Outside Shenjing City, on the bluestone dam wharf.

The Great Yan Dynasty relied on the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal far more than any previous dynasties.

The north is bitterly cold, and the real estate is not abundant, but it gathers millions of mouths to raise in one city.

If there is no supply from Jiangnan, it will be difficult to last.

The products in the south of the Yangtze River are mostly transported to Dadu by water.

As the end point of the canal, on the wharf of Tongzhou Qingshiba, thousands of sails stand and crowds of people surge.

Grains, vegetables, fruits, poultry, weaving, wood, porcelain, and lacquerware from the south of the Yangtze River are continuously transported from the canal to the wharf, and then transferred to the capital through the wharf.

Day and night, it is very lively.

In order to avoid merchant ships, civilian ships and cao ships competing for the river wharf, there is a yellow pavilion 100 meters south of Qingshiba wharf, which is the dividing line between Cao Yun and passenger and cargo ships. A monument is erected in the pavilion, and the inscription clearly stipulates that all passenger and cargo ships can dock to the south of the Yellow Pavilion for loading and unloading, and they are not allowed to cross the Yellow Pavilion to the north.

To the south of Huang Tingzi, the west is the cargo terminal, and the east is the passenger terminal.

On the passenger terminal, there are many cars, horses, mules and sedans.

In this era, most of the people who can come and go to the capital are some officials and family members who follow their feet, the second is businessmen, and the third is the scholars who enter Beijing to take the exam.

Ordinary people, but it is rare.

At this time, a two-story passenger ship docked at the dock, and on the deck, an old man in cloth stood with his hands in his hands, and his vicissitudes of life looked at the prosperity on the dock with some cloudy eyes.

Behind the old man, there was only an old servant and a sturdy middle-aged man, carrying a heavy old wooden box, which, judging from the broken edges, should be filled with books.

"Master, let's go into the city, it's almost lunchtime, and the lord has to go to the palace to see you."

After the three of them got off the boat, the old servant saw that the old man still couldn't see enough, so he had to step forward and whisper a reminder.

When the old man heard this, he retracted his gaze with a sigh, his voice was low but quite powerful, and said: "Twenty-eight years after leaving Beijing, twenty-eight years ago, this place was still very desolate. ”

The old servant smiled and said: "It is also a creation, the lord has been an official outside all these years, and every time his majesty sees him, he can always meet the holy car on patrol, and he will see his majesty in the line, so he will avoid the pain of traveling thousands of miles." This year is the year of His Majesty's Vision, but the master was transferred to Beijing to be a Beijing official, which is also a creation. ”

Every five years in Dayan, the governors, governors, and political envoys from other provinces above the second rank need to go to Beijing to report on their work. At this time, the traffic on the road was as little as ten and a half days, and at most several months, and the officials who achieved high positions were rarely young and strong, so the hardship of running around was difficult.

The old man shook his head and said, "Your Majesty sees the Son of Heaven, how can there be any suffering?" Compared with the people of the world, what qualifications do we have to speak of suffering? ”

Thinking of the corruption and extravagance pervading the officialdom, the old man's face sank again.

The old servant persuaded: "Master, let's go back to the inn to rest first, otherwise your waist will hurt again in a while." ”

When the old man heard this, he sighed, shook his head, and was about to set off, but he heard a loud noise from the crowd not far away, and he looked sideways and frowned......

In the crowd, Jia Qiang's brows also wrinkled, looking at Jia Lian, who was arrogant and rude in front of him, and said in a deep voice: "Why don't you let me wait for the boat?" If it weren't for the old lady herself, would you and I be willing to get on the Jia family's boat and go south with you? ”

Jia Lian is not a bad person who doesn't help his relatives, he just doesn't look down on Jia Qiang, he didn't look down on him before, and then he was even more tired of him, so he said impatiently: "You have a hard waist now, so naturally you don't want to get on our Jia family's boat." Whether you want it or not is your business, I didn't say I wouldn't let you get on board. It's just that you carry a stinky and dead half of the people on board, what's the matter? ”

Jia Qiang's tone was full of anger, and she said in a deep voice: "Do you have a problem with your brain or your ears?" I have made it very clear when I was in Rongqingtang that this trip to Beijing is all to send the leader of the Jinsha Gang to Jinmen to see a doctor, if he is good, I still need to go out of Beijing? What did the old lady say that I need to repeat again? If you had explained last night that you would not be allowed to get on the boat, and that the boat we had found ourselves would not have returned, we would not have taken this boat at this time. Since you didn't say it last night, what do you mean by stopping you again now? ”

What Jia Lian looks down on the most now is that Jia Qiang, as a junior, dares to talk back to her elders, which is simply rebellious!

Although he himself was a victim of the authority of the patriarch and was often whipped and trampled by Jia Yu, he still believed that filial piety was greater than the sky, which was a teaching he had received since he was three or four years old, and it was deeply rooted.

So Jia Qiang's heresy is really difficult for him to accept.

Hearing Jia Qiang speak like this, Jia Lian was furious and said sharply, "Who are you talking to?" I also opened my eyes, there are still nephews in the world who talk to uncles like this? ”

Hearing the uproar of the people around her, Jia Qiang said coldly: "I'll reason with you, and you and I will talk about seniority." If you are a little older, you can be unreasonable? In terms of fundamentals, you are just a clan uncle who has come out of five suits, so you can rely on your high rank to oppress me? ”

"Oh......"

