The most unlucky crossing in history

The topography of the Weiming Bay near the sea in Quanzhou is a good place. If it can be developed, it will be a good deep-water port that can accommodate a large number of ships. What's more, it is backed by Quanzhou, which is the most prosperous and rich place in the southeast of Daqing.If we can obtain this port, establish a commercial waterway, and connect with the south of the Yangtze River, the conditions are unique, and prosperity is just around the corner.But now Quanzhou is controlled by Lu Huang, which is really a pity.

The ship's journey could not be delayed. After the grain, oil, rice noodles, vegetables, meat, fruits, and fresh water were delivered to the ship, Zhong Qiyun counted the personnel, confirmed that they were correct, and let the fleet set sail again.

On the 23rd night of the twelfth lunar month, a group of seven ships approached the Maojiang River after sailing for many days. Zhong Qiyun directed the boatman to adjust the rudder of the sailboat, and then let those who had nothing to do at night go to rest first.

Today, the pilot boat he is on is Yu Zhouhai on duty at night, the sea is calm, except for the sound of waves hitting the hull, only the snoring of the boatmen is left.

It was late at night, but Zhong Qiyun didn't go to rest. He just stood at the bow of the ship, leaning on the mast, with his hands folded, quietly looking up at the stars in the sky.

The stars twinkle and the night sky is enchanting.

At night on the sea, there is only this deep, light, vast sky to see.

There is no cloud in the sky tonight, the stars are pouring out thousands of spots of silver dust, and the late moon is just rising from the east, like the shy and smiling eyebrows of a beautiful woman, like the willow leaves on the first spring, soft like water, so charming, The tranquility makes people feel refreshed, and there is an inexplicable longing in their hearts...  

Zhong Qiyun looked dazed, a little lost in thought.

Twelfth lunar month 23, according to the custom of Daqing, the official family's small year is the twelfth lunar month 23, the common people's family is the twelfth lunar month 24, and the water family is the twelfth lunar month 25.

For Xie Wenyuan to be an official, I think it is also a young year today.

I don't know if he drank the wine sent by Xie Wenyuan's subordinates in Quanzhou.

I don't know how he spent his youth today...

"Brother Zhong, are you still awake?"

Yu Zhouhai was bored standing in the middle of the boat, so he turned to the bow of the boat and turned around, but he never expected to see Zhong Qiyun with a dazed expression: "You should be tired after a day of tossing around."

Zhong Qiyun straightened his body when he heard the sound, and smiled with his lips curled up: "I don't feel sleepy."

"I saw you in a daze just now," Yu Zhouhai laughed as he spoke, "The accountant I used to work for was a sour scholar. I remember he always said that people don't sleep at night, either for money or for money. For love." Yu Zhouhai automatically excluded Zhong Qiyun from the category of lack of money, "Brother Zhong, this is

Miss who? "

Zhong Qiyun laughed, "How do you know I'm not thinking about money?"

"Where are you still short of money?" Yu Zhouhai found an empty space, sat down cross-legged, and said as a matter of course: "These seven ships are worth a few thousand taels of silver at least, are you still worried about money? I must be thinking about someone, these days when I go to sea, I often miss my family members at night, I don’t know if they have prepared the new year’s goods, have they bought new clothes... Tomorrow is the new year. …”

Speaking of this, Yu Zhouhai also became worried.

Zhong Qiyun turned his head to the side and squinted at Yu Zhouhai, shaking his head and said: "There are mountains beyond the mountains, and sky beyond the sky. People's hearts are not enough. If you have ten taels of silver, you want a hundred taels. If you have a hundred taels, you want a thousand taels. Ten thousand taels... No matter how much I have, I am not satisfied. What's more, these goods have not been sold, and I haven't paid back the money, so it is not mine. If I lose money this time, I will not only be penniless , will be heavily in debt.”

After running with Zhong Qiyun for several months, Yu Zhouhai still knew him a little bit, so he simply said: "No, no, Brother Zhong has thought carefully every time he goes to sea, and now he is very close to Maojiang. Wait until dawn It should be there, when all the goods are sold, after that, there will be a lot of wealth, beautiful wives and beautiful family members."

Sweet wife and beautiful family?

Knowing that this person decided that he was thinking of a good friend, Zhong Qiyun didn't bother to explain, and said in another way: "If you are sleepy, you can go to rest in the house. I will come to watch the night today."

"It's okay, it's okay, I was a little sleepy at first, but now that I think about home, I'm not sleepy anymore."

Zhong Qiyun nodded and said no more.Thinking that today is New Year's Eve, he went down to the cabin to fetch a jug of wine and two bowls.

Poured a bowl for Yu Zhouhai, Zhong Qiyun said, "Come have a drink with me."

"This... night watch, I'm afraid it's not good..."

"No problem, it should take less than an hour to go everywhere. I can't get drunk with this bowl."

"Hey, since Brother Zhong said so," Yu Zhouhai's throat rolled up and down, and he reached out to take the bowl.He is also a glutton, but because of Zhong Qiyun's presence, he is too embarrassed to drink too much, "Then have a bowl."

The two touched the bowls, and then gulped down the wine.

The night in the Southeast China Sea is calm, the climate is mild, and everything is as usual, but Zhong Qiyun doesn't know that Hangzhou is in a mess at this time.Where is there any taste of the New Year.

The day before yesterday, there was news that a criminal had escaped from the prison of the Hangzhou Government Office. Xie Wenyuan, Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, who had lived in another hospital for a long time to recuperate, heard the news and immediately went to the Hangzhou Government Office to investigate.

Que Jiangcai, the governor of the Hangzhou government, immediately ordered people to guard the eight gates of Hangzhou firmly, and even the borders of official roads, waterways, etc. were guarded by officers and soldiers.

