Seeing the transporters repairing the boat by the river, the people around Min Yuanqi shook their heads and sighed.

Many people couldn't help but stroke their backs, including Min Yuanjin, the little flag officer, who also made the same move.

From Tianjin to Tongzhou 200 miles, the retrograde water is shallow, the wind is strong and difficult to travel, almost every boat in these 200 miles is to pull north, time-consuming and laborious, everyone pulls the fiber to the back of the sore, miserable.

"Min tries a hundred households?"

"Mr. Han?"

There was a figure by the river walking slowly, the person who came was wearing a big hat, a celestial round-necked robe, and he was also half-new, and there was also a Qi knife hanging from his waist, a number plate on his waist, and official boots on his feet, all of which showed that this person was also a chief flag officer.

This is also in Dahewei, the Southern Guard has been changed, and there are not a few people who pick up dung and irrigate the garden, and no one takes this official position seriously.

Min Yuanqi squinted and looked over, and recognized that this person's name was Han Sen, who was in his thirties, and was another general banner under the hundred households.

His people have never been very convinced by Min Yuanqi, Han Sen is quite disciplined, and even a little rigid, so he doesn't look down on Meng Lang's slippery Min Yuanqi, but Min Yuanqi's family used to be a hereditary commander, and after the attack, there were also hereditary hundred households, although Han Sen was not convinced, he couldn't, but when he saw the ceremony, the official title of this "try" hundred households, Han Zhong's words were also very clear.

Min Yuanqi was very angry with Han Sen's arrogant appearance before, but now he has some understanding. If it is changed to the next generation, those who can do things will be dissatisfied with the second official who can't do things, but some people are not convinced in their hearts, but they are flattered in person, the more Han Sen confronts him in person, the more it proves that he is not a scheming person, and he should deal with it very well.

Min Yuanqi arched his hand and said: "Mr. Han has worked hard, this time he is going to Huai'an Mansion and Shanyang, Suqian and other water passes to receive grain?" ”

Han Sen was stunned, his face showed some surprise, and he had to reply immediately: "Yes, arrive in Huai'an first, go to Suqian by empty boat, go to Huai'an Mansion after receiving grain, and then bring the boat back to repair it, and wait for the news of going north." ”

What Han Sen said is the whole process of going north now. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Taizu was to be lightly served, and the tax level of the Ming Dynasty was indeed very low, but due to the mess of the financial system design, it brought a lot of burden to the people.

For example, the households in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, their taxes must be paid to the Jinshanwei grain depot according to the system, and these people must prepare their own grain boats under the leadership of the grain chief and travel hundreds of miles to send the grain to Jinshanwei.

This kind of supply made the financial system extremely chaotic, and a large number of supply lines were as many as spider silk, and they were in chaos, and they could not hold on until the end of Hongwu, so they were sent by the special transportation army.

The special delivery of the army has reduced the pressure on the people, but it is also extremely hard for the army.

From the end of each year to the beginning of the year, the Luncao transport army had to transport grain to various water passes, and after transporting the grain to the main grain collection points, it would go north in early February, and only return in October of that year.

Many of the garrison troops are on rotation, and some of them are not allowed to rest, return in October, rest for less than two months, and get water to pass the grain, and at the beginning of the second year, they go north again, which is quite hard.

Min Yuanqi groaned: "This time the news of going north seems to have come quite late? ”

"yes." Han Sen couldn't help but reply: "In previous years, at this time, they had already set off, at least all the guards and troops were bringing the chief officer to Huai'an, but now at this time, the troops were still in various places, and the upper authorities only called to prepare the boats, and when they would set off, but it was undecided." ”

Min Yuanqi said: "Is it related to the war that broke through the rebellion and marched to Beijing?" ”

Han Sen snorted coldly and said, "It's related, but this kind of thing is not something we can worry about, just wait with peace of mind." ”

The flag army present almost felt the same way, they couldn't set off for a long time, and everyone did not feel anxious, but relaxed.

Min Yuanqi's eyes swept over everyone, and he still felt strange at first, but when he saw the military attachés and banner soldiers with yellow faces and thin bodies, he also knew it in his heart.

Although Li Chuang swore in the first month of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, first went north to northern Shaanxi, and then marched to the northwest towns, it is estimated that he has entered northern Jin by February, and is quite close to Beijing, Min Yuanqi only knows that the Ming Dynasty is the seventeenth year of Chongzhen's death, but he can't remember in a few months, but according to the performance of these guards in front of him, the fall of the Ming Dynasty is not strange.

When Min Yuanqi was thinking about it, Han Sen already knew the plans of these people in front of him, and his expression was strange at the moment, he glanced at Min Yuanqi with contemptuous eyes, and then said in a deep voice: "Try a hundred households, Yang Shida's person is not easy to mess with...... Don't think that the trial of 100 households from the sixth grade will be taken into account by others! ”

"It's good to mess with it, but also give it a try." Min Yuanqi said very calmly: "We people who go north to serve as the army are nine deaths, farming and boiling salt at home, and what we ask for is a bowl of full rice." How difficult is this bowl of rice to come by, why should we give it away for nothing? ”

Han Sen didn't expect Min Yuanqi to say this, and when he listened to it for a moment, when Min Yuanqi led people to the river, Han Sen's expression was strange, and the faces of the rest of the banner army were a little different from those of Shicai.

Every month, more than 20 taels of silver will be taken away by Yanding, and it will be dozens of stones to exchange for coarse grain, and if this silver can be saved, the entire hundred households and more than 700 people will be able to eat a few more full meals.

