Chapter 172: Return
Bakou, Ba Governor Shi Renchong, Bei Jia Hao Wu Bo, Badong County Shou Xu Shao and other state and county officials, are waiting at the wharf, the day before yesterday, a post envoy from Qizhou brought news, saying that Bazhou Assassin Shi and Gong Yu Wenwen of the State of Yi have arrived in Qikou and returned to Bazhou by boat to the west. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
It is now the second half of February of the fourth year of orthodoxy, and Yuwenwen has been away for ten months since he went to Yecheng in April last year.
"Ren Changshi, why doesn't Yuwen take the land route, but the water route?"
"Let the fleet of ships with you be loaded with salt, and unload them at Bakou, and make you personally escort the ship."
"Table salt?"
When the officials heard this, they only knew that Yuwen had returned and was going to land at Bakou, not to mention why they didn't take the land route, and the landing location alone was a little strange.
There is a wharf on the south river side of Xiyang City, although the water is turbulent, but the boat can still dock, but Yuwenwen is reluctant to seek far, and lands in Bakou, which is far away in the east of Xiyang City.
According to Ren Chong, the only possibility is that the fleet will berth at Bakou in order to unload the salt, and the amount of this salt will not be small.
Because of the increasing frequency of ships, Bakou Port has also been expanded repeatedly, and now the wharf can berth a lot of ships, and there are many young people who work here as stevedores to earn money to support their families, so the loading and unloading capacity is very strong, and the officials wonder if the fleet is very large?
"See? The storehouses over there were emptied, perhaps to make room for salt. ”
"No, there are so many warehouses... How much salt does this have? ”
"Hey, I said, since Yuwen Envoy Jun came from Qikou, then he thought he came from the east, isn't there a war going on in the east? Huainan was occupied by Chen Guo, how did the envoy come over? Also brought a lot of salt? ”
Whispering one after another, Ren Chong listened to it and did not mean to stop or explain, although he received the post report and knew that Yu Wenwen had landed in Bakou today, and brought thirty ships loaded with salt, but how these salts were transported was confused.
It's incredible!
Don't say how did you get so much salt, just how to pass through Chen Guo safely, he felt that it was difficult, if it was okay on weekdays, he could buy the border generals to turn a blind eye, and now the two countries are fighting and their eyes are red, General Chen Jun will let go of this fat sheep?
It is a waterway, and Hezhou and Wuzhou have been occupied by the Chen army, so it is impossible for Yuwenwen to load the ship in these places, but not in these places, it can't be loaded in Jiankang and set off, right?
The more he thought about it, the more mysteries he had, and Ren Chong couldn't figure it out, but he was worried that he wouldn't be fake again.
In November last year, a fake Yuwenwen earned into the Duke of Yiguo's mansion, and it was also thanks to the Duchess of Yiguo that she found out early, otherwise something would definitely happen, so if it weren't for the official seal of the governor of Huangzhou in the letter sent by the envoy this time, and Yuwenwen's private seal, Ren Chong couldn't believe it at all.
Also entangled is Badong County Shou Xu Shao, last time he didn't notice it, rescued the fake Yuwen Wen and brought it to the Duke of Yiguo, almost caused a big disaster, so he has been blaming himself, and now there is another Yuwen Wen, so Xu Shao decided to polish his eyes.
"It's coming, it's coming!"
A fleet of boats appeared on the river, slowly heading towards Bakou Wharf, when the first fast boat arrived at the wharf under the escort of the naval warship, and several people on the deck were surrounded by Bazhou Thorn Shi and Gongyu Wenwen of the State of Yi.
As soon as he stepped on the dock, Yuwen Wen was about to wave to everyone, but he saw Xu Shao come up first, held his hand tightly and said, "Envoy!" ”
"Well, Xu Junshou don't come... Well? ”
Yu Wenwen saw Xu Shao holding his hand, as if he was "looking at his face", or "touching his bones" in an extremely obscene manner, and his mind was instantly crooked, wondering if this was some kind of personality awakening.
wanted to withdraw his hand but couldn't, Xu Shao desperately held his hand and looked at it carefully for a while before letting go.
