Chapter 121: The fate of the Zhu family's father and son
After training with the soldiers for a while, Guo Zongxun was still young after all, and it was impossible to insist on training for a long time and a large amount of exercise, so he stopped to rest.
"Siniang, the black charcoal will be handed over to you, you have to ensure that it is obedient to the lonely tamer, and in addition, the lonely will also prepare two BMWs for the two of you."
"Brother Xun has a heart, BMWs generally have some spirituality, this black charcoal doesn't let you ride for no other meaning, it's to dislike you for being too young, Brother Xun'er, you should not ride for the time being, change a batch of horses."
Lu Siniang didn't have any problems riding black charcoal, but she jumped and jumped when Guo Zongxun was angry.
"Since this black charcoal has nothing to do with Lone, then Lone will give it to Siniang, but Lone wants to remind Siniang that if you want to cultivate the offspring of black charcoal, you must find someone with a similar grade to its bloodline, so that it is possible to succeed."
"Siniang, thank you Brother Xun for giving the horse, Brother Xun'er, you can rest assured, it is our woman's duty to pass on the lineage, and Siniang knows this better than you know."
Guo Zongxun looked at Lu Siniang angrily, the black charcoal was originally sent by Li Chongjin, and it was also involved in a conspiracy to assassinate his father, Guo Zongxun didn't like it very much.
What made Guo Zongxun unconvinced was that Lu Siniang actually said that the women who inherited the ancestors were more experienced, which ...... Is it, but it still makes sense.
"Siniang, after you have given birth to a child, you say this sentence again, all theories that have not been practiced are nonsense, ah...... Help me...... I have a wicked wife in my family......"
"Run, run hard, run slowly, this whip is going to fall on Brother Xun'er's little ass."
Since Lu Siniang came, Cao Bin, Wang Liang, and Zhang Tieniu basically couldn't get close to the side, and could only watch with very envious eyes not far away.
"Look at what, Lone is training hard, all for Lone to practice, sweat more in peacetime, shed less blood in wartime, Da Zhou is mighty, kill ......"
Guo Zongxun was chased around by Lu Siniang, and coldly ran behind Wei Zhongxian and Zhang Tieniu, and raised his foot to give them a flying kick.
"Master, you can't beat your child daughter-in-law, and you can't always make fun of the two of us."
"Father-in-law Wei, what is a child daughter-in-law?"
"Child brides are ......"
"Wei Zhongxian, shut up Gu, ah...... Siniang, you are really beaten, the child daughter-in-law is what you said, why are you still lonely. ”
"Brother Xun, I am right when I say the child daughter-in-law, but Mrs. Black Market is not what I said."
"Ah...... Lone retracted this sentence, there is no black market lady, there is no black market lady......"
Lu Siniang chased after Guo Zongxun relentlessly, in fact, she was helping him practice martial arts.
"Father-in-law Wei, what do you mean by Mrs. Black Market."
"Mrs. Black Market, let's guess, it's a guess, it's not necessarily right, the correct answer is only known to His Royal Highness the Prince, our family estimates that Mrs. Black Market is a lady who buys and sells on the black market, belongs to a kind of slave, and buys it home as a slave to sleep with."
"Wei Zhongxian, you shut up and make you darker and darker......"
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With the help of Zhu Jinliang and his son, Yelu Huge and Xiao Yanyan and their entourage successfully passed through the Great Perimeter Pass and entered Ningzhou.
"Zhu Jinliang, your goods don't seem to be scarce in my Da Liao, but it's just some silk cloth, and grain seeds, your Zhou State has already started a war with our Da Liao, I'm afraid these things are not easy to sell."
Entering the territory of Liao, the relationship between the host and the guest was reversed, and Zhu Jinliang and his son almost became the prisoners of Yelu Huge.
"Nobles, you should know that goods such as salt and iron are strictly forbidden to be trafficked privately in the Zhou Kingdom, among which salt is okay to say, think of a way, you can still get it, and Zhu can't get iron and iron."
