Ji Gang was stunned after hearing Xia Xun's words. There was no pop-up window.
Xia Xun smiled and asked, "How?"
Ji Gang hesitated for a moment, then said in a squeaky voice: "Uh... I am planning the details of building the Jinyiwei Yamen after going to Yaojin Guard and recruiting and training school captains. I just thought of a few key points. I am afraid that if I let go, it will happen again."
I will forget it. The Duke will wait for a while until the official... I will talk about it after the official has sorted out these key points."
Xia Xun smiled and said: "Okay, let's talk about it later!"
Ji Gang said with a smile on his face: "Okay, okay, okay!"
As soon as the curtains on the opposite side were opened, the coquettish laughter of two women could be heard in the car. Ji Gang suddenly became suspicious again: "Could he be teasing me intentionally?"
But Ji Gang thought about it, and no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't figure out what was so funny about Xia Xun just calling him and inviting him to play a game of chess. He calculated it suspiciously for a while, and then asked his concubine to help him carefully.
After looking at it, he saw that there were no stains on his face and his hair was neatly tied up. Then he gave up his doubts and thought: "I guess he was talking about something funny with his concubine, or flirting with her. This
Just laugh."
Ji Gang waited for more than half an hour before finally going to the appointment and boarding Xia Xun's car to play chess with him.
Xia Xun asked his concubine Qiaoyun and pretty maid Xian Yaqi to go to Xiaoying's car instead of waiting on them. When they turned away, Tang Saier was chatting with Xiaoying. After hearing about it, he ran over to see it.
Her father played chess with me.
Tang Sai'er is now a fourteen-year-old girl. In that era, she was indeed considered a big girl at this age. Naturally, she could no longer sit on Qian Daddy's lap or rest on his back as coquettishly as before.
, she just sat quietly aside, with her big black and white eyes open, watching her father play chess.
Ji Gang's chess skills are actually better than Xia Xun's. His chess style is wide open and closed, and his killing power is fierce.
No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't resist it. Unexpectedly, Ji Gang suddenly made a mistake. He suddenly revealed a flaw in his boss's command and was killed by Xia Xun's army, who was clearly at a disadvantage. Ji Gang was very surprised.
He clearly remembered that his horse was guarding the old commander, but for some reason, when he wanted to return to the horse to rescue the commander, he found that he had made a mistake. Ji Gang just thought that he had made a mistake and had no regrets. He still had this kind of grace.
, had no choice but to surrender. This game of chess was lost inexplicably. Ji Gang was really dissatisfied, so he arranged the pieces and tried again. On the 1st, Ji Gangyi played a tough game and attacked forward wildly. He would rather give up the pieces than seize the opportunity.
Xia Xun got a little accustomed to his chess style, and this time he lasted longer than last time. However, he was overwhelmed by his fierce offensive on the 1st. When he was about to lose, Xia Xun suddenly launched an artillery bombardment.
Shuai, Ji Gang laughed, and wanted him to go back to his nest, and then kill the enemy with a double attack. Unexpectedly, when he raised his hand to get the piece, he couldn't help but stare at him as if he had seen a ghost.
It turned out that his soldiers had already reached the horns, and the two soldiers connected in a chain, blocking his commander's retreat. In desperation, he had to send his soldiers to deal with it. Xia Xun's army whipped him here and there, and shot both of his soldiers.
They were all drained. Ji Gang screamed: "What the hell! What the hell! What the hell! I remember this game of chess clearly. Even if I mess up the chess pieces, I can put them back together again. I'm a gentleman."
Obviously...why did you run to the corner?"
He glanced at Xia Xun suspiciously and said suddenly: "O! Duke, you... didn't do anything on the chessboard, right?"
Xia Xun spread his hands and said innocently: "How can I? Your chess moves are bad, so don't rely on me. Look at me sitting opposite you, how can I move my hands and feet? Under your nose, I can stretch out my hands
Go out, can't you see?"
Ji Gang thought about the same truth, but he clearly remembered...
Ji Gang scratched the back of his head, almost suspecting that he had amnesia. After worrying for a long time, he looked to the side again. Tang Saier was sitting cross-legged, holding his chin with his hands, with a face so pink that it could be seen in a picture.
A pair of big eyes with clear black and white, clear eyes and a charming face. The childishness of the little girl has not faded away, and she has a bit of girlish beauty.
