The truth of history is obviously more complicated than what Wu Haogu knew and imagined!

It is not only the Khitans, Han people, Jurchens, divination and Bohai people who play a role in this historical stage play of the fall of the Great Liao, but also the Goryeo people.

Because when Wu Haogu left Xijin Mansion at the beginning of May of the second year of the Great Song Dynasty Yuanfu, he took a merchant ship belonging to the Goryeo royal family.

On the way to Liao, Wu Haogu and Ji Yiji, who had been maritime merchants for generations, inquired about some situations in maritime trade.

According to Ji Yi, there are so many players on the sea today, the first is of course the Great Food Maritime Merchants who believe in the Heavenly Sect, they are the strongest and control the most lucrative southern route.

The second place is the Han maritime merchants, the Han maritime merchants are mainly active in the sea north of Quanzhou, and there are also those who take the southern route, but only to Sriwijaya, and then there are no Han maritime merchants to the west. Similarly, north of Quanzhou, there are not many big seafood merchants, and Haizhou is almost extinct to the north.

However, the Han Chinese maritime merchants did not have a monopoly advantage on the five major trade routes north of Quanzhou, namely the Great Song Dynasty and Japan, the Great Song Dynasty and Goryeo, the Great Song Dynasty and the Liao Kingdom, the Goryeo and the Liao Kingdom, and the Goryeo and Japan Trade Routes.

Goryeo and Japanese maritime merchants are also players, and they also account for a considerable share.

In addition, there are also a small number of Bohai maritime merchants and female direct maritime merchants, but their strength is not large and can be ignored.

The naval power of the governments of the Great Song, the Great Liao, the Goryeo, and the Japanese were ranked first in the Great Song Dynasty, followed by Goryeo, and again in the Great Liao, and Japan almost non-existent...... There is no such thing as a sailor in Japan. And the Great Liao State is also the Suzhou Anfu Army, which has some warships, and the force at sea is negligible.

So in a sense, the sea power in Northeast Asia is now shared by the two families of the Great Song Dynasty and the Goryeo Kingdom.

If Wu Haogu wants to gain supremacy at sea in the future, then a struggle with the Goryeo naval division is inevitable.

Of course, the Goryeo Navy is not the only enemy, there will be a lot of enemies on the sea!

"Brother Guo, you also have contact with the Goryeo royal family?"

At this time, Wu Haogu sat in the cabin of this Goryeo merchant ship and drank a little wine with Guo Yaoshi, and after a few glasses of turbid wine, the words of both sides increased. After chatting for a while, Wu Haogu turned the topic to the relationship between the Bohai people and the Goryeo Kingdom.

"The Tokyo Gao family and the King of Goryeo are related," Guo Yaoshi smiled innocently, "The nobles of Daliao know this...... The ancestor of the Gao family in Tokyo, Gao Mohan, was originally a general of the Bohai State, fled to Goryeo after the Bohai State was broken, married the daughter of Wang Jian, the Taizu of the Goryeo State, and later fled back to Daliao because of the crime in Goryeo, and then followed Abaoji to attack the Later Tang and Later Jin, and established meritorious service. Since then, the Goo family has resumed contact with the Goryeo royal family, which has continued to this day. ”

Tokyo Koke ...... Wu Haogu thought to himself: Later, the short-lived Bohai Kingdom in history seems to be surnamed Gao, right? I don't know if I have any contact with the Kingdom of Goryeo? By the way, I seem to have heard someone say that a prince of the big clan fled to Goryeo with many people when he was dying. What kind of Bright King and Sword King are not all surnames? Is it related to the Goryeo clan?

"Brother Guo," Wu Haogu called to Pharmacist Guo affectionately, "I heard that the Sword King has been hiding in Goryeo, is there such a thing?" ”

"Hiding in Goryeo?" Pharmacist Guo shook his head, "I haven't heard of it." ”

Really haven't heard of it? Wu Haogu thought uncertainly: Or are you fooling yourself?

"Then this ship was arranged by someone from the Gao family in Tokyo?" Wu Haogu continued to ask, but his eyes were fixed on Pharmacist Guo's face, as if he could really see that others were lying.

"I don't know," Pharmacist Guo shook his head honestly, "This was arranged by Guangmingjun, I don't know." ”

If you don't know anything, even if you know, it's all public information!

When Wu Haogu was a little disappointed, someone suddenly knocked on the cabin door: "Brother Guo, it's so-and-so, Wu Sanlang." ”

"Come in." Pharmacist Guo said with a smile.

Pushing the door in, a young man dressed as a member of the Song Dynasty, twenty-four or five years old, with dark skin, spoke a Haizhou dialect—not the Haizhou of Goryeo or the Haizhou of Liao, but the Haizhou dialect of the Great Song Dynasty.

This man was the steward of this Goryeo merchant ship—a ship belonging to the Goryeo royal family, and there was a steward who spoke the Great Song Haeju dialect...... There must be a story behind this.

"Wu Saburo." Guo Yaoshi seemed to be very familiar with this Goryeo merchant surnamed Wu, got up and bowed his hand to him, and then introduced Wu Haogu.

"Pan Yuanwai, this is Wang Sanlang, he was originally a businessman from your Great Song Haizhou. Because an uncle was a jinshi in Goryeo, he became a native of Goryeo. ”

Really Chinese? He also won the Jinshi of Goryeo...... Wu Haogu actually didn't know much about the situation in Haizhou, and if Hua Manshan was there, he might recognize this person.

