As for the original king of Chu, Ma Xisheng, now he has already rushed to Bianjing to accept disposal. This guy is greedy and cruel, and he does not hesitate to kill innocent people in order to seize treasures. Li Tianqu naturally dislikes him.

It is just considering the common examples of dealing with the king who lost his country... For example, in the official history, Li Cunxu was bewitched by the eunuch party and repented and broke his promise, and sent someone to massacre all the emperor Yan and his clans of the last Shu emperor, and were actually an individual example, which would only lead to the infamy of being untrustworthy. Since he accepted the conditions proposed by Ma Xisheng's surrender, he should not blatantly take his life directly.

However, Ma Xisheng had already surrendered to the state, no longer regarded himself as the King of Chu, but went to Bianjing as the co-lord of several vassal states to apologize. Therefore, his treatment was even several levels lower than that of King Yan of Shu... It was just a small courtyard and several houses, which restricted freedom of entry and exit, and was like a prisoner in a prison.

And isn’t you Ma Xisheng addicted to chicken? You are vegetarian for two meals a day. There is no chicken for every meal. Li Tianquxin said that I don’t have to give instructions. After a while, I think of a way to make Ma Xisheng “suddenly die” of an emergency. Now that living is a torment for him.

In addition to appointing personnel from various prefectures and prefectures under the rule of the Wu State and preparing for the annexation of the Chu State, there were also two foreign envoys from both sides, from all over the country, and urgently requesting to meet the Emperor of the Wei Dynasty. However, Li Tianqu did not intend to meet the envoys of the two sides, but appointed Cui Yi, the Minister of Rites, to be responsible for the negotiations with them.

The envoys from the north were sent by the King of Bohai... Although the 15th generation king of the Bohai Kingdom had sent envoys to pay tribute to the Liang and Wei dynasties many times, his relationship with the Central Plains dynasty was not very close.

After all, the territory ruled by the Wei Dynasty and the Bohai Kingdom were far apart in the past, and there were the Later Tang and Khitans separated, so it was difficult for the Wei Dynasty to provide military assistance to the Bohai Kingdom. But the situation is very different now. The Later Tang Dynasty was destroyed, and the Wei Dynasty and Khitan expanded northward and southward respectively. Now there are large areas of territory bordering the north, and there are also accidents at any time, and the possibility of conflicts break out...

The Khitan has made a big march again, which is bound to include the entire territory of the Bohai Kingdom in its territory. The Bohai Sea, which was once known as the "Haidong Prosperity Country" back then, is already in decline, and naturally cannot withstand the full-scale offensive launched by the emerging and rising empire of the Khitan.

Even though the Bohai Kingdom and Japan have relatively close relations, they often engage in economic and cultural exchanges... But Japan is now in the reign of Emperor Daigo, and it is not easy to travel back and forth between each other. Although Japan later realized it according to the historical trajectory, it was banned from the Khitan from the envoy sent by the Khitan in the name of the Dongdan Kingdom to enter Kyoto, and there was no diplomatic relations between them again... However, Emperor Daigo was not ignorant of the Khitan. He once said, "I heard that the Bohai Kingdom is a country of feudalism." Japan could not take great risks to the Bohai Kingdom and send troops across the sea to provoke the powerful enemy of the Khitan for no reason.

But the Wei Dynasty was different. It was becoming increasingly tense to station troops in the Khitan and Youyan lands... At present, the Khitan concentrated its troops to attack the Bohai Kingdom. If the Wei Dynasty sent troops to attack the rear, it would solve the urgent needs of the Bohai Kingdom.

What's more, Japan is completely different from the vast oceans and seas... Japan has always asked the Bohai Sea to maintain diplomatic relations in the name of paying tribute, while the Bohai State regards relations with Japan as reciprocal diplomacy. It is nominally surrendered to the Central Plains dynasty and does not lose its price. But why should our country be inferior to the Japanese that was beaten by the Tang Dynasty?

So even if we move with Japan frequently, we have made a lot of unhappy due to the dispute over our status... But for the Bohai Kingdom, what psychological barriers can we have to surrender to the Central Plains dynasty? We have always maintained a vassal relationship with the Tang Dynasty, but now the Wei Dynasty has become the main central government of the Central Plains. We fully meet the conditions for the Northern Expedition of the Khitan. In this official history, the last king of the Bohai Kingdom will of course send envoys to come as soon as possible to hold on, and urgently hope that the Central Plains dynasty can become his powerful backer.

