Han Qian and Fan Xicheng boarded the galleys, and under the escort of Zhao Wuji, Tian Cheng, Gao Shao, Lin Zongjing, Yang Qin, Guo Nuer and others, they sailed to the boat where the prince of Tanzhou Jiedu and the capital of the Wuya army, Yu Hou Ma Xun, were located.

Ma Yin is not yet fifty years old, and his eldest son Ma Xun is also just over thirty years old, with a short mustache on his lips.

On the bow deck of the Nuoda ship, a high-backed officer's chair is placed, and the horse sits in the center, and there are more than a dozen strategists and generals standing side by side on the left and right, but it is more majestic than the three princes, and the pomp and circumstance are by no means beyond the reach of ordinary Du Yu.

"Han Qian, the deputy commander of the army in the Dragon Bird Army's tent, has seen Du Yuhou." Han Qian thought that he couldn't fight Lao Tzu, compared to his official position, and Ma Xun, who was the de facto commander of the Wuya Army of Tanzhou Water Battalion, could not be compared, and after boarding the ship, he naturally gave a salute honestly, and signaled Fan Xicheng to take people and carry the meeting gift on the ship.

Ma Xun sunk into his slightly gloomy eyes, stared at Han Qian, and didn't feel that there was any rudeness in this.

As far as the situation collected by Tanzhou Eyeliner in Jinling, Han Qian is just an insignificant character, Ma Xun wants to see Han Daoxun even more, thinking that this person who doesn't even want to be cheeky, plans the Dragon Bird Army for the third prince, and finally seeks the task of assassinating Xuzhou for himself, always has some weight.

However, Han Daoxun refused to board the ship to see him, but let his son board the ship with a generous gift, the meaning of which is also difficult to understand, which also made Ma Xun's face appear more and more gloomy, and he had to be reminded by his advisers, so he asked someone to bring a chair and ask Han Qian to sit down and talk.

Ma Xun's subordinates also let go of a place where Fan Xicheng, Yang Qin and others could stand by Han Qian's side.

"Lord Han is not feeling well, do you want to go to Yuezhou City for two days to find a doctor to take a look before going on the road?" Ma Xun restrained his arrogant posture at this time, leaned over, and asked Han Daoxun about his physical condition with a concerned look.

Your dad is in a hurry to hit the road! Han Qian secretly said with a smile on the surface: "Xie Yuhou cares, my father can't adapt to the water and soil in Jiang'e and other places, but thinking that the water and soil in Xuzhou are even worse, I really can't rest at this time." Take a boat slowly through the rivers and lakes, and you may be able to adapt to Xuzhou. Otherwise, Jiangzhou will be stopped for two days, Huangzhou will be stopped for two days, and I don't know if the donkey year and horse month can go to Xuzhou to take up his post. ”

Ma Xun's concern was no different from what Han Qian expected, it was nothing more than that he learned that Han Daoxun brought his family soldiers and brought many family members to Xuzhou, so he was worried that Han Daoxun had the intention of taking root in Xuzhou for the third prince for a long time and managing his power.

This is the last thing the Ma family wants to see.

Han Qian did not advocate the prosperity and luxury of Jinling with the lips of the horse, disgusted with the hard work of this way, and even more after arriving in Xuzhou, he was contaminated with a wet miasma, and he was also full of worries about the death of Wang Geng, the former assassin of Xuzhou, and he himself did not want to live in the barbarian miasma for a long time, and did not forget to imply that the three princes were more urgent at this time, nothing more than to collect money and goods from Xuzhou to support the increasing military resources of the Dragon Bird Army, and at most recruit some people to Jinling, which could strengthen the power of the Dragon Bird Army.

In short, Ma Xun understood that his father, as he was responsible for collecting wealth and scraping, could only have fierce conflicts with local wealthy families, and would also make the soldiers and civilians of Xuzhou suffer from wanton expropriation and extortion, so he did not have to worry that his father would buy people's hearts and manage power in Xuzhou.

After blowing nonsense, they got acquainted with each other, and Han Qian said goodbye and left.

Ma Xun stood behind the female wall, staring at Han Qian returning to meet Han Daoxun on the oared sailboat, his brows as black as a sword slightly locked.

At this time, a middle-aged scribe in a green robe walked out of the cabin at the back, walked to Ma Xun's side, and also looked towards the river.

