Du He looked at Li Chengqian's smile and said with some puzzlement: "His Royal Highness the Prince, why are you still smiling?"

Hearing this, Li Chengqian said lightly: "Do you know where it is a hundred miles away?"

"Beizhou - Qinghe Cui's."

Qinghe County is set up in the Qin Dynasty, although there are many changes in later generations, but most of the time it is still called Qinghe County, after the Northern Zhou Dynasty defeated the Northern Qi Dynasty, Qinghe County was changed to Beizhou, and the state was governed in Qinghe County. It was used in the Sui and Tang dynasties until the first year of Xuanzong Tianbao of the Tang Dynasty, when it was changed to Qinghe County again.

Li Chengqian nodded and said with a smile: "Qinghe is not only one Cui family, but also the Zhang family, and the Zhang family is no less than the Cui family." ”

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince suspects that this matter was done by the Zhang family and not the Cui family?" Du He looked at Li Chengqian and asked, without waiting for Li Chengqian to answer, he said murderously: "Whether it is the Zhang family or the Cui family, if you dare to move the canal, you have to let him exterminate the clan." ”

Li Chengqian looked up at the river that had been shrouded in twilight in the distance, raised a thin layer of clear smoke, shook his head and said: "It can't be extinguished, we and the people here are separated by a layer of fog, both sides can't see each other clearly, they can't trust each other, if they easily do something to the scholars here, it is really difficult to predict which side the people will stand on." ”

For example, when Chang'an put down the rebellion, when the common people took farm tools out of their homes, all the forces in Chang'an City were trembling with fear.

No matter who Li Chengqian dismissed later, they did not dare to resist by force, and even Li Shimin had to temporarily retreat to Luoyang.

But now the scholars in Beizhou are doing things to protect the people on the grounds of natural disasters, which makes it difficult for Li Chengqian to attack them.

After a pause, Du He gritted his teeth and said, "These people just calculated the trap of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, so they dared to do anything wrong." In his opinion, he quickly cut through the chaos, and immediately sent troops to destroy the first fort that dug a ditch to deter the people behind. ”

Li Chengqian said lightly: "If I am not mistaken, the Yongji Canal to the north of Beizhou should have been dug up. ”

"What then?" Du He also did not dare to start a war with the people of several states in the territory of Datang.

Li Chengqian smiled confidently and said: "I'll send you two sentences: 'Without investigation, there is no right to speak.'" ''Everywhere there is left, middle and right,' that is, the extreme yin, the extreme yang, and the right path. ”

Du He smiled bitterly when he heard this: "His Royal Highness the Prince, now is the time to solve the problem, why are you still talking about yin and yang?"

Li Chengqian looked at Du He and smiled: "The weather is still a little cold in February, let's not sit outside, go back to our respective cabins and go to bed early, this matter will be concluded in two days." ”

After that, he got up and walked directly to the cabin, where the female dependents lived, the place was small, and Du He couldn't follow up, so he had to walk off Li Chengqian's boat stupidly.

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Chenjiabao, the small courtyard of the Chen clan chief.

"Son, do you want my Chen clan to die without a place to be buried?"

Chen Tiankui, the patriarch of the Chen clan, is sixty-six years old this year, and he is a well-known old birthday star.

These days, Chen Tiankui walked in Chenjiabao and saw the juniors working hard to celebrate his birthday, and he was very happy to see everyone.

Chen Tiankui smiled, with Chen Jiabao's rare moon-white silk robe, and his snow-white beard made people really think they had seen an old fairy at first sight.

Today, Chen Tiankui's angry scolding immediately alarmed the clansmen who lived nearby, and they all walked out of their homes to the door of the old patriarch's house to listen.

I saw the son of the patriarch, Chen Yuzhang, the county's classic history, kneeling on the ground and not daring to raise his head.

"My Chen clan has built a fort here for hundreds of years, relying on not getting out of trouble and not provoking trouble, as long as people don't attack the fort ......, how dare you move the canal——"

Chen Tiankui said for a while and scolded for a while, and finally cried.

The people who could live around the patriarch's house were all from the near tribe, and after a while, a few old men in their forties and fifties walked in from outside, and stood outside for a while, and when they heard Chen Tiankui crying, they knew that something was wrong, and hurriedly walked in.

Chen Yulin is Chen Yuzhang's cousin, who usually helps Chen Tiankui in the fort, and can be regarded as a person with a head and face in Chen Jiabao.

