Seeing the group of Korean visitors yelling and cursing, Hua Rong, Xue Yong, Zheng Tianshou, etc. all sneered at the corners of their mouths and geared up, just waiting for the other party to call. Xiao Tang thought to himself that these people did not have the officials from Honglu Temple and the pavilion gate.
You are not an envoy from a tributary state, and you have no scruples in your heart. How can you be allowed to act wild in the Song Dynasty?
At this moment, the scholar named Cui Muyuan on the other side hurriedly ordered his men to stop. He hurried over, saluted Xiao Tang, and said, "No offense intended, please do not use force."
Cui Muyuan spoke Song Dynasty Mandarin with a heavy accent and incoherence, but at least Xiao Tang could understand the meaning. Xiao Tang said to him: "Cui Zhiyuan, a famous scholar from the Silla Kingdom in the late Tang Dynasty, came to our country and left countless good articles, and your name
It’s quite similar.”
Although Cui Muyuan did not speak Chinese fluently, he could still understand it. He was overjoyed and said: "Hai Yungong, the national envoy, is the ancestor! Chinese studies are profound and profound, benefiting the world, and I also yearn for it."
Jin Zhi, the son of the prince Yi Weisi's family over there, saw this and shouted loudly in Korean dialect: "Cui Muyuan! Why are you being so condescending to these Song people?! You just insulted our dignity!"
Cui Muyuan turned around and said: "It's not a big deal, so why worry about it? I'm going to the Song Dynasty to broaden the trade routes and have a look at the national power and scenery of the Song Dynasty. It's not a shame to stay in a foreign place and be friendly with others.
The face of our country?”
Over there, Li Fang, the young master of the Goryeo Naval Forces Temperance Envoy, said coldly: "Those Song people bullied our country, so they had contempt for us. Just now they dared to use bad words to insult us. I and the Golden Flower Master are in the same class."
Sir, how can you allow your subordinates to offend you? Cui Muyuan, you are only from a middle-class background, how can you speak here!? Get out of the way!"
Cui Muyuan was trained by Li Fang and looked gloomy. Xiao Tang had already guessed something from their tone and expression, and said to Cui Muyuan: "Looking at your face, we can't bear to cause trouble with him. If your companions still want to
I was worried about it, so I sent a few people to compete, so that they wouldn't get into a fist fight and end up in the Yamen."
After listening to the interpreter, Jin Zhi snorted loudly and said: "What is your identity, are you worthy of competing with us?"
Xiao Tang smiled and said: "I, Xiao Tang, have a reputation on [hb Jingdong Road]. You are new to Song Dynasty and know nothing about it, but you can't blame me!"
After hearing this, the expressions of the two interpreters changed, and they all said in unison: "It turns out that you are Xiao Renxia from the Daming Palace!" After saying that, one of them spat at his mouth and cursed angrily in a low voice: "You are also cooperating with those two Korean dandies.
Kicked to the iron plate, he actually provoked Xiao Renxia to come here!"
When Xiao Tang saw the expressions on the two interpreters' faces, it was obvious that they were not from the same group as those visitors from Korea. Jin Zhi was impatient and sternly scolded the interpreter: "You two immigrants to the countryside! What can you say!?"
When the interpreter mentioned Xiao Tang's name and military position, Jin Zhi and Li Fang couldn't help laughing wildly: "You are just a low-level military officer in charge of a few hundred people, but how dare you be so arrogant? Let's compete with you.
, teach you how powerful Goryeo Hwarang is!"
Hua Rong was annoyed by Jin Zhi and Li Fang's rude words. When he saw Li Fang carrying a precious bow, he said loudly: "I will compare bows and arrows with you!"
Jin Zhi and Li Fang laughed wildly when they heard the interpreter translate Hua Rong's words. The country of Goryeo is very mountainous. Due to terrain restrictions, there is no large-scale cavalry force, and the infantry's combat effectiveness is also lackluster. Goryeo only has bows and arrows.
