Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 103

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Looking from a distance, the island is lush and green, and a corner of the pavilion is exposed among the trees.

The lush trees set off the yellow and green glazed tile roofs and vermilion courtyard walls.

This looming palace is the former residence of the star lord of Tamna Kingdom, and now Tamna County's sheriff's office—Tamna Mugong Yamen.

Li Yan inferred by intuition that its location should not be far from the Jeju Mugongya of later generations.

According to Jin Fuzhe, during the heyday of Silla, the No. 15 grandsons of the Gaoyi Department came to the court across the sea. The king of Silla praised them, and made the eldest son the star master, the second son the prince, and the third son the disciple.

Star Lord and Prince are both Tamla dialects, meaning king and general.

Later, Goryeo continued the precedent of Silla, and still called King Tamra the star lord. At the same time, for the sake of Huairou star lord, he was named General Yunmo and other military officers.

In the [-]th year of King Sukjong of Goryeo, Goryeo restructured Tamna into counties and counties, but the title of Star Lord as Prince was still preserved, and his status was hereditary.

However, this is also a form.

Today, Goryeo has already "invited" all the star masters, princes, and apprentices of the original Tamra Kingdom to Goryeo as guests.

In addition, Goryeo sent a county guard and a battalion of guards, and the original Tamna army, including the men of Tamna, were all relocated to Goryeo.

Suzong's original idea was to relocate some Koreans to Jeju Island to complete the occupation of Jeju Island.

But Emperor Suzong of Goryeo moved the men of Tamra to Goryeo, and he passed away.

After Goryeo Sujong died, Goryeo Ruijong, also known as Wang Bao, succeeded to the throne.

In the summer of Wang Bao's first year on the throne, there was a severe drought in Koryo. Wang Bao believed that it was God's condemnation, so he issued an edict to all officials to seal their duties, and he was outspoken about the court's mistakes.

Most of these seals are measures against Suzong.

Among them is the entry of Nadamna into the territory, which was described by officials as a waste of money and money. In fact, the real situation is that Jeju Island is remote and backward at this time, and the volcano on the island has erupted a few decades ago. Once, the Tamna clan on the island was almost wiped out, so no one wanted to go to Jeju Island.

At that time, Wang Bao wanted to continue a policy of Suzong's time, that is, the Northern Expedition to Jurchen.

Therefore, Wang Bao finally adopted the meaning of Baiguan, and temporarily threw aside the barren land of Jeju Island.

And Jin Fuzhe came to Jeju Island this time to inspect Jeju Island with Li Shisen instead of Wang Bao. He wanted to see if the economy of Jeju Island had improved after ten years of governance by "capable ministers and officials" in Korea, and then decided It is not to continue the immigration plan set by Goryeo Sukjong.

Coincidentally, the two had just arrived at Jeju Island, and they hadn't even had time to send out the people who had notified Tamna County Sheriff and Tamna Commander to meet them. Li Yan and others also arrived on the back foot, and then they and their entourage were sent out. Catch them all.

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Before Li Yan led his men to the Mugong Yamen, Shan Shiqi and Shi Bao led their men and Li Shiji along the road to meet Li Yan, only Deng Fei and Deng Fei's people were not there.

There was still some distance away from Li Yan, Shan Shiqi laughed and said: "The battalion bird defenders were vulnerable to a single blow, and I killed dozens of them when they were caught off guard, and they all knelt down and surrendered, okay? Fun!"

Shi Bao then said: "This campaign went so smoothly, it was beyond our imagination. If it weren't for a few soldiers falling off their horses and hurting themselves, our army would definitely have zero casualties in this campaign."

Li Shifu seized the opportunity to show himself and said: "They have been on this island for ten years, and they have already worn out their fighting spirit. Your Majesty's heavenly soldiers are extremely brave, how dare they stop them!"

Li Yan said with a sullen face: "Are you so sure that there is no other threat on this island? We have just arrived on this island less than a day ago!"

As soon as Li Yan said this, Shan Shiqi and Shi Bao froze!
Seeing this, Li Shishi cautiously said: "Except for the guards of this battalion and the officials in the Mugong Yali, there should be no adult men on the island..."

