On the wide and stretching canal, thousands of sails have passed, and there is an endless stream of officials and businessmen coming and going from the south to the north. For more than 1,000 years, this canal is the bloodline of the Central Plains Dynasty, running through the north and south, not to mention anything else, there are four million stones of grain transported from the south of the Yangtze River to the north alone, and it is still increasing rapidly.

A large ship with a unique shape came from the south to the north, steady and steady, and the speed was not slow at all.

At the bow of the boat stood two men, one of whom was dressed in bastard shoes and holding a cane in his hand, looking like an ordinary little old man. Beside him, stood a middle-aged man, covered in silk and satin, extremely luxurious. Just looking at the clothes, the relationship between master and servant is clear, but in fact, the dignity and humility have fallen.

The old man squinted his eyes, swept his eyes over the grain ships with extremely deep drafts, and suddenly asked: "The floods, droughts, and locust plagues in the north have continued year after year. Mr. Bao, Liaodong is even more bitter and cold, I'm afraid that there won't be enough food to eat, right? ”

The middle-aged man was Bao Shiqing, he hurriedly bowed down and said with a smile: "Mr. Yang, you guessed wrong, the grain in Liaodong is not only enough to eat, I heard that it was sold to the capital last year, and the rice in Liaodong is sweet and oily, and the palace has purchased a lot!" ”

"Oh?" Yang Tingyun frowned slightly, not convinced.

"Mr. Bao, don't coax the old decay, how can this Liaodong produce rice? When the old man doesn't know how to farm? ”

"Hehe, sir, lend me a few guts, I don't dare to deceive you, it is indeed like this√. Zhang Hou, no, is the grandfather of the country, he proposed the technology of raising seedlings in the greenhouse a few years ago, and he was stunned to rob God for twenty days! Before the frost, the rice is filled and mature, which is better than the japonica rice in the south. ”

Bao Shiqing said proudly, peeking in, only to see Yang Tingyun suddenly squinting his old eyes, motionless, nailed there. A look of painstaking thought.

Bao Shiqing simply closed his mouth, before this old man Yang resigned, he served as the right deputy capital imperial history, and he was very famous in the clear stream. Now it is the person invited by the grandfather of the country, so Bao Shiqing personally took a boat, arrived at Yang's house, and respectfully invited the old man out of the mountain.

While he was thinking, a sudden gust of wind blew, and the canal unexpectedly raised a wave, which was more than three feet high. The big ship swayed along. Yang Tingyun, who was standing at the bow of the boat, also shook up.

"Not good!" , Bao Shiqing hurriedly bullied over and blocked the old man with his body.

Boom!

With a sound, Bao Shiqing's body fell, the back of his head hit the side of the boat, the sky was spinning, and Bao Shiqing almost fainted. He gritted his teeth and hurriedly looked at Yang Tingyun, saying that he didn't care, if the old man was injured. was scared, and he couldn't explain it to Grandpa Guo.

He hurriedly looked, but the old man was not afraid, but laughed. An old face is blooming.

This can make Bao Shiqing angry, it's really an old child and a little child. I've taken a beating for you, and you still have the leisure to gloat!

"Boss, are you alright?"

Bao Shiqing deliberately raised the tone very high. Yang Tingyun woke up suddenly, his old face turned red, and he hurriedly grabbed the side of the boat. got up, Bao Shiqing also followed the humming and chirping, and touched it with his hand, and a bag the size of an egg rose up on the back of his head.

"If you put it on the door of your head, it's Antarctica!"

Yang Tingyun said apologetically: "Thanks to Mr. Bao, I am grateful. In fact, the old decay has just lost his temper, and he has occasional gains! ”

"Oh? What did the old man think? Bao Shiqing asked curiously.

"There has just been a north wind, and the weather is getting colder every day. The south can grow two crops of grain a year, and the north has only one. In the final analysis, it's still the word temperature! ”

The two of them fell, and their men hurried up and helped them to the cabin.

