Zhu Daolin's bloody revenge frightened the Jiangnan family, and all kinds of rumors caused by it spread wildly, frightening the landlords and rich gentry in Taicang, Jiading, and Shanghai.

At present, it is the busy agricultural season when the seedlings are in urgent need of stepping on the roots for irrigation and fertilization, and hundreds of thousands of acres of cotton fields need to be cleared of weeds, but there are few people in sight on the vast fields.

The more than 40,000 people in the six resettlement sites in Baoshanwei are a different story.

Under the protection of a large number of troops sent by Baoshanwei, they ploughed the more than 600,000 mu of rice fields that they had worked hard to cultivate, and with the help of the officers and men of the army, the 2,000 young men carefully selected from the immigrants were divided into more than 10 village protection teams, and patrolled around day and night armed with waist knives and bows and crossbows.

With the support of the officers and men of the Baoshan Guard, the people of the six resettlement sites recovered tens of thousands of acres of marshland that had been embezzled by various localities, and 150 repolished military field boundary monument trees were erected on the east bank of the Liuhe River in the west and the north bank of the Shahe River in the south.

Originally belonging to the two major landlords of Taicang Wang and Jiading, Luojing Village, Weitang Village, Xuhang Village, Luodian Village, and Liuhang Village, most of the wasteland was reclaimed as military land, with a total area of more than 20 million acres.

Baoshanwei's unrelenting retaliation crushed the will of the surrounding families to resist, and the officials of the three prefectures and counties were terrified and silent, except for reporting to Songjiang Mansion and Yingtianfu, none of the officials who had a clean ass dared to act rashly.

Originally, the official gentry and landlords of all sizes gathered at the Taicang royal family, asking the respected old man Wang to make his own decisions.

Old man Wang's life is even more difficult now.

After Wen Tiren took over as the first assistant. Not only did they not exclude the Chu Party, the Qi Party, and the Zhejiang Party, but they also generously ceded many rights and interests, and a large number of frustrated officials who vacillated between the major factions were promoted and appointed.

Under the joint manipulation of the parties in the DPRK and China, following the first assistant Zhou Yanru, the two Shangshu and six waiters of the Donglin Party stepped down due to greed for ink and favoritism. The Korean and Chinese forces of the Donglin Party suffered heavy losses, and even the Nanjing Sixth Division, which is known as the base camp of the Donglin Party, is also under heavy pressure.

If there is another large-scale scandal of corruption and fraud in the officialdom, the Donglin Party members who control the six departments in Nanjing and the provinces in Jiangnan will definitely be attacked by the joint efforts of the parties in the DPRK and China, and even arouse the thunderous wrath of the emperor.

If the hostile Nanjing nobles and the insatiable eunuch yamen add to the fire, I don't know how many Jiangnan family lords will go bankrupt and fall to the ground.

After the old man Wang had a secret discussion with the heads of the two major families who came in a hurry, he had to issue a convening order, and the heads of the family valves from the north and south of the river gathered in Taicang again to discuss countermeasures.

It was at this time. A secret letter sent from Nanjing City was a deep surprise to the fifteen principals of the gate valves who gathered in the Taicang Palace.

This secret letter jointly sent by the Nanjing Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of War Shangshu was very short, revealing only two pieces of information:

Baoshanwei commanded Zhu Daolin not to submit many of the copied evidence to the imperial court, but transferred it to Wu Jingxian, the eunuch of Nanjing; The Governor's Office of the Five Armies in Nanjing submitted a report to the imperial court, requesting that a document on the capture of the sea be issued, and a reward was offered for the Yuan family father and son who colluded with pirates to kill more than 50 officers and soldiers of the 100 households in Chongming Middle Island.

After two days and one night of fierce quarrels, in order to ensure the overall situation, the main gates in Jiangnan finally reached an agreement: spend money to eliminate the disaster. Lead but not start, wait for the turmoil to pass. Eradicate the first evil Zhu Daolin who seriously endangers the interests of major families at all costs!

