(PS: I wish my brothers and sisters a happy New Year and a happy family...... ）

The end of March is the warmest and most comfortable season in Xuzhou, the rainy season has not yet come, the Nguyen River is vast and clear, the weather is bright, wearing thin shirts, full of green mountains and greenery, the breeze is blowing, and the warmth is beaming.

If it rains lightly, the smoke and rain cover the rivers and green mountains, and you feel that the world is sparse, sitting in the house to read and write, or entering the restaurant to pick a table near the window, and pour it slowly, which is the most pleasant.

Although the state was moved to Chenzhong, Qianyang City inherited the heritage of hundreds of years and is still the most prosperous city in Xuzhou.

Most of the boats and travelers who went down the river from Qianzhong or from Yuelang upriver still chose to stop in Qianyang, and the resumption of the Xuefeng Mountain Post Road made it possible for business travelers in Shaoheng and other places to take Qianyang to Qianzhong in a shorter way.

With this alone, Qianyang's status is far from being replaced by Chenzhong in the upper reaches of Chenshui, not to mention that Qianyang is still the center of the eastern region of Xuzhou, and the villagers in the surrounding four counties and more than 40 townships will also run to Qianyang City if they want to catch up with the big set and have good foot strength.

Travels from south to north and a dazzling array of goods are handed over and unloaded in front of the wharf, and hundreds of boats and boats, large and small, dock in front of the wharf.

Such a grand occasion can only be seen in a few big cities in the land of Jianghuai.

As a century-old Guanyue Building built in the city, the private liquor field has to be taught the secret method to brew Yandang Spring for sale, and at the same time it is famous for the hundred duck banquet in Xuzhou, and in the drizzly season, it is full of guests.

"It is said that Emperor Yanyou raised troops under the city of Jinling, hundreds of whirlwind cannons lined up, and the stone tablets within a hundred miles were transported to the city to be ground into stone bullets, and they bombarded the city wall day and night. Although Jinling City is impregnable, it can't withstand this mess. I saw that the city wall was cracked, and although the generals guarding behind the battlement wall were also our great Chu Jian'er, their flesh and blood were smashed by the stone bullets weighing hundreds or even hundreds or thousands of catties. Not to mention the collapse of Chengpei, there were red and white things everywhere, and this stone bomb was smashed, and more than 10,000 defenders were killed and wounded before and after. Emperor Yanyou raised his troops to attack too fiercely, and the thief couldn't resist it, so he captured the wife and children of Yang Jian, the Marquis of Zhenyuan, and ordered the Marquis of Zhenyuan to take the building boat that was even taller than our Guanyue Tower, and covered them to escape across the river in a hurry and go to Xu Mingzhen, the envoy of Shouzhou Jiedu. Zhenyuan Marquis Yang Jian's mind has always been here with Emperor Yanyou, but his wife and children are controlled by the queen thief, and he has to be coerced by the queen thief and become the enemy of Emperor Yanyou. However, seeing that the thief was about to flee to Jiangbei, Yang Jian, the Marquis of Zhenyuan, finally remembered that he was a general of the clan, entrusted by the first emperor, and repented, and finally raised his sword to kill himself, and his general Fan Xiang led his troops to help Emperor Yanyou kill the rebels. Over the years, our Great Chu and the Liang Army have competed for victory, and the Liang Army's horsemen have galloped vertically and horizontally, and the world is invincible, but when we go to the land of our Great Chu River, Huai Lake, I have a headache when I see our naval warships. Lou Boat Army is the strongest sailor of our Great Chu, even if Yang Jian, Marquis of Zhenyuan, killed himself, even if the general Fan Xiang led his troops to vote for Emperor Yanyou, but there are still many sailors who are stubborn, and Tie Xin follows the thief behind, that water battle, the river is dyed red, and hundreds of warships sink to the bottom of the river, it is really a killing that the sky is dark, and the chickens and dogs are ......not left."

At the end of February and the beginning of March, Yueyang soldiers and horses captured Jinling, Anning Palace only the remnants fled to Jiangbei, the third prince Yang Yuanpu succeeded to the throne in Jinling, and the year name was Yanyou Zhushi, and in mid-March it had been spread to Xuzhou with the business travel.

The second floor of Guanyue Building was full of guests at this time, and there was a fat-headed and big-eared businessman sitting in the middle of the hall, wearing a brocade robe, and listening to the accent seemed to be from Jiang'e and other places.

