"What's the fuss? What's that? ”

"Look, that's it? Just the long, black, snake-like thing on the surface of the river. ”

"That's ...... Boat? ”

"How can it be a ship? Have you ever seen a ship twisted? ”

"What could that be? Snake? Sea snake? ”

"Where is the sea serpent that big?"

"Mom, I'm so scared that I'm holding back my pee, why don't you tell the boss to go quickly?"

"Don't Don't ......"

"What's wrong?"

"This is not a ship! It looked like a living thing, and told the boss what if he asked us to go to the river to investigate? ”

"You mean ......"

"I'll be disarmed and returned to the field in a few months, and I don't want to make a fuss, and I won't be hacked to death by the Imurans but bitten to death by monsters."

"Brother is right...... This is a terrible thing to look at, let's just not see it. ”

The two stared at each other for a while, silently picked up the peanuts, chewed them together, and said no more.

On the edge of the railing of the lookout, a thin black shadow suddenly flashed, and the shadow jumped into the trees by the river, and hurried into the depths of the woods.

After a while, the figure stopped on the side of a hill, and a bonfire was burning at the bottom of the hill, and a young man and a woman sat beside the fire.

"Lord Tsukushi, Your Royal Highness the Princess."

"Washio, you're back, is Master Zongzhi's boat coming?"

"Lord Zongzhi's ship has sailed into the Hanjiang River, and at the intersection of the road, it was seen by two lookout soldiers, but fortunately, the soldiers were timid and couldn't see clearly, so they mistook it for a sea beast and didn't make a sound."

"Oh, that's good. So let's board the boat from the north shore. ”

"The slave also heard something interesting."

Qiu Yue was a little curious and asked, "What's the matter?" Let's hear it. ”

Washio relayed the soldier's conversation.

Qiu Yue pondered: "It turns out that there were only seventeen guards that night, and Ye Zhiqiu really insisted on not letting the guards of the Tun army at the ferry, it seems that my guess is really not wrong......

Zhu Zhitong listened with some anxiety: "Then according to you, where will Dasu be robbed?" ”

Qiu Yue shook her head and said, "It's really hard to determine, but since Ah Kui and Ah Teng have already gone north to investigate, let's cross the river as originally planned, I always feel that we know too little about this matter." ”

Zhu Zhitong looked at Qiuyue and said: "After crossing the river, it is Cangwu Country, if there is anything, I can't protect you." Do you really want to come with me? ”

Qiu Yue smiled indifferently and said, "The other side is a foreign country, and this is the same for you." Let's walk together and take care of each other. ”

Zhu Zhitong secretly thought, he helped me, but he also said that he took care of each other.

She looked at Qiuyue and wanted to say thank you, but she couldn't say anything, so she lowered her head and said, "Okay, then let's go." ”

* * * * * *

The Hanjiang River is like a moat, separated by a river on both sides.

The east coast is the Binzhou boundary of the blue sea country, there are Luoying waterfalls in the north, and there are bamboo deep forests in the south, which can be described as good mountains, good water and good scenery.

The west bank is the boundary of Jingzhou in Cangwu Kingdom, and there are mountains and rivers, but it is very different.

The four or five tributaries in the middle reaches of the Hanjiang River all converge from Jingzhou, and after a long time, a large area of the ground in the prefectures and counties near the river is muddy land, and there are no houses to build, no boats to berth, no grain to grow and no fish, and it can be said that there is nothing

Yes.

It stands to reason that this kind of muddy land is not barren, so why can't it grow food?

Cangwu is a country of jungles, and it has never paid much attention to water conservancy. However, this Jingzhou is a place where the tributaries of the Hanjiang River are overflowing, and the river water rises sharply in late summer and early autumn, and the imperial court initially allocated money every year to repair the embankment, but with little effect, but it took the lives of many officers and soldiers. In Emperor Wen's generation, he simply moved the people along the river to the interior and left the riverside alone.

But this inland is not a worry-free place.

The inland part of Jingzhou is a basin, surrounded by mountains, except for the plain in the middle. In such a place, it is hot in summer and frozen to death in winter, and the common people are more miserable than other places just to stay, not to mention the extra hard work of growing crops.

Compared with the good mountains and rivers of Bihaibin Prefecture, Jingzhou can be described as poor mountains and bad waters.

Poor mountains and bad waters...... What's going on?

Therefore, if you want to be the parent official of Jingzhou, it is not so easy. In this remote place where theft and robbery are everywhere, it is very common to encounter some people.

But this Diao people were also forced out.

I couldn't eat enough, and I forced out evil thoughts, so I had stealing and robbing.

Those who can't eat enough and don't dare to move evil thoughts have no choice but to sell their sons and daughters.

This is how Herring was sold by her father and mother back then, and when she sold it, Herin's mother hesitated.

Sold to the Imurans, will it be more auspicious?

Herin's father pulled back the hand that Herin Niang was holding and refused to let go, and roared with red eyes: "No matter how you die, it's a death, what do you care?" ”

It was the last time Herreen saw her family, and she watched her young brother dazed in his mother's arms, unaware of what was happening.

The younger brother is going to leave the lineage to pass on the lineage, and he is not so important.

She decided at that moment that she had no parents, and she was eight years old that year.

