Chapter 82 You are already surrounded

When the water is dry in winter, most of the migrant workers on both sides of the river embankment are carrying stones and sand like ants. I heard that the silver above has not been pulled down, so except for OEM, the rest of the civilians seem a little listless. They have no copper plates in their bags for a busy day, so no one can put much effort into it. Only then do the migrant workers have extra time to take a look at the river surface that has been tired of, and learn from those literati officials who are arrogant.

When they saw it, everyone was surprised. They saw that there were many boats on the river that was about to enter Jiangnan Road, and they were patrolling up and down. Winter shipping was not as good as the other three seasons. There were rarely such lively times, as if someone had cast some magic overnight, and many boats were airborne and landed on the river.

The ships were large or small, with different shapes and speeds, and there were even a few small modified three-winged ships inside. The three-winged ships were ships used by Jiangnan naval officials. They were extremely fast and were never allowed to be used by the people. The same is that the men standing on these ships had bulging waists, and they thought they all had weapons hidden. In addition to the conspicuous water rust on their cheeks, they were silent murderous intent and vigilance.

Within two days, so many ships were mobilized to concentrate on this waterway on the Jiangnan Road, and the government did not alert the government to speak. The only one who could have this ability was the famous Jiangnan Water Village. In terms of the ability to control the river, even the famous big families in Jiangnan were far inferior to Jiangnan Water Village.

The full name of Jiangnan Water Village is Jiangnan and the Twelve Links of related waters (this name is cute), and it is specially designed to make a living on the dense waterways of Jiangnan, whether it is cargo, passenger transport or related industries, it depends on their expressions, especially the secretly private salt, tea and horse sales business, which allowed them to master extremely powerful strength. After the Ming clan, the person with the pseudonym Xia Qifei became the leader of the water village, he focused on establishing good relations with the government. It is even said that this Xia Master could be called brothers and brothers with the Admiral of the Shahuli Land Navy.

No one can stop the gangsters and the government. So over the years, although Jiangnan Water Village has cut off the transactions in the underworld, it has gradually stepped out of the lakes and grass, and has come to the people openly, with a more powerful momentum than before.

It is such a powerful force that can roam the river without any obstacles and search ships along the river without fear of objections.

The one who issued the order was Xia Qifei, the big leader of Jiangnan Water Village. Although he did not care much about the life and death of his subordinates, Guan Wumei, who suddenly disappeared this time, had some kinship with her matriarchy. What made him even more wary of him was who was able to bite such a big piece of meat without knowing it. He had lost so much after eating it!

In March, the Neiku will be reopened. In previous years, it was not the two side dishes of the Cui family and the Ming family. However, this year, the Cui family has collapsed and is known to everyone in the world. The jurisdiction of the Neiku has been moved from His Royal Highness to Fan Tisi of the Supervision Office, so Xia Qifei decided to give it a try and see if he can take advantage of the situation and regain what originally belonged to him in a new situation.

But the internal treasury business is too big, and the amount of silver you are targeting starts at 100,000. Even if you want to enter the God of Wealth and sit and drink tea in March, you will be scared to death if you want to take out the money from the land.

The collapsed Cui family and the prosperous Ming family have all the strength, but Xia Qifei definitely has no. Even if his subordinates control the largest gang in the waterway, the silver in his hands is still like a beggar compared to the Ming family. That's why he was anxious to plunder the silver everywhere and even secretly ordered Guan Wumei to start the business of the river robbers again.

He refused to let go of such a small amount of money, and it was obviously forced to go crazy. As the saying goes, a penny can't kill the hero. The heroes who live on the river want to learn to do business. The first problem they encounter is money.

At this critical moment, Xia Qifei became more and more careful and did not lose his mind. He was guessing whether what happened on the shore of Yingzhou would be targeted at him.

When the incident happened, he was asking Lord Xu, the garrison of the Jiangnan Navy in Shazhou City to drink. There were always exaggerations in the legend of the Jianghu Lake. The highest-level general of the navy he could contact now was the first level of the garrison. After knowing this, Lord Xu remained silent and let Xia Qi fly to search the boat, but he still gave the people in the water village a warning: Everything must be done before early March, and after it is done, it must be washed clean and the smell of blood on his body will be washed away!

Because Lord Tisi will come from Danzhou to Jiangnan in March.

