Chapter 243: Cold Miasma

At the beginning, Lu Xiaoxian also suffered hardships, but soon he found a solution: relax his mind and adjust through meditation according to the mantra of "Tiangang Jue", and altitude sickness disappeared without a trace.

This discovery made Lu Xiaoxian ecstatic.

"Tiangang Jue" is really a good thing, diligent practice can not only reduce sleep and make people energetic, can enhance memory, but also enhance martial arts and physical strength. Now there is an additional function that can defend against and defuse the threat posed by altitude sickness.

Speaking of which, this is thanks to the lack of morality, if he hadn't let Lu Xiaoxian practice "Tiangang Jue" back then, it is estimated that he would be as good as those Yulin soldiers at this moment.

Lu Xiaoxian could resist altitude sickness by practicing "Tiangang Jue", but the Yulin soldiers were not so lucky. One by one, they were tortured to death, and they were struggling and miserable on the way. Especially Guo Zhen, his face is swollen and his lips are blue, which is exactly the symptoms of cold miasma that everyone has.

Both the Tubo and the Tang people call altitude sickness "cold miasma". Because the cause is unknown, it is mistakenly thought to be inhaling toxic cold, so it is named.

Of course, Lu Xiaoxian didn't have the time to popularize science for them, explaining that the so-called "cold miasma" was altitude sickness, and his attention was all on those Tubo people.

He found that the Tibetan people, including Qilixu, were not affected at all, and even the hatred of the water father and son did not have much reaction. This shows that as long as you live on the plateau for a long time, you will get used to this environment.

Lu Xiaoxian suddenly thought of a question, the battle of Dafeichuan of Xue Rengui and the battle of Qinghai Lake of Liu Xianli, the Tang army was almost completely defeated. In other places, such as the Western Regions, the two sides engaged in frequent tug-of-wars, with each other winning and losing.

Is this result related to altitude sickness?

The more Lu Xiaoxian thought about it, the more it made sense, the two fiascos of the Tang Dynasty army were both fighting on the plateau, and the soldiers were all from the Central Plains, and the soldiers did not have enough time to adapt to the plateau environment, so the combat effectiveness was weakened by altitude sickness. On the contrary, the Tibetan army could gallop across the plateau. Under the rise and fall of the other, the defeat of the Tang Army is also reasonable.

Thinking about the key, Lu Xiaoxian secretly rejoiced in his heart, thanks to Wang Xiaojie who was not in a hurry to take the initiative to fight a decisive battle with Qinling, if that is the case, I am afraid that this battle will also be more auspicious.

Lu Xiaoxian subconsciously glanced at Qi Lixu and the Tubo cavalry who escorted them, and admiration came to him in his heart. He came from a later life and certainly knew what it meant to live on the plateau.

What does a person do on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau at an average altitude of three or four thousand meters, hypoxia is true, but this is only a small part of it, because the average life of a person on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is only two-thirds of that of the plain.

The frost-free period in this land is very short, most of the cold places are pastures, and there are very few places with abundant water and grass, and only a few limited crops such as barley can be produced.

The Tang Dynasty on the plains, fertile soil for thousands of miles, can starve to death when there are natural disasters, and Tubo can only confront the Tang Dynasty with only a few barren lands, and it can not be attributed to the tenacious spirit of Tubo.

The strength of the Tibetan Empire does not lie in how many cavalry it has, not in how many places it occupies, but in the maximum limit of human self-defeat, which is the essence of the Tibetan spirit.

In addition to altitude sickness, Lu Xiaoxian and his party also encountered a bizarre thing on the way: after camping one night, hundreds of unknown Tubo people attacked Lu Xiaoxian's camp.

Fortunately, Qilixu discovered the opponent's attempt in time, and the elite Tibetan cavalry who commanded the escort group of the envoy group crushed the other party, and there were no casualties on both sides.

No one knew where these attackers came from and why they had attacked the envoys of the Great Zhou.

When the Yulin soldiers were secretly glad that they had finally escaped this catastrophe, Lu Xiaoxian was sleeping in the tent and didn't get up at all.

He knew very well who did this, and he already knew what the final result would be, and even he could imagine how Qilixu would report this matter to Zampu after arriving in the city.

Speaking of which, the person who really feels the most fortunate should be Lu Xiaoxian.

Except for the matter of Qinling, although Lu Xiaoxian has planned for a long time, he has no idea whether he can succeed in the end. When he met Kilixu, his intuition told him that Qinling was dead.

Kili Xu was very conscientious in collecting evidence to slander Qinling, and the two worked together quite happily.

Of course, Lu Xiaoxian knew very well in his heart that the reason why Qili Xu worked so hard was not because of how deep his friendship was.

Kilixu wants to show his loyalty to Zamp, who knows what Zamp wants to do most. It is precisely because they all want to get rid of Qinling, because they have the same goal, that they hit it off.

Lu Xiaoxian guessed that Qilixu must also have his own little abacus.

Once the son of heaven and a courtier, if Zampu removes the Qinling, someone must take the position of the great comment.