Ji Gang didn't know that the pretty girl in front of her was Tang Sai'er, the main object of the White Lotus Religion Case in Putai County. It was even more impossible to say that such an ice and snow girl had done something to her. Ji Gang had to say
: "I guess I didn't rest well on the road, and my mind was a little dazed. Come again! Come again!"
The result of the second visit was that Ji Gang finally returned to his car as if he had seen a ghost. When he got to the car, he ordered his men: "If you see any temples or Taoist temples on the road ahead, stop for a moment. I want to pay my respects to you, sir!"
In Xia Xun's car, as soon as Ji Gang left, Tang Sai'er covered her mouth and started laughing.
What? Could it be that I want to be beaten again?"
As soon as she raised her big hand, Tang Saier's face turned red and she looked embarrassed, but her eyes became brighter and brighter, and there was a hint of anticipation in her heart, so much so that her heartbeat skipped two beats.
Xia Xun saw her blushing and then remembered that Qian Daughter was getting older and was already a young girl. Even a biological daughter of this age would not be able to use this method of spanking, let alone her, so he touched it conveniently.
Touching his nose, he laughed and said: "Don't do this in the future, don't show off easily."
Tang Sai'er responded in a low voice, "Oh!" He raised his beautiful eyes and glanced at Xia Xun like a bird, Jing'er was slightly disappointed.
Xia Xun then thought of Ji Gang's look of seeing a ghost just now, but couldn't help laughing...
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Along the way, when he got bored, he teased Ji Gang, which turned out to be a bit interesting. Not long after he arrived in Huai'an, Xia Xun decided to rest here for two days and visit the places as mentioned in the preface. Ji Gang was obliged to do so, so of course he agreed.
Come down.
Huai'an was called Qingjiangpu at that time. Qingjiangpu did not decline until modern times, but it was not the case at that time. Because it was difficult to cross the locks and the danger of boating on the Yellow River, travel from south to north, except for grain transport boats, was
The boat landed at Qingjiangpushe and then crossed the river to go north. Therefore, Qingjiangpu was an important route for north-south travel at that time and was relatively prosperous.
In terms of scenery, there are not many places of interest here, but there are shops and inns everywhere. The girls' families all like to go shopping, and this is true in ancient and modern times. Xia Xun gave them some pocket money, and the girls themselves also have private savings.
, Ying, Qiaoyun, Xianya and Tang Saier went shopping happily. After Ji Gang settled down, he turned around and found out that there was a Dragon King Temple in the local area, so he went to pay homage excitedly.
The Dragon God is used to pray for rain. Ji Gang was ill and went to the doctor indiscriminately. He just called him to prepare three sacrifices and six rituals. The Dragon King is also a god. Just go and pay homage and his worries will go away. A woman goes shopping, Xia
Xun really didn't want to accompany her. This girl's pleasure was an invisible torture to all men, so he only called her Xin Lei. Fei Hewei took a few others and changed into casual clothes to protect them along the way.
Seeing that Ji Gang was going to the Dragon King Temple, Xia Xun changed into casual clothes and went with him to relax.
The Dragon King Temple is on the river embankment outside the town. At this time, the Qingjiang River is being excavated outside the Pudong River. The laborers are hoeing and carrying soil, like a swarm of worker ants, busy on the construction site. However, the Dragon King Temple does not dare to move.
The center, a temple within a radius, has become a pure land on this construction site.
At this time, the governor of the Ming Dynasty's water transport was Chen Xuan. Chen Xuan was Xu Zengshou's friend of Paoze who was in charge of the Ming Dynasty navy. He was a general of Xu Da's army. When King Jingnan of Yan came to the Yangtze River with his troops, Chen Xuan had already been dismissed by Emperor Jianwen and was left idle.
There was no time available, so he had to reinstate his official position. He was angered by the death of his friend Xu Zengshou, and hated Emperor Jianwen for being fatuous and incompetent, so he led the navy to surrender to King Yan.
After Zhu Di ascended the throne and was promoted to Peking, he made Chen Xuan the governor of water transportation. At first, he was responsible for river transportation. Later, after sea transportation was launched, he took charge of all sea and river water transportation affairs. Now Emperor Yongle has decided to move the capital, and in the future it will need to be transported to Beijing.
There will be more bad grain, and the current river transportation capacity is far from meeting the requirements, and the burden on Sun Xuan's shoulders will be even heavier.
