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Zhu Yunwen was ready, and left from the prince's mansion in the light of day on the second day, with dozens of entourage, more than a dozen carriages, one of whom urged the horse to come to Lin Feng's approach, this person Lin Feng was very familiar with him, and the soldier was Qi Tai. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Lord Qi."

"Lord Duwei, this patrol is very important to the little prince, and he ordered me to go with me, and everything depends on Lord Lin to take care of it."

"Lord Qi is in the military department, this time I'm afraid I want Lin Feng to be taken care of by adults." The two exchanged a few words of greeting and urged the horse to follow behind Zhu Yunwen's horse's body.

Zhu Yunwen ordered someone to invite Qi Tai, he had his own intentions, Qi Tai is an old minister of the Prince's Mansion, and he is loyal, even if Zhu Biao is gone, he will always stay by Zhu Yunwen's side, plus he is also a squire of the Ministry of War, the Ministry of War can mobilize people, this investigation, once something happens, there will be a response.

"Lord Lin, I don't know where to go?"

"Taiping Mansion."

Taiping Mansion is the place that Tang Lin has been mentioning in his mouth, after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, in order to strengthen the centralization of power, the province of the Yuan Dynasty was changed to the political envoy department of the Cheng Xuan, and the political envoy department was only in charge of civil affairs.

In order to prevent the dictatorship of the chief of the political envoy department, each political envoy department has a left and right political envoy one person each, although the position of the political envoy is different from that of the Yuan province, but as an administrative division there is no essential difference, so it is customary to still call the political envoy department a province. It is commonly known as the feudal division, and it is called Weiyuan on behalf of the generation; The political envoy is commonly known as Fang Bo.

Zhu Yunwen was ordered to travel, equivalent to the minister, along the way the state capital is all prosperous, the streets are hung with red flowers on both sides of the festive, the market is full of large and small vehicles, the people walk through it to show prosperity, there are countless people waiting to offer gifts along the way, Zhu Yunwen is abiding by the rules, do not want anything, but the people sent it but accepted it, the news spread far and wide, the officials changed the gift from jade jewelry to grain, this is lively, the big car and small car are waiting on the road, in order to be close to the people, simply get some poor people to kneel there and wait, Just to be able to get things into the hands of this messenger.

Zhu Yunwen had no choice but to avoid the main road, chose a secluded path, the itinerary was invisibly affected, this day finally approached the realm of Taiping Mansion, only to see the front of the white expanse, there are only a few boats on the water to solicit passengers, and the carriage is basically unusable.

"But there is another way?"

The most familiar with the road here is Tang Lin, "Go back to your lordship, you can only pass by water when you get here." ”

"A detour?" Qi Tai thought thoughtfully, looking at it, the water here should not be shallow, no matter what, the water is always no safer than the ground.

"It takes an extra five days to make a detour, and there are barren mountains ahead, so it is equally difficult for the carriage to pass through." After Tang Lin finished speaking, he pointed with his hand, and from a distance, there were indeed several mountains connected to each other.

"That's it!" Qi Tai's face was embarrassed, no matter what, it was always the safety of the little prince who was important, he was a member of the prince's mansion, and he had the grace of Zhu Biao's cultivation, and finally gained a firm foothold in the military department, "What does Lord Lin think?" ”

"I asked the little prince first, and then made a decision."

"It's fine."

The team stopped, Zhu Yunwen simply leaned there to rest, don't look at it sitting in the carriage, he was also tired after a day of walking, he originally thought that he would leave the capital and walk around to open his eyes, but he didn't expect that the places he passed were mostly desolate places, and he fell asleep listening to the howling of wild wolves several times, but fortunately there were Lin Feng and these people.

"Little Lord."

Zhu Yunwen heard Qi Tai's voice, and leaned forward to lift the carriage curtain, "Lord Qi, Lord Lin, why don't you leave?" "It's just past noon, and it's not time to rest.

Qi Tai coughed, "It's not that I don't go, but there are some problems on the way, and it's difficult to make a decision for a while, so I came to ask for my life." ”

"Oh, what's the problem?"

As soon as Qi Tai said his thoughts, Zhu Yunwen frowned, it was nothing to lose the carriage, but what to do with the things on it, from the prince's mansion, a lot of food was brought out, and many of them were useless, even if they were thrown away like this, it was a pity.