Dozens of ships from Jiangnan Water Village searched the river for a long time, but still couldn't find the big ship that looked obvious. I couldn't help but be surprised. Xia Qifei listened to his subordinates' rewards, narrowed his eyes coldly and said, "It seems that those people haven't come down... The box is not so easy to move off the boat. It should be still near Yangzhou. Have you checked?"

The man with a white cloth wrapped on his head to resist Jiang Feng was stunned and said embarrassedly: "My subordinates count the time. In two days, the ship should have arrived near Shazhou... I didn't expect that the other party would just stay away."

Xia Qifei was extremely angry and almost kicked it over and cursed, "You are a pig!" After a brief pause, he shouted gloomy: "Search up, you must see people alive, and die with corpses. At the worst, you must tow the ship back to me!"

The man took the order and left without noticing that the leader said the confidence was already starting to be insufficient.

Xia Qifei sat at the table, so angry that he couldn't calm down for a long time. This half year was the most important half year in his life. He absolutely did not allow anyone or anything to interfere with himself, otherwise the long-planned revenge cause would have to be re-planned.

He took off the cold tea in the bowl in one mouthful, and instead became a little hot, with two fierce expressions in his eyes. He simply walked to the atrium and waited for the good news from his brothers to unbutton the buckle on his chest, revealing scars on the horizontal flesh. However, these scars were a little strange, neatly arranged, not like the sword wounds and axes that fell in the fight in the martial arts world, but instead they were tied up and whipped hard.

At noon, a large ship slowly sailed away from the bustling dock of Yangzhou and marched downward.

At the same time, dozens of Jiangnan Water Village ships rushed upstream in a fierce manner, risking the night walking, looking for traces of the enemy.

God did not deliberately arrange the time for hide and seek. Before the sun had sunset, both sides finally met in the smoothest Jingpowan area in this section of the river.

Dozens of ships rushed up quickly, and the bandits' natural boat-carrying ability was most effectively utilized at this time. However, a few changes of formations surrounded the big ship in the middle of the river.

The Jiangnan Water Village ship carefully surrounded the Kyoto ship in the middle, and the three-winged spacecraft led by the leader leaned towards the big ship. The big ship had stopped at this time. It seemed that it had given up its resistance.

The leader of the water village on the three-winged spacecraft shouted to the big ship: "Listen to the people on the ship, you are surrounded, immediately put down the weapons in your hands and be inspected."

There was still silence on the big ship.

The leader of the water village looked slightly cold and gestured. At the same time, a total of six ships leaned over, stretched out a long bamboo pole, and hooked the gangway of the big ship with some difficulty. He took out the short knife on his body and prepared to force the board.

At this moment, the ship suddenly started to move!

This movement accelerated with all his might, and rushed towards the outside of the encirclement line at a speed that made these water bandits dumbfounded. In an instant, the huge driving force of the big ship tore up to pieces all the long bamboo hooks that had just been erected on the side of the ship. More than a dozen water bandits climbing up fell into the water miserably. They caused countless waves and the river surface was in chaos!

The big water village ship blocked the front bump into Kyoto in such a fancy way - then turned his head without fancy, and then slid away gracefully.

Of course, this wonderful move, accompanied by the unpleasant accompaniment of the sailors exclaiming as the deck bursts.

A white wave of water was left at the tail. The Kyoto boat sailed downstream quickly, leaving countless wood chips and water bandits floating on the water surface on this mirror-like river.

The leader of the water village grabbed the edge of the ship and stabilized his body in the big waves. He looked at the stern of the big ship in amazement. He was extremely shocked. This ship... is too strong! And from completely stationary to such a fast speed, how did the sailor who was fighting the ship do it? Why did it seem to be higher than his own level!

The sailors on the boats from Kyoto were all the school officials who were removed from Quanzhou Navy. They studied water war techniques all year round, and controlled the level of water war in big boats. Of course, they were much better than the boatmen who played ants and ate elephant land in Jiangnan water villages.

But the boat was sailing on the river, because they were afraid of underwater reefs and did not dare to rush straight, so the ships coming to Kyoto were not full of sails. Compared with the three-winged spacecraft used by the navy, they did not have any advantage in speed. The ships coming to Kyoto rushed to a line of defense and were immediately followed by more than ten spacecraft that followed.

