"Who is making noise there? Come out earlier and throw away the guys, otherwise I won't blame me for being blind!" Wu Mu heard this voice, and jumped to Li Mingxun, pointed the flintlock pistol in his left hand towards the door, and half of his right hand had drawn out, shouting loudly.

Li Mingxun patted Wu Mu on the shoulder and said, "Maybe the old friend is here, don't do this."

The voice became closer and closer, and he was joking: "No wonder the shopkeeper has had such a foundation in three or four years. Just this person's ability is not comparable to that."

As he said that, the man walked to the door and saw him wearing a new satin jacket, a deerskin hat, and a scarf made of sealskin around his neck. He stood in front of Li Mingxun with a smile. Li Mingxun immediately recognized that this was Lin Qian.

Lin Qian is the son and nephew of the Lin Shizhang family. He is now a sensational figure in Taiwan. When Lin Shizhang intended to expand his colonial life, he sent Lin Qian to Taipei. After Lin Qian investigated, he found that Taipei's land was fertile and not inferior to Jiangnan. The community had already controlled the situation and defeated the Spaniards. The indigenous people either surrendered or rushed to the mountains, and the situation was settled.

Lin Shizhang made a decision immediately. Of course, as a famous gentry in Suzhou, Lin Shizhang was not easy to do many things, so he simply tried his best. Under the witness of many gentry, the Lin family, which is known as a harmonious clan and united in Suzhou, was separated, and the branch where Lin Qian was located was directly divided. In this way, no matter what Lin Qian did, others could not get the handle of Lin Shizhang.

Of course, the division is for others to see. Lin Shizhang strongly supports Lin Qian to develop industries in Taiwan. Lin Qian's first step in Taiwan was to invest in the wood industry. The club logged in Taipei, and they were interested in excellent warship timber such as oak, teak, and camphor wood. However, they were only used for dark and backup. However, Lin Qian contracted forests and harvested high-end buildings such as nanmu and rosewood, and used furniture. They did not care whether they were in the shade or not. It would make a big profit when transporting them to Jiangnan. After inspecting the club's plantation in Taiwan, Lin Qian purchased thousands of acres of land and immigrated to plant it. It has already become a small scale in Taipei. Ahai not only planned a small town for Lin Qian, but also clearly told Lin Qian that if the Lin family could immigrate 1,000 households from Jiangnan to Taiwan to reclaim, Lin Qian could become a member of the Chief Executive District of Taipei, which is real power.

"Shopkeeper Lin..., Oh, I have to call Mr. Lin." Li Mingxun joked.

Lin Qian smiled and gave a few instructions to the people around him. Soon after, several servants came forward, cleaned up the room, and made some hot dishes and wine. Lin Qian said, "You are so polite. In Dengzhou, in order to avoid suspicion, I call you the shopkeeper below. If you are in Taiwan, I have to salute respectfully and call you the consul."

Li Mingxun sat down directly and asked, "What's wrong with Mr. Lin coming to Dengzhou?"

Lin Qian smacked his lips and did not hide it: "For the sake of immigration, the old man from the master said that I would take down the position of Taipei MP as soon as possible, and take out another 30,000 taels from the clan and give it to seven or eight large ships."

As he said that, Lin Qian took the wine glass from his servant, filled Li Mingxun with a glass, and said, "Big Shopkeeper, I am not only here to immigrate, but I just heard that you are worried about immigration. As a member of the club, I have to relieve your worries, right?"

Li Mingxun smiled. He didn't expect it, but Lin Qian's next sentence made Li Mingxun interested: "I came two days later than the shopkeeper. Now I have recruited two thousand immigrants and are about to leave."

"Two thousand!" Gao Feng, who was accompanying him, spoke in surprise. You know, the club has only recruited more than 1,500 people in the past half month. Although it is mainly craftsmen, it is quite difficult, but no matter what, it should not be as good as a little Lin Qian. Even though the Lin family has some connections in Jiangnan, it is in Dengzhou.

Li Mingxun knocked on the table and said to Wumu: "Let the boss serve a few more good dishes. I'll treat this meal today."

Lin Qian hurriedly thanked him, and Li Mingxun waved his hand: "Today I want to ask Mr. Lin for advice, I hope I will give you advice."

"Since that's the case, Lin Qian said boldly." Lin Qian was doing this, and he asked back: "The shopkeeper thought, why do refugees from Shandong and even Zhili and Henan fled to Denglai?"

Li Mingxun thought for a while and said, "Because Denglai will not be affected by war."

Lin Qian smiled: "But it's not that simple, just because Denglai has hope."

