Neon Clothes and Iron Clothes

Chapter 321 The Real History 1
"That's right, the others have been detained, and I don't know what's going on with them now!" Ding Hui said.

"Okay, then go visit your old friends, tell them about the current situation, and let me know if anyone is willing to work for me!"

"Can you help them out?" Ding Hui was surprised and delighted.

"Not bad!"

"That's great!" Iggy Lianbode was also full of joy: "The sooner this kind of thing happens, the better, then we will go there later!"

"Wang Sima!" Dinghui and Yiji Lianbode had just left the door, and the black-toothed Changzhi said: "People's hearts are unpredictable. There are everyone in the Japanese mission group. Will they go and treat all the missionaries indiscriminately?" Are all the members of the regiment released?"

"Well, the battle is over. Since there is a peace negotiation, Datang should also show a little sincerity. They are envoys in the first place, and it is their duty to release them!" Wang Wenzuo laughed and said, "Why don't you do it for a favor?"

"That's true, the subordinate is stupid, but I didn't expect it!"

"It's okay, Changzhi, you are a loyal and upright person, and I know that Dinghui and the two of them are not comparable!" Wang Wenzuo patted the black-toothed Changzhi on the shoulder: "I don't know that the Japanese are cunning and changeable, and I am just a matter of discretion." Use it, you don't need to worry!"

"My subordinates understand!"

Of course Wang Wenzuo knew that Dinghui and Yiji Lianbode were mostly forced by the situation to work for him. If they were asked to meet their old friends in the mission, they would probably take the opportunity to release them all, but this was in his expectation.After the Battle of Baijiangkou, the relationship between Wa and Tang was in a very delicate state. Due to the existence of Goguryeo and Silla, the victorious Tang Dynasty had no plans to take advantage of the victory and go straight to the lair, hoping to end the hostile state as soon as possible; and failed On the one hand, the Japanese country was worried about the Tang army's retaliatory invasion, and also had various internal conflicts caused by the failure of the war. It didn't know whether it was war or peace.

Historically, this state did not last long. According to the records in the Japanese history book "National Treasures of Good Neighbors": "In April of the third year of Emperor Tenchi (664), Tang guests came to court. Waiting for [-] people, Baekje Sahei Ni Army and more than a hundred people went to Tsushima Island. They sent women from the mountains to make believers, monk Zhibian, etc., and called the guests to the other hall. So Zhibian asked: "I have a letter and offer it. Is the thing worth it?" The man replied: "There is a letter from the general and a gift." It is a letter from Zhibian and others who gave the letter to Zhibian, but the gift is not to be inspected."

The Emperor Tenchi in the article is the prince of the eldest brother. At that time, he had not yet ascended the throne. The envoy of the Tang Dynasty, Guo Wuji (Dr. Chaosan is a Sanguan, and Shangzhuguo is an honorary officer) and the Baekje people Nijun (Sahei is an official position in Baekje) arrived. The eldest brother, the prince, was astonished, so he sent a female picker to make believers (the 26th in Dashanzhong is the crown, and the Japanese crown is 14 ranks), which is roughly equivalent to the next five official positions in later generations. They were of the same rank), and the monk Zhibian went to inquire, and the monk Zhibian learned from Guo Wuyi that these envoys did not represent Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, and they only carried a letter from the "General" and offerings (here The general in charge should be Liu Renyuan, the governor of the Xiongjin Governor's Mansion), so he took the letter and forwarded it to the Yamato court, but only inspected the offerings but did not accept them. The attitude of the Japanese is very cautious, because they really can't guess Guo Wuyi's true intentions. For a while, I couldn't decide how to deal with Tang Envoy.

The purpose of Liu Ren's willingness to send envoys is as follows: First, to inquire about political and military trends in the archipelago. After the "Battle of Baijiangkou", a large number of remnants of the Baekje National Restoration Army fled to the islands with the Japanese army. Conspirators in the homeland united to fight back.Therefore, the guarding generals sent Guo Wuji, a Tang native with considerable status and work experience, and You Jun, who had a high status in the former Baekje, to the archipelago. Learn more about the movements of the exiles of the Baekje Restoration Army, the internal situation of the Wa country, its external attitude and possible military measures.

Second, Liu Renyuan and others sent envoys to the hostile Wa country in their own name is undoubtedly provocative, and even deliberately lowered the diplomatic status of the Wa country.Before that, the Wa State had sent several batches of envoys to the Tang Dynasty. Up to now, there are still many overseas students and learned monks living in the middle land. In the Sui and Tang dynasties, the emperor personally sent envoys to the Wa State. The unequal diplomatic relations between suzerains and vassals.And Liu Renyuan and others are just the military and political chiefs of Datang in Baekje. At best, they are only local officials or military commanders sent by them, and they cannot represent the central government, let alone the emperor.They issued an ultimatum to the Wa country obviously to establish a quasi-diplomatic relationship between the local government of the Tang Dynasty and the Wa country. This kind of relationship should not exist between countries. The restraint of the Baekje Protectorate of the Tang Dynasty thus lost the qualification to directly negotiate with the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty.This put enormous pressure on the newly defeated Wa country.

Third, the visit of Guo Wuji and others also had a certain soothing effect.Although Liu Renyuan and others tried to lower the diplomatic status of the Japanese country through this dispatch, but at the same time offering gifts and sending an ultimatum is also an attempt to solve the problems between the two sides through peaceful means.The words in Liu Ren's letter of wish should be relatively moderate, otherwise it will inevitably anger the Wa Kingdom and leave some corresponding records.After all, the local economy and people’s livelihood of Baekje still need to be revived at this time, and the more important purpose of controlling Baekje is to reduce the troubles from the south and open up the southern front when fighting Goguryeo. Datang's agenda came up.Therefore, the necessary appeasement of the Wa Kingdom is mainly to prevent the Wa Kingdom from replacing Baekje and becoming a stumbling block in the Tang Dynasty's crusade against Goguryeo, which is of great strategic value.Finally, the visits of Guo Wuji and You Jun to Japan were tentative, and they also wanted to lay a certain foundation for the establishment of a new Northeast Asian world pattern dominated by the Datang family in the future. Numerous foreign affairs activities.

In history, the specific situation of the envoys of Guo Wutai, Ni Jun, etc. was reported to Yamato, but the Japanese court headed by Prince Zhongda, Nakamitsu Kamazu, etc. could not come up with a way to deal with it for a while, so they had to put the matter temporarily. It was put on hold, and more than 130 envoys including Guo Wuxi began a long wait in Xikaidao.It was not until four months later, in September of that year, that I got a reply.

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