"This boat is so fast..." Zhao Qinmin looked at the two banks quickly retreating, and compared with the carriages traveling on the river embankment, he also felt that the boat was sailing very quickly in the Jinchuan River.
"..." Lin Fu laughed. The three masts of this Thousand Stone Ship are more than eight feet tall, with a total of fifteen sails. The hull is also slender. The operation is much more complicated than ordinary medium and large sailboats, but the tall masts and compound sails
Its structure makes this ship much faster than ordinary sailing ships. This kind of fast sailing ship spreads its sails on the sea to take advantage of the wind, and even set a record of sailing five to six hundred miles day and night. The more than three thousand taels of silver spent by Jiyun Society was really not in vain.
If the Longjiang Shipyard hadn't smashed the ship into his hands and begged to get rid of it, with the prosperity of the canal route in the past, this ship might not have been purchased for even 5,000 taels of silver. Lin Fu quickly drove the other two ships of the same type in the Longjiang Shipyard to
After the sailboat was booked, a symbolic payment of five hundred taels of silver was added to the boat payment, and many benefits were given privately to the officer in charge of Longjiang Shipyard. Naturally, Lin Fu would not brag to Zhao Qinmin that the advantages of this boat in sailing on the sea would be more obvious.
, just smiled and said, "I am afraid that the goods will be transferred slowly. If I transfer the goods once a year, I will gain 30% of the profit. If I transfer the goods once more, my profit will be doubled... I am a person who only cares about money. It is really an insult to scholars."
Clear reputation."
"Lord Lin is so humble." Zhao Qinmin said with a smile, thinking that Lin Fu was arrogant and domineering after coming to Jiangning, and prison officials have always been despised by scholars and scholars. In addition, Lin Fu was highly respected in Jiangning and was despised by the mainstream.
His miscellaneous knowledge and craftsmanship made his reputation among scholars and Confucian scholars indeed not good.
None of this prevents Lin Fu from becoming famous in Jiangning. Although Qingliu disdains him, probably no one in the powerful families inside and outside Jiangning City ignores Lin Fu anymore. Gu Wuchen also has a lot of trust in him.
Of course, Lin Fu was worthy of Gu Wuchen's trust in him. In a short period of time, he helped Gu Wuchen create a new situation and gain a foothold in Jiangning. Not only that, more than 20 of the more than 30 top criminals who were detained during the attack on the river mouth have been released one after another.
Although Zhao Qinmin didn't know how much money Gu Wuchen made from it, he knew that it was definitely not a small number. In short, Gu Wuchen came to the river mouth twice to inspect these days. He was very happy, smiling broadly, and would hold Lin Fu's shoulders to show his affection and relationship.
extraordinary.
Gongs and drums sounded in the distance to welcome the Thousand Stone Ship into the harbor. Although Gu Wuchen did not come in person, dozens of Dongyang Township Party members came to the river mouth to congratulate them, and they all watched and waited on the river bank.
On the river mouth side, the dam blocking the water has been removed, and a deep-water channel has been dug using tens of thousands of man-hours. This allows large ships with thousands of stones to berth directly on the river bank without worrying about being stranded on the river beach. Although the stone platform for the river bank pier has not yet been excavated.
It will take some time, but by using the ropeway and the temporary plank road built on the cliffs of the river, it is possible to load and unload the ships berthed on the shore.
Besides, this thousand-stone ship will still need to be trained in Chaotiandang for a period of time before it can be officially put into use.
Zhao Qinmin narrowed his eyes and looked at Lin Fu. Lin Fu promised that he would be responsible for inviting the Dongyang Township Party to jointly build Hekou, and that he would keep his word and not send anyone else to restrain him. Gu Wuchen sent Gu Siming to Hekou. Although Lin Fu had an old relationship with Gu Siming
Although there was a gap, it did not prevent him from participating in Hekou affairs.
In addition to the great benefits that can be expected in the future, the joint construction of Hekou will also help to unite the power of the township party. Gu Wuchen really needs these the most to gain a foothold in Jiangning. With Lin Mengde taking the lead, Ye Kai, Xiao Mi and other Dongyang township parties doing business in Jiangning responded.
We are also active. In addition to the 500 silver donation on the carriage road, the shop streets leading from the Jiang'an Wharf and connecting to the river wharf should be paved with granite, and the grass market connecting the shop fronts with the carriage road should also be paved with granite.
For this purpose, the Dongyang Township Party pledged a total of nearly 4,000 taels of silver to erect a canopy with green tile eaves. Of course, the land for building shops on both sides of the long street was also allocated to each family according to the donated money. After the grass market was completed, each family will jointly manage it.
, converted into thirty-six silver shares, Jiyunshe holds four shares, Gu Jia holds four shares, Chen Yuanliang and Zhang Yubo each hold two shares, and the other twenty-four shares are divided among each family.
