Late Tang Dynasty: I

Chapter 375 Japan sends envoy to Tang Dynasty

His Majesty the Emperor summoned the Silla envoys.

Jin Baili handed over his watch, knelt in the tent, and said: "The Queen of the Silla Kingdom, the True Saint, sent her minister Jin Baili to submit her credentials, presenting hundreds of rare cars, hundreds of beauties, and Jin Wan, the monarch of Kangyang, who is willing to serve the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty. Your Majesty, Silla is willing to serve the Tang Dynasty as its master from generation to generation."

The Silla envoy kept his attitude very low, and the emperor remained unmoved.

"Silla is originally from Han Dynasty, but it was just stolen by you. Now that I get my things back, is there anything I shouldn't do?"

This negotiation can no longer go on. The emperor of the Tang Dynasty has a very clear intention. He wants to abolish the royal court of Silla and accept Silla as the territory of the Tang Dynasty.

Jin Baili couldn't even say harsh words. In just a few days, the Tang Dynasty's troops came to the city. Jinzhou is located in the southeast corner of Silla, surrounded by the sea on three sides. The only land route has been blocked by the Tang army. There is no other way but to the sea. .

The emperor said: "If your king leaves the city and surrenders to the Tang Dynasty, I will follow the precedent and be demoted to a county prince to protect her royal line. However, the Jin family needs to move to Bianjing. I can protect their prosperity and wealth."

"His Majesty……"

Li Ye waved his hand and said: "This is my final bottom line. If there is no response in three days, after the city is destroyed, all the jade and stone will be burned!"

The woman next to Jin Baili looked up at Li Ye with no fear in her eyes.

"You are Jin Wan, Princess of Kangyang!"

"The little girl is!"

Li Ye nodded and said to the servant Zhao Xi: "Take him down and arrange the big tent."

"promise!"

Jin Wan then knelt down and said: "Your Majesty!"

"What do you want to say?"

"Your Majesty, although Silla was a Han land in ancient times, it was hundreds of years ago and the people of Silla are not the Han people before. They don't know the language of the Han people and they don't know the customs of the Han people. Your Majesty wants to incorporate Silla into the Tang Dynasty. If we send Han officials to manage it, I'm afraid that if the people don't get used to the king's behavior, there will be disaster in the long run!"

"Then what do you think we should do?"

"My little girl thinks that Silla should be governed by Silla people and then promote Han culture. After a long time, it will naturally return to rule!"

Li Ye smiled and said: "It's too slow, I don't want to wait!"

Jin Wan said anxiously: "Your Majesty, you will have a small success in five years, and a big success in ten years. After 20 years, all Silla people will be Han people!"

Li Ye shook his head. The changes in 20 years were too great for him to choose this strategy. Jin Wan didn't know who taught him what he said. In the final analysis, he just wanted the Silla Jin family to stay here forever.

Jin Wan's eyes were slightly dim as she followed Zhao Xi out of the tent.

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Gyeongju, Jincheng.

As soon as Jin Baili returned to the capital, he immediately entered the palace.

"How's it going!"

"Your Majesty, the Emperor said that if the Queen surrenders, she will be demoted to the Tang Dynasty County Prince and move to Bianjing of the Tang Dynasty, which will ensure the prosperity and wealth of the Jin family's royal ancestral temple!"

Jin Yao said: "Your Majesty, there are still [-] soldiers and horses in Jincheng. Can you sail east to Japan and regain your ancestral land when the time is right?"

Prime Minister Jin Can said: "Don't you know, Your Highness, that in the battle at the mouth of the Han River, the entire Japanese army was defeated? Less than half of the [-]-strong army and more than [-] warships escaped back. Besides, when the whole army crossed eastward, we didn't have that many battles." Boat!”

Jin Baili said: "Your Highness, along the way, I saw the warships of the Tang Dynasty on the Han River, stretching for dozens of miles. The sails raised on the warships were like a wall. Even if we have warships, we can fight them. Pass them?"

The True Saint Queen said: "I have decided to leave the city and surrender to the Tang Dynasty..."

No one is the Holy Queen anymore. In fact, regardless of the royal family or the officials, most people still think it is better to surrender.

They have a small family, money, and land, and they can surrender to the Tang Dynasty. If the resistance is defeated, they don't dare to think about the consequences.

On the fifth day of the sixth lunar month, the gates of Jincheng were opened wide, and Queen Zhensheng led the civil and military cities ten miles out of the city to greet the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty.

