Damn it, I'm in the garbage book I wrote

Chapter 242 You must be sick!
Xia Lin thought that he could have a pleasant summer. Now the development of Fuliang County has stabilized, and the growth rate of output of various products has slowly entered a stable period. However, the growth rate of scarce industries such as agricultural tools, daily necessities, and ships is much larger than before. Jiujiang Shipyard alone has received seven ships this year.

Don’t underestimate these seven ships. They are the largest and most advanced cargo ships that Dawei has been able to order so far. The profits from the seven ships are higher than the annual tax revenue of an average small county.

What bothers Xia Lin the most is that the workmanship of the gun barrel has never been up to standard. The reason is that there is no special tool steel to prepare lathes, planers and milling machines. As a result, the current steel pipes cannot be properly processed and can only be cast by the lost wax method. In this way, the strength and precision are far behind. The shotgun can be made but it cannot meet Xia Lin's requirements.

Things are going very smoothly on the chemical side. The weather is good this year and there is a bumper harvest of medicinal materials. After the hard advertising caused by the locust plague last year, pesticides in Leping Township are now in short supply. Workers have even started working in three shifts around the clock, and orders have to be placed until around the spring plowing season next year.

The next step is the money-burning medical school and the money-making luxury goods. Anyway, all aspects must be taken together to ensure a place for oneself in the coming chaotic world.

Oh, we have to talk about the issue of bullets here. Xia Lin hasn't had much free time these days, but he still paid attention to the issue of bullets. The gunpowder factory has exploded three times since the beginning of summer, killing seven and causing forty to fifty people to be seriously injured to varying degrees.

Xia Lindu gave very generous compensation, but it couldn't always be like this, so he collected information everywhere on his mobile phone, and even went to the Internet to collect a lot of relevant information. Then, based on this information, he improved the primer material they were using now, making it less sensitive.

The second stage is to step up the research, development and testing of genuine iron fragmentation grenades. These military industries are all located in the valley, so Xia Lin is always in one place in the morning, another place in the afternoon, and another place at night. Except for sleeping and eating, he hardly has a quarter of an hour to spare.

"You know your life is a toil."

That evening, Xia Lin finally got a day's rest. He half-lay in his little river bay, crossed his legs and watched the sunset in the distance. He said to the little princess with emotion: "This place is my and Lao Zhang's secret base. He and I come here to have a drink whenever we have nothing to do."

The little princess sat beside him and sighed: "Ah... you are really working hard. I have never seen my father working so hard."

"How can it be the same?" Xia Lin moved to the side and put his arms around his wife's waist. "He was busy when he was young. Now that he's old, let him take a rest."

"He, when he was young, he didn't run around and spend his days looking for women." The little princess sneered: "Also, tell me honestly, what are you going to do with Miss Tang? 20,000 kilograms of sugar, she is really generous, isn't it just to let you not forget her candy?"

"Why are you asking this suddenly?"

"Ask or not, can you say you can break up with her just by getting married? She has gone to Mount Lu now, is she still avoiding you? Of course she is avoiding me."

Xia Lin glanced at her and asked, "Why am I hiding from you?"

"How would I know? But if I have the chance, I will go find her and talk to her clearly."

Although the little princess was sometimes silly and had no special skills, she was by no means an easy person to deal with. At the age of thirteen, she dared to run away thousands of miles away with a maid, and was almost kidnapped in that shabby gambling house.

This is a bold and reckless person, and nothing she wants to do seems strange.

So this sentence scared Xia Lin: "Don't kill her, if you don't want to see her, I'll ask her to go to the capital."

"Oh my, I'm already reluctant to leave."

The little princess twisted her body and broke free from Xia Lin's arms: "Who do you think I am? You're always shouting for war and killing. I just want to talk to Sister Tang. If it's really like what you said, I'll kill her. I don't know how big a hole you'll poke in the sky when you find out."

"So what do you want to talk to her about?"

"Let's talk about being a concubine. If she doesn't want to, I'll be the concubine."

This sounded nice, but Xia Lin knew that the little princess was playing tricks on him. If the prince's daughter became a concubine, then not only would the prince be defeated, but Emperor Hongbao would have to eat her alive without a single drop of soy sauce.

"Speak properly!" Xia Lin patted his wife on the buttocks: "Don't treat her like a human being after you get married."

"I think she definitely won't want to be a concubine, but you definitely won't want to break up with her. I heard someone gave her several million taels of silver at one time, and I've never seen that much money. So we have to think of a way out. My plan is that since you have to steal anyway, why don't I ask my father to adopt her as an adopted daughter or something, and have her live in our house, so you don't have to sneak around behind people's backs."

Xia Lin turned his head and reached out to pinch the back of the little princess' neck: "Tell me, who taught you to say that."

"My mother, my mother... please let go, you are pinching me."

