In Yangzhou, the flood outside the city has long disappeared, and the embankment of Hongze Lake has been blocked.
The court's disaster relief efforts have been quite effective.
Emperor Chongzhen allocated 500,000 taels of silver from the inner treasury for disaster relief.
The local government of Yangzhou also actively assisted the people in rebuilding. home.
Although water also poured into Yangzhou from the broken city wall, Chen Yue had already noticed the consequences at that time and mobilized the young people in the city to fill the gap.
As a result, there was not much water entering the city, not to mention that the water outside the city came and went quickly.
It was very fast and did not cause much damage to Yangzhou City.
The Xiao Qinhuai River is still very lively.
There are painted boats everywhere in the river, and the silk and bamboo are everywhere, which attracts countless literati and poets to go there.
In just over a month, the trauma caused by the war has basically disappeared, and Yangzhou is still the prosperous Yangzhou it once was.
In an alley far away from Xiao Qinhuai, there lived a mysterious family.
The maid came out to buy things, but the owner never showed up.
Only occasionally, the sound of pipa could be heard faintly from the yard, which aroused people's imagination.
The owner of the courtyard is naturally the beautiful lady Kou Baimen.
She lived here in seclusion after arriving in Yangzhou.
When Chen Yue was there, major events happened in Yangzhou one after another, so he didn't have much time to pay attention to her.
He only occasionally came to sit down and listen to the sound of pipa when he was tired.
In the eyes of Liu Neng and other Chen Yue's subordinates who knew some inside information, this woman was already Chen Yue's, but only Kou Baimen and her personal maid knew that she had not had any relationship with Chen Yue so far.
Kou Baimen often asked himself whether everything he did was worth it, but he couldn't explain it.
He only knew that the closer he was to that person, the more at ease he would feel.
Whenever he heard the news that he had won a battle, Kou Baimen would be happy for a long time.
However, since he left Yangzhou with his troops, there has been no news for a long time, and it is not known whether he will return to Yangzhou.
Otherwise, forget it, I am just a lowly prostitute, and I am not worthy of a hero.
Even if I return to my old career, it is far better than living such a miserable life.
But Kou Baimen couldn't make up her mind, because she knew that once she chose to enter that quagmire, there would be no possibility of being clean, and there would be no possibility of being with him again in this life.
Suddenly there was the sound of the door opening, followed by tiny footsteps.
Kou Baimen smiled slightly, and the maid Qiu He came back from shopping for groceries.
As soon as Qiu He came back, the courtyard became noisier because she was always chattering away.
"Miss, cucumbers are much cheaper today than usual.
I spent ten copper coins to buy a lot of them.
I know you like cucumbers the most, miss."
"Miss, I heard that Xiao Qinhuai has opened a brothel again, and the owner is a famous prostitute in Nanjing City.
The one named Xiao Yueyue is far worse than you, miss."
"Miss, I heard that Marquis Pingnan was granted the title of Duke of Qi, and he has already carried the coffin to Hangzhou to bury his father."
Qiu He chirped, and the last sentence made Kou Baimen's face change.
"What do you mean by Ping Nanhou?
He went to Hangzhou?"
"Yes, miss, I heard what Brother Ma said, and the news must be correct."
Qiu He looked at his miss carefully, not knowing how she would react.
Brother Ma is the head of the Yangzhou government office.
He is originally from the Enemy Intelligence Department and has been ordered to take care of his master and servants secretly.
It turned out that he went to Hangzhou to bury his father and observe mourning.
No wonder he never returned to Yangzhou.
Wuhu and Yangzhou are only more than 200 miles apart, and Yangzhou is Chen Yue's hometown.
The development of the war in Wuhu and Yangzhou are very clear.
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Kou Baimen knows that Chen Yue has won the battle, and also knows that his father, Zhongyi Marquis Chen Jianghe, was seriously injured.
"Miss, what should we do?"
Qiu He asked worriedly.
Chen Yue went to Hangzhou to observe filial piety.
He would stay there for three years.
He should not be able to come back to Yangzhou.
According to Brother Ma, many of Qi Guogong's former staff had already gone by boat. to Hangzhou.
"Let's go to Hangzhou too.
The old Marquis is a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty.
I want to kowtow to the old Marquis's grave," Kou Baimen said resolutely.
No matter what, I have to see him again and put an end to everything in the past.
The next day, the master and servant of Kou Baimen packed up their things and left Yangzhou resolutely for Hangzhou.
Yangzhou and Hangzhou are the same as the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and they are both the most prosperous cities in the world, with passenger ships coming and going every day.
The master and servant of the Kou Baimen boarded a two-story passenger ship with more than ten rooms.
The rooms were small, but they were enough to accommodate two people.
Putting the pipa in his arms on the bed, Kou Baimen sat by the open window, staring blankly at the boats coming and going in the canal.
The distance from Yangzhou to Hangzhou is nearly 600 miles.
The passenger ship travels at dawn and overnight every day.
It only travels 40 to 50 miles every day.
It takes at least ten days to reach Yangzhou.
Of course, the passenger ship is in charge of catering.
It will stop every time it reaches a coastal city, and the boatman goes to the shore to buy vegetables and food.
Not all the guests on the ship are going to Hangzhou, and many of them disembark in the middle of the way, such as Zhenjiang and Changzhou, and there are also guests who board the ship from here to go to Yangzhou, most of them are merchants doing business.
On this day, the ship arrived in Suzhou.
A few guests got off, but many more came on.
There were more than ten people crowded into two rooms, one of which was right next to Kou Bai's cabin.
These people were very noisy.
They started laughing and making noise as soon as they got on the boat.
The planking of the boat did not isolate the sound.
"I'll go find the boatman and ask them to keep their voice down."
Seeing Kou Baimen's expression of confusion, the maid Qiu He stood up and said.
She knew that her young lady always loved to be quiet.
"Forget it, I just need to be patient when I'm out.
It's not that far from Hangzhou anyway."
Kou Baimen said lightly.
However, the group next door kept talking, so she no longer had the intention to read.
When he couldn't help but listen, the discussion was about something about the Naval Academy, and then the name of Qi Guogong Chen Yue suddenly came out of those people's mouths, which made Kou Baimen feel refreshed.
If you listen carefully, you will find that Duke Chen Yue of Qi is planning to set up a naval school.
He has sent people to spread the news in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.
Anyone who is literate can go to Hangzhou to apply for the exam at Qiyun Company.
After passing the exam, they can enter the school to study.
If you graduate after two years, you will be awarded the rank of seventh-grade military attache.
A seventh-grade military attaché is already at the same level as a county magistrate.
Although in the eyes of scholars, a seventh-grade military attaché is nothing compared to the status of a county magistrate.
After all, the idea that the nobles are noble and the military is cheap is deeply ingrained, and there are too many guards along the coast of Jiangsu and Zhejiang.
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Therefore, there are countless officials from hundreds of thousands of households.
They are just digging in the fields for food.
How can they be seen by people?
But ordinary people don't see it this way, because to many people, even the hundreds of households in the guard station are already great officials, and there is no problem in bullying a commoner.
Especially for those who have gone to private schools and failed to study, instead of choosing to be apprentices in other merchants' firms, it is better to apply for some kind of naval academy.
Maybe they can also strive for an official position to honor their ancestors.
Isn't it better than anything else?
Quietly listening to the words coming from the guests next door, Kou Baimen had a smile on his face
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