As soon as he walked into Chen Tiankui's hall, he said to Chen Tiankui: "I don't know what Brother Yuzhang did wrong to provoke his uncle to be so angry?"

"This rebel son has caused a catastrophe for our family......" Chen Tiankui began to cry as soon as he saw Chen Yulin come in.

Chen Yuqi, who walked into the hall together, bent down to help Chen Yuzhang and said, "Uncle, don't be in a hurry, the matter has come out, let's discuss and think of a countermeasure." ”

He didn't know what was going on, and his tone was very relaxed.

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Chenjiabao is the largest fortress within a radius of 30 miles, the earliest was built in the former Yan period, and it has been more than 300 years since the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty. Now there are more than 1,000 families living in the fort, with more than 20,000 adult males and more than 100,000 people.

There have been no big officials in Chenjiabao, and the family does not take Confucianism as a profession. can be inherited in Hebei for hundreds of years without extinction, because their family has a small official. All dynasties and dynasties are indispensable for officials, and the yamen is also indispensable for scribes, canons, and masters, and Chen Jiabao has these people.

The way of survival of the Chen family's officials is to give food to whom. Whether it is Huaxia or Yidi, good or evil, they are all firmly seated in fishing boats.

A family has stood tall in the war for hundreds of years, and has been a small official in the government for generations, and the wealth of land accumulated by the family can be imagined.

Originally, there has been a constant war in the north, and the head of the city has changed the banner of the king, once the son of heaven and a courtier, a group of people have died, and the latecomers can be prominent and glorious as long as they inherit the status and property of the group of people who have died.

However, the Tang Dynasty has become more and more prosperous in the past few decades, and the population has accumulated more and more, and although there are frequent changes in dignitaries, it is no longer as bloody as before. Even if he loses power in the DPRK, he will only harm himself, and the land and property of the clansmen in his hometown can still be saved.

In this way, the contradiction between the rapid population development and the slow increase in land production of the major families has become more and more obvious.

As the saying goes, there is nothing new under the sun, whether it is ancient or today, the family or the country, there are only two solutions to this kind of thing, such as the family or the country is prosperous, it is naturally to expand externally, and transfer its own contradictions to other families or countries.

Then there is the internal struggle to drive away or kill those who are vying for power and resources with them.

Families like Chen Jiabao are not capable of expanding externally, but the land left over from the past dynasties is enough for their family to develop for another few decades.

These properties are not only the assets of the Chen family, but also the disaster of the Chen family.

The side branches of several nearby big clans all wanted to occupy their Chenjiabao and turn all the people of Chenjiabao into their tenants.

Of course, this kind of thing is not so easy, and the families that can be inherited for hundreds of years in Hebei Province in the war must unite the hearts of the people around them, and generally talk about some rules. The side branches that have been divided are still a little weak in strength, so small and medium-sized families like Chenjiabao in Hebei Province can continue to survive in recent years.

But this time it was different, the county commander Wei Shigu personally found Chen Yuzhang and asked him to help dig the canal, otherwise Chen Jiabao would not have to exist.

Wei Shigu was born in the Julu Wei family, and married the daughter of the second room of the Qinghe Zhang family, and was almost a first-class person in Hebei Province. Chen Yuzhang couldn't believe what he said, he couldn't listen to it, so he could only quietly find a few side villages from Chenjiabao to dig up the canal.

There are many such things in the north of Tongji Canal, whether it is in Beizhou or Changlu.

In short, the entire Tongji Canal has been dug up, and it is impossible for Li Chengqian to transport materials through the Tongji Canal, unless he kills on a large scale.

If Li Chengqian opens a killing spree, he will fall into the trap of the Taoist clan in Hebei, and this time he will come forward with hundreds of small and medium-sized forts and docks, with a population of millions. If Li Chengqian kills all these people, he will completely lose the hearts and minds of the people in Hebei Province, and how can he still confront the various clans in Hebei Province.

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Li Chengqian's boat moved forward another 40 miles on the second day, and the water level could already be clearly seen. Li Chengqian believed that if he walked a few dozen miles further, his ship would be shallow.

The boat slowly came to a halt, and Li Chengqian on the deck had already seen a row of officials standing behind Hao Chujun on the shore, all of whom were officials from the three counties along the river.

Li Chengqian watched them quietly, wanting to hear what they had to say.