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On the fourth day after Xu Qing and Xue Jiao got married, they sent away the guests from afar, and Xu Qing turned his energy to work. As the special envoy of Emperor Dongying, Princess Yali of Dongying led a delegation of Dongying envoys to Chang'an to discuss the resumption of diplomatic relations with the Tang Dynasty. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info Li Zhi attached great importance to this matter, and appointed his confidant, Zhu Zifan, who was in charge of minority affairs and diplomacy, to negotiate with Princess Yali on behalf of the Tang Dynasty.

However, the talks between the two sides for more than ten days were fruitless, Li Zhi and others were impatient, Xu Qing soon wanted to be appointed as the minister of the Qin Mission, on behalf of the Son of Heaven to inspect the Quartet, and spread the emperor's grace and prestige far and wide, Li Zhi wanted to take advantage of Xu Qing's trip to Dongying, and married two Dongying aristocratic beauties, who knew quite well about the domestic political ecology of Dongying, and Xu Qing negotiated with Princess Yali on behalf of the Tang Dynasty. Zhu Zifan served as Xu Qing's deputy in the negotiations.

Princess Yali was very disappointed that Xu Qing had many wives and concubines, and didn't want to see Xu Qing again, and planned to return to China as soon as the negotiations were over, but she didn't expect to meet Xu Qing again soon.

The two sides represented their respective countries and their respective emperors, and they quarreled at the negotiation table in Honglu Temple to maximize their national interests. Although Princess Yali once had an unrequited love for Xu Qing, although Xu Qing was grateful to Princess Yali for preserving Mei Kaifang's innocence, they couldn't be emotional when it came to the major rights and wrongs involving national interests.

Xu Qing brought Junko and Keika Shino as translators, well-informed Xue Rengui, Li Zhizhuo, and Zhao Tuozhi as consultants, Zhao Mengchen as Xu Qing's first bodyguard in charge of the security of the venue, and Xue Jinlian as Xu Qing's secretary to make meeting minutes.

Twelve years ago (663 AD), the Tang army conquered Baekje, Dongying supported Baekje, sent more than 40,000 sailors and more than 1,000 warships, and fought fiercely with 10,000 Tang army sailors and more than 100 warships at the mouth of the Baekje Baekgang River (now the mouth of the Jinjiang River in South Korea). The Tang army, under the command of Liu Renliang, a famous general of the expedition to the east at that time, burned all the warships of the Dongying Water Division and annihilated the Dongying Water Division. Emperor Toei Tenchi was forced to withdraw the remaining 100,000 troops supporting Baekje, fearing that the Tang army would take advantage of the victory to attack Toei proper.

The political situation in Dongying was unstable, from the death of Empress Qi Ming in 661 AD to the accession of the eldest brother prince in 668 AD. In 669 A.D., the eldest brother and crown prince officially ascended the throne as emperor, and his name was Emperor Tenchi. However, there are many factions in the political arena in Dongying, and the local warlords are seriously divided. Toei's social system was in the transition stage from slavery to feudalism, and although Toei had an emperor, Toei was far from being a feudal centralized state at this time.

On behalf of her father, Emperor Tenchi, Princess Dongying Yali sought to repair the diplomatic relations with the Tang Dynasty that had been damaged by the Battle of Baijiangkou 12 years ago, and sought the Tang Dynasty's consent to re-dispatch Tang envoys, students, and monks to study the Tang Dynasty's science and technology, culture, and political and economic systems. In order to show her sincerity, Princess Yali brought a large number of precious gifts to the emperor and empress of the Tang Dynasty.

Li Zhi and Wu Zetian were both angry at the land of Dongying, an uncivilized barbarian people, who dared to take the initiative to provoke a war with the Tang Dynasty, offending the Tang Tianwei, and gave instructions to Xu Qing and Zhu Zifan, the representatives of the Tang Dynasty who participated in the negotiations, not to agree to establish diplomatic relations with Dongying on an equal footing, nor to accept Dongying's Tang envoys, students, and monks. Since Dongying and Datang are enemies, why should Datang teach Dongying people stupidly. Unless Dongying becomes a vassal state of the Tang Dynasty and pays tribute to the Tang Dynasty.

Xu Qing is well aware of the inferior nature of Dongying people, and when the students learn the knowledge and experience taught by the teacher, they not only do not want to be grateful to the teacher, but also take revenge, trying to rob the teacher's home. In fact, since the Battle of Baijiangkou, the Tang Dynasty military and civilians no longer regard Dongying as a country established by Xu Fu, an exiled scholar of the Qin Dynasty who is of the same language as themselves, and no longer friendly to Dongying, but renamed Dongying as the Wa State, and the voice of the Tang Dynasty court's refusal to interact with the Wa State is very strong.

