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Wu Zetian just wants to teach Silla a lesson, show the military might of the samurai army, and has no idea of destroying Silla, if she has the ideological consciousness of seeking benefits for the Han nation and expanding the living space for the descendants of the Han Dynasty, she will not engage in splitting between the Tang government and the army, forming a party for personal gain. When the samurai army and the Silla army fell into a stalemate, Wu Zetian was embarrassed to show weakness to Li Zhi, and he was also embarrassed to ask for help from his powerful political opponent Xu Qing. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

If the Xu family army and the samurai army join forces, the destruction of Silla is just around the corner.

Xu Qing knew that the Tang Dynasty in history failed to destroy Silla, and after the special envoy of the king of Silla, the younger brother of King Kim Famin of Silla, and the special envoy of Xu Qing, Ji Yusheng, could not reach an agreement in secret negotiations, the king of Silla sent another secret envoy to the military camp of the samurai army to start peace talks with the samurai army.

Xu Qing's spies in Silla (the ancient name for intelligence espionage officers) found out about this top-secret information and immediately reported it to Xu Qing. Winter has arrived, the weather is getting colder day by day, Xu Qing estimates that the samurai army will withdraw before the heavy snow closes the road, and the king of Silla has learned the power of the samurai army, and there are more than 100,000 Xu family troops on the side, and they are bound to bow down to the Tang Dynasty and pay tribute every year. The Tang Dynasty, like many Han dynasties, prides itself on being a state of etiquette, the Celestial Empire, and rewards vassal states more than tribute.

Xu Qing also estimated that Li Zhi and Wu Zetian would be satisfied with Silla's resumption of paying tribute to the Tang Dynasty, and had no intention of expanding the war and completely destroying Silla to prevent future troubles, if the outcome was as Xu Qing expected, the king of Silla would not bribe Xu Qing with the beautiful princess of Silla, Xu Qing had coveted Princess Silla for a long time, and if he lost this opportunity, it would be difficult to get Princess Silla.

Although the annexation of Silla was in Xu Qing's plan, and it was only a matter of time before he got the princess of Silla, the specific date for the annexation of Silla Xu Qing had not yet been decided, and he still had to discuss with Li Zhi and obtain Li Zhi's consent and support before acting. Xu Qing didn't want to wait until he launched his military campaign to annex Silla, and Princess Silla was already married to another woman.

If a general at the border pass leads his troops to destroy a small country without the emperor's consent, he will not only not receive the emperor's reward, but will also violate the national law and military law, and will be severely punished by the law.

Xu Qing didn't want to be too powerful and too arrogant, which made Li Zhi suspicious, he was cautious in everything, and before leading the army to the east, he expected that there were former Goguryeo and former Baekje royalty and aristocratic beauties among the anti-Tang forces in the former Goguryeo and former Baekje regions, and if he captured them, he was afraid that he would be reluctant to hand them over to the emperor as trophies.

According to the law of the Tang Dynasty, the spoils of war obtained by the Tang army in winning battles - beauties, wealth and royal family, noble prisoners of war are counted as trophies, ordinary prisoners of war are not counted, and they must all be handed over to the emperor and disposed of by the emperor.

Therefore, before setting out on the expedition, Xu Qing followed the example of the Qin Dynasty general Wang Jian and asked the Qin Emperor for wealth before the expedition, and showed Li Zhi that he was not an ambitious person with greed for money and lust, dispelled Li Zhi's doubts, and asked Li Zhi for the right to dispose of the spoils of war and the power of military and political management in the occupied areas. Therefore, Xu Qing privately possessed the beautiful captives and rewarded the beautiful captives to his subordinates, and no longer violated the national law and military law.

Therefore, Xu Qing personally negotiated with the envoy of the king of Silla, Kim Fa, to the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate in Pyongyang, and adjusted the original four requirements: first, to open all the cities of Silla to trade with the Tang Dynasty, and to open the border cities of Goguryeo and Baekje regions of the Tang Dynasty to exchange trade and allow the people of the two countries to intermarry. The clause that the troops, merchants, and common people of the Tang Dynasty could freely enter Silla, but the troops of Silla could not enter the territory of the Tang Dynasty was deleted. Merchants and civilians of Silla must be registered and inspected when entering the Tang Dynasty, and the clause that they were not allowed to gather in groups within the territory of the Tang Dynasty was retained. Increase the number of merchants, ordinary people, officials, government workers, soldiers, and judicial personnel of the Tang Dynasty who enter the Silla border area and do not accept registration and inspection;

Second, the Tang army could be stationed in places where Tang people gathered in Silla, which was revised to mean that the Tang army and judicial personnel could enter Silla to arrest anti-Tang elements and criminals when necessary;

Third, Silla was not allowed to support the rebellion against the Tang Dynasty in the former Goguryeo and Baekje regions, and was not allowed to take in anti-Tang elements in the two places, and was not allowed to provide funds and weapons.

