This year's winter is exceptionally cold, so that the backwater county, which has not snowed for more than ten years, has snowed heavily this year, and even stepped into the beginning of spring and March, and the whole county is still white.

Although there are excited and shrill shouts of naughty children in the streets, but for those thatched houses that have not been repaired for a long time, for those homeless people who huddle in the cold wind. This snow is falling so solemnly, so fiercely, as if it is a talisman to drive them into the underworld!

Lin Fengjin accompanied the forester who had gained a lot of weight to walk on the street, the snow under the feet of the two was creaking, Master Lin's footprints were obviously deeper and wider, and his round belly had made it impossible to cover the loose robes.

"After this snowfall, it is estimated that our porridge shed will have to be expanded again. Lin Fengjin, who was buried in his head, frowned and said. "Dad, there is a saying that it is better to teach people to fish than to teach them"

"Go, go, go, little rabbit cub, when the wings grow stiff, will it fly?" The forester said impatiently, "You Laozi, I eat more salt than you eat rice, do you want you to tell me how to do it? After making two small deals, the tail will rise to the sky! The proud soldiers will be defeated, and the proud soldiers will be defeated!"

Lin Fengjin sighed, and wanted to argue with his old man about his "small business", at least the Lin family's real estate and cash had quadrupled at this time - at this time, the Lin family's grain ships were close to forty, and they could justifiably sail through the waterways of Nanzheng under the banner of Xiangdu Yu Linwei.

Of course, the grain ship was probably only loaded with one-tenth of the grain, and the rest were goods that were popular in Xiangfan, and the profits of five or six times were less, but Lin Fengjin had also carefully explored the scope of goods involved in the wealthy merchants who "couldn't afford to provoke" in Xiangfan. It's very interesting that there is no "fishing out of bounds".

The net profit generated by these grain ships every month is more than 100,000 taels, but among these 100,000 taels, the Lin family can probably only get 20,000 or 30,000 taels of silver, and the remaining profits are used by Li Hu to open up more joints and buy more people.

And the role of these opened joints is definitely not only for the grain ship!

Although Li Hu could not be promoted for the time being, his immediate boss Tianfu Liangtian Gongzi was very promising, and under the operation of these networks opened up by Li Hu, Tian Gongzi was promoted again a year ago, and was appointed as General Yangwu, with three commanders under his jurisdiction! The more than ten or twenty family members who entered the Lin Mansion with Li Hu before. Almost half of them were also promoted.

Not only that, but the entire Tian family is also under Li Hu's activities, the political environment is much more relaxed, before Tian Zhu Guoshu made a big move, when he went to the court, he was often isolated, and there were many people who opposed what he said and what he said, as if he was tightly tied to a rope, which was very depressing.

At this time, with the development of Li Hu's silver bullet offensive. Tian Zhuguo also noticed some changes, that is, although his situation of being alone is still the same, when there is any proposal, at least the opposition voice is less than one-third! That is to say. At least a third of them are willing to remain silent!

This can be said to be very rare.

And these people are all people who took Li Hu's money, most of them are old beards and gray hair, and they can't always do it every month while receiving the filial piety of the Tian family's people, and on the other hand, they do such undisciplined things as disobeying Tian Zhuguo. Bisheng was embarrassed to fall to the Tian family immediately, so the best choice he made was not to speak and remain neutral, believing that it would take time. Tian Zhuguo can return the favor, so it will not be a problem to gather a group of people.

It is precisely because of this that the entire Tian family has maintained a tacit attitude towards Li Hu's private activities, and Li Hu is also very knowledgeable, and even submits a detailed list of expenses every month. The cooperation between the two sides is still water and milk ~ blending.

In such a situation, it is natural that Li Hu's status has risen again, not only is the position of the chief confidant more stable, but Tian Gongzi only had two or three hundred taels of silver a month before, and he was poor, but at this time, Li Hu would give tens of thousands of taels of silver directly to his hands every month, plus Yu Linwei is close to Xiangdu, Tian Gongzi is not good at gambling and enjoying life, isn't it a waste of youth to wronged these silver taels?

Therefore, since he was promoted, except for the time spent in the barracks, most of the rest of the time has been spent in Yihong Courtyard, Yicui Building, and fighting Qunfang. From time to time, I have to invite my colleagues to show off, and as for the military affairs at hand, of course, I lost it to my most trusted henchmen!

