Although when the Marquis of Changxiang asked for marriage, the county lord of Qingyang was in Jinling, but as a welcoming envoy, it cannot be said that the lord of Qingyang was welcomed from Jinling to Tanzhou, and the matter was completed.

If this is the case, won't Shu become a big joke in the world?

The daughter of the dignified lord of the country, she can't get married, and she doesn't say that she will be a side concubine to the son of the lord of Chu, and her mother sent it to the door early?

Therefore, to welcome relatives, it is natural to go to Shudu to welcome.

And it is normal for Guo Rong to be hand-picked to send to Shu to welcome his relatives.

At the beginning of the preparations for the war of cutting the domain, Guo Rong was left in Jinling, and nominally he was also an important official of the former county palace and the Tan palace at this time, and he was familiar with court affairs.

Guo Rong's envoy to Shu is considered a waste utilization, after all, it also needs a person who knows the number of court etiquette to come forward, but even if he marries the concubine of King Tan, Guo Rong is deeply involved in Anning Palace after all, and he can't lead the matter of welcoming relatives, so he needs to choose another envoy.

Han Qian also thought that even if the Marquis of Changxiang proposed a marriage recently, Emperor Tianyou would choose a minister with enough weight like Yang En from the clan to send an envoy to welcome him, but he didn't expect that Yang En didn't make any moves this time, and this envoy would actually fall on his head?

"My lord, as a close minister around His Royal Highness, was appointed by His Royal Highness to preside over the matter of welcoming his relatives in Shu this time, and after His Royal Highness got married, he will probably do the matter of abolishing the heir and re-establishing it, right?" Xixunqiao was about to send Han Qian out of Linjiang to Dragon's Tooth City, but after learning the messenger's intention, he said quite excitedly.

Han Qian was also very bitter in his heart.

In the eyes of outsiders, in addition to welcoming relatives, the envoy to Shu will inevitably involve the further deepening of the Chushu peace talks.

Emperor Tianyou did not choose people from the clan and the ministers of the court, but selected the ministers of his cronies from the side of the three princes, which clearly showed that the three princes led the follow-up peace negotiation process.

This will also make most of the interests of the Chushu peace talks, with marriage as the core, fall on the heads of the three princes.

In the eyes of the world, this is undoubtedly a further paving for the abolition of the heirs and the re-establishment.

It's just that Han Qian is bitter in his heart, Emperor Tianyou doesn't have a few months to live, no matter whether Emperor Tianyou makes an edict or not, it is impossible for the three princes to ascend the throne step by step, and they still need to pave the way?

After saying goodbye to Xixunqiao and the others, Han Qian and Zhao Ting'er rode along the official road on the east bank of the Shahe River surrounded by everyone, and Zhao Ting'er couldn't help but ask, "Do you really want to go to Shu?" ”

"Emperor God has made an order, there are no very special circumstances, how can you not resist the decree and disobey it." Although Han Qian was reluctant to accept this mission in his heart, there were some things that he could not decide.

"Then create some special circumstances." Zhao Ting'er is no longer a maidservant, if Han Qian has something serious, it would be fine, as Han Qian's only "wife", it would be inconvenient to follow Han Qian to Shu, and deep down she was of course unwilling to part with Han Qian.

It is naturally not possible to resist and disobey the decree without a reason, but if something happens, the holy decree cannot be unkind.

Han Qian pondered for a while and said: "This time, I am sure that the people around His Highness are also required to send envoys, so that it is more convenient to negotiate some conditions with the Lord of Shu, and maybe even bribe the civil and military ministers of Shu State!" ”

Zhao Ting'er asked, "Are you thinking about what happened after the chaos in Jinling?" ”

"yes!" Han Qian nodded and said, "If His Highness can get the support of Wang Jian, the lord of Shu, once there is a big chaos in Jinling, with the support of the Shu army, His Highness can even directly order Zhang Feng and Du Chongtao, who are guarding Jingxiang, to obey the order, no matter how bad it is, Du Chongtao and Zhang Jiao can be ordered to hold the Dengxiang defense line, so that the elite of the Dragon Bird Army will not have to worry about the future!" ”

Zhao Ting'er nodded a little melancholy, in this sense, choosing the right person to make Shu is also quite important, and the choice is quite limited.

