent by Qingfengxing?
Lin Fu looked at the Household Chen Shu Office of Moling County in embarrassment and said: "The number of applicants is already full..."
Chen Shuban only thought that Lin Fu liked the three strong men in front of him. Jiyunshe could recruit forty sword-carrying guards as a caravan, and the shop could be guarded against thieves and thefts, and he could even carry ten bows. Such a strong and strong man was just right.
Jiyunshe was trying to recruit him. He said with a smile: "It's not just nonsense. There are really few people in the world who are as obedient and law-abiding as Mr. Lin. In the county, Mr. Xu Lin recruited a hundred people, and Mr. Lin just recruited a few more people.
Can we still go out to the street and shout? It’s just a matter of adding two more words at most.”
"Hahaha..." Lin Fu laughed loudly, took out a name card from his body, handed it to the leading man, and said, "You can take my name card directly to the tea shop tomorrow and wait to board the ship."
He took out dozens of copper coins from his body and gave them to the young man, "Take it and see if you can find a doctor to treat your mother at night and buy some delicious food."
The five people knelt down to thank each other again and then left. Lin Fu and Zhou Pu invited Chen Shuban and the two Yamen servants to have a meal in the post house. Chen Shuban and the two Moling County Yamen servants did not notice Wu who had been following them.
Qi did not follow them into the post house.
Lin Fu sent Chen Shuban and three people to have dinner in the post house. He did not stay overnight. Instead, he crossed the river with Zhou Pu that night and even went to the teahouse to talk to Lin Jingzhong. He did not tell Lin Jingzhong about the hidden stake.
, fearing that his inexperience would show his signs, the four guards were left at his disposal, and the guards did not dare to raise any objections. It was not uncommon for officials to send their soldiers to do chores, and this was also the rule in the world at that time.
The army is one of the reasons why the local army is weak.
Lin Fu didn't have so much time to delay. Lin Jingzhong would take these recruited people across the river tomorrow and would stay in Moling County for a day or two. However, he arranged to go directly to the mouth of the Jinchuan River. There was not even a thatched shed built at the mouth of the Jinchuan River.
Get up. Although there is Lin Mengde on the south bank to help, and Qian Xiaowu is running with him, but things are complicated and more manpower is needed. Cao Ziang and the others have to follow Lin Jingzhong and the others across the river, and they can't help in the past two days; besides, Luxury
Feihu and Du Rong would definitely not give up that section of the river bank honestly. If they were on the south bank, if something happened to Prison Island, they would be able to get there in the blink of an eye with just one or two miles of waterway. If they stayed on the north bank, there would be four
Fifty miles away, something happened on Prison Island. If we rush over there, the cucumbers and vegetables will be cold. Now on Prison Island, neither Zhao Hu nor Changsun Geng nor Yang Shi can stand alone.
Lin Fu couldn't easily spend the night on the north bank at this time. No matter how late it was, he would still rush back to the south bank to feel at ease.
Wu Qi rushed there before the Wupeng boat left the dock.
"The boy and the girl have no problem. They are refugees from Zhongzhou. The other three are hidden targets. They swarmed the boy and the girl over to cover up. They couldn't find out for a while which family they were from?" Wu Qi left him.
At this time, he told Lin Fu the news he had learned. He took a piece of meat pie from Zhou Pu and started chewing it regardless of whether it was cold or hard.
"What should we do? Should we let them sneak in first and not alert the snake for the time being?" Zhou Pu asked. What they must strictly keep secret is the ship they will arrange for Cao Ziang in the future, and that ship will not use unreliable outsiders.
, there is no other place in Jiyun Club where you should strictly guard against the prying eyes of others.
"How can we be so easy to bully?" Lin Fu said with a smile, "There are so many empty cells on the prison island, and there are hundreds of shackles that are of no use at the moment. Let's take those three people across the river first. Who will redeem them in the future?"
People, sell them for one hundred taels of silver each."
Zhou Pu and Wu Qi smiled, said nothing, and let the boat drift toward Prison Island. The three of them undressed in the cabin and slept to recharge their batteries.
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It was early the next morning when Lin Fu and the others arrived at Prison Island by boat.
Lin Mengde moved very quickly. He drove from the mouth of Jinchuan River to Jiuweng Bridge and then walked southeast for twelve or three miles. Just on the northwest side of Longxing Lake was Quyang Town, one of the twenty-four towns outside Jiangning City.
