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

Chapter 346 Stand up

The Duke's encirclement and suppression that Xia Lin had been expecting had not come yet. The wolf-like creatures under his command were even greatly disappointed. One of them even approached Xia Lin and said, "General, how about this? I will secretly hang myself in the Duke Ding's mansion tomorrow, and then you can take the opportunity to send troops."

"What the hell is wrong with you?"

Xia Lin cursed and pushed him aside: "Stop thinking of these sick tricks. Go, get some people, let's go check on the refugees. The spring ploughing season is just around the corner, it won't be worthwhile to waste it."

Soon Xia Lin arrived at the refugee settlement. Since he had experience in accommodating disaster victims, it was easy for him to accommodate thousands of refugees. When Xia Lin went there, they were cooking. They poured canned soybeans into rice and cooked it, which became a filling meal.

Don’t say that the food is simple, but for them these days it has been like being in heaven. Not only is it safe and worry-free, but they also have food and drink. Looking back on those days, it was really a life worse than death.

Many of the refugees noticed Xia Lin coming and quickly knelt down to greet him. Xia Lin frowned and said, "Stand up! Don't kneel. I hate kneeling the most."

Those people looked around in confusion, and finally stood up. After Xia Lin made a round of inspection, he stood on a higher rock and shouted, "Now that spring ploughing is approaching, you have lost your homes. You might as well settle down around the camp and reclaim wasteland. The military camp will not let you be disturbed again. Today and tomorrow, the camp will record your names and allocate land. If there are no young men in your family, the soldiers can help you."

When this news came, the displaced people naturally cheered, and agricultural civilization definitely has a talent bonus in rebuilding their homes.

After entering the names and acreage of land, reconstruction work began immediately. Some people even gave up their homes and just lived in a shack and went to cultivate the land.

Xia Lin had seeds, technicians, and young and strong laborers to help. In less than ten days, more than a thousand acres of land had been reclaimed and sown. The next step was naturally to rebuild the farmland. This task turned out to be simpler because there were many professionals on board the ship, so the progress in this regard was also very fast.

Naturally, the large ships could not be left idle, so only two were left on duty, and the rest of the ships ran back and forth between Dantu County and Zhenhai County, transporting supplies from Fuliang here and taking on some cargo transportation business along the way.

The "imperial edict" arrived about half a month after Xia Lin arrived here. The superiors did not say much nonsense. Xia Lin admired the prince for this. He was a man who did not like to talk nonsense. The imperial edict only gave key instructions.

The first thing was to order Xia Lin to take over Zhenhai, guard the sea border and provide relief to the refugees. The second thing was to completely eliminate the pirates and never allow pirates to come ashore and disturb the people. Finally, the responsibility of rebuilding Zhenhai now belonged to Xia Lin.

There is not even a single word mentioned here about Duke Dingguo, but if you analyze it carefully, it is full of dissatisfaction with Duke Dingguo.

If you really have to do reading comprehension, then this imperial edict can be understood like this: "Xiao Lin, Zhenhai is now yours. You take care of the daily government affairs inside, and you must also pay attention to the reconstruction of Zhenhai. As for how long it will take you, ten, twenty, or fifty years, I don't care, just rebuild it. You should also take responsibility for the defense of the coast. I really can't deal with the Duke of Dingguo. Their military merit family has complex power, and my position is still unstable now, but I don't care what you do, just don't arouse public outrage from the military merit family."

Xia Lin suspected that Gao Shilian was also involved in this. The old man was very smart and he would certainly not easily provoke any party at this extremely sensitive moment, so he acquiesced to the superiors giving him such a big power.

What does this full responsibility mean? Xia Lin is the top leader in Fuliang, and Zhenhai is now an enclave of Fuliang. He is also the top leader here as well. It doesn't matter if he has no control over other places, but Duke Dingguo is no longer qualified to govern Dinghai.

Unknowingly, Xia Lin had gained an extra county by the sea. Although it looked desolate and dilapidated, even worse than Fuliang in the past, Xialin was no longer the Xialin of the past. Today, Xiaolinzi had abundant resources that could not be used up.

It's okay, this also satisfies Xia Lin's hobby of farming. The development of Fuliang has reached a bottleneck period, and Jiangnan Road will probably be like this for a long time.

However, this news made Xia Lin ecstatic. He had originally planned to let Liu Bei borrow Jingzhou, but now it seemed that this suddenly became legitimate.

But they haven't realized that Zhenhai was given to Xia Lin, so Haizhongzhou, which is across the sea from Zhenhai, should belong to Xia Lin.

This island in the sea is also called Yongdong, which is the future Zhoushan. At present, it is actually a barren land. There are only a few people living there and they are all no different from savages. It will probably take a hundred years for that place to welcome its first county magistrate.

