With the 120,000 subordinate Sheron armed with the standard Tang Army, as well as the Annan Army that has received standard Tang Army combat training, Sun Xiangfu is not worried that Lu Dongzan will do things at all, not to mention the Gar clan, it is just a relatively primitive clan tribe, even if it is a group with a very long inheritance and a civilization level that is not lost to the Central Plains family, Sun Xiangfu is also confident that within a few years, it will be divided and disintegrated.

He is known as the existence of the killer of the family, and even the big families such as the five surnames and seven families in the Central Plains have collapsed and collapsed under his general means, and have reformed into family businesses that can be easily controlled by the imperial court, not to mention the Gar family that is mostly popular in the Tang Dynasty.

Of course, there are some things that Sun Xiangfu and Shelong actually can't talk about, and if they do, he won't understand too much, but just tell him, "The Geer clan tribe plays a pivotal role in Tubo, controlling nearly 20% of the entire population of Tubo.

Therefore, after that, there will definitely be more clans and tribes in Tubo to imitate him and follow the same path, and the people who come down again, even if there are many of them, you don't have to worry, take all the orders, the population, that is, the productivity, when they all come down, the place in Tubo will no longer have any war potential, and when the time comes, it will be time for me to really take control of the Tubo Plateau. ”

Hearing this, Shelong smiled honestly and said, "Hehe, I listen to you anyway, our current territory is so big, even if all the Tubo people come down, it is nothing at all." ”

Since the large-scale development of Yunnan, Shelong has the feeling of insufficient manpower of Li Tai before, and the transformation of the deep mountains and old forests here is huge, and his pressure is not small.

"Most of the Tubo people are not good at farming, and when they come down, it will not actually help much in the grain production of Nanzhong, and with their general level of civilization, it is difficult to do business for a while, and the merchants of the Tang Dynasty can easily make them lose their money, so at the very beginning stage, you can only let them sell their physical strength and do simple strength work······"

Here, when Sun Xiangfu was constantly explaining to Shelong how to settle the population of the Gar clan, in the city of broken leaves, Li Shimin had also met with Songtsen Gampo.

Songtsan Gampo, who had just reached the age of twenty, was naturally three points weaker in momentum in front of Li Shimin and all the Tang Dynasty ministers with a majestic face, even if he was wearing clothes made of silk cloth from the middle of Shu, but the bloated and wide robes did not add any image points to him, and the Tang Dynasty ministers in the hall were wearing a slim and straight clothes, which looked much more energetic than him.

After a salute, Li Shimin gave Songtsan Gampo a seat in the first place, since the construction of the Daming Palace, the Tang Dynasty has no habit of standing to speak and discuss matters whether it is in the court or in the usual office meetings of various departments.

"Songtsen Gampo, do you know the specific conditions for foreign nations to surrender to my Tang Dynasty and ask for annexation?" After Li Shimin's eyes signaled, Fang Xuanling took the lead in asking Songtsan Gampo.

Shangshu shot left and right, Fang Xuanling was more scheming, so he accompanied him, Wen Yanbo was not in good health and stayed in Chang'an Auxiliary Government, the former military department Shangshu Du Ruhui has retired to Shanyang to recuperate, Li Jing and Feng Ang are specifically managing the opening and enrollment of the Military Academy.

Therefore, the representative of the military is Hou Junji, and when Fang Xuanling opened his mouth to speak, he had already put on a look of not being angry and self-assured, as if Songtsen Gampo said something he didn't know, he was about to go crazy every minute and raise troops to destroy Tibet.

All the way from the barracks of the various group armies to the office hall of Li Shimin in the central government, Songtsen Gampo had already seen the strength of the Tang Dynasty in the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, as well as the strength of the equipment of the sergeants.

His Chinese level is not weak, and after hearing Fang Xuanling's question, after glancing at the momentum of Hou Junji and other military generals, he replied, "These Tang Dynasty have announced the world's foreign policy, and I naturally know it."

However, I think we can still negotiate in detail, after all, the reality is that no one outside the Tibetan Plateau is suitable for living on our Tibetan Plateau.

