I have a backstage in Datang

Chapter 349 [Unexpectedly, Goguryeo has been corrupted so much]

At this time, night had fallen, but the gates of the city had not yet been closed. Gu Tianya and the others watched from a distance, and could vaguely see pedestrians on the street in the city. Obviously, there was no curfew yet.

"Go, enter the city!"

Gu Tianya made a soft sound, and walked first.

Later, Gu Chang'e and the three subordinates were slightly taken aback, but they were not afraid that this place was the land of Goguryeo, so they quickly followed Gu Tianya's pace, and they all walked towards the city gate together.

After a short time, they had already reached the gate, only then did they realize that the soldiers guarding the gate were just about to close the city gate.

When the group of soldiers noticed that someone was approaching quickly, one or two of them all looked impatient and stopped loudly: "The curfew will come soon, if you want to enter the city, you have to wait until tomorrow."

Sure enough, regardless of any region or ethnic group, as long as they are on duty, there will be laziness. This group of soldiers is obviously in a hurry to go on duty, so they are not even willing to wait for a moment.

They hurried to close the city gates.

Because as long as the city gate is closed, they can go off to rest immediately, and if they don't choose to close the city gate immediately, then they have to admit Gu Tianya and others to enter.

Although doing so won't delay them much time, as city guards, they must strictly enforce the city entry regulations. For example, they must first question the origins of Gu Tianya and the others, and then collect the city gate tax for entering the city. Things are more complicated. The soldiers are definitely not willing to do it.

After all, it is something to be lazy, who wants to rush to work?Hurry up and close the city gate and go back. Wouldn't it be nice to have a rest in the barracks?

Gu Tianya was well aware of this kind of thing, so he quickly walked a few steps, and ran forward with a smile on his face.

He put on a docile posture, looking very much like ordinary people, and kept 'pleasing' said: "Master Bing, Lord Bing, please help us, let us enter the city... Seeing that it is getting dark, this is so cold. Damn, you can't just squat outside the city overnight. People will freeze to death, Lord Bing, please hold your hands high."

The Koguryo soldiers guarding the gate became even more impatient, and someone threatened him sharply, "You know it's getting dark, why do you come here since you know? Could it be that they are spies who want to enter the city at night to make trouble..."

Gu Tianya continued to smile, and continued to explain: "We are not spies, we are not spies, we are merchants, good people who come to buy goods, the road is a bit far, that's why we came late."

While 'explaining', he gave Ma Sanbao a wink.

To say that Ma Sanbao really deserved to be meticulous in his roughness, when he saw Gu Tianya's gesture, he immediately reacted, put his hand into his bosom, and simply took out a money bag, without looking at Ye, he handed it over.

Gu Tianya took the opportunity to say: "It's freezing cold now, the military men have worked hard, here is a little thought, give the military men a glass of wine to warm up."

The Goguryeo soldiers immediately laughed, and said happily, "Hehe, he is actually a sensible person."

While speaking, he took the money bag and tossed it up and down in the palm of his hand. Feeling the heavy pressure on his hand, he felt more satisfied immediately. Da Lala nodded and said: "Since I am a sensible person, I will forcefully take care of you. Remember that you can take care of me later. It can't be so late anymore, my brothers have been working all day and are in a hurry to leave..."

"Yes Yes Yes!"

Gu Tianya nodded like a chick eating rice, and his docile appearance was almost like an old farmer. If anyone saw his appearance, they would be stunned.

The majestic relative of the Tang Dynasty, the leader of the Youyun Zhuzhou, holds an army of 10,000+ and tens of thousands of cavalry under his command, but he nods and bows in Liaodong, smiling at a group of soldiers guarding the gate.

I'm afraid no one will believe this kind of thing.

Fortunately, the bribes had already been delivered, and the group of Koguryo soldiers did not make things difficult anymore, and they didn't even bother to enforce the regulations on entering the city. They just asked a lazy symbolic interrogation, "Where are you from? What are you going to do when you enter the city?" ?”

