Han Qian turned his head, looked over an earthen wall, and saw a window opening out on the top floor of the Guanyue Building on the other side of the alley.

Standing in the bright spot, they naturally couldn't see any movement in the dimly lit room on the top of the Guanyue Tower, but Han Qian noticed at this time that if someone stood at that window, they would be able to observe the movement in the Hibiscus Garden.

"Do you want to notify the owner of Guanyue Tower to seal all the west-facing windows on the top floor?"

Han Qian has not stopped since he arrived in Xuzhou, and he only noticed these details for the first time today, but Gao Shao and the others have long noticed that it is a flaw, but they have not been able to free up their hands to solve this matter.

The simplest way to eliminate hidden dangers is to ask Guanyuelou to directly seal the window, and I believe that the owner of Guanyuelou will not dare to violate the will of Furong Garden on the territory of Xuzhou.

"It's so simple and rude, it's not my style," Han Qian retracted his gaze and smiled slightly, "Just arrange for a guy to go in." ”

There are few cities in Qianyang, and the layout of the houses in the city is relatively compact, even if the Furong Garden covers a wide area, each floor of the courtyard in the Furong Garden is still narrow, and the courtyard wall is relatively high.

Even if someone borrows the favorable terrain of the Moon Irrigation Building to observe the movements in the Hibiscus Garden, they can spy on it very limitedly, but if they leave such a flaw and do not make up for it, they may see who is usually there and will secretly peek into the Hibiscus Garden.

Although Han Qian would not stay in Xuzhou City for too long, and would return to Jinling after arranging some urgent matters, he would still secretly leave one or two groups of people in Xuzhou to prevent Fan Xicheng from acting meticulously enough.

Tian Cheng turned over and got on the horse, and glanced at Mrs. Xi who was sitting on the back of the horse behind them, thinking that the four surnames should stop for a while, and the young master wanted to install people in the Guanyue Building, it should be to prevent Tanzhou's eyeliner, right?

Tian Cheng also seemed to guess what Han Qian was worried about, and leaned over and said, "There is no movement over there in Tanzhou, it doesn't seem to be reasonable......

"Maybe it's because the young master is too quick to startle the snake, and the people hidden in Qianyang City in Tanzhou haven't had time to react, right?" Gao Shao said.

Han Qian nodded, the Ma clan controls the most elite area of the eight-hundred-mile Dongting Lake, and there are nearly 20,000 elite sailors and Ma Bujun on the surface, if it weren't for the Tianyou Emperor who has conquered everything over the years, the Ma clan would have the strength to divide Jinghu.

In the final analysis, the four surnames are still a group of leopards who don't know what to do, and they are so bold that they don't know what to do with the three or five hundred soldiers in their hands, and it is actually not difficult to deal with, but his conspiracy against the four surnames, if it encounters Tanzhou, which has strong hard power, it will be difficult to play any role.

This is also known as "one force to break ten".

At this time, it was mainly the Tanzhou Festival that made Ma Yin jealous of Emperor Tianyou and unwilling to attract the attention of Emperor Tianyou, so they had the opportunity to see the needle.

However, having said that, even if Tanzhou tried its best to keep a low profile at this time, as Tian Cheng and Gao Shao judged, Han Qian would never believe that Tanzhou had no layout in Xuchen Shao Heng and other southern Hunan states.

Thinking of this, Han Qian sighed lightly, his father wanted to gain a foothold in Xuzhou, and Tanzhou was the most difficult to deal with.

The heat is not good, or Tanzhou sees his father and son unpleasantly, and is a little more vigilant, directly cutting off the passage in and out of Ruan Shui, who can he find to cry?

Tanzhou didn't want to attract the attention of Emperor Tianyou, as long as he didn't leave a ship that was difficult to transport tax grain for the local prefectures and counties, and Han Qian really wanted to transport Xuzhou's products out on a large scale, and he would inevitably need a large number of merchant ships to participate.

And once Tanzhou sets up a card at the entrance of Yuanshui, Han Qian's so-called plan to lure displaced people is completely impossible to implement!

