Great Tang Southern Emperor

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Obviously, this group of people is the official class represented by scholar-bureaucrats, especially aristocratic families and Confucianism.

But no matter what, thanks to Li Zhen's efforts, the disaster in Yuezhou passed through as quickly as possible. As long as all the affected people did not die on the spot, they basically had no more losses, even if they were injured. With the help of Yunnan Baiyao, there was no sign of wound inflammation, and the wound healed very healthy.

In this disaster, under the leadership of Li Zhen, not only did there not appear chaos in Yuezhou, but a large number of epic cases emerged. After they were published in the newspapers, a large number of people became famous, and the people's admiration for Li Zhen became even higher. One floor really kills three birds with one stone.

After the typhoon disaster was solved, the time came to mid-May. Li Shimin had returned from Goguryeo in victory—under the double attack of the Tang army, the Goguryeo treasure king had become a prisoner of the Tang Dynasty.

Not only Goguryeo, but even the Marine Corps also pretended to attack Guo. On the way back to the division, they even killed Baekje.

Coincidentally, in the 17th year of Zhenguan, King Baozang of Goguryeo had just ascended the throne, and King Uija of Baekje had also just ascended the throne for less than two years.

Although King Uija has few virtuous names, and he carried out various reforms on Baekje at the beginning of his succession, there is a tendency to make a big effort-but don't forget, since this is a reform involving a country, it will be effective. Naturally, it is extremely slow, and there will definitely be no results in the early stage. On the contrary, the strength of the country will be greatly weakened due to the struggle between the major factions.

At this time, Baekje's domestic reforms had only been carried out for less than two years, and the national power was weakening. As a result, it happened to meet the Tang army who was about to return to the division, and a Baekje general attacked Datang's army very desperately. Yunyin team - anyway, Baekje is also the enemy of Datang (On the Korean peninsula, only Silla has a good relationship with Datang, and the rest of Goguryeo and Baekje are enemies of Datang), it is rare to meet such a good team By chance, Datang had another excuse. After obtaining Li Shimin's consent, Li Ji captured the royal city of Baekje, captured almost all the nobles below King Uija alive, and wiped out the entire royal family of Baekje.

As for the harvest in Baekje, it is even more shocking...

Chapter 677 Prepare to Return

Chapter 40

Baekje is only one strait away from the Wa country, and there are frequent business exchanges between the two countries. As a country between the Tang Dynasty and the Wa country, Baekje has been a full-fledged dealer in recent years, and many of the goods purchased from the Tang Dynasty have been resold. Sell ​​it to Japan at a high price.Using this method to make money from the Wa Kingdom, this also led to a large amount of money from the Wa Kingdom flowing into Baekje, and the wealth is self-evident.

So when the Tang army broke through the Baekje King City, the harvest was astonishing-no one thought that, as the smallest country on the Korean Peninsula, Baekje was actually the richest one. The silver harvested in the Baekje treasury alone, It is enough to cover half a year's tax of the Tang Dynasty, plus the looting from those noble houses, it is basically equivalent to a year's tax of the Tang Dynasty.

Li Shimin was very excited when he learned about it. As long as the money was safely transported back to Datang, he would not be able to collect even a penny of tax this year, and Datang would have enough money to complete this year's goal.

After returning to Datang, the next most important thing was what Li Shimin had always wanted to do, but because he wanted to go out to fight, he couldn't do it-the ceremony of presenting prisoners.

This time the prisoner offering ceremony is destined to be the largest and most compelling prisoner offering ceremony in history. This time the ceremony is destined to shock the world and be recorded in the annals of history forever.

Because of this prisoner presenting ceremony, there will be a total of more than 30 countries, large and small, surrendering to Datang together. Their kings will all appear on this ceremony, bow their noble heads to Datang, and completely surrender to Datang .

Of course, Datang is not the kind of person who does not show affection. Except for the countries designated by Li Zhen, the kings of all countries will accept the canonization of Emperor Datang. The status above people, but as an idle nobleman, it's okay to live a happy life - the premise is that they don't want to die, what is the restoration movement.