"Mr. Wen, did you hear those words just now?" Ma Xun asked the middle-aged scribe rather respectfully.

"Han Daoxun is in Chuzhou and Guangling, he has the ability to govern the government, and he was recommended by Wang Jixiong to enter the court as a secretary and young eunuch, and he has always had the ambition of reforming the old and making the new. He is infamous this time, and helping the three princes to succeed is very likely to pin his ambition on the three princes, and the prince should not be careless. The middle-aged scribe said.

"What tricks can Han Daoxun play in Xuzhou?" Another strategist beside Ma Xun said disdainfully, in his opinion, Chen, Syria and other states, the people's situation is extremely complicated, and the barbarian forces are strong, and it is not something that three or five people can do alone.

"Han Daoxun helped the three princes to become a dragon and bird army, and the world only recently got a glimpse of the truth, and the Xu family was completely teased; And just as Han Daoxun's son showed his intentions just now, Han Daoxun was appointed to Xuzhou, which was to raise money for the three princes, how could the Xu family guess at this time? The middle-aged scribe said, "From Chizhou to Yuezhou, where a thousand miles of waterway, Jiang bandits are rampant, if Han Daoxun is on the way to death, the world will not blame the Xu family for being ruthless, I want to ask Brother Gao, you see Han Daoxun's boat, can it be damaged at all, is this Xu's soft-heartedness, or Han Daoxun is a little unpredictable?" ”

The strategist was slightly stunned, not knowing where to start.

"Han Daoxun went to Xuzhou, what did he do, when he watched the after-effects, my father would not be deceived by a few rags and a few nonsense words from him," Ma Xun said, "Mr. Wen, what do you feel about looking at Han Daoxun's son in the cabin just now?" ”

"This son's words and deeds are floating, but everything he says is what the prince loves to hear, and his eyes are condensed and sharp, and he secretly observes the situation, so the floating waves are just other disguises," the middle-aged scribe said, "In other words, I would rather believe that the tiger father has no dog son, and the son of the world should not despise this son." ”

"In this way, after they arrived in Xuzhou, they still couldn't make them too comfortable!" Ma Xun said lightly.

"Will Ma Xun believe the words of the young master?" Fan Xicheng turned around and saw that they were three or four miles away from Ma Xun's boat, but the Tanzhou Jiedu made the prince Ma Xunyu stand on the side of the board and look at this side, and asked with some concern.

"What do you believe or not, I didn't say half a lie,"

Han Qian sat on the side of the boat, took off his stuffy and heavy boots, and stretched his bare feet into the cool river water, from time to time there would be waves splashing up and sprinkling on his body, so that he didn't feel hot under the scorching sun, and asked Gao Shao and Tian Cheng with a smile, and said,

"You have done a lot of bullying men and women in the army in the past, right? After arriving in Xuzhou, you should teach them well, put out the majesty of my father's Xuzhou assassin history, and let me experience the taste of fish and meat in the country. ”

Gao Shao and Tian Cheng's old faces were red, they used to be in the army, their hands were stained with blood, where would there be good people, but compared with others, there were more bottom lines.

At this time, even if they understood in their hearts that Han Qian was going to break the situation with an arrogant attitude, they still felt a little embarrassed when they heard Han Qian talk about this matter in the fish and meat village without shame.

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Of course, Ma Xun would not personally lead the ship to escort Han Daoxun across the border, but after the majesty, Tanzhou still needs to keep a low profile, whether to send a battalion of sailors to escort him.

Han Qian and the others then entered Dongting Lake from Yuezhou, entered Yuanshui through Yuanjiang County in Langzhou, and after passing Wuling County in Langzhou, they entered the territory of Chenzhou. After the water battalion warship of the Tanzhou Wuya Army arrived in Wuling County, it could be regarded as completing the escort task and returning to Tanzhou.

The boat enters the Yuanshui, which is the ancient county of Wuling, and it is also the origin of Wuximan.

A thousand years ago, the famous general Ma Yuan died of illness in the upper reaches of Yuanshui, which belonged to Chenyang County, Chenzhou, during the war against Wuxi Man.

Tao Yuanming's "The Story of the Peach Blossom Spring" is the matter of Wuling.

In the territory of Langzhou, the terrain is still slightly gentle, and the Yuanshui is also equivalent to being open, which is conducive to sailing, but after passing through Wuling County, the mountains and mountains on both sides of the river stand between them, and the river surface narrows to less than 300 zhang, and the water flow is becoming more and more turbulent.

