Lord of the House

Taking the post road from Jiangning to Chongzhou and crossing the river for more than 500 miles, Lin Mengde only took two armed guards to protect him. In the morning, he got the official letter issued by Jia Pengyu, the inspector, and set off from Jiangning without a moment's delay. The courier, who only changed horses but not people, arrived at Xisha Island before dark.

The two accompanying military guards were both healthy and sharp. Although they were tired, they would regain their spirits after a rest. Lin Mengde's big/legs were bruised from the saddle. Talk to Lin Fu.

"Master Cao originally wanted to come here, but he has the title of Lijian at the Hekou side and can't leave. I didn't expect to suffer so much from riding a horse for a day. I couldn't help you, and it became a burden to you."

"I didn't expect Jiangli to save Qiao Zhong's family," Lin Fu pulled the others away, pulled up a chair and sat in front of Lin Mengde, "Hu Zhiyong and Hu Zhicheng are quite capable brothers, and they will save trouble with their help. Young Master, you can come over and make plans for me, Uncle Mengde. I decided to rescue the disaster here, what is the opinion of Zi Ang and Master Xiao Loach?"

"You have made a decision, and we will naturally arrange everything according to your decision," Lin Mengde said with a smile, "What do you think?"

"At first, I didn't think it was too complicated," Lin Fu said. "The boat is sailing on the river, the wind and the waves are bad, and the heart is like a thread. At first glance, there is a great disaster here. More than 20,000 people have drowned, and more than 20,000 people are waiting to be fed. Stand by and watch."

"Those who have the world in mind must first have the will to help the world," Lin Mengde said with a smile, "Speaking in small ways, there is a lesson from Hongzepu, if you really let the shortsighted Chongzhou officials do nothing, the disaster victims on the island will really disperse on their own. Go? I don't think so, if people don't have a way to survive, what else can't they do?"

"Indeed, I'm also worried about this," Lin Fu nodded and said, "Xisha Island is just at the mouth of the Yangtze River. There is chaos here, and the waterway between the river mouth and Changshan Island will be detoured from Jiyang Lake and Dongjiang. The Dongjiang waterway is narrow. , the intention of going to sea is easy to be detected by both sides of the strait, and it is within the core control of Ninghai Zhenshuiying, and the Dongjiang outlet is facing the Shengsi Islands occupied by East China Sea bandits, and there is a great chance of encountering East China Sea bandits. If Chongzhou is in chaos, the luxury family will benefit the most. If the East China Sea bandit forces take the opportunity to intervene in Chongzhou and take advantage of the chaos victims to control the situation in Chongzhou, then the problem will become even more serious..."

"Master Cao and I received a report in the middle of the night, knowing that this matter is no trivial matter, and immediately sent someone to call Master Xiao Loach back from the Longjiang Shipyard to discuss together," Lin Mengde said, "This is what we are most worried about. The purpose of Pingjiang Prefecture is to prevent the Taihu pirate forces from wooing the Shejia and Donghai forces, and of course not to allow the Shejia and Donghai pirates to intervene among the victims of Xisha Island."

Xisha Island is located in the middle of the route between Changshan Island and Hekou. The Dongyang ship to and from Changshan Island all use Xisha Island as a transit. Its geographical location is so important that it does not need to be explained.

Lin Fu knew that Cao Zi'ang, Lin Mengde, and Ge Cunxiong could understand the priorities.

"Master Cao accurately predicted Chongzhou County's possible attitude towards the victims," ​​Lin Mengde said again, "I was afraid that you would not have a position for disaster relief in Chongzhou, so you dragged me to knock on the door overnight to find Zhang Yubo, and then rushed to the police station. When Xiao Xuanchou's mansion pulled him out of the bed. We took three hundred taels of gold from the warehouse and gave it to Xiao Xuanchou as a favor. Originally, we only hoped that Xiao Xuanchou would issue an official document to let you have a position in Chongzhou. Where did you think of this? He was greedy for gold and did not take responsibility, so he stabbed the matter to Jia Pengyu, the inspector. At that time, Master Cao and I were afraid that Jia Pengyu would make trouble, so we had to wait for Dongyang’s response. Jia Pengyu also has other intentions, but he can't control too much. We have to wait until Gu Wuchen returns from Dongyang, and then Jiangning plans to write an official letter. At least it will take four days. A delay of four days is too much for us in Chongzhou. Not good."

