I don't know what the shadow promised Fan Xian, so he accepted the compensation for the "accident" incident, and happily left Shazhou City the next day. On the same day, there was a cold winter rain, bleak and miserable, as if it was magic, Fan Tisi and his party who sneaked south of the Yangtze River disappeared into the not tall hilly winter forest outside Shazhou City.

That night, several officials wearing full body coats entered the Sand Lake in the middle of the night, and boarded the big Kyoto ship at the Jiangnan Navy Wharf, which was so heavily guarded that even the generals in charge of the reception work of the Navy Division did not see the true faces of those people.

At this time, Su Wenmao, who was in charge of the affairs of the big ship, looked at his colleagues who boarded the ship in the rain, and asked in surprise: "You are all here, what should I do, my lord?

An official said with a bitter face: "The adults said that the acting must be more realistic, and the people in the Qinian group will be left on the boat, and we will cover our faces and come back, so that the people of the sailor will believe that the adults are on the boat, and if the news is released, a few people can always be deceived." ”

Su Wenmao was dumbfounded: "My lord, this is a lot of fun, now there are traces in Shazhou, and there is a ...... hidden" He swallowed the dirty word alive, coughed twice and said: "Yes, I will start the boat tomorrow and hurry into Jiangnan Road." ”

"The third day of the third month of March. Yan Sù, an official of the Qi Nian group, said: "At the beginning of March, the third boat arrived in Suzhou, and the adults gave this rì period. ”

Su Wenmao was anxious: "What boat can go so slowly?" He stood up and waved his hand, and said angrily: "No matter how you go on the river, in short, I can't stay in this sand lake, and I must leave the port tomorrow." ”

The officer frowned and asked, "My lord, what's wrong?"

Su Wenmao's face was sad, and he said: "I have entered the camp of the Jiangnan Water Division...... In the past two days, I don't know how many garrisons and commanders have been running to the boat every day, and everyone knows that they are looking for an opportunity to talk to the two nobles, but the adults are not on the boat, where do I dare to let them come up?"

The more he talked, the more annoyed he became, thinking that it was because he had been blocking people on the boat for the past two days and was about to get angry: "...... Now these levels of officials, I can still stop it, but I heard that the Admiral of the Water Master will rush over tomorrow afternoon, and the person is a super member of the first grade, even if Lord Tisi is here, he has to salute obediently, even if the three princes are not easy to take the pie, how can this be stopped?"

The official who spoke to him was also surprised, the identity of the Admiral of the Navy is not as good as those officials, and as soon as the Lord comes, this lie will naturally be worn, even if the Admiral takes Fan Tisi and the Three Princes, at most he will play a secret music to express his anger at being teased to the emperor, but these people have to be used as a punching bag!

"Let's go, hurry up tomorrow morning!"

The Qinian team who stayed on the ship immediately reached a very strong consensus, and began to let the sailors under the cabin prepare for the sailing, and at the same time inform the tiger guard and the three six-place swordsmen who remained on the ship.

"My lord said, he sent another person to see the Hangzhou meeting, so you don't have to go. The official looked at Su Wenmao and said, then asked curiously, "These two days...... It is estimated that the sailor should have given a lot of gifts. ”

Su Wenmao said to Nunu in the back: "It's all in the back, the person in charge of the soldiers is really rich, and he really deserves to be a capable person who escorts the bandits." ”

The official suddenly had an idea and said, "Didn't you worry about how to delay the time until the third day ......of the third month of March?

He attached himself to Su Wenmao's ear and said so.

"Good idea! Lord Tisi doesn't mind such a trivial matter, we are not allowed to collect money from the court, but it is not wrong to collect money on behalf of his old man. Su Wenmao was happy, thought of something, and advised: "By the way, take care of the box of silver in the back room." Lord Tisi gave a death order, and no one was to be allowed to get into the box again. ”

The official answered, but muttered in his heart, although the box contained tens of thousands of taels of silver, but Lord Tisi's family is so rich, it is worth staring at like a family heirloom?

In the early morning of the second rì, the fog on the sand lake had just dissipated, and the eighty-percent new Kyoto big ship slowly sailed away from the wharf, crossed the waterway, exited the sand lake, and entered the waters of the river slowly and happily under the eyes of the generals of the Jiangnan Navy Division.

Seeing the big boat disappear at the mouth of the lake, and the three sailor ships guarding the escort also went out, the Jiangnan sailor generals on the shore breathed a sigh of relief, and finally sent the two plague gods away who couldn't stand or touch, and when they thought of the gifts they had given these days, they seemed to have lost their hands and felt a little painful.

