The years are like Sifu, reluctant to give up day and night.

The time soon came to the early spring of the eighth year of Zhenguan, the season of the germination of all things, at this moment the Southern Tang gathered an army of 120,000, known as 200,000, and the south of the country of unsubordinated - Zhenla and Linyi.

These two small countries suddenly trembled, and hurriedly sent envoys to Jinling with a large number of cherished treasures, befriended hundreds of officials, and dissuaded the emperor, but everything was in vain, on the night the envoys arrived, the courtiers who secretly received bribes were confiscated by the Jinyi guards led by Mu Baiyi the next day, and assigned to Lingnan.

Realizing that this time the Central Plains suzerainty really wanted to clean up their two small countries, Zhenla and Lin Yi also secretly gritted their teeth and gathered troops to garrison in northern Xinjiang, and secretly united with the small state tribes further south, bound to resist the attack of the Tang army.

On March 11, Emperor Taishang personally met with the 32 cave masters of Annan Province in Diancheng and negotiated with them, and each cave had at least 1,000 people, totaling more than 30,000 barbarian soldiers to prepare for war.

In the face of the Tang State, whose territory is more than 100 parts of them, it is impossible for them not to be in awe, and besides, this time it is the emperor's personal expedition, and the Tang State is like a cloud, and it is not something that they can resist in the 36 holes, even if they resist, when the time comes, how can the Tang State resist the attacks of the Tang State again and again?

After all, where is the size of the Tang Kingdom, as long as it is not like Emperor Yang of Sui, who was so stupid that he crusaded against Goryeo three times and levied millions of people, which made the people's resentment boil.

The Tang State only needed to send twenty or thirty thousand people back and forth to harass them every year, and they would be self-defeating.

What's more, Li Yuan was very generous, saying that the Nanban could occupy half of the land attacked this time, which would greatly improve their living environment.

In fact, although the Tang Kingdom juxtaposed Linyi and Zhenla, the actual two were slightly different.

Linyi country, located in the eastern part of the Indochina Peninsula, is also known as Linyi country. Around present-day Hue in southern Vietnam. This place was originally the base of the Cham people, and the Western Han Dynasty was set up as Xianglin County, Rinan County, called Xianglinyi, omitting the elephant, so it was called Linyi.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, a man named Ou Lian killed the county commander and proclaimed himself the king of Linyi. At the end of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, China was repeatedly invaded, and in the first year of Liu Song Yongchu, Emperor Wu of the Song Dynasty sent Du Huidu, the state assassin, to conquer the country of Linyi, and Linyi asked to surrender to Liu Song to pay tribute. During the Great Cause of the Sui Dynasty, the Sui general Liu Fang conquered it and set up Linyi County.

But at the end of the Sui Dynasty, Linyi County established itself as a country and became the Linyi State.

It is recorded in the "Old Tang Book": Linyi country, the land of the southern elephant forest of Han and Japan, is more than 1,000 miles south of Jiaozhou. Its country stretches for thousands of miles, and it is connected to the state in the north. The ground is warm in winter, does not know ice and snow, and often fogs and rains.

The city where the king dwelt was a fence of trees. The king wore the ancient shell of the sun, obliquely wrapped around the waist, and added a pearl and gold lock on it, thinking that it was bright and curly, and wore flowers. Mrs. Chaoxia Gubei thought it was a short skirt, wearing a gold flower for the first time, and her body was decorated with a gold lock pearl. The king's guards, with 5,000 soldiers, were able to use crossbows, and with rattan as armor and bamboo as bows, and fought on elephants.

And the king came out of the list of a thousand heads and four hundred horses, which were divided into front and back. His fist hair is black, and the vulgar are all in vain, and he gets musk to coat his body, and in the middle of the day, he paints and washes again. Worship and palpate together. The method of marriage must take the same surname. There are words in the vulgar, especially in Buddhism, and there are many monks. When the parents died, the son wept and wept in a coffin, and burned the coffin, collected its ashes, hid it in a golden bottle, and sent it to water.

