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Chapter 958 Sick Ghost (Part )

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 Yecheng Port. It is said that he planned to buy a house there and set up a stronghold for long-term garrisoning.

The only people he brought to Kaicheng were a large number of accountants, clerks and doctors. Even if this group of people acted with discipline, the Koreans could tell that they were not combatants. The most capable fighter among these hundreds of people is probably Yin Chang himself, who is over fifty years old.

Such a completely harmless team is a breath of fresh air in Kaicheng, where many forces are at war with each other. All parties are also willing to let them enter Kaesong to host polo competitions in order to maintain the surface calm 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, local people in Kaesong who have a keen sense of politics rarely go out unless necessary recently. Only the deputy privy envoy Cui Yu, Baocheng Bo Cui Jue, Cui Junwen, Chi Yunshen and others sent many subordinates to run around. They were all in a hurry, sometimes passing by in a flash on the street, sometimes rushing in from a certain city gate with Khitan people and Jurchens in ragged clothes.

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 and Jurchens recruited several times passing 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 experience in dealing with the Song people, but I have never seen the Khitans and wild Jurchens, so I can't say anything about them. If I have to say it, I just hope that this generation will not mess around in the polo competition and cause heavy casualties.

The polo competition in the Goryeo Kingdom was originally a thrill-seeking behavior for the nobles, but later it gradually turned into a killing game to show their strength. In many cases, powerful nobles did not want a bloody civil war to break out and shake the foundation of their rule, so they limited the scale of the fight to polo matches. Therefore, the polo competition is almost bound to cause a bloody storm.

The 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 hosting polo matches for hundreds of years.

The commercial exchanges between Goryeo and the Great Zhou and Song dynasties are very intensive. However, in order to maintain domestic stability, Cui Zhongxian's regime has strictly limited the scope of merchants' activities to not exceed Lisheng Port. Therefore, to this day, many merchants do not even know about Goryeo. What does Kaesong, the capital of the country, look like?

Based on the reports of different people, the map drawn by the Left and Right Division was checked on site. It was found to be full of errors and omissions, many of which were based on absurd imagination.

Only now did Yin Chang know that in the entire Goryeo Kingdom, there were no vast cities on the plains like those in the Central Plains. Kaesong can be said to be the only large city in Goryeo, and this city is only built on a few small staggered plains and surrounding mountains. It is a mid-mountain city.

The country of Goryeo was already very closed, and the geographical environment of Kaesong was even more closed.

There are Songak Mountain to the north of Kaesong, Centipede Mountain to the west of the city, Yongdi Mountain to the southwest, Deokam Mountain to the south, and Gwangdeok Mountain to the southeast. The mountains that stretch continuously are like a large open fan, covering Kaesong from the north to the southeast. There are also steep peaks such as Tianmo Mountain, Guoshi Peak, Dishi Mountain and so on.

The entire open fan protected Kaesong in the center, while Goryeo's palace city, imperial city, residences and official offices of high-ranking officials, military camps and warehouses were concentrated under the cover of Songak Mountain, relying on the Zizi River in the middle of Kaesong. Nanshan serves as a barrier. Along the mountains, there are also city walls. 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 are also the twenty-two gates guarding the mountain passes. Two fortresses.

The current royal family of Goryeo Kingdom was a wealthy family with powerful military force in Songak Mountain in its early years. The royal city relies on Songak Mountain and can move forward and retreat freely. However, the descendants were unworthy, Tai'a supported him, and now he has become a puppet.

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 for decades. Under the circumstances, this city was not only the center of Koryo but also the most chaotic place in Koryo.

Standing in the center of the unusually empty Seonjeongjeon, Yin Chang could see the Goryeo Palace rising along the topography of Songak Mountain to the north, constantly staggering and deflecting, and he could also see many crowded and overlapping buildings in the surrounding area. In many courtyards, there were faint voices of people and the roar of horse hooves on the ground. Perhaps 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. So 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 held his belt with one hand, stood up and looked around, feeling satisfied.

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 turmoil and was dismissed from office. Yin Chang actually vaguely knew that Guo Zheng's background was a bit complicated, but the matter was already here, so 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 crossed his arms over his chest and was 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 Xianglan in Kaifeng. He was hired by Yin Chang with a large sum of money and has never been exposed to military affairs. At this moment, 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 hot, and it makes me 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 shocked and said that Yin Chang's conspiracy was exposed and the Koreans came to arrest him and behead him. His knees weakened and he immediately fell to his knees.

(End of this chapter)