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

Chapter 690 The Great Voyage ([-])

Spring of the eighth year of the Republic 470 (688)
The internal power struggle in the Tang Empire was still intensifying. Local officials deliberately disobeyed the Queen of Heaven's orders, and the Queen's cruel staff were not merciful. They dared to oppose the Queen of Heaven and were directly charged with colluding with the Yanlu and executed immediately.

Lai Junchen even arrested a dozen local county magistrates who violated the Queen's orders, and then tortured them in public in Fangshi, Luoyang, the capital of China. They put people into copper bulls and then burned them with fire. Burned to death.

The Queen of Heaven believed that the opponents were colluding with Yan Lu, so she wanted to execute the opponents.

But what is interesting is that those Guanlong nobles and clans who opposed Tianhou also spread rumors, claiming that Tianhou in the palace was a spy of Yanlu, and believed that Wu Zhao had colluded with Yanlu and called on the people of the world to crusade against Wu Zhao.

The supporters of Tianhou are Yanlu spies, and the opponents of Tianhou are also Yanlu spies.

Di Shitian, the head of the Embroidery Department, didn't even know he was so powerful.

Lai Junchen, Zhou Xing and others are investigating [Tongyanmen].

What is called "Tongyanmen" means that certain people secretly colluded with Yanlu.

Not only are Tianhou’s cruel officials investigating [Tongyanmen], but the opponents of Tianhou are also investigating [Tongyanmen].

Li Chong and other members of the Li Tang clan openly claimed that Yanlu spy Liu was hiding in Luoyang, the sacred capital, or even in the palace.

"Yanlu's spies are hidden in the palace of Luoyang, the capital of the gods, and the enemy is at the center of power!"

"This is not an alarmist statement. As the vassal king of Li Tang clan alone, I must find out this Yanlu spy hiding in the palace!"

Li Chong's words were plausible, but when someone asked him for evidence, he couldn't produce any evidence.

In fact, everyone understood that Li Chong was being arrogant, scolding the Queen of Heaven as a Yanlu spy, and scolding the Queen of Heaven for causing harm to the country and the people.

After all, how could there be Yanlu spies in the palace?This is simply impossible!Absolutely impossible!

Li Chong and other members of the Li Tang clan have secretly recruited troops and are always ready to rebel.

Moreover, he secretly contacted the Yan State. As long as the Yan State helped him seize power in a coup, after he became the emperor, he would give the entire Shandong to the Yan State in return for the Yan State.

Emperor Yu agreed verbally, but did not plan to actually send troops first. He did not want to fight a war of attrition with the Tang Empire, so he just waited and waited for the Tang Empire to be in civil strife, and then took the opportunity to go to Shandong to plunder the population and wealth.

As for what Li Chong said about ceding the entire Shandong land, let’s not talk about whether Li Chong will keep his promise. What if Li Chong really regrets it after he becomes emperor?
Even if Li Chong was really willing to cede Shandong, Emperor Yu would not be able to use Yan's national power to consume the Central Plains.

When we, the Yan State, take advantage of others, how can we allow you to take advantage of our Yan State?

half year later

As expected, Li Chong and others couldn't help but rebel. Several Li Tang clan princes raised their flags of rebellion and called on the people of the world to overthrow the Demon Queen.

However, Yuan Tiangang's intelligence once again played a key role.

Wu Zhao learned of the rebellion plan of Li Chong and others in advance, and suppressed all the rebels with lightning speed.

This time in the intelligence war, the wily Narcissus Yuan Tiangang won again.

Sirius Shangguan Wan'er was defeated by Yuan Tiangang once again.

Older gingers are more spicy!
The Yan Kingdom was not without gains. Yan Ling led two thousand imperial guards and robbed 12 people in Shandong. All of these 12 people were sold to the nobles who were reclaiming the black land in the northeast.

The Khitans and Kumoxi people also took the opportunity to plunder Youyun, and the Turks (later) made great progress in the Mobei grassland, defeating the puppet regime of the Tang Empire in the grassland.

