Chapter 586: Coincidental
Guo Rong had also seen Wang Jun come to the banquet with his father Wang Wenqian at the wedding banquet between Emperor Yanyou and Li Pu's daughter, and during the banquet, Han Qian had a conflict with Wang Wenqian, publicly revealing that he had dissolved the marriage contract with Wang Jun.
At that time, the banquet was full of princes and ministers in the court, and the matter was boiling and made Wang Wenqian extremely embarrassed.
Before and after the Jinling Incident, Wang Wenqian's involvement behind the scenes was no secret to people of Guo Rong's level.
Guo Rong didn't know much about what it was like for Wang Jun to be captured by Han Qian in Maoshan back then.
At that time, he was still living in Qianyang and setting up a stall to write letters for others, and no one around Han Qian chewed his tongue in front of him afterwards.
However, he also knew that in the later stages of the Jinling Incident, someone mentioned the marriage contract between Han Qian and Wang Jun, and Han Qian was able to use this incident to return to Xuzhou.
At this time, he was also full of surprise when he saw Wang Wenqian's Queen Jun disguised as a man and walked into the dental tent hall with Han Qian, and he didn't know what the situation was for a while.
Although Han Qian casually said that Wang Jun was very bored in Yangzhou, so he disguised himself and sneaked to Tangyi to travel, but Guo Rong was not a fool, and secretly thought in his heart that even if Wang Jun knew in his heart that Tangyi would find her whereabouts, he would not leave her in trouble, but when did the relationship between Tangyi and Yangzhou become close enough to visit the door at will without scruples?
At the beginning, Han Qian went to Yangzhou to see Wang Wenqian in person, Guo Rong, Feng Yi, and Kong Xirong did not sleep for several nights, just to draw up a foolproof contact and escape plan.
Seeing Han Qian and Xi Ying's intimate treatment of Wang Jun, and even the maids beside Wang Jun did not have too many restraints when they entered the military tent surrounded by the tiger guards, Guo Rong also knew that things were not simple.
Not long after the military doctor came to treat Wang Jun's sprained ankle, Feng Yi didn't know where he heard the news, ran into the yahall, and when he saw Wang Jun, he asked with a smile:
"Why did you run to East Lake? Do you know that Han Qian has been thinking about how to pit Yangzhou these days, didn't you throw yourself into the net this time? You are dirty like this, is it because Han Qian was too excited to throw you to the ground when he caught you? โ
He smiled with Han Qian again and said, "I can't put her back for nothing this time, I'll go to Yangzhou to find Wang Wenqian, this time I must negotiate a good price and sell Miss Jun back." โ
"You're a dog who can't spit out ivory." Wang Jun scolded.
The military doctor helped her diagnose the bones of her feet, Wang Jun inhaled in pain, and she didn't care about arguing with Feng Yi.
"I didn't hurt my bones, and I can reduce the swelling after a few days of resting." The military doctor diagnosed it, took the wound medicine and dressed it on Wang Jun, and wrapped it in gauze.
Anyway, he can't leave now, he can stay openly, Han Qian is not so idle, Wang Jun is supported by the maid Xiangyun and others, and first goes to the back house with Xi Ying to wash and change clothes.
The East Lake Camp was built on a deserted village at the southwest foot of Qingcang Mountain.
It is said that it is deserted, but it is also abandoned two years ago when the villagers fled the war or were forcibly requisitioned and coerced to leave their homes, and most of the houses can still be lived in with a little rectification, but the houses in the village are mostly muddy with earthen walls and grass roofs, and there are five or six hundred houses in total.
At present, there are only two battalions of elite infantry and one battalion of cavalry guards in the garrison here, and the main force of the naval army is temporarily stationed in Dongguan Village in Shannan.
The East Lake camp didn't see too many garrisons, but Cao Cao, the commander of the camp, followed Han Qian into the East Lake camp.
As a military command organization at the battalion level, it also leads the state and county government affairs, and is destined to have a large number of people, and no matter how strict the management in the large camp is, it is far from being as orderly as a pure military camp.
The whole barracks is divided into two parts, the north is the garrison, warehousing and industrial area, and the south is the dormitory area and living area of the dental tent and the generals, and the middle is separated by a fence wall.
With the postponement of time and the improvement of housing conditions in the dormitory, there are quite a few generals
Brought the family and the family over.
