When he was shocked to hear that Lord Han and the county lord of Qingyang were missing, Lord Hou was anxious, worried that Lord Han and the county lord would be taken away by thieves, and he was worried that some of Lord Han's subordinates had a heart of disobedience, and wanted to sacrifice Lord Han to the queen Xu Hui for a reward, and sent Tiqi to look for the whereabouts of Lord Han, and therefore seized many of Lord Han's subordinates. Knowing that Lord Han had returned to Xuzhou, Master Hou knew that it was a false alarm, and at present, Lord Han's subordinates, Lord Guo, and Captain Zhou sent a ship to Yiling, and specially ordered Cao Gan to come to Xuzhou first to inform Lord Han and ......"

Han Qian guarded the tomb on the mountain to mourn, and after Cao Gan, a judicial officer in Yuzhou, arrived in Longya City, he could only climb the mountain to see Han Qian.

When Han Qian was in Shudu, he saw Cao Gan twice, when Cao Gan was in charge of the Changxiang Marquis Mansion, and he was not inconspicuous, but in fact he was one of the core figures of the Shenling Division in Shu, and the contact between the Changxiang Marquis and Jing Qiongwen and others, as well as the manpower secretly cultivated by the Changxiang Marquis Mansion, were mainly Cao Gan in charge.

Cao Gan is nearly fifty years old, on his thin face, a pair of triangular eyes are bright, and he also looks energetic, not old at all, but it is caused by long-term practice of fists and feet and physical training, standing in front of Han Qian at this time, he lightly explained the matter of Yuzhou's detention of the family ambassador, as if it was really a misunderstanding caused by strong concern for Han Qian's personal safety, and it seemed that so many people were really detained by Yuzhou.

There are two people behind Cao Gan, one is his son Cao Zhe, wearing a plain robe, but it is like a sword with a hidden sheath, only a faint edge is revealed, and the other is Jiang Lian, a disciple who has followed Cao Gan in the Changxiang Hou Mansion for many years, they came to Xuzhou with Cao Gan, but it is not as simple as accompanying Hu Wei.

Kipzhou Yiling and Jingzhou are adjacent to Jingzhou, both east of Wushan, west of the Han River, and north of the Yangtze River, even if it is not clear Zhang Pan's attitude in Jingzhou, the most direct way to send Guo Rong, Zhou Chu and others back to Xuzhou is to send Zhou Chu and others to Yueyang or Langzhou.

The trickier and more difficult to deal with is Guo Rong.

Guo Rong is a eunuch of the Anning Palace, and Han Daoxun was brutally killed by the Anning Palace.

In the end, it was at the strong request of Zhou Chu and others that Cao Gan decided to go to Xuzhou to see Han Qian first, and then decided to stay or go for Guo Rong.

Han Qian sat under the bamboo shed, the wind was blowing from all sides, and said, "Guo Rong is allowed to stay, and everyone else will go back to Xuzhou directly!" ”

Without passing through Yueyang or Langzhou, Zhou Chu and others could directly cross the river from Yiling, go south along the western foot of Wuling Mountain, and reach the bank of the Yuanshui River before returning to Xuzhou by boat; He could directly send a boat to stay on the riverbank in the west of Wuling County and pick them up from Zhou.

As for Guo Rong, although he was a eunuch of the Anning Palace, he had no bad deeds of harming others after all, and even made efforts to cover them to successfully escape from Shu.

Han Qian had no intention of killing Guo Rong to vent his hatred, nor did he intend to hand him over to Yueyang for disposal.

"When I crossed the river from Yiling to Xuzhou, Mr. Guo told me that he seemed to be interested in coming to Xuzhou." Cao Gan rubbed his nose, looked at Han Qian and said.

"Since Lord Guo wants to Xuzhou, it is up to him, and Xuzhou is not a forbidden place in the world, and people are forbidden to enter and exit." Han Qian said noncommittally.

