When we arrived in Xuzhou, it rained again.

The river surface has become very yellow.

Whether it is ships from Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan, or passenger ships from Suzhou and Hangzhou, they are blocked in this important transportation area between the north and the south.

Xiaofuqiao Wharf is the main road from Jialu River to the Yellow River.

Because the Yellow River was to be transported to the Yellow River, the Xuzhou Canal and the Yellow River were inseparable from each other.

The three rivers of Jialu River, Yellow River and Canal are all gathered in Xuzhou, so the small floating bridge wharf is also one of the most prosperous wharfs in the world.

The cargo ship dock was very crowded, and the ships were just parked densely, and there were hundreds of newly arrived canal ships waiting to enter the port.

The transportation of canals is the foundation of the country. Every canal ship has the mission of transporting grain from south to north, so how dare the civilian ships provoke them? Many civilian ships are far away, leaving the waves shaking.

Seeing this scene, Lin Yanchao's entourage frowned.

The boat owner laughed and said, "Master, we don't have to squeeze with these civilian ships, there is a special official ship dock on it."

Everyone was relieved to hear this.

Lin Yanchao thought, it was indeed better to be a privileged class.

So the boss of the ship turned the rudder and the post ship drove to the official ship wharf.

Seeing Lin Yanchao's third-story post boat, a water diversion boat came up early to greet him at the official ship wharf and led Lin Yanchao into the wharf.

The boss of the ship explained that there are many reefs near the Xuzhou wharf, which can still be seen when the water is shallow, but now the flood is rising, and the reef is flooded and disappeared.

Only boatmen who are familiar with the water can lead the river across the river, otherwise they will easily run into the reef.

Everyone was surprised when they heard this.

The post boats are on the shore. Compared with the crowded civil ship dock, there are quite a few boats on the official ship dock, but they are already spacious enough.

There is a long floating bridge not far from the pier, which is the small floating bridge, also known as Yunji Bridge.

I heard that the river port was very narrow, so I built a stone bridge. Later, the river port continued to widen, so I used boats and boards to form a floating bridge, which was connected by iron cables and railings. The two boats in the bridge could be spread out at any time to allow the incoming boats to travel back and forth. This is also a scene in Xuzhou.

Lin Yanchao and his family walked down the dock, stepping on a layer of unstained blue brick floor, and there were shades of willows on both sides. He immediately felt the cleanliness of the official boat dock.

After Lin Yanchao and the others got ashore, the silver ship from Yunnan also docked and stopped far aside. This time he learned his lesson and dared not compete with Lin Yanchao for berths on the wharf.

Chen Jichuan summoned the officials who were in charge of the ship at the wharf and brought them to Lin Yanchao.

Lin Yanchao asked: "When will this canal pass?"

The official said, "Report to the Lord, the notice in the mansion said that because of concerns about the upstream flood season, the ships must pass through the smoothest waterway, so the gate officials below strictly locked in the ships, and only 300 ships can pass in a day."

"Three hundred?" Lin Yanchao asked with a frown, "There are thousands of ships parked on this pier. When will these three hundred ships pass by? What's more, there are so many canal ships."

The official smiled with a pleasing smile: "There is nothing to do. When the Yellow River flooded, I encountered a canal ship crossing the river. The canal transport office was afraid of delaying the canal period, so he forced the canal ship to cross the river. As a result, countless ships overturned that time and more than a thousand canal soldiers were drowned. This is a lesson."

"But there is no way. The government ordered that the daily canal transport quota of 200 ships, 35 cargo ships, 35 passenger ships, and 30 official ships, and then relax after the flood season has passed."

"When is the schedule for the official ship?"

The official said: "It will take at least ten days."

Lin Yanchao frowned and said, "In ten days, aren't there three hundred official ships? Where did so many post ships come from in the imperial court?"

Chen Jichuan said: "Have you found out whether you have an impersonation?"

The official smiled bitterly and said, "Where do you dare to impersonate a name? Look at those official boats, which one is not wearing official title signs? In fact, we also know that most of them are prosecuted by the officials. There are not many officials who are actually ordered to go to Beijing for business operations, but how dare we investigate? Isn't this offending people?"

Just then a sneer came from behind.

Lin Yanchao, Yuan Keli and the others looked at it and turned out to be the officials on the Yunnan silver ship.

