Chapter 111: The Grand Canal

"Without further ado, let's go." Qi Niang put away the map and acted resolutely.

Qi Xuansu understood, no wonder Qi Niang was so attentive and did not hesitate to go to the imperial capital in person, in the final analysis, it was still the wealth that moved people's hearts.

Qi Xuansu was thinking again, his name is really amazing, Xuansu, that is, black and white, can imply the Tai Chi of the Daomen, and can confirm his situation. Now he is half bathed in light, half in darkness. During the day, he participates in deliberations and discusses the morality of the Daomen, and at night transforms himself into a struggle between secret associations.

He also somewhat understood why Qi Niang didn't develop in Daomen, not to mention that she was greedy for money and stingy, and it was easy to be labeled as morally corrupt, just said that her personality was the most hated kind of person in the Five Generations Great Palm Sect. When Qi Niang was still a girl, it was the reign of the five generations of the Great Palm Sect, and all mavericks were wiped out, and Qi Niang was destined to have no chance with the Daomen.

The two walked out of the tavern, and Qi Niang grabbed Qi Xuansu's wrist.

For a moment, Qi Xuansu only felt that everything around him was like a flash of light and quickly retreated, he couldn't see anything clearly, he only knew that he was moving fast,

When the two of them regained their footing, Qi Xuansu stumbled, and because of the strong inertia, he almost fell forward.

Qi Niang stood firmly, took off her sunglasses, took out a mask of a first-class member of the Qingping Society, and put it on.

Qi Xuansu also took out his second-class member mask and put it on, thinking that he was mixed in with the three first-class members, and he, the second-class member, had become the most special, as if he was the one who was the leader.

Then he looked around, and the two of them had already left the southern city and came out of the city.

I just don't know where it is.

Not long after, two more people came to this place one after another, it was "Dream Xingyun" and "Taichang Yin". The two of them had long known that the "Golden Wrong Knife" was the son of the "Seventh Lady", so they were not surprised, but just nodded slightly towards Qi Xuansu.

Don't look at the face of the monk and look at the face of the Buddha.

Qi Xuansu was about to respond, but was interrupted by Qi Niang: "Without further ado, let's talk about business, there is another hour, 'The inn, the silver ship is about to arrive, and it is usually escorted by a Tianzi guy himself. Now is a special time, 'The inn, maybe send more people, but it's nothing, just send it away.'

Qi Niang naturally has this confidence, not to mention just one Tianzi guy, even if the "cook" has three Tianzi guys, he may not dare to plunder Qi Niang's edge.

"Dream Xingyun" coughed lightly: "It can't be said that you have sent things away, you might as well kill them all together, and comfort the spirit of the 'green shirt wet, the spirit in the sky, after all, we are mainly for revenge, and the others are just incidental."

This member of the Privy Council still wants to face.

"Too often quoted" did not speak.

Qi Niang said "um", a little perfunctory, and then said: "Speaking of which, it is also a fluke that I can know the traces of this silver ship, 'The inn, the people have always acted in concealment, false and real, true and false, there are so many ships coming and going on the Grand Canal, I can't keep an eye on it all day. For this reason, I spent a lot of peace, and then I bought off an 'inn, the Tianzi fellow, who had a feud with the Tianzi fellow who was in charge of the rhyme silver boat, and wanted to borrow my hand to get rid of the opponent."

Qi Xuansu said secretly, it seems that there is infighting everywhere, and the "inn" is no exception. At the same time, he once again explained why Qi Niang took forty percent.

"Meng Xingyun" and "Taichang Yin" didn't speak, in fact, the two of them took the same money, and the extra 10% of "Meng Xingyun" was actually spent, after all, the emperor was not short of hungry soldiers, and only by throwing money could his subordinates work hard and not make any mistakes.

Qi Niang waved her hand: "Let's go."

The post road outside the Imperial City leads directly to the pier of the Grand Canal. Every year, there are more than 30,000 boats that sail here alone by the imperial court and the government. Towards the end of the year, the flow of people on the wharf to pick up the goods is even more noisy, even if it is night, it is still hanging lanterns, busy non-stop.

Theoretically, this is the end of the Grand Canal, but there is also a section of canal that connects to the moat of the imperial capital, and after passing through the gates, you can directly enter the Penglai Pond located in the city, although this is a treatment only for royal tribute.

The so-called Grand Canal was opened near Jinling Mansion when Zulong had not yet ruled the world, and Wu State fought for hegemony in the Central Plains for the Northern Expedition of Qi

Dig a canal that leads the water of the great river, known as Hangou in history, and the successive dynasties continue to develop and extend to the north and south on this basis, especially after the two large-scale expansion and renovation of the Great Jin Dynasty, to the time of the Great Wei, basically connect the Jiangnan and the imperial capital, called the Grand Canal.

The Grand Canal traverses four states, eleven prefectures, and twenty-three counties, about 3,600 miles long, and the grain production in the south of the Yangtze River accounts for two-thirds of the world.

The population of the imperial capital is one million, all of which depend on the supply of this grand canal, and the last few batches of grain and silver transported to the imperial capital, as well as various tributes to supply the expenses of the palace, must be rushed before the winter solstice, otherwise the river will fall and freeze, and it will be a big mistake.

