Tang Xun, who was in the first stage of procurement, finally had time to rest for a few days, while Yang Congyi did not have so much time.

He has a lot to do when he returns to Lin'an, and the fleet must receive a sufficient number of ordnance and equipment to go to sea, which is the purpose of his coming to Lin'an with 100 people, Li Ge, the commander of the Jingwu Army, is sick, and there is no commander in the army, whether to send another commander, and the court has to call the shots, and the Jingwu army has only 3,000 people, and the escort fleet is weak to go to sea.

These three things must be reported to the imperial court, and I don't know when there will be a specific reply.

Some things can't be rushed to the book, and after discussing with Huang Qi, Yang Congyi wrote to the court one by one about the success or failure of the return.

Soon, the reply of the imperial court was handed to the Hui Yi office, and the Jingwu army commanded Li Ge who was ill and could not go to sea, and the command responsibility was temporarily led by Yang Congyi, the envoy of the Hui Yi Governor, as for the Xuanwei Army, the remaining troops were limited, but the guards were experienced, and they agreed to return to the Yi place, and together with the Jingwu Army to guard the ocean-going fleet, and finally the ordnance and equipment were invited, and the imperial court instructed to collect them as needed.

After the three troublesome things that required the consent of the imperial court were determined, Yang Congyi suddenly felt a lot more relaxed.

Next, recruit a few capable soldiers and Langzhong Taoist priests in Lin'an, and then they can receive ordnance and leave Lin'an.

However, joining the army was not so easy to recruit, and the whole city was widely advertised for ten days, and there were no suitable talents to recruit and go to sea with the ship.

Yang Congyi wanted the two most to join the army, one was Shen Jin, and the other was Lu You, when they were in the general selection camp, the two of them cooperated very well, one was in charge of internal affairs, coordinated the various armies, and the other was responsible for communicating with the state capital, raising grain and grass, and keeping the general selection camp of more than 20,000 people in order, but now I don't know where he and the two are.

After several deliberations, the candidates for joining the army really belonged to the two of them.

Last year was the year of the triennial examination, I don't know if the two of them are on the gold list?

Yang Congyi quickly went to the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Officials to investigate, and found that the two of them did not make the list last year, and they did not have any official assignments.

Since there is no dispatch from the imperial court, the two of them are either in Lin'an or return to their hometown, and there should be no third choice.

If they were in Lin'an, it would have been more than half a year since Huiyi began, and they wouldn't have heard of it.

Not to mention Lu You, Shen Jin participated in the two Hui Yi supervision, and the court returned to Yi again, he has no reason not to come and see, since he didn't see him, then he is likely to go back to his hometown in Zhenjiang, and Lu You failed in the imperial examination, and there is no other way except to go home.

Yang Congyi felt that it was necessary for him to go to their hometown, pull the two of them out, and go back to Yi to go to sea together.

Talking to Tang Xun briefly, the two hit it off, originally Tang Xun volunteered to go to Zhenjiang to find Shen Jin, but Yang Congyi directly rejected him on the grounds that he needed to stay in the Yi place, so he had to go to both places.

He first went to Zhenjiang on horseback, and after a lot of twists and turns, he finally found Shen Jin's residence.

It was a remote village, far away from the hustle and bustle of the town, and the word "Shen Fu" on the plaque on the door had been mottled and discolored, and it had not been repaired for many years, and the whole yard could be seen to be some years.

The courtyard door was closed, Yang Congyi stepped forward and knocked on the door knocker, and after knocking for a long time, a woman approached and asked who called the door.

Yang Congyi told the truth that he was a friend of Shen Jin, and he specially came from Lin'an to visit the deceased.

After a while, the woman departed.

Not long after, the door opened, Shen Jin flashed out of the door, and when he saw that it was Yang Congyi, he was quite surprised, and hurriedly welcomed him into the door.

After not seeing him for three years, Shen Jin was a little haggard, and he looked even more tired than Yang Congyi, who was running around.

After the greetings, the two chatted for a long time in the living room.

Shen Jin's experience in recent years is relatively simple, after returning to Lin'an from Yiwu, he was first invited to help Jiang Kaidu make Huiyi, and was busy until November, until the fleet went to sea, because he didn't want to miss the imperial examination last spring, so he didn't go to sea with the ship, and concentrated on preparing for the exam in Lin'an for a year, who knew that he still fell off the list, and he returned to his hometown in Zhenjiang in frustration.

There were some things he didn't say, but Yang Congyi saw some clues from the furnishings in the hall and the tea in their cups, and guessed that his family was a little poor now, otherwise how could he teach Mengxue children as a student?

Yang Congyi briefly recounted his experience in the past few years, and immediately talked about the matter of returning to Yi, the fleet went to sea this winter, and now it is ready, just waiting for merchants from all over the country to transport the goods to Quanzhou for loading, and the north wind will be able to go to sea as soon as the north wind comes.

Speaking of Hui Yi, Shen Jin asked a number of questions in a row, including the size of the fleet, the number of people in his entourage, which army escorted him, which officials accompanied him, etc., obviously very interested.

Yang Congyi told each other one by one, and then bluntly said that this visit to Zhenjiang was to invite him to go with him, and then go to Nanyang and Western overseas countries.

