[Wu Zetian] Queen's Road

Chapter 20 Conquer 14

When the news of Goguryeo's destruction reached the Tang Dynasty, it happened to coincide with the New Year.

His Majesty Li Xiaojiu's family lived in Luoyang until Wu Xu gave birth, Xiao Saburo was born at full term, he is not as big as his brother Li Xian, but he is very fond of his father.

And precisely because Xiaosan'er is relatively small, Wu Xu didn't suffer much when giving birth to Baozi, and it took almost half a day to get it done.

So for this baby, Wu Xu treats him more affectionately than Da Lang and Er Lang.

For this reason, His Highness the Crown Prince was rather depressed, and his cousin Wu Dalang was always avoiding him intentionally or unintentionally these days, and there was always a black air around the Crown Prince's Palace.

On the other hand, His Royal Highness King Lu is still as taciturn as ever, leaving early and returning to Chongwen Hall every day to study cultural knowledge, which makes Wu Xu often suspect that her son is actually a top student, right?

When the three buns were full moon and Wu Xu's body had almost recovered, His Majesty Li Xiaojiu returned to Chang'an from Luoyang with his wife and children.

Not long after returning to Chang'an, news of the complete annihilation of the Japanese navy came from Xue Rengui's side.

After interrogating the captured general of the Wa Kingdom, he knew that Fu Yufeng, who escaped in the first battle at Baijiangkou, had fled to the Wa Kingdom.

When Wu Xu heard the bad news, she couldn't help but 'thump' in her heart.

She originally planned to keep all the Japanese naval forces that attacked Baekje, otherwise, one soldier would flee back to the island country to pass on the news. She didn't want Fu Yufeng to be really cunning. revenge!

"Fu Yufeng's departure will inevitably reveal my Tang's military equipment to the prince of the Wa Kingdom, and it will not be easy to destroy the Wa Kingdom..." Wu Xu was full of annoyance.

His Majesty Li Xiaojiu, who was checking the military report of Li Ji's army advancing to Goguryeo, just smiled and comforted him, "Awu, you don't have to worry, what does it matter if the Japanese know about our Tang's armaments?"

For a small island country, if there are tens of thousands of young and strong people all at once, I am afraid that no one in the country can use them. When the time comes, as long as the army of the Celestial Dynasty approaches the city, the prince of the Japanese country will have to surrender obediently?

Li Zhi's words are not arrogant and arrogant. In fact, Wa country's loss in the battle of Baekje was far greater than Li Zhi expected.

The three kings of the Wa Kingdom before the title of the eldest brother, the crown prince, were completely unable to grasp the monarchy.The eldest brother, the crown prince, staged a coup when he was the prince. He shoveled out the most powerful minister in the country, the Soga family, and killed several princes who threatened his status. The intensity of the reform and further strengthen the centralization of the monarchy.

The Dahua reform greatly weakened the power of the nobles, which once made the nobles of the Wa Kingdom very dissatisfied. The eldest brother, the crown prince, wanted to divert the contradictions in the domestic political arena by launching a foreign war of aggression.

But it happened that the Korean peninsula was attacked by the Tang army, and Baekje and Silla were subjugated in an instant. The interests of the Wa country in the peninsula were greatly damaged. The eldest brother and prince encouraged the then empress Qi Ming to send troops to aid Baekje.

As a result, Empress Qi Ming led the army to Kyushu and died suddenly. There was another power struggle within the Wa Kingdom. The eldest brother, the Crown Prince, managed to take control of the situation again. Unfortunately, the opportunity for war was fleeting, and most of the Korean peninsula had been taken over by the Tang Dynasty. In the stomach, the ally Goguryeo also retreated, ceding land and paying compensation, not daring to beat the edge of the Celestial Dynasty.

What made the crown prince Zhongda even more angry was that his vassal state, Yeyi Kingdom, also took advantage of the fire to loot, and split up by taking advantage of the civil strife in Japan.

