If the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal is a magnificent history book, recording the hard work of the Han family, then Liaocheng must be one of the heavy chapters and lengths. The confluence of the Yellow River and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal gave birth to Liaocheng, the "Pearl of the Two Rivers".

"There is Suzhou and Hangzhou in the south, and Linzhang in the north", Suzhou and Hangzhou do not need to be mentioned, and Linzhang is Linqing and Zhang Qiu under the jurisdiction of Liaocheng.

Before the previous dynasty, at the end of the Yu Dynasty, Lu Longjie made the Yuan Dynasty, Mengwu went south, all the way to the Yangtze River, and Du Chong, who was then the Pingzhang of Zhongshumen, ordered to dig the Yellow River.

The Yuan people were cut off from the back road, and the whole army was annihilated. But the river flooded, out of control, roaring for nearly ten years, and finally, opened the thirty years of chaos at the end of Yu and the beginning of the cold.

Eight years after the levee burst, the Yellow River was seized into the sea.

The newly established Daliang lacks the entire North China, congenitally insufficient, and because of the flooding of the Yellow River, Guozuo has been competing with the Yellow River for more than 200 years, and is always facing the invasion of the grassland, exhausted, and has never been able to solve the Yellow River or the grassland.

However, she left a series of wide and smooth canals and canals for the emerging Daqi.

This Grand Canal, which starts from Hangzhou and leads directly to the front line of the Anti-Yuan Dynasty, is the most of them.

In the early years of the founding of the People's Republic of China, because of the preparation for the Northern Expedition, the Grand Canal, which originally ended in Liaocheng, was insufficient.

In particular, they tried to transport by sea, but were repeatedly harassed by the joint invasion of Wang's Goryeo, the remnants of the Yuan Navy, the coastal anti-Wang remnants and the Japanese invaders.

The nascent dynasty, which had already done its best for the Northern Expedition, naturally did not have the extra energy to form a water division, and the water division of the Wang family of Dongping County had already done their best to defend the southeast coast.

In order to maintain the grain supply in the north, but also to maintain order in the Yellow Flood Area, and solve the problem of the survival of the remaining Cao Gang and the people along the canal.

Taizu ordered to work for relief, extended the Grand Canal, from Liaocheng to the north to Yanjing canal came into being, this large canal from Hangzhou in the south, north to Yanjing, known as the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.

Since then, millions of workers have been tied to this canal, and their loyalty to the dynasty has also reached its peak.

By the time of Taizong, the national dynasty officially established a naval division, exterminated the coastal pirates, and the eastern expedition to the shogunate beheaded the Genji generals and shocked the four seas.

Since then, shipping and water transportation have been carried out simultaneously, which together constitute the southern grain transportation system of Daqi.

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It has been five days since Luoyang went down the river.

The fleet has arrived in Zhangqiu, and everyone wants to replenish here, and then go north to Linqing.

Before I got off the boat, I just entered the canal wharf and felt the enthusiasm of the workers.

The wharf was crowded with people, and the big customers who were warmly treated on weekdays have now become the ones raised by the stepmothers, and the workers are still squeezing the boats in the corners.

A few big businessmen who were used to it wanted to theorize, but they were beaten up by the coolies who had been nodding to them all the time, and hung on the crane.

It hung for two hours, and it wasn't until the emperor's dragon boat came that they understood why these mud-legged men dared to beat them.

The big backer of millions of workers and their own families are here!

Of course, due to the fact that most of the cao workers have been transformed into Qi soldiers, and the existence of sea transportation, the number of cao workers is no longer the grand occasion of the past, and now there are only more than 300,000 people, and the so-called million cao workers is just a habitual name.

The dragon boat slowly approached the shore, and a figure wearing an apricot yellow dragon costume appeared in front of the workers.

The voice disappeared instantly, and the emperor slowly raised his right hand and swung it forward.

Louder cheers than before, like a volcanic eruption, spread in all directions.

The emperor did not wait for his guards, and stepped off the boat without hesitation, fortunately, the Caoyun Yamen had long been accustomed to it, and skillfully discharged the Cao soldiers to stop the crazy crowd, but they were still squeezed by the crowd to face to face with the emperor.

The emperor looked up to the sky and smiled, shook hands on the left, chatted on the right, and only along the canal would the Qi emperors come into contact with the crowd without any worries.

Jia Yu's father and son, who had already come to the dragon boat in a small boat, and the accompanying nobles also got off the boat.

It's the first time Jia Hui has seen his father smile so sincerely.

"Oops! Brother Enhou, this is the eldest son, he is worthy of being a child of our Cao Gang, and fighting is beautiful! A bearded man took Jia Hui's hand and shouted excitedly at Jia Hui.

