After walking down the city wall from Zoumaqiang, Wu Yan walked slowly in the heavy snow, looking at the sky covered with thick clouds and flying snow. He exhaled a heavy breath, took the reins from the soldiers waiting below the city, got on his horse, and took the lead. Went into the heavy snow.
A man with thick eyebrows and big eyes walked side by side with Wu Yan. This man's name was Gao Huizhen, and he was Wu Yan's nephew. He whispered: "Uncle, what did you do to Lu?"
Wu Yan raised his head and glanced at the young man, and said in a deep voice: "You are just a soldier now. How can you discuss the shortcomings and good deeds with Lu? Just mind the things you should manage, and don't overstep the rules." explain."
Gao Huizhen disagreed and said carelessly: "My uncle's words are wrong. Although you are my superior, you are also my uncle. At present, the court situation is in turmoil due to the Sui Dynasty's large-scale eastward march, and wars will break out at every turn. As a member of the royal family, I , how can we be indifferent? How can we not pay attention to Da Du Lu, who is at odds with the king? If he is not deployed properly and is killed by the Sui army into Liaodong, our Goguryeo people will be devastated. Please tell me quickly, what is Da Du Lu in the end? How did you arrange it?"
Facing this stupid young nephew, Wu Yan was helpless.
His nephew was not an idle and good-for-nothing playboy. He was proficient in bow and horse and witty since he was a child, which made Wu Yan quite fond of him. However, this son had a bold personality and was very ambitious. He was unwilling to keep to himself and devote himself to learning.
His father couldn't cure him, but he was worried about letting it develop and become more unruly. Therefore, instead of placing him in a comfortable place such as Pyongyang or Seoul, he was handed over to his uncle Wu Am for instruction.
Seeing his endless questioning at this moment, Wu Yan was thinking about taking the exam and said: "Although Da Dui Lu advocates using force against the Sui Dynasty, he has not made a clear stance on starting a war. I think he is worried about it; I think it is because of the anti-war voices. They are all over the government and the public, so he is also a little hesitant. But we can't follow others in everything, we have to have our own opinions. In your opinion, how should we choose between war and peace? "
"Does that need to be said?" Gao Huizhen raised his thick eyebrows and said excitedly: "If there is a chance to win, then stand on Da Dui Lu's side; if not, then oppose the war."
Wu Yan asked expressionlessly: "Tell me carefully."
Gao Huizhen licked his lips. He was arrogant, but because of his young age, he could not express his opinions on important matters. Now when he heard his uncle's inquiry, he felt that he had a chance to express himself, and said in an even more excited voice: "Uncle, As far as I know, the Sui Dynasty is emigrating to the old land of Khitan in large numbers. Is this news true?"
"It's true." In order to test his nephew, Wu Yan told the news he knew: "The Sui Dynasty recently moved more than 100,000 poor households from the south to the north, and settled them in the newly established three villages of Chifeng, Chaoyang, and Huanglong. County, in addition to these, 20,000 households were moved from the relatively poor Yingzhou to Da'an County. It seems that because Da'an County is relatively cold and southerners are not suitable for it, so the cold-resistant Yingzhou people were used."
"That's it!" Gao Huizhen said seriously: "One of the reasons why the officials of Zhuhe strongly opposed the war is that the old Khitan land has turned into a scorched earth thousands of miles away. If our country marches into Khitan, the Sui army can retreat without any worries. The Sui Dynasty could not cause much harm. At most, it was a battle on the ruins. Even if we occupied it, we would not get any actual benefits. But they did not know that the Sui Dynasty had already moved 120,000 households, fifty or sixty With a population of 10,000, they didn’t know that these people had become a burden to the Sui army.”
"In my opinion, the people of the Sui Dynasty who had just arrived left their homeland and arrived in the ice and snow with nothing. They must have complained, causing huge trouble and pressure to the Sui army and the Sui officials in the four counties. If our army were to advance westward at this time , will definitely deal a fatal blow to the Khitan and Sui armies. Even if we cannot capture the Khitan, these hundreds of thousands of people are still quite a fortune."
"In addition, I heard that Sumo Mohe gathered a large number of troops in Yucheng, Beifu. We can pretend to be Mohe and fight. This will not only gain a real population and defeat the arrogant Yang Ji, but also frame the blame on Mohe and prompt him to do so. The Sui Dynasty and Mohe fought."
