Lord of the House

Lin Mengde never imagined that Lin Fu would ask this question so solemnly. He asked in puzzlement, "Is there anything I can't trust? Is there any other secret?"

"Uncle Mengde, you are not a confused person. You see a lot of things here in Hekou. Even if I don't know what to say, you probably have suspicions in your heart, but many things are completely different if you don't explain them clearly. Lin Fu said in a serious tone, "Uncle Mengde, let me ask you again, can I trust you? You must know that getting on the pirate ship is easy, but getting off the pirate ship is difficult."

Of course, Lin Mengde is not a fool. Lin Bie is based in the river mouth, so many doubts can be hidden from outsiders, but many things rely on Lin Mengde to do. If he can't see, he is really blind.

The first doubt is the identity of Zhou Pu, Wu Qi, Cao Zi'ang, Ge Cunxin, Ge Cunxiong and others. Not to mention Zhou Pu and Wu Qi, Cao Zi'ang, Ge Cunxin, and Ge Cunxiong all came with the first batch of migrant workers. They were very capable, and they were quickly trusted and used by Lin Fu; At that time, when Lin Jingzhong couldn't make a decision on many things, he would take the initiative to consult with Cao Ziang - this kind of trust and reuse is beyond the ordinary scope.

The second doubt is that the more than 50 people on the Dongyang are really only ten people in the name of Wuwei, but from the brief battle with Liu Miaozhen's troops in Shanglinli, Lin Mengde can also see that these more than 50 people are wearing armor and holding weapons. Elite combat power. Except for more than 20 people who were black people, the rest of the fifty people were selected from the first batch of migrant workers. Lin Mengde knew very well the situation of the first batch of refugees who recruited workers. Who can randomly recruit a hundred families of refugees and pick out the elite soldiers who are not more than 30 and have not been trained?

The third and biggest doubt is that Jiyun Club's financial resources seem to be incomprehensible. At least Lin Mengde was sure that when Lin Fu first came to Jiangning, the money he had with him was very limited. When the construction of the estuary was the most intense, Lin Jingzhong was worried about money all day long. After a while, Lin Jingzhong stopped worrying about money at all. The Jiyun Society spent no less than six or seven thousand taels of money on many things, such as buying land at the estuary, building the river bank wharf, building the embankment wharf, building the surrounding houses, building the bamboo hall, and relocating the refugees. , the cost of three thousand stone fast and strong sailboats is no less than ten thousand taels.

Of course, outsiders couldn't see through the truth of Jiyun Club, and even the Lin family suspected that the Seventh Lady was secretly helping Jiyun Club. Lin Mengde personally participated in many things. Even before Lin Fu personally went north this time, the correspondence between Lin Fu and the Seventh Madam was carried by him personally or by his trusted cronies. How could he not be clear?

The Lin family was established in Shanglin, and with such a large family business, the people who were selected to be in charge were unlikely to be good men and women who obeyed the law and obeyed the law, and they would never be timid.

Lin Mengde can also understand that Lin Fu wants to achieve a career, and it is absolutely impossible to be a good man and a woman who obeys the law and abides by the law, not to mention secretly, which of the few things Lin Fu did after arriving in Jiangning was not daring? It is precisely because of these many things that Lin Mengde gradually changed from confrontation at the beginning, to expecting the two to cooperate against the family, and now he is determined to assist Lin Fu in grasping the power of the Lin family.

Seeing Lin Fu's tone is so solemn, Lin Mengde also looked into Lin Fu's eyes seriously and said, "Even if you want to be the head of the house, I will go with you, so why are you worried about me? "

"It's more serious than this; Uncle Mengde, you see that the Lin family is in trouble and crisis. In fact, the world is already in trouble and crisis," Lin Fu sighed and said, "The matter here is , we don't care for the time being, you follow me to the prison island."

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Lin Mengde didn’t know what was hidden on the prison island; Lin Fu returned to the thatched cottage and told everyone that there was an emergency on the prison island, and he and Lin Mengde would immediately go to the prison island to deal with it. Lin Tingli’s funeral required five ladies and three clan elders negotiating.

The Jail Island Pier is at the southwest corner of the island. The outside world communicates with the Jail Island through this wharf. Lin Fu developed the Jail Island. At this time, it is mainly concentrated in the western part of the Jail Island. This is the wharf known to the outsiders.

In order to train the new soldiers and guards, Lin Fu built an independent training camp on the deserted beach at the eastern end of Prison Island. This place is separated from the Jiangdao prison on the west side of the island by a dense forest, and there are bushes on the river beach and in the low-lying shallow water. In addition to opening a path in the dense forest to connect with the western end of Prison Island, Lin Fu also made people build a simple pier in the bushes on the river beach, so that the soldiers can quickly set off from the training camp to Chaotiandangli by armed vehicles and boats to support various places. .