The territory of the Tibetan Plateau is no less than the two states of the Tang Dynasty, with a population of more than one million, and is divided and ruled by many different clans and tribes.

Therefore, I think that we should continue to maintain our autonomy in Tibet, just like the Xueyanta Khanate. ”

"Hehe, I'm afraid you don't know, in the past few years in my Tang Dynasty, how many businessmen have traveled to your Tubo Plateau, and they have already figured out the way to survive on the plateau.

In addition, let me tell you another news, Yi Nan Khan has been on the table, after his death, the Xue Yantuo Khanate was revoked, his two sons have accepted the canonization of the imperial court, to the local state and county officials, and the reason why he has not died until now is because I, the medical officer of the Tang Dynasty, is doing his best to heal him, otherwise, at the time of last year's sports conference, the Xue Yantuo Khanate would no longer exist. Hou Junji smiled a little contemptuously.

Before summoning him, Li Shimin and several important ministers had already expected that Songtsen Gampo must still have some beautiful illusions, and Hou Junji was the one who represented the military and shattered his illusions.

Of course, if Songtsen Gampo was a person who did not have a certain ability, it would be impossible to take the risk of coming to see Li Shimin in person, so Hou Junji's words just made him slightly stunned.

Soon, he organized the language again, "Occasionally, businessmen can go up to the plateau, but that is only a small phenomenon, and with the wealth of your Tang Dynasty now, a barren land like our Tubo Plateau has no value at all for you."

It's as if you have set the conditions for the Gentiles to submit to you, just to keep them out and not to make them a burden to you.

But I'm different in Tibet, because the position we are in is too important.

With the current territory of your Datang, as long as you hold the position we are in now, you basically have no worries about external troubles.

But if my Tubo does not surrender to you, it may affect the security of your three state roads and one large county in the Tang Dynasty, as far as I know, the troops you have arranged around our Tubo in these four places should exceed 200,000!

Based on the expenses of your Tang sergeants, these 200,000 troops, people eat horses and chew horses, and the money consumed every year is almost nearly 10 million yuan, which is more than five times the annual output of our Tubo.

If, Your Majesty the Emperor, you agree with my proposal to maintain autonomy and give me a little support, you will all be able to save all this money. ”

Songtsen Gampo's book, but really not read in vain, at least the brain is good, he has a thorough understanding of all aspects of himself and the Tang Dynasty, with the current salary of the Tang sergeant, the average calculation of officers and ordinary soldiers, it is almost three to four per person per month, 200,000 people, a month is more than 700,000, a year, it is more than 8 million.

This is only the cash salary paid to them, not counting their usual food, office expenses, clothes, equipment replacement, and the feeding and replacement of war horses that are almost equal to the number of soldiers.

That is to say, the border army of the Tang Dynasty has opened a military camp, and most of them can solve the problems of eating, raising horses, etc., otherwise, not to mention 10 million, 20 million is not necessarily enough, because the military training intensity of the Tang Dynasty is very high, and the equipment is all stainless steel equipment, which is expensive, and the cavalry has at least three horses per person, that is, infantry, and each person will be equipped with one horse.

And the reason why it is necessary to equip the army with so many horses is, of course, to ensure their mobility in battle.

Now Datang, there is no shortage of horses, there are Dingxiang Road, Ningchuan Road, Liaodong, Xue Yantuo, Yunnan West Grassland five large horse farms, the annual production of war horses, up to hundreds of thousands, not to mention the army, even the people, families with horses have reached more than thirty percent, because, with the horseshoe, the service life of a horse is as long as several decades, longer than the average life expectancy of people in this period, and Datang basically will not kill horses and eat meat.

Therefore, when Songtsen Gampo talked about money, some people were not happy, and the eldest grandson, who had been promoted to the deputy governor of Anxi, said, "We have a farmer in Datang, named Sun Zhengming, I believe you should know that he usually keeps in correspondence with me, and once said something in the letter, I agree very much, that sentence is 'If you have money, you can do whatever you want.'" ’

So! Don't talk to us about money, because it will scare you to death.