Wu Yan was speechless upon hearing this.
The nephew's method is indeed the most profitable one, but what troubles him is that the nephew only starts from the perspective of profit, blindly pursues high goals, and acts on the edge. He lacks grandeur and long-term vision, and does not consider loyalty and loyalty at all. Morality, national strength, consequences, follow-up, etc. How can this be accomplished?
The most important thing is that he thought too stupidly about the Sui Dynasty and Su Mo Mohe. Even if they were temporarily fooled, after all, it involved the migration of dozens of armies and hundreds of thousands of Sui Dynasties. As long as the Sui Dynasty did a little research, they would be Find out who did it, and then there will be massive revenge. If so, what should Goguryeo do?
What should the people of Liaodong do?
Wu Yan talked about his concerns for a moment, and finally explained patiently: "There is nothing wrong with pursuing profit, but 'profit' is very complicated. The complexity here refers to the intricate and powerful relationships between various interests." , if you are not careful, your family will be destroyed, so some benefits cannot be gained. Faced with this complex situation of competing for profits, how do you weigh the pros and cons? You must stand firm and would rather give up small gains than Because, you can’t get yourself involved just because of temporary gain.”
Gao Huizhen seemed to understand and said: "Uncle, in the officialdom, every step you take is dangerous. Even if you are a king, you are always walking on thin ice. How can we, the ministers, have peace? Moreover? There is such a good opportunity, why not fight for it?"
Wu Yan shook his head secretly. Although this boy was smart and wise, he was just a little clever. As far as his current character was concerned, he would just be mediocre and inactive from now on. Even if something happened, he wouldn't be in harm's way. His family will be destroyed, but with his temperament, once he seizes a high position, he will inevitably be deceived by others. In the end, it will be difficult to distinguish the importance of others.
In short, this child is capable, but he still lacks knowledge in terms of right and wrong and needs more training.
Just as they left the edge of the city and walked into the city, a man in green clothes suddenly turned out of a corner despite the heavy snow. The moment he saw Wu Yan, he turned around and left.
Liaodong City is the largest city in Liaodong, with a population of more than 200,000. Due to the heavy snowfall, there are not many pedestrians on the street. However, Wu Yan will not pay special attention to someone. If the man in Tsing Yi is like the others, Wu Yan wouldn't notice him while walking, but this person turned around and left when he saw him. Instead, he attracted his attention and immediately shouted: "Get it!"
"Good thief, where are you going?" Gao Huizhen also noticed this person. When he heard what his uncle said, he led his horse and chased after him. Within a moment, they caught up with this person. People surrounded him and caught him in front of Wu Yan.
Wu Yan looked at this person for a while and suddenly said in surprise: "Tan Jun, didn't you go to the west with the envoy? Why are you here?"
Tanjun was a noble of the Juannu tribe, and the envoy headed by Eulji Mundeok had stayed in Liaodong. For senior generals like Moo Am, naturally, where did Eulji Mundeok go? It's just that Tanjun was Deputy envoy Tan Yun's relatives and bodyguards not only returned to Liaodong City, but also fled as soon as they saw him. Wu Yan was surprised.
Tan Jun looked away with an ugly expression and did not speak.
"I'm asking you a question!" Gao Huizhen jumped off his horse and knocked Tan Jun to the ground with his scabbard.
With a crisp "ding-dong" sound, a gold medal fell out of Tan Jun's arms. Tan Jun's expression changed and he reached out to grab the gold medal, but Gao Huizhen picked it up first and handed it to Wu Yan.
Wu Yan took it and saw that it was a gold medal representing Tan Yun's official position. His expression changed, and when he saw Tan Jun was silent, he ordered: "Search me!"
Gao Huizhen stepped forward, searched around Tan Jun's body for a while, found a neatly folded piece of cloth from him, and then handed it to Wu Yan.
Wu Yan looked at it and found a piece of cloth torn from his clothes. On it was a blood letter written by Tan Yun, saying that the envoys were betrayed by traitors and were ambushed by the Sui army at Xinkai River. The soldiers fought one after another. He died, and Eulji Wende and others had fallen into the hands of the Sui army. He suspected that the traitor was Yuan Ziyou.
After reading the blood letter, Wu Yan couldn't help but take a breath of air. He looked at Tan Jun who was pinned to the ground and asked coldly: "Let me ask you, does what Tan Yun said in the letter mean?"