The Grand Canal in the Ming Dynasty followed the river course of the Yuan Dynasty. Among them, the section from Guazhou to Huai'an is called Nanhe River, and the Yellow River canal from Qinghe to Xuzhou is called Zhonghe River. After the Jiangnan Canal reaches Huai'an, it cannot directly connect to the Huaihe River. Land transportation must be used instead, passing through Ren,
Only after the five dams of righteousness, propriety, wisdom, and faith can we enter the Huaihe River and reach the Qinghe River. This section of the road is very labor-intensive.
After visiting local people, Chen Xuan learned that the northwest of Guanjia Lake in the west of Huaicheng was only twenty miles away from Yachenkou of the Huaihe River. It was close to the mouth of the Qingjiang River and should be carved into a river to divert the water from the lake to the canal. Chen Xuan was overjoyed and hurriedly reported to the Ming Emperor,
Once the corvee collection and construction of the Qingjiangpu river channel are successful, Jiangnan canal ships can go directly to Qingjiangpu, which will not only avoid the pain of land transportation across the dam, but also reduce many risks.
Moreover, this place was originally only accessible to passengers but not to ships. If ships could also pass through here, the prosperity of the place would be doubled. This is also the case. After half a year, the river channel was built, and it didn’t take long for Qingjiangpu to rise.
It became one of the four most prosperous places alongside Yangzhou, Suzhou, and Hangzhou, and became "the gateway to the capital and the throat of water transportation."
For a time, there were a large number of canoe boats and a dense market, with sails and rafters connected to each other, stretching for several miles. Merchants from the north and south gathered in Qingjiangpu, showing that "the boats from the south gathered together, making it easy for merchants to prosper and sell", and "departments in all directions, trusting in the past"
However, this is a story for another day. At this time, Qingjiangpu was still desolate, with nothing except the construction site and busy laborers.
Xia Xun and Ji Gang were both dressed in casual clothes. They were dressed just like they were when they first met in Putai, Shandong more than ten years ago. They were both dressed in ordinary scholar attire. They worshiped the Dragon God, and after entering, they waited at the foot of the temple.
The two of them strolled around, very leisurely.
Along the way, the two of them sometimes played chess and sometimes chatted. They never mentioned their past grudges, but they seemed like a pair of close friends. The two of them climbed up and looked into the distance, looking at the scenery. Xia Xun said: "Let's go."
, let’s sit under the tree over there. It’s noon, and the sun is still a bit strong.” The second person picked up a stone under the tree and just sat down. Before he could say anything, a scream of “Ouch” came from behind the bushes.
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Behind the bushes is a slope, and below it is the construction area for digging new canals. At the bottom of the slope, a laborer carrying earth suddenly stumbled and fell to the ground. Another man came in and hurriedly put down his pick to help him.
He fell to the ground and chewed a mouthful of dirt. He then tried to help him, but he threw him angrily and almost fell down. The laborer then yelled: "Chen Xuan, this thief bastard,
A good life is just a matter of digging a river channel."
As he spoke, he spat out the dirt in his mouth. Rusu, who was thrown away by him, knew his donkey temper and was not angry. He just said: "Isn't this the emperor who wants to move the capital to Beijing? To transfer grain from the south to the north, if that happens
This river is much more convenient. If the emperor starts talking, we will lose our legs."
The man got even angrier after hearing this, and cursed: "This dog emperor! He can't just stay in his Jinling City and wait for death, but he wants to move to Beijing. He uses us as cattle and horses, and he shouldn't be an envoy. This
A tyrant and a coward will definitely not deserve a good death! Those bullshit ministers who serve as officials only know how to flatter the emperor and do not care about the suffering of the people. They will not all die a good death!"
Another person came in and advised: "Don't talk nonsense and let the overseer hear you, or I will whip you to death!"
The man was still cursing at himself, which made Ji Gang feel angry. Before Xia Xun could stop him, he jumped up and walked around the bushes in three or two steps. When Xia Xun got up and rushed away, Ji Gang had already jumped down the slope and pulled the donkey away.
The hot-tempered man was given a good beating, and Ji Gang was given a Shandong beating, which made the man dizzy. Then he slapped him with palms as big as cattail fans, and slapped him hard, turning the man into a pig's head, but
From beginning to end, Ji Gang didn't say a word.
To be continued...