"Lady, let the old slave go."

"The survival of the family, how can I not go there in person."

The woman's voice was extremely good, Song Jiu couldn't help but turn his head to look, there were three masters and servants sitting at the adjacent wine table, an old man dressed as a scribe, and a young maid with delicate eyebrows, and a young woman sitting in the middle, in her early twenties, wearing a white filial piety dress, with light eyebrows, and a small face with melon seeds, just like those small bridges and flowing water in the south of the Yangtze River, her appearance may not be very outstanding, but she is also charming and moving.

"Why do you bother to treat you like that at home?"

"The concubine knows that they blame me for killing Lang Jun together, and the concubine doesn't know if it," the young woman lowered her head, secretly wept, and said after a while: "No matter how they talk about the concubine, the concubine will handle this matter well, so that the Ding family will have a future, and the concubine will have a clear conscience about the Ding family." ”

Song Jiu understood half of it, about the young woman's husband unfortunately died early, and the people of this era were very feudal and superstitious, so they thought that the woman killed him, and as for what to do, he didn't know what to do, maybe doing this well would be of great benefit to the Ding family.

The old man sighed.

That was someone's family matter, Song Jiu wouldn't ask, and continued to eat with Wang Zhending Er.

The master and servant continued to speak, and the old man said again: "Lady, where has Jiangzhou not settled down, the old slave is worried." ”

At the mention of Jiangzhou, Song Jiu couldn't help but raise his head and glanced at the three masters and servants again.

"Uncle Cheng, if the concubine doesn't go, I'm afraid I'm worried that you won't be able to do a good job, after all, that relative is far away." When the young woman suddenly saw Song Jiu, she immediately closed her mouth and did not speak.

Song Jiu was a little confused. If it turned out, Jiangzhou was one of the top states in the Southern Tang Dynasty. There is not only Jiangzhou City, but also five subordinate counties. Dehua, De'an, Ruichang, Hukou, Pengze. Dehua is the city and suburbs of Jiangzhou, but the city is basically finished, and it has become a dead city, and Song Jiu is having a headache because of this, so he first brought Wang Zhen and Guo Er over to inspect it. It is estimated that there are still people in the suburbs. But under Cao Han's tyranny, he was probably killed. Hukou is the original base camp of the Southern Tang Dynasty, 100,000 troops were burned by Zhu Lingyun himself, most of these 100,000 elite soldiers came from other regions, but there were also local soldiers, plus the people who escorted the logistics, it is estimated that most of them were disabled.

It's a good place, but it's the same as Tokyo East Water Gate Outer Hebei, not ten years. It's a dream of recovery. Song Jiu didn't have that ability.

Why did a few people go to Jiangzhou?

There was nothing to say all night, and the next day Song Jiu and the three of them got up and came to the dock, which surprised Song Jiu. There were a lot of merchant-looking people on the docks, with servants and a lot of goods to hire ships.

Song Jiu looked at them suspiciously.

Wang Zhen and Guo Er didn't quite understand, but Song Jiu understood. This is Huangzhou, not the Hanyang Army. It shouldn't be such a busy scene, but Huangzhou is not under his jurisdiction. So he didn't ask, and asked Guo Er to find the boat.

After a while, Guo Er found a big ship, two heavy ships, about 500 stones, as a passenger ship, it was not small. Song Jiu boarded the ship, three people and three horses, the horses were far heavier than people, but the other passengers carried a lot of goods.

Guo Er went to tie the horse, Song Jiu stood by the boat and watched, and happened to see the three masters and servants of the small wine shop yesterday, the young woman looked up at him, Song Jiu smiled and said, "What a coincidence." ”

The young woman didn't speak, she bowed slightly, which was considered a return of courtesy, but the little maid snorted coldly, thinking that Song Jiu was a bad person.

Song Jiu smiled again.

Because everyone was carrying goods, there were not many passengers who came up, only about twenty people, and they were divided into six or seven gangs. However, there were merchants who asked to get on the ship, but the ship's family refused. This made Song Jiu feel even more strange, and he noticed one more thing. Now he is very familiar with ships, river boats, river ships, sea ships, south ships, north ships, passenger ships and cargo ships, Song Jiu has seen a lot, passenger ships are passenger ships, cargo ships are cargo ships. But the passenger ship was clearly converted from a cargo ship.

Why do so many people go to Jiangzhou?

