Next, everyone's speculation was more affirmed, and after the meal, Yang Xianggong took everyone shopping, and bought a pair of bracelets and a hairpin for Qian Sanniang. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Qian Sanniang is happy, and everyone looks at her differently, Yang Xianggong has not yet married, will Sanniang become the main mother?

The next day, everyone left Suqian County, preparing to go north to see the two places of Dongwu Mountain and Liujiazhuang Inspection Division, and then turn west from there back to Pizhou.

In order to facilitate the escort to hurry, everyone changed back into felt hats and cloaks, and handcuffs and firearms were naturally brought with them. Yang He's clothes were also dry, and he changed back to his soft-footed head, narrow-sleeved green shirt, and the inner holster was pinned to the left side of the belt, and the handle of the sleeve was to the right.

Suqian is Tongjing Avenue in the north, Liuhuai is everywhere, the avenue is spacious, and it is still very comfortable to walk.

Soon everyone crossed Santai Mountain, this mountain is twenty miles away from the county seat, the three peaks are towering suddenly, the momentum is like a bead, it is one of the main mountains in the county. The official road passes from the west side of the mountain, and from a distance, there are large forests and a sea of flowers.

About eight miles to the west of this mountain is the vast Luoma Lake, and the mountains and mountains are stacked again, the clear water and the forests are numerous, and there are quite a few rich officials and gentry who build gardens here.

Walking further north, nearly twenty miles, everyone came to a place called Zhangshan, the official road passed from the east side of the mountain, and went west for about two or three miles, which was the water of Luoma Lake.

In later generations, this is the Xinyi River channel, and there is a control gate for the outlet of the lake on the side of Zhangshan, of course, there is no shadow at this time, it is all in the middle of the twentieth century, the construction started in four or nine years, and it was completed in five or three years.

Yang He stopped here, and he rode up to Zhangshan Mountain, under which is the mighty Luoma Lake, looking at it from afar, the smoke and waves are vast.

In later generations, Luoma Lake almost had an area of 400 square kilometers, and at this time it was even larger, estimated to be 5 or 600 square kilometers.

On the whole, under the influence of the north and south, the east bank of the lake is relatively high, forming a natural remote embankment. The lake rises again in spring and summer, and the impact on the residents on the east bank is not great, but the impact on the Yellow River and the canal in the west is great.

Therefore, the government of the past dynasties always wanted to open up a flood drainage channel from the east of the lake, and at this time, Shi Kefa's "Barrage River" project was one, and the Xinyi River in later generations was also one.

"How about building a dock over here?" Looking at the mighty lake, Yang He said in a deep voice.

Qian Sanniang, Chen Qiuao and others couldn't say what was wrong, but Hu Cheng stammered and said: "Yang Xianggong's idea is good, the terrain here is high, and the wharf will not be flooded by the lake." This side is also close to the official road, two or three miles away, and you will arrive after a while. ”

He also said: "In particular, we still have an advantage, there is Clam Lake on the edge of the city, there is also a wharf by the lake, and there is Man Lake a few miles to the east. The two lakes are connected, from west to east, and there is a river that leads directly to the straight river, and then enters the Llama Lake from the mouth of the horse. Because of the injection of the Luo River, the Wu River, and the Yi River, the water volume of this river is quite large, and most of the time it can pass through some small boats. ”

He finally said: "If you go from the wharf of Champong, pass through some rivers and lakes, and finally cross the Llama Lake to this side, there is only about a hundred miles of waterway. ”

Yang He smiled and said: "Yes, it seems that Director Hu has collected at least the topography and water conservancy of the two counties in this state." ”

There was joy on Hu Cheng's face, and he grinned: "This is the advantage of a certain surname Hu, and he is loyal." Yang Xiang's stay in the bus, the intelligence institute wants to collect the humanities and landforms of various places, and his subordinates still do their best. ”

Everyone was laughing, Qian Sanniang also pursed her lips, there was a smile at the corner of her eyes, and she couldn't help but look at Yang He, Li Ruwan looked at Hu Cheng and said, "How do you feel like you're endorsing?" Who made this up, and then you memorized it? ”

Hu Zhiyi didn't bother to pay attention to her, and only introduced Yang He diligently, saying that this side is the north-south Tongjing Avenue, and if a wharf is built here, the profit will definitely be very rich.

Twenty miles to the east is Shaodian Town, where it is not far east of Muyang County, and you can also go to Haizhou if you go there.

A wharf can take advantage of a few parties, and maybe a town can be built here in the future.

