The king surrendered to the Central Plains, and people sued him that the king had been named the Marquis of Guiyi by the Great Sui Emperor.

"The king now lives in Luoyang, Central Plains." While a caravan was spending the night in a roadside village, a wool dealer shouted, "Now His Majesty the King has sent an order to Goguryeo, so that we all submit to the Great Sui Emperor." "The peddlers don't seem to know that there is now a new king in Pyongyang, and that the new king has declared that the former king has died in battle and has held a funeral for him. Of course, for the people of this small village next to the middle road of the Buyeo River, it is the transportation link of the Liao River, the Sumo River, the Nanhe River and the grassland, and it is the road to and from the Turks, Xi, Khitan, Xia, Murowei and Yao. It is not only the territory of Goguryeo, but also the merchants of various ethnic groups such as Han, Turkic, and Khitan are often used to come and go.

"The first king was defeated and killed in Liaoxi." Another trader retorted, "At that time, the first king was surrounded by hundreds of thousands of Sui troops by the Liao River, and the two sides fought for seven days and seven nights. ”

"Wrong, at that time, the first king did not die at all, but he was injured and captured, he was escorted to the Central Plains to see the Great Sui Emperor, and the Great Sui Emperor asked him to surrender, and then the first king refused to kneel, nor did he surrender, and finally was poisoned to death by the Sui Dynasty Heavenly Son." One of the caravan guards swore as if he had seen it with his own eyes.

It was bitterly cold, the north wind was blowing, and Juan just listened quietly to the nonsense of the passing vendors. These merchants traveled from north to south, and sometimes they did bring some fresh news. But many times it's just hearsay. Like what they're saying now, it's all bullshit, Juan knows. The former king of Goguryeo was defeated at the Liao River and captured as early as last year, and then surrendered to the Sui state in the Central Plains. Then Pyongyang chose Gao Jianwu, the younger brother of the former king Gao Yuan, as the new king, but after the new king ascended the throne, the Sui army had swept through the entire Liaodong, all the way to the west bank of Yalushui, and on the west bank there were only four cities left: China, Wugu, Bo and Daxing. The new king sent reinforcements to defend the four cities on the one hand, and on the other hand, he deployed defenses in Yalushui. Make a final resistance, and at the same time ask the Sui State to surrender. The two sides have talked back and forth, but no substance has been reached so far. However, the new king had already sent his own sister to the Sui State to marry the emperor of the Central Plains, so that the Sui army had not continued to attack until now. I heard that the emperor of the Sui State has intended to withdraw his troops and stop fighting, and at present, most of the hundreds of thousands of Sui troops in Liaodong have been withdrawn, but the Sui State still has more than 100,000 troops in Liaodong. It is said that the emperor of the Sui Dynasty insisted on using Goguryeo as the boundary with the Yalu River. in order to reach a peace agreement. From then on, they will not offend each other. However, the new king of Goguryeo was at most willing to take the west bank of Yalushui as the boundary, with the aim of keeping the four cities of Wugu and China that had not yet been lost on the west bank, and at the same time recovering the land of Baili on the west bank of Yalushui, so that it could strengthen the defense line of Yalushui.

There are all kinds of rumors, and Juan hears many of them every day. However, Fuyu River is far away from Yalushui, and even if the Sui Emperor really agrees to set the border at a hundred miles on the west bank of Yalushui, they will not be occupied by the Sui people at all.

As the days passed, the situation was as Juan had predicted. After marrying the Goguryeo princess, the Great Sui Emperor stopped the continued attack on Goguryeo. However, the negotiations between the two sides on the national border line have also been arguing, and there has been no definite news so far. However, for the land of Liaodong, there has been a resettlement result, east of the Liao River, bounded by the Xiaoliao River, the north is the new Liaobei Province of the Great Sui, and the south of the Xiaoliao River is the Liaodong Province of the Great Sui, as for the eastern boundary of the two provinces, for the time being, it is subject to the actual occupation area of the Sui army, that is, it has reached the west bank of the Yalushui, except for the four isolated cities.

