Li Na finally chose to withdraw the army, under the pressure of the situation, he led the army to retreat to the north overnight, and at the same time sent someone to inform Cao Guang to lead the army to retreat, as for the final he learned that the army no longer belonged to him, what would he feel like, that is later.

Guo Song met with the five states of Huainan in Jiangdu, and then returned to Runzhou, it was the middle of September, although Guo Song still had Mingzhou, Wenzhou, Xuanzhou and other places did not inspect, but he did not have time to continue to inspect south, stayed in Runzhou for a day, Guo Song officially ended the inspection of Jiangnan, and returned to Chang'an by boat with his family.

Guo Song's visit to Jiangnan was of great significance, he appeased the officialdom, visited the wealthy, sympathized with the people, stabilized the officialdom and people's hearts, won the support of the Jiangnan scholars, and made Jiangnan return to the imperial court.

Guo Song immediately appointed Lu Zhan as the salt and iron transshipment envoy of the two Zhejiang provinces, responsible for the transfer of taxes and grain in the two Zhejiang provinces, although Lu Zhan was born in Chang'an, grew up in Chang'an, but he was an out-and-out clansman of the Lu family in Suzhou, and followed Guo Song for many years, and he was responsible for the finance and taxation of Jiangnan, Guo Song was very relieved.

The fleet sailed on the sparkling Yangtze River, it was late autumn at this time, the river was blowing a strong northwest wind, and it was against the water, the fleet had to rely on the slender man to pull and walk, so the fleet sailed close to the south bank, thousands of slender men were naked, shouting a low trumpet, and lined up on the shore to pull the big ship westward with difficulty.

Guo Song sat in a cabin and was engrossed in reviewing the memoirs, which the imperial court had sent to Runzhou not long ago, and there were some important recitals that he had to approve, such as next year's imperial examination plan, such as Anxi's plan to recruit Long March athletes, and more than a dozen impeachment letters from the Imperial Historical Observatory.

In addition, the last batch of 5,000 camels purchased by the historian was sent to Zhangye, so far, all 50,000 camels were in place, and the imperial court paid nearly 1 million taels of silver, far exceeding the budget of 500,000 taels of silver set at that time.

At this time, Xue Tao walked into the cabin and personally brought her husband a freshly fried ginseng tea, she put the tea cup on the table and said with a smile: "This is a ship, it will shake, my husband quickly drank him while it was hot!" ”

Guo Song put down his pen, took a sip of the teacup, and asked with a smile, "What are you all doing?" ”

"Except for Xiaowei who is drawing her Jiangnanqiu intentions, everyone else is bored, either getting together to chat, or playing backgammon, the boat ride is too boring, everyone is eager to return to Chang'an as soon as possible."

Guo Song smiled: "I originally wanted to say that next time I go to Anxi to inspect, do I want to take you with me?" ”

Xue Tao was taken aback, "Is Fujun going to Anxi next year?" ”

"It doesn't have to be next year, maybe it's the year after next, it's definitely going to be a trip."

Of course, Xue Tao knew that her husband would have a lot of inspections in the future, and inspections were very important to the stability of various places, and this time they deeply realized that future inspections would definitely be inevitable, so she didn't say anything more, just nodded silently.

At this time, Guo Song remembered something, took a thick stack of newspapers from behind him, handed it to Xue Tao and said with a smile: "This was sent by the guards just now, and it was all from the last month or so." ”

Xue Tao was suddenly surprised and delighted, and said in surprise: "How can there be a newspaper on the river?" ”

"Just now there was a post boat from Xiangyang that was about to be sent to Runzhou, and our ship intercepted it, and asked for a copy of each of the two newspapers."

"Now we have a newspaper to read!"

Xue Tao was overjoyed, and hurried away with the newspaper, with the newspaper, their journey would not be so boring.

...........

On the morning of this day, the fleet arrived in Jiangxia County, Ezhou, the fleet anchored in Jiangxia County for replenishment, everyone also went ashore to rest, Xue Tao took everyone to the Yellow Crane Tower to play, when she and Guo Song escaped from Bashu, they had come to Jiangxia, and they also bought Minqiu here, which is also Minqiu's hometown, but the tomb of her parents has been moved to Chang'an by Guo Song a few years ago, and she has no memory here.

The visitors in the Yellow Crane Tower have been emptied, hundreds of soldiers are heavily guarded, and no outsiders are allowed to enter except for the princess and other family members.

Ascending the Yellow Crane Tower, everyone was full of interest, but Min Qiu seemed a little depressed.

Xue Tao slowly walked to Min Qiu's side and said softly: "I remember you once said that your uncle is in Jiangxia, why don't you go to see him?" ”

Min Qiu shook his head, "Back then, he seized the house left by his parents and sold me into slavery, and I had already broken off with him, and I didn't have an uncle." ”

"And what else is on your mind?"

Xue Tao smiled again: "If you have something on your mind, say it, don't hold it in your heart." ”

Min Qiu looked at the Yangtze River below, sighed softly and said, "I don't know, I want to go and see the former residence, but it's ........"

"Then let my husband arrange it later, since I'm here, I still have to take a look, I don't know when the next time will be!"

Min Qiu nodded slightly, her heart was full of anticipation for the former residence........

Guo Song inspected the garrison camp in Jiangxia, and after the battle of Jiangling, in addition to Pei Xin leading a part of the army back to Guanzhong, Zhang Yun led 20,000 troops into Jiangxia to prepare for the next Huaixi Campaign.