“…… You don't know about this, do you? Emperor Yanyou for the attack on Jinling, from the Jiang'e and other mobilized materials, loaded with hundreds of large and small ships, I am Ezhou people are true, but years ago with the ship escort to Jinling, until the end of February stayed in Jinling, but I saw with my own eyes the situation of stone bullets flying and smashing the city, but also saw hundreds of warships on the river to collide and fight. The thief then coerced more than 100,000 people to retreat to Jinling, but the big boats were all called thieves to sit, those coerced grass people and thieves' families were small, the boats they sat on were small and broken, I don't know how many boats sank, and the downstream river beaches were full of drowned floating corpses, but it was a full meal for the fish and crabs in the river. The fat-faced businessman heard someone questioning, and his tone was even more passionate when he talked about the bloody scene of the Jinling Water Battle.

There is a table in the corner of the "......" hall, and there is a middle-aged man in a green shirt, who is said to be a middle-aged man who does not look old, has no beard, and has smooth lips and cheeks, but his temples are already white.

Although the green-shirted guest said that his robe was old, and he also played two puddings, occupying a corner of the table, but there was a small plate of dried incense and a small plate of Jiang Qin as a snack, but the wine only required half a bowl of turbid wine to drink there slowly, looking broken, but his demeanor was extraordinary.

The hall was overcrowded, everyone was sitting at the table, sitting opposite the green-shirted guest was a young man, who was listening to the fat-faced businessman talking about the Jinling war with relish, and saw the green-shirted guest on the other side of the table showing such a demeanor, his heart moved, and asked: "Could it be that the old man knows what the inside story, which is different from what the man said?" ”

The green-shirted guest glanced at the young man opposite, took a sip of wine with a clay bowl missing a small corner, but didn't want to pay attention to it.

The green-shirted guest behaved like this, but aroused the interest of the young man, he saw that the green-shirted guest was quite broken, I don't know if it was a disaster, half a bowl of wine sipped for a long time and did not see the shallow, it seems that there are few money to buy wine, so he pushed a pot of aged wine in front of him forward, and said: "The old man wants to tell me any interesting things, this pot of wine is considered to be the boy who invited the old man today." ”

The green-shirted guest picked up the wine jug and shook it, there was still more than half a pot of aged wine in it, glanced at the fat-faced merchant who was talking heartily there, and said: "Although I haven't been to Jinling, I still have a little hearing of Yang Jian, the Marquis of Zhenyuan. After his death, except for Fan Xiang, who was most closely related to Yueyang, he surrendered to Emperor Yanyou, but the other generals followed Anning Palace to fight to the death, and they could know that Yang Jian, the Marquis of Zhenyuan, was by no means as simple as killing himself, but for various reasons, the real cause of his death was not made public. ”

"What is the reason for that, it must be said that the Marquis of Zhenyuan died of suicide?" The young man asked.

"I'm in Qianyang, and I don't know how to calculate, how can I know these details?" The green-shirted guest drank all the wine in his pottery bowl and took the wine jug

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After pouring a little half of wine, he pushed the jug back to the young man, so that his words were worth half a bowl of wine.

"The Jinling water battle was fierce, and the prince Yang Yuanwu's boat almost capsized, but the boat did not fall, and the prince Yang Yuanwu, who was standing on the bow of the ship and watching the battle, was planted in the water, was shot by random arrows, and was already dead of anger when he was rescued...... "The fat-faced merchant Jia watched everyone gather around, and told the details of the follow-up of the Jinling water battle more and more emotionally.

"It's also fake,"

After drinking wine, the green-shirted guest felt that he should do his duty to explain, and said to the young man across the table,

"The crown prince Yang Yuanwu has already ascended the throne in Jinling, and if he retreats to the north bank, he will inevitably be with the prince and minister of Anning Palace, and will be protected at the core of the fleet. If the ship formation was once penetrated by the Yueyang naval army, and the crown prince Yang Yuanwu was killed by arrows in the water, wouldn't it mean that the naval army of Anning Palace had already been defeated, and how many remnants of the defeated army could escape to the north shore? How could Emperor Yanyou not take advantage of the victory to pursue and annihilate the rebels of Anning Palace in one fell swoop? The crown prince Yang Yuanwu has never been in good health, and in my opinion, most of them were too frightened, and he died of illness before he withdrew from Jinling City. Anning Palace now insists that the crown prince fell into the water and was killed by an arrow, but it was just to Yanyou Emperor to bear the notoriety of killing his brother and usurping the throne. Think about it, before Emperor Yanyou ascended the throne, he said that Anning Palace killed his husband and usurped the throne, and Anning Palace in turn said that Emperor Yanyou killed his brother and usurped the throne, did it become a confused account? ”

"Although the old man is not in Jinling at this time, it makes a lot of sense, presumably when the old man is in Jinling, he must be extraordinary, right?" The young man asked respectfully.