"In addition to the whereabouts of Lord Guo, Captain Zhou and others, Master Hou sent Cao Gan to see Lord Han, and he also thought about asking if it was feasible to join forces in Sizhou," Cao Gan narrowed his sophisticated triangular eyes and stared at Han Qian, and asked, "I borrowed the road from Wuling to come to Longya City, and I heard that Hunan Xingshangshu Province officially entrusted Lord Han to take over the history of Xuzhou's assassination, Cao Gan dared to ask again, can Xuzhou also send troops to participate in the attack on the Wu people?" ”

"Joining forces with Sizhou, this requires Lord Cao to go to Sizhou in person, and he will know after seeing Yang Xingfeng, the assassin of Sizhou, and other figures of the Yang family. As for whether Xuzhou can send troops, Lord Cao will go west along Chenshui, and see how dangerous and steep the path from the southern foot of Wuling Mountain into Sizhou is, so he knows that it is really difficult for some strong people to send troops to Xuzhou," Han Qian said slowly, "However, after the Qianjiang waterway is unblocked, even if Ding Zhuang is used to carry his head over the mountains and mountains, Xuzhou can still send tens of thousands of Qianyang cotton cloth to Shu through Sizhou every year......"

Cao Gan was slightly stunned, thinking that they would join forces with Sizhou Yang Xingfeng in Yuzhou to attack the Wuyuan people, and Xuzhou would not send troops to contribute, but also enjoy the benefits of opening up the Qianjiang River waterway?

However, since Han Qian said that the trail at the southern foot of Wuling Mountain was extremely steep and unfavorable for the army to pass, he did not send someone to go in person, and he had no right to speak at this time.

Besides, the main reason why they persuaded Sizhou to send troops was that after the Qianjiang River waterway was opened, the cloth iron tea medicine in Xuzhou and the salt horses in the direction of Yuzhou could be transported to various places through Sizhou and exchanged with each other.

As far as Yuzhou is concerned, passing through the Banan will not only extend the hinterland controlled by Yuzhou to the hinterland of the middle reaches of the Qianjiang River, but will also cut off the source of private salt for the mountain clansmen in southern Sichuan, laying the foundation for completely quelling the rebellion of the mountain clansmen in southern Sichuan, and laying the foundation for the Changxiang Hou to replace the Qingjiang Hou.

Whether Xuzhou sends troops or not is not very important, and it is more expected that Xuzhou can have an active participation posture.

"Then I have to ask Lord Han to send someone to guide on my behalf." Cao Gan said.

Cao Gan is really unfamiliar with the topography of the mountains and rivers in this area of Chenxu, and he also hopes to take a trip to the field and see the Yang family in Sizhou again with more confidence.

At the same time, Yuzhou and Sizhou are located in the upper and lower reaches of the Qianjiang River, but except for the exchange of illicit salt dealers, there is no official contact, and Cao Gan does not think that with a spy letter from the Yuzhou Assassin Mansion, he can knock on the door of the Yang family in Sizhou.

Sizhou is adjacent to Chenzhou and Xuzhou, and at the same time nominally attached to Dachu, it is the fetters of Dachu, and every year it symbolically sends some tribute to Jinling, and then asks for some rewards back.

"Of course, Lord Cao is here, we always have to provide as much convenience as possible,"

Han Qian didn't know when the situation would suddenly take a turn for the worse, Xuzhou's troops were too limited to take care of multiple directions, but he sent as few guides and scouts as possible to assist Cao Gan and them, it was just a gesture, so he agreed to it.

Speaking of cooperation with Changxiang Hou Wang Yong, this side has to show some sincerity.

Han Qian said again,

"At this time, the soldiers in Jinling were in chaos, and I didn't know when the war would end, and Jingxiang and Jiangnan West Road urgently needed Sichuan salt to come in. Sichuan salt may be the most convenient to transport the Yangtze River by boat, but the salt used in the hinterland such as Chenxujingshao, even if it goes to Sizhou, is also profitable. When Lord Cao saw Yang Thorn History, it can be said that all the Sichuan salt that arrived in Laolongxia could be purchased by Xuzhou for 2,000 yuan per stone. ”

Banan digging wells to take brine and boil salt, is for the well salt, each stone of salt costs only two or three hundred yuan, through the Qianjiang River, through the southern foot of Wuling Mountain Xiaodao people back horses, even if it is difficult, each stone salt freight costs five or six hundred dollars will be the sky, Han Qian promised to Longya City to buy two thousand dollars per stone, which means that every time a stone of Sichuan salt arrives in Xuzhou through Sizhou, Yuzhou and Sizhou can share the huge profits of 12300 yuan.

