The ship is like a building, with the pinewood dock next to the ferry. The lighthouse on the cabin deck is lit and shines like a bright moon. Not only the deck of the ship, but also the dock is also illuminated. Ordinary people have never seen such bright lights.
A strange thing happened. At midnight, many of the refugees stranded on both sides of the river were still awake. They all gathered by the river to watch. There were more than two or three hundred people in the crowd, and it was very lively.
Hongzepu and Shiliang River are connected to form an important waterway that connects the Huai River and the Yangtze River. However, because Hongzepu is a shallow lake composed of dozens of large and small lakes, the thousand-stone ship has a deep draft when loaded with cargo, even in late spring and summer.
In the early high water season, it is also difficult to pass smoothly from Hongzepo to the Huaihe River. Therefore, most of the ships traveling to and from Hongzepo and Shiliang River are Upeng cannons with a load of about 200 stone. Large ships with a thousand stone are extremely rare, and they look very unusual when parked on the shore.
Magnificent.
Four men who had been drinking at the Fukou Restaurant mingled with the crowd and watched for a while, then quietly retreated deep into the uninhabited grass.
"Fucking thief," a middle-aged man with a shaggy and curly beard covering half of his face spat, "Aren't you trying to tempt grandpa to hijack the ship?"
"Please come and take a look at the ship. Didn't you see the ten military guards on the bow? In this shitty Jiyun Society, Lin Fu is really a shitty official. His little ninth-grade prisoner actually dared to give
My private soldiers are equipped with such heavy weapons as stainless steel swords, and the armor those people wear is so damn good..." The man with a shallow scar on his forehead smacked his lips and said with a greedy look in his eyes.
"From such a distance, can you tell whether the armor worn by those people is good or bad? You are bragging!" the bearded man said unconvinced.
"How come Malantou can be the leader of the eleven? Didn't that kid join the gang and bring out six pairs of rusty armors to share with everyone? The lights on the boat are as bright as the moon, and you are not blind. What do you think Malantou should be?
Are the six pairs of rusty armor that came out better than those worn by these people on the ship? There is also the warrior Wei, who is wearing fine scale armor. It takes hundreds of taels of silver to buy one, you can use it as much as you like.
No matter how good the bow and arrow are, you can't hit him in the vital part of the throat with one arrow. No matter how close you are, you can't penetrate the armor. Even if that person is two levels worse than you in skill, he can easily defeat you with just that armor. Is the knife good?
, but it doesn’t work just by looking at the knife? Just try hitting someone with the knife and you will know how powerful it is, and then you will know how to carry it with me." The man with the scar on his forehead said with an annoyed smile.
"Then we have to do this vote!" Sun Ganzi, a bearded man, smacked his lips and shouted. Hearing what the scar-headed man said, his mouth watered.
The other two middle-aged men with short beards and red faces frowned and remained silent. Seeing their silence, Sun Ganzi hit one of them on the waist with his elbow and asked in a low voice: "Brother Shiyi, do you want to shout again?"
Let some people come over, or wait until they hit the road tomorrow before taking action?"
"There are a few points that have to be considered: Lin Fu's reputation is quite good. Jiyun Society is recruiting refugees to work on the north bank of Chaotiandang. Regardless of whether they can recruit workers, the amount of loose rice and copper coins will be tens of thousands, and the beneficiaries will
There are quite a few; there are only ten military guards arrayed on the ship, and they are all strong in spirit and spirit. They are wearing fine armor and holding sharp weapons. There are also more than 40 other shipwrights and sailors on the ship, all of them are strong and brave, and their equipment is terrible.
It's not too bad. How many lives do we need to kill to capture the boat? In addition, Lin Fu is an extraordinary person in Gu Wuchen's eyes. The Xihe Society will definitely protect him with their lives. Is it possible that they must kill all the people in the Xihe Society?
Are you going to offend the Jiangning He Gang?" said the middle-aged man named "Shiyi".
"If he were allowed to pass arrogantly, wouldn't he lose everyone's prestige?" The bearded man was unwilling to back down and said, "If he restrained himself, I would have let him pass." This is really unacceptable.
