Chapter 654: Sui Army Prisoners of War

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Pyongyang City. According to the Koreans, the city has a long history, and Danjun founded Joseon here. Later, the city was named Wang Jian City, and Wang Jian was the name of Tan Jun. Jizi, Wei Man successively set the capital here, after Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty destroyed Wei Man, Wang Jiancheng became the county governor of Lelang County, and Wang Jiancheng was also renamed Joseon County. After the founding of Goguryeo, King Changshou moved the capital from the domestic city to Pyongyang, and built the magnificent Anhakung Palace, which was renamed Pyongyang City because of the flat location of Wangjian's city.

Since then, Pyongyang City has become the capital of the Goguryeo people, and because Pyongyang City is full of willow trees, Pyongyang has another nickname, called Liujing.

The Goguryeo and Silla people generally worship Buddha, so many Buddhist temples were built around Pyongyang, the most famous of which are Anguksa Temple and Gwangbosa Temple. Guangfa Temple is a Buddhist temple built of wood by King Guangkaitu and King Haotai.

King Hosee was the first monarch in the history of Goguryeo to claim to be king, and since then, the monarchs of Goguryeo have always aimed at the great achievements of King Hoseok. The location of this temple is being built at the foot of Daeseongsan Mountain, the royal fortress of Goguryeo.

The city wall on the Dacheng Mountain surrounds, and in the Daxiong Hall of Guangfa Temple, the golden body of Sakyamuni stands tall.

Two monks sat opposite each other, one in his fifties and sixties with a crane's head, and the other in his forties, who had lost a left arm.

For an old monk closed the scriptures in his hand and said: "When the good king was in power, he made a supreme vow to burn the Buddhist scriptures in the world into a canon and become a tripitaka, but at that time, the war in China was chaotic, and the good king sent several envoys to ask for scriptures but could not, so he gave up." Unexpectedly, two hundred years later, the great wish of the good prince could be fulfilled in the hands of the old man. ”

The monk in his forties said, "Promote the Dharma." It's also a little bit of my effort, although the master is a Goguryeo. and my Great Sui is an enemy state. However, if the country has an enmity, there is no obstacle to Buddhism, and it is also the wish of the poor monk to be able to spread Buddhism to the four seas. ”

The old monk glanced at the monk and sighed: "You still can't let go of that bit of national hatred, the Great Sui Dynasty has been destroyed for several years, and the north has long been the Great Zhao Dynasty, why can't you let it go?" ”

The monk said: "It's not that I can't let go, back then, Pao Ze followed me across the Liao River and hit Goguryeo." A few of the 300,000 children survived, and in the past few years, I have always refused the master's kindness to accept me as an apprentice, and I have never dared to forget that I am a Han Chinese, not a barbarian such as Goguryeol. ”

The old monk listened: "In the eyes of the Buddha, how can there be Han people, barbarian thoughts, and all living beings are equal. ”

The monk flicked his sleeves and stood up. But when he heard the commotion, it turned out that he was wearing two pairs of shackles on the soles of his feet and said: "Master, I respect you because you have saved a lot of my Sui army and Han people in the past few years, but if you want to persuade me, you can't." Now I have copied the scriptures to you. Give me a meal. ”

The old monk sighed and said, "Okay, it's still the old rule, you go to the incense hall to eat." ”

Saying that, the monk left on the spot, walked to the dining table, finished a meal, and took three bundles of lotus leaf rice and left.

The monk's original name was Gao Tao. He was one of the 300,000 Sui troops who accompanied Zhongwen to conquer Liao. After the defeat of Sasui, most of his robes were killed. The level was piled up by Goguryeo as a Jingguan. Seventy or eighty thousand Great Sui soldiers were also captured by Goguryeo.

Gao Tao was also one of them, and was later used as an official slave to pave bridges and roads for the Goguryeo people. The official slaves were enslaved by the Goguryeo people, and seven or eight of the ten died early, because he knew the Buddhist scriptures, so he often did not have to serve, and went to the Guangfa Temple to recite the scriptures to the abbot, so he lived. But Gao Tao was unwilling to be a monk of Guangfa Temple, but only willing to return to the slave camp with the soldiers.

This is another official slave camp, an ordinary day, here is full of garbage and filth, the houses are dilapidated, can not protect from the rain in summer, can not avoid the cold in winter, can only barely live. But the Goguryeo people made these Great Sui prisoners of war do the hardest and most tiring work.

The guards in the official slave camp were poor, and the Goguryeo people were not worried that the prisoners of war of the Great Sui would run away, because they were not familiar with the place here, and once they ran away, they would be captured from the mountains in a few days, and then taken out for public display. The Goguryeo people had their own way of dealing with fugitive slaves, first burning them with torches, burning their bodies to the fullest, and then constantly breathing, and finally beheading and hanging them for public display.

Gao Tao brought the lotus leaf rice back to the house, but when he saw that there were more than a dozen men lying on the bed, he suddenly had strength.

Gao Tao took a look, these were the most elite soldiers of the Great Sui back then, and now they were all hungry, and their eyes were glowing green.

Gao Tao said: "The rice is here, you first divide these two packets, and this bag is given to Xiao Gu and Xiaohe, who are the most sick." ”

"Xiao Gu doesn't need it, he died of illness last night."

"That's good for the river."

The prisoners of war nodded when they heard this, although they were prisoners of war, but the soldiers still maintained military discipline, a pack of lotus leaf rice was passed from one person to another, everyone just took a bite with their hands, and passed it on to the next person. By the time the last person arrived, there was still most of the meal.

Although everyone was extremely hungry, they still maintained the friendship between the robes.

And Xiaohe, who was seriously ill, was eating, tears were falling from his eyes, and he suddenly wailed: "Brother Gao, I miss home, I miss my mother and brother, I don't want to die in the ghost place of Goguryeo." I want to go home. ”

Xiaohe's cry suddenly made everyone present wipe their tears, who didn't have a family in Dasui, who didn't miss their homeland.

Gao Tao roared: "Don't say it, just like my mother, don't be looked down on by the Goguryeo people." ”

Xiaohe lay weakly on the pit, only half-covered with straw, and he couldn't survive the winter. He wept and said: "Brother Gao, in the past ten years, we have lived a life that is not as good as pigs and dogs every day, and we have been beaten and scolded by Goguryeo people every day, and many brothers have died if they can't stand it." We were counting on General Laihu'er to lead the naval division to attack Pyongyang and rescue us back to Dasui, but in the past ten years, we have been looking forward to it day and night, but what have we waited for. The imperial court, the imperial court has long forgotten about us all here. I think that back then, our 300,000 army swept into Liaodong and beat Yizhi Wende like a dog, what a momentum, but today we have no place to bury. ”

Speaking of this, everyone present was crying.

This is why, the most loyal and loyal soldier of the country, the expedition in Goguryeo, has fallen here, but the country has forgotten him early. Where is the value of their efforts?

"Brother Gao, I beg you something. After I died, I took my corpse into a wooden raft and threw it into the water, and I heard that it flowed to the land of the Great Sui, and the fertile water did not flow into the fields of outsiders, and I would rather die than cheap Goguryeo's wild dogs. ”

Gao Tao listened to Xiaohe's pleading, and then said in a deep voice: "Okay, I'll promise you." ”