Gu Tianya chuckled, and replied politely: "Han people, merchants, come to Koguryo this time to buy some goods from Liaodong."

What he said is true or false.

The real part is the identity of the Han Chinese, and the fake part is pretending to be a merchant.

The soldiers on the opposite side obviously didn't care about these things, but they were slightly surprised by the identity of the Han people, and subconsciously said: "It turned out to be a Han merchant, I haven't seen this for a while..."

He paused for a moment, then sighed suddenly for some reason, and said, "Since Youzhou of the Han people refused to do business with us, Wandu Mountain City has not seen Han merchants for a long time. Many shops have a backlog of goods, and they are eagerly looking forward to the Han people's return." Come buy."

Gu Tianya hit the snake with the stick, and said with a smile on his face: "That's why we're here."

The soldier on the opposite side nodded and did not ask any more questions, but stretched out his hand again, and said with a sneer: "According to the rules at the city gate, Han people have to pay more city gate tax. As long as you pay more city gate tax, we will Don't ask if you are spies... It doesn't matter if you are fake merchants or real scouts, as long as the brothers take the money, it doesn't matter if you turn a blind eye."

Gu Tianya was slightly startled by these words, but he reacted instantly, turned his head to look at Ma Sanbao again, and motioned: "Bring me another bag of money."

Ma Sanbao touched it from his bosom, but what he took out was a silver ingot, he laughed and said: "The copper coin is gone, so the silver ingot will work."

The group of soldiers on the opposite side suddenly panted heavily.

Gu Tianya reached out and took the silver ingot, stuffed it into a soldier's waist, and asked with a smile: "Master Jun has worked hard, do you think we are in compliance with the rules now?"

The soldiers didn't answer at all, but stepped aside to open the door as a statement.

Gu Tianya and the others entered the city gate smoothly.

……

There was a dull sound of closing the door behind him, vaguely mixed with the excited cheers of the Koguryo soldiers.

At this time, the night was already dim, and the lights in the city were just turned on, Gu Tianya suddenly turned his head to look at the gate of the city, and said with a deep meaning: "The fierce tiger in Liaodong used to be corrupted to this extent unexpectedly."

Throughout the past and present, in all dynasties, when the gatekeepers of a city become greedy, it means that the dynasty is declining.

Gu Chang'e suddenly snorted coldly, and said: "The group of soldiers just now dared to make things difficult for brother. If I didn't want to make trouble, I really wanted to slap them all to death."

Gu Tianya laughed out loud, shook his head and said: "You can't be shot to death, you must not be shot to death. These greedy soldiers are very cute, maybe they will come in handy one day. It's better to keep it, it's better to keep it... ..."

He paused while talking, and his tone resumed the deep meaning just now, and he said leisurely: "Since the founding of Goguryeo in AD 3, it has been passed down for 400 years. We don't know whether their regime has been corrupted yet, but the soldiers We have experienced the corruption just now. You guys think about it carefully, can you figure out what this means?"

Gu Chang'e and the three subordinates looked at each other in dismay, and after a long time, they tentatively replied: "If soldiers are corrupt, the country will be destroyed?"

Gu Tianya nodded happily, let out a sigh of relief slowly, and said leisurely again: "Next, we will see if the officials in Goguryeo are also very greedy..."

When they entered the city just now, they did not dress up as Goguryeo people. They were all dressed in Han style. However, the soldiers guarding the city did not show any vigilance at all. This kind of slack and laziness is really vigilant.

I don't know what will happen to the officials of Goguryeo.

At this time, Ma Sanbao came over and asked in a low voice: "It is said that there are thirteen families of powerful ministers in Goguryeo. Which family do you think we should contact first?"

Gu Tianya pondered for a moment, then slowly exhaled and said, "The number one official, Yuan Gai Su Wen."

Since it is necessary to lure powerful officials with benefits, it is natural to choose the most powerful one.

Chapter 350 [Mr. Gu?So you are that Mr. Gu! 】

I Have a Backstage in Datang Text Volume Chapter 350 [Mr. Gu?So you are that Mr. Gu! 】That night, in the city.