At this time, half of the river was rustling and half of the river was red. Boats came from Kyoto first, and the Jiangnan Water Village was behind, and rushed down quickly. Countless light scars were drawn on the water surface, making the yellow river water very uneasy, becoming a wonderful picture of hundreds of boats competing.

"Use hook swing!"

Seeing that the Kyoto ship was fierce and the hull was not known for its use, it was so strong. The leader of Jiangnan Water Village shouted loudly and made several gestures at the same time. Although the wind was so strong that he blew his words to the horizon in a blink of an eye, looking at his gestures, the thieves around the big ship took out a pile of ropes and threw them onto the big ship.

More than a dozen ropes broke through the air and drew a beautiful arc and landed accurately on the deck of the ship. The bandits were extremely skillful in their techniques and were indeed used to such skilled jobs. Everyone then tightened their hands, and the hooks on the head of the rope firmly hung the board. At this time, the speeds of the two sides were similar, and the rope was not a hard product like bamboo. The bandits no longer worried about anything, and they began to climb onto the ship along the rope with their hands and feet.

It was halfway again, and the poor half, more than a dozen partition windows were opened on the side of the big ship, and a long jin or axe was stretched out from each window, and they cut down fiercely at the people on the rope - just listening to the gust of sword wind and screaming, blood flowers scattered with the river wind, and the remaining limbs fell down together. In one encounter, the water bandits suffered heavy casualties!

Some people luckily fell into the river, but the rope hooks were cut off. Then, from the windows of the ships coming to Kyoto, they stretched out more than a dozen arrows with bows ready to go, and they aimed coldly at the surrounding ships. Although they had not been launched, they were full of shock, as if they were saying that if anyone dared to get close, they would kill them no matter how hard they were!

The leader of the water camp in the rear saw that his eyes were split. He was exposed, but he felt chilled. He had been hiding on the rivers for many years, and he had experienced many times of suppressing bandits. Of course, he knew that long bows, spears, and axes were four... which were standard configurations for the imperial navy!

"Is there any conspiracy?"

The ship sailed down at a very fast speed. He immediately left Jingbo Bay and came to the sandbank waters.

The pirate leader looked at the big ship still besieged, knowing that although the other party was unexpectedly prepared and powerful, the elephant was also afraid of ants. As long as he still walked on the river, those who had grown up by the river for many years would always have a way to let the other party sink under the river. All he needed was time.

As if in response to his request, four large ships suddenly appeared on the river surface ahead, lined up across the river surface, just blocking the downward river channel. These four large ships have three floors in total, which are extremely tall. The shadows falling in the river are stretched out and look very powerful.

The leader of the water village narrowed his eyes and found that it was the navy ship that he had often cooperated with others in secret in recent years. He couldn't help but be overjoyed and shouted: "With brother helper, don't worry!"

The Kyoto ship was still rushing downstream silently and firmly. It seemed that the four Shahu Navy's warships did not exist, and it seemed as if they were going to commit suicide.

Looking at the scene in the setting sun, the leader of Jiangnan Water Village was stunned and sat on the ground.

When the Kyoto ship was about to be killed by the front and back and fall into a siege, the four soldiers of the Shahu Navy downstream had agreed to rudder at the same time, giving way to the Kyoto ship. Let the ship go down leisurely and leisurely!

What's going on!

The leader of the water village could not believe his eyes. The remaining reason in his mind told himself that the ship he had been chasing for a long time... was really similar to these four giant navy ships.

He didn't give him much time to think about it. The four navy ships were already standing in front of the Jiangnan Water Village ships like four giant beasts, full of oppression.

The official standing at the bow of the navy's ship was also known to the leader of the Jiangnan Water Village. It was the master of Xia's village master, the garrison of the Shahu Navy - Lord Xu Shoushan!

Xu Shoushan stood coldly at the bow of the boat, but the clothes on his body seemed to be put on in a hurry, and the straps were not buttoned, which looked a little funny. He looked at the "old acquaintance" below, frowned slightly, and used his eyes to signal to the other party that it would be best to surrender quickly, and he didn't care whether the other party understood it or not, so he said in a powerful voice:

"Listen to the people on the boat, you are already surrounded, immediately put down your weapons and be inspected."

