Sitting in the cabin, Gao Huaiyuan once again opened the handwritten letter that his father sent him from Shaoxing before leaving, and Gao Jian's joy was overflowing between the lines of the letter.

After Gao Jian received the news that Gao Huaiyuan was promoted to the capital as an official this time, he thought that his efforts had played a role, and he felt a little complacent in his heart, feeling that he, who was a father, had finally done a little bit of his obligation to be a father to this ashamed son, so that Gao Huaiyuan, a stupid boy, could finally inherit his mantle, and one day he would surpass him and become a prominent person in the Gao family!

From this point, Gao Huaiyuan also experienced Gao Jian's father's strong fatherly love in the letter, and the previous resentment against Gao Jian was completely gone, but he also knew that he could get Gao Jian's weight today, in fact, the key was his own efforts and choices, so he obtained this family affection that he couldn't get before, but the past has passed, at least Gao Jian has done enough for his son now, Gao Huaiyuan is still quite grateful in his heart!

The reason why he turned out Gao Jian's letter again was that Gao Huaiyuan wanted to learn some officialdom from Gao Jian, which was also what he lacked.

After all, over the years, although Gao Huaiyuan has also realized some ways to be an official, he still seems immature compared to his father, an old fritter who has been in the officialdom for one or two decades, after all, Gao Jian is much more familiar with the unspoken rules of officialdom than him, even Ji Xiancheng, in this regard, is not as good as Gao Jian.

In addition to congratulating Gao Huaiyuan in the letter, Gao Jian also told him in detail about the people he wanted to make friends with when he first arrived in Lin'an, as well as his style of acting.

Gao Jian made it clear in the letter that most of the officials in Beijing now have to live on Shi Miyuan's snort, so he must not take out the style of being an official in Daye County, be cautious in everything he does, and never offend Shi Miyuan's party, otherwise, they will pinch to death a sesame petty official like Gao Huaiyuan, which is as simple as pinching an ant to death, so let him not be stingy with money after he arrives in Lin'an, and give a large number of generous gifts to the people around Shi Miyuan who he can reach, and these people will speak to him, Even if he can't be allowed to soar, at least there is no problem in protecting himself.

As for being in the Yi Palace, don't look at the King of Yi who has passed away, but the status of the Yi Palace, after all, the King of Yi almost became the emperor, and now the saint is favored by him to become the emperor, so after he enters the Yi Palace, he must be especially respectful to those princesses in the palace.

In addition, there is another person in the Yiwang Mansion, he must make good friends, that is Zheng Qingzhi, the teacher of Guicheng today, this person has many students in the court, and is known as a great Confucian, although the official is not just a national superintendent, but he is a person who even Shi Miyuan respects, and is quite influential in the court, so Gao Huaiyuan must be careful to serve him, and he cannot offend him.

Gao Jian still takes care of Gao Huaiyuan, and now Guicheng is no longer the powerless and powerless Zhao Yuju in Shaoxing back then, but the son of the well-known King Yi, and he must no longer treat the current Guicheng with the same attitude towards Zhao Yuju as before, at this point, it is the thing that Gao Jian is most worried about, and repeatedly told Gao Huaiyuan not to be stupid, and when Guicheng was his playmate when he was young, he must be respectful and respectful, and serve him as a master.

Looking at this, Gao Huaiyuan felt a little like laughing, how to treat Guicheng, he had already thought clearly, and Ji Xiancheng had already analyzed Guicheng's psychology for him before leaving, at this point, Gao Jian obviously miscalculated.

Because Ji Xiancheng is more thorough than Gao Jian in terms of looking at people, according to Ji Xiancheng, Gao Huaiyuan was transferred to Lin'an as an official this time, and it must have been promoted by Guicheng, and the reason why Guicheng did this must be because he has no relatives in Beijing, and he has no friends to make friends with, so he will think of Gao Huaiyuan.

Therefore, Gao Huaiyuan does not have to be cautious in his attitude towards Guicheng, and treats himself as a subordinate, but treats Guicheng as a friend who can make friends, only in this way is what Guicheng wants, as long as he grasps the proportions and does not condescend to speak to him, but he does not have to be too careful in front of Guicheng, but refutes Guicheng's intentions.