Lin Qian opened up the conversation, drank two drinks, and began to explain. In Lin Qian's opinion, there are only two things that refugees want, one is stability and the other is food and clothing. In the whole of Shandong, only the land of Denglai can provide these. After all, Denglai is an important place for coastal defense. In addition to Shanhaiguan, Denglai is the place with the strongest military strength, and Denglai also has food.

In addition to the Kong Youde rebellion, Denglai has not encountered large-scale military chaos for ten years and has produced a lot of grain. Shen Tingyang even changed Denglai's grain reserves. Although the abolition of grain and sea changes were just a rumor, Emperor Chongzhen did ask Shen Tingyang to do the robbery of grain. The so-called robbery of grain was to cut off the grain from the Grand Canal in Huaian Prefecture, Nanzhili, and enter the East China Sea along the Huaihe River, and then loaded it on a sand ship to transport it north. This part of the grain mainly supplies the battlefield in Liaodong, and Denglai is the main logistics base on the battlefield in Liaodong, and a large amount of grain exists in Denglai.

In fact, this three-year robbery and sea transportation effect is significant. It can transport hundreds of thousands of tons of grain to Beijing and Dengzhou every year, and there is no need for the imperial court to build ships. The emperor just promised to exempt Shen Tingyang's fleet from taxes and leave 30% of the transportation capacity for his own use.

Li Mingxun listened to Lin Qian's analysis, and the more he listened, the more he became fascinated. He originally thought that Lin Qian was just a shrewd businessman, but he didn't know that he had such a thorough understanding of such a major event in the country. For a moment, he felt that he underestimated this person.

"In fact, the hopes of refugees were not worth mentioning at first, and the shopkeeper came to them this time to give them greater hope, which made them less motivated to leave their hometown and migrate to Taiwan." Lin Qian said.

Li Mingxun smiled: "What Mr. Lin said is like I was hurting myself."

Lin Qian said: "It's not good to say, but it's the case. The shopkeeper, please think, when you came to Denglai, you first showed your capture in Ningguta, the northern land, and killed the Donglu County Prince. The army and the people were greatly motivated. A few days ago, the fleet even blew up Weilaizhou Bay and broke the Donglu Navy. The heads of the seventy or eighty Donglu were still hanging at the southern gate of Dengzhou. Baixin could not starve to death, and he felt that the king's army could defeat the Donglu, so how could he be willing to migrate?"

Li Mingxun nodded slightly and said, "I can't deliberately defeat the battle for my own selfishness."

Lin Qian laughed: "So I said, the shopkeeper treats the people too much as human beings. Since they are human beings, they have ideas. People get together and have more ideas. If the shopkeeper wants to migrate more refugees faster, they must first treat them as animals. If there is no such attitude, why did I, Lin Qian, recruit more than 2,000 people in Denglai on the seventh and eight days?"

"Tell me carefully." Li Mingxun asked directly.

Lin Qian walked to the window, opened a window, pointed to the lights between the streets and alleys not far away, and asked, "Big Shopkeeper, do you know where that is?"

Li Mingxun glanced at it, but saw pink lanterns hanging in the streets and alleys, and he understood a rough idea: "The secret brothel is the ancestral house."

Lin Qian smiled and said, "I heard that there were only three or five brothels on this street. After the Donggu invaded, the streets are now full of them."

Li Mingxun looked at Lin Qian in confusion, and Lin Qian said, "The reason is very simple. Many wealthy gentry fled to Dengzhou. They needed women, while more refugees fled to Dengzhou to sell their children and daughters. A handsome girl only bought one tael of silver in the market, and an ordinary daughter would sell her wheat dumplings and millet."

The room was quiet, and Lin Qian said, "Actually, the shopkeeper is too kind. You not only want to immigrate, but also want to migrate all the refugees' families to avoid their wife and children. Those who are too kind will not be able to do anything."

"Bold!" Gao Feng slapped the table and stood up!

Li Mingxun raised his hand to stop Gao Feng and said, "The honest words are unpleasant. Don't make an attack, let Mr. Lin continue."

Lin Qian owed his body and said, "You have tried your best and money to transport rice from Guangdong, Guangxi and even Nanyang. Instead of opening a porridge shed to serve porridge in Dengzhou, it is better to sell it on the spot, and trade it on people. Those who are loyal and filial will sell their own orders to survive their parents' orders, while those who are shameless will sell their wives and children to fill their stomachs with their food. With the food in your camp, it is not a problem to buy 30,000 to 50,000 yuan."

"What if the grain is sold out? Mr. Lin, the next batch of grain will not arrive at the end of the twelfth lunar month next year. The bigger problem is that such a large-scale trading population will have a great impact." Li Mingxun asked.

