Two hundred meters in the air, enough for the people in the hanging basket to look down on the entire Chang'an City, of course, not all the people in the hanging basket, have the mood and courage to lean over to look at the scene, praise Xi Ruo and Qinling's eyes, they only dare to look at the ground in the distance, this is completely different from their feeling of looking at the ground on the cliff of the Tubo Plateau, their feet can't step on the ground, they always feel soft.

Li Chengqian's face was full of appreciation, and after glancing at the night scene of Chang'an City, he said to the two brothers who were worried in his heart, "Lone summoned you today to say three things. ”

"His Royal Highness the Prince, please speak." Seeing that Li Chengqian was getting to the point, Zan Xiruo hurriedly wiped the cold sweat off his forehead with his sleeve, and forcibly suppressed the uncomfortable feeling in his heart and answered.

"We, Datang, can meet your request here, give you 100,000 sets of Confucian classics, and even send some people to Tubo to teach your people the content of these classics and help your people improve their wisdom.

However, you Tubo must first recognize the status of our Tang Dynasty suzerain, and Zampu succeeds to the throne, and the canonization of our Tang Emperor and the number of military formations must be reported to our Tang Dynasty for approval, and without the permission issued by our Tang Dynasty, it is strictly forbidden to go out of the territory of Tubo and go to the territory of any other country. Li Chengqian, who was not majestic, said imposingly.

"Okay, I can agree to these three conditions of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince on behalf of Zampu." Zan Xiruo replied without thinking about it.

Hearing Zan Xiruo's answer, Li Chengqian sneered and said, "Let's just say that you Tubo people don't have good brains, so you should study more!" What Lone just said is just the first condition. ”

When Zan Xiruo heard this, his face was slightly embarrassed, he thought that he had taken advantage of something! Because for him, the few problems that Li Chengqian said just now are actually just one problem, and he listens to Datang.

And he agreed so quickly, also because Tubo didn't care at all when he dealt with this problem, as long as they got what they wanted, they wouldn't care what agreement they signed with Datang! Honesty and trustworthiness, that is the rule that you Han people talk about, they Tubo people, but there is no such rule, when it is time to go down to fight the grass valley, they will still come down from the plateau, and die in the process of plundering, it is better than starving to death.

"Your Royal Highness the Crown Prince, please continue." He was not afraid of Li Chengqian's praise for similar conditions, ignoring Li Chengqian's sarcasm and giving up again.

Li Chengqian maintained his aura and said, "This second article is that you want to allow my Tang merchants to enter your Tubo Plateau to do business, and in addition to providing them with road guidance and necessary protection, they are not allowed to collect any taxes. ”

"His Royal Highness the Prince, this seems to be a bit too much! Your merchants in the Tang Dynasty are treacherous, using only a small amount of silk, cloth, or spirits to exchange the cattle, sheep and horses on which we rely for survival. For this point, there is no need to praise Xiruo, and the younger Qin Ling retorted.

"You don't understand this, it is precisely because you have levied heavy taxes that the people in your country buy these goods with their own output, the price is high, and you don't want to think about it, the merchants sell goods to your Tubo Plateau, they themselves take a great risk, and the goods have not been sold! I have to pay you a high tax first, so that nine out of ten merchants are unwilling to do business on your Tibetan plateau, and the remaining one, because it is an exclusive business, will open as high as the price is.

And if you officials are willing to come out to lead the way for the merchants, ensure their safety, and do not charge any taxes, I think that the merchants of the Tang Dynasty will definitely be willing to go to your Tubo Plateau to do business, so that there will be more goods going up, and the price will naturally drop.

As long as you agree to this, the goods delivered to your Tubo Plateau every year will increase by at least ten times, and the price will be reduced by at least five times, among them, such as cloth for warmth, and grain that can help you survive the cold winter, there will definitely be a lot, you say, is it cost-effective to levy a little bit of tax, or is it cost-effective to buy more than five times the scarce materials at the same price? ”

Zanxiruo and Qinling are not stupid, what Li Chengqian said is also very easy to understand, after listening to his words, the eyes of the two brothers suddenly lit up, Li Chengqian knew that they were enlightened.

Why does the Tibetan Plateau continue to plunder outward?

