Chapter 649 Japanese Slave
In Chang'an City, inside the Sifang Hall.
A few short Japanese envoys sat on the heated kang and sighed. Although it is really pleasant to be outside in the cold winter and warm inside like spring, but when they thought that they were treated so coldly by the emperor of Tang Dynasty in the magnificent Tai Chi Palace, they couldn't help but feel discouraged. sigh.
Today, there are more than a thousand chieftains and foreign envoys from all over the world to congratulate, whether it is the Persian country in the Western Regions, the Fushi country, or the Frankish country, or their skilled Goguryeo, Silla, Baekje, etc. , were all received grandly by the Tang Dynasty and received generous rewards from the emperor.
Even a little chief like Nanman Erxie had to be rewarded.
But they were envoys from Japan, who bravely traveled across the sea and came here, but they were treated coldly in the end.
"Couldn't the Emperor of Central Plains hold grudges for the letter written by Prince Shotoku?" Inugami Mita asked, frowning.
Deputy envoy Su Wo Cangmalu thought that this was impossible. It was decades ago, and the Sui Dynasty was in power in the Central Plains at that time, but now it is the Tang Dynasty of the Li family.
At that time, Empress Tsuigu was in power, and Prince Shotoku and Soga Kuramaro's uncle minister Soga Mako were in power.
Prince Shotoku is the son of Emperor Yongming, Emperor Yongming and Empress Tuigu were both born to Sowoken Yanyuan, and Sugamazi is the elder brother of Sowoken Yanyuan.
Therefore, in the era of Empress Tuigu, Prince Shotoku was regent, while Soga Mako was in power, and the regime was relatively stable. Empress Tuiku had been in power for thirty-six years until she died of illness at the age of seventy a year ago. At this time, Prince Shotoku and Suga In fact, my horse has passed away a few years ago.
Just one year after the death of Queen Tuigu, Dongying hastened to send envoys to the Central Plains, and resumed the sending of envoys to the Central Plains after decades. There is also a reason.
"I heard that the founding emperor of the Tang Dynasty was the cousin of the emperor whom Prince Shotoku wrote the letter to," said the deputy envoy.
"If that's the case, wouldn't we come here in vain this time?" Inugami looked at Suwo Cangmaro. Lu is the nephew of Mazi Su.
Although Mako Soga died of illness a few years ago, the Soga family is now headed by Mako's son Ezo, and after the death of Empress Tuiko last year, the new Emperor Shumei was established.
At that time, there were rumors that before Emperor Tuiko died of illness, he called the son of Prince Shotoku, Yamabee, to pass on the throne. He wanted Prince Tamura to succeed him even more, and he felt that Prince Tiancun was easier to control than the big brother at the back of the mountain.
The ministers had different opinions, and the son of the Su Clan Eizo threatened the elder brother Shanbei to give up voluntarily. Su Wo Eizo directly sent troops to kill his uncle, and no one dared to oppose him. In the end, Prince Tamura succeeded to the throne for Emperor Shu Ming.
Because he opposed Ezo before, Su Wo Cangma was appointed as the deputy envoy to the Tang Dynasty this time. Although it was a slight punishment, he was from the Suwo family after all. When he came to Datang, he still had Suwo Ezo The mission is to make friends with the Central Plains Datang, and more importantly, to start trade with the Datang.
Emperor Tuiko reigned for thirty-six years, Dongying was stable and developed rapidly, especially under the reform led by Prince Shotoku, which greatly increased the strength of Dongying.
Promote reforms, implement 12 levels of crowns, formulate 17 constitutions, respect Buddhism, strengthen the imperial court, and limit the aristocracy.
Externally, Dongying continued to control those places on the Korean Peninsula, and used it as a base camp to unite with Baekje and attack Silla. In several wars, he captured the five cities of Silla, forced Silla to seek peace, and took advantage of the Silla-Baekje War to become an ally of Baekje, let Baekje pay tribute, and sent the prince into Japan as a hostage.
