Chapter 25 The Gambler Wen Chengde
In order to delay the start of the war, the Goryeo monarchs and ministers used a delaying tactic to delay the army, pretending to agree to surrender, and secretly still actively preparing for war.
After such a successful delay of more than a month, Yang Guang, who was now impatient, sent an envoy to announce the edict, so Gao Yuan would convene the ministers to discuss countermeasures.
In the Goryeo Palace, the ministers discussed for a long time, but they couldn't give a way to continue to delay time, at this time, Yuan Taizuo, who had been squinting and not speaking, finally opened his eyes and said: "The king, the minister thinks that if you want to continue to delay the time until the cold winter, for the sake of today, the only way to do this is for the king to go to the front line in person and make peace with the tyrant." ”
"No, the body of the king is ten thousand gold, how can he take risks easily?" After hearing this, General Etoshi Wende immediately retorted.
Gao Jianwu, the king of Rongliu, stood up and said: "When the national disaster is at the head, is it the time to cherish the body?" Your Majesty, let your brother go to the border on your behalf! ”
Gao Yuan said: "Brother Wang really cares about widows!" But if you go, I'm afraid it won't make a difference, so I'll go there myself! ”
"The king......" Yizhi Wende still wanted to advise, but Gao Yuan waved his hand and said: "The will of the widow has been decided, Aiqing doesn't need to persuade anymore!" ”
Etoshi Wende had no choice but to give up, thinking about how to deal with some of the possible consequences after the king left the capital.
The next day, Gao Yuan was escorted by 10,000 troops out of the capital Pyongyang and went to the border, and shortly after Gao Yuan left the capital, a rich boy named Li Yuanyu led a large caravan and proudly entered Pyongyang City......
In the north of Pyongyang, there is a man named Moon Sung-deok, whose ancestors were out of the ranks, leaving a five-in-out mansion, but it began to decline when it came to his father's generation, after his father's death, Moon Sungde did business and made a lot of money, and married a lady as a wife and gave birth to a daughter.
But the good times didn't last long, and this Wen Chengde later became addicted to the vice of gambling, and gradually squandered his relatively solid family wealth.
In recent days, Wen Chengde felt itchy again, and kept running to the gambling house, losing a mess, and instead of winning the money, he brought back a stack of IOUs.
If you owe money to the casino, you can't do it unless you don't want to die. Seeing that the deadline was coming day by day, Wen Chengde gritted his teeth and decided to sell this ancestral mansion!
However, after several days, Wen Chengde still failed to buy the ancestral house, and there were quite a few people who wanted to buy it, but everyone knew that he was in urgent need of money, so the price was kept extremely low, Wen Chengde was not stupid, so he did not agree.
Wentong also pondered that since he couldn't sell it at a good price to a local person, he had to find a rich person from outside. After several inquiries, he learned that a wealthy businessman named Li Yuanyu had recently come to the city, who was generous and generous, and he happened to be looking for a house to live in.
When Wen Chengde heard this, he clapped his hands and said, "It's him!" ”
So, he came to the door automatically. found that Li Yuanyu and sold him his ancestral house.
What is this Li Yuanyu, in fact, is Li Yin's new identity, the original owner was born in a wealthy merchant family, and has shown a very high talent for business since he was a child, since he was twelve years old, he followed his father to leave home to run an overseas business, and now he is eighteen years old, he seems to be a workaholic, and in the six years since he left home, he has never returned to his home in the capital Pyongyang, and all those who are familiar with him were killed when the Sui army captured the island.
The Goryeo Kingdom was deeply influenced by the Central Plains Dynasty, and there were many ancestors who moved from the Central Plains during the war since the Wuhu Rebellion, so that Chinese was also the mainstream language, so Li Yin came to Pyongyang to go undercover, and there was no language barrier at all.
In the past few days after Li Yin entered Pyongyang City, he lived in Li Yuanyu's original home, but there were many people there, which was not conducive to his plan to spy on the military situation, and Li Yin was also afraid that one would accidentally expose his stuffing, so he decided to find another place to live.
Wen Chengde is quite eloquent, Li Yin immediately became interested after listening to his words at this time, so he decided to go to the field to see, Wen Chengde naturally did not refuse, personally led the way, and took Li Yin to his ancestral house.
Li Yin looked at it casually for a while, and nodded secretly, although this house is a little dilapidated in some places, the layout and decoration are obviously from everyone's hands, and the location is relatively remote, and the surroundings are very quiet, it is indeed a suitable place for him to live.
"Drive, drive!" Just when Li Yin turned around a certain courtyard, a little girl riding a bamboo horse suddenly rushed out in front of him, Li Yin couldn't dodge it, and was bumped into by the little girl.
The little girl was about five or six years old, not as old as Li Yin's trousers, with a long double ponytail, and her little face was a little stained, like a little cat.
The little girl's head just hit Li Yin's little brother, causing Li Yin to bend down in pain, and the little girl herself sat on the ground.
Wen Chengde stepped forward and grabbed the little girl's hand angrily, "You wild girl, you actually make trouble for me, see if I don't discipline you well!" ”
As he spoke, he waved his hand and hit the little girl, and the little girl immediately cried "wow".
Li Yin immediately couldn't bear to say: "I'm fine, you stop!" ”
Wen Chengde didn't seem to hear it, he hit a few more times, and when he wanted to fight again, Li Yin grabbed his hand, looked at him coldly, and said word by word: "I said to let you stop, did you hear it?" ”
Looking at Li Yin's eyes, Wen Chengde couldn't help but shudder: "Listen...... I heard it. Only then did Li Yin let go of his hand, and his expression returned to normal.
Wen Chengde wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, pointed to the little girl who was still crying, and said with a smile: "This is my daughter Niuniu, who has been wild since she was a child, and I am really sorry to bump into you." ”
Li Yin ignored Wen Chengde, took out a candy from his arms, and squatted down in front of Niuniu, "Don't cry, it won't look good if you cry again." ”
Niuniu wiped her tears, carefully took the candy, and looked at Li Yin with wide eyes, "Thank you, big brother, Niuniu won't cry." ”
Li Yin stood up with a smile.
Wen Chengde rubbed his hands and said, "That...... Childe, are you still satisfied with my house? ”
Li Yin said: "It's okay, how much do you want?" ”
Wen Chengde thought for a while, and made a gesture of nine with his hand, "One price, nine silver...... Nine hundred taels! These days, most of those who come to buy his house only give three or four hundred taels, and the lowest even offered a price of one hundred taels, although Wen Chengde shouted a high price of nine hundred taels in the next breath, but he thought in his heart that if Li Yin could give six white taels, he would sell it.
But Li Yin agreed, "Deal!" I'll have someone bring it to you later. ”