Who is qualified to do this position?

There is no doubt that Zampu should be the most reassuring person, and at the same time the person who has the greatest credit.

Qili Xu is trying to be the most reassuring and meritorious person in Zampu, and Lu Xiaoxian can peek into the hidden ambition from his words.

Lu Xiaoxian's guess was right, Qili Xu did have his own little abacus.

He is a celebrity around Zampu, although he is not famous, but in terms of his personal officialdom activities and work methods, he is still remarkable, and he also has a place in the court of Tibet.

Qili Xu is very low-key on weekdays, living in a simple house, and saying little, but this does not prevent him from finding another way, with the same lofty desire for life as others, to achieve another eye-catching and ambitious career.

He neither imitated those generals who went to the battlefield to fight for merit, nor did he envy those civil servants who had won half a lifetime of fame in governing the country. He was just in the Red Palace in the city of Luo, with his eyebrows bowed and his eyes bowed, enduring loneliness, racking his brains to win Zampu's favor.

Kilixu's biggest advantage is that he is good at starting from the small things around Zampu that others disdain.

He really understands that Zampu's affairs are no trivial matter, and he can especially understand and understand Zampu's difficulties and troubles, scratch Zampu's itch just right, and make a deep love for Zampu.

He would never be like Qin Ling, who took all of Zampu's words as a deaf ear.

The effect of Kilixu in doing so was surprisingly wonderful, which also determined his status in Zampu's heart.

Because of this, Zampu would give him such an important matter as collecting evidence of Qinling's crimes.

Of course, Kilixu understands this and knows it, and spares no effort to complete the task given to him by Zampu.

I thought that with the support of Zampu, it would be an easy thing to bring down Qinling. But after arriving at Qinling's side, Qili Xu realized that he was wrong, and it was very wrong.

He couldn't help but admit that Qinling, as a great treatise, was indeed very capable, not only turning the court into a hall of words, but also the army was also unable to enter the water that was managed.

Every Tibetan general and even ordinary soldier that Kilixu had ever seen worshipped the military god Qinling, and his discord had no effect at all.

Of course, all of this was won by Qinling by virtue of his strength and great military exploits.

Since the appearance of Qinling on the battlefield, no one in the Tang Dynasty has gone through a round under Qinling. What Xue Rengui, Liu Xianli and the like, most of them were lost in the whole army in World War I.

As for Wang Xiaojie's recovery of the four towns of Anxi, it was because of the contradictions in Tubo and the inability of Qinling to go out in person, which finally achieved Wang Xiaojie's victory.

The majestic Tang Dynasty, the famous generals are like clouds, but none of them can achieve a victory of more than 10,000 people against Tubo, and the famous generals meet the Qinling, and repeatedly eat turtles, which is simply the defeat of the Qinling! And it's worse every time!

It is precisely because Qinling's prestige is so high that Qilixu wants to complete the task assigned by Zampu, and he feels like a mouse pulling a turtle and has nowhere to start.

Just when Qili Xu was anxious and had nothing to do, God sent Lu Xiaoxian to him.

Lu Xiaoxian's appearance not only allowed Qili to quickly get out of the predicament, but also to return to some cities to report to Zampu in a dignified and open manner.

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During the reign of Songtsen Gampo's father, Nangy Lunzan, with the cooperation of the Niang, Wei, Nen and other families, he occupied the Luo region. Shortly thereafter, Songtsen Gampo succeeded to the throne, and in order to consolidate and develop the newly established political power, and avoid the interference of various local nobles and chieftains, he decided to move the base area from Shannan to Luo, and established a powerful Tibetan dynasty.

Before Songtsen Gampo moved the capital, it was a swamp and barren, and after moving the capital, he built palaces and forts, repaired rivers, and built monasteries, laying the prototype of the city.

The Red Palace is Songtsen Gampo built for the Tang Dynasty Wencheng princess who married Tibet, here is the royal palace of Zampu, the Red Palace is called the Potala Palace in later generations, and it is also quite a famous scenic spot.

The red palace is built by the mountain, the main building of the palace body is thirteen floors, the five palace roofs are covered with gilded copper tiles, the golden light is brilliant, and the momentum is magnificent.

From afar, Lu Xiaoxian could already see the Red Palace standing on the top of the Maburi Red Mountain in the northwest of the city, surrounded by colorful neon lights, and the dark dark sky shrouded in it was also coated with a layer of dazzling neon color, which was the sacred temperament given to it by the Maburi Red Mountain.

Lu Xiaoxian reined in his horse, letting the cold morning breeze blow on his face, he wanted to feel it from a distance, this is the city of Luo that he is about to enter.

The east began to glow with a faint peach, the magnificent outline of the Red Palace gradually became clear in the blurred morning mist, the high red mountain was shining with golden light, and a snow lotus floating in the sky bloomed with a smile, that is, the golden red palace bathed in the morning light......

Lu Xiaoxian breathed a deep sigh of relief, and shouted in his heart: "Luo Qicheng, I'm here!" ”

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