Before Guo Chongwei left the capital, he specially transferred six large warships from the naval division to accompany him. However, due to the fact that the Fenshui and the Yellow River waterway were previously controlled by the Northern Han fleet, they could only stop at the downstream of the intersection of Fenshui and the Yellow River.

When the Jinju city wall was breached by Tushan, these six warships received an urgent order to go north, broke through the defense line of the Northern Han warships, and rushed up the Fenshui River to the west gate of Jinju City, it was already the morning of July 6.

As soon as these warships stopped on the shore, the Northern Han side on the west bank took the lead in attacking, and thirteen small warships rushed over desperately, entangled with six warships. However, once the broadside battle began, the Hou Zhou soldiers who came from the city to support them one after another were killed on the warships, and quickly slaughtered the few Northern Han soldiers on the small warships with an absolute numerical advantage.

However, before the soldiers of Houzhou, who had emptied the incoming enemy, had time to rejoice, they noticed that the ship under their feet seemed to be slowly tilting, and the boatman also ran up from the cabin to make an urgent report: "The bottom of the ship is leaking!" There are enemies scuttling ships! ”

It turned out that the main purpose of the suicide attack launched by the small warships of the Northern Han Dynasty was not to kill the enemy, but to cover their own water ghosts to dive into the bottom of the water and scuttle the boat.

At this time, the Hou Zhou soldiers began to panic and rushed off the boat. A lieutenant commanding at the front urgently dispatched dozens of archers to shoot arrows underwater. Soon, two clumps of blood surfaced and slowly spread, and two male corpses wearing only obscene pants also surfaced.

Guo Chongwei, who rushed to the wharf outside the West Gate after hearing the news, looked at the three warships that had fallen into the water and collapsed, and then looked at the opposite shore, but found no trace of any ships, and snorted contemptuously: "The mantis arm blocks the car, and you can't do it yourself!" ”

Of course, Guo Chongwei at this moment still doesn't know what a difficult and tragic battle awaits them on the other side. This is a later story, so I won't mention it for the time being.

At this time in Shouzhou, Lin Feng's mood was also like Liu Chengjun, who was defeated in Jinzhou City, and he was always troubled by sadness and resentment. However, Lin Feng was not because of the war, but because of the people's livelihood.

Since late June, Lin Feng has taken the wind and clouds to start a private interview with Weifu. Starting from the suburbs of Shouzhou, the two visited Anfeng, Huoqiu, Huoshan and other county towns and countryside, and the tragic scenes they saw in the countryside broke through Lin Feng's psychological expectations again and again.

Shouzhou across the Huai River corresponds to the Kaifeng City of Tokyo in the Later Zhou Dynasty, and the geographical location is extremely important, but for the people of Shouzhou, the war between the north and the south that will inevitably occur in the future is the sword of Damox hanging over the head of Shouzhou. In the spirit of security to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, no one will build a handicraft workshop in this future war zone.

In the whole of Shouzhou, apart from the normal trade and trade with the north and the surrounding areas, there are basically no decent handicraft workshops, and the only reference is only poor farmland production. This is also an important realistic background for Liu Yanzhen, the previous assassin, to extend his black hand to the farmland of Anfengtang, and there is really no other important project in the whole territory of Shouzhou that can satisfy his monstrous greed!

Lin Feng and Feng Jingyun's visit to the counties started from Anfengtang in the southwest, thinking that other places would be stronger than the ravaged villages of Anfengtang, but it turned out that even such Anfengtang villages are basically the richest villages in Quanshou Prefecture!

These Shouzhou people guard the poor mouthland, and basically live a life of "being lived". Along the way, Lin Feng saw villages that were even more dilapidated than Yaya's original village, full of peasant families with four walls and lack of food and clothing, and kept seeing half-grown girls wearing patched and exposed clothes, and their hearts became heavier and heavier, what a pitiful and helpless poor people!

On the first night of the visit, Lin Feng and the others stayed overnight at a farmhouse at the foot of the mountain, and when he finished eating the unpalatable chaff, he found two fifteen or sixteen-year-old boys holding the crack in the door, staring at the bowl in his hand with all their eyes.

