The second floor of Liang Ji Tavern, the location and scenery are very good, although this is a remote alley, but sitting by the window, you can just see the bustling street scene outside the alley, only two streets and alleys outside, is the most prosperous West Market Dafang, all kinds of Hu merchants in the Western Regions, Turkic horse dealers, Tianzhu Xingjia, in one stall after another selling their own livestock and goods trafficked from the homeland, and there are some exotic acrobats, performing difficult acrobatics such as swallowing knives, spitting fire, and flying, provoked the onlookers to applaud the people of the Eastern Capital.

Wang Shichong and Eulzhi Wende sat upstairs, drinking plum wine, while leisurely looking at the street scene outside, the street was crowded with people, and the noise was boiling in the sky, while Eulji Wende looked calm, drinking glass after glass, the wine glass was gently rotating in his hand, from this subtle movement, Wang Shichong also knew that this Goguryeo visitor was thinking about other things.

Wang Shichong smiled slightly, and refilled Eulzhi Wende, who had just finished drinking a glass of wine, for more than an hour before, the two of them only talked about inconsequential things politely, and did not touch the substance, but Wang Shichong knew that this Eulzhi Wende would never be just an ordinary Goguryeo merchant as he said, otherwise he would not know his official position and identity.

Wang Shichong put down the wine jug, took a piece of preserved venison with chopsticks, put it in the bowl in front of him, and said with a smile: "Mr. Ulji, where are you from Goguryeo?" ”

Eulzhi Wende smiled slightly: "I am from Pyongyang. ”

Wang Shichong said "oh": "So, brother, you are also a royal capital in Goguryeo?" ”

Etoji Wende nodded: "Well, yes." Our ancestors have lived in Pyongyang for generations. My father left a medicinal herb shop. I've been in charge of business all the time. ”

Wang Shichong smiled: "A few years ago, I did a little ginseng business with some Goguryeo merchants, you Goguryeo does have a lot of precious medicinal materials, which cannot be seen in the Central Plains, last time because of the emperor's expedition, and then your Goguryeo began to close the country again, and built a thousand miles of Great Wall along the Liao River for defense, so it has been a trade isolation over the years, but I think our current supreme is very much interested in expanding the caravan to the four directions." Maybe it won't be too long before I can reopen trade with you. ”

Yizhi Wende said softly: "Does Wang Shilang really think so?" ”

Wang Shichong was secretly happy in his heart, it seemed that this Yizhi Wende was still a little bit about to say something to himself, he nodded, and said with a straight face: "You see that there are so many envoys from various countries in the Western Regions in this eastern capital, as well as merchants from various countries, our supreme will provide accommodation and meals for these merchant envoys for free in order to let them come, if you Goguryeo also organize a large-scale merchant group to come, I think you will also get such treatment." Or even better. ”

Yizhi Wende laughed: "Wang Shilang, we are friends today. It's purely a personal friend, not an official of the two countries, so there is no need to say much about such a scene. You look up to me and invite me to drink, but I don't want to listen to your polite words. ”

Wang Shichong put down his wine glass, pretended to be a little unhappy, and said: "I don't like to hear this from Brother Yizhi, listen to what you mean, it seems that I am lying to you, not telling the truth?" ”

Yizhi Wende said calmly: "This time, I set out from Liaodong, and walked five or six thousand miles all the way from Liaodong City (Xiangping City, where the Han Dynasty of Liaodong County was located in the Han Dynasty) to Yingzhou, and then went all the way south from Zhuo County, crossed the Yellow River, and entered the eastern capital. I haven't been to the Central Plains for more than ten years, and I have changed a lot, and I actually started digging a big canal from Zhuojun to Yangzhou, and I didn't believe it when I was in Goguryeo at first, but when I saw it with my own eyes, I was convinced that there is nothing in this world that can't be done, only unexpected. Wang Shilang, do you want to say that your Supreme Lady went to such great lengths to dig this Grand Canal just to facilitate our Goguryeo envoys to go south by boat in the future? ”

Wang Shichong smiled slightly: "I didn't expect that Mr. Eulzhi came to our Great Sui many years ago, so you must be an official of Goguryeo." ”

Yizhi Wende did not deny it, and looked at Wang Shichong's eyes calmly: "This is not an important thing, the important thing is that I have a fate to meet Wang Shilang today and want to make friends, so between friends, it is better to tell the truth, if you wear a mask and say that kind of diplomatic etiquette, I don't have to drink and chat with you here." ”

Wang Shichong shook his head: "Mr. Eulzhi, you are very clear about my details, but you don't show your identity in Goguryeo, this is unfair from the beginning, I am an official of the Sui Dynasty, if you don't have an accident, you should also be an important minister of Goguryeo, like you take information from my mouth, is this what a friend did?" ”

Ezhi Wende smiled: "Also, this point is a bit of an advantage for me, so let's do it, don't say secret words in front of the Ming people, I am the deputy minister of Goguryeo, plus the eastern lord, this time I came to the Great Sui as an envoy, but I hope that before the official presentation of the national letter, I can see the characters of Middle-earth with my own eyes, I say this, is Wang Shilang satisfied?" ”

Wang Shichong nodded, and said: "As expected, you are really an important minister of Goguryeo, or Xiangguo, and your status is much higher than that of Wang in Dasui." It's just that this eastern lord, how does it sound like the official name of the Turks? ”

Eulzhi Wende Zhengse said: "Since the founding of our ancestor Zhumeng, our Goguryeo has been a semi-nomadic and semi-settled state model, and over the past few hundred years, through the efforts and struggles of countless predecessors, we have conquered and controlled hundreds of small tribes around us. ”

"Among them, many tribes are backward and primitive nomadic peoples, such as Beji, Qian, Khitan, Xi, etc., and there are many of you Han people, as well as the remnants of Wei's Joseon after being wiped out by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, according to the laws and regulations of our Goguryeo, according to the geographical division, these foreign ethnic groups in the country are divided into four major parts, east, west, north and south, respectively, and set up local famous families as adults to manage, and the ancestors of our Ulji clan are the big clans in the fertile area east of Goguryeo, so they also inherit the position of the eastern lord. As for the state minister of Goguryeo, most of them are held by us, the ministers of various ministries, in turn. ”

Wang Shichong said with a smile: "I see, no wonder I have never heard of this surname in the Central Plains, but if this is the case, Brother Ulzhi should be in your hometown to lead the local tribes, how can he be in Pyongyang (the capital of Goguryeo, also known as Wang Xiancheng in ancient times)?" (To be continued......)