In the middle of the night of the second day, Xie Wenyuan led hundreds of officers and men to gallop through the snow on horseback, and appeared at the mouth of the Qiantang River in Hangzhou half an hour later to stop a large ship that was entering the port at night.

It would be fine if they were ordinary merchants, but after several rounds of interrogation, just as they were about to enter the ship to investigate, those boatmen suddenly jumped up, and more than forty people appeared in the cabin and took out knives and guns to chop at the officers and soldiers.

Blood was seen at the estuary of the Qiantang River, which has been peaceful for a hundred years. Fortunately, there were not many people in that group, and Xie Wenyuan brought the officers and soldiers to subdue them.

What happened during this period, the common people don't know, but they heard some boatmen who were guarding the boat at the port that day preaching with lingering fear: The boatmen on Wusao's boat were not all from the country, and the accent sounded like people from Funing country.

If it is really Funing Country, then this matter is no small matter.

Fu Ning was thousands of miles away at sea, how did these people come here?Why came here secretly, and even prepared a knife and gun?It's probably not the first time that those people look familiar.

And who are those who colluded with the Funing people, and why did they act like this?

Thinking about it this way, everyone in Hangzhou City panicked.

People in Hangzhou can think of it, and the government can imagine it. After that night, the whole city of Hangzhou was banned, and people were checked from house to house, just to find out the Funing people who were hiding there.

In the middle of the night, in the Que mansion, Que Jiang in the hall held his teacup and threw it on the ground fiercely, his face full of anger: "Old man, I really never thought of that! No matter how eager he is, he shouldn't have colluded with the Funing people! This is A crime of disaster for the country! A crime of collaborating with the enemy and treason!"

Xie Wenyuan saw that Jiang Cai was so angry that he almost couldn't stand still, so he stepped forward and helped the old governor to sit down.

He originally thought that Tan Yuance wanted to seize power, and planned to secretly send soldiers from Jianzhou and other places to break the defense of Hangzhou in the south of the Yangtze River, so that he could link up with Gusu and his sphere of influence in the north.

However, only one ship was stopped last night. According to what Zhong Qiyun mentioned, there should be no one, although the shipment was indeed as he guessed, except for the silk for cover, the rest were weapons...

But no matter what, he didn't expect that there were Funing people on board.

Xie Wenyuan didn't need to think too much to know that someone had made a move in advance. As for who wanted to borrow a knife to kill someone, Xie Wenyuan had a guess.

Although the third prince Tan Yuance said that he was in a hurry this time, he would not act so carelessly.Although the matter of his investigation this time is not a secret, if it were not for the attempted assassination, with Zhong Qiyun as a life-threatening

However, he couldn't escape so easily, and then figured out that Baoquan followed the clues to find out the third prince.

Only Gu Shouyi and Zhang Hong's cronies would know about the third prince. Even Que Jiang found a letter from Tan Yuance in the intercepted boat after this incident, so he was sure that Tan Yuance did it this time.

Tan Yuance was not wronged, but this time, Xie Wenyuan was definitely not him.

If it wasn't for deliberately taking the opportunity to set the blame, and by chance, passing it on to the person who was about to rebel, then someone revealed the news?

Xie Wenyuan never believed in coincidences.

It's just that no matter what, Hangzhou today will not be peaceful...

He had despised the sea route earlier, so he didn't find anything wrong. Tan Yuance had already started to send troops to Hangzhou. This time, if someone wanted to add a crime of collaborating with the enemy and treason to him, it would only be a crime, prompting Tan Yuance to rebel.

Thinking of this, Xie Wenyuan said to Que Jiangcai: "Master Que should make preparations as soon as possible, and I will order people to return to Beijing to report to the court tonight."

Xie Wenyuan looked at the crescent moon outside the window, "Ying Shu will go back now, my lord should rest earlier, the deal is done, the next thing, you and I can't control it."

Hearing this, Jiang Cai looked at Xie Wenyuan, only to see that this person's expression was indifferent, without any sadness or joy. He opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say it again.

He wanted to ask Xie Wenyuan whether he had discovered the change of the third prince long ago, whether he had already discovered that he was transporting troops to Hangzhou, why he did not mention it when he discovered it, and why he ignored the life and death of Hangzhou city?

However, these words should not be said to Xie Wenyuan.

Xie Wenyuan is just a minister of punishment, not a prince, let alone an emperor, he has no power, no military power, so what if he finds out, how can he turn the situation around?Then, among several fighting princes, do harm to the people?He hasn't even questioned the emperor who is in charge of the world, so how can he question a young man?Chain the life and death of Hangzhou to the Minister of the Ministry of Justice...

But Jiangcai waved his hand, and said a little tiredly: "Speaking of which, Mr. Xie has been traveling outside for the past few days and has never rested. His iron body can't bear it."

Xie Wenyuan nodded, "Tomorrow I will come to discuss with Mr. Que."

After leaving Quefu, Zhang Hongshou drove the carriage over in front of the door.

In less than half an hour, he rushed back to the other courtyard.The other courtyard was very quiet at night, it was snowing these days in Hangzhou, and it was bitingly cold, walking on the corridor bridge in the other courtyard, Xie Wenyuan suddenly stopped in his tracks.

Zhang Hong, who was following behind him, also stopped.

"Zhang Hong?" Xie Wenyuan suddenly said.

"Sir, what's the matter?"

Zhang Hong waited for a long time, but he didn't hear Xie Wenyuan's words, so he asked cautiously: "My lord?"

Xie Wenyuan exhaled lightly, and said, "Bring the jug of wine from my study."

"Yes."

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