This pier was built in the depths of the aquatic shrub forest. Even if outsiders passed by by boat, if they didn't deliberately look closely, they would not be able to find a small pier hidden in the depths of the shallow water shoal at the eastern end of the prison island.

Lin Meng knew that this pier existed.

Lin Fu and Lin Meng got on the paddle boat, instead of docking at the prison island pier, they went directly to the training camp pier.

The boat passed through the twisting bushes. The outermost shrubs have denser branches, and in order to facilitate concealment, without pruning, boat entry is difficult. After a little more than ten steps, the light suddenly became clear, and the water channel about six or seven steps wide led directly to the training camp pier. The pier filled with sandbags and soil is very simple, and can only park small paddle boats and awning boats with a capacity of about 20 stone. At this time, four armed vehicles and boats are parked on the shallow water beaches on both sides of the pier.

Going up from the pier is the school field. About two hundred steps square, seventy or eighty soldiers are practicing with wooden knives on the school field. Lin Mengde knew that there were 150 military guards in the Jiyun Society who were newly recruited and trained here. There were only half of them on the school grounds.

Zhou Pu and Zhao Hu were both on the school grounds, and it was a bit strange to see Lin Fu bring Lin Mengde over, and they didn't ask much when they came over.

"Where's Master Cao?" Lin Fu asked Zhou Pu.

"In the middle, I will take you there." Zhou Pu said.

The school field used to be a forest that was only seventeen or eight paces deep, and the three camps were built into the open space behind the forest. The camp is not large in size, and it is comparable to the size of a surrounding house. The wall is made of fir stakes with the thickness of a bowl and the height of one person tied into a row and inserted into the ground. The top and middle of the wall are nailed with iron nails. Crossbar reinforcement.

The three barracks are independent of each other, seven or eight steps apart from each other, and there are narrow bridges on the wall of the village.

Such camps are simple and easy to build, but also very practical.

Lin Mengde knew about this training camp, but it was his first time here.

Seeing the arrangement of the training camp pier, school ground and camp, Lin Mengde thought that such a hidden arrangement, once the lake robbers attacked the prison island, the military soldiers could make a surprise attack from here, but he also thought that the The newly-formed military pawns and the military guards of Jiyun Society gave Lin Fu a firm control, and they had strict discipline. The two passages into the training camp were also strictly controlled, which means that what Lin Fu wanted to do here, No outsider can know.

Hearing Lin Fu's tone just now, Cao Zi'ang seemed to be in the camp as well. Thinking that the mystery was about to be revealed, Lin Mengde couldn't even think about what kind of pirate ship he was about to embark on, instead he felt excited.

Zhou Pu led Lin Fu and Lin Mengde into the innermost camp, which was only three or four acres of land. There was no warning outside the wall, and double posts were added to the wall. The narrow wooden bridge on the wall was also placed with thorn wood to prevent horses from entering the other two camps to prevent the military soldiers and military guards from entering by mistake.

Not only the walls of the camp were built with fir stakes, but the houses inside were all simple wooden houses. The roofs were covered with varnished cloth and grass felt to prevent rain. Cao Ziang lifted the curtain from a wooden house in the upper left corner and came out. Dreaming over, he asked with a smile, "Why did you bring Director Lin here?"

"Lin Tingxun has passed away." Lin Fu said.

"Oh..." Cao Zi'ang was slightly startled when he heard it. He went to Prison Island in the morning and didn't know the news of Lin Tingxun's passing.

Cao Ziang knew that Lin Tingxun was alive, and the situation of the Lin family would be able to maintain a delicate balance in favor of Lin Fu. When Lin Tingxun died today, the balance was suddenly broken. The response of Lin Tingli and the eldest son, Lin Xuwen, would be crucial.

Lin Fu wanted to lift the last cover with Lin Mengde, and wanted to draw Lin Mengde over completely.

Cao Zi'ang guessed Lin Fu's plan and didn't say much, but directly brought Lin Fu and Lin Mengde into the room to talk.

The wooden house has two small windows on the edge of the wooden wall. At first, Lin Mengde only saw a big table in the center of the wooden house, and five or six people were holding big iron scissors on something. Lin Meng was shocked when he saw it clearly. There were four large silver cakes larger than the washbasin on the table. These people were using iron scissors to cut the big silver cakes into small pieces.

