Yang Fan will have to lead the army to Chang'an early tomorrow morning, and he will have to rush back to the barracks tonight, so the time is very tight. But because this meeting with Princess Taiping was not very important, and it was related to how the two echoed each other in Chang'an and Luoyang, Yang Fan stayed in the princess's mansion for almost an hour before leaving.

Yang Fan can't talk about the matter involving the heir hall to Princess Taiping, so when it comes to Chang'an, some things are difficult to say too clearly, but in terms of grasping the macro situation, Princess Taiping is undoubtedly a step above him, from his vague words, Taiping still grasped the key point, so that he has a clear and clear idea of what to do next.

When Yang Fan left, he saw an ox cart walking under the escort of several domestic slaves, and there was no official flag on the car, but when the person in the car came out, Yang Fan glanced at him and vaguely recognized that it seemed to be a housekeeper of Zhongshu.

Just now, during the period when he was in close contact with Taiping, the steward Li Yi came in three times to whisper to the princess, and Yang Fan vaguely heard some news, all of which were the news of a visit by a court official.

Since Wu Zetianmingtang swore an oath and named Princess Taiping to participate, officials with a keen sense of smell understood the emperor's intentions, so there is an endless stream of officials visiting the princess's mansion these days, and most of these officials are those who are wall-to-wall, neutral, and wait-and-see.

weishenme They want to throw themselves into Taiping, because they think that the princess Taiping, who has just risen among the various shili in the court, will be the most shili? Otherwise, it's just because of Taiping's special status. She is the princess of the Li family and the daughter-in-law of the Wu family, no matter which faction falls, she will not be wiped out easily.

And she is a daughter, she will not directly participate in the struggle for the throne, and if she worships her disciples, she will not have a way out like those officials who support a candidate for the throne with a clear banner, because of these reasons, they naturally flock to Princess Taiping.

However. This directly strengthened Princess Taiping's momentum, when Taiping's power and influence reached a certain level, would her status and mentality still be as transcendent as today?

Yang Fan walked silently on the way home, and every time he had a meeting recently, he had a strong feeling, as if he was ...... He and Taiping are getting farther and farther apart. This feeling is not because he is meeting Taiping now, but more about studying political cooperation, and less love between men and women, which is a spiritual feeling.

Can passionate love make that magma-like fiery relationship last for ten, twenty years, or even a lifetime? No! A pair of lovers. After the passion, aiqing, which is maintained by family, children and common life, will eventually turn into family affection. But the basis for him and Taiping to turn their relationship into family affection does not exist.

Therefore, after the passion gradually cooled, the relationship between the two of them was more like a pair of confidants, a pair of friends, and more like two partners who tacitly cooperated in their careers. It's just that because of their spiritual and physical friendship, they have more trust and intimacy with each other.

In such a situation. The peace that has lost its emotional bonds. Will it breed more ambition? Yang Fan is not sure.

If Wu Mei had never entered the palace but married into a wealthy family, even if the back house competed for favor, it would not have been so tragic. If she finally became a housewife instead of the queen mother of a country, she would not become today's Wu Zetian anyway, people's fate is originally constantly changing with circumstances, and the times and heroes always create each other.

No one can go through his life without any mistakes according to the trajectory that was drawn early. Yang Fan didn't know if it was a curse or a blessing for Wu Zetian to finally break her ban and allow her own daughter, who she had been vigilant, to get involved in politics, but at least for now, he had to support it. It can only be supported.

Because the crown prince and the king of Xiang, under the nose of the sensitive and suspicious empress, it is impossible to recruit troops like Princess Taiping, when Princess Taiping appeared in the newly completed Tongtian Palace and stood with a total of thirty princes of the Wu and Li families, she became the greatest hope for the revival of the Li family.

※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※

When Yang Fan summoned the Gu brothers and Gu Zhuting to arrange things, the family already knew the news that he was going to Chang'an, and when he returned home, his outfit had already been taken care of by Xiaoman himself.

Xiaoman tirelessly told him over and over again, telling him to pay attention to the warmth, pay attention to diet, and take care of his body, while Anu counted the days, just hoping that when she gave birth, Lang Jun would have a chance to come back. For his long journey, the two wives have no grudges.

In this era, most of the men who were officials had to travel thousands of miles to become officials, and as long as his parents were alive, his wife had to stay in his hometown to fulfill his filial piety on his behalf. Therefore, some women who have been separated from their husbands for a few years or even more than ten years are the resentment of countless women who look forward to their husbands getting ahead, but when their husbands really get ahead, they feel lonely and cold. Compared to those women, they are already lucky.

Yang Fan picked up his suits and was about to leave, when he suddenly saw his baby son and baby daughter staring at him, and suddenly remembered that when he went to see Taiping, she was troubled by her son's bad look, and Yang Fan immediately had a sense of crisis in his heart.

