Originally, others thought that when the rivers and lakes of Suzhou City Yamen were about to usher in a violent storm, they had been calm for several days.

No matter which side it is, there is no action, it seems that the division of the camp is only the division of the camp, and there is no follow-up.

There was no movement in Governor Zhu's mansion, which is understandable to others.

Because now Governor Zhu doesn't need to do anything, just wait for Zhang Siwei to return to the dynasty and become the first assistant.

The time is on Governor Zhu's side, so he naturally doesn't need to be in a hurry. Maybe after Zhang Siwei became the first assistant, Zhu Zhifu was promoted to governor as soon as he became a governor.

But Lin Daguan, who couldn't afford to spend time, didn't have any actual action against the enemy camp, which made it a little strange.

According to common sense, Lin Daguan should make a quick effort before Zhang Siwei takes office to defeat the hostile camp.

Recently, there have been rumors in the city that the government is a black stronghold, and Zhu Zhifu and others are Zhang Siwei's minions.

This may probably be the public opinion attack released by Lin Daguan, but it is far from enough as a means of struggle, and there is no actual lethality at present.

In fact, in the past few days, Lin Daguan has not been idle, and he is even very busy.

He lived in Sun Lianlian's house for a few days, and he was always in the city, and it seemed that the whole city of Suzhou wanted to find him, and he was the brightest boy in Suzhou City.

For example, the Xin'an Business Gang in Huizhou, the Longyou Business Gang in Zhejiang, and the Jiangyou Business Gang in Jiangxi, the responsible persons of the three major foreign business gangs in Suzhou City, jointly visited twice and wanted to talk about cooperation.

After all, Lin Tailai defeated the local Dongting merchant giant Xi Jia, and also smeared the local merchant gang, which naturally made the foreign merchant gang see the opportunity.

But this opportunity depends on whether Lin Daguan gives it or not, so they have to come to ask for advice.

There are also some large families on the east bank of Taihu Lake and nine cities along the Xujiang River, who have also sent people to visit Lin Daguan and discuss the issue of paying taxes this year.

Now that it is time to pay taxes, although those large families have the strength to pay taxes on their own, they do not need to go through the hall.

But Lin Tailai is so famous, and the big households also want to coordinate with Lin Tailai on the issue of tax payment amount, and it is best to unify the voice so as not to cause problems.

If the amount paid by the Lin community district is too much, or too little, it will be troublesome!

In addition, Lin Tailai has his own new career, and he summoned the officials of the two county government offices one after another.

Then he met with more than 20 experienced and skilled old craftsmen, ready to dig them to become the backbone of the project.

His initial idea was to set up two engineering teams, called the first team and the second team.

Among them, the first engineering team is responsible for the construction of the new city gate, and the second engineering team is responsible for the dredging of the Sanjiangkou and the construction of the river embankment.

Lin Tailai first asked the old craftsman to make the design plan, and after the two county government projects were approved, they could immediately levy and issue conscription to start work.

Then he sent people back to his hometown of Linsong Village, recruited people from the village and surrounding villages, and prepared to act as on-site supervisors.

And his eldest brother Lin came when he came, and he was temporarily designated as the head of the overseer, and he followed the old craftsman to survey the terrain in the past few days.

All in all, in the past few days, Lin Daguan is comparable to Zhou Gong, and he has been dealing with various affairs all day long, almost to the point of "one bath and three catches, one meal and three spit feeding".

There was even a time when the interest came up, and when he was about to start an in-depth exchange with Sun Lianlian for an hour, he was interrupted.

After seeing the guests go back, Sun Meiren, who couldn't get up, said angrily: "Daguan, you are really busier than the magistrate!" ”

Lin Tailai replied helplessly: "It doesn't matter if you know the county or not, it doesn't matter if a pig sits in that position."

But if Wu County didn't have me, it would be unimaginable! ”

When Sun Lianlian untied her belt again, she heard the maidservant's report that Uncle Song, the deputy hall master and chief accountant of Anle Hall, came to visit again.

Such an elder had to be seen, and Lin Tailai had to go to the front hall again.

"I'm here this time to persuade you to go back to Mudu Town to have a look." Uncle Song said straight to the point.

Lin Tailai asked rhetorically, "Those two women asked you to come?" ”

Uncle Song nodded and said, "It's really a bit unreasonable to hang them like this, and it's not good for the morale of the community." ”

Lin Tailai asked again: "Can the two of them fight yet?" ”

Uncle Song replied, "I haven't fought in the past few days." ”

Lin Tai said: "I can't leave during this time, when I settle everything here, I will go to Mudu Town!" ”

Uncle Song talked about other things, "Now that you have returned to Suzhou City, the reconstruction of Hengtang Town should also be put on the agenda." ”

When she was attacked by the coalition forces organized by the Xi family, Huang Xiaomei took the initiative to set fire to half of the town in order to save her strength and retreat from the enemy, and of course she was framed by the enemy in the end.

