Although the King of Annam wanted nothing more than to strangle his rebellious son, he held back, because although the boy was like a weather vane, what he said made sense.
So all I could do was say helplessly:
"Then quickly send someone to negotiate peace with the Ming army. No matter the cost, we must prevent war from happening again."
Moreover, it is essential to sincerely express to them that Annam is willing to forever be a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, and to always submit to the Ming Dynasty without any disloyalty.
In short, we must pay any price to stop the war from continuing. War is a bad war, and the cost is far too high.
We must tell them that for the sake of friendship between our two countries and for the lives of our soldiers, we must avert war and be peace-loving people.
The ministers below couldn't help but roll their eyes inwardly. Good heavens, it was you who started the war to take advantage of others.
Now that you see you can't win, you're the one who's backing down.
He speaks so grandly and eloquently; he truly deserves to be king.
You really need to have some shamelessness to get by.
With that in mind, they began to discuss who should be sent to conduct the peace talks.
After some discussion, they dispatched several important ministers with a lot of gold and silver jewelry, ready to set off immediately to negotiate with the Ming army.
However, at that moment, another soldier rushed up in a hurry. This scout was much more eloquent than the first one.
He rushed in and, without any preamble, began to speak:
"Report... Your Majesty, something terrible has happened! The Ming army, numbering over 100,000, has swept into our An'an Kingdom and has already captured eight cities. They will reach the capital in less than a day."
Upon hearing this, the king of Nan'an Kingdom turned pale. How could they have attacked so many cities in such a short time?
Is this some kind of war or a vacation? So fast?
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