Chapter 98: The boat stops and takes people away

The spring day is sunny, the turbid waves are not stopping, and thousands of sails compete.

A large fleet of eighteen ships floated in the Yellow River. The largest ships appear on the river, that is, like the large ships in the fleet, have more small ships, and even some people actually swayed a small boat back and forth, with the waves rolling, and the boat was like leaves.

Many people in the fleet came to the Yellow River for the first time. Looking at the surging Yellow River and the rising and falling boats, these people were shocked.

When complimenting the people who are shaking boats, they can't help but secretly lament that poor people are not easy to live. If they have money to afford a big boat, who would be willing to shake such a small boat? If it is not good, it can be rolled into the water.

"Xiaobao, let you see it." Wang Juan stood on the watchtower of the boat, holding a clairvoyance to Zhang Xiaobao who was huddling beside her.

Zhang Xiaobao looked at the place where Wang Juan pointed, and saw a twelve or thirteen-year-old kid there, pulling a carp nearly two feet long on the shore. The fish was still waving its tail hard and making a lot of splashes. The kid seemed very difficult, but very firm, and pulled the fish up little by little.

"The Yellow River catches carp with bare hands? Not bad, it's a bit too bad." Zhang Xiaobao nodded in praise.

"Can you?" Wang Juan asked.

"When I reach his age, I can. Now you kick me into the water from the watchtower to see if I can swim on the shore? There are people who can cross the Yangtze River, let alone the Yellow River." Zhang Xiaobao was confident.

Since Zhang Zhong met the emperor, he took his family out by boat, walked on the Yellow River, entered the canal, entered the sea from Hangzhou, walked close to the sea, and went to the place. This can be said to be the farthest distance from north to south. If he came out of Sichuan and Shu, it would be a little further away than this.

On the road from the Yellow River to the canal, the fleet was not ready to stop and replenish supplies and sell things. We waited to reach the Chuzhou area. Other small boats or cargo ships may not be able to support the lack of supply for such a long time, but the Zhang family's fleet has no problem at all. Is there no supply line for a fleet that can enter the sea?

Weiwei and Liu'er were also watching curiously on the boat. Each of them had a clairvoyance. There were no need to use crystals to make these clairvoyances. There were some kilns that occasionally they could burn some transparent colored glass, and just find those that were not colored and polished transparently.

Weiwei is more familiar with water than Liu'er. Who made her home a boat? Looking at the small boat on the river, she said to Liu'er: "Sister Liu'er, it is very dangerous to rock the boat at such a time. Sometimes when the waves come, the boat will capsize if a paddle does not remove the waves."

"It's dangerous. It's scary to see you come out in the water and be covered. Weiwei, can you row? Can you swim?" Liu'er's heart fluctuated with the ups and downs of the boat, and she was a little sad and a little thankful. Her family came to Zhangjiazhuang after she fled.

At that time, they were about to starve to death. My younger brother Xiaoman no longer had the strength to cry. Unexpectedly, he met a kind-hearted person. Until now, his family is getting better and better.

And who will help these people on the Yellow River? The master of the Zhang family? It would be fine if he could be an official here, otherwise he would only be able to help one or two of them even if he wanted to.

Weiwei also knows the hard work of the boatman. Sometimes he doesn’t get enough fishing during the day, and his brother still has to stay up late to catch shrimp at night. The money he can earn every day is basically the money he needs to spend every day, and there is very little time left.

After hearing Sister Liu'er's question, he nodded and shook his head, "I know how to row the boat, I have never rowed. I am still young and I can swim. How can other children on the water not know how to swim? Sister Liu'er, don't be afraid if you fall into the water. I will save you. If I am so big, I will save you so big, there is no problem at all."

"I don't want to wait for someone to save me. I will learn it myself in the future. I heard that the young master and the young lady have very good water quality. Next time I study, I will learn to swim with the young master and the young lady. I heard that the place we are going to has a sea, a blue sea, and a big and big fish. I can catch it and eat it for many days."

Liu'er looked at the big ship under her feet and felt safe and said in a yearning manner what she heard from others.

Eighteen large ships supported their sails and walked smoothly, with a slow speed. The eighteen ships were slightly different from other ships. There were two more masts on the mast, one in front and the other behind, and there were no sails on it at this time.

Only those who were familiar with the matter understood that these two masts were used to hang spinnakers, and other boats would fall sails against the wind, and when they were countercurrent, there would be boaters.

When these eighteen ships encounter a headwind, they will fall down their sails, raise their spinnades, and sail in the Chengzhizi. They have been sealed by the Ministry of Workers and the Ministry of War. Except for the warships of the Zhang family and the imperial court, the rest of the people can't even get it.

Li Xun was not idle either. When he came, his father gave him a task to write down what he saw and heard along the way. He brought many people, including both literary and military. At this time, three literati were writing there, and he was responsible for telling what he saw.

