Zhang Xian got up early in the morning, but Jiang Yongcheng was already waiting at the door, Zhang Xian didn't know if the unruly princess would also go to Jiang Yongcheng for trouble, so he asked in surprise:

"Why is it so early, Senior Brother? Could it be that something happened to you last night that disturbed your dreams? ”

Jiang Yongcheng shook his head with a smile and said:

"Senior brother is too worried, it is naturally a good night's dream to warm the bed for my brother, but there is a message that the Yangtze River has risen sharply recently, and if my brother wants to explore the land of Xiangyang, he must go to see it in advance, otherwise when the flood comes, the sky will flood, and my brother will not see anything valuable, so I came early in the morning to say goodbye to my brother and General Lu!"

Zhang Xian sighed, looked like this, and immediately hugged his fist at Jiang Yongcheng and said:

"Senior brother is right, the Yangtze River water rises sharply in summer, which will inevitably change the topography, it is very necessary for the senior brother to check it out in advance, and I wish the senior brother a safe journey and success!"

Just when Zhang Xian and Jiang Yongcheng were saying goodbye, Lu Wenhuan walked over under the escort of a group of majestic personal soldiers, Zhang Xian and Jiang Yongcheng hurriedly saluted Lu Wenhuan and said:

"Xiaguan Zhang Xian and Jiang Yongcheng pay a visit to General Lu!"

Lu Wenhuan smiled, raised his hands upward, signaled to the two of them to be exempt, and said:

"The two little brothers are exempt from courtesy, and I heard from the soldiers that the little brother Jiang wanted to go to the Yangtze River to investigate in advance, and the general also received an urgent military situation, and he wanted to rush back to Junzhou to garrison immediately, and he came to see him off early! Come on, give each of the two adults a copy of the small profits that the general has prepared, and I hope that the two little brothers will not refuse! ”

Zhang Xian saw that Lu Wenhuan's two personal soldiers, one of them dragged a red lacquer plate, on which were placed a few rare huge wild ginseng, next to some coral pearls, this gift was no longer a thin gift, Zhang Xian said:

"General Lu, the courtesy is heavy, the courtesy is heavy! The younger generation is defenseless, how dare he accept such a heavy gift from the general? ”

Jiang Yongcheng also sighed at Lu Wenhuan's good intentions, although Lu Wenhuan was polite to himself, on the one hand, because of his junior brother Zhang Xian, and on the other hand, because of his grandfather's influence in the court, Lu Wenhuan was just a favor, but etiquette is etiquette, come and not be rude, if you don't show it to others, it will be really rude, so Jiang Yongcheng also hugged his fists and said:

"General Lu is indeed polite, if you don't accept it, the younger generation will be rude, so let's do it, today the junior will take the liberty to accept this generous gift for my grandfather, and when I return home in the future, the younger generation will definitely explain today's situation to my grandfather!"

After listening to Zhang Xian and Jiang Yongcheng's words, Lu Wenhuan smiled and touched his beard, it seems that this Jiang Yongcheng is also an understanding person, to be honest, over the years, Lu Wende has been mixed in the court, in fact, he is taking the path of Jia Nidao, to put it bluntly, Lu Wende bet on Jia Nidao, but Lu Wenhuan has long seen that Jia Nidao is flying and domineering, and is good at running a party and running a private business. Lu Wenhuan wanted to get rid of Jia Nidao and find another backer.

To say that Lu Wenhuan didn't think that his luck was so good, escorting a trip to grain and grass, not only got acquainted with a young talent, but also inadvertently met Jiang Wanli's grandson, that is the grandson of a real important minister of the court, although Jia Rudao has controlled the government over the years, Jiang Wanli has faded out of the court, but Jiang Wanli relies on Bailuzhou Academy, and his protégés and former officials are all over the court and the opposition, even Jia Yidao does not dare to offend Jiang Wanli easily, this invisible power is what Lu Wenhuan likes, and more importantly, from Jiang Yongcheng's mouth, Lu Wenhuan clearly knew that Jiang Wanli was actually a faction that supported him to defend Xiangyang City, and once the war broke out in the future, this was the backbone and backer that could be fought for, Lu Wenhuan said to Jiang Yongcheng with a smile:

"Little Brother Jiang, with a small profit, how can you let Lord Jiang hear about it? That's a shame for the general, this thin gift is specially prepared for the two little brothers, okay, this is a long way to go, Ben will receive an urgent order, and say goodbye to the two little brothers! ”

As soon as Lu Wenhuan finished speaking, he seemed to think of something again, turned to Zhang Xian and said:

"Little Brother Zhang, what my brother said to you before, sooner or later, I will look forward to building a reputation with Little Brother Zhang! Oh, by the way, the elder brother wants to ask Brother Zhang for a favor in private, your dry food, the official likes it very much, as many as the elder brother! Brother, I plan to let the cavalry squad all carry dry food to fight in the future, so as to increase the mobility of the cavalry and no longer have to suffer from food and grass. Of course, the elder brother will not let Brother Zhang suffer, so he will pay according to the market situation! ”

After Zhang Xian heard Lu Wenhuan finish speaking, he had to admire that Lu Wenhuan was really a veteran and had already begun to plan the cavalry to carry dry food to fight, which is also the biggest purpose of his own invention of dry food for marching operations, that is, to reduce the constraints of logistics supplies such as grain and grass for marching operations, and to maximize the mobility of the army's operations, Zhang Xian also smiled and said to Lu Wenhuan:

"Since General Lu has already opened his mouth, how dare the younger brother disobey his orders? ? Everything will be done according to what General Lu said, but the output of this dry food was limited at the beginning, and it was impossible to produce it in large quantities, and the younger brother could only give half of the output to General Lu! But General Lu needs to personally send someone to Yangzhou to escort the transport, I don't know if it's possible? ”

When Lu Wenhuan heard this, he said happily:

"Half of that is good, then it is already very good, the cavalry has a thousand stone of dry food a month, so it is decided, brother, I personally sent someone to Yangzhou to escort grain and grass, and the money must be paid in person!"