Jianzhi Fengling blocked the wind, not to mention hanging sails at this time, even if two oars were used to paddle in front of the penny, dragging Han Daoxun's boat upstream, if you could walk thirty or fifty miles of waterway a day, it would be up to the sky.

This is the difficulty in spring and summer when the water level rises and the water flow is turbulent; In autumn, when the water level drops, the dangerous shoals in the water are exposed, which will make it more difficult to sail.

This is also the Han Dynasty set up Wuling County under Jingzhou, but in the previous dynasty, the states and counties divided by Wuling County were not completely naturalized, and the key to the main implementation of the fetters system, not to mention the more distant and dangerous Qianzhong region.

The Wuya Army's water battalion warship had returned to Tanzhou, and Han Qian and the others decided to rest in Wuling County for two days and make more adequate preparations before continuing to advance.

The boat stopped in front of Wuling County, Langzhou, it was already mid-June, and it had been a month since the departure from Jinling, Han Qian stood at the bow of the boat, not in a hurry to get off the boat, but with his father looking at the distant green mountains.

There were three or four hundred barbarians with their hair and bare feet, guarding the river beach, their bare and lean black chests and their legs and feet cut by gravel and thorns, and most of them had a pile of thick and long hemp ropes around them, so they knew that they were all slender men who stood in front of the river beach and made a living by pulling fiber for passing ships.

Han Qian and the others wanted to pass through the territory of Chenzhou faster and enter Xuzhou, and they also planned to hire a slender man to pull a boat in Wuling County.

It's just that Han Daoxun's ship did not fly the flag, and was escorted by the warships of the Wuya Army Water Battalion, and before arriving in Wuling County, he docked separately at the wharf, and the slender man who guarded in front of the river beach did not know that the business had come to the door, and he only thought that these three rather magnificent ships were destined for Wuling County.

Han Qian didn't rush to send Fan Xicheng and them to find the slender man on the river beach, and saw a canopy boat tilting on the river beach two or three miles away from a distance, seeing that the awning boat was covered with white cotton and jute mourning cloth, he was quite surprised and said to his father: "That boat should be the Wang family's escort of Wang Geng's coffin back to his hometown, how could it be dumped on the river beach?" ”

It is not a special situation, the scouts who have infiltrated Langzhou, Chenzhou, and Xuzhou in advance will only leave messages in the agreed place on a regular basis, and will not take the initiative to contact Han Qian and them, which is mainly to prevent any clues from falling into the eyes of the secret room of the party in the party.

Therefore, Han Qian and the others already knew that the Wang family had taken a boat to escort the coffin of Wang Yu, who had been the assassin of Xuzhou and died of illness, down the river from Xuzhou four days ago, and was ready to be transported back to his hometown for burial.

"Just look at it." Han Do-hoon said.

"Isn't it a bit taboo?" Han Qian asked.

Hearing Han Qian say this, Fan Xicheng and the others all felt the same way, thinking that if Wang Yu was transferred normally and met on the way, they would have to get together and talk about it to show the replacement of the old and the new, but Wang Yu, as his predecessor, died of illness and died in office, and he didn't have time to avoid his anger, so how could he take the initiative to run over to solve the mold?

"Zuo Si sent ten groups of people from Jinling, but two groups were sent to Xuzhou by you as soon as possible, and the three news reports along the way all mentioned Wang Yu's funeral, which was obviously specially ordered by you," Han Daoxun looked at Han Qian and said, "To be honest, I have some doubts that the ship transporting Wang Yu's official coffin went wrong here, and you arranged for someone to do something." ”

Hearing what the head of the family said, Fan Xicheng and Zhao Kuo all looked at Han Qian suspiciously; Yang Qin also suddenly figured it out, if he really could find a place to make a fuss about Wang Geng's illness and death, wouldn't it be more helpful than any means to help Han Daoxun break the situation in Xuzhou?

"Dad, you misunderstood the child, how could the child do such a lack of morality?" Han Qian said without changing his face.

Han Qian didn't explain, but with his explanation, Yang Qin felt more and more that the boat carrying Wang Geng's coffin capsized here, and it was Han Qian who arranged for people to move, and thinking of the destruction of Yangtan Water Village, he felt a pain in his heart.