"Apart from getting some good armor and Mo Dao, what are the benefits of robbing this ship?" Another middle-aged man asked the bearded man with a smile, "Having this ship robbed will only scare the enemy. This Lin Fu is in Jiangning City.
He can no longer be regarded as an insignificant person. He was killed and his body was dumped in the Shiliang River. Gu Wuchen will definitely be furious, and the situation on both sides of the Shiliang River will immediately become tense. Do we still want to do that big deal?"
"Hi, according to what you say, you really can't do it," the scarred man cursed bitterly, "I really can't see the arrogance of a dog official. This Lin Fu scattered rice and copper coins in Chaotianyi to buy people's hearts. I live.
In my half life, I have never seen an official who is not evil and a dog who does not eat shit."
"It's good to let him go with his arrogance," said the red-faced man named "Shiyi". "A message came from the inside that the prey is wavering on which waterway it takes to go north. We really can't let any disturbance here scare the prey away. We
Not only must we not take action, but we must also prevent other poles on the road from taking action..."
Liu Xilin slept peacefully on the boat for a night. The next day, Lin Fu asked Sun Jingtang to send a boat to take Liu Xilin to Jiangning. Going south by boat and taking the water route was safer than riding a horse and taking the land route.
Sun Jingtang complied with all instructions. It would take a day or two for them to stay in Shanglin to load tea goods. It would not be a big delay if they sent a ship back to Jiangning to pick up two fast oar boats to catch up. Liu Xilin will be the future leader.
Jiangning Prefecture Dongcheng Xiaowei was such a person that the Xihe Club wished they had no chance to get close to him. Sun Jingtang wanted to accompany Lin Fu to Shanglinli, so he sent a famous stall owner and more than ten brothers to escort Liu Xilin and others to Jiangning.
They served carefully along the way.
Sun Jingtang didn't have a good rest last night, so he was frightened here. He couldn't guess what Lin Fu was thinking. The Dongyang ship was brightly lit at night, and the military guards were on duty on the deck and arrayed in armor, which seemed to show off their military power.
However, it may also arouse the greed of the rogue bandits. He knew that Lin Fu hid some elites on the boat, but no matter how elite the fifty-odd people were, could they withstand the ant-like crowd attack of the rogue bandits?
No one knows how many of the refugees stranded along the Shiliang River are law-abiding.
Nothing happened all night, and in the morning, Sun Jingtang was eager to sail early and rush to the forest. There were more than 500 Xiangyong raised privately by the Lin family, and their equipment and training were all good. They were considered to be rare elites in Dongyang Mansion. Sun Jingtang
As the leader of the river gang, I am quite familiar with these situations. As long as the boat arrives in the forest, rogues and water bandits will have some scruples no matter how coveted it is.
Sun Jingtang climbed up the Dongyang from the rope ladder. He didn't see Lin Fu or anyone else, so he asked Zhao Hu, who was standing on the deck blowing the river breeze: "Where is Mr. Lin?"
"What does Master Sun have to do with me?" Lin Fu walked out from the tail cabin, holding the lower hem of his green robe with both hands, trying to be careful not to step on it with his feet.
"Mr. Lin, the south wind is blowing strong. Let me ask you when we will set sail. With this wind, I might be able to get to the forest to have lunch." Sun Jingtang said.
"I have something to discuss with Mr. Sun," Lin Fu said. "There are many hungry people on this shore, all of them are sallow and thin. I still have dozens of kilometers of ballast on this boat. I hope Mr. Sun can send two brothers to me.
We will leave the ballast rice on the ship at the ferry, and let them borrow a place on the shore to cook rice and serve porridge, and then pick up the two brothers from your association on the ship when we return."
Sun Jingtang thought that it would be better to do less than to do more. Giving out dozens of kilograms of rice to the ferry would not help many people. It would only attract more nearby refugees to the ferry, which would not be of much benefit. But there would be no
What's the disadvantage? Although Sun Jingtang thought it was more troublesome, he still found two brothers and went ashore in person to talk to the tax collectors at the ferry. The sentry officer notified them and told them that Lin Fu was still in charge of Jiangdong to inspect the red man in front of the deputy envoy to prevent them from bullying.
