Han Qian stood at the head of Canglang Island, the hometown of Junxian County, again, and it was already November 14, which was nearly a month since he entered Xiangzhou.

Depriving Chai Jian and Zhang Ping of the command of the guard battalion, reorganizing the guard battalion, and determining that Shen Yang was in charge of the third prince's side, these many things wasted nearly half a month.

Maybe in the eyes of others, it's worth it.

Regardless of whether Shen Yang is prejudiced against Han Qian and Li Zhihe, Shen Yang is fair, and will try his best to maintain the stability of the Dragon Bird Army, and will more effectively mobilize the enthusiasm of Guo Liang, Gao Chengyuan and other generals, so that the Dragon Bird Army will develop more evenly, so that more Han generals will have a chance to come forward, and will eventually stabilize the power of the three princes and enhance their prestige.

However, for Han Qian, who is racing against time, the half a month that has passed in vain is really deplorable to him.

Yang Qin and Tian Cheng also waited until Shen Yang and others arrived in Xiangzhou City with the main force of the Dragon Bird Army, and then Han Qian was reassigned to Canglang to take charge, and when Han Qian delayed for three or four days, the planned Canglang City had not even cleared out the foundations of a few courtyards at this time.

However, the people who stayed in Canglang have done some things in the past half a month.

On the north bank of the Han River, there are nearly 100 large and small cottages distributed in the west and north of the remnant city of Junxian County, and the roads are not accessible to the outside world.

In the past half month, the people who stayed in the ancient city of Junxian County trekked through mountains and rivers to carry tea, medicine, salt, iron and other generous gifts to communicate.

A considerable part of the cottages are still vigilant against the Zuo Si scouts who come as officers and soldiers, and they will be rejected from the courtesy, but there are also more than a dozen cottages whose living conditions are really embarrassing, and at the same time, the traffic situation between these cottages and the outside world is relatively better, realizing that the Chu army is extremely resolute in advancing along the Danjiang River, and is worried that the resolute refusal will be severely attacked, and accepts the generous gifts given by the Zuo Division, and they also send more than ten or twenty strong, a total of 300 strong laborers to gather in the ancient city of Junxian County to build Canglang City, for Zuo Si to work.

This is Zuo Si's biggest gain in the past half a month in the ancient city of Junxian, but Han Qian wants to build Canglang City in the ancient city of Junxian, and the three hundred strong laborers are too little.

Han Qian summoned Feng Xuan, Feng Zhang, Gao Bao and other leaders who were sent by the four surnames to be in charge of escorting the boat, and said: "Your Highness wants to build Canglang City here, there is a shortage of manpower, and the four surnames are all borrowed from me for ten people. ”

Zuo Si gave the cottage a generous gift, and the cottage who received the generous gift also knew that there was no free lunch in the world, in addition to sending a part of the elite labor to participate in the labor, the others also used mountain goods to make up for the shortfall.

Compared with the previous rulers who controlled the Dengxiang region and were bent on controlling and exploiting these cottages, Zuo Si at least provided a fair trade opportunity for the cottages that had been short of materials for many years, although it would not immediately dispel the vigilance of all the cottages, but it did not cause sharp confrontation, which was a good start.

In addition to handing over the collected mountain goods to Feng Xuan and them to transport to Xuzhou to offset the payment for the second batch of eight ships of materials shipped out of Xuzhou, Han Qian also allocated an additional 3 million yuan from the money raised by the money shop recently to offset the freight of the fleet and the benefits due to the four surnames.

Han Qian made such a request again at this time, and the leaders sent by the four surnames were difficult to refuse, and they didn't need Gao Bao to instigate behind their backs, Feng Zhang and the others agreed: "Lord Han's order, we don't dare to disobey." ”

After all, Han Qian only temporarily borrowed ten people from each surname, and when they returned to Xuzhou, they could all make up for manpower from the tribe.

Feng Xiangxi's four surnames, although they can only be said to be Yelang arrogant in the territory of Dachu, but each surname has more than 1,000 households, not to mention Jianyong, and the strong labor force is also 2,000 or even higher.

"You guys make it convenient for someone Han, and someone Han has nothing else to thank, let's play with these few gadgets." Han Qian motioned for Xi Ying to take out a few bags and give them to Feng Zhang and the others.

Feng Zhang opened the bag and saw that all the small beasts carved from the finest Bidianzi (turquoise) were filled with joy, and they were all happy and thankful.

The ancient city of Junxian County has produced Bidianzi since ancient times.

In the early period of the former dynasty, it had close contacts with the Western Regions, and Bidianzi was still pleased by the world, and in the late period of the previous dynasty, Bidianzi was not as popular with other precious jades as the world, but it was still a precious pearl and jade, especially the native people of southern Hunan and Guizhou, and they still had the habit of using Bidianzi as a jewelry.

Among the mountain goods that were discounted for the goods, the most precious was a batch of Bidianzi rough stones.

The Bidianzi carving beast that Han Qian gave to Feng Zhang and others seems to be small, but it can be said to be a rare treasure, and it is worth 20,000 yuan when it is taken to Xuzhou.

Although Feng Zhang and the others were the leaders of the ships sent by the four surnames, they were barely considered core children within the four surnames.