Although Goguryeo is located in Liaodong, it is deeply influenced by the culture of the Central Plains. Since the Eastern Han Dynasty, this country has been imitating many policies of the Han dynasty...for example, the curfew.

The so-called curfew means that pedestrians are not allowed to go to the streets at night, every house and every household must be closed, and shops are not allowed to open at night.

But this refers to after the night falls.

In the first half of the night, especially before Haishi, there is generally no curfew in the city, and the more prosperous the city, the more it will be like this.

Because there are also night markets in this era, which are even more noisy than the daytime markets.

Since it was just after nightfall, and there was still a long time before the curfew, there were many pedestrians on the street, and there were small stalls on both sides of the road, and the bustle and bustle seemed extremely lively.

Gu Tianya walked slowly, like an idler wandering aimlessly, beside Gu Chang'e followed step by step, and the three subordinates looked confused.

They didn't understand what Gu Tianya was going to do.

He clearly said that he was going to seduce the Goguryeo officials. Why did he not do anything after entering the city, but wandered around the street instead? It was a waste of time.

Finally, the three subordinates couldn't hold back any longer, but seeing Yan Jiu approaching Gu Tianya, he whispered a reminder: "Patriarch, it's getting late..."

He paused slightly while speaking, and then said cautiously: "This is not our Youzhou."

The implication is self-explanatory, this guy is worried about accidents, he wants to persuade Gu Tianya to hurry up and get on with the business, and leave early after finishing the business.

After all, this is in someone else's country, especially in the enemy's capital, even though Gu Chang'e is with her, Yan Jiu is still worried about Gu Tianya's safety.

It's a pity that his persuasion had no effect. Gu Tianya seemed to be full of interest and wanted to go shopping, but after hearing the words, he turned a deaf ear and walked slowly to a small stall instead.

This small stall is placed at the corner of the street. The owner of the stall is a man with thick eyebrows and big eyes. This man is wearing a leather jacket. His hair was also messy and curled.

A gust of cold wind blew, and a strong body odor wafted from the man's body. Gu Chang'e frowned immediately, covered her nose with her hands and took two steps back.

The three subordinates also frowned, subconsciously avoiding this guy's stall.

Only Gu Tianya squatted down, not caring about the man's sloppiness. He squatted in front of the stall and looked at it for a long time. Han Chinese right?"

The man was shrinking his hands and closing his eyes, as if he was dozing against the cold wind, but when he heard this, his body swayed, and his eyes suddenly opened.

There seemed to be light in his eyes, an indescribable light.

He looked straight at Gu Tianya, as if he wanted to see through Gu Tianya's thoughts, but Gu Tianya had a warm smile on his face, as warm as a spring breeze.

Under the light of the shop in the distance, the two of them just looked at each other quietly. After a long time, the man finally whispered, and said in a very cautious tone: "I...I am not Han..."

"No, you are!" Gu Tianya replied in an instant, with a serious tone.

He still had a warm smile on his face, stared at the man softly, and said softly: "Don't be afraid, we are also Han Chinese."

However, the man had already lowered his head, and put his hands into the leather jacket again. He just said cowardly: "Do you want to buy something? The goods on my stall are very good. Not expensive, not expensive Yes, if you want to help out, please buy more things..."

There is a lot of caution in the words.

It is also like a dog whose spine has been broken, and will be trembling at any disturbance.

This is obviously the humbleness caused by long-term hardship and suffering.

Gu Tianya sighed.

Then he turned to look at Ma Sanbao, and said in a deep voice, "Do you have any money on you? Take it all out and give it to me."

Ma Sanbao was slightly startled, and subconsciously said: "Patriarch, we came out in a hurry."

The implication is self-evident, he doesn't have much money with him, and he has already spent a bag of copper coins when he bribed the soldiers at the gate of the city.

Gu Tianya sighed again, and turned back to look at the man again.His tone was more gentle, and he said softly: "I'm sorry, I came out in a hurry and didn't bring any money with me, so I'm afraid I can't help you."

