Chapter 54 The Envoy from Baekje
"Is his injury not serious?" Li Chengqian said, looking at the Baekje envoy.
"Although his injury is serious, it is not fatal. His companions died for him before, and later our people protected him, so it is not serious." Cheng Wuting said.
Li Chengqian breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this. He was afraid that the idiot in front of him would be seriously injured and he didn't know who to ask to find out the situation.
Killing envoys from foreign countries near the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty is a very bad incident. No matter what the purpose of the other party is, Li Chengqian cannot sit idly by for the sake of the Tang Dynasty.
"Your Highness! The envoy from Baekje requested to see Your Majesty! He said that he had important things to report to Your Majesty. I dare not make a decision on my own, so I came to report to Your Majesty." The imperial physician came to Li Chengqian and said.
"That's right! I have something to ask him, too. Bring him here and I'll ask him first." Li Chengqian said.
Cheng Wuting immediately stepped forward and brought the envoy from Baekje to Li Chengqian.
"I am the envoy from King Yici of Baekje. I have important matters to report to His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty." The envoy from Baekje spoke fluent Chinese.
"You can tell me anything important, and I will report it to His Majesty, but before that, I have one more question for you." Li Chengqian said.
"Who are you?" The envoy from Baekje looked Li Chengqian up and down, and he didn't know who he was.
Li Chengqian was wearing just an ordinary silk item. People who didn't know Li Chengqian would think he was a dandy from a noble family based on his clothes.
"How dare you! The nobleman in front of you is the crown prince of the Tang Dynasty, the future emperor of the Tang Dynasty. If you dare to look at him again, I will dig it out." Cheng Wuting scolded.
The Baekje envoy was shocked! Pu Tong knelt down and said, "Pu Kechang, a foreign minister of the small country of Baekje, greets His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of the great country of Tang!"
"Tell me first what happened that made you come all the way to Chang'an to report to His Majesty, and who are the people who want to kill you?" Li Chengqian asked.
"Your Highness the Crown Prince! Goguryeo and Silla colluded to block Baekje's tribute to the Tang Dynasty and sent troops to attack Baekje. That's why King Uija sent me here to ask for help from the Tang Dynasty."
"The people who chased me were sent by Goguryeo and Silla. They were afraid that I would borrow reinforcements from the Tang Dynasty, so they killed me on the way." "
I didn't dare to take the main road, so I had to take the small road and travel through mountains and rivers to come to Chang'an. Who knew that I would still be discovered by them and killed. If it weren't for your Highness's guards and this general who rushed here, I'm afraid I would have died under their swords." said the Baekje envoy.
"Nonsense, Silla was a vassal state of the Tang Dynasty, how could it attack Baekje, which was also a vassal state of the Tang Dynasty, and how could it unite with Goguryeo?" Cheng Wuting said. After all, Silla and Baekje were both small countries that were vassal states of the Tang Dynasty, so he naturally couldn't believe that Silla would unite with Goguryeo, which was hostile to the Tang Dynasty.
But Li Chengqian believed it. Silla had wolfish ambitions and had long wanted to destroy Baekje and Goguryeo to unify the peninsula.
However, Silla's strength alone could not destroy its two neighbors, so Silla surrendered to the Tang Dynasty and used the Tang Dynasty to destroy Baekje and Goguryeo.
And when the main force of the Tang Dynasty was transferred to other places to fight, it annexed the old land of Baekje and Goguryeo and completed the great feat of unifying the peninsula.
Then, the small country of Silla pretended to be a vassal of the Tang Dynasty and admitted its mistakes! The Tang Dynasty had to deal with Tubo at that time. Seeing that Silla had a good attitude in admitting its mistakes, Emperor Gaozong of Tang stopped pursuing the matter.
"What you said is true?" Li Chengqian said.
"Yes! Foreign ministers dare not deceive His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!" Park Kechang said sincerely.
"I believe you! Goguryeo and Silla are too presumptuous! I will report them to my father and send troops to destroy them." Li Chengqian said.
"Thank you, Your Royal Highness the Crown Prince!" The Baekje envoy was grateful! Baekje was finally saved, and he did not disappoint the trust of Baekje King Yiji.
At this time, Xue Rengui and Wang Fangyi had just returned from hunting.
"Let's go back to the palace!" Seeing Xue Rengui and the other two coming back, Li Chengqian asked everyone to go back to the palace. He was in no mood to hunt now.
A large group of people lined up in a ceremonial formation to escort Crown Prince Li Chengqian back to Chang'an City. As soon as he returned to the palace, Li Chengqian asked someone to settle the Baekje envoy first, and he went to see His Majesty Li Er in person to report to His Majesty Li Er about his encounter with the Baekje envoy.
Li Er was also furious after hearing this! The damn Goguryeo actually dared to block Baekje from entering the palace. He immediately said that it would be difficult to eliminate the hatred in his heart without destroying Goguryeo!
Li Er felt that the whole thing was caused by Goguryeo, and Silla was just deceived by Goguryeo, so it took action against Baekje.
But everyone knew that this was something Li Er was unwilling to do. The feud between Silla, Baekje and Goguryeo was not a one-day thing.
Moreover, Baekje had seized more than 40 cities from Silla. Now that there was a chance to seize them back, how could Silla let it go?
Li Chengqian was more inclined to have Silla take the initiative to unite with Goguryeo to attack Baekje, rather than Goguryeo tempting Silla to attack Baekje.
"Your Majesty! It is the beginning of winter now, and it is even colder in the north. If you mobilize the soldiers from all over the country now, I am afraid that most of them will be frozen to death before they reach Goguryeo. In that case, what can we use to attack Goguryeo?" Chu Suiliang disagreed with Li Er's attack on Goguryeo.
"Goguryeo is so arrogant! They don't take our Tang Dynasty seriously and dare to openly block the Baekje delegation that is paying tribute to the Tang Dynasty. If I don't send troops, won't the world laugh at our great Tang Dynasty for being afraid of a small country!" Li Er said angrily.
Even if Goguryeo is not destroyed, it must be beaten down to let it know who is the boss, so as to prevent such a small country from committing atrocities.
Li Chengqian saw this and knew that it was time for him to take action. Now is indeed not the right time to send troops to the peninsula.
"Father! I think what Doctor Chu said makes sense! We are not ready yet. If we hastily launch an attack on Goguryeo, we will suffer more losses than gains! Please think twice!"
Li Er's face was gloomy. The prince was not on his side, but colluded with Chu Suiliang. It was really abominable! But on second thought, what the prince said was not unreasonable.
"Then tell me! What should I do?" Li Er asked.
Li Chengqian looked up and saw Li Er's gloomy face. He swallowed his saliva and felt a lot of pressure. If he said something wrong, he was afraid that he would not have a good result.
"Father! We can first send a minister to Pyongyang to warn Goguryeo to withdraw its troops and stop attacking Baekje. Otherwise, our Tang Dynasty will send troops to attack Goguryeo."
"At the same time, in order to prevent Goguryeo from refusing! Our Tang Dynasty should make preparations to attack Goguryeo so that we can send troops to attack Goguryeo next year." Li Chengqian said.
Li Er felt that the prince's suggestion was very good! This would solve the problem of the soldiers spending the winter, and also give them time to prepare. In this way, the attack on Goguryeo would have a better chance of success.