Yang He nodded slightly, in fact, if he built a dock market, his use was not just this.

Soon he descended from Zhangshan and walked northwest along the shore of the lake to see if there was a more suitable place.

In later generations, this side has belonged to Xinyi City, but at this time it belongs to the boundary of Suqian, and it belongs to part of Anren Township and Beiren Township of Suqian County.

All the way north, to the Yang River, the northeast of Suqian is indeed much better than Suining, there is no threat of flooding of the Yellow River, the terrain here is high, and it is not afraid of the flooding of Luoma Lake.

There are not many particularly large groups of gangsters, unlike Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others over there, except for Li Qingshan and others who have rebelled in the past two years. Therefore, there will be more dense crowds here, especially in small villages.

Yang River went north along the official road, and from time to time you could see a village, unlike Suining and other areas, the small village was almost extinct.

However, because there are many local bandits, especially Shandong Xiangma is famous, coming and going like the wind, passing through the polder, there are polder walls built around.

Except for some large caravans of people and horses on the official road, there are hardly any ordinary people to be seen, and they are afraid of encountering bandits to rob and kidnap tickets.

The villages and villages are becoming more and more closed, locking themselves in the village all day long, and the people are farming, and they are also planting some fields close to the village, and few dare to go far, for fear of encountering bandits.

The protection of especially small polders is poor, the more small polders give up, the people gather according to their surnames and clans to live in large polders, and the original building fields are naturally abandoned.

There are also floods here, for example, the Shuhe River floods every year, and after the floods, there are droughts and locust plagues, so although the people here are better than those in Suining, they are not much better. Yang He saw that the fields were abandoned everywhere and overgrown with weeds.

He walked along the lake, the overall terrain was much higher than the lake, the reeds and grass were continuous on the lake, and there were large meadows, and from time to time you could see some of the lakes were quite fertile.

Theoretically, however, these lakes and fields are strictly forbidden to be cultivated, for fear of damaging the wetlands and for fear of farmers grabbing water, which will make the water flow insufficient during transportation.

Fishermen can sometimes be seen on boats, with families living on boats, paying taxes to the river moorings, and Lake Llama is a freshwater lake famous for its native whitebait and green shrimp.

Looking to the northeast, you can faintly see the mountain of Dongwu, and on the west and south sides of the mountain, there are quite a lot of villages and villages.

Yang Heshun looked at the lake for a while, and the overall feeling was that the original place was good, looking at the grass forest in front of him, faintly some abandoned reed houses, and the lake was full of reeds, and it was not easy to walk, so he planned to turn the horse back.

Suddenly, I heard a voice from the woods in front of me: "Where did that guy go?" ”

“…… I can't be wrong when I see him fleeing this way. ”

"Search ...... carefully"

Suddenly, the grass parted, and a group of people came out of the forest, all dressed vigorously, or with short brown headscarves, and tied in a row. or wrapped in a folded scarf and wearing a knee-length robe. Or simply open your chest and open your arms, full of roughness.

But they all carried weapons, either broadswords or axes, and some even carried bows and arrows.

There were about thirty of them before and after, all of them were quite tough, and some of them were even full of anger and murderous aura, obviously with more than one life at hand.

When everyone saw each other, they were all shocked, Yang He's side was immediately on guard, Qian Sanniang stepped forward, squeezed Hu Cheng aside, and vigilantly rode his horse on the left side of Yang He.

"Salt baron?" Hu Cheng was stunned for a moment, he reined in his horse, and was about to ask, when someone on the other side shouted: "Who are you?" But are you going to hide the smuggler? ”

The people on the other side glared angrily, all of them were murderous, even if everyone here was riding horses, they were not afraid, and they all looked extremely arrogant.

Hu Employment is an old man, and he knows that his momentum must not be weak at this time, so he shouted angrily: "Presumptuous, do you know who is here in a certain family?" This is Lord Yang, the head of practice in Pizhou, and the township soldiers here will also take care of him in the future. You grass people, when you see Shangguan, why don't you come over and bow down? ”

The expressions of the people on the other side were a little more solemn, Pizhou Lian Zong, that is a seven-grade official, especially this "Lord Yang" seems to have heard of it.

But that's all, the salt lord's subordinates on the opposite side didn't show any scared looks, and a man snorted even more: "Mr. Lian, is it a fart?" ”

He seemed to be the leader of the group, stout and burly, wrapped in a turban, dressed in a blue robe, wearing cowhide boots, with large scars on both cheeks, even on the side of his forehead, and a heavy machete in his hand.

