The next day, Taizong asked for a plan, and a minister Yang Meng offered a plan: "Long live, what's so difficult about this, just come up with a few problems, let him know the difficulty and retreat, it's okay!"

Taizong laughed.

Another day, the envoy Lu Dongzan (Zhao Kuo) saw him again, and Taizong smiled and said: "I have heard for a long time that the young man of Tubo Zanpu Songtsan Gampo is heroic, but I don't know how to be heroic?"

Lu Dongzan (Zhao Kuo) was surprised: "Your Majesty ......"

"Can your Zampu stand a try?"

"Of course," Lu Dongzan's heart suddenly rose to his throat, he knew that there was trouble in the matter, but he couldn't avoid it, so he had to ask: "But I don't know how to try?"

Taizong asked someone to bring a silver plate with a shining pearl and a shining silver thread on it.

Lu Dongzan didn't know what he meant.

Taizong said with a smile: "This pearl is called 'Jiuqu Pearl', there is a nine-curved micro-hole, just perforate the silver wire, it will be successful." And he said, "You can bring this bead to Zampu, and if he wears this hole, he will kiss him." ”

Lu Dong praised: "The road to Tubo is long, and it takes too much time to go back and forth. My name is Lu Dongzan, and I am the most stupid person under Zampu's tent, and if I can wear this hole, I will be able to pass through it. ”

Taizong nodded: "Strong generals have no weak soldiers, if his courtiers can do it, it can really prove his heroism." ”

Lu Dongzan picked up the nine-curved pearl and the silver thread, and only after trying it did he know the difficulty, the fine holes on the bead were nine curved and bent, and where could the soft silver thread be worn! Lu Dongzan was sweating profusely for a while.

Taizong laughed and said, "I see that you should take it back and let Songtsen Gampo wear it yourself." ”

Lu Dongzan withdrew from the court with a disgraced face, sat under a big tree to rest, and was racking his brains when he accidentally saw a crawling ant. Lu Dongzan's eyes lit up suddenly, and he tied one end of the silk thread to the ant's waist, and the other end of the ribbon was tightly tied to one end. Smear honey on one side of the eyelet, put the ant on the other side, and the ant smells the honey and crawls with a silk thread.

After climbing for a while, the silk thread suddenly stopped moving, and it turned out that the ants were tired of crawling and rested in the middle of the road. Lu Dongzan slowly blew into the hole. At this time, the ant also rested, and with the help of the power of blowing, it climbed out of that side very smoothly, because of the winding road of pulling the silk thread, it was particularly difficult, and the ant's waist was strangled thin! In this way, Lu Dongzan grasped the silk thread very smoothly, pulled it slowly, and pierced the pearl.

Lu Dongzan immediately asked to see Taizong and presented the stringing pearl.

Taizong was shocked and asked, "How did you put it on?" Lu Dongzan demonstrated it again.

Taizong exclaimed: "Songtsen Gampo has such a smart courtier, it is worthy of the southwest!"

Lu Dong praised and worshipped: "It is a great fortune to be a courtier to be able to promote the good things of Zampu and the princess." ”

Taizong gasped and responded, "You stand down and wait for me to discuss with the ministers." ”

Taizong summoned all the ministers and made a big fuss at Yang Meng: "It's all your idea, let me lose my beloved daughter!"

Yang Meng was shocked: "Could it be that he solved it?"

"With just your little skills, you can stump other people's virtuous ministers and good generals?"

"Your Majesty, don't worry, Weichen still has a question, he must not be able to solve it!"

The next day, Lu Dongzan saw Taizong again: "Your Majesty, I ...... the marriage between Zan Pu and the princess."

Taizong laughed: "Yesterday I had a little try, but it was not enough to see the resourcefulness of the wise men of your country. Can you try again today?"

Lu Dongzan had to sigh secretly: "Please give your majesty a try." ”

Here's the test: Identify the mother-son relationship between a hundred horses and a hundred foals!

At the beginning, Lu Dongzan distinguished according to the color of his coat, matching the old and the young, and comparing them with the height and shortness, but they were all wrong.

Just as Taizong was about to announce the end of the trial, Lu Dongzan got the guidance of the groom in time, and he switched all the mares and foals separately, and during the day, only fed the foals, and did not give water to drink. The next day, when the foals were released back into the herd, they were so drunk that they soon found their mothers to nurse, and they were easily recognizable.

Taizong saw that this test failed, so he was willing to let it go easily.

