Changzhou meets a miserable situation

The gloomy weather and gloomy face. The whistling sound of the wind blew from all directions, blew Tan Zong's long gown with a strong sound. After walking against the wind for a day, Tan Zong had become disheveled now.

Tan Zong rode on the horse, his slightly thin body kept rising and falling along with the horse's back. This was nothing to be performed for him, who had been on the horse's back for a day. However, compared with his body that was about to shake, the hot crotch was the main reason why Tan Zong's expressionless face was now.

Even though he had already imagined many difficulties in advance, Tan Zong did not expect that things would change like this.

The carriage broke after half a day of walking, and the entire axle was broken so badly that it was impossible to use it. At that time, the entire team was in a wilderness, with no villages or shops in front of the villages and no shops in the back, and there was no need to find anyone. Not to mention repairing the car, even supply was difficult.

In a loss, Tan Zong had to ride the horse pulling the cart himself. Fortunately, he was worried that the road was long, so the horse pulling the cart changed to a good horse. If it were the old horse, he would probably not be able to ride it.

Tan Zong's choice naturally greatly increased the speed of the entire team's progress, but Wang Dong himself was in trouble. Although he had learned horse riding in the academy, he just jogged around the playground for a few laps and felt it. He had never had the experience of riding a horse. Therefore, when the horse was running, Tan Zong felt that he couldn't control it anymore.

When he was camping in the wilderness at night, he finally found some tricks under Chen Yang's suggestion. But when Fang woke up the next day, Tan Zong felt that his whole body was shaking, and he couldn't find a complete bone, and he was very restless all over his body.

"There are few adults who ride horses, and they will ride for most of the day. This will happen." Chen Yang smiled and comforted a few times, and then quickly flattered a few more people: "The adults are actually the fastest people who have ever seen in Beizhi. They rode well in just half a day, which made us brothers feel ashamed. I think at that time, any of us who learned horse riding took them ten days and half a month to control the horse, and even if they could do it within a week, they could brag outside! Tsk tsk, now, they are really watching the sky. Compared with the adults, these people are really bullshit."

After hearing this, Tan Zong glanced lightly, but the corners of his mouth couldn't help but raise it slightly. Obviously, Chen Yang's flattery was good, which made Tan Zong feel very comfortable: "Oh, really that? What age were you at that time?"

"That..." Chen Yang was asked by Tan Zong's words and even laughed on his face. He touched his head and stammered for a long time, but couldn't say a word for a long time, which was almost like being choked by saliva.

There was a guard next to him who couldn't stand Chen Yang and Tan Zong so close. Who wouldn't know that Tan Zong was a big celebrity in front of King An, so he immediately took the opportunity to come over and flatter him: "Most of us guards are soldiers, and we have to learn these swords, guns and sticks since we were young. Usually when we were seven years old, our family would force us to start learning to ride horses. If we accidentally fell off the horse, we would not only have no medicine, but we would have to fall to beat him. Tsk tsk, to be honest, when we think about it, we still feel pain when we think about it!"

Seeing the guard who came over with a memory look on his face, Tan Zong and Chen Yang cursed "Idiot" in their hearts at the same time.

Chen Yang's words just now made Tan Zong feel comfortable and felt that he might be really better than others. But when he heard this idiot say it, he lost his excitement at the moment, and instead looked full of grief and anger: You all started learning since you were seven years old. I am twenty years old, can you be comparable?

So, not everyone can do it well.

After being disturbed by the guard, and when he woke up in the morning, he found that the inner sides of his thighs were so painful that he was rubbed by saddles, and even his skin was worn out. Tan Zong lost any good mood and only had a stern face along the way.

The eight guards accompanied him, and two policemen who were recommended by Song Lian to lead the way. The group of eleven people stopped all the way and rushed to the road. At noon, the policemen who led the way pointed to a dilapidated stone tablet in the grass and said, "Sir, after passing this place, it is Suzhou. Walking forward for another ten miles is Changzhou. If we walk faster, we can still have meals in Changzhou at noon."

"Changzhou?" Tan Zong was stunned for a moment, then he was delighted.

From Nanjing to Suzhou, the middle road is about 500 miles, passing by Changzhou, Wuxi and other places. When you arrive in Changzhou, you are equivalent to walking halfway through it. Then you can walk along the official road for about half a day to reach Wuxi. When you arrive in Wuxi, Suzhou is far away, and it is basically half a day.

However, more importantly, because Changzhou has the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, it has become an important hub that runs across the north and south and radiates east and west as early as the Former Sui Dynasty, and is a commercial important place that is rare. Changzhou is also known as a granary. In the old saying, "Su Changshu, the world is full of money" often refers to this Changzhou. Therefore, looking at this Changzhou, you can basically know what the situation in Suzhou is.

