Chapter 344: Old Enemy
Although it is a new type of magnolia boat that can carry six or seven hundred people, it is far inferior to many ordinary diesel fishing boats in later generations.
The cabin is cramped, the speed is not fast, and the driving feeling of the stiff sail is not very good. The wind on the river was stronger, and it was already swaying, and Li Xiao didn't dare to imagine what the ship would look like when it reached the sea.
But the captain of the ship, the old king, said that the improved Mulan boat was already very good, which made him very speechless.
However, the only advantage of sailing on the river is that you can taste a lot of river freshness.
Fishing while sailing, the Yangtze River at this time is really pollution-free, the water surface is extremely clear, and there are many fish in the river. If you go down the net, you can always catch a lot of fish. Even if you are bored, you can jump into the river to take a bath and swim.
Steamed, boiled, boiled, stewed in a large pot, fried·······
Li Xiao, who was idle and bored, simply acted as a cook, his craftsmanship was not mentioned, and the two hundred or so people on the boat, in addition to being practiced by Zhao Zhiman every day, were left waiting to eat the fish made by Li Xiao.
I caught a lot of fish today, very fat and fresh, Li Xiao directly asked a few teenagers to chop the fish into large pieces, then add some ginger to the pot and boil, and then throw some green onions and some chili peppers.
On the edge of a large iron pot, paste a ball of dough on top.
When the fish is fragrant, the bread is cooked. The cake is soaked in a delicious fish soup and eaten with large pieces of fish, which is a refreshing taste.
"Lang Jun, let's talk about the god list again."
A group of guys sat shirtless on the deck, the weather was hot, the bilge was even hotter, and it was still cool on the deck, but unfortunately the deck was not big, so they could only take turns to eat and cool off.
Listening to Li Xiao talk about the god list while eating is their biggest hobby these days. In particular, eating while listening to stories makes me feel like I'm the best at eating.
"Where was it yesterday?"
"Speaking of the wine pond meat forest." Someone said right away.
Li Xiao smiled, and while holding a piece of bread, he began to talk about the god list. Telling this story is not completely idle and boring, when he went out of Beijing, he promised to Louguan Taoist Shengguan and Yuse, and after leaving Beijing, he would continue to send the manuscript of the Fengshen List back to Chang'an to ensure that the newspaper was serialized.
"Book picks up the last ········"
Li Xiao spoke, and then a group of people listened below, and someone was specifically responsible for recording. Li Xiao will check the recorded content, make slight additions, deletions and modifications, and then send it back to Chang'an. Now that he is used to being a shopkeeper, he has no time or interest in writing the god list himself.
After the book, the group of fellows reluctantly went down to the cabin, and it was time for another person to come up to eat and listen to the story. However, Li Xiao only said it once every time, and the second time, it was generally said by Zhang Cong or Liu Garlic, two teenagers who copied the book for him, and they didn't talk as well as Li Xiao, but it was better than not listening.
"San Lang, it's not far ahead to Yangzhou." Zhao Zhiman came over.
"So soon?"
"This ship is fast, and the old king's skills are good, he drives the boat very fast, and even the night is sailing, I wish I could go to sea soon to try the power of this ship."
Li Xiao looked at the mighty river in front of him, and couldn't help sighing, "Wrap 100,000 yuan around your waist, ride a crane down to Yangzhou, and Yangzhou in the south of the rich Jiangnan is about to arrive." ”
"Yangzhou Thorn Shi Fang Renyu has already sent a ship to greet him."
Fang Renyu is the brother of the late Prime Minister Fang Xuanling, who was Wang Shichong in his early years, and later switched to the Tang Dynasty. Successive officials such as the history of the assassin of Yanzhou, the history of the assassin of Shaanxi, the history of the governor of Yangzhou, etc., when Li Xiaogang found out that he had crossed over last year, his predecessor was actually chased and killed by the soldiers led by this chief of the house.
At that time, it was in the south of the Yangtze River, and Wuzhou assassins Cui Yixuan and Fang Renyu attacked Chen Shuozhen's rebel army in the south and north, and strangled the rebel army composed of the affected and hungry people.
Fang Renyu was still the governor of Yangzhou last year, and was later implicated in the rebellion case by Fang Yiai and was exiled to Lingnan, but it didn't take long for the case to change again, and even Fang Yiai's brother Fang Zhizhi was recalled to the capital to restore the Duke of Liang, and Fang Renyu was also reinstated, and with last year's efforts to quell the turmoil, he was promoted to the assassin of Yangzhou.
If it weren't for Fang Renyu and Cui Yixuan, that Li Xiao would not have been hunted down and fled and finally died, and this Li Xiao would not have had the opportunity to come to the Tang Dynasty.
For Fang Cui and the others, Li Xiao was not grateful, only disgusted.
"The wife of Fang Thorn Shi is the Taiyuan Wang." Zhao Zhiman reminded again.
The Taiyuan Wang clan used to be unattainable, but now it has a bit of a street rat smell. Empress Wang was deposed, and the former national abbot Wang Youren was demoted to a commoner and exiled to Lingnan, and even the Liu family in Hedong and the Cui family in Xuzhou also fell into bad luck.
Fang Renyu rebelled because of his nephew Fang's love, and he was demoted to Lingnan, but he was lucky enough to be called back halfway.
And now I don't want my wife's mother's Taiyuan Wang family to have an accident again, it's really a house leak that happened to rain overnight.
But fortunately, Fang Renyu's wife is the queen's cousin, and she has a closer relationship with Li Xiao's brother Wang Fangyi, and she is Wang Fangyi's aunt.
Fang Renyu also knew that the Chang'an earthquake had collapsed the queen of the Taiyuan Wang family.
