On the second day, the gentleman who hadn't slept all night was received by the prince, and one by one he was excited to lie on the ground and kowtow, Yang Chao saw with his own eyes that several old men were crying.

Then he asked the prince to comfort them in a gentle tone, and at the same time said a few words of praise for their loyalty, and provoked a few old gentry to cry, and finally let them go south with him.

It took a quarter of an hour to meet them, but these people who were moved were excited all day.

Next, these gentry found Yang Chao one by one, and in front of the crown prince, they were embarrassed, and after they came out, they took out the treasures one by one to present to the crown prince, hoping that Yang Chao would hand them over.

Yang Chao didn't accept it, Gao Jie's gift can be accepted, that is to accept Gao Jie's kindness, but he can't accept these offerings on behalf of the crown prince, pretending to ask the crown prince, and when he comes out, he conveys the will of the crown prince, telling these people that the crown prince doesn't care about the jewels and treasures, but just pities the hundreds of thousands of people who follow him can't eat, if the gentry are interested, they hope to exchange these treasures for some food for the people to eat.

I was moved by the old gentlemen who read and passed on their families, and one by one they said that they would send people back to Huai'an immediately, and then even if they bought land with their families, they would get some food to relieve the refugees.

Compared with those traditional gentlemen who read and passed on to their families, Du Shouchang, a wealthy businessman, asked for more, and he also found Yang Chao.

He did not ask Yang Chao to hand over the treasure to the crown prince, but directly gave Yang Chao 100,000 taels of silver, Yang Chao did not ask for it, Yang Chao was not short of money, and asked him what he wanted.

Du Shouchang was embarrassed to say that he hoped that the crown prince would go to Huai'an and be able to control the Du family.

It means that when King Fu was in Huai'an, he was temporarily in the Du family's Wanxiu Garden, and the house where King Fu lived had not been moved, and the crown prince could not live in King Fu's house. He said that a new garden had been urgently built, specially prepared for the crown prince.

It is an honor to accompany the car, but whose house does the crown prince live in? This is a great honor.

Du Shouchang invited King Fu to live in his house, which had the intention of wooing him. It is not necessarily without this kind of royal complex.

But urgently creating a new garden is definitely a big deal.

Yang Chao couldn't be the lord of the crown prince, or he didn't want to help Du Shouchang.

But Du Shouchang didn't give up, and after Yang Chao politely declined, he gritted his teeth and said: "Lord Yang, my sister has always admired my lord, I didn't see my lord last time, and I didn't think about tea and dinner for a long time." If adults can come to Wanxiu Garden. My little sister must be very happy. ”

Yang Chao couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart, this salt merchant threw his sister out again, the last time he heard that Yang Chao was impeached by many officials, he didn't invite Yang Chao.

However, Yang Chao heard: "Didn't Sister Ling already promise the Blessing King?" ”

The news that King Fu lived in Du's house and made a marriage contract with Du Hongying had already spread.

I'm afraid that the Du family can't wait to promote it themselves, after all, if they cling to a vassal king, even if they can't see King Fu have any possibility of becoming an emperor at that time, it is enough for them to show off. It is already worth boasting that a merchant can marry a civil official, and it is simply worth mentioning if he marries a vassal king.

Now seeing that King Fu's position is not so stable, Du Shouchang put his bet on the crown prince. In the blink of an eye, he wanted to give his sister to Yang Chao, obviously he was not bold enough to give it to the crown prince.

So Du Shouchang resolutely denied it: "This is a rumor!" What kind of identity does King Fu have, how can he marry us merchants! ”

Yang Chao laughed: "That's not necessarily, I heard that Sister Ling is a natural beauty, King Fu fell in love at first sight, and it is not impossible to get married!" ”

Du Shouchang shook his head fiercely: "The little sister holds the gift of poetry and books, and she can really easily show her head, King Fu has never seen his sister, and the words of love at first sight are all rumors." ”

Du Shouchang's sister Du Hongying is indeed beautiful. It has long been spread in Huai'an, and King Fu and the Du family are married. In addition to eating and living in the Du family at that time, the Huai'an civil official group did not treat him very well as a vassal king. It is indeed valued that Du Hongying's beauty, otherwise where would a vassal king have a shortage of food, and wherever he lives in a wealthy business, not to mention the supply of brocade clothes and jade food, there will be no shortage of beauties.

Yang Chao saw that Du Shouchang had a resolute attitude, he also wanted to win over the Huai'an Hao family, this Du family's eyesight, ability and power are all first-class, with them as an example, it is easy to break into the Huai'an gentry class, although it is not necessary to marry Du Hongying, it is still necessary to give Du Shouchang a face.

So he smiled: "It's okay." Since Miss Du has a heart, this official can't be ruthless. After waiting for Huai'an, the official was interested in going to Wanxiu Garden, and the Du family's garden was still first-class. ”

Du Shouchang was relieved, but he was ruthless: "If Lord Yang likes it, then it's okay to give the garden to adults!" ”

Yang Chao waved his hand: "A gentleman doesn't win people's love!" ”

Wanxiu Garden is located in Huai'an West Lake, the geographical location is first-class, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the first garden in Huai'an, it is the Du family who spent a lot of thought, snatching Wanxiu Garden is afraid that Du Shouchang will be distressed for a lifetime.