It was in this situation that Dongpu was somewhat inflated.
At that time, Prince Shotoku sent envoys to the Sui Dynasty, and wrote a letter saying that the emperor at the sunrise sent a letter to the emperor at the sunset, and he was all right. He also said that he heard that the Haixi Bodhisattva emperor revived Buddhism, so he sent envoys to worship, and dozens of monks came to learn Buddhism, etc. .
Yang Guang accepted Haixi Bodhisattva's title of emperor, after all, he really worshiped Buddha, but the Japanese king called himself the emperor of the sunrise, but said he was the emperor of the sunset, so he felt bad. Geely, secondly, what qualifications does the King of Japan have to be called the Son of Heaven with him?
Yang Guang also specially sent someone to inquire about the customs of the Japanese country. The officials responded that the Japanese king regarded the sky as his elder brother and the sun as his younger brother.
Yang Guang, who was already very unhappy, heard that the Japanese king was so crazy. He regarded the sky as his brother and the sun as his brother, and immediately reprimanded him for being too unreasonable.
From the other side, the Son of Heaven, the Son of Heaven, the divine right of the king, this is the basic legal principle of imperial rule, and now the Japanese also come out to say that the sky is the elder brother, isn’t this going to cause chaos?
Although the Japanese sent envoys again in the second year, this time they also brought a letter from the Queen Tuigu, saying that the Sui Dynasty was called the Great Sui Dynasty in Haixi, the country of propriety and righteousness. But he calls himself a barbarian, living in seclusion in the sea corner, and does not listen to etiquette and righteousness. Said to send envoys, learn from the Haixi Sui Dynasty, etc., and never mention anything about the Sunrise Emperor, which made Yang Guang feel more comfortable, and also sent envoys to visit Japan to announce the canonization.
Empress Tuigu and Prince Shotoku sent their envoys to the Sui Dynasty, not because of any canonization, because when they first sent envoys to the court, they regarded the relationship between the two sides as equal.
Their envoys were mainly because of the crisis in the Korean peninsula at that time. After Yang Guang succeeded to the throne, he intended to conquer Goguryeo in Liaodong. As early as the ancient times when there were no historical materials and only legends in Wa Kingdom, there was a legend about Queen Shengong conquering Sanhan. The three Hans refer to the native Chenhan Mahan Bihan on the peninsula.
During the Sui Dynasty, the peninsula had become a situation in which Goguryeo, Baekje and Silla stood side by side. Baekje and Goguryeo were actually established by the Buyeo people who went south from Liaodong.
Only Silla was the successor to the Three Hans.
When the Sui Dynasty was preparing to attack Liaodong, the Wa Kingdom still had its own forces on the island at this time, and they occupied Renna Kingdom, but although the Wa Kingdom had been united and unified the islands for a long time, in fact, it had always been in turmoil. , when the Soga clan and the Monobe clan were still fighting for admiration and suppression of Buddha, and finally had a full-scale civil war because of supporting the new emperor, Silla, which had originally formed an alliance with Baekje against Goguryeo, suddenly formed an alliance with Goguryeo and became stable. After the north, the courageous troops sent a surprise attack on Renna, and began to devour the city-states one after another.
Renna was an important place for the Japanese to gain a foothold on the peninsula. If Renna was lost, the Wa country might be driven out of the peninsula. And the Wa country has had the ambition to seize the peninsula to the north for hundreds of years, how can it be willing to give up.
So the Wa Kingdom wanted to launch a counterattack, but was worried about the Sui Dynasty in the Central Plains, so they sent envoys here. The purpose was to test the attitude of the Sui Dynasty and form an alliance with the Sui Dynasty. In the crusade against Goguryeo, the enemy of the enemy is naturally a friend.
Although the thinking of the Wa Kingdom is correct, it is a pity that they did not understand that the Central Plains Dynasty has always regarded itself as a celestial dynasty, and even when facing the powerful Turks, they have not given up this concept.
