"Yes, the others have been detained. I don't know how they are doing now!" Dinghui said.
"Okay, then go visit your old friends and tell them about the current situation. If anyone is willing to work for me, let me know!"
"Can you help them come out?" Dinghui was surprised and happy.
"good!"
"That's great!" Yiji Lianbode was also full of joy: "The sooner this happens, the better, then we will go later!"
"Wang Sima!" Dinghui and Yiji Lianbode had just gone out, and Black Teeth Changzhi said: "People's hearts are unpredictable. There are everyone in the Japanese mission. When they go, will they indiscriminately kill all the people?" Are all the members of the regiment released?"
"Well, the war is over. Since there is a peace negotiation, the Tang Dynasty should also show some sincerity. They are originally envoys, so it is appropriate to release them!" Wang Wenzuo said with a smile: "Why not do it as a favor?"
"That's true. The subordinate is stupid and didn't expect it!"
"It doesn't matter, Changzhi, you are a loyal and upright person. You are not comparable to Dinghui and the others. I know it in my heart!" Wang Wenzuo patted Hei Te Changzhi on the shoulder: "Don't I know that the Japanese are cunning and changeable, and I am just a powerful person?" Use it and you don’t have to worry!”
"My subordinate understands!"
Of course, Wang Wenzuo knew that Dinghui and Ijirenbod were mostly forced to serve him because of the situation. If he asked them to meet their old friends in the mission, they would probably take the opportunity to release them all, but this was what he expected. After the Battle of Baijiangkou, the relationship between Japan and the Tang Dynasty was in a very delicate state. Due to the existence of Goguryeo and Silla, the victorious Tang Dynasty had no intention of pursuing the victory and going straight to the nest, hoping to end the hostilities as soon as possible; but it failed. The Japanese state on one side was worried about the retaliatory invasion of the Tang army, and also had various internal conflicts caused by the failure of the war. It did not know whether to call it war or peace.
Historically, this state did not last long. According to the record of the Japanese history book "The Treasure of Good Neighbors": "In April of the third year of Emperor Tenji (664), guests from the Tang Dynasty came to the court. The ambassador to Chaosan, the official of Kamizhu Kingdom, Guo Wutai Thirty people, Baekje Sahei Ni Army and more than a hundred people arrived at Tsushima Island. Send the monk Jiben and others who gathered women from the mountains to summon the guests to the annex. So Jiben asked: "I have a letter and offer it." Do you want to give the gift?' The messenger replied: 'There is a letter from the general with an ultimatum and a gift.' He gave a letter from the general with an ultimatum and presented it to Zhiben and others, but the gift was inspected and not presented."
The Emperor Tenji in the article is the Prince of Nakadai. He has not yet ascended the throne at that time. The Tang envoy Guo Wuteng (Chaosan doctor is a casual official, Sanzhuguo is an honorary official) and the accompanying Baekje Nijun (Zaping is a Baekje official) arrived. The prince, the eldest brother of the Central Government, was so shocked that he sent out a group of female concubines to make believers (the 14th rank among the twenty-sixth rank in the mountains, the highest rank in Japan), which is roughly equivalent to the descendants from the fifth rank in later generations. It can be said to be the same as the official rank of the Tang Dynasty. The envoy Guo Wutai (who was of similar rank) and the monk Zhiben went to inquire. The monk Zhiben learned from Guo Wutai that these envoys did not represent Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, and they only carried a letter of ultimatum from the "general" and a gift. (The general here should be Liu Renyuan, the governor of Xiongjin Dudufu), so they took the ultimatum and forwarded it to the Yamato court, but only inspected the donation without accepting it. The Japanese were very cautious because they really could not guess Guo Wutai's true purpose. , and could not decide for the moment how to deal with the Tang envoy. … Liu Renyuan’s purpose of sending the envoy was probably as follows: First, to inquire about the political and military trends of the archipelago. After the “Battle of Baekjiangkou”, there were a large number of remaining backbones of the Baekje Restoration Army. As the Japanese army fled to the islands, they could also foresee that these exiles would remain determined in a short period of time and would always look for opportunities to join forces with the conspirators lurking in the Baekje mainland to counterattack. Therefore, the guarding generals dispatched powerful Guo Wutai of the Tang Dynasty, who had considerable status and work experience, and Ni Jun, who had a higher status in the former Baekje, went to the islands as envoys. They hoped that the Japanese could receive them with higher standards and allow them to enter the Japanese country, so as to learn more about the restoration of Baekje. The movements of the exiled members of the Korean army, as well as the internal situation of the Japanese country, its external attitude and possible military measures.
Second, it was undoubtedly provocative for Liu Renyuan and others to send envoys to the hostile Japanese country in his own name, and even deliberately lowered the diplomatic status of the Japanese country. Previously, the Japanese country had sent several groups of envoys to the Tang Dynasty. At this time, there were still many overseas students and learned monks living in China. In the Sui and Tang dynasties, the emperor personally sent envoys to the Japanese country, and a kind of relationship between the country and the country had long been established. The unequal diplomatic relations between the suzerains and their vassals. Liu Renyuan and others were just the military and political officials of the Tang Dynasty in Baekje. At best, they were only local officials or military commanders dispatched. They could not represent the central government, let alone the emperor. When they issued an ultimatum to the Japanese state, they obviously wanted to establish a quasi-diplomatic relationship between the local government of the Tang Dynasty and the Japanese state. This kind of relationship is not what should exist between countries. If the Japanese state accepted this specification, it would be equivalent to admitting that the country would accept it. The control of the Baiji Protectorate of the Tang Dynasty resulted in the loss of the qualification to directly negotiate with the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty. This put tremendous pressure on the newly defeated Japanese nation.
Third, the visits of Guo Wuteng and others also had a certain comforting effect. Although Liu Renyuan and others tried to lower the diplomatic status of Japan through this dispatch, the simultaneous donation of gifts and an ultimatum was also an attempt to resolve the issues between the two sides through peaceful means. The words in Liu Renyuan's ultimatum should be relatively moderate, otherwise it will inevitably anger the Japanese country and leave some corresponding records. The content of the ultimatum should generally be to clarify the righteousness of the Japanese country and hope that it will not persist in its own way. After all, Baekje's local economy and people's livelihood still need to be revived at this time, and the more important purpose of controlling Baekje is to reduce the trouble from the south when fighting Goguryeo and open up a southern battlefield. Conquering the Japanese country far away from the sea was not put aside. Datang's agenda comes up. Therefore, the necessary appeasement to the Japanese country was mainly to prevent the Japanese country from replacing Baekje and becoming a stumbling block for the Tang Dynasty's crusade against Goguryeo, which was of great strategic value. Finally, Guo Wuteng, Ni Jun and others' visit to Japan was tentative. They also wanted to lay a certain foundation for the future establishment of a new world structure in Northeast Asia led by the Tang family. At the same time, they began to train some officials familiar with Northeast Asia's diplomatic work in order to further develop Numerous foreign affairs activities.
In history, when the specific situation of the envoys such as Guo Wutai and Ni Jun was reported to Yamato, the Japanese court headed by Prince Nakazu, Nakamatsu Kamatsu and others could not come up with a way to deal with it for a while, so they had to put the matter aside temporarily. It was put on hold, and Guo Wuteng and more than 130 envoys began their long wait on Saikaidō. It wasn't until four months later, in September of that year, that I received a reply.
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