Prince of Tang Dynasty

Chapter 590 The Sensible Emperor
Although Emperor Kotoku stated clearly that he was unable to recover the Wa country from the pirates and bandits, so he took the initiative to dedicate the Wa country to the Tang Dynasty, but from the fact that he took the initiative to move his family to the Datang, Gao Ming can be sure, he must understand everything up.

When Gao Ming sent people to attack Baekje, the lord of Baekje asked for help from Emperor Kotoku of Wa, and Emperor Kotoku did indeed send a fleet to Baekje.

It's a pity that before the fleet arrived, Baekje had Gao Ming wiped out.

Now that Baekje was destroyed, Emperor Kotoku would naturally not offend Datang because of a dying country, so he let the fleet that had already left halfway return to Japan.

Originally, Emperor Kotoku thought that this incident was over, but what he didn't expect was that less than a month after Baekje was destroyed, Wa Kingdom was besieged by 20 pirates.

These pirates not only owned large sea ships, but were also well-equipped and brave in battle. It took less than a week to defeat all the resistance forces of the Wa country and began to plunder wildly.

Although Emperor Kotoku felt that these pirates were strange, he couldn't allow him to think too much at this time. For his own life, he could only take some close people on board the boat in the dark, and sneaked to Datang. And asked Li Shimin for help.

Originally, Emperor Xiaotoku didn't have much hope, but to his surprise, Li Shimin agreed to his request, and Li Daozong led an army of [-] to Japan to help him regain the land.

This result made Emperor Kotoku's little boy immediately heated up.

"Now we can finally take back the country!"

Just as Emperor Xiaotoku thought, after Li Daozong's army arrived in Wa country, those pirates fled immediately. Emperor Xiaotoku got his wish and formed a new army to control Wa country.

But unfortunately, when these pirates fled, they also took a lot of wealth looted from the Wa Kingdom, but he couldn't say nothing to the Tang army who came to help him recover the Wa Kingdom, so he made a difficult decision.

Increase taxes!

It took nearly a month, and Emperor Xiaotoku, who had caused complaints from the people because of the tax increase, finally collected enough "labor fees" to satisfy Li Daozong, and then sent Li Daozong and his [-] Tang troops out of Japan.

Originally, Emperor Kotoku thought that these people could finally be his Emperor of Japan with peace of mind, but not long after, a shocking news hit him badly again.

There are bandits out of Japan!
In fact, there have always been bandits in Wa country, but they were all bad, so Emperor Kotoku never cared about it.

But these are different, the bandits who came out this time are not Japanese, but Turkic!
According to the news obtained by Emperor Xiaode, these bandits are all from Xue Yantuo. The reason is that Bazhuo offended the Tang Dynasty, so Li Shimin sent people to let Xue Yantuo be destroyed, and the Turkic people who are now appearing in Japan escaped from Xue Yantuo Turkic remnants!

These Turkic people are not only numerous in number, but also extremely powerful. They are several times more powerful than those pirates before. up.

Moreover, after these bandits appeared, they did not plunder everywhere, but directly occupied several gold and silver mining areas in Wa Kingdom, and then began to mine precious metals.

When the gold and silver mines were being mined, these bandits were still recruiting people. In less than a month, the number increased to one million. Such a large number of bandits naturally needs a lot of food. After all, there are so many people You can't eat dirt, right?

Therefore, these bandits began to go down the mountain to grab food.

What made Emperor Kotoku most angry was that these bandits didn't seem to want to rob the people at all, but directly gave him an ultimatum to the emperor, giving him a few days to pay the grain, and killing him if he didn't pay it within the time limit.

This is really deceptive!
Emperor Kotoku was very angry, but after the anger was over, he obediently followed the other party's request and went to get food.

Naturally, Emperor Xiaotoku didn't have food, so he could only ask the Japanese nobles below to hand it over, and the Japanese nobles asked their samurai to hand it over, and the samurai forced ordinary Japanese people to hand it over.

If it was in the past, this kind of thing was nothing, but it is different now.

More than two months ago, the pirates came to rob once, and a month ago, in order to deal with Li Daozong, Emperor Xiaotoku sent someone to collect it again. It has only been a month now, and the warriors have come to collect food again. If not, how would they survive?

If you pay the food, you may starve to death. If you don't pay the food, you may be beaten to death by the warriors.

As a result, the people of the Wa Kingdom rebelled, and within a few days, the number of rebels exceeded one million, because the number of nobles of the Wa Kingdom who were killed in this rebellion also exceeded double digits.

Now Emperor Kotoku was dumbfounded.

"How did things become like this?"

As a person who can be recorded in history, Emperor Kotoku's mind is naturally very useful. It only took him two days to sort out his thoughts and think about everything.

First of all, the timing of the pirate invasion was too coincidental. Datang's army had just defeated Baekje, and after recovering the entire peninsula, the pirates came to attack the Japanese country, and the number of pirates was 20. This is simply unheard of.

Secondly, why did the pirates withdraw as soon as Datang's army arrived? You must know that the number of pirates was 20, while Li Daozong only brought 10.
The last point is that bandits appeared too strangely. As soon as Datang’s army left, the bandits appeared immediately, and each of them was very powerful. If Xue Yantuo’s Turkic remnants were really so fierce, they would be wiped out by Datang what?
What a liar!
After thinking about these things, Emperor Kotoku finally came to a conclusion.

Whether it is pirates or bandits, everything is a good show directed and performed by Datang himself, and the purpose is to avenge him for sending troops to rescue Baekje!

After reaching this conclusion, Emperor Kotoku's intestines were full of regrets, but he also knew that it was too late to regret it now. If he continued to stay in the Wa country, then he would either be killed by bandits or be rebelled by the Wa country. People fucked up.

Left and right are dead, just leave!
With this in mind, Emperor Kotoku came directly to Chang'an with his family, and then directly handed over the "Three Artifacts", which represent the inheritance of the Japanese royal family, to Honglu Temple in the Tang Dynasty, and asked Datang's asylum.

The meaning of Emperor Xiaotoku is very simple. To put it bluntly, it is just a sentence, "I don't want the Japanese country, I don't want the freedom of life, you let my family live in peace and security!"

This request was not an excessive request, so Gao Ming agreed in one gulp in the court hall.

Moreover, Gao Ming had no intention of doing anything to Emperor Xiaotoku, especially after he returned to the East Palace and saw the three artifacts of the Japanese kingdom sent by Honglu Temple, he even had a good impression of this "reasonable" emperor.

"Hey, this guy Xiaode is quite sensible, not bad!"

(End of this chapter)