'Amitabha, the middle finger is longer than the ring finger, I think it's true. ’
Xu Shao thought that this was the "trick" revealed by the Duchess of Yiguo, but when he saw Yuwen staring at him with a smile, he quickly arched his hand and apologized: "Envoy!" The lower official was rude. ”
"Oh, I have time to talk to Xu Yuanjun, Xu Junshou should get married."
Hao Wubo knew that Xu Shaofang was distinguishing between truth and falsehood, so he hurriedly played a round, saying that there were fanatics pretending to be envoys before, so Xu Shao was a little cautious.
"Pretending to be an official? Who is so bold! ”
Yu Wenwen had already heard about this, but he pretended to be angry, and Hao Wubo also opened his eyes and said nonsense: "The Duchess of Yiguo saw through this person's behavior on the spot, and the rest of the party tools have been arrested, but he was killed by the guards of the mansion when he fled." ”
"I see..."Yu Wenwen nodded, and then made a gesture to Changshi Ren Chong and the officials present: "This official has been away from Bazhou for nearly a year, thanks to you in charge of state affairs!"
"This is a matter of the lower officer/lowly position!"
After a period of greetings, the fleet approached the dock and docked separately under the guidance of the pilot, and everyone looked at the flotilla of no less than twenty ships in amazement.
As soon as the official gave the order, the coolies who had been waiting for a long time stepped forward to start unloading, and bags of salt were transported from the ship to the shore. ”
"Jiankang."
"Huh?"
"Isn't that weird? The official came from downstream, and if he wanted to buy so much salt, he could only have it in Jiankang. ”
"Bought?"
"The official wants to rob it, but there are not enough people..."
Ren Chong was speechless when he heard this, he could probably think of what kind of hardships Yuwen Wen experienced on the way back, but this person not only returned unscathed, but also brought so much salt, and he still bought it in Jiankang, which is really incredible.
It's not bad to be swaggering in Jiankang, and it's good to go to the street without being caught by your identity, and you can buy so much salt back!
Yuwen Wen and Ren Chong talked while walking, and began to inquire about the affairs of Bazhou in the past six months, and the others were not idle, Zheng Tong and Hao Wubo handed over, and the salt transported by these thirty ships almost spent all their money, and they must not be lost.
"How much does it cost? Did you bring so much money with you? ”
"There's a way."
Zheng Tong replied vaguely, of course Yuwenwen didn't have so much money on him, but he had his own channels in Jiankang, that is, Wang Yue took the opportunity to do business with the merchants of Chen Guo and secretly set up a stronghold in Jiankang.
In other words, even if he stays in Jiankang, Yuwenwen does not worry about daily expenses, and he can also have a safe place to stay.
Yu Wenwen returned, the official greeting event ended, and the next thing was the "folk" activity, relatives and friends who had been waiting for a long time stepped forward to pick up people, Tian Zongguang, the father of Tian Yilong, took his daughter-in-law and grandson, and happily took Tian Yilong back.
"Zhou Langjun, let's stay in Padang today, please!"
"Xu Mingfu, please!"
Xu Shao, as the "landlord", washed the dust for Zhou Faming, and the rest of the people were all from Yuwenwen's side, naturally Yuwenwen arranged it himself, Yuwenwen Fifteen had already led the car to wait on the side, and couldn't help but have red eyes when he saw Lord Lang finally return.
More excited than him was Liu Caiyun, seeing her husband Zhang Ding looking at herself with a smile, she couldn't care so much, she bumped into each other's arms in front of everyone's eyes, and cried into tears.
Tian Zhengyue, the commander of the Tiger Forest Army, came to Yuwen Wen and saluted: "Envoy! The soldiers are looking forward day and night, and they are looking forward to the return of the king! ”
"Lao Tian, you were left in the barracks to watch your family again?"
"Hey, next time, next time it's the general's turn to cut people."
"Do the bunnies have itchy skin?"
"Itchy, the last will wait for day and night drills, let them cry dad and call mother!"
Everyone laughed, Yuwen Wen was very satisfied, he finally came back, returned to his family, friends, and army, and when he saw Yuwen Fifteen standing in front of him, he asked, "Is the house okay?" ”
"Lord Lang, everything is good in the house, the master mother is waiting!"
Yuwen Wen nodded, got into the carriage and left the dock, his face changed instantly after the car moved, and he pulled Yuwen Fifteen and asked, "Are you blind with Sanjiu?" What's the deal with that fake? Well!! (To be continued.) )