Lin Qian smiled: "You have a boat in your hand. This is obviously a profitable transaction, but how could it be a loss? How come the notorious reputation of the number of people in the business world is our club, which is a Dongfan Yi Travel."

"The big shopkeeper, only the rich gentry masters in their hands want to leave this war-torn place. They hope to take a boat to Jiangnan. Anyway, your boat is about to go to Jiangnan. It is better to sell the location to those gentry. Three hundred taels of silver to give the gentry a way out. It is not an exaggeration to say that the gentry's virtues are not unknown. At that time, they will definitely buy tickets for themselves, their wives, children, parents, and as for the concubines, maids and servants, they will definitely not care about it. You simply accept it, or directly let the gentry masters who go to Jiangnan use the population as ship capital. In this way, they are gentry who sell the population in the market. They have their own power and the yamen dare not check it. What can they do? Isn't it normal for the gentry to buy some maids and servants? In the years of famine, this is still a disaster relief move."

Lin Qian's words hit Li Mingxun's heart bit by bit, and some things in Li Mingxun's heart began to loosen.

Li Mingxun knew very well that everything was difficult at the beginning, and even more so in immigration. However, as long as a break is made, a person's herd mentality will be natural. The first batch of immigrants were resettled and allowed to pass the news back to Denglai, and more people would go to Taiwan, so they would buy and sell people like animals, which was the first batch of people.

"Big shopkeeper, although I, Lin Qian, speak terriblely, there is one thing I still want to say, why do you care about the surface when doing things? You just buy those people as animals, but you don't treat them as animals. Rumors stop at wise people, and facts are better than words." Lin Qian said seriously.

Li Mingxun suddenly grabbed Lin Qian's hand and asked, "Master Lin, are you willing to handle this for Li?"

"This is not suitable." Lin Qian felt a little embarrassed.

Lee Mingxun said: "Haha, aren't you interested in becoming a member of the Taipei Administrative Region? When you take office, you will be a member of the club. As the boss of the club and the highest consul, shouldn't you obey me?"

Lin Qian suddenly realized that he knew that if he wanted to become a member of parliament, he needed to be nominated by Ah Hai or more than two members of parliament. Lee Myung-hoon, as a veteran, also has the right to nominate. Once Lee Myung-hoon is nominated, who would object?

"Lin Qian is worse than being respectful!" Lin Qian said immediately.

"Very good, I will now appoint you as a representative of the Taipei Chief Executive District, General Manager of the Immigration Bureau of the Society, Mr. Lin, immigration is the top priority of the society, please!" Li Mingxun said solemnly.

Lin Qian left solemnly, his steps were light, and he could see that he was very excited. Li Mingxun called Wu Mu casually and whispered: "Send a few good men to follow him and see what population he is buying and selling in the market. It would be fine if he is a strong man. If he always chooses a handsome daughter, he will teach him a lesson."

"What lesson?" Umu asked in confusion.

"Kill a few of his relatives and nephews." Li Mingxun said lightly.

Yanzhou.

The general Abatai's tent was ordered to be set up in a forest outside the city. Abatai sat in the tent and dozed off. Some people around him kept reading the battle report to him. Most of the messages were good news, and they usually captured the county town near Yanzhou and captured the news of Zhu Ming's royal family.

"What, Laizhou Bay is defeated and the Navy is destroyed?" Abatai finally heard a message that made him sober.

"Yes, Mr. Belle, Turge is too light and should be punished for his crime." said Gushan Ezhen.

Abatai was stunned and said, "Forget it, write a letter to tell Turge to make meritorious service."

Abatai is not stupid. Turge is a man of two white flags. He is out of the war and does not want to participate in the dispute between Huang Taiji and Dorgon's brothers. The document unfolds its pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and quickly writes a reply. Abatai said on the side: "Let Turge open the road to the south and meets the main force, otherwise it will not be enough to atone for his sins."

Soon, the letter was written, Abatai took a look, stamped a big seal and sent it away.

"Can the messenger who crossed the river come back?" Abatai asked.

A few days ago, he sent an envoy to cross the river and contact Li Zicheng's troops to establish a connection. This was an important task assigned by Huang Taiji. He didn't know whether it would be done or not, but he had to do it. Gushan Ezhen said: "Send four waves and two waves back, but he didn't contact Li Zicheng. The information he inquired said that Li Zicheng's main force was going to fight Huguang. The Yellow River was full of soldiers from Xiao Yuanying."

"Little Yuanying? These mud legs are indiscriminate, so don't pay attention to them. Send orders to move forward, fight eastward, and attack Yizhou first." Abatai waved his hand, as if driving away a group of flies.
Chapter completed!