A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 889: Take you home

Like a golden light, it suddenly pierced through the thick dark clouds and fell on Dong Teng's body.

Old Dong swayed and his daughter walked out of the darkness. He thought he was dazzled.

"Aye."

My daughter called again,

"You, you damn woman, where have you gone?" Dong Teng's eyes were red and his voice was choked. He thought he would never see his daughter again.

"Aye, I'm back. I'm here to take you home."

Dong Teng was confused.

At this time, another person walked out of the darkness, a young man, tall and heroic.

He was stunned, and more people came out.

On this night that made him sigh and feel sad, his daughter suddenly came back and brought many people with her.

"Uncle Dong, I am Wu Huaiyu. I came from the other side of the sea to take you back to your hometown."

Old Dong thought he was dreaming.

Asang took his father's arm and said to his father and younger brother, "Aye, Xiao Wu, this is Mr. Wu, the founder of the Tang Dynasty, the Third Division of Yitong, the Crown Prince Taibao, and the Shangzhu Kingdom. His majesty's current meritorious official from Yuan Cong is now As the Lingnan Observation and Economic Envoy, I met in Dengzhou..."

She simply explained the situation to her father. She was kidnapped by pirates in Qingnipu, and was rescued by Wu Xiang in Dengzhou. Then Wu Xiang brought people over to rescue them...

incredible,

I can't believe it,

Old Dong was still in a huge shock. Over there, Shi Shouxin and Pang Yanzhang quickly surrounded the village with their troops, and even sneaked into the village and surrounded the Dong family compound.

Lao Dong finally came to his senses,

His face flushed with excitement. After more than twenty years, his hometown finally remembered these forgotten people?

"There are a few Goguryeo subordinates and officers and soldiers inside, but they have already drunk too much."

late at night.

A group of people entered the village quietly,

There is a barking dog,

Soon there was no sound,

There was another startle, a few shouts, and then there was no movement.

The village continued to fall into slumber.

Dong family courtyard,

The door is wide open,

Dong Teng took the lead to return. Several Goguryeo people were drunkenly hugging the Dong family's maids and running around. Dong Teng gritted his teeth and walked towards them.

"Don't worry,"

Huaiyu grabbed him and said, "Keep him alive."

Dong Teng nodded, then stepped forward, raised his old fist, and knocked those ugly guys to the ground with three or two punches.

The father and son of the Goguryeo village chief who took advantage of the Dong family also did not escape.

They were knocked down together, then tied up, and their mouths were stuffed with smelly socks.

The Dong family members were called over. They looked nervous as Asang brought back a large group of people, thinking they were bringing thieves.

Dong Teng was as excited as if he was drunk.

"Someone from my hometown is here to take us home."

"Home? Isn't this our home?" the eldest grandson asked doubtfully.

"Our family is in the Central Plains, in Hedong County, and in Sangquan County." The old man took his eldest grandson and rubbed his head.

Huaiyu said to the old man, "Uncle Dong, how many veterans are there in the village? Send your children to help lead my people and notify them to come and gather.

I asked you if you would like to return to the Central Plains with me. "

"Yes, they will definitely be willing." Dong Teng shouted.

Even if they have stayed here for more than twenty years, who doesn't want to return to their roots and return to their hometown? After all, this is not their home. Even if they get married and have children here, the Goguryeo people never regard them as their real people.

Was awakened at night.

The Dengzhou soldiers began to arrest people from house to house. Under the guidance of the Sui soldiers in the camp, they moved quickly.

As Dong Teng said, the Sui veterans in this village were moved to tears when they saw people from their hometown across the sea. Their wives and children were a little strange and uneasy.

Those people only often heard their father talk about their hometown, and even learned their father's hometown dialect from childhood, but no one had ever been to the other side of the sea.

Listening to their father's excited shouting to go home, they were a little confused. Do they really have to leave the place where they grew up and go to a completely unfamiliar place?

Many veterans are asking about things in their hometown and family members.

Wu Huaiyu doesn't know yet, but he told them that the Tang Dynasty is now unified, the country is stable, and people's lives are getting better and better.

Even though Henan had just suffered a flood, it did not cause too many casualties. The court provided timely relief, and there were no homeless and hungry people.

"Go to Dengzhou first, and then the court will help you contact and find your family and relatives. Even if you have no family members after the Sui Dynasty, the court will properly resettle you. It can help you settle back in your hometown, or it can grant land to other Kuanxiang towns. Settle in separate areas..." "The imperial court has not forgotten you and is here to pick you up."

The group of Sui soldiers who were captured during the Liao expedition are now in their 40s and 50s, and the older ones are even 60 or 70. Some of them even died of old age and illness in a foreign country before this day.

Nowadays, these veterans who are still lucky to be alive are all in tears. They can't imagine the day they will return to their hometown again.

Compared to these excited veterans,

The other Goguryeo people in the village were different. They were panicked and uneasy. Many people were beaten with bloody heads, noses, bruises and swollen faces because they tried to resist. Some who resisted fiercely and refused to surrender were beheaded on the spot.

Every family of Goguryeo villagers was driven out and gathered in the drying field.

In the autumn night, several bonfires were lit,

The men and women of Goguryeo villagers were now prisoners, all disheveled and shivering.

The veterans looked a little complicated when they saw these people.

After living together in this village for many years, every face is actually familiar, but there is no relationship, because there has always been a gap between the two parties. Even when they were first resettled, they were often bullied by the Goguryeo people.

