In the eyes of the slender men, the water steamer is the product of cutting off their financial routes, so along the Yangtze River, especially the downstream perennial slender man who makes a living by pulling fiber, sees the eyes of the water steamer are a little unkind, fortunately, such a huge fleet of only ten water ships, is the ten big ships used for performances belonging to the art troupe, and now it is full of Suzhou merchants and some materials for the development of Yuezhou, and the five thousand sailors originally stationed in the Yangcheng Lake Water Village in Suzhou do not have such a configuration as a water steamer, close to October, there is still a south wind, Without the propulsion of the wind, they all rely on shift rowing to push the warship, plus the towing of the slender man on the shore, so that they can slowly drive on the turbulent Yangtze River like a turtle, the daily journey is only more than 30 miles, so it takes a month to get to Yuezhou, Yanglin is not in a hurry to them, and ordered the big ships of the art troupe to move forward day and night, ignoring those old-fashioned warships first.

The Yangtze River in the Tang Dynasty is not only wide, and the water quality is clear, and the Yellow River that has been diverted all the year round, his waterway has not changed much for thousands of years, the eyes of the slender men looking at the water steamer Yang Lin remembered in their hearts, these people who have the brute strength and some water kung fu may be able to recruit the Suzhou shipyard that is about to be built, the future Wanguo Wharf, how can there be no large shipyard, as for the Datang Shipyard in Chang'an, in addition to building some small boats on inland rivers, the main task is to study and improve shipbuilding technology, It belongs to the headquarters research base type.

In the shipbuilding industry plan, Shandong Mingzhou, Jiangnan Suzhou, Lingnan Guangzhou, Fujian Quanzhou, and the future Jiaozhi these five places are to build a shipyard and configure the navy, which is why the shares of Datang Shipyard are sold so high.

In the space of seven days and nights, Yanglin's fleet had sailed through the mouth of the Xiangjiang River and continued to turn forward into Dongting Lake, where the steamers ran more comfortably in the wide lower waterways of the Yangtze River than in the canals. If Hongze Lake is like an inland sea, it is boundless. Then Dongting Lake is a beautiful landscape painting full of poetry. The style and landform are only touched by the word beautiful, and it is no wonder that so many poets in ancient times liked to swim in Dongting Lake, and climbed Yueyang Tower to chant poems, and Yanglin fell in love with this place as soon as he came.

The good mood didn't last long before Yang Lin's face darkened, the dilapidated Yueyang Tower subverted his vision of the ancient writers, the legendary first floor of the five in and seven out of the eternal is actually a few two-story broken houses, and there is also a tavern, even if the dozens of stinking beggars in front of the tavern are driven away, this is far from the Yueyang Lou in Yang Lin's heart. I'm even more sorry for the scenery of Dongting Lake.

"Xiaguan Yuezhou Assassin Shi Zhang Jian Gong Yingtian awarded Ma Zhongwu Hou Huainan Naval Governor "

"Come on, I know that you were temporarily appointed by Governor Zhang, the court doesn't have so many rules, the water bandits can't beat his army, but they suddenly attacked Yuezhou City, killing the people and causing heavy casualties, the whole family of the original Yuezhou Assassin Shi was killed, and now it's ready to be buried?" The first thing Yanglin did when he landed on the shore was to ask those officials who died for the people, naturally to express his reverence for the local heroes.

got Zhang Jian's affirmative answer. The second thing Yang Lin did was to demolish Yueyang Tower, when the crying father and mother were dragged out of the restaurant by the horse guards Liu shopkeeper was brought to Yang Lin, Zhang Jian, who didn't know why, began to plead with Yang Lin.

"Master Horse, this Yueyanglou tavern has been open on the dock of Dongting Lake for hundreds of years. It's an inheritance handed down from the shopkeeper's ancestors, do you have any evidence of his collaborators? Please also look at their family's kindness and generosity, let's take it lightly! "As a native of Yuezhou, there is no one who does not know Yueyang Tower, and as a local beggar in Yuezhou, there is no one who does not go to Yueyang Tower to beg for food. Seeing that the shopkeeper was taken away by a group of soldiers, a group of beggars hurried over to this side with a fierce look in their eyes. It can be felt from more than a dozen battles away from the Yang Forest.

"Let him go first."

Yang Lin glanced at the guard, and then turned his gaze to the shopkeeper Liu, who was trembling and kneeling on the ground, and said: "I want to ask you, in the face of such a large area of green mountains and green waters, a fairyland on earth, how did you manage the restaurant like this?" Are you right about your ancestors? ”

Yang Lin's question made the shopkeeper Liu stunned, followed by a burst of red, if Yang Lin asked him if he had any fornication with the water bandits, he would definitely not, if the water bandits came to Yueyang Tower to eat, even if he had fornicated with the water bandits, it would be called a crime of wanting to add to it, but the little boy in front of him who even had to bow down and talk to the new assassin actually asked him why he ran Yueyang Tower so bleakly, and he was extremely ashamed to ask.

Yueyang Tower in the Tang Dynasty is basically the old building on the original site, built in the Jian'an period of the Han Dynasty, because his location is to watch the scenery of Dongting Lake to see the sunrise, the best position to see the sunset at sunset, is the name Yueyang Tower, Liu shopkeeper ancestor is a person with vision, took over the Eastern Wu period of the naval army governor Lu Su abandoned the parade building, opened his own tavern, even if he is a lonely building outside Yueyang City, but the business of the tavern has always been the best in Yuezhou, but the end of the Sui Dynasty Central Plains War, too many people fled to this place, And had no choice but to be a water bandit, and began to rob the past merchants, so that the merchants did not dare to approach the Dongting Lake area, and the source of customers became scarce day by day, and then gradually declined.

