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Although Emperor Xiaode said on his face that he was unable to recover the Wa Kingdom from pirates and bandits, so he took the initiative to dedicate the Wa Kingdom to the Tang Dynasty, but from the fact that he took the initiative to move his family to the Tang Dynasty, Gao Ming could be sure that he must have understood everything.

When Gomyeong sent people to attack Baekje, the lord of Baekje asked Emperor Hyodeok of the Wa Kingdom for help, and Emperor Hyodeok did send a fleet to Baekje.

Unfortunately, before the fleet arrived, Baekje let Gao Ming be destroyed.

Since Baekje was destroyed, Emperor Hyotoku naturally would not offend the Tang Dynasty because of a destroyed country, so he let half of the fleet that had already gone return to the Wa Kingdom.

Originally, Emperor Hyotoku thought that this matter was over, but what he did not expect was that less than a month after Baekje was destroyed, the Wa Kingdom was besieged by 200,000 pirates.

These pirates were not only armed with large ships, but also well-armed and brave, and in less than a week, they crushed all the resistance of the Japanese and began to plunder on a frenzy.

Although Emperor Xiaode felt that these pirates were strange, he couldn't let him think too much at this time, for his own life, he could only take some close people to take advantage of the night to get on the ship, sneak to the Tang Dynasty, and ask Li Shimin for help.

Originally, Emperor Xiaode did not have much hope, but to his surprise, Li Shimin actually agreed to his request, and Li Daozong went to the Wa Kingdom with an army of 100,000 to help him recover the land.

This result made Emperor Kotoku's Xiao suddenly warm up.

"Now I can finally take back the country!"

As Emperor Kotoku thought, after Li Daozong's army arrived at the Wa Kingdom, the pirates fled immediately, and Emperor Kotoku got his wish and formed a new army to take control of the Wa Kingdom.

However, it is a pity that when these pirates fled, they also took a lot of the wealth plundered from the Wa Kingdom, but he couldn't say anything about the Tang army that came to help him recover the Wa Kingdom, so he made a difficult decision.

Tax increase!

It took nearly a month for Emperor Xiaode, who had caused the people to complain because of the tax increase, finally scraped together enough "labor fees" to satisfy Li Daozong, and only then did Li Daozong and his 100,000 Tang troops send out of the Wa Kingdom.

Originally, Emperor Kotoku thought that he could finally be his emperor with peace of mind, but it didn't take long for a shocking news to blow him again.

There are bandits out of the Wa Kingdom!

In fact, there have always been bandits in the Wa Kingdom, but they are all unsuccessful, so Emperor Kotoku has never cared.

But these are different, the bandits who came out this time are not Japanese people, but Turkic people!

According to the news obtained by Emperor Xiaode, these bandits are all from Xue Yantuo, and the reason is that Bazhuo offended the Tang Dynasty, so Li Shimin sent people to let Xue Yantuo be destroyed, and these Turkic people who appear in the Wa Kingdom now are the Turkic remnants who escaped from Xue Yantuo!

These Turks were not only numerous, but also very powerful, several times more powerful than the previous pirates, and the art of mounted archery was even more masterful, and the soldiers of the Japanese kingdom were often shot into hedgehogs by their bows and arrows before they could get close to them.

Moreover, after the appearance of these bandits, they did not plunder everywhere, but directly occupied several gold and silver mining areas in the Wa Kingdom, and then began to mine precious metals.

When mining gold and silver mines, these bandits are still recruiting people, and the number has expanded to one million in less than a month.

So, these bandits began to go down the mountain to grab food.

What made Emperor Kotoku angry the most was that these bandits couldn't look at robbing the people at all, but directly issued an ultimatum to him, the emperor, giving him a few days to let him hand over the grain, and if he didn't pay it overdue, he would be killed.

This is so deceitful!

Emperor Kotoku was very angry, but when he was done, he obediently followed the other party's request and went to get food.

Emperor Kotoku naturally didn't have such a thing, so he could only let the nobles of the Wa Kingdom below hand it over, and the nobles of the Wa Kingdom would let the samurai under him hand it over, and the samurai would go to persecute the ordinary people of the Wa Kingdom.

In the past, it wasn't a big deal, but now it's different.

More than two months ago, the pirates just came to rob once, and a month ago, in order to deal with Li Daozong, Emperor Kotoku asked people to collect it again, and now it has only been a month, and the samurai have come to collect grain again, if they pay it, how can they survive?

If you pay food, you may starve to death, and if you don't pay food, you may be beaten to death by the samurai, and you will die on both sides and sides, so it's better to do the opposite!

As a result, the people of the Wa Kingdom rebelled, and in a few days, the number of rebels exceeded one million, because the number of Wa nobles killed in this rebellion also exceeded double digits.

At this time, Emperor Kotoku was stunned and forced.

"How did things come to this?"

As a person who can go down in history, Emperor Kotoku's brain is naturally very useful, and it only took him two days to clear his mind and figure everything out.

First of all, the time of the pirate invasion was too coincidental, and after the Tang army's army had just defeated Baekje and recovered the entire peninsula, the pirates came to fight the Japanese state, and there were 200,000 of them, which was simply unheard of.

Secondly, why did the pirates withdraw immediately as soon as the Tang Dynasty's army arrived, you know, the number of pirates is 200,000, and Li Daozong only brought 100,000 people, there is no reason to run so simply, right?

The last point is that the appearance of the bandits is too strange, as soon as Datang's army leaves, the bandits appear immediately, and their combat effectiveness is still strong, if Xue Yantuo's Turkic remnants are really so fierce, will they be destroyed by Datang?

What about liars!

After thinking about this, Emperor Kotoku finally came to a conclusion.

Whether it is a pirate or a bandit, everything is a good show directed and acted by Datang himself, and the purpose is to retaliate for him to send troops to rescue Baekje!

After coming to this conclusion, Emperor Kotoku's intestines were full of repentance, but he also knew that it was too late to regret it now, and if he continued to stay in the Wa Kingdom, then he would either be killed by the bandits or the rebellious people of the Wa Kingdom in the future.

Left and right are dead, just leave!

With such an idea, Emperor Xiaode took his family and went directly to Chang'an, and then directly handed over the inheritance of the imperial family of the Japanese kingdom - the "artifact" to the Honglu Temple of the Tang Dynasty, and asked for the protection of the Tang Dynasty.

Emperor Kotoku's meaning is very simple, to put it bluntly, it is a sentence, "I don't want the country of Wa, and I don't want the freedom of life, you let my family live in peace and stability!" ”

This request was not an excessive request, so Gao Ming agreed to it in the court.

And Gao Ming didn't plan to do anything to Emperor Xiaode, especially after returning to the East Palace in the next dynasty, he saw the artifact of the Wa Kingdom sent by Honglu Temple, and he also had a good impression of this "sensible" emperor.

"Hehe, this guy Xiaode, he's quite sensible, not bad!"