Chapter 436: The Art of Compromise
"Okay, very good, very good!" Li Er looked at Su Dingfang kneeling in front of him with extremely satisfied eyes, and loudly announced many rewards. 1 It is nothing more than promoting titles, increasing titles, giving food posts, rewarding fields, gold, silver, silk and a general's title, etc.
These rewards that made Su Dingfang cry and tears flowed down with tears and noses seemed to Yan Fei at all. He had no idea of asking Li Shimin for a reward.
After appeased Su Dingfang and gave many verbal rewards to many soldiers who survived the cruel siege, Li Shimin's eyes finally fell on Yan Fei, who looked irrelevant.
After all the people in the general's tent were driven out, Li Shimin, who had a smile on his face, suddenly calmed down and looked at Yan Fei, "How can I get the things you use?"
No matter which Tang army it was, there were Li Er's intelligence personnel everywhere. Especially the troops where Yan Fei was located were in a large number. They had already passed the relevant information to Li Er's side through various means.
Li Er, who had long seen Yan Fei's magical methods, has enough immunity to ordinary supplies. The piles of food and grass, the endless tents can save the dying people back from the magical medicines. They are extremely precious in the eyes of the Tang people, but in Yan Fei's eyes, they are a large amount of metal that can be discarded at will.
But when Li Er learned that Yan Fei had the Sky Thunder and the even more terrifying Lianshi crossbow, his mind, which had gradually calmed down, boiled again. Although the descriptions of the intelligence personnel were not very accurate, Li Er had already sensitively understood the power of those weapons.
As an emperor on the back of a horse, his first thought was to get it. As for what he would destroy if he couldn't get it, after seeing Yan Fei's strength, Li Er could not be impulsive before he could see that he was not sure.
"It's useless if there are fewer things. If there are too many things, you won't have much use without the support of the logistics system." Yan Fei looked indifferent. "It doesn't matter if you give it to you, but after you use it for a while, it will turn into a fire stick. I will leave after Goguryeo is destroyed, and I probably won't come back in the future. Without my logistics support, what's the use of giving you those weapons? Don't think so much, I've given you a lot of things. You can't be too greedy."
Seeing that Goguryeo was about to end, Yan Fei, who had finished his mission to collect the Nine Cauldrons, was about to leave this space and time. After fulfilling his wish, his support for Li Shimin gradually became perfunctory.
This is not to say that Yan Fei cuts the bridge across the river, but that what he wants to do is basically completed. At this time, it is meaningless to put in a lot of time and energy to help the locals in this time and space.
If you want to help the Tang Dynasty move from cold weapons to hot weapons, it is not just about giving some weapons and ammunition. You need to make a complete set of modern industrial system for the Tang Dynasty, which is poor and even has no relevant ideas at all. You also need to popularize the most basic knowledge of physics, chemistry, mathematics, etc. for them.
Yan Fei only wanted to say something about NP. He didn't have such a hard time in the late Ming and Northern Song Dynasty time and space that he was completely controlled by him. Just Li Er wanted him to put in a huge amount of energy and time to do this. It was simply nonsense.
Not to mention Li Shimin is the emperor of the ages, even if he asked Yuan Tiangang to call Ying Zheng and Liu Che to ask Yan Fei together, it would be useless. Yan Fei didn't take this trick. All he thought about was to collect the Nine Cauldrons as soon as possible and be a rich man in the modern world with a carefree life.
Feeling Yan Fei's attitude firm, Li Er touched his nose and began to change the topic, "The main force of the Goguryeo people has been wiped out. You did a good job, I never thought that it would be so fast."
In the cold weapon era, especially this large-scale war of destroying countries. The combat time is usually carried out in years. However, this time, the former army of the Tang Dynasty only had 30,000, but under the leadership of Yan Fei, it only took about twenty days to penetrate half of Goguryeo and annihilate more than two-thirds of Goguryeo's troops.
This lightning-like attack and results are unprecedented. It is so good that he doesn't know how to continue next.
The more than 200,000 main troops led by Li Shimin himself marched all the way, but almost never fought many wars. They became occupying prisoners of war along the way. Many generals were very dissatisfied because they had no chance to show their performance, but the war was almost over.
"This is nothing." Yan Fei, who has read many World War II information, was not very shocked by this attack. "The war is almost over now. If Gao Jianwu is smart, he should send an envoy to discuss the surrender at this time."
Goguryeo is indeed unable to fight. The soldiers were killed and injured, most of the territory was occupied, and almost all important directions were broken through, there was little material left, and the morale of the people was extremely low. In this case, Gao Jianwu's best choice was to surrender, so he could still get a good treatment. If he continued to resist, he would be a dead end.
Just as Yan Fei said, two days later, the main force of the Tang army in Anshicheng met the envoy of Goguryeo here.
