Wang Shichong returned to the study and immediately took up the pen to write an invitation letter to the kings of the Central Plains state capitals. The list of proposed invitees includes Tang Bi, King of Jinan of Qi County, Shen Faxing, King of Ruyang of Yuzhou, Gao Tansheng, King of Baiyu of Xiangzhou, Liu Wuzhou, King of Dingyang of Bozhou, Meng Haigong, King of Song Yi of Caozhou, Lin Shihong, King of Yucheng of Songzhou, Zhang Chengjin, King of Qi of Mingzhou, Du Fuwei, Duke of Shanyang of Jianghuai, Yang Xuangan, King of Chu in Huazhou, plus a total of 10 princes of themselves. Originally, he didn't want to invite Yang Xuangan, who proclaimed himself the king of Chu from Red Peach Mountain, but Xinqu happened to pass through the foot of Red Peach Mountain in Huazhou, and it was better to invite him together under the drive of common interests.

After the letter was written, Wang Shichong immediately arranged for his confidants to be sent to the state capitals as soon as possible.

After receiving the invitation letter from Wang Shichong, the king of Luoyang, the kings made their own preparations and brought local caravan goods to Luoyang to gather in the name of being invited to participate in the Luoyang Peony Chamber of Commerce.

Du Fuwei of Jianghuai Shanyang City also received a letter of invitation, and after reading the letter, Du Fuwei couldn't help laughing, and handed the letter in his hand to Lu Zhaolin, the special Jianghuai overseer who had just arrived a few days after the secret arrived, and then said: "What a blind Wang Shichong! Such a confidential matter actually thought of me Du Fuwei here, Mr. Lu, do you think so-and-so will you go or not? ”

Lu Zhaolin took the letter and read it hastily, and then handed the letter to Xue Wanche to pass it on, and said casually: "Go, how can you not go?" It's good to listen to it! At this time, only Lu Zhaolin and Xue Wanche Yiwen and Wuwu came to Shanyang City to see Du Fuwei, and only brought 200 accompanying guards. The southward Jin army brigade was inconvenient for the whole army to move due to the strict monitoring of Jinan Wang Tangbi, and now it was temporarily stationed in Gaomi City after being led by Lai Hu'er and Zuo Tiancheng to take over the entire Donghai County. When there is a need on the Jianghuai side, reinforcements will be sent south. Therefore, the identities of Du Fuwei and others have not yet been exposed, which is also what Yang Er has repeatedly requested.

"Okay, tomorrow the official will prepare and go to Luoyang to see it in person." Duvowe said with a smile.

"After Lord Du Qianhu went to Luoyang to find out the information, you can directly contact Wang De of Luoyang Qianhu of your military intelligence department, and ask him to send the general affairs directly to the nearest Wagangshan newspaper to know about it." Lu Zhaolin admonished.

"Hmmm! Lord Lu rest assured, it is a trivial matter, and it should have been done by our military intelligence. Brothers, tomorrow the third and fourth children will go with a certain trip. When Du was away, all affairs were decided by Lord Lu, did you hear clearly? Duvowe commanded.

"Hear clearly, my lord will go to Luoyang to be happy, and I will find Lord Lu when I have something."

"Lord Lu, if you have any questions, you can ask my brother who is also the deputy general of our department."

"Good! Master Du can rest assured that he will go. ”

On the Jizhou Plain, a super-large luxury carriage drove on the official road leading to Hejian Mansion, which was close to a wide river, which was the section from Weicheng to Hejian Mansion of the Yongji Canal that had been opened for water injection. From time to time, you can still see drifting ice blocks in the middle of the river, and the willow trees that have been artificially transplanted along the banks of the river have produced emerald green leaves, fluttering in the warm spring breeze. From time to time, horse-drawn carriages and caravans and pedestrians pass by on the official road. From time to time, this luxury carriage attracts the attention of pedestrians on the road as well as customers of roadside stalls. There were no less than a thousand people in front and behind the carriage surrounded by guards. At the forefront of the road was a young man in a white robe and a white horse, silver armor and a silver gun, and when the horse galloped at a constant speed, a pair of vigilant eyes couldn't help but scan the surroundings. This young general was also followed by two young lieutenants, similar in appearance and dress, like inviting brothers, and also vigilantly observing the situation along the official road. The three men were followed by hundreds of guards in dark green uniforms.

It was not only the neatly dressed and disciplined team that attracted attention, but also the occasional burst of laughter from the carriage, which was very different from the muffled rush of the accompanying guards.

"Jasper is made up of a tree high, and ten thousand green silk threads hang down. I don't know who cut out the thin leaves, and the spring breeze in February is like scissors. Hehe! Sister Dai's husband can be heard? ”

The husband casually came up with golden sentences, and these poems are just in season. Did Sister Izumi write it down? ”

"Sister, little sister has remembered a lot of this way. In particular, I think these sentences are the best, how can I not write them down? ”

"Hehehehehe!" Suddenly there was another burst of laughter from men and women in the car.

