The original deity is constantly moving away from the landmark in the Void Sea in the Ancient World, and the clone in the Ancient Moon Realm has not stopped moving either.
The march of 30,000 soldiers was naturally impossible to be silent, and the king's army naturally had to be upright, so Emperor Xin began to publicize this matter at Yanque Pass before setting off for the expedition.
After several months of preparation time and publicity methods, the news of Emperor Xin's personal conquest has already spread a lot.
Not to mention the spies placed between various forces, even though the Dali Dynasty had many frictions with surrounding forces, the commercial exchanges among the people were always circulating. Unless a war started, otherwise, under normal circumstances, the various forces would not
They will stop this kind of thing, and even build a market for trade during peacetime.
Yanqueguan has been vigorously developing commerce, so there is an endless stream of traders from all over the place.
In this era, the emergence of merchants not only means that items from different regions can be exchanged, but they also take care of the identity of transmitting things from one place to all directions.
This is not a mandatory measure, but an unspoken rule formed spontaneously in order to promote one's own caravan during the trade process.
Naturally, those traveling to and from Yanque Pass were merchants who went to Goguryeo for business, and some of them were even merchants from Goguryeo. Therefore, the news of Emperor Xin's personal expedition had already been brought back to Goguryeo by merchants a few months ago.
After it was confirmed that the news was indeed sent by the Dali government, the entire Goguryeo was in an uproar.
In their understanding, although Dali is strong, its territory is too vast, and most of the energy should be used up to protect the territory. In addition, it is said that the emperor has not been in the government for many years, resulting in various conflicts in Dali.
With constant internal worries, we should be unable to go out to war.
The reason why the terms internal trouble and foreign invasion are often used together is because when a force encounters internal trouble, it becomes quite easy for other forces to invade.
Goguryeo and even the surrounding forces, including the Turks who were destroyed by Emperor Xin, have dared to invade the border of Dali unscrupulously in recent years. Even if they are sure that they can't take any advantage, Dali's army will never
It’s time to take a step outside the borders.
Otherwise, how could they dare to offend a behemoth like Dali?
Of course, if the Dali Dynasty calms down and wants to settle accounts with them after regaining its strength, they will have ways to deal with it.
Just pay tribute again.
The great cause of the country in Heaven is great, and as long as they bow their heads and surrender, the emperor of Dali should not mind their previous small offense.
To put it bluntly, it was moral kidnapping. They had used this trick many times before, and in order to show their generosity, the Dali Dynasty would never make things difficult for them.
Otherwise, how can they, who have a territory that is not as big as Dali Province, survive peacefully and have not been swallowed up by Dali when they are close to the behemoth Dali.
The title of the Celestial Kingdom is an honorific that was forged in the bloody sea of Dali Daoli Mountain, but it has become a shackle that restrains Dali from continuing to expand.
Therefore, Goguryeo was so surprised when it heard that His Highness King Yu of Dali was going to lead an army to conquer the country himself.
and helpless.
It is not that they are unprepared to resist foreign enemies. Although Dali does not take the initiative to send troops, these forces that take advantage of Dali's weakness to invade the border do not coexist harmoniously.
In addition to looking for opportunities to intrude on Dali from time to time, what they are guarding against is invasion from other forces.
However, many of these forces do not even have a territory in the province of Dali. They say they are fighting, but in fact they are just small fights.
Compared with other forces that also belong to small countries and small people, they spend most of their energy on how to invade the Dali border.
Sometimes just plundering on the border of Dali can yield much more than defeating a small country.
Because of Dali's always tolerant policy, there was never a figure of Dali among the enemies they expected to defend. When they heard that Dali was going to send troops against them, Goguryeo realized in despair that even if they were prepared in advance, they would not be able to defeat them.
I don’t know how to face the crusade from a country as big as Dali.
The disparity in strength is too great. Under the crushing force of absolute strength, no strategy will have any effect.
According to the previous response method, Goguryeo should now prepare tributes, take the initiative to send envoys to the capital of Dali, pay tribute to the emperor, and recognize its status as a vassal state.
They won't feel any psychological burden from doing such a thing, the only thing they feel sad about is the tribute.
Under normal circumstances, in order to reflect the wealth of the Celestial Kingdom, the Emperor of Dali should give more rewards in return. The envoys might not only make no loss but also make a fortune.
But although they are accustomed to tearing up treaties when they see an advantage, after paying tribute, at least for a long time, no matter what the reason is, they can no longer take the initiative to invade the Dali border.
Calculated in this way, from the perspective of Goguryeo, it was actually a loss.
Nowadays, Dali is experiencing constant internal troubles. If we don't take this opportunity to plunder more things, it will be difficult for Dali to have a chance if it recovers.
Therefore, facing the news of His Royal Highness King Dali Yu's personal expedition, Goguryeo was divided into two factions.
One of the factions is the staunch tribute-paying faction, which is dominated by elderly ministers. They have experienced paying tribute to Dali many times in their official lives. They are familiar with this process and are used to dealing with it this way.
Things related to Da Li.
The other faction is the cutting-edge faction that has just risen in recent years, and most of them are young people.
A large part of these people's rise to power is due to their contribution to the invasion of Dali border, so they need to be more aware of the current situation of Dali.
In the eyes of these people, there are now various internal troubles in Dali, and there are forces outside that are coveting and intruding on more than just their family. In order to deal with these things, Dali should not have the energy to launch another expedition.
Moreover, it was an expedition that sent troops from a territory that was not adjacent to them and traveled across mountains and rivers. It was unknown how much energy was wasted.
Therefore, they felt that although it was confirmed that such news was sent by the Dali government, it was most likely a fake news in order to frighten the forces around them so that they would not dare to intrude on Dali again in the short term.
Moreover, it was a long way from Yanque Pass in the far north of the border to Goguryeo. With the marching speed of the army, it would not be too late for them to decide to pay tribute after they found out that King Yu was actually conquering the army himself.
This kind of speculation is not unreasonable, and they also produced various evidences to support their speculation, so they quickly gained support from a large number of people.