Huang Jue, after three marriages

Chapter 472 Governor Chen's Family

In late July, the first batch of grain from the south and Huaiyang started to be shipped. Fortunately, because of the soaring road tax, merchant ships were afraid to go, and the canal was not too crowded.

With the official seal of the third rank, plus the escort team specially sent by Mr. Gao, although the fleet of eight large ships is enviable, no one dares to deliberately make things difficult.

Once Ding Qi gave away a few silver ingots, he obediently let him go.

Moreover, Xie Jue rebuilt the boat with people on purpose (thinking about two people sitting together), it is comfortable and spacious. In addition to making an ice room to store ice, he also made special treatment for the windows. The windows are open, so people outside can't see the scene inside.

Therefore, although the weather was very hot in late July, Su Yue didn't find it difficult to stay on the boat.

Except that Xie Jue wasn't around and felt a little lonely, the journey was comfortable.

Nearly mid-August, the fleet arrived in Shangqiu and stopped at the canal wharf outside Shangqiu.

This way, except for supplies, the fleet sailed day and night, and now it stopped. Su Yue was a little surprised, and raised the window to look out.

Shangqiu is only two hundred miles away from the capital, and it is also one of the four major towns on the canal. Cargo ships coming from the south and ships going north meet here before heading to the capital.

So the canal dock in Shangqiu is very long.

Their fleet did not dock at the main pier, but stopped in a side channel next to the main pier.

From the open window, you can see a group of tank boats passing by on the canal.

The main pier, however, was empty.

"Girl." Bai Lu walked in from the outside, approached Su Yue and said in a low voice, "It is said that an official ship is going to pass, so except for the tank boat that gave way in front, the other boats have to wait."

Su Yue frowned unconsciously, and said, "Official ship?"

Their fleet is also an official ship, and it is also a third-rank official ship.

To let their fleet out of the way, unless the opponent's rank is higher, or a third-rank official.

"It's a family member of the governor." Ling Chuanye rushed in from the outside, sat down opposite Su Yue, took a bite of the snack on the table and said, "It's from Shuzhou, why is there a governor in Song Dynasty? No What transfer envoy?"

The corners of Su Yue's lips twitched, and she said, "That's right, they are usually transit envoys, but there are two special places in the Song Dynasty, and the post of governor is specially set up to facilitate local management. One is Bianzhou Road and the other is Sichuan Road. , Sichuan Road is referred to as Shuzhou for short, and its governor commands local military and political affairs, official rank, and two grades."

In these two places, because Bianzhou Road is a wilderness with high mountains and dense forests, most of the local people are some tough ethnic minorities, and they still maintain the most primitive farming and social system, so the officials of the Song Dynasty mainly focus on enlightenment, and those who tax They all leaned back, so they simply combined the transfer envoy, appease envoy, and inspector envoy into one to establish the post of governor.

Although Shuzhou has good fields and fertile soil in the Hanzhong and Sichuan Basins, it is a semi-closed terrain facing Tubo in the north and Nanman in the south. Its location is important, but it is far away from the capital. The right to mobilize half of the local garrison in case of emergency.

It has always been the emperor's confidant.

The current governor of Shuzhou, Chen Hanming, has served for three consecutive terms. Before the death of the first emperor, he directly issued the order for re-election. It can be seen that he was very trusted and valued at that time.

However, in his previous life, behind this person was the governor of Shuzhou who had always been in front of him, Cai Bingtong, who was in the court, covered the sky with one hand, and never came out to reprimand him once.

This life is different.

After Xie Jue arrived in the capital, he began to write letters to her. They were unshakeable, and one letter was delivered to her in three days. Xie Jue said most of the homely things and all kinds of missed words in the letter, but the guard who delivered the letter, But he will talk about some things about the capital.

The military report on the death of Lord Zhen Guo was indeed sent by Tong Guan.

Tong Guan, who was supposed to be leading the army to the northwest, turned a corner on the way, and turned to Yancheng, which was only two hundred miles away from the border town. Then he got the information that Zhen Guogong led the army out of the city, so he also He led the army to help, but when he encountered the remnant army in the border town, he followed the remnant army into the border town, and then sent such a military report.

When the military report arrived, the capital was in an uproar.

All kinds of memorials attacking the Duke of Zhen and the frontier army were piled up on the emperor's desk, and all kinds of voices that were unfavorable to the Duke of Zhen and the Zhao family began to spread in the capital.

Even if someone suggested that the frontier army's food and salary had not been delivered for so long, the matter of how the frontier army fought was immediately overwhelmed.

After clamoring like this for ten days, the people of the capital realized something was wrong again.

There was no second battle report from the frontier army.

At this time, some teahouses and hotels began to discuss.

Just talk about Duke Zhen and the frontier army. What if the frontier army can't stop them and the Beirong people break through and enter?
Who will resist?

At this time, the content of the memorials urging the payment of food sent by some Zhen Guogongs three times a month also leaked out.

The above content is more urgent than one letter. It clearly states that tens of thousands of frontier soldiers have starved to death, and the rest are already weak. It has been deducted for nearly a year, and if it continues to be deducted like this, if there is a military chaos, the situation will be out of control.

The capital was once again in an uproar, why the powerful ministers at the top didn't know, but the people below were scolding.

At this time, someone came out again and said that under such circumstances, there must be no other way for Duke Zhen to lead his army into battle. Some food came, such a loyal thing was said to be a reckless attack by someone with a heart, not to mention, even the sergeant who reported the letter also said that Lord Zhen Guo died in a fierce battle, but such a brave man was slandered by others, his heart can be punished !
Amid such chaos, the governor of Shuzhou returned to the capital a few days ago, and went directly to the court that day, scolded Cai Bing and the military department of the household department and others in court, and scolded them as traitors and treacherous ministers for harming the country. It is said that at that time The spray made Cai Bing and the others speechless.

Then the emperor announced that all the money in the household department would be mobilized to the frontier army, and all the grain from Jingdong Road and Hebei Road would not enter Beijing this year, and all the food would be sent directly to the frontier army.

At the same time, let Rong Guogong be ready to send troops to help at any time.

As a result, the wind direction in the capital has changed again.

And when the last guard delivered the letter, the frontier army still hadn't sent a second battle report.

However, the guard smiled and said, the third master said, don't worry the girl, Zhao Hao is fine, everything is under control.

Zhao Hao is fine...

At that time, Su Yue didn't know what it was like.

How could it be good...

But since Xie Jue said so, she didn't want to ask any more questions, but asked Tang Bing to urge the fleet to speed up.

At this time, both Xie Jue and Zhao Hao were fighting desperately, she couldn't just wander around in a boat by herself, at least, she could go to Xie Jue's side, so that Xie Jue could have a place to rest.

Unexpectedly, at this time, he actually met the family members of the governor.

It seemed that the governor was planning to return to Beijing and not leave.

(End of this chapter)