Two members of the Xihe Club stayed to give porridge.
After delaying for a long time at Savage Crossing, Lin Fu and the others set sail. They did not rush to Shanglinli at once. They stopped for a moment while Sun Jingtang watched Zhou Pu from the boat behind. Cao Ziang and other four people rode fast horses from behind.
We caught up. The Dongyang draft was deep, and there was no dock so it could not get close to the embankment. They saw Zhou Pu and others approaching without stopping. They picked up the reins and rode their horses. The four horses leaped high and jumped directly from the river embankment to the deck of the Dongyang.
Above. Sun Jingtang looked at the side of the ship, which was almost three feet away from the river embankment. It was not difficult to simply jump on a horse over such a long distance on flat ground. The difficulty was to jump from the river embankment to the boat without stopping. The Dongyang No.
The width of the ship is only a little over two feet, and it is possible to ride a horse on board. If you are not careful, you may not be able to control the horse's momentum and the horse will rush off the ship from the other side. Zhou Pu is Lin Fu's personal bodyguard, and he has superb riding skills.
It's strange, but Cao Zi'ang was the head of the village recommended by the refugee leaders. I hadn't seen him riding a horse for a few days at the mouth of the river, but I knew that his riding skills were also so beautiful.
Seeing Zhou Pu and Cao Zi'ang chasing after them on horseback, Sun Jingtang subconsciously thought that something happened at the mouth of the river and wanted to notify Lin Fu urgently, and he felt a little nervous.
Lin Fu knew that Zhou Pu and Cao Zi'ang were chasing after each other on horseback, which was quite alarming. When he saw Sun Jingtang looking towards them, he said with a smile: "It's really not easy to worry about. It gives me a headache to chase after big things at the mouth of the river...
..." Without saying anything to Sun Jingtang, he went into the cabin with Zhou Pu and Cao Zi'ang to discuss the matter.
Sun Jingtang didn't doubt anything else. Even if he doubted it, how could he doubt it?
"After we got the letter, we asked the cars and boats to take us to the north bank. At the mouth of the river, we temporarily sent someone to call Mr. Loach back from the Longjiang Shipyard to secretly help Jingzhong. We rode fast horses on the way without delay, and met Crow Crow at Yerendu.
Last night, the savages crossed the restaurant and found out that one of them was Wu Shiyi, the leader of the Fuling Lake Water Village in Hongzepu. The others were not all from the Fuling Lake Water Village, and their identities were not known for the time being.
.I guess that many forces in Hongzepu have secretly united." Cao Ziang sat down and took a sip of tea. After taking a breath, he told Lin Fu the information obtained from the exchange with Crow Wu Qi. Lin Fu had a way to communicate with Crow Wu Qi through lights.
Qi carried out a simple signal transmission, but as a last resort, Wu Qi and his men could play a greater role by hiding secret reports in the dark.
"I guessed the same," Lin Fu said, "That's why I urgently sent you and Mr. Bao to come over and discuss it."
"The water in Fuling Lake is not deep enough. It is useless to seize the Thousand Stone Ship," Cao Zi'ang said. "If it were me, I would also regard Uncle Qin Cheng as a prey. We already know what you did at Yerendu, are you planning to fish in troubled waters?"
"Whether you can touch it or not is a matter of debate," Lin Fu sighed slightly and said, "I'm worried that if the water here becomes muddy, the world's crisis will become even more difficult..."
Although large ships cannot pass through Shiliang River and Hongzepu, it is very convenient for the Wupeng canal with a capacity of 200 stone to pass through. It has always been one of the main channels for north-south water transportation, and its importance is second only to the Baisha River in Weiyang Prefecture.