Do you know how much it cost us to build this concrete road from here to Guanzhong this year?

150 million pieces.

According to your calculations, this money can maintain the current military expenditure for the defense of your Tibetan Plateau for as long as fifteen years.

This is just one of the projects that my Datang is working on, if you count the overall, the money that my Datang spends every year can at least maintain this kind of military expenditure for twenty or thirty years, since you know the expenses we spend on supporting the sergeants, presumably, you should also know that what I said is not false at all. ”

All right! For a big empire that doesn't care about this economic loss at all, Songtsen Gampo's rhetoric just now seems very unconvincing.

However, he felt that even a rich country should not be so wasteful.

So he said, "It's better to save it than to waste it in vain, and in addition, the Tubo Plateau is indeed not suitable for the Han people to live, and for you, it's not even a chicken rib." ”

Changsun Chong smiled again, "Do you think that your Tubo has surrendered to my Datang, and these armies will be eliminated by my Datang?"

Tell you, this is impossible, whether there is Tibet or not, these sergeants will not be dismantled in my Datang, they will only change to a different place and continue to train, just like the current Anxi Dadu Protectorate, the various group armies trained here, plus the four major Anxi guards who guard the border of the four sides every day, the total strength is more than 500,000, my Datang has no war here at all, do you need to put so many troops here?

No, you don't.

However, we have never considered disarmament, but are considering increasing the number of troops, training more sergeants with strong combat effectiveness, and improving the national defense strength of our Datang.

In addition, you finally have one thing right just now, that is, you Tubo, for my Tang Dynasty, is not even a chicken rib, you want to submit to our kingdom more, and all the territories are better than your Tubo Plateau, so, three years ago, our Royal Highness the Crown Prince only asked you to nominally serve our Datang as the suzerain, and did not intend to actually have anything to do with you, it was you who took the initiative to come here and seek your Majesty's help and support.

In fact, if we want to take down your Tibet, there are many easy ways, we only need to issue a decree prohibiting trade, and you will be in chaos internally, and there is no need for me to use force in the Tang Dynasty.

Therefore, if you want to surrender, you can, according to the standards we set earlier, if you don't accept it, you just go back and forth, a place where you don't even have an output of two million a year, talk to me, I feel ashamed, and you have to talk to Your Majesty face to face, who gave you confidence? ”

The Dingxiang textile industry held by the eldest grandson Chong under his name, casually doing a business with the countries of the Western Regions, is millions of guan, which is higher than the total income of Tubo in a year, and his irony of Songtsan Gampo is not his deliberate bluff, but he really looks down on the output of Tubo, the court rules here, and for a long time in the future, I am afraid it will be upside down, and in later generations, this is the case.

Hearing his words, Li Shimin naturally held back a smile in his heart, but according to the negotiation strategy agreed before, he should continue to pretend to be cold and pretend not to care, and at this time, Fang Xuanling felt that the firewood had been added enough, and it was time to light the fire, so he gave Wang Deyong, who was accompanying him, a look.

He then spoke up, "Your Majesty, the time has come for the firearms battalion to try out the new weapons, do you want to go and see it now, or continue to discuss it here?" ”

"The affairs of Tubo, just do it according to the system, I, Datang, can't change the order for a Tubo, lose faith in the world, and set up a firearms camp shooting range! All of you can also come with me to have a look. ”

After that, Li Shimin got up and left, without looking at Songtsen Gampo, and several ministers present also followed him to the outside of the hall, although Songtsen Gampo still wanted to talk, but now that Li Shimin has left the scene, it will definitely not be possible to talk today.

So, he also got up, followed the flow of people out, all the way out of the hall, followed, and then, he followed to the firearms test site dozens of meters away from the meeting hall, the ghost made the gods, he followed a few more steps, and then, he actually followed up the camp unimpeded, this is a military equipment test site, don't look at it.

And when he followed up, Fang Xuanling, Changsun Chong and others, who were walking in front of him, hooked the corners of their mouths, and quickly hid their smiles again.