The four surnames were initially forced to deal with Han Qian, the four surnames were extremely vigilant, and the rivers and lakes of the fleet were treacherous, and none of the core children of the four surnames were willing to take on this matter, so Feng Zhang and Gao Bao, the small leaders of the village soldiers, were entrusted with important tasks.

20,000 yuan, which is almost equivalent to Feng Zhang's reward for most of the half a year that they can get from the four surnames.

In addition, the fleet of the four surnames has successfully transported two batches of materials from Xuzhou, Feng Zhang and others also privately brought some goods to Jinling and Xiangzhou, and Han Qian also signaled that the price was raised during the settlement, so that their pockets were much richer.

As long as they are human, they will inevitably be driven by various interests, even if Feng Zhang and the others were wary of Han Qian at the beginning, once they came twice, their wariness was completely dissolved, and they became closer to Han Qian and Zuo Si emotionally.

Han Daoxun lifted the ban on land in Xuzhou, and in addition to the people secretly sent into Xuzhou by Kaitanzhou, he was bewitched by rumors about gold mines, and there have been as many as two or three thousand new homeless people who have poured into Xuzhou in the past three or four months.

This has caused a lot of disturbances to Xuzhou, which has a registered population of only 60,000 or 70,000, especially the lifting of the land ban, which makes the four surnames still vigilant, but whether Tanzhou is doing work behind the scenes, or the four surnames have actually given up control of Qianyang City, unless they tear their faces, it is difficult for the four surnames to curb the spread of this trend.

Of course, the four surnames can still endure at this time, on the one hand, the fleet will definitely bring a lot of benefits to the four surnames, not that they were worried that they would be stripped of four or five million dollars every year, on the other hand, it is not unrelated to the agitation and propaganda of Feng Zhang and others going back.

Han Qian stood in front of the cold-winded river beach, talked to Feng Xuan, Feng Zhang and others for a while, and then let them get on the boat, and Yang Qin led three sailing ships to escort them back to Xuzhou, so that they could bring in a batch of supplies to Xiangzhou before the year.

Han Qian also wrote a letter and handed it to Yang Qin to bring to his father.

Seeing off Feng Xuan and the others, Han Qian and Xi Ying landed ashore and walked back to the camp.

In addition to the 300 strong laborers sent by the cottage, more than 100 people left behind by the four surnamed fleets and boat gangs, more than 100 craftsmen and craftsmen who were drawn from the workshop and marched west with the main force of the Dragon Bird Army, and more than 50 elite scouts from the Zuosi Barracks, all of which were concentrated in the remnants of Junxian County on the north bank.

The scale of the camp was quite large, and most of them could only live in makeshift shacks, Han Qian's main tent was a little more generous, and he chose a courtyard and covered the roof of the skylight with a tarpaulin, barely keeping the cold outside.

At this time, Tian Cheng brought in two black-faced men, one old and one young, who were quite athletic.

The two of them were also walking barefoot in the snow on a cold day, and they were all frozen and cracked, revealing bloody cuts, and their clothes were also tattered, so that they shivered from the cold.

"Uncle Chang, Xi Fa'er!"

Although as early as twenty years ago, Zhao Wuji had already gone to meet Yang Qin and took over the sixteen first batch of redeemed Xi teenagers from Yang Qin, but Zhao Wuji took these Xi teenagers to train in the mountains and fields, and he had not yet come back to meet Han Qian, and it was only at this time that Xi Ying had the opportunity to meet his clan for the first time.

Seeing the two black-faced men, Xi Ying couldn't suppress the excitement in his heart, and shouted out with a slight trembling.

"Young Miss......" The two Xi clansmen looked at Xi Ying, who was disguised as a woman, hesitantly.

The Xi clan has been dismembered and dismantled for several years, Xi Ying is also a yellow-haired girl who has never done anything more, and has grown into a charming and beautiful twenty-nine young woman, and her appearance has changed a lot, but Xi Cheng was killed, and Xi Ying was given to the son of Assassin Shi as a slave by Feng Changyu, Xi Chang and Xi Fa'er's father and son still heard of it.

But I didn't expect to meet Miss Young from thousands of miles away.

Xi Chang and Xi Fa'er, father and son, still couldn't figure out the situation in front of them, even if they recognized Xi Yinglai, they could only hold back their excitement at the moment, and waited for Han Qian's fate.

Han Qian sat down on the long case, and the conditions were simple, he pointed to the straw mat spread out in front of the case, and motioned for Xi Chang and Xi Fa'er's father and son to sit down and speak:

"Xi Cheng forgot the hatred of the Xi family's annihilation, and willingly became Feng Changyu's lackey, who once intended to assassinate my father and son, but was finally killed by the guards around me; I agreed with Xi Ying that as long as the Xi children can be used by me, I will do my best to help the Xi family regain a foothold among the mountains and rivers of Xuzhou! I ask you now, will you be loyal to me? ”

Xi Chang and Xi Fa'er stood stunned on the spot, sitting on the straw mat, and they didn't dare to put their buttocks down, they couldn't believe that what Han Qian said was true.

"What the Lord said is the truth, I have decided to be loyal to the Lord in exchange for the opportunity to restore the Xi clan - Feng Xuan and the Xuzhou Boat Gang secretly searched for and ransomed the Xi clan, and it was also instructed by the Lord to do so." Xi Ying said to Xi Chang and Xi Fa'er according to the agreement with Han Qian.