The words "British Duke" seemed to have magic power, blocking Master Shen's mouth. After a while, he whispered: "Sanlang, our properties in Baekje and Wa, as well as the sugar estates in Ryukyu, The caravan that is being planned, there are so many things to do that are just on track, but now we have to send troops to fight Goguryeo. That Quan Gaisuwen is also true, why don't you live for five more years? In this way, our things will be all——"
"Dharma monk! Things in the world are unpredictable. How can everything be as you wish?" Wang Wenzuo said with a smile.
"Yes! Impermanence, impermanence!" Master Shen sighed with a bitter look on his face: "Do you know? When I went to Fuchu this time, I discovered how much business there is! Amber, all kinds of precious furs , high-quality honey, and medicinal materials are all ridiculously cheap. As long as they change hands, the profits will be several times higher. Those Mohe people also like our goods very much. They don’t do good business but want to go to war. It’s really stupid. !”
"Didn't you say that those Mohe people didn't do business with the Tang people, and you pretended to be Japanese people to do business?"
"Shit!" Shen Fengseng spat: "Those guys said so, but when they saw the goods we brought, their eyes were straightened. It doesn't matter whether you are a Japanese or a Chinese, I don't believe they can't see that there are people on the ship. They are from Tang Dynasty, they are just pretending to be stupid and refuse to pierce the window paper!"
"So that's it!" Wang Wenzuo said with a smile: "Those Mohe people are not stupid either!"
"Those who fish, hunt, and farm may not be smart, but those who do business can be stupid!" Shen Fanseng sneered: "When I saw us off, everyone had tears in their eyes, just like their dead parents, who gave us thousands of instructions and instructions. You must be careful on the road and pack more silk on the boat next time, as much as they want."
"Haha!" Wang Wenzuo laughed: "Really or not? What do those Mohe people want silk for? They all live in the woods, hunt and catch fish, and it is not convenient to wear silk clothes!"
"Sanlang, you don't understand. There are poor and rich Mohe people. The poor wear birch bark. The rich wear satin leather robes, which are covered with a layer of satin on the surface of the leather robe. It is beautiful and beautiful." Keep warm. If you sell a piece of satin to the Mohe chief in the interior, you can exchange it for more than a dozen high-quality mink skins!" At this point, Master Shen lowered his voice: "Those Mohe people also said that if we want it, they can still sell it. people! "
"Selling people? What do you mean?"
"It's just a birth!" Master Shen smiled and said, "I heard they said that Heishui Mohe in the north is poorer. They want Tang goods but have no money to buy them. The only people who can sell them are people. Don't you have hundreds of Japanese children as soldiers, Sanlang?" Are you practicing? In my opinion, it would be better to just buy hundreds of Mohe people. The seven or eight-year-old children of the Mohe people use small bows to shoot squirrels and birds on the trees. They are very skilled in archery at the age of eleven or twelve. Buy it and practice it for three years, then it will come in handy! Hard-working, simple and brave, you are much better than the Japanese, and it doesn’t cost much, it’s just a matter of thousands of pieces of silk!" At this point, he saw When Wang Wenzuo showed an unbearable look, he smiled and said: "Sanlang, you are soft-hearted again. In fact, this is also to help those barbarians. The weather there is bitter and cold, and every winter is a gate of hell. Instead of staying in the tribe to starve and freeze, it is better to come out as a soldier." , and save the stuttering for others!”
"Forget it, I'll leave this matter to you!" Wang Wenzuo nodded.
"Don't worry, I'll take care of it all!" Shen Fanseng patted his chest. At this time, Pu Gu brought the wine and food. Both Shen Fanseng and Wang Wenzuo were really hungry and started gobbling them down immediately.
Ah Zhiluo and Dahe Huai'en had just heard about Wang Wenzuo's official position, and they both shrank their necks and remained silent for fear of causing trouble. Later, they saw Wang Wenzuo and the others sitting down to eat and drink without much happening, and they were relieved.
"Brother Dahe, this one has no airs. If it were anyone else, I'm afraid everyone here would be kicked out to make room for him!" Ah Zhiluo whispered.
"Yes!" Dahe Huaien took a bite of food and whispered: "I have heard about him before. At that time, I thought it was mostly lies, but now it seems that may not be the case!"
"How do you say it?" A Zhiluo asked with interest.
"How old do you think that person is?"
"Around thirty, right?" Ah Zhiluo glanced at Wang Wenzuo secretly: "So young. He is a fifth-rank official at such a young age. His ancestors were the founders of the country, right?"
"No!" Dahe Huaien shook his head: "He was almost the same as you four or five years ago, just a small official in charge of hundreds of people!"
"About the same as me?" Ah Zhiluo was startled: "How is this possible? What did he do to be promoted to the governor of a province in four or five years?"
