Chapter 7: The King of Gangneung is intercepted and killed
instructed Li Chenggui to help, and the two quickly filled in the big hole on the ground.
In the north of Dayuan, because of the plague epidemic, the corpses were in the wild in many places, and even if these corpses were found, it would not be a big deal.
As for the Jurchens and Orions, it is not uncommon for them to die in the old woods.
In this old forest, there is a miasma in the summer, which is produced by the decay of trees in northern Liaoning for thousands of years, and people will hallucinate after smelling it, and some mountain people are hunting in the mountains, picking wild fruits, and the results are all hanged, and they are all neat, with a smile on their faces.
There are also winter days that come out to hunt wolves and tigers, and then more than a dozen hunters have fires and quilts that freeze to death in the middle of the night.
Chen Sijiu scavenged from these people, found some gold and silver, and took out some arrows, Li Chenggui's Goryeo family used the standard bows and arrows of the Yuan Dynasty, if they were used, their identities would be exposed, Chen Sijiu only found the Jurchens' self-made arrows to use.
Thirty-two horses were left, and the Koreans rode all good horses.
As for the horses of the Jurchens, most of them are Bohai horses, which are similar to Mongolian horses, hardy, and have a relatively long-lasting endurance.
The yellow horse that Li Chenggui rode was particularly good, it was a good horse he bought from Dadu, it was a hybrid horse mixed with a bloody horse in the Western Regions, not only strong endurance, but also very majestic, these horses did not run around, just grazing next to the official road, and occasionally raised their heads to see the two people who were still alive.
"Good horses."
Chen Sijiu patted the horse, but shook his head.
"It's a pity, we can't ride."
He looked at Li Chenggui and said, "I'll give you two sticks of incense time, how far you can run on your own horse." ”
Li Chenggui looked at Chen Sijiu in disbelief: "Hero, you really don't kill me?" ”
"Kill you?"
"Why should I kill you?"
Li Chenggui said in his heart, you have killed my guards...... But he thought about it, pursed his lips, his eyes flashed, gritted his teeth, and asked, "Dare to ask the name of the hero?" ”
Chen Sijiu's eyes narrowed, and he smiled: "It's good to say, don't be in the ancient cliff." ”
Li Chenggui was shocked and said in shock: "You are the face master Beigu Cliff?" ”
Chen Sijiu nodded.
Li Chenggui was puzzled: "But, isn't Bei Guya a monk?" ”
Chen Sijiu didn't smile and said, "You know my real name, I'm not afraid that I'll kill you!?" ”
Li Chenggui arched his hand, at this time, he no longer had the greedy appearance of being afraid of death before, but took a deep breath, his eyes were clear and said seriously: "Hero, you are not that kind of person, with your force, kill me like a chicken, if you want to do it, you will do it a long time ago." ”
"I asked your name to thank you."
"There are a few guards around me who were sent by the Mongols to monitor me, and I wanted to get rid of them as soon as possible, but today I have to take action and solve a big problem for me!"
"Oh?"
Chen Sijiu looked at Li Chenggui with other eyes.
"I admire your shameless appearance."
Li Chenggui smiled bitterly: "Our Li family, originally a Silla noble, Liao and Jin, is also two classes of nobles, the inheritance has been more than 500 years, after the Mongols came, I Goryeo implemented a blood exchange, the king in power, all are Mongolian roots, and my Goryeo has to pay tribute to Dayuan every year beauties and chamberlains, they Mongolians do not trust the Goryeo, in order to seize power, promoted a new group of two classes of nobles, like slaves who translate for the Mongols, cooks for them, and doctors who treat them. ”
"This is a great shame for my two classes of nobles!"
"We have a long tradition of Goryeo orthodoxy, and the ancient ones have been a great clan since the Zhou Dynasty, and they have lasted for thousands of years, and the Mongols promoted these commoners and slaves to two classes, intending to replace our power."
Chen Sijiu felt something interesting.
In the Tang Dynasty, if it weren't for the Huangchao Rebellion, the family was killed, I am afraid that today's China is also like this, the Tang Dynasty at that time, the prime minister has always been in the Pei family, the Cui family, the Dugu family and other families back and forth, five surnames and seven hopes, terrifying.
And here in Goryeo, since the Shang and Zhou dynasties, there are relatively few wars.
The family is a big noble, and it is easier to pass it on.
Because they have not experienced the systematic massacre of the family in the Huangchao Rebellion of the Tang Dynasty.
