Outside Yuezhou City, under the escort of Zhou Tai, Su Qi'an, Xie Cang and other two thousand people left Yuezhou City.
After settling Su Qi'an and others in the seventh county city, after briefly giving Su Qi'an instructions, Zhou Tai left with them.
After Zhou Tai left, Xie Cang couldn't help but ask, "Brother Su, I think His Highness is a pretty good person. With him in Yuezhou, even if Xiang Yan holds great power, he should not dare to make any mistakes."
"Why did Brother Su reject His Highness the Sixth Prince's kindness and insist on leaving? Do we really not care about the war in Yuezhou?"
Xie Cang's doubts were unexpected by Su Qi'an. He looked at Xie Cang with a smile and shook his head.
"Brother Xie, haven't you seen that Xiang Yan is the leader in the Yuezhou War? Even if His Highness can compete with him, His Highness still has to obey Xiang Yan when it comes to mobilizing and commanding the army."
"Children of the royal family, even the second and fourth princes who are regarded as princes, when they come to the local area and face emergencies, they have to obey the orders of the local top officials, let alone His Highness the Sixth Prince."
"Actually, these are only minor matters. The most important thing is that we are here to support the war in Yuezhou. We are not here to send troops to Xiang Yan to serve as the top soldiers and hand over military power."
"Brother Xie, you should have seen that the people in the Yuezhou Command are divided into two factions, and they even fight among themselves during the war. If such a command really wants to hand over military power, our soldiers , isn’t it just rushing to die?”
Xie Cang nodded and understood Su Qi'an's explanation. Xie Cang had also experienced many large and small wars.
It is too clear that during wartime, if the top management is unstable or even fights among themselves, even if they have the strongest army in their hands, they will eventually be wiped out.
Having said that, since Su Qian came to Yuezhou, he would not really ignore it.
Whether the war in Yuezhou can be calmed down will not only affect Yuezhou, but also the entire three southern states.
If Yuezhou is captured, or a separate confrontation with the pirates is formed, the pirates will definitely send people to invade Nanzhou and Jiaozhou in the future.
Su Qi'an didn't want to see the relatively stable three states in the south fall into complete chaos.
He patted Xie Cang on the shoulder and said, "Although we have left Yuezhou City, in a certain respect, it is also good for us. This way we can be free from restraints and have a more comprehensive understanding of the current Yuezhou war. If we are really single-minded When we stay in Yuezhou, no matter what happens on the front line, we will have to take several steps to the rear."
"In a war, if you want to win, the command must be flexible and maintain a high degree of acuity. Sitting in the rear like this, you don't know anything."
Xie Cang deeply agreed with Su Qi'an's remarks and asked, "Then what are we going to do next?"
"Naturally, the next step is to come forward in person and go down to the grassroots level. Only at the grassroots level can we know the most authentic news."
"As for the Sixth Highness, I have already kicked Zhou Tai awake and asked him to send a message to the Sixth Highness. Pay more attention to the Yuezhou Navy and don't let pirates take advantage of it."
"As long as the Yuezhou Navy is not damaged, the stalemate in Yuezhou will not be broken for a while."
"We can just take advantage of this period to have a deeper understanding and make further arrangements before making further arrangements."
Xie Cang understood Su Qi'an's intention, stayed in the room for a while, and then left.
Looking at Xie Cang's back, Su Qi'an had another reason in mind and didn't tell Xie Cang.
The reason why I led people to leave Yuezhou and declined the kindness of His Highness the Sixth Prince was that I was worried that the people gathered in the city would conflict with those at the headquarters. The deployment of troops would definitely cause a lot of trouble.
The deeper reason is that Su Qi'an will be wary of Sixth Highness Su Kang.
Don't look at it. Just now, Su Kang has been standing by Su Qi'an and standing up for him.
But the more this happened, the more Su Qi'an became suspicious of the Sixth Prince, not that Su Qi'an judged the heart of a gentleman with the heart of a villain.
Compared with Gu Hua, although both of them respected Su Qi'an and were basically frank, Gu Hua not only was frank, but also shared his ambitions with Su Qi'an and even the military strength in Nanzhou with him. Once there were external changes, How he would deal with Nanzhou, such top-secret information, was all told to Su Qi'an one by one.
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Worrying that Su Qi'an would leak the secret, especially during the time he stayed in Nanzhou, Su Qi'an saw a real Nanzhou.
There were good things and bad things, and Gu Hua didn't mean to hide them at all, he spread them all out to Su Qi'an.
This is true honesty, and His Highness Sixth Prince made the decision for Su Qi'an because of the actual situation.
As for Zhou Tai, who explained to Su Qi'an all the way, that was called respect. Even if Su Qi'an was famous, or Zhou Tai was under the instructions of His Highness Sixth Prince, this kind of respect was too much.
This made Su Qi'an feel a little uncomfortable, and for some reason, when dealing with Zhou Tai, Su Qi'an always felt that this person felt familiar.
It was as if she had seen him a long time ago, but Su Qi'an couldn't remember exactly where or who it was for a while.
Anyway, the meeting with His Highness the Sixth Prince not only did not dispel Su Qi'an's suspicion of the Sixth Prince, but instead intensified it. ap.