A somewhat gloomy man stood beside him, and the two archers behind him slowly opened their bows.

"Do you know who my master is?" The leading man looked at everyone with angry expressions on his face, and his expression was extremely disdainful. Even the people behind him snorted coldly, it seemed that compared to them, Yang He, the general fart, was not the master of the exercises.

"A mere seven-grade small practice general, an official of sesame mung beans, compared to my master, that is ......"

The man shouted, staring at him, and was about to report his backstage.

"Huh!" Yang He pulled out his handcuff violently.

"Bang!" And he fired a blow at the man.

In the smoke of gunpowder, the man flew.

He flew through the air, his eyes full of incredulity.

"Boom!" His heavy body fell to the ground, and the blood hole in his chest spurted blood, which oxidized and turned black in the blink of an eye.

He only felt the burning pain of the bullet, and the heart-rending pain welled up in his heart, and he screamed hoarsely.

"Bang!" Qian Sanniang then pulled out her handcuff and fired a shot at the gloomy man.

With a loud bang, the man soared out. The ten-millimeter caliber handcuff was powerful, and there was new gunpowder in Xin'anzhuang, and this man flew high and fell heavily, and the gushing blood was sprinkled all over the air.

When he fell to the ground, he looked incredulous.

Then the pain of the bullet made him cry like a woman.

"Bang! Bang! Qian Sanniang's left hand swiped twice on the hammer, and in the smoke of the fire, the two men with bows and arrows had blood mist on their bodies, and they rolled out like that.

Li Ruwan also fired a shot, and a stunned man rose into the air, fell backwards, and then pressed a knife-wielding man behind him to the ground, and the two rolled into a ball, and the knife and axe in their hands were thrown far away.

"Ahh At this time, the group of salt lords on the opposite side woke up and screamed.

"Bang!" Qian Sanniang opened another shot, and in the white smoke, another figure flew up on the opposite side, and the blood mist was rising.

However, it was Qian Sanniang who pulled out the handcuff pinned to the right side of her waist with her left hand, and knocked over the person opposite, and then the handcuff in her right hand turned lightly and tucked it into the holster on the left.

At this time, the sound of guns came and went, Li Ruwan, Uncle Wan, Tan Ge'er and others fired guns one after another, and the salt lords on the opposite side were caught off guard, screaming and being knocked to the ground one by one.

"Bang!" Yang He fired again, and a man who turned around and fled came with a bloody mist behind him, and he threw himself forward.

In the blink of an eye, the group on the other side was killed and wounded, and the rest screamed, or fled into the woods or somewhere else.

Qian Sanniang, Li Ruwan and others chased after them, holding handcuffs and winged tiger guns, Chen Qiuao still stayed by Yang He's side, holding weapons on guard, and Hu Cheng went down to mend the knife.

The mouth of the gun tube in his hand was still smoking, the smell of blood in the sun was coming to his nose, the corpse was full of blood, and the flies from nowhere had "buzzed" to fly, covering the corpse's blood stains, as if it was about to make people vomit.

Yang He held a handcuff with a expressionless face, he was on the horse, just listening to the movements around him.

Soon Qian Sanniang and others came back and reported: "The thieves have all been killed." ”

Yang He nodded, looked at the continuous reeds by the lake for a while, and with a flexible turn of the handcuff in his hand, he inserted it into the holster on the left side.

He shouted, "Go! ”

As soon as the reins were lifted, the neighing of the war horse's "sighing rhythm", the front hooves were raised, and then "trampled" away.

The crowd followed, and soon the flying cloaks disappeared into the weeds.

After a long time, two heads rose from a bush of reeds.

They are all young, in their twenties, but one of them has a weathered face, and his expression is shrewd and steady, and he seems to be a person who is used to walking the rivers and lakes.

The other person also has a strong face, but with some of the literary air of a reader.

Looking at the corpses on the shore of the lake not far away, all the blood flowing everywhere, all tanned and black brown in the sun, he exclaimed: "Who are they so strong?" And what kind of firearms are used, which can be fired in bursts without the use of fireworks? ”

The other pondered: "Mr. Lian...... Could it be? ”

He said to the somewhat literate young man beside him: "Brother Xu, thanks to you this time, otherwise I don't know if I can escape the pursuit of these big salt merchants." ”

The young man hurriedly said: "Brother Wang is polite, if you hadn't sold us cheap and high-quality refined salt, we Zhuangzi wouldn't have been able to afford this salt......

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Soon Yang He and the others returned to the official road, and they continued to go north.

