The five people who came to apply for Lin Fu's name were three strong men, a young man, and a thin girl. Lin Jingzhong didn't know what Lin Fu wanted these five people to do on Prison Island, but Qian Xiaowu
With such words, he naturally brought the people to the island first. Cao Ziang did not make any arrangements there, but first let them mix with other refugees who were recruited.
Looking over, two boats were parked on the pier at the southern end of Prison Island. There was also a black boat parked on the beach at the mouth of the river. Lin Jingzhong took people on the boat, and Lin Fu's guard soldiers naturally followed him back on the boat.
Go to Prison Island. The three men didn’t know why the five of them wanted to take a boat to the island. They couldn’t see anything on the face of Lin Jingzhong, the leader. They were confused and confused. Unless they ran away, they couldn’t refuse Lin Jingzhong.
s arrangement.
It's more than a mile across the waterway from the mouth of the river. It takes only as long as a cup of tea to row slowly.
The boat docked at the simple pier of Prison Island, and Lin Jingzhong took people to the island. Only then did he realize that it had only been six or seven days since he left Prison Island, and that Prison Island was completely different from before.
Previously, a 300-foot-square open space was opened outside the high wall from the prison gate to the Nantou Pier. It was also used as a training ground for military soldiers. It was empty, except for the dust blown by the wind. At this time, the school ground
Separated by two blocks, the area in front of the prison gate was also used as a school ground; on the west side, a dozen wooden stakes were erected, and arrow targets were set up. Lines were drawn with lime on the ground, and an archery range was already made. Lin Fu was dressed in shorts and tight clothes.
There he was stretching his bow and shooting arrows. Zhou Pu, Lin Mengde and others stood by and watched him shoot arrows.
Lin Jingzhong went to the pier and stood there for a while. He saw that four of Lin Fu's ten arrows missed the target. He shook his head with a smile and led others towards the archery range.
"It's only been a few days, but things are completely different here." Lin Jingzhong said with emotion.
"Haha, I saw you arrived at the mouth of the river," Lin Fu smiled, handed the bow and arrow to the guard waiting beside him, then looked at the four guard soldiers who had been running outside with Lin Jingzhong for five or six days, and said, "
You guys come back to the team!" The four guard soldiers stood together with the guard who helped Lin Fu get the bow and arrow. Lin Fu looked at the five people who had stopped in front of the post house a few days ago and asked for shelter, and pointed
Referring to Zhou Pu, he said to them: "You have worked hard to come here. Go in with him to have a meal and rest. I will tell you to do something later..." and asked Zhou Pu to take the people to the prison gate.
"Who are they? Why did you ask them to come to the island?" Lin Jingzhong asked Zhang Ke doubtfully as he watched the figures of the five people taken away by Zhou Pu disappear through the camp gate.
"I don't know which company inserted the hidden stake. Let Zhou Pu lead him in to clean it up..." Lin Fu said.
"Ah..." Lin Jingzhong was stunned for a moment. He had been busy these days and had too many things to worry about. He really didn't find out about this. These people came to apply with Lin Fu's name card, and he didn't know it at the time.
What could he be thinking about? He asked again, "The boy and the little girl too? It's not the same! They also have an old lady who is dying of illness and can't even walk. They pulled her over in a bullock cart and said they were asking for a doctor.
The money you gave me..."
"No, these two. You can take them back later and settle them down... Come on, don't worry about this for now. I'll take you to see the changes on the island first." Lin Fu said with a smile, ignoring it at all.
The three turtles in the urn that were brought into the high wall by Zhou Pu and Lin Mengde led Lin Jingzhong to the east of the school grounds.
In the past five or six days, more than 40 acres of land have been opened to build a vegetable garden outside the high wall on the east side of the school grounds. Vegetables have been planted on all of it. They have just been watered and fenced livestock sheds have been built with bamboo poles and thick tree branches.
It was built on seven or eight acres of land and was divided into seven or eight pens. There were twelve or three piglets in each pen. Before Lin Jingzhong came, he heard from Qian Xiaowu that Lin Mengde had just sent the piglets by boat today. Let’s take a closer look.
, there are breeding pigs in the pen, and in front of the pen there are two prisoners in prison uniforms working hard.
