Chapter 795, 796 Chenla Kingdom Destroyed
Mokesongti was not ashamed, and he walked to King Zhenla, "My king, order the city to surrender. Lord Tang will forgive you."
King Zhenla glared at the great Brahmin elder with bloody eyes.
The devil pretended to be a holy envoy, so it was so terrible. He had known the virtues of these Brahmins for a long time, but he was ridiculous and finally he was careless.
The biggest disaster is not outside the royal city, but within the royal city!
"King, don't look at me like this." Mo Kesongti sneered, "Who gave your Varmo family the power to rule Zhenla? It's a Brahmin! Not a former king! The king must obey the will of the gods. Now the gods command you to order the city to surrender!"
King Zhenla looked disdainful, "Mo Kesongti, do you think you can get Li Luo's forgiveness by doing anything? I am the king and know the emperor's mind better than you. Even if you hand over the royal family to the Tang army to open the city and surrender, you will not be able to survive. Now it is still time to stop your stupid behavior."
Mokesongti was too lazy to talk nonsense to King Zhenla. He pointed to the concubines and princesses, "Don't you agree? The gods will punish them."
The so-called punishment of gods is of course to insult them in public.
King Zhenla closed his eyes and his body shivered in anger.
Mokesongti stopped talking, but gave Amusha, who was also an illegitimate son, a wink.
Amusha immediately smiled and walked towards the youngest princess, "My princess, my joyful exercises are getting better and better. I dreamed of trying with you, but now I finally got what I want."
Several other disciples of Mokesundi also walked towards the concubines and princesses, their eyes shining.
The princess was only fourteen or fifteen years old. She was so scared that she was so scared that she shouted in panic: "Father! Father!"
"Let them go." King Zhenla opened his eyes and looked indifferent, "I will order the city to surrender."
Mokosongti smiled and immediately stopped the disciples' behavior. Amusha and other disciples were immediately disappointed.
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"Your Majesty!" Yan Jun came to Li Luo's tent excitedly, "Angkor Thom suddenly opened the city gate, and he actually opened the city and surrendered!"
"The Brahmin monk Moksundi in the city has taken King Zhenla and his family out of the city. He wants to pay homage to His Majesty!"
Palace change? Li Luo didn’t look too happy when he heard this.
No emperor wants to hear the news of the palace transformation. Even the palace transformation of the enemy country will feel disgusted.
Because this is a blasphemy against the monarch’s power!
"Enter the city overnight, control the prisoners, and confiscate their weapons." Li Luo ordered.
"Abide by the order!" Yan Jun went out to do the bill in a hurry.
Wei Su looked at the gloomy emperor under the light, and couldn't help but burst into a sudden heart, and said carefully: "Your Majesty, Mo Kesongti sells his owner for honor. This person is so ruthless that he cannot stay."
Li Luo frowned, "But this man took the initiative to open the city to surrender. If he killed him, I would seem stingy."
Wei Su felt more confident and said carefully: "Your Majesty, this person has not surrendered. The one who surrendered is King Zhenla."
Li Luo looked up at Wei Su deeply, and said quietly with a smile: "It turns out that the person who surrendered in the city is King Zhenla himself."
After King Zhenla ordered his surrender, the defenders, who were already in a sluggish morale, put down their weapons and opened the city gate. After that, the royal family was escorted by Mokesongti and other temple masters to the Tang army camp and demanded to meet the Tang army.
Li Luo ordered that they would be met until dawn. The royal family and the temple masters would temporarily be placed under house arrest in the military camp.
The next morning, the Tang Lord's big flag entered the Zhenla king city Angkor openly.
Luo Hui, the Silu doctor, immediately recorded: "On the 24th day of the first lunar month of the fourth year of Hongwu, King Zhenla opened the city and surrendered, and came to Angkor, and Zhenla died..."
At this point, the Angkor Dynasty, which lasted for more than 400 years, was declared to be destroyed.
The Tang army destroyed another country!
Li Luo entered the gorgeous palace unswervingly, and then ordered the reception of Zhenla royal family, Mokesongti and others.
Wei Su had already found a Chinese businessman who had been doing business in Angkor Thom for many years and was used as a translator.
Not long after, the captives were brought here, and Moksunti first clasped his hands together and said, "The Lord of Bafang Temple, Moksunti, has seen His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty!"
The temple owners also rushed to clasp and perform the ceremony.
After the translator translated their words to Li Luo, Li Luo just nodded indifferently and looked down at King Zhenla with condescending eyes.
King Zhenla seemed to have grown ten years old overnight. He knelt down respectfully and said in stiff and clear Chinese: "The sinners pay homage to the Emperor."
After saying that, he took off the gem crown on his head, held the scepter, and raised it high. More than a month ago in Chiang Mai, he could still confront Li Luo on the battlefield, but now he has become a prisoner and kneeled in front of the other party.
The princess, princesses and other royal family members also bowed down one after another.
