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

This is the Northern Song Dynasty famous minister Wang Anshi's "Docking Guazhou", Jingkou is today's Zhenjiang, on the south bank of the Yangtze River, Guazhou is on the north bank of the Yangtze River, so the two are separated by a Yangtze River. Guazhou is the junction of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and the north bank of the Yangtze River, and Zhenjiang is the junction of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and the south bank of the Yangtze River. Therefore, if Zhu Yunwen wants to receive all of you Uncle Wang, who is going south along the canal, he must go to Guazhou, and then go north along the canal.

Guazhou was a small city in the Ming Dynasty, the circumference of the city was only four kilometers, and the imperial court set up the Tongzhi Bureau, the Ministry of Industry and the Guanhe Tong Judgment Office. When Zhu Yunwen arrived in Guazhou, it was already close to Zishi.

Changfu woke up Zhu Yunwen and said, "Your Highness, you have already arrived in Guazhou, General Zhang went to Guazhou City just now to inquire, and the ships of several princes have not yet arrived." What to do next, please also ask Your Highness to show me. ”

Zhu Yunwen immediately said: "Then if you continue to go north, you must receive Uncle Wang." ”

Two hours later, the boat arrived in Yangzhou, and Zhang Rong sent someone down to ask, but he still didn't see the princes. Zhu Yunwen was anxious and wanted to continue north. Changfu and Zhang Rong persuaded him to stop for the time being, because the boat could no longer go north and needed to change to a small boat. Zhu Yunwen asked him to hurry up to find a boat, but Zhang Rong said that there was a boat, but the boatman needed to rest, and now he had been driving the boat for three hours in a row, and he needed to rest, otherwise the boat would be prone to accidents at night.

Zhu Yunwen had no choice but to stop, but he did not leave the boat, but rested on the boat, and ordered Zhang Rong to deploy the ship and continue to go north tomorrow.

At noon the next day, Changfu excitedly reported: "Your Highness, the prince's ship has come down from the upstream. Zhu Yunwen hurriedly ordered to lean up. After a while, he heard the ship being hit hard, Zhu Yunwen almost fell, and then heard a shouting and fighting.

Zhu Yunwen was just about to go out, when Liu Zhen suddenly ran in and said, "Your Highness, leave quickly, the boat is on fire." ”

"What?" Before Zhu Yunwen could react, Zhang Rong and Changfu ran in, brought a few personal soldiers, but they didn't have time to speak, and dragged Zhu Yunwen outside. When he ran outside, Zhu Yunwen found that the bow of his ship had been knocked off, and there were soldiers on the big boat on the opposite side throwing torches below, his boat had already burned, and the smoke was billowing out, making Zhu Yunwen dizzy, and he was sent to the boat behind in a daze.

When he arrived at the new ship, Zhu Yunwen was still a little shocked, and said, "Zhang Rong, Changfu, what the hell is going on?" ”

Zhang Rong and Changfu were also frightened, if they were slow just now, their own nine clans would not be enough to compensate. Zhang Rong froze and said: "I don't know which prince's car it was just now, we obeyed His Highness's order to lean on, but the other party ignored us at all, not only did not stop the boat, but also collided directly, the other party's bow was wrapped in iron sheets, and we couldn't hit them at all." And," Speaking of this, Zhang Rong said a little angrily: "Moreover, the fire was too sudden just now, and two boatmen were missing, I don't know if they are dead or alive." ”

"What's the deal with fire? Who put it? ”

"I went up to theorize and said that His Royal Highness the Imperial Sun was on the boat, let them stop the boat."

"But the other party actually used crossbow arrows, and we were shot and wounded a few on the spot, but we didn't dare to fight back, but the other party actually threw down the torch."

Zhu Yun was angry, and finally swallowed a mouthful of saliva, held back his anger, and asked people to help him take a look outside the cabin. Zhang Rong and Changfu disagreed, and Zhu Yunwen said angrily: "Do they still dare to rebel?" ”

Zhang Rong blocked the hatch with both hands and said, "Your Highness, they don't dare, but now the smoke is billowing on the canal, the chaos is abnormal, and they may not be able to hear us clearly, what if we accidentally injure Your Highness?" ”

Zhu Yunwen had no choice but to sit back, and when he looked out of bed, the boat he was on before was still burning, blocking half of the river, and what was even worse was that because no one was controlling it, the fire boat was still going downstream. Fortunately, the ship of the right guard of the sailor has already forced the fireboat to the side with a pole, and it should be fine in a while.