The Goguryeo people did come to surrender. Gao Jianwu was not stupid and knew that after Yuan Gaisuwen was finished, he was powerless to resist the Tang army, so he took the initiative to surrender to the Tang Dynasty.
"The people of the country are deeply grateful to God and worship God!" In Anshi City, the Goguryeo envoy cried with joy and knelt on the ground to thank Li Shimin for three or nine times. As for the reason, it was because Li Shimin gave them an incredible preferential treatment.
Li Shimin was very happy with merit, or just a person who wanted to save face. Gao Jianwu put his attitude very low this time, which was a humble begging for mercy and surrender, which greatly satisfied Li Shimin's vanity.
Li Shimin, who was called out by someone a few times, opened his mouth and granted Gao Jianwu the title of king, and allowed him to stay in the previous Goguryeo royal city, and even preserved most of the army. In addition to removing the country's name and re-dividing the territory into multiple military states, it disappeared.
Perhaps even the Goguryeo people themselves did not expect such good conditions. The messenger was really grateful and thought that Goguryeo was blessed by the gods.
"I won't agree to this condition." Just as the Goguryeo people were so grateful that Li Shimin was full of complacent, a disharmonious voice came out.
Everyone looked at the source of the sound, and then they saw Yan Fei leaning against the wall smoking a cigarette.
"Your Majesty is not dizzy because he flatters the word "Tian Khan", right?" Yan Fei spit out a smoke ring and said a sentence that made the Goguryeo envoy stunned, "If you don't die from a snake, you will suffer. Your Majesty left a way out for the Goguryeo people today. It doesn't take a hundred years. They can recover their strength as long as two generations of people are recuperating. What should I do then? Fight another war?"
Li Shimin left a way out for the Goguryeo people, but nothing else changed except the name. Now the Tang Dynasty is invincible in the world, and the Goguryeo people must be very obedient and honest. But once the Central Plains dynasty turns to decline, after those decades, the number of men in Goguryeo recovers, even the leaders do not need to elect and directly find Gao Jianwu's descendants to rebel.
This is an inevitable thing, the only difference is whether it is decades later or more than a hundred years later. If Yan Fei no longer supplies supplies to the Tang Dynasty, even if the Tang Dynasty is stronger than in history, it will inevitably lead to decline.
Li Shimin's expression was a little embarrassed. If someone had said this to him, he would have ordered him to drag it down and chop off his head. But it was not possible to face Yan Fei. If you don't mention that Yan Fei has a request now, just Yan Fei's strong strength would make Li Er unable to turn against him. Because the price of turning against him was too high, he could not afford it.
"Nonsense!" The scene was quiet, and the Goguryeo messenger noticed the dangerous atmosphere from this inexplicable silence. He didn't care about any etiquette and eagerly shouted to the strangely dressed short monk, "I, Goguryeo, are loyal to the Tang Dynasty, and have no other intentions!"
"Ha~~~" Yan Fei sneered, and was too lazy to debate anything with the Goguryeo envoy. After throwing away the cigarette butts, he walked to the Goguryeo envoy who was still kneeling on the ground.
"Who are you? What are you going to do?" The Goguryeo messenger felt the danger, and felt like he was staring at by a giant beast in the wilderness.
Yan Fei narrowed his eyes and then slapped him.
‘Crack!’ The strange bone twist sounded, and the Goguryeo messenger's head showed a strange posture of 18 degrees inverting. His whole face turned directly to the back facing his deputy messenger.
"Ah!!" A sharp scream made the Tang army generals who had been through many battles frown. Isn't it just a dead person? Why bother screaming like a sissy?
"Okay." After dealing with the envoy, Yan Fei turned around and looked at Li Shimin. "You can continue the war now."
"What do you want?" Li Er slowly stood up and came to Yan Fei and looked him in front of him. "Do you know what you are doing?"
Li Shimin was really angry. Yan Fei's actions had touched his bottom line as an emperor. The emperor's dignity cannot be violated.
"Five million stones of grain, and five hundred thousand stones of salt."
"Hmph! Do you think I'm a beggar?"
"Add another million pieces of cloth."
"Ha~~~ I am rich all over the world, how could I lack this little thing for you?"
"Ten million kilograms of copper."
"Ha~~~I am the Khan of Heaven."
"I've given you another 20,000 sets of armor last time."
“Boom~~~”
"Well, when I said nothing, I'll go home."
"That's all."
"After capturing the Goguryeo royal city, I will send these supplies here. This is my last help to the Tang Dynasty."
Facts have proved that even the emperor would choose to compromise in the face of sufficient interests. Of course, the premise is that the Tang Dynasty was extremely short of materials at this time. If it were Li Zhi or Li Longji, who was at the peak of the Tang Dynasty's national strength, it would never have been bought so simply.
Chapter completed!