Now it’s good. Xia Lin was given a huge archipelago. That place is the pearl of the East China Sea. Many islands form a natural haven. If it can be well developed, it will be amazing.

"Okay, okay, farming is good. Farming is better than palace fighting."

Xia Lin took out a map and started gesturing while humming a song. The lieutenant general next to him did not understand the song he was humming, but just thought it was a decadent tune, which was quite consistent with Xia Lin's usual style.

"Come, send a message back. Ask the owner of the Tang family business and the chief manager of the Thirteenth Hall to come quickly."

Don't say that Xia Lin never abuses his power for personal gain. After all, Tangjia Trading Company is Fuliang's official designated partner, at an all-weather strategic level. Of course, partners should be given priority when good things happen.

Zhoushan is such a big city, but people eat so much seafood that they urinate blood!

Xia Lin laughed, but he still followed the old rules: he couldn't take too big a step. With his experience in Fuliang, he knew the importance of taking one step at a time. After making a preliminary plan, he immediately called someone: "Go back to Fuliang and call Du Feng to me. Tell him that his chance to become an official has come."

After further instructions, Xia Lin put his hands on his waist and looked at the vast sea in front of him: "Oh, what a beautiful land."

He certainly cannot stay in this place for a long time, so he must now quickly, accurately, steadily and ruthlessly take root here. According to the experience of Fuliang, the first step is to increase the population, and then set up settlements. Then the model of industry, agriculture and commerce will follow Fuliang. Moreover, this is a natural harbor that can radiate to Quanzhou below and even Southeast Asia, as well as Xiaobaka, which is now under the rule of Empress Suiko.

While Xia Lin received the imperial edict, Duke Dingguo naturally also received an imperial decree, in which he was severely scolded, and the meaning of the decree was that he should not interfere in the affairs of Zhenhai anymore, and Xia Lin was left to suppress the bandits.

This incident was a great humiliation for Duke Dingguo. How could he swallow this? After all, no one could have imagined that he would be protected like this by the court. Even the famous royal families didn't care about him?

But now think about it, his father-in-law is now the regent, and his godfather is now in charge of the power to defend the capital, which is simply invincible.

In this case, Duke Dingguo certainly cannot just let him happily take root and speak in his own territory.

"Go and call Yang Dexi."

After a while, a one-eyed man with a hunchback appeared in front of Duke Dingguo. He hunched over and nodded to the Duke, "My Lord, you are looking for me."

"Yes." Duke Dingguo raised his chin slightly: "How many people do you have?"

"There are still more than 300. The loss last time was a bit bigger. Sigh...the bandit-suppressing person from the imperial court was too powerful."

"Don't give me that shit, tell me the truth, how much more do you have?"

"Seven hundred..."

"Okay!" Duke Dingguo slapped the low table and said, "I'll give you another thousand men. You can become pirates and pacify Zhenhai for me once again!"

Yang Dexi looked bitter: "Sir, this is not easy to handle. They are a serious bandit-suppression army, a thousand people..."

"Two thousand!" Duke Dingguo gritted his teeth and said, "Don't leave any of them alive. Do you hear me?"

"Okay, they are just some young soldiers. Sir, please wait for the news."

Last time, about two hundred people suffered a great loss and all were lost in Zhenhai. But now the Duke has spoken. Two thousand elite soldiers is not a small number. How can those young masters' soldiers who are not acclimatized to the local climate be a match for the elite soldiers of the Duke's Mansion?
Yang Dexi led the people away from the master in a very arrogant manner, but these people naturally had to be disguised, and it would take some time to prepare. However, there were more than 2,000 people. Couldn't more than 2,000 people take down a mere small camp?
On the afternoon of the day when Yang Dexi took the two thousand people to leave Yangzhou, Xia Lin had already received the news.

The spy even counted the number of people, food, horses, and ox carts clearly, and a series of data was displayed in Xia Lin's hands.

After reading it, Xia Lin almost laughed out loud.

"Damn it, who the hell can I complain to? I just want to farm peacefully." Xia Lin rolled up his sleeves: "This guy won't let me farm."

"General, do you have any plan to fight back?" The lieutenant general asked in a low voice, "This is considered treason."

"No hurry." Xia Lin waved his hand. "The brothers are full of energy. They are all young men. If we don't let them release this energy, their morale will be low. Practice normally and stay alert."

"Order."

After the lieutenant general left, Xia Lin sat there stroking his chin. He was the kind of man who would never let go of a grudge. "If I hear the news in the morning, I would rather die in the evening" meant that if I knew the news about you in the morning, I would kill you in the evening!

Hmm... it's a bit difficult. If the other party insists that he doesn't know anything, then attacking by force will definitely not work.

As Xia Lin thought about it, his eyes rolled and he slapped his thigh: "Hey! Got it!"

(End of this chapter)