Guo Er looked at Da Jiang and asked excitedly, "Jiulang, where is Chibi?" ”

"I don't know what to do," Song Jiu said. I really don't know where the ruins of Chibi are, there are many controversies, Su Dongpo thinks that it is in Huangzhou, but this statement seems to be inaccurate, he said: "The ancient and modern terrain has changed greatly, and there is no way to verify, it is about in the upper reaches of Jiangzhou, up to the Hanyang army, so Zhou Yu's troops went out of Pengli Lake, with the help of the sky, defeated Cao Cao's army in one fell swoop. ”

"Then Cao Cao is also stupid, so let the people of Dongwu burn it."

"Ha Luha, Cao Cao will be stupid? This is the will of heaven, it is similar to the battle at the mouth of the Anhui River, all in winter, Zhou Yu set up a naval army in the downstream Jiangzhou, against the water and the wind, what kind of wind do you see now? ”

"Southeasterly wind."

"The wind in this area is similar to the Central Plains in four seasons, the southeast wind in spring and summer, the southwest wind in late summer, the northwest wind or northeast wind in autumn and winter, Wu Guo's water army is exhausted, although by the southeast wind, but against the water, no matter where the red cliff is, it is impossible to arrive in the blink of an eye, in that season, it is a miracle that the southeast wind can blow for so long. Therefore, Zhu Lingyun of the Southern Tang Dynasty wanted to replicate Zhou Yu's achievements. ”

"I thought Zhu Lingyun was incompetent."

"Seven points of hard work, three points of heaven, if the southwest wind blows a little longer at that time, the battle situation will be unimaginable. Liu Yu Wang Ming will not be defeated, and he will not be able to stop the Tang army from rushing towards Quarry Rock, "Song Jiu said this, his face darkened, if there was really a vague and ethereal providence, it would be too bad.

"How many Lang Jun are from the capital?" The young woman came up to her and asked.

Song Jiu was slightly stunned and said, "Lady......"

"The concubine is Liu, and the Huangzhou family." The young woman replied calmly.

"We are from the capital."

"May I ask if the three Langjun are going to Jiangnan on business?"

"How do you know?"

"The concubine saw that the three Langjun were all riding horses, and they had a capital accent, and it was estimated that the three were officials from the imperial court who came to Jiangnan on business."

"You guessed right, we are here to make an envoy to Jiangnan."

"Emissary...... You call the king, and the envoy ......," the young woman said suspiciously.

"Oh, you mean that I call the names of the two court officials, it doesn't matter, they are just officials, not His Majesty, the people in the capital can not only say the names of officials, but sometimes they can talk about their deeds in their backs, which is not forbidden." Song Jiudao, but Chong Guo Er and Wang Zhen squeezed a look.

As Song Jiu, it is okay to guide the country, even Wang Zhen and Guo Er are also staying in the Song family. Well-informed, at least better than ordinary people. Therefore, Guo Er came to the river in Huangzhou and asked where Chibi was. But if others are interested in listening to it, they will think about it. There will be suspicions, and Song Jiu doesn't want to reveal his identity for the time being.

"The concubine is misunderstood."

"You are from Huangzhou, why did I see you going to Jiangzhou with a lot of goods."

"You still don't know what to do?"

"We went to Jiangnan on business, all the way non-stop, we only came to Huangzhou yesterday evening, and we set off in a hurry today, can we know what is going on, is there something big happening in Jiangzhou?"

"It's not a big deal, the people of Jiangzhou are stubborn. Yijian refused to surrender and killed many court officers and soldiers, and General Cao was furious and slaughtered the city. ”

"I know this."

"It turned out that the imperial court appointed Zhang Zhizhou as the governor of Jiangzhou, and there was a dispute with General Cao, and the imperial court moved Zhang Zhizhou to Raozhou."

"Zhang Zhizhou is a good official."

"Good official...... The young woman hesitated for a moment, did not dare to make an evaluation, and continued: "Later, General Cao slaughtered the city and took all the property in the city empty. His Majesty was furious and transferred the court officials away. ”

Song Jiu shook his head in his heart, Zhao Kuangyin was definitely not very happy, but he was not necessarily angry. Just when you start to set off. Song Jiu and Pan Li'er were together, and there was a group of people behind them, several students who were drawn from the academy. They were only one step ahead, but they had not been on for long. I heard an edict that Cao Han was still sentenced to Yingzhou with Cao Han as the observer envoy of Guizhou. In order to reward the merits of Pingnan. Wang Zhen asked puzzledly, why did the emperor do this. Pan Li'er was also puzzled, Song Jiu didn't explain to Wang Zhen, but explained to Pan Li'er.