Li Yandao: "What if Tamra women and children take up arms to resist our army? Don't forget, there are more than 1 of them, more than ten times the number of our army!"

Li Shishi said: "This... the villain heard that the governor of the king and the garrison of this battalion have harmed the Tamla people in recent years, and the Tamluo people should not help the king to do evil..."

Li Yan glanced at Li Senior, then looked at Shan Shiqi and Shi Bao and said, "If you're not afraid of [-], you're just in case."

Li Shishi immediately said: "Yes, yes, what the king said is absolutely true!"

Shan Shiqi and Shi Bao said with shame on their faces: "Little brother knows I was wrong!"

Li Yan's voice became softer, and he said: "You have made great contributions to annihilating the defenders here, so I won't punish you this time, and it will be all merits and demerits. If there is a next time, I will not be lenient!"

Shan Shiqi and Shi Baochong clasped their fists at Li Yan, said in unison: "Yes!", and then took their respective troops to guard the main road to guard against the Tamra people.

After Shan Shiqi and Shi Bao led their people away, Li Yan and others went straight to Mu Gongya.

Seeing Li Yan's arrival, Deng Fei stepped forward and said, "All the officials here were caught by us and put into prisons. Now they are guarded by special personnel. The battalion defenders were also brought here to be guarded by us. I have sent the valuables to you." I will seal it up and wait for my brother to send someone to check it out. In addition, I have ordered the sheriff's house and lobby to be cleaned up. My brother can rest first, or he can directly interrogate the sheriff and officials here."

Li Yan said: "Brother, you have worked hard." Then Li Yan rushed to Lu Zhishen and said: "Master, you divide the troops into Brother Deng Fei and take care of these people."

Lu Zhishen replied: "Sajia will handle this matter in person."

Li Yan nodded, and then said: "Go to the lobby."

Hearing the words, Deng Fei personally led Li Yan to the lobby, and at the same time sent two clever men to send Chen Liqing and Li Shishi to the house.

As soon as he arrived at the lobby, Li Yan asked Deng Fei to bring the sheriff up.

As a result, the sheriff didn't know a lot when he asked three questions. He didn't know as much as Li Shizui and Jin Fuzhe, and he didn't understand Chinese.

Later, through Li Shisen's translation, Li Yan learned about the specific situation on Jeju Island from several small officials.

Generally speaking, the situation is similar to what Jin Fuzhe and Li Shisen said. There is only this battalion of Koryo defenders on the island, and there are more than 1 Tamna people. Tamna people are all women and children. The Tamna people are regarded as an inferior nation, and they often harm the Tamna people. In addition, the Korean people forcibly moved all the Tamna men to Korea, which made the Tamna people separated, so that the Tamna people and the Korean people were in conflict!
Wang Lun, who took someone to check the seizure this time, came back and reported: "Brother, there are less than [-] shi of grain, but there are quite a lot of gold, jewelry, shells and gold and silver artifacts, probably no less than [-] to [-] guan."

Li Yan frowned and said, "Is there only this little food?"

Li Shishi said: "The people of Tamluo live on fishing and are not good at farming. The tens of thousands of grains of grain are probably forced by the governor of the king to plant them!"

Li Yanchong nodded slightly to Li Senior as a sign of encouragement, then looked at Wang Lun and said, "From now on, Tamna Island will be renamed Jeju Island, and Brother Wang Lun, you will be the prefect of Jeju Island."

Wang Lunlang said: "This subordinate takes orders!"

Li Yan said again: "In a while, you can bring some gifts to the respectable people of the Tamra tribe, and tell them that we will open a warehouse to release grain, regardless of age, as long as they are from the Tamna tribe, everyone can get two shi of grain. , and then tell them that we want to have a public trial of the county guards and the Koryo defenders, and let them avenge their grievances and grievances. In addition, tell them that we respect their beliefs. In short, you have to express our goodwill and tell them, As long as they obey, they are ordinary people under our rule, and we will treat them equally."

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(End of this chapter)