It is a good thing for the Japanese to form an alliance, but for Yang Guang, the Wa country is just a small island of barbarians, so how can it be qualified to be called the emperor of the Sui Dynasty?
Later, it was the second time that Emperor Gu came to envoy, and the envoys became cunning. They changed the title of the Emperor to Doris Bigu, which was actually just a transliteration of the title of the Emperor, just to deceive the Sui Dynasty.
As a result, Yang Guang really thought that the emperor had surrendered, so the book of credence called him King Wa, or King Dorispi.
Later, Yang Guang conquered Goguryeo three times, and the Japanese kingdom also took the opportunity to send troops across the sea to attack Silla, and captured several cities in Silla, forcing the king of Silla to seek peace.
And this time, Suga Eizo sent his cousin Suga Cangmaro over, with an important task, which was to test Datang's attitude towards the Korean peninsula, because Silla had already paid tribute to Datang. In the fifth year of Wude in the Tang Dynasty, Silla sent envoys to pay tribute and request canonization. In the seventh year of Wude in the Tang Dynasty, the emperor sent envoys to Silla, and conferred the title of King Zhenping of Silla as the Zhu Kingdom, King of Lelang County, and King of Silla.
At the same time, the King of Goguryeo and the King of Baekje were also canonized, but the island barbarian Dongying was ignored.
In the ninth year of Wude, at the beginning of Li Shimin's succession to the throne, Silla and Baekje wrote to report Goguryeo's invasion of the south. Li Shimin sent an envoy Zhu Zishe to the Three Kingdoms of Haidong to mediate, and Goguryeo was forced to promise to repair with Silla.
It is precisely because of such a precedent that although Suga Eizo has recruited 25,000 soldiers from various parts of the Wa Kingdom, and is preparing to cross the sea to attack Silla again, it is also worried that Silla will ask Tang for help, and the Tang Dynasty will intervene.
Su Wo Eizi hoped to send envoys to the Tang Dynasty this time, but he still had no idea of becoming a vassal state of the Tang Dynasty. They were on the island and had never suffered a crisis of extinction. On the contrary, they were still doing things on the Korean Peninsula. Silla's peace petition turned Baekje into its own vassal. The emperor was doing well, so he naturally didn't want to be reduced to the Japanese king as a vassal.
What he wants is to form an alliance with the Tang Dynasty, the condition is to deal with Goguryeo together with Datang, and what he wants is that Datang will no longer interfere in the war between Wa and Silla.
But today at the Great Court Meeting, Emperor Tang's attitude made them very worried. Datang dismissed their arrival. From Yang Emperor Yang Guang to today's Emperor Zhenguan Li Shimin, they are all the same.
"What should we do now? We can't leave empty-handed, right?" Ambassador Inugami asked.
"Twenty-five thousand troops are gathering and preparing to go to Chikushi, pass through the Tsushima Strait, and land on the Sanhan Peninsula to conquer Silla and regain the Imna area. The emperor and the ruling ministers are still waiting for our good news. How can we go empty-handed?" Back?" Su Wo Cangma said angrily.
The deputy envoy of the Ministry of Things suddenly said, "I heard that after Prince Shotoku's envoy offended the Emperor of Sui, Empress Tuigu sent an envoy to Sui again. At first, she was unwelcome, but later she bribed the important ministers and empresses around the Emperor of Sui. It was changed, and it was arranged to meet the emperor. How about we do the same?"
Quan Shang immediately said, "I heard that in Chang'an City, the emperor's son-in-law Qin Sanlang is the most favored by the emperor. He is not only the emperor's son-in-law, but also the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty. He is also a victorious general. I heard that he is also greedy and lustful." , if we send him some gold and beauties, we will definitely get him to help."
Su Wo Cangma's eyes lit up after hearing this, "Qin Sanlang, since I landed in Yangzhou, I have heard the name of this favorite minister of the emperor of the Tang Kingdom all the way, okay, let's prepare gifts right now." .”
(end of this chapter)