"I went to Jiangning mainly to prevent the Taihu pirates from bringing over the luxury family, but the banner I carried was to raise military supplies and rations for Dongyang Bianlian Rural Yong, and Dongyang Bian Lianxiang Yong really hoped to receive a large amount of military supplies and salaries. Lin Fu said, "Jia Pengyu stated in the official letter that he wanted me to help the victims with the food and salaries that I raised. This is the problem: Chongzhou County will probably use this as an excuse to throw all the burden of providing relief to us, Dongyang side. If they can't get the food they should get, most of them will blame me for being meddlesome here..."

"Well," Lin Mengde nodded and said, "Jia Pengyu is about to return to his hometown, but the old fox is an old fox after all."

Lin Bie nodded: "Jia Pengyu still wants to divide the relationship between me and Gu Wuchen, and the other is to drag Gu Wuchen's back in Dongyang to train Xiangyong... The Chu party is strong, these old foxes have to give in, but they are not reconciled. Back off like that."

"Speaking of this, there are some strange rumors in Hekou recently that are worth pondering?" Lin Mengde said.

"What rumors are worth making a fuss about?" Lin Bie asked.

"It is said that Mother Xun is over seventeen years old and has not promised her family, so Gu Wuchen most likely will keep her daughter as a bargaining chip to win over you," Lin Mengde said, "The male is unmarried, the female is not married, there is nothing to say, we are also guessing in private. , but this kind of words are widely circulated in the streets and alleys of the tea shop, and they deliberately rely on buying people's hearts, I am afraid it is not so simple..."

"Ignore him for now, there are always people who like to play tricks..." Lin Bie frowned, and such rumors made him unable to deal with it. Yingxiu should have mentioned the meaning of kissing to Gu Junxun. This kind of thing is completely necessary Look at the attitude of Gu Wuchen and his wife, but no matter what, Gu Wuchen will not kick him away at this time, and he can only ignore it for now.

"Chongzhou side, do you think this is good?" Lin Mengde said, "You are only in the name of assisting the local government to deal with the disaster. You can ignore the so-called 'raise food for disaster victims' request in the official document issued by Jia Pengyu. ?"

"You can't have both the fish and the bear's paw. It's very rare in the world to give up harm to gain profit," Lin Bie said with a wry smile, "This official letter has arrived in Chongzhou County, and Chongzhou County will definitely push the disaster relief work on me. This time Even if we posted a large sum of money privately, there would still be people in Dongyang who would think that we would use the food and wages that should belong to Dongyang to train the villagers to help the victims here."

"Since it is impossible to do both, the relief work must be done," Lin Mengde considered the pros and cons, but still firmly supported Lin Biao to provide relief to the victims in Xisha Island. If these two or 30,000 refugees can take root in Xisha Island, and if they change in the future, they will be the great help of Changshan Island. Master Cao and I discussed that we can't just provide relief to the refugees. Besides raising hope, there are other things to do... "..." Lin Mengde paused for a moment when he said this, and said while thinking, "Now that the Hu family joins you, I think it's the best. The Hu family is a local from Chongzhou, and the Hu family will not be suspicious. The Hu family is also worthy of trust. We can take advantage of the relief to help the Hu family move to Xisha Island to take root. In this way, even if the matter is over, we can use the Hu family to ensure your long-term influence on Xisha Island. "

Lin Bie nodded and said, "It is indeed feasible. Let's deal with these two days first, and I will discuss with Brother Hu Zhiyong."