The reason is the same as that of the previous Turks, their output is too small, especially in terms of food and clothing.

Although the plateau is large, but the valley suitable for planting barley and wheat is just like that, there is no way to solve the problem of cattle and sheep wintering with greenhouses like the Turks, every winter is a survival test for them, so when the population develops to a certain size, there will inevitably be problems in the supply of resources, and the rulers are no longer willing to fight out, but also to fight out, or that sentence, come out to rob, be killed by others, it is better than starving to death on the plateau.

When talking about market economy regulation and control with a backward civilization, they usually treat it as if they were listening to a book from heaven, but fortunately, Li Chengqian's speech was relatively shallow, and the two brothers began to use Tibetan to sum up.

The reason why they want to sum up is because this article is not like the previous one, it is a fictitious one, they take the book, go to the plateau, they can not admit it, this article is real, it will be done immediately, and it involves the issue of territorial opening to the outside world, and the reason why the two brothers decided to agree to Li Chengqian is also very simple, there are too few Han people who can withstand altitude sickness, even if the passage in and out is open to them? They can only have a small number of people to go up, and it is impossible to organize a large-scale army to go up.

In the end, Zanxiruo replied to Li Chengqian, "His Royal Highness the Prince, I can also agree to this condition on behalf of Zan Pu." ”

Li Chengqian nodded with a smile, and his aura was even more sufficient, "Very good, then, next, I will tell you about the third condition."

I, Datang, have no interest in your cattle, sheep, and horses on the Tubo Plateau, because we have northern pastures, overseas, and Australian pastures, and in the future, our beef and mutton will be so much that we can't eat them at all.

Therefore, you need to take some other things to pay tribute to my Datang, such as herbs that can cure diseases, or rare minerals, every year, with one hundred camels of our designated medicinal materials, two hundred camels of rare minerals, as tribute!

Of course, we will not accept your medicinal herbs and minerals in vain, and we will give you food and cloth in multiple amounts, which you urgently need as gifts. If you have excess output in these areas, I believe that the merchants of Datang are also willing to invest in the acquisition. ”

After Li Chengqian's third condition was finished, no matter how Zanxiruo and Qinling listened, they felt that they had taken advantage.

First of all, they Tubo people do not know how to concoct medicinal materials, smelting technology, and they are also very backward, with these things that can not be eaten and clothed, or to help survival, in exchange for multiple of food, cloth, this kind of Tubo view, is a strategic material things, they think it is too cost-effective, they even think that this is a manifestation of the Tang Dynasty's face, because, every year to pay tribute, in the Central Plains culture, is a kind of deferential behavior.

Moreover, one camel is only 400 catties, and one hundred camels of medicinal materials are only 40,000 catties, which is not much.

Two hundred camel mines are simpler, because that thing is already heavy, just a pile, enough to hold two hundred camels, if you use it to exchange for four hundred camels of cloth, then the value is considerable.

"His Royal Highness the Prince, I can agree to these three conditions on behalf of Zampu, but can you also agree to one condition for us." Zan, who did not show the joy of taking advantage, said again.

"You probably want me to release your father and a Tibetan general! This is not impossible, but we need to wait for this kind of trade and tribute, stable for three years before talking, if after three years, there are any changes in trade, or tribute, we can negotiate again, then whether the negotiation is successful or not, we will release them, and if in these three years, you Tubo people regret and do something, then, their heads, will immediately land. ”

The momentum shown by Li Chengqian's words is completely undeniable, and he instantly calmed the Zanxiruo brothers, they don't know that Li Chengqian is not only a prince, but also a very high-level actor.

After the two brothers looked at each other, they finally nodded with a bitter face and agreed, the current Lu Dongzan is too important to their Gar family, without his prestige, the slave leaders under his vassal do not listen to their two brothers at all, even if they agree to the conditions proposed by Li Chengqian, the interests of Tubo may be damaged, but for the interests of their Gar family, they also need to compromise with Li Chengqian to ensure the safety of Lu Dongzan.

Because, as the most powerful family in Tibet, there is also a problem of distribution of interests between them and Zanpu Songtsen Gampo, in their eyes, Lu Dongzan's life must be higher than the interests of Songtsen Gampo, they are not as harmonious as they seem on the surface, and Qinling died in the hands of Songtsen Gampo's great-grandson crossbow Si Lang a few decades later.

