It has been confirmed that Yin Chang and his party have no background in the Zhou Dynasty. Moreover, Yin Chang also left most of his guards in Licheng Port. It is said that he plans to buy a house there and install a place for long-term garrisoning.
stronghold.
The only people he brought to Kaicheng were a large number of accountants, clerks and doctors. Even if this group of people acted with great discipline, the Koreans could tell that they were not combatants. These hundreds of people
The most capable person among them is probably Yin Chang himself, who is over fifty years old.
Such a completely harmless team is a breath of fresh air in Kaesong, where many forces are at war with each other. Various parties are also willing to let them enter Kaesong to host polo competitions in order to maintain the calm on the surface of Kaesong.
This calm has become increasingly difficult to maintain. It is probably only foreigners like Yin Chang who cannot feel the strange atmosphere in the city.
In fact, the local people in Kaicheng, who have a keen sense of politics, rarely go out unless necessary recently. Only the deputy privy envoy Cui Yu, Baocheng Bo Cuiju, Cui Junwen, Chi Yunshen and others sent many people
The subordinates were running around. They were all in a hurry, sometimes passing by in a flash on the street, sometimes leading Khitans and Jurchens in ragged clothes, rushing in from a certain city gate with chaotic footsteps.
Yin Chang only bumped into them occasionally at first and didn't care.
In the next two or three days, Yin Chang pretended to see the Khitan people recruited several times. The Jurchens passed through the streets in groups. One time, he couldn't help but stepped forward to ask questions and learned that each family had begun to recruit these horse people frantically.
I can’t help but be speechless as I prepare for the polo competition in full swing.
Someone asked him, as a famous general in the country, what he thought about this.
Yin Chang shook his head repeatedly and said, I am a general stationed in the south, and I have a lot of experience in dealing with the Song people, but I have never seen the Khitans and wild Jurchens, so I can't say anything. If I have to say it, I just hope that this person will not be here.
The polo match was messed up, causing heavy casualties.
The polo match in the Goryeo Kingdom was initially a thrill-seeking behavior for the nobles, but later it gradually turned into a killing game to show their strength. In many cases, the powerful nobles did not want a bloody civil war to break out, which would shake the foundation of their rule, so they reduced the scale of the battle.
It is limited to the polo competition. Therefore, the polo competition is almost bound to cause a bloody storm.
The phone call Yin Chang made can only prove that he really doesn’t understand Goryeo.
The person who asked him laughed and left, and no one bothered Yin Chang after that.
And Yin Chang didn't pay attention to anything in the outside world. He walked around with a small number of his men, seriously arranging the process of the polo match, designing the entrance and exit routes of the knights of each team, and laying out newly painted signs on the streets from time to time.
Topographic maps and repeated discussions with people.
On the topographic map, dense lines are drawn from everywhere to the south of Shengping Gate and the north of Shenfeng Gate. This area is where Yin Chang is now. It has been used exclusively for polo matches for hundreds of years.
The commercial exchanges between the Kingdom of Goryeo and the Great Zhou and Song Dynasties are very intensive. However, in order to maintain domestic stability, Cui Zhongxian's regime has strictly restricted the scope of businessmen's activities not to exceed Licheng Port. Therefore, to this day, many businessmen do not even know about Goryeo.
What does Kaesong, the capital of the country, look like?
The map drawn by the left and right officials was checked on site based on reports from different people. It was found to be full of errors and omissions, and many of them were based on absurd imagination.
Only now did Yin Chang know that in the entire Koryo Kingdom, there was no vast city on the plains like the Central Plains. Kaesong could be said to be the only large city in the Koryo Kingdom, and this city was only built on a few small staggered plains and surrounding areas.
On the surrounding mountains is a half-mountain city.
Koryo was already very closed, and the geographical environment of Kaesong was even more closed.
There is Songak Mountain in the north of Kaesong, Centipede Mountain in the west of the city, Yongdi Mountain in the southwest, Deokam Mountain in the south, and Guangdeok Mountain in the southeast. The mountains that stretch continuously are like a big fan that opens Kaesong.