In addition to the school, the military medical institute is also built in the living area of the big camp, but it is also quite lively, similar to the inner city of some Dazhou cities, on the basis of the previous villages, it is planned to build several streets and alleys, and there are also craftsmen in the army to build more houses for people to live in.
Although it is only a glimpse of it, Wang Jun also knows that the outline of East Lake City in the future will inevitably be composed of the alleys in the south, the big camp in the north and the dock port in the west, but at this time, he has not been able to spare the energy to build this side on a large scale.
Han Qian's living conditions in the living area are of course better than those of ordinary generals, but he and Xi Ying are only a three-entry courtyard, and the living conditions are even far less than when they were in Lanting Lane.
The front yard is used as a place to welcome and send off, mainly for the guards on duty to settle down and the generals who have something to wait for to receive to rest and wait; In the backyard, there is a kitchen, a miscellaneous house, and four maids who take care of Han Qian and Xi Ying's daily life.
The main courtyard in the middle is Han Qian's daily living place.
There are three halls in the center, and the hall will meet guests to discuss matters, but if there are more than ten people to discuss things, the hall that is only five steps deep cannot sit down, and it is necessary to move to the Yasi to discuss matters, two are Han Qian's bedroom and study, and there are two side rooms on both sides.
All in all, it is far from being compared with the rows of houses.
In addition, there is a courtyard next to it, and a team of elite guards will be stationed in case of emergency.
Changed into a green silk gown, still dressed in men's clothes, but washed off the potion that dyed her yellow face, revealing her snowy and jade-like skin, she was also tall, her eyes were looking forward to it, and she was indescribably handsome.
"Don't run outside the camp like this, I have ideas when I see it, maybe I will be snatched away by the big girl and little daughter-in-law outside......" Xi Ying stood under the jujube tree in the courtyard, looked at Wang Jun who came out of the door after changing her clothes, and praised her with a smile.
Of course, Wang Jun insisted on wearing men's clothes in the camp, and she didn't want to go anywhere else, after all, as Wang Wenqian's daughter, she came to Tangyi as a guest, which is not something that can be publicly promoted.
Wang Jun was inconvenient to walk, so Xi Ying took the maid to clean out a wing room facing east, brought new bedding and sheets, and used medicinal incense to smoke the room and drive away mosquitoes.
Before Wang Jun's foot injury healed, their master and servant could only settle here.
When it was getting late, Han Qian dealt with the affairs at hand and rushed back to dine with Wang Jun and Xi Ying; Feng Yi had nothing to do, but he pulled Guo Rong over to join in the fun.
Feng Yi didn't come over to eat, but came over to talk with the concubine Wang at night.
It is also a coincidence that Feng Yi's concubine Wang's boudoir name is also Xiangyun, which has the same name as the maid next to Wang Jun.
She is the daughter of a dilapidated rural family that Feng Yi accepted when he served in Yuezhou, Rong Sรจ is delicate, married to Feng Yi for ten years, and raised two daughters and two sons for Feng Yi, and Feng Yi is frail and sickly, and has no heirs in front of his knees.
Xi Ying wanted to do something, she also helped to sort it out, sat down and talked about some gossip and common words, but there was no restraint.
Somehow, the Wang family diverted the topic to Feng Yi's marriage, and said to him in the tone of a sister-in-law:
"The old lady is so anxious about your marriage, I wrote a letter a few days ago, and specially asked me to arrange this matter for you and Xirong - although you and Xirong are both officials, for a while, they are not very popular with the ladies in Jinling, and it is difficult to find a good match. Or maybe you are still thinking about the young lady in Xu Zhaonian's family, but Xu Zhaonian's family has fled to Bianjing, and you can't use it in your heart. If you want me to say, you may be able to learn from adults first, and first pick the girl you like to marry and give birth to first, and maybe in the future, you may have a chance to recount the relationship with the young lady of Xu Zhaonian's family......"