Shazhou Prefecture City is located at the entrance of Shahu River. The waters are in conflict and have been falling for thousands of years, and countless fertile land has been accumulated. In addition, the hard work of the people has always been one of the famous grain-producing areas on the riverside. With the withdrawal of the Quanzhou Navy more than a decade ago, the Shahu Navy became the largest naval base in the Qing Kingdom after receiving some manpower. Thousands of naval officers and soldiers relied on this prefecture city that strangled the throat of the south of the Yangtze River in their daily lives.

The navy officers and soldiers, who were covered in sweat and smell of water, brought endless troubles to the people of Shazhou, and brought endless dangers to the girls of Shazhou. While the officials of Shazhou brought countless public security problems, they also brought countless money and business opportunities to Shazhou City. The court distributed 90% of the salary to those bachelors every year was used in brothels, gambling workshops and restaurants in Shazhou. Therefore, Shazhou's entertainment industry is precisely a very developed tertiary industry, with various restaurants in a row, with red sleeves on the west, and dice from morning to dusk in the east... It's very lively.

On this day, several people walked out of the most famous inn in Shazhou. The combination of this group was a bit weird. A young man, a girl's house, a scholar, and a child, followed by a few guards with solemn expressions. The group hired a big cart and drove directly to the south city.

This group of people was naturally Fan Xian, Sisi, the third prince, Shi Chanli and the seemingly ordinary tiger guards. They stopped in Yangzhou for a night and discussed the next trip. Local people from all over the place to transfer Shahu Navy. As for the procedures they used, it is unknown, but I think the military would protect the people in the Supervision Bureau. No matter what, Fan Xian looked like, and seemed not to be ready to hide his identity anymore, which made Su Wenmao still stayed on the ship at that time very puzzled.

Let the big ship deal with the bandits on the river, but Fan Xian took the people around him to get off the boat in Yangzhou in the night, took the carriage, and comfortably followed the official road to Shazhou City. The secret he made was not noticed.

The atmosphere in the southern city of Shazhou was a little nervous. There were many different religions and all of us knew that the overlord of the Tao, the Xia village master of Jiangnan Water Village, was doing something. I didn’t know the specific details, but from the leaders of the water village who kept coming in and out of the small yard, I knew that this matter was a bit troublesome.

The small courtyard seems inconspicuous, but everyone knows that it is the branch of the 72nd consecutive dock of Jiangnan Water Village in Shazhou.

So when the carriage that Fan Xian was riding came dozens of feet outside the courtyard, someone had noticed it. Especially the eyeliner scattered in the street in the water village was staring tightly, as if he wanted to judge the purpose of the traveler, but no one noticed it. In the dim twilight, the six seemingly ordinary assassins had occupied several of the most favorable locations on the street.

As the carriage got closer and closer to the rudder, some people gradually came over and looked at the carriage intentionally or unintentionally. The atmosphere was a little nervous. The people in the carriage seemed to have not noticed anything, and drove straight to the gate of the courtyard before stopping. A scholar lifted the curtain down, walked up the stone steps, and bowed to the thug at the door with a calm expression and said something.

After a while, a man with an upside-down eyebrows and a soybean-eyed master walked out of the rudder and looked at him with a warning look. He narrowed his eyes and asked, "Who are you? Why do you meet Mr. Xia?"

The scholar was Shi Chanli. He was not flowing through the so-called rivers and lakes. Looking at the master's cruel expression, and then looking at the thugs around him, it was obvious that the other party was carrying a weapon. The scholar was really panicked and could not help but secretly complain that Master asked him to do such a thing too inhumane, but he still said nervously: "We are from Kyoto. We meet the master of Xia Village. We have important matters to discuss."

The rudder's rudder looked at him contemptuously, quite dissatisfied with the other party's behavior. He glanced at the carriage with a slanted look and said, "Is it you or the person in the car? If it were a man in the carriage, why didn't he get off the car when he arrived at the door? It's so sneaky, how could it be a guest?"

The three people in the carriage did not listen to what was said outside. Fan Xian threw Shi Chanli out, just to train the minds of the scholars. At this time, he was talking to the third child. He said gently: "Your Highness, from Yangzhou to Shazhou, the people's livelihood seen along the way is very different from Kyoto. Please keep it in mind."

