Lin Run and his thousand soldiers took three days to return to Suzhou from Huating.

When the fleet sailed through Kunshan along the Wusong River, he saw that Kunnan had recovered its vitality. The fields and roads were everywhere, people busy clearing the ditches and filling the pits and clearing the ditches.

From a distance, he heard the laughter of the people while working.

It seems that Kunshan has completely changed.

Lin Run nodded with deep relief. At this time, he firmly believed that in a few years, Kunshan could throw the hat of "Beggar County" into the Wusong River and rush into the East China Sea along the water.

He really wanted someone to call Zhao Shouzheng and have a good chat with the top scholar who was hard to see through.

Even if there is no nutritional chat, it can help Lin Zhongcheng relieve his depressed mood.

Since receiving news of the civil unrest in Suzhou, he has been in a bad mood.

It was not because of the Xu family's revenge... Lin Zhongcheng had never been afraid of anyone after he was attacked by Yan Shifan and cut Yan Maoqing with a knife.

What he was worried about was the real reason for the civil unrest in Suzhou - the operation of the silk weaving industry, which had major problems. Silk was seriously unsold, textile workshops were shut down, and 200,000 textile workers were unable to start work. This was the root cause of the riot.

The Xu family is just following the flow and fanning the flames.

But this is exactly the trickiest place.

He could depose the Xu family at all costs, or even use force to suppress the riots. However, the fundamental problem would not be solved. Doing so would only arouse deeper resentment from the people. What reason would be the next time that more serious and larger riots would break out.

But he is a governor and not a god. How can he help the silk merchants in Suzhou solve the sales problem?

The Dongting Merchants said that there was less than one million pieces of silk in their hands? That was more than three million taels of silver. Who can eat it?

What's more, even if he can make up so much money and digest the silk stocks in the hands of merchants, he can still treat the symptoms but not the root cause.

Silk merchants may have to resume production due to pressure, but they will definitely cut orders next year.

By then, the weaver will definitely cut production on a large scale, and the weaver who has been unemployed again may be going out to the streets again...

A huge sense of powerlessness enveloped Lin Zhongcheng's heart, and a strange thought came to his heart - the idiots of the Nine Universities, who were smuggling well, did not do it, but they were brain-filled. As a result, the people were in trouble and were so stupid.

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With random thoughts, the governor's boat gradually sailed away from Kunshan and entered the Jiang section of Wuxian.

Lin Run called Tian Boguang to travel alone for thousands of miles... Oh no, Songjiang Tongjiang Governor Tian Boguang asked him to go to Xishan immediately to pass the order, and ordered Cai Guoxi to take a boat to wait for him at Xujiangkou.

Tian Baiguang quickly took the order and left, and halfway through the same miserable Suzhou Tongshou Zhang Jiong.

When the Tongzong met the Tongzong, he was crying. You said that we two sixth-rank officials are two levels higher than the county magistrate, so why did we become errands?

After sighing, the two of them communicated with each other.

Judge Zhang Tong was ordered to welcome the governor. He said that Priest Cai and others were waiting at the Guanyin Temple Wharf early, and asked if he asked the Chief of the Central Committee to go to the island to rest first and listen to the report before talking about it.

Punishment Tian Tong told him that the Chief Secretary was in a bad mood and should not cause trouble. Follow the order and ask the Prime Minister Cai to wait at Xujiangkou.

Judge Zhang had no choice but to turn back, and the two of them went to report their lives.

In that room, Lin Run's boat passed through the Dongshan River Road and headed towards the Xujiangkou.

Looking at the tall chimneys on Xishan Island from afar, it seemed that there were a few more. Lin Run couldn't help but secretly think that the cement production of Jiangnan Company would probably be on the rise again.

I heard that Zhao Hao went to Chongming a few days ago, so that should be the next target of Jiangnan Company?

Lin Run sighed secretly. This Jiangnan company is really unique and specializes in finding the poorest and most needed counties.

Only in this way did he not be able to beat him up - he was working hard to build the poorest place in Jiangnan, and he still didn't make a penny. How could he be so arrogant as a governor? It's really unreasonable.

Besides, now is not the time to worry about Jiangnan Company. Under the current situation, this company that has just been established for three months is not considered a long-term concern, but can only be considered a hidden worry.

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An hour later, Governor Yingtian's fleet and Suzhou prefect's ship met at Xujiangkou.

Priest Cai led a group of assistants to board the ship of Lord Zhongcheng.

I saw Lin Zhongcheng standing on the bow of the boat with his hands behind his back, looking at the smoke pillars rising from Suzhou City in the distance.

Cai Guoxi showed a look of shame and quickly led the crowd to kneel on the deck to apologize.

Lin Run did not look back, but continued to look ahead.

Priest Cai and others had to kneel there quietly, not daring to breathe.

After a long time, Fang heard Lin Run sigh and turned to look at Cai Guoxi and said, "Master Cai, this most prosperous city in the world cannot be destroyed in your and my hands."

"Yes..." Cai Guoxi immediately sweated like a slurry, took off his black veil and kowtowed hard: "It was all the negligence of the subordinates on weekdays that caused the crisis today. Please punish the Chief Secretary!"

"When you will be held accountable in the future, you should be mine, and none of us can escape." Lin Run said with a blank expression: "You get up and talk first."

"Xie Zhongcheng." Cai Guoxi then got up from the ground, but his head was still lowered and his chest looked like a primary school student who had made a mistake.

Seeing that Cai Guoxi's attitude was quite correct, Lin Run's expression cleared a little and asked lightly: "What's the situation in Suzhou City now?"

"Returning to the Central Chief, since the riots occurred three days ago, more and more citizens have joined in. The officials were excited when they saw the crowd, and they were afraid that forcibly suppressing would backfire, intensify conflicts, and even cause large-scale bleeding."

Cai Guoxi has been thinking about how to pass Lin Run in the past few days. Every word and even every move at this time has been repeatedly pondered.

"The Chief of the Central Committee often said, 'The way of governing is to follow the people's hearts.' The subordinate officials kept in mind the teachings of the Chief of the Central Committee and dared not forget them every day. So after weighing the pros and cons, they ordered the officials to send the people to the army for the time being and remained unmoved, and at the same time led all the officials in the city to temporarily leave the city to avoid the situation... "

"Because the citizens did not want to rebel, nor did they want to smash and loot, but they were just dissatisfied because they lost their livelihood and could not support their families. At this time, it was too cruel and unfair to send troops to suppress them. But when they were angry, they couldn't listen to anything and would do some extreme behaviors, so they still made a fuss, vent their lives, and then resolve the problem after calming down."

"Oh?" Lin Run couldn't help but feel a little funny. This Prefect Cai is really a talented person. He was obviously scared out of the city, but he actually said that he was so thoughtful and endured humiliation.

"Then have you thought of a solution to the problem these days?"

"The officials are stupid and have no good way to cure the disease, so they have to prescribe all the prescriptions they can prescribe." Cai Guoxi secretly called luck. Fortunately, he had a solution this morning, otherwise he would not be able to escape the slaughter. He hurriedly replied in a capable tone:

"The officials from Xiaguanzhifu and Changzhou, Wuxian, went to the city in casual clothes to contact the gentry and wealthy families in the city, and ordered them to do joint defense and self-protection, so that they must not let the riots affect the residential areas."

"Yes." Lin Run nodded, limiting the riots to the commercial area, which was considered abandoning the car to protect the handsome guy.
Chapter completed!