In the Zheng period, Huai'an Mansion has more than 119,000 households, and Dingkou has more than 906,000 households.

During the reign of Yingzong, Yao Bin, the prefect of Huai'an, opened chrysanthemums to communicate with Huai, and built a Ren dam outside the east gate of Huai'an New Town.

In the reign of Renzong, the prefect Chen Xuan built four dams of righteousness, ceremony, wisdom and faith outside the north gate of the new city, and the Heren dam was a total of five dams.

It also stipulates that the Cao Ship passes through the two dams of Ren and Yi, and the official and civilian merchant ships pass through the three dams of Li, Zhi and Xin.

After passing the five dams of benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and faith, the car can enter the Huai River and reach the Qing River (another name of ancient Surabaya), and the labor cost is very huge.

Because Xu He and the others took the official ship, although they went north, they also entered the mansion through Liyuan.

The ship traveled for about half a day before finally coming to shore.

The people in the yamen and the boatmen were waiting on the boat, and Xu He led Gu Hengbo and Wu Decao to prepare to explore the road first.

Before leaving, Xu He just went ashore and turned back, he recruited the leader of the third class this time, took out five taels of silver to him, and said in front of everyone: "I don't know how long this trip will take, although you all have the expenses given by the yamen, but when you go out, there are places to use money everywhere, this little mind, you take it, buy some good wine and meat for recreation on the boat, but try not to get off the boat!" ”

When the people on the boat heard that there was money to be spent, they immediately applauded.

One by one, they were full of praise for Xu He.

Xu He quietly looked at the boatman before, only to see that he was different from others, and he was not very happy when he shrank behind people at this time, at most he was a joke in agreement, obviously not caring about the sudden extra silver.

This is interesting, a perennial boat to support his family, life is very weekdays, and he has to be happy for three days if he has a mouthful of meat, Xu He took out so much silver at once, and the other party was indifferent, obviously, this is not Xu He's three melons and two dates!

However, Xu He's move was not only to observe the other party, but also to make a good relationship with all the people who traveled with him, and he went ashore after giving the silver.

Walking on the wide stone road of Huai'an Mansion, there are rows of shops on both sides of the river.

"Liangsheng, where are we going first?" Wu Decao asked.

Xu He thought for a while and said, "Let's go to the general's house first and visit Sister Gu's sisters!" ”

Wu Decao is used to walking in the market, and when he heard this, he immediately paid attention to the shops on both sides of the street.

After a while, the carriage they hired was full of rouge gouache and satin muslin, considering that the other party's master was a martial artist, Xu He also specially asked Wu Decao to prepare some ten jars of good wine brewed in Yanghe Town, Huai'an Prefecture.

Gu Hengbo's sister's surname is Ma, named Yushu, and as soon as she was trained, she was bought and given to a general surnamed Yuan as a concubine.

Today, it happened that General Yuan Shen was not in the camp of the Twelfth General, and when he heard that someone came to give gifts, he was still looking for his favorite concubine Ma, and he suddenly became interested in coming.

Wait until a group of three people enter the door.

General Yuan's eyes were immediately attracted by Gu Hengbo, who was dressed as a man, and his eyes couldn't wait to hang on Gu Hengbo.

Gu Hengbo also felt General Yuan's gaze, his brows couldn't help frowning, and he shrank behind Xu He.

Seeing that the beauty was hiding behind a scholar, General Yuan suddenly felt bored, and the whole person sat arrogantly on the chair and did not greet him, only took a sip of tea before asking, "Why did you come to my house?" ”

Wu Decao hurriedly stepped forward and bowed his hand and said: "General Yuan, the student is from Hailing County, my younger brother and sister have an old relationship with Mrs. Ru of your house. ”

When General Yuan heard this, he beckoned to call the steward, and asked her to take Gu Hengbo to the backyard to see her concubine Ma.

When Gu Hengbo's figure disappeared outside the door, he reluctantly withdrew his gaze, looked at Xu He with a scrutinizing gaze, and said, "What's the student's surname?" ”

Xu He saw that his two-colored eyes were always staring at his sister Ma, and he was already unhappy in his heart, but when he thought of the hungry people in Hailing County, he forcibly calmed himself down, so he coldly arched his hand and said: "In Xia Xu He, I have seen the general." ”

Seeing this, General Yuan Sen smiled and said, "You came to my house just to let your lady see my concubine." ”

Wu Decao saw that Xu He's expression was not good, and hurriedly stepped forward to help and said what he wanted!

After General Yuan heard the purpose of their trip, he had no smile on his face, and he said coldly: "That's the matter of Ma Junmen, how can I, a general, talk too much?" ”

Wu Decao thought that he wanted to take the opportunity to extort bamboo bargains, so he smiled and pointed to the expensive gifts in the courtyard and said: "General Yuan, this courtyard is just a little careful to meet, if the general is willing to help deliver a word, let the grain allocated to this county by the imperial court be loaded as soon as possible, not to mention anything else, there are still gifts for this county!" ”

General Yuan sneered: "What? Do you county magistrates think that someone in my Yuan is a corrupt and perverted law? Hum! ”

Gift-giving, the master tore his face so bluntly, and he couldn't Wu De at once.

That's not the way it works.

Whether you can help or not is a matter of ability and willingness, but for the person who gives the gift, it is a matter of attitude.

Xu He knew that the other party would definitely not help, so he said to Wu Decao: "Brother Yaochen, let's go!" ”

After speaking, he arched his hand to the general and said, "Say goodbye today!" ”

General Yuan sat in the chair, still not intending to get up, but waved his hand arrogantly.

When the two of them left the hall and waited for Gu Hengbo's block in the front yard, the Yuan staff general called a family member and gave him an order in his ear.

The family nodded their heads, turned around and went out.

Xu He and the others waited for a while, but they didn't even get any tea this time, and the weather was so hot that when Gu Hengbo came out, their throats were about to smoke.

As soon as he left the Yuan Mansion, Gu Hengbo was surprised: "Why did you leave so quickly?" Sister Ma and I haven't said a word yet! ”

When Xu He heard this, he immediately said angrily: "This Yuan ginseng general is not a good thing, and it will definitely not be good for your sister!" ”

Gu Hengbo was surprised: "How do you know?" My sister was carried into the mansion since she was beaten, and at the beginning, General Yuan Shen treated her really well, but after a long time, she married a three-room concubine, and she was not treated as well as before! ”

Xu He sneered, and said in his heart that this guy almost didn't engrave the word [color] on the door of his head.

However, this visit was not for nothing, that Ma Yushu told Gu Hengbo what a Yuan staff general said when he was drinking.

It turned out that when the imperial court issued an order to transport the grain to the affected prefectures and counties, the relief grain from Hailing County had already been loaded onto the ship, but the Caoyun Yamen suddenly came to Langzhong and asked the workers to transport the grain back to Changyingcang.

Xu He frowned when he heard this, it seems that this problem is indeed in the Caoyun Yamen!

Let's just say, how could a small ambassador of Changying Cang dare to cover the relief food.

There must have been someone from above who said hello.