After Lin Ling returned to Quanzhou, he told his father that he had passed by, and Lin Heng sighed after hearing this: "The situation in the East China Sea is complicated now. It seems that this Mr. Xiao Chen has other plans in mind. ”

Lin Ling asked her father, "Then where should we go?" ”

Lin Heng asked rhetorically: "Now you are in charge!" Where do you think we should go from here? ”

Lin Ling was stunned by her father's question, and said after a long time: "The relationship between the Han Department and us is relatively estranged, but they have already stood on their heels, and if they advance, they will swallow the East China Sea, and if they retreat, they will stick to Changbai." Mr. Xiao Chen is the same clan as us and has a close relationship, but there is no one behind him to support him......"

Lin Heng said: "No one to support? What about the Great Song Dynasty? ”

Lin Ling said categorically: "The imperial court is unreliable!" If the imperial court can rely on it, I am afraid that Mr. Xiao Chen has already written to Bianjing at this time! ”

Lin Heng said: "It's unreliable today, what about tomorrow?" ”

"Tomorrow?" Lin Ling said: "Daddy! Is today's court better than the court ten years ago? Although the child is young, he sees that our family's business is getting more and more difficult, and he also knows that the situation in Da Song is getting worse! It wasn't until we got back into contact with the Han that our business turned around again. Today is to yesterday, as tomorrow is to today! The child really can't see what the imperial court can do in ten or twenty years! What's more, our family may not be able to wait for ten or twenty years. ”

Lin Heng sighed and said, "In this way, you already have an idea in your heart. Liuqiu is far away from Jinmen, and Mr. Xiao Chen's current position as the seventh general should not be very good, but with his shrewdness, he will see through this matter sooner or later. Don't know how he's going to respond? ”

The look in Lin Ling's eyes dimmed for a moment, and he said, "I'm afraid he can't deal with it now." ”

"Oh?" Lin Hengqi said: "Why do you say that? ”

"Something happened to him."

Lin Heng exclaimed: "Something happened? What's wrong with him? ”

Lin Ling said: "Chen Zhenghui didn't say it explicitly, but thinking about his hints, it seems that the Seventh General is sick, and he is not lightly ill. ”

Lin Heng groaned: "No wonder Ouyang Shi left in such a hurry some time ago!" This Yang Yingqi is the heart and brain of the Han Department, if something happens at this juncture, the current of the entire East China Sea will have to turn. ”

Lin Ling suddenly said, "Daddy, I want to go to Jinmen to have a look." ”

"To Jinmen?" Lin Heng hesitated for a moment and said, "It's okay, by the way, take a look at your younger brother Ah Yi." It makes sense for you to leave him there, but I'm not at ease. If he is not doing well in Jinmen, you will bring him back. He stroked Lin Ling's hair and said, "You have worked hard in the past few years." If it weren't for the inconvenience of my feet, and the family had no other person who could be entrusted with big things, how could I put such a heavy burden on you......"

Lin Ling held her father's hand and said, "Daddy! There is no need to mention this matter again. Since you chose it in the first place, you can't regret it! I've never regretted it! ”

Lin Heng sighed again and again, quite apologetic. On the second day, Lin Ling set off for the north. The Lin family already knew the news of the opening of Dengzhou, so Lin Ling went to Jinmen this time to take the route that Ouyang Shi went north to some time ago, brought an entourage to escort him, rode a fast horse and walked the official road, passed through Liangzhejiang Road and Huaidong Road, and entered Shandong.

What Lin Ling has seen and heard along the way can really be described as devastating, which is completely different from the illusion of peace that Yang Yingqi saw in Bianjing.

As early as the Chongning period, Emperor Daojun ordered Tong Guan to open in Suzhou, Hangzhou should be used to make utensils, where the teeth, horns, rhinos, gold, silver, bamboo, rattan, painting, carving, weaving and embroidery, etc., should be the bureau every day to gather up to thousands of skilled craftsmen, all of them are clever. Often, a piece of exquisite utensils costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, and the required funds and materials are directly scavenged from the people, and the people of Jiangnan began to be struggling.