He Ping seems to be better off than her, not experiencing the pain of being abandoned by her parents. After her dearest relatives, her mother and uncle and grandfather died one after another, and she was the only one left. When she was begging for food, one of Imulan's grandmothers gave her a lot of food, and she did not hesitate to follow, when she was ten years old.

Therefore, in Jingzhou, if you want to survive, you must either sell your children, or you must have some extra skills.

For example, martial arts.

With martial arts, it has become a skill to rob a house.

With martial arts, taking care of the home has also become a skill.

Therefore, in Jingzhou, no matter whether they move or not, the common people are very martial. The people here seem to be five short in stature, but they are fierce by nature, and they are extremely fierce when they move their hands. Over time, he became the "Diao Min" in the mouth of the government.

In the face of so many disasters and corrupt public order in prefectures and counties, the most troublesome of the six departments of the DPRK and Central Committee is the household department, and the amount of taxes collected every year is pitiful, and the relief money allocated in every disaster can never fill the hole.

It's normal if you can't fill it, there are such a group of corrupt officials and corrupt officials who are deducting from it, how much silver can the people have?

Dare to rip off disaster relief silver? Don't the officials care?

It's really hard to manage.

No one in such a state or county is willing to take up a post, and Yu Lu is not as high as other states and counties, not to mention that one day his life will be harmed by that group of people. So if you don't give some sweetness, who wants to go?

As a result, the corrupt officials were corrupt, the people were evil, and the household officials shook their heads.

But things in the world are so dependent on good and evil. One of the six departments was the most happy to see Jingzhou, and that was the military department.

Every year, Emperor Wanhua posts a public announcement to recruit soldiers, and people from other states and counties have to really investigate, and when they ask about their place of origin in Jingzhou, as long as they find out that they have a clean background and no criminal record, they will immediately approve the enlistment.

Why?

The people of Jingzhou are too ruthless.

In this way, the military department is not satisfied, and every year around the autumn will set up a special field to Jingzhou to recruit additional troops. Why around autumn? At this time, there are many disasters, the waterlogging of the Hanjiang River in summer has just ended, and the locust plague in autumn is coming again, and the people come to recruit troops in the most unbearable season of the year, and the effect is very gratifying.

For example, the Songyang battalion headed by the third battalion of the imperial capital will definitely send people to accompany the officials of the military department, and the recruits will immediately be incorporated into their own battalions, saving them a lot of dreams at night. The rest of the battalions also know that whether they can squeeze in is directly related to the combat effectiveness of the officers and men in the battalion, but their own doorway is so small, and there is no way to squeeze in.

Han Fu, the orthodox leader of the Songyang battalion, knows the stakes well, so he will come to Jingzhou every year before autumn. He is a hereditary viscount, and the official family is noble, how can other big battalions compete for him.

But at the end of this summer, Han Fu did not appear.

It is said that the emperor was inseparable from military affairs, so he had no choice but to appoint the following deputy commanders to recruit troops with the military department.

Also, Master Mu Yun led an army of 100,000 to the expedition, and the Songyang battalion was the vanguard army, so there must be a lot of things to prepare.

Therefore, the deputy commander of the Songyang battalion appeared in Jingzhou in place of the orthodox leader Han Fu.

The prefect of Jingzhou is an official of the fourth grade, and the deputy commander of the Songyang battalion is from the third rank, which is slightly higher. Although they belong to different ministries, they crush people to death at the level of the official university, not to mention that they are still a newly appointed deputy commander, how can they not be close?

So the prefect of Jingzhou inquired about the day of the deputy commander's arrival, and waited at the side of the post road early, wanting to greet him in person.

Unexpectedly, when he saw the commander, he felt that the more he looked at it, the more familiar he became, and after greeting him, he couldn't help but hesitate:

"The lower official's eyes are cloudy, Xu is the wrong person, dare to ask the commander but his surname is Cao?"

"Yes, it's Cao. How do you know? ”

"But the old lady Cao of Hexi Village ......"

"Are you ......?"

"Oh, my mother, I'm Li Zhuo from Lijia Village next door!"

"Li Zhuo......?"

"Cao Mapi, you gray bastard, don't you know me? I'm the one who rubbed the wall and stole the jujubes from you in the nunnery......"

"Li Ergui! Are you Li Ergui? ”

"yes, you can remember, ouch, you gray snot."

Both of them looked sanctimonious at first, and they both spoke a mouthful of the imperial capital's Beijing dialect, Li Zhuo shouted like that, and a few ouch sounds passed, which had already brought out all the old Cao's native accents.

When the entourage around him heard that his boss and Cao Mapi and Li Ergui were "nicknames", they all laughed wildly in their stomachs, but they were glared at by Li Zhuo and shouted: "You all go down, I want to catch up with this commander!" ”

Lao Cao had previously received Han Fu's errand to tell him to come to Jingzhou, and he was very happy in his heart. You must know that he was born in Jingzhou, and he can still go on business after being promoted to deputy commander, and he happens to be in a good place.

So he was going to put on a show at first, but when he met Li Zhuo's bare ass and hair was small, a "Cao Ma Pi" called him to immediately forget the fake seriousness he had prepared.

(End of chapter)