Emperor Zhenguan

Several decisions were made on the handling of the Goguryeo site, and then Li Zhiyun and the prime ministers began to discuss what to do next, or in other words, whether to destroy Silla Baekje immediately, or wait a year before doing it.

Xue Shou said: "As your Majesty said, Goguryeo has been standing for a long time, and I fear that its people will be hard to return to and will change again. It is better to wait for its stability before making a proposal for Silla and Baekje."

Li Jing shook his head and said: "Silla and Baekje regard each other as enemies at this moment, and our dynasty can help Silla to destroy Baekje, occupy its land, relocate its people, isolate Silla, and launch troops against Silla in the future It doesn't take much effort either. If it drags on for a long time, Silla and Baekje might hold together to keep warm and be hostile to us."

Everyone was slightly silent, and it was hard to make up their minds immediately.

What Xue Shou and Li Jing said actually made sense, but their starting points were different.Xue Shou starts from stability. After all, it will take time to completely settle the people of Goguryeo. If he eats Baekje at this time, it will add to the burden.If the people of the old land once rioted, the imperial court would have to suppress it, which would be a waste of effort.

Li Jing, on the other hand, started from a strategic point of view, destroying Baekje, and they will be alone and helpless next time they attack Silla, which can minimize unnecessary variables.

One is to decide to digest slowly, and the other is to decide to settle everything first, and then slowly digest.

Du Ruhui asked: "Li Xiang, if you raise troops now, how long will it take to defeat Baekje and Silla?"

Li Jing thought for a while, and said: "It won't be too long, at most two months. Goguryeo is stronger than Baekje and Silla. In addition, Silla and Baekje have been fighting for years, and there is not much power to resist our army. The only one What we need to worry about is how to stabilize that area after taking Baekje-Silla, which is the most important thing.”

"That's exactly what I'm worried about." Xue Shou sighed, "I'm not worried about whether Baekje-Silla can be conquered, but how it will be safe after defeating it. It doesn't matter whether it is Goguryeo or Baekje-Silla. I am facing the opponent. But they are different from the grasslands. These three small foreign countries have been established for a period of time, and they all have some people's hearts. If they are not handled properly, I am afraid that the place will not be peaceful. In this way, the price for them will be settled in the future. , I’m afraid they will beat me down more.”

Li Jing nodded and said: "This statement is also reasonable, I did not think about it."

"No, no, aren't we here to solve the problem for His Majesty?" Xue Shou said with a smile.

Li Zhiyun nodded, and said: "The truth, the more you argue, the clearer it becomes. Although the two lovers have different ideas, they both want to solve this matter. I think it's better to settle it once and for all."

Hearing this, everyone understood in seconds that the emperor had made up his mind to solve the matter over there thoroughly.

"The ministers obey the order."

Soon, Li Zhiyun ordered soldiers and horses to escort the imperial decree to Goguryeo, hand it over to Li Junxian and Xu Shiji, and let them prepare to take Baekje Silla.

For Li Zhiyun, it is better to solve the matter over there at once. If it is delayed, Baekje Silla may form a group for self-protection. At that time, it will only increase the difficulty for itself for no reason, which is really unnecessary.

At the same time, the envoys of Silla and Baekje brought back the replies given by the generals of the Tang Dynasty.

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Fuyu Yici heard that the Tang Dynasty would not intervene in their war with Silla, and instead of being ecstatic, he began to have doubts.

"Brother, isn't this a good thing?" Fuyu asked puzzled.

"It's a good thing, but I'm worried that the good thing is actually a bad thing." Fuyu Yici sighed: "It's not sure, the Tang Dynasty said that on purpose, let us fight Silla to the death, and they will easily eradicate us in one fell swoop."

"Ah?" Fu Yuhe was shocked, "This shouldn't be possible, the Tang Dynasty wouldn't be so dishonest."

"Who can say for sure." Fuyu Yici sneered, "Whoever is stronger, what he says will naturally be the truth. Think about it, once the Tang Dynasty does this, who can blame them and who will help us? After all , or we can’t beat Tang Dynasty, so Tang Dynasty can give us any promise we want, and they can deny this promise at any time.”

Fu Yuhe understood, and immediately said: "Brother, we should withdraw our troops to guard against possible attacks by the Tang Dynasty."

"I'm afraid it won't work." Fuyu Yici said bitterly, "With Silla's murderous intentions towards us now, even if we withdraw our troops, they will not let us go easily. This war will break out completely sooner or later. It’s just a matter of time.”

He had never imagined that he would become what he is now.In other words, he never thought that Goguryeo was so weak in front of the Tang Dynasty, it could even be said to be powerless to fight back.As long as Goguryeo can block it for a while, the current situation will not be so passive.Not being able to defeat Silla, and the threat of the Tang Dynasty, it is simply a dilemma.

Seemingly seeing the big brother's embarrassment, Fu Yu gritted his teeth and said, "Big brother, why don't we fight Tang Chao. The left and right are just dead, so why bother to worry too much, the more we are afraid, the better Tang Chao will think of us Bullying, as long as the Tang Dynasty takes action, we will fight desperately to let the people of the Tang Dynasty know that we are not easy to bully."

Fuyu Yici looked at his younger brother, nodded heavily, "That's right!"

He figured it out, Baekje's choice, either surrender or resist, there is no third way to go.

Surrender is impossible. Once they surrender, they will definitely send all the Baekje royal family to Chang'an according to the practice of the Tang Dynasty.If you are lucky, you may be placed under house arrest. If you are unlucky, you will die.

As for the resistance, although the chance of winning is not great, there is still a glimmer of life anyway.

At this moment, Silla is very happy up and down.Because they got the promise of the Tang Dynasty, they no longer have to be afraid of Baekje, the sworn enemy.With the Tang Dynasty, Baekje would never dare to be presumptuous.

"When will the Tang army send troops?" Jin Chunqiu asked the envoy.

The envoy said: "The general of the Tang Dynasty said that they have just captured Goguryeo, and it may take some time before they can appease the people."

Jin Yuxin on the other side sneered, "I'm afraid it's not appeasement, but suppression."

The Tang army destroyed Goguryeo and said something to appease the people of Goguryeo, which was clearly suppressing those disobedient Goguryeo nobles.Even, persecute them.

What to say to appease is just an excuse.

Jin Chunqiu frowned slightly, and said: "No matter what, it is always a good thing that Tang Jun agreed to help us. You must know that if Tang Jun hadn't appeared, Baekje would definitely continue to attack us now."

Jin Yuxin did not refute this.

Because of the appearance of Tang Jun, the Baekje Army really dare not act rashly now.Otherwise, according to Fuyu Yici's approach, the war must continue now.Even though he wasn't afraid of Fu Yu Yi Chi, and he wanted to avenge Kim Jin Sun, things weren't going so well in Silla.

Jin Chunqiu paced and said: "The Tang army is strong, our army is weak, the Tang Dynasty is strong, and our country is weak, so don't be arrogant. From now on, forget about the past, and wholeheartedly form an alliance with the Tang Dynasty to win Baekje. Yes, don’t mention it again in the future, so as not to hurt the peace between the two countries.”

"You are really generous." Jin Yuxin pouted.

Hearing this, Jin Chunqiu stopped talking, he really didn't want to say too much meaningless nonsense at this time.Besides, he also understands the blow of Jin Qinchun's death to Jin Yuxin.

Although he felt that what the other party said was nonsense, he still didn't want to cause internal discord at this juncture.