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However, Li Tianqu refused to meet him, but only asked Cui Yi, the Minister of Rites, to deal with the crying grandpa and grandma who had been crying for the meeting all day long, begging for the Wei Dynasty to send troops to attack the Khitan in the north to rescue the Bohai envoys of his country... When Cui Yi rushed to the inner court and told Li Tianqu what the other party said, he replied:

"Your Majesty, the envoy of Bohai said that the Khitan is a country of tigers and wolves, and its desires are hard to fill. If our dynasty allows it to annex the Bohai Sea, it will be like a vicious tiger that devours people, and sooner or later, it will covet the Central Plains, which will surely be a big trouble for our dynasty... It also said that Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty said that if Goguryeo is not eliminated, great troubles will be left in the future. So he launched troops to rescue Silla and eliminate the northeastern border troubles in one fell swoop. He asked our dynasty to conquer the Khitan to save the Bohai Sea. The Bohai Kingdom respects the Central Plains. His descendants are willing to be subordinates for generations and become subordinates in the northern border of our dynasty to control the great troubles such as the Khitan..."

"Are they still those clichés... Whether it is the Khitan or the Bohai Kingdom, what I want is not to make them surrender in name, but sooner or later, they will merge a large area of ​​the northeast into our dynasty. So, the Khitan will first destroy the Bohai Sea, and then our dynasty will annex the Khitan, or will our dynasty successively destroy the Khitan, and the Bohai Kingdom... what is the difference?"

Li Tianqu, who had been reviewing the memorial for half a day, stretched his waist, rubbed his slightly sore shoulders, and said in a long voice:

"With the Khitan attacking the Bohai Sea, our dynasty launched a large army southward, destroyed the Wu Kingdom, planned to swallow Chu, and took advantage of the situation to advance the Yue Kingdom, Wu Yue and Min Kingdom, and it is just around the corner, and it is even more necessary to appease the people and stabilize the current situation... In this way, the south is the first and then the north, of course, we should not fight the Khitan in advance."

The Wei Dynasty and the Khitan had a tacit understanding before, one fought south and the other expanded northeast to avoid war between the two sides... It was not just because Li Siyuan was also in charge of the nomadic soldiers and horses in the middle to disrupt the situation. Both sides had to pay attention to the easy first and then difficult annexation of territory. Now it is not time for each other to openly break up.

However, Li Tianquxin said that the situation of annexation of Wu, Chu and other countries is very different from our dynasty... After all, the separatist regimes in the south all accepted the enthronement of the Tang court in the previous dynasty, and were mainly composed of the Tang people and Han people. They were originally of the same bloodline and the same culture. Moreover, the countries also recognized that the Wei Dynasty was the Zhengshuo Dynasty of the Central Plains. If it expanded to the south, it would definitely not be an invasion war to conquer foreign tribes. But it would be considered that the world would be divided for a long time, and it would be unified for a long time, and it would be merged for a long time, and it would be gradually completed from chaotic times. The people in various places were formerly the people of the Tang Dynasty, but now they are Wu and Chu people, and later they become the people under the Wei Dynasty. They are relatively easier to accept.

However, the situation of the Khitan was completely different when he wanted to swallow the Bohai Kingdom... As a country that had been passed down for more than two hundred years, it is now conquered by the Khitan, a rising and growing nation. Even if the country is destroyed, the Bohai people's rejection will definitely be stronger.

As historical records show, after Yelu Abaoji destroyed the Bohai Sea, he established the Dongdan Kingdom and appointed his eldest son Yelu Bei as the king of the country, using this as a transitional stage to direct the Khitan rule under the Bohai State. However, the remnants of the Bohai Sea were unwilling to accept the rule of the Khitans. The country was gone, and they still raised troops to rebel, and successively established the Ding'an Kingdom, Xingliao Kingdom, Dayuan Kingdom and other rebellious regimes, which really made the Khitan feel deeply worried.

After experiencing protracted suppression and pacification, although some Bohai people accepted the fact that they were ruled by the Khitan... But even at the end of the Liao Dynasty, there would still be a Bohai man named Gao Yongchang who raised his troops to fight against Liao. For a time, he joined forces with another ethnic Jurchen that emerged in the white mountains and black waters and called himself the emperor of the Bohai Kingdom. Although Gao Yongchang was also destroyed by Wanyan Aguda... However, the Bohai people's resistance to the Khitans will last for about two hundred years, and now they can feel the hatred of the destruction of the country more personally. Therefore, it is easy for Yelu Abao to annex the Bohai Kingdom, but if he wants to manage the conquered territory, it will be even more difficult...

Therefore, Li Tianqu also instructed Cui Yi to use diplomatic rhetoric to sloppy eyes. In short, treating the Bohai envoy who was seeking help means that the Wei Dynasty "expressed deep sympathy and condolences for your country's situation", but would not take any practical actions... At that time, the Wei Dynasty annexed Chu, Wu and other countries, and the Khitan annexed Bohai, the possibility of a fire in the backyard was very high. When the two sides turned around and held each other, according to Li Tianqu's thought, our dynasty would also have a more advantage...
Chapter completed!