"Do you understand?" After hearing Wang Wenzuo's lesson, Cui Hongdu couldn't help sweating, and sighed: "I thought I had learned a lot about your skills, Sanlang, but I didn't expect that when you use them, it's completely different." ah!"
"Master, let me in. It's up to each person to practice!" Wang Wenzuo said with a smile: "People like you and me must be honest and open-minded in daily life, but we always need to use some tricks and tricks, but how much is used? When it is used, for whom it is used, and how it is used, there is no way to describe it in a general way. I can only rely on my own careful contemplation!"
"I understand!" Cui Hongdu nodded: "Who are you going to give your credentials to, Sanlang?"
"Of course it's for three people at the same time!" Wang Wenzuo said with a smile: "As long as no one is enthroned as king yet!"
"What? Three people at the same time? This doesn't seem appropriate, right?" Cui Hongdu was surprised.
"What's inappropriate?" Wang Wenzuo said with a smile: "The certificate of credence doesn't say who must be given, let alone who should be appointed as an official. These three are all possible heirs, why can't it be given to three at the same time?"
"That's true!" Cui Hongdu gradually followed Wang Wenzuo's thinking at this time: "If I give it to one of them, I will definitely offend the other two, and the person who got the credentials may not be grateful to me, so why not give it to me at the same time? Three people, if the three of them will still fight among themselves, we will still have an opportunity!"
"Boys can be taught!" Wang Wenzuo smiled and patted Cui Hongdu on the shoulder. It turned out that when Wang Wenzuo left Chang'an, no one knew who the new Japanese king was, so the court's credential did not clearly indicate who it was addressed to, and in order to avoid confusion about the title In the dispute, he simply wrote vaguely about the Lord of the Japanese Kingdom, which gave Wang Wenzuo a relatively large room for maneuver. After all, the future Japanese King must be selected from the three eldest brothers, Prince Zhonghairen, Prince Saitama, and Princess Saitama. He will It is definitely not wrong to hand the credentials to three people at the same time.
"Then when do you plan to do it?"
"There is no need to rush this, just wait and see what happens!" Wang Wenzuo said with a smile: "Hongdu, don't you think the atmosphere in the Japanese capital is a bit heavy, as if something big is about to happen?"
"Really?" Cui Hongdu scratched the back of his head: "We were sent here as soon as we got off the ship. The surrounding area was very heavily guarded. It's hard to tell what the atmosphere was like in the capital!"
"It's true that you can't see anything like the Japanese country here, but you can still see some on the lake!" Wang Wenzuo pointed to the west: "In the past few days, I have seen ships coming from the lake often. The draft is very deep, and they are obviously carrying heavy loads. many!"
"Is this normal?" Cui Hongdu said with a smile: "Although this place is not as good as Chang'an, it should still have tens of thousands of households. Is it strange that there are more ships transporting heavy goods such as grain?"
"Yes, but which ship carrying heavy cargo can run so fast using both sail and oar?" Wang Wenzuo said with a smile.
Cui Hongdu's face changed slightly: "Are you saying that the people on the boat are Japanese soldiers?"
"Yeah!" Wang Wenzuo nodded: "Of course, it's not surprising to mobilize troops from outside at this juncture, so let's just wait and see what happens!"
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At dawn, Sha Zha Xiangru pulled out his hands and feet from the limp limbs with difficulty, climbed out of bed, slipped out of the door, and bought two rice balls and a salted fish from a stall not far away to fill his stomach. After eating his belly, he walked towards Anbei's house. Today is the deadline to complete the task. After all, the barefoot man may spend the whole night in the city having fun before going back after taking the gold sand. If he cannot return to the agreed place before dusk the next day, no matter how stupid his tribe is, they will know what happened. Something happened.
There were not many pedestrians on the road. From time to time, groups of patrols passed by. Sha Zha Xiangru had to retreat to the roadside and bow from time to time. This made him feel annoyed and humiliated. He was one of the eight most dignified surnames in Baekje. One of them, who had held at least the official position of Ping Zuo since his great-grandfather, now had to make way for a group of Japanese soldiers who couldn't hold a spear well. At this moment, he suddenly thought of Hei Te Changzhi. What would happen if his friend was in this situation?
"This bastard will definitely say that he'll take care of himself as he comes, and then bury his head lower! It's a pity that he is so big, no matter how he lowers his head, he will still be noticed!" Sha Zha Xiangru's bearded face showed a trace of Smiling and reminiscing about the past were already the few pleasures he had after coming to Japan, especially
That friend, sometimes he would think about what would happen if he escaped back to Baekje: There is no doubt that Hei Te Changzhi would definitely use his wealth and life to vouch for himself. In addition to the things he did for the Tang people in the rebel army, There is definitely no big problem in saving the lives of the tribesmen, but if that were the case, there would be no need for me to take the big risk and follow Fuyu Fengzhang to the Japanese country. Isn't it just to sell this guy to the Tang Dynasty for a good price in the future? The next level of advancement? If he wants to return to Baekje, he must do something great before going back.