Uncle Song was afraid that after the status of Lin Daguan rose, he would covet the prosperity of the metropolis and abandon Hengtang Town, and persuaded:

"Hengtang Town is the fundamental place where you started, and its status is irreplaceable elsewhere, and you can't abandon it.

Besides, if Huang and Fan are both gathered in Mudu Town, it will not be a long-term solution, and the territory will not be enough at all. ”

After thinking for a while, Lin Tailai instructed: "Didn't the government confiscate the Xi family's property? A part of it can be taken out as compensation for the reconstruction of Hengtang Town. ”

Song Quan obviously also had the idea of this money, "The county government is responsible for raiding the house, and I also went to the county government to ask, Deng Xianzun does not agree to allocate money to rebuild Hengtang." ”

This is also normal, now Deng Zhixian in Wu County is a person in the hostile camp, how can the backbone of Zhang Siwei's minions gang be willing to allocate funds to rebuild Lin Tailai's nest?

Lin Tailai said disapprerovantly: "Then wait a little longer!" Deng Xianzun has been characterized as Zhang Siwei's minions gang, as long as Zhang Siwei is solved, everything is not a problem! ”

Song Quan: "."

Although they are all members of their own family, they can speak at will, and they will not spread it when they go out, but you Lin Tailai is also a person with status, can you stabilize the point a little?

Who is the first assistant in the distant capital, unless this first assistant is a local, most ordinary people will not care and know.

But after the vigorous propaganda of Lin Daguan, the people of Suzhou basically already knew that there was a profiteer named Zhang Siwei who was going to rob his fellow villager Shen Shixing of the position of first assistant.

So Song Quan, the leader of the club, also knows what kind of person Zhang Siwei is, and you Lin Tailai is "solving Zhang Siwei", which is really unstable!

Lin Tailai didn't bother to explain too much and sent Uncle Song away.

After returning to the back room, Lin Tai looked at Sun Lianlian, who was sitting in a daze, and urged: "Hurry up and untie your clothes, hurry up." ”

Sun Lian said angrily: "The slave family is tired, you can do it yourself!" ”

As soon as Lin Tailai stretched out his hand, he heard the maidservant report outside the window: "The eldest brother of the big official is here!" ”

It turned out that it was the eldest brother Lin Shi who came to visit, and Lin Tailai was helpless, so he could only go to the front hall again.

Suppressing the anger, Lin Tailai asked the eldest brother: "Didn't you ask you to survey the terrain, what are you looking for me to do?" ”

It was all arranged before, so that the eldest brother would first survey the terrain with the old craftsmen, learn more engineering knowledge, and become a chief engineer after the start of construction.

Lin Boss Lin Shilai is thirty years old, eleven or twelve years older than Lin Asi Lin Tailai, it stands to reason that he should be the eldest brother like a father, but at this time, the eldest brother can only listen to the orders of the younger brother.

"When I surveyed the terrain along the city wall, I found a lot of problems that were difficult to solve, so I can only ask you." Boss Lin sighed and said.

It is also a headache when the stall is big, especially in the early stage of entrepreneurship, all kinds of big and small things have to be dealt with personally.

Lin Tailai said a little impatiently: "If I have to come forward in everything, then what do you want you to do?" ”

Boss Lin responded: "We don't know what to do, you follow us to take a look, set a method, and we will know to do it in the future." ”

Lin Tai came to look at the sky outside, and felt that it was still too late today, so he agreed: "Okay, okay!" Check it out now! ”

When Lin Lao Da said about surveying along the city wall, he was referring to the selection of a site for the purpose of building a new city gate.

The flow of people, goods, ships, chariots and horses inside and outside Suzhou is very terrifying, and there are very few examples of urban areas like Suzhou City spreading outside the city elsewhere.

Now the city wall of Suzhou, especially the west wall, has actually changed from a side wall to a wall that crosses the middle of the city.

The Changmen and Xu Gates of the western city wall have been extremely congested, and even the Lin officials themselves have suffered from them.

Therefore, it is indeed very necessary to build a new city gate to alleviate traffic congestion, which is a good thing for the city and the people, but good things are not necessarily easy to do.

Generally speaking, this new city gate should be opened between the Changmen Gate and the Xu Gate, but the specific site selection still needs to be comprehensively considered after surveying the terrain.

Outside the west city wall is the wide moat, and along the moat is Nanhao Street, Lin Tailai and Lin Boss and his party came to Nanhao Street.

Boss Lin pointed to a city wall behind the moat and said: "Preliminary investigation, I think this is the most suitable place, you can disassemble the city wall here and build new city gates, bridges, and waterways." ”

Lin Tailai didn't understand engineering technology, so he chose to listen to the "experts".

