The right minister of the Queen's Kingdom thought of all the situations in which he met the General of the Tang Dynasty, but he never expected that he was captured, because when he went to the port city, he did not wait for him to arrive, and he was still more than a hundred years away from the city. When they arrived, they met the Tang army head-on.
The thousand soldiers who escorted him and himself were directly captured by the other party. Let alone the issue of troop strength, it was said that he came to see the other party, so he naturally did not resist.
But the Right Prime Minister who saw this scene felt very depressed, because he knew that Datang's determination was greater than they imagined!
If it was just to get some benefits, after releasing the "messenger", the other party should wait for the port and wait for their envoy to come. But now, the other party directly started to advance towards the Queen City.
This means that the other party does not care about the outcome of the negotiation at all, or in other words, in the other party's view, there is only one outcome of the negotiation.
"I have met Your Majesty the County Prince." Right Xiang saluted Li Xiaogong in front of him.
"Excuse me, Your Majesty the Right Prime Minister, did you bring your Majesty the Queen's edict of surrender?" Li Xiaogong asked calmly.
Li Xiaogong's words made the right minister a little nervous. From this sentence, it was known that the other party did not give a second option at all.
"Does the Tang Dynasty really want to fight to the death with our queen? Is the Tang Dynasty so confident?" The right minister raised his head and looked at Li Xiaogong and said.
"It's not that we have confidence, but that the Queen's Kingdom has no chance of winning." Li Xiaogong shook his head and said, "From the moment His Highness King Qin gives the order, the Queen's Kingdom has only two outcomes, surrender or be destroyed."
Right Prime Minister: "..."
Are these two results? What is the difference between surrender and annihilation?
Is it just more heroic to destroy a country?
"If everyone in our kingdom works together, even if we can't defeat the Tang Dynasty, we still have to take a bite out of the Tang Dynasty." The right minister said with an indignant look. Since the other party has no intention of peace talks at all, then naturally he You don’t have to have such a good attitude.
"Do you believe it yourself? If everyone in the Queen Kingdom is united, it will indeed make Datang pay some price, but the price is not serious, but it is a pity that you can unite as one? So far, our army has advanced more than a hundred miles, There were three cities we encountered, but it seemed that they had no intention of resisting." Li Xiaogong looked at him calmly and said.
Right Prime Minister: "..."
Yes, uniting as one is certainly a powerful force. The question is, can the Queen Kingdom unite as one? cannot.
Even when he set out, no one in the court was united, and the local nobles in these cities saw it very clearly and knew that they could not be defeated. If they could not be defeated, they would surrender.
At worst, he will be just like Lin Yiguo.
In recent years, the Queen's Kingdom has stepped up its trade with Zhenwa. At the same time, the north of the Queen's Kingdom is directly bordering the Linyi Kingdom. Therefore, the original annihilation of the Linyi Kingdom has long been rumored in the Queen's Kingdom.
It can be said that the entire Queen Kingdom knows about this, and many people even talk about it after dinner. Even the right prime minister knows that many people in the Queen Kingdom still envy Lin Yi.
Because it was already the territory of the Tang Dynasty, and after becoming the territory of the Tang Dynasty, the people there did not have to pay taxes.
Not only do they not have to pay taxes, but they will also receive subsidies. Such benefits make the people of the Queen's Kingdom red-eyed. Do you really think that these people are unwilling to farm? Not really.
It's because the taxes in their kingdom are too heavy. If you plant more fields, you will harvest more. You won't be able to harvest much more in a year. In this case, it's better to just plant some fields that you can feed yourself.
Anyway, with three crops a year, no one will starve to death, and whoever wants to plant more can plant it.
But in the Tang Dynasty, there were no taxes, and the price of grain was guaranteed. If all these grains were sold to the Tang government, their people would have a lot of spare money, so that they could buy cloth, salt, and better products. meals.
No one wants to live a better life, they just have no choice.
The Prime Minister also knows that in many places, in order to avoid paying taxes, entire villages, in addition to cultivating some fields, do not plow or weed the fields, and just sow some rice seeds directly into them when sowing.
Even if the people above check it, there is no way you can claim these fields, which are no different from wild wastelands, as other people's fields, because the fields have not been cultivated for who knows how many years, and the rice in them is as wild as weeds. grow.
If you ask, no one will admit it, but if no one checks, the village will take away all the rice.
You can't just charge some "wild" rice to the common people, right?
Therefore, the people of the Queen's Kingdom did not have much "will to fight" at all. Many people even believed that their previous ancestors fled from the Central Plains Dynasty. Their ancestors were all from the Central Plains Dynasty, and they had no idea of the country being captured.
Under such a premise, can you have a heart-to-heart talk with Datang?
"Are you left with no choice?" The right minister wanted to say something, but he thought a lot, and finally the only thing he came up with was this sentence.
He thought about all the other questions and all the things to say, but there was nothing he could say.
Unlike the nomads in the north who have land to retreat to, they do not have a vast strategic space for detours. Although they have deep mountains and old forests that they can dig into, are the people willing to follow them into the deep mountains and old forests?
What's more, the deep mountains and old forests cannot support so many people.
Moreover, the Right Prime Minister also knows that the people's determination to resist foreign enemies comes from the harm done to them by foreign enemies, making it impossible for them to survive.
However, the Tang Dynasty did not kill people indiscriminately, nor did they rob the property of the people of the Queen Kingdom, nor did they rob food. They had been trading with real wax for so long. Although there was no direct food trade with the Tang Dynasty, they knew how much food the Tang Dynasty had. .
How much food could Datang's ships carry? They didn't lack it at all.
Similarly, they have also come into contact with the navy of the Tang Dynasty in Nanyang. They know how strict the discipline of those navies is, so... the right minister does not know how many people are willing to resist the Tang Dynasty under such circumstances.
Or to put it another way, do these nobles and kings really have such great influence in the minds of the people?
The Prime Minister even felt that their nobles might not be able to match the influence of King Qin of the Tang Dynasty among their people. At least there were many legends about King Qin of the Tang Dynasty among the people. For example, it was said that he was the incarnation of the sea god, and he would bless him. Protecting all the people on the sea, it is precisely because of this that the Tang Dynasty's navy became so powerful in a short period of time.
It is precisely because of this that Datang's fleet never gets lost on the sea. They can accurately know their direction even at night.
