Chapter 212: Underestimating the bottom line
They have already prepared for Li Dongsheng's whimsy, but it would be too wicking for you to make such an accurate detailed description of something that you have never seen before.
Li Dongsheng is so thick-skinned now, he said directly: "Xiucai knows the world without going out, you still have to read more books!" Daniel Zhang and Xi Junmai were dumbfounded by him, there is no way, who let himself read less.
"What about these Hu people?" Xi Jun bought it.
"What should I do?" Li Dongsheng doesn't care about these guys now: "It's better to follow the old way, beat them up and throw them out." After a pause, he said, "Give them some money, we have brought everything to eat, and it will not be good to starve to death." ”
When Xi Jun bought them and was about to go out, Li Dongsheng suddenly said: "Find a place for me to lock them up, let them learn to speak Chinese, I want to ask them where they came from." ”
Li Dongsheng spent the rest of his time on cultivating sweet potato seedlings, and he had to go to see it every day, and as soon as he came out of the yard on this day, he received a message from the concierge: "Tubo Prime Minister Lu Dongzan asks to see." ”
"Why is he here? Is it a formal request? "Lu Dongzan is too sensitive, Li Dongsheng doesn't dare to see him alone in the Western Regions.
He reported his true identity. Flash Dance "
"Then let him visit Tsugo-sama first, and then come to me." Li Dongsheng still has to maintain the order of this officialdom, although Qiao Shiwang is easy to speak, it does not mean that he likes to be despised. Did you, a Tibetan minister, look down on me when he visited my subordinates first?
Lu Dongzan ate the closed door soup and did not come back until three days later. Li Dongsheng received him in the restaurant outside, and Li Xia couldn't tell the melon field, now everything is in the light, Tubo and the Tang Dynasty do not have such a good relationship in history at all, and the relatives were fooled, so they were given some Buddhist scriptures that they could read and not eat, and some monks went to talk about the scriptures, and the benefits were not at all.
Lu Dongzan was able to appear in Gaochang at this time, which shows that he came to Li Dongsheng, who came for something and went directly to the county government to find him, did not look for Qiao Shiwang, and must have something to ask for himself.
I haven't seen him for more than a year, Lu Dongzan is a little older than when he was in Chang'an, and he is a little darker, it seems that he has not been canonized by the Tang Dynasty, his life is not too happy, and his face has a look of wind and dust.
Li Dongsheng picked up the wine glass with a smile: "Come on, come on, make this glass first, welcome to Gaochang from afar, it's not easy to meet acquaintances thousands of miles away from home." Cheers! ”
The two touched a glass and drank it all. Flash Dance
Li Dongsheng beckoned Lu Dongzan to taste the delicacies on the table and asked, "Why did the prime minister come so far, the road is not easy to walk, right?" ”
Lu Dong sighed in admiration: "There is no way, I just work hard." Where to get out of the Tianshan Mountains, the road is really difficult to walk. Li Dongsheng knew that this is not easy to walk, even in later generations, there will often be accidents, Lu Dongzan, as the minister of a country, risked his life to take this road to the Western Regions, there must be something unknown to everyone.
Li Dongsheng is also a chicken thief now, knowing that Lu Dongzan is looking for him to have something, he began to politely play tricks with a vain head, one side is holding back something in his heart, and the other side is knowing that the other party has something to do and just endure not asking, anyway, you beg me, see who can calm down.
In the end, Lu Dong sighed in admiration, stood up and lifted the wine jug to pour wine for Li Dongsheng personally.
Li Dongsheng was taken aback: "Prime minister, don't dare to be this!" "He is equivalent to the prime minister of Tibet, and he is also a very popular minister, so he put down his body so much to pour wine for his junior.
Seeing Li Dongsheng's surprised movements, Lu Dong sighed in admiration, pressed him to his seat and said with a wry smile: "I'll tell you the truth, Li Tanhua, I'm in Tubo now I'm in trouble and want to ask Li Tanhua for help." I hope that your lord will save the people of Tibet in large numbers. ”
"Haha, Daexiang is joking again." When Li Dongsheng heard this, he hurriedly played Tai Chi first: "I am a small county commander in the Tang Dynasty, how can He De go to save the people of Tubo." "Just kidding, I'm an official of the Tang Dynasty, even if I want to save people, it's the Han people who will be saved. Your Tibetan people have a Mao relationship with me, and we just finished the war some time ago and died so many people, everyone's accounts haven't been settled yet, and now you actually let me save your people?
Lu Dongzan's words have reached this point, and he can only open up and say: "This still has to start with barley wine... ”
It turned out that Lu Dongzan did not complete the task of making peace in Datang, and in order to make a difference, he could only promote the brewing of barley wine in Tubo, indicating that he had also found a way to make everyone rich in Datang, so as to alleviate the dissatisfaction of various nobles with him.
As a result, the effect of barley wine is very good, Li Dongsheng has ordered the purchase of all the barley wine produced in Tibet at a high price, and now those nobles in Tibet have all made a fortune, and countless wealth of the Tang Dynasty has poured into Tibet! Those aristocrats were all crazy, and no one expected that the money would come so easily. Being able to farm at home can make steady money, who wants to go to the battlefield and work hard?
Lu Dongzan originally thought that in order to make money, everyone would definitely open up more barley and plant barley, so that the grain yield would be high, and the life of the Tibetan people would be better, but he still underestimated the bottom line of the nobles in front of huge interests, and those Tibetan nobles took all the barley to make wine, and the slaves at home could only eat one meal a day, eating bran and wild vegetables, and there was hardly a grain of barley on the market for sale. They would rather starve slaves to death than use barley to make food for them, and in just one winter, countless people in Tibet died of cold and starvation.
Lu Dongzan's face was sad: "Now they have gone crazy, and if Zanpu wants to use force against them, they are not willing to take out the food." He hasn't said it yet, there are many factions within Tibet, and the social classes are much clearer than those of the Tang Dynasty, this is a serfdom society, there are very few commoners, and they are all the private property of the nobles, which leads to extremely serious social division. Even if Songtsen Gampo has a strong wrist, Tubo is not his own decision.
Li Dongsheng listened to the current situation in Tubo, and the happiness in his heart did not need to be elaborated, this was a poisonous plan he came up with by himself, and it really worked, and he forcibly suppressed the joy in his heart, he pretended to be at a loss and said: "Daxiang, this is your internal matter in Tubo, does it have anything to do with me?" I, Datang, have never interfered in the internal affairs of other countries, and I am soft-spoken, so I am afraid that my help to you will be limited. ”
Lu Dongzan looked at Li Dongsheng's innocent expression, and really wanted to smash him with a punch to hit him with peach blossoms, although he knew that Li Dongsheng took the initiative to give him this barley wine recipe and was not at ease, but he really didn't expect the consequences to be so serious, and those nobles were really willing to starve to death rather than give up their own grain to make wine.