Li Shimin has returned, and preparations for the prisoner offering ceremony have already begun. As the biggest contributor to such a large-scale prisoner presentation ceremony, Li Zhen must be present. It just so happens that he has nothing to do recently, so he just went back to take a look.

Not only Li Zhen, but also Liu Rengui, Xue Wanche, Xue Rengui... These heroes who conquered Nanyang and captured Tianzhu have all returned to Yuezhou one after another. They plan to go back to Chang'an with Li Zhen, not only to participate in the sacrifice of prisoners The grand ceremony, and more importantly, the acceptance of the emperor's reward—according to Li Zhen's estimation, they will be promoted to at least three ranks and their titles by at least one rank when they go back this time.

As for the war in Tianzhu, it can only be temporarily suspended, which can be regarded as giving the countries of Tianzhu a chance to breathe.

But speaking of the battle in Tianzhu, since King Jieri was harmed, Arjuna made a so-called usurpation show, but was tied up by the people of Qunv City, opened the city gate and gave it to the Tang army. The empire quickly fell apart.

Those vassal states that were originally affiliated to the Jieri Empire declared their independence one after another, and became individual states again. Even those territories that originally belonged to the Jieri Empire were directly occupied by generals or city lords from various places, and declared to be individual countries .

However, how could such a farce-like country be an opponent of the Tang army?

The most common thing that recently appeared on the Tianzhu continent is that a certain place announced that it would break away from the Jieri Empire and become a sovereign country, and then the Tang army rushed to it. Under the coercion of the Tang army, these countries immediately announced the opening of the city Surrendered, all the nobles in the city were captured, and the king became Datang's spoils of war. As a gift in the upcoming prisoner offering ceremony, it was presented to the Emperor of Datang——With the efforts of Datang's team, they just quit The number of kings captured in the Japanese Empire has exceeded [-], and there are countless nobles.

If Li Shimin knew that dozens of countries had been added to Li Zhen's side, he would probably be even more ecstatic—the ceremony of offering captives, of course, the more kings he captured, the better. As for how many days they have been kings? , whether this king really does not live up to his name, then it is none of his business.

Even if he has only been a king for a day, he is still a king, as long as he is a king, that's fine.

Today, the Jieri Empire has basically stabilized. After Datang announced the order to abolish the caste system, Datang received the support of nearly [-]% of the Jieri Empire. Brahmanism quickly lost the soil for survival and became everyone The cult of shouting and beating, but Buddhism is once again popular in Tianzhu because of the concept of equality for everyone, which no customer service denies.

However, Li Zhen does not intend to allow Buddhism to monopolize the Tianzhu continent. He has already discussed with Taoism. Suppressed by Brahmanism, before recovering, he went to Tianzhu to compete with Buddhism for believers.

Thanks to Datang's efforts, Jieri Empire was stabilized internally, but externally it was in turmoil—without him, the entire Tianzhu was completely blown away because of the racial equality policy promulgated by Datang.

The whole of Tianzhu is basically the territory of Brahmanism. Now, as the largest country in Tianzhu, the Brahmanism in Jieri has been turned into a cult, and the higher castes have become street rats that everyone shouts and beat. What do the upper castes in the region think?

Therefore, under the auspices of the Zhalouqi Dynasty, the second largest country in Tianzhu, almost all the Brahmin countries have secretly formed an alliance to resist the invasion of the Tang Dynasty—but how much cohesion this alliance has, this is different for different people, wise men See you.

After all, these small countries are not very peaceful.

But even leaving aside those small countries, just a shelter is enough to make Datang vigilant.

After all, this is a country that has resisted the Jieri Dynasty for more than ten years without falling behind. Under the leadership of their king, Puluo Jishe II, they firmly blocked the footsteps of the Jieri King from going south-this is also the case. An absolute overlord who is not inferior to King Jieri.

During the reign of the monarch Puluojishe II, Zhaluqi entered and crossed the central part of India, and the land area reached the largest (not much smaller than the Jieri Dynasty), and its territory reached today's Madhya Pradesh in the north and Kerala in the south states and Tamil Nadu.

