The fingertips were lightly touched, and the girl Xiaozhen's fingertips were as cold as cold jade. She lowered her eyebrows and lowered her eyelashes. She bowed and retreated to the bed. The dancer Gu Xishan on the bed was now exhausted and fell asleep. The girl checked her pulse again.
The rising sun shines through the long window, and the beautiful face of the speechless girl sitting on the bedside has a touch of sadness——
Zhang Yuan walked to the window and looked at the thin book in his hand. It was made of high-quality Korean paper and had no inscription on the cover. When he opened it, it turned out to be a long and continuously folded scroll like a Buddhist scripture, as if the bellows of an accordion were stretched to the extreme. Each page
The size of a palm, written in neat Yu Shinan-style regular script, records all the evil deeds that King Gwanghae did after he came to the throne, such as killing officials of Xiaobei faction who were exiled, deposing and killing brothers, and even beating his mother and concubine with a stick, and
Since three years ago, there have been detailed records of Gwanghaejun’s connivance with Bianjiang and Jianzhou’s prohibited trade in bows, horns, ironware, etc…
It is normal for an unjust king to use severe torture to establish his authority and to use his cronies more heavily. Gwanghaejun’s actions are not surprising. This is the state affairs of Korea. As an envoy of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Yuan has no authority.
However, Zhang Yuan could not tolerate Guanghaijun's attempt to collude with Nurhachi. Two years later, during the Salhu War, Guanghaijun had to send troops due to the pressure from the Ming Dynasty and Yang Hao's prestige in North Korea.
He also secretly told the commander of the army, Marshal Jiang Hong, to turn his back and send no troops. Although North Korea's military strength was not enough to change the general trend of the Battle of Sarhu, it was always a favorable factor to get North Korea's full help. Zhang Yuan
We have to work hard for——
On the last few pages of this volume, there is a layer of silk paper framed. The handwriting on the silk paper is very different from the previous Yu-style small regular script. Judging from the handwriting, it must be from a woman's hand, and it still writes about Gwanghae Jun's sins.
He called on the ministers to bring order to the chaos and depose the tyrant. The final signature was Queen Renmu. There was no seal, only a bloody thumbprint.
Zhang Yuan was surprised: "Where did this silk book come from?"
Dancer Gu Xishan was sleeping. The girl Xiaozhen was giving her acupuncture. The tall and strong Ma Kuoqi and the thin Sheba stood by the door. The room was silent. No one answered Zhang Yuan.
There was pen, ink, paper and inkstone on the desk under the window. Zhang Yuan didn't know if the girl Xiaozhen knew Chinese characters, so he walked over and picked up a pen and wrote a line of "Where did the silk script come from?" After writing, he put down the pen and waited for the girl Xiaozhen to become a dancer.
Looking after acupuncture——
Zhen Zidan came to report, and Pyongyang's official ginseng Yin Pu Yihong sent fresh fruits and vegetables and exquisite wine and food, and invited the two angels to visit Pyongyang City. Zhang Yuan said: "Let's go tomorrow, and have another day of rest today. The illness will go away like a thread."
Zhen Zidan smiled and replied.
When Zhang Yuan turned back to look at the room, the girl Xiaozhen was already standing by the desk reading his question. Zhang Yuan walked over and tapped the desk with his knuckles. Looking at the girl's clear and sad side face, the girl's posture
He nodded loudly and picked up the pen to write. Zhang Yuan said, "Sit down and write." He pointed to the chair.
The girl shook her head, then stood beside the book table and wrote a line of Chinese characters with her wrist hanging - "Handwritten by Queen Renmu. It was passed to the hands of the Golden Clerk."
The girl's calligraphy is Yu Shinan's style, and the pages of the album are also written by the girl.
Zhang Yuan thought to himself: "Is this a dress order? Who is Liu Bei?" He took the pen from the girl's hand and wrote: "I am an envoy who comes and goes in a hurry, why do you let me read this? Why do you trust me so much and are not afraid of me?
Give these to Gwanghae-kun?"
