Chapter 9: Leaving Peacefully
All the envoys to the Tang Dynasty in Chang'an were actually killed!
This surprised Lin Fan, and when he calmed down and thought about it, he felt that there must be someone behind this, maybe someone wanted to provoke a war between the two countries. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
No matter how big or small the country is, as long as the peace continues, if there is an envoy coming, the host will welcome him with wine and meat, and receive him warmly, no one has ever done this kind of precedent for killing the envoy, even if the emperor is very powerful and wants to eat this small country, but he will never take this kind of indiscriminate means, he will choose a reason that is not a reason to solicit, rather than deliberately provoking contradictions between the two countries like this.
The higher the status, the more respected the person, when they have a ghost in their hearts, they will never let you know that they will definitely find a reasonable reason to eat you, and you don't know how you died until you die, and you still love him in your heart.
Boss Li is undoubtedly this kind of person, so it is impossible for him to do such a stupid thing that insults the demeanor of the Tang Dynasty and stains his lofty personality, Lin Fan can be sure that this matter is by no means Boss Li's handiwork.
Lin Fan also thought about whether it would be Xue Rengui and others who had contempt for the Japanese people because they listened to what he said, and they poisoned them, but it was impossible to think about it carefully.
They are soldiers, everything is subject to obeying orders, without orders from their superiors, they will not do this kind of thing without authorization, Boss Li does not have the courage, let alone Li Jing.
Lin Fan didn't know who did this secretly, but it was easy to think that this person's purpose was obvious, that is, to provoke a war between the two countries.
His imagination is very rich, and he actually thought that this matter would be a ghost made by the Japanese people, and whether it would be that this person was not satisfied with the status quo of the Japanese Kingdom, and used the hand of the Tang Dynasty to get rid of the Japanese court.
This kind of thought only flashed in his mind and then disappeared, no matter who killed these envoys to Tang, no matter why they wanted to provoke the contradictions between the two countries, these Lin Fan didn't want to care, he only felt that this matter was too beautiful!
Regardless of whether there will be a war between the two countries in the future, but now that these Tang envoys are dead, they will not be able to grab knowledge from Datang, and their pace of wanting to be strong will be slowed down, which is not a good thing for Datang.
Regarding the death of the Japanese people, Lin Fan was only slightly shocked, and then he was very indifferent, their death did not arouse his sympathy, nor did it make him feel how miserable, he even had a sense of schadenfreude, feeling that they should be this result.
Perhaps infected by some ideas brought by later generations, he was unusually calm about the tragedy of the Sifang Pavilion.
was so calm that Boss Li once doubted Lin Fan whether this matter was done by him.
Boss Li's reason was also more reasonable, he felt that Lin Fan was annoyed by sending Tang envoys to stalk the Lin Academy, so he killed the killer in a fit of anger.
Of course, this was just a suspicion of Boss Li, and after Lin Fan's explanation, this doubt disappeared.
The tragedy happened, and Boss Li had no choice but to order to find out the murderer quickly, but there was no clue about this matter, and no matter how good the master was, he couldn't find out who was secretly committing the crime.
Regardless of whether the final tragedy can be well resolved, it is an unchangeable fact that the main personnel who sent the Tang envoy have died.
People are dead, but what should be explained still needs to be explained, although the country is a small country, but people sent envoys, is to respect and respect you, now the envoy in your territory to the west, how much always need a little explanation.
Boss Li directly told the truth, and this is the truth, which is the explanation.
It's just that this kind of fact was brought back to Dengzhou, to those who were not important to the Tang Dynasty, so that they could bring it back to the Wa State, the Wa State... Do you really believe that the envoy you sent out to Tang really died by accident?
Obviously, he didn't believe it, Lin Fan didn't believe it, and Boss Li didn't believe it either, so he compared his heart to his heart, if the envoy of the Tang Dynasty died in the Wa Kingdom, the Wa State also gave this kind of explanation, and he wouldn't believe it if he killed Boss Li.
Boss Li is very helpless, if he can't catch the real murderer, it's useless to say more, even if he asks the internal envoy who sent the news to Dengzhou to entertain other Tang envoys, it will be useless to this matter, and maybe it will make the other party feel that you are repenting and compensating.
The Tang Dynasty and the Wa Kingdom have been married since then, maybe the Wa Kingdom will not do anything out of the ordinary now, it is just because they are not strong enough, and they do not have enough strength to attack, so they can only choose to swallow their anger.
When they rise one day, the first thing they have to deal with is Datang!
The death of the envoy is nothing to the imperial court of the Japanese Kingdom, but this is a matter of face, you kill my envoy, you are provoking me nakedly.
I am afraid that this knot between the two countries will have to rely on fists to speak, and Boss Li knows that this knot is difficult, so he began to pay more attention to military development than before.
In addition to military training, he also attached importance to weapons and equipment, urged the Armed Forces Research Institute to strengthen weapons research, ship transformation and improvement, etc., he was preparing for the future, once the war with the Japanese state in the future, solid ships, advanced weapons, and elite soldiers are the key to whether he can win.