Chen Sijiu glanced at Li Chenggui and motioned for him to continue.
Li Chenggui took another deep breath and said: "These days, because the taxes of the Great Yuan are difficult to collect, and the exploitation of our Goryeo is aggravated, my father has a lot of compassion for the common people of Shuangcheng, which angered the deputy governor, and that person wants to replace my father, a hereditary thousand households. ”
He smiled bitterly: "That deputy chief was originally a medical craftsman of my Li family, and because he treated the Mongolians well, he was promoted to the deputy head of Shuangcheng, and he was purely a Mongolian dog. ”
"I took the opportunity to go hunting, nominally to hunt bears for my father's birthday, but in fact, my father was worried that he would anger the deputy governor, and my Li family was in trouble, so I went out to find the Gangneung Maharaja who went to Dadu as a hostage to ask for help."
Chen Sijiu's eyes lit up again.
The contradictions between the officials in Dayuan are already like this.
Like Li Chenggui, who is brave and strategic, and can bend and stretch, he will be squeezed out by his own medical craftsmen to avoid trouble, this is probably not an exception, although the Mongols are rough, but the people around them are extremely shrewd, and they have been dividing and dividing Goryeo over the years, weakening the strength of Goryeo's own two classes.
But all the adjutants under the chief official are basically Mongols, Semu people, or the new two classes of nobles promoted by the Mongols.
The new two classes of nobles were some brothel owners who gave the Mongols many women to be appreciated, and some were healers or merchants who treated the Mongols.
In the past, the status of the brothel cuckold and the merchant who did business was low, and they were especially excluded and despised in the Goryeo Kingdom.
This is also the case today.
Therefore, the new nobles promoted by these Mongols suddenly gained power, and they all squeezed out and suppressed the old-school Goryeo nobles like Li Chenggui, and they relied on the Mongolian masters behind them to make a fortune.
"I know what you say is half-true, but you must have something to ask me, say, what do you ask for?"
Chen Sijiu said.
Li Chenggui took another deep breath and arched his hand: "The son of Wang Tao, the king of Zhongsu of Goryeo, Wang Qi, the great monarch of Jiangling, is not far from here, I took those subordinates and the Jurchens to search for a long time but could not find it, if you can help me find the king of Jiangling, my Li family will be saved." ”
Chen Sijiu said strangely: "Wait, your Li family is not the hereditary thousand households of Dayuan, why can this son of the king of Goryeo help you?" ”
Li Chenggui smiled bitterly: "That's because the deputy governor of Shuangcheng who is dealing with us in Shuangcheng now is a Goryeo, he is the dogleg of the Goryeo minister Qizhe, and the Qizhen family is a lackey of the Mongols!" ”
"My Li family, if strictly speaking, is also an official of the Mongols, but the Mongols use the Goryeo to balance us, the generalissimo officials close to Goryeo, let us intrigue with each other and kill each other, so as to prevent us from being in harmony with the Goryeo ......"
He said and gritted his teeth.
Chen Sijiu laughed.
Goryeo used to be one of the Liaoyang provinces of Dayuan, and after decades of blood exchange, many of the upper nobles of Goryeo were infiltrated, such as the previous king of Goryeo, Zhongsu Wang Tao, who was still hostage in Dayuan.
The officials on both sides of the border are not clearly separated from each other.
In order to control Goryeo, Dayuan raised a lot of royal blood in Dadu, and even if the king was on the throne, he also intended to detain and prevent the king from taking office.
Moreover, the queens of the successive kings of Goryeo were all women of the Mongolian golden family.
He also heard of this Goryeo minister's strange rut, frantically licking the stinky feet of the Mongols, suppressing the local faction in the country, actively betraying the country, and giving advice to Dayuan.
After laughing, he asked, "What about this Jiangling Grand Monarch Wang Qi?" ”
Li Chenggui hurriedly said it.
It turned out that every king of Goryeo needed to be a hostage in Dayuan for a period of time, and received Confucian education in Dadu, and Wang Tao, the father of Wang Qi, the great king of Gangneung, once followed the teacher of the prince Zhenjin to learn Mongolian Uighur language, and also followed the famous minister of Dayuan, the calligrapher Zhao Mengfu to learn calligraphy, and followed the Han Confucian Wu Cheng to learn the Four Books and Five Classics.
More than two years ago, Wang Tao, the king of Chungsu of Goryeo, was very old, and was forced by Dayuan and the pro-Yuan faction in China to cede the throne to his eldest son, Wang Zhen, the almost Mongolized prince, who is now the king of Goryeo, King Chunghui.