After thinking a little in his heart, Tan Zong immediately cheered up and said, "Then everyone is lucky to have a hard time. When you arrive in Changzhou, I will invite everyone to drink, rest for a while, and set off after the sun!"

These guards and the police naturally applauded after hearing this, and some of the guards were already excited and screamed, but how much was there was a real feeling inside, and how much was pretending to be mysterious, but Tan Zong didn't think about it.

After riding a horse for more than half an hour, Changzhou City was finally in sight.

From the road along the way, although the road was soaked by rain, and even the trees were blown a little tilted, there was not much water on the ground, and at most I took a walk in some potholes on both sides of the road. Although all the rice fields were soaked in water, and even the roots might be soaked, it was better than the flood outside Nanjing. At least, although these yields would greatly reduce, there was still some hope, but the fields outside Nanjing were no longer visible except for the boundless water.

Before leaving, Tan Zong had specially walked around the north of the city, and saw the floods being blocked by a series of short hills about a mile outside the city. Some of the cows, sheep, pigs and horses that escaped by chance even stopped on the hills and kept roaring around the floods.

Fortunately, Wang Ren's ten disaster relief measures have begun to be implemented, and a large number of people have been mobilized, and many people have been mobilized to search for survivors along the waterline, while some people have carried those small boats to search in the water. By the time Tan Zong left, it is said that many survivors have been found, and a member of the Ministry of Works has been searching on the roof of a village.

At this point, five of the seven missing people during the collapse of the dike had been found, and only the last two were left without news.

According to Tan Zong's opinion, the group did not intend to disturb the local county government, so they directly let the two Nanjing policemen enter the city with Song Lian's sign. Although Tan Zong looked weak and seemed like a scholar, the guards were full of popularity, and even the soldiers and policemen guarding the city gate could not pick up any of them.

After entering the city, the two policemen led them to find an inn in the city to settle down. Tan Zong took advantage of the time left for lunch and planned to take a walk in the city.

Just now, he realized that Changzhou is indeed a major transportation route, and there are even more business trips than Nanjing. It can be heard in various dialects. It is really messy. However, what he cares about the most are those travelers who have just come from Suzhou.

Tan Zong quickly found one, and he had a authentic Suzhou accent, with a big waist and a round waist, with a thick back knife around his waist. He looked like a trainer. Seeing him wandering around, Tan Zong liked to stop and inhale when he walked to the door of the wine shop, he knew that this guy was a good wine, so he spoke a few words, said a few words to him, and praised the martial arts master named Huang Biao for his good martial arts. Finally, after he persuaded him to pee a few cups, the guy began to say to Tan Zong that he would answer any questions.

"Suzhou? Who dares to stay in Suzhou now? They are running out." Huang Biao burped and squirted out a sip of alcohol. Then he took two braised pig tongues with chopsticks and stuffed them into his mouth: "This time my escort leader took the commission from Han Junwai in the city and led a group of escorts to protect their family to take refuge in Nanjing. However, even if he couldn't take the order, we wouldn't dare to stay in the city anymore."

As he said that, Huang Biao suddenly turned his head to Tan Zong's ear and whispered: "Hehe, you didn't go to the Taihu Lake to see the water. If the wind doesn't blow, the waves will hit you. When the wind blows, the waves will hit you directly. No matter how good your light skills are, it is useless. There is no place to hide. It is said that even the girls in the 12-link dock dare to stay in Taihu Lake. But you are not allowed to say this outside, then Prefect Min issued a strict order and no one is allowed to go to Taihu Lake. Brother, I sneaked over at night."

Tan Zong naturally showed a sense of understanding. He casually persuaded him to drink a few more glasses of wine, but pretended to be careless and said: "Hey, I'm still counting on going to Suzhou, Changzhou and Suzhou to sell some food and go back to Nanjing. Look at this, I'm afraid I'm not expecting it."

"Grain?" Huang Biao was already drunk at this time. Hearing this, he couldn't help but slapped the table and shook the dishes on the table. The bamboo chopsticks in the chopsticks even scattered: "When I set out from Suzhou the day before yesterday, I saw those Suzhou scholars jointly requesting the government office to open a warehouse to release grain to save disasters, and were beaten out of the government office by the dog girl. Hehe, in fact, this matter is not enough to be taken care of by the Fujian prefect. The guy raised by the dog girl had already taken out the grain in the granary to sell it. How could he take out any food now? In the whole of Suzhou, these Tong Sheng, who only knows how to study hard, are still in his bones."

Tan Zong was shocked when he heard this, and then he realized that the news from the Supervision Office said that the people in Suzhou were unstable, and it was true that even scholars wrote a letter together, so what would happen to the people among the people!
Chapter completed!