A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 884 Goguryeo Traveling Girl

"The land of Goguryeo was originally the Guzhu Kingdom. It was entrusted to Jizi in the Zhou Dynasty. It was divided into three counties in the Han Dynasty, and the Jin family also ruled Liaodong."

These words are from a memorial written by Pei Ju to Yang Guang. The land of Goguryeo has belonged to China since ancient times. It can be traced back to before the Western Zhou Dynasty. It is irrefutable.

The Sui Dynasty was the first to conquer the Liao Dynasty, and it was actually Yang Guang's father, Emperor Wen Yang Jian. In the tenth year after the founding of the emperor, the King of Goguryeo led more than 10,000 Mohe cavalry to attack western Liaoning, but was driven back by Wei Cheng, the general manager of Yingzhou.

Emperor Wen then appointed Yang Liang, king of Han, as marshal, Gao Ying as long history, Wang Shiji and Han Wang as marching marshal, commanding 300,000 troops, and attacked Goguryeo by land and water. However, due to road and weather conditions, the supply of food and grass was insufficient, and Encountering diseases, eighty-nine out of ten Sui soldiers died.

The King of Goguryeo was also frightened by the power of the Sui Dynasty's army and sent an envoy to apologize, so he stopped his troops and made a truce. It was not until more than ten years later, in the eighth year of Daye, that Yang Guang led a million troops to personally conquer the country.

Unfortunately, three successive expeditions were unsuccessful.

The Hua soil is like a barbarian.

Yang Guang failed to conquer Goguryeo, but instead hurt the foundation himself. Soon after, the Sui Dynasty collapsed in the storm.

There was a lot of noise on the pier.

Wu Huaiyu looked solemn after hearing the news that Shitou had found.

"How many women are there on the boat?"

"There must be more than three hundred." Although Shitou came from a mixed background, he now considers himself to be Chinese, and if Yi enters Xia, he will become Xia. "Those girls are all in their teens. They claim to be the queen of the Sui army in Goguryeo."

"Did you hear clearly, it's the Sui army in Goguryeo, not the Han people in Goguryeo?"

Shi Shi was a little confused, "Alang, is there any difference?"

"Have."

There were actually many Han people in Goguryeo. After all, Goguryeo had been founded for seven hundred years, which can be said to have a long history.

But before the founding of Goguryeo, there were actually Han people in Liaodong. Before Goguryeo, there was the Fuyu Kingdom. In the pre-Qin period, the Chinese people entered Liaodong, represented by the Ji people and the ancient Yan people.

The Ji clan was led by Ji Zi, a native of Yin, the son of Shang King Wen Ding, the younger brother of Shang King Di Yi, and the uncle of Shang King Di Xin. He was promoted to Taishi and was granted the title of Ji. King Wu conquered Zhou and the Shang and Zhou Dynasties changed.

Jizi took about 5,000 Yin people with him, first settling near the Guzhu tribe in western Liaoning, and then to Korea.

After Qin Kai conquered Donghu, a large number of Yan people also flowed into Liaodong.

At the end of the Qin Dynasty and the Han Dynasty, a large number of people moved to Liaodong on a large scale to avoid war. The whole country rebelled against Qin, and tens of thousands of people from Yan, Qi, and Zhao fled to Korea.

The core area of ​​the founding of Goguryeo had long been incorporated into the territory of Yan in the late Warring States Period.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, many heroes came together, and many people fled to Goguryeo.

Goguryeo said that the war in the Central Plains was rising, and it also strengthened itself by plundering and plundering a large number of Han people from the border areas.

During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties when the Central Plains was greatly divided, the successive wars in the Central Plains caused countless people to move to the Goguryeo area.

Feng Wentong, the lord of Yan Empress, went to Goguryeo and brought with him a large number of Han people and Sinicized Xianbei people.

The four counties of Liaodong in the Han Dynasty were eventually annexed by the Goguryeo people. Except for a few who moved inward, most of the Han people in these four counties stayed in their hometowns and joined the Goguryeo people. Some nobles and powerful people were even able to maintain the cultural traditions of the Han people for nearly a hundred years.

