Along the canal north, out of Guangling, the river gradually narrowed, and the river water gradually became turbid. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info waited until Gaoyou, this situation became more and more obvious, standing on the deck and looking into the distance, you can also see the fertile fields flooded by the river.

The Gaoyou area, at this time, is already mainly planting rice, there is still a lot of losses, more north of the two prefectures of Haichu, presumably the situation is even worse, both of these places are mainly planted with wheat, millet, millet and other things, presumably the loss is even greater.

The turbulent canal water poured down from the north, and Gaoyou had a lake to buffer, and the situation was quite good, but after Gaoyou, the canal water had spread to the embankment, and it seemed that the situation was very serious.

After a two-day trip, Yang Lian and his entourage were only more than 70 miles away from Chuzhou, which had become an ocean, the land was full of water, many houses had been submerged, and people fleeing the disaster abounded. Yang Lian temporarily stopped the boat, distributed some rice grain, and told them that they could go south, and the disaster situation in the south was not serious, especially south of Gaoyou, because of the large number of Gaoyou lakes and rivers, which greatly relieved the pressure of flooding, and they could take refuge in these places.

Of course, it is also possible to go to the north, although the two states of Haichu have also been affected, but the terrain is relatively high, and the Huai River has crossed Chuzhou, the river water can also be greatly relieved, of course, more importantly, Yang Lian wants to go to the disaster, and the people will not lack food. Moreover, Yang Lian also wanted to gather the displaced people and develop the two prefectures of Haichu, so he tried his best to persuade them.

Some of the people continued to choose to go south, and some chose to go north, no matter how the people chose, Yang Lian respected their choice, and after giving enough food, Yang Lian continued to sail north and rushed to Chuzhou.

As the distance from Chuzhou got closer and closer, Yang Lian frowned instead, Chuzhou is close to Hongze Lake, generally speaking, the lake has a strong ability to Xu Hong, so Yang Lian originally thought that Chuzhou was affected by the disaster, which should not be serious, but in fact, the situation is very eye-catching, beyond Yang Lian's imagination.

I don't know how much water the Yellow River has this time to rush to Chuzhou, although the Yellow River once had a seizure of Huai into the sea, but in Yang Lian's memory, no such thing has happened so far. Perhaps, this is how the Yellow River seized the Huai into the sea and achieved it step by step. Although Yang Lian does not know the specific process, he has a long way to go to control the Yellow River in the future.

The situation in Haichu and Haichu is so difficult, I am afraid that the situation on both sides of the Yellow River, especially in Kaifeng, Zhengzhou, Songzhou and other places through which the canal passes, is equally serious. Yang Lian even felt that this flood of the Yellow River might change the fate of the Han Kingdom.

"Huzi, you look at a disaster, it's very serious." Yang Lian stood on the deck, looking at the fertile fields flooded by a glass of water, and couldn't help but shake his head. If it is flooded this summer, the autumn harvest will inevitably be greatly affected, and it is very likely that there will be no harvest, even if Yang Lian buys more grain from Bashu, it will be a drop in the bucket.

"The situation here is serious, and the situation in Chuzhou should be better, after all, Liu Tingshi guards Chuzhou, and he will inevitably open a warehouse to release grain and help the people." Lin Renzhao said.

Yang Lian nodded and said, "I hope so." ”

The boats stopped and stopped, distributing rice and grain to the victims along the way, and Yang Lian arrived in Chuzhou a day later than expected. When he arrived more than ten miles outside Chuzhou City, Yang Lian's brows furrowed even deeper. The canal is bypassing the western side of Chuzhou and crossing the irrigation area of the Huai River.

Perhaps because of the Huai River, the flood in Chuzhou is really lighter, but the victims here are the most, Yang Lian stood on the boat, and at a glance, he saw countless victims like black clouds, covering the sky and the sun.

"How many people are there?" Yang Lian shook his head, although Chuzhou is an important town, it is the border after all, and with Liu Yanzhen's exploitation in recent years, many people have fled, so there are not many people in Chuzhou. Moreover, even if there are disaster victims, they should be able to be resettled in Chuzhou City.

"Perhaps, from the north." Lin Renzhao said that the floods in the north are more serious, and it is normal for people to flee to the Tang Dynasty in the short time of the Han Dynasty, coupled with the frequent wars. That Han Xizai is a native of Shandong, Beihai, and Sun Sheng is also a native of Mizhou, Shandong, both from the north.

"Perhaps." Yang Lian said, ordering the ships to speed up and rush to Chuzhou.

When many people saw so many ships coming, they stood from a distance and watched, not daring to come forward.

About two hours later, Yang Lian arrived in the area of the west gate of Chuzhou, where the people were more concentrated, stationed on the highlands in batches, divided into more than a dozen gathering points, and most of them were divided according to the clansmen or villages.

