Neon Clothes and Iron Clothes

Chapter 322 The Real History 2
"Overseas Country Records" records: "In September, Dashan Nakatsu Shoulian Jixiang, Dayizhong Iki Shibode, Seng Zhibian, etc. called the Chikushi Dazai speech, which is actually an imperial decree. Tell guests, etc.: 'I will see you today. The petitioner is not the envoy of the emperor, but the private envoy of Baekje Township. He also returned the document and sent the deacon's private speech. This is to prevent people from entering the country, and the letter will not be sent to the court. A little bit of rhetoric.’” The supervisor who gave Guo Wuji’s official answer was Jin Shoulian Jixiang. The reason why he was in charge was obviously because he served as the deputy envoy to the Tang Dynasty five years ago, had an audience with Emperor Gaozong of Tang Dynasty, and had rich experience in negotiating with Tang people. He was a diplomat, and his official position is the same as that of the previous Cainu-made believers.Iki Shibode is the Igiren Hakata who went to the Tang Dynasty together with Tsumori Renjixiang and left an important historical material "Ijiren Hakata Book" for later generations (in this book, he became the protagonist's subordinate). Deputy, a famous diplomat in later generations.Samana Zhibian, who had received Guo Wuji before, was also among the reception staff, meaning a guide.

The three reception envoys announced the Yamato court's will to Guo Wutai, Ni Jun, etc., but falsely claimed that this was the reply of Chikushi Dazai, who was the well-known sea general Abe Hirafu.The decree stated that Guo Wuxi and others were not ordered by Tang Gaozong, but were privately appointed by Baekje Town General Liu Renyuan and others, so they could not constitute state affairs and diplomatic standards. Dazai made a corresponding personal reply.

It can be said that it took a lot of pains to come up with such a countermeasure, the eldest brother prince and the minister Kamazu, and it really killed three birds with one stone: first, prevent Tang envoys from entering, and prevent them from taking the opportunity to spy on the domestic situation of Japan; Negotiating with private envoys, and using the local bureaucrat Zhuzi Dazai to come forward, he saw through Liu Ren's conspiracy to lower the international status of the Japanese country; third, he did not block the communication between Tang and Japanese, which actually implied that if Emperor Gaozong issued an edict to visit They will be treated accordingly, which also paves the way for the reconciliation of the relationship between the two countries.In this way, the two malicious intentions of Liu Renyuan and others were not achieved, and the two purposes of appeasement and improvement of diplomatic relations, which are beneficial to both sides, were met.The brilliant political strategies of Prince Zhong Daxiong and Zhongchen Kamazu are really admirable, which put Guo Wuyi and Ni Jun into a passive position, and Tang envoys and Baekje envoys were at a loss.

On the first day of October, the Yamato court issued an edict to dispatch Guo Wuxi and others, which means that the Japanese issued an order to expel guests.On the same day, Zhongchen Lianzu sent Samana Zhixiang to give gifts to Guo Wuyi; on the fourth day, he hosted a banquet for Tang envoys and Baekje envoys.All these are to send the Tang envoy back home, and hope that the relationship between the two countries can be further improved.However, Guo Wuxi and the others still did not give up, and even ignored the Wa country's dispatch letter, staying in Xikaidao and refusing to leave for a long time.This delay is more than two months, let's not mention it for the time being.

At the same time, there was a problem with Tang's soldiers in Baekje, because of the problem of the military system.Tang's garrison soldiers in Baekje had to be rotated regularly, that is, Fandai.The veterans who had quelled the rebellion had been in Baekje for more than three years, and they were eager to return home. However, because the imperial court gave Datang a much worse treatment of the town soldiers than before, the enthusiasm of the people has dropped significantly, and the rich and powerful are unwilling. Joining the army, but the lack of overall planning when the government enlisted, made the enlisted soldiers not enough to manage their own clothing and food, and the replacement town soldiers were not enough, which undoubtedly weakened the strength of the Baekje Tang Army.