He first looked up a few times, and then said suspiciously, "What's the problem?" ”

Lin Laoda's fingers moved to the bottom of the city wall, on the edge of the moat, and said to Lin Asi:

"The problem is not in the city walls, but in the shops below, they don't want to be demolished, and they even ask for sky-high prices, and some of them are starting to build two floors! How to deal with it, you need to have an idea. ”

Zhang Wu, the right protector of the follower, said: "The easiest way, of course, is to gather manpower and rush in and smash it a few times!" ”

Lin Tailai reprimanded: "Shut up! Do you know the difference between a hero and a bully? Directly beating the weak like this, is it the hero's doing?

By the way, let's go and inquire first, whether they are the remnants of the business thieves of the Dongting Merchant Gang. ”

Zhang Wu: "."

Sitting in the hall, you say you can't beat the weak, is it convincing? Have you beaten less weak in the past?

Suddenly, it dawned on me that the meaning of sitting in the hall was actually that he was a bully in the past, and he could be more presumptuous in beating people.

Now that you have upgraded to Haojie, you have to pay attention to your image and social impact.

Zhang Wen, the left protector, made a circle and proposed: "It's better to dig a ditch around this shop and irrigate it, and fence this shop so that it is difficult for people to enter and exit, and they won't be able to endure it for long." ”

Lin Tailai was very pleased and said: "This move is feasible, and the means to treat the weak should be as gentle as possible." ”

Then he added: "Also, on the wall of each door, you have to draw a big circle, and write a big word in the circle, so that it is complete." ”

This was the case outside the city wall, and then Boss Lin took Lin Tai into the city to see the situation inside the city wall.

The purpose of repairing the city gate is to open up the inside and outside, and of course it is impossible to only look at the situation outside the city wall.

Inside the West City Wall, the main north-south road next to the West City Wall is called Bachelor Street.

As mentioned above, the name of Bachelor Street comes from Wang Wei, a university scholar in the Zhengde period, from the Dongting Dongshan Wang family, a wealthy family of half Confucianism and half business.

Walking along Bachelor's Street, you came to the best location for the New Town Gate.

Lin Adaa pointed to the front and carefully introduced: "This place is located in the middle of the gate and the gate of Xumen, and the terrain is the best, and the water gate can be opened, so that there will be no situation where the water gate cannot be opened."

So for a variety of reasons, this is the single best place to open a new city.

Otherwise, if you build a new city gate anywhere else, the terrain will easily cause the moat water to pour into the city, so you can't repair the water gate, and the significance of the new city gate will be less than half. ”

The moat of Suzhou City is also different from most cities, and the water of Taihu Lake flows into the moat through the Xu River, and the amount of water is particularly large.

Therefore, when the Xu Gate was first repaired, in order to prevent the moat from pouring into the city when there was a big flood, he did not dare to open the water gate, resulting in the loss of a large part of the traffic capacity of the Xu Gate.

If the new city gate is rebuilt, it is natural to avoid this situation as much as possible.

Although Lin Ada's words were very reasonable, Lin Tailai looked at the grand garden in front of him and still fell into deep thought.

The best place for the new city gate that the eldest brother said is the big garden under the root of the city?

No wonder the eldest brother tricked himself out of the on-site office, the real reason is here. A few shops outside the city are nothing, but this garden in the city is the big problem.

Lin Tailai gritted his teeth and said, "If you weren't my good big brother, I'd sink you in the moat right now." ”

As we all know, there are no ordinary people who can build gardens in the city, and the worst has to be Tang Bohu's level.

The big garden in front of him that is close to the west city wall, even if Lin Tailai has not entered it, he knows that it is the Yi Lao Garden of the Dongshan Wang's family.

This is one of the most famous gardens in Suzhou today, and it was lived here after the university scholar Wang Zhishi returned to Suzhou sixty or seventy years ago.

As mentioned above, the smallest garden in Suzhou City is the Peach Blossom Nunnery, and the largest garden is the Humble Administrator's Garden, covering an area of 200 acres.

The Yi Lao Garden is almost the second largest garden in area, covering an area of 80 acres, which can be imagined in its scale.

Such a large garden was built on the best site of the new city gate.

If it's just big, the key is that this garden belongs to the Dongshan Wang family, and is listed as one of the four major families in Wu County along with the Fan family, the Wen family, and the Shen family.

Lin Tailai looked behind him, and there were more than 20 followers, so he ordered: "Today's manpower is enough, let's go to Nayi Old Garden to have a look!"

If you meet someone who can manage things, you can touch it, and maybe you will have to do it again. ”

Zhang Wu asked suspiciously: "I just said that as a heroic figure, don't beat others arbitrarily?" ”

Lin Tailai said angrily: "You remember wrong, what I said is not to beat the weak at will!" Are their royal families weak?

Arbitrarily beating a few little people is a bully, but if you dare to beat someone from the Dongshan Wang family, who dares to say that it is not a hero? ”

When everyone heard the logic of Lin Daguan, they all worshipped it, but after thinking about it carefully, it seemed to make sense.

(End of chapter)