Han Qian turned his head and looked past an earthen wall, seeing a window opening out on the top floor of Guanyue Building on the other side of the alley.
As they stood in the bright light, they naturally could not see any movement in the dimly lit room on the roof of Guanyue Tower. However, Han Qian noticed at this time that if someone stood at the window, they could observe the movement in the Furong Garden.
"Why don't you notify the owner of Guanyue Tower and seal all the west-facing windows on the top floor?"
Han Qian has not rested since he arrived in Xuzhou, and he noticed these details for the first time today. However, Gao Shao and the others had already noticed that it was a flaw, but they had not yet been able to solve the problem.
The simplest way to eliminate the hidden danger is to ask Guanyue Tower to seal the window directly. I believe that the owner of Guanyue Tower would not dare to violate the will of Furong Garden on Xuzhou territory.
"It's not my style to be so simple and crude," Han Qian looked away and smiled slightly, "Just arrange for a guy to come in."
Qianyang has a small city, and the layout of the houses in the city is relatively compact. Even though Furong Garden occupies a large area, the courtyards on each floor of Furong Garden are still narrow, and the walls are relatively high.
Even if someone uses the favorable terrain of Guanyue Tower to observe the activities in Furong Garden, what they can spy on is extremely limited. But if such a flaw is left unaddressed, it is possible to see who is usually there secretly.
Peeping into the Hibiscus Garden.
Although Han Qian will not stay in Xuzhou City for too long and will return to Jinling after arranging some urgent matters, he will still secretly leave one or two groups of people in Xuzhou to prevent Fan Xicheng and others from not being careful enough.
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Tian Cheng got on his horse and glanced at Mrs. Xi who was sitting sideways on the horse behind them. He thought that the four surnames would be quiet for a while. The young master wanted to put people in Guanyue Tower, so he should be an informant to guard against Tanzhou, right?
Tian Cheng seemed to have guessed what Han Qian was worried about, so he came over and said, "There is no movement over there in Tanzhou, which seems to be unreasonable..."
"Perhaps the young master was too quick to scare the snake, and Tanzhou's hidden manpower in Qianyang City didn't have time to react, right?" Gao Shao said.
Han Qian nodded. The Ma family controls the most important area of 800 miles of Dongting Lake. On the surface, it has nearly 20,000 elite naval infantry and horse troops. If Emperor Tianyou had not been invincible in recent years, the Ma family would have the strength to separate Jing Lake.
After all, the Four Surnames are still a group of local leopards who don't know what is good or bad. They are so bold that they don't know why they have three to five hundred village soldiers in their hands. In fact, it is not difficult to deal with them. However, his conspiracy against the Four Surnames will not work if he encounters someone with strong hard power.
In Tanzhou, it will be difficult to play any role.
This is also the so-called "one force breaks ten meetings".
At this time, it was mainly because Ma Yin, the governor of Tanzhou, was afraid of Emperor Tianyou and did not want to attract the attention of Emperor Tianyou, so they had the opportunity to intervene.
However, having said that, even if Tanzhou tried its best to keep a low profile at this time, as Tian Cheng, Gao Shao and others judged, Han Qian would never believe that Tanzhou had no layout in the southern Hunan states such as Xuchen Shaoheng.
Thinking of this, Han Qian sighed lightly. His father wanted to establish himself in Syria, and Tanzhou was the most difficult to deal with.
If he doesn't control the heat well, or Tanzhou doesn't like his father and son, or is a little more wary, he directly cuts off the access to Ruan River. Who can he cry to?
Tanzhou didn't want to attract the attention of Emperor Tianyou, so it only needed to keep ships that were difficult to transport taxes and grain for local states and counties. But if Han Qian really wanted to transport Xuzhou's products out on a large scale, he would definitely need a large number of merchant ships to participate.
And once Tanzhou sets up a checkpoint at the Yuanshui entrance, Han Qian's so-called refugee luring plan will have no chance of being implemented!
Thinking of this, Han Qian suddenly thought that his father did not particularly strongly oppose his refugee luring plan. Maybe he had expected that Tanzhou would be difficult to pass, right?