Du Shouchang was actually reluctant, seeing that Yang Chao refused, he didn't force it, but it was a pity, Yang Chao didn't want his garden, I was afraid that he wouldn't help him operate, and the crown prince was afraid that he wouldn't be able to live in Du's house.

You must know that the crown prince will be the emperor in the future, and he can live in his house for a while, and his reputation is still secondary, Du Shouchang is confident that the crown prince will leave something behind, not to mention anything else, a pair of ink treasures, it will be worth a lot of money in the future, and it will become the emperor's imperial pen, which can be used as a talisman to a certain extent.

But how to get Yang Chao to help, Du Shouchang didn't have a good way, so he left stupidly, thinking that he had to discuss with Wang Xiao.

After resting in Suqian for two days, let everyone, including the refugees, have a full meal, and then set off again, as for whether they can reach Huai'an in one day, it is almost impossible!

This is a distance of nearly 200 miles, and with a large contingent of refugees, the difficulty can be seen.

His subordinates suggested that Yang Chao escort the crown prince first.

But at this time, Yang Chao has seen that taking these people has great political significance, and it is a good opportunity to promote benevolence and righteousness, just like the Romance of the Three Kingdoms constantly preaches that Liu Bei fled followed by tens of thousands of people, saying that Liu Bei is benevolent and righteous, Yang Chao would rather believe that those people are coerced by Liu Bei, after all, Liu Bei is just a warlord, and Zhu Cihong is the heir to the throne, and those refugees may not follow if they don't give them food, let alone a Liu Bei.

Therefore, Yang Chao must let the crown prince arrive in Huai'an with these refugees, if he takes the first step, he will give people a reputation for abandoning the people, and he has already taken them all the way, and it is too cost-effective to abandon them now.

Fortunately, these refugees who can flee all the way over, the physical fitness is quite good, and the quality of hard-working and hard-working is incomparable to the later generations, although they did not arrive in Huai'an in one day, but they walked more than half the way, and they arrived in Taoyuan County in the evening, and they will definitely be able to arrive in another day.

On the second day, they finally arrived in Huai'an, and the civil and military officials of Huai'an went out of the city for ten miles and greeted them in Qinghe.

At the same time, Huangfeng Mansion has already sent people to build a camp, and the camp tents are almost connected from Banzha Town to Qingjiangpu, since the decision to put into effect, the Huai'an Government is trying its best to cooperate with Huangfeng Mansion, although the money and food are raised as much as possible, it is always difficult to satisfy, but other materials are more than enough, wood and thatch are everything, enough for Huangfeng Mansion to build a simple tent.

The crown prince still lived in the garden that Du Shouchang urgently built, and he came back at the price of a hundred sailing ships.

Yang Chao is not short of money, but he lacks the strength to use money to realize, and Du Shouchang cannot provide troops, but the ship that transports troops is also an important asset.

This time to the north, Yang Chao occupied the Wang family's 300 boats, and the result was basically destroyed, which has already made Wang Xiao hurt his muscles and bones, and he is asking the Wang family for a boat, it is too inauthentic, this is not what an ally should do, you must know that the Wang family has a total of 1,000 boats, and the impact of less than 300 boats on business is very huge.

Guan Du Shouchang wants a hundred ships, this is a deal, Yang Chao will not be polite. However, it did make the Du family have a lot of blood, although the Du family may be more wealthy than the Wang family, but the ship is not as good as the Wang family who operates shipping, and I am afraid that his family may not be able to take out a hundred sailing ships, and he will not be able to buy them from other salt merchant families. Their family's salt business will definitely be affected, but if it is entrusted to the Wang family, Yang Chao will indirectly help the Wang family.

Although the boats given by the Du family are not as good as the brigs that Yang Chao ran in the Yangtze River, all of them were slooped salt ships, but if they ran on the Yangtze River, it was still enough, and it was a great help for Yang Chao, who wanted to monopolize the Yangtze River trade.

And Yang Chao really didn't know where to arrange the crown prince, it was a good way to put it in the Caoyun Governor's Palace, but it was likely that the crown prince was controlled by civilian officials, Yang Chao had no intention of blackmailing the prince, but he also wanted to prevent these civil officials from blackmailing the prince, so he simply put it on the edge of the West Lake outside the city, and then heavily protected it, which was safe and worry-free, and could also be exchanged for a hundred ships.

The crown prince has no opinion, they can be said to be obedient to Yang Chao along the way, knowing that Yang Chao is the only support they can rely on in Nanjing, and even whether the prince shows an attitude of stammering Yang Chao makes Yang Chao a little embarrassed.

The news that Yang Chao escorted the prince to Huai'an soon spread to Nanjing.

This made the Nanjing court even more noisy.

Along the way, the closer Yang Chao got to Jiangnan, the more tense the form of Nanjing became.

The ministers and King Fu are discussing almost every day, and the civil officials are now basically unanimous in their opinions, first sending someone to verify the identity of the prince, but King Fu is a little reluctant, but it is difficult to say clearly, just a strong delay, such as using people who are looking for people to know the prince to perfunctory.

But this perfunctory has exposed the inner tension.

In the original history, King Fu did become the emperor, and there was a fake prince case at that time, and King Fu sent someone to verify it at the first moment, but this time the real prince came, but he didn't dare to verify it, in fact, King Fu knew very well that a real prince was too threatening to him, and he wasn't sure what the prince would do with him if he took the throne! (To be continued)

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