"What did you do? Killed him with a knife and a gun!" Dahe Huaien smiled: "Don't believe it, I have a drinking buddy named Wang Zhaotang, I worked with him in the city of Pyongyang, these are all my My drinking buddy told me!”
"It was shot with a knife and a gun?" Ah Zhiluo looked up again, just as Wang Wenzuo and Shen Faseng were talking happily and burst into laughter. He shook his head: "I really can't tell!"
"Yes! In his early thirties, he will be the governor of a town, commanding tens of thousands of troops, and then he will be the governor of the governor's office. In his early forties, he will be promoted to general and prime minister!" Dahe Huaien sighed: "The virtuous and the unworthy. The difference is really between heaven and earth!"
While Dahe Huai'en was sighing, voices suddenly came from outside. Wang Wenzuo put down his cup and frowned. Cao Wenzong winked, and a guard walked out and came back in a blink of an eye: "Captain, there is a group of people and horses outside. There was a conflict between our people, and the leader claimed to be the local guardian! How to deal with it?"
"Guarding the envoy?" Wang Wenzuo frowned. He came all the way and was very pressed for time. Liaodong is not as densely populated as the prefectures and counties in the mainland. There are often only a few villages in a radius of more than a hundred miles, and there are no people at all, so he did not communicate with the local people. Official notification.
"Invite the leader in, and I'll tell him if there's anything you need!"
"Yes, Governor!"
A moment later, a red-faced officer came in from the door, his face full of anger. He saw Wang Wenzuo's face changed drastically at the wine table, and he quickly bowed and said: "I don't know that the king is here, so I am disrespectful." Please forgive me!"
"You recognize me?"
"Your Excellency Wang Zhaotang, I met the Governor Wang once at the gate of Pyongyang City!"
"Below Pyongyang City?" Wang Wenzuo tried hard to remember for a moment, and then he remembered: "Yes, yes, yes, it's you! I remembered that it was you who greeted me in the first place. I'm really sorry. It's been too long. I I didn’t think of it all at once!”
"What's going on! Governor Wang has a lot of things to do, so it's normal that he can't remember it for a moment!" Seeing that Wang Wenzuo actually thought of himself, Wang Zhaotang smiled proudly: "Just now, the last general saw some differences between the soldiers and my Tang soldiers outside. Likewise, I thought they were sent by Goguryeo thieves, so I came to inquire, and if I offended, please ask King Haihan to do so!"
"Most of the guards under me are Baekje and Japanese. It's normal for you to think it's abnormal!" Wang Wenzuo said with a smile: "I can't help it. The Xiongjin Governor's Mansion is overseas, and there are not many Tang soldiers willing to stay and guard it. If Baekje and Japanese are not used, no one will use them!"
"The King's Governor has an outstanding reputation and has won the hearts of the barbarians!" Wang Zhaotang complimented him a few times and was about to leave when he accidentally saw Da He Huaien sitting at the long table next to him and was surprised: "Brother Da He, why are you here? ?”
"Last General Da He Huaien, the chiefs of the Songmo Governor's Mansion, and the Shengsheng General of the Anton Governor's Mansion, pay my respects to the King Governor!" Da He Huaien felt that he was extremely unlucky, and he did not expect that he would meet him in this wine shop. An acquaintance, what's more unexpected is that this acquaintance actually knows the Governor Wang. Now he can no longer pretend to be stupid.
"My brother is a well-known archer general in Yingzhou and a nobleman among the feudal soldiers. He is used to being lazy. I have just been rude. Please forgive me for being rude!" Wang Zhaotang congratulated the king with a smile on his face. Please forgive me. What happened to Da He Huaien just now may be small or big. The distinction between upper and lower classes is the most important thing in the army. He knew that Wang Wenzuo’s official position was far higher than his own, but he asked him to drink and eat meat without coming to see him. , if Wang Wenzuo is pursued, it will be a big crime.
"Great congratulations to Huaien, Songmo Governor's Mansion?" Wang Wenzuo looked at the man in front of him. In his memory, after Tang defeated Goguryeo, his management of the Northeast and the Korean Peninsula was not successful. Goguryeo's former subjects were basically replaced by the new ones. It was divided among Luo, Bohai and Khitan peoples. The only benefit that the Tang Dynasty gained was that these forces restrained each other and were unable to penetrate into the Hebei region of the Tang Dynasty. However, within a few years there was the Anshi Rebellion. After the Tang Empire was finally pacified, Hebei became a semi-independent vassal town. It was no longer up to the Chang'an court to worry about things.
The Songmo Governor's Mansion was originally the Tang Empire's regulatory agency for managing the Khitans, and the Khitans also became the Tang Empire's powerful hawks in the northeastern region. However, judging from subsequent history, these Khitans should have happened not long after Goguryeo was wiped out. The rebellion later became an important threat to the Tang Empire in the Northeast. The great He Huai'en in front of him might have played a considerable role in this rebellion.