"Sir, why are you having a headache?" Zhao Ting'er rode a pony and came over to ask.
"I'm thinking about how to fight my father's wits! You girl, how dare you not speak for me." Han Qian stretched out his hand to knock Zhao Ting'er on the head.
"Young Master, you must be worried that Tanzhou will be a stumbling block." Gao Shao said with a smile.
Han Qian laughed and said: "As long as you can see the problem, there is always a way to solve it!"
One of the biggest gains of Han Qian's trip can be said to be the discovery of Gao Shao and Tian Cheng.
Whether it is Lin Zongjing, Guo Nuer, or even Zhao Wuji, who has excellent archery skills and is a born assassin, they may have greater achievements and stronger abilities in the future, but compared to Gao Shao and Tian Cheng, they are currently only a dozen or two behind.
Ten years of wandering life experience and insights.
Not only did they discover the abilities of Gao Shao and Tian Cheng, but after spending more than two months together, Han Qian was also called Gao Shao. Tian Cheng knew that he was a person worth following, so they no longer held back in front of Han Qian.
There is a kind of calmness that follows each other and understands each other.
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The section where the Yuan River enters Qianyang City is particularly dangerous and rapid, and there are cliffs and mountains on both sides of the river. However, when it reaches Qianyang City and enters the large zigzag flow section, the terrain becomes gentler.
Midsummer is the season of floods in southern Hunan, but because the Yuanshui River from Qianyang City to the outside is mostly shallow silt, the river swells to the two banks for seven or eight miles, and the large "zig" shape divides this section of the waterway.
It is extended five or six times, and the water potential is also very gentle.
Many fishing boats parked leisurely on the river to catch their catch.
Inside and outside Qianyang City, there were many indigenous people who recognized Mrs. Xi.
To be honest, Han Qian took Mrs. Xi out of the city just to make people recognize her.
Even if the chiefs of the four surnames and the key figures in the four surnames know why Mrs. Xi is by their side, the vast majority of the native people will not know the reason, which will confuse the understanding of ordinary native people and will
They mistakenly thought that Feng Changyu had given away his concubine as a gift, but he also had to bend to please the new governor.
However, it is normal for someone to know Mrs. Xi. After all, Mrs. Xi does not show her face in Jingyun Village. However, there are so many native people along the way who recognize Mrs. Xi, and Han Qian is still a little surprised.
We must know that the defense between men and women in this world was not as serious as that in later generations, especially among the indigenous people of Xuzhou. However, the range of activities for women in ordinary families was always very limited, especially in terrain like Xuzhou, where one could break one's legs when looking into the mountains. Mrs. Xi no matter what
Before getting married, or marrying Feng Changyu as a concubine, it is really unlikely that so many native people would recognize her.
Han Qian saw Mrs. Xi wanting to cover her head and face with a cloth, and thought to himself, had he guessed wrongly about the parentage of this girl and Xi Cheng?
Han Qian put these thoughts aside for the time being, thinking that he would ask Feng Xuan again when he had the opportunity. Gao Bao would not be late, and they continued to drive outside the city.
For safety reasons, Ji Yaoxila Yang Qin chose the bay mouth where the dock was built, which would not be too far from Qianyang City.
Han Qian and the others rode out of Xicheng and walked north along the river beach. They saw Ji Xiyao, Yang Qin and several people standing by a river beach in the northwest corner of Qianyang City.
They drove their horses over.
When Han Qian arrived in Xuzhou, he first stopped his boat at the Jiangdi Pier in the southwest corner of Qianyang City and went ashore. Then he left the city and walked east, passing through Jingyun Creek and going deep into the deep mountains and old forests in the south to meet the Feng family and his son.
I stayed in Jingyun Village for four days and just returned to Qianyang City yesterday.
Until today, Han Qian had not taken a serious trip out of the city, especially the northwest and northeast parts of Qianyang City, and had not had the opportunity to take a few glances.
At this time, the river was swollen, and the water surface to the northwest of Qianyang City was almost ten miles open. There were several low mountains thirty or forty high standing in the middle of the river, with dense shade from trees.
