Struggle in the early Tang Dynasty

Immediately, Guo Ye patted Mao Laojiu's shoulder and praised: "Mao Dong's family really relied on you a lot this time. If you didn't know the way, we might not be able to reach Yangzhou within seven days. Hehe, You and your guys have really worked hard this time. When you arrive at Yangzhou Ferry Terminal, besides the boat fee, I will prepare another reward silver. You take the reward silver and bring your brothers into the city to eat well. A meal of Yangzhou cuisine is my reward for the big guy."

"what?"

When Mao Laojiu heard the words, he was overjoyed immediately, unexpectedly, this time, he would meet a big spender, and he nodded his thanks again and again.

Suddenly, a helmsman ran up and shouted anxiously: "Master, master, master..."

As soon as the words fell, the man had already come to Mao Laojiu, panting like a cow, so tired that he couldn't straighten up.

Mao Laojiu spat: "What are you yelling about? Are you calling yourself a soul? Didn't you see me chatting with the distinguished guest?"

The helmsman took a breather, and then he pointed in the direction of the bow of the ship and shouted in amazement: "Several large ships were found not far ahead, and there were many people standing in the dark on the boat, water bandits, water bandits!" Bandits are coming!"

shuh~~

Mao Laojiu's face changed drastically, and his expression was horrified. Na Na questioned: "Water bandits? Water bandits who robbed their way? They have all entered the waters of Yangzhou, and there are still water bandits? My God, it won't be so bad, right?"

Guo Ye also thumped in his heart, feeling a little terrified. According to the helmsman's description, the water bandits had at least 2000 to [-] people, which was not something his [-] soldiers could contend with.

Immediately, he said to Mao Laojiu: "Don't panic, let's go to the bow of the boat to see what happened first, and then deal with it."

Mao Laojiu was already a little distracted by fright, and he no longer had the appearance of slapping Guo Ye's chest to assure his confidence, so he had to say hello again and again.

Under the leadership of the helmsman, Guo Ye and Mao Laojiu came to the bow of the ship, and the two of them looked at several large ships approaching in the distance.

Guo Ye was young and had good eyesight. Looking at the big ships and the flags fluttering in the wind, he secretly wondered, are these water bandits? ?Something is wrong!

Pa~! !

Mao Laojiu next to him suddenly stretched out his hand, slapped the helmsman who reported the news fiercely with an angry face, and cursed: "I will beat you, you bastard whose eyeballs grow to his asshole, Open your dog eyes and see clearly, where are the water bandits in front of you? That is the army of the imperial court, understand? That is the guard army of the Yangzhou Salt Transport Yamen, who specialize in arresting and smuggling smuggled salt in water areas, and has nothing to do with us."

After cursing, he stretched out his hand again to make a gesture to hit him, and hummed: "See if I can't beat you to death, you bastard, I gave you a fright and made me a false alarm.!"

The helmsman covered his face in pain and retreated quickly.

Guo Ye listened to Mao Laojiu's words, and then carefully looked at the several large ships approaching slowly, thinking to himself, three to two thousand people are the guards of the Yanyun Yamen?If I remember correctly, there are only 2000 guards in the Yanyun Yamen. How can there be more than 300 people?

He was about to ask Mao Laojiu what was going on, when suddenly, the helmsman who had been slapped just now staggered over and shouted, "Boss, go down and have a look, a man climbed up from the water just now, He was covered in knife wounds, and two arrows were shot in his back, sticking straight into his back. What to do, the man was half dead after he climbed onto our boat..."

When Mao Laojiu heard this, he was shocked out of his wits, and shouted, "Oh my God, why are you picking one after another? Don't get me into any life lawsuits!"

After all, the man has already rushed out, got off the deck and went straight to the cabin.

When Guo Ye heard this, he became even more mysterious. He turned his head and glanced at the approaching salt transport yamen boats in the distance, and thought to himself, could they be targeting the injured man who climbed up just now?

All of a sudden, he became suspicious, this matter might not be that simple, maybe there was some secret hidden in that person, otherwise the guards of the Yanyun Yamen would not be so anxious to pursue him.

After thinking about it, he immediately raised his feet and followed the footsteps of Laojiu Mao, and hurried down the deck to the cabin. He was very curious, who was the injured man who climbed up from the water?

Chapter 743

Guo Ye hurried down to the cabin, the crew of Mao Laojiu was already surrounded below, including Liu Zhenxuan and several personal soldiers.

Even the eldest Sun Yumo, who was vomiting to death, got out of the cabin and squeezed into the crowd to watch the fun.

Guo Ye pushed aside the crowd and squeezed inside to see, there was a young man lying on the ground, dressed in a black bunt jacket that was already wet, like a man in the rivers and lakes flying over the walls.

Just as the helmsman reported, this person had multiple stab wounds on his body, bloody wounds were constantly overflowing, and there were two white feather iron clusters stuck on his back, penetrating three points into the flesh, which should be caused by the siege of many people .

Lying on the ground between half-dead and half-conscious, he moaned in pain, "Help, save me... save me... there will be rich, great rewards in the future..."

