Prince of Tang Dynasty

Chapter 441

Gao Ming was still thinking about who to send to negotiate with the Goguryeo people.

After all, if the status of the person sent is too low, the Goguryeo people will definitely be suspicious, and the high status may have better face, and they will not do such "despicable" things.

Gao Ming was overjoyed when Li Jing stood up at this time.

"If it's you, the Goguryeo people will definitely think that we are really ready to accept their surrender. In this way, the chances of attacking Ji'an or Wandu City will be greatly increased. To be honest, Duke Wei, are you willing to come forward and talk to the Goguryeo people? Negotiations really helped me a lot, it's just your reputation..."

Hearing Gao Ming's words, Li Ji stroked his beard and laughed.

"Haha, what His Royal Highness said is wrong. I, Li Jing, have reached my sixtieth year, and the loess has been buried up to my neck. Reputation is not that important to me. I have been taken care of by Your Highness along the way. Now the old minister can be a big Tang, it is really the honor of the old minister to do his part for His Highness!"

Seeing Li Ji's serious face, Gao Ming nodded immediately.

"Duke Wei's demeanor really makes me admire, so this matter has Duke Lao Wei!"

"Yes! The old minister obeys!"

After finishing speaking, Li Ji bowed deeply to Gao Ming, then turned around and walked out slowly.

After Li Jing left, Gao Ming turned to look at Cheng Yaojin and Hou Junji.

"Give me an order. From now on, we will try our best to clean up all the cities around Liaodong City and Jian'an City, block the main traffic routes, and at least take down Wandu City or Ji'an City before the Goguryeo people find out that we are making false claims with them!"

"Yes!"

Under Gao Ming's order, the Tang army moved again, like a beast opening its mouth wide, revealing its sharp fangs!

Datang's attack did not stop because of the negotiations, but captured the towns of Goguryeo all the way.

When Li Jing met with the envoys of Goguryeo, Zhang Liang had already led the army to take Beisha City;

When Goguryeo's envoys went back to invite "weighty" figures, Cheng Yaojin and Yu Chigong had already captured Xuantu and Hengshan;
When Li Ji and the nobles of Goguryeo sat together to negotiate, Li Ji and Xue Wanche were attacking Maigu and Yinshan...

In a major battle like the siege, it is definitely impossible to completely block the news, so the Goguryeo envoys who are negotiating also got the news.

"What? Datang is attacking us? What's going on?"

Facing the shocked negotiating envoys, Li Jing did not change his expression.

"Impossible! Our Tang Dynasty is a state of etiquette. It is impossible to do such a thing. Besides, we have an advantage now, so there is no need to do such sneaky things. Someone must want to sabotage our negotiations. If you don't believe me, You go!"

"This……"

Hearing Li Jing's words, Goguryeo's envoy fell into deep thought.

In his heart, the Han people are all good-faced. Since they are all sitting at the negotiating table, they should not do such despicable things, so he immediately called the Goguryeo soldiers who were in charge of liaison to him, and gave him serious instructions .

"Go back and tell Big Brother Lu that our negotiations with Datang went well, and now there are only some differences on some minor issues. If Big Brother Luken makes concessions, the war will end soon!"

"Yes!"

After receiving the order, the messenger immediately went back to report to Quangai Suwen, while the remaining envoys still negotiated with Li Jing unyieldingly, hoping to complete the negotiation as soon as possible.

His attitude is very serious. If Gao Ming is willing to accept Goguryeo's surrender, they may have reached an agreement by this time.

But unfortunately, Li Jing didn't come here for negotiation, he came here to talk nonsense.

"First of all, Goguryeo must withdraw its troops from Silla, and return all the captives and property that the soldiers robbed from Silla to Silla."

"It's...it's okay to withdraw troops from Silla, but the property that the soldiers robbed from Silla is impossible to calculate. Even if they want to return it, I'm afraid..."

Before the other party could finish speaking, Li Jing slapped the table forcefully.

"No! It must be returned, and the farmland destroyed by the Goguryeo people must also be compensated!"

"..."

Then, the two talked for a whole afternoon on the issue of how much Goguryeo should pay Silla.

After finally pulling out some results, Li Jing said that he was getting tired easily when he was old and needed to rest, so he left the envoys of Goguryeo and went to eat and sleep by himself.

Seeing Li Jing's back immediately, Goguryeo's envoys felt that there were ten thousand beasts running over in their hearts.

"Damn it, it's none of your Tang Dynasty's business whether our Goguryeo pays Silla money or not? This is really a meddling of a dog and a mouse! Pooh!"

Although he was very angry, the negotiation had to continue, but what made him even more collapsed was that the next day Li Jing brought up another more difficult negotiation topic-pleading guilty.

According to Li Jing, Goguryeo was disrespectful to Datang, so Quangai Suwen should go to Chang'an to plead guilty to Li Shimin face to face.

Of course, the envoys of Goguryeo would not agree to this kind of request, so the two negotiated on this issue for a whole morning. The envoys of Goguryeo spent a lot of effort to persuade Li Jing to let the big nobles of Goguryeo replace Quan. Gai Suwen went to Chang'an to plead guilty.

Then, the two started negotiations on how many nobles should be sent to Chang'an to plead guilty. According to Li Jing's intention, there must be at least fifty, otherwise they will not show sincerity.

Goguryeo's negotiating envoys felt that ten people were enough, and too many would have a bad influence on Goguryeo.

This time Li Jing did not give in, and insisted that fifty Goguryeo nobles go to plead guilty, and that the eldest sons of these nobles must go to Chang'an as hostages.

The negotiation tug-of-war between the two started again. When the negotiation ended every day, the envoy of Goguryeo felt exhausted. However, he endured the exhaustion and wrote the content of the negotiation into an official document, which was brought back to Quangai Suwen. .

Quan Gai Suwen also had a headache when he received the news from the negotiating envoys. He felt that the Tang Dynasty was much more difficult than the Sui Dynasty.

At this time, his heart was full of aggrieved and regretful, he felt that if he could go back to the beginning, he would definitely not go to fight Silla, and he would pay tribute to Datang properly every year.

But it’s too late to say anything now, so he can only ask the messenger to tell the envoy in charge of the negotiation to try his best to negotiate with Datang. Don't let him go to Datang, everything else is easy to talk about.

Quan Gai Suwen really wanted to surrender, and because of the negotiation, he also felt a little physically and mentally exhausted.

Although there were still reports of battles like "The city was attacked by the Tang Dynasty", he didn't pay too much attention to it.

He kept reassuring himself that these were measures Datang took to put pressure on Goguryeo. As long as Goguryeo accepted Datang's negotiation conditions, they would naturally withdraw their troops.

It's a pity that the sky didn't come true. On the fourth day of the negotiation between the envoys of Goguryeo and Datang, Quan Gai Suwen received a battle report——

The former royal city of Goguryeo, Ji'an City, known as one of the "Three Capitals", fell.

After seeing this battle report, he was completely dumbfounded.

"This...how is this possible?!"

(End of this chapter)