"What about Baekje?"
"Captain Liu has written to the court, asking Buyeo Long to be the governor of the Ungjin Governor's Mansion. He is the eldest son of King Yiji. Compared to Buyeo Fongjang, he is more qualified to be the King of Baekje, right?"
"Really?" Hei Te Changzhi's eyes widened.
"Whether it is true or not, you will know after a while. If I am not wrong, the emperor should allow it! After all, you have done a great service to Buyeo Long. Without you raising an army, he would never be able to return to Baekje in his life. native land!"
Hei Te Changzhi trembled slightly, tears welling up in his eyes. Ever since he surrendered to the Tang Army, he had always had one knot in his mind - if he was right to surrender to the Tang Army now, then he would have been a traitor by raising an army against the Tang; and if he had raised an army back then, he would have been a traitor. It was right to rebel against the Tang Dynasty, but now he has betrayed the great cause of restoring the country.
But Wang Wenzuo's words relieved him: his previous resistance was not wrong, because without the rise of the Baekje Restoration Army, Fuyu Long would only be a prisoner in the Tang Dynasty in his life, and would not be able to return to the Baekje Empire. Ji; and now that he has taken refuge in the Tang Dynasty, it is not a betrayal of the great cause of restoring the country. Fu Yu Fengzhang's return to the country is a restoration of the country, but Fu Yulong's return to the country is not a restoration of the country?
It's just that Fu Yulong was not the king of Baekje, but the governor of Xiongjin Dudufu in the Tang Dynasty. What's the big deal? During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the king of Baekje always professed vassalage to the Southern Dynasty, and he served as the "Zhendong General Lingle" in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. "Lang Taishou", he also served as the envoy of the Southern Qi Dynasty, the military governor of Baekje, the general of Zhendong, the king of Baekje, the general of Ningdong of Liang State, and now the governor of Xiongjin Dudufu in the Tang Dynasty. What's not allowed? Besides, isn't the King of Silla also the King of Lelang County and the King of Silla in the Tang Dynasty, and the same official as the three ministers of Kaifu Yi? Both countries were ministers of the Tang Dynasty, so what was the difference between them?
Wang Wenzuo waited quietly until Hei Te Changzhi stopped crying and said with a smile: "Do you feel better now?"
"Yeah!" Hei Te Changzhi nodded. For the first time in his life, he felt so relaxed, as if an invisible burden had been lifted off his shoulders. He looked at the other party curiously: "Wang Canjun, I also led the army back then. The soldiers are fighting with your people, and you must have died at the hands of my people, but I feel like you don’t hate me!”
"You are right. Someone around me did die at the hands of the Baekje people, and there was more than one person! We rode the same horse, shared a piece of pie, and entrusted each other with funeral arrangements. Our comrades back to back on the battlefield suddenly fell. To say you don't hate it is unpopular!" At this point, Wang Wenzuo showed a weird smile on his lips: "But on second thought, we can't blame them entirely. After all, they didn't invite us here. The two countries are separated by a sea. If you go to other people's country, burn, kill, and loot, you can't complain if you die at their hands."
Hei Te Changzhi felt that his tongue was stiff. The words in his heart came out of the other party's mouth. He couldn't believe his ears. For a moment, he didn't know what to answer.
"Why don't you speak? Do you think what I said is wrong?"
"No, no, no!" Hei Te Changzhi shook his head repeatedly, but then realized that if he agreed, it would be tantamount to accusing the Tang Army of being a group of invaders. He could only quickly say: "Wang Canjun, that's not what I meant, I meant - —”
"You don't have to explain, I understand your difficulty!" Wang Wenzuo waved his hand: "Yes, to you Baekje people, we are a group of invaders. But to the Sanhan people, you Baekje people are also a group of invaders. Intruders, can you deny it? It's just that you came earlier than us. When seizing power, few people can avoid blood on their hands. What matters is whether you use power to do good or evil! The flame has been lit, All I can do is quell the flames as quickly as possible and save as much as possible.”
"You are right!" Black Teeth Changzhi nodded. Among the legends he had been familiar with since he was a child, there were great achievements of the kings of Baekje in the past dynasties, the most important of which were the victories over the local peoples of the peninsula. Eliminate the praise in them. , the rest is the invasion of local ethnic groups by the Fuyu people.
"For the Tang Dynasty, Baekje and Goguryeo are different. Goguryeo, which controls the land of Liaodong, is the life and death enemy of the Tang Dynasty. No matter who takes the throne of emperor, Goguryeo must be destroyed. But Baekje is different. , had it not been for an alliance with Goguryeo to deal with Silla, the Tang Dynasty would not have spent so much effort on an expedition across the sea!"
"Wang Canjun means that the Tang Dynasty will restore Baekje to its kingdom?"
"It's possible!" Wang Wenzuo said: "For the Tang Dynasty, a loyal and self-reliant Baekje is much more beneficial than a Xiongjin Governor's Mansion that needs constant blood transfusions!"
Hei Te Changzhi was keenly aware of the two key points in Wang Wenzuo's words: loyalty and the ability to be self-reliant. The former ensured that Baekje would be a barrier rather than a threat to the eastern border of the Tang Dynasty; while the latter ensured that it would not become a drag on the Tang Dynasty, but a A new question arises. Isn’t this ecological niche occupied by Silla?
"What about Silla?" Hei Te Changzhi asked.
"Then it depends on who is more loyal!"
When Hei Te Changzhi went out, Liu An at the door smiled at him. Hei Te Changzhi forced himself to smile back to him, but there was no smile in his heart. He knew he should be happy, but he couldn't be happy anyway. He couldn't get up. The old wound on his leg ached a little, and there was a smell of anger in his mouth, but he couldn't tell who he was angry at or why.
"Sanlang!" Liu An pushed open the door and said to Wang Wenzuo, "I just saw Hei Te Changzhi's face looking a bit wrong when he went out?"
"Oh? What's wrong?"
"I smiled at him and he smiled at me, but it was obvious that he was pretending. He had something on his mind. What did you just say to him?"
"Nothing said!"
"Sanlang!" Liu An's expression became serious: "You know, I am not the kind of villain who speaks ill of people behind their backs. But I still advise you to be more relaxed about this black tooth Changzhi, after all, he is Baekje You still have the blood of our brothers on your hands. Although you are magnanimous, it is inevitable that he has evil intentions!"
"What Wu Lang said is true!" Wang Wenzuo said perfunctorily and asked, "What's the matter?"
"It's just a little thing!" Liu An said with a smile: "Sanlang, do you still remember that Cao Yena?"
"That Sogdian merchant? Of course you remember, I still owe him a thousand guan! What happened? He came to collect debt? Just for a thousand guan, he shouldn't take such a big risk to come to Sixian City, right?"
"What did Sanlang say? Now you are a soldier of Xiongjin Governor's Mansion and have joined the army. What does a mere thousand guan count? How could Cao Ye not even be able to distinguish the importance of this?" Liu An said with a smile: " That’s what happened. Although Cao Yena sold all the business in Sixi City to you, he actually has business in Silla. He heard a few days ago that we recovered Jinxian City and reopened Silla. Liang Dao, feeling that the direction of the wind was about to change, sent a nephew to follow the Silla people's grain team to Sixian City. He came to my place and said that he wanted to see you, would you like to see him?"
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