"Zhu Jinliang, you are very dishonest, as far as I know, the merchants in the Jincheng area can get iron tools from your Zhou Kingdom."
"Nobleman, this is what you don't know, the place where there has been a long war in Jincheng, the so-called border is actually only a vague concept, and many goods can be transported back and forth without going through the checkpoint."
"Then why don't you father and son go?"
"Our father and son are from Ludi, firstly, they can't get in, and secondly, they also feel that it is more secure to do some small business, and they are about to spring ploughing.
Zhu Jinliang was respectful in front of Yelu Huge, answered all questions, and was very calm.
"Zhu Jinliang, I'm afraid you won't be able to sell this batch of goods, there will be a war here soon, and we must hurry immediately, I'm still hesitating now, or I'll just kill you."
Yelu Hugo and his party were all on horses, and more than a dozen trucks were parked on the side of the road, and the driver who drove the car and Zhu Jinliang's son Zhu Junsheng were all guarded.
"The nobleman wants to kill us, it's just a matter of a thought, Zhu can't control it, but if the nobleman is willing to let us go, Zhu has some suggestions."
Zhu Jinliang felt the murderous aura on Brother Yeluxiu's body, and it was also a little strange, this young boy was actually the leader of this gang, and it seemed that his identity must be very noble.
The question is, what are they doing in my big week, and it seems that they are still running for their lives.
"Oh? It seems that you still have a trick, let's talk about it, and see if these little suggestions in your mouth can save your father and son's lives. ”
Zhu Jinliang was also riding on a horse, he glanced at Zhu Junsheng and the coachman who were being guarded, sighed, and said:
"The reason why Zhu carries a batch of grain seeds when he traffics goods to Daliao every spring is because Zhu heard that Yanyun includes outside the Guan, and the people who farm the land will starve to death a lot every winter, so he ......."
Brother Yelu Hugh was a little moved, what Zhu Jinliang said out of his mouth, he had never considered it.
In his previous cognition, the life and death of the lowly people, especially the Han people, did not need to be considered by their noble Liao royal family at all.
"Wait, Zhu Jinliang, you won't be alarmist, my people who farm in Daliao starve themselves to death every winter, how is this possible, don't they have food at home?"
Xiao Yanyan also opened her eyes wide on the side, looking at Zhu Jinliang with a puzzled expression.
"The grain has been snatched away by you noble masters, Zhu Mou said a not very polite word, you really don't leave a single grain, even if you don't care about their life or death, don't you need to farm in the spring ploughing next year?"
Yelu Hugo was dumbfounded, isn't it, are our nobles in Daliao so stupid, greedy, cruel and ruthless?
"Nobleman, what Zhu said is the truth, if it weren't for the grain seeds brought by Zhu every year, Ningzhou would have been thousands of miles away from Gubeikou, and the people would have either starved to death or fled."
Zhu Junsheng, who was being guarded, also looked at Zhu Jinliang incredibly, his father is quite great.
"Chigu, is that so?"
Jeruhugo didn't believe it, so he turned to the leader of the secret agent.
"Brother Xiu, the situation is indeed like this, except for the area of Linhuang Mansion and Liaoyang Mansion, Yanyun's side, this situation has been going on for nearly ten years."
Brother Yelu Xiu was silent, with that emperor Shi Jingjiao, I Da Liao easily obtained the sixteen states of Yanyun, and then, what did the emperors and nobles of my Da Liao do?
In Liaoyang Mansion, every year it was heard that the grain collected from the land of Yanyun was getting less and less, and the emperor even cut off the heads of several Han officials, saying that they had bad intentions and rebellion.
Grass valley is a common thing for nomads to do, galloping, burning, looting, and then roaring away.
At that time, everyone thought that it was natural to rob these Han people, and if we didn't rob them, we wouldn't be able to survive the winter, and our children would starve to death.
However, now Yanyun is already the land of my Great Liao, and those Han people are already the people of my Great Liao.
The warriors of my Da Liao still ride horses to Yanyun several times a year.
And there is no need to worry about being pursued by the army of the Zhou State, this is the territory of Da Liao, these Han people deserve to be robbed by us, if we don't kill them, we are merciful enough.