Hu An's family now belongs to the Liaobei Province of the Great Sui, and he also became a citizen of the Great Sui from a citizen of Goguryeo.

In the blink of an eye, winter has passed, and summer is coming again.

The weather was very hot, and it was only twenty miles from Ping'an Fort to Buyeo City, but Qinghua's chest and thighs were already soaked with sweat. This big green horse is Juan's treasure, with great strength, and is one of the best animals in the castle of peace. The sun hanging in the west shot from the trees on both sides of the road, it was still hot, and the muddy water splashed on the car was as hot as the bare legs who rolled up their pants, and the car finally walked from the road like a rotten ditch to the trunk, and Juan, who kept shouting blue and white, breathed a sigh of relief.

"Aya, the Han army that passed by the day before yesterday was so big, you see that this road was run over by their cart. A good road, when it rains, it becomes a river of mud. It was Juan's youngest daughter, who was a little further back in the car, wearing a cloth dyed blue, her hair neatly combed, and a big shiny pole tied up at the back of her head and dragged on her back. There was some nervousness in her eyes, and she was looking around, following her father into the city, which was one of the few happy days of the year. Because the family is close to the main road, she opened a restaurant, which sells tea and cooks, and also provides accommodation, so there is a lot of work, and most of the time she is busy in the kitchen with her sisters-in-law. But when she went to Buyeo City today, she was not very excited, but more apprehensive.

"It's almost across the river, the rain has risen a bit, and you're sitting." The old man Juan shouted, raised his whip again, and commanded the blue and white.

Almost all four wheels were sunk into the water, and the blue and white only showed a back, and all four legs could not be seen, and the car seemed to be floating on the water. The youngest daughter clung to the railing, Juan focused on directing the blue and white to cross the river, the carriage swayed from side to side a little bit and finally crossed the river, and the car was bumpy again.

On both sides of the road and on both sides of the river were neat fields, full of pods that swelled like the breasts of a plump woman. Juan looked at this land, and his heart was full of sighs, although this is Liaodong, the climate is cold for a long time, but the land is fertile, and the water is sufficient, not only can grow corn, but also beans are abundant. Especially this piece of land on the side of the road on the riverbank is convenient and fertile, and every time he goes to the city to buy goods and passes by, he always has an indescribable sense of envy, why don't he have such a good piece of land. Although the Hu family has lived in this Buyeo River for several generations, they can be regarded as a Han Chinese. They have an innate ** about the land, and this ** is endless. It's a pity that the ancestor who came here back then was just a slave who was taken captive by the Goguryeo people, because of hard work. Then he made meritorious service for his master, and finally got a free body. Then, after several generations of efforts, finally established a foothold here, with the ingenuity and ingenuity of the Han people, bought a piece of land on the side of Ping'anbao Road more than 20 miles outside Buyeo City and built a big house, and then started to buy and sell as a passing trader, which can be regarded as an industry. The family also prospered. But although Juan inherited the family business, he was still full of envy for the land.

He couldn't help but say to his daughter, "In our Castle of Peace." But the land on both sides of the road and the river bank is the best, what you plant and grow, and you can sprout when you insert chopsticks in the spring. In this land, not to mention planting beans. You are a sow of corn and wheat. Even the rice planted in the south of the Yangtze River in the Central Plains can grow very well. ”

"No one of us here knows how to grow rice, I heard that planting rice is extremely labor-intensive, and you have to have water to keep it for a long time, and you have to worry a lot, and you have to raise seedlings and plant seedlings." The youngest daughter had heard her father say more than once that rice could be grown on the land here, and how to grow rice, but she couldn't remember much.

"Our ancestors were Jiangnan people in the Central Plains. The family's hundreds of acres of land are planted with rice. You can plant two crops a year, and one acre of good paddy fields can be planted here for the harvest of ten acres of beans. "The Juan family, father and son from generation to generation, they are Han people, their ancestors are Jiangnan people in the Central Plains, and they were also not a small landlord, and then joined the army in the war, and as a result, they were captured in a war with the northerners, and later became a soldier in the northern court, and fought with the Hu people in the more north, and finally were defeated and captured, all the way to this Fuyu River, and then based on the foothold, from the original ancestral prisoner of war slaves, to now, has experienced a rather difficult number of generations of business efforts.

