Shaqiri eventually ran away with the representatives of the eight great families, abandoning their paradise, their wealth and women, only ten people.

Eight people are representatives of the eight families, and two people are pro-soldiers who are familiar with waterways, without these two people, they will not be able to go far, and they will even die on the sea.

The water power of the Baekje people is indeed strong, but that is only relative.

In the past, even the Tang Dynasty had to weigh up when encountering Baekje at sea, but now, a single warship can wipe out all of Baekje's water power.

And the Eight Great Families were of noble origin, how could they do such laborious and dangerous things?

Ten people left, this is already their limit, just relying on a small wooden boat, relying on manpower to propel.

However......

Shaqiri is still too whimsical.

In order to expedition to Jeju Island, Datang has been preparing for this for four years, and has gathered the strength of the whole country to build thousands of large and small warships in four years.

Among them, there are hundreds of warships in the real sense, and such a sea force is definitely not something that the Baekje people can imagine.

Even if those battleships were only later modified, steam engines were added to the original sail power.

Although the power of the steam engine did not achieve the desired effect, its speed was still not comparable to that of a small wooden boat propelled by manpower.

The Gohou family only discovered that they had been freed the day after Shaqiri and the others left, and the Baekje soldiers who had been guarding them had long since disappeared.

Knowing that Baekje had completely abandoned them, Gao Hou immediately made another choice in his favor.

Surrender to the Tang Dynasty!

For Gao Hou, it is not a shame to surrender to the Tang Dynasty, it is nothing more than a change of suzerain, and it is more reliable to take refuge in the Tang Dynasty than to take refuge in Baekje.

……

"It's all right!" Wang Xuance smiled calmly, the result was unexpected, unbelievably simple.

Gao Hou and the rest of the royal family surrendered to the nearby soldiers of the Second Division, and the entire Jeju Island has completely fallen into the hands of the Tang Dynasty.

And Shaqiri and the others, their luck is not as good as they imagined.

Wang Xuance naturally knew that Baekje's sea power was very powerful, and although he knew that his own strength had far surpassed Baekje, there was still no carelessness in this battle.

Seventy warships were sent to continue to escort the fleet, leaving thirty-eight warships, of which fifteen were used to blockade the perimeter of the port to prevent the Baekje people from landing through here, while the remaining thirteen were sent to various seas to blockade them.

And they are now being held in the prisoner camp.

This prisoner camp was not the previous prisoner camp, but a prisoner camp that was closely guarded by the officers and men of the Tang Army.

As for the Gao Hou family, they are still on their way back and are expected to be back around noon tomorrow.

"The mission is accomplished, but the trouble has just begun......" Huang Hui shook his head with a wry smile, his plan failed.

Or rather, the plan of the entire command with His Majesty the Emperor failed.

Of course, whether they failed or not, it is not obvious now, they have more opportunities to complete this plan, it can only be said that the most perfect plan can no longer exist.

"Failure? No, there are some things that if you don't say it, if I don't say it, no one in the world will know about it, it's just a different way. Wang Xuance shook his head, not caring about the so-called failure.

And this, at most, can only be said to have a slight deviation.

As a Wang Xuance in history, who once destroyed several countries with the power of one person, this little twist and turn is nothing at all, he has hundreds of ways to complete this plan, at most, it is just to find another reason.

The Baekje people wanted to fool Gao Hou into leading the Tamna people to rebel against the Tang army, and then let the Tang army start a massacre in anger, thus causing the Tamna people to have a deeper hatred.

And why don't the Datang people think so? According to the original plan, it should be a way for the Baekje people to kill Gao Hou, preferably exterminating him, or at worst leaving Gao Hou alone, which will deepen the hatred between Baekje and Tamna.

At that time, Jeju could naturally become the base camp of the expeditionary force, and there was no need to worry about some problems.

Although the threat on Jeju Island was not great, during the expeditionary operation, Wang Xuance did not want any deviation, especially the instability of the rear.

However, no one expected that Shaqiri was an extremely shrewd guy, and from beginning to end, he did not show up, and the Baekje army under his command would rather disband than directly confront the Tang army.

In this way, the Tang army could not find a reason to attack Baekje.

Previously, he wanted to cause a scuffle between Jeju and Datang, but when he found that the situation was inviolable, he ran away decisively, and even before he escaped, he asked people to withdraw and not let Gao Hou be killed.

Kindness discovered?

Of course not, for Shaqiri and for Baekje, it is far more beneficial for them to kill Gaohou than to leave Gaohou.

