A faint fragrance of sandalwood filled my arms beside me, and the hollow carved window shot into the spots of sunlight... After Yuwen Shengnan looked out the window, the door of the Zen room was suddenly opened.

Then I heard a strong voice: "Madam is here first...I'm rude..."

After hearing the voice, Yuwen Shengnan got up immediately and said without any airs, "You can come because you have already given me face. How can you say anything rude? Cao Dangjia, please sit down and have a cup of tea..."

"Okay..." The man sat down with a smile, then took the teacup in front of him without hesitation and took a sip.

Once you drink this sip of tea, you can officially start talking about the main things.

"Cao Dangjia... I invited you to come this time, but there is a business you want to do... Revenge is 3,000 yuan, but the matter is a bit dangerous because the other party is a person with a background."

"Mrs. I thought about it for us, but I, Cao Xiong, live a life of blood-licking from the knife. As long as I have money, I don't care about anything... Cao Xiong and Cao Xiong's brothers don't care about anything...!"

Following Cao Xiong, he looked at Yuwen Shengnan again and said, "Madam, who is the one we are going to deal with?"

"The legitimate daughter of the Cui family in Boling...Cui Xiuniang." Yuwen Shengnan said Cui Xiuniang's name.

"Boling Cui Family..." Cao Xiong was also slightly stunned.

Looking at Cao Xiong's appearance, Yuwen Shengnan on the side said again: "Cao family, if I feel embarrassed, I can still find someone else..." An obvious way of provoking.

Cao Xiong showed a hint of disdain: "The Boling Cui family is indeed a giant, but their Boling Cui family cannot deal with my head. Madam, five thousand guan, Cui Xiu Niang is going to die, you have the final say."

"Okay... Cao Dang's family is quick to speak, five thousand guan will be delivered tomorrow. I want Cui Xiuniang to live. Actually, she is my wife, but she escaped. I want you to help me catch her and marry my eldest son."

"Oh...!" Cao Xiong laughed: "So that's the case... Then please rest assured, give me seven days, I will definitely bring Cui Xiu Niang back to you."

"Stop it...! Cao Dangjia!!"

Yuwen Shengnan said slightly: "I can tell you now that Cui Xiu Niang is hiding behind Xu's Mansion in Bianzhou, and the one who protects Cui Xiu Niang is the favored Chongrong, so it is difficult for you to capture Cui Xiu Niang, and things cannot be big. If it gets big and hurts the Chongrong in Xu's Mansion, you will be in trouble."

Although Cao Xiong felt a little trouble after Yuwen Shengnan said this, he had already said it and added the money. If Cao Xiong regretted it again, it would be a little ineffective. So after gritting his teeth, Cao Xiong still said hatefully: "Madam, needless to say, Cao Xiong took this matter and gave Cao Xiong seven days. In seven days, he would definitely put Cui Xiuniang in front of his wife."

As soon as Cao Xiong said this, Yuwen Shengnan was also happy: "Okay... As long as Cao Tang helps me complete this matter, in the future, as long as I can use my Jiangzuo Zhu family, Yuwen Shengnan is unshirkable."

"Thank you..." Cao Xiong clasped his fists and then stood up and left without a trace of drag.

Seeing Cao Xiong leave, Yuwen Shengnan immediately asked his servant to prepare five thousand guan. This was to block Cao Xiong's mouth and let Cao Xiong help him this time no matter what. Yuwen Shengnan believed that this was his last chance.

Zhu Ling is no longer able to do it now, and he must immediately be happy. If not, Yuwen Shengnan would not come to Bianzhou in person to find the largest water bandit leader on the Bian River. Five thousand guan is not a small number. The price for assassination of the prince Li You was only at this price.

"You must succeed..." Yuwen Shengnan looked at Cao Xiong leaving with deep earnestness. Although Yuwen Shengnan was a very strong woman, to her husband and son... But in the final analysis, Yuwen Shengnan was a mother, and Zhu Ling really couldn't do it. If his son was not good, even the strongest woman would show maternal love.

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Bian River... It is a tributary of the Si River and is the Tongji Canal dug during the reign of Emperor Yang of Sui. It is 650 kilometers long and flows through 3 provinces and 6 cities in total. It is a great project created by the working people of ancient China.

According to the "Miscellaneous Records of Daye", the water surface of Tongji Canal is 40 steps wide, with dragon boats connected, and the two banks are great roads, planting elm and willows. From the eastern capital to Jiangdu, the shade of trees intersects, and a palace is set up for every two post stations, which is a place to pause. From the capital to Jiangdu, there are more than 40 places left.

Yes, it is also one of the Grand Canals. In 605, Yang Guang resisted the opposition and ordered the excavation of the Grand Canal by Yu Wen Kai, the outstanding engineering expert, to preside over the construction of the Grand Canal, mainly to dig the Tongji Canal and the Yongji Canal. "There are more than one million men and women in Henan, to open Jiliang, to draw valleys from Xiyuan, to reach the Luo River (Yellow River), and to reach the Huai River from Banji River", which is more than 1,000 kilometers long.