The girl did not write in reply. Instead, she opened her eyes wide and looked at Zhang Yuan carefully.
Zhang Yuan wrote again: "Who else wants to see me?"
The girl wrote: "About five days later."
Zhang Yuan wrote: "Only by catching the Jurchen envoy from Jianzhou can we have a turn for the better."
The girl wrote: "Mr. Jin is in contact with all parties."
The dancer Gu Xishan on the bed let out a painful moan. The girl Xiaozhen frowned and still only looked at Zhang Yuan, her dark eyes fixed. Zhang Yuan suddenly felt a bit absurd. He and a blind virgin, a
The mute girl conspired to overthrow the current king of North Korea. This is simply the most ridiculous thing in the world!
The girl Xiaozhen obviously noticed the mockery in Zhang Yuan's eyes and wrote: "Angel is generous, there are many people who oppose Gwanghaejun's tyranny. I hope Angel can understand the public opinion of the small country. Angel will gain something when he goes to worship at Dangun Shrine tomorrow."
.”
Zhang Yuan was thinking very carefully and asked: "How do you know that I am going to worship at Tangun Shrine tomorrow?" He had just told Zhen Zidan that he would go to Jija Temple and Tangun Shrine with Pyongyang Prefect Yin Pu Yihong tomorrow.
Since the girl is deaf and mute, how can she know this?
The girl Xiaozhen pursed her lips and looked at Zhang Yuan with fixed eyes, looking innocent and flawless.
Zhang Yuan said coldly: "Can you hear me? Why are you pretending to be so deaf and mute?"
The girl did not show any panic, but her face looked sad. She pointed at her mouth and shook her head.
Zhang Yuan asked: "You can hear, but you can't speak? Then why did Jin Chushi say you were born deaf?"
The girl seemed not to want to explain, and turned to look out the long window. The May sunshine shone brightly on the hibiscus flowers with white petals and red stamens——
Zhang Yuan said calmly: "You deceived me, so what else is there to say?" He closed the small album on the desk, held the paper on which he and the girl had just written and ink in his hand, turned around and walked out the door.
Go, hear a "plop" behind you, and when you turn around to look, the girl is kneeling on the ground, holding the small album in both hands, tears streaming down her face, and "ho ho" in her throat -
Zhang Yuan did not go back to help the girl, but just said: "Put this album away, it will be bad if it falls into other people's hands." He turned around and walked away, but the girl followed her to the door on her knees. Only then did she become frightened.
He pointed at his mouth and shook his head.
Zhang Yuan also shook his head and said, "Go and write."
The girl stood up and stuck her butt out and hurried back to the desk. She quickly wrote something and bowed and presented it to Zhang Yuan. She explained to Zhang Yuan that it turned out that the girl was frightened when she was young and could not speak. She was not deaf. Jin
The virgin told Zhang Yuan that she was deaf for some reason.
Zhang Yuan thought to himself: "Can you not speak even if you are frightened? It should be a mental illness. The organs are intact. No wonder even the medical skills of a gold medalist cannot cure her." He said: "Okay, don't worry, I will act on my own.
Be sensible and heal that girl Gu."
The girl Xiaozhen knelt down again and presented the small album to Zhang Yuan. Zhang Yuan shook his head and said: "I can't accept this. I'm not a courtier of Korea. How dare I accept the edict from the queen of your country and ask Minister Jin to give it to other loyal people?"
Courtesan of Queen Renmu, please keep this album."
…
Pyongyang is the capital of Pyongyang Province. Together with Seoul and Kaesong, it is known as the three capitals of North Korea. The entire city is divided into the inner city, the outer city, the middle city and the north city. It has densely populated areas and bustling markets. The Imjin Japanese Rebellion twenty-five years ago
It caused great damage to Pyongyang. The outer city was completely destroyed at that time. The Japanese pirate Governor Konishi could not withstand Li Rusong's attack and set fire to the city when he exited Pyongyang. The North City and the Middle City were almost in ruins. However, after twenty years of recuperation, Pyongyang recovered.
