The boat passes through Xiakou and Chibi, and the shores are all lakes and rivers.

This is not only the ancient battlefield of the three kingdoms of Wu, Shu and Wei in the late Han Dynasty, but also the northern area of Yunmengze, the lake of eternity.

Washed by the Yangtze River and the Han River, as well as a large amount of sediment accumulation, the northern part of Yunmengze has been gradually silted up in the past few hundred years, and a large number of sandbanks have appeared, but the Jianghan Plain, the land of fishing and rice, has not yet been completely formed after a thousand years.

In the southwest of Yunmengze, in the west of Yuezhou, it forms the vast smoke waves of the 800-mile Dongting Lake (including green grass, red sand and other lakes) in the world.

After tossing twice, it finally stopped, Han Qian went all the way west from Ezhou to Yuezhou, and it was still peaceful, and there were no river bandits and lake bandits ready to move, rushing out to attack and disturb.

Yuezhou is the territory of Ma Yin, the envoy of Tanzhou Jiedu.

In addition to directly taking charge of the military and political power of Benzhou, that is, Tanzhou, Tanzhou, Ma Yin also controlled Yue and Lang Prefectures, and it can be said that the essence area of the vast smoke and waves of Dongting Lake for eight hundred miles is under Ma Yin's control.

As soon as Han Qian and the others arrived in Yuezhou, they saw more than 20 water camp warships from a distance, led by three building ships, stationed in the middle of the river, waiting for them to come; Banner hunting.

"The Ma family's five-tooth army is really majestic." Eight or nine miles away, Han Qian took a monocular and saw the flags of the opposite fleet for a long time, more than 30 water camp warships, mainly galleys, led by the three building ships, were extra majestic.

Each building is more than ten zhang long, and there are also three cabins on it, all of which have female walls and battle grids, the hull is more than five zhang higher than the water surface, and more than 40 pairs of large oars are set on both sides to drive the boat, and it is roughly estimated that each ship has at least 500 soldiers.

Such a heavy main warship, although it cannot be compared with the real Wuya battleship of the previous dynasty, but even among the elite of the naval army directly controlled by the Great Chu guards, there are not a few.

Ma Yin's Tanzhou state soldiers, divided into two divisions, the horse infantry army and the naval division, each composed of 9,000 soldiers, the strength is far beyond the ability of the state battalions of ordinary prefectures and counties, the fleet in front of him has 3,000 soldiers, nearly three medium and large warships are stationed in array on the river, it is really majestic.

"Dare to ask, is the ship of Lord Han Daoxun, the assassin of Xuzhou?" A paddle boat paddled down the river, and a military academy asked in a loud voice.

"We are a subordinate of Lord Han, and I dare to ask the military master if he has any advice." Fan Xicheng stood on the bow of the boat and responded in a loud voice.

"Jiangxiang Lake is raging, and my lord is worried that Lord Han will encounter twists and turns on the way to Xuzhou, so he specially sent my family's son, Wuya Duyu Hou Ma Xun, to lead a naval warship to escort Lord Han across the border. The son of my family specially invited Lord Han to board the ship for a talk. The military academy shouted.

"He said that I felt cold at night, and I was unwell, so I was not fit to meet guests." Han Daoxun instructed Fan Xicheng to speak, and then turned around and walked back to the cabin.

Even if the Tanzhou Festival made Ma Yin high and powerful, Han Daoxun, as the assassin of Xuzhou, was directly under the jurisdiction of Jinling, and there was no reason why he had to visit him.

Ma Xun is the son of Ma Yin, but he just came to meet him, and Han Daoxun decided that it was impossible for him to board the ship to meet Ma Xun.

"The Ma family wants to be the head of the country, and put on a posture of getting off the horse, that is, the governor of the state and county who is crossing the border should bow his head and not talk to his Ma family, which can be regarded as a big deal," Han Qian smiled and instructed Fan Xicheng, "You tell the military academy that my father is unwell, and I will take the ship to see Ma Shizi." ”

Fan Xicheng was slightly stunned, he didn't understand when the young master became so easy to speak?

Han Qian thought to himself, if he mastered an elite sailor with a scale of three or four thousand people, he could scold Ma Xun's nose and scold the street to make him cry and call his mother, but now he lowered his head, and the Xuzhou merchant fleet in the future could pass through Tanzhou safely, how could it be worth it.

