Chapter 626: The Great Song Dynasty is frustrated after all
If Kaegyong, the capital of Goryeo, is a forest park – maybe a safari park! Then kneeling and licking the royal city of Tamna in the Great Goryeo Kingdom, it is probably a street garden.
In terms of the size of the royal city alone, the kingdom of Tamna is really only worthy of looking up to the great Goryeo. As for the buildings inside the city walls and the royal city, they were even more shabby to the point that the entire imperial world would despise them. Let's just put it this way, there is not even a single brick or tile in the entire Tamna King City, all of them are adobe walls and thatched roofs, and any village in the Great Song Dynasty looks more magnificent than here.
The defense of the royal city was also extremely weak. There is no need to worry about the equipment, there is definitely no armor, the weapons are the most rudimentary, and they cannot form a standard, at first glance, they are casually shoddy, and many iron weapons are rusty. And the number of people is far less than that of the powerful Goryeo Kingdom, from Tamna Port to the "thatched palace" in the Tamna King City, it is estimated that there are no more than 50 Tamna soldiers along the way.
Obviously, the armament of the Tamna Kingdom is really relaxed to the extreme. As long as the 100 or so divination warriors who came with the ship regained their strength, Su Shi's "mission" was sure to take full control of Tamna Port and Tamna King City within an hour. However, Su Shih's purpose here was not to occupy Tamna, but to spread heavenly justice to the people of Tamna...... He and Fan Zhijin, these doctors, are here to be teachers for the people of Tamna!
At present, the good student that Teacher Su wants to accept the most is the king and star lord of Tamna Kingdom, named Gao Min. At the age of seventeen or eighteen, he looked very weak, and he did not look like a barbarian king, but like a scholar from a scholarly family.
In a spacious and bright thatched hut, Gao Min sat upright on top of the cushion. He did not wear a gorgeous court dress, but a white silk deep coat made of ramie, and a square scarf was wrapped around his hair. Four elderly men dressed in Goryeo official uniforms sat on their knees on the left and right of Gao Min. Three of them were the ministers of Gao Min, representing the three major clans of the Tamna Kingdom, the Gao Yi Na clan, the Liang Yi Na clan, and the Fu Yi Na clan. The other is the prison sent here by the Goryeo State, named Cui Xian, who was born in the Choi family of Haeju and was a jinshi of the Goryeo Wenzong Dynasty. His grandfather was a veteran of the Six Dynasties of Goryeo, known as the Confucius of Haidong, and Cui Chong, who had won the champion.
And Yin Yanchun, who was in the military attache uniform of the Goryeo Kingdom, knelt opposite Gao Min at this time, smiling and groaning to feed a few people in the thatched hut.
"The Great Song Dynasty will not have any ambitions for Tamna, this is a fact that everyone knows. The Great Song Dynasty is not the Tang Dynasty after all, they are just rich but not strong, only Wenzhi has no martial arts. Just one Western Xia has tormented them for decades, and I don't know how many years it will take to calm down, so how can I be the enemy of my Great Goryeo for the sake of Tamna? Besides, Tamluo is so barren, what benefit does the Great Song Dynasty plot against it? Is it to be used for the New Year's gift? ”
"Hahaha, that's what I said. Da Song really didn't dare to have delusions about Tamna......"
Unexpectedly, Yin Yanchun was still a very humorous Korean, and Cui Xian, who was present at the scene, burst into laughter.
Gao Min, the star lord of Tamna, didn't know what the year gift meant, so he asked his teacher, Cui Xian, who was also a prison sent by Goryeo: "Teacher, what is the year gift?" ”
Cui Chong said with a smile: "The Song Dynasty, which is the suzerain, pays 200,000 silver silk tributes to the Western Xia as a vassal every year, and the reason why it uses 'gift' is to deceive itself. ”
Gao Min, the star lord of Tamna, listened carefully, but he pondered in his heart: It would be good if the Goryeo Kingdom could give him a gift, and he didn't want to have as much as 200,000 yuan (he didn't dare to think about it at all), with 100,000 yuan a year, he could renovate the palace and replace it with the best thatch...... But this is impossible, the Goryeo people can burn high incense themselves without asking Tamna for money.
And now it's not a question of taking money, but also abolishing the feudal state and buying counties...... The king who has been passed down for 44 generations will soon become a county guard! I don't know how long this county guard can be in office?
Thinking that the ancestral inheritance was about to be lost in his hands, Gao Min's face showed a heartfelt smile - since Wang Jian, the Taizu of Goryeo, sent troops to defeat Tamna more than a hundred years ago, forcing Tamna to give up his short-lived independence, the prison state has arrived, and the star lord of Tamna must be careful to hide his inner thoughts......
"Teacher," Gao Min asked with a smile, "then how should we entertain this Su envoy from the Song Dynasty?" ”
"The star lord doesn't have to come forward," Cui Xian touched his beard, "Tamluo and Da Song have never had anything to do with each other, so it's better for the old man to come forward to entertain you." ”
Although he was not worried about what Song Guo had in mind about Tamna, he wanted to prevent the star lord of Tamna from fantasizing about the Great Song Dynasty.
Now the lord of Goryeo, Wang Hao, has decided to turn Tamna into Tamna County!
"Then there is Teacher Lao." Gao Min sighed in his heart, knowing that this was Cui Xian, the prison country, who wanted to prevent himself from holding Song into self-respect, but how could he dare to have that kind of thought?
