These Silla nobles were really frightened. Although many county towns had not been affected yet, they now did not dare to command or contact the city guards, even the generals of the city guards.
Because to put it nicely, these generals are all generals, but if the soldiers at the bottom don't listen to you, what's the difference between you, a general, and a soldier?
The Jincheng incident was like a signal. People and ordinary soldiers in cities all over Silla suddenly discovered that they were nothing if not for the Tang Dynasty announcing that it had taken over the entire Silla.
I'm afraid these soldiers will have to do something, but now that the Tang Dynasty has announced that it has taken over, and their original noble generals no longer dare to control them, these soldiers have maintained their current tacit understanding.
When soldiers from the Tang Dynasty quickly came to various cities in Silla and began to directly take over these cities, both ordinary soldiers and ordinary people of Silla, and the remaining nobles of Silla also breathed a sigh of relief.
It's so scary, these untouchables are like crazy, they are so cruel, if they continue, I'm afraid they will be killed too.
These nobles are now shrinking into their homes like turtles.
The officials of the Tang Dynasty quickly began to manage at their own pace in various places.
First, the disaster relief grain depots in various parts of Silla were opened, and they began to utilize the victims of the disaster in various parts of Silla, distribute food to them for the winter, and began to hire them to cut down trees and build some temporary houses in various local cities.
Ordinary Silla people don't have much work in winter, and they don't need to work for the time being. However, Datang still hired a large number of Silla people to transport supplies and food.
Large amounts of supplies and food were continuously transported to the borders of Silla and Goguryeo.
When the situation in Silla suddenly changed, next door to Baekje, the king of Baekje was also assassinated. However, this was not a rebellion, but an assassination. A large number of military crossbows were used in the ceremony where the king of Baekje led hundreds of officials to sacrifice to heaven and earth years ago. At that time, they were shot directly on the spot. At least two-thirds of the ministers died tragically along with the king and others.
Although there were thousands of guards around, these guards did not react immediately.
When this incident broke out, the entire Baekje was instantly in turmoil. The Baekje royal family itself was not very influential. When so many important figures died, the entire Baekje court instantly began to fight for power.
Generals from some families in Baekje also began to try to control the situation.
However, their actions were naturally not as fast as those of the Tang Dynasty. The king of Baekje was not elected. When the situation was in chaos, Cheng Yaojin directly led 5,000 soldiers of the Tang Dynasty to attack the royal city of Baekje and announced that the Tang Dynasty would take over. The whole of Baekje.
The excuse used is slightly different from that of Silla. The excuse is that considering that a large number of rebels appeared in Silla next door, and then the Silla royal family and nobles were wiped out as a whole, and now Baekje also has this trend, so the Tang Dynasty wants to take over the entire Baekje.
Following Cheng Yaojin's order, 10,000 Tang soldiers also landed at the port near Baekje.
Now the nobles of Baekje were also dumbfounded. They never expected that Tang Dynasty would announce to take over the entire Baekje at this time, but now... they really can't resist.
Today's Baekje simply can't work together, not to mention that many of Baekje's soldiers are assisting Datang in fighting on the border, and they currently only have so few domestic troops.
When more than 10,000 elite troops from the Tang Dynasty arrived here, the royal city of Baekje could only accept the takeover by the Tang Dynasty.
Cheng Yaojin is different from Li Daozong. Although Li Daozong is also nominally responsible for these things, Cheng Yaojin did something more extreme. After taking over Baekje, he first gave the command power to all the generals of Baekje. It was cancelled, but the soldiers of Baekje were temporarily integrated into the Tang army for mixed formation.
In other words, the squad leader of one squad in Datang now needs to lead two additional squads of Baekje soldiers.
Since there are no middle- and high-level generals and only low-level officers are left, all the soldiers in Baekje will naturally not resist.
Then Cheng Yaojin began to implement a series of temporary policies of the Tang Dynasty in Baekje. However, what no one expected was that even so, on the day before the Spring Festival of the Tang Dynasty, which was the evening of New Year’s Eve, A noble family in Baekje was brutally massacred.
This nobleman is the natal family of the King and Queen of Baekje. He is used to being arrogant and domineering. It can be said that the whole capital of Baekje is full of public resentment. However, because the other party is usually very powerful, and several people in the family are high-ranking people of Baekje. A general has military power.
Who among ordinary people would dare to make mistakes? Therefore, some dandy sons of this noble family once openly robbed civilian girls in the capital of Baekje and killed them in the street. Later, he also said that the victim tried to seduce him.
But now, due to the takeover of the Tang Dynasty, all the nobles in Baekje have no military power. Although they live in deep mansions and have some servants at home, there is no military protection and there are not many troops left in the Tang Dynasty to guard the capital. Stationed outside the city.
That's why this tragedy happened in the end. The key point is that no one knows who did it, because after the family was massacred, the gangsters set a fire and burned most of the mansion.
Subsequently, the Tang army had to enter the city to garrison, but in the follow-up investigation of this matter, the Datang army directly gave the result: Although the Datang army took over Baekje, it only maintained the social stability of Baekje and ensured that Baekje would not appear. turmoil.
As for some of the major cases that occurred in Baekje during this period, they will be postponed and await the orders of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty. At that time, whether they will be handed over to the future new king of Baekje or handed over to the Tang Dynasty for investigation, these are all needs Only the orders of His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty will do.
On the surface, no one could find anything wrong with Datang's way of handling it, but secretly, it seemed like it was the beginning of something strange.
But Cheng Yaojin doesn't care what happens. Baekje is a small country and has its problems, but Silla's side will be easier to deal with, as long as it wins the minds of these people.
Chang'an of the Tang Dynasty.
After receiving the latest news from Silla, Li Ke immediately went to see Li Shimin, and then members of the Tang military department, plus important ministers such as Fang Xuanling, Wei Zheng, Changsun Wuji, etc., held an emergency meeting.
"The topic of this meeting is very simple, that is, the complete solution of Goguryeo." After Li Ke handed over the information in his hand to Li Jing and others, he directly expressed his opinions.
