is about to arrive in Xuzhou, and Fu Yanqing, the envoy of Wuning Jiedu, sent people to meet the Tang envoy, so it can be said that Gao Huaide's task has been basically completed. Gao Huaide was drunk in the big tent, and so were his more than 1,000 cavalrymen, Cui Ran's subordinates were very familiar with the area, and went to the nearby villages to buy a lot of delicious food and drink, and also brought a few sheep, and after slaughtering them on the spot, they were roasted or boiled, which were extremely good.

On the side of the canal, the fragrance wafted everywhere, and the large camp of more than a thousand cavalrymen, enough for seven or eight hundred paces, was lit everywhere. It looks very lively.

On the ship, Yang Lian had already eaten, Cui Otherwise, he sent the best mutton, in addition to fresh vegetables, the chef on the ship took out a very skillful and made a table of fragrant dishes, which made people's appetite move, and the people of the whole ship ate very happily.

Yang Lian stood on the deck, standing side by side with Lin Renzhao, looking at the Praetorian Guard soldiers on the shore, looking at their chaotic appearance.

Lin Renzhao couldn't help but say: "As a Praetorian Guard, it should be the most elite soldier in the Han Kingdom, but now it seems that the discipline of the army is nothing more than that." ”

"Although the discipline is not good, the combat effectiveness is not bad." Yang Lian replied.

"This is true, the Han people are not short of war horses, coupled with the fierce folk customs, the combat effectiveness is at least twice as strong as that of the Tang Dynasty." Lin Renzhao couldn't help but sigh, if the Tang Dynasty and the Han Dynasty really met each other in the future, with the combat effectiveness of the Tang Dynasty, would they be able to win the Han Kingdom?

"Since the combat effectiveness is not comparable, let's start from the aspects of military discipline and weapons. It's just a pity that these are all official camps. Yang Lian shook his head, since it was an official camp, it meant that Yang Lian could not interfere.

Lin Renzhao nodded and said, "It's a pity that you and my brother's rights are not big enough, otherwise, if you become the envoy of a place, you can at least build a place according to the ideas in your heart." ”

"The moderation of one place is of no avail. Nowadays, in the Tang Dynasty, it seems to be prosperous, singing and dancing, but in fact, when you and I went north last year, do you remember? Yang Lian asked.

Lin Renzhao snorted coldly, when he went north last year, it was the golden autumn and October, which was the harvest season, but what he saw along the way made Lin Renzhao, who had always been upright, almost blow up his lungs. The two states of Hai and Chu near the border will not be talked about first, both of them know what kind of person Liu Yanzhen is, this person is good at collecting money, and he is also scavenging from the people, making the two states of Hai and Chu extremely poor, and this person has a very good relationship with the important ministers of the court, Feng Yansi, Feng Yanlu and others. After Feng Yansi and Feng Yanlu suffered last year, this person took refuge in Song Qiqiu.

Now that Yang Lian has a good relationship with King Qi, and King Qi has a good relationship with Song Qiqiu, in a sense, Yang Lian and Song Qiqiu still have essential interests, so Yang Lian will not care about Liu Yanzhen at all.

Hai and Chu are close to the border, and the environment is almost excusable, but the two Huai regions in the south, such as Shuzhou, Luzhou and other places, have always produced tea, and it stands to reason that they should be quite rich, but in fact, many people buy and sell their daughters, and they actually live quite hard. Even Guangling Mansion, which is the eastern capital, has many areas where the people are quite desolate.

The reason for this is not that these places have suffered disasters, or that the people are greedy for fun. The main reason is the exploitation of the government, followed by the exploitation of local officials. In order to satisfy his luxurious life, Li Jing raised the taxes on the Lianghuai region, especially the tea farmers, very high, but there is a time limit for planting tea, but it is not possible to produce tea at any time! Therefore, the people in these places are not having an easy time.

When going north, when anchoring on the side of the canal, Yang Lian once got off the boat with Lin Renzhao to play, in fact, it was a play, and the two were most concerned about the local people and geographical conditions.

As the saying goes, the country is strong and the people are rich, and only when the people are rich can the country be strong, but the Tang Dynasty is rich and the people are poor, and the exploitation is extremely heavy. If it weren't for the places occupied by the Tang Dynasty, most of them were the land of fish and rice, I am afraid that the officials would have forced the people to rebel long ago.

Yang Lian's worries are exactly like this, but after all, he doesn't have much power, he can't change it at all, he is just worried in his heart. Lin Renzhao also smiled bitterly, feeling that if the Tang Dynasty went on like this, it would definitely be the ruin of the country and the family. However, he was not a Tang man in the first place, and he didn't have much loyalty to Datang and Li Jing, thinking that if this Datang was destroyed, with his ability, it would be a big deal to defect to others. Even, if Yang Lian ascended to the top and shouted, he would not hesitate to serve him.

Thinking of this, Lin Renzhao unconsciously glanced at Yang Lian, thinking that if there was really such a day, would he compete for world domination?

Yang Lian didn't find out what Lin Renzhao was thinking, but he was still looking at the lights on the shore, thinking about other things, Yang Lian felt that it would be great if he could get a fief. It's a pity that people who are not surnamed Li can't be crowned kings at all, and even if they are people surnamed Li, there are many people who can't be crowned kings, let alone fiefs.

Perhaps, if necessary, to start from other aspects, the Han side can help appropriately.