Therefore, the river channel that entered the territory of Zhili was full of boats, which caused the phenomenon of congestion in the river, coupled with the deep night, a layer of fog, it was inevitable to bump and bump, but at this time, most of the people who were still rushing to sail were officials who were on errands for the yamen, and they were used to oppressing the people.

As the saying goes, to be an official is to have the prestige of being an official. The score is used to put it, and if you don't put the score, it's like a night walk in clothes, which is boring. Some people have not yet become officials and are just small officials, but they have already practiced a great official authority, their eyes are empty, they are in the eight extremes, and they are spewing contempt in their nostrils, and they can't bear the anger of petty anger, and the anger of thunder must be frequent.

At this time, the men of the two boats collided with each other as they fought for the road, and the two leaders stood in their respective boats and shouted and cursed.

"Blind your dog's eyes, we are the grain ships of Taicang! Delayed our grain delivery and cut off the Imperial Capital from cooking, can you afford to bear the sin?"

"You're *** blind! Don't scare Lao Tzu with these, Lao Tzu This is the ship of the Jiangzhou Division of the Ministry of Households, loaded with the silver that will be sent to the Ministry of Household Storage this year, and then we will give all the Beijing officials and lords this year's maintenance money, and a Caoyun Ministry dares to fight with us?"

The two sides did not agree on a word, and directly moved their hands, while poking and pounced on each other with the basket of the boat, while shouting and scolding.

There was a battle in this place, and in the night, there were shadows and shadows, and the sound of ships fighting in the distance and near.

Just when the two boats were at a stand, another large boat came from behind, and in order to open the way, the sound of guns sounded on the boat, and a large fire could be seen shining above the river in the night.

The fighting ships all stopped fighting and looked in the direction from which the sound came.

Although it was foggy through the night, a huge black shadow could be vaguely seen, and it was actually a huge three-story ship.

When you get a little closer, you can see a huge lantern hanging on the ship, on which the three big characters "Qingluanwei" are clearly written.

Closer, you can see the black "Qingluanwei" flag on the ship, waving in the wind, hunting.

No matter which Yamen's boat was, they all stopped shouting and cursed, and hurriedly ordered their boatmen to steer the boat to avoid both sides of the river.

Qingluanwei's big ship occupies the middle of the canal, and the river is moving forward mightily and unimpeded.

Many experienced veteran boatmen vaguely found that the draft of this building ship was a little too deep. But at this time, the night was already dark, and it was not real, so no one thought much about it.

A tall figure stepped out of the building and stood on the board.

This is a Qingluan Wei Qianhu.

He looked at the lights in the direction of the dock and breathed a sigh of relief.

This errand is over.

The master of the thousand households turned around and went back to the cabin, and at this time, in the cabin on the first floor, except for a few chairs, there were large boxes neatly stacked and stacked, and curtains were drawn around them, blocking them tightly to ensure that the outside could not see the inside.

There was also a person in the cabin, sitting there with his back against a large box, with his eyes closed, and a few empty wine jars were placed at random beside him, and there was even a special wine jar of "drunken life and dream death".

After Qingluan Wei Qianhu came in, he glanced at this person and said, "It's about to arrive, but it's a pity that you can't drive directly into Penglai Pond."

The man opened his hazy drunken eyes and gave a vague "um", not knowing whether he heard it or not.

At the same time, above the night, four celestials were overlooking the Grand Canal and the wharf, it was Qi Niang, Qi Xuansu, "Dream Xingyun", and "Taichang Yin"

Around the four of them, there was a cloud of smoke blown out by Qi Niang with the "Barrier Noodles", which completely covered the figures of the four people, and even the heavens and humans were difficult to detect.

Qi Xuansu looked at the full canal and couldn't help but say, "Can this still turn around?"

"Don't worry, the mountain people have their own tricks." Seven mothers are in the chest.

Since Qi Niang said so, Qi Xuansu didn't ask any more, just waited for Qi Niang to give the order, and he was the first to rush forward as a pawn, who made him the only martial artist, and he was young and had the lowest status, so he did this.

Qi Niang looked at "Dream Xingyun" and asked, "Are your manpower ready?"

"Qi Niang rest assured." "Dream Xingyun" said, "They are all competent people, and I specially transferred two big gears over. There are also my people on the side of the Caoyun Yamen."

The so-called big stall head is a role similar to the leader of the beggar gang, so it seems that "Dream Xingyun" has more than one Cao gang force, as well as the connections of "too often lead", which is the advantage of the dual identity of the Qingping Society.

"Very well, as soon as we get our hands on it, you send the signal."

Qi Niang looked at "Taichang Yin" again, and said, "Prepare the largest range of 'Too Illusory Realm, don't let others see it.'"

"Taichang Yin" nodded, and when the air crossed her knees, the smoke of Qi Niang held her from below, and protected her surroundings, and then the yin spirit went out of her body.

Through the night, a circle of invisible ripples spread, and the "Too Illusory Realm" quietly shrouded a radius of more than ten miles, but the people in it were unaware.

These supernatural powers vary from person to person, and the "Too Illusory Realm" of Nanhua Daojun back then could even hide the entire Jade Kyoto.

In fact, Qi Niang will also use this kind of means, but Qi Niang has always been able to do it without doing it, and she has to make it happen to call others.

Qi Xuansu didn't need Qi Niang's orders, his body was already sinking, and he fell down.