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"You asked for a boat?"

In the room of the boat bird, standing in front of Ma Han was a middle-aged man about thirty years old. Although he was dressed in ordinary clothes, his thick brown clothes could not cover his thick body. Perhaps it was not enough to compare with the white wolf cavalry and other white wolf cavalry soldiers, but Ma Han always had a feeling that they were the same type of people. However, even if this person was once a military soldier, it was nothing. In the chaotic times, there was no escaped that day? Even if he himself, wasn't he a escaped soldier back then?

"It was my master who asked me for it." The man bowed and was quite surprised. He obviously did not expect that the owners of these five large ships would be so young.

"Eight hundred stones of grain and grass are for servitude, your master is so generous." Ma Han tapped the desk face with his fingers, rolled his eyes, and looked at the other party, "Where are you going? How many people are there?"

The man said calmly: "My master wants to return home, so he only needs to send it to Langya. We have more than 80 servants, more than 100 horses, cattle and mules, and more than 30 supplies and vehicles."

Langya Kingdom, passing through Xia Pi and Donghai, is estimated to be six or seven hundred miles away, not far or close. Eight hundred stones of grain and grass is only enough for 500 people to eat back and forth. Using this as a servicing capital, it is actually not much. If it weren't for the way, Ma Han wouldn't consider it.

Ma Han frowned slightly: "So many people, cars and horses, my boat can't load it."

"It's okay, we have more than ten ships with 100-hukou hu, enough to carry cattle, horses and some carts, as long as your ship can carry people."

At this time, Zhao Yun, who was standing by, asked, "Since you have a way to get the boat, why not get more and just take the boat by yourself, but you have to take our boat?"

The man smiled bitterly and said, "It's okay to get ten or eight more boats down. However, the situation in Xuzhou is now chaotic. There are many defeated soldiers and bandits. If you take a passenger ship, you may not be able to travel a hundred miles, which will lead to a loss of both people and money!"

This is the truth. Xuzhou is becoming more and more chaotic as it goes northwest. I saw refugees constantly fleeing from the East China Sea and Xia Pi to Guangling. There are really few people who dare to go north. If you really have so much property to go north, taking this kind of tower ship with excellent protection performance is the best choice.

At this time, Zhou Cang said: "How do we know what is loaded in the car when you wait."

Zhou Cang is indeed worthy of being a bandit and is very good at saving people by his own hands. This question has come to the point. If the car is loaded with property, then it is a good citizen, if not...

The man said simply: "We can check the things in the car with our feet, how about it?"

People have already reached this point, and they will push back and forth. To put it nicely, they are not sincere, but to put it badly, they are afraid of the other party.

Ma Han immediately made a decision: "Okay, you must all get on the boat before dusk. It will be out of date."

From when Ma Han spoke, to dusk, only one hour before and after, the more than 80 people, more than 100 cattle, horses, vehicles, including 800 stones of food and grass, all arrived at the designated location of Ma Han. It was not that the other party was so efficient, but that they were actually prepared. They lived in a manor not far from the river, and just drove their cars and horses to load them onto the boat.

Zhou Cang personally went to check the property on more than 30 cars. Of course, he couldn't open all of them, as this was too much. Zhou Cang didn't even open any box, he just circled around the vehicle a few times, looked at the ruts, knocked on the box, listened to the movements. Then he came back to report that all the boxes on the car were loaded with yellow and white things, nothing else.

Ma Han was still very convinced about Zhou Cang's judgment. He was born in Jiedao. He usually saw a vehicle passing by the mountain, but Jiedao still didn't? Of course, it was not to open the box first and then make a decision, but to judge based on the depth of the ruts, the size and shape of the box, and the sound of bumps. It was extremely accurate. This is a professional skill, and you can't accept it.

Zhao Yun also reported his observations to Ma Han: "These servants are light and quick, with strong muscles and bones. Some of them have a little outturn on their legs - this is caused by frequent riding horses. These people are either sergeants or guards, and none of them are ordinary servants."

Then there was a hundred generals of the White Wolf Knight's observation of the horses: "Most of them are military horses, although they are not considered good horses, and the bell marks on the horse's buttocks were cut off, but the scars were obvious."

Finally, Yu Xinlai reported: "One thousand three hundred stones of grain and grass are all made of fine rice and black beans, of which 500 stones of grain and grass are prepared by the guests for their own people."

Ma Han laughed and came to the final conclusion: "If you have money, horses, and food, I don't care who they are. If you have other plans, you will send money to your door."

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At night, the owner of the passengers finally showed up. When the man who claimed to be Zhang Hai appeared in the Que Room with two servants, holding a box of gift gold, two satin brocades and three jars of fine wine, Ma Han, Zhao Yun, Zhou Cang and others were quite surprised. Because this person was not a scholar or old man who needed many guards and protection as they imagined, but a thirty-forty-year-old man with a flesh-faced face. This person was not tall, but strong, with an ordinary appearance, and a pair of bean eyes with a cunning look.

If it weren't for seeing this man bringing so many wealth on board the boat, Ma Han would think he was a bandit.

Zhang Hai was very bold, giving gold and silk, and offering fine wine. Then he pulled the three of them to drink wildly and said a basket of good words of thanks. During the meal, Ma Han and others kept asking about Zhang Hai's origin. The other party only said that it was a native of Langya who had been in Guangling for many years. Because Cao's army had recently invaded Xuzhou, the soldiers besieged the Yancheng City of Donghai and were invading Xia Pi. Zhang's family was afraid that Cao's army would invade Guangling, so they sold the land and returned home with their property and slaves to avoid the war. These words sounded reasonable.

