A group of Qiuli people stopped Mr. Shen's carriage, led by an old man who looked to be about fifty years old, very thin, with very complicated and contradictory eyes, and the fact that he could see a mixture of hope and despair in a person's eyes was enough to explain the man's pain.

There were probably dozens of people blocking the road, and they were afraid of the horizontal knives of the Daning soldiers, so when they blocked the road, they were already kneeling on the ground.

The carriage had to stop, Mr. Shen pushed the door and got out of the carriage, and the people who asked for Li began to kowtow, and the old man led by him even shouted in a broken Ning language to save us.

Respect for the elder is the honorific title of the Taoist seeker who believes in Taoism.

In order to facilitate his travel in Qiuli, Mr. Shen was wearing a Taoist robe.

"Why did you stop?"

Mr. Shen asked.

He was accompanied by the personal soldiers of the General's Mansion, and most of them were already familiar with the words of the seekers, Zhuang Yong's personal battalion captain Ma Huachun stepped forward to ask a few words, and it didn't take long for his brows to furrow.

The old man kowtowed as he spoke, but his forehead quickly turned red.

"Please, general, and please, the honorable commander, we really have no choice but to wait outside the General's Mansion, the Daning army stationed in our Yangming County has doubled the official rations, and the pressure is too tight, and we have no choice but to come."

Mr. Shen asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Ma Huachun turned his head to look at Mr. Shen: "It's okay, they said that they didn't get the grain field, I'll go back and send someone to inform the Yangming County Government." ”

"Yangming County?"

Although Mr. Shen doesn't know what to say, but he also knows where Yangming County is, Zhuang Yong's general's mansion is in the original capital city, and later His Majesty the Emperor Daning renamed this city Nanping, Nanping City is at least more than 500 miles away from Yangming County, these people have walked so far to come over must have something big, Qiu Liren's fear of Ning people has been deeply rooted in the bone marrow, if it is not that he has not even wanted his life, who will run here to stop the people who come out of Zhuang Yong's mansion? In their opinion, this is hopeless hope.

"Hmm."

Mr. Shen nodded: "Then you tell them that you will notify the government of Yangming County to give them land." ”

Ma Huachun snorted, walked to the old man and said, "The person you stopped can't help you, he is a Taoist chief, not an official, you go back first, I will send someone to Yangming County to see what the situation is." ”

The old man heard the perfunctory words, knelt there and refused to get up: "The official grain has risen twice, the first time it has doubled, the second time it has doubled, and the whole harvest is barely enough, if the harvest is not enough, where can I survive." ”

Ma Huachun's face was a little difficult to look at, he also heard that the local levies were not all according to the amount set by the imperial court, but he didn't expect it to be so much, but he was just a pro-military battalion captain, although Mr. Shen was a good friend of the general, but this matter involved military affairs...... Yangming County is under the jurisdiction of General Haisha, and the captain of the standard battalion stationed in Yangming County is the original Haisha's pro-soldier named Lou Hu.

It's better to bypass Mr. Shen first in this matter, and General Haisha's people are not even easy to deal with directly on the general's side.

Ma Huachun helped the old man: "If you verify the situation you said, I will naturally give you an explanation, but we still have important matters for the time being...... Qualcomm, you take a few people to find a place to settle them first. ”

Ma Huachun turned around and commanded, and the chief of the pro-military camp lowered his voice and said: "Captain, it's better not to worry about this matter, Lou Hu is General Haisha's person, if we intervene, it will make General Haisha feel that this is the attitude of the general, and it is easy to provoke contradictions, don't forget that there are many things over there, we are the general's personal soldiers." ”

"What else can I do? Do you want to drive people away? This matter is not far outside the General's Mansion, what will happen to the General's reputation once it spreads? ”

Ma Huachun said: "Do what I said first, place the people in the inn, and wait for me to escort Mr. Shen back and ask about the situation carefully...... Although Lou Hu is General Haisha's person, once he provokes a popular uprising, it will be a big deal.

Qualcomm had no choice but to nod.

Mr. Shen has not been here for a long time, but he also knows some internal affairs of the water division, and the water division has now been quietly divided into two factions, Zhuang Yong's side advocates trying to appease the people as much as possible on the basis of maintaining the imperial court policy, in order to make fewer and fewer people join the rebels, but the attitude of the people on Haisha's side is much tougher, Haisha has always advocated that the opponent must be killed, and his subordinates may be more vigorous in execution.

Although Mr. Shen guessed that things were not as simple as Ma Huachun said, he naturally wouldn't show anything.

Qualcomm took a team of ten people to escort those refugees to find an inn to arrange to stay, Ma Huachun took someone to escort Mr. Shen to the villa, half an hour later, Mr. Shen got out of the carriage and smiled at Ma Huachun: "If you have something urgent, don't wait for me, I'll go back by myself." ”

Ma Huachun hurriedly lowered his head: "The general has instructed to wait for Mr., Mr. just go and get busy." ”

Mr. Shen hummed and stepped into the villa.

In the living room, Lin Luoyu, who was frowning, saw that Mr. Shen had arrived and got up to greet him.

"How many troubles, even you are worried about this?"

Mr. Shen asked with a smile.

"We have a boatload of men who have been stopped by the warships of the sea sand."