In December of that year, the Japanese court again issued an order to evict guests, requiring Guo Wuxi and others to leave quickly. "Overseas Country Records" records: "In December, Bode gave a letter to the guests and others, and the letter said General Zhenxi: "General Zhenxi Zhuzi, the general of Japan Zhenxi Zhuzi, was in charge of the Tang Dynasty march in Baekje. It made people disperse." The doctor Guo Wuxi waited until he read the ultimatum to find out the meaning. It is neither an envoy from the Son of Heaven nor a letter from the Son of Heaven. It is only an envoy from the chief executive, but an ultimatum from the deacon. The ultimatum is a private intention, but it must be spoken; people are not ministers, so do not order Enter Beijing.'" It is not difficult to see that the content of this document is similar to that in September, but the words are much stricter. Apparently, the eldest brother and the prince have realized that the strength comparison between the Baekje Tang army and his own side has taken place in his favor. Natural attitudes change accordingly.

Although Wang Wenzuo did not read the above-mentioned history books before crossing, he has two points that are far superior to the historical generals of the Tang army: [-]. Through the channels of relics and Liu Yuanzhen, he has obtained the consolation ambassador of the Japanese kingdom. In history, Liu Ren could only send envoys in the name of the Xiongjin Governor's Mansion as Liu Ren wished them to do. The Prince Zhongda only needed to send an equivalent civil servant to block him in Kitakyushu.The envoys sent by Wang Wenzuo represent the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, and the eldest brother, the prince, must let him come to Beijing to meet him, otherwise he will be disrespectful to the Tang Dynasty.And as long as after entering Beijing, all kinds of divisions and collapses, the tricks of wooing and buying will come in handy.

Second, due to the defection of Monobe Renxiong and Shoujun Oishi in the Battle of Baijiangkou, the Japanese fleet that entered Baijiang was basically wiped out. People, the eldest brother prince sent a total of four batches of expeditionary troops to Baekje and were forced to surrender to the Tang army.There are tens of thousands of captured Japanese soldiers in Wang Wenzuo's hands, as well as Monobe Renxiong, Shoujun Oishi, etc., who are familiar with the domestic situation of Japan and want to overthrow the rich family of the Wa Kingdom, the eldest brother and prince. There is no secret about Wang Wenzuo's Wa Kingdom.

This is also the reason why Wang Wenzuo agreed to the request of Dinghui and Yiji Lianbode so easily.From the beginning to the end, he did not take the conquest of the Wa Kingdom as his goal. He had only one goal, which was to oust the Prince Zhongda from power and prevent the formation of a Yamato law-based country.Although the Tang Dynasty had Chang'an and Luoyang as capitals, it was actually an empire centered on the Guanzhong region. In other words, compared with Song, Ming, Qing and even modern China, Tang's political and economic center of gravity was more dependent on the northwest.Coupled with the factors of geographical changes (such as the existence of Liaoze, the Corridor of West Liaoning in Tang Dynasty was narrower than modern times and more susceptible to tide erosion), Hebei's tendency towards independence, the largest natural boundary in the northeast direction of Tang Dynasty was Liaodong and Liaonan , The northern half of the Korean peninsula.

If military adventures are carried out for the purpose of territorial expansion in more distant areas, even if military victories are achieved in a short period of time, the cost of ruling will be too high in the long run, and most of the results are wedding dresses for others. The conquest of Jiji is a good example.Less than ten years after the Baekje Rebellion was put down, a new war broke out between Tang and Silla. Pleading guilty to Tang, the two sides used the Datong River as the boundary to divide the border.Although we don't know who won and who lost on the battlefield, it is clear from the results that the Silla people achieved most of their goals.Not to mention that the real purpose of Emperor Gaozong's granting Wang Wenzuo the post of consolation ambassador of the Wa Kingdom was to relieve future worries and to eliminate Goguryeo.

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