Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 632 Competing in the Central Plains (85)

Spring of the 20th year of Sibai in Yan State (630)
"what!--"

The rebel slaves are being mercilessly slaughtered by the Imperial Guards.

The spears in their hands could not pierce the armor of the Imperial Guard soldiers at all.

Princess Zhen, on the other hand, wore a tailor-made plate armor and walked freely on the battlefield.

Now in Yan Kingdom, there are only thirteen sets of plate armor, one of which is the one worn by Princess Zhen.

The current level of forging in the Yan Kingdom is still unable to support the large-scale manufacture of plate armor, and the quality of the plate armor is not very good. The defensive effect is temporarily similar to the traditional piercing armor, but the future can be expected.

The slaves quickly fell to their knees and surrendered.

According to the usual practice, the soldiers of the Praetorian Guards were ready to kill these surrendered slaves.

however……

"Wait a minute!" Princess Jane prevented the Janissary soldiers from massacring the surrendered slaves.

She has her own way of dealing with it. The Spice Islands are vast and there are many undeveloped desert islands. She plans to take these surrendered slaves to find an uncultivated island and build a royal paradise on it.

"I will use practical actions to prove to my father and the council that the common people are never mud that cannot support the wall!"

"Only by unleashing their power can we gain the whole world!"

When Princess Jane was busy building her dream of a royal paradise.

Changan
main hall
"Xuan, the Goguryeo envoys have an audience!"

"Xuan, the Goguryeo envoys have an audience!"

"Xuan, the Goguryeo envoys have an audience!"

A Goguryeo envoy in white clothes and short hair entered the main hall.

In order to come to Chang'an, the Goguryeo envoys went through all kinds of difficulties and dangers, crossed the Daxianbei Mountains, sent money to the Beishi Wei tribes, passed through the East Turkic Grassland, sent money to the Turkic people, and finally entered the territory of the Tang Dynasty.

Yan Guo and his younger brothers blocked the passage of Goguryeo from entering Datang from the south, so the Goguryeo envoys had to make a detour.

On behalf of Goguryeo, the Goguryeo envoy paid tribute to Datang, and said that when Datang attacked Yan, it would threaten the northern border of Yan.

After absorbing the survivors of Goryeo, Goguryeo's strength has greatly increased, and it has a population of nearly 10.

A population of 10 is only the population of a county in the Central Plains, but in the Heishui Basin, it is a super empire.

Datang attached great importance to the cooperation of Goguryeo, and sent its own envoys to go to Goguryeo with the Goguryeo envoys to investigate the real strength of Goguryeo.

If Goguryeo is too weak to threaten Yan, it will simply cooperate with Goguryeo.

If Goguryeo is strong enough to really threaten the northern border of Yan State, then Datang will marry a princess to Goguryeo to strengthen the friendship between Datang and Goguryeo.

"Xuancheng, I'll let you go to the royal city of Goguryeo, inspect the people of Goguryeo, and see if Goguryeo is worthy of us marrying a princess." Emperor Li Yuan ordered [Wei Zheng] in private.

"Sir, take orders!" Wei Zheng accepted the emperor's order and hurried home to pack his things.

One month later

Goguryeo envoys secretly arrived in Chang'an, and the news of the alliance with the Tang Empire spread to Yandu.

This made many nobles in the Yan Kingdom feel uneasy, so they quickly formulated a plan to assassinate Goguryeo envoys and envoys from the Tang Dynasty.

"It is necessary to assassinate the envoys of Goguryeo and Tang Dynasty on the way back to the Goguryeo royal city. They must not be united!"

A few days later

East Turkic Grassland

The East Turks are still fighting a civil war. They have been fighting for several years, and the winner has not yet been completely determined.

Perhaps it was the fate of the Tang Dynasty. At the critical moment of the rise of the Tang Empire, the two most powerful opponents, East Turkistan and Yan, were busy fighting a civil war, and the other was busy digesting the newly annexed Koryo.

Without the intervention of the Eastern Turks and the Yan State, the unification of the Tang Empire has accelerated, and it is preparing to eliminate the last separatist force-Li Zitong of the Wu State of Jiangdu.

