Chapter 207: Poor Man
He Jian is 45 years old this year. He has lived in Goguryeo for 20 years, and sometimes he can't even remember where he is.
Of course, whether you can't remember it or don't want to remember it, I don't know.
He Jian lives in a mountain village 30 miles northwest of Seoul, and usually relies on hunting and digging ginseng to make a living.
There was not much land in Goguryeo, and even less could be cultivated, so it was naturally impossible for a Sui person to get any good land.
"Selling ginseng, the best ginseng is sold cheaply!"
He is a lonely person, and the whole family is not hungry, but there are a few people in the village who followed him to Liaodong to fight, and they already have their own wives and children.
It's already July, and the winter in Goguryeo has come relatively early, and it seems that it is about to start thinking about stockpiling grain for the winter.
"Hey, how do you sell this mountain ginseng?"
He Jian suddenly heard a familiar Jiangnan Provincial accent.
Most of the soldiers and horses of the Great Sui expedition to Goguryeo came from the counties of Hedong and Hebei, and there were not many from Yangzhou like He Jian.
Since settling down in Goguryeo, He Jian has never even heard anyone else speak Tang with a Jiangnan accent.
Suddenly, a familiar local voice sounded in his ears, and He Jian couldn't help but have a sour nose and burst into tears.
I am a native of Yangzhou, and at the age of fifteen, I began to follow the general Mai Tiecane to fight in the east and west, and now I am ......
The scenes of the past, those past events that he couldn't bear to look back on after waking up in the middle of the night, all came to He Jian's heart.
Why do you refuse to remarry?
Why do you still gather those old subordinates in the village to practice in the mountains and forests every month?
Why do you ......
Now, after enduring the emotions for so many years, he was defeated in such an ordinary question.
"This old man, I want all these mountain ginseng, why don't we find a place to sit down, and you can tell us how to eat this mountain ginseng the most nourishing?"
Wang Xuanwu saw He Jian's reaction, and suddenly felt that these Sui people might be a breakthrough for the Investigation Bureau in Goguryeo.
"It made a few nobles laugh."
He Jian wiped his eyes with his sleeve, and a complicated smile appeared on his face.
"The nobles are invited, and the little old man is naturally willing."
There are inns, restaurants, and warehouses in the bazaar.
Wang Xuanwu and the others found an ordinary restaurant and a place with few people by the window to sit down.
That He Jian, when he was young, was probably also an insightful figure, although he followed in rags, he was not embarrassed at all.
"Listening to the old man's accent, it seems to be from Jiangnan?"
Forty-five-year-old He Jian looks like he is fifty or sixty years old; After sitting down, He Qingquan took the initiative to speak.
He Jian drank a glass of wine to himself, sighed and said, "You are from Datang, right?" ”
The Great Sui is dead, and now it is Li Tang's world, and He Jian still knows this information.
He Qingquan looked at Wang Xuanwu, saw him nodding at him, and couldn't help but say: "That's right, it just so happens that I am also from Yangzhou Mansion, but I didn't expect to hear the accent of my hometown in a foreign land, but I was a little surprised." ”
"There are no 70,000 or 80,000 Sui people living in Goguryeo, there must be 20,000 or 30,000 people, but most of them are already old, some of them stayed in the first expedition to Goguryeo, and they have been there for more than 20 years, and there are still a few people who remember their hometown."
He Jian muttered to himself, as if he had fallen into some kind of memory.
"Most people were unwilling to stay in Goguryeo in humiliation, hoping to find an opportunity to return to the Great Sui, but the few who fled back from Liaodong were regarded as ...... Hey, some people have returned to Liaodong. ”
"Old man, the people outside Goguryeo, I don't believe that they will really treat the Sui people well, so many people, didn't they rise up to resist?"
He Qingquan asked a little dissatisfied.
"Rebellion? For what resistance? For Yang Guang? For the sake of the Great Sui? He Jian's face showed a mocking smile, "Goguryeo scattered everyone all over the country, and by the time everyone got in touch a little, the Great Sui was gone!" ”
Wang Xuanwu has been carefully observing He Jian on the side, and the prince has said that the details of a person's behavior can reflect the true thoughts in his heart.
Especially the eyes.
Just now, He Jian's eyes showed pain, confusion, hope, firmness, and disappointment many times......
Such complicated eyes were seen from the same person in a short period of time, and Wang Xuanwu was also surprised.
This is a character with a story!
This is a poor man who is not satisfied with the status quo!
"Old man, if you can return to your hometown one day, would you like to?"
Wang Xuanwu interjected softly on the side.
"Back home? Hehe! The Goguryeo people ostensibly treated us equally, but in fact they wouldn't let us move freely at all. Like me, it's nothing if you don't go out of Seoul, and when you leave Seoul, there is no way to ...... In the vicinity of Seoul, relying on familiarity with geography, you may still have the opportunity to avoid interrogation, but once you enter Liaodong...... Can't go back. ”
He Jian's eyes lit up, but soon his eyes dimmed again.
"From Seoul back to Datang, there is more than one road in Liaodong, we can get here, and we can naturally leave here."
Wang Xuanwu showed a confident expression, which surprised He Jian slightly.
These people don't seem to be ordinary businessmen.
He Jian: "Dare to ask a few people who came to Seoul, what is the matter?" ”
"Bang dang!"
Wang Xuanwu took out a fish talisman from his arms and put it in front of He Jian.
"Chu Wangfu?"
He Jian picked up the fish talisman on the table and looked at it for a while, although he didn't know very well what the situation was in the Chu Palace, but there was no doubt that these people opposite him were from the Tang Dynasty, and they still had official status.
"His Royal Highness the King of Chu is my Prince of the Tang Dynasty and is deeply trusted by His Majesty. The prince once said: There will be a battle between my Tang Dynasty and Goguryeo. So, I've waited for it. ”
Wang Xuanwu squinted his eyes and stared at He Jian, if he didn't know the current affairs and knew something that he shouldn't know, he couldn't blame himself for killing innocents indiscriminately.
"How can I believe that you can really bring us back to Datang?"
Wang Xuanwu: "We? ”
"That's right, there are at least a thousand people like me in Seoul, and there should be no less than five hundred people still alive today, except for some who have already taken root, there are at least one or two hundred people who want to go back."
Wang Xuanwu: "If you want to go back, you can go back with me in a few days, I think, this is more convincing than any excuse, right?" ”
Goguryeo was very wary of the Tang people, and if someone like He Jian, who had lived in the local area for 20 years, helped to find out the news, it would definitely be able to achieve twice the result with half the effort.
Wang Xuanwu felt that this was likely to be the Bureau's biggest breakthrough in Goguryeo.
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