Four months had passed since the war between Silla and Andong Prefecture, and the envoys sent by both sides to Luoyang to explain the reasons for the war to the imperial court also entered the court one after another. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Relying on convenience, Hao Nanrong, the envoy sent by Li Yu to the court, entered Beijing before the Silla envoy, and explained in detail the reasons why he and Silla fought again.

As for sending the navy to pretend to be pirates to raid the southeast coast of Silla, this will certainly not tell the truth. Naturally, it is necessary to distort that Silla has long been disobedient (the fact is that Silla has indeed been disobedient for a long time), and to defile the Tatar Sea Bandus, which has been active on its coast for many years, to be committed by the soldiers of the Andong Protectorate, and provoke trouble, so as to stand on the moral high ground to start a war against the Tang Dynasty and find a favorable excuse for it to seek to seize the territory of the suzerain.

Anyway, every year, there would be people who would go south in small boats to raid the coasts of Silla and the Wa Kingdom, and it was not inappropriate for Li Yu to use this as a cover to send Wang Aoke to lead the Yellow Sea fleet to pretend to be pirates.

Hao Nanrong, who was sent by Li Yu to Beijing for the clear reason, inevitably criticized Silla again in the court.

Many ministers of the DPRK and China angrily accused the Silla thieves of not changing their stubborn nature, and they were respectful to the Tang Dynasty on the surface, but behind the scenes, they tried every means to calculate the Tang Dynasty and seek to seize the land of the Tang Dynasty. They have played Your Majesty, sent troops, provided food to support King Yan, destroyed this Dongyi, and ensured the peace of the Eastern Capital Protectorate.

Li Zhi pondered for some time to inquire about the views of the prime ministers, although Zhang Wenguan did not like King Yan to do everything possible to coax the ignorant people to move overseas, and to fight abroad in Andong on the basis of relying on foreign war. However, this incident was provoked by Silla, and an army of 100,000 troops marched north to attack the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate, forcing Yoo In, the governor of the Xiongjin Metropolitan Governor's Mansion who was guarding Baekje, to go to the sea. As a vassal state, Silla's offense to the Tang Dynasty cannot be forgiven in any way, and must be severely punished, and if necessary, it should be warned by destroying the country.

Since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, all the Huyi countries that sent troops to offend, except for a Tubo that could not be conquered due to topographical reasons, were all destroyed by the Tang Dynasty, and it was not impossible to add another Silla.

However, the Tang Dynasty is trapped in the rise of Tubo in the southwest, and the elite soldiers will be concentrated in Hexi and Longyou, and Guanzhong has suffered disasters year after year.

Therefore, Zhang Wenguan stood up and said: "Your Majesty should issue an order to reward King Yan and Andong for their achievements in defending the territory and resisting foreign humiliation, and reward the meritorious soldiers." However, at this time, the imperial court was dealing with the capture of Anxi by Tubo, and relied on the border affairs of Hexi and Longyou to plunder Hexi, and there were many disasters in Guanzhong, and people were hungry. It was also very difficult for the DPRK to send troops on an expedition at this time. King Yan governed Anton quite effectively for two years, and the armies under his command were also considered strong, and it must be enough to deal with the small kingdom of Silla with Anton's strength. Moreover, the army of King Yan had been at war with Silla for several months, and there was no unfavorable news. Presumably, King Yan is enough to deal with it, and the imperial court only needs to issue an order to encourage the Andong armies to fight bravely for the time being. ”

King Nuoyan did not need the support of court soldiers and grain rings, and the destruction of Silla was also a great thing to raise the prestige of the Tang Dynasty in Siyi. Xue Rengui was defeated in Dafeichuan, Siyi showed signs of imminent movement, the Yongchang barbarians in the southwest took the lead in launching a rebellion at the beginning of the year, although Liang Jishou, who led the army to conquer, defeated the barbarians 200,000 cavalry as soon as he arrived in Yongchang, killed more than 7,000 "barbarian" people, captured more than 5,000 horses, and captured Heshe and others, but his leader Meng Jian escaped and escaped, but he had not completely quelled the rebellion of the local barbarians.

As for whether the defeat of Silla would lead to a great increase in the power of the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate under the leadership of King Yan (nominally, the Xiongjin Metropolitan Governorate established by the Tang Dynasty in Baekje and the Jirimju Metropolitan Governorate established in Silla were also subordinate to the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate), and the authority was becoming more and more threatening the central government, Zhang Wenjun had already made up his mind for a long time.

Kim In-wen, the younger brother of King Kim Fa-min of Silla, was serving in Luoyang, and Yeonwang Nok defeated Silla, so there was no need to carry out the same punishment as Baekje and Goguryeo.

