Although after the fall of the Goguryeo Kingdom, there were nearly 10,000 Goguryeo people who moved into Yangzhou, but for Yangzhou City, which has a population of one million, these Goguryeo people are still nothing, and most of them are ordinary civilians, or farming in the countryside for a living, or doing small business in the city, working as a man, bartender, and so on.

After more than 20 years of life, the second generation of Goguryeo people are already natives, and their speech and customs are basically no different from those of the locals, and many young people no longer consider themselves foreigners and regard themselves as members of the Tang Dynasty.

However, not all Goguryeo are indifferent to their homeland, and there are still some Goguryeo people who are bent on reviving their homeland, most of them are original Goguryeo nobles, and their status in the Tang Dynasty has declined, which makes them miss the life of their homeland very much.

Yangzhou has always been one of the more active areas of the Goryeo Restoration Association, and the earliest Goryeo Mutual Aid Association was formed by Goguryeo merchants who did business in Yangzhou.

The scale of Yangzhou's Goryeo Restoration Congress is second only to Luoyang and Chang'an, with more than 100 bones, mainly engaged in business, and there are many Goguryeo wealthy merchants in Yangzhou, which has also become the most important source of funds for the Goryeo Restoration Congress.

However, since the assassination of the prime minister Li Dan led to the complete destruction of the Goryeo Restoration Association in Luoyang, the Goryeo Restoration Association in Yangzhou also fell silent overnight, including Pei Shunqing, the leader of the Yangzhou Goryeo Restoration Association, and he was also nowhere to be found.

In the medicine store in the south city of Yangzhou, there is a shop specializing in selling ginseng, called Beishenwang, this shop was opened by a Goguryeo medicine merchant 50 years ago, and it has been in business for 50 years, it has become one of the two major ginseng shops in the Tang Dynasty, and the other is Xiancaotang in Chang'an.

The owner of the pharmacy was called Izumi Chong-hee, about thirty years old, and was the eldest grandson of the Goguryeo people who founded the shop, but most of the time, he used the Chinese name Zhang Quan, including registration in the official government.

Izumi Chong-hee was also an active figure in the Restoration of Goryeo, and his grandfather founded the Korea Mutual Aid Association at the same time as the North Samwang Pharmacy, but he never imagined that decades later, the Korea Mutual Aid Association would become the cover of the Goryeo Restoration Association, and his grandson was an active advocate of the restoration of the country.

Quan Chongxi used to be the leader of the Yangzhou region of the Goryeo Restoration Congress, but since Jian Dongxi grasped the power of the Restoration Congress, he installed his henchman Pei Shun in Yangzhou as the leader, and Quan Chongxi became the deputy instead, which made him extremely unhappy.

However, Jian Dongxi was killed not long ago, and Pei Shunqing fled in a hurry, which made Quan Chongxi's mood better, and he hoped that after the limelight passed, he would re-lead the Goryeo Restoration Association in Yangzhou.

These days, Izumi Chongxi is extremely low-key, basically no longer going out, and all the members of the Goryeo Restoration Association are also hiding in the streets and alleys, doing ordinary people's things, and the Goryeo Restoration Association has disappeared in Yangzhou like air.

At noon that day, a young woman with a few entourages came to the shop of the king of northern ginseng, and a man greeted her warmly as usual, "Madame is here to buy ginseng? We have all kinds of precious ginseng in the store, and we guarantee that Madame is satisfied."

This young woman was dressed as Zhao Qiuniang, she walked into the store and sat down, opened the box in her hand, it was full of yellow and clear gold ingots, and the guy's eyes were dazzled, he stammered and asked, "Madam, I want to buy it." What to buy?"

"I want ten thousand-year-old ginseng trees. ”

The guy couldn't close his mouth for a long time, the other party actually asked for a thousand years of ginseng, and asked for ten, this is not something that his young man can do, he hurriedly ran to find the shopkeeper, and the shopkeeper hurried over in a moment, the shopkeeper is a middle-aged man in his forties, and he is also a Goguryeo, and he looks quite tall, but he has a smile on his face, even if the picky person sees him, he will have a good impression.

"Are you the shopkeeper?" Zhao Qiuniang asked coldly.

The shopkeeper said with a smile on his face: "The villain is the shopkeeper in the store, and the lady is the first time to buy ginseng."

The shopkeeper said very implicitly, in fact, he was saying that Zhao Qiuniang didn't know how to do it, the hundred-year-old ginseng was already the best, and the thousand-year-old ginseng was even rarer, and it was generally only available in the palace, even if there was more money, it couldn't be bought, let alone ten thousand-year-old ginseng.

However, the shopkeeper heard that the other party was a Beijing accent, but he didn't dare to offend too much, generally the big customers from the capital are either powerful or noble, he didn't dare to be careless, and said with a smile: "Millennial ginseng is an extremely rare thing, and it is difficult to see it in the general market." ”

Zhao Qiuniang snorted, "I bought three thousand-year-old ginseng trees in Xiancaotang, I want to buy a few more from you, if you don't have one, just say it, don't make any excuses." ”

The shopkeeper was stunned, the other party moved out of Chang'an Xiancaotang, it seems that he doesn't know how to do it, is he here to smash the brand? He was a little uneasy in his heart, and thought for a while: "There are two or three trees in the small shop, but the store has store rules, ordinary guys only sell ordinary ginseng, I am responsible for selling century-old ginseng, if you want to buy thousand-year-old ginseng, it must depend on whether my owner agrees." ”

"Is your proprietor here?"

