183 Eradication of dissent
"Hehe, you don't have to admit the existence of this contract, anyway, when you come to negotiate, you are doing it without the people at the bottom, except for your nobles and gentry, no one knows."
I don't know why, Tang Ren suddenly made such a tough posture uncharacteristically, so that the peace talks, which were originally on the right path, re-entered a state of confusion.
"It's not that we Hongmen don't pay attention to morality and rules, what we are doing at this time is just asking for an explanation for the Han shopkeeper and guys who innocently died before me."
"Oh, by the way, Ben Jiang also has a handwritten letter here to present to your lord, presumably your lord will have a different idea after reading it?"
Tang Ren changed his face again, with an unfathomable and profound look, he threw a document that had been prepared long ago to Su Song, and asked him to hand it over to King Talong.
Su Song took the paperwork, hesitantly trying to open the letter to see if there was any ghost hidden in it.
"If I were you, I wouldn't have thought to check this document, the contents of it would probably make your head fall to the ground!"
Tang Ren sneered and interrupted Su Song's stupidity, making him feel like he had caught a hot potato, and hurriedly handed it over to a court man who followed behind him, who had been sent by King Taron to monitor their negotiations.
"You go back first and see the attitude of your king and others, we are not in a hurry!"
Tang Ren had a fearless attitude, and let Su Song's stomach of grievance and anger go back, and he returned to the royal city again in a hurry with a full stomach of hesitation.
After returning home, 1510 reported the reaction and attitude of Tang Ren of the Hongtang army to King Long and the lords of the court, and at the same time presented the letter written by Tang Ren to him Long, and the court was shrouded in all kinds of angry words for a while.
"The lord humiliates the ministers to death, Han lets you play with the army to humiliate our king like this, it is the incompetence of our ministers, and we must not give up!!"
"Please send troops, shame on Your Highness!!"
“……”
All sorts of expressions of loyalty, blurted out from the mouths of the princes and ministers present, were too deceitful, and the princes and ministers of the dynasty would inevitably be furious at the knowledge of King Talon and overturn the treaties they had agreed to.
Instead of waiting for him to turn his face and the important ministers are following up, it is better to start first and show their loyalty now, and then slowly try to see if the peace talks can get back on track.
It's just that unexpectedly, in addition to the anger on his face at the beginning, as he took the document and carefully checked it, his expression not only gradually eased, but even showed a hint of panic, and I don't know if it was the illusion of the courtiers present.
He Long was also ashamed and angry, thinking that he had lost too much, and he had already made up his mind not to take a step back, but after he reviewed the letter written by Tang Ren, the biggest secret in his heart was known by outsiders, and the panic that he personally exposed gradually climbed into his heart.
The letter is nothing else, but it is the history of the dirty things that Ta Long did behind the back of the noble ministers of the court, the testimony of witnesses, etc., if it is known by the ministers of the current court, the culprit of the kingdom to this day is Ta Long himself, and I don't know how far the situation will come in the end.
No one would have imagined that Hongmen's intelligence system was so powerful that it would investigate cases that even local officials couldn't find out, and finally found the real mastermind.
It was precisely because they obtained this top-secret information that they suddenly changed their attitude, and they had to ask Ta Long to come out in person to submit the credentials, so as to ask for an explanation for the dozens and hundreds of shopkeepers and guys of Qixintang and Nanyang Chamber of Commerce.
At the same time, the Hongmen guard, who was holding him with a handle, also wanted to take this opportunity to see where the bottom line of King Talong and others was, if the other party resolutely did not back down, the outer guard would also make this secret public, and at the same time, take advantage of the uproar of the princes and ministers of the dynasty to see if they could manipulate the power and depose Talong.
All kinds of calculations, at least in the eyes of Tang let you play, are actually harmless, and can even be said to be more profitable, so why not go back on their word?
"For the sake of the peace and tranquility of the kingdom, Lone and Lone agreed to surrender in Kaecheng and hand over the credentials in person!"
Under the mixture of grief, shame, sadness and other complex emotions, King Tarong's expression was extremely wonderful, and the words with a trilling voice slowly came out of his mouth, which made all the Burmese officials present feel surprised and incredulous.
"Your Highness think twice!"
"Your Highness not!"
A group of seemingly loyal Burmese officials really said this spontaneously and from the bottom of their hearts, I am afraid that only 12 out of 10 people are afraid that the rest of them are only superficial gestures, and in their hearts they are more happy and relieved.
King Talon took the initiative to bend his knees to accept this moment of shame, which was naturally better for most of the officials present. Compared to the humiliation that King Talon and the royal family have to face, as well as the problem of discredit, the loss of these noble gentry is very small, so what is there to hesitate.