As if worried that Wang Jun wouldn't understand, Feng Yi, who was sitting on the side, specially explained:
"Feng Yi had a marriage contract earlier, which was set by his father a few years ago, and the other party was dang
The daughter of Xu Zhaonian in the Langzhong of the Shibing Department. Feng Yi had a stubborn temperament in his early years, and when he heard this, he complained that his father didn't ask him what he meant, and dragged Kong Xirong to sneak into the girl's boudoir, and was beaten out by the Xu family when he saw it, and the marriage was almost yellow at the time, but after that, Feng Yi was full of willingness to this marriage. However, at the time of the Huangling case, the two of them had not yet completed their marriage, and then our Feng family was ruined, and our two brothers could also live in Xuzhou - Xu Zhaonian also sent someone to chase him to Xuzhou back then, wanting to retire and dissolve the marriage contract, but we didn't pay attention to it. During the Jinling Incident, Xu Zhaonian and a large number of courtiers acted in the Anning Palace, and then fled north across the river, and at this time also moved to Bianjing with the rebel queen and the abolished prince Yang Fen. Feng Yi and Miss Xu's marriage is also very tortuous, and I don't know if there is a possibility of recounting the previous relationship, but he and Xirong are both twenty-six years old, and if they don't get married, my mother will be confused, and every time a letter comes, she will mention this matter - my mother is anxious to have another grandson to hug, and it is also expedient to take a concubine first......"
"There are a lot of ladies in Yangzhou City, waiting for me to go back, looking for my father or someone to help Feng Yi, Kong Xirong and Zhang Luo." Wang Jun said, as if he couldn't understand the off-string sound of Feng Yi and his concubine singing and harmonizing.
Of course, Guo Rong couldn't guess why Wang Jun disguised herself as a man to Tangyi, but he could still understand the meaning of Feng Yi and his concubine's words.
Not only does Huaidong need Tangyi to help each other, but Tangyi also needs Huaidong to a certain extent.
The matter of the Right Dragon Martial Army stationed in Runzhou was unanimously supported by the princes of the court, but under the banner of the Right Dragon Martial Army, a new water division was built, and Yang Fan, the son of Yang Zhitang of Shouzhou, Prime Minister Yang Fan was stationed along the river and coastal defense east of Runzhou, except for Shen Yang's suspicion that Han Qian and Yang Zhitang had a secret deal, how could the clan forces of the Jiangdong family not have a little opposition?
In addition, the Huaidong Salt Farm is under the jurisdiction of the Salt and Iron Envoy, and there are more than 5,000 salt soldiers guarding the field, even if Yang Zhitang pointed out that the Liang army may be disturbed from the sea, but how could the Salt and Iron Envoy ask the Right Dragon Wu Army to intervene in the defense of the salt field?
Before these things were concluded, Han Qian's plan to absorb displaced people in Jiangdong to supplement the shortage of people in Tangyi could not be implemented at all.
Tangyi is too short of people now.
In addition to recruiting more than 8,000 laborers from Xuzhou and more than 6,000 from Jiangzhou and Guangde Prefecture to make up for the shortage of manpower for the construction of new embankments, canals, camps, and river dredging, a large number of young and strong men were incorporated into the army, and the fields in the counties were cultivated and cultivated, mainly by organizing sturdy women and teenagers, but there was still a big gap with the young and strong men.
It does not mean that if you have land, you can cultivate it, you can produce it, and if you have land, you still need people, and you also need animal power, farm tools, and seeds.
Even though in the past few months, they have brought a large number of livestock from Xuzhou to supplement their animal power, and also supplemented the high-quality plows, rakes, sickles, waterwheels and other agricultural tools built in Xuzhou, but since spring and summer, nearly 500,000 mu of grain and cotton fields have been reclaimed, which has already squeezed the existing labor force to the limit.
At present, in addition to the counties on the south bank of the Yangtze River, there is another place that can provide a large number of labor for Tangyi, and that is Huaidong.
Huaidong was deeply damaged in this war, and the reclamation system on the south bank of the Huai River was destroyed by the martyrs, and since the beginning of the summer, Chuzhou, northern Yangzhou, and western Taizhou have been flooded everywhere, and the refugees who have fled the war and the victims whose homes have been destroyed by the flood are unknown.
However, Huaidong only maintained a cooperative relationship with Tangyi on the surface, but in fact he was extremely vigilant and guarded.
Not to mention that the passage west of Hangou has been blocked extremely tightly, and ships entering the Yangtze River by water are subject to strict inspection......
If the marriage can be used to prompt the Huaidong side to open the blockade and bring some of the displaced people who fled the war, famine and flood into Tangyi, even if it is a population of 50,000 or 60,000, it will greatly alleviate the problem of labor shortage in Tangyi at this stage.
On this issue, Guo Rong, Feng Yi and some people in Huaidong can be said to coincide.