Gao Huaiyuan put away Gao Jian's letter, and wrote down the things explained in Gao Jian's letter one by one, keeping the useful ones, and keeping the useless ones as a suggestion first.

After he came out of Ezhou, because he took the official ship of the Ezhou government, so the road was unimpeded, even if the situation between Song and Jin is still tense, but he will never be intercepted and questioned by military ships, and every time he docks, his boat can dock first, and priority is given to docking at the dock.

And along the way, there are people from the government to supplement all kinds of supplies for the ship, and the messengers on the ship are instructed by the prefect to take good care of the life of Gao Huaiyuan and his party, so Gao Huaiyuan and a few others live very comfortably on the ship, eating and drinking well, and entertaining, so that a few of them have a feeling of being happy.

Especially Gao Huaiyuan and Liu Er, since the relationship between them was revealed, the two took advantage of this rare opportunity to be alone all day long, not to mention singing day and night, at least Gao Huaiyuan has enjoyed all the good things in the world during the past few days of sailing, and Liu Er has become more and more like a wonderful young woman under his nourishment!

These situations fell in the eyes of others, and it was inevitable that those boatmen and poor people would regard Gao Huaiyuan as a womanizer, which also happened to meet Gao Huaiyuan's purpose of disguising himself.

Along the way, Gao Huaiyuan only talked to Li Ruohu and others about martial arts or wars, and then talked about some things about eating, drinking and having fun, never talked about his industry, and didn't even talk about any things like the current situation in the court.

This trip, Gao Huaiyuan chose to take the waterway to take the post, one is because the waterway is fast, and more comfortable, from Ezhou to Lin'an, the Yangtze River channel all the way through, can go to Yangzhou, and after arriving in Yangzhou, you can turn into the Grand Canal to the south, all the way south to Suzhou, and then enter the Suzhou-Hangzhou Canal, directly to Lin'an, without him to take a little dry road, you can easily reach Lin'an.

Another reason is that he is going to pass through Yangzhou this time, stop in Yangzhou for a while, and go there to see his industry in Yangzhou, in fact, the main thing is to listen to the progress of Fu Daquan's actions.

Some time ago, he sent Fu Daquan to Jingdong to do things, it has been more than two months, at that time he did not expect that he would go to Lin'an, the plan could not catch up with the changes, so he wanted to pass the news to Fu Daquan and his party, so that once they have something, they can pass the news to Lin'an through their own people in Yangzhou, and it can also enable him to better grasp the situation of Fu Daquan's activities in Jingdong.

This Fu Daquan really lived up to Gao Huaiyuan's trust, and took a group of brothers to Yangzhou at a very fast speed, and then after receiving the supplement there, he immediately left Yangzhou, crossed the Huai River north along Chuzhou, and entered Haizhou, leaving people to set up strongholds in Chuzhou and Haizhou.

After he arrived in Haizhou, it was basically the territory controlled by the Red Jacket Army, but unlike the Song Dynasty, various warlord forces in the Jingdong area were staggered, and the chaos was like a hornet's nest, so Fu Daquan immediately went out to Haizhou after inquiring about the situation of Jingdong Road in detail, purchased a group of war horses, and walked the road towards Mizhou day and night, and it took less than a month to stop at Rizhao County in the southwest of Mizhou.

Later, he felt that the generation of Rizhao County was not good for development, and the warlord power here was too strong, and he was easily annexed, so he went south again, and went to the mountains south of Ju County, and soon used the wealth he brought to recruit troops and horses in the local area, and pulled up a rebel army composed of local Han people.

And this happened to be in the place of three things between the warlords of the Red Jacket Army, and the Jin Dynasty couldn't control the local situation, so Fu Daquan took advantage of a big loophole, and it soon developed.

Moreover, Fu Daquan also absorbed some of the old troops of the Red Jacket Army that were scattered by the Jin Army, and launched a competition with the local government of the Jin Dynasty in this area.

