Liu Mang quickly bid farewell to Liu Qi in Xinye and headed towards Xiangyang. On the way, Liu Qi originally planned to send some soldiers and horses to escort Liu Mang, but Liu Mang refused, because Liu Mang had no extra horses under his command, and what they needed was to reach Xiangyang City quickly.
"My lord, is this Liu Qi you?!" After leaving Xinye, Jia Xu, the old poison next to him, asked. From Jia Xu's point of view, investing in this Liu Qi was a complete mistake. Make friends, because he values righteousness, and is honest and honest, he will not plot against you, being friends is the best, but this is a troubled world, such people are completely eliminated by the times, there is no room for them to be swallowed up, If Liu Qi was smart enough, he would have sought the support of the Huang family, the Kuai family, or even the Pang family, instead of being blackmailed and mentioned in Xinye. Although he avoided the direct persecution of the Cai family, Liu Qi was also far away from power. the center.
Helping Liu Qi is equivalent to making an enemy of the Cai family, such a person is worth Liu Wei to accept. Just because of a Xinye city and the grain and grass of Wanshi
"Wenhe, Wenhe, sometimes the choice of allies is not only under our subjective control, but also out of our control!" Liu Mang accepted Liu Qi not for plotting Xinye, but for his trip to Jingzhou The information Liu Wei got was that Pang Tong joined forces with the Cai family, the Huang family and the Pang family to attack him. Liu Wei got the Huang family and the Pang family. Fortunately, the Huang family lost Jiang Xia because of his Lv Bujun. Changsha is used as compensation, but how can Changsha, a place close to the barbarians, be as rich as Jiangxia, which is the mainstream of the Yangtze River! The back-and-forth taxes alone can make the Huang family bleed, and Liu Mang once arrested Huang She. In order to subdue Huang Zhong's heart, Huang She suffered a lot. If Huang She can let go, then Liu Mang That's why I really admire Huang She! The Pang family was originally Pang Tong's family, and if Pang Tong and Liu Mang were opposed, the Pang family would naturally not stand by Liu Mang's side.
But Liu Mang of the Cai family really didn't know where he had offended him. This Cai Mao repeatedly made troubles. Liu Mang sent Jingzhou envoys, but most of the reasons were attributed to the Cai family. The Cai family was responsible for the defense of Xiangyang and the safety of the post station. If there was no Cai Mao Is it true that the envoy is so easy to kill? You must know that there are dozens of Liu Mang army sergeants beside the envoy. But these sergeants were all killed except for the one who sent back the head of the envoy. Could it be possible that this kind of fighting of dozens or hundreds of weapons would be quiet! So Cai Mao did it on purpose.
Liu Mang didn't know where he had offended the Cai family, but since the Cai family had already made him an enemy, Liu Mang didn't need to think too much about it. You only need to know who the enemy is, and the enemy of the enemy is your friend. The Cai family is afraid of Liu Qi, the eldest son of Liu Biao. If the Cai family makes Liu Mang uncomfortable, Liu Mang will naturally not make the Cai family any better. of.
And accepting Liu Qi and Liu Mang has another advantage, that is, Baima Congyi, who has already headed towards Nanyang, really has a safe haven for outposts, although Baima Congyi has amazing horsepower. But you can't keep running, you always need a place to rest. Yiyang and Zaoyang are too far away, but Xinye is really close to Nanyang, and the food and grass to go to Baima Congyi has also been solved. Although Liu Qi can't mobilize the food and grass , but it is still possible to allocate some of his 5,000 soldiers and horses to the white horse for righteousness.
So Liu Qi's teammate was not chosen by Liu Mang, but passively. Now that the Cai family has made it clear that they can't get along with Liu Mang, Liu Mang can only passively choose Liu Qi as an ally.
The galloping horses quickly headed towards the river, and crossing the river from now on could be heading towards Xiangyang.
