Neon Clothes and Iron Clothes

Chapter 375 Dam
"That's true!" Huicong nodded, "Could it be a trap set by the Prince Zhong?"

"Trap? I don't think it's very likely, right?" Cui Hongdu said, "In the battle of Baijiangkou, the Japanese captured a lot of prisoners in our hands. The eldest brother and the prince know this. As long as we add what the woman said last night If it is verified, then the authenticity can be distinguished. If I had been sent by the Prince Zhong, I would definitely not have revealed so much inside information; secondly, if this is the scheme of the Prince Zhong, what is his purpose? To lure us Ships come, and then set up an ambush to attack in advance? Isn’t this provoking a big country and seeking death?”

"That's true!" Huicong nodded: "It really doesn't seem like a trap set by the eldest brother, the prince, why don't you go back to Sibi City, report the things here to Wang Sima, and let him make a decision !"

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Baekje.

In a bamboo cage by the tree at the crossroads, two dead men were rotting in the sun.

Wang Pu stopped under the tree to see them carefully.

"Who do you think they are, brother?" The mule next to him was grateful for the rare respite and began to nibble the brown-green hay beside the road, ignoring the two wooden wine barrels on his back.

"Who knows, maybe it's a robber, or a deserter, it's almost the same anyway!" Wang Hao covered his nose and turned his head sideways, so as to stay away from the two corpses. He was much closer to the dead when he was riding a horse. He was soaked in sweat when he went out, his light yellow coat turned black, the sky was blue, and the sun was scorching hot. Although it was the end of April, it seemed that summer had already entered.

Wang Pu took off his straw hat and fanned it vigorously. Thousands of flies were crawling on the dead body, and more flies were flying slowly in the motionless hot air, making a buzzing sound: "I must have done something bad." , was locked in such a cage!"

"Stinky boy!" Wang Hao sneered: "Don't think that after studying in Dinglin Temple for a few days, you think you know everything. There are always some people in this world who don't need many reasons to be killed!"

The bamboo cage was barely big enough to hold one person, but it squeezed two people in. They stood facing each other, their hands and feet were tied together, and their backs were fixed with iron bars, as if they were one person.

"Fourth brother, come and help me!" Wang Po jumped off the horse and said, "Put these two guys down!"

"Brother, we don't know them either, so why let them down!" Wang Pu came over and asked.

"Fourth, they're already dead!" Wang Pu pulled out his waist knife, "No matter what they did before they were alive, it's all over, and now they should be given a pit to rest in peace! Come on, do me a favor!"

Brothers Wang Pu wrapped their mouths and noses with their coats, then put down the bamboo basket, separated the two corpses, and began to dig the pit. They were working in full swing when they suddenly heard someone behind him whisper: "Amitabha!" Wang Pu Looking back, it was a Noutuo.

"Master, you came at a good time!" Wang Gao was very happy to see the Ye Toutuo, pointing to the dead body on the ground and said: "You can recite sutras for these two people on the ground, so as not to have more wild ghosts!"

Na Toutuo nodded: "The poor monk can only recite half a volume of "Pu Men Pin Mantra". If the benefactor does not dislike it, then the poor monk will read it!"

Wang Po didn't know what the "Pumen Pin Mantra" was, and hurriedly said: "I heard that the Bodhisattva's scriptures have supreme power after reading a sentence, and even asking the master to chant the scriptures is considered a good deed!"

Na Toutuo nodded, went to the corpse and began to recite scriptures. When the recitation was finished, the three of them pushed the corpse into the pit together and covered it with soil.Wang Po smiled and said: "Finally, we have finished a job, master, our brother is sending two barrels of wine to the Zhuangzi in front, which is only ten miles away, or you can also go to the Zhuangzi, drink two glasses of wine, eat Have a meal, wash your feet, have a good sleep, and go on the road tomorrow morning!"

That Ye Toutuo looked at the big wine barrel on the mule's back, swallowed subconsciously, and showed a smile on his dark face: "Then bother the benefactor!"

"Master, you are too polite!" Seeing that Ye Toutuo agreed, Wang Po laughed, "But we all have mounts, so you have to go faster later!"

"No problem!" Ye Toutuo said with a smile, "I have good feet, so I can definitely keep up!"

