Lin Wen naturally refused.

Qin Luoshuang didn't say much and hung up the phone.

After about half an hour, a speedboat arrived. This was one-fourth of the naval power of Changshan County, modified from a lifeboat.

The previous cargo ship was Qin Luoshuang's own private property. She had hidden it when she fled, and only brought it out for use after Changshan County officially broke ties with the Qin Clan.

Lin Wen decided to confiscate it when he returned, to be incorporated into the navy, so as not to embarrass the Changshan County navy with only four speedboats.

The driver of the speedboat was highly skilled and stopped the speedboat at the riverbank, shouting, "Sheriff Lin, come aboard."

He was wearing an army uniform, obviously a soldier directly transferred from the army by Fang Dashan.

Lin Wen put the person on the speedboat and said, "You can go back."

The soldier didn't suspect anything. After saluting Sheriff Lin, he turned and returned.

Lin Wen then jumped into the river and pushed the speedboat back to Changshan County.

With the blessing of "Harmonious Fish and Water," he was enhanced by the water flow. The faster the water flow, the faster his speed.

In the Tian River, he could reach a speed of over 100 knots, far exceeding the maximum speed of 40 knots for the speedboat.

With a push from Lin Wen, the speedboat broke through the limit and raced across the river at a speed of 80 knots, scaring the soldiers on board.

The speedboat seemed possessed by an evil spirit, as no matter how he accelerated or decelerated, it had no effect.

It wasn't until they reached the Huai Town pier that the speedboat suddenly slowed down, stopping right in front of the pier, as if he had been the one driving.

Several naval soldiers waiting for him exclaimed in surprise, "Hey, how did you come back so quickly, Sheriff Lin?"

"Xiao Zhang, I've told you so many times, the water flow in the Tian River is swift. Don't drive too fast, it's dangerous."

"Oh, Sheriff Lin, you're all wet."

"Xiao Zhang, look at you! You drove so fast that you splashed water all over Sheriff Lin!"

Xiao Zhang looked at Lin Wen with a puzzled expression as he carried a person on his back, feeling like his brain had short-circuited.

He definitely couldn't drink and drive a boat in the future.

Every time before boarding the boat, Xiao Zhang secretly thought about drinking two catties of white wine.

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Qin Luoshuang and the others arrived later than Lin Wen.

This trip was very fruitful, and it took a long time to finish.

More than six thousand civilians returned with them. They were not refugees, but belonged to the category of immigrants, and were handed over to Chen Xingtai for resettlement.

Currently, more than 30,000 simple wooden houses had been built at the foot of the Taixu Mountains, accommodating over 300,000 martyrs and farmers rescued from various places, and the construction was still ongoing.

More than a thousand members of the Agricultural Revival Society were also settled there. Under the guidance of Yun Qingshui, their leader He Shangsheng saw the home of their dreams in Shangxi Town.

The continuous fields, the growing crops, the simple but complete water conservancy facilities, and the farmers working joyfully without a trace of worry deeply moved He Shangsheng.

Seeing the vast expanse of fertile land in the distance, the bustling scene of reclamation, the initial scale of the field ridges, he couldn't help but burst into tears.

"Damn it, if we had known there was such good land, such good officials, why did so many of our brothers and sisters have to die?"

"So many brothers and sisters, so many good children, all died like this. Damn those officials from Rock State, damn the suppression team, they're really despicable."

He suddenly grabbed Yun Qingshui's hands.

"Qingshui, I want to see Sheriff Lin! I want to join them, I want to go back to Rock State, I want to explode the heads of those damn suppression team members."

Tears streamed down his face.

"I'm willing to be the vanguard. Our Agricultural Revival Society won't ask for a single penny. If we die, just bury us on the spot. We only ask to be allowed to fight the enemy!"

Yun Qingshui's father and He Shangsheng were old friends. This bold and hearty man from Rock State, who was well-known far and wide, used to visit the Yun family frequently, and even taught her martial arts.

At that time, He Shangsheng had a head full of black hair, full of spirit, and often had lively conversations with her father in the hall.

But in just ten years, the current He Shangsheng had a face full of wrinkles, a stooped back, and white hair, looking like an old man on the verge of death.

His big knife was also gone, leaving only two guns at his waist.

Yun Qingshui felt compassion in her heart and couldn't bear to refuse, so she agreed.

The wrinkles on He Shangsheng's face spread out like a blooming old chrysanthemum.

He repeatedly said, "Good girl, good girl. I knew you were a good girl from the first time I saw you. You must work with Sheriff Lin and cultivate more land, accommodate more farmer brothers, and let them no longer suffer. Sheriff Lin is such a good person, the heavens will definitely bless him to live a long life..."Yun Qingshui did not interrupt the old man's rambling. This was actually a way of emotional release and adjustment. At the peak of the Nongxing Association, there were over a hundred thousand people, but now only about a thousand remained, which was a huge blow to him.

She had also led her brothers into a desperate situation, and the taste of despair and guilt mixed together was unforgettable in her life. She even had thoughts of death, but it was Lin Wen's guidance that helped her come out of it.

So, she understood his feelings especially well.

However, she actually couldn't influence the policies of Changshan County as much as He Shangsheng thought.

The People's Party was just an organization under the jurisdiction of Changshan County. She and Xing Tai were the mayor and deputy mayor, but they had never been involved in the actual operation of Changshan County.

So, she couldn't guarantee that Lin Wen would include them in the county's army.

But she couldn't refuse the desperate request of the old man either.

"Anyway, I'll go find Lin Wen tonight," she thought. "After all, he promised to give me tutoring. The 'Capital Theory' is getting more and more confusing to me. The 'Rise of the Road' and the prequel 'The Birth and Fall of the Alliance' are contradictory to each other. I can't even understand the 'Declaration' now. It's making me think about the production of goods and the value of commodities, and I'm getting dumber."