With the strength of the Wa Kingdom, it is easy to kill a small Yezo Kingdom, and it was this great victory that made the confidence of the Wa Kingdom skyrocket.

The eldest brother, the crown prince, had the idea of ​​consuming local power, so he publicized the importance of the peninsula to the Japanese country, and emphasized that the number of Tang troops left was not large, and they would not fight water wars...

Under the flickering of the eldest brother, the crown prince, the nobles of all levels in the island country all had red eyes, wishing they could rush to the peninsula to grab territory with their own troops...

Therefore, [-]% of the troops who went to Baekje this time were private soldiers contributed by nobles at all levels in the Wa Kingdom, which almost emptied all the local military forces in the Wa Kingdom.

Despite the fact that the 10,000+ people of the Wa Kingdom are not as large as the reserve forces of several big prefectures in the Celestial Dynasty in Wu Xu's eyes, they already have all the available military power of the Wa Kingdom except for the army defending the royal family.In other words, in this disastrous defeat in Baekje, at least [-]% of the young and strong in the Wa country died.

As soon as the news of Baekje's defeat reached the Wa Kingdom, the eldest brother, the Crown Prince, almost spat out his old blood. He wanted to consume some of the troops of other nobles, but he didn't want all the young and strong of the Wa Kingdom to die!

What made the crown prince even more painful was that the hundreds of thousands of soldiers he gathered together with all the power of the whole country faced Datang's army, and the entire army was wiped out without even killing a single hair of the opponent!

If he hadn't paid more attention to letting his direct descendants follow Fu Yufeng, I'm afraid even his thousands of people would have become cannon fodder...

All in all, only his direct descendants suffered the least loss in this dispatch of troops to Baekje. Except for the vanguard troops who died in Baijiangkou, all the others followed Fu Yufeng and fled back to the country of Wa, at least part of the troops were saved.

Thanks to the soldiers and horses that Fu Yufeng brought back, those Japanese nobles who had no soldiers and horses did not dare to choke in front of the eldest brother, the Crown Prince, and could only cry bitterly in private...

The eldest brother, the crown prince, is also a sober man. After discovering this situation, he immediately eliminated several nobles who were a threat to the imperial power, and took the opportunity to strengthen the centralization of power.

The Battle of Baekje can be said to have indirectly helped the Wa Kingdom advance the process of monarchy centralization.

After the domestic threat was settled, the eldest brother, the crown prince, began to prepare for the work of dealing with Datang.

First, the eldest brother, the crown prince, moved the capital from Asuka to Omi, and then mobilized [-] Japanese people, including women and children, to build four "water cities" on the west coast of the Japanese country day and night to prevent the Tang army from attacking...

When the news that Goguryeo was also annihilated by the Tang Dynasty reached the Wa Kingdom, the eldest brother, the crown prince, broke out in a cold sweat, and postponed the enthronement ceremony indefinitely. 'Ping Goguryeo Celebratory Envoy' took Fu Yufeng tied into rice dumplings to Chang'an to congratulate the Datang government's complete victory in the Korean peninsula.

At the same time, Wa Kingdom also sent a large number of teenagers to Chang'an with the envoy group, hoping to stay in Chang'an to study.

When Wu Xu heard that the Wa Kingdom had sent an envoy called "Ping Gaoguli Celebration Envoy", he was really angry and funny.And those Japanese teenagers who were sent here, isn't the eldest brother, the crown prince, afraid that she will brainwash all these teenagers, and there will be no return?

This Japanese has a thick skin too. He was beaten badly by the Tang Dynasty when he failed to compete for interests in the peninsula, so he came here to steal a teacher to learn art?

How beautiful they are!

"Let the stewards of the Sifang Pavilion listen to the order. Except for the envoys, no other Wa people are allowed to leave the hall to walk around Chang'an City at will, and no one is allowed to sell books or tools to the Wa people." Wu Xu heard Xu Jingzong complacently report to him After talking about the resettlement situation of the people of the Wa Kingdom, he immediately said.