Merchants gathered in the town, and everything was available from all over the world. Lin Mengde and his people went to Quyang Town to buy all the things they needed in one day. Soon after Lin Fu and the others returned to Prison Island, Lin Mengde escorted a boat
A ship loaded with supplies came to the island. Twenty prisoners were sent to the prison island to work all morning before unloading the ship full of supplies.
Even if Jinchuan Prison Island is calculated based on the water level during the autumn season, the entire island covers an area of more than 2,000 acres. Although the entire Jiangdao prison is built on the scale of a prison city, it only covers an area of more than 800 acres. There are many buildings outside the high walls. There are 1,230 acres of open land, which is more than three or four times larger if considered as a shallow river beach. The northwest of the island has higher terrain and there are mixed forests. When the prison was first built, it was burned on the island. Clay is used to make bricks, and wood is cut to make beams. Although the old kilns have collapsed, most of them still exist. There are still three to four hundred acres of woods that can be cut down to make purlins, and there are also large bamboo forests. As long as you have tools, the island can There are enough manpower available to make bricks and cut bamboo and wood, not only for the prison island itself, but also for the construction of warehouses at the mouth of Jinchuan River.
Everything is difficult at the beginning, but once you get started, things will become easier.
Lin Fu initially selected ten prisoners to go fishing on the north beach of the prison island. In the eyes of Chang Sun Geng and others, these had exceeded the rules. On the one hand, Lin Fu was a powerful prison officer, and on the other hand, Lin Fu ordered the soldiers to be strict. To prevent escape from prison, others can't say anything. When three to four hundred kilograms of plump river fish can be caught every day to supplement the prison supplies, the food for officials and prisoners will be greatly improved and there will be no shortage. In these seven or eight days For a long time, Chang Sun Geng and others took it as a matter of course for prisoners to go fishing on the river beach.
Speaking of which, there is still profit inducement behind this.
Lin Fu's next move was to open a vegetable garden and a livestock pen outside the high wall.
There is a lot of open land outside the high walls of the island. In addition, the prison food provided by the Xuanfu envoys is mixed with a large amount of old grains and rotten rice. Lin Fu strictly prohibits the mixing of rotten rice with the prisoners, but these old grains and rotten rice are as well as those from Congjiangtan. A large amount of aquatic plants, snails, and miscellaneous fish can be harvested to feed pigs, sheep and other livestock. Lin Fu wants to solve the problem of vegetable and meat supply on Prison Island before summer comes.
All these things have to be done by the prisoners in the prison. With the previous fishing foundation, Lin Fu raised the matter of building a vegetable garden and livestock pens with Changsun Geng. Changsun Geng did not find it particularly difficult to accept. The key is how Problems of servicing prisoners and preventing prisoners from escaping.
More than two hundred prisoners were imprisoned in the high wall, and sixty soldiers and more than twenty guards were enough to supervise them. Even if Jiang bandits were crossing the border, the prison door was tightly closed here, and there was no fear that Jiang bandits would come to the island to attack the prison. .However, putting more than 200 prisoners to work outside the high wall, with 60 soldiers and more than 20 guards supervising them is not enough. Once an escape incident occurs, it will be a major incident for the prison officials.
Regardless of Chang Sun Geng's integrity, qualifications, knowledge, and prestige among the original squad leaders and officers, Lin Fu would use him as his main assistant in managing the prison island and managing prisoners, even when he temporarily left the prison island. After that, Chang Sun Geng was asked to take charge of the affairs on the prison island.
After the prison was cleared, Lin Fu found time to explain in detail to Changsun Geng the prison management ideas of treating prisoners with prisoners and treating prisoners with different crimes.
Based on many factors such as the crime of imprisonment, the prisoner's sentence and family situation, and the length of the remaining sentence, prisoners in the prison are classified and managed separately. Prisoners with a low risk of escaping from prison can be sent to work outside the high wall; prisoners with a high risk of escaping from prison can be sent to work outside the high wall. Prisoners would be forced to work in workshops built within high walls; seriously dangerous prisoners would be placed in inner prisons under strict surveillance and could even work in shackles.
Preventing prisoner abuse, improving prisoners' living and sanitary conditions, and recruiting well-behaved misdemeanor prisoners to manage cells can effectively prevent escapees.
