At its peak, the Feng family owned hundreds of warehouses in Huainan and Jiangdong, and the Feng family's fleet also owned hundreds of giant ships to transport goods to various places. These had to be disposed of at a discount before they could be turned into money and food to support the army or reward civil servants and generals.
When distributing official salaries or rewards, you can give out firewood, rice, flour, silk and silk cloth, you can reward gardens and houses, you can even reward slaves and singers, but there is no mention of rewarding a sailboat.
In the end, Han Qian did not take over all the Feng family's fleet. In that case, the goal would be too big and the traces would be too obvious. He eventually took over twenty large sailing ships, increasing the fleet's capacity to Yandangji to 70,000 shi at the end of October.
The vast majority of the Feng family's fleet uses hired workers, but the people in charge of each ship are still slaves or tribes trained by the Feng family. In order to ensure the control of these people, their families and children all live in Jinling and Feng.
The family can reach out and control it under their eyes and nose.
In other words, the Xuzhou Ship Gang's transportation capacity has more than doubled all of a sudden, and there is no need to recruit additional sailors from Xuzhou. It is enough to just hire slaves from the Feng family who have gathered in Yandangji who don't know where to go.
Boat gang guards can be recruited from the Feng Mansion's family army.
This seems very natural. After all, so many slaves and servants, from the moment they step out of the Feng family's mansion, are theoretically free refugees with no money left. But when it comes to people's hearts, many things will change.
Got to be complicated.
On the one hand, the Feng family will habitually continue to regard these slaves and maids as the private property of the Feng family. On the other hand, these slaves and maids, who feel helpless, still have a psychological dependence on the Feng family.
Han Qian wanted to trick everyone into going to Xuzhou quietly, and to make the whole thing look like to outsiders, as if all the Feng family members and slaves had voluntarily gone to Xuzhou, and in the end
Most of the slaves in the Feng family were eventually handed over to him, and many things required the secret cooperation of Feng Liao, Feng Yi, and Kong Xirong.
The purpose of an IOU is mainly to deceive.
Han Qian wanted to use Feng Liao to tell the Feng family who were worried about being in trouble after arriving in Xuzhou. As a price for redeeming the IOU, the Han family would prepare a land and house for them in Xuzhou; of course, no one should expect him to be truthful.
Pay back the debt.
It's like the Feng family still has the last batch of missed properties, but they can only be cashed in after arriving in Xuzhou.
For those Feng family members who really did not want to go to Xuzhou and wanted to seek refuge with relatives and friends nearby, they would use the incident of Li Qilu to threaten them, implying that if the Feng family stayed near Jinling, they would most likely be persecuted.
After all these things were done, Han Qian recruited guards and boatmen from the Feng family's slaves, so that he didn't cause any trouble.
On the last day to leave Beijing, more than 5,400 people from the Feng family, with their children and their children in tow, boarded the thirty-six ships specially prepared by the Xuzhou Boat Gang, and along with the thirty thousand shi of grain loaded in the bottom cabin, left from Yandang.
Ji set sail, left Jinling, and headed for Xuzhou.
Seeing the mess in the manor's courtyard where the people were deserted, Han Qian took a small black-topped boat and rushed to the Yongchun Palace Manor on the other side.
Han Qian walked into the manor and saw that the third prince, accompanied by Shen Yang and Zheng Hui, was climbing onto the rockery built with stones on the lake to watch the fleet sailing into the Yangtze River; dozens of guards were standing far aside.
Shen Yang and Zheng Hui looked gloomy when they saw Han Qian coming.
Han Qian smiled inwardly. Shen Yang and Zheng Hui didn't know about the Xi clan or the deal he had reached with Tanzhou regarding the local ban. However, just so many people from Feng Mansion moved to Xuzhou together, and they felt in their hearts. It is natural to be worried about him.
Otherwise, Shen Yang and Zheng Hui would have been too slow to respond.
"Master Han, I was about to send someone to invite you over!" Yang Yuanpu greeted Han Qian happily and said, "Master Han, when do you plan to leave Jinling?"
Hearing the third prince's words, Shen Yang and Zheng Hui's hearts skipped a beat, and their eyes suddenly became sharper when they looked at Han Qian, wondering why the third prince trusted Han Qian so much, how could he let Han Qian go now? Leave Jinling?"
Han Qian smiled slightly and said: "Without His Majesty's secret decree, Master Shen and Master Zheng would probably not agree to let me take away the family members of Tian Cheng and others, let alone the five hundred disciples of Zuosi!"
Shen Yang and Zheng Hui opened their mouths. It was hard to imagine that the relocation of the slaves of the Feng Mansion to Xuzhou was actually a conspiracy set by His Majesty. Although there was no one else around, Zheng Hui still lowered his voice subconsciously and asked: "Your Majesty's next move to Tanzhou is Take action?"
Zheng Hui and Shen Yang are not fools. Han Qian and the third prince have revealed such crucial information. If they haven't thought of this, they shouldn't expect to be able to secure their positions at this time.
In fact, the case of the assassin breaking into the county prince's house at night left them with a lot of confusion. After seeing the true and false news for more than half a month, and the fact that everyone in Feng's house went to Xuzhou this time, they were already suspicious of it all. It was Han Qian's conspiracy.