Zhao Kuangyin definitely doesn't want more dead, but he also doesn't like the rebellion in Jiangnan, for example, Lu Xuan, formerly known as Lu Jiang, that is, Pan Meiping's Southern Han Dynasty minister who offered Wu Yue to take Wu Yue, he is quite famous in Jiangnan, Cao Bin besieged Jinling, his guard of the water village, has many military exploits, is a rare bright spot among the ministers of the Southern Tang Dynasty, because the generals are jealous of their ability, and then led 8,000 people to aid Runzhou, because they perceived that Liu Cheng wanted to surrender, led the army to kill, wanted to protect Jinling, because of the defeat of the Song army and fled Xuanzhou. After the fall of Jinling City, his people still did not surrender, and killed Gong Shenyi, the assassin of Shezhou, and refused to defend. Zhao Kuangyin asked his brother Lu to surrender with iron coupons, but he still didn't listen, but because his soldiers had no will to fight, they were forced to surrender.

After arriving in the capital, he was appointed as the training envoy of the Jizhou regiment, Gong Shenyi's son Gong Ying complained about the grievances, Cao Bin confessed for Lu Xuan, saying that his talents were available, but Zhao Kuangyin said that he was looking like a candidate for Barong, and He Keliu was also. Cut in the West City.

How does Lu Qian compare to Hou Barong? Besides, Cao Cao used Pang De, Liu Bei used Ma Chao, and Zhao Kuangyi used Yang Ye, the more these people were subdued, the more useful they were. Speaking of appeasing the hearts of the people, Lu Qian is also much more effective than Gong Ying.

This proves Zhao Kuangyin's dislike for resistance.

There is also a deeper intention, at this time the Song Dynasty was preparing to conquer the Northern Han, and the court began to suppress Zhao Kuangyi, who did not want the military to cause too many changes. And Wang Quanbin died, Li Chuyun died, Zhao Kuangyin regretted it in his heart, what are the people, these henchmen are the real heroes of the Song Dynasty, and they don't like the people in Jiangnan to resist, so not only did they not deal with Cao Han, but they were promoted to official positions.

It's just that Song Jiu has never understood why the people of Jiangzhou are so sworn to resist?

After Song Jiu heard this appointment, he was afraid that there would be changes in Jiangzhou, so he rode a horse and took Guo Er and Wang Zhen to Jiangzhou first.

The young woman continued: "General Cao organized more than a hundred huge ships to carry the goods to the capital. ”

"Didn't you say that there are only a dozen giant ships?"

"Jiangzhou is a prosperous place of the original Southern Tang Dynasty, how can more than a dozen ships be loaded."

Song Jiu was silent, he began to worry in his heart, it took more than ten years for the Bashu wealth to be transported, it was different, not only the original Bashu goods, but also the later taxes, which formed a concept, thinking that it had been transported for more than ten years, if there was no tax, where would it take more than ten years? In addition, there is the risk of the Three Gorges, the distance is long, the ship is relatively small, and the transportation is very slow. Jiangzhou is different, all of them are big rivers, hundreds of stones and thousands of stones of ships are unimpeded, and even ships of 10,000 stones and 20,000 stones can go straight to the capital. More than 100 ships of goods were transported to Yizhou City alone, Cao Han almost scraped all the land in Jiangzhou, and went to Jiangzhou by himself, asking for money or not, asking for no people, and so much hatred, how to govern it?

The young woman was a little suspicious of his identity as an envoy, and she hadn't thought of Song Jiu's identity yet.

Even Song Jiu fled quickly, directly crossing many mountain roads, from Jingxi to Huangzhou, maybe even the officials in Jiangzhou didn't know that Song Jiu was coming, but Song Jiu was also worried about whether there were any officials in Jiangzhou, what the situation was now, but he immediately knew the answer. The young woman continued: "Then General Cao quickly went to Beijing, and the imperial court was worried about Jiangzhou, because Zhang Zhizhou had stopped General Cao and had some reputation in Jiangzhou, so when Xinzhizhou came, he first transferred Zhang Zhizhou back to Jiangzhou to serve as the governor to appease the people. He also transferred the Huangzhou Gutong Judgment to Jiangzhou to serve as the General Judge. ”

"Could it be that you are a relative of Gu Tongju?" Song Jiu asked. (To be continued......)