Although Zhang Yun is still nominally the commander of the scout army, he has been promoted to hussar general, and his scope of authority is no longer the scout battalion, he has also begun to lead the army to stand alone, the actual commander of the scout battalion will be the three deputy commanders, Hu Benlang general Chen Li, Hu Benlang general Zhang Yuanzhi and Hu Benlang general Zhou Fei, and the military affairs are in charge of Shao Jianzhi, the chief historian.

The soldiers were training on the martial arts field, and Guo Song, accompanied by the generals, inspected the school field, and he asked, "The soldiers are still used to this place, right?" ”

"The brothers have adapted very well, and the 10,000 troops here are Ma Sui's subordinates, most of them are from nearby states and counties, well-trained, and very capable of fighting, no worse than our army."

Guo Song nodded, "So I didn't disband them, it's a pity to disband them and return to their hometown." ”

When they came to the tent, Guo Song walked to the map, looked at the map for a moment and asked, "What does the red flag on the map mean?" ”

"Returning to His Royal Highness, the red flag is a city where the army is stationed, a red flag represents a thousand people, like Huanggang County in Huangzhou, Anlu County in Anzhou, and Yiyang County in Shenzhou, these are the three prefectures close to Jingxiang, and each key county has 5,000 people stationed in each key county, and then Hefei County in Luzhou, Shouchun County in Shouzhou, and Shucheng County in Shuzhou also have 5,000 garrisons each, and only Qizhou and Guangzhou have no garrisons in the entire eight states of Huaixi."

Guo Song sneered, "The troops are so scattered, aren't they afraid of being broken by each of us?" ”

"A master will be a habit! For example, Xue Lun, the king of Guangling County, likes to gather his troops in Yangzhou, while Gao You, the king of Huaixi County, likes to disperse his troops, and when he used to garrison Songzhou, he scattered 5,000 troops to various counties, with 1,000 people in each county. ”

Guo Song smiled and approving: "It is worthy of being a scout general, and he has studied the enemy general very thoroughly!" ”

Zhang Yun touched his nose and said: "Thank you Your Highness for your compliment, I am really used to my humble position, and I can't wait to find out the eight generations of the other party's ancestors." ”

Zhang Yun said humorously, and everyone laughed together.

..........

In the afternoon, Guo Song accompanied Minqiu to the south of Jiangxia City, although Minqiu was only a concubine, she was also one of Guo Song's wives after all, as a husband, Guo Song of course had to accompany her to the old house to have a look.

Accompanied by her husband, Minqiu's originally nervous mood has also relaxed a lot, she has a strong sense of security, which is also an important reason why Guo Song likes her, Minqiu has always lacked a sense of security in her heart, she is extremely dependent on her husband, and she also pays wholeheartedly when she has sex, and she can't wait to be one with her husband, every time she spends the night there, Guo Song will get great satisfaction.

"It's the courtyard!" Min Qiu pointed to a courtyard by the side of the road and whispered.

Minqiu's father is a teacher who runs a private school, and Xue Tao's maternal grandfather has a profession, her house is in a good location, close to the street, covering an area of about two acres, no wonder after Minqiu's parents died of illness, her uncle sold her into slavery in order to occupy the property.

Jiangxia County Commander had already taken the first step and explained to the owner of the house, and dozens of soldiers had also made safe deployments, and Guo Song took Minqiu directly into the courtyard.

Walking into the courtyard, Minqiu was stunned for a moment, tears were falling, Guo Song saw that she was in an abnormal mood, gently hugged her and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"It's gone, my former home is gone." She couldn't hold it anymore, turned around and fell into her husband's arms and wept mournfully.

Guo Song took a closer look at the house, and immediately understood that the houses were all new, and they had only been repaired for a few years, and it should be that Minqiu's former residence had been demolished.

At this time, the county commander came with the owner of the house, the owner of the house was a middle-aged man in his forties, he didn't know what the person opposite was, and even the county commander was respectful when he saw him.

The owner of the house was so frightened that he knelt down and kowtowed, and Guo Song asked, "What's your name?" ”

"Xiaomin's name is Ma Yong, and everyone calls me Ma Goro!"

"Is that him?" Guo Song asked.

Min Qiu shook his head, wiped away his tears and asked, "Who did you ask to buy this house?" ”

"It was sold to me by a man named Jiang Quan five years ago, and the house is about to collapse, which is a piece of land."

Jiang Quan was the son of Min Qiu's uncle, and Min Qiu asked again: "There is an old man named Jiang Yi, do you know?" ”

"Of course I know, it's Jiang Quan's father, and this piece of land is his name, but this person has died a long time ago, more than ten years ago, including this Jiang Quan, I heard that he also died last year."

"How did Jiang Quan die?"

"I heard that he crossed the river by ferry, the boat capsized, and his family sat in the cabin, but they couldn't escape, and they were all locked in the boat, and later they didn't even find the body."

Min Qiu was speechless for a long time, she had always hated her uncle, but when she heard that their family was dead, she was a little lost in her heart, and she couldn't hate it.

"Do you want to go in and have a look?"

Min Qiu shook his head, "Let's go!" ”

Guo Song took her out of the yard, and the two got into the carriage, which drove directly to the dock.

When they left, the owner of the house whispered to the county order: "May I ask the county gentleman, who are they?" ”

The county magistrate snorted and whispered in his ear, and the owner of the house was frightened! Sitting on the ground, his lips trembling and unable to speak, the person just now turned out to be .........

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