Chapter 204 The Use of the Boat Gang
Tian Cheng and Zhao Wuji thought that Han Qian had met a traveler by chance, but when they heard the last words that Han Qian said to Zhu Yu, they saw Zhu Yu and Han Yuanqi's faces clearly, and they were really shocked.
Tian Cheng and Zhao Wuji dealt with Wen Ruilin, so they came to look for Han Qian and Xi Ying, just worried that they would encounter water thieves nearby, but they never thought that they would encounter Zhu Yu, the king of Liang Yong, and Han Yuanqi, the general of the forbidden army of Liang State, who were the great enemies of the bloody battle of Xichuan.
Tian Cheng and Zhao Wuji subconsciously wanted to draw their swords and take off their bows, Han Qian stretched out his hand to hold them down, urging them to go back, they were vigilantly staring at the mountains and forests on both sides, and they were unwilling to walk towards the south bank, but they were more unimaginably shocked in their hearts, and couldn't help but ask Han Qian: "My lord, why is the king of thieves here?" ”
Han Qian smiled bitterly: "He expected that after I passed through Turtle Mountain, I would climb Turtle Mountain to take in the beautiful scenery of Jianghan, so he waited for me here - after I go back, you must not mention this matter to anyone, and it will be as if this incident has not happened." ”
Tian Cheng and Zhao Wuji were even more shocked, through the gap between the trees, they could still see the regret on King Liang Yong's face, and they couldn't believe that Han Qian would refuse King Liang Yong's solicitation.
You must know that even if King Liang Yong is not a descendant, in the eyes of Tian Cheng and others, who advocate strength, he is almost the best candidate for the new emperor of Liang State, and this war also ruthlessly proves that Liang State is already above Da Chu in strength before integrating Guanzhong soldiers and horses.
Zhu Yu, the king of Yong, with a body of ten thousand gold, did not hesitate to take risks to wait in Guishan.
Compared with the sincerity of King Liang Yong, Han Qian made such a great contribution to Da Chu, but was snubbed like this, Tian Cheng and Zhao Wuji wanted to grab Han Qian's arm at this moment, and ran back to Zhu Yu, King of Liang Yong, to kneel.
This is the Master!
Seeing Han Qian's two subordinates appear, Han Yuanqi was really startled, but seeing that Han Qian did not intend to leave them in trouble, but urged the two subordinates to leave quickly, on the one hand, he admired Han Qian's bearing, and on the other hand, he couldn't laugh or cry, how could he not have thought that Han Qian was so untreated by Emperor Chu, and in the face of His Royal Highness's such sincere solicitation, he didn't even think about it, and turned around and ran away?
"His Highness's whereabouts have been revealed, and Chu Di has become extremely dangerous, let's go back to Bian early, right?" Han Yuanqi said.
"Han Qian won't expose my whereabouts, that's not good for him," Zhu Yu said indifferently, just looking at the mountains and forests that were already nowhere to be seen, but he didn't expect Han Qian to even think about it, so he turned around and left directly, and asked Han Yuanqi with a wry smile, "You said that Yang Yuanpu's little boy can't even protect himself, what can he do, so that Han Qian is more optimistic about him?" ”
"Maybe His Highness was too hasty to meet him this time, even if Han Qian had the intention of waiting for a price to sell, he would not follow us north at this time." Han Yuanqi said.
"I hope it's like what you said," Zhu Yu said, "You said that when Han Qian left, the gods and gods said those words, could it be that he really has the ability to predict the heavens?" ”
"Maybe it's the bystanders who are clearer." Han Yuanqi bowed his head and said.
Zhu Yu sighed slightly, and soon, the sailboat with hidden guards approached the north cliff of Guishan, and he and Han Yuan boarded the boat to go around to the south bank of Guishan, and found that Han Qian had already sailed ten miles away by boat.
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"He who forsaken me shall not remain in the day of yesterday;
Those who disturb my heart will have many troubles today.
The long wind sends autumn geese thousands of miles, and you can be a tall building for this.
Penglai's article is built on the bones, and Xiao Xie is clear in the middle.
All of them want to fly with great joy and want to go to the blue sky to see the bright moon.
Draw the knife and cut off the water, the water is more flowing, and the toast is more sorrowful.
Life is not satisfactory in the world, and the Ming Dynasty spreads flat boats. ”
Compared with Du Qiqi's singing voice, Han Qian intermittently blew out a see-saw-like sound, making Xi Ying intuitively feel that this was a kind of torture, and he couldn't wait to kick Han Qian from the bow of the boat into the river, without the slightest hint of courtiership elegance, I really don't know what Zhu Yu, the king of Liang Yong, likes Han Qian, and actually says the fleshy words of "all my life as a friend".
Tian Cheng and Zhao Wuji hid on two Wupeng boats, while Du Yijun, who was proficient in music, half-squatted beside him and carefully instructed Han Qian to play Tao Xun's main points.
Before Ge's father was asked, he served as a medical officer in Yingzhou, and he also had a deep accomplishment in Confucianism, which can be said to be a real heirloom of poetry and books.
Although he was relegated to the hard labor camp for only one month, he was ransomed by Han Qian, but for Du Yijun, who has a relatively weak temperament, the one-month career in the hard labor camp seems to have become an incomparable shadow in his life, and serving Han Qian is also cautious, for fear that if he is not careful, he will be severely punished.
Han Qian blew Tao Xun like shit, but Du Yijun still laughed and praised him.
"It's Chizhou City in front, should we just go around it?" At this time, another awning boat approached, and Tian Cheng squatted on the bow of the boat and asked Han Qian.