Fan Xicheng turned around and saw that the head of the family stopped slightly for a while, but he didn't turn around to stop Han Qian from going to see Ma Xun, the envoy of Tanzhou Jiedu, so he replied to the military academy sent by Ma Xun to talk to him according to Han Qian's intentions.

"What are the generous gifts under the cabin?" Han Qian watched the paddle boat row back and asked Fan Xicheng in a low voice.

"It's worth some money for the two hundred horses that the young master bought from Jinling, why don't you take twenty as a gift?" Fan Xicheng asked.

",,!" Han Qian scolded repeatedly.

Fan Xicheng thought that Han Qian was unwilling to bow his head, but he didn't know that Han Qian was really distressed about the money to buy these two hundred ayaluo, and he originally hoped that this batch of ayaluo could make up for some losses.

"Load the two hundred horses on the ship, and you will follow me to meet the son of the Ma family." Han Qian said as he gritted his back tooth socket.

"Two hundred horses of Ayaluo, transported to Xuzhou, can be sold for four or five hundred thousand yuan." Fan Xicheng said with some reluctance, thinking that even if the head of the family was appointed as the assassin of Xuzhou, the official salary for a year would only be four or five hundred thousand yuan, and it would be given away as a meeting gift all of a sudden, how could there be such a loser?

In his opinion, giving twenty horses to Aya Luo is already very generous.

"......" Han Qian glared at Fan Xicheng, telling him to be less verbose and go and prepare.

Han Qian's power is getting heavier, and Fan Xicheng can only mutter a few words in a low voice now, seeing that the head of the family has nothing else to say, he can only regretfully order someone to move the bilge Aya Luo to another pulp sailing ship, ready to meet Ma Xun.

When Fan Xicheng was preparing for this, Han Qian stood at the hatch and talked to his father: "Ma Yin wants to be the head of the earth, and the more chaotic the situation in Jinling, the more he wants to see, so the Ma family wants and does not want his father to go to Xuzhou. ”

Han Daoxun stood in the aisle of the cabin, looking at the majestic ship formation opposite, and naturally understood what Han Qian meant.

The situation in Jinling is stable, even if the crown prince is not good, after succeeding to the throne, he connived at his cousin Xu to take power alone, and the Ma family's life in Tanzhou will not be too easy.

The three princes are the weakest, and at this time, there are only a few signs of catching up, and they are also the most afraid of being hit.

In this mentality, the three princes finally won the enclave of Xuzhou, and they could get some resources to support the open and secret struggle in Jinling, and the Ma family should take care of it carefully, so that the seedlings of the three princes can continue to grow, so that they are qualified to make the situation in Jinling more muddy and chaotic.

On the other hand, even if the Ma family did not dare to extend their hands to Jiang'e and other states in the east at this time, most of them did not want the Chen, Xu, Shao, Heng and other prefectures south of Tanzhou to really become the territory firmly controlled by the three princes, so that the power of the Ma family was completely contained in the three states of Tanlangyue and lost the depth of the south.

Han Daoxun also understands that this will be the most difficult and complicated situation for him to take up a post in Xuzhou.

The Anning Palace wants him to die, and the Ma family wants him to be soft and weak.

If he is too weak, let alone implement the new policy, he may not be able to make the county officials act according to orders, and if he is too strong and wants to do something, the Ma family will inevitably be the first to jump out and suppress him.

Although the Ma family's sphere of influence is limited to the three prefectures of Yue, Lang, and Tan, this is superficial, the Ma family has been operating in the Xianghu area for three generations, how could it be that the tentacles did not extend to the southern states of Chen, Xu, Shao, and Heng?

Besides, he really wants to suppress the powerful in Xuzhou, and the wealthy family surnamed Xuzhou is very likely to fall to the Ma family and confront him.

Han Daoxun understood that his son Han Qian wanted him to show deference to the Ma family and slowly figure it out, but he couldn't help but think again, do you really have time to make it slowly?

"Is my father worried that it will be too difficult to succeed after arriving in Xuzhou?" Han Qian saw that his father's face was gloomy and uncertain, and asked.

"No matter how difficult things are, someone has to do them." Han Daoxun breathed a sigh of relief and said.

