Daming talker

Chapter 224 The Difference Between Bullies and Heroes
Originally, others thought that when the Yamen rivers and lakes in Suzhou City were about to face a storm, it had been calm for several days.

No matter which side it is, there is no action. It seems that dividing the camp is just dividing the camp, and there is no follow-up.

Zhu Zhifu did not move, others can understand.

Because the magistrate Zhu doesn't need to do anything now, he just needs to wait for Zhang Siwei to return to the court and become the chief assistant.

Time is on Zhu Zhifu's side, so naturally he doesn't need to worry.Maybe after Zhang Siwei became the chief assistant, Zhu Zhifu would be promoted to governor in a sudden transformation.

But Mr. Lin, who couldn't afford the time, didn't take any real actions against the enemy camp, which was a bit strange.

According to common sense, Lin Daguan should quickly make efforts to defeat the hostile camp before Zhang Siwei took office.

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

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

In fact, these few days, Mr. Lin has not been idle, even very busy.

He stayed at Sun Lianlian's house for a few days, and there was a lot of people all the time. It seemed that everyone in Suzhou City wanted to find him. He was the brightest boy in Suzhou City.

For example, the heads of the three foreign business gangs in Suzhou City, the Xin'an Business Gang in Huizhou, the Longyou Business Gang in Zhejiang, and the Jiangyou Business Gang in Jiangxi, visited twice together to discuss cooperation matters.

After all, Lin Tailai defeated the local Dongting merchant gang giant Xijia, and also discredited the local merchant gang, which naturally gave foreign merchant gangs an opportunity.

But this opportunity depends on whether Mr. Lin will give it or not, so they want to ask for advice.

Some big families from the nine capitals on the east bank of Taihu Lake and along the Xujiang River also sent people to visit Mr. Lin to discuss the issue of tax payment this year.

Now it's time to pay taxes. Although those big families have the strength to pay taxes by themselves, they don't need to go through the hall.

But Lin Tailai has such a great reputation, and the big households also want to coordinate with Lin Tailai on the issue of tax payment quotas. It is best to unify the caliber so as not to cause problems.

If there is too much or too little amount handed over to Bilin's community, it will be troublesome!
In addition, Lin Tai came to his new business. He summoned two officials from the county government workshop one after another.

Then, they interviewed more than 20 experienced technical old craftsmen, and planned to dig them over 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 and embankment construction of the Sanjiangkou.

Lin Tailai asked the old craftsmen to make the design plan first, and after the two county governments approved the project, they could immediately call for corvee and start work.

Then they sent people back to their hometown, Linsong Village, and recruited people from the village and surrounding villages to serve as on-site supervisors.

As for his elder brother Lin Shilai, he was temporarily designated as the supervisor leader, and he followed the old craftsman to survey the terrain for the past few days.

All in all, for the past few days, Senior Official Lin has been comparable to Zhou Gong. He has been dealing with various affairs all day long, almost to the point of "one bath, three catches, one meal, three spit feedings".

He even became interested one time, 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 Meili, who can't get up and down, said angrily: "Master, you are really busier than the county magistrate!"

Lin Tailai replied helplessly: "It doesn't matter if there is a magistrate or not, even if a pig sits in that position, it doesn't matter.

But Wu County would be unimaginable without me! "

When Sun Lian undid her belt again, she heard the servant girl report that Uncle Song, the deputy head and chief planner of Anle Hall, came to visit again.

Lin Tailai had no choice but to go to the front hall again because such elders had to be seen.

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

Lin Tailai asked back: "Those two women asked you to come?"

Uncle Song nodded and said, "It's a bit embarrassing for you to leave them alone like this, and it's not good for the morale of the club."

Lin Tailai asked again: "Are the two of them still fighting?"

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

Lin Tailai: "I can't leave during this time, I will go to Mudu Town after I settle everything here!"

Uncle Song talked about other things again, "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 preserve her strength and retreat from the enemy. Of course, she was planted on the enemy in the end.