It is customary to take December as the first year, and the rice year is ripe again. Since then, in the south, the plants and trees are prosperous in winter, and lettuce is eaten at all times, and betel nut juice is used as wine. There are knotted birds, which can understand human language.

In the sixth year of Wude, Fan Fanzhi, the king of Linyi, sent an envoy to the Tang Dynasty, but there were few contacts after that.

For the Tang Dynasty, the value of Linyi was far less than that of the wealthy Western Regions.

The country of Chenla was further south than the country of Linyi, about the time of Cambodia. In fact, the existence of Zhenla is a little older than that of the Qin and Han dynasties, but for a long time, Zhenla was a subject country of Funan.

At this moment, although the Zhenla Kingdom is strong, but the Funan Kingdom is not weak, the two countries are at war, the Prince of Funan is in Java, and the Shandi Dynasty is established to confront the Zhenla Kingdom.

Therefore, the action of the Northern Tang Kingdom this time shocked the whole Zhenla Kingdom, the size of the Tang Dynasty was really too large, and it was completely devastating to deal with them, and they could only rely on the geographical advantages to barely confront.

In all the countries of Southeast Asia, there is a fear of the Central Plains Dynasty.

But fortunately, the Central Plains Dynasty rarely coveted their land, but now, a greedy Emperor Taishang stretched out his finger and pointed at Yutu.

"Here, and here, are all good places to produce grain, Patriarch Wadeng, how powerful the army of the Tang State is, you should know that the Eastern Turks in the north have been wiped out by our army, and the Tubo people have sent messengers to plead for peace,

You have to believe that I am not only an ally of yours! Li Yuan said.

"Dear Emperor of the Tang Kingdom, please call me by my Han name, Li Lideng." The Waden clan glared and emphasized, perhaps because the emotions in his heart were too excited, and he slapped the table hard.

Li Lideng is the Chinese name given to him by Li Yuan.

Of course, the Li family is naturally the national surname given by Li Yuan.

Emperor Li and Tang were accustomed to giving their national surnames to foreign races.

"Okay, Patriarch Waden." Li Yuan smiled and shook Li Lideng's hand.

The Waden Patriarch is the representative of the Nanban for the time being, and his tribe is the largest of the thirty-six caves.

As long as he gained his trust, it would be easy to form a Southern Barbarian army.

Unlike the wars of the Central Plains Dynasty and the Rongdi in the north, the countries of Southeast Asia fought more with elephant soldiers, and the methods were strange and diverse.

Surprisingly, the Mongol cavalry that swept across Eurasia did not fight Vietnam, and allowed the Persians to flee to the Indian subcontinent and establish the Mughal dynasty.

All this is related to the fact that the Mongol cavalry was not familiar with the methods of warfare in Southeast Asia, and there was no comparison between the strong war horses and the emaciated elephants.

"Patriarch Wadeng, I don't know how many troops you Nanban can send in total? The territory to be divided is closely related to how much you contribute.

You have to understand that my Tang country is thousands of miles away, and I don't care about this point at all, but recently something went wrong when building a lucky boat, and you made me very dissatisfied, what else is there besides infighting?

That's why I decided to destroy the two countries and divide the territory among you, so that you can give me some peace. Li Yuan's face remained unchanged, his face was not red and his heart was not beating, and he seemed to be telling the truth.

Hehe!

He couldn't have told the truth.

Eradicating these two countries, although it was a bit tricky for Li Yuan, it was not difficult, and the strength of the Tang Dynasty was enough to crush them.

But why not drive the wolf?

Let them kill each other and reap the benefits of the fishermen themselves.

Although the Ming Dynasty's land reform and diversion could also solve the problem of Nanban Tusi, the means were too soft and required nearly a hundred years of efforts.

And Li Yuan preferred to choose to destroy them directly and forcibly integrate into the Tang Dynasty.