After spending more than three times the time as usual, Sha Zha Xiangru finally arrived at Anbei's house. Fortunately, he did not see any soldiers surrounding the place this time. He walked to the checkpoint in front of the door and took out the token from his arms. He handed it to the officer on duty: "I'm from Kyushu, and I want to see someone who means what he says!"
The officer looked at Sha Zha Xiangru's token and looked at the man in front of him in surprise. If this token was genuine, it meant that this man was taking orders from one of the few most powerful people in the Anbei family. He hurriedly The token was returned to Sha Zha Xiangru: "Please come with me."
Sha Zha Xiangru nodded. Under the guidance of the officer, he walked through the trench and the outer wooden fence and came to a wooden house that was obviously used for temporary residence of soldiers. Along the way, he could see many soldiers wearing armor and carrying bows and arrows. Soldiers, women and old people were also busy making dry food, clean cloth for bandaging wounds, torches and other supplies needed for the war. Apparently, he had seen it right last night, and the cloud of war was shrouding this mansion.
"What's going on? Is there going to be a war?"
"Please go inside and wait a moment. I will send someone to invite you right away!" The officer did not answer Sha Zha Xiangru's question and made a gesture to invite him into the room. Sha Zha Xiangru did not ask further questions. Refusal to answer is sometimes an answer. This at least shows that the current situation is not understandable to outsiders.
Sha Zha Xiangru did not wait too long. After only about half a moment, a shrewd and capable middle-aged man came in from the door. Judging from his high nose, deep eyes and bearded face, he should be an Ezo man. At least he had blood on his body. There is blood from the Ezo people. After he asked Sha Zha Xiangru to take out the token and check it again, his attitude became enthusiastic: "Is Miss okay?"
"Okay, that's all good!" Sha Zha Xiangru said with a smile: "I came back this time to carry out an errand under His Majesty's order. I need to borrow twenty good men from your government. Please agree!"
When the visitor heard Sha Zha Xiangru say the word "Your Majesty", his mouth twisted, as if he was trying to suppress his smile, but he still nodded: "Are twenty good players enough?"
"That's enough, but you have to be strict with your mouth, cruel and hard-hearted, and can attack women and children!" Sha Zha Xiangru said: "By the way, you also need a guide who is familiar with the surrounding terrain!"
"Don't worry about this. I'll dispatch twenty people who have just been transferred from the eastern territory. These people deal with the barbarians around them all day long. You can ask them to kill anyone without a second thought!" The middle-aged man replied: "When do you want it?" "
"The sooner the better!"
"Okay!" The middle-aged man walked to the door, gave a few instructions to his companion, and then said to Sha Zha Xiangru, "Wait here for a moment, we will be there soon!"
"Thank you very much!" Sha Zha Xiangru said with a smile: "When I just came in from the outside, I saw that the mansion was heavily guarded and there were patrol soldiers everywhere on the street. What is going on? Is there going to be a war? "
"Don't you know?" The middle-aged man laughed: "Several royal families who hope to compete for the throne have summoned soldiers. Although our Anbei family does not want to get involved, we still have to prepare for self-protection!"
"So that's what happened!" Sha Zha Xiangru breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "These royal families are serious, can't they just let everyone live a peaceful life for two days?"
This slightly out-of-character complaint won the favor of the middle-aged man. He smiled and shook his head: "Yes, but what can we do? By the way, you haven't eaten yet, I'll ask someone to bring you some food." Come!"
"No need, I already ate it on the way here!" Sha Zha Xiangru responded quickly.
"Then bring some rice balls and pickled plums as dry food!" The middle-aged man said with a smile: "The rice balls from our Kyoto Abe family can't be eaten everywhere!"
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spring
Japan Grand Shrine, back mountain.
Sha Zha Xiangru leaned against a rock and gnawed on rice balls while looking for the "cave next to the cherry blossom forest" that the barefoot man said. The rice balls at Anbei's house really tasted good. In addition to using white rice, they were also mixed with plums. , sun-dried seaweed, fish, and scallops, which are salty and pleasant to the taste. Obviously, this is something that at least the upper-class people in Fuchu can eat. I saw that the person had a lot of blood from the Ezo people, so I said it deliberately. Unexpectedly, the bad words about the Japanese royal family turned out to be true.
