The big ship is like a building, next to the pine dock of the ferry, the lighthouse on the deck of the cabin is lit up like a bright moon, not only the deck of the big ship, but even the dock side is also delicately illuminated. Where have ordinary people seen such bright lights, as a rare thing, in the middle of the night, there are many displaced people stranded on both sides of the river have not slept, they all gather by the river to watch, there are two or three hundred people in the shadow, so lively.

Hongzepu is connected with Shiliang River to form an important waterway that runs through Huaishui and Yangtze River, but because Hongzepu is a shallow lake area formed by dozens of lakes of large and small sizes, the thousand-stone boat is full of goods and the draft is deeper, even in the rising water season of spring and late summer, it is difficult to pass smoothly from Hongzepu to enter the Huai River, so the ships that go to and from Hongzepu and Shiliang River are mostly Wupeng Cao boats with a load of about 200 stones, and the thousand-stone big ship is extremely rare, and it is extremely great to be moored on the shore.

Four of the men who had been eating at the ferry restaurant before watched in the crowd for a while, and then quietly retreated to the depths of the uninhabited grass.

"Fuck it," scolded a middle-aged man with half of his face and a shaggy beard, "isn't this to tempt grandpa to hijack the ship?" ”

"You patronized the ship, but you didn't see the ten guards at the bow? The Jiyun Society of this dog day, that Lin Jian is really a dog official, his little Jiupin Prison, he dared to equip his private soldiers with such a heavy weapon of stainless steel Mo knife, and the armor thieves on those people are applauded...... "The man with a shallow scar on his forehead smacked his lips and said, his eyes showing greed.

"From such a distance, can you tell if the armor on those people is good or bad? You're a net brag! The bearded man said unconvinced.

"Why can Ma Lantou be the eleventh leader, isn't that kid joining the gang and taking out six pairs of rusty iron armor to share with everyone? The lights on the ship shined as brightly as the moon, and you were not blind, and you said that the six pairs of rusty armor that Ma Lan had taken out were better than those worn by these people on the ship? There is also the martial artist who is the leader, he is wearing fine scale armor, and it takes hundreds of taels of silver to get a pair, no matter how good your grandson's bow and arrow are, you can't hit him in the throat with an arrow, and no matter how close you are, you can't penetrate the armor, even if that person's ability is two grades worse than you, he can easily overturn you with that armor. Is the knife good, but not the blade? If you take a knife and try it against others, you will know that it is powerful, and you will know that you will carry it with me. The man with the scar on his forehead smiled annoyedly.

"Then you have to do this vote!" The bearded man's son smacked his lips and shouted, and his saliva was about to flow down when he heard the scar-headed man say this.

The other two middle-aged men with short beards and red faces frowned and remained silent, and seeing that they were silent, Sun Gongzi put his elbow on the waist of one of them, and asked in a low voice: "Brother World Heritage, do you want to call some more people over, or wait for them to go on the road tomorrow?" ”

"There are a few things to worry about: Lin Lian's reputation is acceptable, and the Jiyun Society recruits displaced people to work on the north shore of Chaotiandang, whether they can recruit workers or not, there are tens of thousands of scattered rice and copper coins, and there are many people who benefit; There are only ten guards lined up on the ship, and their spirit is full of vigor and spirit, wearing sharp weapons with all fine armor in their hands, and there are more than 40 other shipwrights and sailors on the ship, all of whom are strong and brave, and the equipment is not too bad, how many lives do we have to fill in to take the ship down? In addition, Lin Lian is extraordinary in Gu Wuchen's eyes, the Xihe Society is bound to protect him to the death, is it possible to kill the people of the Xihe Society and offend the Jiangninghe Gang forces? The middle-aged man called "World Heritage" said.

"If you let it cross the border arrogantly, won't you fall into everyone's prestige?" The bearded man was unwilling to retreat like this, and said, "If he is more restrained, let him go." "It's really unwilling.