When Yang Meng saw it, he was even more frightened, so he stepped forward and said: "Ma Tong is human, and it can't be regarded as human wisdom. ”

Lu Dongzan asked, "What is something that is inhuman?"

Yang Meng asked him to identify the mother-child relationship between 100 chicks and 100 hens. This almost stumped Lu Dongzan!

After careful consideration, Lu Dongzan drove Ji Shan to the square and sprinkled a lot of food, and as soon as the hen saw the food, she called for the chickens to eat, and saw that most of the chickens ran to their mother's neck to peck at food.

But there are still some naughty chicks who don't listen to the call, and they run around to grab food, so Lu Dongzan learned the harrier eagle's cry of "Qu Zhi'er-Qu Zhi'er-", and the chickens heard it, believed it, and hurriedly hid under their respective mother's wings, and the relationship between the hen and the chick was confirmed again.

Taizong had to sigh: "The courtiers of the King of Tubo are really smart!" reprimanded Yang Meng again.

Yang Meng said: "Your Majesty, don't worry, the minister still has a question!"

This test is to test the coordination ability of the Tibetan people. Let Lu Dongzan take a hundred entourages to drink a hundred jars of wine in one day, eat a hundred sheep, and knead the sheepskin.

Normally, the subject would hastily slaughter the sheep and abandon it all over the ground covered with wool and blood, and then drink wine in large bowls and eat meat in large gulps, and before the meat was finished, the person was already drunk, and he could not care to rub the skin.

Lu Dongzan asked the hundred knights who followed him to line up to kill the sheep, and in order to smack the wine in small sips, eat the meat in small pieces, knead the skin at the same time, eat and drink while drying and digesting, and in less than a day, the envoys of Tibet drank the wine, the meat was eaten, and the skin was kneaded!

Immediately afterwards, Yang Meng made two more attempts:

Taizong handed over a hundred pieces of pine wood to the envoys, so that Lu Dongzan could distinguish between its roots and tips.

Lu Dongzan then had all the wood transported to the river and thrown into the water. The roots of the wood sink slightly into the water, while the treetops are lighter but float on the surface, and the roots of the wood are obvious.

Don't get lost in and out of the palace at night:

At night, a big drum suddenly sounded in the palace, and Taizong summoned Lu Dongzan to the palace. Lu Dongzan thought that when he first arrived in Chang'an, he was not familiar with the road, so as not to get lost, he made a mark of the word "Tian" in the key section. After arriving at the palace, Taizong asked Lu Dongzan to go back immediately to see if he could return to his residence without taking the wrong path. As a result, Lu Dongzan won again with the mark he had made in advance.

After passing these attempts again and again, Taizong couldn't sit still, and he began to make a big fuss: "If you rejected it at the beginning, it's still easy to say." Now it's good! I have decided to try and make a marriage contract, do I really want to lose my daughter!"

Frightened, Yang Meng sweated profusely, and he said in a trembling voice: "Let the minister try him again......"

"Oh, you're going to try! Are you really going to try my daughter?"

"Long live, let the minister try him again, the minister promises that he will be stumped this time!"

This final attempt is to identify the princess.

Tang Taizong Li Shimin and the ministers came to the front of the palace and waited for them. But seeing Li Chunfeng's 00 palace maids who were gorgeously dressed and looked like them, they were lined up from the palace in two teams on the left and right in turn, just like Li Chunfeng 00 heavenly immortals floating from the air, light, chic, and handsome, and the people who watched were dazzled. All the people can't tell which one is Princess Wencheng.

But what Taizong and Yang Meng and other courtiers did not expect was that Songtsen Gampo had been devoted to Princess Wencheng for a long time, and he had already engraved her voice and smile in his heart! Lu Dongzan heard Songtsen Gampo mention it, and naturally he knew it in his heart. Yang Meng, who pretended to be smart like this, was equivalent to hitting the muzzle of the gun.

Lu Dongzan relied on the physical characteristics of Princess Wencheng mentioned by Songtsen Gampo: graceful and slender body, fair complexion, bright eyes, resolute and gentle personality, dice dots on the right cheek, a lotus pattern on the left cheek, a yellow dan circle on the forehead, white and fine teeth, a green lotus fragrance in the mouth, and a mole on the neck. After repeated identification, I finally recognized the princess in the 6th place in the left row!

Now Yang Meng only has to kowtow.

Taizong didn't want to say anything, so he had to look up to the sky and sigh: "The princess's life should be like this!"