The three of them set out on the road, and Ye Toutuo did not lie. Although the brothers Wang Gao rode on horses and mules, he always followed four or five steps behind, barefoot, holding a wooden staff, and a short knife hanging from his waist. The straw sandals were hung on the thick shoulders, the old coat was rolled up and knotted around the waist, the dark face was full of whiskers, only a pair of black and bright eyes.

The tomb quickly disappeared behind him, but Wang Pu found that he still couldn't forget all that.The three-year Restoration War is over, but this does not mean that the days of peace are coming.The kingdom is full of lawless people, the drought shows no signs of ending, and the hungry people have to leave their homes to find a way to survive. Even a lord like him must hold a hoe in one hand and the handle of a knife in the other. Defend your own land and granary.

"Brother, what's wrong with you? Are you feeling unwell?" Wang Pu asked.

"No! I'm just very thirsty! Just like them!" Wang Po pointed to the field beside the road. The melons and vegetables were withering on the vines, but the weeds were alive and well. Wang Po licked his tongue, and this continued. No way.

"I remember there is a stream ahead! We can drink as much as we want!" Wang Pu laughed. Compared with other brothers, he was much more energetic. Hanging ring knife, quiver and bow bag hanging beside the saddle, it looks a bit nondescript.

"I'm afraid you won't be able to drink it!" Ye Toutuo's voice was low, like a muffled drum.

"I can't drink it anymore? How could it be? I remember it was right in front, behind that old locust tree!" Wang Pu pointed to the old locust tree not far away.

"You remember right! But the stream stopped!" Ye Toutuo said: "Several streams around have stopped flowing!"

The three of them stood by the creek and looked at the creek under their feet. To be precise, it was a small ditch. Under the warped wooden bridge deck, there were only sand and stones. This was very strange. There was still water here two or three days ago, indeed. Not much, but at least there is running water.

"Damn it!" Wang Gao frowned, "Why did you do it so fast, the crops in the field are ruined!"

"There wasn't much water there in the beginning!" Wang Pu said, "It's not surprising that it's dry now, but luckily this isn't our only farm!"

Wang Po shook his head in disappointment, and was about to continue on his way, when he heard Ye Toutuo's voice: "The Silla people built a dam upstream, not far from here, only about twenty miles away!"

"What?" Wang Po turned back, "Are you sure?"

"I'm sure!" Ye Toutuo said: "I passed by there yesterday. The Silla people cut down a lot of trees, tied up the trunks, formed two fences, threw them into the river, and then threw earth and rocks into the two wooden railings to press them Tighten it tight, and the water overflows the bank and pours into a canal just dug to irrigate their fields!"

"These bastards, this is stealing our water and our lives!" Wang Hao gritted his teeth, his face full of murderous intent: "Fourth, you go back to Zhuangzi immediately, and issue an order to call all the people who can take up arms together!" Get up, I want to show those Silla people some color!"

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Sibi City, Dudu Mansion.

Wang Wenzuo climbed up the steps and kept yawning while walking. He was very tired. He has been busy since dawn until now, and he has no time to catch his breath. But no matter how many things he has dealt with, there are still more things to come. waiting for him.There is no way, for future plans, he needs a fleet, an expeditionary force that can be dispatched at any time, but now he only has a few old ships, a shipyard with incomplete craftsmen, and two thousand vicious boys with incomplete armor , There are too many things that need him to deal with.

"Sanlang, you are here!" Liu Renyuan smiled and pointed to the seat next to him: "Sit down and talk!"

"Thank you, Mr. Liu!" Wang Wenzuo bowed and sat down. He found that Fu Yulong was also there. This was a rare event. This nominally the highest official of the Xiongjin Governor's Mansion seldom appeared on weekdays. Why did he come today?Could it be that Chang'an came to issue an edict?Or something else.

"Du Changshi, tell Saburo about it!" Liu Ren wished.

"Yes!" Du Shuang replied, "That's what happened. The Silla people came to complain, saying that three days ago, the Baekje people crossed the border and attacked their village, killed many of them, and even burned their houses. We punish the perpetrators."

