Chapter 255 Tibetan Strategy

Li Hongzhang finally climbed the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and came to Lhasa before the heavy snow closed the mountains in winter, and met Yundan, the king of the Lhasa royal line.

"Welcome, the honorable envoy from the Great Zhou of the Celestial Empire, Xiao Wang Yundan, please accept the Hada presented to you and your entourage by the Hidden Kingdom."

Before Li Hongzhang came, he had read all the information about Tubo that could be found in Kaifeng City, and after arriving in Chang'an, he inquired a lot of news about Tubo from Qian Mao.

Along the way to the plateau, Li Hongzhang learned a lot of Tubo from the Tubo guide and the army generals sent by Yundan to meet him.

"Honorable King of Tubo, His Majesty the Emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty has asked me to bring you sincere greetings, as well as a thousand jars of fine wine, I hope that the King of Tubo can unify Tibet again as soon as possible."

Tibet is now divided, several tribes are fighting with each other, and the Yundan royal line in Lhasa City is one of the more powerful, but at the moment it is facing a joint siege by the other two.

Zhe Yuxun led the troops to attack the Chide Ministry, and the Chide Ministry, otherwise, it would be a combination of the three to attack the Yundan Ministry.

Therefore, Da Zhou actually helped the Yundan Ministry a lot, and Yun Dan was so respectful to Li Hongzhang, the envoy of Da Zhou.

Li Hongzhang directly called Yundan the king of Tubo, he represented the envoy of the Great Zhou Emperor to the Yundan Department, and his name for Yundan represented the recognition of the orthodox status of the Yundan King of Tubo by the Great Zhou Emperor.

"Thank you for the kindness of His Majesty the Emperor of the Great Zhou, these wines are much better than our barley wine, Lord Li, now, the heavy snow has closed the mountain, and the attacks of the Ali and Yaze tribes on us have stopped, since Lord Li is here, stay here, so that Xiao Wang can be well treated."

The king of Tubo smiled, and someone sent a pillow when he fell asleep, and someone sent a cart of charcoal in the heavy snow, and the Great Zhou ...... Righteous enough, enough friends.

At this time, he forgot how before Tibet was divided, how he repeatedly invaded Chang'an and coerced the Central Plains.

Li Hongzhang said in his heart, Your Majesty just asked me to come up in time, just to come up before the heavy snow covers the mountain, and just to let me Li Hongzhang spend the winter here.

"The good intentions of the king of Tubo, but the official is disrespectful, and he will be bothered here this winter."

Li Hongzhang said a few words lightly, and under the guidance of the King of Tubo, he came to the Potala Palace, which was still magnificent but a little mottled.

The living Buddha Lama of the previous life has just sat down, and it is the time to look for the reincarnated spirit child according to the will of the ** before death.

"It's a pity, I can't pay homage to the living Buddha in person, it's me Li Hongzhang who doesn't have a Buddha fate, come here, just prepare a bed for me here, I, Li Hongzhang, want to kowtow three thousand long heads here to show respect for the ** living Buddha."

Li Hongzhang didn't dare to say more, it's okay to kowtow 3,000, when he was in Kaifeng, he heard about the religious customs of Tibet, and he also practiced kowtowing, it was really a manual work, and ordinary people would never be able to stick to it.

Tibetan people in Tibet, kowtow to tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, that is called true piety.

Well, I can mean it.

That's it, but also the Tubo King Yundan is happy enough, look at the messenger of the Great Zhou, I just used the general reception etiquette to greet him, forgive him and can't see anything, but he is so devout to kowtow to our living Buddha.

Li Hongzhang stayed in Lhasa, at the beginning, Yun Dan still feasted from time to time, but later, the weather was so cold that even Yun Dan could not come out of his palace.

"It's time to start acting, the people who Jinyiwei planted here in advance have all been found."

With Li Hongzhang, there were 2,000 Great Zhou soldiers, of which 300 were Jinyi Wei military spies, and they were sent by Guo Zongxun to carry out secret missions.

"Report to your lordship, all the Jinyi guards hiding in Lhasa City have been contacted, and those who have been scattered have not been able to get in touch because of the heavy snow, but before the heavy snow closed the mountain, they have already sent back the news, and they have all arrived at the designated location and are carrying out operations."

"Very good, Yun Dan is not coming to the banquet now, hiding in the palace Maodong, it just so happens that we can move freely, and the winter equipment prepared by His Majesty for us will come in handy this time."

In order to create convenient conditions for Li Hongzhang to carry out operations in Lhasa in winter, Guo Zongxun did not waste a lot of brains.

Very thick animal skin hats and gloves lined with animal wool, animal skin jackets lined with cotton, and animal skin boots lined with animal wool, these are used to protect against the cold.

Ice and snow, inconvenient transportation, Guo Zongxun directly invented the ice climbing plow, in fact, it is estimated that in Mongolia and even further north, if there are people, there will also use a wooden climbing plow.

Invented by Guo Zongxun, similar to a sled, the skateboard is all made of fine iron, and the skeleton is also made of fine iron, only the seat and the back bucket where the materials are stored are wooden structures, wrapped with thick suede animal skins.

There are no sled dogs, Guo Zongxun widened both sides of the sled, equipped with a manpower ski position, a sled can sit two people in front of it, and there are four driver's seats around it, carrying six people, and the load can reach 2,000 catties.

In addition, Guo Zongxun also told Li Hongzhang that when you go to Lhasa, buy more yaks, not for you to eat, but to go out with yaks, although the yak walks slowly, it is resistant to severe cold and strong endurance, you go out to perform a mission, often it takes a few days or even ten days, you must not take it lightly, I hope you can all come back alive.

Li Hongzhang dismantled these things and hid them in the military supplies, and did not let the Tubo people find out, and now they were going to use them, so they asked dozens of craftsmen who came with the army to hurry up and assemble them, and after the assembly was completed, Li Hongzhang and his people quietly left Lhasa and disappeared on the vast snowy plateau.

Their goal is the reincarnated spirit boy that Tubo King Yundan is looking for according to the guidance of his previous life, a new generation of ** lamas.

"I respect the cultural and religious beliefs of the Tibetan people very much, but the Tibetan people have repeatedly invaded Chang'an and coerced the Central Plains, which is really hateful, and I want to invite the ** living Buddha with the highest status in their religion to Kaifeng once and for all, and invite the center of Tibetan Buddhism from the plateau, I will give them the right space and soil, so that Tibetan Buddhism can continue to shine on the Tibetan people."

The address of Guo Zongxun's new missionary sermon for the ** lama was Xining in the later generations, and at this time, the famous Ta'er Monastery of Tibetan Buddhism had not yet been built. Lama Tsongkhapa has not yet been born.

"The task of building the Ta'er Monastery will be completed by me for the Tibetan people, which can be regarded as a tribute to Tibetan Buddhism."

The Great Zhou Emperor courtesy of Tibetan Buddhism, which makes the Buddhism in the Central Plains and Jiangnan embarrassed, why can't His Majesty the Emperor raise his noble hand to us?

The transfer of ** Living Buddha is only part of Guo Zongxun's plan, it is the second step, the first step has already gone out, if it weren't for the heavy snow sealing the mountain, Zhen Yuxun is now afraid that he has eliminated the Tubo Chide Department.

There is also a third step, after these three steps are completed, Guo Zongxun believes that the Central Plains Dynasty will no longer have to worry about the hidden dangers of Tubo, because Tubo will eventually be included in the territory of the Great Zhou.