"Do you have to go on a blind date this time?"

The old man nodded, and said to his daughter with some guilt, "Now that this is under the rule of the Great Sui, and we belong to Liaobei Province here, the newly arrived officials have conveyed the will of the Son of Heaven of the Sui State, asking us the original Goguryeo people to live in harmony with the newly relocated Han people." ”

"Getting along with each other can't ask us to marry them, it's so sloppy, blind date, it's just a kiss." The youngest daughter is sixteen years old this year, and she is also at the age of marriage, but Juan has always cherished this daughter, and she wants to find a husband with good conditions for her. After the Han army was stationed in various cities, it was immediately the arrival of Han officials, the division of prefectures and counties, the division of townships and villages, and then, a large number of Central Plains people began to move in. Most of the people who came were young people, it is said that they were from some poor mountainous areas in the Central Plains, and most of them were from some families with few fields and many brothers and children, and it was difficult to divide the fields equally in the Central Plains, and then the imperial court encouraged these young people to come to the newly established Liaodong and Liaobei provinces, so that they could come here to immigrate and reclaim the famine. As long as they are willing to come, the imperial court will provide them with travel expenses, send them over, and when they arrive at the place, the local government will first set up a hoarding fort for them, concentrate together to open up the wasteland and hoard the land, and after three years, then distribute 200 acres of land to each person, which is twice the number of land in the Central Plains, and in fact, many places in the Central Plains have long had no land to equalize. However, most of these immigrants who received the emperor's encouragement were young people, and most of them were poor, many of them in their twenties and thirties, and they had not yet married a wife. Now he has moved to Liaodong and Liaobei, and has set up a hoarding fort and settled here, but there is no woman. Therefore, the official decree that, in accordance with the will of the emperor's majesty the immigrants and the indigenous families, all unmarried women between the ages of fifteen and thirty in the indigenous areas of Liaodong and Liaobei, or widowed and divorced women, should be ordered to register with the imperial court of the prefecture and county, and then participate in the blind date activities held by the government, and go on a blind date with the Central Plains immigrants in the prefecture and county who have not married, and then marry the suitable ones.

There is even a special order from the government that every unmarried former indigenous woman of appropriate age has only ten opportunities to go on a blind date, and if an immigrant man who fails to meet ten times will finally be directly helped by the official media of the government to help them marry a designated partner.

Such an order was severe, but it was also compensated for the people of Goguryeo. That is, as long as there is a daughter married to an immigrant, then these indigenous families also have the qualification to get the imperial court to equalize the land, where the land does not exceed 100 acres, as long as there is a daughter or sister married to the Han immigrants, they can also get the same land, making up the amount of 100 mu per household.

Juan's family ran the family inheritance and did not have land, and if his youngest daughter married a Han Chinese immigrant, his family would also receive a hundred acres of land. And it is said that as long as the table xiàn is good, five years later. At that time, it will be changed to 100 acres of land for each adult male, and he will have three sons, and in another five years. There are also three grandchildren who have become Dingding, and at that time his family has seven Chengding, and one person has 100 acres, so won't his family be able to get 700 acres of their own land? This is something he has never dreamed of all these years, in Buyeo, although the family heirloom can also ensure the food and clothing of the family, but it is not as satisfying as his own land. And it turned out that I wanted to have my own land. It's too hard. Goguryeo was half-pastoral, half-farming, but agriculture was not developed, but most of the land was concentrated in the hands of those nobles and powerful people. The vast majority of the Goguryeo people were tenant farmers, or simply slaves of the aristocracy, and few had access to their own land. Therefore, this time the Han official's official order caused everyone's surprise. felt that this kind of order to forcibly recruit their daughters to marry Han Chinese was too difficult for strong people. But after seeing that the fields and land could be divided, almost everyone rushed to the official office with their daughters to sign up. First, now this is the rule of the Great Sui, and their small arms can't reach their thighs, but on the other hand, the attraction of being able to divide the fields is indeed great.