In the several battles to conquer the Liao Dynasty during the Daye period, all the Goguryeo people were actually soldiers, and there were countless casualties. There were also many people in this village who were called to participate in the resistance against the Sui army and died or were disabled.

Time passed, and in the past twenty years, although that kind of hatred and hostility gradually dissipated a lot, it still existed. It was just that the Sui soldiers stayed together and endured hardships and worked hard. Goguryeo also hoped to absorb and assimilate these people to make up for the damage caused by the war. Huge population loss.

In the end,

After all, they regard each other as a foreign race and have never truly trusted each other.

"How to deal with these people?" Dong Teng asked,

"What do you think Uncle Dong should do?" Huaiyu asked him.

Dong Teng originally wanted to kill him, but in the end he couldn't utter the word. After a long time, he said, "Why don't we bring them all back to the Central Plains, and then move them to Lingnan to resettle and reclaim the wasteland." He asked tentatively, and the result of this treatment was obvious. It looks a little light,

But he finally suggested it.

Back then, the Goguryeo people spared the lives of these captive Sui soldiers, so let's spare their lives now. It's impossible to just let them go, but it's not good to kill them either.

Huaiyu smiled and said, "Uncle Dong's suggestion is quite good."

The pirate Gao Meng listened with some surprise. He couldn't help but suggest next to him, "It's better to sell them as slaves. Whether it is at Dengzhou Port or transported to Baekje or Silla, these people can be sold for a lot of money, especially There is a greatest shortage of slaves in the Central Plains right now. A young male male slave costs at least tens of thousands of dollars, and a female female maidservant also costs twenty to thirty thousand dollars."

There are seventy or eighty Goguryeo households in this village, that is, three to four hundred people, plus dozens of slaves from the village chief and several tribesmen.

The total value is at least five thousand dollars.

This kind of business is very profitable. He used to be a pirate. One of the most profitable businesses was to rob small coastal villages, kidnap people and sell them into slavery. Occasionally, he also did things like smuggling goods and robbing merchant ships.

However, the business of going ashore to rob villages and rob people requires strength, and it is not easy to do.

But Wu Huaiyu and the others brought elites with them this time. They easily captured a large village and sent several small groups of troops to several other Sui soldiers' villages.

People are very relaxed.

It's enviable to watch. If all of tonight's goals are successful, then just those who bring these Goguryeo people back to Dengzhou can immediately realize 20,000 to 30,000 yuan.

For a pirate like Gao Meng, tens of thousands of dollars is really a huge wealth that cannot be robbed in a few lifetimes.

But it would be too easy for them to resettle these people in places like Lingnan and let them reclaim wasteland and farmland. They would lose tens of thousands of dollars in one fell swoop.

He even felt that he should have his own share of these tens of thousands of dollars.

"Clean up and prepare to retreat."

Wu Huaiyu had no intention of staying here much longer, let alone a fight with the Goguryeo people.

They took away everything they could. In addition to the population, other livestock, money and food were also packed and taken away. Even clothes, pots, bowls, bedding, etc. were packed away.

Carts and baskets,

A mighty night retreat.

The Goguryeo people had no choice. Their waists were tied up in strings with ropes, and the whole family helped carry their things.

"If you run away, you will kill a whole family. If you run away, a whole family will be killed. All ten families tied to the same rope will be killed," Gao Meng threatened the villagers in Goguryeo rudely.

In order to show his shock, he also specially asked people to drag the corpses of those who resisted and were killed when driving people away from home to the drying ground for public display.

Under the threat of death,

Not many people dare to mess around.

Even the village chief was so frightened that he woke up from drinking. After removing the smelly socks from his mouth, he didn't care about anything else and just desperately begged Dong Teng for mercy.

Dong Teng spoke to him with a somewhat complicated expression, asking him to restrain the Goguryeo villagers in the village and ask them to cooperate fully.

"Who are they?" the village chief asked Dong Teng in a low voice with a trembling voice. He suspected that those people were Tang troops, but these people did not wear the uniforms of the Central Plains officers and soldiers.

"Did you see the person who just raised his head and shouted? That is the three-headed dragon Gaomeng from Snake Island, known as the Pirate King..."

The captain's eyes were dull and his lips were trembling. He had heard of Gao Meng's name. He was indeed nicknamed the Three-Headed Jiao. He was a pirate who had become famous along the coast of Liaodong in recent years. He was said to be ruthless and decisive in his actions. He didn't expect this. It fell into his hands for the first time.

Seeing the incredible behavior of these pirates tonight, my heart sank completely.

Next, he did not dare to resist, nor did he dare to have any other thoughts. Although he had held his bow on the Liaodong city wall to resist the attack of millions of Sui troops,

But now that I am old after all, I can only obey the orders honestly.

They were escorted by pirates under the cover of night and arrived at a beach before dawn, where a ship was waiting to meet them. Groups of people were rushed onto the ship, and the stolen money, grain, goods and livestock were also put on the ship.

Fully loaded boats left the shore one after another and traveled along the coast. Soon they met several other fleets, which continued to gather together.

At dawn, all fleets gathered together, facing the rising sun, and sailed towards Dengzhou Port.

That night, the rescue team led by Wu Huaiyu landed in southern Liaoning at night and attacked seven Goguryeo villages with Sui soldiers. Not only did they rescue more than 200 Sui veterans, they also brought their families back. By the way, they also captured more than 3,000 Goguryeo people and brought them back to Dengzhou.

This planned and delayed rescue operation was lightning-fast, came and went in a hurry, but was very successful.

(End of this chapter)