Liu Mang refused Liu Qi to send troops to escort him, but he did not refuse to board the warship.
On both sides of the Yangtze River, the trees are shaded. The current Donghan sister is not the kind of later generations who built various dams and nearby industrial areas, making the river water no longer the color it should have. There is no industrial pollution, so the current Yangtze River water is crystal clear in some places, and the sound of the river is simply fascinating.
I can't help but sigh the masterpiece of nature, this is a mother river.
"the river is long and tempestuous, it was like a hero.
Right and wrong success or failure turned around empty.
Castle Peak is still there. Several times the sunset is red.
White-haired fishermen and woodcutters on the river, used to watching the autumn moon and spring breeze.
A pot of turbid wine is happy to meet.
How many things in ancient and modern times are all jokes. "It's no wonder that ancient literati and poets can write such poetic and picturesque poems about the water of the Yangtze River. It is because the Yangtze River is so beautiful, and its virtues make people unable to extricate themselves. Liu Mang couldn't help but write Yang Shen's poem Jiang Xian sang it.
"Good words, good words! I didn't expect that the lord can write such a poem!" Jia Xu clapped his hands. Liu Mang really rolled his eyes when he could listen to the first two sentences and the last two sentences. What is a lord? Can also write such a poem, this is "chi luo" naked look down on, although this poem is not written by Liu Mang, but the owner of this poem is someone who is more than a thousand years later, what's the plagiarism, Can the affairs of scholars be called stealing
Liu Mang blamed Jia Xu, and Jia Xu seemed to know that he had said something wrong, but it was inevitable, because this poem was obviously not written by someone like Liu Mang. Although Jia Xu is not good at composing poems, But he can understand the artistic conception in the poems. The author of such a poem must be someone who sees through the world or has experienced the ups and downs of life for decades. It is a kind of emotion for his decades of experience, a kind of Admiration, not the feeling that Liu Mang, who is only in his twenties, should have.
Jia Xu was right. The owner of this poem, Yang Shen, is really the kind of person who can see right from wrong. He was the one who won the third prize, and the one who won the championship. Because he offended King Shizong Zhu Houcong, Yang Shengan was dispatched to Yunnan to serve as an army. Wearing shackles, he was escorted to Jiangling, Hubei by sergeants. It happened that a fisherman and a woodcutter were cooking fish and drinking wine by the river, talking and laughing happily. Yang Sheng'an was suddenly very emotional, so he asked the sergeant to find a pen and paper, and wrote the song "Linjiang Fairy".
Liu Mang is too lazy to discuss this poem with Jia Xu anymore, and Liu Mang will really be exposed if he continues to talk about it.
Jia Xu will not poke Liu Mang's lameness anymore. After all, people who expose other people's cowhide are always unwelcome. Liu Mang and the others traveled downstream from Xinye to Xiangyang, and the speed was extremely fast. It took half a day. Zhiguang and the others could no longer see the direction of Xinye City. Although the Nine Curves and Eighteen Bends were referring to the Yellow River, there were also twists and turns above the Yangtze River.
"His Royal Highness, there is a fork in front of us! Should we take the official route or Luokou Ferry?" The boatman beside him asked Liu Mang.
"Luokou Ferry? Official road?!" Liu Mang didn't know much about Jingzhou's waterways. There are nine bends and eighteen bends on this waterway, and sometimes there are more than a dozen fork deltas on a branch.
"This Luokou Ferry is a small road and a tributary, and the official road is a big mainstream of the Yangtze River with passing ships!" The boatman explained.
"So which one is faster?!" Liu Mang continued to ask what he needed was to reach Xiangyang quickly. Even if the negotiations from Xiangyang went smoothly, it would take half a month for the military rations to be delivered to Yangzhou, so Liu Mang was delayed for a moment. no.
"Go Luokou Ferry faster!" The boatman replied.