But when the official sneered, "I thought I was a master from somewhere, but I didn't expect that I could not even pass a river."

The official smiled and said, "What are the instructions of sir?"

The official sneered: "I am an official who was ordered by the emperor to escort a silver ship into Beijing from Yunnan. Our ship will cross the river tomorrow. Will it go?"

"Yunnan Silver Ship?" The official chewed these words and said solemnly: "No problem, please make arrangements for the adults immediately."

The officer laughed and looked at Yuan Keli and the others glared. He walked up to him and said with a smile: "It seems that you can't go to Beijing. It's a waste of such a good berth. If you are not in a hurry to rush, you might as well give it to us."

Yuan Keli was so angry that his face turned blue, and he asked Lin Yanchao to take out the imperial edict given to Chi Shiyi by the emperor.

But when Lin Yanchao was not in a hurry, he looked at the Yunnan official. Seeing that Lin Yanchao had a faint smile on his face, his eyes were sharp, and he couldn't help but feel excited.

Lin Yanchao said: "Don't inspire each other with words and inquire about my identity. I think you are not an ordinary official, may you be from Prince Mu's Mansion in Yunnan?"

The official's face changed. He could not find out whether Lin Yanchao's background was found by himself. Instead, Lin Yanchao tried it out.

Lin Yanchao bowed to the south and said, "Prince Mu has guarded Yunnan for the court for generations. Everyone in the world admires his loyalty and righteousness. If you are from Prince Mu's mansion, don't lose Prince Mu's face."

The official's face changed: "Where are you coming from? I dare to teach me a lesson... I am humming, I don't ask you, I don't believe that you can cross the river without showing your identity."

Lin Yanchao smiled and said to Chen Jichuan: "Come on the post."

Chen Jichuan said that he was a message and handed over a post.

Lin Yanchao put the post in the hands of the official and said, "Have this post to find your Xuzhou Prefect Jiang, and let him mount a slew of the river for us tomorrow."

When the official saw the post, he almost immediately knelt on the ground and said tremblingly: "Yes."

So Lin Yanchao and his group left.

The official of the Yunnan Silver Ship snorted coldly and thought to myself, "Isn't it still let me know your background."

The other party walked up to the official and asked, "Where is this lord?"

The official hesitated slightly. Seeing that the other party was stern, he did not dare to offend him, so he could only whisper: "This post is from the current prime minister Shen Ge Lao."

"What?" The official also changed his mind and thought that this person was so majestic. It turned out that he was from the prime minister today.

It must be a very important relationship to be able to hold his famous post.

However, when he came to a big city like Xuzhou, Lin Qianqian wanted to buy some rouge powder.

So Lin Yanchao asked Zhan Ming and the nurse to carry Xiao Yanchao back to the inn to rest, and accompanied Lin Qianqian for a while. After Lin Qianqian bought some things, she went back to the inn to rest.

Lin Yanchao and his disciples went to the restaurant for dinner.

There are many scholars coming and going in this restaurant. Lin Yanchao does not want to meet the scholars, otherwise he will be surrounded and blocked, so he will have to have a quiet private room to avoid people's eyes and ears.

This time, Lin Yanchao brought Tao Wangling and Yuan Keli to Beijing.

Because his father and uncle were both ministers in the court, Tao Wangling easily qualified for the Shuntian Prefecture provincial examination.

As for Yuan Keli, Lin Yanchao planned to recommend him to study in the Imperial College and then take the Shuntian Provincial Examination three years later. Although the supervisor can also take the imperial examination, the supervisory student examination is too difficult, so the safest thing is to take the provincial examination and the provincial examination.

As for the other disciples, Lin Yanchao kept them studying locally and preparing for the provincial examination.

In addition, Zuo Chuying, Zuo Guangdou and his son. Zuo Chuying was successful in planning to control water in Guide Prefecture, so he went to Beijing together. Lin Yanchao was preparing to take a job in the Ministry of Works for Zuo Chuying, so that his specialty in water management could be used.

The place where you eat in the private room can look out at the floating bridge from afar. There are bustling traffic on the floating bridge, people come and go, and the people are working hard for their livelihoods.