The two of them stood on the deck like this, thinking and talking, and before they knew it, it was getting late. In the night wind, Fu Jinzhan slowly walked over: "Young Master Yang, Young Master Lin." ”

Lin Renzhao glanced at Yang Lian with a wicked smile on his face, and said with a smile: "Miss Fu, I'm sleepy, go to sleep first, and say goodbye." He still didn't know the true identity of the Fu Marigold.

Yang Lian looked at Lin Renzhao and said with a smile: "Miss Fu, the night breeze is a little cold, but be careful." ”

"Some can't sleep." Fu Jinzhan shook his head.

"Hometown timidity?" Yang Lian asked in a low voice.

"Perhaps." Fu Jinzhan stroked the hair on his face, and there was a bit of gloom in his words, but after speaking, he smiled and said, "Don't just talk about the concubine, but also talk about you, Yang Gongzi, after returning to Jinling, what are you going to do?" ”

Yang Lian laughed and said, "Can you still do this?" I, a man with no great ambitions, just eat and drink and wait for the dead. ”

Seeing that what Yang Lian said was ridiculous, Fu Jinzhan couldn't help but shake his head and said, "What you say, others may believe it, but the concubine doesn't believe it." Do you remember Daxiangguoji Temple? ”

"Daxiangguoji?" Yang Lian couldn't help but repeat.

"Yes, Daxiangguoji." Fu Jinzhan smiled, looked at Yang Lian fixedly, and asked softly, "Doesn't Young Master Yang have any ideas?" ”

"What can I think. Could it be that Miss Fu really thinks that you have the posture of an emperor and queen? Yang Lian suddenly asked.

Fu Jinzhan stopped for a moment and didn't speak, and waited for a while before he said: "If the concubine has the posture of an emperor, doesn't it mean that Yang Gongzi has an emperor's posture?" ”

When Yang Lian heard this, his heart moved, although Fu Jinzhan said something wrong, but how could he not understand it as a disguised statement? Under the bright moon, Yang Lian's eyes were shining, and he looked at Fu Jinzhan fixedly.

Fu Jinzhan suddenly realized that there was something wrong with what she said just now, and when she saw Yang Lian's eyes looking at her, she couldn't help but be a little flustered, and her eyes like autumn water drooped involuntarily, and she said in a low voice: "How can you look at people like this." ”

"A woman like you, a talented and beautiful woman, I don't know who is blessed to marry you?" Yang Lian said with a smile.

Fu Jinzhan snorted coldly, but his tone was glutinous, like a glutinous rice cake in Jiangnan, sweet to the heart, and said, "What, you don't want to?" ”

Yang Lian's nose twitched, and a burst of fragrant fragrance went along his nose to his lungs, feeling extremely comfortable. He couldn't help but reach out and grab the soft lint of the talisman talisman. Fu Jinzhan earned it, where was Yang Lian's strength, and he had no result, so he had to shake his head and say, "You will bully me too." ”

"How so." Yang Lian said with a smile.

Fu Jinzhan let Yang Lian grab her hand, and suddenly sighed faintly, "However, I'm a little scared." ”

"Afraid of what?" Yang Lian couldn't help but ask.

The concubine still remembers the words of the old monk in the Daxiangguo Temple that day. Hehe, restore the former glory of your ancestors, and you, who were once noble, and your concubine is not a stupid, how can you not guess your identity? Fu Jinzhan said in a low voice.

"The Yang family, except for Yang Sui, is Yang Wu. That Yang Sui has passed more than three hundred years, calculating the time, you can only be the old man of Yang Wu, and your name is exactly the same as the name of the old prince of the previous dynasty, the concubine feels that all this is not a coincidence, in the dark, there should be a fixed number. Fu Jinzhan said again.

Yang Lian was not surprised, Fu Jinzhan was a smart woman, just like Yang Lian had guessed Fu Jinzhan at the beginning, Fu Jinzhan felt that it was common sense that he was Yang Wu's old prince. However, Yang Lian did not intend to let Fu Jinzhan know his true identity. The more people who know, the easier it is to get exposed.

Yang Lian has not told anyone else about his identity so far, including Lin Renzhao and Chen Tie, except for Mi Shiwei, who already knows his identity, although Zeng Yiling is also one, he is an old man after all, and he has the same goal as himself.

"Thinking that the world is so big, there are countless people with the surname Yang. The name, just a code name, is not unusual. Yang Lian decided to kill and refused to admit it.

Fu Jinzhan eyes flowed, shining in the night light, as if he had seen through Yang Lian, and said with a smile: "What is the explanation of the old monk's words?" ”

"Those monks, who don't do anything to produce, worship this Bodhisattva, that big Buddha, don't seem to have any effect. Their words are not credible. Besides, there was Guo Rong that day, according to the old monk, he was also very wealthy, and his future was limitless, but I felt that this was too absolute. Yang Lian said.

Fu Jinzhan laughed out loud, in her opinion, Yang Lian's words seemed to be a little childish, Guo Rong came to find herself for a while, Yang Lian had also seen it a few times, she felt that Yang Lian's words were a little sour, and she seemed to be jealous.

"His adoptive father is an important minister of the Han Kingdom, and he has military power in his hands, Guo Wei is Liu Zhiyuan's trusted minister this time, if Uncle Guo deliberately cultivates him, Guo Rong's future future is naturally unlimited!" Fu Jinzhan said. Speaking of which, Fu Yanqing and Guo Wei have a good relationship, although Fu Jinzhan was forced to speak to Guo Wei due to his identity at that time, he still respected him very much in his heart. (To be continued.) )