Thinking of this, Han Qian suddenly thought that his father did not have a particularly strong opposition to his plan to lure the homeless people, perhaps he had already expected that Tanzhou would not be happy, right?

"Childe, why are you having a headache?" Zhao Ting'er rode a pony and leaned over and asked.

"I'm wondering how to fight with my father! You girl, you dare not speak for me. Han Qian reached out and knocked on Zhao Ting'er's skull.

"The young master is worried that Tanzhou will become an obstacle." Gao Shao said with a smile.

Han Qian laughed and said, "As long as you can see the problem, there is always a way to solve it!" ”

To say that one of the biggest gains of Han Qian's trip can be said to be the discovery of Gao Shao and Tian Cheng.

Whether it is Lin Zongjing, Guo Nuer, or even Zhao Wuji, who is excellent in archery and born to be an assassin, may have greater achievements and stronger abilities in the future, but compared with Gao Shao and Tian Cheng, what is most different is their life experience and knowledge of more than ten or twenty years of exile.

is not only to discover the ability of Gao Shao and Tian Cheng, but also to get along for more than two months, Han Qian also asked Gao Shao and Tian Cheng to know that he is worth following, so they no longer hold back in front of Han Qian, but have a kind of calmness that the master knows each other.

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A section of Yuanshui into Qianyang City, especially the beach is dangerous and rapid, and both sides of the bank are also cliff mountains, but to Qianyang City, enter the big "zigzag" flow section, and the terrain is gentle.

In the middle of summer, it was the season of flooding in southern Hunan, but because the Yuanshui from Qianyang City to the outer banks of the bank is mostly shallow silt, the river water to both sides of the river is seven or eight miles wide, plus the large "zigzag" shape will extend this section of the waterway by five or six times, and the water potential is also very gentle.

Many fishing boats leisurely stop on the river to catch catches.

Inside and outside Qianyang City, there are many native Fanmin who recognize Mrs. Xi.

To tell the truth, Han Qian took Mrs. Xi out of the city just to make people recognize her.

Even if the chiefs of the four surnames and the key figures in the four surnames know why Mrs. Xi is by their side, the vast majority of the native people will not know the reason, which will confuse the cognition of ordinary native people, and they will mistakenly think that Feng Changyu will give away the concubines around him, and he will also succumb to curry favor with the new assassin.

However, it is normal for someone to know Mrs. Xi, after all, Mrs. Xi is not unruly in Jingyun Village, but there are so many native people along the way who recognize Mrs. Xi, Han Qian is still a little surprised.

You must know that the defense of men and women in the world is not as serious as that of later generations, and it is even more so for the native people of Xuzhou, but the range of activities of ordinary women is always very limited, especially in the terrain of Xuzhou, where the mountain is running and breaking her feet, whether Mrs. Xi is married before she marries or marries Feng Changyu as a concubine, it is really unlikely that she can be recognized by so many native people.

Han Qian saw that Mrs. Xi was eager to cover her head and face with a cloth, and thought to himself, could it be that he had guessed the origin of this woman and Xi Cheng before?

Han Qian put down this layer of thought for the time being, thinking that it would not be too late to ask Feng Xuan and Gao Bao again when he had the opportunity, and they continued to gallop out of the city.

For safety reasons, Ji Yao Xila Yang Qin chose to build the bay mouth of the dock, which would not be too far from Qianyang City.

Han Qian and the others rode out of Xicheng, and then walked north along the river beach, and saw Ji Xiyao and Yang Qin standing on the side of a river beach in the northwest corner of Qianyang City with several people.

They drove their horses over.

When Han Qian arrived in Xuzhou, he first stopped at the Jiangdi Wharf in the southwest corner of Qianyang City, and then went out of the city, went east, and went deep into the mountains and old forests in the south through Jingyun River to meet the Feng family father and son.

I stayed in Jingyun Village for four days, and only returned to Qianyang City yesterday.

To this day, Han Qian didn't seriously go out of the city to take a circle, especially in the northwest and northeast directions of Qianyang City, and he didn't have a chance to take a few looks.