"In addition to getting a few good armor and good knives, what are the benefits of robbing this ship?" Another middle-aged man asked the bearded man with a smile, "If you rob this boat, you will be scared, this Lin Tie can no longer be regarded as an insignificant little person in Jiangning City, he was killed and abandoned in the Shiliang River, Gu Wuchen is bound to be angry, the situation on both sides of the Shiliang River will immediately become tense, that big deal, do we still want to do it?" ”

"Day, according to that, I really can't start," the scar-headed man scolded hatefully, "I really can't see the arrogance of the dog official, this forest is bound to Chaotian Post scattered rice, scattered copper money is mostly to buy people's hearts, Lao Tzu has lived for half a lifetime, I have never seen an official who is not black, and a dog does not eat." ”

"It's also good to let him be arrogant," said the red-faced man named "World Heritage", "the message from the inside is that the prey is swaying which waterway to go north, and there really can't be any wind and grass here to scare the prey away." Not only must we not start, but we must also stop the poles on other paths from attacking......"

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Liu Xilin slept peacefully on the boat all night, and the next day Lin Jian asked Sun Jingtang to send a boat to send Liu Xilin to Jiangning, and it was safer to take the boat and take the water route to the south than to take the land route on horseback.

Sun Jingtang complied with everything, and it would take a day or two for them to stop in the forest to load tea goods, and it would not delay much if they sent a boat back to Jiangning to make up two more fast oars to chase after them. Liu Xilin is the future captain of Dongcheng in Jiangning Mansion, such a person, Xihe will only hate that there is no chance to get close and stammer, Sun Jingtang wants to accompany Lin Lian to Shanglinli, and sent a big stall leader to lead more than ten brothers to escort Liu Xilin and others to Jiangning, and ask them to serve carefully along the way.

Sun Jingtang didn't have a good rest last night, so he was worried here. He couldn't guess what Lin Lian was thinking, the Dongyang ship was dazzling at night, and the military guards were on duty on the deck and wore armor to line up, which meant to show off their strength, but it could also cause the greed of the rogue. He knew that Lin Jian had hidden some elites on the ship, but no matter how elite the combat power of more than fifty people was, could they still resist the attack of the crowd attached to the rogue ants?

No one knows how many of the stranded people along the Shiliang River are keeping to themselves.

There was nothing to do all night, and in the morning, Sun Jingtang also wished to take a boat to the forest earlier. There are more than 500 Xiangyong privately raised by the Lin family, and the equipment and training are okay, which is a rare elite in Dongyang Mansion. As the leader of the river gang, Sun Jingtang still has a good understanding of these situations, as long as the boat goes to the upper forest, no matter how covetous the rogues and water bandits are, they will also have scruples.

Sun Jingtang climbed up the Dongyang from the rope ladder, didn't see Lin binding others, and asked Zhao Hu, who was standing on the deck blowing the river breeze: "What about Lord Lin?" ”

"What is the matter with Master Sun's family looking for me?" Lin Jian walked out of the tail cabin, holding the placket of the green robe with both hands, trying to be careful not to step on it.

"Lord Lin, this south wind is in full swing, let me come over and ask, when will it set sail? With this limelight, I might be able to rush to the forest for lunch. Sun Jingtang said.

"I have something to discuss with Sun Dangjia," Lin Jian said, "There are many hungry people on this shore, all of them are yellow and thin, and I still have dozens of stone rice ballast on this ship, I hope that Sun Dangjia can send two brothers to use it for me, and the ballast rice on the ship will be left at the ferry, so that they can borrow a place to cook rice and soup porridge from the shore, and then pick up the two brothers of your association on the boat when we return to the ship." ”

Sun Jingtang thought to himself that more things are better than less things, dozens of stone rice in the ferry porridge, can not help many people, will only attract more nearby displaced people to the ferry, there is not much benefit. But it wouldn't hurt much, although Sun Jingtang felt that it was more troublesome, he still found two brothers, and personally went ashore to inform the tax collector and sentinel at the ferry, telling them that Lin Lian was a red man in front of the deputy envoy of Jiangdong to prevent them from bullying the two congregations who would stay in Xihe to give porridge.