The gate of Chuzhou City was closed, and Yang Lian looked at it at a glance and saw many people standing on the city wall, and even more crossbowmen opened the bowstring, as if they were about to shoot arrows at any time to kill the victims under the city.

"Master, it's okay, open the door, we are all people who have fled." Many people were crying under the city wall, although there were more than 100 steps away from the city gate, but they couldn't stand the crowd, and the voice was still very clear.

On the west gate, Liu Yanzhen frowned, since the flood, there have been more displaced people in Chuzhou. The city of Chuzhou is close to the frontier, only more than 20 miles away from the Han Kingdom, where are there so many victims? Therefore, Liu Yanzhen believes that these people are all from the Han Dynasty. Since he is from the Han Dynasty, he naturally has nothing to do with the Tang people, and Liu Yanzhen will not stupidly use the grain of the Tang Dynasty to feed the people of the Han Kingdom.

Most of these homeless people are peasants in clothes, although they have no combat effectiveness, but they can't stand the crowd, today there are so many people gathered outside the West Gate, crying and shouting to go into the city for refuge, where will Liu Yanzhen agree? These displaced people are not a few dozens, but tens of thousands, and once they enter the city, if someone takes the opportunity to make trouble, the situation will be very bad. Therefore, Liu Yanzhen resolutely will not let these people enter the city.

Although the people didn't have any weapons, after all, there were many people, so Liu Yanzhen couldn't let go, so he came to the West Gate to inspect, and he asked the soldiers to be vigilant, if anyone dared to do it, they would be killed.

Yang Lian's boat came from the canal, which was very eye-catching, Liu Yanzhen saw it at a glance, so she called her nephew Liu Zheng and said, "Send someone to investigate, who is it?" ”

Liu Zheng responded and left in a hurry. Since there was still some distance between the canal and the west gate, the spies secretly climbed down the city wall and rushed to the river to inquire.

"It's finally here." Fu Jinzhan looked at the rushing river and couldn't help but sigh.

"Those people, so pitiful." Perhaps because of the victims, Zhang Qili is full of sympathy for these victims.

"Don't worry, these victims, your Brother Yang will be properly settled." Fu Jinzhan smiled, the spirit of these **** has improved a lot, and he has the strength to speak.

"Will it be properly settled?" Zhang Qili was a little unconvinced.

"What, you don't believe your big brother Yang?" Fu Jinzhan looked at her with a smile in his eyes.

Zhang Qili reacted, stomped his feet, and said, "Sister Fu, you are teasing me again." ”

"Who's molesting whom?" Yang Lian's voice suddenly rang out.

Zhang Qili was taken aback, turned around and saw that it was Yang Lian, and hurriedly said, "Brother Yang, you really scared me to death." ”

"Miss Fu, Zhang Xiaomei, you are about to go to Chuzhou, you two have to be careful." Yang Lian said.

Fu Jinzhan knew what Yang Lian meant, so he said, "Don't worry, I will make proper arrangements." ”

"That's good!" Yang Lian said and walked away. In fact, in Yang Lian's heart, he was still a little worried. Yang Lian invited Mi Shiwei to go north, but so far she has not received any news from Mi Shiwei, which makes Yang Lian a little uneasy, could it be that something happened to Mi Shiwei?

Fu Jinzhan pulled Zhang Qili's cuffs and said, "Let's go, let's go to the room to embroider." ”

Yang Lian walked to the deck, Lin Renzhao, Chen Tie, Fei Yan and others were already standing there, looking at the countless victims in front of them, they were surrounding the west gate of Chuzhou, they should want to enter the city.

"So many victims?" Fei Yan gasped.

"Most of them should be Han people." Yang Lian said.

At this moment, a man hurriedly ran over, stood on the embankment, and shouted, "Who are you?" ”

"Who are you?" Chen Tie asked rhetorically.

"The general of my family is the assassin of Chuzhou, and he saw that you were waiting, so he sent me to ask." The soldier said.

Yang Lian snorted coldly, stepped forward, waved his hand at him, and said, "You can go and tell your master that Yang Lian was the envoy of the Shuntian Festival, and he was ordered to come to Chuzhou for disaster relief!" ”

"Ahh It turned out to be Yang Jiedu! After the man was taken aback, he immediately bowed to Yang Lian and said, "I'll go and tell the general." With that, he hurried away.

Lin Renzhao glanced at Yang Lian, His Majesty's secret decree, in addition to disaster relief, also to capture Liu Yanzhen to see if he had broken the law and committed those. In order to keep it secret, only a few people knew that Fei Yan was there at this time, and it was inconvenient for Lin Renzhao to say more.