"Those two men worked as pig herders before they were imprisoned. They both raised pigs for rich families in the village. They know which aquatic plants in the river can be eaten by pigs, which pigs will develop plague if eaten, and they can feed them small snails and other miscellaneous fish. Sows
How many litters can be born in a year, and how many piglets can be born in one litter, these two people also talked about it very clearly. After calculation, this pen shed needs twelve or thirteen sows to keep seeds. These are useful knowledge, but the moral gentlemen in the city are not
Treat it like dregs--nowadays, every kilogram of prison food given by the Xuanfu envoy to Prison Island is almost 30% rotten rice. In this day, it is almost a stone of rotten rice. People cannot eat it and mix it with water and grass.
If you feed pigs with snails and miscellaneous fish, you can raise a hundred pigs. After a while, you can slaughter one fat pig in two days to improve the food on the island..." Lin Fu said with a smile.
Lin Jingzhong made calculations in his mind out of habit. In Jiangning City, one kilogram of pork costs twenty-five six cents. One pig can be fattened for six months to kill one hundred fifty kilograms of meat, which is worth three thousand seven hundred and fifty cents. One hundred pigs
That’s 375,000 yuan, which is about 300 taels of silver. Prisoners fishing for aquatic plants, river snails, and miscellaneous fish don’t need to count the cost, and the labor for raising pigs doesn’t need to count the cost. They only consume 180 yuan in six months.
The broken stone and rice are only worth fifteen or sixty taels of silver, so the net income is two hundred, seventy and eighty taels of silver. Raising two pens of pigs a year is equivalent to five hundred taels of silver.
The accounts in the Linjing Center were clattering loudly, and his eyes were shining. This business thief was really good at it. He said: "The rotten rice in the market is worthless. You can buy more than a liter for one dollar. How about I ask someone to do it?"
Send a boat to the island every month..."
"You have been working as a cashier in a warehouse for several years, and you are obsessed with money." Lin Fu laughed and said, "You are sending boatloads of rotten rice to the island. I don't want a large number of people to go to the river."
Weeds and snails are harvested from the beach. Special pigherders are also required to take care of the pens. Where are there so many manpower? What I plan to do now, first take care of the needs of the island, and then supply the excess to Jiyun Society. This is why I work with
Master Gu agreed."
Lin Mengde also had a smile on his face, thinking that Lin Jingzhong was quite qualified as the manager of Jiyun Club, but when it came to making money, others were really not as good as Lin Fu. It had been almost ten years since the Jiangdao prison was built, and the former prison chief
Ge Zuxin only thought about forcing the female prisoners to sell themselves in the brothel in Quyang Town for profit, but he did not know that the island's more than 1,000 acres of good land, 2,000 to 3,000 acres of beach land, and the prisoners who had no servants to work were the basis for making money. At this time,
There are only more than two hundred prisoners on the island. Once Gu Wuchen really reopens the prison city in Jiangdong, there will be tens of times more prisoners on the island. The labor force that can be used by then will be even richer. The key is that some labor can be released for use
, some labor needs to be supervised and used, and a few more ways to make money need to be thought out and used in conjunction.
Lin Jingzhong rubbed his nose, knowing that there were too many factors to consider on Prison Island, and it was not enough to only see one benefit. He, Lin Fu, and Lin Mengde continued to walk eastward, and there were still twenty or thirty prisoners in the vegetable garden.
The land reclamation continues on the east side of the house, and there are still a few prisoners digging a pit behind the livestock shed. Looking at the shallow circle of soil dug, the pit is not small.
The prisoners here are working, and only five soldiers stand a little further away with weapons on guard.
Lin Jingzhong asked worriedly: "There are so many prisoners working outside, and only five soldiers are on guard. If several people spread their legs and plunge into the river at the same time, how can they catch up?"
"The prisoners who are being released to work now are all misdemeanor prisoners with good behavior. They are all detained in separate cells. The possibility of a group escape from prison is very low..." Lin Fu explained.
Lin Jingzhong frowned slightly. Some of the ordinary things Lin Fu said in his mouth always took people a long time to figure out the beauty of them.
No matter what Lin Jingzhong was thinking, Lin Fu pulled him to continue walking. While walking, he explained some of the things to be done next, including building another warehouse outside the high wall to store supplies, and moving the martial arts academy outside the high wall.
