Lord of the House

Even deeper, there are occasionally lanterns hanging in front of the eaves of households, and the sound of horses' hooves is heard in the dark and only slightly bright stone-paved long street.

Lin Fu and Lin Meng negotiated the terms and left the Dongyang Guild Hall, still a little drunk, and he and Lin Jingzhong led the horse.

"Jingzhong, I want to establish my own business in Jiangning, you stay and help me."

"I'm not familiar with Jiangning, how can I help you?" Lin Jingzhong said.

"What's the place you don't know well?" Zhao Hu took Lin Jingzhong's shoulder from behind, "I was a little flustered when I arrived in Jiangning. After living in Jiangning for two days, I found that the people in Jiangning are no big deal..."

Lin Jingzhong silently looked at the dark night that could not be wiped away in the distance, thinking about what happened during this period of time. Lin Fu was in Shanglinli and forced the second son Lin Xuzong to kneel. Lin Jingzhong was worried that Lin Fu was impulsive. Today, seeing Lin Fu force Lin Mengde to agree to secretly help him establish his own business in Jiangning, Lin Jingzhong finally knew The talent is no longer the talent it used to be.

Luomashi rushed to the crown and drew his sword. It can still be said that he acted with zeal, but today Lin Fu is taking advantage of the situation to force Lin Mengde into a dead end that cannot be turned around. Lin Jingzhong thought to himself that even if he could think of it, he might not dare to use it. In Lin Mengde's body, he thought that he was not as good as Xiucai, and it was inevitable that he felt a little disappointed.

"The Seventh Madam asked me to come to Jiangning for a long experience, how can I promise you to stay?" Lin Jingzhong said hesitantly.

"You just promise, Seventh Madam, I'll write a letter to speak for you," Lin Fie patted Lin Jingzhong's shoulder and said with a smile, "You should also be aware of the current situation. As long as the owner of the family survives, the Lin family can maintain the current state of affairs. The situation, I just don’t know how long the Patriarch will be able to rest his breath…”

"Well, once the head of the family dies, the seventh lady has no heirs, so she will not have the right to continue to be in power. The second master and the sixth lady also saw this and let the seventh lady take care of things," Lin Jingzhong said. Competing with Lin Mengde for the power of Jiang Ning, when it comes to the end, you still have to give others time, it is better to simply stand up for yourself... Xiucai, your thoughts and eyes are more thorough than mine. The reason for this is to make it clear to the seventh lady, The Seventh Madam will also agree with you to establish your own business in Jiangning."

Lin Fu smiled, and would not tell Lin Jingzhong what Gu Yingxiu had sent him a private message. He only said, "If that's the case, let's go back and discuss the matter of establishing our own business..." He pressed Lin Jingzhong's shoulder and asked him , "You have been an accountant in the warehouse for two years, do you dare to be the shopkeeper of the Jiangning store?"

"Why don't you dare?" Lin Jingzhong took a long breath and said proudly.

"You said just now that you are not familiar with Jiangning..." Zhao Hu teased him.

"Unfamiliarity is an adversity, shouldn't adversity be more uplifting?" Lin Jingzhong said with a smile, once he made up his mind, his mind would be empty. "After Gu Wuchen was released, the Gu family regained their qualifications as a tea merchant, but under the suppression of the Lin family, the tea produced and collected by the Gu family could only be sold out of Shiliang County through the Linji warehouse at a low price, making a small profit. The Gu family has a lot of resentment about this. Now that Gu Wuchen has come to Jiangning to serve as the deputy envoy of the inspector, the Gu family will naturally be unable to hold back. However, the Gu family has been too bleak for the past ten years. There is no one, and other strong families in Shiliang County are all in the same spirit as the Lin family. The Lin family clearly no longer oppresses the Gu family. As long as there are some small stumbles in secret, it is enough to make the Gu family unable to move an inch. However, the Lin family is not alone in the court? With the secret promise of the Seventh Madam and Lin Meng, we can help the Gu family transport the tea out of Shiliang. The only headache is that neither we nor the Gu family have much capital to receive tea. Without a boat... It's impossible for the Seventh Madam and Lin Mengde to let the Lin family's boat help us carry tea."

"I have 5,000 taels of silver in my hand. The amount of tea produced by the Gu family is not large. In addition to collecting the principal of the tea, I can add a few more boats... How do I use the 5,000 taels of silver? I also need you in Jingzhong. I have a good plan," Lin Fu said, "I can't buy any new ships in a day or two. There are 40 horses in the Seventh Lady's place. We can use the horses to transport the tea to Jiangning for distribution." Think about the use of war horses and camels. What a waste of good stuff.