Zhang Hai also kept asking about the origin of Ma Han, and Ma Han only said that they were under the order of Kong Beihai, Qingzhou, to support Taozhou's governor. As for why they did not take the land route, they took a big turn. Ma Han only said that they were avoiding Cao's army's cavalry, and as for other things, I'm sorry, it's military affairs, so they should not be told to others.

Both parties believe in each other's words? This doesn't matter. No one intends to be friends with each other anyway.

The next morning, five large ships of thousands of stone and twenty cargo ships of hundreds of hu, set off together and went upstream, which was vast and attracted many onlookers on both sides of the strait. This naturally alarmed Zhao Yu, the prefect of Guangling. He specially sent more than a hundred infantry to monitor the coast. It was not until the ship passed Sikou and headed to Xia Pi that he was at ease to withdraw his troops.

More than 80 servants of the horse general Zhang Hai were scattered onto a tower ship and three sill boats, with less than 20 people each. They secretly ordered the soldiers of each ship to take the man-to-man approach to conduct supervision. Only more than 20 servants of the Zhang family could not monitor because they were guarding more than a dozen small boats in their homes. However, those ships were closely searched. Without weapons, no matter how many people were, they would not be able to cause any monsters.

Zhang Hai himself took four servants on the same boat with Ma Han. He seemed to be unwilling to care about this obvious surveillance move.

After sailing for one day, when he arrived in Ling County, everything was as usual. The next day he entered Xiapi County, and the next day, he was about to reach Xiaxiang (now Suqian, Jiangsu). For three consecutive days, all aspects of the report were normal. Zhang Hai was also very honest. Except for the night when he was parked, he had to patrol his boat. The rest of the time, he either stayed in the cabin that was separated for him on the first floor, or brought wine to drink with Mahan and others. However, most of the time, he was only Zhou Cang drinking with him. When Mahan watched these two drink and laugh, he always felt that these two seemed to be the same type of people.

Because of this strange feeling, Ma Han has never relaxed his supervision of Zhang Hai and the servants.

At dusk on the third day, the fleet sailed for more than ten miles to Xiaxiang. After a moment, you can park outside Xiaxiang City. If it goes well, you can also go to the city to rest and replenish.

Ma Han walked out of the bird's room. The cold wind of the river made people feel energetic. After staying in the bitter and cold place in western Liaoning for a long time, the cold wind of the Jianghuai River, but this did not only prevent Ma Han and the White Wolf Cavalry Warrior from shrinking, but instead grew energetic.

As you look at it, the reeds on both sides are dense, and occasionally you can see small and small birds coming in and out, which startled a group of unknown birds; the shore is covered with delicate roads, hills are undulating, dotted with woods, and from time to time you can see a light wisp of smoke rising from the forest; in the distance, the peaks of Santai Mountain are undulating like waves, half yellow in autumn and half green, which is a quiet scene of the Jianghuai winter.

The White Wolf Cavalry warriors who served as guards on the deck were also quite intoxicated. Most of them were from the border of Youzhou and had never been to the south of the Yellow River. Not to mention the Jianghuai land, I never thought that there would still be such a scene in the coldest winter.

Ma Han shook his head and smiled lightly, raised his right hand, and started the heat source scanning. This is the regular warning work that Ma Han must do before the ships are moored since entering Xia Pi. The day before yesterday, when he passed by Ling County, he learned from some fleeing people that Cao's army had not been able to stop attacking Yan County for a long time. In order to boost morale, he sent Lifeng's captain Cao Ren and the Central Army Sima Shi Huan to lead the army south to attack Xia Pi. At this time, the troops had already surrounded Suiling (now Suining, Jiangsu). When the lower prince came to Suiling, it was only a few dozen miles. In other words, the pleasant winter scenery on both sides of the Taiwan Strait was about to be destroyed by swords and soldiers.

The closer they get to the battlefield, the more careful they should be to ambush the troops. After all, these dozens of ships are so eye-catching that if they are seen by Cao's army, they will definitely not let them go easily.

Ma Han kept slashing the mini screen with his fingers, or zooming in or out, repeatedly confirming that everything was normal and was about to turn off the scan, when an abnormal situation caught his attention. This abnormal situation was not outside, but inside.

The front and rear of the fleet were two tower ships, Ma Han was responsible for the command of the road, and Zhao Yun was responsible for the rear guard. Three sill boats followed the command of the tower ship in front, and more than ten ships of Zhang's family were sandwiched in the middle, which could effectively protect and supervise. Ma Han found that the video showed that the 300-hu medium-sized leading ship in front of Zhang was densely packed with red dots. After enlarging, it was more than twenty people, all concentrated in the cabin.

What is this doing? Is the meeting? Why is there no notification? It is absolutely not allowed to gather many people in private.

Ma Han immediately called Zhou Cang and asked him to lead a few soldiers with good water nature to let the boat go down to check the truth. At the same time, he ordered someone to summon Zhang Hai.

After a while, Zhang Hai and four servants arrived. As soon as they boarded the deck of the bird room, Zhang Hai bowed and smiled, "I was asking for a visit to Ma Jun when I heard that Ma Jun was summoned. What a coincidence."

Ma Han on the bow of the boat turned around with his hands behind his back, looking unhappy: "Zhang Jun, why did your Zhang family's leading ship gather so many people?"

Zhang Hai's mouth slowly opened wide, a hint of panic flashed through his eyes, and then calmed down and said in a low smile: "Just because a certain family got the latest news about Cao's army, we may not be able to go north..."

Zhang Hai spoke very lowly, and the wind was strong on the river, so he didn't hear it very clearly, but the amount of information contained in a few keywords was amazing. Ma Han raised his eyebrows, took two steps forward, approached Zhang Hai, and asked, "What news?"
Chapter completed!