However, at the bottom, there is a minister whose psychology is different from that of most of the ministers present, and that is Su Song, the secret envoy.
Now he was very curious as to what was stated in the letter he had brought back that would make the hately stubborn King Helon make such a change; At the same time, he was also extremely afraid and frightened, if he had read this letter privately, he would have suffered what kind of revenge King Helon would have suffered because he learned the contents of it, maybe after retiring from the court today, he would have died unexplained!
With a strong uneasiness, Su Song began to plan and calculate how to deal with himself next, and how to guard against the very likely plot of King Talon, thinking of this, Su Song became more and more gloomy, and really responded to the famous saying in the Han book: Accompanying the king is like accompanying the tiger!
Since King Talon himself agreed to the unreasonable demands made by the Han army, a group of Burmese ministers, after making a sufficient gesture, took advantage of the situation to help King Talon cope with the next matter.
On the sixth day of the sixth month of the twenty-first year of Chongzhen, the royal capital, which had been in front of the Honghongtang army for more than half a month, slowly opened the gate, and out of the door came a short, thin old man who was gorgeously dressed and haggard, leading a group of Nanyang indigenous subjects wearing gorgeous costumes, and walked out of the south gate of Ava City step by step.
"Sinners of Burma, Tarong, meet the generals!"
Although it was the time of the national mourning, at least Ta Long was still a little hard, after all, the supreme general of the Hongtang army was only a regiment leader, and it was not worthy of King Ta Long's worship, so he just raised his hand to complete the surrender to Hongmen.
In the face of this scene, Tang Ren and the others are not very harsh, and now they can get the other party's submission, which is already an unexpected gain for them, but they don't have to bully people too much, forcing the other party to jump off the wall in a hurry!
"This general Tang Ren, on the orders of my Hongmen master, came to ask for an explanation for the innocent death of hundreds of Han people before, and the seizure of my Han business in the north for no reason, now since the lord of the country of Ta Long understands the righteousness and is willing to hand over the culprit, it will naturally make you and me live in peace and more harmonious in the future, and I hope that King Talon will remember today's lesson, and never repeat right and wrong, otherwise my red envelope soup army of 100,000 troops will definitely set foot in Pinger and other small countries, and return justice to my Chinese people."
"Kill!! Kill!! Kill!! ”
The Hongtang army suddenly let out an earth-shattering roar, and the fierce momentum of the army that had survived a hundred battles burst out, which made all the Burmese officials and nobles present panic and dare not have the slightest slackness.
"Come on, arrest the culprits Agung, Aung San Suu Kyi, Qiu Ming Zeyou, and Feng Dashi, and bring them back to my Dayuan Island to be punished!"
Suddenly, Tang Ren waved his hand, and more than a dozen heavily armed and refined warriors appeared behind him, rushing into the Wenchen who followed Ta Long out of the city, grabbed four Burmese Wenchen according to the pattern, and dragged the other party out of the team like this, and brought them to Tang Ren.
"General Tang, what does this mean? Didn't you already sign a contract before? Why are you arresting people all of a sudden? ”
A Wenchen suddenly stood up and questioned in a Chinese that was not very fluent, and behind him, countless Burmese Wenchen glared angrily, both unwilling and at the same time worried about the murderous Han army in front of him, with a look of anger and dare not speak.
Even King Helon was furious, his eyes seemed to be able to kill people, and he stared at Tang Ren and asked him to give him an explanation.
Originally, as the lord of a country, he finally surrendered to a sea coward who did not even have a clear separation, which had already made King Long feel very disheartened, and at this time, he was arrested and arrested by his subjects in front of his own Burma, so that he could take over how to rule the subjects under his command, and how to still sit firmly in this country.
"Hehe, since we dare to arrest them, naturally there is a reason for us, here is the evidence that our army has found that these four liaos are secretly plotting against each other and persecuting our Chinese Han people, why don't you hand it over to the adults to take a look?"
Ta Long's submission made Tang Ren and them overjoyed, and at the same time, it was also a test of the other party's attention to what they knew, and Tang Ren and they also knew that this kind of submission achieved through military conquest was never a long-term solution.
If you want to keep these native kings obediently obeying Hongmen and following the direction that Hongmen leads them for a long time, then other means are needed.
The first thing to do is to cut off the backbone of King Tharong's henchmen and die-hard fans in the Burmese dynasty, so unfortunately, the four Burmese ministers led by Agung, because of the betrayal and identification of their colleagues, eventually became the first target of Hongtang Tangren and their cutoff.
Three thousand word chapters, and one more chapter three thousand words in a moment!
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