Lin Jingzhong knew what Lin Bie's family was before, not to mention five thousand taels of silver, even if he could come up with five thousand coppers, it would be hard work. He thought that Lin Bie's self-establishment in Jiangning might be the seventh lady's advice, maybe it had something to do with those foreign horse dealers. ——Those horse traders from other towns sold 20 good horses to Shanglinli Township for 3,000 taels of silver—he decided to ignore it for the time being, and said, “There must be a shop in the city to serve as a market entrance; Distribution is the main business, you don’t need to enter the city to bring tea goods, you also need to store tea bags in a warehouse outside the city…”

"I think the business should have its own warehouse," Lin Fu said. "When we entered the city, we came in through the Jinchuan River waterway. We felt that the Jinchuan River Chazikou was very convenient. How about buying land and building a warehouse there?"

Lin Tie was in the Jiangning office for cover. He had to fully control the transfer and storage of goods in his own hands, so that he could deliver supplies to Changshan Island quietly. .

"Ah?" Lin Jingzhong looked at Lin Fu, but he didn't think that Lin Fu had other plans. He just thought: The business should have a store, a warehouse, a ship, and a horse team. This is where it is to establish its own business, it is clearly for the Lin family. Court fight. He pondered for a moment and said, "Jinchuan River mouth, I also passed by when I came, not to mention other things, there is a vast water surface, and the warehouse is built there, what should I do if the water pirates attack on the Yangtze River?"

The wider the water, the easier it is for pirates and warships to move around. Outside the mouth of the Jinchuan River is Chaotiandang, which is a hundred miles away. There, warehouses are built to store goods, which are designated to attract river bandits and pirates.

"It's getting late tonight, and I'll go to the Jinchuan Estuary in two days to see if it's feasible or not..." Lin Fu said.

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The next day, Lin Jingzhong wrote a letter and sent the clerk from the warehouse to Shanglinli, explaining the matter of staying in Jiangning. Even if Lin Fu wanted to write to the seventh lady, he did not dare to ask the Lin family to help bring it back. When Wu Qi and the others obtained their identities in Shiliang, they would send someone to Jiangning to contact him.

Inviting Yang Putong to go to the dust-cleaning banquet was indeed effective. In the following days, Dongyang Township Party members came to visit the house to contact the nostalgia. On the third day, Lin Fu and the others got up early and went to the branch of Jinchuan River outside the east gate of the city to see the terrain.

The estuary of Jinchuan River is only 11 or 2 miles away from the base of the wall in the northeast corner of Jiangning City. There is a low hill in the middle. The city wall cannot be seen, but when the mist in the morning dissipates, the Qiaolou on the northeast corner of Jiangning City can be clearly seen. cornices. To the south is the Moling Lake and the majestic Purple Mountain, and to the north is the vast Yangtze River and Chaotiandang.

Lin Jingzhong was weak and afraid of the cold. Zhao Hu put on a horse to carry him. Lin Fu, Zhou Pu, and Chen Enze all rode on horseback.

When he got off the horse, Lin Fu stood on the steep rocky bank, looking at Chaotian Dang to the north, and said to Lin Jingzhong: "The terrain here is open and the transportation is convenient. It is very convenient to build warehouses, distribute goods into the city or transfer to other prefectures and counties. Such a convenient place, but no one dares to use it to build a warehouse, that is, they are afraid of swinging to the sky and the water is wide open to accommodate pirates from all directions," Lin Fu said, "So those businesses in Jiangning City would rather be troublesome than go to the ones outside Nancheng. A wharf and a warehouse will be built upstream of Longzangpu, or you can directly enter the city from the water gate and unload the warehouse in the city.”

"It's a pity that Moling Lake is listed as a forbidden place for the emperor, otherwise, the bank of Moling Lake would be a good place to build a warehouse." Lin Jingzhong sat on the head of the carriage and sighed.