Suddenly, Sha Zha Xiangru put down the rice ball and leaned closer to her. It turned out that several women carrying bamboo baskets appeared beside the stream not far away. The bamboo baskets were filled with clothes.
"Finally found it!" Sha Zha Xiangru breathed out. He turned around carefully, lowered his body, and made a gesture to the twenty warriors of the Ampei family behind him to spread out to the two wings and then surround them. Then the two The ten men spread out like well-trained hounds. Sha Zha Xiangru looked at all this with satisfaction. The man had not lied to him. These people were tough guys who had fought hard in the wilderness. He only needed to tell them what to do and point out the target. All that was left to do was Sit back and wait for the good news.
About half an hour later, the leader of the warriors came back to report that everything was over. After confirming that there were no survivors, Sha Zha Xiangru ordered all the corpses to be thrown into the cave, then poured with oil, covered with dead branches and burned, to complete the process. After everything, he left with satisfaction. Now, finally, no one knows he was involved in the attack.
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Flying birds in Beijing, traces of the house.
Ji Jian saw Chiying sitting cross-legged on the smooth floor of the corridor, with the unstrung love bow lying across his knees. The floor next to him was scattered with bow strings, beeswax, sponges for waxing the bow, and wine bottles and wine glasses. In his spare time, he I like to sit here alone, basking in the sun, drinking a sip of wine, and waxing and maintaining my love bow. This always reminds him of when he was a child, his grandfather held him in his arms like this, waxing and maintaining his bow, and drinking wine; while Ji Jian Chiying, as a child, listened to the stories his grandfather told and stared at him. The old wine flask in Grandpa's hand, wondering if he could secretly take a sip. Now his grandpa has long been buried, and Ji Jian Chi Xing already has a grandson, but he still maintains the bows and arrows in the yard like this himself. This makes Ji Jian Chi Xing think about whether to send his eldest grandson to Asuka Beijing when he is older. I can tell him the inheritance of the Ji Jian family just like my grandfather treated me.
Ji Jian Chiying finished waxing the bow, strung it and tried to draw the bow twice. After confirming that there was no problem, he took off the bow string and was about to put it into the moisture-proof sealskin bow bag. But he saw his wife hurried in from outside. As soon as he saw Chi Jian, he shouted loudly: "Husband, husband, it's all thanks to me this time!"
"Thank you? Thank you for what?" Ji Jian Chiyun looked at his wife inexplicably.
Mrs. Ji Jian smiled, walked to Ji Jian Chiyang, picked up the wine glass, and poured the wine inside: "Husband, how much do you think this glass is worth?"
"Didn't you get this from the Tang Dynasty that day? How would I know how much it cost?" Ji Jian Chiyong replied angrily: "Three ingots of silver? Or five deer skins?"
"Hehe!" Mrs. Ji Jian smiled and said, "Who is asking you how much I spent in the first place? I'm asking you how much it is worth now."
"Isn't this the same thing? What difference can there be?" Ji Jian Chiying said with a smile: "Didn't all the envoys from the Tang Dynasty arrive in the capital? Could it be that they have raised the price?"
"Raise the price?" Mrs. Ji Jian laughed: "As soon as the Tang Dynasty envoys arrived in the capital, they were isolated, and outsiders could not enter at all. These Tang goods in our hands are the only ones in the capital at the moment. This wine glass originally had a Yes, I just sold one, what price can you guess at the price offered by Mrs. Su Wa Chi?"
"Mrs. Soga Chi-nii? That must not be low? How much?"
"A bag of fine Mutsu gold sand, one pound!" Mrs. Ji Mi took out a deerskin bag from her arms and threw it to Ji Mi Akatsuki as if to show off: "Just the three ingots of silver you said, how much did you turn over? Times?"
"It's so strange!" Ji Jian Chiying weighed his pocket but did not open it: "Brother Su Wochi is a confidant of the prince, the eldest brother in the country. The envoy from the Tang Dynasty cannot be locked up forever. If he waits a few more days, he can buy it directly from the Tang Dynasty. , why spend so much money from you?
How much gold sand? "
"I just like it, so I don't care how much. Besides, who knows if there is anything like this in the Tang Dynasty!" As Mrs. Ji Jian spoke, she cleaned Ji Jian Chi Yang's wine glass, put it in her arms and walked out. Seeing this, he became anxious and shouted quickly: "Madam, what are you doing? Leave my wine glass!"
"I bought a pair of this bag of gold sand. If you accept the gold sand, the cup belongs to me!" Mrs. Ji Jian replied as she walked out. She left the yard without looking back, leaving only Ji Jian Chi Ying behind. The face is helpless.
