Chapter 33: Surprise (I)

After seeing Chen Yanqian off the ship in Runzhou, Yang Wu continued to take the boat to Guangling. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Runzhou is also known as Jingkou, that is, the Zhenjiang of later generations, and Guangling in the north of the river across the river. Once here, you will soon be able to enter the Canal Zone.

Although this section of the canal area is one of the sections of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, it was not opened up by Yang Guang in that year, but by Wu Wangfucha in the earlier Spring and Autumn Period.

At the beginning, in order to go north to compete for hegemony with the Jin Kingdom, a large country in the Central Plains, Fucha built a city in the north of the Yangtze River, called "Hancheng", which is the origin of Yangzhou City. Taking Hancheng as the starting point, Fucha dug a canal connecting Huaishui and the Yangtze River, which is Hangou. Yang Wu: The location they are in now is the starting place of Hangou.

Yang Wu stood on the bow deck, facing the cool breeze on the river, and secretly pondered.

"After Xu Wen took control of Huainan in history, there were mainly three strategists around him who gave him advice, among which Chen Yanqian has been recruited to my hands, but Yan Keqiu and Luo Zhixiang are still working for others, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to subdue them."

He remembered that Luo Zhixiang was still under Tian Yan at this time, and was reused by Tian Yan, and was appointed as the governor of Xuanzhou, and treated him very politely. And he had only just been promoted to the commander of the capital at this time, and it was basically impossible to recruit Luo Zhixiang, so it was better to wait until he defeated Tian Yan in the future.

As for Yan Keqiu, he is now a guest under Xu Wen, but he usually lives in Xu Wen's mansion, and it is usually difficult to see him, so do you want to go to Xu Wen's house to recruit him?

He remembered that in history, Yan Keqiu also became Yang Xingmi's staff for a time, gave advice to Yang Xingmi, and was reused by Yang Xingmi; However, after Yang Wu ascended the throne, he didn't pay much attention to him, and soon after Xu Wen and Zhang Hao launched a mutiny to take control of power, Yan Keqiu began to plan for his former master Xu Wen.

"If I can continue to use this man in the future after I ascend the throne, will he be of my own use?" Yang Wu thought about it, but then he smiled, "Anyway, I have to give it a try in the future, as for whether he is loyal to Xu Wen or himself at that time, it depends on the creation at that time." Anyway, he has the ability to watch the loyalty of his subordinates, and he is not afraid of his disobedience. ”

As for other talents that can be thought of, such as Song Qiqiu, etc., they are either too young now, or they don't know where they are yet, and they can't find out to work for him, or they are now out of office, but their official positions are higher than their own, and it is difficult to recruit them at present.

In this era, although many of the festival envoys in various places have begun to be passed on from father to son, there are also many who have been passed on to their generals. Therefore, although Yang Wu is the eldest son of Yang Xingmi, he may not be able to inherit the position of the Jiedu envoy in the future, and other generals may also inherit it.

This is also why Zhu Yanshou has the idea of staying in the future; In history, when Yang Xingmi was seriously ill, Zhou Yin, the judge of Jiedu, opposed Yang Wu and advocated that Liu Wei, a general with high prestige, should stay after Jiedu, which was also for this reason.

Therefore, it is not enough for Yang Wu to rely on the identity of Yang Xingmi's eldest son, he also needs to have enough prestige and show enough ability.

He remembered that in those novels of later generations, the protagonist was often shocked by the tiger's body, and then those who were much higher in fame and official position than the protagonist cried and shouted to serve him one by one; As for himself, he couldn't recruit so many talents under his father, so he couldn't help but smile bitterly.

Thinking of this, Yang Wu could only sigh secretly, "It's a pity, those who are still young are just that, but those who have become officials now are basically not what I can recruit now." Fortunately, as long as you can make more contributions, you can quickly improve your official position and prestige; After the official position and prestige are improved, those talents may not need to be recruited by themselves, and they will directly become their own subordinates. ”

Just as Yang Wu was thinking wildly, suddenly there was a noise on the boat, as if something had happened. After a while, a soldier came over and reported, "Childe, there is a drowning man in the water, and everyone is trying to find a way to salvage it." ”

When Yang Wu heard this, he hurriedly walked over there, he leaned on the railing and looked at the water, only to see that the water was not alarmed, and by the moonlight, he could faintly see that there was indeed a person floating on the water not far from the boat, and he didn't know whether he was dead or alive.