"Anything extraordinary, I am just a guest in heaven and earth, and a sand gull in the lake and sea." The green-shirted guest smiled, drank all the remaining wine in the pottery bowl, arched his hand to the young man, thanked him for the wine, lifted the shabby robe, picked up a few thin books in the corner of the table, and was about to get up and leave.

"Master Guo is really humble." A drinker at the next table turned around at this time and said to the green-shirted guest.

Only then did Guo Rong see clearly that the person sitting at the table with a few porters was actually the new Chenzhong County Commander and Governor Shi Fengyi, but he didn't expect him to sit at the table next to him, he was slightly stunned, and his eyes couldn't help but search elsewhere in the hall.

"The lord was drinking in the wing room on the third floor, and when he saw that Lord Guo was here, he called Feng Yi to come over and invite Lord Guo to drink two glasses of wine together to catch up with the old days-Feng Yu heard this businessman say that the water battle in Jinling was very interesting, and he couldn't help but sit down and listen to it for a while." Feng Yi said with a smile.

Guo Rong didn't like Feng Yi very much, and he could guess that Feng Yi was deliberately sitting there with his back on his back, just to observe his reaction to the fall of Jinling, and just said lightly: "Lord Han can allow me to live in Qianyang, I don't dare to ask him to spend money on wine anymore." ”

No matter what contradictions Han Qian has with Yang Yuanpu, who succeeded to the throne of Jinling, since Han Qian has returned to Xuzhou, he is the lord of Xuzhou, Guo Rong knows that he is the remnant of Anning Palace, Han Qian can not kill him is already magnanimous, why did he run to Han Qian to find it unhappy?

"Lord Guo won't tell Feng Yu to be unable to make a difference in front of adults, right?" Feng Yi's face sank slightly, he was not so easy to talk to, he looked at Guo Rong calmly, but he wouldn't let him go like this.

Seeing that there were two strong and healthy men, who stood up with the change in Feng Mi's face, Guo Rong was a little annoyed, stared at Feng Mi and asked, "Under the fence, it seems that I can't drink this wine today?" ”

"Yes, yes." Feng Yi stretched out his hand and pointed to the stairs and motioned for Guo Rong to go first.

The young man who inadvertently wanted to inquire about some interesting things was a little stunned when he saw this scene, and he didn't know what kind of characters the green-shirted guest and the gray-robed young man at the next table were.

Guo Rong ascended to the third floor from the stairs, and found that there were no other drinkers upstairs, several guards were guarding the staircase, there was no noise, and the door of the wing room opposite the staircase was open, as if he was listening to the discussion downstairs, he couldn't help but think, what would Han Qian think when he learned that Yang Yuanpu had successfully captured Jinling and succeeded to the throne?

Guo Rong walked into the wing room and saw Han Qian sitting in the corner very casually, also wearing a green shirt, but it was much newer than the ragged shirt on his body, but in Qianyang City, where business travel was everywhere, it was also ordinary.

Zhao Ting'er and Xi Ying's two daughters were stunning, Guo Rong thought that Han Qian, Feng Yi, and Tian Cheng could quietly go upstairs with the guards, and he may not have noticed it with his back to the stairs, but Zhao Ting'er and Xi Ying's two daughters would inevitably attract everyone's attention if they passed the stairs, so it seemed that Han Qian had actually sat here long before he came over to drink.

So, Han Qian didn't invite him upstairs because he didn't see it unintentionally, but he always arranged for someone to keep an eye on him?

Guo Rong couldn't help but wonder, what was Han Qian's intention in asking him to go upstairs to meet him, could it be that he thought of using his relationship with Anning Palace to do something?

Kong Xirong and Xi Fa'er sat at the bottom of the table, and when they saw Feng Yi accompanying Guo Rong in, they sat up and gave them their seats.