In this way, King Yan destroyed Silla with his own strength, lost his troops and lost his generals, and spent money and food but could not control it in the name of Andong Protectorate, but destroyed Silla to shock the prestige of the Tang Dynasty, and weakened the strength of King Yan, killing two birds with one stone.

After all, King Yan thought that he became the only prince who held the real power of soldiers and horses after the first emperor succeeded to the throne, for the sake of the common people in the world, the historical lessons of the Western Han Dynasty and the Western Jin Dynasty, Zhang Wenjun had to start to advise His Majesty, and gradually weaken the authority of King Yan.

What annoyed Zhang Wenqian was that among the prime ministers, the right prime minister Yan Li was originally the teacher of King Yan; Although Jiang Ke and King Yan, who died in February, did not have the name of master and apprentice, they had the reality of master and apprentice; Li Jingxuan's younger brother Li Element is the head of the Yan Wang's Mansion, and the Yan King has a good personal relationship with him; Dai Zhide is also a good old man, and he has a very good personal relationship with King Yan; As for Hao Chujun, Hao Nanrong, who was sent to Beijing by King Yan this time, is his son, and the eldest son of Liu Renliang, who was reinstated as the prince's left concubine this year, is still serving as a general in King Yan's army.

Looking at all the ministers in the court, except for Xu Jingzong, who just died in August, they all have an inextricable relationship with King Yan, even Zhang Wenqian himself can't avoid it, and the personal relationship between the second son Zhang Qian and King Yan is known in the court.

For the sake of the country's centennial plan, Zhang Wenqian did not hesitate to offend King Yan before he stood up and opposed and curbed his various measures to strengthen his own strength. It's just that when the court and the central ministers saw His Majesty's intention to connive at King Yan's various behaviors, coupled with their private relationship with King Yan, before he was disloyal to the imperial court's measures, he often turned a blind eye, and Zhang Wenqian was really worried.

The right minister Yan Liben is good at painting, and he does not have too outstanding opinions on military and political matters, which is played by Zhang Wenguan. Dai Zhide, the waiter of Xitai, Li Jingxuan, the servant of the ministry, and others only made some supplementary suggestions, and had no objection to Zhang Wenguan's performance.

Li Zhi nodded in approval after thinking for a while, since the Si Yang army fought well in Silla, and the soldiers and grain Xiang had not asked the central government for allocation until now, it seemed that he was able to deal with the situation in Silla, and he did not need the imperial court to worry about Anton, who was thousands of miles away.

Since the first year of Xianheng, the national situation has become more and more unreassuring, not to mention the successive disasters in Guanzhong, the rise of Tibet, and the repeated entry into the Kou, but Xue Rengui was defeated in Dafeichuan, and the original plan to hit Tubo in one fell swoop, and the plot to reduce its national strength has also become empty. The Anxi Protectorate has not recovered for two years, and Jiang Ke, the left minister entrusted with the important task of cleaning up the remnants of Xue Rengui's defeat, died of illness in Hexi in February, which made Li Zhi quite worried.

In the past two years, Siyang has repeatedly worried about the country, first destroying the Goguryeo rebels, and then absorbing the victims who were scattered by the disaster by opening up Liaodong and overseas to avoid a popular uprising, and now he has resisted the invasion of Silla alone. Li Zhi was deeply grateful, but felt that it was not enough to comfort Si Yan's meritorious deeds just by following Zhang Wenjun's decree and rewarding meritorious soldiers. Therefore, it was decreed, "King Yan was promoted to 2,000 households, given 1,000 taels of gold, 10 pairs of beautiful jade, and the places found overseas were all fiefdoms of King Yan, which could be governed by themselves, and the feudal officials only needed to report to the imperial court." ”

Chao Chinese Wu was a little shocked by His Majesty's will, and after thinking about it, the overseas places he found were all funded by the King of Yan to send people to explore and occupy, and they were far away from the Great Tang, so it was nothing as his fief. For people of insight in the court, it may be a great thing for Datang to let King Yan turn his mind overseas.

The three provinces soon passed Li Zhi's decree and sent people to Andong to announce the decree.

At this time, the Silla envoys arrived in Luoyang and submitted the appeal of the king of Silla through Honglu Temple. Unfortunately, after submitting it, not only did it not arouse the understanding that Yi Zhi and the Korean and central governments had come thousands of miles to complain to Silla, but he was angered by the fact that Silla had made a big move north to attack Andong.

The Silla envoy was taken out of the post house of Hongroji Temple and imprisoned for three years with the former Silla envoy Yangtu, who had been imprisoned for three years, and might one day be dragged out and beheaded.