After sitting down, Yang Tingyun stroked his beard and said with a smile: "Xiuyuan wrote to me and asked the old man to go out of the mountain to assist the Duke of Pingliao, and the letter mentioned a point, saying that it was to move the victims from the affected provinces to Liaodong. The old man was thinking about the bitter cold and war in Liaodong, if the population was migrated, wouldn't it push the people into the fire pit. Moreover, if Liaodong relies on the imperial court for grain, the more people who move over, the greater the burden on the imperial court, wouldn't it be as heavy as carrying it on its back! ”

Bao Shiqing said with a smile: "Boss, although Grandpa Guo doesn't know much about it, you can rest assured that the people who moved over definitely don't have to worry about food." ”

"Mr. Bao? Does the prince have a clever plan? ”

Miao Ce didn't dare to say that Liaodong had made remarkable achievements in reclamation, and there were also merchant ships in the Wa Kingdom and North Korea to purchase grain. Let me tell you one more thing, the chicken coop (bend) has been reclaimed for the grange, and there are more than 100,000 people growing grain! ”

Yang Tingyun listened, his head was completely insufficient!

"Why, Liaodong still has troops at sea?"

"To tell you the truth, Grandpa Guo has incorporated the pirate leader Li Dan, who has power in the Wa Kingdom, Ryukyu and other places, with a fleet of thousands and hundreds of thousands of people, I heard that Westerners are very jealous."

"It's him!"

Yang Tingyun's eyes lit up, obviously he had a lot of dealings with missionaries, and he had heard of Li Dan as the number one person.

"I didn't expect Pingliao Gong to be so far-sighted, it seems that it is not possible to work if you are old." Yang Tingyun said with a smile: "Don't rush north, stop at Dongchang Mansion, and the old man will go to visit the governor of Shandong." ”

……

In front of the Shandong Governor's Office, the door opened, and a middle-aged official hurriedly walked out from inside, as soon as he saw Yang Tingyun, he rubbed his eyes, hurriedly walked a few steps, and exclaimed in disbelief: "Oh, it's the boss who is coming, what kind of wind is blowing, the lower officials are late to greet him, and I ask the boss to forgive me!" ”

"Hehe, the old man Xianyun Yehe, he has long stopped eating Daming's Yulu. Lord Sun doesn't have to be so polite? ”

"Eh, my lord, you still tell me to learn it like you did in the Metropolitan Procuratorate!"

Yang Tingyun nodded secretly in his heart, the person in front of him was called Xu Zhi, and he knew how to read words. When he was in the Imperial Palace, it was the imperial history of Zhejiang Province, and Yang Tingyun didn't mention him much, he was able to be promoted to the right imperial history, governor of Shandong, and became a feudal territory, and he also had the help of Yang Tingyun. Officialdom pays the most attention to human feelings, although Yang Tingyun is no longer an official, Xu Zhi did not dare to slack off, invited him into the main hall, insisted that the old man sit on it and bow his head, and he accompanied him.

"Why did you suddenly go north, but the court is going to use the boss?"

"Hehe, it's not that the imperial court wants to use the old decay, it's the Duke of Pingliao, he asked the old man to repair the book, what kind of Western Academy do you want to run, Li Zhizao has already gone. It's hard to refuse, so you can only go once. ”

"I see."

Xu Zhi nodded secretly, suddenly frowned, lowered his voice, and said, "Boss, the lower officials think it's better for you not to go." ”

Yang Tingyun frowned, waved his hand, let Bao Shiqing retreat, and then asked, "Xuetong, isn't it that you have something to do with the Duke of Liao?" ”

"Boss, let's be honest, the new Shandong General Soldier Qiao Fu has been turning Shandong upside down in the name of suppressing bandits these days. I just got a secret report that he secretly loaded the people onto the ship and transported them overseas, and I want to join him, as well as Zhang Ke, for the crime of poisoning the people! ”

When Yang Tingyun heard this, he was secretly happy in his heart: Zhang Guogong, the old man will help you resolve the trouble! (To be continued......) R752