The reason why he waited for more than half a month to deal with the affairs of Tubo was naturally because he wrote to ask Sun Xiangfu, so in the next play, Li Chengqian also chatted with the Zanxiruo brothers in a casual way, saying a lot of things that seemed to help them develop, but in fact realized the long-term layout of the Tang Dynasty for Tubo.

For example, Li Chengqian asked his brothers to open guest houses for rest on several roads into Tibet, and provide some accommodation services, so that they could earn money from the Tang Dynasty passing merchants, and after they went back, if they really did what Li Chengqian said, it would indeed bring certain benefits to their own family, but with this kind of convenient service, more merchants would enter the plateau, and who would ultimately benefit, it is difficult to say, at least in the short term, Datang can get more of what they want from the plateau.

Moreover, over time, this situation will eventually turn the Tubo Plateau into a place where merchants who have lost the Tang Dynasty will be chaotic in an instant, and finally achieve the goal of letting the Tang Dynasty enter the plateau.

According to the statistics of later generations, there are more than 3,000 kinds of Tibetan medicine in China, among them, there are more than 360 kinds of common medicines with larger outputs, and the efficacy and value of these medicines are relatively high, such as safflower, comfrey, rhubarb, codonopsis, fennel, scopole, etc., which can be seen almost everywhere on the plateau of this era.

If, when their people knew that a pound of these things could be exchanged for a few catties of grain in the Tang Dynasty, then how could they not frantically collect them and replace them with merchants?

Of course, they will not let go of such a good thing as Cordyceps that can be exchanged for 100 catties of grain for one catty, but when one day, because of the bad relationship between Tubo Zampu and Datang, so that all people can't use these things to exchange food with Datang's businessmen, they only need to provoke a little bit, and it is estimated that they will rise up.

Cutting off people's money is like killing their parents, and cutting off the food that people depend on for survival is an enmity that they don't share, and at that time, whoever can fill their stomachs, they will listen to whom.

Sun Xiangfu didn't know that Li Chengqian had completed the task in accordance with the strategy he had discussed with the eldest grandson Wuji, and he was now a little depressed by a letter.

This letter was forwarded from Lingnan, and the person who sent this letter was Sinkni, the prince of the Vaanaby Kingdom, that is, the Indian brother-in-law bought by Xi Jun, and the content of the letter was naturally a plea for help, because his father, that is, Xi Junmai's father-in-law, Shansi, was robbed on the way back to China from participating in the Dingxiang Sports Conference, and those people now want to overthrow the power of the Vaanaby Kingdom.

With less than 20,000 troops, the Vaanaby Kingdom could not resist fifty or sixty thousand miscellaneous armies from various countries at all, relying on the warships supported to them by Lingnan and the continuous consumption of soldiers' lives, they could hold out for a month or two at most, because, before, all their fortifications were used to resist the Tianzhu Kingdom attacking from the north by land, and these robbers had quite good water combat capabilities.

Without thinking too much, Sun Xiangfu also guessed that this ragtag army was the remnants of Wang Hao's strength, and when Feng Ang transferred the letter to Sun Xiangfu, he had actually sent his subordinate naval army to go on the expedition.

However, Li Shimin's newly built navy was not under his control, so all he could mobilize was his original warships and more than 30,000 naval officers and soldiers who were now in Lingnan.

After reading the letter, Sun Xiangfu didn't think much about it, and then summoned Zhang Ke to instruct, "You give me the fastest speed to catch up with Zhao Long, tell him, let him give me the remnants of Wang Hao's forces in the Wa Kingdom, Yizhou Island, and Luzon Island, all of which will be wiped out, and the logistics supply of those miscellaneous armies will be cut off." ”

The overseas exploration ships are all large steel ships, equipped with quasi-military equipment, with very strong foreign combat capabilities, and more than four months should be enough for Zhao Long and them to go all the way from the waters of the Japanese country to the coast of India.

And this is also an opportunity to clear out the remnants of Wang Hao's forces, lest Feng Ang be blamed by Li Shimin for this matter later, after all, it is impossible to hide the transfer of tens of thousands of troops in Lingnan from Li Shimin. ()

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