In addition to the riverside wharf berths built to berth large ships, the open waters and beaches of the river mouth were also used to build river embankment wharves that can berth more small and medium-sized passenger and cargo ships. There is also a carriageway connected to the Donghua Gate official road. If
Regardless of Caotiandang's banditry, it is indeed an excellent water and land terminal. The ferry from Chaotianyi to Jiangning City does not need to go to Qixia Ferry, which is more than 60 miles away, or to the mouth of the three branches of Longzangpu River in the south of the city.
After all, the nearest Jiuwengqiao ferry is too small and can only accommodate official ships. The wharf in Quyang Town is too limited inland. Due to the restrictions of the river and the bridges across the river, medium and large sailing ships with a capacity of more than 1,000 stones cannot be docked.
Don't go in.
During Zhao Qinmin's time in Hekou, he really realized Lin Fu's ability to deal with the world. It was really Gu Wuchen's strong help after he arrived in Jiangning. Lin Fu also showed a sense of proportion and knew how to advance and retreat.
Among many other things, it is clear that he did not expect to take full advantage of the river mouth. However, Zhao Qinmin also had special doubts: How much financial resources did Jiyun Society hide?
The preliminary foundation laying on the river mouth side, including the construction of river banks, river embankments and piers, the construction of enclosures and bamboo halls, and the recruitment and resettlement of refugees, etc. were almost all provided by Jiyunshe. It was not until early April that the construction funds for the river mouth became the main source.
Raising money from the Dongyang Township Party, Zhao Qinmin estimated that Jiyunshe's initial investment would be no less than six to seven thousand taels of silver.
Although after the prison was cleared, there were a large number of vacancies for soldiers and officers on Prison Island. Lin Fu's prison island could take up the vacancies, and Zhao Qinmin could not see the detailed accounts of Prison Island. However, Gu Wuchen came to inspect the prison island twice and he had the opportunity to accompany him to the prison island.
If you take a look and see it on the spot, you will know that the shortfall in salary is far from making up for Lin Fu's early investment in Prison Island.
The incident of escaping from prison and demanding punishment was also submitted to the Ministry of Punishment in writing by the Inspector General to request merit. As a result, Lin Fu was rated as excellent in the Spring Performance Assessment of the Office of Officials, and was awarded the title of Ninth Grade Scholar in terms of merit.
When conferring official positions in this dynasty, in addition to the previous official positions, rank is also an important basis. Unless there is special achievement, the rules of rank determination must be followed. It is similar to the stock level, department level, and division level in later generations.
The rules are basically similar. If you want to entrust a county magistrate, you must select a cadre at the deputy division level for promotion. If a cadre at the department level suddenly becomes the county magistrate, it is true that there is no super boss-level figure behind him.
I don’t even believe in ghosts.
Although his duties have not changed, for Lin Fu, who was born in Juzi, it is already an extremely rare honor to be awarded the rank of Ninth Rank and Sanzhi after only half a year in the officialdom.
Lin Fu didn't care about this. Zhao Qinmin could also roughly judge from the incident of escaping from prison and asking for punishment. Lin Fu not only deducted money from the prisoners' rations, but also gave them extra. In addition, the food and treatment of the officials on the island were good, and it was not a propaganda.
The money allocated by the Envoys for work and food is enough to cover the expenses, and any additional shortages must be paid from Lin Fu's private pocket.
Over the past three months, 400 to 500 acres of wasteland have been reclaimed on Prison Island, hundreds of sheds have been built, fishing gear, weaving and spinning wheels, smelting furnaces, boats, two new warehouses outside the high wall, and piglets have been purchased.
There are more than two hundred sheep and cattle, and tens of thousands of poultry are raised on the beach. These require a large amount of silver to be spent. The additional silver for the four chariots and warships alone is as high as 1,600 taels. In addition to the soldiers, four additional
Fourteen oarsmen.
In Jiangning City, in addition to noble and official households and official low-level households, ordinary city households are divided into ten grades. The main basis for classification here is family property, which is also a concrete manifestation that the merchants of the Dai Viet Dynasty are higher than those of the previous dynasty. Family property is divided into three levels.
A person with one hundred thousand dollars can be classified as a top household. Even in the prosperous city of Jiangning, a family worth tens of millions can be considered a wealthy person.
Zhao Qinmin is sure that Lin Fu has invested more than tens of millions of dollars in the river mouth and prison island in the past few months. At this time, he also purchased a large sailing ship worth 3,000 taels of silver, and added three at a time. In addition to the one at his feet,
In addition, there were two large sailing ships of the same specifications being built at the dock of Longjiang Shipyard. Zhao Qinmin really could not guess how much financial resources Jiyun Society had hidden.
It was said that Lin Fu was an abandoned son of the Lin clan, and was expelled to Jiangning because of offending his family. Zhao Qinmin found it hard to imagine that this was the case. But in any case, Lin Fu's status was equivalent to that of Chen Yuanliang, Zhang Yubo and others. Although he was given
They were regarded as Gu Wuchen's people, and they were the cronies that Gu Wuchen relied on. However, unlike Yang Pu and Yang Shi, Lin Fu, while relying on Gu Wuchen, did not prevent him from expanding his own power.