From the dispatch of troops in March to now, it took three months for Silla to be pacified. …………

Tang Dynasty Bianjing
At this time, Xinjing of the Tang Dynasty was becoming more and more prosperous, and the streets were slowly filling up with people. A variety of merchandise shops were lined up next to each other. Businessmen dressed in exotic styles could be seen everywhere. They purchased textiles and porcelain from the Tang Dynasty in large quantities. , tea and other commodities.

Glaze and blankets from foreign lands are also very popular in Bianjing.

The wharf in Nancheng is even busier. Bulk goods such as coal and cloth have special warehouses, and a small track has been built from the wharf to the coal bunker.

The foundation is paved with gravel, the sleepers are one foot thick and five feet long, and the track above is made of iron. The distance is only three or four miles, and a single railway track costs 20 copper coins.

The wheels and axles of the coal-carrying cart are all made of iron. Sixteen horses are arranged in sequence and can pull five thousand kilograms of coal at a time.

"It's amazing!"

The people wearing exotic costumes on the side were very emotional.

Cui Yin, the junior eunuch of the Imperial Academy, said: "It's just a waste of money. Even if you use an ox cart for a few miles, it will be faster than this track."

Iron is so valuable. Throughout the dynasties, iron has been a strategic material controlled by the imperial court. With these two tracks, millions of kilograms of pig iron are used. It is unclear how many weapons, armors, and farm tools can be made.

Everyone in the court laughed at the emperor's jokes.

Only this ignorant Japanese mission to Tang Dynasty thought it was a good thing.

Since the Battle of the Han River Estuary, Emperor Shotoku of Japan has sensitively felt that the Tang Dynasty is no longer the Tang Dynasty they are familiar with, and there must be something they don't know about.

The weapon that can shoot lead bullets for dozens of miles, the sound is like thunder, the shape is like fire, the weapon can be cloned into broken stones, and then seeing the Yamato soldiers who escaped with broken limbs and arms, Emperor Shotoku was filled with emotion.

The last time an envoy was sent to the Tang Dynasty was 50 years ago. At that time, the Tang Dynasty was still busy cleaning up the mess in the feudal town.

Emperor Shotoku had not yet been born at that time.

Sometimes he even wondered if the people who had escaped were lying.

It wasn't until he asked everyone that Emperor Shotoku was convinced that this was all true.

"Your Majesty, everyone agrees. When they talked about the artifacts of the Tang Dynasty, they still look panicked. Moreover, the ships of the Tang Dynasty can even sail against the wind, which is simply unheard of."

Emperor Shotoku immediately decided to send Tang envoys to the Tang Dynasty, headed by the eminent monk Enzhen and the emperor's eldest son Udoten.

He summoned more than a hundred Buddhist monks, as well as iron and copper smelting, shipbuilding, carpentry, pottery, weaving and other hundreds of people, as well as music and painting, and more than a thousand people, and went to the Tang Dynasty with the credential.

The scale of the envoys sent to the Tang Dynasty this time was far larger than that of previous dynasties. The largest number in the past was more than [-] people, and this time it doubled.

As soon as the Japanese envoys to the Tang Dynasty arrived in Bianjing, they received the attention of the imperial court.

Prime Minister Du Rangneng went to the post in person to meet with Monk Yuanzhen and Prince Yuduotian.

Emperor Shotoku of Japan apologized to the Emperor of Tang Dynasty in his credentials. He did not avoid the battle at the mouth of the Han River. He only said that the rebels of the Koda family fought against the Tang army at the mouth of the Han River.

Emperor Shotoku was furious when he heard that the Koda family was at war with the Heavenly Army, and he had already raised troops to put down the Koda rebels.

A few sentences of explanation, and I got through smoothly.

Du Rangneng was convinced and often said to his left and right: "When all nations come to court, this is a prosperous time!"

According to the old practice, the imperial court distributed more than a thousand of these envoys to the Tang Dynasty to various places. .

If the emperor were here, he would definitely say that Mr. Du is so generous.

Monks were placed in monasteries, those who studied poetry, calligraphy and painting were placed in the Imperial Academy, and iron-smelting craftsmen, carpenters, porcelain and handicrafts craftsmen were placed in the Imperial Academy.

Even the workshops of the Tang Dynasty Weaving Bureau were assigned Japanese textile craftsmen, and the agricultural supervisors were assigned Japanese farm craftsmen.

At this time, all industries in the Tang Dynasty had no reservations about Japan.

(End of this chapter)