Chapter 533 The Most Critical Year

Lin Tailai and Magistrate Xu were talking to each other, and it seemed that the matter of Songjiang Mansion borrowing troops from Suzhou Guards to defend was soon to be finalized.

This frightened the surrounding local gentry. This kind of thing is not without lessons learned from the past.

For example, in Yangzhou, since hundreds of Suzhou Guards troops stationed in Shuicicang, Yangzhou City, the power structure of Yangzhou City has changed drastically in a few years!

In fact, normally speaking, 1,500 soldiers are not scary to the powerful squires. The Jinshan Guards and the Jinshan Chief Military Officer in Songjiang Prefecture have more soldiers and horses, and they are not taken too seriously.

But if there is political support from people like Lin Tailai behind these 1,500 officers and soldiers, that is another matter!

"No way!" Xu Fan quickly interjected, "The defense matter is of great importance and must be considered in the long term!"

Lin Daguan was chewing the dried fruits fed by the beauty in his arms and said without raising his eyelids:

"I, a Nine-Yuan True Immortal, Hanyuan Tsinghua University, and the first deputy leader of the literary world, were imprisoned in Guibao, and almost besieged and killed!

Of course, it doesn't matter if I suffer, I should just cultivate in the human world, but I only hope that I can use this to improve the atmosphere of Guibao Land!

If there is no improvement at all in Guibao, then wouldn’t my suffering be in vain? "

Everyone: ""

Before you, Lin Jiuyuan, say that you are suffering and suffering, can you first let go of the beauty in your arms?

Xu Fan winked at Feng Shike, asking Feng Shike to come forward to smooth things over, but Feng Shike pretended not to see it.

If you don't listen to the old man's words, you will suffer a lot! He, Feng Shike, had been trying to persuade him in various ways from the beginning. Did anyone listen? It's getting out of hand now, do you think of him again?

Xu Fan had no choice but to stand up and face Lin Tailai personally, no matter as Lin Tailai's in-laws or as a local figurehead.

In fact, he doesn't like such passive negotiations. All the advantages are in the hands of the other party, and he has almost no counterattack ability. How can he negotiate?

Mainly because the pace changed so quickly, they thought Lin Tailai would continue to go to jail and delay. After all, one more day of delay would allow Suzhou to earn one more day of cash.

Unexpectedly, there was a sudden thunderstorm, and the situation took a turn for the worse. The locals had no time to react.

Xu Fan prepared his mind and said to Lin Tai, "You said earlier that the Xinwu Club would take over the cotton produced by all the tenants of Lin Tai's family? Now it's settled."

Lin Daguan was surprised and said: "Isn't this something that was decided a few days ago? Mr. Taichang took it out and repeated it again. What's the reason?"

Xu Fan, who has been trained for a long time, asked patiently: "So what are the new regulations now?"

Official Lin finally let go of the beauty, stretched out his hand, and made a circle toward everyone, as if to include everyone.

Then he said: "Not only Mrs. Lin's family, but also the cotton cloth produced by your tenants, Xinwu Club takes care of it! All purchases and sales!"

The Jin gentry present silently calculated that the total amount of cotton cloth that each of their tenants could sell for export was about one million pieces.

Xu Fan subconsciously said: "Is it too much?"

Official Lin sneered, "Is that a lot? Your families must have hundreds of thousands of acres of land, right? There must be tens of thousands of tenant households dependent on you, right?"

There are so many tenants, but they can only produce one million pieces of commercial cloth every year. The small-scale peasant economy is a small-scale peasant economy. "

Xu Fan emphasized: "Whether a million horses is too much is another matter, but your appetite for taking it all is indeed a bit big."

Lin Daguan looked at Xu Fan as if he were a fool, "Did you forget something?

Do I do it all by myself? Does Xinwu Club also have shares in you or even you? "

Xu Fan: ""

Very well, there is no problem with this condition!

As long as we don't "garrison troops", this is fine.

Lin Tailai took the opportunity to press forward and said: "I heard that the seawall in the southeast of the county has been in disrepair for a long time. After the old lower reaches of the Wusong River are dredged, we can consider rebuilding the seawall.

Our Lin Group has a General Engineering Bureau and two engineering brigades under it, which can be responsible for general contracting, design, budgeting, and public relations."

After some discussion with several others, Xu Fan said: "The reconstruction of the seawall can be started, but it must be carried out with the Xinwu Society as the main body. Your General Engineering Administration does not want to enter Songjiang Prefecture!"

"Okay." Lin Tailai did not insist on this issue.

Xu Fan only felt tired. The last time he was so tired was when he was dismissed by Gao Gong. He felt that the negotiation could be ended, so he asked tentatively: "That's it?"

Then Lin Daguan seemed to be very satisfied with Xu Fan's attitude, "Very good, I feel Guibao's sincerity in improving the atmosphere.