Lin Fu didn't know what Zhao Qinmin was thinking. He had considered that scattering money on such a large scale at the mouth of the river would arouse others' suspicion. Including the purchase money for the ship, most of the more than 32,000 taels of silver earned in the past few months had been scattered.
There is less than 10,000 taels of silver left. I am not afraid of doubts. It is more troublesome to arouse the covetousness of others. It is a small matter for bandits to come to my door. If there is no power, it is common to be framed and imprisoned by the government. But as long as Gu Wuchen is still sitting here
With Jiangdong's position as deputy envoy, Lin Fu doesn't have to worry about anyone secretly attacking Jiyun Society. As for the Gu family, not to mention that Gu Wuchen is still a person who cares about friendship, except that Jiyun Society promises the Gu family a thousand taels of silver stock every year.
In addition, the Gu family gained more than 30,000 taels of silver from the incident where Dong Chengwei and Shi Jing'er attacked the river mouth. Besides, the geographical location of the river mouth was also given to the Gu family by Lin Fu. As for whether the Gu family can control Zhao Qinmin, Gu Siming, not Lin Fu.
All that can be considered.
After transferring the responsibility for the construction of the river mouth to the Dongyang Township Party, Jiyunshe spent significantly less money on infrastructure, but the expenses on training new soldiers and guards, recruitment of workers, and resettlement of military refugees
A substantial increase.
Although Jiyunshe has not yet started large-scale trading, and after April, the new tea produced by the Gu family this year has only been shipped to Jiangning in small batches for marketing, but the ten large spinning wheels on Prison Island can produce more than 300 kilograms of yarn day and night, enough to
The 1450 spinning households in Jiangning city can earn up to 200,000 yuan in monthly profit, which is already more than the profit earned by the former prison chief who forced female prisoners to sell themselves in Quyang Town brothels. The prison island prisoners launched six fishing boats.
, coupled with the shallow water catch on the river beach, in addition to supplying the needs of Prison Island and the estuary, nearly three hundred kilograms of pickled fresh fish can be sold to fishmongers every day; however, the salt required for pickling fish at this time is determined by the government.
If you buy it from a salt merchant, the profit from pickled fish is not even as good as that of fresh fish, but at this time, you have to lay the groundwork for using a large amount of private salt in pickled fish in the future. The iron workshop in the prison can basically meet the consumption of iron tools on Prison Island, and can also supply
At the mouth of the river, the first vegetables to be planted have also begun to be produced, which can supply Prison Island and the mouth of the river.
The young and middle-aged migrants who were initially recruited for labor recruitment were all divided into different places, and the workers in Hekou gradually came to be mainly Dongyang locals. However, there were still more than a hundred young and middle-aged women, and later nearly two hundred family members of the newly-organized military households needed to be resettled.
Naturally, the border area could not provide enough land for them to cultivate, but they could not support them in vain. Lin Fu asked Jiyun Society to prepare a weaving and spinning factory at the mouth of the river. Before the factory was completed, a large number of ordinary spinning wheels were purchased and distributed to each household. Jiyun
The community uniformly supplies cotton to various spinning families, and then Jiyun Society sells it to various weaving and spinning workshops in Jiangning City.
Although Jiyunshe was still unable to make ends meet at this time, it had passed through the most expensive period of spending money, and the gap in expenditure was shrinking at a visible speed every day. If Zhao Qinmin could really see the detailed accounts of Prison Island, he would be even more surprised at this time.
Add a few percent more.
It is said that "use power to gain wealth, and wealth to seek power." In Lin Fu's view, money spent is money, and ensuring the balance of income and expenditure of Jiyun Society is the most important thing.
Lin Fu remembered the last time he returned to the city and heard from Gu Wuchen that Uncle Qin Cheng had secretly melted all the silver ingots collected in Jiangning in the past three years into a large silver ball weighing a thousand taels to prevent theft. Lin Fu could only feel deeply
Sighing, he made a guess in his mind: Will Uncle Qin Cheng take hundreds of big silver balls with him when he leaves Jiangning and goes north?
The large sailing ship arrived at the mouth of the river, and the gongs and drums on the riverbank wharf became more and more vigorous, beating the gongs and drums loudly. Big and small Loach Master commanded his men to steer the sailboat out of the river mouth, turn westward, turn upstream, and sail into the deep water channel of the riverbank wharf to enter the berth.
Lin Fu stood on the bow deck of the ship, watching from a distance a light boat going down the river to the east. Several people standing on the light boat were pointing at Prison Island. The sailboat sailed out of the river mouth, which also attracted their attention and looked back.
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These people are all dressed in long robes and scarves, nothing surprising, but there are two fast paddle boats on both sides of the canoe. There are more than a dozen men sitting in an orderly manner on each boat. Judging from their sitting postures, they are all very fit.
sharp.
Lin Fu was curious: Who are these scribes? The dozens of escorts and cavalry attached to Uncle Qin Cheng's body are not as strong as the dozens of bodyguards. They are so far away that they can't see their details clearly.