Qin Zhongshu hired a black boat on the river beach, and went down to Wuling Mountain along the water, so that the verdant scenery on both sides of the river washed away the dust in his eyes, and he had the idea that it was also a good choice in the old mountain in his heart.

When the seal was hung, his heart was refreshed, and when he thought about it, he couldn't help but feel a little uneasy, so Qin Zhongshu asked the boatman to slow down the speed of the boat, and the waterway from Cuishi to Lishui for two or three days took six days to arrive at Xuancheng. At this time, the two sides of Lishui were densely populated, the houses were new and clean, and it was hard to imagine other people's descriptions of Lishui a few years ago. Before Qin Zhongshu went to the green lion, he also passed by here, where his heart was full of loss, and the things in his eyes couldn't enter his mind, but at this time, it seemed that Qin Zhongshu understood in his heart that Xu Ruyu's admiration for others was not limited to his undefeated record.

Once the general succeeds, the bones are withered, and the general will be white in the end. Thinking that Xu Ruyu's mind would not be limited to this, Qin Zhongshu had no idea about his future, not counting his past bad deeds, just the act of abandoning the official position was enough to be hated by everyone in Jiangning, and he planned to rush to Jiangning to make other plans.

The boatman parked the black boat in Lishui, unwilling to go to Fengling again. Qin Zhongshu asked the reason, and the boatman said: "You have been swimming in the mountains for six days, and the boat fare will be exhausted in six days, and if you want to go to Fengling, you have to pay three days of boat fare." Qin Zhongshu said: "When the shipping fare is agreed, the delivery is the fare to Fengling. The boatman sneered: "It's only been six days to go to Fengling, but you stopped arbitrarily in the mountains, is it possible that the three days of delay will be counted on our heads?" Qin Zhongshu wanted to argue, but when the boatman saw that he couldn't pay the other three fares, he coaxed him off the boat with a black face.

Qin Zhongshu has always been regardless of the money, the fifty gold given by Kou Zichan has already been squandered by him, and the county is in office, and the income is very thin. Let the boatman drive off the boat, and have no money to hire another carriage to go to Jiangning, with his legs, to rush to Jiangning, wouldn't the calves have to be thin twice? I didn't have a few money left on my body, but I was afraid that if I got halfway, I would run out of food, and I couldn't go to the post station to ask for help, so when I rushed to Feng Ge'er, I would have already drowned.

Qingjiang Xingyuan's governance is in Lishui, Huaiyu Mountain will divide Lishui and Jingnan area, and regardless of the Jingnan family forces scattered and have no courage to be the enemy of Jiangning, just crossing the steep mountain pass of Huaiyu Mountain, the original Huaiyu Mountain six villages, has been strengthened into a stronghold in the mountain, the original Baiyi Army changed to the first army of the Qingjiang garrison army, the defense line around Huaiyu Mountain was garrisoned by them.

The Jingnan family was scattered, and in the early years, it was forced by the Huo family to form a closer alliance, but it was still not enough, but based on the delicate balance, neither Nanping nor Jiang Ning showed their covetousness to him. The Nanping army entered Jingbei and replaced the Huo family as a force that threatened the Jingnan family. However, in the south of Jingjun, in the north of Yunling, among the Yunling, Sanmiao is infested, and Huaiyu Mountain is the natural boundary on the west side of Jiangning. Jiang Ning also needed the Jingnan family as a buffer with Nanping, so naturally he would not be stupid enough to force them to Nanping's side by force.

The Lishui River Valley has become the safest hinterland in Jiangning, and it is also the place where Xu Ruyu first operated.

For the time being, the goods from southern Fujian can only travel to Fengling in the north, but Lishui City and Xuancheng across the bank have become the largest distribution center. Qin Zhongshu was messing around in Lishui City, and he was planning to go to Jiangning like this. Although Zhu Tongshan's army was blocked north of Fengling, and a small army could still penetrate through the gaps between the large armies from time to time to the south, most of the tunding in the north of Xuancheng were organized and prepared, but the merchant brigade was still unwilling to continue to go north and take risks. Every boat sent to Jiangning is mostly for official business, and Qin Zhongshu's identity is not public now, so naturally he can't take such a car and ship.