Uncle Song was afraid that after the rise of the official Lin, he would be greedy for the prosperity of the metropolis, so he abandoned Hengtang Town, and persuaded:

"Hengtang Town is the fundamental place where you started your family, and its status cannot be replaced by other places, so it cannot be abandoned.

Besides, if the two ladies Huang and Fan gather in Mudu Town, it is by no means a long-term solution, the territory is not enough at all. "

After thinking for a while, Lin Tailai instructed, "Didn't the government confiscate the property of the Xi family? We can take part of it as compensation for the reconstruction of Hengtang Town."

Song Quan obviously also had the idea of ​​making these money, "The county government is responsible for ransacking the house. I also went to the county government to ask, and Deng Xianzun disagreed with allocating money to rebuild Hengtang."

This is also quite normal, now that Dengzhi County of Wu County is a member of the hostile camp, and the backbone of Zhang Siwei's minion gang, how could he be willing to allocate funds to rebuild Lin Tailai's lair?

Lin Tailai said nonchalantly: "Then just wait! Deng Xianzun has been identified as Zhang Siwei's gang of minions. As long as Zhang Siwei is solved, everything will be fine!"

Song Quan: "."

Although you are all from your own family, you can speak casually, and you won't spread the word when you go out, but you, Lin Tailai, are a person of status anyway, can you be a little more careful?
In the distant capital, who is the first assistant, unless the first assistant is a local, most ordinary people will not care or know.

However, after the vigorous publicity of Lin Daguan, the people of Suzhou basically knew that a profiteer named Zhang Siwei was going to take away the position of the chief assistant of the fellow villager Shen Shixing.

So Song Quan, the leader of the society, also knows what kind of person Zhang Siwei is. You, Lin Tailai, just said "solve Zhang Siwei", which is really too unsteady!

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

After returning to the back room, Lin Tailai looked at Sun Lianlian who was sitting in a daze, and urged, "Take off your clothes quickly and hurry up."

Sun Lian said angrily: "My family is exhausted, you can do it yourself!"

Just as Lin Tailai stretched out his hand, he heard the servant girl reporting from the window: "The elder brother of the high official is here!"

It turned out that it was Lin Shilai, his elder brother who came to visit. Lin Tailai had no choice but to go to the front hall again.

Suppressing his anger, Lin Tailai asked his eldest brother: "Didn't you be asked to survey the terrain, why did you ask me?"

It has been arranged before, let the eldest brother first survey the terrain with the old craftsman, learn more engineering knowledge, and be the chief engineer after the start of work.

Lin Boss, Lin Shilai, was thirty years old, eleven or twelve years older than Lin Asi, Lin Tailai, logically speaking, the eldest brother should be like a father, but at this time the eldest brother could only obey the younger brother's orders.

"While surveying the terrain along the city wall, I found many problems that are difficult to solve, so I can only invite you." Boss Lin said with a sigh.

It is also a headache when the stall is too big, especially in the early stage of starting a business, all kinds of big and small things have to be handled personally.

Lin Tailai said a little impatiently: "If I have to come forward for everything, what do you need?"

Boss Lin responded: "We don't know what to do either, you follow us to see and figure out a way, and we will know how to do it in the future."

Lin Tai came to check the weather outside, and felt that there was still time today, so he agreed, "All right, all right! Let's go and have a look now!"

What Boss Lin said about surveying along the city wall was referring to the site selection for the new city gate.

The flow of people, goods, ships, and horses and horses inside and outside Suzhou City is terrifying. There are very few examples in the world where the urban area of ​​Suzhou City has spread outside the city.

Now the city wall of Suzhou, especially the west city wall, has actually changed from a side wall to a wall across the middle of the urban area.

The Changmen and Xumen of the west city wall were already extremely congested, and even Mr. Lin himself suffered from it.

Therefore, it is indeed very necessary to build a new city gate to alleviate traffic congestion. This is a great thing that benefits the city and the people, but good things are not necessarily easy to handle.

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

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

Boss Lin pointed to a city wall behind the moat and said, "After a preliminary survey, I think this is the most suitable place. We can tear down the city wall and build new gates, bridges, and waterways here."

Lin Tailai didn't know engineering skills, so he chose to listen to "experts".

