The strongest emperor of the Tang Dynasty.

Chapter 601 The Tragic Kings of Liaodong Kingdoms (Part [-])
"King Gaojianzhuang, now our king's tent has been completely surrounded by the Tang army. Where is your Generalissimo Gai Suwen?" King Fuyu asked King Gaojianzhuang.

"I'm afraid that Gai Suwen's head is already in a different place at this time. It seems that we underestimated the power of the Tang Dynasty. Now we can only hand in the letter of surrender and pay tribute every year to become a minister." King Gao Jianzhuang was helpless Said.

"King Gao Jianzhuang, do you know who is leading the army this time?" King Fuyu asked King Gao Jianzhuang.

"I heard from Gai Suwen that the leader of the army was Chi Gong, the Duke of E, and Xue Rengui, the virtuous minister of Ying Meng of Li Shimin." King Gao Jianzhuang said to King Fuyu.

"It would be easy to talk about these two people, but I heard that Li Shimin's second son Yan Wang Li Tai is currently in charge of the three armies." The King of Fuyu said in a trembling voice.

Hearing the words of the King of Fuyu Kingdom, all the kings of the Liaodong countries present here are no longer calm.The name of Li Tai, King of Yan, is really like a thunderbolt.

They have all heard that the Chibi Baokang King had already presented Li Shimin with a letter of surrender, and even Li Shimin forgave him.But in the end, he died in the hands of Yan Wang Li Tai in front of Li Shimin.

Just when the kings were trembling all over, Li Shimin was protected by guards and came outside the king's tent.He shouted loudly into the king's tent: "Brothers, don't you come out to meet me?"

When King Gao Jianzhuang heard that someone from outside the tent called himself "Zhen", he knew that it was Li Shimin who had come.So he got up and said to the kings around him: "The emperor of Tang Dynasty is here, let's go out to greet him."

The kings nodded. After all, their own life and death are now in the hands of each other.Even if he stubbornly resists now, he will seek his own death.

So the crowd followed, and the king of Gaojianzhuang came out to welcome him.When they saw Li Shimin, they stood outside the king's tent.Then he hurriedly knelt down and bowed three times and kowtowed nine times to Li Shimin.

"Brothers, please hurry up. After about five years, I finally meet you." Li Shimin said to everyone with a smile.

"Your Majesty Tang, it was my fault that I believed Gai Suwen's slander, so I dared the world to provoke His Majesty Tang."

"I also ask His Majesty Tang Tianzi to let me wait for a way out. I am willing to hand in the letter of surrender and pay tribute every year to be a minister." King Gao Jianzhuang saluted Li Shimin again.

"I listened to other people's slander, and I was willing to hand in the letter of surrender. Can this matter be exposed like this? Don't forget, you are my vassal state of the Tang Dynasty."

"It is only natural to pay tribute to the suzerain country. But you are doing things against the heavens. Even if the father spares you today, this king will not let it go." Li Taiyuan on the side opened his eyes and said to everyone said the king.

Hearing that Li Tai claimed to be the king, Gao Jianzhuang king and others, how could they not guess Li Tai's identity.A fact that they least want to accept is now in front of them.

"Your Majesty Tang, I already know that I was wrong. And I would rather cede all the area north of the Yalu River to Datang. I only hope that His Majesty Tang will forgive us." King Gao Jianzhuang said in a trembling voice.

"I really want to let you brothers live, but I'm afraid it's not the case now. I can be the master."

"When I crossed the sea to conquer the east, I promised the King of Yan Li Tai that I would give him all the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun and the territories obtained during this cross-sea conquest.

"So now what you are asking for is not Zhen, but Li Tai, the son of Yan Wang. Because your territory is now his vassal." Li Shimin said with a helpless expression.

This time, the kings were completely stupid, and now they have fallen into the hands of this person who has no affection for foreign races, and can even be said to hate them.

Li Tai didn't expect that his father would actually play tricks with him.He pushed these unlucky kings onto himself.

Seeing Li Tai's resentful eyes, Li Shimin was indescribably happy.He secretly said in his heart: "Didn't you not tell me what you want to do? Today I will let you say it yourself."

Li Tai looked at Li Shimin helplessly, and then said: "This king will give you two choices now, one is that this king will give you an order, and the imperial guards will crush you to ashes."

Before Li Tai could say the second choice, King Gao Jianzhuang knelt down in front of Li Tai.He said loudly: "His Royal Highness, I would like to choose the second option."

Not only did King Gao Jianzhuang say so, but the kings of other Liaodong countries also kept nodding their heads.Expressed his willingness to accept Li Tai's second choice.

After all, the first choice is already there, and that is to thwart the ashes.No matter how bad the second choice is, it will definitely not be worse than the first one.

Seeing everyone's expressions, Li Tai said with a smile: "It seems that all the kings are aware of current affairs. If so, this king will talk about the second choice for you."

"The second choice is that you go to Chang'an City with your father. Of course, your palace will be located in Chang'an City in the future."

Hearing Li Tai's words, everyone couldn't help but feel extremely disturbed.Because once they move into Chang'an City, he will completely lose control of the Liaodong countries.

It is equivalent to myself, being imprisoned in Chang'an City by Li Shimin.If you want to make a comeback, there is no possibility at all.

But that is the only option they can survive at present.So everyone nodded reluctantly.Expressed willingness to go to Chang'an City.

"Don't rush to agree, I haven't finished my words yet. My Tang Dynasty doesn't have any extra food to raise waste."

"So whether you are qualified to go to Chang'an City. It depends on whether you can make a move that makes this king feel valuable." Li Tai said after waving his hands to everyone.

Hearing Li Tai's words, Li Shimin finally understood.So he smiled and said to Xu Maogong: "So this kid is planning to let these kings pay for his life."

Xu Maogong, who was at the side, shook his head with a smile and said, "Your Majesty, it seems that His Royal Highness Yan's habit of not trading at a loss has not changed at all."

"By doing this, he turned the spoils that should have belonged to the emperor into his. It seems that the emperor should be the one who lost."

What Xu Maogong said is right, if Li Tai kills all the kings of the Liaodong countries now.Then the wealth owned by the kings of the Liaodong countries naturally became Li Shimin's spoils of war.

But now the kings of the Liaodong countries are alive and have become the kings of Li Tai's vassals.Then their wealth naturally belonged to Li Tai.

Hearing Xu Maogong's words, Li Shimin said helplessly: "You kid even plots against your father. You mean that you are going to let me raise them for you, and then you get everything they have."

"What the father said, no one dares to plan against the father. The son has no idea of ​​​​taking the wealth in their hands."

"The ministers will ask them to hand over their wealth to the emperor and put it in the treasury. This will make up for the loss of our army's Eastern Expedition." Li Tai said to Li Shimin with a smile.

(End of this chapter)