Haizhou is located in the northernmost part of Huainan East Road, and from the map, it looks as if a large part of the coast has been swallowed up by the sea, forming a wide and shallow bay. The bay is surrounded by land on three sides, called "Haizhou Bay", Haizhou Bay is more than 100 miles wide from north to south, and there is a large island in the southern part of the bay, which is Yuzhou Island.

After hundreds of years of vicissitudes, Yuju Island will be connected to the mainland, but now it is still separated from the mainland by more than ten miles of water. These more than ten miles of water, because of the shelter from the wind and waves of Yuzhou Island, has become a natural sheltered harbor. No matter how rough the sea is, the waters between Yuju Island and the mainland become calm. For merchants who are based in Haizhou and engaged in maritime trade, this sheltered harbor is their cornucopia.

Because of the arrangement of Mi Youren, a good apprentice, Wu Haogu took an official boat from Lianshui to the Salt River, and comfortably drifted to Qushan County, where Haizhou Prefecture is located.

Boats are parked near the mouth of the Salt River, waiting to dock at the pier. Wu Haogu and Pan Qiaolian came out of the cabin together, stood at the bow of the boat, and looked around.

The two banks of the Yunyan River are very prosperous, and the north bank is the Haizhou Rongchang, which is between the Yunyan River and the county seat of Qishan, and the scale of the Rongchang seems to be larger than the county seat.

Within the walls, there are all layers of pavilions, and I don't know how many merchants have established themselves there. To the east of the field is the harbor, where you can vaguely see various ships moving slowly on the calm water.

On the south bank of the Yunyan River is the Goryeo Pavilion, which is not the Consulate General of the Goryeo Kingdom in Haeju, but a hotel built by the Song Dynasty for Goryeo merchants and missions who came to Haeju to trade or go to Kaifeng Province via Haizhou.

Because Haeju is a commercial town where Goryeo missions and merchants come and go very frequently, the Goryeo Pavilion on the south bank of the Yunyan River is large-scale, with no less than 1,000 houses. Outside the Goryeo Pavilion is a market with shops and liquor shops, which is no less prosperous than the Yongchang on the north bank of the Yunyan River.

Wu Haogu calculated in his heart: The essence of Haizhou seems to be the two banks of the Yunyan River and the county seat of Qishan, although it is prosperous, but the overall area is not large, it is completely possible to build a city wall to enclose it, even if it is to build a European-style star castle, it will not cost too much.

If there is a large island on the sea, a star fortress on the land, and a navy that can fight against the Jurchen sailors (if any), Haizhou can become an impenetrable stronghold. If you can't hold it, you can still escape south by boat......

It's just that he is a painter, and he really became an art teacher of Song Huizong, and under the strict bureaucratic system of the Song Dynasty, the power he can obtain is also limited, how can he run Haizhou?

Just as he was thinking about how to survive the catastrophe more than twenty years later, two figures suddenly appeared from the market outside the Goryeo Pavilion. The former two wore a Dongpo scarf, a white jacket, and a Japanese fan, with a sallow complexion, and seemed to be a yellow-faced scholar; The person in the back seems to be Wu Haogu, who has had several encounters in Kaifeng Mansion - Taixue gave up his life, and Pingjiang Ji recalled.

"Is it Ji Yizhi in front?"

When Wu Haogu was wondering how to meet Ji Yi in Haizhou, he suddenly heard Mi Youren's shouting.

I saw that the two people who had just come out of the market first stopped, then followed the sound and looked around, and then walked quickly towards the official boat that Wu Haogu and Mi Youren were riding.

Because the official ship was queuing up to dock at the port, it was in the middle of the river, and Ji Yizhi and the white-faced scholar couldn't get on, so they stopped on the shore.

"Sure enough, it's Mi Yuanhui, ah, Wu Chongdao is also there!"

Ji Yi arched his hand towards Mi Youren and Wu Haogu across the river more than ten feet of water, and then pointed to the scholar next to him and said, "Let me introduce to you, this is Yin Xiaowei, the governor of the Privy Council of the Goryeo Kingdom, Yin Xiaowei." ”

How did a student come to Haizhou and be with the same Goryeo stick?