Even Wang Xuance has to admit that this product is indeed a talent, and the use of political means is even more superb, and his guesses on all sides are extremely accurate, and he can always accurately pinch the lifeline, if he is placed in the camp of the Tang Dynasty, as far as Wang Xuance is concerned, anyone who attacks the area controlled by Shaqiri will be extremely miserable.

……

"You're not the first, and you're not the last!" didn't pay attention to Shaqiri and the others, Wang Xuance had already understood the ins and outs of the whole thing, and after the Gao Hou family returned to the dock, Wang Xuance immediately summoned Gao Hou, but the first words of the meeting made Gao Hou confused.

What's the first and last? What does this mean?

"Xiao Wang is ignorant, I don't know what the general means by this?" Gao Hou asked with a confused face, but his posture was very low.

Xiao Wang, implying that Gao Hou has decided to attach to the Tang Dynasty, the general, because he does not know the true identity of Wang Xuance, so he uses the general to call him, which means the general of the country.

It's a pity that the weak are still weak after all, and even if the posture is lowered, it is impossible to gain too much respect.

What's more, Wang Xuance didn't intend to have a good face for him at all, although it was cruel, but from the perspective of national interests, he should do it.

Since ancient times, the history of the development of every country has been a history of aggression, and even if it finally wins a victory and changes the history books, it cannot change its essence.

In other aspects, Wang Xuance doesn't want to worry about it, and he doesn't have the ability to take care of it, he just needs to do the things at hand, is he being praised? Still burdened with infamy, he doesn't care.

"His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty has given you two choices, from now on, General Ben will let you go, and then withdraw the army, giving you half a year to prepare, and after half a year, General Ben will lead his troops to fight Tamluo again. The second choice is to lead Tamluo to attach the Tang Dynasty and be a king with peace of mind. Wang Xuance directly gave two choices.

Very humane, very domineering, but also full of confidence and pride in their own strength.

But for Gao Hou, this is despair.

Half a year to prepare, he can't even beat Baekje, a thousand Baekje troops can control them for decades, hundreds of years, and now there are 50,000 Tang troops, how long can he resist?

Judging from this experience, he can't resist for twenty days, or even ten days, and he will stop eating completely.

So does he still have a choice? Yes, it can only be another option.

But Gao Hou is not a fool, although he has been a puppet king of Tamluo for so many years, his political consciousness is still there, and it has not completely dissipated.

There are many kinds of kings, princes, vassal kings, subordinate kings, and idle kings.

Although nominally there are not so many differences, in reality there are differences.

The prince doesn't have to think about it, it can only be held by the emperor's brother, and the vassal king can only be obtained by the royal family, and if it is the founding of the country, other surnames can also get the title of vassal king.

But the powers of the two are completely different.

Relatively speaking, they are more independent than vassal kings, only nominally subordinate, and the actual operation of the country is still controlled by themselves, but when the old and new vassal kings alternate, they need to be canonized by the emperor of the suzerainty to be in line with the law.

Compared with vassal kings, subordinate kings do not need to accept excessive supervision by the imperial court, for example, the imperial court will not send a prime minister to govern and supervise.

And the attached king, basically the same as the idle king, to put it bluntly, is just a symbolic prince, he has no power in his hands, just eat and wait for death.

On the other hand, the difference between the vassal king and the subordinate king is that once the vassal king is canonized, it means that the original territory will become the territory of the suzerain, that is, Jeju will become the mainland of the Tang Dynasty.

For Gao Hou, there are pros and cons, but this is not an easy choice to make.

"Xiao Wang chooses the latter!" Gao Hou's whole body seems to be drained of strength, does he have a choice?

No, any other choice than this one is a dead end.

Although this is not much better, at least it can ensure its own safety, and the Gao family will live a leisurely life without worrying about food and clothing in the future.

It's just that the consequence of burying Tamna, Gao Hou feels very sad.

But it's still that sentence, there is no way to be sad, he has no choice.

And what happened next made Gao Hou even more frightened into a cold sweat, and as soon as he made his choice, Wang Xuance immediately asked people to come up with a holy decree to canonize Gao Hou as the king of Jeju, and the country of Tamna was renamed Jeju.

In addition to this, he also produced an edict to appease the people of Jeju and also announced the current situation.

From beginning to end, there is one meaning, the whole country of Tamna took refuge in Datang, in order to have a better life, in order to no longer be bullied, Gao Hou decided to merge into Datang and become a part of Datang and so on.

Anyway, this edict is not from the hand of Gao Hou, but from now on, Jeju is the territory of the Tang Dynasty, they can do whatever they want here, and they can exercise the power of the Tang Dynasty and the laws of the Tang Dynasty here.

Gao Hou, on the other hand, will return to the Tang Dynasty with the fleet and go to Chang'an to receive a summons from the Tang Emperor.