Xuzhou is still the law of the previous dynasty, after the founding of the Great Chu, there has been no major change, like Qianyang, a "Dayi" with a city order, equivalent to animal husbandry, the status of the subordinate than the family and soldier and other private lowly households, can be openly brought to the market to buy and sell.

The native family is subject to the hereditary rule of the big surname, and to a certain extent, it is also the private property of the big surname by default. Therefore, after Feng Changyu destroyed the Xi clan, he openly sold the Xi family's children, and after Da Chu nominally obtained the ruling power of Xuzhou, there was no way to pursue it.

And because the remnants of the Xi clan were all sold, along the Yuanshui, as far as the hinterland of the old county in Qianzhong, they could only be secretly ransomed and gathered back one by one, even if the old, weak, sick and disabled were not very valuable, but the young and strong men and women in the slave and maid market in Qianyang City, the price was about 10,000 yuan.

In fact, even if Han Qian took out thousands of cakes of gold to make Feng Xuan secretly search for the Xi clan, but in the early stage of ransom one or two hundred Xi clansmen, the four surnames would not be aware of it, once there were three or five hundred Xi clan people redeemed, how slow would Feng Changyu and Feng Jin's father and son be before they would continue to be kept in the dark?

At that time, will they be qualified to tear their faces with the four surnames?

There are too many links, and they are destined to need the wolf of Tanzhou to pounce directly into Xuzhou, stirring up the stagnant water of Xuzhou more turbid and turbulent, so that they can have room to maneuver and move.

There was also an even more important point, Han Qian didn't even have a way to explain it to his father at this time.

The Shanyue people in Xuzhou do not seem to be strong enough, but Xiangxi, the old county of Qianzhong and even the old county of Guilin and the old county of Nanhai further south are all the land of Baiyue.

The prefectures and counties in these places are only nominally attached to Dachu, and the officials of the prefectures and counties are all hereditary local officials, and only a small amount of tribute is sent to Jinling every year, and military and political affairs are completely free from Jinling's interference.

These places seem to be quite calm at this time, and it seems that there has been no major chaos in the past two or three hundred years since the previous dynasty, but when Emperor Tianyou died and Jinling had a great turmoil, Tanzhou could not really effectively control the states of Chen, Xu, Shao, and Heng, and the barbarians in Qianzhong would take advantage of the situation and advance westward along the Yuanshui River, completely occupying the prefectures and counties of western and southern Hunan in the past.

Han Qian knew very little about the forces in the upper reaches of Yuanshui, but he was very wrong to only use Feng Xiyang, Xiang Si, and Tanzhou as a threat to his father's foothold in Xuzhou.

It's just that the old county of Qianzhong is very safe and guarded at this time, and he doesn't know much about the old county of Qianzhong, so he can't tell his father about the precautions in advance, but the forces of Tanzhou intervene in Xuzhou, but he also means to take precautions.

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The five hundred cakes of gold sent by Tanzhou through the Qianjiang Inn mean that the main obstacle to the layout of Xuzhou with his father no longer exists, and the next situation in Xuzhou, where will it develop, depends on the follow-up wrestling, Han Qian can finally leave Xuzhou with confidence, and he also began to return to Zhangluo.

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, by the end of August, as the rain in the upper mountains decreased, the water potential of Yuanshui gradually receded, and the Wufeng Mountain in the center of the river was more revealed.

Although it is said to be Wufeng Mountain, it is actually five low hills that are slightly higher than three or four zhang high above the river surface when the river is overflowing.

Even if Wufeng Mountain is completely exposed in the dry season of autumn and winter, it is only one or two hundred steps deep, but it is a good place to rebuild Yangtan Water Village, shipyard and even boat gang in Xuzhou.

Han Qian persuaded his father to let go of the land ban and connived at others to reclaim the land, if he didn't take the lead in setting an example of illegal and indiscriminate banning, others might not believe him, so he unabashedly and directly instructed Yang Qin and Ji Xiyao to occupy the Wufeng Mountain Circle; In the eyes of those who only know that Lord Thorn Shi has let go of the forbidden collection of wealth, it is really normal.

In fact, in addition to the gold sent by Tanzhou, the money that can be collected by the release of the land ban is also extremely limited.

After all, the intent did not dare to put too much expectation on the release of the land ban in the early stage, and at the same time, the power of these intent movers was also scattered, and they did not have the idea of large-scale cofferdam reclamation, they only thought that they could encircle more than 100 acres or 3500 acres of land to expand the farmland, and a total of more than 1 million yuan was used as a bribe, which was also consumed by Han Qian one after another.

Wufeng Mountain is only six or seven miles away from Qianyang City, in addition to mutual aid with Qianyang City, when the river embankment on both sides is built, the river surface of the west Yuanshui to Qianyang City section will be narrowed to 300 zhang, and Wufeng Mountain will also become a key place to control Yuanshui at that time.

Taking advantage of the relatively favorable topography of Wufeng Mountain, Han Qian planned to keep an inner lake on the east side, and then leave a waterway between the two low hills to connect with the main channel of Yuanshui. Whether it is the berthing base of the boat gang or the shipyard, it will be located in the inner lake.

This is a plan that will take at least two to three years to complete, and in early August, while Yang Qin led people to practice in the river, Han Qian had limited money to collect in the early stage, so he could only hire a small number of craftsmen first, and start building the mansion on Wufeng Mountain on a boat.