The man still lowered his head and retracted his hands, and said cowardly: "It's okay, it's okay. If you don't want to buy anything, please go to other places. In case you stay at my booth for a long time, you will let the inspector They misunderstood that I sold the goods, and in that case, they would force me to pay taxes."

These words are sad and full of sadness.

Gu Tianya let out a breath slowly, and suddenly reached out to touch his waist, and then tore off a jade pendant from his waist.

Under this jade pendant was a shiny copper coin, Gu Tianya reached out and handed the jade pendant to the man, pointed at the copper coin and said, "Do you know this coin?"

The man was obviously taken aback, his body seemed to tremble, and he almost blurted out, in an unprecedentedly strong tone, saying: "Five baht."

"That's right, it's exactly five baht!"

With a quick pull, Gu Tianya directly tore off the copper coin from the jade pendant.

Then he stretched out his other hand and took the man's hand that was tucked into the leather jacket. He solemnly handed over the copper coin and slapped it heavily on the man's palm.

His eyes were full of warmth, and seemed to be filled with a kind of guilt, and he said softly to the man: "You are in trouble in a foreign land and have suffered all kinds of hardships. I am not qualified to persuade you to let go of your hatred, but I want to ask you not to forget Our own ethnic group. The blood we shed on our bodies is the blood left by our ancestors. The hometown of the Central Plains has never forgotten you. We have been working hard to bring you home..."

The man raised his head suddenly, with sharp swords in his eyes.

It was a murderous light, and it seemed to be a long-awaited hope. His eyes were blank, and he was in a daze. After a long time, he finally asked tremblingly, "You, who are you?"

However, Gu Tianya did not answer. Instead, he pointed to the copper coin in the man's hand and said in a warm voice, "This five baht coin is my gift to you. Since I came here in a hurry, I didn't bring anything to help you." .But I can give you a guarantee that you will get the help you deserve soon...that help is called going home."

Then with a solemn tone, he pointed to his face and said, "Remember my name, my name is Gu Tianya!"

After finishing speaking, he suddenly got up, then turned around under the man's dazed eyes, and strode away along the street to the distance.

Gu Chang'e thought for a while, then suddenly raised her foot and walked to the side of the stall. She waved her palm slightly, making a faint spot of light, then took a deep look at the man, turned around and chased in Gu Tianya's direction.

It wasn't until this time that Ma Sanbao and Yan Jiu came to their senses. The two retainers looked at each other, and suddenly bowed down at the same time with fists clasped in salute, and said apologetically, "Compatriots, you have suffered! We are the retainers of the Gu family. My deepest respect to you.”

Only Han Si's intelligence was a little weaker, and he didn't understand it from the beginning to the end, but Han Si also clasped his fists and saluted, and then the three subordinates hurriedly chased Gu Tianya away.

……

The stall was quiet again, leaving only the man sitting there in a daze.

Suddenly, he seemed to recover from a nightmare.He looked down at the copper coin in the palm of his hand, and then looked up at the direction Gu Tianya left. For some reason, the circles of his eyes suddenly turned red...

Immediately, the tears were overwhelming, the voice choked up, and he murmured: "Five baht money, five baht money, this is our Han people's money, this is our Han people's money."

Just now Gu Tianya asked twice, but he still refused to admit that he was Han. However, it was not until Gu Tianya left that he finally said the word Han.

He knows five baht coins.

This is hometown money.

Since the Han Dynasty, every dynasty in the Central Plains has minted coins, but no matter which dynasty or generation, the minted coins are five baht coins.

For example, during the Great Sui Dynasty in the previous dynasty, five baht coins were used, but it was not the five baht of the Han Dynasty, but the five baht of the Sui Dynasty.

This is the money that the Central Plains Dynasty has been using.

Almost every Han family member knows it.

The man suddenly clenched his palms tightly, holding onto the five baht coin tightly. He felt the temperature of the coin, and Gu Tianya's gentle smile seemed to appear in front of his eyes again.

Suddenly, he let out a low growl in his throat, roaring like a wild beast, and said solemnly: "20 years, 20 years. Finally, finally..."