"Our family is also Han, if we can find a diligent and honest Han immigrant boy, it will also be a good marriage." The old man was full of expectations for the fields, and now Buyeo is a Han world. Because he was a Han Chinese, he was usually oppressed by the Goguryeo nobles in Buyeo. This time the Han people are in power, and they can always turn over. If a daughter can marry a good Han son-in-law, it must be better, than to marry a Goguryeo or a Tatar, Khitan, Buyeo or something.

The old man turned his face at this time and looked at his daughter with the eyes of countless passers-by he had seen throughout the year, "You have usually had the opportunity to meet all kinds of people, and when you go on a blind date, you must keep your eyes open and find a diligent, honest and smart young man." These guys are immigrants, most of them are poor and have many brothers, so they came out to break in, we don't look at anything else, just see if he is down-to-earth and willing to work. As long as he is a diligent and honest person, it doesn't matter if he is poor or anything for the time being, he can't divide the land, our family also has some savings, and then we will support you some, and in a few years, this day will be prosperous. ”

"Aye, what do you say?" The youngest daughter said a little shyly.

"Hahaha." The old man said happily, "Dad, this is telling you the truth, originally the marriage of children was the order of the parents, but now that the emperor has a decree, the government has an order, it can only be so." You can remember, don't just care about the good looks, it doesn't matter if you look good, you have to be a down-to-earth and willing to work hard, and the appearance doesn't matter, but the body must be strong, find a taller one, thick hands and feet. ”

"Oh, I know, don't talk about it." The youngest daughter covered her face and said to her father as if she were a little coquettish.

"Okay, don't say it, don't say it. Look, it's almost there, a lot of people. "In the distance, Buyeo City is already in sight, the roads outside the city, full of cars and horses, more are young women, over fifteen years old and under thirty years old, almost all the local unmarried people came, a large area of Wuyi, are waiting in line to sign up.

Juan's youngest daughter took her neck probe at this time, looked at the city gate from afar, looked at it for a long time, and said with some disappointment and doubt, "Why didn't you see immigrants?" ”

The old man laughed, "I didn't let Aya say it just now, but now you're in a hurry." Don't worry, our daughter is so beautiful, she knows it. After a blind date, it must be sought after by everyone, you must remember the few I just said, don't be dazzled all of a sudden. ”

"Register, those who have not registered have come to line up, and the women who came to the blind date are waiting here." A Goguryeo man wearing a Han-style robe was standing in front of the city gate shouting vigorously, Juan recognized at a glance that this person was a scribe in the city lord's mansion in Buyeo City, he had also dealt with him in the past, he was a very low-eyed person, but now he looked serious, especially to the Han generals wearing armor next to him and several Han cultural officials in green robes, and he was even more flattering and flattering.

"Ouch, Shopkeeper Hu is here, it's a gift to Ling Qian's daughter to choose a blind date and a son-in-law." When the high scribe saw Juan from afar, his eyebrows raised, and he immediately ran over with a smile, enthusiastically as if the two were friends for eight years, which made Juan a little surprised.

"Hu Lao'er has seen the senior scribe." Juan hurriedly saluted.

"Who are we with, why be so polite, just call me Lao Gao." The high scribe smiled very familiarly, then pulled Juan to the side, and whispered, "Old shopkeeper, we are all old friends, so I will reveal a special situation to you today." Today, in fact, it is not only a blind date, but also a draft, a rare opportunity. As long as you are willing, I will immediately give you a convenience and fight for a draft spot for you. ”

"Draft?" Juan asked, a little confused.

"It's a sea draft girl, a fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl is selected from all over the world, and finally the excellent show girl is sent to the palace. If you are born noble, once you are favored by the Son of Heaven, you will be the emperor's concubine. Even if you don't have that good luck, as long as you stay in the palace for ten years and serve Your Majesty for ten years, you can still send it back to your hometown, and then you can bring a reward back to your hometown, and even choose the family of the show girl, the state will give you 500 acres of land. ”

"Five hundred acres of land?" Juan couldn't help but take a breath of cool air, his heart was full of surprise, and he was immediately a little moved. (To be continued......)