"I haven't seen you for a while, is Lord Guo okay now?" Han Qian motioned for Guo Rong to take a seat.

"What's good, Lord Han doesn't drive me away, and the days in Qianyang are quite quiet - Lord Han called Guo Rong over, won't it mean that there will be no place for Guo Rong in Qianyang in the future?" Guo Rong had the mentality of being at ease when he came, and he was not polite, and sat down directly on the side of the door of the wing room.

"I was able to get out of Shu smoothly, thanks to the help of Lord Guo, which also made it impossible for Lord Guo to return to the Anning Palace, how could Han Qian be an ungrateful person?" Han Qian smiled slightly, glanced at the few books in Guo Rong's hand, and asked, "These books were compiled by me in my spare time and sold in the bookstore, do you have any advice?" ”

"I'm just idle, and I just have a few extra money in my hand to buy it to play the glowing yin, how can I be qualified to advise? Lord Han is really joking. Guo Rong said.

Seeing Guo Rong's indifferent attitude, Feng Yi sat down and said to Han Qian: "Lord Guo guessed that Yang Yuanwu drowned and died by an arrow!" ”

"Oh?" Han Qian thought to himself that Guo Rong was a descendant of the Anning Palace earlier, and he knew much more about Yang Yuanwu's physical condition than outsiders, so it was not surprising that he could guess this, so he asked with interest, "Then Lord Guo, guess it, why did I invite you upstairs to talk?" ”

"Before competing for all the merits and returning to Xuzhou first, whether Lord Han has the worry of hiding the bow of the bird, or has the ambition to plot the world, Guo Rong is dazzled and can't see it really, how can he guess Lord Han's thoughts?" Guo Rong said, "But Emperor Yanyou failed to completely annihilate the rebels of Anning Palace on the river, but caused his own water battalion combat strength to be seriously damaged, and attacked Jinling City."

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There are a lot of losses, and when he ascends the throne, he bears the notoriety of killing his brother and usurping the throne, how can it be said that it can be regarded as perfect, but I can guess his thoughts, maybe I will feel that Lord Han is unkind - however, in the end, Emperor Yanyou was taught by Lord Han, whether he chose to forbear, recount the friendship between teachers and students with Lord Han, or will he block and restrict Xuzhou, I can't guess......"

Feng Yi was secretly frightened, Guo Rong was arranged by Anning Palace to Yang Yuanpu's side, so that Anning Palace could monitor and master Yang Yuanpu's every move at any time, but Guo Rong was deceived by Han Qian and Shen Yang at the beginning, and it was not until the Dragon Bird Army became powerful that he saw clearly the reality of Taowu Ji's collection of infected and hungry people.

This made Feng Yi more or less despise Guo Rong, but he didn't expect Guo Rong to live in Qianyang, and he could judge so many key contents from just a few words from past business travel.

After Yang Yuanpu captured Jinling, he held a ceremony as soon as possible, and couldn't wait to succeed to the throne and change the year name Yanyou, Feng Yu They got the news, naturally a few days earlier than the business travel, and they are most worried about Yang Yuanpu's attitude towards Xuzhou after succeeding to the throne.

Does Yang Yuanpu realize the seriousness of internal and external troubles and continue to ease the relationship with Xuzhou and Han Qian, or first take Xuzhou as the primary target of suppression to impose various restrictions?

The difference in Yang Yuanpu's posture will also determine that Xuzhou should take different responses.

Feng Yi and they have more confidential and first-line intelligence information, it is not surprising that they will judge it like this, and it is not easy for Guo Rong to see this glance.

Feng Yi thought to himself, Guo Rong was planted in Han Qian's hands before, and was even regarded as incompetent and alienated by the Anning Palace, maybe all this was because Han Qian was too powerful, and Guo Rong was dull and stupid, but Guo Rong was actually not slightly worse than others at all, right?

Han Qian also had no intention of continuing to play dumb riddles with Guo Rong, in fact, he had long seen that although Guo Rong was an old man in the Guangling Jiedu Embassy, he did not agree with many of the practices of the Anning Palace, and sometimes he was more involuntarily.

Before Yang Yuanpu left the palace to enter the palace, Guo Rong had a lot of contacts with his father, and aside from the fact that Anning Palace had the cause of befriending his father through Guo Rong, it can be said that Guo Rong agreed with or appreciated his father's personality and political views to a certain extent.

