Seeing that Guo Yuanzhen was so respectful, Li Tong was quite surprised. But when I heard the words "subordinates, lowly officers" in his words were accented, I realized that this guy was disgusted with his low official position.

Just now I heard the complaints of the civil and military officials in Longyou, Li Tong was already unhappy, plus Guo Yuanzhen's discipline is always not high, and the bottom line is lower than others.

So Li Tong pulled down his face, snorted coldly, and said: "The silent subordinates, there are tools that can't be displayed, there are talents that can't be encountered, there are horseteeth hyperplasia, and strength can't do anything, which kind of do you think you are?" ”

Seeing that His Royal Highness King Yong's demeanor was slightly unkind, Guo Yuanzhen was a little embarrassed, and hurriedly said: "The servant has been delayed for a long time, and when he meets His Royal Highness, how dare he say that he will not meet again!" Talent may not be enough to boast, but the ambition has not slackened, but the age is getting older, and there are many times when I am sleepy. Thirsty to be able to dance in front of the king, dedication to deeds. The strength is getting old, and there is no long-term competition with the backwards, only the miracle can compete for the first! The story is not as good as that, and I hope to be the king pioneer and the eastward journey in the future! ”

Hearing this, not only Li Tong's expression froze slightly, but Liu Youqiu and the other deceased members looked at Guo Yuanzhen with some changes in their eyes, this guy really dared to say it.

They have been following King Yong for a long time, and they have followed all the way, and they naturally yearn for King Yong to win the throne in their hearts, hoping that they can come from the Dragon Mansion. But this idea is only in my heart, and I really don't dare to be as straightforward as Guo Yuanzhen said.

After Li Tong was silent for a moment, his face became a little unnatural, and he glared at Guo Yuanzhen fiercely. If you can't speak, shut up, as if Lao Tzu is greedy for that position!

"Let's focus on all things in Longbian first, don't gossip about the rest!"

Everyone present was Li Tong's henchmen, but Guo Yuanzhen's big mouth still made Li Tong quite uncomfortable, in order to avoid this guy from talking nonsense again, he said again: "Since you are eager to make contributions, let's talk about the affairs in front of you." If you don't have a plan to create, you don't have to regret yourself anymore, and you don't have to do it anymore! ”

"Since the servant has to use the king's affairs, he naturally sleeps all night and does not dare to slack off. Since His Highness asked, the servant dared to speak. ”

Guo Yuanzhen saw that His Royal Highness didn't have much patience to discuss the big plan with him, so he no longer dared to continue to be presumptuous, and hurriedly corrected his attitude.

His person was upright, but he really had a bit of bearing, and after a moment of silence, he continued: "The servant thinks that Xijing is in turmoil, and His Highness is really not suitable to come out lightly. The trouble of Tibet is indeed worrying, but even if His Highness comes here, he may not be able to help deeply, and there are even more worries that cannot be taken into account both inside and outside! ”

When Li Tong heard this, he was in a bad mood, and when he arrived in Longbian, he caused you trouble?

However, since it was a discussion of serious matters, he didn't let his emotions interfere, but just asked in a deep voice, "What do you say?" ”

"The Tibetan thief country, if it wants to take advantage of the outward direction, it is only out of Longbian and the Western Regions. If His Royal Highness does not go to Long, then nine points of this battle will be sent to Anxi, and once His Highness arrives, it is no longer possible to predict where the battle will be. The Longbian crowd was anxious, and His Royal Highness also saw it. The four towns have a huge military expenditure, and they urgently need to be meritorious, otherwise it will be even more unbelievable! ”

Guo Yuanzhen talked about serious things and invited him, but he didn't seem so annoying anymore.

But when Li Tong heard this, he was still a little puzzled, and continued to ask: "I naturally know the two-way exit of Tibet. But why do you say that if I ascend to Long, it will be difficult to predict? Could it be that Qinling still has to rely on me to establish its authority, so it will attack Longyou? ”

On this trip, Li Tong naturally went through some careful consideration. Aside from the need for inspections in the prefectures of Guannai Province, we have also considered the possible reaction of the Tibetan side.

