This time he was running for his life, not caring about his image as a powerful person. Even his hat fell to the ground, and an anxious look appeared on his face.
Wang Shining had been observing through a telescope. When he saw someone running frantically in the city, he looked over and saw it was Pu Jin. Seeing that his face looked strange, he said, "Two doctors, wait a minute."
"What's wrong?"
Tan Wenxue and Zhang Youwei were already preparing to disembark with several deputy envoys and dozens of diplomatic envoys. When they heard Wang Shining's words, they looked at him in confusion.
Wang Shining said, "Something is not right. Let's wait and see."
When the two heard him say this, they looked at each other, then stopped and stood by the side of the boat to continue waiting.
Soon, thousands of Srivijaya troops rushed to the shore and surrounded the dock aggressively, with some people shouting in an incomprehensible language below.
Since Pu Jin had taken his people away, everyone didn't understand what he said, but seeing the other party's aura, they knew that he didn't come with good intentions, and they looked at each other in confusion for a while.
However, the stalemate did not last long, and Pu Jin rushed over.
He had connections in the army, and he quickly stood out from the crowd. He came to the boat and said breathlessly, "Doctor, Commander, something bad has happened."
"What's wrong?"
"The king has gone mad and is determined to become an enemy of the Song Dynasty. He wants to drive you away and says he will kill you if you don't leave."
"Um?"
Zhang Youwei frowned and said, "It seems your king is quite unwise."
Pu Jin smiled bitterly and said, "I have advised you, but what can I do?"
"What now?"
Tan Wenxue looked at Zhang Youwei and Wang Shining and asked, "Should we go?"
"Humph, our Great Song Dynasty sincerely invited them, but not only did they not know what was good for them, they even dared to send troops, trying to bully us into not being able to fight?"
Wang Shining angrily said, "With one order from me, his country will be destroyed in an instant!"
"Hold on, if you destroy their country, the court will still have a mission to perform. Where will we find a king to report to?"
Zhang Youwei smiled bitterly.
Tan Wenxue frowned, pondered for a moment, and then said suddenly, "Do you remember what happened with Fu Yiyang?"
Fu Yi Yang, whose real name was Fu Jiezi, was named Marquis of Yi Yang for killing the King of Loulan!
"You mean, appoint a new king?"
Zhang Youwei said.
"good."
"But does he have a legitimate reason?"
"First, they attacked our Song Dynasty navy without any reason, and then they were disrespectful to our Song Dynasty envoys!"
There was a cold light in Tan Wenxue's eyes.
He was from the Ministry of Rites, so he naturally knew how to find a crime to accuse the other party.
Purozhong is the later Singapore. In fact, Srivijaya did not occupy it at that time because it was just a deserted place. Building a port across the strait on the other side would obviously be very costly and not conducive to management.
So Srivijaya controlled Batam Island opposite Singapore and established port tolls there.
But after the Song people came, they built a port in Puro on the opposite bank, so the Arab merchants ran there and no longer paid tolls to them, causing Srivijaya to lose a lot of income.
So Xilichi took the initiative to launch an attack in order to destroy Purozhong and force the Arab merchants to go to Batam Island again.
Therefore, the initiator of the war between the two sides was Srivijaya. The Song Dynasty did not attack Srivijaya. It was just that Srivijaya sent people to attack and was defeated, so the Song Dynasty did not pursue the matter further.
Now the Song Dynasty took the initiative to show goodwill, inviting the other party to participate in the celebration in the Song Dynasty and also offering rewards, hoping to ease the relationship between the two countries. As a result, the other party not only refused, but also expelled and even killed the envoys, and continued to attack Pu Luozhong to take back the Strait of Malacca.
Then this is undoubtedly an excuse to send troops.
"Just this new king?"
Zhang Youwei did not doubt whether the Guangzhou had the strength to destroy Srivijaya, but he was worried about what would happen after that.
Tan Wenxue pondered for a moment, then raised his head and looked at Pu Jin with a strange light in his eyes.
"Look, does he look like King Srivijaya?"
"Me? The King?"
Pu Jin opened his mouth wide, pointed at himself and asked in disbelief, "Is this true?"
Tan Wenxue, Zhang Youwei and Wang Shining looked at each other and then laughed.
"I think he does look like a king."
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