"When my father arrives in Xuzhou, it's not that he can't do things, it depends on whether his father is willing to bear the name of tyrannical expropriation...... Han Qian said.

"Yes, the Ma family is not afraid that I will go to Xuzhou to be poor and tossed, nor will they be afraid that the third prince will borrow me to collect goods from Xuzhou, but they are just afraid that I will accept people's hearts." Han Daoxun has been in local politics for many years, and the subtlety of this is naturally not difficult to think through, and said with a wry smile.

"If my father wants to do something, he must crack down on the big surname Qianghao, and this matter must be in parallel with the collection of wealth and goods, so as to hide people's eyes and ears and not alarm the Ma family." Han Qian knew that his father still had no intention of intervening in the matter of the succession, so he patiently persuaded him.

Han Daoxun sighed, the situation in Xuzhou is too complicated.

Xuzhou's old name was Wuzhou, because of the Wushan and the main tributary of Yuanshui, which was named after Wushan and Wushui, the main tributary of Yuanshui, which was "once difficult to make water in the sea, except that Wushan is not a cloud", and was renamed Xuzhou in the middle and late stages of the former dynasty because it was close to Xupu County, to which Chenzhou belongs.

As the old land of Wuximan, it is also the deep place of Wuximan's belly, which is subordinate to three counties, with a total of more than 12,000 households, of which the main households, which account for more than 60% of the total population, are the remnants of Wuximan, and still maintain a more traditional tribal system.

In order to avoid turmoil in the area to which the old county belonged to Wuling, and also at the request of Ma Yin, the envoy of Tanzhou Jiedu, Chenzhou, Xuzhou and other places, the county and township officials were mainly hereditary chiefs of the tribes in these areas, and the neighborhood system was not established at all.

In addition to the main outskirts, the displaced people who migrated south along the Yuanshui River due to war and famine settled down in Xuzhou, forming nearly 5,000 customers.

The contradiction between local and local people is extremely serious, mainly reflected in the struggle for land; In contrast, the oppression of ordinary people by the chieftains and the powerful people in the customers is temporarily hidden under the contradiction between the local customers.

Now coupled with the factor of the Ma family, this makes the situation he faces even more complicated after he takes office in Xuzhou, and ordinary officials don't dare to think about touching anything at all, just honestly wait for the end of his term of office, and find a way to transfer to a better place or to serve in the DPRK.

It is no wonder that so many officials regard these places as daunting.

He wants to get things done, crack down on the strong, and establish his prestige, which is the first step, but this will inevitably arouse the vigilance of the Ma family.

As his son Han Qian said, he will strike at the interests squeezed out by the powerful tycoons, without rescuing the ordinary people from distress and not winning over the hearts of the people, but will be transferred to Jinling in time and transferred to the hands of the three princes.

This eliminates the biggest obstacle and makes things look a little easier.

Of course, the more far-reaching consequence is that he may sink deeper and deeper into the mud pit of competing for succession.

Han Daoxun looked up at Han Qian and asked, "Did you have such an idea for a long time?" ”

"The key depends on what my father thinks, maybe when I go to Xuzhou, I can play the prestige of the second ancestor for a few days." Han Qian said with a smile.

"......" Han Daoxun shook his head and smiled bitterly, at this time, Fan Xicheng came over and said that he was ready, so he said to Han Qian, "You go to see Ma Xun." ”

Yang Qin and Tian Cheng and Gao Shao boarded the boat just now to report on the situation on both sides of the riverbank, and they have not left at this time.

The cabin was small, and even if they wanted to avoid it, there was no place to avoid it, so they also listened to Han Daoxun and Han Qian's words.

Even if they don't understand Han Daoxun's mood of not wanting to get involved in the battle for succession and Han Daoxun's true ambition, they can also understand that Han Daoxun's notoriety in the past is by no means as simple as it seems on the surface, just like this time when he went to Xuzhou, Han Daoxun was ready to bear the notoriety of the rampant conquest before he arrived in Xuzhou, in fact, there was a deep plan behind it.

They could also hear that Han Qian was the most direct promoter of these schemes.

Yang Qin, Tian Cheng, and Gao Shao looked at each other, and at this time, they listened to Han Qian's call, and also walked out of the cabin, and went to see the prince of Tanzhou Jiedu together......