Chapter five hundred and fiftieth chapters should not cross the river
The small city of Tangyi had now completely transformed into a large, chaotic and orderly military camp.
Han Daoming and the others also walked into Tangyi City and suddenly realized that there were far more soldiers and horses in the city than they imagined.
The main warships of Xuzhou Shuiying cannot pass through the shallow and narrow river and sail directly to Tangyi City. The Shuiying Dazhai is currently located more than 30 miles away, in a river bay named Qingpukou at the foot of the southeastern foothills of Dasi Mountain.
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Even if there are no camps on the north side of Qingpukou Jiangwan and its two wings to guard against enemy troops approaching from the north, logically speaking, Tangyi City will only have 3,000 Jiangzhou soldiers commanded by Zhou Peng and Chen Jingzhou who escorted the grain and supplies here two days ago.
There are only more than a thousand Guangde soldiers.
However, Han Daoming and others entered Tangyi City from the east gate and found that there were more than 2,000 troops stationed near the east gate alone.
The giant crossbow arrows flashed with a frightening cold light in the cold air.
Of course, there are more hungry people fleeing the war in the city.
Relief for the victims was a matter under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Revenue led by Han Daoming. After the decree was announced on the 18th to establish the camp in Tangyi, the Ministry of Revenue also sent Lang Zhongguan to lead Li Cheng across the river into Tangyi City to take charge of the matter.
It is said that they are in charge of everything, but the Ministry of Revenue only sent a doctor and a few petty officials to cross the river. How could it manage the resettlement of tens of thousands of hungry people?
In the final analysis, Tangyi Xingying sent people to manage the porridge market and maintain order. The officials from the Ministry of Household Affairs were only responsible for supervising and ensuring that there were no false boasts or concealments, and then allocating more money and food needed for the relief.
"First Master, Second Master, I am Han Fu!"
Han Daoming and others had just entered the city and were about to follow Feng Liao to the tent where the former Tangyi County government office was located, when they heard someone from the crowd on the street screaming at them in a hoarse voice.
Han Daoming looked over, but it was Han Fu, the steward sent by his second son Daochang to the north of the Yangtze River to occupy the farm. He was standing behind the crowd with an expression like a sudden burst of dew after a long drought, and was standing on tiptoes happily towards them.
While waving his hand.
However, Han Fu and the two familiar-looking followers around him all looked hungry, and their clothes were in tatters. They were no different from the hungry people in the city, as if they had suffered a lot.
Han Daoming and Han Daochang reined in their horses and waited for Han Fu and others to come over. They asked in surprise: "How did you become like this?"
"It's a long story!" Han Fu said with a cry.
Han Fu is an old family member who served the old man Han Wenhuan. He is about the same age as Han Daoming, and his hair on the temples is also frosty white.
As the saying goes, the seventh-rank official in front of the prime minister's house, as a veteran of the Han Mansion, is trusted by the old master and the old slave of the master. Even Han Chengmeng and other children have to call Han Fu Uncle Fu when they see him. When he leaves the Han Mansion, he is a lot of people.
It is commensurate with "Fuye".
When Han Fu saw the eldest master and the second master crossing the river, he felt aggrieved and wished he could pour out all the suffering he had suffered in the past ten days at this moment.
Feng Liao said to Han Daoming: "The hungry people are stranded on the streets. The situation is complicated. Let's go to the Yazhang first." He signaled the guards to give three horses to Han Fu and the other three, and they rushed to the Yazhang of Xingying first.
Arriving at Yazhang, the only people in the hall were Gao Shao, Xi Xunqiao and others dealing with official duties. Han Qian, Zhou Fang, Chen Jingzhou, Tian Cheng and others had gone out of the city to scout the terrain in the north before noon and were not in the city at this time.
As the commander of the camp, Feng Liao was busy with endless things when he returned to Tangyi, so he could only arrange for Han Daoming, Han Daochang, Han Jun and others to rest temporarily in a courtyard of the back house.