In front is Fangyu Town, there are twenty miles away from Zhangshan Mountain, and then not far from the northwest of Fangyu Town is Fangyu Mountain, also known as Siwu Mountain, also known as Dongwu Mountain.

However, the locals commonly known as Fangyu Mountain, that is, the "Maling Mountain Scenic Area" in later generations, which is part of the "South Maling".

Maling Mountain originates in Shandong, ends in Suqian, called "Eight Hundred Miles Maling", generally Tancheng belongs to "North Maling", this side belongs to South Maling, each section has different names, but all belong to a part of Maling Mountains.

Fangyu Town is on the official road, counting the important town of Suqian County at this time, and sixty miles north is the Liujiazhuang Inspection Division, and after the Inspection Division, it is the boundary of Tancheng, Shandong.

Not far from the past, there was also a Honghuabu, an important town in Tancheng, with a post station.

Yang He and others rested in Fangyu Town, which belongs to the ancient town, it seems that it existed during the Five Dynasties, and even in the battle of Qi and Wei during the Warring States Period, Sun Bin defeated Pang Juan in this area.

The official road passes through the town from north to south, there is a water transport wharf in the east a few miles, the shops in the town are lined up one after another, most of them are blue brick houses, vertical columns and eaves of the gallery, the main street is even paved with bluestone slabs, the large and small wine flags are hung low and high, and they are arranged unevenly.

There are temples and mule and horse markets at both ends, and there are many merchants with various accents, and Huai Shang and Lu merchants can be seen everywhere.

However, Yang He also noticed that because of the unquiet world, the polder wall was being strengthened here, and the local gentry and wealthy merchants even built Yiyong and added armor such as bird guns and Buddha Lang machines.

At night, the streets on this side will be blocked by fences, and only watchmen can enter and exit.

The army is in chaos, and all the market towns are trying their best to protect themselves.

Yang He and the others had lunch at a wine shop, and they planned to rest here today, after all, there were no big markets all the way north in the future.

However, Yang He planned to take a look at the surrounding area first, because he calculated to set up a military village near here in the future.

Soon Yang He and others went out of Fangyu Town, and rode horses north to roam on the official road, and his west was Maling Mountain, one by one, and the center was Wuhua Ding, and there were temples on the top.

Looking at the mountains in the distance, the layers of forests are dense, there are many deep ditches and meandering streams, lakes and ponds, and many of the surrounding villagers rely on the river springs flowing down the Maling Mountain to irrigate the fields.

After walking for a few miles, Yang He also found a phenomenon, although the Mu River is not far to the east, there are not many fields in the villages along the river, and many fields that seem to be cultivable are abandoned and weeds.

Speaking of this, Hu Cheng said: "This river is flooded every year, not a big Zhuangzi, a big family, can build those high polder walls to protect the fields, how can ordinary village people dare to rely on the river to farm?" A big flood came, and all the wheat fields and rice fields were washed away. ”

After walking another four or five miles, it is estimated that on the ground of Wangzhuang Town in later generations, the Yang River stopped.

To the east of him was a vast wilderness, perhaps three or four miles to the river, where weeds were weeds.

Then to the west, about a mile away from the official road, there was a hill that was not very high.

Hu Cheng thought about it and said that the mountain may be called Tianyue Mountain by the locals, and there is a lake under the west side of the mountain, which is called Huangchao Lake by the locals, and it is said that Huangchao was named after the soldiers stationed there.

Yang He took everyone to that side, climbed the mountain, looked at the Maling in the distance and was gentle and low, and when he entered the mountain, he found that there was no other world, there were many springs and ponds, and there were many plants and trees, and there was a barbarism in the beauty.

Then I saw that there was a mountain peak on the opposite side, and there was a pass where two peaks faced each other in the south, Hu Cheng said that this was the Huangchao Pass, and the Huangchao defeated the officers and soldiers here.

Outside the pass to the north is a large area of deep and open mountain stream, at this time the blue waves in the stream ripple, forming a rather large lake, this is "Huangchao Lake", later generations here became Huangchaoguan Reservoir.

Yang He looked at the lake, the edge was full of grass and reeds, and the mountain peaks standing below him were not high, I am afraid that the altitude was only fifty meters, and the hills were undulating and quite gentle.

I thought to myself, "If you have this lake, you won't have to worry about the water." A military village was built up and down the mountain, and enough grain and grass were hoarded, and it was not a problem to garrison one or two thousand people. ”

"That large piece of land to the east can be cultivated if there is nothing to do in the future."