Zhu Yunwen thought for a while and said, "Chief Administrator, have all the uncle's ships passed?" ”

"Almost, there are more than 30 boats on which the prince is depending, and the small ones have already gone down after seeing them just now."

Zhu Yunwen's face turned blue with anger: "There was such a big thing, didn't they stop the boat and come down to take a look?" ”

Zhang Rong smiled bitterly: "They threw some silver taels on our ship and didn't stop. ”

Zhu Yunwen paced back and forth in the cabin and said, "You are all wearing sailor uniforms, and they dare to do this." ”

Facing Zhu Yunwen's anger, Changfu and Zhang Rong glanced at each other, not knowing why. The two of them said in their hearts: If there is no Zhu Yunwen on the ship, then it can only be forgotten, the prince, the emperor's son, who can afford to provoke it? A sentence that collided with the prince's guard of honor, I didn't know if I had to lose my head. Of course, if there was no Zhu Yunwen, they would not dare to rely on the prince's ship, it would be purely looking for death.

Zhu Yunwen groaned for a while and said, "General Zhang, you arrange someone to deal with the aftermath, you must find the missing boatman, you must see people alive, you must see corpses when you die, and you must give me the result before returning to Beijing." ”

"Yes, Your Highness."

"Let's turn around and chase after the uncle."

"Yes, Your Highness."

A boat suddenly caught fire on the canal, and the people on the canal and the peasants on the shore couldn't help but point and talk about it. When I knew what was going on, I didn't dare to speak.

Five princes, one prince, and more than 30 ships headed south.

At this time, there were two people chatting on the leading boat, they were Dai Jie and Dai Yong, the guards next to the acting king, both of whom were from Mongolian background, and they were loyal to the acting king, and the acting king gave them Chinese names.

Dai Jie was only about twenty years old, burly, a little silly, and said, "Big brother, I burned someone's boat just now, are you okay?" ”

Dai Yong is a little older, he is very fluent in Chinese, his eyes are dripping, and he looks very shrewd, he said nonchalantly: "Dai Jie, don't think too much, our acting king is the son of the great tomorrow, just like Genghis Khan's sons Tulei Khan and Ogedai Khan, if you want to get close to the king's ship for no reason, then you can set an assassin king for them to kill, we just burned their ship, it's nothing." ”

"But, eldest brother, I just heard from them that the imperial grandson is on the boat, what is the imperial grandson?"

"What did you say?" Dai Yong asked blankly, "What did you say?" ”

"They said that the imperial grandson was on the boat. But the eldest brother didn't care at all, and threw torches below. ”

Dai Yong's face turned a little pale, shook his lips, and said, "Brother, this sentence is not allowed to be mentioned in the future, it will rot in the stomach." We want to unify our voices and say that the sailors want to blackmail, so we punished them. Just now the king sent someone to ask, and I also answered the same way, you have to remember. ”

"What is a unified voice?"

Dai Yong's mouth didn't close for a long time, then he stomped his feet and said, "Brother, my brother has always asked you to learn Chinese characters well, but you just don't study well, and the unified voice is that we have to say exactly the same thing just now, understand?" ”

"Well, when the king asks again, I will say, 'The sailors want to extort money, and we have punished them.'" ”

"Well, man, that's good."

Zhu Yunwen's fleet was delayed for a long time, and it was not until Yangzhou that he caught up with the king's fleet. When they arrived at the Yangzhou wharf, a group of people came down from the most luxurious boat in the middle, and the Yangzhou prefect Dai Shuiwen had already brought the officials of the government to kneel down on the wharf and salute, and said: "Yangzhou prefect Dai Shuiwen and the officials of the government department supply His Royal Highness King Yan, His Royal Highness the Acting King, His Royal Highness the King of Liao, His Royal Highness the King of Ning, His Royal Highness the King of Gu, His Royal Highness the Prince of Jin, His Royal Highness Chitose, Chitose, Chitose, Chitose." ”

Walking in the front is King Yan, now Zhu Di's image has changed greatly, he has lost a lot of weight, his face is pale, he is weak, he needs two people to support him to walk, and now he can only raise his hand slightly, he can't speak at all, and the eunuch next to him sings: "Zhongqing is flat." ”

Dai Shuiwen and the others stood up and were just about to speak. But a voice came from the side: "Uncle Yan Wang, Uncle Dai Wang, Uncle Liao Wang, Uncle Ning Wang, Uncle Gu Wang, Cousin Ji Xi, Yun Wei is polite here." ”

When they looked back, they found a young man standing beside him, bowing down, and kneeling in the dust behind him, saluting the princes.