Of course, this is all Su Qian's feeling and there is no substantial evidence. Perhaps it was because he had traveled all the way, crossing three southern states in just one month, that he was mentally exhausted.
Putting the thoughts in his mind aside, Su Qian didn't think much, lay down and had a good rest.
At dawn on the second day, Su Qi'an got up early, and with Xie Cang and more than a dozen veterans, they left the seventh county and headed towards the subordinate counties.
Su Qi'an and Xie Cang planned to leave this time for a long time, at least seven or eight days.
If Zhou Tai sent someone to inquire during the trip, or if something happened to the Sixth Prince, Su Qi'an would have already told Tong Zhan, who was staying at the inn, how to deal with it.
It was said that Su Qi'an was too tired and had no plans to meet guests, or that he was taking Xie Cang around for fun.
Only by truly going deep into the grassroots and getting close to the people can we understand the truest situation.
Xie Cang was convinced by this. Not long after he followed Su Qi'an and left the seventh county, within a day or two, he arrived at a place called Shuixiang County.
This small county town is under the jurisdiction of the seventh county. It is not very conspicuous among the seven counties. It is just an extremely ordinary small town.
Small towns like Shuixiang County are commonly seen in Yuezhou.
Shuixiang County is a county where many rivers pass through it, so it is named Shuixiang.
It stands to reason that counties and county towns with many waterways in their territory are generally very lively.
It is a distribution center for fishermen's trade, but when you step into the water town, you will find that except for a dozen waterways with no end in sight, there are not many people on the water at all.
There are not even many people in the entire county. From a distance, it looks like an empty city.
Shuixiang County is not under the jurisdiction of Yuezhou City, and its location in Yuezhou is also very far away. It is basically impossible to say that it has been attacked by pirates.
But it happened that this place was an empty city. Xie Cang sent people to inquire about it for a long time before he knew the reason.
As the war in Yuezhou began, orders were suddenly issued from above to recruit young men from all counties and transfer them all to shipyards in counties and cities to build warships.
Even if you don't know how, you still have to work in the shipyard to do logistics. This is not just the case in one county, but basically in other counties.
Looking at the empty streets in front of them, Su Qi'an and Xie Cang felt a little uncomfortable.
The war in Yuezhou has been fought like this. It is really a waste. Not to mention compared with Nanzhou, even Jiaozhou has not captured young men on such a large scale.
And with so many people, who can guarantee whether they are really building warships for the public, or whether they are seeking personal gain for some people.
Such a thing is not impossible to happen during the war. If there is no personal gain, Su Qi'an really can't figure it out. He arrested all the young men from several counties and recruited them uniformly. He didn't know that Yuezhou was facing hundreds of thousands of pirates attacking the city. .
Moreover, Su Qi'an only saw the matter of catching young men in counties like this. The seventh county where they stayed was not very lively, but at least they could see a lot of young men.
But once you leave the county town and come to the county town below, the scene is completely different.
Su Qi'an and Xie Cang looked at each other and saw something unusual in each other's eyes. They didn't say anything more, in order to verify their judgment.
Then, the two of them led a dozen of their men and walked swaggering towards the largest street in the city.
These dozen or so people are very conspicuous on the street even in normal times, let alone during the war when all the young and middle-aged people are arrested.
There were only about a dozen people like Su Qi'an and Xie Cang on the whole street, which seemed quite obvious.
Before they had even walked a third of the way, there were quick footsteps behind them, followed by a deep voice.
"People in front of me, stop for me."
Su Qi'an and the others seemed not to have heard, and continued walking. After a while, as the footsteps approached, more than twenty people suddenly surrounded Su Qi'an and the others.
The first few people were government officials, but the others looked not like government officials, but like green-skinned thugs.
The moment they surrounded Su Qi'an and the others, the leading yamen officer began to curse.
"Damn it, stop it, you're deaf!"
As he spoke, he rolled up his sleeves and struck Su Qian with the whip in his hand. Suddenly, a veteran stepped forward and grabbed the whip. He exerted such force that the leading officer almost fell over.
The leading Yamen servant staggered a few steps before he stood upright. He carefully looked at the person in front of him.
With flashing eyes, he could be their leader and had some ability to observe what was happening. He could tell at a glance that Su Qi'an and Xie Cang, who were being guarded behind, were not simple things.
He did not get angry and said in a cold voice, "Who are you? Don't you know that the martial law is in place in Shuixiang City? You still dare to run around at will? You don't take the law seriously!"
"We are the governors of the Eight Counties. We are new here and I really don't know. I will leave right away." Xie Cang stepped forward and said.
As soon as these words came out, the leader of the corvee was a little surprised. He thought to himself, "It turns out to be Juren, no wonder he is so calm. If it were normal, I might even give you three points, but now hum."
The head officer's expression changed, and he said in a sullen voice, "Are you allowed to leave? You said that you are the successor of the Eighth County. Who can prove it? Hum, people from the Eighth County came to the Seventh County inexplicably, and they are During the war, you must think that I am a fool!"
"I seriously suspect that you are spies sent by the pirates. If you want to prove your identity, come with me. Otherwise, don't blame me for turning against you."