As soon as the words fell, before Shen Jin could speak, he put a thousand taels of silver bills on the table and pushed it in front of the other party, saying that the selection camp had worked hard for nearly a year, and the result was too hasty, which was a little compensation.

Shen Jin hurriedly excused himself and couldn't even say anything.

Yang Congyi told him that friendship is friendship, although he said that he asked them for help, but what he did was a big thing for the court to do, the court should compensate, and the money given by the court was not accepted.

After several concessions, Shen Jin finally put the silver money in his hand.

As for assisting Hui Yi and going to sea, he still has to discuss it with his family and give Yang Congyi an answer later.

At the time of a light meal, Shen Jin discussed the results with his family and decided to follow Yang Congyi to the sea.

That night, Yang Congyi stayed in Shenfu.

Early the next morning, the two said goodbye to Shen Jin's family, hurriedly left Zhenjiang Mansion, and rushed to Lin'an.

Back to the Hui Yi place, Yang Congyi, Tang Xun, and Shen Jin discussed a little and decided to divide the troops into three routes.

Since the Huiyi Office has stopped purchasing goods, Tang Xun does not need to continue to stay in Lin'an, she can rush to Quanzhou first, prepare for receiving the goods in advance, take the waterway, and escort the ordnance to Mingzhou by the way.

The needle disc used before going to sea was basically lost or damaged in the Xuanwei army, and a batch must be made again, there are many skilled craftsmen in Lin'an, Shen Jin has studied a lot of technical skills over the years, and the skilled craftsmen also know some, so he is responsible for the errand of needle plate manufacturing.

Yang Congyi still wants to find Lu You, Shen Jin is here, he had better find it.

After going to the ordnance station to receive enough military equipment for 5,000 people to fight three battles, he immediately loaded the ships on the Qiantang River, and everything was ready to stop, Tang Xun led a hundred sailors to escort three large ships full of ordnance to Changguo County, Mingzhou.

After Yang Congyi left a sum of money for Shen Jin, he also quickly crossed the river to Shanyin, Shaoxing.

The Lu family is very famous in Sanyin, and it didn't take much effort to easily find the front of the Lu Mansion.

Lu Fu is not a small household, and when you come to visit, you have to have a post.

After Yang Congyi handed over the post, he waited for a while, and a Lu Mansion steward came out to reply that the third prince was out to get together with friends, and he was not at home today, so he would come back tomorrow.

Yang Congyi also has no temper, a scholarly family, a wealthy family, even if he shows his official status, people should ignore you or ignore you, not to mention that he still wants to see Lu You.

Lu You is not a person who can sit still at home, if he goes out to make friends every day, he can't try his luck every day, so Yang Congyi handed over a letter prepared in advance to the manager of the Lu Mansion, asked him to transfer it to Lu You on his behalf, and said that he would come back to visit at the end of the day.

On the same day, Yang Congyi walked around in Shanyin, walked freely through the streets and alleys, and slowly appreciated the beauty of the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River in a very relaxed and comfortable environment.

But this beauty, as night fell, he closed the window of the inn and disappeared in an instant.

The gentle water town is easy to get lost in enjoyment, and Yang Congyi has never been a person who knows how to enjoy, and even has some inexplicable disgust for enjoyment.

The next day, at the end of the day, he visited the door again, and after the next person reported, Lu You quickly appeared at the gate.

After the two exchanged greetings at the door, Lu You did not invite Yang Congyi into the Lu Mansion, but took him to a teahouse not far away.

But soon, Lu You explained to him clearly, it turned out that Lu's mother didn't like to be born at the door, and she was very strict, so it was inconvenient to talk at home.

The two talked to each other in the teahouse, and Yang Congyi sighed.

It turned out that after Lu You returned to Lin'an from Yiwu that year, he participated in the lock hall examination held for Enyin's children in the second year, and the results were very satisfactory, but he was not sent by the imperial court, and he went to Lin'an to participate in the imperial examination last spring, and the result was not on the list.

Lu You fell off the list, of course Yang Congyi knew the reason, but he didn't warn him in advance back then, and it would be useless to talk about it now. Besides, with his reluctance to read, how could he listen to persuasion in the matter of the imperial examination, as the saying goes, there is no first in literature, no second in martial arts, and scholars are not convinced, and they must fight for a high level.

Yang Congyi could only quietly tell him that now that the traitors in the court are in charge, and if he is admitted to the imperial examination, he will be reused only if he is admitted to the imperial examination.

When Lu You heard this, he thought for a while, and then asked, did you hear any gossip?

Yang Congyi asked him if there was a young man named Qin Xun among the people who participated in the lock hall test that year, and this person was the grandson of Qin Hui, the prime minister of the dynasty.

After Lu You thought about it for a while, he nodded lightly and said, this name seems to have some impression, that person is not very old, he is very gorgeously dressed, and there are many people who talk to him, in the crowd, it is like the stars holding the moon.

Yang Congyi told him that Qin Hui's son Qin Xi is a university scholar, responsible for the compilation of historical books, and also takes a lot of errands, and is the vice minister of the dynasty, Qin Xun, as the grandson of the prime minister and the son of the vice minister, went to participate in the lock hall test, no matter what, it must be the first. If there is a talent who is better than him and compares him to him, will he be hated by the prime minister and the deputy minister?