Zhu Jinliang just rode quietly on the horse, quietly looking at the young man in front of him who was contemplating.
"Zhu Jinliang, tell me why you have to send grain seeds here every year, don't tell me that you are merciful and have a heart for me, if you dare to say that, I will kill all of you immediately."
Jeruhugo was a little angry, but he didn't know who to be angry at.
"It is you Han people of Liao who beg us merchants, who just want to be able to struggle to survive on the land that has lived and cultivated for generations."
"I don't believe it, you businessmen are mercenary, you have such good intentions?"
"There are also your Han officials in Daliao, they acquiesced in us bringing grain seeds to the people, so that we can get the opportunity to do business in Liao, the seeds brought are not a big head after all, we make a profit by selling other goods, and we don't hide from nobles, Zhu also sold illicit salt."
Zhu Jinliang was very calm, but he didn't tell the truth, the delivery of grain seeds to the sixteen states of Yanyun actually started in the past five or six years, and it was an order from the Great Zhou Emperor Guo Rong.
Guo Rong has three hundred iron-blooded secret guards by his side, and every year he will eliminate a few injured or old ones, Zhu Jinliang is one of them, and he was eliminated five years ago.
"I can't save Yanyun Hanmin from fire and water right away, but I really want to do something for them."
At the beginning of Guo Rong's ascension to the throne, the four provinces were in chaos, and the border of the Great Zhou was almost full of wars, and at that time, he could not concentrate on attacking the Liao State to recover Yanyun.
Therefore, Guo Rong initially adopted the advice of Prime Minister Fan, first easy and then difficult, first subdued the weaker ones and beat them honestly, and then freed up his hands to recover Yanyun.
"You are all my henchmen, and now you are no longer a secret guard, but I will not allow you to live a free life, this is the common responsibility of our generation or even generations."
"Go and be a ninth-rate businessman, I have given you the life of a rich man, and you must also do something for me."
As a result, Zhu Jinliang has his current livelihood, trafficking goods from Ludi to Yanyun Youzhou, and secretly helping the people of Yanyun who are struggling on the death line.
This is actually an enemy, because most of the food grown by the people has been robbed by Liao dogs.
But this is the secret order of the Great Zhou Emperor, the emperor is an enemy, who dares to say anything.
"When I wield my troops to recover Yanyun, I hope that Yanyun's Hanmin will survive more, and that's all I can do for them now."
This is also the compassion of the Great Zhou Emperor Guo Rong.
Brother Yelu Xiu nodded, the reason given by Zhu Jinliang was quite reasonable, and more importantly, he actually didn't want to kill these people in the first place.
What the boss said, Yelu Xiuge remembers it clearly, if you let Gu know that you will intensify the cruelty of the Han people after you go back, Gu swears that the day when Gu waives his troops to level the Liao country will be the time when your Liao people are wiped out.
"Divide those grain seeds from the goods, bring some of each person's horses, bring as many as they can, and burn the rest of the goods, Zhu Jinliang, your father and son must go with us, and the rest of the people, let them flee for their lives."
"Brother Hugh, if you don't kill these people, I'm afraid they will reveal our whereabouts."
"Chigu, since you all recognize me as the leader, then listen to me, I am giving orders, not discussing with you."
Chigu was stunned for a while, looking at Yelu Xiuge's firm gaze, these people are all the henchmen of Brother Yeluhua, the Taiwei of the Liao State, and now the Taiwei has died in the Zhou State.
The young man in front of him is also a member of the Great Liao Imperial Family, and he is also very valued by Brother Yeluhua, so it seems to be a very good choice to follow him.
"Chigu knows that he is wrong, and from now on, Chigu is willing to obey your orders."
The grain seeds were quickly divided, and each Liao warrior carried some on his horses, and the horses pulling the carts were also untied to carry the grain seeds.
Zhu Jinliang looked at the chauffeurs who fled in all directions, wondering if they still had a chance to escape back to Da Zhou.
looked at his son Junsheng again, Zhu Junsheng was also riding on a horse at this time, and was also leading a horse carrying grain, his face was pale, and his body was trembling.