Fourth, the clause of handing over the former leaders of the rebel organization in the Goguryeo region and hiding in the Goguryeo exile dynasty in Silla, the prince Ko Se-an and his wife, was retained.

Fifth, a new clause has been added that if officials, soldiers, government functionaries, or civilians of the Tang Dynasty violate the laws of Silla in Silla, the Silla military and judicial personnel shall not detain, tried, sentence, kill, or injure them, and must immediately hand them over to the judicial authorities in the border areas of the Tang Dynasty.

Since Xu Qing made a big concession, the king of Silla could only agree, otherwise the Xu army had already gained a firm foothold in the former Goguryeo and former Baekje regions, and had reliable logistical supplies, and could launch a war to annex Silla at any time, even if it could not destroy Silla for a while, encroach on the territory of Silla, and gradually destroy Silla.

However, the king of Silla asked Heo Ching to guarantee the safety of Ko Se-an's wife, Kim Sook-deok, because she was the sister of the king of Silla and the granddaughter of the late Queen Kim Jin-deok of Silla.

Xu Qing agreed.

Heo Ching negotiated with Kim Fa-cun, the representative of the King of Silla, and the two sides signed a peace treaty in Pyongyang. Soon after the peace treaty was signed, Silla had its first snow since the beginning of winter, and the snow was not heavy, and it melted on the same day, but the samurai army who attacked the Silla fortress lived in tents and did not keep warm, and many officers and soldiers were frostbitten, and there was still more snow and colder days behind, so the samurai army softened its position and signed a peace treaty with the king of Silla and reported it to the military queen for approval.

The king of Silla apologized to the emperor and empress of the Tang Dynasty, asked to continue to be a vassal state of the Tang Dynasty, continued to pay tribute to the Tang Dynasty, promised that he would never violate the border of the Tang Dynasty again during his lifetime, would never support the anti-Tang activities in the former Goguryeo region and the former Baekje region, and would never allow the former Goguryeo and former Baekje anti-Tang elements to engage in anti-Tang activities in the land of Silla.

Empress Wu approved the peace treaty, and gave the peace treaty to Li Zhi for approval, and Li Zhi also approved it. The emperor and empress of the Tang Dynasty jointly ratified the peace treaty, and the peace treaty officially came into effect.

The secret peace treaty between the king of Silla and Heo Ching came into effect after the peace treaty between Silla and the kingdom of Daetang came into effect, and the king of Silla betrothed the thirteenth princess, Kim Ah Jo He, the most beautiful of the unmarried marriageable age princesses of Silla Kingdom, to Hsu Ching. At the same time, the exiled prince of Goguryeo, Ko Se-an, and his wife Kim Shu-deok were handed over to Xu Qing.

In late November, Xu Qing led 2,000 male soldiers of the New Army and 20,000 Tang troops to the border area, where he sent his relatives from Silla to marry the thirteenth princess of Silla, Kim Yaqiao, and received the spiritual leader and actual leader of the anti-Tang forces in Goguryeo, Ko Se-an, and his wife, Kim Shudeok. Ko Se-an was transported by a prisoner's car, and Kim Shu-deok, a royal daughter of Silla, was given preferential treatment in a horse-drawn carriage.

On the fifth day of December, Xu Qing held a grand wedding in the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate, and married Jin Yaqiao and Wang Meihui at the same time. Military and political officials from the former Goguryeo and former Baekje regions, the Longmen Dart Bureau, the Datang Trading Company, the Daetang Commercial Company, the Xianghe Qianzhuang, the Mingjian Villa, the Yanwangfu, and the heads and representatives of the arsenals, factories, schools, and hospitals run by Xu Qing all came to watch the ceremony. More than 1,000 guests.

Kim Shu-deok is only twenty years old, has a three-year-old daughter, and is a famous beauty in Silla, but five years ago, he obeyed the arrangement of the king of Silla to envelop Gao Shi'an for the benefit of Silla, and inexplicably disappeared from public view, becoming the secret lady of Gao Shi'an, the leader of the rebellion against the Tang Dynasty.

Kim Shude's beauty is comparable to that of Kim Yaqiao, both are rare beauties in the world, they are all Silla national treasure-level beauties, and they are all high-quality and high-quality beauties, Xu Qing unceremoniously took her for himself.

Gao Anshi was imprisoned in a secret prison in the Andong Prefecture, where he was interrogated and asked to confess the whereabouts of his comrades and all the facts of the crime.