A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 888 Floating Sea Liaodong

The Bohai Strait is only two hundred miles wide.

The Miaodao Islands are connected in the middle. The northbound Goguryeo-Silla Sea Route from Dengzhou starts from Penglai Port in Dengzhou, passes through the Miaodao Islands, and then follows the coast. This ship route is the oldest and safest.

Although the Central Plains already had navigation technology that could sail directly from the Chengshan Peninsula to Goguryeo and Pyongyang, during the Sui Dynasty's several expeditions to Goguryeo, there were always navy sailors to cross the sea eastward, which was closer, more direct and faster.

But generally merchant ships still prefer to travel along the coast.

This is a very mature route that has been used for thousands of years. It is either an island or a coast. You can dock at any time to resupply and avoid storms, and you don’t have to worry about getting lost.

Wu Huaiyu boarded the ship.

He left Chengsi in Dengzhou, taking Shi Shouxin, Pang Xiaotai, and his own soldiers with him. In addition, he was accompanied by warships and sailors from Penglai Military Town, as well as officers and soldiers from Dongmou Shouchu.

I didn’t bring too much,

They are all carefully selected, and there are only a few thousand people in total.

There are about a dozen ships of different sizes, including a few warships from Penglai Town, and the rest are merchant ships. It's not that there aren't more warships, but this operation cannot be exposed.

Enter the village secretly, and don’t let anyone shoot you.

We can't let the Goguryeo people know, it's not the time to show off our swords yet.

At the same time, there was Miss Dong Sang. In addition to her, there were several girls who lived near Qingnipu. It was originally Huaiyu's plan that he was the first to break up Dong Teng's village and rescue the people. The other Sui soldiers will be slowly handed over to the non-staff pirates like Gao Meng to help rescue them from now on, but these girls were very excited after hearing the news, and they all knelt down and begged Huaiyu to come along and rescue their families.

After Huaiyu learned about it, he selected a few Sui soldiers' forts near Qingnipu and listed them as targets for action together. The rest were helpless for the time being, so the girls also accompanied him and became guides.

Also traveling with him were Gao Meng and his party.

This time, he and his men on the boat received additional approval from Wu Huaiyu to join the operation, and they were also the first batch to undergo the test.

If they perform well this time, they can be the first to join Wu Huaiyu's plan and become the first batch of cooperative pirates.

Before departure, Wu Huaiyu and Gao Meng revealed some contents of the cooperation plan. Although they only revealed a little bit of the general content, Gao Meng and the others were already flushed with joy.

It's just that the content is too tempting for them.

In fact, pirates are not that easy to mess around. It is not an exaggeration to say that they are precarious. It is undoubtedly a dream to have the support of the Tang Dynasty court.

This is simply a stable rear area. No one needs to be afraid of Goguryeo, Silla, Baekje, and Japan. From now on, Dengzhou will be their base camp. After plundering Haidong, they can come here to ship goods or rest here. In the future, ships and weapons can even be purchased and repaired from Datang.

Secondly, they can even become 'legal' smugglers and can directly obtain those hugely profitable smuggled goods from Datang.

It can be said that even if they don't become pirates who lick blood from the tip of a knife in the future, they will only have a better future if they become smuggling merchants.

When Gao Meng stepped onto the deck, his heart surged.

In fact, Gao Meng was not the grandson of Gao Baoning as he said. His grandmother was a Goguryeo slave who was sold to Gao Baoning as a maid.

Later, Gao Baoning was defeated and some of his subordinates fled to Goguryeo, including his grandmother.

At that time, the war was in chaos, and a slave could not escape some humiliation on the way to escape. After arriving in Goguryeo, she became pregnant and became pregnant, but even the father of the child could not figure out which one it was. He was a soldier under Gao Baoning. Or Goguryeo soldiers, or someone else?

But this Goguryeo woman insisted that this was Gao Baoning’s child.

As for whether it is true or false, no one actually cares.

Later, when the child was born, he was not black and white, but the identity given to him by the Goguryeo woman was not completely useless. At that time, the Central Plains was in chaos, and the Goguryeo people were very ambitious and wanted to cross the Liaohe River and annex the Liaoxi camp. state,

So for a time, he was kept in captivity using his identity, but later, when the Northern Zhou Dynasty pacified the north, and then the Sui Dynasty unified the Central Plains, his father was still a useless idler.

The sea breeze blows,

Gao Meng thought about every bit of his past. From the time he was sensible, he was no longer willing to be manipulated and controlled by others, let alone to be treated like garbage and to be disposed of at will. He struggled, ran away, resisted, and finally became a famous seaman on the Bohai Sea. thief.

At this moment, he did not feel the humiliation of being controlled and manipulated like he did back then. Instead, he felt a faint excitement, as if wings were sprouting from his ribs, and the turbid air in his chest was exhaled,

Gao Meng secretly clenched his fists and wanted to take advantage of this east wind to do something great.

His 'grandfather' Gao Baoning once defended the lonely city for six years and fought against the entire Northern Zhou Dynasty with his own strength. Although he was defeated in the end, he was so heroic.

He didn't want to be like his father all his life, being kept in captivity since birth. He was a puppet with no freedom at all. He couldn't even be said to be a living person, he could only be said to be a dog or a walking corpse. When he was useless, his head was chopped off with a knife, leaving no trace at all in his short life.

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Southeast Liaoning,

Below Beisha City, near Qingnipu.

The autumn wind is rustling,

Qili Tun, a large courtyard in the west of Tun, was filled with mist and mist.

Dong Teng sat in the main room, sighing.

His most beloved and smartest daughter, Asang, has been missing for several days. The Dong family has been searching everywhere but can't find any trace of her.

"Alang,"

"Someone from the government is here."