The Guide Mansion, where everyone in the room assisted Lin Yanchao in the management, was completed. Everyone followed Lin Yanchao to Beijing and sat here to chat, feeling like half a day of leisure in a while. Everyone drank a few drinks and drank, talking about the various things in Guide, which were definitely a rare pleasure in life.

At this moment, Tao Wangling, who had just left for changing clothes, and brought several people in and smiled at Lin Yanchao, saying, "Teacher, who are you here?"

Lin Yanchao turned around and saw that it was no one else. Behind Tao Wangling were the three brothers of the Yuan family and a scholar.

When Lin Yanchao was in Guide, the three brothers of the Yuan family often came to visit him. The three of them were all kind to Sun Chengzong, Yuan Keli and Tao Wangling.

Now, the few people meet here at once, and they are all very happy.

After asking a few questions, we found out that Gong Daqi, the left governor of Henan, had already asked the court to retire because he felt old and unwell.

The three brothers of the Yuan family could no longer live in Kaifeng. Yuan Zongdao was going to the capital to attend next year's examination, so the three brothers traveled north together and headed to the capital.

Yuan Zongdao was taking the exam, while his two brothers were seeing the scenery of the capital.

As for this fellow scholar, he had been standing in the corner of the house without saying a word. When the three brothers of the Yuan family were about to introduce him, Lin Yanchao smiled and said, "Is this Yang Xiaolian from Jinjiang?"

The scholar was stunned, and then he was a little happy and a little ashamed: "I didn't expect that the master of learning to know the students."

Lin Yanchao smiled and said, "Why don't you remember that when I was the same as my brother Nian, I was the same as my brother Zheng Nian. Brother Nian often praised Yang Xiaolian's talent in front of me. I heard that Yang Xian practiced his talent and sighed that he did not have the same luck as him. Yang Xiaolian won the provincial examination three years later and was on the same list as Jinqing. I was really happy for you after hearing this."

The scholar was named Yang Daobin, from Jinjiang. He participated in the provincial examination in the fourth year of Wanli with Lin Yanchao and Liu Tinglan.

Lin Yanchao learned about Yuan in that list, and Liu Tinglan and several other friends also passed the exam, but Yang Daobin failed. Three years later, Yang Daobin passed the exam again, and was on the same list as Ye Xianggao.

Liu Tinglan and Lin Yanchao were in the provincial examination. In the same year as the imperial examination, they were fellow villagers and both served as officials in Beijing. The two often dated. Liu Tinglan mentioned Yang Daobin's talent in front of Lin Yanchao many times. Later, Ye Xianggao went to Beijing to take the exam together with Lin Yanchao, and also mentioned Yang Daobin several times, which also praised his talent.

As for Lin Yanchao and Yang Daobin, although they were not on the same list, with his ability to remember that there was such a person among the scholars who were good at Liu Tinglan in the provincial examination. Now that the two met, Lin Yanchao immediately met the person.

For Yang Daobin, Lin Yanchao was already famous all over the world at this time. After Yang Daobin passed the juren, he also let go of his frustration when he failed the exam with Lin Yanchao. Instead, he lamented that Lin Jieyuan, who was the first in the provincial examination at the age of 15, became Lin Sanyuan again in his prime.

This time, Yang Daobin went north and met Yuan Zongdao. Both of them admired each other's talents and invited them to Beijing for the next year's examination together.

Seeing that the three brothers of the Yuan family admired Lin Yanchao so much, he was embarrassed to mention that they had this connection with Lin Yanchao. Now the three brothers of the Yuan family knew that Yang Daobin and Lin Yanchao had this relationship, and they all looked at each other with admiration.

Seeing that Lin Yanchao met the three brothers of the Yuan family and old friends from his fellow countrymen, Lin Yanchao was also very happy. He ordered the store to add chopsticks, add a few more dishes, and invite several people to take the seat together.

Only then did the few people learn that Lin Yanchao was the best in the world and was summoned to the capital by the emperor and given the title of Chi Shi.

The three brothers of the Yuan family were naturally happy for Lin Yanchao. Even the blind man knew the achievements of Lin Yanchao in Guide, and he deserved it.

As for Yang Daobin, he was even more surprised. Lin Yanchao had been an official for only six years, but he had reached the fourth rank. This time, he was ordered to summon him to the capital and he must have been summoned.
To be continued...