Chapter 522: I'll withdraw first, you can go up
Run, you can't run away, Tamna is so big, although it is not small, but the number of people on the island is not large, and the range of activities is not large.
They have been to all the places on the island, but the ones that have actually been developed, are being used, and where they grow and occasionally go to them, only occupy a third of the size.
Go-ho's only option was not to run inland, but overseas, to his suzerain, Baekje.
Although being in a corner has made Gao Hou's political consciousness decline, it does not mean that Gao Hou is an idiot.
The reason why Baekje sent a thousand troops to Tamna was just because Tamna still had interests that could be favored by Baekje, and once the land of Tamna was gone, would they still shelter themselves if they ran to Baekje?
No matter what others think, Gao Hou himself felt that it was impossible anyway, and even in order to avoid arousing the anger of the Tang Emperor, Baekje might even kill himself and then give Xiang Shang's head to the Tang Emperor.
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Baekje once had a very glorious history, and when it was the largest country, it reached the western part of Liaoxi and northern Hebei in later China, and invaded Lushan in Buyeo Province to the north, except for North Pyongan Province and South Pyongan Province.
The founder of Baekje was actually established after the Buyeo people went south, and Baekje has eight major clans, Sha, Yan, Ji, Jie, Zhen, Guo, Mu, and Shu.
The eight major clans in Baekje are equivalent to the five surnames and seven wangs of the previous Tang Dynasty, but the harvest they get is far greater than that of the five surnames and seven wangs.
In the entire Baekje country, it is these eight surnames that are counted, and many times, when it comes to the distribution of benefits, it is the eight surnames who sit down and discuss it, and then leave a little for the royal family and it is over.
The power of the Eight Great Clans in Baekje is far beyond everyone's imagination.
But Baekje has begun to decline over the years, and on land, their power has been squeezed by Goguryeo and lost a large part of it, and now they can only rely on the sea and Tamna to satisfy themselves.
The most important point is that with the economic and trade exchanges, Baekje used Chinese characters, and as early as two or three hundred years ago, Baekje established a Confucian education system, and some Confucian scholars received the title of doctorate.
This is also the reason why the later generations of the Bangzi country said that Confucius is them, on history, Confucianism has existed in the Bangzi country for nearly 2,000 years, although the time is not as good as China, but the earth is theirs, is there still this bit of culture?
However, at this moment, the atmosphere in a courtyard in Tamna is extremely tense.
From the outside, there is nothing special about the appearance here, and further afield, it is the station of the Baekje army, but there are some small courtyards here, luxurious and extravagant.
No more, no less, a full eight.
Each of the eight courtyards has a surname, and on the official side, one of them is an envoy sent by Baekje, while the other seven are there to oversee the interests, or in other words, this is the location where the interests of Tamna are divided.
Tamna is rich in citrus, with its sweet and sour flavor and plump flesh, and only a few of these citrus fruits are shipped back to Baekje and become a fruit that only the royal palace and major families are eligible to enjoy.
And the rest, all of them were transported to Datang, and then directly handed over to those traders who came and went, which was a means for the eight families to make extra money.
But at this moment, no one can be happy, and the excitement of making extra money in the past has also dissipated.
"The Tang army has landed half an hour ago, about 3,000 people, and hundreds of warships, what should we do?" Shaqiri frowned bitterly, the information he got was more accurate than Gao Hou, if he couldn't even do this, how could he control the Tamna Kingdom?
"Why did Emperor Tang send troops into Tamna?" Someone wondered.
"Could it be that Gao Hou privately sent someone to contact Emperor Tang? So the Don Army is coming? ”
"There is such a possibility, but the feasibility is not too great, Gao Hou does not have the strength to contact the Tang Emperor, and our envoys in Chang'an have never heard Gao Hou send someone to see, the Tang Dynasty is thousands of miles away, and it is sailing on the sea, and there is no one in Gao Hou's hands who can support the boat to the Tang Dynasty."
"For whatever reason, the Don Army is here and has already landed. Gao Hou was in a hurry to find us, supposedly hoping that we could send troops to help them resist the Tang army, my personal opinion is ...... Abandon! ”
"What? Abandon? ”
"Do you know what it means to give up? It means that from now on, Tamna will completely lose the control of you and me, and it will become a territory under the feet of the Tang Emperor. If...... If the Tang Emperor did not kill Gao Hou, then according to the old man's understanding of the Tang Emperor, next, the Tang Emperor would inevitably order a large-scale attack on Baekje. ”
The understanding of the Tang Emperor is pure nonsense, but isn't this the kind of thing that the emperor in the Central Plains likes to do the most?
It is precisely for this reason that when Baekje communicates with the Central Plains Dynasty again, the two points that must be paid attention to are to give the other party enough faces, and not to work hard with them.