As soon as the beggars heard this, the crowd began to shout, the shopkeeper Liu is good, he has never cut off the food of these beggars on weekdays, if you say why the shopkeeper Liu does not have much family assets, it is eaten poor by these beggars.

"You have to be dry, because you still know that you are eating and drinking for nothing, and you have the strength to be dry, why don't you be self-reliant, and expect to eat other people's white food." Yang Lin drank and said that the beggars' faces were crimson, and gave Lu Bingchang beside him a look, Lu Bingchang, who was a general person, naturally knew what the horse master was thinking, this Yueyang Tower, I am afraid that it will return to the industry of the imperial court in the future, Liu Shopkeeper, at best, is just a shopkeeper, but it is inevitable that his main industry will become bigger and stronger.

Lu Bingchang pulled the shopkeeper Liu aside, and Yang Lin also went to Yueyang City with Zhang Jian, a huge Thorn History Mansion, there were not even horses for riding, only a few very unseemly donkey carts, Yang Lin and Zhang Jian rode together, Scorpion and Meng Yi followed left and right with dozens of guards, and the goods and materials were left on the dock.

"Is there such beggars everywhere in Yuezhou City?" It is said that beggars generally gather in the more populous cities, eat some leftovers from other people's homes, and drink some rice soup and water to get by.

"The number of beggars is increasing day by day." Zhang Jian's answer was not unexpected by Yang Lin.

After walking down a few miles, Yanglin knew what Yuezhou was looking like now. This is the military city of Eastern Wu during the Three Kingdoms period, yes, in the south, this is a rare place with good martial arts, but these armed forces are not close to the imperial court, like three mountains and five caves, and stand themselves as kings, so Zhang Liang's anti-bandit action here lasted for two months, and dozens of battles were fought down, and there were many casualties. Even the gunpowder of the imperial court did not cause them to be defeated.

"The mountains and rivers here are beautiful, the land is fertile, and it is most suitable for farming and breeding, why are you so poor!" Yanglin sighed that the Dongting Lake in later generations has already been built into a tourist scenic spot, and Yanglin has also been here, although the location is not right, but the contrast is still too great.

"What the horse is talking about is the land of Yuezhou. Water and grass are abundant, the land is fertile, and if rice can be grown, rice will be abundant. If you breed aquatic products, there will be a lot of fish and meat, and you will end up like it is now, just because of the water bandits. Dozens of large and small forces in the three mountains and five caves are not subordinate to each other, and they are constantly in conflict. And the people were afflicted.

Under the pressure of Zhang Liang's army, they felt the fatal crisis, and united as one, and attacked Yuezhou City by surprise, this battle Yuezhou City people were killed and wounded more than 5,000 people, most of the officials defending the city were poisoned by bandits, Zhang Liang was angry but not angry, one day to behead more than 10,000 bandits, only to shake Xiaoxiao did not dare to use the butcher's knife, he once said, "If the water bandits dare to kill a people, I will kill two water bandits, until all the water bandits die." In this way, the water bandits from all walks of life who were greatly injured ran out of their respective villages and surrendered to the imperial court, but according to the opinion of the metropolitan governor, these people were still unconvinced, and there was a deep resentment in their eyes when they looked at the imperial army, but they were not able to resist now, so the metropolitan governor hurriedly played His Majesty, and asked a naval army to settle in and guard this place for a long time, so as to ensure that the land of Yuezhou would no longer be eroded. Zhang Jian explained the situation in Yuezhou in more detail.

"How many bandits have surrendered? How many of the people of Yuezhou City need relief from the imperial court? Yang Lin nodded and continued to ask.

"More than 100,000 surrendered water bandits, imprisoned in the open space outside the city, and more than 200,000 old and weak, each village is still in the process of searching and counting, the people of Yuezhou City were attacked by tens of thousands of elite water bandits, burning, killing and looting, doing all kinds of evil, now there are more than 30,000 households in the city that lack grain and rice and other survival materials, and there are more than 100,000 mouths, with the grain that Zhang Dudu snatched from the water bandits, I am afraid it will be difficult to maintain until next year's spring ploughing." Zhang Jianhui reported.

The livelihood problem of hundreds of thousands of mouths inside and outside, and a large group of people who hate the imperial court, the problem can not be said to be thorny, if it were not a thorny problem, Li Er would not let Yang Lin, who was burdened with a heavy mission, rush over to deal with it, and only his whimsy could solve this thorny problem.

"I brought some grain from Suzhou, the problem of eating should not be big, but the imperial court can not distribute the grain and rice in vain, after the war, the imperial court, as the final victorious party, is to enjoy the rich rewards brought by the war, rather than to pay out of their own pockets to fill in the money, notify the camp manager who imprisoned the water bandits, starting tomorrow, the grain and rice will be halved, and the people affected in Yuezhou City can go to the official warehouse to receive five days of grain and rice, which is the last time the imperial court will distribute grain and rice to the people free of charge." As soon as Yang Lin's words came out, Zhang Jian's complexion changed, what he was looking forward to day and night was that the imperial court could send soldiers and horses and materials to support Yuezhou, and appease the feelings of the people from all sides after the war.

"Master Horse, it's not appropriate! The grain and rice in the prisoner camp were originally supplied at a minimum, and the robbed people had no food at home, how could they survive this winter? Zhang Jian said hurriedly.

"If you are hungry, you will have to eat when you work, there is no surplus food, you can earn it by working, the people of the Tang Dynasty only know the temperament of waiting for the rescue of the imperial court at the time of crisis, I want to change it for them, the food of the imperial court will no longer support those idlers, and the supply of food and rice for the injured is the minimum of the imperial court. Yang Lin's words were firm, as if he had seen the hundreds of thousands of free migrant workers who rebuilt Yuezhou City. (To be continued......)