A month has passed, the tragedy of the Sifang Pavilion still has no clue, Dali Temple can't find anything, only find out that the envoys sent to Tang are all killed in the hands of short blades, and the means are cruel, almost fatal, the location of the wound is very similar, the depth is not different, it seems to be done by one person... But Dali Temple believes that there is no one in this world who can kill more than 50 people in a short period of time with the power of one person, especially among the martial artists.
What happened to the tragedy in the end, Boss Li didn't care anymore, and even if he really found the real culprit, he couldn't explain it clearly to the Wa Kingdom.
However, he also asked Dali Temple to continue to investigate, not to prove to the Wa Kingdom that he was wronged, he just wanted to catch this person and punish him severely, he dared to spread wild at the feet of the Son of Heaven, and he was impatient, is the Son of Heaven so easy to bully, how to kill people as he wants?
Boss Li is very indifferent, Lin Fan is even more indifferent, still living his own small life, and there is no quarrel with the world.
Once, he wondered whether the death of the Tang envoy had anything to do with his arrival, and remembered that the record of the Tang envoy in the history books did not explain the killing of the Tang envoy, but only lightly described that this was the first time that the Wa Kingdom sent an envoy to study in the Tang Dynasty, and they traveled around the Tang Dynasty for more than a year before returning.
According to the historical records, the current situation is different from the historical records, these Tang envoys came to Chang'an in less than a month ago, all of them suffered tragic disasters, and the historical books do not record that the later battle against the Japanese is related to this.
Lin Fan was very skeptical that the historical records were true, did he make up a random result in order to cover up this scandal?
He had this suspicion because he didn't feel that this matter was affected by his arrival, and he didn't expose the crimes of the Wa Kingdom after a thousand years, nor did he incite civil sentiments, and the people of the Tang Dynasty had not experienced the cruel atrocities of the Wa State more than a thousand years later, so naturally there was no such righteous indignation as Lin Fan at work, and it was even more unlikely that someone would kill the killer in order to vent this anger.
Lin Fan has always felt that he has only changed some of the cultural, economic, military, and even the sharp reform system that is about to be implemented in this society, as for the hearts of the people, he has never hoped to change, nor can he change it, especially the fate of people, he can't change it, at most he can only change the fate of a small number of people around him, strange as the Japanese people, their fate is not something that Lin Fan can influence.
Lin Fan is not a historian, questioning is questioning, he doesn't want to explore too much, thinking too much is tears.
Time passes like flowing water, and in ten or so days it will be the first day, and nearly two months have passed quietly since the tragedy of the Sifang Pavilion, and its impact is slowly fading with time.
The people of Datang would discuss this matter enthusiastically at first, but after a long time, they didn't feel anything, they didn't feel any sadness, it was people from other countries who died, what did it have to do with themselves.
Dozens of lives in the Wa Kingdom are like a spring breeze blowing, and they can't make any big waves, especially when the Yuan Festival is about to be celebrated, people are happily preparing for the New Year, who will think of everything that happened in the Sifang Pavilion?
Lin Fan's festival preparations have never needed Lin Fan to worry about, he has been running to the Lin Academy every day these days, Li Gang is relatively weak, he will go to see the old man every day.
Li Gang was determined to spend his last days at the academy, and his two sons did not insist too much, and they also moved to Li Gang's residence for the time being, accompanying the old man on his last journey.
Although Li Gang was bedridden and his spirit was a little sluggish, he was not depressed by this, and persuaded his two sons with bitter faces and hatred not to be sad.
Lin Fan didn't have much mood swings, and tried his best to cater to the old man's emotions, laugh with him, and chat with him.
Because of this, Li Gang prefers to be with Lin Fan, he values Lin Fan very much, has high hopes for him, they also have a lot of common language, and they can talk much more freely than their father and son.
It's a pity that this kind of opportunity to chat is gone, and before the sacrificial stove festival, Li Gang left with his hands, and he still failed to complete the five years of Zhenguan after all.
He walked very safely, basically had no regrets, communicated with Lin Fan in the past few days, he said the most about the education of the Lin Academy, he repeatedly told Lin Fan to carry forward the school, so that the entire people of Datang can learn knowledge, as much as possible for Datang to cultivate useful talents.
Lin Academy was founded by Lin Fan, Lin Fan is still young, as young as the school, Li Gang believes that with Lin Fan in charge, Datang's education will undergo earth-shaking changes.
He was at peace, so he walked safely.
The day before, he was still chatting happily with Lin Fan, and that night he was still holding the "Zhuangzi" that Lin Fan gave him very early on and studying it silently, and I don't know if he can learn anything from this previous book.
When he left the next morning, he was still in a dream, and I don't know if he was chatting with Zhuang Gong in his dream, or if he was still in "Zhuangzi", wandering in the world inside.
No matter what kind of dream it is, it is already good for Li Gang, and God favors him very much, how many people in the world can fall asleep and die?
There is no pain, no struggle, only dreams with dreams, which are more comfortable than euthanasia by drugs more than a thousand years later. (To be continued.) )