"It's important to investigate the case, when you take the waterway, how to place the carriage?" Zhu Yunwen looked at Lin Feng after speaking, but he still didn't want to give up the carriage.

"The little prince can go to the Taiping Mansion with the lowly waterway, and as for the carriage, it can be handed over to others to walk the mountain road, as long as you leave marks along the way, you must be able to find it all the way."

"That's fine."

Lin Feng's method is the best of both worlds, and it was quickly arranged, Li Hu took the people from the Prince's Mansion to escort the carriage to the mountain road, and the others escorted the little prince Zhu Yunwen to the Taiping Mansion by water.

Watching the people above come down, lying on the water's edge and waiting for the live boatman to get up quickly, all dressed in short clothes, with a hat on their heads, carrying a long bamboo pole for supporting the boat in their hands, and looking at the crowd with a pair of eyes, most of them are calculating how much copper plate can be earned on this trip to the waterway.

"Boatman, go to Taiping Mansion."

"Okay." The wooden boat stopped, Lin Feng jumped on first, with a smile on his face, his legs were forceful, and he couldn't look at it at all on the surface, the boat trembled violently, the boatman was startled, and the long bamboo pole in his hand hurriedly stretched into the water, and there was no wind and waves on the water at this time.

Lin Feng nodded, tried it with his own foot strength, the boat was strong enough, Zhu Yunwen Qitai and the others boarded the wooden boat, and the others walked to the other two one after another, and with the sound of the boatman's horn, the six small boats lined up and marched forward.

The boat is stable, the boatman is well-informed, from time to time to tell interesting stories along the way, many of them are ghosts, what water turtles, big birds in the mountains and other legends, of course, everything is just legends, no one has ever seen it, more is the imagination of people in the tricks, such as the clouds in the sky, the change of the four seasons, in the eyes of the ancients are the gods in action, in order to convince people, so make up all kinds of stories.

"Little brother, a boat can make a lot of money in a year!" When he had nothing to do, Lin Feng simply sat on the bow of the boat and chatted with the boatman, don't underestimate these people, there are many people who come into contact with them on weekdays, and they know a lot of news.

The boatman sighed, "The guest officer laughed, just barely making ends meet." ”

"Oh!" Lin Feng looked left and right, passing through several shore ports along the way, there were many people waiting for the boat, the water in this water area was stable, and it was a short road, there must be a lot of people who took the boat on weekdays, from the perspective of business, it should be able to make a lot of money, "It's not a joke, the water here is flat, there is no shortage of customers, if you are not lazy, you must be able to earn enough." ”

"The guest officer must be a foreigner, and he doesn't understand the rules here, so it's not necessarily a good thing to do more." The boatman couldn't help but shake his head as he spoke, and it could be seen from his eyes that there must be something hidden in it.

"That's weird."

Seeing Lin Feng mention it, he simply continued: "The waters in this area were originally good, but unfortunately they got a trough gang out, saying that they wanted to speak for our boat family, and it was not bad at first. ”

"Changed?" Hearing the word Groove Gang, Lin Feng suddenly had a thought, Tang Lin once mentioned that there are officials who use the power of the Groove Gang to make a name for themselves.

"Nature is a benefit, you have to be filial piety when you get a benefit, at first it was just a symbolic point, and then it was intensified, setting up checkpoints on the water, whether it is a merchant ship or a cargo ship, as long as it is from the water, you have to pay money, so when there are many people, you can make some money on a trip, and if there are few people, you can simply not go."

"All the places in the world are the king's land, and there are officials in charge of all places, so if the trough gang is so evil, is there no one who can't take care of it?" Zhu Yunwen sat on the side, and when he heard the trough gang paddling to collect benefits for the boundary, his face sank and asked.

"The guest officer doesn't know, this trough gang was originally opened by the government, when there is grain, grain is transported, and when there is no grain, checkpoints are set up to ask for money, and water is sealed from time to time, a few people are lucky, the days of this waterway ban have just passed."

"Ban!"

I can't imagine that a small trough gang has such a big power, what is the difference between this and a robber blocking the road, is it just because he can hang the sign of the government and act recklessly.

"Nonsense, it's nonsense, the people in the Department of Water Administration are all rice buckets." Zhu Yunwen's voice frightened the boatman, who dares to say that the Water Administration Department is not in this kind of place, it is not looking for death.

"Guest officer, be quiet, you're not afraid, we're afraid, if we can't make the ship gone, the family really wants to drink the northwest wind."