Fu Daquan followed Gao Huaiyuan, Zhou Hao and others, learned a lot of military control and battle science, it can be said that he was born in a serious class, compared with the general leader of the Red Jacket Army, he has a unique advantage, compared to the general leader of the Red Jacket Army, he knows how to control his subordinates, how to train soldiers, how to fight, and knows how to use soldiers better.

Therefore, he was in the Junan area, and soon gained a foothold, and now it has only been more than two months, and his subordinate team has grown to nearly 2,000 people, and he also fought a battle for the Jin soldiers who came to encircle and suppress them, annihilated hundreds of Jin troops, and obtained a batch of weapons and equipment, and the twenty or so subordinate brothers he brought with him were immediately inserted into the team, and each of them became the first class of officers, firmly controlling this army of soldiers and horses, although the current strength is not large, but it has basically controlled the mountainous areas around Junan.

This is faster than Gao Huaiyuan's previous design, which greatly exceeds Gao Huaiyuan's initial estimate, which makes Gao Huaiyuan quite excited, two thousand soldiers and horses are actually under his command, but now they are temporarily wearing the camouflage of the Red Jacket Army, and sooner or later, they will become his troops.

So this time, Gao Huaiyuan took advantage of this rare opportunity to go to Yangzhou to pay careful attention to the situation on Fu Daquan's side to see if there was a need to increase funding for Fu Daquan.

So after a few days of sailing, Gao Huaiyuan rushed to Yangzhou Wharf comfortably.

After the official ship docked here, it was about to turn into the canal channel and go south, Gao Huaiyuan took his own people ashore and entered Yangzhou City under the pretext of going ashore to play.

Yangzhou has always been the confluence of the North and South Canal in the Yangtze River, here is a very important place to moor, in the Northern and Southern Song Dynasty, here are economically developed areas, and during the Jingkang period, here was also used by Huizong as a companion capital, it can be seen that the prosperity here has!

So when Gao Huaiyuan entered Yangzhou City, he found that it was really a very prosperous city, the water and land transportation were very developed, the city was bustling, with its current city scale, Yangzhou City should have at least hundreds of thousands of residents, which was placed in later generations, it was also a big city, when walking on the street, there were all the voices of merchants from the north and south doing business and shouting, and the Goolan wine shop was even more developed in the forest.

Gao Huaiyuan admired this place in Yangzhou, but he didn't wander around the street too much, but after asking someone, he came to the drunken immortal building located in the south of the center of Yangzhou City.

Yangzhou Drunken Immortal Building was built more than half a year ago, after more than half a year, the Drunken Immortal Building here is already one of the best restaurants in Yangzhou, not to mention anything else, just a fairy drunk wine, no one can stand out, plus Yangzhou City is prosperous in business, the business here is not good.

At the beginning, Gao Huaiyuan asked Huang Zhen to set up a drunken immortal building here, not because of the quality of the business here, but because he wanted to build a bridgehead here that could collect intelligence from the north.

In particular, after the two countries' markets were closed due to the impact of the war, all kinds of smuggling transactions became popular, and the Jingdong area in the north was a mess, and all the forces of the Red Jacket Army had to raise troops, so there was no money, otherwise, they would not compete with each other for territory, and they were also very lively, and the leaders of the Red Jacket Army on all sides used their respective Song Army identities to enter and exit the Song Dynasty quite conveniently, so the trade between the Jin Dynasty and the Song Dynasty never stopped. Most of the final trade of various specialties between the two countries took place in Yangzhou, so it was also an important distribution center for the smuggling trade of the Southern Song Dynasty.

These pieces of information were all collected by Gao Huaiyuan from the Drunken Immortal Building here, so don't look at the first time he came to the realm of Yangzhou, but he already knew everything about the situation here.

The shopkeeper of the Drunken Immortal Building here is called Zhou Qingquan, who is also a distant relative of Zhou Hao, who is only twenty-five or sixteen years old, and has read for a few days, but it is not that kind of material, but it is a bit of a brain to do business, so after the Zhou family took refuge in Gao Huaiyuan, he was also recruited by Huang Zhen and sent to Yangzhou to take care of the business here.

But Zhou Qingquan is mainly responsible for business matters, and the person who is really responsible for intelligence collection here is the account office here, called Wang Sancheng.