Under the leadership of Puluo Jishe II, the Zhaluqi Dynasty repelled the invincible Jieri Dynasty and gained enough glory.If it weren't for their existence, King Jieri might have conquered South Tianzhu long ago and fulfilled his ambition of unifying the Tianzhu continent—thanks to the existence of Zhalou, otherwise King Jieri would not be able to survive the unification of Tianzhu. I set my sights on my friends in the north.

Tubo may not be the opponent of King Jieri.

Chapter 678

Chapter 41 Sea or land

Fortunately, in history, in 642 AD, Paura Jishe II died in a battle with the people of Panawa (a county in Jharkhand, India today), otherwise he might have waited a few years for the holy day The king died, and the Jieri Empire fell apart.Napo Luojishe II, who is no less talented, stronger, or ambitious than King Jieri, may be about to unify Tianzhu from south to north, and fulfill the dream that King Jieri never fulfilled in his life.

It can be seen from this that the country of Zhalouqi is not simple. There are wise monarchs, warriors who dare to fight, and a strong belief in victory. Bones are tougher to crack.

Of course, this bone is not so easy to chew now.

Now with the banner of liberating the race, Datang's rule in North Tianzhu has stabilized, and marching into South Tianzhu is basically a certainty.

But it was also the incentive for the abolition of the caste system. Under Zhelouqi's unification, the entire South Tianzhu was quickly twisted into one rope. With Datang's external stimulation, it is certain that the combat power will soar. If Datang goes to war rashly, it may not be able to defeat them.

So this temporary truce is not necessarily a bad thing for Datang—indeed, after this pause, Zhelouqi will indeed gain a precious respite and be able to integrate more combat power.

But Datang can also accumulate more supplies and weapons through this pause. You must know that Datang is now developing towards a modern army. The army is equipped with more and more hot weapons, and even firearms The experts in the manufacturing and arsenal have also slowly overcome various technical problems. Although they have not overcome all of them, as long as the current trend continues, within half a year, the industrial production of firearms should not be a problem.

At that time, Datang's attack power will be absolutely unparalleled in the world, not to mention people like Ah San, even facing the Dashi Empire armed with religious thoughts, they will definitely be able to destroy them with ease.

It’s just that the advantages of thermal weapons needless to say, but it’s impossible to say that there are no weaknesses—compared with the era of cold weapons, the era of thermal weapons is more logistical. Without logistical thermal weapons, there is no fire The stick is easy to use.

But after galloping across the Tianzhu Continent, the artillery shells in the Datang army have been exhausted, and even some cannons have reached the end of their lifespan, and they are in urgent need of supplementary supplies.

Therefore, this truce may not necessarily be a bad thing for Datang.With this period of time, Datang can completely transport a large amount of ammunition supplies again.As long as there are sufficient materials, even if Zhelou is ten times stronger, he will be nothing but a chicken and a dog in the face of Datang, vulnerable to a single blow.

But now is not the time to talk about these things. Regarding the Zhelouqi war, we will have to wait until we return to Lingnan again. The most urgent thing now is to go back to Chang'an.

It's May now, and the sea is full of waves. To go out to sea in this weather is to play with your own life.

Of course Li Zhen wouldn't take a boat, and right now she can only go by land.

It's just that there are many mountains and hills in the south, and this road is not easy...

"Your Highness, why don't we go by sea."

A group of people sat together and began to study the map, but looking at the densely packed map representing mountains and hills in the southern part of the Tang Dynasty, everyone was dizzy for a while-such a terrain is nothing to a group of rough men, the problem It was this time that there were women and children going back.

Xue Rengui lost his opinion: "Others are fine, but Princess Shouyang and His Royal Highness King Xing have just passed the full moon, and they really can't stand the bumps of the land route. Compared with the land route, I still feel that the sea route is more stable, and the sea route is more stable. faster too.”

After Fang Yiai listened, she firmly opposed: "No, the sea is so choppy right now that even a [-]-ton cargo ship has been overturned. With such sea conditions, going into the sea is looking for death. Your Highness, we can't bet our fate on God's will." hand."