After the Battle of Huishan, Xing Kunmin led the army of the Five Universities to capture Changxing County in Huzhou and Langxi in Liyang, and merged the two counties into the territory of Xin'an. These two counties, together with Gaochun and other counties in the southern border of Jiangning Prefecture, are the key areas for blockading the communication between Liyang and Lanling, and there are no resettlement households and military households to move in for the time being, except for the garrison, there are tens of thousands of tunding. The war between Jiangning and Liyang will be more than a month, and the Zhu forces in Lanling and Wuzhou will be closely monitored, and the control of this area will be very strict. Qin Zhongshu was begging along the way, and he couldn't return to Jiangning without revealing his identity during this extraordinary period.

With Kou Zichan here, the crime of abandoning the official is not unexcusable, but Qin Zhongshu can't wipe his face and beg Kou Zichan again.

Qin Zhongshu thought left and right, so he had to stay in Lishui for the time being, and wait for the end of the Liyang War before making other plans.

Jimo Mingxi served as the head of Qingjiang Xingyuan, and there were many people from Jiangning in Lishui City, Qin Zhongshu did not dare to show his face in Lishui City, so he went to Xuancheng on the north bank. I don't have much money on my body, and if I don't make a living, I will inevitably fall into the road.

The Liyang war is fierce, Xuancheng people are naturally very concerned about the progress of the Liyang war, tea shops, restaurants, car dealers, restaurants everywhere can be seen people talking about the Liyang war in groups, even the street and alley peddlers and pawns also raised their ears to pay attention to the latest news of the Liyang war.

In addition to emergency military information, government orders, and military orders, Jiangning sent the Di Bao to various places through post roads, informing officials and generals of the latest news inside and outside Jiangning, and the squires and villagers in various places could also get the latest news in the world through the local post stations and post offices. Of course, the news recorded in the ordinary Di Bao is not kept secret from the civilians, but it is quite troublesome for the common people to think of obtaining this kind of Di Bao through post stations and post houses. There are idlers in the city who have nothing to do in the vicinity of the post station, waiting for the latest report from the mansion to get a sneak peek, but go to tea shops and restaurants to brag about it in order to gain the attention of others.

Qin Zhongshu saw that Xuancheng was so concerned about the Liyang War, and said secretly: The storyteller and the legend of the romance entertain people to make money, and I may not be able to explain current affairs in exchange for a livelihood. Thinking so, he found a restaurant in the east of the city, and begged the owner of the restaurant to let him hang a wind lantern wrapped in green yarn on the eaves of the building, and began his career of "Xuancheng and War".

Storytellers tell stories in restaurants, often invited by restaurants to increase the popularity of restaurants, and the salary is naturally paid by the restaurant.

Qin Zhongshu asked for the restaurant by himself, but naturally the restaurant would not pay him a salary, so he could only hope that the listener would reward him. Qin Zhongshu was in the restaurant, according to the newspaper of the palace, the situation in the world was told to everyone, and his own analysis was carried out to predict the changes in the situation. This kind of storytelling situation, which everyone has never seen, can also attract many people to listen to the excitement, but the listeners are not impressed by his analysis, and the copper in exchange for the first few days is not enough to even eat and live in the hotel.

In the past seven or eight years, the changes on the battlefield in Liyang have made Qin Zhongshu say six or seven out of ten. Jiangning advocates martial arts, idlers have three points of blood, nothing to do and get together to predict the changes on the Liyang battlefield, but the information obtained is too little, can say that the Liyang battlefield changes in the ten out of ten, this gathered in the restaurant to listen to him said that the people who believe that this person does have a point of ability, Qin Zhongshu's name in the Xuancheng quickly spread, every time the east of the city is crowded with people, most of them are to listen to him on the second floor to explain the Liyang war.

Dexiang Lou is the largest restaurant in the east of Xuancheng, the wine is directly supplied by Yongyang Mingyue Lou, the war in Liyang is tight, the Qingjiang waterway is not passable, the land route is inconvenient, and the wine price of Dexiang Lou has been raised by forty percent. Pick up the steps on the second floor, can put down more than ten square tables, the day is close to dusk, the drinkers crowd into the restaurant in twos and threes, the second floor has already been full of seven, seven or eight sitting, only the long case in the middle of the window is empty, the long case is about twice the ordinary square table, there is a layer of silk paper on it, and the detailed topography around Liyang is painted. Qin Zhongshu stood next to the window wall every day, standing behind the long case, explaining the Liyang War and even the current situation in the world to the drinkers on the second floor.

Before the book field began, everyone was already full of wine and food, stopping to look at each other, feeling that the layers of heat disappeared in the evening breeze.