The last large-scale influx of Han people into Goguryeo in history occurred during the Sui Dynasty's conquest of Goguryeo. Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty sent 300,000 troops to conquer Liao, but only 2,700 returned. In the 8th year of the Great Cause, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty sent 1.1 million troops to conquer Goguryeo himself, but he also returned with a great defeat.

After that, he conquered the Liao Dynasty twice and was also defeated.

The Sui army was defeated in several campaigns against the Liao Dynasty, leaving behind a large number of soldiers and civilian prisoners. Historically, in the fifteenth year of Zhenguan, when the imperial court sent envoys to Liaodong, these Sui troops who were stranded in foreign countries were still seen in the mountains and valleys. , when they heard that the envoy from the Central Plains was coming, they all rushed to meet him in tears.

"Let's go,"

Wu Huaiyu went over and directly revealed his identity.

The officials of the Tang Dynasty at the dock were shocked. That Zhao Junjun knew that Wu Huaiyu had come to Dengzhou, and even met him at the Governor's Mansion yesterday.

So Wu Huaiyu was in disguise, and he recognized him at a glance.

"The lower official pays homage to the Duke of Jin."

Huaiyu looked at the girls who had just been brought off the ship, about three hundred of them.

This is a boat that came off. The owner of the boat was a Goguryeo merchant. It was a big boat and the cabin was full of people.

I asked, starting from Qingnipu Port under Beisha City, passing through Miaodao Islands and arriving in Dengzhou.

Qingnipu was the Dalian of later generations, and Bishacheng was the Daheishan mountain city of Dalian.

It's quite close to here.

The boat was crude and crude, but it was no problem just crossing the Bohai Bay. It was just packed full of people like piglets.

The girls were haggard.

Even fearful.

"This is Penglai, Dengzhou, Henan Province of the Tang Dynasty. I am the Shangzhu State of the Tang Dynasty, the third division of Kaifu Yitong, the crown prince Taibao, and the Duke of Jin Wu Huaiyu,"

Huaiyu's words spread,

The girls were really excited.

Their originally gloomy eyes began to shine.

"Do you understand what I said?"

Huaiyu spoke in Tang Dynasty Mandarin.

It’s spoken quite well, without any local accent, but not everyone can understand Mandarin these days.

Many people have never left the county or even their hometown in their entire lives, so they only speak dialects.

Among the more than three hundred girls, there seemed to be quite a few who understood Mandarin.

Huaiyu called a young girl who responded excitedly to come forward.

"Do you understand what I say?"

"The little girl's surname is Dong, her name is Asang, and her family is in Sangquan County, Hedong County. She joined the army during the Daye period of the Sui Dynasty. She was injured and captured under the Liaodong City of Goguryeo. Later, the Goguryeo wife was placed as a wandering daughter outside Beisha City, with the Goguryeo people. Living together..."

This girl who calls herself Dong Asang is about fifteen or sixteen years old, and she can actually speak quite good Chinese, with clear and coherent enunciation.

After talking with her, I got a lot of useful information.

Her father's hometown was Sangquan, Hedong County. Well, that was Pei Ji's hometown, a prosperous place. Dong Teng was a soldier from the Hedong Prefecture who was called up to conquer Liaoning. He was also a captain in the Yingyang Prefecture. He gathered all the way from Hedong to Zhuojun, then rushed to the west of Liaoning across the swamps and fought under the Liaodong City.

There he fought fiercely with the Goguryeo army for a long time, and was later sent to attack other mountain towns, but was wounded and captured. In the eighth year of Daye's reign, Yang Guang made his first expedition to Liao. He mobilized more than 1.1 million troops and horses, and the momentum was huge, but Yang Guang commanded it blindly.

For example, when they attacked Liaodong City, an important town in Liaodong, they opened gaps several times to occupy the city. Seeing that the situation was not good, the Goguryeo people immediately said they would surrender and negotiate to let the Sui army withdraw their troops. Yang Guang really agreed, giving the Goguryeo people a chance to breathe, and then they recovered and regretted it. After doing this several times, Yang Guang didn't know how to learn his lesson and let others act like a monkey.