Therefore, the garrison troops stationed in Suzhou can be reduced from 1,500 to 1,000. There is no need for so many people! "

Everyone: ""

Xu Fan, who was presiding over the negotiations, felt that if he were forty years younger and a foot or two taller, he would have rushed up and strangled Lin Tailai to death!

Even Feng Shike, who insisted on right-leaning capitulationism, couldn't stand it anymore and said, "Jiu Yuanjun! Be a human being!"

Lin Tailai asked: "If we don't station troops, how can we ensure that the agreement is implemented? If I come to Songjiang Mansion again in the future, how can I ensure my safety?"

After all, Mrs. Lin is an in-law of the Xu family. It is impossible for me to place a heavy bet on Mrs. Lin's character. "

Feng Shike had to mediate in the middle, pulled Xu Fan aside, and whispered: "The future of Lin Jiuyuan's legitimate son is uncertain, but he also has two concubines.

One of them has already agreed to marry the daughter of Shen Xiang's second son, and the other has not yet been married and can be decided immediately. "

After thinking for a while, Xu Fan nodded and said: "If Lin Jiuyuan agrees, I have no objection.

My eldest grandson Xu Youqing has a daughter who is about the same age as him. "

Feng Shike returned to Lin Tailai and whispered a few words.

After Lin Daguan thought for a moment, he nodded, "Okay!"

It would be a pity for a legitimate son to marry a daughter of the Xu family, but if it were a concubine, there would be nothing wrong with it.

The lecture was finally coming to an end, and Officer Lin suddenly seemed to have just remembered something, "By the way, the Lin family incited the tenants to besiege me, and they should be fined with 10,000 acres of land and compensated to me!"

Xu Fan didn't want to say anything other than "Grass Mud Horse", so he looked straight at Feng Shike.

But Feng Shike couldn't bear it and said: "Half to 5,000 acres! This is the final condition!"

Lin Daguan murmured loudly: "Five thousand acres, just five thousand acres. I really can't do anything with you locals who protect each other."

The arduous negotiations finally came to an end, and the sovereignty crisis in Songjiang Prefecture was resolved.

The price that the Jin gentry of Huating County, Songjiang Prefecture paid for this was only the right to purchase and sell a million pieces of commercial cotton cloth, the general contracting rights for the future hundred-mile seawall project, the ownership of 5,000 acres of land, and "the marriage of a daughter."

After coming out of the county government office, Xu Fan came to his senses and sighed to Feng Shike: "I really don't know what we talked about. After the talk, we seemed to be even more disadvantaged?"

Feng Shike replied: "At least I bought Lin Taipu's life. How much do you think Lin Taipu's life is worth?"

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Xu Fan: ""

Feng Shike, do you know that the way you speak is becoming more and more like Lin?

After the crisis was over, Official Lin happily moved out of the county jail and compensated Taipu Lin for fifty-six kilograms.

Then he continued his good-neighborly and friendly visit to Songjiang Prefecture, and then visited the Feng family and stayed for two days.

Then he went to Shanghai County, took a symbolic walk around the construction site, and then continued to meet with various squires.

During this period, Chen Jiru came to the street with an imperial examination candidate named Xu Guangqi and asked Lin Daguan to help him find a job.

Xu Guangqi, Chen Jiru, Dong Qichang and others all challenged the provincial examination together back then, and they were considered "same generation". However, Xu Guangqi and Chen Jiru have been on the street continuously until now, and they are in the same boat.

Chen Jiru had given up on the idea of ​​taking the imperial examination, but Xu Guangqi still wanted to continue challenging the road to fame.

After Lin Daguan thought for a while, he asked Xu Guangqi to temporarily help him manage the newly acquired 5,000 acres of land in Huating County while studying and preparing for the exam.

After the visit to Shanghai County, Lin Daguanren's eastward tour officially ended and he returned to his loyal Suzhou Prefecture.

When we entered Suzhou Prefecture along the waterway, we saw the roar of gongs and drums, the blast of firecrackers, and hundreds of community workers and people on the shore to warmly welcome Lin Zuiguan's safe return.

A few months ago, when General Lin returned to Suzhou and inspected within the group, he issued the instruction to "march to the east and march to the waterway" and actively prepared to control the new Wusong River waterway.

The blocking of the waterway leading to Songjiang Prefecture some time ago was equivalent to military training in the eyes of Lin Daguan, and it was also equivalent to testing in actual combat.

Lin Daguan is quite satisfied with the results of the inspection, and the results are gratifying.

It was already November when Official Lin returned to Canglang Pavilion Lin Mansion.

Seeing that the seventeenth year of Wanli is about to pass, Lin Daguan has never been so busy and experienced so many things as he has been this year.

In Lin Daguanren's career, this year may be the most critical year.

Fortunately, all the big things that need to be done have been completed relatively smoothly. As the end of the year approaches, I can finally relax a little and have the energy to worry about some small things.