Chinese people have extremely strong self-confidence. In fact, in later generations, South Korea's performance in archery events in the Olympic Games was indeed outstanding.
Both Jin and Li were selected from the noble families of Goryeo. They were elite disciples trained in fists, guns, sticks, bows and arrows, as well as various kinds of music, painting, and poetry. They were called "Hwarangs" in Goryeo, and their subordinates also served as companions. They were all disciples who excelled in martial arts. They had always followed the nine precepts of domestic archery and the nine precepts and eight methods of bow holding in bows and arrows. Listening to the fact that these ignorant Song people dared to challenge their archery skills, The disdain on his face was palpable.
Li Fang sneered and said: "In this bow and arrow competition, what will you do if you lose?"
Seeing the arrogance of those two people, Xiao Tang made up his mind to humiliate them. No matter how good your shooting skills are, you want to compete with Hua Rong? I'm afraid your skills are still far behind! Thinking of this, Xiao Tang said : "If we lose, we will kowtow to you and admit our mistakes. But if you lose, as long as you bow to us every time you see us in Banqiao Town, don't neglect it! I will get another bow and use it as a lottery with your bow." how?"
Li Fang's face was as heavy as water after hearing this, and she gritted her teeth and said: "Song people are rude! I will follow you and teach you to kowtow! But what kind of bow do you have, which is worthy of me, a clay-gold magpie, with a thin bow and a colorful head?" "
Xiao Tang ordered Xiao Yi to fetch his Wolf Jiujun bow urgently. Li Fang saw that the black bow was exquisitely made, so she complied calmly.
Xiao Tang handed the bow to Hua Rong and said, "Brother, I can trust you. Teach these Korean people how powerful your bow and arrow are!"
Hua Rong saw that Xiao Tang had so much trust in him. He nodded heavily, raised his bow and said loudly, "Let's talk! What kind of competition method?"
Li Fang ordered his men to set up two arrow targets on the other side of the road a hundred steps away from the haystacks with ink pen marks. He said with a proud face: "Whoever hits the most red hearts will be the winner!!"
Hua Rong laughed and said, "What's so difficult about this!?" After saying that, he opened the Wolf Jiujun bow, filled it with arrows, and hit the red heart of the target with an arrow.
When Li Fang saw that Hua Rong had such an ability, he immediately stopped his contempt. He filled the bow with an arrow and shot it. Although it also hit the red heart, the location of the shot was in the red heart as big as a fist. Point the edge.
Li Fang's heartstrings trembled. His mentality had changed a bit at this time. It is said that in the Song Dynasty's martial arts examination, he could not shoot from a distance of fifty or sixty steps with a lunge. His shooting skills of hitting the target with one arrow can be said to be very impressive.
But Li Fang is used to being flattered by others, and he is a arrogant person. He also wants to teach Xiao Tang, Hua Rong and others a lesson. This slight mistake has made Li Fang's mentality unbalanced. He does not have the ability to adjust his mentality like later competitive athletes. Ability, as the anxiety slowly expanded in my heart, I shot a few more arrows, but three of them missed the red heart.
On the other hand, Hua Rong was calmly nocking an arrow, drawing the bow, and lowering the string. The red heart of the target was almost filled with arrow clusters. Although the arrow hit the target, Hua Rong felt that it was boring. In the past, To practice the art of string control, Hua Rong would shoot at small and agile prey such as hares and deer from a distance of a hundred paces in the mountains. Now that the target was a dead target, it was just as easy for Hua Rong.
Hua Rong looked at Li Fang's face over there, whose face was crimson, and there were only a few arrows on the red heart of the haystack arrow target. He raised the corner of his mouth, pulled out a crescent shovel-shaped arrow cluster from the Xiaotang arrow pot, turned around, and walked away with two long strides. After more than ten steps, Hua Rong suddenly turned around and shouted: "With such skill, what else can you compare to!?"
After saying that, Hua Rong's left hand was like holding a mountain, his right hand was like holding a baby, his bow was open like a full moon, his arrows were like shooting stars, the crescent shovel arrows were shot straight towards Li Fang's target with the sound of tigers and tigers breaking through the wind!