The territory of Wu State is roughly Huainan, Huaixi, Jiangzuo, and Sanwu.

"Yan Guo sent a message that as long as you can kill Goguryeo and Tang Guo's envoys, you can get 100 taels of gold."

"I'll give you 200 taels."

"Hehe, if I kill you, the gold is still mine, and I can still get the bounty from Yan Kingdom."

"After returning to the Central Plains, there will be a follow-up 200 taels."

"Friends from the Central Plains, sit down and have a glass of mare's milk."

"Very happy to."

After Wei Zheng sent a lot of gold to one of the Turkic tribe leaders, he was allowed to pass through their tribe's pasture.

The tribal leader originally planned to kill Wei Zheng, but Wei Zheng gave too much.

When Wei Zheng and others left the prairie and entered the Xianbei Mountains.

"kill!"

Many people from Shiwei came suddenly, and they had already received the notice from the Yan State in advance. Once they found the Central Plains envoy, they would be killed. With the head of the Central Plains envoy, they could exchange fifty sets of armor with Yan State.

"These southern mountain forest people are lackeys of the Yan Kingdom. We must go further north to return to the royal city safely!" The Goguryeo envoy called the Shiwei people the mountain forest people.

After paying the painful price of eleven deaths, the messenger team finally escaped from danger and fled to the colder north.

In fact, this place has broken away from the geographical concept of grassland and entered the cold forest and mountains (Mohe).

"The north of the grassland is really a forest." Wei Zheng recorded the geography he passed along the way on a white cloth.

Previously, although he had heard it mentioned in the history books that the north of the grassland was a forest, he hadn't seen it with his own eyes after all.

After arriving at this place, it can be regarded as completely separated from the sphere of influence of the Yan Kingdom, and it is a real place of alienation.

Here, Wei Zheng saw a strange day and night phenomenon, the days are very long and the nights are very short.

What surprised him most was that when he crossed the snow-capped mountains and forests, at night, he saw a belt-shaped colorful light (aurora) in the sky.

For all this, he wrote it all in his book.

"I didn't expect such a wonderful scene in the extreme north!"

"One day, this place will be my land of Great Tang!"

After another month of survival in the forest, Wei Zheng and other talents finally arrived at the Koguryo King City.

At this time, the envoy team from the Central Plains who set off with Wei Zheng dropped sharply from 100 to 13 people. Most of them died on the way due to various reasons, and some people got lost while crossing the mountains.

A group of nobles from Goguryeo went out of the city to greet Wei Zheng in person. They dreamed of hugging the thighs of the Central Plains, hoping that the Central Plains Dynasty would help them get rid of the slaughter of the Yan Kingdom.

The king of Goguryeo communicated with Wei Zheng in Yan language. Wei Zheng praised Goguryeo for being hardworking and brave, and the king of Goguryeo praised the prosperity of Tang Dynasty civilization.

After a while of flattering each other, the King of Goguryeo married his princess to Wei Zheng, hoping to strengthen the cooperative relationship with the Central Plains Dynasty.

"The people of Goguryeo seem to hate the country of Yan very much. They have a deep-rooted hatred, a hatred engraved in their blood. Goguryeo, the hearts of the people can be used!"

Wei Zheng recorded the living conditions of the Goguryeo people, including their food culture, social system, customs, etc., and most importantly, the Goguryeo people had an unforgettable hatred for Yan.

"What happened between Yan State and Goguryeo? Why do these Goguryeo people have such terrible resentment and hatred for Yan State?"

"Even a three-year-old child in Goguryeo, who can just walk, shouts every day that he wants to kill all the people of Yan State. Before getting married, girls in Goguryeo must make their husbands swear that they will kill all the people of Yan State on the battlefield in the future. Goguryeo The old ladies and old men in the old days chatted every day about how to kill all the Yan people. The men in Goguryeo had to hold a coming-of-age ceremony when they came of age, and their coming-of-age ceremony was a revenge ceremony, using beasts in the forest as swallows. countrymen, and then hunt them down."

If the Tang Dynasty's hatred for the Yan State is like a torrent of water, then Goguryeo's hatred for the Yan State is an endless ocean.

(End of this chapter)