"The Baekje people crossed the border and attacked the Silla people? It's unlikely?" Wang Wenzuo laughed: "As far as I know, the Silla people have been encroaching on the border villages of the Baekje people! How could it be the other way around? "

"Wang Sima, after our investigation, it is true that the Baekje people crossed the border and attacked several villages of the Silla people, but before that, the Silla people built dams and intercepted several rivers flowing into Baekje for their own use. The local area happened to be in a drought, so what happened later!"

"No wonder, then you can't blame the people of Baekje. Right now, when the crops are growing, the people of Silla intercept the river water, which means the lives of people downstream!" Wang Wenzuo said with a smile: "Some of them have been sued in this pen and ink lawsuit!"

"Wang Sima!" Fu Yulong, who had never had any sense of presence, finally said, "You may not know the seriousness of the matter. The Silla people have assembled a large army at the border, at least 5000 people, and they say they want to fight for this matter." Take revenge, and it's all because of you!"

"Because of me?" Wang Wenzuo was stunned. He looked at Fu Yulong contemptuously, and said with a smile, "Whether there are 5000 or 5 people in Silla, there is no need for Governor Fuyu to worry about it. I will wait for my release." Deal with it!"

"You—!" Fu Yulong was not deaf, so he naturally heard the sarcasm in Wang Wenzuo's words, and he sneered: "General Liu, tell Wang Sima the whole story! I want to see what he does Deal with it!"

Liu Renyuan coughed and said in a low voice, "Sanlang, you should know Wang Gao, right?"

"I know!" Wang Wenzuo nodded: "He made a lot of contributions in quelling the Fuyu Fengzhang Rebellion, so he was awarded a lot of land. He can be regarded as a landlord of Baekje!"

"This is what he did. That night he gathered 500 people, killed them on the side of the Silla people, demolished the embankment, burned down four or five villages of the Silla people, killed many people, and robbed A lot of things came back! The people of Silla want his head, otherwise they will go to war!"

"Hand over Wang Yu's head, or else we will go to war?" Wang Wenzuo laughed angrily: "The Silla people are so bold, does he know who he is threatening? This is the Xiongjin Governor's Mansion of the Tang Dynasty! "

"Wang Sima!" Du Shuang said in a low voice: "From one moment to another, the situation in Baekje is very different from a few months ago. There is no way to start a war. Prior to this, the Silla people kept provoking conflicts on the border, just to cut off the land of the Baekje people. Of course they dare not go to war with Datang, but they will send envoys to Chang'an to plead guilty after the war !"

"Is that okay?"

"Hmm!" Du Shuang said in a low voice, "Chang'an is likely to be perfunctory. Right now, the imperial court is most concerned about destroying Goguryeo. If it breaks with the people of Silla, then the grand plan of attacking Goguryeo from the north to the south will fail completely. The Luo people have grasped this point, so they continue to make troubles on the border. The Anton Governor's Mansion also sent people a few days ago to say that we should focus on the overall situation and not give Silla population facts, and do it after Goguryeo is eliminated. claim!"

Hearing this, Wang Wenzuo understood.After he returned to Baekje, he was only thinking about how to interfere with the Japanese archipelago to obtain the rich gold and silver resources on it. As for Silla, which is close at hand, he didn't take it to heart, but he didn't want the situation here to deteriorate to such a state. the point.Among the three kingdoms of the Korean peninsula and Japan at that time, the people of Silla may not be the best at fighting, but they are definitely the best at diplomacy. At the earliest, Jin Chunqiu surrendered to the Tang Dynasty and sent all his sons as hostages. In return, Baekje, the centuries-old enemy, was wiped out.The next son-in-law, Kim Yu-shin and Kim Fa-min, were not easy to deal with. They adopted a strategy of kowtowing and pressing against Datang step by step. The Tang Empire, whose military strength was at its peak, gnawed off a large piece of meat, and its life span was almost as long as the Tang Dynasty. It really made Goguryeo, Tubo, Nanzhao, and Uyghurs cry.

"Wang Sima!" Seeing that Wang Wenzuo hadn't spoken, Fu Yulong became proud: "You divided up the land for a short-term benefit and awarded it to these lowly villains, but you didn't think that these villains knew how to manage the land and the people. Just keep doing things recklessly, regardless of the consequences. In my opinion, not only should the king pole be handed over to the Silla people, but other lowly people who have been granted land should also take back the land, which is the right way!"

(End of this chapter)