Yang Fan began to instruct Xiao Man: "The children are not young, and after the New Year, I will ask Mr. Xixi to teach them something." Sons have to learn, daughters have to learn, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, poetry and songs, virtue and quality, martial arts are ......, you two also teach them a little, don't want to be a million enemies, at least you can strengthen your body, don't spoil children! ”

Yang Nianzu listened with wide eyes, and immediately grasped the question he was most concerned about in Yang Fan's words: "Daddy, if I learn to read and write, can I still go out to play?" ”

Yang Fan raised his face and said: "Of course, reading should be based on reading and literacy, and the haode words you learn can let you play for a while, if you don't learn well, of course, you can't be greedy!" ”

Yang Nianzu immediately looked at his mother bitterly: "A-Niang, people don't want to celebrate the New Year!" ”

Xiaoman couldn't help laughing, Yang Fan's face sank, more like a strict father: "This is thinking about being lazy before you learn?" When Lao Tzu comes back, he will check your studies, and if you don't study well, you will be spanked! ”

Yang Nianzu pursed his mouth and said, "Daddy, let's go, if you don't go again, the city gate will be closed." ”

Yang Fan smiled and said, "Hey! You little bastard, catch up with Lao Tzu. ”

Being teased by his son like this, a little sorrowful was lightened, Yang Fan and the two wives hugged lightly, and said softly: "I'm leaving, don't send it out." Mobilize the people! ”

Yang Fan turned around and walked out the door, and just after stepping out of the threshold, her baby daughter Yang Sirong, who had never spoken, spoke: "Daddy, wait a minute!" ”

Yang Fan's heart warmed, if he didn't say that his daughter was his father's intimate little padded jacket, he was only a few years old, and he knew that he couldn't give up his father. Yang Fan turned around with a smile, and looked at the beautiful daughter with her hair combed and pink makeup running over, wrenching her fingers, and arranging tasks for him crisply: "Daddy." You remember when you came back, you had to buy me a mask, a clay figurine, a wooden horse, a whistle, a bamboo dragon, eh...... And nice little dresses ......."

After hearing this, Yang Fan said to Xiaoman with tears in his eyes: "Lady, educate your children." There's a long way to go. In ancient times, there were three migrations of Kan's mother and Meng's mother, which can be seen to educate children. It's important to be a mother. These two unlucky children in our family can't succeed. It's all up to you! ”

※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※

There is a large pier in Bashang (White Deer Plain). Behind the wide wharf area, there are huge granaries, which stand on this plateau, like giants standing up to the sky, and under the plateau, there is an endless fertile field.

Bashang is located at the confluence of Bashui and Weishui. The people here eat on water.

When a flood floods, it can swallow everything you have in an instant, your life, your loved ones, your home, your city, but humanity wants to survive. The same cannot be separated from it. So, even though it occasionally loses its temper, humans still follow in its footsteps.

Chang'an, Luoyang, Daliang, Yecheng, Yangzhou, Jingkou ......, these prosperous cities and Dafu all rely on the banks of the big rivers, even if they are small villages, they must live by the river. The Yellow River flows through the Daimyo, so the goods of Jianghuai, Fujian and Shu spread here, and the Yellow River was diverted to the south, and the Daimyo fell instantly.

Bashang Wharf thrives on water transportation, and the main goods transported by water here are grain.

Guanzhong is an important grain producing area, but its output is not enough to supply the food needs of Chang'an City. The Chang'an garrison, the officials who stayed behind to accompany the capital, the scholars who traveled to and fro, the servants of the wealthy families and wealthy families gathered here, the students of the Guozijian and Taixue, and a large number of monks who did not produce in Buddhist temples, nunnery temples, and Taoist temples......

After Wu Zetian moved the capital to Luoyang, Chang'an still had a population of 700,000, of which 300,000 were not peasants, and these people needed nearly 6 million stone for a year's rations, not including the miscellaneous grains needed by the garrison's horses. And how much food can Guanzhong provide to this thousand-year-old capital?

After deducting the feudal fields of the princes and dukes, the official positions of the kings, the fields of the public offices, the fields of the Gongyu, and the fields of the Buddha of the Taoist temples, the grain output in Guanzhong is about 3 million stone a year, and after deducting the tax and grain of Chang'an Jingcang for the people's own use, the maximum is 2 million stones, and nearly 4 million stones of grain need to be transported from other places every year.

Caoyun thrived because of this, and fed a large number of people who relied on water for food, these people were called Cao Ding and Cao Fu, and the total number was tens of thousands.

Water is the most unpredictable, when it is gentle, it is what it wants, when it is angry, it destroys everything, and the transportation of grain must be carried out by a group of people, fighting with the turbulent rapids, fighting with the treacherous terrain, fighting with the unpredictable weather, fighting with the officials who extort money at the gates, fighting with the local snakes at the wharves, and transporting grain to Chang'an by boat with blood, sweat and life, in order to exchange for the food of the family.

Therefore, the people who rely on water to eat must unite in order to improve their ability to survive, so they naturally formed a gang, "Shunzimen" is one of these large and small gangs, "Shunzimen" has more than 200 gangs, five boats, in the Caoyun gang is just a small gang, their gang leader is called Qiao Mu.

Qiao Gang Leader has been very distressed recently, because the "Shunzi Gate", which has not been smooth since its opening, has now encountered a big hurdle. The Qiao gang leader, who dared to break into Sanmenxia, which was known as the Ghost Gate, was really desperate this time, he knew that this time he couldn't break through this hurdle.

At this time, his noble man came, this noble man was a very handsome and handsome girl, this girl's surname was Gu.

P: I ask you for recommendation votes, freshly baked every day, and don't vote for invalidation!.

(To be continued......)