Zhang Xian smiled slightly, this Lu Wenhuan is really scheming, a thousand stone dry food a month, of course Lu Wenhuan can't let the cavalry fight everywhere every day, so it is estimated that not only can he not destroy the Tartars, he has long been exhausted to death, Lu Wenhuan wants to compress the dry food, on the one hand, he will definitely store a part, and the rest will be resold casually, it is just white silver, to put it bluntly, Lu Wenhuan actually wants to do this business and be his agent in Xiangyang.

Zhang Xian is now also anxious to push the compressed dry food to the whole territory of the Great Song Dynasty, and it doesn't hurt to hand over the gap in Xiangyang to Lu Wenhuan, compared to Lu Wende, Zhang Xian appreciates Lu Wenhuan's military talent more, and for Lu Wenhuan's history of abandoning the city and surrendering in the future, Zhang Xian is also sure to change, as long as Lu Wenhuan himself becomes strong, and even says that as long as Lu Wenhuan still has a little way out, it is absolutely impossible to surrender to the Tartars, after all, it is a real betrayal of the ancestors, no one will do that unless it is absolutely necessary!

Zhang Xian watched Lu Wenhuan and Jiang Yongcheng go away, and also retracted his thoughts, and came to the Ezhou barracks, Niu Dameng and others had already lined up to wait, looking at everyone's energetic appearance, Zhang Xian knew that Lu Wenhuan must have entertained this group of brothers, and said:

"Niu Dameng, it seems that you are all resting well, we should also leave home today, but there is an important matter for the time being, we need to go together, solve it, and everyone can go home!"

Niu Dameng smiled and said:

"If you have an errand arrangement, you can go home empty-handed, and you will be idle if you are idle!"

Zhang Xian nodded, and asked Jiang Wei to lead twenty family members to guard the silver, go home with the people, and lead Niu Dameng, Zhang Fan, Luo Tiantian and others to the riverside. When Zhang Xian spent a few taels of silver, and finally inquired about the fishermen's waterway, Zhang Xian found that this waterway is really winding and reef-dense, and the open place is a stable huge lake, which should be the place where fishermen venture to fish here, the shore belongs to the intersection of Ezhou and Tatar-controlled land controlled by the Great Song Dynasty, surrounded by high mountains, the road is difficult to pass, under normal circumstances, it is really difficult for anyone to come here except for fishermen, but it is also such a place that will become a wonderful place for smuggling!

Niu Da scratched his head violently and said:

"My lord, what kind of bird do you think the Persians would smuggle away in this place where birds don't? If I want to say that the Tartars will come to answer, the mountain roads here are rugged, and it is still difficult to walk, and it is definitely impossible for the Tartar cavalry to come to meet them; Besides, this waterway, even if the fishing boat runs up, it must be cautious, for fear of hitting the reef, so it is impossible for the Tartars to send sailors to respond, this water and land are not convenient for the Tartars to send a large army to respond, the Tartars have to ensure that the Persian craftsmen mentioned by the adults answer, I really can't see how to ensure safety? ”

Zhang Xian said to Niu Dameng:

"The art of war has clouds, Qi is complementary, the Tartars are also fancy this place is difficult to send a large team of people to respond, there really needs to be something to respond, but it becomes safe, the light is dark is this reason, you see, on the shore of this waterway, although the mountain is steep, but the steep place is less than ten zhang, as long as the Tartars find a way to pick up this group of Persian craftsmen up the mountain, the mountain is a horse and a flat river, enough for a thousand cavalry to gallop!"

When Niu Dameng heard Zhang Xian say this, he didn't understand it even more, and continued to ask:

"My lord, this ten-zhang steep cliff can be said to be higher than the city wall, I look at the old cow, it is difficult to accept the Persians ashore, it is too difficult!"

To say that according to the IQ of ordinary Tartars, Zhang Xian has reason to believe that it is difficult for them to think of a way, but Zhang Xian thought of the unruly Mengyuan princess Beji, she definitely has a way to connect the Persians to the cliff, so Zhang Xian said:

"If the official can think of a way, he believes that the Tartars should also think of a way, because this group of Persians is too important to them! Even if Meng Yuan has a way, he must think of a way! ”

"My lord, will the bird princess who stabbed you not leave here when she sees that the jade plate is lost and knows that the matter is revealed?" Luo Tiantian said with questions.

Zhang Xian smiled and said:.

"Luo asked for three days, but Princess Tartar won't believe that there is such a coincidence, first of all, the jade plate of Tartar hides a note, and the design itself is seamless, ordinary people can't see the secret of the jade card at all, let alone someone smash such an expensive jade card to see what is inside! Secondly, these characters are Persian, even if we see the Persian script, the Tartar princess believes that we will not know it, after all, there are only a handful of people in the world who can know Persian script! In addition, I was shot and wounded by the master guard of the Tartar princess, and life and death are still two words, they absolutely find it difficult to believe that we will crack this secret, and it is because of continuous coincidences that we know this shocking secret! ”

Just when Zhang Xian was talking to Luo Tiantian, Zhang Fan next to him kept looking at the riverside, seemed to have found something, and shouted:

"My lord, it's not good, there's a situation!"