He remembered that in the original history, soon after Wang Xiaojie recovered the four towns, Tubo continued to attack the Western Regions, hoping to recapture the four towns. Therefore, Guo Yuanzhen's analysis of the possibility that Tubo will attack the Western Regions is ninety percent, which is also more reliable.

After all, this time Datang's control of the four towns is very different, and the army is heavily guarded. Only by taking advantage of the new entry of the Tang army could it be possible for Tubo to recapture the Western Regions again. Otherwise, it will be difficult to wait for the Tang Army to gain a firm foothold.

But that was originally a situation that would have happened in history, but now, there have been successive turmoil in the Tang Dynasty, especially the abandonment of Zhou and the return to the Tang Dynasty, which is naturally an opportunity for those enemy countries to take advantage of. The Turkic Mo Si even personally led the army into the Kou, would the Tubo Tomb let go of this opportunity?

Although the hegemony of the Western Regions is important, the Tibetan army is also a guest army, and it does not have a home advantage. But here in Longyou, with Tubo taking Tuyuhun, it can already directly launch an attack on the Tang Dynasty, and such a choice is undoubtedly more in line with the interests of Tubo.

Like in history, Tubo took advantage of the outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion to first send troops to Longyou to cut off the Hexi Corridor, and then continued to use troops to the Western Regions.

Therefore, Li Tong felt that Tubo had a high chance of giving up the Anxi side this time and switching from Longyou to Kou, which was determined by the general environment of the game between the two countries. However, Guo Yuanzhen blamed Tubo's strategic choice on whether he ascended to Longlong or not, which made Li Tong a little unacceptable.

On Qinling has been famous for a long time, do you still expect to attack one of your juniors to establish prestige?

"Qinling is just a slave in the Fan Kingdom, how can he compete with His Highness!"

Guo Yuanzhen first slapped a sycophant that made Li Tong feel a little blushing, and then continued: "Tubo has been suffering for a long time, and if her husband wants to work, he will be the enemy. Therefore, the servants also visited the affairs of the Tibetan kingdom a lot. Lu Dongzan father and son successively gave the country, the people of the Tibetan country suffered for a long time, Tuyuhun homeland is its seal, if the attack on Longyou, all the benefits are owned by the Gar family.

The war of the whole country and the capital of one family, which its monarchs and ministers are not happy to see. Therefore, even if Qinling has the ambition to fight in Longyou, he may not be able to do it. Now His Royal Highness has come to Longbian in person, and with the wisdom of Qinling, he may trumpet that my Tang Dynasty is going to fight Tuyuhun again, forcing its monarchs and ministers to gather forces to attack Longyou. ”

Hearing Guo Yuanzhen's analysis, Li Tong really couldn't be calm, could it be that he really came to the wrong place this time?

From the perspective of the current situation of the Tang Dynasty, this time the battle with Tubo is naturally better than Longyou. One is not in the homeland, which can avoid local nuisance and intensification of various potential contradictions, and the other is that Anxi is building a new army, and the four towns really need a big victory to demonstrate their strategic value to put an end to domestic criticism.

According to Guo Yuanzhen, the contradiction between the Gar family and the domestic monarchy is even deep enough to affect the strategic choice of Tibet.

Li Tong still had reservations about this, so he turned to Liu Youqiu and the others, and asked: "The gap between the Tubo monarchs and ministers is already so profound?" ”

After Liu Youqiu heard this, he was silent for a moment, and then said: "What Guo Shenjun said is indeed reasonable. Since the beginning of Lu Dongzan, the great power of Tibet has been in the hands of the Gar family. Its country is cold and barren, the land has no abundant yield, but the Tugu muddy land is rich in water and grass, which can be beneficial and beneficial. Because it is the anger of the people, it is not a short year. Zampu is getting stronger, and the rift is especially deep. ”

When it comes to Tibet, we can't bypass the Gar family represented by Lu Dongzan's father and son. The entire history of Tibet is more than 200 years, but after the death of Songtsen Gampo, Guanglu Dongzan father and son played for nearly 50 years.