, the Prison Department should also be moved out to make more space inside the high wall. It is not to detain more prisoners, but to make room for building workshops within the high wall. After all, it is necessary to prevent large-scale prison escapes.
If it happens, it will be easier to manage prisoners by using them within high walls.
At this moment, Zhou Pu came over from the camp gate, and Lin Fu asked him: "Is it solved?"
"Catching turtles in an urn," Zhou Pu said easily, "They are all tied up. I can't take anything out of my mouth at the moment. Do you want to take a look?"
"What should I look at?" Lin Fu shook his head and said, "I can't find out anything even if I go there."
"Could it be someone from Qingfengxing?" Lin Jingzhong asked.
"Qingfeng Xing is the biggest suspect," Lin Fu said, "but things are still weird. Even if Qingfeng Xing is going to cause us trouble, we shouldn't leave traces. She Feihu is still in Jiangning City.
They haven’t gained a foothold yet, even if they want to fight for that section of the river embankment to build a wharf and a warehouse, but he dares to openly provoke the inspector general for this matter?"
"First put them in shackles and send them to the inner prison for sneaking into the prison island," Lin Fu said. "If no one comes out to negotiate in a few days, then send them to the Yamen of the Inspector General's Office, where they will be peeled off and corroded."
Serve them with meat/sticks..." No matter which family sent these three people, Lin Fu didn't want him to take things too far. Jiyun Club's foundation in Jiangning is still too shallow. If the scene is too bloody,
, Gu Wuchen may not necessarily take care of him.
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After decisively detaining the three hidden stakes, Lin Fu no longer delayed and took a boat back to the south bank with Lin Jingzhong, Lin Mengde, Zhou Pu and others, and also brought the young brother and sister back to the south bank.
In addition to a few thatched shacks built in the past few days, there are no tiles on the shore to protect against wind and rain. However, Lin Jingzhong dragged his family back with nearly 500 refugees, and a few thatched shacks cannot accommodate so many people.
The government will not send these refugees to Jiangning for temporary resettlement. These people will be resettled at the mouth of the river. If there are no shacks with enough shelter from the wind and rain, some people will have to sleep in the open air.
The ship anchored in front of the river mouth beach. The river beach here was paved with bricks and wood, and a dirt road leading to the shore was opened. The simple pier can allow a three- to four-foot-long wooden cargo ship to dock directly. The river beach
There were also dozens of logs stranded on the ground.
"It's only a straight line of more than 40 miles from Chaotianyi Ferry to the mouth of the Jinchuan River. More than 400 people and their families have been struggling for five or six days. We don't have to worry about food, clothing, housing and transportation. I feel like I have lost weight in the past few days.
I really can’t imagine how those tens of thousands of troops were able to move thousands of miles?" Lin Jingzhong followed Lin Fu ashore while talking about the hard work of the past few days.
"...We could have moved faster. From small to large, no matter how large-scale military transfers are, they are also organized by people, vehicles, horses, materials, etc.," Lin Fu smiled. Logistics management and organization have always been difficult.
Regarding the problem, he turned back to Lin Jingzhong and said, "Choose strong people to form a group. Strong village women can also be organized to take care of the bullock carts, supplies, children, the sick and the elderly, and be responsible for preparing meals for everyone. Before encountering something, they can
To make adequate predictions, each specific matter must be assigned a dedicated person in charge, and a manager should be appointed for large categories of matters. You cannot do everything by yourself regardless of the details. According to this idea, no matter how complicated the matter is, it must be done by yourself.
If you can sort it out--you will have a personal experience if you go a few times."
Lin Jingzhong was walking behind and thinking, but he accidentally stepped on the soft soil. A piece of it collapsed and he almost rolled down. Zhou Pu supported Lin Jingzhong from behind. Lin Fu looked back at Lin Jingzhong and said with a smile: "Take it easy on your feet.
This section of the staircase is too crude, and the soil is soft. If there is a heavy rain, it will not be able to take shape, and there will be no way to lay bricks and wood. It will be used temporarily until the stone steps to the west are opened, and it will be much better."
Lin Jingzhong followed him to the shore. There was already movement on the shore. Qian Xiaowu and a few guys he borrowed from Lin Mengde were directing the refugees to move bamboo, wood, masonry, linoleum and other materials to the west. He said to Lin Fu: "The west side can be
It's not our land. If things are piled up here, the landowner will come looking for us..."