Although Jiangning has a water gate to enter the city, but the goods from the water gate have to pay taxes to enter and leave the city. Merchant ships resold to other places through Jiangning will naturally not be exploited twice in the city; in addition, there are also merchants who are hoarding for huge profits. , it requires a larger area of ​​warehouses to store a large amount of goods for a long time, and is obviously not happy to bear the high cost of land rent in the city; in addition, the water gates and the rivers in the city cannot allow large boats to enter, so there is a need to build warehouses outside the city. ;

Seven or eight miles into the waterway of Jinchuan River is Moling Lake. There are three islands in Moling Lake. It is a forbidden place for the Jiangning Ministry of Household to store the yellow book of household registration. Since the founding of this dynasty, fishing and navigation have been banned in Moling Lake. Otherwise, it is an excellent inner lake wharf. Stack, Jiang bandits want to enter Moling Lake to loot the warehouse first consider whether they will give officers and soldiers a urn to catch turtles.

It is not possible to build a warehouse by the Moring Lake, so Jiangning's companies choose to build a warehouse in the upper reaches of Longzangpu.

The source of Longzangpu originates from the southwestern mountains of Jiangning, and when it reaches Jiangning City, it is divided into two parts. The inner water enters the city from Nanshui Pass, the outer water goes around Xicheng, and then merges into Yangzi River at Xishuiguan. Longzangpu is located at the mouth of the Sancha River in Nancheng, which is the most concentrated area of ​​Jiangning warehouses. Although it takes dozens of miles to circumnavigate the waterway, it is the tens of miles of inland waterway and the Jiangning garrison general's water camp stationed at the mouth of the river, which effectively limits the intrusion of the Jiang bandits.

Lin Fu looked at the vast river, and it was really sad to think about it. Jiangning is the southern capital of Dayue, the first city in the world, with nearly 30,000 garrison troops, 3,000 people in the water camp, and hundreds of warships of various types. Over the years, they have not been able to get rid of the troubles of the river bandits and pirates. Even the upstream Dongting Lake water bandits, the downstream Taihu pirates, and the eastern pirates also go fishing and hunting outside Jiangning from time to time.

Lin Fu took a long breath and said: "Jiangning City is full of businesses, and all walks of life help the township party. We say that it is not an easy task to establish our own business. All the big companies have been divided, and we want to squeeze in to get a piece of the pie, because we are afraid that other warehouses will unite to suppress us. Besides, the Longzangpu waterway has been silted and shallow over the years, and ships with more than three masts of thousand stones can enter. Worrying about being trapped, and then using river water to transport goods, the bigger the ship, the more money it needs to transport, and now it is rare to hear that there are eight-masted giant sails crossing Jiangning..."

Looking at Lin Fu's expression, Lin Jingzhong seemed to have made up his mind. He thought: Although looting by the Jiang bandits and water bandits does not happen all the time, but once the warehouse is looted, it is enough to pay for the goods deposited by the merchants in full. The owner of the warehouse went bankrupt, and they did not have enough financial resources to build an elite rural soldier like Shanglin Township. Besides, Jiangning is the southern capital of the imperial court~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Building private soldiers outside Jiangning City is naturally not as easy as in Dongyang. Even if you have private soldiers in the name of caravan guards, there will be strict restrictions.

It was inconvenient for Lin Jingzhong to directly attack Lin Fu's self-confidence. He stood up and pointed to the boat that Jiang Xin was passing by and asked Zhao Hu beside him, "Do you think there are any unfunded businesses in those boats?"

"Perhaps, they won't put up their flags. Besides, there are not only ships that do business during the day and loot at night." Zhao Hu said.

"Actually, don't worry too much," Lin Fu knew what Lin Jingzhong was worried about, and pointed to Jiangxin Island not far away, "There is the prison of the Minister of Justice, and there are prison guards on the island. If we can persuade Gu Wuchen to give the prison an extra point The garrison strength, or even adding two warships, will make this place more secure. In addition, we will try not to keep high-value goods that are easy to sell in the future when we build warehouses... And I'm sure there are no companies that want to build warehouses in these places. There are not only one family or two, after all, there are too many restrictions in Longzangpu, if someone dares to start, there may be more companies swarming."

"It's hard to say," Lin Jingzhong was still not confident, but since he stepped onto the boat, he didn't have too many scruples, and said, "Since you chose this place, then we will plan accordingly..."

At this time, there was an official ship floating in the sky, looking at the gold-plated black head card on the bow, it was the official ship that Gu Wuchen was on.

Lin Fuzong got up on the riverbank and watched the official ship sailing into the Jinchuan River. He saw a few people crowded around him. Gu Wuchen wore a black gauze crown with double straight wings on his head, and a fourth-grade vermilion uniform with a curved collar and wide sleeves. The gauze was inlaid with gold, silver and jade, and the cowhide waist was decorated. He stood on the bow deck with his head held high. Today is the auspicious day for him to officially enter the city and take up his post.

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