"Hahaha, isn't that Lao Tzu's seed? Come, my son, introduce you to my father, this is Xia He, the vice president of the Liaocheng Cao Trade Union, you can just call him Uncle Xia! Jia Yu patted Jia Hui's arm.

"Oh, don't you dare to be a general..."

"Hey, that's wrong, you and I are brothers who grew up in open crotch pants, what's wrong with calling you uncle?" Jia Yu was reluctant.

"Little nephew Jia Hui has seen Uncle Xia." Jia Hui didn't make it difficult for Xia He, and he didn't use very formal etiquette.

"It's... Then my Xia He will be big, and I will be cheeky. ”

"That's right, hahaha!" Jia Yu flickered his beard and laughed.

Taizu and Jia Shi were both from the Cao Gang, and the team that made a fortune also received some remnants of the Cao Gang, so their feelings for the Cao Gang are also the most complicated.

It can be said that the army of Daqi was formed with the Cao Gang as the backbone.

After the founding of the country, Taizu felt the chaos and violence and disorder of the Cao Gang, and ordered the Cao Gang to be banned, established the Cao Trade Union, which was responsible for the management of millions of Cao workers, and personally appointed all the presidents.

It can be said that in Daqi, even if you are the founding father, you are not from the Cao Gang, and you are not even worthy of joining the Cao Union, even if only the mother family is from the Cao Gang.

It is also because of this that this group of Caoyun workers dared to break into the Caoyun Yamen every single day and hang the Caoyun Governor every double day.

It's really because someone is backing it.

The errand of the Caoyun Yamen also became a life-saving talisman in the court, and it became the most unpopular errand.

Other errands have ruined the future at most, and this Caoyun Yamen is fatal.

Of course, they won't make it difficult for their patriarch, the emperor.

If the governor of Caoyun hadn't gone too far, such as being greedy for eighty percent of his wages, they wouldn't have done anything to wash the Caoyun yamen.

The emperors of Qi in the past dynasties really trusted them unconditionally, and the Cao workers also offered endless loyalty to the Qi Emperor, and the Cao workers participated in every foreign battle.

And the Xia He in front of him is the Cao Gang of Gen Hong Miaozheng, who was born as the founding noble, and his grandfather was the first Cao Gang to follow Taizu to raise troops, but he didn't have any ability and was named a viscount.

When he arrived at his father, he was demoted to a third-class general for his involvement in the smuggling case.

In his generation, he was only a fourth-class general.

But people are still very competitive, and they went to continue to learn the knowledge related to Cao Yun, and was finally elected to the Cao Trade Union, and now, he is the branch president of an important node of the Grand Canal.

A few more shuddered, and several people also knew that this was not the place to speak, so they hurriedly walked towards the palace.

When Jia Yu's father and son entered the palace, the emperor had already chatted with a group of old men with white hair.

"Hey, isn't this the eldest grandson of Second Brother Jia? Quick, come over and let the old man see! An old man who didn't look good saw Jia Yu come in and happily beckoned to Jia Yu.

"Grandson Jia pardon to the old lady to say goodbye, the old lady is as blessed as the East China Sea, and the longevity is better than Nanshan!" Jia Yu's eyes turned red all of a sudden, and he knelt on the ground and kowtowed to the old man, and Jia Hui also knelt down.

"Huh?" The old man finally noticed Jia Hui next to him.

"Little Amnesty, this is... Look at this appearance, isn't it the great-grandson of Second Brother Jia? The old man's eyes widened.

"Isn't that the eldest son of Little Amnesty! Come, Brother Hun, call the old ancestor quickly! The old ancestor is now one hundred and ten years old! Jia Yu wiped his tears with his sleeve, turned his head and asked Jia Hui to call someone.

"Great-grandson Jia Hui greets the ancestor!" Jia Hui knelt down and kowtowed, not looking at anything else, just this age has to kowtow a blessing.

"Hehehe, good, really good great-grandson, Second Brother Jia is blessed!" The old man smiled with his mouth open with only two teeth left, grabbed Jia Hui's hand and rubbed it constantly.

"Hey, hey, hey..."Jia Hui, who was not good at dealing with elders in her two lives, didn't know what to say, and only kept giggling.

Jia Yu's father and son took their seats.

The old man spoke to the emperor and the others again.

"Dad, who is this old lady?"

"Ah, this is the old lady of the Liu family, who mixed with your grandfather and them back then, but he didn't follow Taizu to Shandong, and stayed in the south.

Later, when Taizu went south, he helped integrate the Cao Gang, escorted the materials and made contributions, and was awarded the title of Huai Anbo, and later Taizong was promoted to Xu Guogong, who is now the last living founding minister, and is the ancestor recognized by all nobles. ”

Turning his head to say hello to a few people he knew, he continued.

