614, chrysanthemum and knife

Jingwen heard the words of this princess of the Wa Kingdom, and actually wanted the Tang Dynasty to send troops to help them attack the Wa Kingdom, and finally re-establish the son of Prince Shotoku as the emperor. However, in the original history, their ideas must have been unsuccessful. Let's not talk about whether they can see the emperor or not, even if they do, Datang has always adhered to the idea of not interfering in the internal affairs of the subject, so it will not take care of it. Moreover, now the Wa Kingdom is still one of the subject countries of Datang, and Datang does not want to take care of it. Even, the change of rights within their own Datang did not have the idea of being careless. Now, although the internal ministers of the Wa Kingdom have emptied the imperial family, the imperial family still holds the throne, so it is not a big problem.

However, now because of Jingwen's crossing, everyone in the Tang Dynasty is shouting and fighting, and if the Tang Dynasty is asked to send troops to help them now, I am afraid that it will not get the support of officials and the army at all. What's more, Jingwen explained what the emperor meant, so that many people knew what they thought about the Central Plains. For such an ambitious country, as long as Datang has a little precaution, I am afraid that it will not choose to help them at all, maybe the more chaotic they are, the better. And Jingwen thought about what to do with it, and then came to the palace.

"Your Majesty, what should we do with these widows?" Jingwen asked.

"What else can be done? If we all expel them from the country, can we still behead them? Li Shimin said.

If the two countries are at war and still don't kill them, not to mention that now that others and themselves are not at war, can they still kill people? Although someone may have assassinated Jingwen, they would not have been sentenced to death on the spot. This is the so-called unspoken rule, which was called diplomatic immunity in later generations, but there was no formal rule in ancient times, but it was in the stage of unspoken rule. Therefore, Li Shimin did not intend to kill them, but planned to send them back to China.

But Jingwen immediately told Li Shimin about the power struggle within the Japanese state, as well as the relationship between those struggles. And Li Shimin felt a little inexplicable and didn't know what Jingwen meant.

"Do you want my Datang to help them?" Li Shimin asked.

Jingwen immediately said, "It's not to help them." It was this incident as an excuse to destroy them completely. ”

"Does it make sense? What's more, we simply cannot send a large military region to attack, and our naval army cannot attack them at all. Besides, why should we go after a country that cannot threaten us? Although they claim to be ambitious for our Central Plains, it is impossible for them to threaten the Central Plains! Li Shimin said confidently.

And Jingwen saw this situation, and also knew that Li Shimin did not take the Wa Kingdom in his eyes, but how many emperors would take the Wa State seriously since ancient times? The Tang Dynasty despised the Wa State, and as a result, it was later stabbed by the Wa State. At that time, it was Liu Renliang who defeated the Wa Kingdom, so they had to surrender. And during the Song Dynasty. These Wa states were relatively honest, so the Song Dynasty also despised the Wa states. However, during the Ming Dynasty, the Japanese were rampant, and they also fought a war with the Japanese during the Wanli period, which emptied the treasury and became an indirect inducement for the decline and demise of the Ming Dynasty. In the Qing Dynasty, didn't the Wa Kingdom just take the opportunity to bite back? And it is precisely because of the contempt of the successive dynasties for the Wa State that this has caused endless troubles in the future.

"Your Majesty, I think we can lay out in advance. There is a suitable opportunity to do it again, but the situation must be deployed first. As for saying that the emperor thinks that it is not necessary, the minister disagrees. In this Central Plains, no one knows the Wa Kingdom better than the ministers. They seem polite though. But in fact, it is very cruel and ferocious. If you are stronger than them, they will be completely obedient and loyal to you. But if you decline, they'll find a way to bite off a piece of meat from you. Or even swallow your whale. Their personalities are completely very contradictory, loving beauty and being martial, polite and aggressive. Obedience and not taming. If you want to describe the situation in their own country, it is just chrysanthemums and swords. ”

Jingwen then explained to Li Shimin about the characteristics of the Japanese people, and the main theme of Jingwen was to be obtained from an investigation report called "Chrysanthemum and Knife" in later generations, which was once popular in later generations. And Li Shimin also listened carefully to this information about the Japanese state, and then couldn't help but start thinking.

"Your Majesty, if you want to use an example from my Central Plains as an analogy, it is Gou Jian. In order to take revenge, Gou Jian was even able to taste dung for the enemy. And if you use this to describe the Japanese people, they are all Gou Jian in the whole country, and they can grovel for a goal, even at the expense of doing the lowest things. However, this is only true when they are weak. Once they are stronger than you, they will turn their submission to you into a fierce revenge on you. So, isn't this kind of nation able to make us pay attention? This kind of nation, once we despise them, sooner or later we will suffer a great loss. If they don't have ambitions for us, we can also ignore them for the time being. But they have already claimed that they want to become the emperor of the Central Plains Celestial Empire, so can we not pay attention to it? Jingwen said.

When Li Shimin heard that the whole country of the Japanese Kingdom was "Goujian" and had the ambition to get involved in the Central Plains, his heart couldn't help jumping. Because if they have ambitions for the Central Plains and can endure humiliation like Gou Jian, it is not ordinary! It is terrible enough for one person to endure humiliation and burden, but if the whole country endures humiliation and burden, then it is the whole nation that is terrible. If the people of the whole country can endure humiliation and bear heavy burdens, then Li Shimin will have to think a lot highly of this nation. Now it seems that this Japanese country has nothing, but if they can endure hundreds of years of humiliation, can they still be a weak country?

After listening to Jingwen's words, Li Shimin knew that the Japanese people were not simple. With this kind of neighbor who can keep an eye on you at any time, no one is stable!

"What do you mean......" Li Shimin asked tentatively.

"Your Majesty, we might as well leave this introduction with us for the first time, and have an excuse to intervene at any time in the future to prevent them from rising. We definitely attach more importance to this country than to the Turks. The ancients did not seek eternity, but not for a while. So, we have to be careful! Jingwen said.

"Then what are you going to do with this princess?" Li Shimin asked.

"Take it for yourself! He still has some power in his hands, and he is more professional than ours in doing certain things. It would be a pity if you didn't take it for your own use. Jingwen said. (To be continued......)