0677 Tea and Horse Trading, Xikang for the country
Although there are also ways to learn how to govern Tibet in history, Li Tong's idea also deeply considers the background of the current era.
At present, the game relationship between the Tang Dynasty and Tubo, or between Daxingtai and Tubo, cannot completely gain the upper hand, so there is no need to expect that the upper echelons of the Tubo elite will cooperate and vigorously promote the Fa through the official.
Historically, Buddhism was able to occupy a mainstream position in the field of Tibetan religion, which was also closely related to the centralization process of Zampu. Without the full support of those in power, large-scale construction of religious sites and large-scale preaching and preaching would not have been possible.
This is also one of the reasons why Li Tong chose to start with Tibetan women, who are relatively more emotional and more receptive to this kind of scripture lectures. This can be clearly felt from the state of the Tang Dynasty, the female Tai half-Buddhist disciple of the Inner Garden, even if she is simple and fast, she must worship the Buddha first.
Moreover, women's consumption outlook should be passionate, and the requirements for the actual rate of return are not too high. Li Tong's grandfather and his grandmother are both losers, but his grandfather Emperor Gaozong's squandering of materials is mainly in expanding the territory, as for his grandmother, she is born and poor, as long as I feel it, don't you think.
Fortunately, Li Tong turned the tables early, otherwise the construction of the Shendu Luoyang still had to be built, such as the famous Tianshu and Songshan Sanyang Palace, which had not had time to be built, and the martial arts overturned.
Of course, if Li Tong's plan is implemented and how effective it will be, there is another key factor, that is, the proportion of Tibetan women in the control of family property. This is also one of the reasons why Li Tong plans to go to Tibet as a boxer, to improve the family status and property control rights of Tibetan women as much as possible.
Why Sun Bo became a feminist society, even Ye Alidu is vague, but one thing is certain, that is, although Sun Bo has been merged by Tubo to become Sun Boru, the status of women in the old customs is still not low, and many small families still regard the housemother as the ethical core and property core of the family.
Although Sun Bo was also based on agriculture and animal husbandry, his attitude towards foreign exchanges was more positive than that of Tubo itself, and he was also the main object of Tang Bo's trade. Moreover, in foreign trade, Sun Bo also has an advantage, that is, the technology is relatively developed.
For example, the felt tent fabrics and gold and silver products in the Tubo Kingdom, and even some ordnance were made by Sun Bo.
The level of armor forging in Tibet is not inferior to that of the Tang Dynasty, and its technical sources are diverse, and Sun Bo is also an important source of technology.
As for Princess Wencheng's entry into Tibet, she brought a large number of craftsmen, so she made Tubo Jiajian sharp and attacked the Tang Dynasty. Those who hold this argument are probably similar to the street women who believe that the bedside table of the queen mother in the palace is full of brown sugar.
Although Princess Wencheng's hiding, although it was greatly exaggerated in later generations, it was only a surprise in the Tang Dynasty's pro-policy at that time. I don't know how many barbarians have to marry the daughters of the Tang Dynasty, even Murong Zhong, the king of Tuyuhun, whose mother is the princess of Honghua of the Tang Dynasty, is also the son-in-law of the Li family.
If the princess of the Tang Dynasty is with her, she will bring a large number of material craftsmen, and Tuyuhun will be able to be wiped out by Tubo's sudden face by the pro-Tang Dynasty?
It is nothing more than that later Tubo took advantage of the civil strife in the Tang Dynasty to cut off Longyou, which caused a lot of trouble, so that some conspiracy theorists demonized this incident and his relatives.
In the First Battle of Qinghai, the Tang army seized a large number of Tibetan utensils, and Li Tong also compared a few physical objects, which were still quite different from the Tang army's equipment in terms of shape, material and craftsmanship.
Although Sun Bo's customs are heavy on women, Tubo itself is different. Not to mention that compared with the Tang Dynasty, even compared with Zhangxiong and Sun Bo in the same period, Tubo is a representative of barbarism, and obtaining material resources through conquest is the main source of his livelihood.
Moreover, there were almost no natural people in Tibet, either the lords of the states or the slave households directly under the royal court. Although under the reform of Lu Dongzan's father and son, Tubo also carried out some household compilation policies, dividing Yong and Gui, but in essence, it still provided production and military services for its lords, and did not have an independent legal identity, so naturally there were no issues such as family status and property control.
Therefore, Tubo itself is not listed by Li Tong as a preacher for the time being, and he naturally does not have such noble international humanitarian sentiments and struggles for the liberation of Tubo serfs.
After so many years, those serfs are not instigated by external forces, and people can only help themselves and God will help them. Even if you want to do it, you have to do it yourself by the Tubo people.
No matter how demagogic the propaganda of the scriptures is, the living always have to dress and eat in the world. No matter how clever the Dharma is, the only thing that can protect you is the next life, and you will have to suffer in this life. If you want the Tubo people in the Eastern Regions to make people, of course, you must also have the capital to make people.
Therefore, in addition to the spread of Buddhism, Li Tong also planned to export certain technologies to the Tubo people in the Eastern Regions, such as labor-intensive weaving and other light industries.
Sun Boben has technical reserves, and the felt tents produced supply most of the needs of Tubo, but the profit in this regard is not high, after all, Tubo is a group of poor, you don't give it and grab it, what can you expect to be a fair trade with a clear price.