After Yang Guang failed to capture Liaodong City, he sent several troops to attack the surrounding mountain city, but in the end he had to command remotely...

Dong Teng was the victim of Yang Guang's blind command. They went to attack a small mountain city and were about to capture it. The defenders said they wanted to surrender and negotiate. The Sui army officers wanted to capture it in one go, but Yang Guang sent troops to each army. The envoys recruited and surrendered were all literati who did not know how to fight.

The surrender envoys did not know how to fight, but they kept Yang Guang's will in mind and tried their best to recruit and appease them. In the end, not only did they miss the opportunity, but they were surrounded by others, raided the camp at night, and captured them.

Dong Teng was wounded and made a prisoner. He stayed in a prisoner camp for a while and was transferred to Beisha City in southern Liaoning. He recovered from his injuries and worked hard for more than a year, building cities, farming and making weapons.

Later, the Goguryeo people gave them many Sui army prisoners like them, and gave them wandering girls as wives. They scattered them around various mountain fortresses in Goguryeo and lived with the Goguryeo people.

"What is a wandering girl?" Shitou asked.

Zhao Canjun seemed to have some understanding of Goguryeo customs. He said on the side, "Goguryeo customs are so promiscuous, so don't be ashamed. Those who have wandering women are not ordinary people."

It sounds a bit like a matriarchal social tribe.

Some people nearby said that the wandering girls of Goguryeo were prostitutes, wandering around, and they sounded like gypsy women.

"Asang, please tell me more specifically, are all the Goguryeo prisoners of war given to the Sui army married by wandering girls? Who are these wandering girls?"

Asang is quite generous.

Even judging by his temperament, his father was a prisoner of war of the Sui army, but he should have been doing well in Goguryeo, but why did he become a 'Silla maid'.

Huaiyu also specially asked people to give Asang and the others water and food.

Asang was indeed very hungry. He took the water and food and wolfed them down quickly.

After eating a heavy meal to fill his stomach, he began to talk in detail.

Speaking of Goguryeo, although it was founded seven hundred years ago, it accepted waves of Han people from the Central Plains, and even accepted and learned Chinese culture. It still uses Chinese characters, but it still retains strong remnants of slavery.

The country is divided into five bureaus, and the most noble ones are naturally the nobles of the five bureaus.

They have many free tribesmen under them.

There are a large number of slaves under the hands of nobles and tribesmen, and these slaves are also called tourists.

When Goguryeo was strong, it had 300,000 strong soldiers, but its tribesmen only had 700,000 households, which was equivalent to one soldier for every two households.

This is somewhat similar to the Jurchens in the Later Jin Dynasty. All the Jurchens were soldiers, and they had to serve as soldiers and train when they were old. Every time they sent out troops to go to war, their men trained in riding and archery since they were young, and they were born for fighting and looting.

It was their slaves who were responsible for cultivating these things.

Tourists and tourists are all slaves at the bottom of Goguryeo. Of course, some are between slaves and tribesmen, similar to the tribes in the Central Plains in the past. They have some freedom, but they are still attached to the nobles.

The Five Banners of Goguryeo people are actually not much different from the Eight Banners of the Jurchens. The people and tourists are similar to the bannermen and Baoyi.

It is said that although the upper class of Goguryeo also used Chinese characters and knew etiquette,

But among the lower-class tourists, many traditional customs are still retained. For example, they like to sing, dance, and are promiscuous.

In the middle of the country, men and women gathered together at dusk to sing and play.

When a man and a woman get married, after the marriage contract is agreed upon, the woman's family will build a small house behind their own house, called the son-in-law's house.

The son-in-law came to the daughter's house at night and signed up on his knees to ask for a place to live. After repeated attempts, the daughter's parents agreed to live with him and their daughter in a small house, and then gave them money and silk gifts.

It's a walking marriage.

Even if the wife gives a bride price, she cannot take it home. She has to wait until the son has grown up before she can take the child back to her husband's house.