He looked up for a few glances first, then asked doubtfully, "What's the problem?"

Boss Lin moved his big finger to the bottom of the city wall, beside the moat, and said to Lin Asi:

"The problem is not with the city wall, but with the shops below. They are unwilling to be demolished, and they even ask for sky-high prices, and even start to build a second-story building! How to deal with it, you need to make up your mind."

Zhang Wu, the attendant right protector, said: "The easiest way, of course, is to gather people, rush in and beat them up a few times, and it's over!"

Lin Tailai reprimanded: "Shut up! Do you know the difference between a hero and a bully? Is it the action of a hero to directly beat the weak like this?
By the way, first go find out if they are the remnants of merchant thieves from the Dongting Merchant Gang. "

Zhang Wu: "."

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

Suddenly, it dawned on me that sitting in the hall actually means that you were a bully in the past, and you can be more reckless when it comes to beating people.

Now that you have upgraded to a hero, you must pay attention to your image and social influence.

Zuo protector Zhang Wen gestured in a circle, and suggested: "It's better to dig a ditch around this shop and fill it with water, and surround this shop, making it difficult for people to come in and out, and they won't be able to bear it for long."

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

Then he added: "Also, a big circle must be drawn on the wall of each door, and a big "Zaizi" should be written in the circle, so that it is complete."

This was the case outside the city wall, and then Boss Lin brought Lin Tailai into the city to see what was going on inside the city wall.

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

Inside the west city wall, the north-south main road next to the west city wall is called Bachelor Street.

As mentioned above, the name of Xueshi Street comes from Wang Jia, a scholar in the Zhengde period, who came from the Dongshan Wang family in Dongting, a wealthy family of half Confucianism and half businessman.

Walking along Bachelor Street, we came to the best site for the new city gate.

Lin Ada pointed to the front and introduced carefully: "This is located in the middle of Changmen and Xumen, and the terrain is the best, and it can also open the water gate, so there will be no situation where the Xumen cannot open the water gate.

Therefore, combining various reasons, this is the only best place to open a new city gate.

Otherwise, if a new city gate is built in any other place, the terrain will easily cause the moat to flow back into the city, so the water gate cannot be repaired, and the significance of the new city gate will be lost by most. "

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

Therefore, when the Xumen was first built, in order to prevent the moat from flooding the city when there was a flood, they did not dare to open the water gate, which caused the Xumen to lose a large part of its traffic capacity.

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

Although what Lin Ada said was very reasonable, Lin Tailai was still lost in thought as he looked at the grand garden close to the city wall in front of him.

The best place for the new city gate that the eldest brother said is the big garden under the city root?
No wonder the elder brother tricked himself into working on the spot. The real reason is here.What are a few shops outside the city, this garden in the city is the big problem.

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

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

Even if Lin Tailai had never entered the large garden in front of him, which was close to the west city wall, he knew it was the Yilaoyuan of Dongshan Wang's family.

This is one of the most famous gardens in Suzhou City today. Six to seventy years ago, the scholar Wang Jiazhi lived here after he returned to Suzhou.

As mentioned earlier, the smallest garden in Suzhou City is the Peach Blossom Temple, and the largest garden is the Humble Administrator’s Garden, covering an area of ​​[-] mu.

And Yilao Garden is almost the second largest garden in area, covering an area of ​​[-] mu, one can imagine its scale.

Such a large garden was built on the best address planned by the new city gate.

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

Lin Tailai looked behind him, there were more than 20 followers, and he ordered: "Today there are enough people, so let's go to the Yi Lao Garden to have a look!
If you meet someone who can manage things, just touch them, maybe you have to do it again. "

Zhang Wu asked suspiciously: "Sitting in the hall just said, as a hero, don't beat others at will?"

Lin Tailai said angrily: "You remember wrongly, I said don't beat the weak at will! Is their Wang family considered weak?
It is a bully to beat up a few small people at will, but if you dare to beat someone from Dongshan Wang's family, who dares to say that you are not a hero? "

When everyone heard Mr. Lin's logic, they all admired him, but after thinking about it, it seemed to make sense.

(End of this chapter)