Sending Zhuo Wenjun and Zhuo Wangsun away, Zhang Yuan locked himself in his room and digested all this.

He couldn't figure out why Liu Che didn't start to seize the iron ore of Jia's family, a few specialized iron smelting merchants in China, even if it was not easy to start, he could just find a name to deprive those vassal states of iron ore.

The best way is to directly make the steel filling method public, so that the price of steel can be greatly reduced, and it is not more convenient for the imperial court to build weapons and armor.

At present, thousands of people have died for the iron mine, and the Quyuan plough is taken out for the Huang family to build and sell, no matter from which point of view, it cannot be quickly promoted.

It is estimated that those historians who recorded the emperor's words and deeds would not have dissected everything to this point.

There are also people like Sima Xiangru who write and praise the virtues of the Son of Heaven, which is ridiculous when you think about it.

After staying in Chengdu City for seven days, Zhang Yuan and his entourage set off again from Shu County to Zitong City, the seat of Guanghan County.

Zhang Yuan and the others were destined to stay in Shu County for some more time when they returned, after all, they had to see how the people reacted in the end, so they could report to the imperial court.

It's just that now that he clearly saw that the essence of this trip was to wipe the emperor's buttocks, Zhang Yuan lost his interest, and handed over all the things to Huo Zhong and Sima Xiangru, and he just rode around Zitong City with a talisman, and disappeared in front of everyone's eyes, and even the invitation of the Taishou of Guanghan County declined.

After staying in Guanghan County for another five days, he left to go to Jiangzhou City in Ba County, Zitong City to Jiangzhou City connected the Jialing River with a water, this trip, Zhang Yuan did not let the mission ride a horse, Zitong has been famous for shipbuilding since ancient times.

Zhang Yuan and his entourage of more than 100 people also experienced an experience of returning thousands of miles to Jiangling in one day.

"Did Zhang Xingren travel by boat like this before?"

Sima Xiangru didn't know where to get a feather fan, waving it all day long, and he was very cultured.

The hydrological conditions of Shu County are more complex than those of Ba County of Guanghan County, and the official road from Guanghan County to Jiangzhou City is also along Fushui, which can be said to be second to none in terms of safety at this time.

Shipping in Guanzhong had not yet flourished, and the boatmen's skills were only at the level of ferrying, and they were far from realizing how lucrative it would be to get a big boat to sail across the Weishui River.

"I haven't traveled far, but I saw a legend about ancient times in the book, Xia Yu controlled the water and picked the wood of Zitong to build a boat, but the wooden boat turned into a child. I wondered if you and I also had that chance to see the wonder of this wooden boat becoming a child. ”

Most of the people on the wooden boat didn't know about this legend, and after Zhang Yuan said it, everyone forcibly lifted their spirits, and really began to worry that the wood under their feet would become a child, and then all of them would sink into the river.

Sima Xiangru sneered, then got up and looked at the scenery along the coast, which literati and artists have loved since ancient times.

Li Jian thought that Zhang Yuan still didn't deal with Sima Xiangru, and he didn't talk to Sima Xiangru along the way, and he didn't have the appearance of wanting to make friends when he was in Linqiong.

The friendship of a gentleman ends with courtesy.

Li Jian always looked at Sima Xiangru when he wanted to talk to him, and then retreated to another place, the whole Sima Xiangru was very unpleasant, and he was familiar with Zhang Yuan and Li Jian when there was a boatload of people.

When he saw the good scenery, he wanted to write an article, but Huo Zhong's people couldn't understand the beauty in it, and no one applauded.

And showing off to Zhang Yuan, he was afraid that Zhang Yuan would directly throw out a poem to steal his limelight.

Li Jian is like this now, and his original full interest has also dissipated because of the resentment accumulated in his heart. fresh

Sima Xiangru's appearance is more comfortable than the white, red and green colors of the mountains on both sides.

The more this is the case, the more Zhang Yuan leans towards Sima Xiangru.

Seeing that the outline of Jiangzhou City had appeared in his eyes, Zhang Yuan coughed heavily, deliberately attracting the attention of others.

"Between the colorful clouds, thousands of miles of Jiangzhou will be returned in one day.

The apes on both sides of the strait could not stop crying, and the light boat had already crossed the ten thousand mountains. ”

As soon as Zhang Yuan's words fell, Huo Zhong and Li Jian took the lead in applauding.

"Pedestrians can take this boat to have such a stunning work, no wonder Chang'an City is full of praise for you."

"Yes, Ah Yuan was also talented when we were in Qiong, which really made us people ashamed."

Zhang Yuan glanced at Sima Xiangru, whose face was not very good-looking, patted him on the shoulder, and then laughed unscrupulously.

"Everyone, it's nothing, it's just a little feeling, we've arrived at the place, hurry up and clean up the East and West Ba County Taishou is still waiting for us."

Because it was a boat, he didn't bring the horses, but he also asked Bajun Tai to guard the horses and wait at the dock early.

Zhang Yuan held the talisman in one hand, and got up on the horse with the support of Erdan and Zong Xing.

Regardless of whether Sima Xiangru was still sulking or not, he directly asked Zong Xing to take the reins and go towards the gate of Jiangzhou City.

Sima Xiangru's mistake was that a boatload of people were all Zhang Yuan's subordinates, and he still wanted to pretend to be forced, which was naturally impossible.

After returning to Chang'an City, if Zhang Yuan did not step down, or was assigned by Liu Che to be another official, then he would still be the first person under Daxing, and it would definitely be more beneficial to please Zhang Yuan than to please Sima Xiangrulai.

"What are you doing in a daze, take Your Majesty's holy words, and you will read it out after a week of pedestrian orders."

In terms of official position, Huo Zhong is 400 stones, which is higher than Sima Xiangru's literary squire of 300 stones, although Sima Xiangru is his deputy, Huo Zhong is just waiting for him.

Looking at the silk silk stuffed in his hand, Sima Xiangru suddenly remembered that when the court meeting, whenever Liu Che had something important to announce, the person who read it out was a eunuch standing on the side.

Thinking of this, Sima Xiangru felt a deep malice.

Ba County is the place most affected by this incident, and the place where there is no way to build a road is in front of their house, and it is much more convenient for the people to conquer here.

It is said that there was a whole village of men from 50 to 16 years old who died in a landslide incident, that is, the whole village ran to the Ba County Taishou Mansion and knelt all day long, and the sky was covered with the earth for two months.

In front of everyone's eyes, Bajun Taishou didn't dare to do other excessive things, so he could only obey the people's will and report the matter to Liu Che.

In this way, the village was able to return home, waiting for the arrival of the messenger of the Son of Heaven to give them justice.

Solving this matter is also one of the purposes of Zhang Yuan's trip.