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Outside Guangling City, two passenger ships were moored on the pier one after the other. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Of the two ships, the front one looks a little strange, but judging from its size, it doesn't look like a boat in the river, but like a ship sailing in the sea.

The latter boat is not so peculiar, it is just an ordinary boat on the river, but it is more luxuriously decorated inside and out.

Soon, two groups of people came down from the two ships.

The man who got out of the boat at the back of the boat spoke a Min dialect and seemed to be from Fujian.

Among the people who disembarked from the previous ship, the leader was dressed in a Tang Dynasty-style civil service, but the attendants behind him were dressed strangely.

"Childe, they seem to be from Silla!" Among the group of Fujianese, an old man who looked like a housekeeper whispered to their leading son.

"The Silla people? How did they get here? The boy asked a little strangely.

This group of people is the envoy sent by Wang Shenzhi to Guangling, and the leading son is Wang Yanhan, the eldest son of Wang Shenzhi, and the housekeeper is an old servant named Wang Fu, who has followed Wang Shenzhi for many years.

"Well, maybe they're all here for the same purpose as us, right?" Wang Fu was a little uncertain.

"Envoy? Could it be that Huainan's momentum has even been heard of by these overseas barbarians? Wang Yanhan was surprised.

Ahead, Cui Ning, who was called an "overseas barbarian" by Wang Yanhan, sighed in his heart: "Sure enough, it is a big country in Middle-earth, and such a prosperous place cannot be seen in my Thai feudal country!" Even our great capital is far from this city! ”

However, he turned to his attendants and said, "This city is indeed good, but it is far from our capital!" ”

"Yes, yes, how can it be compared to our national capital?" The attendants nodded their heads.

"I have seen in the history books that this place was originally the territory of Baekje, but unfortunately later the descendants lost all these territories!" Cui Ning said with regret on his face.

The attendants also felt very sorry, but they were a little excited to think that their ancestors had "occupied" this place in history.

Yes, this group of people is the "first power of the universe" from the later generations, or according to this era, they are messengers from Silla.

However, at this time, they can no longer be regarded as Silla people strictly speaking, but a new country, the envoys of the Taefeng Kingdom.

During the reign of Emperor Gojong of the Tang Dynasty, Silla and the Tang Dynasty destroyed Baekje and Goguryeo successively.

Soon after, Silla took advantage of the fact that the main force of the Tang army was pinned down by other places, and invaded the former places south of the Daedong River, which originally belonged to the Tang Dynasty and were seized by Goguryeo.

After that, Silla pleaded guilty to the Tang Dynasty and declared himself a vassal, but the Tang Dynasty did not pursue it because of the tight war in other places.

In this way, Silla unified the area south of the Taedong River on the Korean Peninsula and became known as Unified Silla.

However, when the Tang Dynasty gradually fell into decline, the Silla Dynasty, which had been established for more than 900 years, also had a crisis of declining royal power.

More than 80 years ago, Jang Bo-go, a Silla who had served as a general in the Tang Dynasty, returned to Silla and launched a rebellion, which dealt a heavy blow to Silla's rule.

Nearly 20 years ago, when the 51st Shinseong Queen of Silla ascended the throne, the Silla court's control over the region was already very weak.

The reasons for the decline of the Tang Dynasty are very similar, starting with the uprisings of Wonjong and Ainu, and the peasant rebellions in various parts of Silla set off a new peak.

At the same time, the local tycoons took the opportunity to proclaim themselves generals and city lords, and set up independent power institutions by force, and the Silla royal territory was constantly encroached upon, and finally it was only equivalent to a local government centered on the capital city of Jinseong.

In the annexation war, Zhen Xuan, who was born as a peasant, and Gong, who was born as an illegitimate son of the Silla royal family, stood out, cut off other forces, and divided the world with the original Silla.

Five years ago, in 900 AD, Zhen Xuan was proclaimed king, claiming to revive Baekje, which had been destroyed by Silla, and named the country Baekje, which is the post-Baekje in history.

The following year, the Gong descendants also claimed the title of king in Kaesong, claiming to revive Goguryeo, which was destroyed by Silla, so the country was named Goguryeo, which is the post-Goguryeo in history.

However, Gong is actually the illegitimate son of the Silla royal family, and has nothing to do with Goguryeo hundreds of years ago.

In Silla at this time, those who were lowly did not have a surname, and these people generally took the character "bow" as their surname, which was the case with the bow descendants; And the Jang Bo-gao who launched the rebellion eighty years ago, his original name was Gongfu, and he was also the lowest-born in Silla.

After the Gong descendants established Goguryeo, they changed the name of the country to Mozhen last year, and changed the name of the country to "Taifeng" this year.

And the group of people in front of him is Huainan who sent an envoy from the Gong descendants.

In fact, their original envoy was actually Qian Biao, the king of Yue, not Huainan.

As early as nearly ten years ago, the Gong descendants had sent envoys to get in touch with Qian Biao, who was only the envoy of the Eastern Zhejiang Festival at that time, and the Son of Heaven of the Tang Dynasty still had a certain majesty, so Qian Biao represented the Son of Heaven and the Gong descendants to deal with.

When the Gong descendants founded Goguryeo four years earlier, he again sent envoys across the sea to meet Qian Biao, and this time Qian Biao canonized him directly in the name of the Son of Heaven.

