Zhang Mu took Han Fangshan all the way and galloped towards Ruian.

Ruian is not too far from Wenzhou, and in the second half of the night, we arrived at Ruian Ferry.

Unable to find a boat, they rested at the ferry for the night, and at dawn they took a ferry to Feiyun Pass on the other side.

Feiyun Pass is located in Anyang Jiangpan, Anjiangyang is also known as Feiyun River, so there is a name for Feiyun Pass.

Feiyun Pass and Ruian are across the river, and in the Song Dynasty, Wenzhou was subordinate to Ruian Mansion.

The Yuan Dynasty implemented Jianghuai Province, Ruian Mansion was renamed Wenzhou Road, after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, because of the closure of the sea.

Coastal cities like Ryan have long since ceased to be prosperous after being harassed by the Japanese and have become war-ready locations.

So Ryan was demoted from state to county.

Even so, in the end, it was once the capital of Wenzhou, and because of the stimulation of maritime trade, the scale of Ruian City is much larger than that of cities such as eastern Zhejiang.

Zhang Mu stood on the bank of the Anyang River, looked back at the small Feiyun Pass behind him, and couldn't help frowning.

Perhaps because of the end of maritime trade, Feiyun Pass is far from being as large as it should be, and is only a small town at best.

There is a wharf, but the wharf is too small to dock large ships.

At this moment, there is only one officer and soldier stationed in the huge Feiyun Pass, especially in the early morning, and it looks like the people's livelihood is withered and dilapidated.

There were officers and soldiers on duty at the sentry post, but when I saw Zhang Mu, I only thought that he was a citizen who was going to take a boat to Anyang.

Han Fangshan looked around, and couldn't help but ask, "My lord, is it wrong in our judgment?" ”

Zhang Mu nodded slightly, picked up the coastal defense map in his hand and looked at it again.

If the Wen family were to transfer their property, there would be no better place to do it.

As long as you buy the guards of Feiyun Pass, you want to go to sea from here. It's easy.

Moreover, the water and land transportation here extends in all directions, which is convenient for the transit of goods, Zhang Mu pondered, could it be the three caves of the Wen family's cunning rabbit, and other places have been chosen?

In that case, things are tricky.

Not to mention the east coast of Wenzhou, the coastline is long, and they are locals, so they are very familiar with this place. Changing places means looking for a needle in a haystack, especially at this special time.

The officers and men of the coastal defense colluded with each other, and the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Metropolitan Divisions had no reliable information, so it was a fantasy to find them.

At this time, a ferry boat slowly arrived at the pier of Feiyundu.

The boatman looked at Zhang Mu and so many of them, so he had the intention to solicit business and shouted: "Guest officer, do you want to go to Pingyang?" The price could be cheaper. ”

Zhang Mu smiled: "I'm not going." We'll be going to Ryan in a moment. ”

The boatman saw that his shoes were wet, obviously just made a transition boat, so he smiled and said, "The guest officer is doing business?" ”

Zhang Mu was uneasy, so he responded casually. At this time, the ship's god smiled mysteriously: "The guest officer should be here for the first time, right?" It's no wonder that people who come here for the first time can't find a way. ”

Zhang Mu was at a loss when he suddenly heard this sentence. So he asked curiously, "What, do you know what the way is?" ”

The boatman smiled and said, "You're in the wrong place. Then he whispered, "If you are going to go to the sea, you should go to the Sand Garden." This place has long been deserted. Most of the guests buy things from the sand garden, and then change boats and cars here to pull the goods to the mainland. ”

Zhang Mu hurriedly opened the map, because the Ming Dynasty army was controlled by guards, especially now, the coastal Japanese invaded, and the guards of Jiangsu and Zhejiang were stationed along the coast.

This sand garden is located downstream of Feiyun Pass, southeast of Ruian, at the mouth of the Anyang River.

It is an extremely cutting-edge guardhouse, a frontier place.

The main reason why Zhang Mu did not consider it was because the map given by Li Yunchang showed that it was a thousand-household station, with many officers and soldiers, and many people.

The Wen family did not dare to smuggle seafood in broad daylight in front of everyone.

However, listening to what this boatman said, I am afraid that the situation there is very different from the map that Li Yunchang gave him.

Zhang Mu smiled: "Thank you boatman, can you please take us to the sand garden?" ”

The boatman smiled: "Then what's not to do?" To tell you the truth, I actually go to that place a lot. In these years, there was a shortage of soldiers, and farming was also unstable. In some cases, the small ones also take some seafood with them. It's just a small fight, just to make ends meet. ”

Zhang Mu and the others hurriedly got on the boat, because Zhang Mu had many people, so a boat could not sit down, so Zhang Mu asked others to touch the sand garden along the coast.

On the boat, Zhang Mu asked with interest: "Boat family, isn't this sand garden a thousand households?" There should be a lot of officers and soldiers, right? ”

"Many? What more? At first glance, the guest officer was a foreigner. This sand garden used to be a thousand-household house, and there were indeed quite a lot of officers and soldiers. However, in the past few years, the officers and soldiers inside have been transferred to other places to live and garrison. Now there are 100 households in it, which is not bad.

One of my cousins is the flag chief in Shayuanwei. You say this man, it's really an incomprehensible sea. Let's just say that my cousin used to be a military household, and there is a younger brother at home. The younger brother is Yu Ding, who follows his old father at home all year round, and he can't get enough food and clothing.

He was alone outside, and he didn't marry a daughter-in-law in his thirties, because of poverty, coupled with his status as a military household, no girl was willing to marry him. Seeing that he was beating a single, and during the New Year's holidays, no one was looking at him. But who would have thought that in the past three or four years, people would turn over. ”

"Turn over?" Zhang Mu asked.

"Yes, since the officers and soldiers of the Sand Garden have withdrawn, the Sand Garden has become a good place. When the seafood from outside came in, they all disembarked at the sand garden, which had become a large bazaar. Every day, people are in Wuyang. That cousin of mine, instead of withdrawing, made a fortune there.

Now people have bought a lot of land, the old father and younger brother have become rich people, the year before last they married a daughter-in-law, only sixteen years old. Last year, she gave birth to a son. People are now riding horses in and out, hugging each other in front and back, so it's not pompous. It's the same as a poor relative like me who doesn't even look at it. Otherwise, if someone leaks a little bit between their fingers, it will be enough for my family to live with qualifications. ”

This boatman's words seemed to be very much, and Zhang Mu was a little annoyed to listen to it, but he heard a lot of useful information from it.

For example, the sand garden where I am going to now has become an underground black market, and has become an important link in the entire smuggling of seafood.

If there is no mistake, the people of the Wen family must be hiding inside. (To be continued......)