If Yuzhou takes less salt profits, 50,000 or 60,000 stone of Sichuan salt is imported into Xuzhou through Sizhou every year, which is a huge profit of 70,000 or 80,000 yuan.

Although the Tanlangyue Prefectures can collect hundreds of thousands of dollars in land taxes every year, they are large states with 100,000 hectares of land and 100,000 households, and there are less than 10,000 households in Tianzhou, and the land is poor.

In many cases, the Central Plains Dynasty was reluctant to bring these prefectures and counties directly under its rule.

To put it bluntly, in these poor places with bad mountains and bad waters, the cost of governance is too high, and the income from food is low.

Not only could we not expect these prefectures and counties to have grain to be imported into Beijing, but on the contrary, they had to pay a large amount of money and grain to maintain the operation of the government.

Once there is chaos in the local area, the imperial court still needs to send troops to levy it, which will make the already stretched central finances even worse, and there are many holes.

In this way, maintaining nominal rule, in fact, is under the control of each of these states and counties, and it has become a pragmatic choice for the rulers of successive dynasties to be forced to do so.

Of course, so much Sichuan salt is imported into Xuzhou, how Han Qian wants to deal with it, Cao Gan doesn't care, thinking that Han Qian and his father Han Daoxun father and son have successively led the Xuzhou Assassin History, everything in Xuzhou is Han Qian's final say, and he always has the strength to recover more windfall profits from these Sichuan salts.

"The marriage between the county lord and His Royal Highness King Tan will have to ask Lord Han to worry a lot." Cao Gan said.

"The county lord's relatives and honor guards should also go to Kipzhou, these things have passed in the three-month national mourning period, and the marriage envoy who should be selected by the Shu lord rushed to Yueyang to take everything. Han Qian sent the county lord to Yueyang, and the responsibility of welcoming the relatives was over, so he thought about serving the mourning and guarding the tomb at this time, and he really didn't have the heart to pay attention to the world. Han Qian excused himself and said, indicating that he would not mix with Yueyang's attitude at this time.

Nima, why don't you have to do anything in Xuzhou? Cao Gan sneered, but the triangular squinting eyes seemed to be full of smiles, and said: "The county lord first married into the Chu land, it is inevitable that he is not familiar with the place, and he is used to playing a small pampering in the Shu Palace, it is inevitable that he will have some petty temperament, even if the lord of my family will send a few experienced people to serve him, but I am afraid that it will be difficult to get along with the princes and ministers of Great Chu in a short period of time, and at this time, I will ask Lord Han to be accommodating on his behalf." ”

"This is easy to say, after all, it was Han who welcomed the county lord into Dachu, and it is impossible to really sit and watch the county lord being bullied by those who don't know what to do, please rest assured that Lord Cao and Hou Ye are there." Han Qian said, and then stood up and signaled to see off the guests, he wanted to continue to stay in the mountains to keep time, and more detailed negotiations were handed over to Feng Yi and Tian Cheng, who were responsible for contacting Cao Gan.

Tian Cheng, Gao Shao, and Feng Yi accompanied Cao Gan, Cao Zhe, Jiang Lian and others to go down first, Zhao Ting'er was pregnant, and she was afraid that she would be easy to fall on the steep mountain road at night, so she also went back to Longya City first.

In addition to Lin Zongjing leading a team of guards, Xi Ying accompanied Han Qian at this time to serve his daily life, and mainly helped sort out the manuscripts.

Han Qian stood in the mountains, watching the red sunset spread over the top of the West Mountain, and at this time, he saw Guo Nu'er climbing the mountain and handed over an unsealed secret letter: "Lord Jiang has just received a secret letter from Liang Guoxin, and I will bring it to your lord to read." ”