As the Yan brothers and others said, although the prefect's yamen can clean the long streets along the river in the city, it is a little powerless to control the canal. After all, this canal is only under the jurisdiction of the government when it passes through the section of Suzhou City, and it is impossible for them to cut off the upstream and downstream, otherwise it will cause a big problem.

Not only that, but even the docks are still busy. Because there are more people in charge of the Cao Gang here, although the government has sent someone to inform them, but there is business coming to the door, and the Cao Gang people will naturally not push it out.

Therefore, even though Yu Qian's boat was about to arrive at the wharf, and even the prefect had already appeared, the wharf was still crowded with people, and ships of all sizes were constantly coming in and out, which was a busy scene.

In normal times, seeing this meeting, Kang Sichuan, as the prefect of Suzhou, would be honored to be happy, because this can also be counted as his local political achievements. But today, seeing this, his brows furrowed deeply: "It's all at this time, why is it still so messy." In the past, I didn't see the dock would be busy until this time, wow, come on, go and call Li Yanjiu to me to reply. ”

The prefect gave an order, and Li Yanjiu, the helmsman of the Cao Gang, quickly rushed over, and after carefully saluting, he smiled and said: "My lord, forgive me, it is true that there has been more business at the dock recently, and we all rely on this waterway to eat, so we dare not offend these merchants." ”

"It's not early today, won't you be flexible?" Kang Sichuan glanced at him dissatisfiedly: "If something goes wrong here today, can you Cao Gang afford this responsibility?" ”

With such a cauldron as a hood, even Li Yanjiu, a tycoon in the rivers and lakes, couldn't afford it, so he quickly nodded and said, "What the adults said is, and the little ones understand." I'll go to the dock to inform them, and let them disperse as soon as possible, so that Lord Yu's boat can dock smoothly. ”

"Well, let's go. It's getting dark, and time waits for no one. Kang Zhifu waved his hand and commanded.

Just when Li Yanjiu nodded and agreed to turn around and give orders, a sudden change occurred.

The current of the Grand Canal is not too fast, and it is even more gentle near the Suzhou wharf. Because of this, these boatmen, who are accustomed to walking on the water, are particularly relaxed, and the boats are quite close to each other. In this case, even if there is a friction, nothing can happen.

But the accident happened at the moment when everyone relaxed their vigilance! Upstream, a small boat that looked more like a fishing boat suddenly crashed directly into the string like an arrow that had left the string, and when everyone was unprepared, it actually crashed into several merchant ships in a row, and finally slammed into the middle of a Cao Gang merchant ship that was now firmly anchored at the dock.

Suddenly, the sawdust flew, and there were still a lot of coolies on the merchant ship carrying the goods up, and after eating this collision, the feet slipped, and even the people with the boxes fell to the ground. Two of them were unlucky, and they fell directly into the river below.

This change immediately caused a burst of exclamation from everyone inside and outside the dock, and everyone looked at the small boat, wanting to see who was crazy and dared to hit the merchant ship of the Cao Gang.

But at this glance, more people let out a burst of screams. For they happened to see several figures emerge from the canopy, all of them holding shiny swords in their hands, and crockpots in the other.

As soon as they raised their hands to the screams of the crowd, the crockpot was thrown at the merchant ship, and the liquid splashed everywhere with a crackling sound. One of them even shook a fire fold in front of everyone's eyes, and with a wave of his hand, a red light swept through the air in a beautiful arc and landed on the deck of the merchant ship!

"Whew-boom!" The merchant ship had already flowed away from the ground with a black viscous liquid, and after this thing encountered the fire, it quickly burst into flames, and in the blink of an eye, the entire merchant ship was engulfed.

The people on the other boats, who were already frightened, screamed in panic after seeing this, and everyone rowed desperately to get away from the burning ship as soon as possible.

However, the boats here were too crowded just now, and there was no room for each of them to turn around. Now everyone is trying to get out, and the result is that all the ships collide with each other and huddle together, but no one wants to leave.

As a result, the blood-soaked sun, which gradually lost its color, was replaced by the flame light on the ship, reflecting the scene on the docks of Suzhou, which was like a troubled world. Everyone was screaming, and the people on the dock turned around and ran out, and after several attempts failed to get the boat to move, the people on the boat simply turned their hearts to the side, jumped off the boat, and swam towards the shore.

Although these ships are the key to their livelihood, in the end, their own lives are more important.