Mao Laojiu didn't have the heart to ask for his big rewards, so he looked panic-stricken and shouted at several onlookers: "This man probably committed a lawsuit, and the guards of the Yanyun Yamen must be targeting him. You guys, yes, it’s you guys, lift him up and throw him overboard, quick!"

As soon as Mao Laojiu said this, the helmsmen who had been named were stunned, and they all showed their timidity and did not dare to go forward. Someone asked weakly: "Boss, he has been injured like this. If you throw him again? If he enters the river, he will definitely drown to death. Wouldn’t that kill him?”

"Nonsense, this person must be a key criminal in the Yanyun Yamen. Could it be that he is hiding him on the boat, waiting for the guards to board the boat to search and arrest him? Then we will face a lawsuit!"

Mao Laojiu scolded the subordinates severely, gritted his teeth and said cruelly: "There is no other way, there is no need to sue someone who has never met before, and offend the Yanyun Yamen, do you still want to hang out on the river in the future?" Have you eaten? Hurry up, don't talk nonsense, hurry up, throw him overboard, hurry up, the guards of the Yanyun Yamen are about to come up."

"Oh……"

Hearing the words of Mao Laojiu, several helmsmen also became afraid, stepped forward to lift the man up one after another, pretending to throw him off the boat into the river, and let him fend for himself.

"Wait a minute!"

Guo Ye stopped him suddenly, and said to Mao Laojiu: "Mao Dong's family, people's lives are at stake, how can you just throw them away? Saving a life is worse than building a seven-level pagoda. It's better for a good person to do it to the end and stop the bleeding and pull it out." Drop the cluster of arrows, bandage him up and let him go."

"Ouch!"

Mao Laojiu saw Guo Ye's intrusion, and begged again and again: "I said this honored guest, we can't spread this kind of innocent disaster for a stranger. This person is obviously the guard of the Yanyun Yamen who wants to arrest him. The most important criminals, secretly harboring important criminals from the court, this is going to be sued and even lose your head."

Guo Ye didn't blame Mao Laojiu for being unwilling to save him, nor did he blame him for being hard-hearted. As long as he was a serious businessman, he would definitely not dare to intervene in such matters.

Immediately, he said to Mao Laojiu: "Don't worry about this matter, just tell your people to keep their mouths shut, and you will deliver us safely to the ferry pier at the east gate of Yangzhou, and I will pay you extra money." 1000 taels."

"One, 1000 taels?"

Mao Laojiu swallowed hard, with a bit of greed in his eyes, my dear, the cost of hiring a boat from Cangzhou to Yangzhou this time is only 500 taels, and adding another 1000 taels this time is worth running away It's been several times, at least before the end of the year, you don't have to run the boat anymore.

Facing Guo Ye's blatant promise of huge sums of money, it would be false for him not to be tempted, but fortunately, he has not lost his mind because of the money, sighed dejectedly, and said: "Hi, honored guest, I know that you are generous But the money is good, but it also needs to be spent, right? The guards of the Yanyun Yamen are not good men and women. As long as they board the boat and search, if someone comes and gets all the stolen goods, the old man will be ruined. Not to mention the lawsuit, I'm afraid I can't even keep this boat. This boat is the savings of two generations of my Mao family."

Guo Ye frowned, and shouted: "You guys are really too noisy. I will dispatch the guards of the Yanyun Yamen. You just have to pretend that you and your people don't know anything."

"you?"

Mao Laojiu looked at Guo Ye with a look of disbelief, and said with a sneer: "My dear guest, the old man knows that you are generous and have a good heart, but the Yanyun Yamen is not a good person, and you can send them away with a little money." Yes. They dispatched so many people to arrest this person, he must be an extremely important criminal, I think you should not ask for it..."

"Presumptuous, dare to talk to my Lord Hou like this, are you tired of life?"

Liu Zhenxuan, who had been watching with his own soldiers, suddenly stepped forward and angrily rebuked Mao Laojiu: "You old man really can't see gold and jade. I want you to know that the person standing in front of you is the court official." The imperial conferment of Marquis of Yizhou, the new governor of Yangzhou, Mr. Guoye Guo, why don’t you kneel down quickly?”

Lord Yizhou?The new governor of Yangzhou? ?

This time, Mao Laojiu was really stunned. He had only heard of a county magistrate, let alone a majestic lord, a governor of a state, and had never really seen it, let alone a magistrate. It was a face-to-face conversation.

Now, there is such a person standing in front of him alive and well, how can he be calm?

I didn't expect that there was such a great person hiding on my boat, so I was really blind.

bang bang bang~

After a series of muffled knees on the ground, Mao Laojiu and a group of helmsmen knelt down one after another, claiming to pay respects to Lord Inspector.

Especially Mao Laojiu, he felt even more uneasy when he thought that he was bragging with a governor on the way south from Cangzhou.

He shouted tremblingly: "Lord Inspector, forgive the old man for being blind, for being blind to Mount Tai, for speaking out of character along the way and breaking the rules, please forgive me!"

On weekdays, a seventh-rank county magistrate is already a piece of sky above his head, let alone the governor of Yizhou?