At this moment, the doubts they had been holding back for a long time were finally answered, but at the same time, they were worried about Han Qian. Han Daoxun and his son only had this little power in Xuzhou. How much effect could they play when the imperial court took action against Tanzhou.
Of course, they did not know about Tanzhou's use of land to infiltrate Xuzhou and the Xi clan's people, but these two things conflicted with each other in Han Qian's integration of Xuzhou, so they did not affect their judgment.
Of course Han Qian hopes to directly gather five to six thousand elite combat forces in Xuzhou, but this is unrealistic. After all, he cannot be too slow in all aspects, otherwise there will be big flaws.
Therefore, in addition to the Feng family's slaves and servants who moved to Xuzhou this time, Han Qian could only take the Zuosi scouts, the Han family's soldiers and slaves in Jinling, and the five hundred Zuosi children at once. It is necessary to bring along the families and children of Tian Cheng, Gao Shao, Lin Haizheng and other main military attachés of Zuosi.
In this way, Han Qian was able to integrate an elite combat force of two to three thousand people in Xuzhou, while making the whole thing look like a long-planned escape.
At this time, the cooperation of Shen Yang and Zheng Hui is needed.
Under the control of the Hujun Mansion, once Tian Cheng and others take their family members out of Jinling without notification, they will report it to Shen Yang as quickly as possible. At this time, Shen Yang will be needed to help delay the time.
And the five hundred Zuosi disciples need to find a suitable excuse now and transfer them directly from Taowu to Yongchun Palace Manor so that Han Qian can "cheat" them away at once when he absconds.
However, after the absconding incident, Emperor Tianyou would use the stability of the southwest border as an excuse to acquiesce in the fact that the Han family and his son "separated" Xuzhou, and would even send more Zuo Si's family members to Xuzhou to show their sincerity.
This was done to help Han Qian stabilize the mood of General Zuo Si and become the backbone of controlling Xuzhou. At the same time, it was also to induce Tanzhou to misjudge the weakness of Emperor Tianyou and the court and relax their vigilance towards the court.
However, by next autumn at the latest, Han Qian must complete the integration in Xuzhou and cooperate with Jinling's use of troops against Tanzhou.
After Han Qian, Shen Yang, and Zheng Hui explained the ins and outs of the strategy of concealing the truth from the sky, Yang Yuanpu showed the secret decree drawn up by his father to Shen Yang and Zheng Hui in his arms, and then handed it over to Han Qian. collect.
Han Qian needed this secret decree to convince his father. At the same time, with this secret decree, he could not only use all the resources of Xuzhou, but also control Chenzhou and Qianzhong Prefecture County upstream of Yuanzhou to cooperate.
Of course, this is just to give Han Qian the honor he deserves when necessary.
After all, the governor of Chenzhou was still an official appointed by the imperial court, and all the states in central Guizhou were all Jizhou. How could he possibly listen to Han Qian's call?
At most, Han Qian was able to control the local forces in Syria. This secret decree might have a deterrent effect on the wealthy families who controlled these states and counties.
"The matter of the Feng clan's westward migration has already been discussed in the palace. Lord Han should leave sooner rather than later." After Zheng Hui read the contents of the secret decree, he couldn't help but take a deep breath and said again after thinking about it.
This time, the Feng family moved on such a large scale, and all the people who had resentment against the imperial court moved to Xuzhou. There was no insinuation at all, which is strange.
However, it is only being discussed in private at the moment, and no one has lifted the lid yet. Naturally, all plans can continue as usual, but who can guarantee how long it will take? No one directly writes a letter to impeach the Han family and his son for treason?
If Emperor Tianyou continues to pretend to be blind, will Tanzhou be able to come to his senses?
Therefore, in Zheng Hui's view, Han Qian's "escape" must be carried out before that time.
"Now those who are watching me include people from the Crown Prince's side and people from King Xin's side. Most of them hope that His Highness will cause some big trouble, so there is still some time." Han Qian said with a smile. .
Zheng Hui smiled, while Shen Yang sighed.
If the third prince's top adviser "absconded", even if it was for the sake of the court's face, Emperor Tianyou would eventually cover up the "absconding" scandal externally by acquiescing to the Han family and his son's separatist rule in Xuzhou, but internally he would attack the third prince. It can be said to be fatal and tragic.
Before the final truth is revealed, it is almost impossible for all the princes and ministers to support the third prince's ascension to the throne.
Under such a premise, even if King Xin and the Crown Prince noticed something unusual here, they would probably choose to sit back and watch what happens.
This will completely help Han Qian complete a perfect "deception" and make Tanzhou fall into a trap that is difficult to detect!
Zheng Hui smiled because he instantly guessed Han Qian's intentions, but Shen Yang sighed because the factional disputes had made many people forget that their allegiance was to Da Chu.
Of course, Zheng Hui and Shen Yang did not think that the Han family and his son might take advantage of the situation to separate themselves from Xuzhou. However, considering the overall situation, how could Xuzhou, which was not under the control of the imperial court, compete with the entire essence of Dongting Lake? They are all worth doing.