"Why do you look like this?" After sitting down in the small hall of the courtyard, Han Daochang had time to ask Han Fu about their current situation.
"Seven Young Masters arrived in Tangyi twenty days ago. All the houses, food and grass, able-bodied men and even extra coats and clothes in the city were ordered to be forcibly requisitioned. Anyone who dared to hide it or resisted the order was severely punished. Han Tong was the first to
He recognized the Seventh Young Master, and wanted to beg the Seventh Young Master to be kind and keep the Han family's house in the city, but he didn't expect the Seventh Young Master to order Han Tong to be beaten with ten boards and thrown out to dig trenches and canals. Han Tong
It was because I was tired and vomited blood while digging the trench the day before yesterday that I was sent back to the city to rest for two days," Han Fu cried, "I am also old and weak. I fainted from exhaustion after digging canals for two days a few days ago, and I am still a subordinate of the Seventh Young Master.
I couldn't stand it, so I was extra merciful and arranged for my mistress and mistress to take me back to the city to rest. However, the other staff were scattered and organized into private companies to work as coolies. The several courtyards our family had purchased in the city were also requisitioned, and we
The three of them could only spend the night in a stable with more than a dozen other hungry people, and they could go to the porridge to mix two bowls of gruel every day to survive - the eldest master, the second master, this city is really not a life for people.
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Han Daoming and Han Daochang sat in the hall and looked at each other. Han Qian wrote in a memorial that he arrived at Tangyi with Xuzhou Shuiying on the 12th, but according to what Han Fu said, Han Qian was already in Tangyi on the second and third day of the twelfth lunar month.
Yap.
In terms of time, this is also consistent with Zhou Pan taking over and sealing off the entire city of Tangyi.
Maybe Han Qian contacted Chen Jingzhou at that time, mobilized, and summoned Zuo Guangde's old army to go north. This made the garrison in Tangyi City more numerous than expected.
Of course, these things are already irrelevant details.
Just like when Han Qian sneaked into Jinling and directly took away the military power from Li Pu, in the end, this matter can only be said that Han Qian was decisive and flexible in planning and did not mess around. Is it possible that he can still use the king's law to control him and seize the military power?
On the fourth day of the twelfth lunar month, the enemy cavalry annihilated the You Shenwu Army and captured Zhongli City. However, after that, the 20,000 enemy cavalry did not dare to go south rashly. Even now, they only send more than 3,000 cavalry to watch the Chuzhou City from the flanks instead of attacking by force.
In other words, maybe it was because he saw Tangyi's tight defense that he didn't act rashly.
All this can even be said to be Han Qian's decisive decision to enter Tangyi in advance to join Zhou Tan, which bought the imperial court precious time to reorganize its defenses on the north bank.
Although the imperial court finally decided to provide various supplies to Tangyiba according to the number of 20,000 soldiers, a steady stream of supplies were shipped from the south coast these days. In addition to the first batch of warships, there were three more batches of merchants in the past few days.
The fleet brought more than a hundred ships and nearly 100,000 shi of supplies and sailed into Tangyi.
Since Han Qian controlled a large amount of grain and materials that were not under the supervision of the imperial court, there was no need for Han Qian to report everything to the imperial court on how to build the Tangyi defense line.
Listening to Han Fu's tone, Han Qian clearly wanted to dig a canal between Tangyi and the main channel of the Yangtze River before spring, so that the main warships could pass through it. So at this time, he wanted to recruit young and strong men.
The squeeze was carried out to the extreme, so much so that even a man like Han Fu, who was almost sixty years old, had to be forced out of the city to do heavy physical work such as digging river beds.
Han Daoming and others came across the river in the name of the Labor Army this time. They came here for reconciliation, not for accountability. At this time, they pulled Han Fu to ask questions. They were also considering what kind of support and cooperation they would give to the DPRK.