Since the prison state of Goryeo came to Tamna, the star lord has begun to lose his life......
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The huge evangelistic group brought by Ambassador Su Shisu finally settled in the area of a fishing village called "Xincun" outside Tamna City. With so many people, there are not so many vacant huts to arrange in the small fishing village, so only tents have been set up next to the fishing village.
The administrative units under the Tamna Kingdom are two, the city and the village. These are two parallel units, and the city is not the superior of the village. There are only two cities in the entire Tamna Kingdom, one is the Tamna King City, and the other is the Gangbotou City where the Goryeo garrison is located. There are 16 villages, with an average population of about 200 households per village, and there are almost 4,000 households in the two cities and 16 villages, with a population of about 20,000.
The land area of Tamna Island, together with several nearby small islands, is about 1,800 square kilometers, which is basically a small island country with a vast area and sparse population. If it weren't for the fact that it was right between Japan and Korea, it would be a ruined place with little value.
I probably saw that there were thatched huts everywhere, and the population was pitifully small, and everyone looked like poor people. Fan Zhiwen, the head of the Tamluo Evangelism Group, was also a little deflated, and after going ashore, a tanned face was always drooping.
While he was in a daze in a freshly pitched cowhide tent, he heard footsteps, and then the tent curtain was lifted. Fan Zhiwen turned his head to look, and saw the dark Wu Side smiling and pulling a girl who was almost as black as him walked in.
Fan Zhiwen said angrily: "Wanli (Wu Side's words), what's the matter?" ”
Wu Side walked in with a smile: "I picked up a sea lady on the beach and put a fire on you...... You haven't touched a woman since you left Haizhou, right? I'm about to become a monk. ”
"Amen?" Fan Zhiwen looked at the girl who followed Wu Side, her hair was draped, her flax clothes were very thin, she could vaguely see through, her bare feet were not wearing shoes, her skin was rough and dark, and her facial features were still upright.
"It's the woman who went down to the sea to catch fish." Wu Side said, "It's not worth much, you can sleep with a few pennies casually."
There are no other good things here in Tamna, that is, women are cheaper and worthless. Sailors who traveled to and from the seas of Goryeo and Japan knew it. ”
Fan Zhiwen said coldly: "Those divination people are happy. ”
Wu Side sat down on top of a futon and hugged his arms exaggeratedly: "Straight lady thief, don't be nervous, if you are happy, hurry up and be happy...... The men who run the sea have today and no tomorrow, so they go ashore to find fun. Otherwise, it would be too much of a loss......"
He smiled sneeringly: "And on the Japanese side, most of them can't go, those short people have their eyes on their heads for two hundred years, when did they see the Great Song Dynasty with their eyes?" And they don't believe in Confucianism, they all worship Buddha. Behold, this journey will also reach the country of Tamna. Live happily for a few days, and then go home. ”
The bow of this Wu family obviously didn't know that Wu Haogu's target was the Tamna Kingdom.
Fan Zhiwen looked at him quietly and said softly: "I know, I left the sea girl, you can go and be happy...... Recuperate for a few days, maybe there's still work to do. ”
"Got it, got it."
When the two were talking, the voice of a doctor under Fan Zhiwen's hand came from outside the door: "Commander, Su Zheng asked us to bring 1,000 silks and follow him into Tamna City." ”
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In the thatched house where the head of the new village lived, Su Shizheng and Yin Yanchun sat opposite each other.
Yin Yanchun came from Tamna City, and after telling Su Shi that the Tamna Star Lord was unwell and that the Tamna Prison was invited, he heard a bad news from Su Shi - the ship was broken!
Due to the wind and waves encountered before, the three large ships that looked very sturdy broke down and could not go to Japan. Must be repaired on Tamna Island......
"When will it be fixed?"
"This ......," Su Shi said with an embarrassed face, "Shiphead Wu said that if you want to repair the ship, you must first have a temporary shipyard. ”
Yes, how can you repair ships without a shipyard?
"Then you have to cut down some trees and make some tools...... I'm afraid it's going to take a lot of time. ”
Su Shi shook his head and said, "It seems that I am going to be bothering on Tamna Island for a while." Of course, we're not going to eat and drink here for nothing. ”
Yin Yanchun frowned, he didn't worry about eating and drinking for nothing, the Song people had money! That Su Shi is a generous master, he spent no less than a few thousand horses of silk when he was in Goryeo, and now he will lose the Tamna people?
"What's wrong?" Su Shi looked at Yin Yanchun, "Don't the people of Tamluo welcome us?" ”
"How so?" Yin Yanchun smiled bitterly, "It's just that the star lord of Tamna admires my Wanghua of Goryeo and wants to abolish the feudal kingdom and set up the county ......."
"That's a good thing!" Su Shi smiled, "Then congratulations to your country...... When the matter is done, our court will have to send envoys to congratulate me. ”
"So Da Song supports this matter?"
"Of course I do!" Su Shi smiled, "How can you not support it?" Our government officials now want to spread the holy way into Japan, and this Tamna Island is just between Song and Japan, so it can make the ship of the sun rest. But Song Guo and Tan Rusu had no contact...... If Tamna could really join Goryeo, wouldn't this matter be easy?
By the way, I just saw a lot of bantam horses on Tamna Island, is there a grassland here for raising horses? ”