A Gar family is indeed a masterpiece of father and son, and the contribution made to Tibet cannot be overpraised. Second, after the death of Songtsen Gampo, Tubo succeeded to the throne one after another, and it was a state of disconnection and hang-up all the year round, which also made the monarch's power sluggish for a long time.

However, as the first dynasty to unify the plateau, Tubo naturally has more than one Ludongzan family in its country. The Gar family is a rising star in Tibet, and occupies the richest Tuyuhun hometown, so there are naturally many people in the country who are unhappy with their family.

As Guo Yuanzhen said, Tubo rose on the plateau and quickly grew into the biggest border trouble in the western part of the Tang Dynasty. Especially after the Battle of Dafeichuan, all those who were eager to make meritorious contributions regarded Tubo as an imaginary enemy.

Liu Youqiu is no exception, on the first day he became a member of the Yongwang Dynasty, he presented a copy of the Longshi Bian Lu that he wrote, which is a series of ideas for Tubo. Now it seems that that strategy is naturally a lot immature and ridiculous, and even Liu Youqiu feels ashamed when he thinks about it.

After being sent to Longyou by King Yong, Liu Youqiu also worked harder to collect information about Tubo, so he also had a deep understanding of the entanglement between the Gar family and the imperial power.

"The Tibetan Hao clan is not a short year to control Gar. As early as the second year of Longshuo, Tubo dismissed Lu Dongzan as the prime minister and wanted to seize his power. Lu Dongzan succeeded in counter-killing, reinstated as prime minister, and then he grew up in Tuguhun and did not dare to return to the Luosa royal city......"

When Li Tong heard this, he couldn't help but sigh with emotion, sure enough, any political struggle is dirty. The second year of Longshuo was 662 A.D., which was the most tense moment for Tubo to attack Tuyuhun, and Tuyuhun was destroyed by Tubo in the second year.

The political enemies of the Gar family chose to remove Lu Dongzan at this point in time, necessarily in order to pick peaches. Lu Dongzan conquered Tuyuhun for a long time after the town here, in addition to digesting the results of the battle, probably to avoid the political struggle in the country.

After the death of Lu Dongzan, his son Zan Xiruo succeeded to the great theory, presided over the overall situation in the bureau, and the second son Qinling and other pawn troops were outside, still holding great power. In the first year of the vertical arch, if he presided over the collection of materials in the country, he wanted to take advantage of the civil strife in the Tang Dynasty to rejuvenate the people of the country and cut off my Hexi. However, in this assembly, the nobles in the country lobbied the Zanxiruo tribe to attack and kill Zanxiruo, and Qinling then returned to the country to settle the chaos, because the Tang Dynasty was saved from border troubles......"

When Li Tong heard this, he couldn't help but be afraid. It was an eventful time in the pendulum year, the imperial throne in the imperial court was stacked, the northern Turkic Koubian, the Hequ Tiele Department rebelled, and Xu Jingye planned chaos in the country, which can be described as internal and external troubles, and chaos. At that time, in order to quell the rebellion, the imperial court also recalled the black tooth Changzhi, who was sitting in Heyuan, to the court, first quelled Xu Jingye's rebellion, and then attacked the Turks.

If it weren't for the turmoil in the country of Tubo at this time, if Tubo was really to attack this time, it would undoubtedly be a heavier blow to the Tang Dynasty.

At this time, Guo Yuanzhen didn't know what he thought, and suddenly laughed twice, and then found that everyone was looking at him, and he couldn't put away his smile, and said: "The Queen Mother of Tubo doesn't have the Lu clan, but she has a little Holy Emperor style, and the Gar clan is close to each other, and the Lu clan is vaguely in the matter." ”

Li Tong knew that this guy couldn't spit out ivory in his mouth, and after hearing this, he glared at him angrily, and motioned for Liu Youqiu to continue. Only by knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent can one seek war. Regarding the power struggle between the Tubo ministers and Zampu, although he knew that there was such a thing, he really didn't know the specific details.