It turned out that the team that entered this branch was the chariot battle of Yang Guang, the king of Jin. Taking advantage of the spring season, Yang Er, who had been holding back for a winter in Wagang Mountain, had the mood to go down the mountain to Hejian Mansion after getting the information that Yongji Canal was connected to Hejian Mansion, and by the way, he also went to visit Jizhou Muyu Culture and Hejian Thorn Shi Lingjing, who had been tired for several months. The young general who led the team in front was Luo Cheng, and the two deputy generals accompanying him were a pair of brothers, Wei Chi Nan and Wei Chi Bei. The two generals on the left and right of Yang Er's carriage were the swordsman Zhong Jian and Luo Shixin riding Wanliyun and carrying a pair of iron and silver hammers, and the hundreds of guards behind the carriage were all commanded by these two people.

Just when Yang Er and the others were chanting poems in the car and pretending to be having fun, they heard Luo Cheng report from outside the car: "Big brother, we will arrive at Linji City not far ahead, and Jiao Fang and Wu Kuier will answer here." ”

"Good! Let the second general follow the chariot into the city together, and he will not leave today, and he will live in this Linji City. Yang Er whispered to Luo Cheng outside the car window. Luo Cheng nodded when he heard this, then reined in his horse and ran to the front of the chariot again.

After looking at Luo Cheng, who had disappeared for a while, ran away, Yang Er calmed down and thought about it for a while.

In Yang Er's mind, there are some memories of the Linji City on the edge of the Yongji Canal, and for him who is familiar with the "Three Kingdoms", this Linji is the Zhengding of the Eastern Han Dynasty, also called Zhending, and it is the hometown of Changshan Zhao Zilong, the hero of the Three Kingdoms whom Luo Cheng admires. It's a pity that after Zhao Yun followed Liu Bei into Sichuan, he never had the opportunity to return to his hometown Changshan Zhending, so that he was buried in Shu after his death. Wouldn't it be a pity to really settle and not see Zilong? I don't know if the descendants have commemorated this loyal and righteous general in the Linji Ancestral Hall and enjoyed the incense of the future?

Seeing that Yang Er suddenly fell silent, Chuchen felt strange, and asked softly: "Brother Shi, I'm going to Linji, and the little sister here has also been here with the ancestor, which is a big place." ”

"Hmmm! For my brother to know. Do you remember the "Three Kingdoms" that I told you about? Changshan Zhao Zilong, who killed a generation of traitorous male Cao Cao in Changbanpo, is a person here, and it is precisely here that he thought of it, thinking that Zhao Yun has only been dead for 360 years. Sister, do you think that the statue of General Luo Cheng is not like the sharpshooter Zhao Zilong was reborn in the world? ”

"From the perspective of the little sister, the Three Kingdoms Zhao Yun told by the world brother is talking according to the appearance of General Luo, how can it not be?"

"Maybe! By the way, Sister Chuchen, there is a good place to play in Linji City, so if there is, why not stay here for a day and have a good life? ”

"Hmmm! A few years ago, the little sister came here with her ancestors, and only went to the Linji Temple on the side of the Hutuo River outside the city, and there is a Chengling Pagoda in the temple that is quite tall and majestic. Izuku said as he searched for his childhood memories here.

"Oh? Rinzaiji Temple? Yang Er was taken aback when he heard this, and suddenly remembered. This Linji Temple in Hebei Province in later generations is very famous in the national Buddhism, Yang Er had made a special trip to the Qiqu Mountain Temple in Zitong County, Sichuan, and under the introduction of the tour guide to know the top ten Buddhist monasteries in China, as if there is the Linji Temple in Hebei Province.

"Huh! Since there is a well-known temple here, there must be a great monk, and tomorrow we will go to the Rinzai Temple to pay homage. ”

Soon, Yang Er and his entourage entered the city under the guidance of the Linji guards Jiao Fang and Wu Kui, and stayed in the largest inn in the city.

Early the next morning, Yang Er took several people from his entourage, accompanied by Jiao Fang and Wu Kui, to the Yongji Canal Wharf outside the city to investigate.

Out of the West City Gate all the way to walk about 100 meters to a memorial arch, the tall memorial arch is written with four big characters "Linji Wharf", the place is a few small characters, walk in and look up carefully, it turns out that the four words on this plaque come from the hand of Li Chun, the craftsman of the river canal supervisor. Under the plaque, there is also a stone tablet polished of bluestone on one side of the column. Yang Er walked to the stele and looked at the dozens of words engraved on it, it turned out that the stele indicated the background and completion time of the construction of this wharf, as well as the name and surname of the superintendent. Standing under the archway and looking at the water wharf below the stepstones, it is estimated that the water of the river is thawing in the spring, and the boats docked at this pier are not large or many, but you can also see dozens of dock porters unloading bags of goods from the boat. A man who appeared to be a member of the government was registering the goods that had been brought down.

"General Jiao, it's early spring at this time, what is unloading on this ship? This looks like an official cargo ship! Yang Er looked at the busy scene on the dock below, and asked with some puzzlement.