As long as you can do these two things, unless you die yourself, you will definitely get a rich reward.
Therefore, they also subconsciously included Li Yuanji's behavior in this ranks.
But no matter how you draw it, at this point, the conclusion of this meeting has basically come out.
Once the Baekje army appeared, it would mean that there would be a war with the Tang army, and the 3,000 Tang army could cross the sea to Tamna, although it didn't take long to send them, but they could also use the same method to send 10,000 troops to Baekje.
10,000 Tang troops are enough to destroy Baekje.
As for supplies or something, sitting in the back of this place in Tamna, will you still worry about no supplies?
What?
Unite Goguryeo to resist the Tang Army?
Well, thinking too much, with Goguryeo's urine nature, as long as he knows this news, I am afraid that he will immediately contact the Tang Emperor to ask for an alliance and launch an attack on Baekje from both land and sea.
What is discipline for politicians? The high-level leaders of Goguryeo obviously don't have such a thing as discipline, otherwise, Baekje would not have been bullied so badly all these years.
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However, what Gao Hou didn't know was that the Baekje envoys, whom he had high hopes for, were indeed considering this matter.
In fact, when they learned that the Tang army that came to attack had 3,000 people, they gave up the idea of resisting almost instantly.
The combat effectiveness of the Baekje army is not comparable to that of the Tamna army, but in the same way, the combat effectiveness of the Baekje army is far from being comparable to that of the Tang army.
The 3,000 Tang Army is more than the number of the entire Tamna Coalition Army of Baekje, how can this be fought? I can't beat it at all.
If you do it, it is very likely that the war will be brought to Baekje, and for the sake of one Tamna, you will take the whole of Baekje, is it appropriate to do this?
I don't know if it's suitable or not, but these people from the eight major families are obviously not vegetarians, although their own strength is not good, it doesn't mean that they can be slaughtered by others.
Gao Hou, still waiting for the result he wanted most.
"Why did the Tang Army come?" Shaqiri is an envoy of Baekje and an official who has direct contact with Gao Hou, and as soon as they met, Shaqiri asked directly, without the slightest feeling between the monarch and the minister.
Even if sitting opposite is the monarch of the subject state of Baekje, and Shaqiri, although he has a noble status, he is not a monarch after all.
But here, this kind of behavior seems to have become the norm, everyone is used to it, and they are used to it, even Gao Hou, who does not dare to have any opinions on this, but has to smile and foil, not daring to be careless.
"This Xiao Wang really doesn't know......" Gao Hou's face was full of depression, if only he knew the reason.
Although it is a monarch, it is more appropriate to be called a puppet, the entire Tamna, is controlled by Baekje, almost all orders are issued by them, even the so-called army, is also a person issued a garbage spear of the common people, without any training, there is no combat effectiveness at all.
Shaqiri secretly observed Gao Hou's every move, and soon believed what Gao Hou said.
He really didn't know.
The reason is very simple, Gao Hou is just a puppet, and they also arranged a lot of eyeliner around Gao Hou, Gao Hou's every move is under their surveillance, and Gao Hou has no conditions to contact Tang Huang at all.
Moreover, as early as a few years ago, Tang Dynasty warships appeared near Tamna every now and then, and at that time they thought it was just an accident.
But if you look at it now, you can see a lot of useful things.
Perhaps, as early as a few years ago, the Tang Army was planning to march into Tamna.
Otherwise, why would Tang Jun jump directly from the boat into the water and swim ashore? And then go straight to the planned attack?
Obviously, this was premeditated, and the Tang army that landed was still an elite army that had been trained for a long time.
This alone is enough to prove that Gao Hou did not contact the Tang Emperor.
But......
It can't be that simple, and it can't be that simple.
"The old man has already sent someone back to the country to ask for reinforcements, three or five days as soon as possible, ten days as slow, reinforcements will arrive, and the Baekje army is only a thousand people, the scale is too small, if you fight at this moment, you can't play the greatest effect, and you, as the monarch of Tamna, should stand up at this moment and call on the people of Tamna to jointly resist the invasion of the Tang army, it will only take a few days, and when my Baekje army arrives, it will be the day of the counterattack, before that, the old man will let his army try his best to cooperate with you, and collect the opponent's intelligence for the counterattack." Shaqiri said calmly, as if it were a trivial matter.
"This ......" Gao Hou hesitated.
The Baekje army did not go up, and only let the indigenous people of Tamna go up to fight against the Tang army, how could this be resisted? Besides, what kind of goods is the Tamna Army, you don't have a little bit in your hearts...... Count?
Again, Gao Hou was a little afraid that the other party was cheating on him, because he had already asked Baekje to increase his troops more than once, but Baekje never responded.
"It's just a resistance, and it's not for you to fight to the death, you can do this......"