"Not only are we piling things here, we also have to build shacks there to settle all these people first," Lin Fu said with a smile. "I went back to the city the day before yesterday and got permission from the Inspector General to build the prison on Jinchuan Island to the west.
An official document for building a warehouse and wharf on the river embankment. In name, all the recruited workers at the river mouth have been requisitioned by Jinchuan Island Dalao. Naturally, the land on the river embankment has also been requisitioned to temporarily house the hired workers. The landowners came to the door.
Compensation for young crops is..."
Seeing Lin Fu's understatement, Lin Jingzhong also felt relieved. No matter how powerful he is these days, he can't be bigger than the Yamen. On the Jiangdong border, if things can't be done in the name of the Inspector General's Yamen, then there aren't many people who can get things done.
, occupying dozens of acres of land is a big deal.
Lin Jingzhong was thinking about something and said to Lin Fu: "It's strange to say, who is the landowner of the land up to the west section of the river embankment? I have been looking for these days, but I can't find anyone. From the cadastral of Moling County
After searching the landowners in the cadastre, we found that the land at the mouth of the river had changed hands no less than ten times in the past few decades. The current landowner could no longer be found in the cadastre. We found in the village that the tenants only paid their land rent to the rent collection office every year. Who was the landowner?
The tenants don’t even know, but the rent collection office refuses to disclose the name of the landlord... It seems that the only option is to force them to show up."
There are more than 100,000 households in Jiangning City. Those who have extra wealth are accustomed to saving their money and burying it in underground kilns. Some are also accustomed to buying land in suburban counties and letting it be planted by tenant farmers to collect rent and profits. Most small and medium-sized landowners in the city have
The land is relatively scattered, and large-scale farms cannot be formed. It is very troublesome to go to the countryside to collect rent and pay taxes during harvest. Especially when encountering rent resistance, these small and medium-sized apartment landlords are usually helpless, even if they sue the government.
, first of all, you have to exploit the officials. If there is demand, the emergence of new things will be promoted. In this case, rent collection stations will appear in suburban towns to replace the landowners in the city to collect land rent from tenant farmers. There are many local ones.
Local landowners also longed for the luxurious and convenient life in the city, so they handed over their fields to the management of the rent-collecting warehouse and moved their families to live in the city as apartments. The rent-collecting warehouses were usually owned by local tycoons.
There are also many rent collection stacks with government backgrounds behind them. Since the county cadastral register is only updated every 20 to 30 years, it cannot reflect the land and field transaction process in a timely manner over the past 20 or 30 years. Tenants and landlords are separated by rent collection stacks.
It really takes a lot of trouble to find out who the owner of a piece of land is.
Lin Mengde looked up at the sky and said, "I want to go back to the city before dark, so I won't delay."
"Okay, Uncle Mengde, be careful on the road." Lin Fu said.
Lin Mengde spent a lot of energy helping Lin Fu these days, but he was always the person in charge of the Lin family in Jiangning, and there were still many things waiting for him to do at Lin Ji Warehouse.
Although Lin Mengde acquiesced to Lin Fu to set up his own business in Jiangning at the beginning because he had no choice but to get along with him for several months, especially when he saw Lin Fu's methods and courage, his knowledge that was far beyond ordinary people, and his relationship with the Gu family.
Lin Mengde just regretted that Lin Fu was not a member of the family, otherwise he would have tried his best to help Lin Fu win the title of head of the family.
Lin Mengde got on the carriage. Before he followed him and raised his whip, he looked back and sighed in his heart: Lin Tingxun was still lying on the bed half-dead. He didn't know who would be in charge of the Lin family in the end. Once the Lin family was taken over by a newcomer, I'm afraid that
He will send someone else to Jiangning to take his place.
Lin Mengde is a little obsessed with leaving. Everyone has their own selfish thoughts. After seven or eight years in charge of Jiangning, who is willing to return to Shanglin and be treated as a sideline child and excluded from the core affairs of the Lin clan? Thinking about it, he is not like
Lin Fu's determination and luck to establish his own business.
Various factors made Lin Mengde determined to help Lin Bing and leave a way out for himself.