In private, Xu Qing, like the colleagues involved in the negotiations, also called Dongying the Wa State, but on the surface, he still called Dongying. As for the self-proclaimed Japan of the Japanese people in the Sui and Tang dynasties, the Sui and Tang dynasties understood it as the foundation of the sun and the hometown of the sun, and they did not accept it or recognize it.

Xu Qing carefully divided the advantages and disadvantages of resuming diplomatic relations with the Tang Emperor and his colleagues who participated in the negotiations, and found that there were many harms but no benefits. The Japanese people have lived in an island country with volcanoes and earthquakes for a long time, and they have a strong sense of crisis, and aggression and expansion are the nature of the Japanese people. To count on them to be kind is to seek the skin of the tiger.

The Wa State was barbaric and backward, so they wanted to send a large number of envoys, students, and monks studying abroad to the Tang Dynasty to comprehensively study the science, technology, culture, education, politics, and economy of the Tang Dynasty. The Wa State interacted with the Tang Dynasty, and the Wa State could get a lot of benefits, but the Datang State could not get anything, and they also raised tigers for trouble.

Although Wu Zetian did not lead the negotiations between the Tang Dynasty and the Wa Kingdom, she also had her people in Honglu Temple, and she knew and always paid attention to the latest progress of the negotiations. In terms of his views on the Wa State, Wu Zetian was rarely consistent with his political enemy Xu Qing, and no one in the Hou Party pulled Xu Qing's hind legs, and no one objected to Xu Qing's proposition of not resuming diplomatic relations with the Wa State in the court, which allowed Xu Qing to travel lightly.

Xu Qing's proposition was more radical than that of Li Zhi and Wu Zetian, Xu Qing's proposition was to be a vassal state of the Tang Dynasty in Dongying, pay tribute to the Tang Dynasty, and add 10,000 to 100,000 troops in Dongying; Tang merchants can do business freely in Dongying, and Tang people can travel freely in Dongying; The Tang people enjoy legal immunity in Dongying, and the Tang people who violate the law and commit crimes in Dongying do not accept the legal trial and sanctions of Dongying, but should be tried by the envoys or the army of the Tang Dynasty in Dongying; If a Dongying person is married to an official of the Tang Dynasty of five grades or above, then the Dongying person is protected by Datang, and any attack and persecution against the Dongying person is regarded as a blow and persecution to the people of the Tang Dynasty, and Datang does not rule out the option of sending troops to protect these four articles as a prerequisite for the resumption of diplomatic relations between Datang and Dongying.

Xu Qing's new first and second articles are to follow the British East India Company's economic colonization of India, and the Anglo-French alliance forced the Qing Dynasty to trade with it during the Opium War.

The third article added by Xu Qing is to imitate the Western powers in the Celestial Empire, which was semi-feudal and semi-colonial before the liberation, and the Mi Army stationed in Japan and the Mi Army in Korea enjoy legal immunity in order to protect their own citizens.

Xu Qing's new fourth article is aimed at Yama Kijiro, the father of Keika Shino, the cousin of the Emperor of the Wa Kingdom, and the most powerful general in the Wa Kingdom, to protect him and cultivate him as an agent of the Tang Dynasty in the Wa Kingdom.

Moreover, Article 4 is not only one of the prerequisites for the resumption of diplomatic relations between the Tang Dynasty and the Wa State, but also Xu Qing's personal request, and it is Xu Qing's threat to the Emperor Chi Guoguo of the Wa State, regardless of whether the Tang Dynasty and the Wa State have diplomatic relations or not, Xu Qing will provide protection to Yama Kijiro, if the Emperor Tianzhi dares to touch a hair of Yama Kijiro, Xu Qing will lead more than 100,000 Tang troops stationed on the Korean Peninsula to cross the sea into the Wa State to fight and eliminate the Wa State.

The sweetheart who was once unrequited in love became an opponent, and he and the Emperor Dongying Tianzhi he represented to death, Princess Yali thought that she could not make the Tang Dynasty political strongman at the negotiation table anyway, the red man in front of the emperor, the iron-blooded general Xu Qing gave in, she was doomed to return in vain, whether it was personal feelings, or national interests will suffer a major failure, and she felt shameless to face her father, and her heart was very heavy.

At night, Princess Yali lost sleep.

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