On the Bianhe River, it is an exaggeration to say that thousands of sails are racing, but on this busy river, at a glance, there are hundreds. Of course, it's not all Li Chen's current ability to take this Yu Da Niang boat, many of them are a little small, a bit like a single boat like a canoe, and a larger one can carry more than ten people to get passengers and cargo ships.

Li Chen was at the bow of the boat, looking into the distance, and he really wanted a poem to express his feelings, but he didn't think about anything in his mind.

After a few days of sailing, one hundred and fifty miles a day, Li Chen and the others quickly went down the river, passed Sizhou, and approached Sikou. Approaching Sikou, Li Chen began to get nervous, and only then did he stand at the bow of the ship. When you arrive at Sikou, you will reach the Huainan Jiedu range, basically, it can be regarded as safe.

However, Li Chen will be even more nervous than when he arrived in Sizhou a few days ago, why? This is more complicated. One is called Sizhou, the other is called Sikou, the distance is not too far, and there are waterways. But...

Sizhou actually has little to do with Surabaya, it is not called Sizhou on the edge of Surabaya. Sizhou is the Bianhe River, that is, the Tongji Canal enters the Huaishui River, and Sikou is the real mouth of the Sishui River.

It stands to reason that going to Sizhou should be more tense than going to Sikou. Because Sizhou theoretically speaking, he belongs to the Xu Sijie envoy, that is, the jurisdiction of the Wuning Army. And Sikou basically belongs to Chuzhou, and Chuzhou belongs to the rule of Huainan Jiedu envoys.

However, as mentioned earlier, the imperial court still has a certain degree of control over Sizhou and Haozhou. Because these two places were repeatedly cut and painted by the Tang Dynasty, sometimes it was Xu Side, and sometimes it was painted to Huainan.

And what about Sikou? Looking at the map, you can see that when the boat goes down the Grand Canal, after crossing the Sizhou River and entering the Huai River, there will be a section that will go slightly north and go backwards, and then there will be a turn into the south Hangou to Yangzhou. Well, here's the problem, Surabaya can be connected directly to Sikou. And Surabaya... It's right next to Pengcheng.

In other words, even if Li Chen ran one step ahead and was not caught. In case the news leaks out, knowing that they appeared in Barrel Bridge Town and planning to go south, then it is very likely that the Silver Sword Army will go down Surabaya and intercept them in Sikou first.

Sikou belongs to Chuzhou, and Chuzhou belongs to the jurisdiction of Huainan Jiedu envoy? If you knew that Wang Zhixing once used the excuse of insufficient military resources to open a tax factory in Sikou to collect taxes by himself, ignoring the face of the imperial court, you would not be so optimistic.

Bypassing Sikou? Anyway, it's a ship..., why not bypass Sikou and don't dock at the port, and go directly to the ditch. It doesn't work either. This is against the law, unless you are the owner of the ship, and don't want the bow to accept the offer. If you think that there is a law for this kind of thing, how is it possible. This is indeed stipulated in the Tang Law.

How can it not be stipulated that the Grand Canal is the lifeblood of the Tang Dynasty. In Sikou, whether you want to go down the ditch from Surabaya, or go up to the Tongji Canal from the ditch, it is a must-pass place. It is only natural to set up a place for inspection and tax collection here.

Collecting taxes is easy to understand. What about checks? That is, to check the ship in various places, there must be no water leakage, and it must be blocked. The main reason is that if you sink in the Grand Canal, it will seriously affect the passage, and it will be as light as Chang'an starving for a few days, and as heavy as ... Tang Ting may be subverted.

Don't think it's impossible, because of the rebellion in Dezong, the emperor fled from Chang'an with the crown prince in a hurry. When he heard that Han Rong, the loyal observer of Zhejiang, had already transported the grain, Dezong hugged his son and cried, saying, "My father and son have to live." ’。

Of course, the current situation is different, although the grain is now transported to Chang'an through the Grand Canal, which is several times more than that of Dezong, and has become the greatest reliance of the imperial court, but the canal transportation has also been greatly improved, mainly in the feudal towns, and is not as domineering as in the Dezong period.

There will be no invasion of Xufu at every turn, threatening Caoyunde Town, and no one will take the opportunity to rob Cao's grain, and then the court will be helpless.

Time flowed through the relationship between Li Chen's caprice canal and the Tang Dynasty, and Sikou was getting closer and closer. Li Chen and his entourage took the boat to the dock, and someone came to inspect everything, including checking the goods for tax collection, checking the identity of passengers, and checking whether the ship was leaking.

Li Chen took out a place that people could wait. This thing, everyone should not have forgotten it, with this thing, you will get a pass in the Tang Dynasty, without this thing, you can't go anywhere. Since he was going to run away, of course Li Chen had prepared his things early.

Among them, of course, there is no problem with preparation, the main key is that Li Chen has brought too many children, which is a big problem. However, this problem was solved by Yang Er, and she took out a certificate from the Sad Field Academy.

If you haven't forgotten it, I mentioned the sad field temple earlier. This Beitian Courtyard is the Tang Dynasty's social welfare institution, anyway, you are not normal, and you have no family to take care of it, you will be thrown to the Beitian Courtyard, the abnormal range is there, sick, orphans, the elderly or the dead have no place to bury, these people's problems are all thrown to them.

Yang Er's magic power is vast, and he forged a copy of the Xufu Beitian Courtyard, and asked Li Chen to take a child to Yangzhou Daming Temple to get a certificate, and the inspection was checked by the small officials and released, there are not many such things, but there are still there.

Because of the relationship between the destruction of the Buddha, it was originally attached to the temple and the Sada Temple, but now many of them can't continue to operate. Of course, the imperial court will not ignore it, the imperial court will take over some of it, and the other part will be transferred to some state capitals, and it has been transferred like this, and the only rare thing is that it has been transferred so far.

"There's no way, or you think of a way to let you take a group of children around the state to see it, and let you pretend to be human traffickers, and you don't want to." Regarding Li Chen's doubts, Yang Er didn't answer angrily.

Seeing that the little official got off the boat, Li Chen breathed a sigh of relief. It's the last minute. Before he entered the dock, Li Chen was half relieved, it seemed that the Silver Knife Army did not chase after him, it didn't matter if they didn't dare or couldn't, the Silver Knife Army didn't come, the danger was half over, and the remaining half was this inspection.

"What the hell are they...", Li Chen is really puzzled by Yang Er, although it is not a big deal to say that forging official documents, there are many fraud groups in modern society, forging all kinds of official documents, pretending to be prosecutors, and asking Fat Yang to give them money.

But in the Tang Dynasty, it was not so rampant after all. Most of the people don't even know how to read, and they don't necessarily have the guts and courage to mess around like this. Even if you want to do it, you don't understand the operation process of the government, and you are not familiar with the inside of the government, so you can't figure it out. Could it be that this Yang Er is so hand-eyed? Or at least there are people inside?

Li Chen once again suppressed these doubts, everyone always has some secrets, and there is nothing great about people who know the government. Yang Er didn't say, and he didn't ask. Now what he's going to do is something else. (To be continued.) )