Since Wang Yong and Guo Rong, the Marquis of Changxiang, should be about to arrive in Yueyang in the next few days, Han Qian first had to rush to Tanzhou to meet with the three princes, and then go to Yueyang to meet Wang Yong and Guo Rong, and there was no time to return to Qianyang to meet his father again.

There are few horses in Xuzhou, especially few fast horses galloping on the battlefield.

There were not enough fast horses for so many soldiers to ride, so Han Qian immediately led Kong Xirong to lead a hundred troops who were going to Shu with him, boarded the ship directly from Linjiang County, circled back to Wufeng Mountain to change two of the latest war sailing ships, and then went north downstream; He will first go to Longya City to stay for a day, sort out the affairs of Longya City, and then the two sides will meet in Chenyang City, and then rush to Tanzhou to meet the three princes.

He and Zhao Ting'er have only been married for three days, and they don't want to be separated directly in Linjiang County.

Although Longya City is currently considered Han Qian's private property, the state government has also set up an inspection department here, stationed with 300 essences

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In addition to catching thieves, there are also tax collectors who belong to the prefecture and city Bo Division, who are responsible for collecting taxes from the merchants who pass through the post road.

Dragon Tooth City is extremely crucial, and the appointed inspection envoy is also Dong Cheng, a descendant of Han Qian who has followed Han Qian for several years.

Chen Jitang was in charge of the internal affairs of Dragon's Tooth City, while Dong Cheng was in charge of the control of the surrounding area and the spy surveillance of Chenzhou.

Han Qian took Zhao Ting'er and called Dong Cheng over as soon as possible.

The Jiming village in the north of Longya City, the Chenshui controlled by the choke, is the most important tributary of the middle reaches of the Yuanjiang River, along the Chenshui westward, it is Mayang County, Chenzhou, and then to the southwest, it is completely controlled by the native family, and from the north of Sizhou, over the mountains of more than 100 miles at the southern foot of Wuling Mountain, it can enter the Wujiang River Basin, and down the Wujiang River, it is Yuzhou, an important town in the southeast of Shu.

This road is extremely rugged, even worse than the Xuefeng Mountain Post Road, which has not been renovated at this time, but this is the most important smuggling channel for Sichuan salt to enter the eight states of Hunan, and it is also called the Wuling Trail for smuggler salt dealers.

Hundreds of smuggler salt dealers took this trail and secretly carried bags of dried salt into the southwest of the lake to sell in Chen and Xuzhuzhou; The large and small villages along the line have a close relationship with the smuggler salt dealers, and Sizhou is also a state that is not subject to the rule of the imperial court, so from the beginning of the previous dynasty, it has not been able to cut off the smuggler who took this road.

Almost one-third of the original prisoners were smugglers who were arrested and imprisoned in the state prison, so Han Qian was more familiar with the situation of this trail than other officials in Dachu.

Of course, Han Qian initially attached importance to this trail, on the one hand, he wanted to obtain the well salt produced in southern Sichuan, and on the other hand, he wanted to import the tea medicine cloth iron produced in Xuzhou into Shu, but he did not expect that he would have the opportunity to go to Shu.

Although seven or eight scouts had been sent to Shu to spy on intelligence before, Han Qian thought that he had gone over this time to bribe the officials of Shu State, and it was already seriously insufficient for him to cooperate with him in the shadows, so he called Dong Cheng over to ask about the situation, and ordered Guo Qi'er to lead a group of people to pretend to be cloth dealers and smuggler salt dealers, and sneak into Shu first......

After arranging these people, Han Qian summoned Chen Jitang and the others over.

In addition to being the land route from Xuzhou to Chenzhou and Sizhou, Longya City is also the center of Xuzhou iron smelting, armor and war weapon casting.