Entering the Yangtze River and going downstream, every time he encounters Dayizhou City, Han Qian wants to stop and stay for a day or two, but Chicheng Assassin Shi is Han Daoming, the eldest master of the Han family, and they have already torn their faces with each other, Tian Cheng feels that Han Qian will not think of stopping in Chizhou City.
"Let's go, let's go." Han Qian waved his hand and said, he didn't have the heart to go to Chizhou to find unpleasantness.
"It may be that Yang Ye, Feng Ye, their boats have caught up from behind!" Zhao Wuji stood behind Tian Cheng, pulled the bronze telescope to the longest in his hand, and looked behind him.
Han Qian stood up and looked behind him with his naked eyes, only a few vague sail shadows between the water and the sky.
Xi Ying drilled back into the cabin and took out another bronze telescope, Han Qian pulled the bronze telescope open, carefully adjusted the focus, the ship was more than ten miles away, naturally he couldn't see the faces and clothes of the people standing on the deck, but looking at the open sails, the two sailing ships at the top of the head were like a shuttle in the bow, and there was no doubt that they should be newly built fast sailing ships in the Xuzhou Shipyard, while the other six sailboats were all traditional wide-headed flat-bottomed boats, but they were equipped with water panels on both sides and replaced with new sail masts.
After waiting for half an hour, when the fleet behind caught up, it was indeed Yang Qin, Feng Xuan and others, and Han Qian boarded the new ship with Tian Cheng, Zhao Wuji, Xi Ying and others.
With the 3,000 loaves of gold given by Chuzhou, the military funds advanced by Zuo Si and the Xuzhou Boat Gang and the ships destroyed in the war were finally compensated.
Yang Qin, Feng Xuan, and Xi Chang set out from Xiangzhou City at the end of April, first settled in Tanzhou, spent a huge amount of money to buy six three-masted sailing ships, and then returned to Xuzhou for renovation.
Han Qian did not restore the capacity of the four-surnamed fleet this time, and even formed a compensation plan for the part of the four-surnamed fleet that was destroyed in the war, which should be deducted from the money and grain that the four surnames should pay to the state and county.
In fact, this is to transfer the compensation originally borne by the Privy Council and the Degree Support Department to the Xuzhou local government.
Of course, the state government presided over by Han Daoxun had no way to collect land taxes from the subordinate counties.
This part of the money and grain was originally controlled by the four surnames, and it was agreed that the four surnames would use this part of the money and grain to offset the losses of the war-damaged ships, and the state government actually did not need to make much sacrifice.
Of course, Han Qian did not do this to save money for the Privy Council, but more importantly, he wanted to temporarily exclude the four families from the shipping between Xuzhou and Jinling.
The four surnames can't say that Han Qian's is not, first of all, this is a plan drawn up by the Privy Council and approved by Emperor Tianyou, and the Dragon Bird Army and Xuzhou just follow the order.
In addition to the partial compensation for the war-damaged ships, Han Qian paid for the materials on credit before, in the name of Zuo Si, from this batch of gold obtained from Chuzhou, without a penny of food for the four surnames.
The four surnamed sons who participated in the bloody battle of Xichuan participated in the defense of the city, and the casualties were all given compensation according to the standards of the Dragon Bird Army, and those who survived were still allocated from the official fields in Xuzhou to 3500 acres of fields ranging from 100 mu to 3,500 mu to reward military merits.
And people like Feng Zhang, Gao Bao and others were directly awarded the ninth or even eighth rank of honors and rank officials, and when they returned to Xuzhou, their status was different from the past.
Even if Feng Zhang and the others are still the sons and nephews of Feng Changyu, Xizhen and others, they are not willing to be called by Feng Changyu, Xizhen and others as before, just as the leaders designated by the four surnames, and take people to run the boat, but the final interests are cut off by the descendants of the four surnames.
Even if they don't consider the state and county to find an errand, they are more thinking about buying a boat by themselves, recruiting people, and following the Xuzhou boat gang to and from Xuzhou and Jinling to find a job.
In any case, on the one hand, excluding the four surnames from the shipping, restricting the four surnames from continuing to profit from the shipping, and on the other hand, promoting the internal disintegration of the four surnames, are what Han Qian wants to do the most.
Of course, Han Qian also directly expanded the capacity of the Xuzhou Ship Gang this time.
Since Emperor Tianyou already has his eyes on Linjiang Qian Shop, the two summons and the official rank of the county prince's mansion deliberately omitted him and Zuo Si, in the final analysis, he is wary of his father and son, and does not want him to hold power as soon as he and his father come up, Han Qian is a person who knows and tastes, so he can't expect Yi Zuo Si to be under his independent control forever.
This is the problem that he owes back to Jinling as a priority.
However, he will continue to import resources to Xuzhou in the future, and the only way is for the boat gang to directly control a considerable scale of product trade, using this, he can intercept more profits from the boat gang, and leave more profits in the shipyards, weaving institutes, and foundries directly controlled by him in Xuzhou, for the construction of embankments, mines, resettlement of displaced people and other things in Xuzhou.
In particular, the large-scale reclamation of the silted flats along the Yuanshui River, including the construction of river embankments and the dredging of major streams, can only be carried out with a large amount of money and grain in an organized manner.
This year, it is also necessary to increase the efforts to redeem the people of the Xi clan.
Han Qian couldn't stop these things because of Emperor Tianyou's warning, so he could only do it more skillfully and covertly.
Emperor Tianyou is a scheming man, but some of the things that Han Qian wants to do are unprecedented, so he doesn't believe that Emperor Tianyou will peek into the mystery.