This person's uncle is also a famous minister and general in Goryeo in history, named Wu Yanchong, and is now the military department of Goryeo.

And Wu Yanzhong, as a foreigner, can be a high school graduate who must fight for his father, so he naturally has a very good background. The Wu family in Haizhou, where he was located, was a giant among the maritime merchants in Haizhou, and accounted for a large share of the Goryeo-Haizhou route. In the long-term business activities, he also established an extraordinary relationship with the Goryeo royal family, so he had to accept the Goryeo imperial examination.

The ship carrying Wu Haogu and Guo Yaoshi out of Xijin Mansion, although it was docked at the gate of a certain prince of Goryeo, was actually the ship of the Wu family in Haizhou.

"It turned out to be Langjun of the Wu family in Haizhou, long admiration, long admiration." Wu Hao Guyi arched his hand and said, "Down is Pan Shisanlang of the Pan family of the Daimyo Mansion." ”

"The ...... of the Pan family of the Daimyo Mansion" Wang Sanlang was stunned, "Isn't it the queen of Pan Zheng?" ”

"Side branches, side branches." Wu Haogu said with a smile.

He is handy in pretending to be the Pan family, he is the son-in-law of the Pan family, and he knows a lot of the Pan family, so it is not easy to help him.

Wang Sanlang smiled: "We have entered the boundary river. ”

Into the boundary river, great. The boundary river is between the Liao and Song dynasties, and if it enters the boundary river, it will be considered to be out of danger.

This time, I followed Guangmingjun for a while, but there was no danger, and I also speculated in the incident of the Bohai rebellion.

It should be quite big to go back and talk about merit, right? He is still a military attache now, and although the military attache of the Great Song Dynasty cannot compete with the civil officials, he is still very secure in the issue of promotion and wealth. I don't know what kind of official I can give? Can you step into the ranks of ambassadors and ministers in one step?

It should be possible, if not, send some good things to Cai Jing, after all, he is a member of Cai's loyal party!

"Okay," Wu Haogu was in a good mood, "Brother Guo, let's go out and have a look." ”

"Okay."

Outside the cabin, it was a beautiful day at the moment, and both sides of the boundary river were green. The water is very wide, and it seems to be close to the mouth of the boundary river, and because it is going downstream, the speed of the ship is not slow.

Wu Haogu stood on the top of the cabin, and looked south, and saw a field of farmland as far as the eye could see, villages with smoke in the distance, and occasionally a few fishing boats parked on the river beach.

"Is it Cangzhou over there?" Wu Haogu asked.

"Yes." Wang Sanlang said, "It is Cangzhou of the Great Song Dynasty, and it is only separated by a river from the Great Liao." ”

"Is it easy to sail here?"

"It's easy," Wang Saburo said with a smile, "Look at this river, this water is so deep, no matter how big the sea ship is, it can come in." It's just that there is no port here, so I have to go all the way west to transport grain to the river. ”

The Grain River is a canal, which is located near the city of Xijin and is an important wharf of the city of Xijin. It is strange to say that the "Beijing" of this era is actually a port city.

And on the Jiehe River, a big river that leads to the sea, there is not a decent harbor.

"Is this boundary river frozen in winter?" Wu Haogu continued to sound again.

"It's freezing," Wang Sanlang said, "but the freezing time is not long, after all, the river is wide, and the water is abundant, and it can be frozen for a month at most a year." ”

"Not bad, not bad." Wu Haogu nodded, "Okay, this is it." ”

What is it?

Wang Sanlang and Guo Yaoshi were both slightly strange, what is good here? Why is this Song man so excited? Is there still a treasure here?

"Drop anchor and put the boat!" Wu Haogu instructed, "Let's get off the boat here, and then go to Cangzhou for a trip!" ”

Over here?

Pharmacist Guo frowned, there is no village in front of the village and no shop here, what's so good?

Wu Haogu glanced back at him and said with a smile: "This place will be very good in the future, it will definitely be good!" There will be many people moving from many places to live, and the industry will be very prosperous. ”

The place he is looking at now will be called "Lighthouse City" in the future, which means that it is naturally the lighthouse of feudalism in the Great Song Dynasty.

In the next twenty years or so, there will be countless talents and funds that will continue to flow here from the collapsed empires in the north, and then flow to other parts of the Great Song Dynasty.

At the same time, a model of local governance that is unheard of in China equivalent to the 11th century will also emerge in the "lighthouse city", and it will show strong vitality and subversiveness.

……

Almost at the same time, the carriage of Chen Youwen, the old opponent of Wu Haogu, had already arrived in the north of Kaifeng Mansion in Tokyo, the Great Song Dynasty.

These days, he was in a hurry, and he didn't dare to delay for a moment, and finally rushed back to Kaifeng Mansion.

Moreover, Jian Xuchen and Li Zhong handed him the chapter and the wax pill book, all of which were brought with him intact, and this credit ...... It's so big to think about, maybe you can transfer to two officials again!

I really didn't expect that my family would have such official fortune now, and I would have known that I wouldn't have asked someone to kill Wu Haogu, how good it would be to be an official in peace and stability!

I don't know what happened to Zhao Tieniu's house now? But you must be a thief, and don't let anyone catch you.

What should I do if I do get caught?

The crime of colluding with the Liangshan thieves must at least be traced and sent after the words since they were born, right?

If you want to escape...... Don't know where to go?