A Han River runs through the hinterland of Zhongzhou.
Above the Han River, river transportation is prosperous, and the Han River waters have many tributaries. Therefore, whenever the Han River intersects with its tributaries, it will be able to support a large port city and achieve long-term development as a place for transshipment and transportation.
There are three large cities at the most important river confluence in the upper reaches of the Han River.
The first one is located in the old territory of Guangjun. It is the intersection of the Han River and the Qinghe River, a tributary of Guangjun. It is named Jiangping because the Qinghe River connects Jincheng, the capital of Guangjun, and Shuzhou City, an important town in the south. The importance of Jiangping It became prominent, so it has the largest and most important transshipment port in Guang County, carrying almost half of the river transportation functions of Guang County in the old days.
The second one is located at the easternmost end of Guanggun's current territory. It is the intersection of the two major rivers Hanjiang and Yashui. It has a huge port that is almost as large as Hanoi Port. ?The port is the most important transit point connecting the two states of Jiang and Han for trade. Nowadays, a part of it is designated by Yunbailou as a military town of the Guangjun Navy Port, called Daomi City.
The third one is located downstream of Rice City, at the intersection of the Han River and its tributary Baihe River, which is Danggang. Although the tributary Baihe is not as large as Yashui, it is not small. Moreover, Baihe starts from Heyuan City in Anyang County, passes through Anseong, the capital of Anyang County, and Nanhu City, an important town in the north, and then passes through Sucheng, one of the three cities in the southern part of Hanoi County. Finally, it merged into the Han River at Dan Port, which took over most of the commercial exchanges between Anyang County and Jiangzhou, as well as many river transport responsibilities in the southern part of Hanoi County. It was extremely prosperous. Therefore, as the last big port at the east end of Hanzhou, it was also the port of Hanzhou and even Qing County. The importance of Dan Port as the last stopping place for merchants before entering Jiangzhou is self-evident.
In fact, even if you put aside the important role of Danggang in river transportation, it is enough to become a big city, because it is too close to Jiangzhou. For hundreds of years, it has been greatly affected by Jiangzhou’s business atmosphere. It attracted countless merchants from Jiangzhou to set up shops or workshops here, and to be one step ahead of local merchants in Jiangzhou to obtain trading resources from Hanzhou in the southwest.
Therefore, over time, Danggang has become the most commercial city in Southwest Hanzhou. In other words, it itself is a large city in Jiangzhou located in Hanzhou.
On this day, the west gate of Danggang City, which had not been open for a long time, opened.
Under the city wall, hundreds of elite soldiers wearing Jiangzhou Navy's light scale armor lined up and waited. On the city wall, the elite soldiers of Hanoi County stood neatly and solemnly, looking like a military town in wartime.
Standing at the front of the parade were two men who were not too old.
A tall young man with dark skin, wearing a black dress that only a prefect is qualified to wear, and a high crown on his head, looks quite majestic. He is standing with his hands behind his hands. He is the only one on the stage of the Shen family in Hanoi County. The remaining one is Shen Ranzhi.
Next to him was a young man who couldn't take any time off. He was wearing soft armor, with no unnecessary decorations on his body. He had a smile on his face, with a sense of majesty that seemed domineering but not very overwhelming. He was the leader of Jiangzhou Water. A rising star in the military, Young Master Yu Wei.
At this moment, Yu Wei was squatting on the ground bored, stretching out a finger, pulling a thin wisp of water vapor, and continuously pouring it into an ant nest next to the official road.
The ant nest was just a narrow black hole, but at this moment it was like a bottomless pit, absorbing the water vapor. It didn't overflow for a long time. Just when he was thinking about adding more water vapor. When the speed of water vapor infusion was increased, Shen Ran suddenly opened his mouth.
"coming."
Yu Wei did not get up, but just looked up and saw a golden light appearing on the western horizon. The golden light was getting closer and closer, and soon landed one mile west of Danggang City, followed by two people from far to near. The figure appeared on the official road.