Wang Sancheng was born as an orphan, he is Gao Huaiyuan's real subordinate, in charge of the money and intelligence network of Yangzhou Zuixian Building, so the real person in charge is Wang Sancheng.

When Gao Huaiyuan entered the drunken immortal building for the first time, a young man in the front hall here immediately recognized Gao Huaiyuan, immediately put aside the matter at hand, and took Gao Huaiyuan to the secret room behind the building, which is also Wang Sancheng's residence.

"No need to be polite, I'm passing through Yangzhou this time, and I'm here to take a look, and I want to hear about the situation over there with Fu Daquan!" Gao Huaiyuan immediately spoke.

Wang Sancheng immediately asked Li Ruohu to guard the outside, and then stood in front of Gao Huaiyuan and replied, "Back to the young master!" Brother Fu had already left Yangzhou two months ago, and when he arrived in the Jingdong area, the small one allocated 10,000 yuan for him as his start-up fee, and bought off Shi Qing's caravan to transfer the things that Brother Fu needed to the Jingdong area, and helped Brother Fu initially gain a foothold in the south of Ju County!

Now that Brother Fu's strength has been expanded, and he has conquered several towns in the Junan area, obtained a lot of property, and has just incorporated a few hundred nearby Red Jacket Army stragglers, and now the strength has expanded to about 3,000 people, if someone wants to eat him in a short time, it is basically impossible!

Therefore, Brother Fu's side has basically gained a firm foothold in Jingdong, and the small thing about this matter has just received the news from Chuzhou, and he hasn't had time to send it back to the young master! Please forgive me! ”

After Gao Huaiyuan heard this, he really felt like gasping, he really wanted to gasp, he was really a hero in troubled times! Fu Daquan, who usually doesn't show much dew, has developed so rapidly after he has the world to show, which made him never expect that if he continues to develop like this, I am afraid that in a year, he will be able to become a powerful soldier in the Red Jacket Army.

This was much ahead of his original plan, so he immediately asked: "You have done a good job, apart from these things, is there any other news from Fu Daquan?" What about the news between him and the other leaders of the Red Jackets? Gao Huaiyuan is most concerned about this matter.

Wang Sancheng shook his head and said: "This is not true, judging from the news, Brother Fu has just gained a foothold in Junan now, it may be that his strength is still shallow, and he has not attracted the attention of others too much, and no one has taken the initiative to contact him at present, if after a while, after a few more battles between Brother Fu and Jin Bing, his fame will increase, and it may be because the time is still short!" ”

After Gao Huaiyuan heard this, he was a little disappointed, but he immediately laughed at himself, feeling that he was too anxious, it has only been more than two months, Fu Daquan has developed quite rapidly, but no matter how fast he is, he is still in Jingdong for a short time, and he is not too famous, it is estimated that after time, with his development speed, he will definitely attract the attention of Li Quan and others.

So Gao Huaiyuan said with a smile: "Sancheng is right, but I am too anxious, how long has it been!" No hurry! I'm passing by here this time, it's not a big deal, I just want to see you!

I don't care about the things there in Daquan, you are here, you must always pay attention to the situation in Daquan, if there is anything, immediately send someone to send me the news, now I am going to Lin'an to take up my post, and the news will be delivered to Lin'an Jaqi in the future!

As for Daquan's needs, you are in charge of the money of the Drunken Immortal Building here, you don't have to be stingy, as long as Daquan has needs, you will spend as much as possible to help him develop, it doesn't matter how much money you spend!

At the same time, you also have to make good friends with the Red Jacket Army who often come and go to Yangzhou and Chuzhou, and go north from here, you have to pass through their territory to ensure continuous and absolute support! Don't be afraid to suffer a little loss when necessary! ”

Wang Sancheng wrote down Gao Huaiyuan's orders one by one, nodded again and again, and said yes, after arranging things here, Gao Huaiyuan calculated the time, and it was not far from the deadline for him to take office, so he didn't stay in Yangzhou for more, but after seeing Zhou Qingquan, the shopkeeper of Yangzhou Zuixian Building, praised him, and then boarded the boat again and entered the canal facing south.