This should be the key to Guo Rong's sluggish reaction in the affairs of the Dragon Bird Army, after all, he served by Yang Yuanpu's side, and he really did not show too much desire to restrict Yang Yuanpu's actions for the Anning Palace.

Sent to Shudi, learned of the drastic changes in Jinling, Guo Rong helped him kidnap the lord of Qingyang County to return to Chu, it can be said that he has completely "betrayed" the Anning Palace, so that Guo Rong himself after returning to Chu except for Xuzhou, the world has no place to stay.

Han Qian didn't want to fight Guo Rong with anything, and said: "No matter what the new emperor thinks of me, I don't have the heart to trouble the world, but the first emperor and His Majesty have clearly given me Xuzhou Han Qian, I will retreat to Xuzhou and run it, and no one in the world can say that I am not - I invite Lord Guo to come over to meet, and I really want to ask Lord Guo to help me!" ”

"......" Guo Rong was silent.

Han Qian continued: "Lord Guo must want to ask, since I want to ask Lord Guo for help, why did I delay until today to see Lord Guo?" To tell you the truth, the reason why I only mentioned this now is that Lord Guo has a lot of old things in Anning Palace, no matter how the thief queen Xu Hui and others are perverse, the vast majority of others are just coerced, and there is no choice, I think that Lord Guo is a person with affection and righteousness, and when he thinks of his old days, he will not agree to work in Xuzhou - but now Lord Guo should not have this worry, right? ”

Guo Rong groaned, still unable to guess what Han Qian wanted to do when he saw him.

Han Qian's words are ostensibly true.

In the past, Xuzhou and Yueyang were one, and if he really agreed to serve in Xuzhou, his old life in the palace would never be easy.

However, no matter how sluggish Empress Xu was at this time, he should have known that Xuzhou and Emperor Yanyou Yang Yuanpu were at odds with each other, and Empress Xu's enemy at this time was Emperor Yanyou Yang Yuanpu, so his tenure in Xuzhou would not provoke any fierce reactions.

It's just that Han Qian chose to ask him to serve in Xuzhou at this time, do you really want him to be so simple?

Seeing that Guo Rong was hesitant, Han Qian could guess what he was thinking, and said: "When Lord Guo and my late father met, I was still stubborn, and I didn't meet Lord Guo much, but the codex left by my late father mostly admired Lord Guo's knowledge of the world's learning, and also had the heart to apply it to the world. I asked Lord Guo to help me, not because I wanted to use the relationship between Lord Guo and Anning Palace to play any conspiracy, no matter what His Majesty thought of me, but in the matter of annihilating the remnants of Anning Palace, Xuzhou would never hold back, let alone secretly communicate with Anning Palace. Otherwise, how can I have peace of mind? ”

"No matter what, I am the wreck of the Anning Palace, if you want to use me, how will the people of the world see you?" Guo Rong asked.

"I can't completely ignore the eyes of the world, but I want peace of mind—" Han Qian said.

"If you really want to use me, what do you do, do I have a choice?" Guo Rong asked.

"Lord Guo, please speak." Han Qian said.

"If you use me, I can assist the acting officer in the affairs - of course, there are many contents in these booklets, I can't figure it out, and what is the connection between these booklets and the war weapons, ships, fine iron, and cloth made in Xuzhou, I can't get a clue, can Lord Han teach me?" Guo Rong put the several books in his hand that were almost crumbling and densely marked, put them on the table, stared at Han Qian and asked.

At present, the booklets sold by bookstores in Qianyang and other cities are mainly to popularize the basic knowledge of arithmetic and geology, but they do not involve specific applications.

And the part of the combination of arithmetic, geology and craftsmanship is the core secret that Xuzhou really keeps secret.

Unexpectedly, the condition proposed by Guo Rong was to have access to the core secrets of Xuzhou as soon as possible.

Feng Yi narrowed his eyes and looked at Guo Rong, he guessed that Guo Rong made such a request, perhaps to see if Xuzhou really trusted him, but the question was whether Guo Rong was really trustworthy?

"What's not to be afraid of?" Han Qian didn't care what Feng Yi and the others thought in their hearts, and said with a smile, "We have made a happy decision!" ”

Ji Xiyao, Chen Jitang and even Zhao Ting'er have to be in charge of a lot of things, and Han Qian now wishes that someone with first-class knowledge like Guo Rong could join in the sorting, research and promotion of new arithmetic and gewuxue!

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