Li Fang's haystack arrow target exploded with a "pop" sound, and all the arrows on the red dot in the center were collapsed by the fast and fierce heavy arrows. Xiao Tang, Xiao Yi, Xue Yong, Zheng Tianshou and others met,
They immediately cheered in unison, but Jin Zhi and others were all shocked!
Li Fang just wanted to find a crack in the ground and crawl into it, so he didn't refuse. He threw the thin bow painted with magpie paintings in his hand to Hua Rong, and then pushed it behind Jin Zhi and others in silence.
Hua Rong held the magpie-painted bow in his hand, pulled the string and played with it for a while, then laughed and said: "This bow is so handy that it will not be lost in vain in the hands of mediocre people."
Xiao Tang looked at Jin Zhi and others with cold eyes, and said leisurely: "We have taken the lottery, but you haven't fulfilled the bet we made, right?"
Jin Zhi's face turned blue and white in turns. Seeing the expressions of Xiao Tang, Hua Rong and others made him even more angry. Asking him to surrender was more uncomfortable than cutting him with a few knives.
Suddenly Jin Zhi's eyes widened and he shouted angrily: "No! Let's gamble again! I want you to kowtow and confess your guilt if you lose! I still have three thousand pieces of white rice paper, three hundred ingots of pine smoke and ink, and more than ten branches of century-old ginseng! You
What else is there to bet on?"
After hearing this, Li Fangyuan and Cui Muyuan's expressions suddenly changed. Li Fang hurriedly said to Jin Zhi: "Absolutely not! This time, in the name of Mr. Yin Guan, we went to the Mizhou Shipping Department to trial sell commercial goods, so as to open up a way for the future.
By sea route, we raised money to replenish the divine cavalry, divine steps, refined crossbows, and military supplies for the demon-conquering armies. Although the goods sold this time are not much, how can we explain to Master Yin Guan if we all lose to that guy!?"
"Shut up! If it weren't for your incompetence, why should we be so humiliated!?" Jin Zhi glared at Li Fang and cursed angrily. Then he stared at Xiao Tang fiercely and said: "It's just some paper-ink ginseng, these businessmen
I can afford the goods! Do you think that guy has the money to bet with us?"
After that, Jin Zhi did not wait for Li Fangyuan and Cui Mu to persuade him again, pointed at Xiao Tang and said: "I have already competed with bows and arrows, do you dare to compete with me in fists and kicks!?"
The two interpreters grinned and said to Xiao Tang: "Xiao Renxia, that guy can't afford to lose. He said he would bet you on the goods shipped this time!"
After listening to the interpreter, Xiao Tang thought in his mind that the white rice paper and pine smoke ink produced in Korea were very popular among literati in the Song Dynasty, and the century-old Korean ginseng could also be sold for a big price. Although the scale of these goods
It's not that big, but for a wealthy family member, it's definitely a huge amount of money.
"What, you don't have the money to gamble?" Jin Zhi looked at Xiao Tang and sneered, his expression full of teasing and ridicule.
Xiao Tang understood Jin Zhi's plan and bet a huge amount of chips to make him retreat. It seemed that this dude from Korea was used to being arrogant and indulgent. At this moment, he couldn't win the battle of spirits, so he got excited and decided to use the sea transport method.
The merchants who came here were gambling heavily, but the main reason was to use money to pressure people and take away his Xiaotang momentum. This was a bit like the struggle between Shi Chong and Wang Kai in the Jin Dynasty.
On a normal day, Xiao Tang would not spend a lot of money just to make others angry, but originally he just wanted to teach these arrogant and disrespectful guests a lesson, but he didn't expect that the other party would become more aggressive!
Look at Jin Zhi again. Although he has a strong body and some skills in external martial arts, he looks impetuous and impetuous. He is definitely not an internal expert who practices and nourishes his energy. Xiao Tang was also aroused to win.