"My lord, Lord Ling sent the last general here to supervise the arrival of this batch of goods to Linji City. The goods carried on the ship were spring grain seeds sent by Hejian Province, this batch was rice, and then potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn and other grain seeds were transported here. According to Lord Yuwen's instructions, all these seeds were lent to the people of Rinzai City for spring plowing and sowing. Jiao Fang stepped forward and explained.

"Oh? Don't the people here have any grain in their homes? This king has not heard of a disaster and a food shortage in Jizhou! ”

"My lord, alas! It's a long story, the last general and General Wu Kui cooperated with Lord Yuwen to be responsible for the demolition and relocation of the land along the river, but all the houses in the channel were demolished, and all the fertile land was occupied or confiscated. According to the request of Lord Yuwen, all the land along the banks of the river for dozens of miles was expropriated by the government. This caused all the great families along the way to abandon their fields and houses and flee south, and before they fled, they looted all the grain in the tenants' homes below, and these landless tenant farmers not only lost their seeds, but also had not a single ration left. Fortunately, Lord Yuwen opened the porridge shed for relief, and on the other hand, recruited landless tenant farmers to work on the canal construction site in order to survive the winter. Now, the land has been re-planned and a new policy has been implemented, and the people on the construction site who are willing to return to their families to work as farmers have been given grain seeds so that farming can resume as soon as possible. ”

"Hmmm! Ubun-sama was right to do so. The Great Sui Dynasty was founded on agriculture, and the fields must not be left to be left to be left to be left uncultivated, and efforts should also be intensified to restore cultivation to ensure grain production after autumn. Fortunately, farmers can now plant a large number of potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, peanuts and high-yield rice seeds, and I believe that Lord Yuwen can handle the grain production problem in Jizhou. Let's go to the stone bridge in front and have a look. ”

While speaking, Yang Er swept and saw that there was an arched stone bridge connecting the two sides of the river not far away, which was very similar to the Zhaozhou Bridge drawn in the book from a distance.

Walking to the stone bridge near, Yang Er's eyes are greeted by a very new stone arch bridge, the bridge deck is all paved with blue strip stone, about 10 meters wide, about 70 meters long, there are 1 meter high guardrails on both sides of the bridge deck, the bridge body arches upward, and the slope is not large. Yang Er raised his feet and got on the bridge, and came to the highest point of the bridge deck to look at the wide river. Although the river under your feet leads to the Yellow River, the water flowing through your feet is not muddy yellow, but somewhat clear. When I looked up in the direction of the river, I couldn't see the end at a glance, but I could only see a row of fresh green willow trees planted on both sides of the river and spring swallows constantly shuttling back and forth on the river surface.

Yang Er was in a good mood at this time, and a sense of accomplishment arose. Although, there are not many ships in the new canal, and there are no civilian merchant ships to be seen; Although there is now only a row of willows on both sides of the river, it is extremely empty; Although the current Rinzai City is not large, there are not many people. However, it is foreseeable that in the near future, it may only take 2 or 3 years, this Linji City will become a big city in the middle of Jizhou, with the increasing number of merchant ships from the south to the north, it will also bring enough business opportunities, and then not only Linji City will expand, the population will increase suddenly, and even the wharf will become an economic center along the river bank.

In a trance, a prosperous scene depicted in the "Qingming Riverside Picture" is about to appear in front of you. It's not a dream! Yang Er thought to himself.

"Jiao Fang, this king will ask you again, where is the channel now?"

"Returning to the lord, with the full support of Lord Yuwen, now the Yongji Canal is almost connected with the Haihe River in Zhuo County, and it is only more than 30 miles away from the Haihe River before the end of the coming Jicheng." Jiao Fang also replied excitedly, and it could be seen that there was also a sense of accomplishment in his heart.

"Good! Once the Haihe River is opened, this canal connecting the north and south of Jizhou can be said to be fully connected, and what needs to be done is to improve the infrastructure such as bridges and wharves. It should be all completed by the middle of summer. It's much earlier than the king expected! Lord Yuwen has made great contributions, and when the construction is completed, the names and surnames of the meritorious personnel who built the canal, including the two of you, should be engraved on the merit tablet, so that the names of Er and others will be passed on to the world forever. Yang Er patted the bridge railing and said loudly.

Yang Er spent the morning inspecting this section of the river, and after observing it with his own eyes, Yang Er was very satisfied with the channel itself and the construction of supporting bridges and wharves. After returning to the inn, it was time for lunch after a short rest.

On the morning tour, Wang Dai and Chuchen did not follow, but nested in the room to sort out the words recorded along the way, complementing each other, including various mythological stories and more than a dozen poems improvised by Yang Er. The mythical story is the "Romance of the Gods" that Yang Er told specifically for the three girls in the car, and now it only talks about the first few times, mainly the parts related to Nuwa and Daji. But this has attracted the attention of the high degree of dust, and it seems that from the story she saw another world and realm of cultivation, a height that even the monk and the patriarch could not reach, that is a world after the tribulation and ascension.