The old man sitting in the corner of the corner had white temples, tilted his head slightly and squinted his eyes, as if he was savoring the smell of wine swirling between his tongues, and he also seemed to put his mind on the topic that everyone was talking about. On the left hand seat sat two samurai, the sword shovel resting on the corner of the table, raising a glass to drink, but the corner of the eye did not leave the sword shovel in the corner of the table, opposite a lazy young man, about thirty-three or four years old.

The drinkers want to go up to the second floor to listen to the book, and the food and wine money will be raised by two percent, so as to be Qin Zhongshu's storytelling. In the territory of Jiangning, salt, wine, tea and iron are all owned by the government, the price of wine is extremely high, the price of a jar of Pingcheng autumn dew on the upper floor of Dexiang is worth three times that of Pingyi in the East China Sea, the people who drink upstairs must inevitably have some scratches, and they will be unscrupulous after drinking. Jiang Ning is good at opening the Liyang War, and so far there have been more than 10,000 casualties, and countless materials have been consumed. Pingcheng autumn dew is not the best in the wine, Lishui brewery can also be brewed, Jiangning does not hesitate to travel thousands of miles, but in order to maintain ten times the profit, but bitter but bitter for us people like good wine. ”

The words were quite disrespectful, and the samurai sitting across the old man became angry when he heard this, and couldn't help but put his hand on the sword in the corner of the table. The old man opened his eyes, frowned slightly, stopped him with a look, and glanced at the person who spoke. The man was about twenty-five or sixteen years old, wearing a wide-sleeved shirt, handsome, with a rather complacent expression, and a scholar's scarf on his head.

The lazy young man opened his eyes slightly, his eyes showed a sparkling light, looked at the warriors beside him, smiled slightly, and said in a low voice: "Brother Feng, I'm a little nervous, Jing'an Division can't control their tongues." ”

Feng Ge'er smiled and said, "Jiangning's political system is too relaxed, which makes these idlers quick to talk. ”

"The political system of Nanping is strict, and there is a slander in the forbidden law, but I don't know that the crime of slander should be so determined." The young man glanced at the old man and said with a smile, "What kind of idler can Master Gu look at that person?" ”

The old man smiled slightly and said: "Although I don't like it, what I say is the truth, and with this kind of knowledge, I can be regarded as the number one person." In recent years, more than one million displaced people have poured into Qingjiang, and there is no shortage of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. ”

Cao San's attitude of humiliating Wuzhou and refusing to surrender in the main battle was quite tough. Although Cao San is only a signatory of the Changshi Mansion, the authority of Cao Jing'an Division is very great. According to the Jiangning political system, local affairs were under the jurisdiction of the Xingyuan Xingying Yuan and the Metropolitan Affairs Yuan, but the Jing'an Division, the Mingjian Division, and the Terracotta Tunbei Division set up separate offices outside the Xingying Yuan and the Metropolitan Affairs Yuan system, and acted locally and were not subject to the control of the Xingying Yuan and the Metropolitan Affairs Yuan.

The man's words were quite subtle about Jiang Ning's unauthorized opening of the Liyang War, and Cao San's face was silent, and he couldn't help but have a little anger in his heart.

Cao San listened to Gu Mingshan's words with a defended meaning, smiled slightly, and said, "I don't know what appalling words this lord has today. ”

When Brother Feng heard this, his face became solemn, and he secretly hated in his heart: You are a good boy, you don't care about the seal and abandon the official, you are making a big deal here, Jiang Ning has Jiang Ning is decent, if the rumors go out, wouldn't it be a joke for other families? No matter how good the cultivation of adults is, at most they ignore it, but there are a lot of people who can't look at it well.

Qin Zhongshu said war in Xuancheng, and Jing'ansi, who had the responsibility of supervising the place, had already paid attention, but it only hindered Kou Zichan's face, so he just didn't know. Unexpectedly, Qin Zhongshu has some ability, and it is only a dozen in Xuancheng, and it has already had a considerable impact. If the incident has a considerable impact, even if the Jing'an Division does not intervene, it must make a corresponding description and a corresponding evaluation, and report it to the Changshi Mansion for the record.

If Jing'an Division thought that Qin Zhongshu's actions in Xuancheng had a considerable impact on the Liyang War, this matter needed to be transferred to Sima Yadian Military Division for disposal.

If Wei Yu knew that someone in Xuancheng was criticizing him, most likely he would let the Warden Division deal with him on a charge at will.

Kou Zichan was famous all over the world in his early years, and he was an old acquaintance with Gu Mingshan, so he sent Brother Feng to ask Gu Mingshan to solve the matter. Cao San's envoy returned from Wuzhou to officially lead the Jing'an Division, and it was at the time of his inspection in Lishui. This matter is related to the closure of Jing'an Division, and Gu Mingshan naturally brought Cao San together.