In contrast, the counties of Xuzhou have successively developed five coal yards near waterways, and the coal and stone in Longya City mainly meet the internal needs and no longer waste manpower to transport them out of the mountains.

At present, the iron-making yard has reached the annual output of **100,000 catties of crude iron and 100,000 catties of refined iron, but with the construction of five iron-making yards in other parts of Xuzhou, in addition to the current two small iron-making yards, Han Qian will reduce the output of crude iron in Longya City in the future, increase the production capacity of refined iron, and also let more craftsmen and craftsmen focus on the casting of precision castings.

Of course, the so-called precision castings are only relative to the world.

The guide cars and Jili drum cars built during the Han and Wei dynasties already used very complex gear transmissions, but even at this time, even the gears and other components used in hydraulic machinery such as drainage mills, water mills, and vertical sail wind mills, as well as the pulleys used to lift heavy objects, were mainly made of hardwood.

An important reason is that steel is rare and costly, and precision castings are even more rare.

In the Han and Wei dynasties, the manual technology of dialing gold wire and copper wire had matured, but the drawn iron wire never appeared.

On the one hand, the ductility of iron wire is poor, the melting point is higher, the drawing process is not mature enough, and on the other hand, high-quality iron and steel are too expensive.

These are all problems that Dragon's Tooth City has to overcome step by step.

At present, the affairs of the shipyard and the weaving institute are mainly handed over by Han Qian to Ji Xiyao, while the ironworks and armor workshops on the side of Longya City are mainly handed over to Chen Jitang to preside.

Han Qian had to rush to Tanzhou to meet with the three princes before leaving for Shudi, and the time he stayed in Longya City was very short, and the time to communicate with Chen Jitang and the main craftsmen was very limited.

The special stainless steel required for the casting of scorpion crossbows and scorpion cannon bow arms, Chen Jitang still didn't have a clue, and Han Qian was not in a hurry, in short, they should never be stingy with the cost in the training and exploration of internal engineers.

Every bit of progress here, not to mention the development of machinery and tools needed for hundreds of crafts and engineering construction, can also continue to widen the gap with the enemy in the manufacture of armor and combat weapons.

Han Qian only stayed in Dragon Tooth City for one day, and then he was about to leave and rush to Chenyang to meet Kong Xirong and Yang Qin.

Zhao Ting'er is now married to Han Qian as a concubine, and before Han Qian officially married his wife, she was "

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Young lady", but she wanted to lead Zhao Qi, Du Yijun, Du Yiming, Du Jiuniang and others to stay in Longya City to preside over the family business and stabilize the foundation.

And even if she went to Tanzhou with Han Qian, she couldn't follow Chu at that time, and she would be even more idle if she stayed in Tanzhou City.

The newlyweds are only a few days away from each other, and Zhao Ting'er is naturally full of reluctance, but she can only seize the limited time to get together and linger to the death.

Of the three hundred soldiers, Han Qian finally only brought one hundred and twenty elite veterans with him, and when the time came, he went to Chenyang to meet with the two newly built war sailing ships, as well as a total of one hundred and twenty sailors and shipwrights, and Yang Qin personally led the entourage.

The other centaurs either stayed with his father in Qianyang to be dispatched, or stayed in Longya City with Zhao Ting'er, and some of them would be sent to Huaxi Village to participate in the renovation of the Xuefeng Mountain Post Road.

After walking down this circle, Han Qian returned to Tanzhou City to meet the third prince Yang Yuanpu, and it was already October.

At such a moment, I don't know when Jinling will suddenly undergo great changes, and Yang Yuanpu certainly doesn't want Han Qian to leave his side, but there is no way to say why.

Han Qian rushed back to Tanzhou City and entered the palace to see the three princes, and Xinchanghou, Shen Yang, Zhang Ping, Wen Ruilin, Wang Lin and others were naturally there.