Without Yang Wu's command, someone on the boat had already jumped into the water, and after a while, the person was rescued on the boat.

"Alive, a man," someone called out as he probed his snort.

Yang Wu pushed away the crowd of onlookers, only to see that the drowning man was a young man about twenty years old, with disheveled hair and a pale face, but he was clutching a gourd in his hand.

"Get out of the way, let me save people." Yang commanded the man to lay flat on the deck, to remove water and other debris from his mouth, and then he fell down on his knees, put the man's belly on his lap, so that his head drooped, and pressed his hands flat on his back to pour water.

Yang Wu just tried this, and the man reacted, and spit out a lot of water from his mouth with a "wow".

"Fortunately, I don't need any artificial respiration." Yang Wu secretly rejoiced. He couldn't breathe in front of such a big man, and others obviously wouldn't do artificial respiration.

Seeing that the drowning man gradually recovered under Yang Wu's rescue, everyone around cheered.

"Carry him into his room and send a healer to look at him." Yang Wu commanded lightly.

This kind of ordinary drowning person, just save him, and it's not worth asking too much about him. If he had to ask about such a small matter, I am afraid that he would have died of exhaustion.

After standing at the bow of the boat for a long time, he felt a little tired, and it should be half an hour before he got off the boat at the Guangling Pier, which was enough for him to go back to his room for a rest.

After taking a nap in the house, Yang Wu had just gotten up, and Fan Yu came to report to him, "Childe, the drowning man woke up just now, and he clamored to see you, saying that he wanted to thank Childe in person." May I ask Childe, do you see him or not? ”

Yang Wu didn't answer him directly, but walked to the window and looked out of the boat, before asking, "Where are we and how long will it take to get off the boat?" ”

"It's almost time to get to the docks, and it should take a quarter of an hour to get off the ship."

"Since there's still a little time, let's meet him." Yang Wu nodded indifferently.

The little time left can't do anything else anyway, and since the man who fell into the water wants to see himself, then meet him.

After a while, a young man walked in, and it was the same man who had fallen into the water earlier. He changed into clean clothes, combed his hair back up, and although his spirit was still a little sluggish, his face had become much more rosy.

"Little Ningzhong, meet Childe, thank you Childe for saving your life!" As soon as the young man came in, he knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Yang Wu repeatedly, and his forehead knocked on the board of the boat.

When Yang Wu saw it, he hurriedly went up and grabbed his shoulder to help him up, "Brother Ning doesn't have to be like this, I just saw you drowning, so I ordered my corporal to rescue you, and I just did it." Brother Ning, let's get up and sit down and talk! ”

The so-called saving a life is better than creating a seventh-level floating slaughter, and when you see someone falling into the water, you can save him, which is really just a convenient thing. What's more, it seems that this person is also a grateful person, but he didn't save the wrong person, so Yang Wu felt even happier.

Ning Zhong didn't listen, he let Yang Wu hold his shoulders and didn't get up, but knelt on the ground and kowtowed three times in a row before he stood up. However, Yang Wu asked him to sit down, but he refused to live or die.

Yang Wu had no choice but to let him go, and after sitting down again, he began to ask Ning Zhong about the cause of his drowning.

"The small one is the Runzhou people, this time I took a boat to Guangling, but I fell into the water on the river. The little one can't swim in the water, and if it weren't for the son's rescue, he would have to go to see Hades this time. "Ning Zhong hugged his fists.

Yang Wu smiled, "This is Brother Ning's great life, I just did it easily." However, Brother Ning lives in Runzhou and can't swim in the water, which is strange, and it is better to take fewer boats in the future. ”

Ning Zhong's face was embarrassed, and he said curtly, "I've studied for a long time before, but I just can't learn." After a pause, he said solemnly, "Childe saves his life, and the small one has nothing to repay, only one thing to give, and please ask Childe's subordinates." ”