Tan Jun raised his head hard, glanced at Wu Yan, and asked: "General Wu, can I trust you? Are you still loyal to the king?"
"Nonsense!" Wu Yan glared at him and said, "I, the Wu family, share weal and woe with the royal family, how can I be disloyal? Let him stand up and speak."
"Here!" The soldiers let go of Tan Jun.
Tan Jun stood up and whispered to Wu Yan: "General Wu, the reason why my superior envoy asked me to escape was because he hoped that he would take this blood letter to Pyongyang so that the king would understand why they died and let the king pay attention to his evil intentions. The Yuan clan."
"Where is Ambassador Eulchi?" Wu Yan asked.
"The ambassador fought bravely, hoping to lead everyone to break out of the encirclement. Unfortunately, the Sui army knew our marching route well and had already deployed heavy troops." Tan Jun said silently in tears: "The ambassador killed dozens of Sui troops, but he was outnumbered. , and eventually died on the battlefield. My superior envoy knew that he would not survive, so he wrote this bloody letter during the battle and asked me to bring it back. After he wrote the letter, he led the soldiers to kill the other side. I was pretending The dead body escaped by chance. Now I don’t know whether my superior envoy is dead or alive.”
Wu Yan took a breath of air, stared at Tan Jun for a long time, and asked, "Why do you think it was Da Duilu who did it?"
Wu Am actually believed most of the contents in the blood letter. This was because he and Eulji Mundeok belonged to the "Emperor Party", and Eulji Mundeok fully cooperated with Gowon to "cut down the vassal" and designed to weaken the Yuan family. Due to their lack of power, the Yuan brothers have never been able to keep their word and dominate the court.
Now that the two sides have long been at odds, the possibility that Yuan Ziyou can use the Sui army to get rid of the deadliest and most powerful political enemy is still very high.
When Tan Jun heard Wu Yan's suspicion, he immediately became anxious. He said quickly: "General Wu, when I escaped back, I encountered a group of patrols. If they hadn't rescued me, I would have froze to death in the ice and snow. , I heard them say that they have a letter from Sui Dynasty Wei Wang Yang Ji, that letter is for Da Duilu, you can go to Da Duilu to ask for it and read it."
A gloomy look flashed across Wu Yan's face. If Yang Ji represented the Sui Dynasty and Goguryeo, he could send an envoy to visit. There is no need to be secretive. But now, he wrote a letter secretly. This is a bit intriguing. He asked Gao Huizhen to take Tan Jun away, turned his horse's head and galloped straight towards the city.
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In the gatehouse, Yuan Ziyou sat behind the desk and read Yang Ji's letter to him. It was a letter with more than twenty pieces of paper. The content was quoted from classics, rich in flowers, and of great literary talent.
Here Yang Ji and Hao Yuan deliberately set a trap. They knew that the Goguryeo people admired the Central Plains culture very much and imitated the Central Plains culture. In order to show their extraordinaryness, the nobles read Chinese studies, practiced Han rites, and wore Han clothes. Rong, so he deliberately wrote allusions such as working hard to endure hardships, enduring humiliation, working hard, etc., and used the successful cases of Gou Jian and others to predict Yuan's future "success".
Faced with this long and beautiful letter, Rao Shiyuan Ziyou was proficient in Sinology and Chinese history and was familiar with Central Plains Classics, but he also had a headache at the moment. However, in order to figure out Yang Ji's intentions and read through the other party's intentions, he had to be patient. Word by word analysis.
He admitted that this was a pretty good article, but when Yang Ji wrote the letter, he was too careless. Some key words were scrawled over, but the clearly presented words were quite impressive. Each stroke of the pen is like a knife cutting an axe, majestic and full of free and heroic momentum. This unprecedented font and style are in line with Yang Ji's status as a successful young man.
"It is said in the Central Plains that letters look like people. Letters with beautiful calligraphy and neat format often indicate that the writer is rigorous and organized; on the contrary, it indicates that some people are impetuous and find it difficult to deal with things calmly. But the news says that Yang Ji acts in a willful and orderly manner. He used his troops in an eclectic manner, quite in the style of the mad warriors of the Wei and Jin Dynasties. Judging from the majestic words and the scrawled letters, he really had a rough, heroic and willful temperament."