Han Qian didn't know if those low mountains would become one after the water receded. As for those hills going northeast, there was almost four miles of water surface. Further east, the terrain suddenly rose up and exposed the water surface.
——That side is directly north of Qianyang City—there are thirty or fifty houses built on the shore, forming a medium-sized village.
Further east from the village, the terrain gradually becomes higher and higher, reaching the western slope of Longji Mountain in Qianyang, with lush trees.
Perhaps the river water had receded a little at this time. Han Qian saw from a distance between the hills in the middle of the river and the village in the north. An intermittent black shadow appeared on the turbid river surface. He pointed to it and asked Yang Qin, Ji Xiyao: "
what is that?"
"The former governor, Wang Yu, wanted to build a river embankment there to connect the northern slope with Wufeng Mountain in the middle of the river and block the Yuan River from the outside. He started building the embankment at the beginning of last year, but the mud embankment was not solid. The year before last,
, last summer and autumn, it was washed away by the river, but Master Wang Yu still didn't give up. After the winter came last year, he wanted to build this embankment. He never thought that he failed to compete and died suddenly of illness." Yang Qin stayed here these days.
Qianyang City was not only familiar with the water conditions on the left and right, but also knew that there was an unfinished abandoned embankment in the middle of the river. He also knew clearly the ins and outs of this abandoned embankment.
"You really deserve to be killed!" Han Qian cursed in a low voice with hatred.
Yang Qin is also a person who knows the power of water.
Although he didn't know how high the Yuanshui River would reach when it surged, but judging from the current situation, even if a mud embankment was built between Wufeng Mountain in the center of the river and the villages to the north, the Yuanshui River wanted to destroy the embankment.
It's not easy either.
Obviously, someone did not want the former governor Wang Yu to build this embankment in the north of Qianyang City, and secretly tampered with it. The embankment was only built twice, and both times it was washed away by the river.
But when Wang Yu was unwilling to be controlled by the local government and tried for the third time, some people couldn't wait to take action and "died" of illness.
Han Qian did not agree with his father's lofty ambition of sacrificing himself for the public good, but he felt really bad that an official who was willing to do something local had to end up like this.
However, some people did not hesitate to take such a big risk and expend so much effort to make Wang Yu die of illness. The reason is actually very simple.
With the few hills in the center of the river (Wufeng Mountain) as the core, we can build embankments on both sides to connect them with the land to block the river water. It is said that we can encircle 10,000 people in the shallow silt outside Qianyang City in the north.
Two to three thousand acres of fertile farmland.
This kind of newly reclaimed silt land is owned by the government according to the laws of Chu. On the one hand, it can accommodate five to six hundred people working as farm laborers, and on the other hand, it can increase the state government's annual income of two to three thousand dan from renting grain.
If we really want to create more official land, the state government will have more initiative.
This is not only unbearable for the native surnames who want to control the place, but it is also unbearable for those in Tanzhou, right?
Because Wang Yu did this, it directly strengthened the central government's control over Xuzhou.
In other words, Wang Yu's death was not necessarily the result of the Four Surnames, or was it not just the murder of the Four Surnames?
Han Qian looked back at Mrs. Xi, wondering if she knew some secrets.
However, Han Qian believed that his father should have seen the embankment construction a long time ago, so he was eager to take a sum of money and food from him. He probably wanted to do it as soon as the river receded, right?
But even if the fourth surname was frightened by him, how could Tanzhou tolerate his father doing this?
Isn't this even more unbearable for Tanzhou than directly trying to please the native people or controlling the guest people?
From Tanzhou's standpoint, they would only hope that the state capitals of Chen, Xu, Shao, Heng and other states would have less control over the local areas, so that if anything happens to Jinling, they can immediately separate themselves and stand on their own without having to worry about their backs.
Will be restrained or attacked.
He wants to transport Xuzhou's products out, but Tanzhou may block the road. If he wants to lure people from outside into Xuzhou, Tanzhou may block the road. And his father wants to build water conservancy and reclaim silt fields, and Tanzhou will even block the road.