Lin Luoyu poured a cup of tea for Mr. Shen: "I tried to find someone to accommodate, but the water over there couldn't be splashed, and I already knew that it was our heavenly ticket ship, but I just held on to it...... I wondered, could it be that something was wrong in the court? ”

Mr. Shen shook his head: "There may not be anything wrong in the court, maybe the people on the other side of the sea and sand have received the news...... Many people are talking about His Majesty's intention to transfer Zhuang Yong back to Chang'an, Haisha will replace Zhuang Yong in charge of the three places in southern Xinjiang, and his people will inevitably follow suit. ”

Lin Luoyu nodded.

The people on the Haisha side are essentially different from the people on Zhuang Yong's side, Zhuang Yong is the founder of the water division, he did it himself from scratch, Zhuang Yong's people are all veterans of the water division, and they are regarded as the orthodoxy of the Daning water division, the Haisha side is different, the people brought by Haisha are secretly building ships and training, and even if they are shipbuilding, the ship type that was improved by Anyang Dock after Shen Leng snatched the war ship did not go to Haisha, relatively speaking, the people under Haisha seemed to be a little distant from the people in the old department of the original Nanpingjiang Water Division.

Later, after Zhuang Yong was seriously injured, the real power of the sailor was in the hands of Haisha, and the mentality of Haisha's subordinates naturally changed, and Zhuang Yong did not intervene too much in the past two years, and Haisha was in charge of everything, although Haisha still asked for instructions on everything, but his subordinates had already determined that Haisha would replace Zhuang Yong.

There have been contradictions before, Zhuang Yong, the new ship built by Anyang Dockyard, distributes the troops according to the proportion, but the people on Haisha's side think that their warships are a generation behind, so they want to replace all the warships, and for this reason, they also quarreled with the officials of military logistics, Zhuang Yong did not come forward, Haisha came forward to scold his subordinates, and directly demoted the two fourth-rank generals to the fifth-grade and the three fifth-grade generals to captains.

Although Haisha calmed down the matter, the generals on his side were still more or less unconvinced, so Zhuang Yong specially instructed that the proportion of the new ships be readjusted, and seventy percent of the new ships in the Anyang dock were replaced by the Haisha Department.

"Civil affairs."

Lin Luoyu frowned and said: "The general's side advocates Huairou, but General Haisha's side has a tough attitude, let's go in with the general, and most of the people under General Haisha stop our ship just to find a sense of existence, but this matter is not easy to deal with, and tell the general, the general comes forward to find General Haisha, and General Haisha comes forward to find his subordinates, those people will be resentful, if they directly find General Haisha, ask him to complain to his subordinates?" It's hard to say. ”

Mr. Shen snorted: "How many of us have been detained?" ”

"More than two hundred."

Lin Luoyu said: "The argument over there is that we are suspected of smuggling people over, so everyone is detained." ”

Mr. Shen snorted: "It's just a smuggler from Qiuli to Daning, what is the smuggler from Daning to Qiuli?" ”

Lin Luoyu said: "Now the only way to pass along the coast is General Haisha's subordinates patrolling, entering and seeking to establish this road, passing through Yangming County, Yangming County's captain Lou Hu detained people, he was originally General Haisha's personal army. ”

Mr. Shen also heard this name just now, although Ma Huachun and Qualcomm talked in a low voice, but Mr. Shen was not deaf.

"This person again?"

Mr. Shen's brows furrowed deeper and deeper: "Just now some refugees stopped me outside Zhuang Yong's mansion, I don't know how to ask for words, but it sounds like they were being bullied by Lou Hu." ”

"Now it depends on your majesty's attitude."

Lin Luoyu sighed: "I'm afraid that even the general is not willing to provoke more right and wrong, if Your Majesty's attitude really wants to recall the general, the general will not interfere in everything, and those of us who are detained still have to find their own way." ”

"I missed it."

Mr. Shen shook his head: "I originally intended to seek development, because Zhuang Yong is here, I think that even if Zhuang Yong is recalled to Chang'an, it will be easy to deal with his subordinates, and after I arrived, I also deliberately had more contact with Haisha, but I missed the mentality of his subordinates. ”

He paced back and forth in the room: "I'd better go meet the sea sand." ”

Lin Luoyu snorted: "It's okay." ”

Mr. Shen said: "Haisha is now garrisoned in Xiancheng, and it will take ten days to go back and forth, and you will continue to contact Louhu in Yangming County, so if you can't do it, go and meet Zhuang Yong...... My old brother is also in a dilemma now, and his subordinates are also a little decadent, and even feel that they are cowardly, which in the final analysis blames me. ”

Lin Luoyu shook his head: "Your Majesty's attitude should be to let the younger generation get up as soon as possible, even if Mr. doesn't come, Zhuang Yong will definitely be recalled, not to mention that he was so seriously injured before." ”

Mr. Shen sighed: "The sky is high...... The emperor is far away. ”

At the same time, seek to establish the northern coast.

Shen Leng's fleet had to be separated, and the team was led by Wang Gendong to load the ship, and Shen Leng and Cha Ye were going to Nanping City to see Zhuang Yong and Mr. Shen, so the team was divided into two teams on the coast, and Shen Leng and Cha Ye took the pro-military camp to Nanping City in three boats.

After entering the inland river, the scenery of Qiuli made the tea master fresh for several days, but the climate was really annoying, especially women, there were many inconveniences on the boat, Shen Leng felt sorry for the tea master, thinking that he had entered Qiuli anyway, and there was little difference between taking the land route and the water route, so he asked Dewey Ming and Wang Kuohai to take the pro-military camp by boat to continue south, and he and the tea master took some people ashore to hire a car to go by land.

After getting off the boat, I inquired, and it was only a dozen miles away from the county seat of Yangming County.