The water system. If Hongzepu is in chaos, not only Dongyang in the north of Jiangdong County, but also all the prefectures in Huai'an will fall into chaos. This waterway is cut off, and the water transportation pressure in Weiyang Prefecture will be even greater. The Grand Canal in Lin Fu's impression does not exist in the world today.
System, water transport was carried out by all water systems, and it was concentrated in the Huitong River in the middle section. In the previous dynasty, no one built the Grand Canal in Weiyang Prefecture (today's Yangzhou).
"This pool of water in Hongzepu is bound to be muddy. Although the fishermen who gathered together dispersed and the government did not pursue the case for the time being, but with the experience of the Qing bandits, the various forces in Hongzepu are not afraid that the government will settle old accounts in the future? If the various forces in Hongzepo are really as we think
As speculated, we have secretly united together, just like an arrow on the string, it is inevitable. Whether we are willing or not, Hongzepu will definitely be in chaos, unless half of the warships and troops of Jiangning Water Camp can be transferred to Hongzepo to stabilize the situation at this time...
..." Cao Ziang said.
"..." Lin Fu nodded. The various forces in Hongzepu have been secretly colluding. Anyone who quits may betray other families to the government. They are all tied up on warships. No one will allow others to quit. There is only one way to go to the dark side.
This kind of thing cannot be stopped. Uncle Qin Cheng is just a prey they fancy, otherwise trouble would have occurred when the third division of the anti-theft battalion Chen Han was transferred to Huai'an.
Cao Zi'ang, Zhou Pu and others hated Chen Hansan and his followers with all their fury, and wished that the Hongzepu families could lead the fishermen and boat owners to revolt and destroy Chen Hansan and his followers with the help of swords.
The general situation in the world is like this, and Lin Fu can't do anything. As Cao Ziang said, in order to stabilize the situation in Hongzepu, unless half of the warships in Jiangning Water Camp are transferred to Hongzepu for coercion, this is just a temporary measure and cannot completely intensify the relationship between the officials and the people.
The conflict must be resolved, not to mention that even Li Zhuo does not have the authority to transfer half of the warships in Jiangning Water Camp to Hongzepu to stabilize the situation.
"I can't control it too much. Qin Chengbo has been in Jiangning for three years and has made countless sacrifices from the people. No matter what, it will not be wrong to introduce the fish to Hongzepu first." Lin Fu said.
In fact, the Qin family has nearly a thousand servants and four to five hundred elite warriors. They will all leave Jiangning and go north with Uncle Qin Cheng this time. Even if Uncle Qin Cheng goes north without any help from foreign aid, if not for the alliance of various forces in Hongzepu,
There is really no company or companies that have the ability to crack this hard nut.
Lin Fu showed off his force last night, firstly, to make the small group of bandits retreat when they see difficulties. Although the number of elites hidden in the Dongyang is not large, Lin Fu is not afraid of a single water village force on Hongzepu coming out to rob the ship. Secondly,
Test whether the various forces in Hongzepu can unite together.
In order to prevent theft, Uncle Qin Cheng cast the silver collected over the past few years into large silver balls of one thousand taels. It is said that there are as many as 600 pieces if there are eight hundred. There are countless other treasures and antiques. This time Uncle Qin Cheng will take them with him when he leaves office and goes north.
The amount of property taken away will be an extremely astonishing number. If the water village, fishermen, and boat owners of Hongzepu unite to treat Uncle Qin Cheng as prey, the more arrogant Lin Fu is when crossing the border, the safer Hongzepu will be. Many signs have shown that Hongzepu
Various forces have secretly linked up to carry out big things.
Besides, given the ability of Shen Rong, the prefect of Dongyang, he was probably aware of the strange phenomenon in Hongzepu. If Shen Rong really believed that the disturbance of fishermen's gathering in Hongzepu was over, why would he bother to keep the secrets of an elite Dongyang army after Liu Xilin was transferred?
In Shiliang County?
Thinking of this, Lin Fu realized a question: Would Shen Rong, who had long been aware of Hongzepu's strange behavior, also intend to allow Uncle Qin Cheng to go north to Hongzepu and return to his hometown in Zhongli County after resigning?