With the golden cake sent to the door by Tanzhou, whether it is Yangtan Water Village, shipyard, or cargo dock, etc., they can really use their hands and feet to do it, at least Han Qian will leave them enough money and food they need before the end of the year.

The fleet promised by the four surnames was also assembled in late August, and a total of eight thousand stone ships were assembled.

The conditions put forward by Feng Xuan, Feng Changyu, Xizhen and others were also generally satisfied, but in order to occupy a relatively dominant position in the fleet, the final manpower arrangement was that Feng Xuan sent out twenty subordinates, and the four surnames produced a total of sixty people, and sold an additional forty village slaves to Feng Xuan on credit, so as to make up a team of 120 men and sailors (slender men) and a small number of guards.

As Han Qian expected, the twenty people sent by Jingyunzhai were headed by Gao Bao and Feng Changyu's nephew named Feng Zhang.

Gao Bao traveled north and south, could speak official dialect and various dialects of Jiang and Hubei, and was also familiar with Feng Xuan and his villages, they had dealt with each other several times before, Feng Changyu thought that it was appropriate to use Gao Bao to cooperate with Zhang to target and win over Feng Xuan.

These things are ready, and the most important thing is to scrape together enough products from the local area to transport them to Jinling.

Eight thousand-stone ships, plus a two-thousand-stone sailing ship under the Boat Gang, the total capacity adds up to 10,000 stones, and if you can't run empty, you need to make up 10,000 stones.

The Gang also has two sailing ships, but the carrying capacity is too small, and the Gang also needs to have two real ships that can quickly turn between rivers to meet the enemy, so these two sailing ships will not be loaded.

Eight thousand-stone ships gathered in Qianyang City for a simple transformation, and the side side was equipped with a water panel, and the sails were replaced with widened cloth sails, which also went very smoothly.

Although Han Qian wanted to directly expand the scale of local trade in Xuzhou, so as to really stimulate the rapid rise of the local economic and military potential in Xuzhou, the inventory that the four surnames could get to Jinling for trading in a hurry was also extremely limited.

On the other hand, the four surnames are more conservative, and the first batch of goods out of Xuzhou only intends to make up about 3 million yuan, and even grain-based.

Of the goods of three million dollars, the five thousand stone japonica rice and wheat produced by the four surnames accounted for two-thirds; After all, the difference in grain prices between Xuzhou and Jinling was doubled, and Han Qian promised that after the ship arrived in Jinling, the Zuosi warehouse would increase the price by at least 30%; All the accounts can also be calculated very clearly, and there is nothing to confuse.

The grain can also make full use of the space in the cabin and facilitate transportation.

Of course, the goods produced by the four surnames could not be used up to the transportation capacity, so Han Qian needed to collect and store the goods sold by the people and the villages in the upper reaches of Yuanshui in Qianyang City to transport them to Jinling.

Xuzhou and even the upper reaches of Yuanshui, the vast majority of business trips and even goods that can go out of the mountains have to be turned around outside Qianyang City. Han Qian obtained this gold from Tanzhou, so he collected and stored medicinal materials, gold and silverware, copper and iron ware, tea, dansha, cured birds, homespun cloth, tung oil, pig bristles, furs, ivory rhino horns, etc., and officially set off in early September, going down the Yuanshui River to Jinling.

Starting from Xuzhou, the water of Yuanshui is still urgent, even if it is day and night, it can travel 200 miles a day on average.

The Dongting Lake in the present world is very different from the Dongting Lake in later generations, mainly because the Jianghan Plain on the north bank has not yet taken shape, and the impact of the water from the upper reaches of the Yangtze River on the north bank of the beach silt is obvious, and between the Yangtze River and the Dongting Lake on the south bank, there is no shore land formed because of sediment deposits, which makes the Dongting Lake and the main road of the Yangtze River intertwined.

At the same time, this also makes the whole lake area, there are many sand island polders, which are actually composed of large and small lakes, and the water situation is also more complicated.

Therefore, in Dongting Lake, in addition to the clear night when the sky is full of stars and moon, the fleet is also day and night under normal circumstances.

Entering Dongting Lake, the sail with twice the width of the cross-section after the transformation was opened, and there was a water deck to weaken the side movement of the hull, and the speed increased was extremely obvious, and it only took three days to go from Langzhou to Yuezhou.

After Yuezhou, you will enter the main road of the Yangtze River, at this time the autumn is high and cool, and the weather is also sunny.

On the main road of the Yangtze River, the crosswinds prevailed, day and night, and the speed of the fleet's eastward march reached a high speed of 3450 miles a day, and after seven days, it entered the mouth of the Qiupu River.

From Yuanshui to Dongting Lake, and Tanzhou to form a tacit understanding, and into the Yangtze River main road, the fleet eastward is extremely fast, even if there is a small group of river bandits to see the whereabouts of the fleet, but do not know the truth, did not dare to move easily, the fleet all the way to Jinling smoothly.

At this time, it has been four months since Han Daoxun and his son set off from Jinling in mid-May.

Li Zhihe knew the news in advance, and it was also the day when the fleet arrived in Jinling, so he galloped to the mouth of the Qiupu River with Feng Yi, Kong Xirong and others early to greet Han Qian and them.