And Kang Sichuan and the others, who came to the dock just now, were stunned on the spot: "What...... How so? Who are these arsonists? Why did they do such things? ”

One question after another came out of their hearts and mouths, but Li Yanjiu, the helmsman of the Cao Gang, was also at a loss at this time, and he didn't know why such a mess had happened.

And this mess is just beginning. Just when everyone was stunned by what was in front of them and didn't know what to do, a few small boats rushed straight towards them like wild horses that had escaped from the reins, taking advantage of the wind and the water. And this time, the boats themselves actually ignited a raging fire.

As soon as they collide with a ship, the ship catches fire and quickly ignites the other ships in the vicinity. As a result, the entire dock waters were soon in a sea of fire.

That's not all, and then in the distance, Kang Sichuan and they also heard the sound of ships colliding upstream and downstream, and the two ends actually rose into flames that soared into the sky. These guys actually used fireboats to quickly cut off the north and south rivers of the wharf, so that the boats in it completely became fish in the net, and turtles in the urn!

This series of accidents shocked Kang Sichuan for a long time, until he vaguely saw a big ship with a lantern hanging high in the word slowly approaching this way, and then he shouted like a wasp stung: "Not good! ”

It wasn't until this time that he thought of the key - the other party was doing this, don't just come for Yu Qian. Now that the waterways are blocked by fireboats, and the docks are in chaos again, isn't it giving those guys a chance to attack and assassinate Lord Yu.

"Quick, give the lights to the people on board! Tell them to be careful! Kang Sichuan immediately shouted.

It's a pity that there is no one to carry out this order now. Because this kind of light on the water is not known to the people of the government, or to the people of the Cao Gang, their codes are also very different from those of the government, and the people on it can't understand it.

And when Kang Sichuan was so anxious that he jumped to his feet, on the surface of the river, several small boats began to quickly pick up Yu Qian's big boat.

Although the sky had completely darkened and the water was dark, it was all happening under the noses of everyone at the docks because of the ships that were on fire all around.

Watching these boats lean over little by little, Kang Sichuan's whole heart lifted. If Yu Qian had an accident in his own jurisdiction, especially if he was hurt in front of him, then let alone his future, if the imperial court really wanted to investigate it, I am afraid that even his own life would have to be put into it!

"Quick, you quickly call someone to go into the water to rescue, what are you doing in a daze!" In his eagerness, Kang Sichuan couldn't care about the decency of any officials anymore, so he turned around and grabbed Li Yanjiu's shirt and yelled urgently.

Li Yanjiu was not moved at all, a pair of eyes fell firmly on the merchant ship that was burning more and more fiercely, and there was only one thought in his heart: It's over, this time he is really finished.

Others don't know, but he knows it very well. On the ship, the income from the Cao Gang's business in the past six months has been transformed into Suzhou silk, tea and other rare things. Originally, it was planned to transport it to the north to earn a vote. But as a result, this fire burned all the goods worth millions of taels of silver.

At this time, Master Li Helm even wanted to die. Because he knows very well how big this responsibility is, and how the whole gang will punish him when the time comes. So compared to it, the anger of the prefect next to him is nothing at all.

He didn't react to Kang Sichuan's yelling at all, and only one thought turned in his mind: Who are they? Why?

Although the Cao Gang is very domineering on the canal and has not offended people, it is really too rare to leave no room for such behavior. No one in the rivers and lakes is so ruthless......

And in his daze, those small boats had already surrounded Yu Qian's car, and it seemed that as long as he got closer, he would make a move. And just now, their methods have been shown, and it seems that this time will not be an exception.

......Seeing this, Kang Sichuan finally stopped roaring and moving, and the whole person stayed there......

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Not far from here, on the top of the Bifuyuan Restaurant, several pairs of eyes are looking at everything that is happening on the river from afar. When they saw the flames, the eyes of the Yan brothers also flashed a few faint lights.

But Xu Qinglian gave them a thumbs up with a smile: "Yan Gongzi is really generous, this time is not only our target, but the Cao Gang is afraid that it will also suffer a lot of damage." I really admire it below. ”

"Hmph, we're just paying back the day's debt." Yan Yulin said coldly.

Two months ago, the Cao Gang was unable to save the Yan family in the face of the matter, and saw the Yan family fall to the point where it is today. Therefore, today the Yan brothers are going to push the Cao Gang and Li Yanjiu into the abyss from which they will never recover.

"Everything is going so smoothly, it seems that soon, Yu Qian's life will no longer belong to him!" Xu Qinglian said with a smile, her eyes reflecting the firelight in the distance, like two ghost fires......