"Thousands of sails compete, or there may be small boats floating in the waves, the shore is full of weeds, the water is turbid, and the child goes into the water with his bare hands to catch fish, which is strange, shocked, and sighs. We are riding a vast boat, but ordinary people ferry in small sampans, and those who wear brocade and jade know what the people of Luzhou want? I heard that the people of Luzhou are working harder, and I, Li Xun, swore that when I returned, the people of Luzhou had enough food and clothing, and the people had a place to live."

Li Xun stood on the deck with his hands behind his back, the wind blew up his clothes, and began to say, three people and two people were not moving, and one person wrote quickly.

"My little Hou is in love with the people of the world, and I admire him." After finishing writing, the man said to Li Xun.

"I have the will of peace in the world, but I don't have that ability. Wait for the Zhang family. The Zhang family has always been extraordinary. Haha, are you still used to it these few days?" Li Xun was a little self-aware. He swore and then waited for the Zhang family to do it. He could only follow his helper.

"If you say goodbye, you will have good food on weekdays and float on the water, and you will always feel uncomfortable in your stomach. For some reason?" the man replied.

Li Xun smiled and said, "Seasickness is like this. Do you think the people from Zhang and Wang families are curious? They were fainted. Before they came, they practiced for a few days. They were in the lake of Yaowang Mountain. They were thrust over and passed. I don't know when the people in the world could live a good life."

As Li Xun spoke, he saw that Ye Qingzhou was overtaken by the fleet, and thought that if there was a bridge here, it would be convenient for those who came and went.

If it were before, he would never care about this. Since he saw the things being given to Liu'er's family that time, he had come into contact with the Zhang family from time to time, and then he changed. He was restrained and knew how to help the weak, and felt the joy of helping others. Especially for some people who couldn't eat, they would get something for food first and then find a job to do it, and they would have a good mood that they had never experienced before.

What touched him the most was the scene where Zhang Zhong left Huayuan County and cried when he saw him off. He also wanted that opportunity and decided to find Zhang Zhong as an official when he had a fiefdom and help him manage it. When he walked outside like that, the people he saw were smiling.

Two more days later, the fleet arrived in Kaifeng. The next step was to change lanes from here, and after arriving in Chuzhou, they would replenish supplies, and at the same time they would sell goods and buy some goods.

There is a large pier in Kaifeng, which is dedicated to staying in the ships. Eighteen ships were thinking of going directly from the side, but what was unexpected happened.

There were more than 30 people at the dock, both young and old. Unlike others who were waiting for the boat, they were pushed and pushed away from a boat. Then more people joined in and pushed together.

The people from the Zhang family saw it, but they didn't understand what happened, but Li Xun was determined to let the people live a good life, and he wanted to take care of the unfair things when he saw them.

"Stop the ship, other ships will go first. My ship stopped. Go down and ask, what's going on?"

With Li Xun's shout, the boat stopped and someone immediately went down to inquire.

The other ships continued to move forward, and Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan also saw it, looked at each other, and said nothing, waiting for Li Xun to deal with it and catch up with him.

After more than half an hour of traveling the seventeen ships, Li Xun's ship chased after him. From the water splashed out from the back, you can tell that he used propellers. There were only two ships in the team equipped. Zhang Xiaobao's side and Li Xun's, so he doesn't usually need them.

After waiting for Li Xun's ship to approach, an arrow shot from the ship, with a letter tied to the arrow. Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan did not read the letter first, but looked at the place where the ship was shot just now.

"It's a sacrificial thing." Zhang Xiaobao cursed, then took the letter apart and Wang Juan also put his head over.

"There is actually a local drought? Why is no one reporting it?" Wang Juan muttered after reading the letter.

"It's not all the same. If several counties suffer from disasters, they will hide it if they can. So, there are some people who escape from famine? Why can't there be a thousand,800 people? Go back to the boat and bring all the people who escape from famine in Kaifeng."

Zhang Xiaobao suddenly thought that the place where he went was small and the famine was fleeing here, so it would be better to take it elsewhere. They are all people of the Tang Dynasty, so where can’t they live?

The letter said that those who fled famine had no money to take a boat and had no food. They wanted to ask other boats to take them elsewhere or give them some food. If someone was willing to take them in, they could help with things.

As a result, the people at the dock saw that they were wearing clothes and were still stolen. They were afraid that they would be sick, so they asked them to leave. The people on the dock were still waiting to work. If the boats parked here saw them and stopped at the next seat, where would they go to pick up the work?

They began to expel them. As soon as Li Xun's people arrived, things were easy to deal with. No one dared to offend them. Waiting for Li Xun's instructions, Li Xun had a lot of ambitions, so he naturally took the people on the boat, asked someone to get something to eat, and asked someone to prepare water to scrub it, so he rushed up.

Zhang Xiaobao said that he had made a decision and ordered him to go to the dock to unload the goods, and sent people everywhere to ask about the escaped people, and searched for the horses in Kaifeng and searched around.

Other ships could not move for a while, so they had to moor at the dock for simple supplies.

"It will take a few more days to delay, and the trip will be accelerated in the future." Zhang Xiaobao said, and went into the cabin to sleep.
Chapter completed!