"Compared to the scheming veteran, such a person is much easier to deal with." Yuan Ziyou thought silently.
"Big deal!" Just when Yuanzi was holding the brush and was about to reply, Wu Yan barged in. He walked up to him, bowed to Yuanzi who raised his head, and said in a pretense of nervousness: "When the last general came to the city, I heard that Yang Ji had written a letter. Did he declare war on us?"
After hearing his explanation, Yuan Ziyou's angry look softened and he smiled and said, "That's not true. He invited me to have a talk on the ice of Liao River to eliminate the misunderstanding between the two countries."
"Can I let the general have a look at it?" Yuan Ziyou said in a consultative tone as he was a high-ranking official and could not be blackmailed by Wu Yan and Li Sa.
Hearing this, Yuan Ziyou's eyes turned cold and he gave Wu Yan a meaningful look.
He knew that Gao Yuan was worried that he would establish himself in Liaodong or surrender to the Sui Dynasty, so he appointed Wu Yan, a confidant, to put Jian'an City in Lisa, which was stuck in the throat; however, Yuan Ziyou had no intention of betraying Goguryeo. And Wu Yan was not a slanderer, and there was nothing scandalous about the letter, so he picked up the letter, handed it over generously, and gave it to Wu Yan with a smile: "General Wu came just in time to help. Let me see if there is any conspiracy in the letter."
"Here!" Wu Yan stepped forward to take the letter, and when he saw Yuan Ziyou lowering his head to write something, he stepped back and looked at it carefully.
This was the method that Yang Ji and Hao Yuan thought of after learning from Tan Yun that Goguryeo was facing a "north-south confrontation". Then they heard that Wu Yan was from Gao Yuan, so they let Tan Jun go. Come back and let him paralyze Wu Yan first.
Although Gao Yuan is not Ma Chao and Yuan Ziyou is not Han Sui, Gao Yuan and Yuan Ziyou do not trust each other. Once Wu Yan provides him with "conclusive" evidence, the relationship between the two of them, which is already very fragile, will become even more fragile. Because of the seriousness, although the alienation may not be successful, this method does not cost much, so Yang Ji played this trick.
In fact, there is nothing wrong with this letter in Yuan Ziyou's heart, which is why he is willing to show it to Wu Yan. However, after Wu Yan heard Tan Jun's words, he also knew that Yuan Ziyou's political enemy Eulji Moon De was dead, and he had preconceived notions in his heart. When he read it carefully one by one, he found that many key points had been omitted. His face couldn't help but darken, and he looked at Yuan Ziyou with complicated eyes.
"General Wu, what did you see?" Yuan Ziyou didn't know that the envoys had been wiped out by the Sui army. When he saw Wu Yan looking at him with a strange expression after reading the letter, he asked with a smile.
Wu Yan was worried that Yuan Ziyou would kill him first, so he secretly took a breath, respectfully put the letter on the desk, and then said: "Dear Lu, Yang Ji is full of scheming people. This time I invite you to When we meet on the ice of Liao River, there must be a conspiracy. Da Du Lu is the Optimus Stone of our country, and the general will not approve of Da Du Lu taking risks."
"It doesn't matter!" Yuan Ziyou smiled and said, "I also want to meet this world-famous King Wei to see what kind of person he is and what his abilities are. If I don't go, won't I look petty?"
Wu Yan felt awe-struck in his heart. He now fully believed Tan Jun's statement, and Yuan Ziyou's impassioned words seemed to him like a secret meeting. However, he remained calm on his face, and said with concern, "Da Dui Lu, please be more careful."
"Yeah!" Yuan Ziyou nodded.
"General, I'll say goodbye." Wu Yan bowed and left.
Yuan Ziyou looked at Wu Yan's retreating back and couldn't help but sigh deeply. Although he and King Gao Yuan were not at the same level as fire and water, they were not much better. I hope Wu Yan didn't slander him. . However, he couldn't place all his hopes on Wu Yan. After thinking about it, he wrote a letter and asked his soldiers to send it to Pyongyang so that his younger brother Yuan Zicheng would pay attention to the matter.
Wu Yan returned to his house and wrote a letter to Gao Yuan, asking Gao Huizhen to send it to Pyongyang. At the same time, he also mixed Tan Jun into Gao Huizhen's team.
After arranging this matter, he led his soldiers to Jian'an City to take charge.
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