They all thought that Shen He had been poisoned and died, and they had secretly reported to His Majesty through Yuan Guowei and Jiang Yu that the situation in Jinling should be under His Majesty's control, and the third prince marrying the county lord of Qingyang and deepening the peace talks between Chu and Shu would be an extremely important step for His Majesty to abolish the heir and re-establish it.

Yang Yuanpu soon couldn't hold back his temperament, signaled the end of the night banquet, everyone retreated, and left Han Qian to speak:

"I went to Jinling, and it only took three or five days to pass the book on the fast horse, or I could find an excuse to change Mr. Shen to send an envoy to Shu on behalf of Han Shi."

Han Qian pondered for a while and said:

"If there is a great change in Jinling, His Royal Highness will inevitably need the support of Wang Jian, the lord of Shu, to have a better chance of winning, and Mr. Shen Yang does not know the whole picture, and he is too upright, and most of them are unwilling to privately bribe the generals of Shu to seek a position for His Highness, and this time it seems that it can only be Weichen to take this trip."

Emperor Tianyou intended to ask the ministers of the Tan Palace's side to serve as the envoy to welcome relatives, and they really had no excuse to shirk it, so it was also Xinchang Marquis Li Pu and Shen Yang to replace Han Qian as an envoy, but these two were not suitable.

Shen Yang is stubborn and upright, even if he supports the three princes to ascend the throne, he will not be willing to use conspiracy, except for Shen Yang and Han Qian, it is impossible to ask Li Pu, the father-in-law of the three princes, to help welcome relatives and concubines, right?

"If Master Han is in Chu and Jinling has changed, how should I deal with it?" Yang Yuanpu asked.

From Yueyang upstream, through Jingzhou, Yiling, Yuzhou westward, from Luzhou to the north, through Zizhou, Jianzhou, and into Shudu, although there are waterways to communicate, but the twists and turns of 2,7800 miles, and after the winter, the wind and water are shallow, the beach is dangerous, except for not counting the time of stay in Shudu, it takes two months to go back and forth.

During Han Qian's stay in Shudi, drastic changes occurred in Jinling, and no matter how strong Han Qian's ability is, he will be beyond his reach.

Yang Yuanpu didn't have time to send someone into Shu to ask Han Qian for advice.

"Your Highness is in Tanzhou, assisted by Shen Yang and Marquis Li, it won't be a big deal, but remember that no matter what the situation, even if Your Majesty has a decree, you can't enter Jinling lightly!" Han Qian said.

"Father Ruoxu, Chuzhou soldiers and horses cross the river and go south, and I won't move?" Yang Yuanpu didn't expect Han Qian to leave him with an immobile strategy, and asked hesitantly.

"At most, gather troops and horses to Ezhou, and you can't advance half an inch east." Han Qian said solemnly.

Shen Yang, Xinchang Hou Li Pu and the generals all have different demands, not to mention that there are many people with ghosts, which will make the situation of the Dragon Bird Army's eastward advance extremely complicated, Han Qian thought to himself that the Three Princes only mobilized the Dragon Bird Army to Ezhou, and he should have enough time to rush back to Ezhou to meet the Three Princes.

"In addition to Gao Shao and Lin Haizheng, although Du Qiniang is a criminal minister, she is good at distinguishing medicine and poison, and I will also leave her by His Royal Highness's side to serve meals. In the Tanzhou generals, Zhang Hanbi Gao Zhan, Miao Yong, and Wen Ruilin are all trustworthy, if the situation is critical, His Royal Highness will summon Zheng Hui and Li Zhihe back to ask for advice, and if the opinions of the two of them are the same, they can be used. For the rebels who retreated to Yongzhou, you can send people to appease them! ”

Han Qian analyzed the situation that Tanzhou might face for the three princes one by one, as well as who could be trusted under what circumstances, and wanted his father, he also gave a special order,

"In addition, Weichen's father and Mr. Shen Yang are the same kind of people, His Royal Highness can inquire about the livelihood of the society, but he can't ask about seeking a position!"

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