"No Japanese people are allowed to touch Chang'an's bookstores, newspaper offices, schools, etc. Do you understand?"

When Xu Jingzong heard the words, the complacent expression on his face immediately retracted, no matter how stupid he was, he understood what the empress lady meant...

This is the rhythm to destroy the Wa country!

When Xu Jingzong thought that he had received a lot of bribes from the Japanese envoys, and even gave them a set of poems edited by him...

Xu Jingzong couldn't help but turn pale.

"Don't worry, my lady, I will definitely instruct the Sifang Pavilion carefully." Xu Jingzong didn't even have the courage to look at Wu Xu, and hurriedly agreed with his head down.

Wu Xu didn't notice Xu Jingzong's strange expression, but remembered that his second fat man had recently started learning poetry and was in need of a first teacher.

So, Wu Xu asked: "Xu Xianggong, do you think there is any young talent in Chongwenguan or Taixue who can enlighten the prince?"

Xu Jingzong was shocked when he heard the words, and quickly checked the names of several famous young talents in Chang'an in his mind, and found that those people were either from aristocratic families, or they were not very compatible with him...

Therefore, Xu Jingzong suggested: "Lady, didn't the sage say that the sage is in court today, and when the spring begins, he will personally test the candidates who are on the list in the Taiji Hall. Then the lady and His Royal Highness Lu Wang will be able to personally choose a favorite young talent." ?”

When Wu Xu heard this, he felt it was very reasonable, so he put it down and asked Xu Jingzong how the revision work of the new collection of poems he compiled was going well...

Xu Xianggong started to sweat again.

After finally answering the Queen's wife's words, Xu Xianggong was a little sweaty.

In the spring of the fourth year of Xianqing, His Majesty Li Xiaojiu, in order to congratulate the Tang army on their victory in the peninsula, granted amnesty to the whole world, and all civil and military officials were awarded one level of official honor, and they died for three days.

This year was the year when the fourth prince Li Sujie was crowned. His Majesty Li Xiaojiu granted the princes again, the second prince Xu Wang Li Xiao was appointed as the governor of Suizhou, the king of Qi Li Shangjin was the governor of Chenzhou, and the king of Yong Li Sujie was changed to the king of Xun and another governor of Qizhou.

Prince Li Hong was originally in charge of Yongzhou and Bingzhou, but now Li Xiaojiu simply gave these two states to His Royal Highness Prince Lu.

As for the new classmate Xiao Saburo named Li Xian, like his brother, he was made a prince before he could speak, saying: King Zhou, he also took Yangzhou and Lizhou.

After conferring civil and military officials and his own sons, His Majesty Li Xiaojiu turned around to take care of his uncles, brothers and sisters, and each of them sealed at least one hundred households.

As for the son-in-laws such as the Changsun family, Wei family, and Xue family, they were rewarded by His Majesty Li Xiaojiu.

After 23 Niang married Xue, she lived a pretty good life. Hearing that she is pregnant now, Wu Xu specially chose a hot spring village from her fief to congratulate 23 Niang.

The envoys of the Japanese Kingdom were left out for several months by His Majesty Li Xiaojiu, and finally took advantage of the Spring Festival to show their face in front of His Majesty Li Xiaojiu. They immediately presented a big gift, and specially prepared a gift for the Queen's wife. The hand of the confidant and beloved minister Xiao Li Xianggong was sent to the palace.

Wu Xu received a gift from the Japanese envoy, and really didn't know what to say...

Because what Li Sanlang brought was not some rare jewelry, but a pair of beautiful boys and girls.

Seeing Li Sanlang's half-smile, Wu Xu's face turned dark.

What kind of person do these little devils think she is, to give her virgin boys and girls? !

The author has something to say: boys and girls, baahaha...