"The old lady is full of loyalty, my two uncles of the Liu family died in Mobei, three of the five sons they gave birth to died in battle, one died young, and one died of smallpox, so the old lady was left alone in the world..."Jia Yu sighed.

"Back then, the old lady was killed in the whole village, and he was the only one who crawled out of the pile of dead people, if he hadn't asked for food all the way to the canal and met Grandpa Ling, it is estimated that..."

Xia He, who was sitting next to him, elbowed Jia Yu, but Jia Yu didn't say what was going on.

"Since the founding of the country, the old lady has been in charge of the Cao Yun, and has properly rectified the canal and the Cao Yun, supporting the 17 Northern Expeditions since the founding of the Dynasty, and calling on the Cao workers to join the army every time. Even on your expedition to the desert, the candy sticks you eat were all sent by the old lady out of her own pocket! ”

"Shhh

In this case, Mrs. Liu can indeed be regarded as the ancestor of all the nobles.

Even those upstarts in the Northwest who have no intersection with the old lady are fighting on the candy sticks sent by the old lady.

Zhang Qiu, who arrived in the evening, soon fell into the night.

The emperor invited the old relatives and nobles of the Cao Gang to feast, and the trumpets sung by the Cao workers were also regarded as the pleasure of the guests and hosts.

The old lady is getting older, and her energy is getting weaker and weaker, and she hasn't even eaten a few bites of her favorite crab roe tofu.

Everyone saw the old lady's performance, and there were some guesses in their hearts, and for a while, the atmosphere in the palace became a little depressing.

"Why grieve? Birth, old age, sickness and death are common things, the old man has been more than 110 spring and autumn, has drunk the strongest wine, ridden the strongest horse, fought the hardest battle, and played the strongest girl.

The three-foot sword has been played, and the immortal merit has also been established.

The ups and downs of the world, the old man has experienced it, but at the end of his life, he is still full of children and grandchildren, what is the old man not satisfied with?

Alright, don't talk about the unpleasant things, come on, come on, drink on, the boys out there, keep singing! ”

After that, the old lady drank all the rice wine in the cup, and pursed her lips in disgust, this wine is not strong enough!

However, for the sake of the children who are worried about themselves, they will drink it.

The old lady was old after all, and she was a little drunk before she had a few sips.

Fortunately, everyone had already filled their stomachs, and the emperor simply announced that the banquet was dispersed.

"Come, the old man's two great-grandsons, help the grandfather go home!"

The old lady, who had been strong all his life, refused to take the chariot home, beckoned behind him, and asked Jia Hui and Chen Jingyuan to carry him home.

"If the old lady has any problems, you two will consciously jump into the river and feed Wang Ba!"

The emperor gave a stern warning to the two young men.

The two young chicks nodded as if they were pecking rice.

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The crowd had dispersed, and they went back to their respective homes to eat, and there were only idle people left on the street who had come out to stroll after eating, and when they saw the old lady in person, they hurried over to say goodbye.

The old lady responded one by one.

It was still a little cold in the first month, and a cold wind blew, Jia Hui hurriedly took off the big hat and wrapped it in the old lady.

Chen Jingyuan took a step slower and glared at the triumphant Jia Hui.

"Hehe, kid of the Chen family, I heard that you have come back from training?" The old lady glared at the two boys, and when he was about to make a move, the old lady spoke up.

"Back to the old lady, didn't Xiao Ke just come down from the plateau, you see, I'm sunburned," Chen Jingyuan stretched his neck, his dark face and the white neck under his clothes formed a sharp contrast.

"Yes, master, everyone was still Han before they came out of the Jade Gate, and when they came down from the plateau, they all became Huns!" Jia Hui rolled up his sleeves, and the contrast between black hands and white arms was also very pleasing.

"Hehe, it's good to bask in the sun, big men have fine skin and tender meat..."The old lady pouted and shook his head.

Mrs. Liu, who works under the sun all year round, has always felt that a tanned man is a good man.

"Kid of the Chen family, when you come back from this experience, you are about to open a mansion, what kind of king are you righteous?"

"Prince Bravery!"

"Prince?" The old lady raised an eyebrow.

"Prince, it seems that your grandfather and your father are very optimistic about you."

"Hey, I don't know if I like it or not, but there will be trouble in the future." Chen Jingyuan smiled.

"It's just troublesome, it's not a small tone."

"No, I'm a brother who has died!"

"No, the quality of the job in the second half of his life depends on him." Jia Hui interjected.

"Hehehe, it's good, it's good." The old lady muttered, remembering the old brothers who had passed away, and fell silent.

The two young people also noticed that the old lady's eyes were red, and they stopped talking, but just helped the old lady to walk quietly...