Walking overnight, Fan Xian deliberately asked the third prince to contact ordinary people along the way, so that he could see the most real folk life. Whether it was an old man with a salary beside the road or a second lady who sold herbal tea in the shop, he would stop specifically and say a few gossips.

In the so-called prince education, Fan Xian had no experience and no method, so he had to cross the river by feeling the stones and try to see if this method could work well.

Shi Chanli seemed to have smelled a certain smell about Fan Xian's arrangement, and he couldn't help but be worried about the sect master. However, the third prince accepted it calmly, matured far beyond his age and remained silent without talking nonsense.

"The people's livelihood is so hard." The third prince replied respectfully: "Although the taxes in the Daqing Dynasty are not heavy, the lives of the people are still not easy. But looking at the people along the way, they have a lot of happiness on their faces. From this we can see that the people's requirements are really not high. The key to the government is to first meet the most basic food and clothing requirements of the people."

Fan Xian was purely a blind man who guided the world, and he nodded without hesitation and said, "It is easy for the people to appease, and the salary of the officials in the court is requested from the people. In the future, His Highness will help His Highness govern the world, so he should pay attention to the appropriate measures for his request. As long as it does not exceed the boundaries, there will be no major problems."

The third prince looked at Fan Xian and suddenly smiled innocently: "Teacher, the people in Yangzhou are far more powerful than Shazhou. People there are resentment on their faces. I think it's because the court has taken too much."

On the boat, the young third prince asked to call Mr. Fan Xian very close, instead of Lord Si Ye, and deliberately wanted to get closer to Fan Xian. Fan Xian blocked him a few times and failed, so he let him go. He listened to this sentence, but subconsciously thought of the Yangzhou magistrate who was killed by him, so he didn't want to continue the topic. He asked, "What do you think about... Jiangnan Water Village?"

"The teacher said that the hero violated the ban with martial arts, not to mention the so-called water camp is just a group of gangsters on the water. The gangsters in the boat seek money and kill money with violence. There is no place where the teacher said the heroic spirit." A trace of ruthlessness flashed across the face of the third prince Qingzhi. "In the eyes of the students, we should mobilize the army and capture them all in one net. The evil ones are beheaded. The evil ones are exiled to the northern border."

Fan Xian was stunned and said, "I said before that the customs of the people are caused by the terrain and living environment. If you just clean them up, it will be like a wildfire that passes through. Maybe the weeds can be cleared for a while, but if you don't start from people's livelihood, the people will still fall into the path of the bandits. It will be like the rebirth of the weeds after the spring breeze. When will this cycle end?"

After thinking about it, the third prince shook his head and said, "The teacher is wrong. Of course, the court must use the divination of such rioters to treat such rioters. You have also said that the Jiangnan Water Village must have something to do with the Shahu Navy in order to survive to this day. If these rioters are allowed to undermine the court's principles, how can we deal with it in the future?"

He then said coldly: "Encouraging the people's livelihood and allowing the people to live a good life is naturally a must-have for the world to be free of thieves. However, for those thieves who dare to emerge, they cannot be lenient. Those who should be killed must be killed!"

Fan Xian looked at the third prince with a smile. He found that this child was indeed much more straightforward than him, but his concealment skills were still far worse than himself. He was brave enough to raise objections in front of him. He thought that he wanted to show his openness and honesty. He proposed to use the word "suppression" to deal with Jiangnan Water Village. He wanted to show his determination but not to hide his feelings in front of him, so that he could feel his sincerity - he wanted to deliberately influence the third child when he traveled to Jiangnan to deliberately cultivate and change the third child, but the third child also wanted to influence himself - although the little guy did not do it smoothly enough, he was really amazing to have such a scheming at a young age.

"Why don't your highness object to... I'm here to the Jiangnan Water Village branch today?"

"The teacher has his own clever idea, and it is not something that students can guess." The third prince returned to his calm and laughed.

Fan Xian raised his eyebrows, knowing that although the third brother didn't know the details, he should be able to guess his general direction. He smiled mockingly, thinking that he was indeed a somewhat hypocritical guy. At this time, the conversation outside the carriage was halfway through. I wonder what Shi Chanli said a few words, the master's expression finally became panicked, and the thugs around the carriage were also getting closer.

As soon as the curtain was lifted, Fan Xian walked down and looked around the scenery in the twilight, as if he didn't care much about the water bandits who were forced to come up.
To be continued...