"General Banner," Han Sen said with a banner army beside him, "It's good to try a hundred households no matter what." If we really save this money, we will have a much better life. ”

"More than a dozen hundred households, all of them don't pay this silver, and Yang Shida will lose hundreds of thousands of taels a year." Han Sen snorted coldly and said, "I thought that he had grown up, and the next life was still the next life. However, he is also going to touch it for everyone, touch it, just don't touch your head and break the bloodstream. ”

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More than 6,000 catties of salt have been packed into salt bales and packed in the cabin of a boat.

The ship was too old to travel a long distance, and it was reimbursed on the books. Of course, this kind of thing is not something that the flag soldiers of the Weisu dare to do, most of them are done by thousands of households, and it is also for the convenience of their own families.

The thousand households and deputy thousand households who guarded the palace like Yunti entered and exited Huai'an Mansion several times a year, and sometimes they had to go to the Nanjing Military Department or the Central Military Governor's Mansion to do business, and it was much more convenient to have a boat at home.

When Min Yuanqi jumped on the hull of the boat, the whole boat shook, and the bottom of the boat creaked, and he was a little worried about whether the boat would fall apart in an instant.

A dozen or so people boarded the ship one by one, each sitting cross-legged in the cabin or standing in various places on the side of the ship, all looking a little uneasy.

To Huai'an is also tracing the river, fortunately, there is no dry water in Huaishui, the wind is also strong, everyone on the boat will be the main mast hard sail to pull up, Min Yuanjin and Liang Shifa and others are good at operating the boat, everyone holds a long pole on the shore of the water, after the anchor is the bow is to break the waves forward.

Min Yuanqi stood at the bow of the ship, watching the hull break through the waves. This cao ship can hold more than 500 stone grains per ship, which is ten times the amount of salt in front of you, even if this ship is in disrepair, this weight does not need to be too worried.

The boat travels very quickly, the scenery on both sides of the strait is almost the same, and the opposite bank is the boundary of Haizhou Weidi, and it is also one of the guards under the Chinese military governor's office in Nanjing.

Further north is Guannan County and Haizhou Prefecture, and then more than 200 miles to the northwest is where Xuzhou Mansion is located.

In this era, the status of Xuzhou is not high, at the beginning of the country, Emperor Taizu entered Jiqing, surrounded by Zhang Shicheng who occupied the rich place of Pingjiang Mansion and Chen Youliang who occupied the granary of Huguang, the territory was narrow and low-lying, the northern town was Huai'an Mansion, the south was Hongdu of Jiangxi and other places, when Taizu cut off the heroes, after the north went to the Yuan mixed Yuan world, Huai'an and other places guarded Nanjing, and the king of the north guarded Mengyuan, Xuzhou was not important.

At this time, Xuzhou is quite important.

It is not only one of the nodes of Caoyun, but also its strategic position is quite important, and it is in the north to defend the mountains and the southeast to the south, Henan, and Huaisi, all of which are within the radiation of Xuzhou.

The status of Xuzhou, someone once said: "If you can't do this in the south, you can't want to wing the east, and if you can't do this in the north, you can't peep into the south of the Yangtze River." ”

This is the so-called "throat of the north and south" place, can also be called the waist eye of China, in peacetime, Xuzhou is the important place of the Quartet, to the time of the war, Xuzhou is the place of the four wars, whether it is the south or the northern expedition, Xuzhou can not be said to be successful, even if it is a modern war, Xuzhou's strategic position is unshakable.

With Min Yuanqi's memory and superficial historical knowledge, he knew that it would not be long before Xuzhou, a few hundred miles away, was the Jiangbei town of the Southern Ming Dynasty, the core of defense, but it seemed that there was no war in his impression, and then Huai'an and Yangzhou did not fight, only the well-known "Yangzhou Ten Days" in later generations.

As for Yunti Pass, Min Yuanqi couldn't remember what had happened here when he thought of his brain pain.

The current Huai'anwei and Dahewei's reaction when the Qing army went south, Min Yuanqi did not have any records and impressions.

Min Yuanqi was a little strange before, when he passed the Wanwei Banner Army and the Qing army went south, he didn't react at all? When he met Han Sen and the others today, seeing the resentment in their eyes when they mentioned going north, Min Yuanqi faintly understood.

The soldiers of the guard, they can't get three meals and a full meal, their families are hungry at home, they have to pull the boat all the way to the north, they have gone through many years, they have gone through hardships and hardships, they have been discriminated against and exploited, where is the emperor, and where is the Ming Dynasty?

If even the soldiers are disappointed in the country and the Son of Heaven, it is not a pity that this country seems to be lost.

The speed of the boat was very fast, and from time to time there were waves crashing on the bow of the boat, and the icy river water was scattered, and the water splashed in all directions, and some splashed on Min Yuanqi's face and body.

The scenery on both sides of the river is almost the same, there are low wheat seedlings growing in large farmlands, Dahewei and Haizhouwei, Huai'anwei, and Dongyang, Baoying, Yangzhou and other places in the south, most of the crops for winter are wheat.

In the large plain area, there are no mountains more than 100 meters within a radius of hundreds of miles, especially in the area of Yunti Pass, and there is not even a decent slope.

The vast plains are covered with sparse woodlands, large farmlands, withered yellow reeds and riverside snow that has not melted after the snow that had fallen for many days, and ridges and villages...... The situation in front of him made Min Yuanqi's eyes hot, and this sense of time and space interlaced made him almost emotionally uncontrollable.

Even a few hundred years later, if you look at it from a distance and in the morning, I am afraid that the difference between what you see in this land is not too much.

Min Yuanqi was born and raised in this land in later generations, and everything in front of him was too familiar to him.

An unprecedented complex emotion surged into Min Yuanqi's heart.