The husband who was standing on the side suddenly rushed over, snatched the money, and stuffed it back into Lin Feng's hand, the person suddenly knelt down and pleaded without stopping: "Good man, please!" Please choose a baby to bring! You can do any heavy work with you, these two boys are very clever and in good health, at least you can eat enough every day with you! ”

The peasant woman woke up, ran over and hugged her two sons tightly, crying: "No matter how poor and miserable our family is, we can't give away our children!" I would never agree with it! ”

Lin Feng burst into tears, stretched out his hands to help the farmer up, directly explained his identity, apologized to them, and proposed that he was willing to write a note to them, they could send the two children to the township barracks to participate in training, and it would never be a problem to eat enough every day.

As soon as her husband nodded in agreement, the peasant woman immediately knelt down and kowtowed repeatedly, asking Lin Feng not to send her child to be a village soldier.

Lin Feng knew her worries, and immediately told her that he would only let the two children participate in the training with the team, and would never send them to the battlefield. Under the persuasion of her husband, the peasant woman reluctantly agreed.

Early the next morning, Lin Feng watched her husband take her two children to Shouzhou City before continuing on the road.

Lin Feng's sad mood also continued, and when they entered Anfeng, Huoqiu, and Huoshan counties to see the street scenes of the backward county seats, and then saw the luxurious mansions of the county commanders, county officials, and county lieutenants one by one, extreme resentment rose in their hearts. However, reason allowed him to suppress his anger, and he left the county town with the wind and clouds, and continued to visit.

On the morning of July 4, Lin Feng and Feng Jingyun finally went back to the vicinity of Shangyao Mountain on the east side of Bagong Mountain, and saw scattered kiln sites on the roadside, which was the only "industrial project" they saw along the way.

It is understood that as early as the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, due to social turmoil, the war in the north led to frequent migration. Located on the bank of the Huai River, the main transportation channel at that time, the Shangyao area, due to the conditions of porcelain clay, fuel, transportation, etc., plus a large number of northern handicraftsmen went south, so porcelain began to be fired from the middle and late Northern and Southern Dynasties, which is the origin of Shouzhou kiln. From the late Northern and Southern Dynasties to the Sui and Tang dynasties, Shouzhou kiln lasted for 400 years of glorious history, and was also listed as one of the seven major porcelain kilns in the Tang Dynasty.

Lu Yu's "Book of Tea" in the Tang Dynasty once recorded: "Shouzhou porcelain is yellow and brown is purple." At that time, the north was famous for white porcelain, the south was famous for celadon, and although the Shouzhou kiln between the north and south of the country belonged to the celadon system, due to its own unique geographical environment advantages, it had both the characteristics of the north and the south in terms of firing technology, porcelain modeling, glaze color, etc., and finally formed a unique yellow glaze system, which formed its own personality in the history of the development of Chinese ceramics, and was known all over the world for its gratifying yellow glaze.

Lin Feng visited several kiln sites one after another, and then walked into a kiln site with three kiln mouths, picked up the obviously rough yellow porcelain bowl on the ground and looked at it for a while, looked up and asked the kiln family what they were doing, and sighed constantly.

The dark-faced middle-aged kiln man stacked the yellow porcelain bowls into a wooden box before replying: "The Shouzhou kiln has long been gone!" I am inheriting the ancestral business, otherwise I don't want to interrupt the ancestral business in my own hands, I would have closed these three kilns a long time ago. ”

"May I ask what will the Shouzhou kiln decline? Is the porcelain clay gone? Lin Feng asked strangely.

The potter pointed to the high and low porcelain clay pits near him, and then pointed to the bare Shangyao Mountain in the distance, and said helplessly: "The good porcelain clay has been dug almost to the ground!" Besides, there is no firewood left for burning around, and the trees on the mountain have been completely cut down a few years ago, of course! After the few ancestral trees in my family are used up, I have to close the door if I don't close it! ”

Lin Feng understood, and observed the scene for a long time before leaving.

On the way back to Bagong Mountain, Lin Feng went to the scene to see the construction of the supermarket and the factory, and then walked slowly towards Shouzhou City.

In a long distance from the Thorn History Mansion, Lin Feng found that many people rushed past him quickly, and many people were still shouting: "Quick, go to the Thorn History Mansion to see the excitement!" ”

"That's it, I heard that this time someone sued two crazy people from the Academy of Sciences! Let's go, go and see what Lord Lin does with his own people this time! ”

Lin Feng and Feng Jingyun looked at each other suspiciously, and quickened their pace.