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The next day, after following the emperor to say goodbye to the old lady, he boarded the ship again and headed north.

They were all their own people, and no one used the honor guard, and so did the emperor, who did not even unload the boat, and the rest of the people's things were also moved from the wide river boat to the canal boat last night.

In recent years, the climate has been generally warm and humid, and the canal has not frozen.

The emperor's dragon boats were narrower than the big river boats, but they could barely navigate the canals.

It is still the dragon boat that takes the lead, followed by the civil and military honors.

After Linqing is the North Canal, compared with the South Canal, which took a long time to build, the newly built North Canal is wider, less silt, and the water is deeper.

It's a lot faster.

Half a month passed, and finally, starting from the seventeenth day of the first lunar month, the journey that lasted nearly a month came to an end.

Jia Hui, who was about to vomit on the boat, finally returned to the place where he grew up.

Yanjing.

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Tongzhou Wharf.

The two brothers, Jia Zhen and Jia Lian, had been sitting in the teahouse by the dock and waiting for more than an hour.

Yesterday, a messenger came to report, saying that Jia Yu's father and son were about to arrive in Tongzhou, and early this morning, Jia Zhen dragged Jia Lian to Tongzhou Wharf to wait.

Jia Yu, as an elder, was coming to greet them, Jia Zhu was preparing for the exam, Jia Cong and Jia Huan were still too young, so Jia Zhen and Jia Lian, who were old enough and idle, were sent.

Jia Lian was very excited, his father who hadn't seen him for a few months and his eldest brother who had been separated for four years came back, he was excited yesterday and didn't sleep all night, and he barely slept when it was almost dawn, and he was called up by Jia Zhen to rush to Tongzhou without sleeping for two hours.

Jia Zhen is also very excited, he already knows the news that Jia Hui was awarded the title of General Sima and Marquis of Wuwei County, since the old lady of the East and West Mansions passed away one after another, he Jia Zhen finally ushered in a new backer.

He, the general of the third grade, is bluffing, in fact, throwing a brick in the city can kill a piece of the third rank official, and it is not as good as his identity as the patriarch of the Jia clan.

But Jia Hui is different, even throwing away all his identities, even that terrifying force is enough to shock the capital.

"Brother Zhen, here, here, I see the Tuanlong Banner!"

Jia Lian, who was lying on the window and staring at the dock, shouted excitedly.

"It's finally here, come, third, go downstairs with my brother and wait!"

Jia Zhen looked more excited than Jia Lian, her own son and brother, and grabbed Jia Lian and rushed downstairs.

"Wait, wait, Brother Zhen, the royal honor guard and the duke's honor guard will leave first before it is the turn of the lord!" Jia Lian hurriedly grabbed Jia Zhen.

"Ah yes, I almost forgot about this stubble, then continue to wait, if you want to eat something, let's eat some first, depending on the situation, it is estimated that we will have to wait for the afternoon." Jia Zhen reacted at this time.

Just thinking about Brother Hui, I forgot that I had to go down to two groups of people before.

The emperor lined up the guard of honor, and walked towards the capital in a mighty way, several wharves of Tongzhou Wharf were the emperor's guard of honor, and several wharves were down together, and they were arranged in the corresponding positions in an orderly manner, and the team was quickly formed.

Immediately afterwards, the prince's guard of honor unloaded two boats of people, and then the prince of the country and the prince......

After tossing for two more hours from noon, the ship with the cloud pattern of the Jia family finally docked.

Jia Zhen and Jia Lian hurriedly greeted them.

"My nephew has met my uncle, ah, I have met Brother Hui, you have worked hard all the way!"

"Boy Jia Lian to meet the master, meet the eldest brother!" The two hurriedly greeted each other.

"Excuse me, wait a long time, right?"

"It didn't take long for us to arrive!"

"Brother Jia Hui has seen Brother Zhen, oops, Brother Lian, they have grown so big!" Jia Lian pounced on Jia Hui, and Jia Hui hurriedly caught Jia Lian.

"Big brother, I miss you so much!" Jia Lian choked up a little.

"Haha, I'm not back? In the future, the time to stay at home is right, I promise to let you see me and don't want to see me again! ”

Jia Hui patted Jia Lian on the back.

"Oh, by the way, I heard that your kid is deterred-kissed?"

Jia Hui smiled narrowly, and said word by word in Jia Lian's ear.

Jia Lian's whole body froze, scratching the back of his head, and he was shy.

"Okay, don't get stuck here, let's talk about it on the road." Jia Yu reminded.

Jia Yu and Jia Zhen got into the carriage, and Jia Hui and Jia Lian rode on the horses brought by the servants.

Jia Yu's concubine and Yue Liduo sat in the car and followed them.

All the way west.