Just as Lin Mengde was about to turn around and ask Lin Fu where these silver cakes came from, just as he looked away, he saw dozens of silver **** the size of pig trotters stacked in the corner of the wooden house, as well as an iron platform, two The shirtless man was standing beside the iron platform with a big hammer in hand, looking over here.

In a second, Lin Meng wanted to understand that the silver cake on the stage, which was bigger than the washbasin, was made by hammering these silver **** on the iron platform. Lin Mengde had also heard about the rumor that Qin Chengbo went north and cast the silver scraped in the past few years into a thousand liang silver **** before going north to prevent theft. He looked back at Lin Bing in shock...

"It is not without warning that Qin Chengbo was robbed and killed in Luoyang Lake. At this time, it is more certain that the She family has secretly provided support to the Hongzepu Zhushuizhai forces behind the scenes. On the way to Shanglinli, I wrote to Gu Wuchen twice to explain the matter, but Gu Wuchen kept silent twice," Lin Fu said, "What do you think I can do? Except for fishing in troubled waters, I'm ready to withdraw from Shanglinli. These They are all trophies cut from the hands of the Hongzepu water village forces by fishing in troubled waters, about 100,000 taels of silver, and more than 80 pairs of excellent soldiers. The silver ball is smashed into a silver cake and then cut into small pieces..."

Lin Meng opened his mouth and really didn't know what to say. He had long known that Lin Fu was not the master of keeping his own feet, but he never thought that he would be so daring and his eyes were dry. After a while After that, Lin Mengde returned to normal and asked, "But I can't figure it out, how can we rob these from Hongze Qingshui Village?"

"It's actually very simple," Cao Ziang said with a smile as he took Lin Mengde's arm, "The Hongzepu Water Village forces didn't want to attack Luoyang Lake, we just stopped at Qingyanggang in advance when the fleet entered Luoyang Lake. A false beacon was burned in the direction, which prompted the Hongzepu water village forces to rob the Qin family's fleet in Luoyang Lake in advance..." Cao Ziang told Lin Mengde the details of the water battle at Luoyang Lake, and finally laughed again. , "The only pity is that such a wonderful strategy of killing three birds with one stone can't openly tell the world that the Donghai Fox did it."

Lin Bing shook his head and smiled, and said, "It's not so wonderful, but others never expected that someone would dare to take food from a tiger's mouth. It's not so much a one stone and three birds as a tiger's mouth to take food..." And with Lin Mengde Said, "Uncle Mengde, the name of Master Cao Cao Zi'ang is not known to outsiders, but 'Huaishang Cao Xiucai' is famous, the name of the bandit Zhou Ye is Zhuanlinbao, and the name of Master Wu is Heitianya—I say you It is a pirate ship that is about to step on, and this is really a pirate ship."

Lin Mengde stretched out his hand and rubbed his face, trying to restore his chaotic thoughts to normal~www.wuxiaspot.com~ and said, "Before I came to Jiangning, I was in charge of the affairs of Linji Warehouse from the north of Huaishui to Luoyang. I know a little bit about the rogue pirates in Huai Shang in southern Henan. Five or six years ago, there were fifty or sixty rogue pirates on the tree poles in Huai, and I can still report the names of the most famous ones. But most of them There are only one or two people who are the most famous, and there are only one or two people in the group. Qin Hu, Cao Xiucai, Leopard Lord, Crow Lord and later Si Niangzi have a total of eleven or two people in Huaishang and even Zhongzhou is very famous. If you say Qin Hu, Cao Ye, Zhou Ye are horse thieves, they are also righteous thieves and thieves. Not to mention the common people in Huaishang, people who do business in Zhongzhou and take the trade route also understand this; so do I. I have been watching for a long time. Later, it was said that Qin Hu was killed by the anti-theft camp, and many people felt sorry for it." Lin Mengde asked Lin Fu again, "Why did you come together with Cao Ye and Zhou Ye?"

"It's a long story," Lin Fujian briefly explained to Lin Mengde what happened after last autumn, and then said, "We have a foothold on Changshan Island, and we have a lot of arrangements in Jiangning, so we won't do anything. Big bandits, things that are a disaster. First, the situation is forced, and many people's lives are at stake, so I can't be alone; this step by step, I and Cao Ye are also dependent on life and death, regardless of each other. The other is On the one hand, the situation in the world is rotten, the imperial court is sullen at night, and there are constant internal and external troubles. What about the officers and men who wear official robes and sing on the stage and stab each other with knives behind their backs, and the officers and soldiers who only know how to go to the kilns and play prostitutes all day long, and extort and rob the common people. Can we be relied on? The situation will become more and more turbulent as the situation develops, and the lives of ordinary people are like ants.

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