Before giving birth to a child, or before the child has grown up, that is, before a woman officially goes to her husband's house, these Goguryeo women are also called wandering girls. They are not bound by the concepts of marriage and chastity. They can accept other men.

Such is the ethos.

In the series of wars in which the Sui conquered Goguryeo, the Sui army suffered heavy casualties. In fact, although the Goguryeo people were on the defensive side, they suffered equally heavy casualties, and their population was small.

A large number of Goguryeo soldiers were killed and wounded, and a large number of Goguryeo widows were also brought.

As for those wandering girls who have not yet given birth, or who have not yet grown up after giving birth to children, there are even more.

In order to quickly restore their national power, the Goguryeo people placed a large number of captured Sui troops in various places, and directly married them with wandering girls as wives. They even asked them to marry directly according to Han customs and form families to have children to help stabilize the country. These Sui troops.

Dong Teng has lived in Goguryeo for twenty-one years in the blink of an eye, and he has grandchildren.

The descendants have more than enough room,

Even because he was once the captain of the Yingyang Mansion and came from a wealthy family, he was able to be both civilized and martial, so he stayed in Goguryeo for many years and was later incorporated into the army and became an officer.

After twenty years of business, he even owned a lot of land and became a large landlord. He also ran some workshops and became wealthy and successful.

But Dong Teng still missed his hometown, his wives, concubines, children, and clan relatives. Therefore, he never forgot the pronunciation of his family's Han dialect. Every child he gave birth to was taught Chinese characters from an early age.

"How did you become a Silla maid on a slave ship?" Wu Huaiyu became even more puzzled after hearing this.

"My family has a shop in Qingnipu,"

Ah Sang was quite unlucky. Dong Teng had been in Beesa, Goguryeo for twenty-one years. He had made some achievements, including an official position, land, shops, and many children.

Except for my hometown that I can’t go back to, everything else is pretty good.

As he got older, he missed his hometown more and more, and wanted to return to his roots more and more, so when he had the opportunity, Dong Teng opened a shop in Qingnipu. Making money was secondary, and he mainly wanted to find opportunities to contact the Tang people on the Tang boats passing by Qingnipu. ,

Asang is a very smart girl, especially good at abacus, so the old Dong put his daughter in charge of the shop here, especially asking her to find a way to contact Tang Ship. After all, this kind of thing must be kept confidential and cannot be known to others, otherwise it will be too Collaboration with the enemy brings disaster.

Everything was fine originally,

She was very careful not to attract the attention of the Goguryeo people in Bishacheng and Cheongnipo, but she did not expect that she would encounter a group of bold pirates who acted without scruples.

A group of pirates who rob people, especially young women,

Asang is young and beautiful, and the pirates who supply supplies in Qingnipu are sea merchants on the surface, but they are pirates who engage in robbery and kidnapping secretly.

Asang was on guard against the Goguryeo government, but he failed to guard against such a group of people.

When she went to the dock to quietly contact Tang Ship to inquire about her father's hometown, she was stared at by the group of people. Without her noticing, she was caught in a sack and was abducted by them and thrown into the cabin of the slave ship.

The sky should not be called and the earth should not be called.

No matter what your status is, if you enter this slave ship and reach the dark, dirty and smelly bilge, the result will be the same.

They were transported to Dengzhou Port and sold as slaves.

Most of the more than 300 girls on her boat were Han girls. After asking, she found out that before entering Qingnipu for supplies, this boat and some other pirate ships attacked many villages along the east coast. We specially selected the settlement points where the prisoners of the Sui army lived.

Those Sui settlements were severely restricted by the Goguryeo people and were not allowed to possess weapons, making it easier for pirates to attack them.

They burned, killed, and looted a lot of property and people. This boat was filled with young girls, who were going to be taken to Dengzhou to pretend to be Silla maids and make a lot of money.

Asang was unfortunate but also lucky. She was kidnapped and brought to Dengzhou, only to meet Wu Huaiyu.

She even had to thank that Silla merchant Jin Chunxin. It was that guy who found out the true identities of the 'fake Silla maids' on this ship and revealed them.

(End of this chapter)