Since Sun Bo is about to join the Tang Dynasty, it is also necessary to support him in commerce and trade. In the future, Li Tong planned to come forward from Xingtai to organize businessmen to increase the purchase of such products in the Sun Bo area, and force Sun Bo to expand production through market demand.
Sun Bo is located in an area where the Tang Dynasty cannot directly target the troops, and it is only based on military competition, and it does not have an advantage in the competition with Tubo. However, if through commercial means, the ten Tibetans are not the opponents of the Tang Dynasty.
At present, due to the disagreement between the Tibetan monarchs and ministers, coupled with the emergence of such a variable as Ye Ali, Sun Bo's Eastern Regions have temporarily separated from the Tubo order, which is a good opportunity for the Tang Dynasty to take advantage of the situation.
One of the more important factors why the plateau regime has a strong dependence on the lord is that the production environment is very difficult and the production conditions are very harsh, and only by gathering together can we fight against all kinds of natural and man-made disasters. Therefore, the lords do not need to have much clever ruling technology, as long as they control the limited production resources, the people will naturally gather and not disperse.
In this regard, the distribution of natural resources was not friendly enough to the rulers of the Central Plains Dynasty.
Everywhere there was land available for cultivation, and the living people could be fed as long as they worked diligently, and the living conditions of the individual were far superior to those of the barbarians. Therefore, the Central Plains Dynasty needed more clever and in-depth institutional exploration and construction in order to effectively control the land and population.
Improve the business environment in the Sunbo area, so that they are no longer limited to the original agricultural and animal husbandry production, and even the business income has become their main source of income.
In this way, the subordinate relationship between the lord and the lord can be untied to a certain extent, and the people can live without the means of production provided by the lord, and even directly cultivate a group of city-state citizens.
In a small way, this can weaken the resistance of the Sun Bo people to the infiltration of the Tang Dynasty, and in a large way, it is equivalent to directly cutting off Sun Bo's Eastern Regions from the Tubo ruling model, and it will be much more difficult for the Tubo to occupy and integrate it by force after the Tubo.
This whole set of strategies was not created by Li Tong, but came from the Pingkang Three Strategies of Zhao Erfeng, the governor of Sichuan in the late Qing Dynasty, and the idea of making the Kham region west of the Yalong River as an independent political unit of Xikang.
Among them, taking advantage of the geographical advantages of the Kham region in the tea and horse trade and vigorously developing industry and commerce is a foundation for the independent establishment of the Xikang region. However, it is a pity that the international situation and the domestic environment at that time did not provide time for the implementation of this idea. It was not until the Republic of China period that Xikang became a political entity thanks to the efforts of the Sichuan warlord Liu Wenhui.
Of course, the current situation in Tang Fan is not enough to imagine things so far away in the future. However, the division of Kang and Tibet is undoubtedly an important idea for running southwest China.
The game with Tubo is a long-term process for Datang. Previously, due to the strategic trade-offs of the Tang Dynasty, the invasion of Tuyuhun by Tubo was not faced in time, which made the Tang Dynasty lose the lead in the subsequent game, so that in the entire Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty and Tubo fought around Tuyuhun's hometown, and still did not completely return to the old situation in the Yonghui period.
Once the Anshi Rebellion broke out, the tragedy of Tubo attacking Longyou occurred, making the west of Longguan no longer owned by the Tang Dynasty. And Tubo has been committing crimes year by year, and it has become a nightmare for emperors after the Middle and Tang Dynasty.
At present, in the competition for the Qinghai region, Daxingtai has obtained a good starting point. Now that he has the opportunity to directly influence the Sun Bo region, and he also took the initiative to hand over the knife when the Tubo monarchs and ministers were in trouble, Li Tong certainly wouldn't miss it.
Although he would not directly send troops to occupy the eastern region of Tibet, he could use various means to make it sleep with the native Tibetans, and eventually separate it from the ruling system of Tibet, making this region an outpost to guard against Tibet and deter the Southern Zhao.
The propaganda of Buddhism and the co-optation of commerce and trade are all conventional business methods, but they are still not enough to show Li Tong's preferential treatment and return for the princess of the Tibetan Kingdom, Ye Ali.
He wants to build this princess into an iconic figure of all kinds of internal investment, Guo Yuanzhen's words are waiting for the opportunity to wait for the infighting of the Tubo monarchs and ministers, and then use the name of the Tubo princess to interfere in the civil strife in Tubo, although this idea is good, but it is still a little conservative.
What is the princess of Chizun in the Eastern Regions, Li Tong doesn't care, since this princess has already surrendered to him, then he is ready to directly canonize this princess as the king of Xikang County, with Sun Bo's Kangyanchuan as its capital, and establish a vassal state directly led by Xingtai. This served as a transition and eventually established formal state and county control.
The Sita Noke family was never the lord of the plateau of the Mandate of Heaven, but because of its arrogance and domineering, he humiliated the tribes, and after unifying the plateau, he brought only war and suffering to the plateau. In that case, why stick to such a choice?
Of course, now is not the time to directly add the conferral, and it is necessary to wait until Kang Yanchuan has the prototype of a religious and commercial center in the Eastern Regions of Tubo before he can be directly separated from the Tubo realm.
Maybe by then, Li Tong will really have the formal power to confer the monarch of Fanbang. As for now, while creating a life experience for this princess, he is playing tricks with the court, asking for money, and you can't take it away!