Li Xiao is the emperor's favorite minister, this is well known to everyone, and Li Xiao and Wang Fangyi are sworn brothers, Fang Renyu is inevitably a little sick and rushed to the hospital at this time, even Li Xiao did not let go, and wanted to pull relations everywhere.
"What is the history of the house thorn?"
"He has a good reputation, he is honest and fair, and he is very good, and he has always had a good reputation for many officials." According to Zhao Zhiman's words, if it weren't for a brother named Fang Xuanling, in fact, Fang Renyu would have entered the dynasty and become Shangshu or Jiuqing.
It was only because Fang Xuanling was afraid of criticism that he had been pressuring his brother before, and let him serve as an assassin in various places for many years.
However, although the history of Yangzhou thorn is also a history of thorns, it is not an ordinary history of thorns. Although Yangzhou is not one of the three capitals of the Tang Dynasty, it is rich in the southeast, and its wealth even exceeds that of the northern capital Taiyuan and the eastern capital Luoyang.
"Are you familiar with Wuzhou Thorn Shi Cui Yixuan?" Li Xiao asked suddenly.
"Cui Tingshi is a descendant of the Cui family of Qinghe, and at the end of the Sui Dynasty, he once voted for Li Mi, and later persuaded Li Mi to return Huang Junhan to the Tang Dynasty. At the beginning of Zhenguan, Ren Zuo Shilangzhong, there was a history of the head of the Han Wangfu, and now after ascending the throne, he became the history of Wuzhou Thorn. "Zhao Zhiman is quite familiar with Cui Yixuan's situation.
Li Xiao's expression was not very good.
"I have traveled to the south of the Yangtze River and returned to Guanzhong in the past year. When he was in Jiangnan, he had seen Cui Yixuan lead his troops to guard the rebellious hungry people. ”
Zhu Cang is also an anti-king at the end of the Sui Dynasty, this person is known for his ferocity and cruelty, capricious, most love to torture and kill, and even eat people, once called himself the Emperor of Chu at the end of the Sui Dynasty, led a rebel army to coerce the people everywhere, attacking cities and plundering land everywhere, like locusts.
This person is different from Li Mi, Dou Jiande and other anti-kings, this person has no intention of operating at all, and he doesn't even have the slightest intention of really establishing a political power, he is completely a robber and a murderer, he knows that he robs and kills people everywhere, does not farm land, does not defend the city, and does not have a base, anyway, he is like a locust, he grabs wherever he goes, eats up a place and goes down to the next place, and kills people to make military rations.
And although that Cui Yixuan is from the Qinghe Cui family, he is also easy to kill.
He led his troops to encircle and suppress Chen Shuozhen's rebel army, which was quite cruel, and he killed thousands of people at a time, even women, children and children, and was the most hated among the rebels.
At the beginning, Li Xiao was surrounded and suppressed by the Tang armies in the north and south, if it wasn't for Cui Yixuan's brutal killing, in fact, many people would have thought about surrendering, but this person killed prisoners and surrendered, who would dare to surrender?
"Cui Yixuan's reputation is really not very good." Zhao Zhiman said. He doesn't like people like Cui Yixuan very much, if he has the ability, he will go to the border to guard the border and defend the country, go to fight the northern barbarians and the eastern captives, and kill a group of hungry people who have no food to eat after the disaster and have to rebel like this?
That is the kind of person who will be so ruthless.
"I don't like Fang Renyu, and I don't like Cui Yixuan, so I don't see anyone. We passed Yangzhou without entering, and sailed directly to the sea and sailed along the coast to Dengzhou. Li Xiao sighed, and many scenes from when he first arrived in Datang flashed in his mind.
At that time, the two armies of Fang Renyu and Cui Yixuan swept around and swept in the south and north, and Li Xiao and his rebels fled everywhere like lost dogs all day long, and people were captured every day.
It was better to fall into the hands of Fang Renyu, but in the hands of Cui Yixuan, they were basically cut down, and they were taken by this bastard to invite credit.
"Isn't there a history of atrial assassination? He had already sent a boat to meet him. ”
"Nope."
"And what's the reason?"
"Let's just say that I went to sea in a hurry to go east to Baekje to take office."
Fang Xuanling's brother is not Fang Xuanling. After the last case of Fang Yiai's rebellion, although the emperor finally pardoned it, in the end, only one person was punished, and the others were pardoned, and even the official was reinstated. But the Fang family is not as good as it was back then.
It's really to blame, in fact, I can only blame Fang Xuanling for choosing the wrong path back then. Fang Xuanling chose to marry everywhere that year, he himself married the daughter of Fan Yang Lu among the five surnames, and the brother Fang Renyu took the Taiyuan Wang family, and the eldest son Fang Zhizhi married the daughter of the Jingzhao Du family, the second son Shang Taizong Princess Gao Yang, the third son married the daughter of King Jing Yuanjing, and the fourth son married the daughter of the Jiangnan Wu family.
One of the two daughters married King Han and the other married the son of Zheng in Xingyang.
The brothers and nephews of the other branches of the Fang family are also married to the famous relatives of the family, and the in-laws of his Fang family are all over the government and the opposition.
He himself is the prime minister, he has been in power for decades, and his protégés and former officials are all over the world, and it is already a very taboo thing to engage in marriage like this.
After all, he is just the prime minister, not Emperor Taizong. Emperor Taizong can marry the prime ministers and ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, but it is a bit too much for you to do this as a courtier.
This is also the fundamental reason why after Taizong died and Li Zhi came to power, the eldest grandson Wuji immediately purged the Fang family.
No matter what aspect it is, Li Xiao is not willing to take care of Fang Renyu now, not only that, but he even remembers the old account in his heart, and sooner or later he will still calculate it.
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