"Of course, please sit down for a while, and I will report to the proprietor. ”

The shopkeeper hurriedly walked to the backyard, Zhao Qiuniang's purpose was to test whether Quan Chongxi was in the store, he saw that the shopkeeper went to report, and immediately turned around to give a look to one of his subordinates, and the subordinates understood, turned around and went out.

Quan Chongxi lived in the main hall in the backyard, and he was sipping a bowl of ginseng tea, when the shopkeeper hurried over and said at the door: "The proprietor, there is a woman who wants to buy a thousand years of ginseng." ”

"Millennial ginseng?"

Quan Chongxi sneered, "Do you still need to report to me? ”

But she said that she bought three thousand-year-old ginseng in Chang'an Xiancaotang. ”

"What?"

Quan Chongxi was stunned, he shook his head in disbelief, "Impossible, Xiancaotang only has one treasure in the box, how can it be sold to her, let alone three."

"Where did she come from?" asked Izumi again.

But as soon as he finished speaking, he heard a loud bang, and three or four black-clothed warriors rushed in from the back window and the front door at the same time, and they were as fast as eagles, and suddenly knocked Izumi Chongxi, who had not yet reacted, to the ground, and quickly gagged him with rags, and tied him hand and foot.

The shopkeeper next to him was stunned, watching the proprietor being bound, but unable to say a word, at this time, a snowy long sword was on his neck.

The shopkeeper was so frightened that he knelt on the ground, kowtowing and begging for mercy, at this time, Zhao Qiuniang slowly walked in and said coldly to the shopkeeper: "The pharmacy is open as usual, if someone asks the proprietor, just say that he went out to urge the goods, understand?"

The shopkeeper looked at Zhao Qiuniang blankly, and finally understood that there was no thousand-year-old ginseng, and he fell for this woman.

The secret arrest of Quan Chongxi undoubtedly opened a major gap in the Yangzhou Goryeo Restoration Congress, and under the severe torture of the internal guards, Quan Chongxi finally couldn't endure the heavy punishment and began to explain the hiding place of every member of the Restoration Congress.

That night, with the assistance of 1,000 Yangzhou state soldiers, 200 internal guard warriors divided into 20 squads and began to capture the members of the Goryeo Restoration Congress.

In a seafood store in Nanshi, fifty state soldiers surrounded the small shop, held bows and crossbows, aimed at every place where they could escape, and ten internal guard warriors kicked open the door and rushed in, and a shout suddenly sounded in the small shop.

In a large house, several former Goguryeo nobles sat motionless in the hall with fear and trembling, while the state soldiers and the internal guard samurai searched around the house, and "here" an internal guard samurai found a secret passage in the kitchen cabinet, and they lifted the planks and threw down several torches, illuminating the cellar below.

At this time, a black shadow came out of the cellar, trying to forcibly escape, in the courtyard, several internal guards and warriors raised crossbows and arrows together, the black shadow hit four or five arrows in a row, screamed and fell to the ground, and was shot dead on the spot.

Similar arrests were made in various places in Yangzhou City, and overnight, more than 50 people were arrested by the Goryeo Restoration Congress, and more than a dozen recalcitrant rebels were killed on the spot.

The Yangzhou government also urgently cooperated with the interrogation of the internal guards, and they specially vacated the state prison to detain the arrested members of the Goryeo Restoration Congress, and Lu Jin interrogated them overnight, and the key to the interrogation was to obtain a detailed list and collect all important evidence, especially to obtain information about the members who had not yet been arrested

The internal guard warriors took turns to torture them in the torture room, and several state officials were assigned to record the confessions, and then constantly compare them, and if there were any contradictions in the confessions, they continued to interrogate and verify.

In the room, Li Zhen has not rested, although the arrest of the Goryeo Restoration Association is his official task, but the main purpose is to visit the master and ask him about the secret of his identity, the capture of the Goryeo Restoration Association undoubtedly provides him with the best opportunity.

At this time, a samurai said, "General, Captain Lu and Captain Zhao are here." ”

Li Zhen looked at the clock leak in the corner, it was already four watches,

"General Qiyu, the complete confession and list have finally been sorted out. ”

Lu Jin smiled and handed the thick volume of the list to Li Zhen, who had been waiting.

Li Zhen slowly flipped through the thick list, there were a total of 116 people in the Goryeo Restoration Association in Yangzhou, and 74 people were arrested and killed, which means that there were still 42 people who were not caught, including their leader Pei Shunqing.

Lu Jin explained: "The members of the Restoration Congress in Yangzhou have basically been arrested, and the rest of the people who have not been arrested are scattered all over Jiangnan, but we have all obtained their hiding places, and the lowly position means that we should immediately split up and go to the states and counties in Jiangnan to arrest the remnants, and take advantage of the news to catch them all." ”

Li Zhen nodded, and asked Zhao Qiuniang next to him, "What does Captain Zhao mean?"

Although Lu Jin and Zhao Qiuniang have been designated by Li Zhen as generals, the Ministry of War has not yet approved it, so the two of them are still captains for the time being, Zhao Qiuniang hurriedly said: "I agree with Captain Zhao's suggestion, divide the two hundred people into zero, and go to various places to arrest criminals, and try not to let one escape." ”

Li Zhen walked to the map by the wall with his hand, looked at the map for a moment and said: "Then we will be divided into three teams, Captain Zhao is in charge of Yangzhou, Runzhou and Shengzhou, and Captain Lu is in charge of Suzhou, Huzhou and Changzhou. ”