After a long delay in the wild crossing, Lin tied them before they set sail, and they did not rush to the upper forest in one go, and stopped for a moment in the middle, Sun Jingtang watched Zhou Pu, Cao Ziang and a total of four people on fast horses from behind on the boat behind to catch up. The Dongyang had a deep draft, and it could not be close to the embankment without a wharf, so he saw Zhou Pu and the others approaching without stopping, lifting the reins and riding the horses, and the four horses jumped high and jumped directly from the river embankment to the deck of the Dongyang. Sun Jingtang looked at the side of the boat almost three zhang away from the river embankment, it is not difficult to jump such a long distance on the flat ground, the difficulty is that the horse jumps from the river embankment to the boat without pause, the width of the Dongyang ship is only more than two zhang, and it can be ridden on the boat, maybe it is not enough to control the horse and let the horse rush off the boat from the other side. Zhou Pu is Lin Lian's personal attendant, and it is not surprising that his riding skills are exquisite, but Cao Ziang is recommended by the leader of the exiles to be the lieutenant, and he has not seen him riding a horse for a few days at the mouth of the river, but he does not know that his riding skills are also so beautiful.

Seeing Zhou Pu and Cao Ziang chasing after him on horseback, Sun Jingtang subconsciously thought that something had happened at the mouth of the river and he had to report Lin Jian urgently, and he couldn't help but be a little nervous in his heart.

Lin Jian knew that Zhou Pu and Cao Ziang were chasing after him on horseback, and he saw Sun Jingtang looking at them, and said with a smile: "It's really not worry-free, I have to chase after the big things in the estuary, and I have a headache......" He didn't say anything to Sun Jingtang, so he went into the cabin with Zhou Pu and Cao Ziang to discuss things.

Sun Jingtang didn't suspect anything else, even if he doubted, where could he suspect it?

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"When we got the letter, we asked the car and boat to send us to the north bank, and the estuary temporarily asked someone to call the little loach back from the Longjiang boat yard to secretly help Xiejing. We rode fast horses on the road without delay, and met the crows at the Savage Crossing. Last night, the savages crossed the restaurant, and found out that one of them was Wu Shiyi, the leader of the Hongzepu Fuling Lake Water Village, and the other people were not all from the Fuling Lake Water Village, so they could not know their identities for the time being. I suspect that many of Hongzepo's forces have secretly united. Cao Ziang sat down and took a sip of tea, and after taking a breath, he told Lin Jian the information obtained from the exchange with the crow Wu Qi, and Lin Jian had a way to carry out a simple signal transmission with the crow Wu Qi through the light, and unless it was a last resort, Wu Qi and his subordinates could play a greater role in hiding in the dark.

"I guess so," Lin Jian said, "I sent an urgent letter to you and the leopard master to come over to discuss." ”

"The water in the Fuling Lake area is not as deep as a zhang, and it is useless to take a thousand stone boats," Cao Ziang said, "If it were me, I would also treat Qin Chengbo as a prey." We already know that your disposal of Savage Ferry is planning to fish in troubled waters? ”

"Whether you can touch it or not," Lin Jian sighed slightly, and said, "I'm worried that the water here will be muddy, and the crisis in the world will be even more difficult......"

Although the Shiliang River and Hongzepu cannot pass through the big ships, it is very convenient for the Wupeng Cao boat with a load of 200 stones to pass through, and it has always been one of the main channels for north-south transportation, and the importance is second only to the Baisha River water system in Viyang Province. Hongzepu is in chaos, not only the northern part of Jiangdong County, Dongyang, Huai'an Prefecture will fall into chaos, this road is broken, and the pressure on Cao Yun in Weiyang Mansion will be greater. At that time, there was no Grand Canal system in the impression of Lin Tie in the world, and the water system was carried out simultaneously, and it was concentrated in the Huitong River in the middle section, and no one built the Grand Canal in Weiyangfu (now Yangzhou) in the previous dynasty.