Of course, no matter how detailed things are done, prisoner escape cannot be completely eliminated. But is there any prison in Dai Viet where escape does not occur? Not to mention prison escape, every once in a while there are prisoners who suddenly die of sudden illness.
The prison was the normal prison in Dai Viet Dynasty. What Prison Island had to guard against was large-scale escapes.
Changsun Geng is also a knowledgeable person. Even though Lin Fu's ideas on prison governance are completely different from the tradition, after Lin Fu explained in detail, Changsun Geng can still accept some new things and new ideas. On the one hand, it is also guided by benefits and benefits.
On the one hand, the cleansing of the prison greatly touched him. Even if Lin Fu was not on the prison island, Changsun Geng was still able to implement Lin Fu's prison management ideas very well.
In addition to these things, Lin Fu also asked Changsun Geng to pay attention to selecting prisoners with special skills. After all, Prison Island will have to do many things in the future, whether it is fishing, growing vegetables, feeding livestock, spinning, weaving, and making clothes.
Prisoners with skills in blacksmithing, boating, and carpentry can solve a lot of troubles for them.
There were not many prisoners on the prison island. Chang Sun Geng spent two days to thoroughly sort out all the prisoners. He also specially set up the post of prison director among the prisoners. He used the ten prisoners originally selected by Lin Fu to take charge of the prison door.
They even have the authority to supervise the behavior of jailers in the prison cell and severely suppress the cell bosses who had been dominating the prison cell for a long time.
In fact, after Lin Fu used the new rules to greatly improve the prison conditions for prisoners, most of the prisoners who came to prison because they could not pay the atonement money suddenly became much easier to manage.
Lin Mengde transported supplies and tools to the prison island, and Changsun Geng sent 40 or 50 male prisoners who were least at risk of escaping from prison, as well as all the female prisoners, to go outside the high walls to cut bamboo and wood, and to open up wasteland to build vegetable gardens and livestock pens.
It wasn't until the fifth day that Lin Jingzhong came over with the recruited refugees and their families, nearly 400 people.
Although these people have all settled in Moling County, there is no room for them in Moling County. They have to rely on Jiyun Society to solve the problem for their survival. It was originally thought that the matter could be solved in two or three days, but after so many people took care of their families,
Every household still has messy belongings, which will cause a lot of troubles. It took two days to wait at Chaotianyi Ferry, and all the people were gathered together. After arriving in Moling County, they were put on the yellow rolls, and there were some refugees who were recruiting workers.
One family member failed to make it through and died of illness in the county town. It took another day in Moling County, and finally more than a dozen large trucks were hired from Moling County to drag more than 400 people, including their families, to the mouth of the Jinchuan River.
The family of the refugee who died of illness, Lin Jingzhong, also bought a coffin and transported it on an oxcart to the mouth of the Jinchuan River for burial. They spent a lot of money, which can be regarded as winning people's hearts.
In the forest scene, they rushed to the mouth of Jinchuan River and saw that several simple thatched sheds had been built on the more than ten acres of land they had bought at the mouth of Jinchuan River. In the open space behind the thatched sheds, there were a large pile of bricks, stone, bamboo and wood neatly piled up.
, Qian Xiaowu and the four men lent to Jiyun Society by Lin Mengde were guarding there, but neither Lin Fu nor Lin Mengde was seen.
"Hey, you guys are not slow at all!" Lin Jingzhong saw that all the materials for building a house were ready. He stopped Qian Xiaowu and asked, "Where are the young master and Uncle Mengde?"
"They are all on the island. Mr. Lin has just sent a boatload of piglets to the island," Qian Xiaowu said. "The master has told you to come over and take the few refugees who applied for the job with his name card to take a boat to the island."
Go up..."
"Uh..." Lin Jingzhong touched his forehead and thought for a moment before remembering that the next morning at Chaotianyi Ferry, five people came to apply with Lin Fu's name card, and the Secretary Chen of Moling County also said it was Lin Fu.
He agreed to take them in in front of Chaotian Posthouse, and he took them directly across the river without thinking much. He was so busy that he was dizzy. If Qian Xiaowu hadn't mentioned them, he would have forgotten about these five people. He quickly ordered Lin Fu to keep them.
His four guard soldiers went to call the people over. He didn't understand that Lin Fu would not let Cao Ziang and the others go by boat to meet each other, but he wanted to take these five people to the prison island.