As for the big ship that the prince and Tisi were on, they encountered thieves in the naval defense area - of course, there needs to be a scapegoat, and the eyes of the generals who threw themselves at Shen Shoubei were a little pitiful, but at this time, there was no one to take the lead in doing this, and they had to wait for the Admiral to return to the camp in the afternoon.

In fact...... Su Wenmao guessed wrong, and the generals of the Jiangnan Navy Division also waited until the next day to wait for the Admiral.

The most powerful figure in the military in Jiangnan, Lord Shi, the commander of the Jiangnan Navy Division, was not in a hurry to come at all, but was in a hurry not to come too quickly.

This Commander Shi is a protégé of the old Qin family in Kyoto, so he naturally won't be afraid of Fan Xian, but this veteran soldier also knows that if he really rushes to meet Fan Xian in Shuizhai, he will always lower his body and say something about the three princes and the rumors-how to pat himself on the back of a child who has no hair on his mouth and no hair on a bird at all, how can he put his old face aside!

So Lao Shi sent someone to summon him, saying that he was working somewhere, and he was hurrying to invite the third prince to be safe, but on the other hand, he was holding his most painful powder, sitting in the carriage and walking leisurely to the side of the water master, only hating that the road was too short...... In the end, Admiral finally succeeded in overcoming the time difference, and when he arrived, the ship was already like a yellow crane.

On the other hand, Su Wenmao rode down the river in a big boat in high spirits, implemented the instructions of Fan Tisi, and accepted the construction of the official under him.

This ship is going strangely, but it disturbs the officialdom of the entire Jiangnan Road!

Now everyone knows that Fan Tisi and the third prince of the Supervision Yuan may be in the ship coming from Kyoto, since this is the case, but wherever this ship is moored, the local officials have to go to ask for an emergency, and they have to prepare a good banquet, and there is no shortage of gifts at hand, at this juncture, who dares to be careless?

The states and counties in the upper reaches have sent jadeite, but the states and counties in the lower reaches can't compare with each other, and at least they have to have a bag of cat's eyes, right? Our state is poor? Can you plane a few mountain ginsengs? We have no money in our county? We also have to mention a few of the famous pine needles and cypress golden bacon! What if the two big men on the boat are used to eating the delicacies of the mountains and the sea, and they like our things with a local flavor?

What? There's nothing to produce in the city? Hurry up and send workers...... Go pull the boat for the grown-ups!

For more than a month, although the officials along the river have never seen the nobles from above, they have been able to curry favor with each other.

The big ship went all the way south, stopping at the state and county, even if the place was small, they would not miss it, and the officials in Jiangnan were happy to have this rare opportunity to give gifts, but they also couldn't help but slander in their hearts, Fan Tisi and the three princes...... Even those poor counties that don't have much to produce are not spared!

"Don't you understand? No matter how small a mosquito is, it's still meat. A master in a mansion in Suzhou City squinted and said: "It seems that this Master Fan has really inherited the style of Lord Shangshu, and his calculations are extremely detailed." ”

Another master shook his head and sighed: "Official voice! Official voice! Now these young nobles don't even bother to do face work!" Then he suddenly said with disdain: "Besides, that little Fan is not the old Fan's ......"

"Shut up! Dare to talk about such things! If you don't wait for the Supervision Yuan to cut you, this official will also hang you!"

The solemn official sitting in the middle scolded loudly, and after calming down, he raised his teacup and took a sip, saying: "Don't talk about right and wrong behind your back, as long as you are willing to accept money, this Jiangnan lacks everything, that is, there is no shortage of silver." ”

The official closed his eyes and muttered a little, and said with a little worry: "I'm afraid it's just the smoke released by the Lord Tisi, who knows? Besides, who knows if he is still on that ship? I heard the gentleman who went south say that Lord Fan's convoy is still heading to Shanzhou, and there is no shortage of money along the way." ”

On the official road of the Central Plains, the team with the largest number of people, under the leadership of "Fake Fan Xian", carried a group of guards and the shopkeepers of Qingyutang to Shanzhou.

On the river, Su Wenmao drove a big boat and happily carried out a gilded trip, but he didn't know that he would be scolded by Fan Xian after the bloody dog.

Several news were mixed, and as a result, the Jiangnan officials were confused, not knowing where that Fan Tisi was, even if some smart people guessed that Fan Xian might have another trip, they couldn't catch the slightest useful information, and the people from the Second Department of the Supervision Yuan were covering the real whereabouts of Fan Xian and his party in Jiangnan.