At this time, the river water is rising, the water surface in the northwest direction of Qianyang City is almost ten miles open, there are several low mountains of thirty or forty high standing in the center of the river, and the shade of the trees on the mountains is dense.

Han Qian didn't know if the low mountains were connected after the water level had decreased, and those hills were almost more than four miles wide to the northeast, and further east, the terrain suddenly rose up to expose the water—that side was directly north of Qianyang City—and there were thirty or fifty houses built on the shore, forming a medium-sized village.

Further east of the village, the terrain gradually rises to the western slope of Longji Mountain in Qianyang, with lush trees.

Perhaps at this time, the river receded slightly, Han Qian saw from a distance that between the hills in the heart of the river and the village in the north, an intermittent black shadow appeared on the turbid river, pointed over, and asked Yang Qin and Ji Xiyao: "What is that?" ”

"The predecessor of the assassin Wang Yu, wanted to build a river embankment there, connect the northern slope with the Wufeng Mountain in the center of the river, block the Yuanshui outside, and started to build the embankment at the beginning of the year before yesterday, but the mud embankment was not solid, the year before last, the summer and autumn of last year were washed away by the river once, Wang Yu still did not give up, and wanted to build this embankment after the winter last year, but he never thought that he could not compete in the end, and he died of illness." Yang Qin stayed in Qianyang City for the past few days, not only did he know the water situation on the left and right, he knew that there was a waste embankment in Jiangxin that had not been built, and he also inquired about the origin of this waste embankment.

"What a damn thing!" Han Qian cursed in a hateful whisper.

Yang Qin is also a person who knows the potential of the water.

Although he didn't know how far the Yuanshui water could go when it was turbulent, but depending on the water potential at this time, even if there was a mud embankment between Wufeng Mountain in the middle of the river and the village in the north, it would not be easy for Yuanshui to break the embankment.

Obviously, some people didn't want the predecessor of Wang Yu to build this embankment in the north of Qianyang City, so they secretly did something, and the embankment was only repaired twice, and both times were washed away by the river.

And Wang Yu was unwilling to be subject to the local government, and when he tried for the third time, he was "sick" by some people who couldn't wait.

Han Qian did not agree with his father's ambition to sacrifice himself for the public, but he was really uncomfortable with an official who was willing to do something in the local area.

And some people do not hesitate to take such a big risk and spend so much strength to want Wang Yu to die of illness, the reason is actually very simple.

With the hills (Wufeng Mountain) in the center of the river as the core, embankments are built on both sides to connect with the land respectively, so as to block the river from the outside, and at least it can enclose 12,300 acres of fertile land in the shallow silt in the north outside Qianyang City.

On the one hand, it can accommodate five or six hundred outdoor farmers to hire farmers, and on the other hand, it can increase the income of the state government by two or three thousand stone per year to collect rent and grain.

This is not only unbearable for the native surnames who want to control the place, but also unbearable for the Tanzhou side, right?

Because Wang Yu did this, it directly strengthened the central government's control over Xuzhou.

Or, Wang Yu's death is not necessarily the hand of the four surnames, or is it not just the poisonous hand of the four surnames?

Han Qian glanced back at Mrs. Xi, wondering if she knew some secrets.

However, Han Qian believed that his father should have seen the matter of building the embankment, so he was eager to take a sum of money and grain from him, probably because he wanted to do it immediately after the river receded, right?

It's just that even if the fourth surname was shocked by him, how could Tanzhou tolerate his father doing this?

This matter is even more unbearable than directly currying favor with the native people or controlling the guest people, right?

From Tanzhou's position, they will only hope that Chen, Xu, Shao, Heng and other prefectures, the weaker the control of the state capital over the local area, the better, so that once something happens to Jinling, they can immediately stand on their own feet, without worrying that their backs will be contained or attacked.

He wants to transport the products of Xuzhou out, Tanzhou may block the road, want to lure the people outside into Xuzhou, Tanzhou may block the road, and his father wants to build water conservancy and reclaim silt fields, Tanzhou will block the road, how can he move the roadblock of Tanzhou?