Lin Fu sent a copy of the official letter from the inspector's envoy to Chongzhou County that night. The county magistrate, Chen Kun, still did not show up, and Li Shuyi, the household secretary, bit his head and took a boat to Xisha Island again.

"Master Lin, Master Geng went back and taught Master Chen a hard lesson," Li Shuyi smiled and gave Lin Fu the official document from the county, "Chongzhou was not only affected by this disaster, Chen Zhixian, Director Xiao, Geng Xianwei and others have all gone to other places and asked me to come and obey Lord Lin's instructions."

Since the official letter of the inspector's envoy mentioned "Raising food before disaster relief", and Chongzhou County was not only affected by Xisha, the county decided to put the relief of Xisha entirely on Lin Fu's head, and Li Shuyi even had a government office. The poor did not bring them, so they brought two family members to the island to assist Lin Bie in the disaster relief.

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There was another heavy rain at night, and the wind swelled and swelled. Lin Fu chose a slightly higher **** in the Northeast Beach as the disaster relief camp. There were large bushes on the east side of the camp, which could block the wind and waves, and it was generally safe. It's just that not enough shacks have been built yet. In addition to giving priority to injuries and illnesses, most of the victims can only stand overnight in the heavy rain.

Lin Fu was wearing rain scorpion at the beginning, but it was soon drenched by the rain, so he took off the rain scorpion, and wore a soaked official robe to inspect the disaster in the heavy rain. Several polders were flooded by the heavy rain and collapsed in large areas, and the sediment was carried away by the rushing river embankments, as if a large area of ​​land had disappeared overnight. However, these dangerous areas were alerted in advance, and the people who were placed there were evacuated in time without causing any casualties.

Relief is easy, but resettlement is difficult. Lin Fu estimates that even if local governments, counties and prefectures finally come up with rules and policies for resettling refugees, many refugees will remain on Xisha Island. For thousands of years, farmers have longed for land. With a deep passion it is unimaginable.

Lin Fu let the torrential rain wet his clothes, and stared at the gap for a long time for the rainstorm and the waves to collapse. From where he stood, the gap was just a darker shadow: unstable sandy terrain, summer storms, and barren land are all The harsh natural environment that Xisha Island cannot get rid of~www.wuxiaspot.com~ But it is not that there is no way to overcome it, it is just that the local government has not fulfilled its due responsibilities.

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In the river in the distance, a giant ship was undulating with the waves, and there were still several wind lanterns on the side of the disaster relief camp that were still in the heavy rain. From a distance, they looked like faint fireflies.

Qin Zitan stood in the cabin, ignoring the raindrops floating into the cabin, and looked at the firefly-like lanterns in the disaster relief camp on the shore in the distance, stomping his feet in annoyance, but he didn't expect to be a step late.

Qin Zitan knew that Xisha Island was severely damaged, so he rushed from Huzhou without delay, and joined Du Rong, who came from Weiyang, in the Yangtze River in Huyang County.

Whether it is instigating the rebellion of the victims of Xisha Island, or infiltrating extravagant families and East China Sea pirates into Xisha Island in the name of Qingfengxing to help the Chongzhou County Yamen, they have done great things.

Qin Zitan just got in touch with the eyeliner deployed in Chongzhou. He knew that Xisha Island had been hit by wind and tides, and nearly half of the refugees had drowned. The attitude of Chongzhou County was clear. refugees.

Whether it is a catastrophe or a big epidemic, most of the young and middle-aged people who can survive are strong. This catastrophe can be said to have naturally eliminated a good army for the luxury family in the heart of Jiangning. Due to the local hostility and rejection of the refugees and the inaction of the local government, these refugees who had no other way of life could have easily encouraged or attracted the She family, but who would have thought that Lin Fu would take another step forward!

Ignoring the turbulence of the boat in the wind and waves, Du Rong also stared at the island with a gloomy expression, Lin Fu was already a thorn in their hearts at this time.

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