―――――――――――――――――――――――――― the weather at the beginning of February, the chūn had not yet arrived, the winter had not gone, and the cold overlordly occupied the field roads on both sides of the river, refusing to allow any chūn to come. However, the Jiangnan area is close to the sea, and it is always slightly warmer than other places, so there is no snow these days, but the mud marks on the official road have been blown dry and hard by the winter wind for months, making the convoy walking on it bouncing up and down, and the people in the car are a little miserable.

Fan Xian couldn't bear this hardship, opened the curtain and shouted to stop the convoy, jumped out of the car and rode a horse, which was a little more comfortable. He stretched his waist, exhaled the cold wind blowing on his face, and looked at the ditches on both sides of the official road, his eyes couldn't help but narrow. I saw that the ditch responsible for irrigation had long been out of water, and it was dry up, if it was the relationship between the water drying up in winter, it was okay, the problem was that there were still wild grass more than one person tall in the ditch, and the smoke and smoke were growing along the ditch to the front, looking barren and unbearable, and I didn't know the end.

He was a little puzzled, thinking that he would not be able to do this unless he had worked for several years. With his feet stepped on, the whole person stood up, looking at it from a high position, he couldn't help but gasp, and found that most of the ditches around the official road were like this, and the grass in the ditch had long been frozen to death, but it was still standing hard, stubborn, stabbing straight into the sky...... How can such a ditch be irrigated? What about chūn planting?

When Fan Xian returned to China from the Northern Qi Dynasty, he saw along the way that the water conservancy and irrigation system of Qingguo was quite complete.

The officials of the Supervision Yuan who came out of Kyoto with him all the way saw the uncertainty on Lord Tisi's face, and immediately stepped forward to explain: "That is, this area is deserted, and Suzhou and Hangzhou are definitely not like this." ”

Fan Xian frowned and said: "Of course, Jiangnan is not short of grain, this is mainly thin land, and the labor is too much by Nekuso. He smiled bitterly and did not continue to speak.

Everyone walked silently along the overgrown ditch, coming out of Shazhou for a few days, slowly shaking all the way, but also approaching Hangzhou, the group was a little tired, and Fan Xian didn't have much heart to play the drama of supervising all the way and visiting the microservice.

"The car behind you is coming up!"

The official surnamed Wu Mingmai, since Su Wenmao stayed on the ship, the logistics arrangements and the work of the whole team were handed over to him.

He saw that Tisi was in a bad mood, and he didn't talk much, so he had to order the people behind him to follow closely, there were a lot of masters in these inconspicuous carriages, but the problem was that the six swordsmen and tiger guards were not the masters of the rìzi, and they were all veterans in single assassination, and it was no problem for them to get into the long grass in the ditch without eating or drinking, but if they were to engage in zero-fee tours, it seemed a little ungodly.

Especially in a place more than 70 miles outside Shazhou City, a group of people who were originally small in number bought four or five little girls with straw sticks at the foot of a mountain, which became more and more procrastinating, like a rich team traveling.

Speaking of that purchase, it was also an encounter that surprised Fan Xian, now Qingguo is known as the prosperous age, he didn't expect that in the land south of the Yangtze River, there is still this kind of thing about selling his children because he is about to starve to death, although those poor people are all exiles from Jiangbei, but Fan Xian is still a little depressed.

They sneaked to Hangzhou secretly, and it was not easy to take these people, and Fan Xian himself was also an indifferent person, and in the end, the third prince couldn't bear to speak, Si Sicai took a dozen taels of silver with joy and bought five little girls, the parents of the girls were very grateful, and after leaving with tears in their eyes, Fan Xian acquiesced to this fact.

This group of people is too conspicuous, a handsome noble son, a poor scholar, an arrogant child with nostrils facing the sky, a decent and generous high-door girl, more than a dozen powerful guards, people with a heart can always guess Fan Xian's identity, and now there are a few more little girls, which can be regarded as a small disguise, Fan Xian persuaded himself like this.

After a few more rì, the official road is smooth as a mirror, the winter trees on both sides of the road are particularly strong, the prosperous scene suddenly came to the front of this pedestrian, looking at the lively road, the bright clothes of the pedestrians, and the faintly visible green city wall in the distance, everyone realized that Hangzhou had arrived so easily.

Fan Xian sat on the horse, waved his horsewhip, and said in high spirits: "Enter the city, let's go to Sister-in-law Song!"