Yang Lian understood what Lin Renzhao meant, walked to his side, and said softly: "Don't worry, that Liu Yanzhen seems to be a reckless man on the surface, but in fact, he is as careful as a hair, and he will not do stupid things, besides, he doesn't know the secret purpose of our waiting for him at all, don't worry." ”

Lin Renzhao said in a low voice: "Be careful, it's always good." ”

"Don't worry about this, after entering the city, let Miss Fu and Zhang Xiaomei live in the inn, and you send a few people to protect them." Yang Lian said that it would be very dangerous to arrest Liu Yanzhen, after all, Chuzhou is Liu Yanzhen's territory, and he has been operating here for several years, so he must have raised a lot of dead soldiers. If they make a mistake and take Fu Jinzhan and Zhang Qili as hostages, Yang Lian will still be a little difficult to handle.

Lin Renzhao nodded, indicating that he understood what Yang Lian meant.

The soldier hurriedly returned to Chuzhou City, came to Liu Yanzhen's side, gasped, and said, "General, those ships belong to the minister, saying that they are here for disaster relief. ”

"But Yang Lian?" Liu Yanzhen asked.

The soldier replied, "The person who came said that he was Yang Lian." ”

Liu Zheng frowned, walked to Liu Yanzhen's side, and said in a low voice: "Uncle, this Yang Lian came so fast!" ”

"It's a little faster, I thought it would be at least five or six days before he arrived." Liu Yanzhen said. His reasoning was not wrong, after all, the collection of grain and grass, the search for ships, it would not work without seven or eight days. If you count the time to go north, it shouldn't be so fast. Where did Liu Yanzhen think that Yang Lian was quite lucky, just when he wanted to sleep, someone handed him a pillow, and with more than a dozen merchant ships from Fei Yunshan, the transportation problem was solved.

Liu Zhengdao: "Since he is here, let him into the city and kill him!" ”

Liu Yanzhen frowned and said, "Zheng'er, you are still so reckless!" ”

"But, uncle, he wants to arrest you, and he can't just arrest you!" Liu Zheng said, with a fierce face.

"Confused, that Yang Lian is far away, although there is still His Majesty's will, but in Chuzhou City, I still have the final say!" Liu Yanzhen said.

Liu Zheng hurriedly said: "Uncle, but he came on order, and he can't let him succeed." ”

Liu Yanzhen smiled coldly, looked at the direction where Yang Lian's window was, and said, "Zheng'er, you still have to learn more, although Yang Lian is hateful, if I kill him easily, Your Majesty will definitely be furious, at that time, where can you and I flee to?" ”

"Go to Dahan, Dahan!" Liu Zheng said.

"Big Han? The Han Dynasty is now inadequate in self-preservation, and all parts of the country are unruly and may rebel at any time, if I really take refuge in the Han Kingdom, I will not get their support at all. Besides, Dahan and Datang have formed an alliance, and there is no place for you and me. Liu Zheng said.

"Well, you can't sit still!" Liu Zheng was in a hurry.

"Haha, I, Liu Yanzhen, have been on the battlefield for many years, and the wind and waves have come, how can I capsize in the gutter? I'm ready, just watch. Liu Yanzhen also spoke with ruthlessness. He felt that he was good to Yang Lian, but Yang Lian came to get him by order, Liu Yanzhen had no chance to betray the Tang Dynasty and betray Li Jing, so he could only vent this evil breath on Yang Lian.

"It turns out that my uncle already has a good plan." When Liu Zheng heard this, he was immediately relieved.

Liu Yanzhen snorted and said, "This Chuzhou City is the Longtan Tiger's Den at this time, I want to see what waves Yang Lian can make." Liu Zheng, you go to greet Yang Lian in person, be careful not to show your feet, and let them enter the city through the Water Gate! ”

"Uncle don't worry, my nephew will definitely complete the task!" Liu Zheng said, hugged his fists and left, got off the city, got on a small boat, the water gate opened, and Liu Zheng went straight to Yang Lian's place.

At this time, Yang Lian's ship was less than five hundred steps away from Chuzhou City, and when he heard the shouts of the people, Yang Lian sighed and said: "There is a good saying, Xing, the people are bitter; Death, the people suffer. Yang Lian also forgot who said it, only remembered this sentence.

Lin Renzhao felt a little touched in his heart, and said: "Yang Jiedu said it well, no matter how it rises or falls, the people are extremely miserable, and I don't know when the troubled times in this world will end?" ”

"Maybe, soon!" Yang Lian shook his head, in his impression, the Han Kingdom had only existed for two or three years, and it seemed that Li Shouzhen was about to rebel. When Guo Wei also rebelled, the Han Kingdom would be destroyed. When Yang Lian went to the Han Kingdom, he had some arrangements, but it was up to people to make things happen, and Yang Lian didn't know how much influence he had on Guo Wei. Besides, Yang Lian's current focus is on the Tang Dynasty, and it is extremely unwise to be distracted to deal with the affairs of the Han Kingdom.

If there is no change in this period of history, Guo Wei still established the Later Zhou, and with Guo Wei's ability, the rise of the Later Zhou is inevitable. Therefore, whether he can gain a firm foothold in Haichu and Chu Prefectures, and whether he can win over Fu Yanqing, is very important for Yang Lian. (To be continued.) )