In Hanyang Castle, the lights are on.

Sihai Restaurant never usurps the lighting time of His Royal Highness the Palace.

It was only after the lights of Gyeongbokgung Palace were lit up that four old men with long poles lit lanterns hanging on the side of the road along the street leading to the four seas.

It is different from North Korea's favorite lantern with black letters written on a white background. The four seas use the most traditional treasure cover of the Ming Dynasty to gather colorful spike horn lamp, the horns are decorated with colored beads and butterflies, and the lower side is worn with colored beads and decorated with the words "starlight never sleeps".

It was as if an appointment had been made, just after the lights of the four seas were lit up. From countless places in Hanyang City, horse-drawn carriages, large sedan chairs, soft sedan chairs, and horses converge like points of light towards the center of the four seas. How many people are unwilling to miss any of the banquets from all over the world because the city gate is closed, and they check in to the large and small inns in the city early.

As soon as I entered the door, I was greeted by a huge court lamp. The main lamp in the middle is hung from top to bottom with hexagonal sheepskin lamp, octagonal filament lamp, red sheep's horn lamp three headlights, and then lined with a string of three small sheep's horns around each side, and a flower basket of colored beads is hung under the lower layer of small sheep's horns, and six strings of colored beads and streamers decorated with piano, chess, calligraphy and painting patterns are hung between the horns, forming a pattern of three vertical and seven horizontal.

Hanyang Sihai Restaurant uses all Korean maids, neat and neat wearers of Korean costumes.

Fan Wencheng was dressed as a Ming scholar today, holding a folding fan in his hand, and followed the nominal shopkeeper of the warehouse into the four seas. Standing under the lantern that leveled the four seas, he wandered for a long time. There was no one to disturb him, and it seemed that from the guys to the maids, they had seen enough of this kind of guests who came in a daze.

Fan Wencheng said to Li Yuanyi, who was also dressed as a Confucian:

"In the end, it's still the atmosphere of Daming, but these North Korean women around me are still a little bit worse than that." After speaking, he didn't look at Li Yuanyi's face, laughed and threw a round bead to the maid who led the way, and walked in with his head held high.

The guests and hosts sat down separately, and the maid brought a hot snow-white hand towel and a guest tea, and then retreated.

Li Yuanyi took a sip, stretched out his hand and invited:

"Fan Zhangjing, please use it, I ordered the most famous Shengxue white tea in Suzhou and Hangzhou today, and it is forgettable after drinking. Fan Zhangjing has been in the land of cattle and sheep all the year round, and it is estimated that he has not smelled this smell for a long time. ”

Although he was harshly educated by Houjin last year, in the minds of Korean nobles, Houjin is still a nomadic barbarian in a wild land.

Fan Wencheng didn't understand the meaning of his words, but he didn't rush to drink tea, just casually threw the handkerchief on the table, and said with a smile:

"Lord Yuanyi's words are wrong."

"Oh? Please advise. ”

"Fan has lived in the Shengjing area of Jianzhou for a long time, but he has also heard a little about the place in the middle of the pass. Every time you look at the history books, you can see that the place in the pass, under the Ming Dynasty, is a picture of cooking oil in a blazing fire, and the lamp is dry under the brocade of flowers. And this year's new founding name Chongzhen Emperor Ming is just a remnant. ”

As he spoke, he beckoned someone to bring a few urns of pear blossoms.

"Unlike me, Huangtaiji Great Khan, I have the ambition to swallow heaven and earth, and I have the heart to conquer the world. All day long, the soldiers went through the horses, and they were diligent in politics all year round. A mere lump of tea is not yet hand-to-hand. Maybe the next time we meet, this tea mountain is already my Khan's harem garden. ”

I have known him for a long time, and Li Yuanyi saw Fan Wencheng for the first time who was already drunk before drinking.

"Then I'm going to give it up."

Yi Yuanyi was a representative of the anti-Ming dynasty in the Joseon court. For him, North Korea's ability to maintain close ties with Dongying and Houjin is the top priority at present. Compared to the vast majority of court officials, he felt lonely but full of strength.

Houjin must be caught in the hands of our own people.

The two people with their own ghosts showed a hard-to-find enthusiasm at the wine table, and after pushing the glass and changing the glass, the two people who were drunk and hot talked about their prices.

"This is a gift from the Great Khan to King Li."

Li Yuanyi unfolded, and in a crude box was a skinny new ginseng tied with a red string.

"The other ginseng is still according to the old practice of previous years, fifty-five taels a stick. Like this, the ginseng dug out by my king's own hands and wrapped and decorated by the concubine herself, my king prepared a hundred copies, congratulating King Li Liang on his long life, how about 10,000 taels each? ”

In the smuggling market created by North Korea and Houjin, ginseng became the general equivalent. In the beginning, each ginseng plant costs 24 taels, and the rest of the items are calculated according to the equivalent ginseng.

As Houjin became stronger and stronger, ginseng also rose.

This year is a year for Huang Taiji to prepare for a vigorous attack on the Ming Dynasty in the year after tomorrow. Before leaving, Huang Taiji also gave Fan Wencheng a basic figure, on the premise that the quantity of ginseng, mink, and sea pearls remained unchanged, and at least 500,000 stone of grain and 300,000 stone of sorghum should be smuggled from North Korea and through North Korea. In today's Ming Dynasty, a stone of grain in Beijing is about one or two pieces of silver. The grain smuggled into North Korea in the south of the Ming Dynasty is basically two halves and one stone.

Li Yuanyi was fine, and respectfully picked up the ginseng with both hands:

"Lord Fan is polite. Mo said that it was picked by the hands of the Great Khan. Even an average ginseng of fifty-five taels can be exchanged for twenty and two stone of grain, which is enough for a North Korean family of eight in a normal year. Tomorrow I will report to my king, this ginseng is a godsend from Houjin. In the future, one ration per household will ensure that the whole of Korea will be free of hunger. ”

"Come on, come on, raise a glass to Lord Fan."

Fan Wencheng doesn't care, he asks for the price to pay back on the spot, this is not the first time, do you always have to leave a chance for people to fill their pockets.

For a while, everything that should be said was said today, and the whole banquet began to become noisy and lively.

What Fan Wencheng didn't know was that in fact, Amin Belle was also in the four seas, earlier than he was coming, and had been here for a day and a night.

"Big, big."

Simple dice rolls are most popular with these people.

What's more, it is full of explosive bodies and cool clothes of mothers-in-law shuttling and waiting.

Even in later generations, this place can be called an international casino. The Dongying people, Spaniards, Portuguese, and Nanyang Chinese who docked and supplied in Hungjin, North Korea, all found the most primitive joy here.

Amin's gem-encrusted waist knife and brutal guards quickly caught the attention of several people who were parading the grounds. Man, I drank the wine that I sent for free several times into my stomach, and I soon figured out that this was actually Houjin's Erbeile.

Soon, before Amin knew it, both the dealer and the gamblers next to him on the table of his gambling size changed one after another.