Qingnipu was under the jurisdiction of the lord of Besha City. It prospered due to maritime trade and became a lively port city. Not only did the number of fishermen, craftsmen and shops increase, but Besha City also set up a yamen, dispatched officials, and stationed soldiers and horses here.

Dong Teng's daughter disappeared. The Dong family did not dare to report the matter to the officials, but the officials in Qingnipu still knew the news and immediately sent someone. A bearded Goguryeo official arrived on horseback with several soldiers. The village chief nodded and belted his way to Dong's house.

"Dong Teng!"

The village chief was also a Goguryeo, a tribesman, and the largest landowner in the village. He also had some slaves at home, and also had a shop in Qingnipu. He even had a son serving as a soldier in Bisha City.

He is the most prestigious person among the Goguryeo people in the village.

Although Dong Teng was his former prisoner in the Sui Dynasty, he had done no worse than him in these years. He had saved a lot of property and owned land. Even though he had retired from the army now, his son had also joined the army.

The village chief disliked this outsider very much. Like the other Goguryeo people in the village, they also disliked the nearly thirty Sui families in the village.

But these Sui people were very united under the leadership of Dong Teng. In recent years, they have not even been able to get any benefits.

"Where is your daughter Asang? Shangguan wants to see her,"

The village chief of Goguryeo shouted and asked, Asang was young, smart and beautiful, and it was the village chief who watched him grow up and become more and more handsome. He also invited people to go to the Dong family to talk to matchmakers, hoping to introduce Asang to his second son as a wife.

Although Dong Teng was a Sui soldier, the village chief also had his own little thoughts. After all, Dong Teng had the ability and had established a firm foothold in Beisha. Moreover, after the change of Emperor Zhenguan in the Central Plains, Dengzhou opened a port and the Bohai Sea The route is more lively,

Qingnipu is becoming more and more lively, and the village owner also wants to take advantage of this, but he has nothing to do with those Tang people, so he wants to marry the Dong family and develop on Qingnipu Street.

A strong alliance?

He even wanted to bring the Dong family over through marriage. In this way, no one in the village would fight against his family in the future, and their family's position as the first family in the village would be consolidated.

It's a pity that Dong Teng doesn't give face.

The village chief was still surprised to hear that her daughter was missing. After the old guy sent his family to inquire around, he decisively rode to the Qingnipu Yamen to report the matter.

Dong Teng saw the proud smile of the village chief, his eyes like swords,

He even doubted whether his daughter had been kidnapped by the village chief.

"My daughter is missing in Qingnipu, and we are looking everywhere." Dong Teng said to the official in Qingnipu, who was actually an official.

Although Goguryeo is very different from the Central Plains court, it is also greatly influenced by the Central Plains dynasty and Han culture. In particular, Goguryeo has been undergoing continuous reforms in recent years. For example, the royal city also has twelve guards.

At the local level, although the five masters are still extremely powerful, Wang Jing has actually been competing for control over the city lords in various places.

Wang Jing's reforms never stopped. In the final analysis, he was hurt by the Sui Dynasty, so he followed suit.

Even the local government officials are following suit. For example, the various officials in the Central Plains also have various houses.

"The Yamen now suspects that you have an affair with the Tang Dynasty and sent your daughter to smuggle to Dengzhou..."

The official came up with several charges, and then forced Dong Teng to hand over his daughter, otherwise he would be taken away.

Dong Teng sighed in his heart, knowing that these Goguryeo people had never believed them.

Give your wives and children a wink,

Dong Teng first gave them gifts, and then killed sheep and held a banquet to entertain them. "I have been in Goguryeo for twenty-one years and have many children and grandchildren. At this age, how can I have an affair with the Tang Dynasty?"

Dong Teng's son brought some maids over and asked them to entertain them with wine. Those few people took the money Dong Teng gave, and they had good wine and meat, as well as the maids who accompanied the wine. Suddenly they became less fierce and smiling. stand up.

Although the village chief was jumping up and down, no one paid any attention to him.

As for a petty official, the benefits obtained are important. Other things like Dong's daughter escaping to Tang Dynasty, etc., are they really important? They are willing to come just because it is a good reason to get benefits.

Once you get the benefits, you naturally don’t care anymore.

Sunset,

The Dong family courtyard was very lively in the dusk. Chickens and sheep were being slaughtered, big steamed buns were steamed, and dishes were served one by one. Those guys each hugged a maid, holding bowls of wine and eating meat, so happy.

Dong Teng responded, but his heart was extremely agitated.

It's dark,

Those people were still drinking, and their arms around the maids were getting more and more dishonest. Several of the maids were made to blush, but they did not dare to resist, so they had to whisper over and over again, "Alang, drink."

It's getting late,

The banquet is not over yet,

Those guys were already very drunk, but under the influence of alcohol, they started to tear the clothes of the maids unscrupulously.

Dong Teng walked out of the house and came to the gate of the courtyard. His youngest son was feeding the horses of those shameless guys.

"Aren't they leaving tonight?"

"Ah."

Dong Teng took a long breath of alcohol and even had the urge to go back to the kitchen, pick up a knife and ax and chop down all the dog slaves.

"Aye, did sister really sneak into Dengzhou?"

Dong Teng shook his head, that was impossible, his daughter would not suddenly go to Dengzhou secretly.

"But why did sister suddenly disappear?"

"Maybe he was kidnapped."

silence.

After so many days without finding anyone, everyone has actually had bad consequences and are afraid that they will never see her again.

"Aye,"

Well, Dong Teng responded first, and then suddenly felt something was wrong. This was not the cry of his youngest son.

"Aye, it's me, Sang Niang, I'm back."

Dong Teng's eyes suddenly widened and he raised his head suddenly. On the path in front of his home, his daughter, who had been missing for a long time, suddenly walked over from the dark night.

(End of this chapter)