At the beginning, Tian Gongzi occasionally came to check and inquire about the things in the barracks, after all, this involved the issue of official position, and later found that Li Hu was indeed doing things smoothly and steadily, and when he was sent down by the Ministry of War for two consecutive months and was rated as "excellent", Tian Gongzi was even more happy to ask.

Tian Gongzi is also self-aware, when he was the commander in the past, he bowed to everything, and only took two advantages in a year, and now it is best to have someone to do it for him, in short, Li Hu started from scratch, and he always had to rely on the Tian family to gain a foothold without a backstage, and there was no risk of betrayal.

Therefore, at this time, although Li Hu is in the name of a deputy governor, in fact, the power in his hands can be used at least as half of the Yangwu generals.

At this time, there is another gossip to mention, which is related to the loyal Qin Qing. Probably because Tian Zhuguo was also a little worried about Li Hu, so he let his henchmen "check and balance" it, and asked Qin Qing to come to Tian Gongzi's side to assist, the purpose was to share Li Hu's power.

However, after Li Hu received Lin Fengjin's instructions, he fully cooperated and handed over all powers. Of course, the transfer of power by Mr. Li definitely does not mean that the Lin family will have to hand over power and fully cooperate, and the shortcomings of this are inhumane to outsiders, which can only be understood.

That Qin Qingnai is a person who is a whole generation older than Tian Gongzi, and he consciously shoulders the importance of persuading the young master to become a talent. So every day in front of the newly appointed General Tian, he leaned on the old and sold the old nagging, once Tian Gongzi wanted to drink flower wine and play with powder, he would immediately admonish him, and even threaten to sue!

The most fatal blow was at the end of the month, the Lin family made a few small traps in the ledger in the middle of the month, and Qin Qing stepped into it without hesitation, and he had too much sense of justice and pointed fingers at him in this regard, saying that this is not right and that is not right.

Of course, the steward of the Lin family would not disobey Lord Qin's orders, and honestly obeyed the rules and regulations, of course, the old man Qin also had to sign and seal to prove that he had given the order, but not only did he not make a profit that month, but he lost more than 30,000 taels of silver!

At this time, the Tian Mansion shook, because of the continuous filial piety of the Lin family's caravan in the past few months, the expenses in the mansion did not increase by a little bit, and as a result, not only could not count on the caravan's side this month, but also had to put money in.

Therefore, the atmosphere in the mansion became tense, and naturally some people went to check the account books, and found that the most critical decisions in the loss-making places were all made by the loyal Qin Qing, and he also signed and drew a pledge, as the saying goes, cutting off people's wealth is like killing their parents! Although this matter is not so serious, it is as if it was slashed a few times on the Qin family...

So when Tian Gongzi was angry (he hadn't drunk flowers and wine for too long) smashed a few cups at home and broke two tables, and threatened the old man with picking on his son, Tian Zhuguo could only sigh and transfer Qin Qing back to his side, and everything went back to business as usual.

The controversy between the two fathers and sons of the Lin family about disaster relief ended with Lin Fengjin's complete surrender, and the Lin family, as one of the largest households in Hecang County at this time, was very generous to set up a total of five or six porridge farms in the county, which were open until March 13, costing seven or eight thousand taels of silver.

At this time, the spring breeze finally came belatedly, and the relief and rewards of the imperial court began to fall.

Probably because the Lin family's charity is really famous, and even two or three imperial historians have sent family members to make secret visits - if the crime of bribing the people's hearts and plotting against them is played, it can also be said to be a small credit.

Isn't the imperial history just a rumor and a whistleblower to supervise the world for the king?

However, when those experienced family members saw that each porridge shed was placed in the tablet of the prince of heaven and earth, every time before the porridge, there were people who asked the victims of the porridge to bow, and after three shouts of long live, they knew that there were people in the Lin family who understood, and the current officials were not dark enough to believe that the deer was a horse, so these imperial histories could only dispel this idea in a stupid way.

That is, on the day of the withdrawal of the porridge shed, Lin Fengjin also packed his bags, and it was time to prepare to go. The target of his trip was Fangkang County, southwest of Nanzheng, which was adjacent to Tongman.

In popular parlance, it is a mixed settlement of ethnic minorities and Han Chinese, which is basically considered a deserted and exiled place in the current mainstream culture. Going there to be an official, even if it is a promotion, is considered to be degraded.

However, a few decades ago, the Confucianism at that time was in full swing, and Wang Yangming, Zhu Xi and other great Confucians were born in succession to seize the hinterland of the Central Plains. Faced with this situation, Zongheng Academy and Wude Academy chose to unite with the rest of the factions to support the crisis at that time. (To be continued......)