When Wu Haogu was feeling strange, Mi Youren already understood what was going on, "It turns out that Brother Yi has joined the office, congratulations!" ”

Ji Yi laughed: "It's just a Confucian official of the Tongwen Pavilion, and he hasn't been named outside the Donghua Gate, so what kind of official is it?" ”

Kong Muguan was a minor official in charge of library documents, while Tongbunkan was a yamen in charge of foreign affairs to Goryeo, and was currently attached to the northern wing of the Privy Council.

The Confucian officials of the Tongbunkan are generally filled by the civil officials from the lowest-ranking civil officials of the Jiupin General Shirou.

Ji Yi became the Confucian official of the Tongwen Pavilion, so he naturally officially entered the official career. He was a student of Taixue before, and he had excellent results in previous examinations, so he could be directly awarded an official.

However, at this time, the civil officials of the Song Dynasty still respected those who were born as Jinshi, and Ji Yi was a student of Tai, and the future was not too good. If you want to rise to prominence in the future, you still have to "make-up" a jinshi (officials can also participate in the imperial examination) to come out.

Of course, in the Song Dynasty, no, after the emergence of China's imperial examination system, few people dared to say that they were nine out of ten. Even Ji Yi, a famous genius among the students, didn't dare to pat his chest and say that he must be in high school.

Therefore, it is a more reliable development route to get an official first, and then "half-official and half-study" to take the imperial examination. Therefore, before Ji Yi tried to solve the problem in the second year of Yuanfu, he took the road to get the official body. I was lucky enough to get a dispatch from a Confucian official of the Tongwen Pavilion, which was not worth much, but it was just the right time.

It turned out that on October 7, the first year of Goryeo Shouchang, nearly two years ago, King Woo of Goryeo Xianzong, who had been on the throne for less than a year, abdicated the throne and gave up the throne to Wang Xi, the prince of Jilin.

The following year, that is, in the fourth year of Shaosheng of the Great Song Dynasty (1097), Wang Xi's former envoy went to Shangbang Liao to claim his vassal status (Goryeo was originally a vassal state of Liao) and asked for a title. In December of that year, the Liao State sent Yelu Siqi and Li Xiang to give jade books, guiyin, crowns, chariots, chapter clothes, saddle horses, horses and other things.

With the canonization of the Great Liao Kingdom, Wang Xi officially became the king of Goryeo. In this year (1098), he sent the Privy Council Governor Yin Qian (the same character as Xuan) to lead a delegation to the Great Song Dynasty to "sue the heir and enter the party".

Because the Goryeo delegation arrived in Haizhou, Ji Yi, who had just become the Confucian official of the Tongwen Pavilion, came to the Goryeo Pavilion in Haizhou to greet him with Liu Youduan, a nobleman who was also a eunuch in the Tongwen Pavilion.

And Ji Yi's business in the family also includes sea trade, when he was in Jiangnan, he knew a lot of merchants from Goryeo and knew a lot of Goryeo customs. Therefore, he was familiar with Yin Feng, the son of Yin Qian (the word effect), and accompanied him to play around Qishan County these days.

After Ji Yi introduced Yin Bong to Wu Haogu and Mi Youren, he whispered a few words in Yin Bong's ear. A burst of surprise suddenly flashed on the face of this Goryeo Guoyani, and he said in the official dialect of the Central Plains with a round tone: "It turned out to be Mi Yanai and Wu Chongdao, disrespectful, disrespectful!"

I have always admired the poetry, calligraphy and painting of the Central Plains, and today I have seen two talents, which is really a blessing for three lives. Can you do it from the bottom to the east, please have a drink? ”

"Teacher," Mi Youren leaned into Wu Haogu's ear when he heard this, and whispered, "The writing etiquette of the Goryeo Kingdom is the same as that of China, and there are many people who like the calligraphy and painting classics of the Great Song Dynasty over there."

Moreover, Goryeo officials pay attention to birth, similar to the Wei and Jin dynasties. This Yin Yanei must be a son of a wealthy family, and the more friends like this, the better. Maybe he can even use him to attract his name to Goryeo. ”

Listening to Mi Youren's suggestion, Wu Haogu was slightly stunned. Is he giving himself advice? That's not bad! In his two lives, he has little experience in politics and officials, and he doesn't know how to deal with all kinds of characters.

And this Mi Youren, who can be a soldier under Song Gaozong, must be extremely clever in his ability to be an official, a person, and a person. With his help, his career will definitely be able to get twice the result with half the effort!