"Son, this is also your fate, Dad only hopes that you can be an upright Han family son, otherwise, Dad will kill you with his own hands, and you must not be allowed to be a traitor."
Zhu Jinliang thought in his heart, but his face didn't show anything at all.
"Nobleman, Zhu knows a secret trade route that can lead to Gubeikou, if you don't mind, Zhu is willing to lead the way."
Yelu Hugo smiled, stretched out his hand and pointed at Chigu, and said:
"I didn't see that person, his name is Chigu, he is a very famous warrior in my Daliao, he has been hiding in Kaifeng in your Zhou State for three years, wearing Han clothes and saying Han words, and even married a few Han wives and concubines, with him, where do you need to lead the way."
Zhu Jinliang also smiled:
"Zhu Mou This is also to thank the noble man for sparing the lives of our father and son, since this is already the case, Zhu feels that it is naturally better to let the noble people trust Zhu more."
Jeruhuko called Chigu over and commanded:
"Zhu Jinliang, you tell Chigu the route you know, maybe you can use it in the future."
"Zhu obeyed."
Yelu Xiuge glanced at Zhu Junsheng with his spare eyes, this seventeen or eighteen-year-old young man lowered his head, still trembling.
"Zhu Jinliang, your son-in-law seems to be very scared, let him rest assured, since I let you go now, when I go to Liaoyang Mansion, I won't kill you, and it's useless for me to keep you."
Zhu Jinliang turned over and dismounted and fell down in front of Yelu Hugh's horse, and said excitedly:
"Xiaomin's father and son are willing to serve the adults and serve the dogs and horses."
Jerushuge waved his horsewhip and said:
"I won't believe what you say, you businessmen are all mercenary villains, and Han people can't be of the same mind as us Liao people after all."
"What the adults said is true, but Xiaomin is a businessman, and in the eyes of a businessman, commerce has no borders."
Brother Yelu laughed and said to Xiao Yanyan:
"See, this is the high-sounding reason that their Han people have found for their treason, a good sentence in the eyes of businessmen that commerce has no borders."
Zhu Jinliang said with a smile:
"The two nobles are the nobles of Daliao at first glance, and their identities are still very noble, Xiaomin is just a small businessman in the Zhou State, and it is very difficult to see the county order, if the two nobles can let Xiaomin's father and son follow him, it is a great blessing for Xiaomin's father and son."
Xiao Yanyan also smiled:
"Brother Hugh, I now know why you dare to conclude that Zhao Er will definitely surrender, these two people are good, Yan Yan has also guessed how you want to reuse them."
The group had already packed up, and Chi Gu knew the secret trade route that Zhu Jinliang told him, and suggested to Yelu Huge that he take that road.
"My lord, the road that Boss Zhu said is indeed a shortcut, although it needs to take a long detour, but it is safer."
Brother Yelu Xiu said: "Since this is the case, then take this road, Boss Zhu, my name is Brother Yelu Xiu, don't think that I will trust you immediately, everything will wait until Liaoyang Mansion." ”
After speaking, Yelu Hugo ordered to set off, and Zhu Jinliang and Zhu Junsheng, father and son, were caught in the middle by these people.
The route they took was first to the east, then to the north.
Zhu Jinliang rode on the horse, he didn't dare to look back, his family and country were behind him, and he couldn't turn back.
"In the eyes of businessmen, commerce has no borders, and in the second half of the sentence, Zhu didn't say it, in Zhu's heart, businessmen have a family and a country."
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When night fell, Lu Siniang jumped out of the palace with Guo Zongxun in his hand, Wei Zhongxian borrowed a carriage from the Hall of Heroes of the Hundred Battles, Guo Zongxun got into the carriage and went straight to the temporary headquarters of the East Factory.
The carriage and horse shop and the small wooden building were originally located on the west side of Kaifeng City, which was relatively remote, but the advantage was that the road was smooth, and there were no residents around.