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More than four thousand "human security forces" were detained. Lin Wen identified and killed the ones who were completely black. The rest of the people were originally prepared to be taken into the army of Changshan County by Fang Dashan, but Lin Wen firmly disagreed.

The environment of the army's melting pot had not been established yet, and this group of mercenaries who were only interested in profit would only pollute the environment if they were allowed in.

So, the human security forces became an extra-army unit of Changshan County, divided into five groups.

The group leaders were Xu Chaogong, Jiang Jin, Li Changsheng, Hu Ming, and Jiang Sheng, the favorite student of the governor of Rock State, Chang Shengkai.

Jiang Sheng never expected that he, the direct line of the governor of Rock State, would be directly appointed as a group leader.

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The young sheriff believed in him like that.

But what he didn't know was that when Lin Wen looked at this guy, he was full of rebelliousness, much more than Wei Yan, and he had nothing inside except money. He was just right to command these mercenaries.

Lin Wen established a system for them to redeem themselves with military merits.

He declared that because they had opposed the great Sheriff Lin, each of them owed him a million, and the group leader owed a billion. Only by repaying the money with military merits could they leave.

If they wanted to continue after repaying, it was fine. If they wanted to run away without repaying, they would be guilty of "not repaying the money owed to Sheriff Lin" and would be hunted to death.

Even if they died, they would receive compensation. The beneficiaries of the compensation were designated by themselves, and the compensation would not be deducted or used to repay the money.

In order to give them a little hope and show Sheriff Lin's tolerance, Lin Wen specifically stipulated that repaying the money with military merits had a tenfold effect.

Withdrawing military merits was at the normal rate.

If you looked at it the other way around, withdrawing military merits would only be one-tenth of the fixed amount.

The military merit system was forced to be written by Lin Wen, referring to the military merit system of the empire, and it was relatively fair.

Lin Wen also mixed in some concepts of upgrading. Soldiers could choose to upgrade instead of exchanging military merits for money.

The lowest level was a fighter, and they could upgrade all the way to a battle emperor.

The military merits required for each upgrade doubled, to ensure that a large number of military merits could be recovered to save funds.

As for the benefits of upgrading, Lin Wen hadn't figured it out yet, so he just wrote down a special reward from Sheriff Lin.

The human security forces were supervised by the monitoring team, which was set up by Qin Luoshuang.

Qin Luoshuang was extremely annoyed by this. She felt that Lin Wen was treating her like a trash can, throwing all kinds of miscellaneous tasks at her.

She also had OCD, so she had to do the next task well, otherwise she would feel uncomfortable and couldn't sleep.

"There are still too many people," Qin Luoshuang thought.

Changshan County was now a large area in terms of population, but there were still only a few main officials. The daily affairs were piling up, and the higher the official, the more tired they were. At their level, they were exhausted every day.

If it weren't for a dragon with extremely high efficiency helping them to share a large amount of pressure, they wouldn't be able to finish even if they were exhausted like pigs.

Thinking of this, Qin Luoshuang was a little worried again. Zhao Minggong's situation was very dangerous last time, and even a death notice was issued.

Although he was eventually saved and his condition was now good, the doctor couldn't be sure what the situation was, and didn't know how long he could hold on.

If the dragon fell, Changshan County would inevitably fall into an endless abyss of affairs, and it would never be able to operate as efficiently as it did now.

"I have to push Xia to recruit people for me quickly."

But when she went to check, she found that Xia Xiaoxiang was even busier than her.

The large courtyard she bought in Changle District had become a library, filled with files and documents everywhere. Xia Xiaoxiang was almost lying on a mountain of books.

The more than thirty employees around her all had terrifying dark circles under their eyes.

Xia Xiaoxiang's voice came from the crowd."No, this person can't be used like this. Someone with such a volatile temper can't take on a public-facing role."

"This person still needs to be observed. I feel like he's just putting on a show. The logistics manager position is the most prone to corruption, and I don't want to have to remove another one."

"Let's, let's, let's arrange a meeting with the five of them. I want to have a personal talk tonight."

Qin Luoshuang quietly walked over, passing through the crowd to catch a glimpse of her.

Xia Xiaoxiang was sitting among the crowd, wearing a pair of large glasses, her hair tied into a stern apple cut, and dressed in a gray, wide official uniform that completely concealed her figure.

This was Xia Xiaoxiang's work attire, serious and plain, deliberately covering all her strengths, making her look like an uncharismatic old woman who had been in a high position for too long.

She looked somewhat tired, but still spirited, with something even more powerful burning within her, sustaining her.

Qin Luoshuang felt a tinge of nostalgia; it had been two years since she last saw Xia Xiaoxiang in this guise. From the organization's crisis to its collapse, she had never dressed this way.

Back then, in order to raise funds for the organization, she had no choice but to dress in the most dazzling attire, traveling between families and allies to win everyone's favor.

But in the end, the curse still shattered their dreams and destroyed the hopes of countless young talents who shared their vision.

It wasn't until Xia Xiaoxiang had finished a phase of her work that Qin Luoshuang called out, "Xia!"

Xia Xiaoxiang turned her head, and with that simple word, a smile blossomed on her face, coming straight from the heart.

"Qin," she responded.

The autumn sun was pure and clear. They looked at each other, just as they had in that autumn of years past.

The lofty pair had met in a courtyard where the locust trees were in full bloom. The youthful Qin Xiao, already possessing the grace of a fairy, and the jade-like Xia Fei, with her doll-like delicate features, had looked at each other just like this. Their lonely hearts, far beyond their peers in wisdom and talent, collided and sparked the most sincere friendship.

They had promised never to part, just as they had also vowed:

"I will find the best man in the world and make him your husband."