Zhu Daolin, who was included in the death list by the Jiangnan family, had already returned to the Yangtze River Shipyard on Baguazhou with nearly 5,000 tons of various shipbuilding materials and machinery and equipment at this time.

For three consecutive days and three nights, Zhu Daolin soaked with dozens of senior craftsmen and supervisors, imitating the 2,200-ton "Constitution" sail warship of the United States more than 100 years later. A large number of construction drawings and related manufacturing processes of the 600-ton British 74 sail battleship were demonstrated.

Zhu Daolin finally decided to make slight modifications on the basis of the above two classic sail warships, and redesign the two 1,200-ton and 2 models according to the advanced technology currently mastered and the equipment needs of the existing new artillery, mortar and rocket artillery. The 500-ton capital warship is mass-manufactured to meet the development requirements of the Ming Navy in the next ten years.

The existing 800-ton armed merchant ship has a wide and strong hull, simple and flexible maneuvering, super self-defense firepower and high speed, deeply loved by naval officers and sailors and major maritime merchants, after more than half a year of sea trials and various test data, this is a low cost but very practical voyage cargo ship, but also a milestone masterpiece of independent design and construction by Ming craftsmen.

At the request of the directors and craftsmen, Zhu Daolin agreed to use this armed merchant ship as a blueprint to continue to carry out technological improvements, and use the existing equipment and technical strength of the Shangyuan Shipbuilding Workshop to build a large number of 500-ton and 800-ton multi-purpose merchant ships and 1,500-ton ocean-going merchant ships, and allow the Shangyuan Shipbuilding Workshop to sell various derivative armed cargo ships to the outside world on the premise of meeting the needs of the navy.

On the afternoon of the fourth day, Zhu Daolin took the sail oars patrol fast boat of the Shangyuan Naval Division Barracks, left the Baguazhou Shipyard, which was under construction, and quietly returned to the study room behind the main courtyard of Hushan, where he had been waiting for a long time with his henchmen Ye Liangchen, the chief manager Zhao Xunting, Diao Meifang and others behind closed doors.

There was silence in the tea room.

The copper kettle on the red peat stove was steaming, Ye Liangchen and Zhao Xunting picked up the teacups and talked in a low voice, Diao Meifang, who had become Zhu Daolin's loyal lackey, held the investigation reports of the major factories submitted by her subordinates, and watched Zhu Daolin read silently.

Twenty minutes passed, and Zhu Daolin, who looked solemn, finally finished reading more than 20 secret reports, and under the nervous gaze of the three henchmen, he slowly picked up the copper kettle on the charcoal stove and concocted a new pot of tea with all his heart.

"Brother Xian, the most important thing at present is not that Bofu Qian Zhuang did not pay us the full amount of gold as agreed after transporting 1,200 tons of copper, but that the Ying family, Wu Gonggong, Wei Guogong, and Longping Hou These shareholders wantonly sold copper dollars to the two major banks of Waguo, Ningbo and Hangzhou, which has exceeded the jointly formulated shareholders' meeting charter, and did not inform us and Ziyangguan in advance of the two major shareholders, and let it go will inevitably lead to damage to the interests of both of us."

Zhao Xunting, who couldn't hold his breath, was the first to express his worries.

Zhu Daolin nodded silently, poured a new cup of tea for the three henchmen, put down the exquisite purple sand teapot and asked in a low voice, "How many loans do we still owe Bofu Qianzhuang that we haven't repaid?" ”

Zhao Xunting picked up the report in front of him and handed it to Zhu Daolin: "After offsetting with four batches of copper materials, our major factories and Tiangong Commerce and Trade still owe Bofu Money Village 1.2 million taels of silver, plus interest of about 1.24 million taels, the foolish brother speculated in vain, this may be the reason why Bofu did not pay us the full amount of gold." ”

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PS: Thank you Shan Qingying and Biao Cavalry for your big reward, thank you Wind Eagle Beast and Lin Gong for your big monthly pass! (To be continued.) )