The surrounding melon-eating audience suddenly heard the words, scolding a personal uncle for having a brain problem, and scolding a clan uncle who had a brain problem after five suits are completely different things.

The so-called five suits are the kind that don't even need to wear filial piety clothes to mourn when they die, don't say scolding, and it doesn't matter if you beat them.

Jia Lian laughed angrily, how could Rongguo and Ningguo be in the same vein as simply use the five suits?

However, he didn't bother to debate anything with Jia Qiang on the dock, so he only said: "I don't want to say anything more to you disobedient son, you can get on the boat if you want to, and pull it down if you don't want to get on the boat." The ship of my Rongguo Mansion, how can it be that Laoshzi Jinsha Gang and a group of Yinsha Gang can get on it? ”

As soon as these words came out, Li Jing's face turned pale, and the four Jinsha Gang members carrying her father behind her were also furious.

Jia Qiang said in a cold voice: "Jia Lian, the Emperor Taishang and the Son of Heaven only praised me for a sentence of pure filial piety a few days ago, you bastard who eats, drinks, prostitutes, and gambles, even dares to slander my virtue in public." I, Jia Qiang, are insignificant, but I don't know where you put the Emperor and the Holy Lord? ”

When Jia Lian heard this, his face turned pale, he trembled with anger, and he looked at Jia Qiang angrily and said, "You...... You are so vicious that you want to kill me? Besides, the emperor's decree to the Jia family is that the Zanjia family has taught well, what does it have to do with you, a little beast? is the emperor, is the emperor, and because you are a lucky villain, shameless, you said those unworthy words, so I praised you, and you took the sword of Shang Fang? Bah! ”

Because there are many official families on the passenger terminal.

After recognizing the pair of uncles and nephews of the Jia family, someone had already analyzed the "allusions" in the words.

Jia Qiang praised the merits of the Emperor Taishang in the Drunken Immortal Building that day, comparable to Gaozu and Shizu, and the words that extravagant spending is also meritorious, and for a while, the onlookers on the dock looked at Jia Qiang with many eyes that did not hide their disdain and spit.

The old man who had just gotten off the boat, after hearing the rumors, looked at Jia Qiang with a gaze as sharp as a knife.

However, at this moment, there was a sudden commotion in the direction of the official road leading to the capital, and everyone looked over there and saw a palace eunuch dressed in a red python robe, beating horses under the escort of a dozen royal forests.

The crowd separated, and the palace people waited until Jia Qiang reined in front of him, turned over and dismounted, and said bluntly to Jia Qiang: "The emperor has a decree, and Jia Qiang accepts the decree." ”

Jia Qiang paused, lifted up his shirt and saluted, and then heard the palace man say loudly: "Today, there is a first-class Ningguo Gong Jia who plays the great-grandson Jia Qiang, inheriting the loyalty of the ancestors, not afraid of people's words, intelligent, loyal and filial piety, and I love him very much." I know that your parents died early, and you have no father to worry about and no mother to worry about, but all the people of the world are my flesh and blood. Now I hear that you have no words, and I give you two words and you, and I hope you will live up to my hopes. ”

After that, he handed over the edict of the imperial pen in his hand to Jia Qiang.

After Jia Qiang took it, she heard the eunuch laugh in a sharp voice: "Xiao Langjun, the emperor personally gave you a letter, this kindness is rare to see in ancient times." ”

Some people around couldn't help it and asked, "This husband, I don't know what kind of words the Emperor gave to Xiao Langjun?" ”

The eunuch was obviously very satisfied with this man's question, and after smiling sharply, he spit out two words loudly:

"Good minister!"

At the passenger terminal, there was a bang.

This is the greatest compliment to a courtier, and he actually gave a yellow-mouthed child with a whisker and a horse?

The old man in cloth was even more furious, and shouted: "Ridiculous! Outrageous! ”

The sound was like a bell, attracting everyone's attention in an instant.

The eunuch originally saw someone stirring up the situation, and his face was full of anger, but after seeing this person, his face changed again, and he shouted in a lost voice: "Han Bin? Mid-levels Gong? ”

Han Bin, the word Zisi, the number is in the middle of the mountain, for the fifth year of the Jingchu Yuanlang, two years after entering the Hanlin Academy, he invited himself out of Beijing.

In the following twenty-eight years, all of them served as officials in the most bitter cold or remote places of Dayan.

In each term, the evaluation is the best performance.

Twenty-eight years as an official, gathering the hope of the world, being honest and loyal, and a capable minister.

Jing Chuchao saw his majesty several times, and the emperor wanted to transfer him into the court, but he politely refused, but he didn't want to, so he actually entered the capital at this time.

The people on the dock, first looked at Jia Qiang, and then looked at Han Bin, they only felt so ridiculous.

However, Jia Qiang herself stood there without arrogance, impatience or vain, looking at the old man in cloth across the sea of people.

Liangchen is the expression of Han Shizhong, a famous general in the former dynasty.

Han Shizhong and Yue Wumu were together, determined to go north to the homeland, wash away the shame, and welcome back the emperor.

As a result, Yue Wumu was killed on trumped-up charges, and Han Shizhong was loyal, but he was also framed and seized power.

Thinking of the situation in the current dynasty, the Emperor Taishang gave this table at this moment, but it can kill people!

It makes people think about it a little deeply, and it will chill to the bone!!

If Jia Qiang is Han Shizhong, wouldn't the person who forced him out of Beijing be Qin Hui?

Since even Qin Hui has it, who is Song Gaozong?!

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