It covers everything from north to southeast. There are also steep peaks such as Tianmo Mountain, Guoshi Peak, and Dishi Mountain in the mountain range.
The entire open fan protects Kaesong in the center, and Goryeo's palace city, imperial city, residences and official offices of high-ranking officials, military camps and warehouses are concentrated under the cover of Songak Mountain, relying on the Zizi River located in the middle of Kaesong.
Nanshan serves as a barrier.
There are also city walls built along the mountain range. The city wall is divided into two parts, the inner and outer. The outer ring is shaped like a half moon, and the inner ring is shaped like a full moon. The direction is generally parallel to the steep mountains, maximizing the terrain advantage. The twenty-two gates of the outer city,
At the same time, there are twenty-two fortresses guarding the mountain passes.
The current royal family of Goryeo was a wealthy family with powerful military force in Songak Mountain in its early years. The royal city relied on Songak Mountain and could advance and retreat freely. However, the descendants were unfaithful and Tae-ah supported them, and now they have become puppets.
The military nobles who had been in power in the past dynasties had to guard against the royal family and their colleagues, and they also had to suppress the civil servants, nobles and even monks at all times. For this reason, they all invested their core strength in Kaesong, and they fought and fought against each other for decades.
Under this circumstance, this city was not only the center of Koryo Kingdom, but also the most chaotic place in Koryo Kingdom.
Standing in the center of the unusually empty Jingjing, Yin Chang could see the Goryeo Palace rising up along the topography of Songak Mountain to the north, constantly staggering and deflecting, and he could also see many crowded and overlapping buildings around it. In many courtyards, there was a vague atmosphere at this time.
There were sounds of people coming and the roar of horse hooves on the ground. Maybe they were training intensively for the polo competition.
Yin Chang stomped the loess on the ground and whispered:
"Although the territory of the Great Zhou Dynasty is vast, only Zhongdu and Shandong are truly convenient for maritime trade. And Goryeo is located in Haidong. Not only does it have unique output, but the entire Goryeo Kingdom is like a tangle that has been entangled for hundreds of years.
Any profit we can get from this mess is just the scraps of this mess. This is too little for the Great Zhou Dynasty. Therefore, His Majesty intends to sort it out and break it up, so that the power of the Great Zhou Dynasty can truly penetrate into Goryeo. However,
If we want to untie the mess, we can only start at the heart of the mess, not Licheng Port."
Having said this, Yin Chang pressed his belt with one hand, stood up and looked around, feeling proud.
The people standing beside Yin Chang are all his cronies.
Among them, Guo Zheng, who had the highest status, originally held a military position leading more than a thousand troops. However, he was also involved in the previous political trend and was dismissed from his post. Yin Chang actually also vaguely knew that Guo Zheng's background was a bit complicated, but the matter
Now that we are here, why worry about it too much.
Guo Zheng is a capable subordinate, and he is willing to follow his old boss on a long trip to Goryeo. That would be great.
At this time, Guo Zheng folded his hands on his chest and felt a little proud: "Our people are all ready, just waiting..."
He suddenly noticed that a few feet behind him, there was a deacon squinting at the picture, so he suddenly stopped talking.
This deacon is a senior expert who arranges performances in Kaifeng's Xianglan. He was hired by Yin Chang with a large sum of money. He has never been exposed to military affairs. At this time, Yin Chang said this, and a few vague words came into his ears.
, which immediately surprised him.
He rolled his eyes, then carefully rolled up the drawing and moved a few steps further away. Seeing Yin Chang turning around to look, he smiled and said: "Master Yin, the sun here is very poisonous, and it makes the little man dizzy.
…I’m going to walk to the shade.”
Before Yin Chang could answer, at the Shenfeng Gate on the outskirts of Zhuanting, someone raised his finger and pointed to Yin Chang's location from a distance, and shouted something.
Before the shouts could stop, they rushed over.
The deacon was frightened and said that Yin Chang's conspiracy was exposed and the Koreans came to arrest him and behead him. His knees weakened and he knelt down immediately.