"It's good here, Wei Banban, the headquarters of the East Factory is located here for the time being, close this place, and follow the training method that Gu told you...... Oh, by the way, you can show those training methods to Siniang first, maybe she has better opinions. ”
There is a top-level assassin Tong Daughter-in-law by his side, and Jin Yiwei of Dongchang wants to cultivate a first-class spy killer, so he naturally needs to ask for more advice.
"The slave obeys the order, the method of training, the slave carries it, please Miss Lu to take a look."
"I don't have time to read it now, I'll talk about it when I'm done dealing with this matter, besides, reading a book under a candle hurts my eyes."
"Yes, Siniang is right, I can't watch it now, the lonely Siniang must take good care of her body, otherwise she will be distressed."
"Brother Xun, sister, I'm curious now, what else can a person like Qin Li do?"
"Then Lone will tell you two first, it doesn't matter if you kill Qin Li or not, people like Qin Li, there are not a hundred or seventy or eighty in the Great Zhou Kingdom, and they are all officials in the court, they just publish books because of their personal hobbies, Lone believes that they will not really sell the country, if they really betray the country, they will not publish books in a grand manner."
"Brother Xun'er, what you said makes sense, those who are really traitors must all secretly betray information and blatantly publish books, that's really enough."
"The strange thing is that no one has been in charge of this matter, if it weren't for Wei Renpu's impeachment of Qin Li, even Gu didn't expect that there would be such a group of people in my Da Zhou."
"Master, the slave has sent someone to investigate, in the books that the court officials have been in in recent years, there are really a lot of secrets involving the Great Zhou, but there is really no one like Qin Li who can clearly understand my Great Zhou military aircraft."
"The publication of books in the Great Zhou Dynasty needs to be regulated, and the publishing rights of books must be in the hands of the emperor, telling you this, you may not understand, the mouthpiece of public opinion, the book spreads to the world, and teaches the things that read people all over the world, how can you write casually, freedom of speech, at least for now, is absolutely unfeasible."
"Brother Xun'er, you haven't said what you plan to do with this Qin Li, sister, I am also greedy for a while, so I helped you come up with this method."
"Siniang, your method is very good, Wei Banban, go to the prison of the Criminal Department to raise people, what did you say."
"According to Miss Lu's strategy, the slave sent Jinyi Wei to mention it, and he was angry with Master Ma, saying that someone secretly bought the jailer and secretly let Qin Li out."
"Very good, in this case, even if Qin Li absconded in fear of crime, has his home been searched?"
"I also searched it, it was Lord Cao who personally took people there, all the books were copied, the family property was not moved, to be fair, the Hanlin Academy is a clear water yamen, and the editor of the Hanlin Academy is really poor."
"Alas...... I'm afraid this is also one of the reasons why Qin Li wrote a book, so that he could earn some money to support his family. ”
The carriage grunted forward, Jin Yiwei was in charge of catching up with the carriage, Guo Zongxun, Lu Siniang and Wei Zhongxian were all sitting in the carriage, the carriage was not big, and the place was far less comfortable and luxurious than the prince's honor guard.
Guo Zongxun simply took the opportunity to lean on Lu Siniang's arms, but what he said was serious.
"Father-in-law Wei, do you see it, Brother Xun has been selling customs with us, and he has been talking for a long time, but he hasn't said what he wants to do with this Qin Li."
"Miss Lu, if you stay with your master for a long time, you will get used to it."
Guo Zongxun's head arched, well, it's so soft, it would be nice if I could get started, it must feel better.
Just when Guo Zongxun was distracted, the carriage stopped.
"My lord, it's time to get there."
At this time, Wei Zhongxian was not called an adult, at least he felt very comfortable, forgetting that he was still a birdless father-in-law.
"Master, you're all ready to go."
"Brother Xun'er, have you arched enough, Siniang is not a cabbage, Brother Xun'er is a little wild boar."
Guo Zongxun kicked Wei Zhongxian angrily, so he didn't have the eyesight to see, didn't he see that Gu was eating tofu, couldn't he order the car to go around one more time?