For example, Senior Official Lin went to the Shen Mansion and said to Mr. Shen: "You and I agreed on the marriage of our children before, but we couldn't decide which one. Now you can choose!"

Mr. Shen complained: "You haven't been able to decide, right? How come you can be sure again today?"

Lin Daguan replied: "I am a good family man, and what I pay attention to is that a bowl of water is balanced.

No matter who of my sons from the Fan family and the Huang family marries the granddaughter of your chief minister's family, the other one must be unbalanced, so he cannot decide easily.

Now I have reached an agreement with Taishi Xu’s family next door, and they are also the chief assistant of the family.

It just so happens that there is a chief assistant on each side of the two houses, so no one suffers, and there is no imbalance!

For the sake of our long-term friendship, I allow you to choose one of my two sons! "

Second Master Shen was thinking about it, and suddenly he started to get entangled, and he didn't reply for a long time.

"What's wrong?" Lin Daguan asked.

Second Master Shen let out a long sigh and said helplessly: "It's so hard to choose! Your bowl of water is so flat, it's so abominable!"

If Lin Tailai was biased, he would have chosen the one who was more biased than Lin Tailai.

But now both houses are very powerful. One controls fish, salt, water transportation, smuggling, and in the future, sea trade;

The other is to control many entrances, as well as the customs and customs river, and the future golden waterway of Wusong River.

Second Master Shen thought it was good to look at this side, and it was good to look at the other side. He was deeply stuck in the difficulty of choosing.

"How about I give birth to two daughters and take them all?" Second Master Shen asked tentatively.

Official Lin flatly rejected Second Master Shen's unreasonable idea, "Impossible! The other one wants to marry the daughter of Taishi Xu's family!"

Then he said: "If you can't decide, I will let the two families decide on their own! Let's see who among them is willing to marry a daughter of the Shen family!"

"Okay! Okay! I can do it!" Mr. Shen, who couldn't make a decision, could only say.

After returning home, Mr. Lin told his wife Wang Shiwu about this matter.

Wang Shiwu smiled and said, "My husband is really generous. Both of his concubines have arranged marriages with relatives like the prime minister.

What plans do you have for our Shuangxi in the future?"

Faced with this subjective question, Mr. Lin answered very cleverly, "Our Shuangxi will definitely marry the prime minister's wife or the prime minister's mother in the future!"

The time for rest and entertainment always passes quickly, and it is the end of the real twelfth lunar month in a blink of an eye.

There are only a few days left in the 17th year of Wanli, and the gatherings and banquets before the New Year have also entered a small climax.

Mr. Lin's first year-end banquet was held in the Canglang Pavilion Mianshuixuan, and officials or relatives and friends in the official circle were invited.

The participants included Governor Zhou, the prefectural master Wang's uncle, the county master Yuan Hongdao, the second son of the chief minister, Mr. Shen Erye, the prefectural judge Liu Tongpan and Guo Tuiguan who had made great contributions, and the families of some Suzhou officials who were working outside.

From the perspective of the power field, this is the most high-end gathering in Suzhou City.

This year has been good, everyone is relaxed, and after three rounds of wine, they started chatting.

Governor Zhou asked Lin Tailai: "When will Jiuyuanjun's vacation end?"

Mr. Lin replied: "The court is not a good place to go now, so stay as long as you can in your hometown!"

This is Mr. Lin's true words. The national disaster is so fierce, who wants to go to the court to survive? Isn't it uncomfortable to be a local tyrant in your hometown?

How does the opera lyrics go? Emperor Wanli is in the capital, and I am the second court of Suzhou

At this time, suddenly a servant of the Shen Mansion came in and sent a letter to Mr. Shen.

This is normal. After all, it is the end of the year, and it is also the peak period for sending and receiving letters.

After reading the letter, Mr. Shen looked up and said to Lin Tailai: "My father asked me to tell you that our fellow Suzhou native, Xu Xianqing, the Minister of Rites, could not withstand the criticism and was dismissed from office!"

"What does it have to do with me?" Lin Tailai said puzzledly.

Everyone present was a real family, and Mr. Shen didn't shy away from saying, "My father meant that the situation is tense now, so you should return to the capital as soon as possible!"

Everyone: ""

Suddenly, another servant of the Wang family was seen, and he also stuffed a family letter to the palace master Wang Zhiyou.

After reading it, Wang Fuzun also looked up and said to Lin Tai, "Brother-in-law! My second brother Situ said that Sun Yu, who was a member of the Qingliu forces, was promoted by the court to be the left assistant minister of the Ministry of Revenue, and he couldn't stop it!

The affairs of the Ministry of Revenue will be constrained in the future. After the New Year, you should hurry back to the capital to stabilize the situation!"

Everyone: ""

After a moment of silence in the hall, a long sigh was heard from the great official Lin.

"Why can't the court do without me, Lin Tailai? I've only been away for half a year, and the situation has begun to deteriorate so much!"

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