Make Han Qian satisfied.
Unknowingly, the sky was getting dark, and Han Daoming was just about to send someone to ask Han Qian when he would return to the city, when he heard footsteps coming from outside the courtyard wall, and heard Han Qian complaining loudly on the courtyard wall:
"Who asked you to bring them here? Others don't know the importance and the twists and turns behind it. Why are you so confused? You haven't even figured out such a simple truth?"
"Uncle, I crossed the river to work for the army on a request. How could I dissuade him?" Feng Liao's voice came over, as if he was trying to argue something.
Han Daoming's heart skipped a beat, and he looked at Han Daochang, the second son in front of the corridor, with an ugly face. Han Qian was dissatisfied with Feng Liao taking them across the river?
The three juniors, Han Jun, Han Duan, and Chen Zhiyong, looked at each other in confusion. They didn't know that Han Qian would come in later and drive them away. Would they just leave in anger, or would they talk softly?
Han Fu met the eldest master in the afternoon. The second master was still full of resentment. At this time, he also shrank back, not even daring to take a breath. He felt that the air in the yard had inexplicably solidified.
Before they could discuss anything, Han Qian walked in with a gloomy look.
Han Qian walked to the corridor, glanced at Han Fu and others standing in the yard, and the other ten or so followers brought over by Han Daoming and others, and said in a deep voice: "Get out of here."
Han Fu and his dozen or so subordinates all looked at Han Daoming with shocked expressions.
"You guys go out first." Han Daoming was still shocked. He thought that Han Qian was really going to do something disobedient, and there was nothing they could do with more than ten people around them, so he motioned to Han Fu and the others to go out first.
"Arrange people to guard the left and right, and don't let anyone get close to the courtyard," Han Qian ordered Han Donghu, and then with a gloomy face, he invited Han Daoming and the others to come into the hall to talk, and said in a tone of regret that it was too late, "Uncle, second uncle,
You really shouldn't have crossed the river, Feng Liao was careless, and he blamed me for not telling him clearly that he made such a big mistake!"
Han Daoming and Han Daochang were confused. They couldn't understand how Han Qian, who could still treat them as elders, looked like something was wrong.
"Why shouldn't we cross the river?" Han Daochang asked.
"When Tangyi's defense line is stabilized, I will lead the water camp back to Xuzhou. Second uncle, do you think you should cross the river with such a massive force?" Han Qian asked.
"You want to go back to Xuzhou?" Han Daoming asked in shock, "Why?"
Their "mobilizing troops" to cross the river today was actually based on the condition that Han Qian would return to the center and never leave again.
And if Han Qian leads his troops back to Xuzhou again after the war, think about Guangde Mansion last spring and summer, and you will know how terrifying it will be if all the suspicions of Han Qian by the monarchs and ministers in the DPRK fall on their heads.
situation?
They never thought that Han Qian would come back this time.
"Why?" Han Jun asked in surprise.
He really didn't understand why Han Qian had to return to that remote place in Xuzhou after the war when he clearly had military power from now on and had once again formed an alliance with Li Zhigao to serve under the Queen Mother.
"Why?" Han Qian glanced at Han Jun and said, "I came to Jinling on the orders of the Empress Dowager, but after the war, the Empress Dowager issued an order for me to return to Xuzhou. If I dare not obey, the Han family will
It’s the calamity of genocide!”
"How is that possible? Even if Your Majesty and the Queen Mother are suspicious of you, they still care about your reputation among the people in the world, unless they completely ignore the safety of the Chu State." Han Daoming asked in shock.
"Your Majesty is suspicious of me, you all know it. Based on this alone, Your Majesty cannot kill me directly, let alone destroy my whole Han family. But what if someone in the Han family commits adultery, or even gives birth to an evil son? Uncle,
Second uncle, do you think this is a calamity that will annihilate the clan? How dare I have the guts to disobey their orders?" Han Qian asked in a deep voice.
