Zhenjiang.

"Jingkou Guazhou is a water, and Zhongshan is only separated by a few mountains. The spring breeze and the south bank of the Green River, when will the bright moon shine on me.

Speaking of which, I'm a little homesick! ”

Yang Xin held the wine glass and said leisurely with Erlang's legs.

This poem is still very appropriate.

At this time, on his left is Zhenjiang City, the north Guting on the riverside can be seen in the distance, and then the south mouth of the canal is crowded with countless boats, the same boats on the canal behind the Jingkou lock seem to be endless and extend out of sight, and the ancient tower of Jinshan that is still an isolated island in the river in front of him stands, and the Zhaoguan stone tower on the shore faces each other across the water.

In front of him to the right, a small city stood on the north bank of the Yangtze River.

This is Guazhou City.

A high-rise building on the east side of the south gate of Guazhou City, which is facing the river, plunges into the sky, overlooking the mighty eastward flow of the river.

This is the Grand View Tower, but modern times can not be found, let alone this Grand View Tower, that is, Guazhou City is in the Yangtze River, this famous ancient city completely collapsed into the surging river at the end of the Qing Dynasty.

"You're still laughing?"

Yan Shenggong shouted like crazy.

"What do you say?"

Then he pointed straight ahead and roared in a tone of obvious anger.

Between the city of Guazhou and Jinshan that he was referring to, the wide river surface was almost invisible, full of boats, countless boats and merchant ships, densely crowded on the Yangtze River, like a garbage belt piled up in the flood, shaking in the high tide of the river. To the north of these crowded ships, the north mouth of the canal is visible, just like on the canal behind the Jingkou lock, where the guazhou lock is to the north, and the masts of countless boats extend endlessly to the end of the line of sight blocked by Guazhou City.

"What's the panic, isn't it just blocking the boat!"

Yang Xin said.

"Ship blockage? You say lightweight, do you know what this means to the capital? ”

Yan Shenggong said angrily.

"I don't know exactly what it means for the capital, but I know what it means for some people!"

Yang Xin said.

Then he put down his glass and stood up.

The sailors in the back quickly took away the table and the food and drinks.

At this time, the boat had already reached Jinshan, but the river in front of it could no longer move forward, and even the wharf outside Jingkou Castle was blocked.

This is the most critical period of time when the whole line has just opened.

All the boats along the entire Yangtze River are in this spring, loaded with the grain harvested last autumn, entering the canal at this critical point, and going north along this artery that can be said to be the empire.

In order to maintain the water level of the canal, the lock is only opened for a fixed number of months each year, and all large ships have to rush these months, otherwise they will not be able to enter the canal through this only deep-water channel.

During this time period, hundreds of ships per day are less.

And today it has been blocked for five days.

Thousands of ships were blocked in five days.

Almost all of these ships come from afar, the farthest even from the Xiangjiang River, the Han River, and even the Sichuan, they are crowded here and can't enter, and there is nowhere to retreat, and there are more ships that don't know the news behind to aggravate the congestion, because they are all fully loaded ships, and it is difficult to enter Yangzhou through other waterways such as the Salt River in Yizheng.

All of them could only wait anxiously and angrily.

In particular, those boats escorted by soldiers will be punished once they miss the deadline.

Yang Xin's two sea boats suddenly squeezed in, which immediately caused a scolding, he didn't wear a flying fish suit, and Yan Shenggong didn't wear an official uniform, who was still afraid of anyone on the Yangtze River, they were in a bad mood, and they were trying to find a place to vent.

"Where did the ramming come from, do you know whose ship this is?"

On a large boat in front, a very unsightly guy crossed his waist and scolded.

"Push the cannon out!"

Yang Xin said speechlessly.

"Quick!"

Salazar in the back shouted like a loyal dog.

Immediately behind the parapet of the deck, a three-pounder or even nine-pounder naval gun was rolled out.

The man was momentarily dumbfounded.

"What do you want to do? This is the ship of the Chu Palace! ”

He shouted inwardly.

"Fire!"

Yang Xin looked at him and said reservedly.

"Your Excellency the Admiral, are you firing at his ship?"

Salazar said uncertainly.

In order to make himself feel better, this guy didn't want to call Yang Xin the master, and finally after thinking about the fact that Yang Xin already had two warships that could form a fleet, and he was also the master of a port in the north, and this identity could already be equivalent to the commander of the fleet, so he called Yang Xin as an admiral, so that he could put himself in the role of adjutant.

"Yes!"

Yang Xin said.

"Aim at the bow and fire, sink it!"

Salazar shouted as he turned his head.

Then the haphazard sailors, who knew his language, unceremoniously drove the arquebuses on the ignition rods into the ignition holes, and with the flames and smoke from the muzzles, twelve solid bullets all entered the bow of the ship in the blink of an eye. The guy on the other side, who claimed to be the King of Chu's Mansion, stood there completely petrified, stunned as the cannonball crashed into holes less than two feet in front of him and disappeared, and then all of a sudden, the entire bow of the ship turned into rotten wood.