After losing its vitality, the city's population exceeded 100,000, which was comparable to that of a medium-sized city in the Ming Dynasty.
On the morning of the third day of May, the two envoys Zhang Yuan and Ruan Dacheng were accompanied by Liu Dongming, Liu Xiya brothers, Pyongyang Prefectural Counselor Yin Pu Yihong and petitioner Jin Zhongqing to visit Pyongyang City. They first went to visit Jizi Temple outside the city.
Jizi is the beginning of Korean civilization. Koreans worship Jizi to express the same roots as China. Koreans like white, which is the legacy of Shangbai in the Yin Dynasty——
In the afternoon, Zhang Yuan and his party went to Yongsan Tangun Shrine in the west of Pyongyang. Tangun’s status in North Korea is equivalent to that of China’s Lao Tzu. Tangun’s real name was Wang Jian. It is said that he was born from a god and a bear girl. He was a figure in myths and legends five thousand years ago.
figure, but the Koreans regarded the mythical figure as official history and fabricated the Tangun lineage, the so-called Tangun Korea. This period of history is older than the Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties in China——
Zhang Yuan still has interest and respect in visiting Jija Temple, but visiting Tangun Shrine is entirely out of etiquette. Yongsan is a small hill, and Tangun Shrine is on the top of the mountain. There are more than a hundred steps along the mountain, and when you reach the outside of the temple, you can
I heard someone chanting loudly: "Young man has no suitable vulgar charm, and his nature loves hills and mountains. He accidentally falls into the dust net, and has been gone for thirty years. Birds in the tether nostalgic for the old forest, and fish in the pond miss the old abyss. Open up the wilderness in the south, and return to the garden with dignity——
"
Across a pine forest, I could hear the sound of poetry reciting but no one could be seen.
Zhang Yuan recognized the voice of Jin Chushi and asked the Korean people around him: "Who is the one who recites pottery poems? He is so indifferent."
Jin Zhongqing said: "Zhang Xiuzhuan, this poet is a very famous hermit in our country. His surname is Jin, and he is known as Jin Chushi. He can predict good and bad luck, is proficient in medical skills, and has good swordsmanship."
Zhang Yuandao: "Is this golden scholar so famous? The day before yesterday, I visited Datong Hall. I was not in good spirits, so I sent him away after a few words. We will meet again today and we must have a long talk. Visiting a noble scholar in the mountains is a pleasure in life.
.”
Liu Dongming frowned. There was nothing that could be hidden from him in Pyongyang. He knew that when Kim saw Zhang Yuan that day, Kim also left the deaf-mute female disciple in Datong Hall. It was said that she was in need of medical expenses.
The best two angels acupuncture——
Liu Dongming knew that Jin Chushi was a descendant of the Jin family in Quanzhou and was distantly related to the abandoned concubine Jin family. Liu Dongming did not have much doubt about this. The Jin family was a wealthy family and had always been married to the royal family Li family.
The incident of Concubine Renmu spread the anger to the Jeonju Jin family. Except for the execution of Concubine Renmu's father Jin Tinan and his family, they did not implicate anyone else, but tried to win over the Jin family. The Jin virgin who lived in seclusion in Yongshan had been blind for many years, and
What can be done, so Liu Dongming didn't pay much attention to the contact between Jin Chushi and Zhang Yuan. The most important thing was that Liu Dongming never thought that Zhang Yuan had the idea of subverting the throne of Gwanghae. He was only anxious to urge Zhang Yuan as soon as possible.
After setting off on the journey, he consecrated Li Jin as the crown prince early and sent Zhang Yuan back to his country with generous gifts——
Jin Zhongqing went to invite Master Jin to come over, but Master Jin only bowed to the Great Tomorrow Angel, and he was arrogant and disrespectful to the others. When Zhang Yuan followed Liu Dongming to worship Tangun, Master Jin stood outside the hall with a bamboo stick and rolled his eyes to the sky.
Gu Singshi, this kind of aloofness can sometimes be regarded as a good cover... I need to slowly get back to my writing state, and I ask for your support from book friends.
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