Li Luo looked at the Zhenla King with loose hair and slightly dark face, and slowly opened his golden mouth: "Zhenla King, if you can take the initiative to open the city to surrender, I forgive you for not guilty."
What? Take the initiative to open the city and surrender?
King Zhenla was stunned when he heard this, and boldly looked up and faced the Tang Lord with deep meaning.
King Zhenla's heart moved and then he understood.
The king of a small country is also the king. The monarch's thoughts have some commonalities. To say that the Zhen La people who know Li Luo's thoughts best are not Moksunti, but the Zhen La King.
Why has he been a king for more than 20 years? Why can’t King Zhenla understand what Li Luo meant?
"Your Majesty the Great Emperor, the criminals resisted the heavenly soldiers. They opened the city to surrender and died." King Zhenla kowtowed again.
Li Luo nodded, "Why is it too late to open the city? Is it because of evil and evil that prevents you from surrendering to the Tang Dynasty?"
"That's it." King Zhenla said without hesitation, pointing to Mokesongti, "It was this demon monk Mokesongti who caused the misfortune to surrender. Fortunately, the guilty minister still controlled the situation."
Mokesongti and others had never been to Lin'an and did not understand Chinese. However, when they saw King Zhenla pointing at him, they knew something was wrong, but they didn't know what Lord Tang and King Zhenla said, so anxious that they were sweating all over.
"Is that? So that's it." Lord Tang looked ugly, "Mokesongti, you are so brave. Come on, take down these demon monks."
"Abide by the order!" The guards rushed forward and took Mokosundi and others down.
Motisundi never expected that he not only did not receive the reward, but he had not yet won it.
"Great Emperor, Great Emperor, why..." Mokesongti and other temple owners were shocked.
The Tang Lord had a gloomy face, "You should stop King Zhenla from surrendering to the Tang Dynasty and resisting me, that is a death sentence."
After the translation translated the emperor's words, Mokosundi and others understood.
It turned out that King Zhenla relied on his ability to speak Chinese and actually slandered them and turned them into black and white!
This is disrespect to the gods!
"The Emperor, this is not like this. It's unfair. We have made contributions..." Mokesongti and others explained anxiously and angrily.
King Zhenla looked at them sarcastically, like a group of dead people.
Humph, Lord Tang wants you to die, can you still live? Who do you think Lord Tang is? He is so naive. How can you understand the king’s thoughts?
Even if you die, you won’t know why Li Luo wanted to kill you.
You are not members of the royal family, but just a group of monks, but you dare to launch a palace transformation and rebel against the owner for honor, and violate the taboo of being the king. This is why you must die.
"Turn out and behead." The Tang Lord ruthlessly gave the order without looking at Mokesongti and others.
The guards rushed out with murderous intent on Mokesongti and others, scaring the gods to death. Mokesongti even cursed: "Devil and Devil! You are the devil, Asura..."
Many temple owners even cried and shouted to spare their lives. Amusha was so scared that she wet her pants.
Poor Mokosongti and others launched a coup in order to survive. As a result, they were not rewarded, but were also prosecuted to behead them in the name of preventing surrender.
Such a great injustice is that Zhenla, which never snows, may snow heavily this summer.
Seeing that the Brahmin temple masters were pushed out to behead, all the royal members exclaimed a lot.
"Sinner, thank the Emperor." King Zhenla knocked his head deeply.
The majesty of the emperor in the Central Plains really allowed him to truly understand it. It was like thunder in the sky, like a hurricane, like a storm, like an unpredictable wave, and it destroyed the country with anger.
"All of you get up. King Zhenla, do you know what to do now?" Lord Tang's voice came like the sky, with majesty that cannot be denied.
King Zhenla said respectfully: "The criminals immediately ordered Zhenla to return to the Tang Dynasty and ordered the city lords from all over the country to surrender to the Tang Dynasty."
After saying that, he took out a book from his arms, "This is the book of the fifty-eight cities of Zhenla Kingdom, please read it."
Li Luo nodded. When Angkor Thom was captured, King Zhenla was actually destroyed. Even if the city lords in various places were not convinced, they would not be able to make a fuss. However, with the king's order of King Zhenla, it would save a lot of trouble, and the Tang army could just accept the cities in various places with justification.
"Okay." Li Luo took the book, flipped it symbolically, and said in an increasingly dangerous and unkind voice: "What else?"
King Zhenla sighed inwardly and had to reluctantly express his thoughts: "The king's city is gold, silver and jewelry, and the criminals are willing to offer it to His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty."
He knew very well that his entire family would never be able to live in Zhenla anymore and would be taken to the north by Lord Tang.
Everything about Angkor Thom has nothing to do with him, King Zhenla.
It would be quite good to be able to save the life of the royal family. Didn’t you see that Mokesongti and others were killed?
Even if he doesn't give it to him, Tang Jun will take it himself and rob it himself. But Li Luo loves his face and wants to take the initiative to raise it.
