Chapter 213: The Threat of War
Lu Dongzan smiled bitterly: "Li Tanhua, I really found you in desperation, I hope you can ask your caravan to send us some grain to Tubo, and you have the final say on the price." Flash Dance paused and said: "I also want to ask Li Tanhua to play a concert, and ask the Tang Dynasty Emperor to reconsider the plan of harmony, as long as things can be done, I will definitely have a generous gift from Tibet." ”
"Hahahaha." Li Dongsheng laughed angrily: "What is my ability to make Your Majesty agree to the matter of peace and kiss as a small county magistrate, you can't help but think too highly of me." Grain is also a controlled commodity of Datang, and without the permission of the political affairs hall, not a single grain of grain can be transported, and I have no choice. However, for the sake of the people of Tibet, I can increase the purchase price of barley wine by another 20%, and you can go to other places to buy grain. ”
Lu Dongzan was almost fainted, you said it well, and the price was raised to let those Tubo nobles buy grain, not to mention that the country around Tubo has such a large amount of grain production, and money can't buy it. And now the price of barley wine has already excited those nobles, if you increase it by two percent, wouldn't those Tibetan nobles be even more crazy. The lives of slaves are all floating clouds, only money is real, so it is estimated that all the people of Tibet will be starved to death.
He said in a deep voice: "Li Tanhua, stay a line as a man, and see each other in the future." I admit that I made a mistake in thinking and caused such consequences, but the people of Tibet are innocent and deserve the right to live in peace! You are a scholar, you should know the meaning of the word ren, and you don't want to leave a reputation for this in history. Flash Dance "
Li Dongsheng is still like that: "Prime Minister, you are really embarrassed, I sympathize with the people of Tubo, but I can't help it." You see that I came up with an idea to help you get rich and caused trouble, who did I recruit to provoke whom, do you say you have made any money? These are all your internal affairs, and what role can I play in a small county order in a remote place. "Hehe, now you are still using this reputation to bind me, if I Li Dongsheng cared about reputation, I wouldn't have come up with this plan, why didn't you people think of other people's right to live in peace when they picked up knives to rob others?
Seeing that Li Dongsheng didn't enter the oil and salt, Lu Dongzan pretended to be pitiful, and his reputation was ineffective, and he also lost his patience: "Li Tanhua, why don't you agree, you also know that Tubo is a big country, if the people of Tubo don't have food, then Zampu can only lead the warriors to use scimitars and spears to fight for the living space of the Tubo people with blood and war!" ”
"The big minister is really powerful, pretending to be pitiful and not achieving it to threaten. Your own land and grain in Tubo have been robbed by you nobles, and in order to divert the contradictions, you have come to rob the land of our Han people? Didn't you just say that everyone has the right to live in peace? Why is it back now? Li Dong stood up angrily: "Great Minister, you are so forgetful, you have forgotten about the affairs of Songzhou City, right?" Flash Dance I'm here to give you a clear word, no matter how martial you are, let's continue, friends come and have good wine, and jackals come with shotguns. If you're not convinced, go ahead and give it a try. When you entered the city, you saw the head of the person at the door, so go and inquire first. ”
Seeing that Li Dongsheng turned around to leave, Lu Dongzan took another breath: "Li Tanhua, do you think I am willing to start a war?" The current situation is unbearable to me, if Zampu can't suppress those greedy nobles, war will definitely break out. ”
"Then just give it a try." Li Dongsheng stared at Lu Dongzan tightly: "I have been a country in the Tang Dynasty for so many years and have fought so many battles, and I have never been afraid of threats. The war can be started by you, but it is not up to you to have the final say when the time is over, you don't think that we can't do anything about you on the plateau, what kind of mountain god's curse is a strange word, I solemnly warn you, you can't afford this thing. After saying that, he turned around and left, he sneered in his heart, this guy actually threatened and intimidated Datang, really Datang is a vegetarian. In history, the Tang Dynasty may not have many advantages in the face of the Tibetan cavalry, but now that the grenade is in hand, the advantage of the Tibetan cavalry has basically disappeared. The 8,000 heads of the invincible Turkic wolves under Gaochang City have proved all this, and he still thinks it was before?
Lu Dongzan saw Li Dongsheng gone, his face was ugly, now the situation within Tubo is very tense, in the past, Zampu used the dividends obtained from waging war to unite all strata of Tubo, and this dividend made the nobles in Tubo get great benefits, so they were unprecedentedly united, and Tubo's combat effectiveness was particularly strong.
But now Songtsen Gampo is the nobles of them who distribute food to those slaves, which is equivalent to cutting meat on these nobles, which can never be agreed. Songtsen Gampo could use his prestige to suppress the power of the Tibetan aristocracy, but if he did so, a civil war would immediately break out, and the powerful Tibet would fall apart in an instant.
He grabbed the wine glass weakly, and a guard next to him whispered: "Minister, this guy is very hostile to us, do you want me to go... ”
Lu Dongzan shook his head and said: "Use your brain, this is Gaochang City, it is his territory, and I don't know how many people are staring at us." People will know what you're doing right away. ”
"So that's it?" The guard was very unwilling: "Now the court is in the court... ”
"Alas, I didn't talk to him, let me go to Chang'an and talk about it, where to find the ministers to go to the concert and prepare more gifts, I don't believe that I haven't seen the money." Lu Dongzan also wants to start a war directly, it used to be like this, it was good if he didn't grab anything directly, but now Datang has suddenly become so strong, it is estimated that if he can't grab it, he will collapse his teeth. Even if he was very witty, he didn't know what to do. He hated himself for how he fell for Li Dongsheng's poisonous scheme, and he also hated the nobles in the country for asking for money and not dying...
Coming out of the restaurant, Li Dongsheng got on the horse coldly, glanced back at the restaurant, and galloped away with the guards. The more he thought about it, the more angry he became, he still didn't hurt them in Songzhou, and he even dared to issue war threats.
He knows that Tubo is a big country, but it is not a strong country at this time, and the real strength is after Princess Wencheng entered Tibet, after taking the advanced technology of Datang's craftsmen, Langzhong, farmers, etc., but now that history has changed, it is completely impossible to be friendly, Datang still has firearms, and he has made tea, sugar and other inputs for Li Shimin, it can be said that the current Datang wants money and money, and wants strength and strength at all. If he wants to fight, then fight! I don't know what happened to the mountain troops that I suggested where to train in Songzhou? When the time comes, I will go directly to Lhasa.
In this way, the rise of Tibet in history led to the fall of the four towns of Anxi, the Tang Dynasty lost control of the entire Western Regions, and the Central Plains Dynasty and the Western Regions were all cut off.