The next moment the ship began to sink rapidly.

The various boats blocking the river in front of them were instantly scattered.

"I'm from the Chu Palace, I'm going to sue you, I'm from the Chu Palace......"

The man howled in grief.

Half of the ship was already sinking under his feet, and the sailors jumped down with their gourds in their arms.

Yang Xin didn't even look at him, he just took out his waist card and held it in front of him, the man instantly shut up, and then looked at him in disbelief......

"Go back and tell the King of Chu that this ship belongs to me Kong Yinzhi."

Yan Shenggong shouted.

This is the simplest and most effective way to open the road, rather than driving one by one, it is better to sink one, they don't have time to delay here, and they don't know what kind of chaos is happening in Yangzhou! Since the canal can't be walked, he can only land on Guazhou, and then go to Yangzhou by land, so he continues to ignore Yang Xin's evil deeds, although this demon's means are ferocious, but they are indeed the most effective.

As for the consequences......

In other words, the palace of the king of Chu is a fart, this kind of old vassal kings are habitual turtles with shrunken heads, Yang Xin showed the sign that the king of Chu himself came, and he had to greet him with a smile here.

Otherwise, if the nine thousand years old casually find some fault, the king of Chu will have to cry in the palace.

"Damn the little ones, damn the little ones!"

The man had already sunk into the water, still in the arms of his subordinates, and kept apologizing to Yang Xin by slapping himself in the face.

Of course, Yang Xin didn't bother to look at him at all.

As the ships in front of him scattered in terror, his two ships quickly docked.

Just as they got off the boat, a group of people surrounded a green-robed official out of Guazhou City, and soon arrived in front of him and Kong Yinzhi......

"Xiaguan Yangzhou Mansion Jiangfang Tongzhi Guo Yu has seen Yan Shenggong and Yang Yanshi."

He said with a hurried salute.

"Take it!"

Yang Xin waved his hand very dryly.

"Yang Yanshi, what crime did the subordinate commit?"

Guo Yan took a step back and said.

"As a fellow of Jiangfang, you dare to say that you are not guilty of sitting back and watching the ships here block the transportation route?"

Yang Xin sneered.

"Yang Baishi, the official position is in Jiangfang, there is no dereliction of duty in Jiangfang, and the blockage of the canal is not blocked in the Xiaguan jurisdiction, Yang Baishi may not be able to blame Guo Mou, not to mention that Guo Mou is a civil official, and Your Excellency is Jinyiwei, even if you want to punish the crime, it is not Your Excellency. Of course, if Yang has a driving sticker, Guo will not dare to escape the crime, but today Yang wants to frame Guo for the crime he wants to add, and Guo is also a five-quality acquaintance, and it is not possible to let Your Excellency bully. ”

Guo Yu said without showing weakness.

A few pro-soldiers behind him immediately stepped forward, these should be his family members, these civil officials have also hired family members in some special positions in recent years, and the Guazhou River Defense Tongzhi is prepared, and he will definitely bring a few life-saving cronies.

"You want to resist arrest?"

Yang Xin said.

"Yang Yanshi, you are not qualified to arrest Guo, how can Guo resist arrest?"

Guo Yan said,

Then the next moment Yang Xin suddenly appeared less than a foot away from him, and then this guy's hand appeared on his neck, pinching his neck and slamming him to the ground unceremoniously, Guo Tongzhi's face suddenly hit the stone slab of the dock, and blood splashed in the screams in an instant. Those family members drew their swords in confusion, but the Dangkou army behind Yang Xin immediately raised the crossbow in their hands, and these family members still didn't dare to move after all, seeing Yang Xin slam their master's face on the stone slab at once......

In the blink of an eye, Guo Tongzhi was silent.

Only then did Yang Xin let go.

"Throw it in the Yangtze River to feed the fish!"

He said as he wiped the blood from his hands.

The two swinging troops in the back immediately stepped forward, and then dragged Guo Tongzhi's dead body away, and Salazar in the back commanded two sailors to take over, directly dragged Guo Tongzhi onto the boat, and then skillfully took a chain bullet and tied it directly to his neck, dragged it to the edge of the deck and threw it into the surging river.

"Guo Tongzhi was guiding the boats on the river and accidentally fell into the water and disappeared, don't you remember it?"

Yang Xin looked at the group of officials and gentry in front of him who were silent and said.

"Heavenly Reason Shows ......"

A green worm roared angrily.

But then his mouth was covered by an old man next to him.

"The dog has always been crazy, do you have a seizure from time to time, I don't want to have a sudden attack today, but let Yang Yishi and Yan Shenggong laugh, and lock him up when he goes back, I Guazhou Yu's family has always understood proportion, Guo Tongzhi is actually complicit with those ignorant scholars, he deliberately sat back and watched the boats on the river blockage."

The old man said with a smile on his face.

"It's not wrong to be sick, but it's not right to be scary, so scared that I thought he was going to throw himself into the river!"

Yang Xinyi said rhetorically.

"I'm going to go back and lock him up."

The old man hurriedly said.