"This pool of water in Hongzepu is bound to be muddy. Although the troubled fishermen have dispersed, and the government has not pursued it for the time being, but there is a lesson from the past of the bandits, and the forces of Hongzepu are not afraid that the government will settle old accounts in the future? If the forces of Hongzepu have secretly united as we speculated, it will be like an arrow on the string, and it will have to be launched. Whether we want it or not, Hongzepu will definitely be chaotic, unless half of the warships and soldiers of the Jiangning Water Battalion can be transferred to Hongzepu to stabilize ......the situation at this time," Cao Ziang said.

"......" Lin Tie nodded, the forces of Hongzepu have been secretly linked, whoever withdraws may betray other families to the government, and they are all tied to the warship, who will not allow others to withdraw, except for one way to the dark, this kind of thing cannot be stopped. Qin Chengbo was just a prey they fancied, otherwise he would have made trouble when the anti-theft camp Chen Han's Third Department was transferred to Huai'an.

Cao Ziang, Zhou Pu and others hated Chen Hansan and his subordinates to the teeth, and they also wished that the forces of Hongzepu could lead the fishermen and boat owners to rise up and destroy Chen Hansan and his subordinates with a knife.

The general trend of the world is like this, and Lin Jian can't do anything. As Cao Ziang said, in order to stabilize the situation in Hongzepu, unless half of the warships of the Jiangning Water Battalion are transferred to Hongzepu Weishi, this is just a trick, and it cannot completely solve the intensified contradictions between the government and the people, not to mention that even Li Zhuo has no right to transfer half of the warships of the Jiangning Water Camp to Hongzepu to stabilize the situation.

"I can't manage too much, Qin Chengbo has been in Jiangning for three years, scraping countless people's fat and people's ointment, no matter what, it will not be wrong to introduce the fish to Hongzepu first." Lin Jian said.

In fact, there are nearly 1,000 servants in the Qin family, and there are four or five hundred elite warriors, and they will leave Jiangning and go north with Qin Chengbo this time. Even if Qin Chengbo went north without relying on foreign aid at all, if it weren't for the forces of Hongzepu uniting, there would really be no one or a few families that had the ability to gnaw this hard bone.

Lin Jian showed off his strength so much last night, firstly, he wanted a small group of rogues to retreat in spite of the difficulties. Although the number of elites hidden in the Dongyang is small, Lin Jian is not afraid that the single Shuizhai force on Hong Zepu will run out to grab the ship. The second is to test whether the forces of Hongzepu have united together.

Qin Chengbo in order to prevent theft, the silver collected over the years cast into a thousand taels of silver balls, it is said that there are no 800 or 600, and there are countless other treasures and antiques, this time Qin Chengbo will leave the north and take away the property will be an extremely alarming number. If the forces of Hongzepu's water village, fishermen, and boat households unite to take Qin Chengbo as prey, the more arrogant Lin Jian crosses the border, the more he will be safe, and many signs have already shown that the forces of Hongzepu have secretly colluded to make a big deal.

Besides, with the ability of Shen Rong, the prefect of Dongyang, most of them were also aware of Hong Zepu's vision. If Shen Rong really believed that the troubles of the fishermen in Hongzepu had really passed, after Liu Xilin was transferred, why did he bother to leave an elite of the Dongyang Mansion Army in Shiliang County in one fell swoop?

Thinking of this, Lin Jian realized a question: Shen Rong, who had long been aware of Hong Zepu's abnormal situation, would also intend to connive at Qin Chengbo to go north and go north to return to Zhongli County's hometown after leaving office?

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