Later, Zhao Ji became interested in Huashi again, and at the beginning he only ordered his officials to pay tribute to three or five books every year, but the top is good, and the bottom will be very bad. Cai Jing's father and son and other ministers saw that the emperor was good about this, and they all fell into trouble. Since then, the ships transporting flowers and stones have been in an endless stream on the Grand Canal, called "Flower Stone Gang".

In the fourth year of Chongning, Zhao Ji ordered Zhu Mian to take charge of the Suzhou and Hangzhou Yingfeng Bureau, and to lead the affairs of Huashigang. Zhu Mian's talent is ten times higher than that of Tong Guan, a mediocre man, and he is a great master of expropriation and exploitation at home and abroad in ancient and modern times! After he arrived in Jiangnan, he searched carefully, no matter how Shishu, as long as he heard that there was a stone and a wood in his house that could be played with, he immediately led the guards straight into his home, sealed it with a yellow paper table as a mark, pointing to it as a thing in front of the emperor, and ordered his family to take good care of it. When this "thing in front of the palace" was moved, it was necessary to demolish the house and push the wall out. If there is a slight difference in the words or things of his family, he will immediately accuse him of ominous and send them to prison, and some of them will even invite the disaster of extermination. All the families involved in Huashigang, the middle class is broken, and the well-off even have to sell their sons and daughters for their work. The generals and boatmen who escorted Hua Shigang overrode the coastal states and counties, seized the merchant ships and made a miasma of an extremely prosperous inland trade route.

Lin Ling crossed the Huai River, but the scene still did not change. In the past few years, the eunuch Yang Jian has been favored and dictatorial, colluded with Liang Shicheng and others, and set up a bad law to defeat the country: he ordered his minions to ask for a land deed from the people, and asked where the land deed came from. This evil law began in Ruzhou and soon spread to the west of Beijing and the west of Huaixi and Huaibei, encompassing all the fertile fields, waste extractions, abandoned weirs, barren mountains, retreats and silting up of large rivers. So much so that medium-sized states and counties have to increase the rent money to more than 100,000 yuan in addition to the regular endowment. The yeoman farmers and even some landlords in these places have been exploited by such harsh policies to the point that their survival is almost in question.

When Lin Ling arrived in Dengzhou, he saw the ragged men and women supporting each other on the road, and when he inquired, he learned that these people had fled from Jingdong East Road. Wang Shizhong was afraid that the displaced people would make trouble, and under the persuasion of his staff, he turned a blind eye and allowed these landless refugees to "secretly" go to sea on the ships of Qingyang Port, and finally kept their eyes clean.

After Lin Ling arrived at Qingyang Port, she first came to visit Liu Jie and asked about Yang Yingqi, but Liu Jie was silent and did not dare to mention it. Lin Ling's heart sank even more, she boarded the ship from Qingyang Port and arrived at Jinmen, where she was answered by the Lin family's servants left in Jinmen.

In the past few years, in addition to being used for military and political purposes, the taxes levied by the Han Ministry have been used for infrastructure construction such as building bridges and roads, and securing people's villages. Most of the poor people who flowed in from the Great Song Dynasty were obedient and capable bankrupt peasants, who had extremely low expectations for life, and were assigned land and farm tools to work immediately to open up the wasteland, and before the first harvest they needed merchants under the supervision of the Han government to "persuade the farm" to supply seeds and rations, but as soon as the first crop was harvested, they could not only support themselves, but also repay the low-interest debt to the Han government one after another.

By the time Lin Ling arrived, the wasteland in Fuzhou had been almost developed, and the new immigrants were moving to Chenzhou, Kaizhou, and Liaokou in waves. In just a few years, the wind on the Liaodong Peninsula has been extremely weak, and people who have just arrived can't tell whether this is Shandong or Liaodong. The development of Jinmen has also turned from a big explosion to a steady rise, although it is still a "small city" in Yang Yingqi's heart, but in Lin Ling's eyes, this port has been quite prosperous.

"Ahh Lin Yi's call interrupted Lin Ling's thoughts: "Why are you here?" ”

"I heard a piece of news from the south, so I came to ask what was going on."

"Message?" Lin Yi lowered his voice: "You mean...... Seven generals? ”

"Not bad!" Lin Ling asked urgently: "What happened to him?" ”

"Seven generals, he ...... Alas, Da, you're late......"

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