"Captain Wang?" Seeing that Wang Wenzuo remained silent, Wang Zhaotang thought that Wang Wenzuo was already angry, so he gritted his teeth and said, "The Dahe family is a noble species among the Khitans, and the Dahe brothers were even given the surname Li. What they just offended—— "
"Nothing!" Wang Wenzuo said with a smile: "I just remembered an old incident, and I have no intention of blaming you two! Everyone, get up!"
"Thank you, Governor Wang!" Dahe Huai'en and others heaved a sigh of relief and stood up. Wang Wenzuo asked someone to move another table and put it together. Everyone sat down again and asked: "Liucheng is an important town in Anton, how are you doing recently? "
"What else can we do?" Wang Zhaotang said with a smile: "Quangai Suwen is dead, everyone knows that troops are going to be sent out, and the old grudges of decades will be avenged today! Everyone is anxiously waiting!"
"Well!" Wang Wenzuo turned his attention to Dahe Huaien: "What do you think?"
"Goguryeo has lost all its people and wealth over the years, and it is only supported by a false fire!" Dahe Huai'en said: "With the death of Quan Gaisuwen, this false fire is gone, and destruction is just around the corner!"
Wang Wenzuo nodded noncommittally. Compared to these middle and lower-level officers, he had much more profound considerations. Judging from the way the Tang Empire dealt with Baekje, after the elimination of Goguryeo, the most likely way the empire dealt with it was to move Goguryeo's middle and upper-class personnel to the interior, and then divide it into a number of Jisizhou counties, under the jurisdiction of the Andong Protectorate. . The advantage of this is that it attacks the forces of Goguryeo's restoration. After all, Goguryeo was founded in the Western Han Dynasty, 800 years ago, and the centipede insects are dead but not dead. The disadvantage is that it further aggravates the problem of the local area being vast and sparsely populated, but Tang Dynasty took advantage of it. If the country's population is not used to fill the vacuum, the result will be that the Mohe people, Khitan people, Xinluo people and other ethnic groups will take their place. If one person is not handled well, all previous efforts will be wasted.
"Everyone!" Wang Wenzuo said with a smile: "Do you all think that Goguryeo will be destroyed in this battle?"
"That's right!" Dahe Huaien said: "Quangai Suwen died at this juncture. Goguryeo's fortune has declined and cannot be restored by human power!"
"Then what do you think, after destroying Goguryeo, how can we make its homeland stable and stable for a long time and make it a vassal of the Tang Dynasty?" Wang Wenzuo said with a smile.
Dahe Huaien and others exchanged glances with each other. They didn't know why Wang Wenzuo suddenly asked this question. This was somewhat inappropriate for their status. Wang Wenzuo saw the thoughts of several people and said with a smile: "I asked casually, and you guys just talked casually. I think I will come to the Anton Governor's Mansion to take up a post. I will ask you locals first."
Dahe Huaien and others' expressions changed slightly when they heard this. Although Wang Wenzuo was joking, they did not dare to take it as a joke. Dahe Huaien stood up and pointed to the left and right: "Captain Wang, look at this wine shop. The people sitting in this restaurant are all local people, including Han people, Mohe people, Tiele people, Sogdians, and Turks. You How do you think they are doing?”
Wang Wenzuo looked around: "Although it's a little messy, it looks like it's going well!"
"Captain, you really have good eyesight!" Dahe Huaien said with a smile: "Don't look at the shabby clothes of these people, but they all live a good life. In the Central Plains, they can be considered rich. I will give you the one just now. The guy in the seat is a pig farmer. His family alone has four to five thousand pigs. Every autumn, the bacon he sells can fill dozens of carts. At this time, the servants in the family can eat it every day. Eating offal makes your mouth full!"
"Oh? That's really amazing!" Wang Wenzuo laughed: "It turned out that the person who made way for me was such a rich man, but I didn't notice it!"
"It's not your fault. We are different from the Central Plains. Even the wealthy people don't wear gold, silver, silk and silk!" Dahe Huaien said with a smile: "There are some people who herd pigs, cattle and horses, and some Beekeepers, medicinal collectors, and gold diggers are all living a good life. But they are only afraid of one thing!"
"Oh, what's the matter?" Wang Wenzuo smiled.
"The government sends people to collect taxes, distribute labor, and pass all kinds of official documents. Then they won't be able to survive!"
Dahe Huai'en boldly said this, and closed his eyes to wait for Wang Wenzuo's scolding. Unexpectedly, he waited for a long time and didn't wait. Just when he was about to open his eyes, he heard Wang Wenzuo laugh and say: "This What’s weird, not to mention you, even I’m scared!”
(End of chapter)