Tu Wenyong often walks beside Xu Ruyu and knows Xu Ruyu's mind best. Xu Ruyu had the intention to use Qin Zhongshu, but due to the resistance from all sides, he wanted to put it in a place that was silent for several years and then use it, but Qin Zhongshu was really presumptuous and made such a big move. In this way, although it can attract everyone's attention, it is also very easy to arouse the disgust of the princes of Jiangning.

Tu Wenyong said that every time he got a secret letter from Jing'an Division, although he admired his accuracy, he also knew that if this matter was known to the public, Qin Zhongshu would be one step away from the core of Jiangning.

Tu Wenyong sorted out the military situation in various places for Xu Ruyu and the princes, filed the matter as a third-class file, and secretly informed Kou Zichan of the matter, and urged Jing'an to keep an eye on this person. Qin Zhongshu's identity is also special, and it has a relationship with Xu Ruyu and Kou Zichan, when Kou Zichan told Xu Ruyu about Qin Zhongshu's suspension of the seal and abandonment of the official, it was when Xu Ruyu and Zhu Gong had a banquet, and when he heard about it, he only said: "This guy must be looking for a good girl." "Laugh out loud, and don't say what to do. The Alternative Division had to come to the conclusion of voluntarily giving up his official position, and gave Qin Zhongshu a white identity.

Cao San also had a headache for such a character, and when he saw Gu Mingshan on the other side, his brows were slightly raised, and he also had a headache when he thought about it. I thought: Gu Heizi probably had the same idea as me, Kou Zichan didn't ask to come to the door, he just pretended not to know, and when Qin Zhongshu pierced the sky, someone else would deal with it. It's just that Kou Zichan asked Brother Feng to come out and didn't give an explanation, but he couldn't say it.

When Gu Mingshan was young, he traveled to study the world, and then returned to Qingjiang to teach the children of the village, and Zhang Ji, Zhang Xu and others studied under him. When Xu Ruyu and Gongliang Youqin confronted each other in Fuzhou, Gu Mingshan went out of the mountains to help, and acted between the Qingyan Army and the Fan family, and then served as the guard of Lishui, and after Xu Boying was transferred back to Jiangning, he took over the position of Zuo Cheng of the Qingjiang Metropolitan Court.

There was a commotion downstairs, Gu Mingshan and Cao San didn't move, Feng Ge'er thought that it should be Qin Zhongshu who entered the building, and couldn't help but stand up and look down from the staircase. But seeing Qin Zhong standing on the stairs, he bowed his hand to the diners downstairs, and only said, "Thank you for coming over today." Pacing square steps, he went upstairs, and the upstairs guest had already stood up to greet him, and he didn't see Feng Ge'er standing in the corner.

Feng Ge'er couldn't cry or laugh, and he couldn't call him in public, so as not to reveal the identities of Gu Mingshan and Cao San.

Gu Mingshan pulled Brother Feng'er's sleeve, asked him to sit down, looked at Cao San and said, "This kid is making these noises here, so he naturally expects us to come to find him." ”

Cao San snorted coldly and said, "I can't come today, I'm afraid that he will become more and more proud." After a slight pause, his tone softened, and he said, "Looking at his expression at this time, I understand his plan, he wants to ascend to the sky in one step and enter Qingfeng Mansion directly." ”

Feng Ge'er was puzzled and looked at Cao San.

Qin Zhongshu appeared in Xuancheng because he considered that the people in Lishui would not come to Xuancheng to deal with him because of Kou Zichan's face, and after a few days, Qin Zhongshu knew that Kou Zichan had settled the matter for him in Jiangning. He doesn't know how to rest, and naturally wants to attract someone's attention. Such a presumptuous person, the Political Affairs Hall, the Changshi Mansion, Sima Ya and even the soon-to-be-established Council Hall will not accept him, Xu Ruyu is in a dilemma, so he can only keep him by his side. The person who has influence on Xu Ruyu, no matter how low his official position is, can be regarded as a core figure in Jiangning, and he can really be regarded as a step to the sky.

Gu Mingshan smiled and looked at Cao San. Although Gu Mingshan's official rank is higher than Cao San's, this is a matter of Jing'an Division, so if he ignores it or does something else, Cao San will naturally take the idea.

Cao San arched his hand and said, "It's too early, Cao is looking for a quiet place to drink another pot with Master Gu, can you?" ”

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