"Then let's go to Luokou Ferry!" Liu Mang chose Luokou Ferry without hesitation, as there are quite a lot of boats passing through the main road. Merchants like Jingzhou are also very developed.
Liu Mang's warship quickly turned around and headed towards Luokoudu.
Jia Xu's eyes were also scanning the river, and suddenly he looked at the boat behind him twice, and his intuition told him that he seemed to have seen this boat before, and Jia Xu walked in front of Liu Mang thinking suspiciously. Pointing to a small sailboat at the back, he said to Liu Mang, "My lord. That small boat seems to be following us all the time." Before that, we couldn't see it above the mainstream of the Yangtze River, because there were so many boats at that time, but now we can clearly see it. There is such a small boat behind Liu Mang's boat.
"When was it behind us?!" Liu Mang also followed Jia Xu's direction and looked at the boat.
"Send someone to investigate!" Liu Mang frowned, being careful in everything, Liu Mang had few people so he had to be more cautious.
"Understood!" Jia Xu nodded, and was about to order a few sergeants to stop the boat and go to the small boat for inspection. "Boatman, listen to the boat. Wait for the boat behind to come and let's lean on it!"
"Hey, what's so good about such a boat, isn't it just a fishing boat!" The boatman said indifferently when he heard Jia Xu's words. This is a small boat with two sheds, only a dozen materials, it should be used for big fish, and it may also be used for transporting passengers temporarily.
"Fishing boat?!" Liu Mang is not a native of the water. He didn't even know how to swim in this world. How could he tell if it was a fishing boat
"His Royal Highness the King of Shu. Look, is there a covering net on the small shed?" Said the boat, pointing to the boat.
Liu Mang looked over and saw such a net-like object.
"That's the fishing net. Now it seems that it should be used to transport passengers, so the fishing net is put away, and see if there are two birds on the side of the boat!" The boatman pointed in the direction of the bow of the boat. A dark bird.
"That's the old raven, which these fishermen use to catch fish," the boatman continued to explain, the old raven at this time. It's not a crow, but a cormorant, also known as a water crow or an osprey. Cormorants are good at diving and can catch fish with their long and hooked mouths in the water. In the southern water town. Fishermen often take domesticated cormorants with them when they go fishing. The cormorants stood neatly at the bow of the ship, each wearing a collar around their necks. When the fishermen spot a fish, they whistle and the cormorants jump into the water to catch the fish. Because of the collars, the cormorants caught fish but could not swallow it, so they had to return to the boat with the fish in their mouths. After the owner snatched the fish, the cormorant dived down again to catch the fish. When encountering a big fish, several cormorants will work together to catch it. Some of them peck at fish eyes, some bite fish tails, some hold fish fins, and they cooperate very tacitly. After the fishing is over, the owner takes off the cormorant's collar and rewards them with the prepared small fish. This type of fishing is very fun and very effective.
"Use birds to catch fish, fisherman?!" Although Liu Mang sounded interesting, he still sent someone to spy on him immediately. The boatman curled his lips and was a little disdainful, wasn't it unnecessary, but who made Liu Mang the biggest.
"What are you doing, what are you doing!" A white-clothed scribe shouted loudly in the cabin, and a fisherman next to him also shouted at the military master with a dazed look, as if explaining something.
After waiting for a long time for the sergeants to return to the boat, I finally realized that this is really an ordinary fishing boat, occasionally seeing off guests.
"Perhaps Wen He made a fuss over a molehill!" Liu Mang laughed at himself when he saw nothing. Even if this kind of small boat is an enemy, there are only one or two people. Although Liu Mang has few people, there are still more than 20 people, and there are Guan Hai and Zhou Cang, so some thieves are ignored.
"My lord, it's better to be more cautious!" Jia Xu didn't know why, but always felt a pair of eyes looking at her.
"Hehe, let's go, the journey to Xiangyang is not far away, and the one-day journey will soon pass!" Liu Mang patted Jia Xu on the shoulder and the two entered the cabin.