So this year, after the Gong descendant changed the name of the country to Taifeng, he was ready to send an envoy to Qian Biao again, who knew that after the envoy arrived in Suzhou, he found that the current Yue King Qian Biao had been eliminated by Yang Xingmi, the king of Wu, as early as last year.

At this time, the somewhat dumbfounded envoys did not know whether they should return to China or should be diverted to Guangling.

In the end, after some discussion, everyone decided to go directly to Guangling to meet Yang Xingmi, the king of Wu, after all, whether Qian Biao was eliminated or not had nothing to do with them.

Cui Ning, as the envoy of the Gong descendant, only cares about whether there is anyone to canonize them on behalf of the Son of Heaven of the Tang Dynasty, as for whether this person is Qian Biao, the king of Yue, or Yang Xingmi, the king of Wu, it doesn't matter.

Even, since Yang Xingmi, the king of Wu, was able to eliminate Qian Biao, the king of Yue, it means that the strength of the king of Wu is higher than that of the king of Yue, so his canonization is even more convincing.

Therefore, Cui Ning and others temporarily changed the recital written to Qian Biao, the king of Yue, to Yang Xingmi, the king of Wu, and changed some other places that needed to be corrected, and then turned into an envoy of the Taifeng State to Huainan.

At this time, Cui Ning and the others were all speaking in their native dialects, so Wang Yanhan and the others couldn't understand it, but since they guessed the identity of these people's envoys, Wang Yanhan, who was also a messenger, went up to greet them with some curiosity.

"Are you messengers from Silla? In Xia Wang Yanhan, from Fujian! ”

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Not to mention the conversation between Wang Yanhan and Cui Ning, in the Wu Wangfu, Yang Xingmi, who rarely has time to deal with government affairs in person today, finally heard a good news: Suzhou City has fallen into the hands of Huainan!

"Haha, there is such a beautiful child, what more can you ask for!" Yang Xingmi was overjoyed and looked very excited.

He had led his troops to attack the city of Suzhou many times, but it ended in failure again and again, and now it finally fell into the hands of Huainan, and he was naturally happy.

"Where is the army of the prince now? Is it continuing the Northern Expedition? Is Zhu Quanzhong's old boy in a hurry to jump to his feet? Yang Xingmi asked Yan Keqiu and the others with a smile on his face.

On the side, Yan Keqiu said worriedly: "King, at this time, the time is not yet ripe for the Northern Expedition!" The subordinates felt that with the strength of our army and Zhu Quanzhong at this time, even if they could win, they would eventually cheapen other feudal towns. Therefore, the best choice at this time is to accept it when it is good, take advantage of the power of the big victory, withdraw the army back, and pacify the south first is the best policy! ”

Like Guo Chongtao, Yan Keqiu did not agree with the Northern Expedition at this time, so when Yang Wu crossed the Huai River, he made a recital to explain his opinion, but Yang Wu vetoed it.

When he failed to persuade Yang Wu, Yan Keqiu wanted to persuade Yang Xingmi instead, hoping to influence Yang Wu through Yang Xingmi.

It's a pity that compared with Yang Wu, Yang Xingmi is more enthusiastic about the Northern Expedition, if it weren't for his poor health, I am afraid that he has already re-emerged from the mountain and personally went to the front line to lead the troops.

Therefore, it naturally became impossible to persuade Yang Xingmi.

"What? Do you still want to persuade Gu to let my son stop the Northern Expedition? Yang Xingmi smiled disapprovingly and said: "My son is resourceful enough to deal with Zhu Quanzhong, hasn't he already conquered Suzhou now?" ”

Yan Keqiu couldn't help but smile bitterly, he didn't know Yang Wu's plans, and he didn't know much about the situation on the front line, so he was more worried than Guo Chongtao.

Fortunately, all the good news from the north is at present, and Yang Wu can indeed be said to have won a hundred battles since he led the troops on the expedition, maybe he insisted on the Northern Expedition because he was sure to defeat the Liang army?

At this time, a guard came in to report: "King, there are two messengers outside, one of whom is the eldest son of King Langya of Fujian, named Wang Yanhan; And the other person claimed to be from the Thai feudal country! ”

"Wang Zhenzhi? Thai feudal country? Yang Xingmi was surprised.

The messenger of the king's judgment is not enough, everyone knows that he is the lord of Fujian; But this Thai feudal country, everyone is a little confused.

Fortunately, the guards immediately presented the envoy letter of the two, and Yang Xingmi took it and took a look, and then he understood.

After passing the sheet to several other people, Yang Xingmi asked, "What do you think of these two envoys?" ”

The purpose of Wang Yanhan's envoy is mainly to establish a relationship with Huainan and express his friendship, which is easier to deal with, but Cui Ning of the Thai feudal country, after Yang Xingmi sat on the throne of King Wu, it was the first time that a real foreign envoy came to ask for canonization, so he was not sure how to deal with it for a while.

At this time, Yin Wengui suddenly said: "Great King, my subordinates seem to have heard that this Taifeng State was originally Goguryeo, and its lord was named Gong Descendant, and he sent an envoy to Qian Biao, the king of Yue, four years ago to ask for canonization. Therefore, the king might as well summon Qian Biao's old subordinates to ask, maybe they know how Qian Biao handled this matter in the first place! ”