When the Turks (later) counterattacked the puppet regime supported by the Tang Empire in the grasslands, they captured prisoners of war and sold them directly to the Yan State, and established livestock trade with the Yan State.

There are now two Turks in the grassland, one is Turk (later/new) and the other is Turk (orthodox).

The Turks (orthodox) were a puppet regime supported by the Tang Empire, and the upper-class nobles were all pro-Tang leaders.The Turks (later/new) were a country established by some Turkic nobles who were unwilling to be puppets and led an uprising of the lower-level Turks. Their purpose was to establish a unified steppe empire.

The Turkic (orthodox) Khan was a bald man. He was defeated steadily by the Turkic (Later/New) Turks. He kept asking the Tang Empire to support more weapons and equipment, and even asked the Tang Empire to directly send troops into the grasslands to fight.

However, the Tang Empire was now busy with internal fighting and had no time to care about the life and death of its younger brother, so it simply ignored the Turks (orthodox) request for help.

At the same time, the Snowy Zhou Kingdom, which posed the greatest threat to the Tang Empire, was the most ruthless and directly occupied the Anxi Protectorate of the Tang Empire.

The Silk Road of the Tang Empire was cut off, and Hexi was always facing threats from the Zhou Kingdom.

The Central Plains Dynasty, which had just experienced civil strife, had no energy to recover the Western Regions for the time being.

And at the same time

Umayyad Dynasty

Damascus
"Zheng He, the envoy of the Republic, on behalf of His Majesty the Emperor of the Republic and the Parliament of the Republic, declares his vassalage to the Caliph. I wish you a long life and may the sun and the moon shine with you!"

Zheng He knelt respectfully in the court of Dashi, crawled to the feet of Caliph [Malik], and kissed his shoes to express the Republic's surrender and tribute to Dashi.

When he first came to Dashi, Zheng He was still very dignified and wanted to establish friendly cooperative and trade relations with Dashi.

However, the ruling class of Dashi did not know the Republic at all and thought it was a small country from Tianzhu. So they forced Zheng He to surrender to the Dashi/Umayyad dynasty and asked the Republic to pay tribute to Dashi and become Dashi. tributary state, otherwise, the merchant ships of the Republic would not be allowed to do business in Dashi.

At first, Zheng He refused. He paid a bribe to a palace official from Dashi, hoping that he would speak kindly to him in front of the Caliph so that the Republic could trade with Dashi on an equal footing.

However, the palace official ignored Zheng He after accepting the gold bribe from Zheng He.

Damn it!Black eats black!

Damn corrupt officials, taking bribes and not doing anything, damn it!

After Zheng He and others were under house arrest for several months, they finally figured it out.

As long as you can do business, as long as you can make money, you can claim your vassal status and pay tribute. In order to make money, there is nothing you can't bear with a little humiliation.

Finally, Zheng He agreed to represent the Republic, become a vassal to Dashi, and pay tribute to Dashi, becoming a tributary state of Dashi, and contributing to the prosperity of Dashi when all nations came to visit Dashi.

"@dbx﹉dinxn"

The caliph said something that Zheng He couldn't understand.

Next to the caliph, a court scholar who knew Tianzhu translated the words of the caliph into Tianzhu.

Although Zheng He could not understand the Dashi language, he could understand the Tianzhu language. The translation he heard was this.

"I am very pleased that you have traveled thousands of miles to pay tribute. From now on, your Republic is my subject. You can trade in the ports in the southeast, but the goods traded must be investigated by our port officials."

Zheng He had no choice but to thank Caliph [Malik] in Indian language: "Thank you Caliph! You are the greatest monarch in the world, may your brilliance surpass the sun!"

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In ancient times, whoever took the initiative to do business in the other country's country was often forced to submit to the other country in name and become a tributary state of the other country. The other country would then record it in the history books and praise the glory of the coming countries.

This kind of tributary trade was eventually replaced by free trade with powerful ships and powerful guns of the empire on which the sun never set. ——"General History of the World Song Dynasty Li Qingzhao"

(End of this chapter)