Chapter 1205: This Is the Sorrow of a Small Country (Part I)
The right minister of the queen kingdom thought of the various situations in which he met the Tang general, but he never expected that he was captured, because when he went to the port city, he did not wait for him to arrive, and when he was still more than a hundred miles away from the city, he met the army of the Tang Dynasty.
The 1,000 soldiers who escorted him, along with himself, were directly captured by the other party, not to mention the problem of troops, let's just say that he originally came to find the other party, so he naturally did not resist.
It's just that the right minister who saw this scene was very low in his heart, because he knew that Datang's determination was greater than they imagined!
If it was just to get some benefits, the other party should have waited for the port after the release of the "messenger", waiting for the messenger who came to their door, but now, the other party directly began to advance, advancing in the direction of the queen city.
This means that the other side does not care about the outcome of the negotiation at all, or in the eyes of the other party, there is only one outcome of the negotiation.
"I've seen Your Excellency." Right Xiang saluted Li Xiaogong in front of him.
"Excuse me, Your Excellency the Right Prime Minister brought your Queen's Edict of Surrender?" Li Xiaogong asked with a calm face.
Li Xiaogong's words made the right minister a little nervous, and he knew from this sentence that the other party did not give a second choice at all.
"Does Datang really want to fight to the death with my queen? Datang is so confident? The right minister raised his head and looked at Li Xiaogong and said.
"It's not confidence, it's that the Queen's Kingdom doesn't have any chance of winning." Li Xiaogong shook his head and said, "From the moment His Royal Highness King Qin gave the order, there were only two results for the royal kingdom, surrender or be destroyed. ”
Right phase: "......"
Is this called two outcomes? What is the difference between surrender and annihilation?
Is it nothing more than the destruction of the country and the heroism?
"If the whole of my queen kingdom is united, even if I can't beat Datang, I will have to bite off a bite of meat from Datang." The right minister said with an indignant face, since the other party has no intention of peace talks at all, then he naturally doesn't need such a good attitude.
"Do you believe it yourself? If the queen kingdom is united, it can indeed make Datang pay some price, but this price is not serious, but unfortunately, can you be united? So far, our army has advanced more than 100 miles, and we have encountered three cities, but it seems that the other side has no intention of resisting at all. Li Xiaogong looked at him lightly and said.
Right phase: "......"
Yes, it is certainly a powerful force to work together, but the question is whether the queen can work together? No.
Even when he set off, there was no unity in the court, and the local nobles in these cities saw it very clearly, knowing that they couldn't fight, and since they couldn't fight, they would surrender.
It's a big deal, just like Lin Yiguo.
In recent years, the queen has stepped up trade with real wax, and at the same time, the north of the queen country is directly bordering the Linyi country, so the original destruction of the Linyi country has long been rumored in the queen's country.
It can be said that the whole queen knows about this, and many people even use it as a talking point after tea and dinner, and even the right minister knows that the queen country doesn't know how many people are still envious of Lin Yi country.
Because it is already the land of Datang, and after becoming the land of Datang, the people there do not have to pay taxes.
Not only does it not have to pay taxes, but it will also give subsidies, such benefits make the eyes of the people of the queen kingdom red, do you really think that these people are not willing to farm? Not.
It's because the taxes of their queen kingdom are too heavy, and if they plant more fields, they will collect more, and they won't collect much more in a year, so it's better to just plant some fields that they can eat.
Anyway, three crops a year, starvation does not kill people, and more who wants to plant who plant.
But as for the Tang Dynasty, there are no taxes, and the price of grain is still guaranteed, if all this grain is sold to the Tang government, their people can have a lot of surplus money, so that they can buy cloth, buy salt, and buy better food.
No one doesn't want to live a better life, it's just that they don't have a choice.
The right minister also knows that in many places, in order to avoid paying taxes, in addition to cultivating a part of the fields, more wild fields, do not plough the land, do not weed, and when sowing, directly sow some rice into it.
Even if the people above find out, you can't say that these fields, which are no different from wild wasteland, are someone else's fields, because the fields have not been cultivated for many years, and the rice in them is as wild as weeds.
If you ask, no one will admit it, but if no one checks, the village will take away all the rice.
You can't just collect some "wild" rice, and you also collect taxes, right?
Therefore, the people of the queen kingdom do not have much "willingness to fight" at all, and even many people think that their ancestors fled from the Central Plains Dynasty, and their ancestors are all from the Central Plains Dynasty, and they have no idea of the land being conquered at all.
Under such a premise, do you talk to Datang about the same heart?
"Don't you have a choice?" The right minister wanted to say something, but he thought about it a lot, and finally asked...... But there is only this one sentence.
He thought that all the other questions, all the words, he thought about it again and again, but nothing could be said.
They are not like those northern nomads who have land to retreat, and they do not have a vast strategic detour space, although there are deep mountains and old forests to drill into, but may I ask, are the people willing to follow them into the deep mountains and old forests?
What's more, the deep mountains and old forests can't support so many people.
Moreover, the right minister also knows that the people's determination to resist foreign enemies comes from the harm done to them by foreign enemies, so that they cannot survive.
But Datang does not kill people indiscriminately, does not rob the property of the people of the Queen's Kingdom, nor robs grain, and has been trading with real wax for so long, although there is no direct grain trade with Datang, but they know how much grain Datang has.
How much grain can Datang's sea ships pull, they don't lack these at all.
They have also been in contact with the navies of the Tang Nanyang, and they know how strict the discipline of those navies is, so they ...... The right minister doesn't know how many people are willing to rebel against the Tang Dynasty with them under such circumstances.
Or to put it another way, do these nobles and kings really have so much influence in the minds of the people?
The right minister even felt that these nobles might not be comparable to the influence of the Qin King of the Tang Dynasty among their people, at least there are many legends of the Qin King of the Tang Dynasty among the people, such as the legend that he is the incarnation of the sea god, bless all the people on the sea, and it is precisely because of this that the Tang Dynasty's navy will become so powerful in a short period of time.
It is precisely because of this that Datang's fleet never gets lost on the sea, and they can accurately know their direction even at night.