"Two great monks," Yu Wei stood up, patted the unnecessary dust on his hands, and asked, "Is it true that Su Yiming is actually a disciple of Xie Huangshi?"
Shen Ranzhi shook his head, but said affirmative words, "Although the world is indeed very chaotic now, and Xie Huangshi has not appeared in person for many years, there is no news of his death. There should be no one who can be that big." How dare you pretend to be his disciple to deceive the prefect of Li County, even if he is a great monk."
"This is interesting. Doesn't it mean that Guangjun Yunbailou also has a disciple of Xie Huangshi?" Yu Weihu clicked his tongue, "Could it be that Xie Huangshi, who is said to be in Changzhou in the northeast, is actually optimistic about the Han Dynasty in the southwest? State?"
Shen Ranzhi immediately smiled and said, "The man who won Yun Bailou is named Zhang Ziheng. He recently sent an envoy to Lijun on behalf of Guangjun and helped promote the Yashui Alliance and the Annan Conference. However, he was... by the prefect of Lijun... ..detained.”
Yu Wei was stunned for a moment, then laughed loudly, "It's interesting, hahaha, this Lijun prefect is to my liking."
Not far away, one of the parties mentioned in their conversation, Su Yiming and his old servant Jin Ye, had walked dozens of meters away. From a distance, Su Yiming smiled and raised his hand, "Prefect Shen, Mr. Yu, Mr. Su Yiming, the guest from Lijun, is very polite!" Shen Ranzhi greeted him slowly with a bright smile, and bowed his hands extremely politely, "Mr. Su, there is no need to be polite, Shen has a close relationship with the prefect Luo of Lijun. "Jiu, when you come to Dan Gang, you are home," he said, raising his hand sideways to guide the city, "Enter the city."
After Su Yiming and Yu Wei smiled and nodded, they walked into the city together. While looking at the soldiers above and below the city, he praised, "This is the first time for Su to come to Danggang, but unexpectedly the city wall It is so tall and its soldiers are so elite that it can be said to be impregnable."
"Mr. Su is joking. In Hanoi County today, where can there be a city that can be called impregnable?" Shen Ranzhi openly admitted the difficulty of the current situation and was very frank, "The Shen family has now lost the most important thing." The rich and prosperous land of the two rivers has lost the thousands of miles of fertile land north of the Yangtze River, and only three cities in the south are left. It is not easy to be able to support it."
Su Yiming no longer offered false words of comfort, but actually nodded, "If Prefect Shen has such an understanding, everything will still have a chance. Does the Prefect know what Su is talking about when he comes to Danggang this time?"
Shen Ranzhi shook his head, "I don't know about Shen, but it must be related to the Annan Conference. Mr. Su knows that Shen is no longer qualified to participate in that conference."
Su Yiming sighed and said, "It does have something to do with the Annan Conference, but the conference itself... doesn't matter if I don't go."
"Oh?" Shen Ranzhi asked in surprise, "What does Mr. Su mean by this?"
Su Yiming sighed again and said, "The Guang County traitor Yun Bailou first used the Yashui Alliance to alienate the three major border counties, and then used the Annan Conference to secretly collude with Yongchang County. Not only did he unite with Qing County to trap Li County, In the border area, we also took advantage of the opportunity to recruit Wan Qingsi, the head of Xiaoyao Valley in Anyang County, as the county magistrate... He is really ambitious and should not be underestimated..."
Su Yiming's words contained so much content that Shen Ran was stunned for a moment.
On the side, Yu Wei frowned slightly, thought for a moment and then said, "Yun Bailou...is going to attack Liucheng?!"
Shen Ran was horrified and shocked.
Su Yiming took a deep look at Yu Wei, nodded and said slowly, "Yun Bailou seemed to have gone down the river with the Guangjun Navy after the Annan Conference in Xingcheng, and then returned to Huaicheng by land. In fact. .....We have arrived at Rice City!!”
Shen Ranzhi quickly looked at Yu Wei.
Yu Wei frowned deeper, "Now... we are indeed in some trouble."