As the saying goes, old ginger is wiser. The tricks that the mother-in-law used on the prince are now directly used on Xia Lin.

It sounds good to put her directly in the mansion, but in fact, it is just easier to keep an eye on her. But the problem is that the type of person the prince likes is rather special, he likes young country girls. It is reasonable for a country girl to enter the mansion, but it is impossible for Miss Tang to be willing to enter the mansion. In addition, Tang Baoer has a strong temper, so won't she be playing the Legend of Zhen Huan in her mother's little house all day? No, no, this kind of thing is absolutely not allowed.

At this moment, the gatekeeper of the government office came over and shouted from a distance: "Master Xia, Master Xia, please come here, someone is looking for you."

"coming."

Xia Lin got up and took the little princess back, but what they waited for were the Xuanfeng spies from the capital. These spies were a special forces team formed by the young prince two years ago. Although these people seemed amateur in Xia Lin's eyes, they were indeed elite soldiers in this country.

"Master Xia."

The spy handed a bag to Xia Lin with both hands: "Secret order from the prince."

He handed the things to Xia Lin and left. Xia Lin opened the bag and poured things out. The first thing was a black gold tiger talisman, and inside there was a letter from the "Crown Prince Regent".

The handwriting on the letter was obviously from Mr. Zhu, but it didn't say much. It just meant to ask Xia Lin to go to Lingnan to wipe out the remnants of the rebellion and to set off immediately. There were only five months left and it had to be completed before the end of the year.

Seeing this letter and the tiger talisman, Xia Lin was bewildered. As a county magistrate in Jiangnan Province, he was going to Lingnan Province to wipe out the remnants of the party. Which immortal came up with this stupid idea?

No...are the people in the capital sick?

After reading the letter over and over again, Xia Lin finally realized why his eyelids had been twitching for the past few days. It was all because of this secret order to suppress bandits.

Is the little prince mentally ill? Is everyone mentally ill?
Fortunately, His Majesty and his entourage were about to return. Xia Lin was not in a hurry to obey the order but disobeyed it for three days. On the fourth day, His Majesty and his entourage finally returned from their trip.

He handed over the tiger talisman and the secret order, and at the same time Tian En whispered to him: "Something big happened in the capital. The Chief Censor was killed. Our spies came to report that it was probably done by officials in the capital, but this matter has not been investigated. I am afraid that His Highness is also planning to fool around with it for now and investigate it in detail after the storm has calmed down."

"He calmed down the disturbance, but I am... I am just a county magistrate, why should I suppress bandits?"

Tian En quickly tugged at Xia Lin's sleeve and said seriously and solemnly: "The crown prince is also a prince."

After saying this, Xia Lin finally shut up. He chuckled and nodded: "Yes, the crown prince is also a prince."

He waited outside for a while, and then heard Tian En let him in. When he saw Emperor Hongbao again, his face expression was not very good. After seeing Xia Lin coming, he held his knees with both hands and coughed: "Daosheng, I have read Jing'er's secret order. Although it is not in compliance with the regulations, I guess you are the only person he can use. This time may be a test for him. As for you, you can either go back to Beijing with me to deal with this matter, or go and suppress the bandits for a few months."

"Your Majesty, are you planning to return to the capital?"

Emperor Hongbao waved his hand and said, "If you go to suppress the bandits, I will stay here and take charge of Jiangnan Road with Si Nan. If you want to return to the capital, I will go back with you and take charge of the capital."

Hearing this, Xia Lin felt much more comfortable. He found a place to sit down and said, "Since I got the news, I have thought about it carefully. Going to Lingnan to rectify the chaos is undoubtedly the best outcome. Going to the capital, the connections are very complicated and it may not be something that can be accomplished. If you really insist on doing it, one of you and the criminal will end up losing your life."

"Yes." Emperor Hongbao chuckled, "It's difficult, it's difficult in the court."

"Then I'll go to Lingnan."

Emperor Hongbao looked at him, with a somewhat apologetic look on his face: "I'm sorry to ask you to go to war when you're just married. I'm sorry to trouble you."

"I shall be loyal to my master." Xia Lin stood up and bowed to Emperor Hongbao. "Since Your Majesty has said so, I will set off tomorrow."

The tiger talisman was given to him, but Emperor Hongbao still felt that there might be some obstacles there, so he directly gave him a handwritten order to act according to his will and an archery ring as a token of trust.

The tiger talisman of the crown prince and the ring of the emperor, these two things together mean that when an accountant goes out to do business, he carries the official seal, legal person seal, financial seal and contract seal. Even if he goes to Lingnan to rebel, people will think that he is handling the case on the order of the emperor.

Except for the imperial seal, he was given everything he could take. Lao Guo also temporarily allocated forty archers and three hundred heavy cavalry to him.

As for the Eagle Shooters, there are only a hundred of them on Lao Guo's side...

(End of this chapter)