"Well, then I'll take it." Li Luo touched his beard, "You were also the lord of a country. Although you were the king of a country that was destroyed, you must have the dignity of a king of a country that was destroyed."
"I have granted you a first-class Count and given the Han surname Gao, and I will be called Gao Shun."
Li Luo did not want to destroy the country and even killed his king. He was too mean and stingy and did not conform to the Tang emperor's mind. Emperor Hongwu was still kind.
"I thank Your Majesty for your great kindness." King Zhenla dared not show any dissatisfaction? He had to express his gratitude and thank him for his gratitude.
Yesterday he was the king of a country, but today he became the earl, and no one would be really happy.
Fortunately, compared to death, the death of the clan is much better.
After all, the family can survive.
From then on, this Zhenla King became the first-class man Gao Shun of the Tang Dynasty.
Next, the Tang army collected more than 42,000 kilograms of gold and more than 340,000 kilograms of silver from the royal palace, major temples and noble families.
Even the golden statues and golden Buddhas in the temple and the golden lions in the city were not spared.
The wealth accumulated by the Angkor dynasty for more than 400 years fell into the hands of Li Luo.
It’s a big deal, not a big deal! It’s said that the Angkor Dynasty has a lot of gold and silver, and it is called “the real la of wealth and honor”. It’s true.
It is not surprising that a small country has so much gold and silver. In ancient times, this country was rich in gold and silver, and there was no custom of burying thickly. Gold and silver were not buried underground, but were mostly used in temples. How could it be?
All gold and silver are equivalent to silver... more than 13 million taels!
With the "indemnity" in Chiang Mai City and the gold and silver discovered by Zhezha, Li Luo has obtained gold and silver worth more than 20 million taels of silver this time in the southern expedition!
The next Siam was also a country rich in gold. It is said that the golden Buddha in the temple used a huge amount of gold!
The harvest of this southern expedition was conservatively estimated to be 40 million taels in the end.
It's really a big deal.
The silver shortage of the Tang Dynasty will be further alleviated.
On the tenth day of the second month, forty-seven of the fifty-eight city lords came to Angkor Thom to surrender. The other eleven city lords were wiped out by the cavalry sent by Zhezha, and their whole family was killed.
The Tang army continued to capture Brahmin monks in various places, confiscate gold, silver and wealth from the temples, and confiscate their land.
All the slaves of the nobles in the temple became official slaves of the Tang Dynasty, and all Brahmin monks were demoted to slaves. Whoever dared to resist was death.
In just half a month, the Tang army divided troops out to control the entire Zhenla, uprooting the Brahmin forces of the Zhenla Kingdom.
The gold and silver of temples and nobles in various places flowed to the pockets of the Tang army every day.
On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, all the results of the strategy of Zhenla were released.
Gold and silver are equivalent to silver, and a total of more than 18 million taels of slaves were obtained, including Brahmin monks who were demoted to slaves. The population of civilians was only more than 2.3 million, and the number of people who died in war was difficult to calculate.
As for ivory, rhinoceros horns, gems, spices, etc., it is difficult to count.
Make a lot of money!
On the 17th day of the first lunar month, a fire suddenly broke out in Angkor Thom for some reason. What's even more strange is that the fire became bigger and bigger. The Tang lord Li Luo had to move outside the city, and the people in the city had to escape from the city.
Soon there was a saying that the Brahmin monks were all liars, they harbored defilements and angered God and ancestors, and then they lowered the heavenly fire to punish Angkor. The demise of King Zhenla was also because of his belief in Brahminism and was punished by God.
The people are skeptical, is that still important?
The fire burned for two days and two nights before it was extinguished. Even Lord Tang said, "It's a pity, it's a pity."
King Zhenla and others looked at Angkor Thom in ruins outside the city, and couldn't help but feel sad.
Tens of thousands of people were crying.
The Tang Lord was sympathetic and issued an edict to appease the people, saying that the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty felt sorry for their homes being burned by the fire, and built Nan'an City on the bank of Tonle Sap Lake.
Then, the Tonle Sap Lake was changed to Nan'an Lake.
Nan'an City will imitate the Central Plains city and abandon the Zhenla building. The people of Angkor Town are used as laborers. After the construction is completed, the benevolent emperor specially allocated 100,000 stones of grain and 200,000 taels of silver to build Annan City.
The people of Angkor Thom were feeling much better.
However, what made Li Luo depressed was that Angkor Thom had just encountered a fire, and it started to rain again.
The rainy season is coming!
This time, the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty actually lost a place to shelter from the rain.
Looking at Angkor Thom, who had become a broken wall, Lord Tang was so angry.
Is this your own fault?
There was no choice but to order the Tang Lord to go east, march for nearly a hundred miles in the rain, and come to Mona City in a miserable way.
Mona City is just a simple small city, just the size of a county town. Eighty thousand troops entered, and it was crowded.
Fortunately, there was finally a city that barely sheltered from the rain.
Chapter completed!