During the construction of Tongji Canal, the old channels and natural river channels were fully utilized, but because of the huge dragon boat, the dragon boat was huge, and the canal must be chiseled very deep, otherwise it would not be able to pass through. Yang Guang required such a huge and arduous project, but the time required was very short.

From March to August, all of them were completed, creating a miracle of mankind for digging canals. Of course, the creation of this miracle cost a bloody price. During the process of digging canals and building ships, "the deceased were four or five."

Officials took the dead man with a car, "to Chenggao in the east and Heyang in the north, facing each other on the road."

After the Tongji Canal was opened, Yang Guang immediately boarded a dragon boat from Luoyang, took his concubines, princes, and officials, and rode thousands of ships in the Yangtze River. Therefore, during the Sui Dynasty, Tongji Canal was called the Yuhe River.

Yang Guang then paid the price for his willfulness in this way, but the Bian River stayed, and the Bian River really benefited the whole country.

Because it was the first phase of the Grand Canal of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, connecting the Yellow River and the Huai River, it was called the "Tongji Canal", and it ran through Luoyang to Yangzhou. It was the main transportation artery of the heyday of the Chinese Empire, so the Bian River was very prosperous.

At that time, the buildings were dense and the trade was prosperous, comparable to the scene depicted in the famous Northern Song Dynasty painting "Along the River During the Qingming Festival". Unfortunately, the prosperous Bian River was taken advantage of by some stingies because of the inadequate management of the Tang Dynasty.

Among them, Cao Xiong is the largest of all the small animals. Cao Xiong was originally a farmer who grew up on the Bian River. Later, because of the Bian River, a wharf was built near Cao Xiong's family. The wharf was eight meters wide and about one thousand meters long. It was all paved with stones, which was very luxurious.

According to Cao Xiong's recollection, more than 200 boats and rafts docked here every day at their wharf, and more than 2,000 camels set off from here every day, and more than 400 full-time dock workers alone.

There are twenty or thirty shops operating the oil business on the wharf. The folk proverb says: "The streets of Jikou are full of oil, and the streets are flowing all over for three days."

Here, grain, oil, fur, saline, alkali, medicinal materials, etc. in Ningxia and Baotou are transported from water routes and then transported from dry roads; silk, cotton, tea, porcelain, and daily necessities in Tianjin, Hebei, Taiyuan and other places are transported from dry roads and then transported from water routes, so it is called "water and dry wharf".

Because of the lack of staff, Cao Xiong came to the water and drought wharf to work as a worker. His income was very good. If he worked hard a day, he could earn fifty cents. In the Tang Dynasty, fifty cents a day for farmers was really much more profitable than farming.

So Cao Xiong no longer farmed. After all, people walked to high places and water flowed to low places. Cao Xiong came to the dock to work as a worker and transported goods to people. He was a little tired, but he could make money. This should have been a very happy thing.

But the bad thing is that one day, due to Cao Xiong's stubbornness, he accidentally broke a piece of glass while transporting goods. This piece of glass is worth 2,000 guan. In the end, Cao Xiong escaped and was wanted later.

After being wanted, he became a criminal. Then Cao Xiong began to throw his jar and turned into a small water bandit on the Bian River. Because Cao Xiong had some loyalty, and his home was on the Bian River, his head was very familiar, he gradually became the largest water bandit on the Bian River.

Gradually, he changed from eating and taking the card to a more fierce gang that you can help you with money. This time Yuwen Shengnan gave him five thousand guan. Although the target of the kidnapping this time was the daughter of the Cui family in Boling, these five thousand guans are still very eye-catching. Cao Xiong wants to eat them. As long as he has these five thousand guans, his strength will be strengthened again. This is the main reason why Cao Xiong decided not to give up this opportunity.

But Cao Xiong would not have thought that his strongest water bandit gang actually had only more than 500 people and only forty ships. Last night, Li You directly destroyed a gang with more than 30 ships on the Sishui River. To be honest, Cao Xiong's water bandit gang is really just scabies.

Cao Xiong's behavior this time gave Li You a reason to integrate water affairs.

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"Who are you..." Li You sat on the chair and looked at the three men kneeling in front of him. These three men were obviously people who were making a living on the water.

The skin is dark and rough, but the eyes are very firm, and there is a force. This is the best sign of people who make a living on the water, because there is an old saying in the countryside that you should not leave water... From a literal point of view, it means that no matter how poor a person is, he cannot make a living on the water in order to support his family, nor can he do work related to water. For example, fishermen, boatmen, sailors, etc. who ride the wind and waves in rivers, lakes and seas.

In ancient times, when productivity was low, it was very dangerous whether it was going to sea to fish, transport or fishing in the rivers and lakes. Therefore, it was rumored in the Bohai area: "It is better to go to Nanshan to be a donkey than go to Bohai to fish."

That is to say, if you are tired like a donkey on the mountain, you can at least save your life. If you go to the sea to fish, you may not even be able to save your life when you encounter wind and waves.

This also shows that... people who can go to the water to make a living have a different temperament. Such people are not afraid of death, but just take the wrong path. If they can guide them correctly, such people are good soldiers materials.

After Li You's superiors sat for a long time, he could see some of the other party's characteristics at a glance. This may also be a great advantage when Li You traveled over and got it.
Chapter completed!