This Zhonghui Wang Zhen is absurd, he came to Beiping as the capital of the Yuan Dynasty as the emperor's cowardly Xue Xue at a very young age, that is, the Guards, and the Mongols learned a habit of eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling, especially like riding and shooting and women, Confucianism is ignorant, even Chinese poetry can not be understood, provoked Goryeo Zhongsu Wang Tao to scold him for being a splash.
However, Wang Zhen is very much loved by today's powerful ministers, the great prime minister Yan Timur, and for this reason, he also forced Wang Tao to concede, so Wang Tao, the king of Zhongsu, applied to take his youngest son Jiangling Dajun Wang Qi to Dadu as a hostage and take him with him for training.
To put it simply.
The previous king of Goryeo was taken off, and the previous king was forced to give the throne to the eldest son of the Mongolization Wang Zhen, and now the king of Goryeo Wang Zhen and a group of pro-Mongolian ministers are actively promoting Goryeo to go to the country to change the province.
Wang Tao, the old king of Goryeo, couldn't return to Goryeo after all the Zen thrones, so he could only pin his hopes on his younger son, ask his younger son to be a hostage, and prepare to train his youngest son Wang Qi in person.
It is hoped that the Goryeo Kingdom will be stabilized in the future......
And there is no surprise that the strange rut is from Yan Timur and Wang Zhen.
The area where the Li Chenggui family is located is on the edge of Goryeo, which is deeply infected by Goryeo, and the Mongols also deliberately used the Goryeo to come to Shuangcheng as adjutants to drive a wedge between the Li Sunggui family and the Goryeo people, and let them eat dogs.
When the power trick reaches a certain level, it is nothing more than checking and balancing each other.
Chen Sijiu's eyes rolled.
He snorted coldly: "You shouldn't have finished talking yet, this Jiangling Lord has nothing else except to go to Dadu as a hostage?" According to you, since you don't have a good impression of the Mongols, this Gangneung Lord can help you......"
"That shows that the prince of Gangneung and the pro-Yuan Goryeo minister Qi Zhe are not all the way, according to the urine nature of your Goryeo people, that Goryeo king Wang Zhen and Qi Zhe can sit idly by? If I'm not mistaken, Gangneung Daejun is the title of King Chungsu of Goryeo before, and since he has given Wang Qi this title, it means that he is ready to train Wang Qi to become the next King of Goryeo. ”
"If the current king of Goryeo, Wang Zhen, is not a fool, he should also use some means against his younger brother."
"For Qi Zhe and the deputy governor of your Shuangcheng, these pro-Dayuan and pro-Mongolian ministers, if Wang Zhen dies and Wang Qi becomes the king of Goryeo, they still have a way to live?"
Li Chenggui was shocked.
Cold sweat broke out on his forehead.
Swallowing his saliva, Li Chenggui pretended to be calm and said: "Good man, you are really a god, okay, in fact, the prince of Jiangling is being hunted down now, and I am here to protect him!" ”
"Who are the people who are chasing him?"
"Most of them are Koreans, and there are also some Wa Ronin who have been bought by Qi Zhe, they are superb in martial arts, and they are very difficult to deal with......"
"And the guards?"
"It is true that there are Mongols who are watching over me, and most of them are good hands that I have called to help the Lord of Gangneung."
Chen Sijiu grinned.
"You shameless look, you have a bit of my style!"
I don't like to kill people, but I like to stumble on Dayuan.
This Gangneung Maharaja and Lee Sung-gye of Goryeo are not good things, but if this Gangneung Maharaja goes to Dadu, it will undoubtedly plant a bomb for Goryeo, and no matter when it explodes, it will cause turmoil in Goryeo.
Wherever the rebellion began, the Mongols divided their forces to quell the rebellion.
Chen Sijiu squinted after laughing, and was about to speak, when suddenly, swishing, several arrows broke through the air.
"Be careful!"
Li Chenggui rolled on the spot with a loud shout and hid behind a tree, while Chen Sijiu had already hidden, and the two looked fixedly, a group of horse bandits on horseback, there were fifty or sixty people, chasing a carriage.
Behind the carriage were four or five horsemen, holding shields, covering the chariot's escape.
However, they were all embarrassed and had blood stains on them.
Look at the distance, it's only a hundred steps away.
"This is an armor-piercing arrow!"
Chen Sijiu said solemnly.