Tanggula Mountain, is the first major difficulty in Tibet, although the mountain pass slope is gentle, but the altitude is more than 5,000 meters, even in March, it is more than ten degrees below zero, the weather is still sunny a moment ago, but after a burst of colorful clouds drifted over, hail instantly smashed down, suddenly, the team was miserable.

"Husband, how did the Tubo people survive in such a place?" Yu Xiu'er, who was weak, said in a slightly depressed tone.

In her opinion, her husband should be omnipotent and can solve her pain at this time, however, Sun Xiangfu is helpless for problems such as lack of oxygen on the plateau.

"Naturally, they don't live in such a high place, after this Tanggula Mountain, it is the Dongdai managed by Subiru, which means county, on the side of a slightly lower position, there is a county town called Naqu, where can we rest." Sun Xiangfu himself also had a headache, and comforted Yu Xiu'er.

In fact, the location of Nagqu County, the altitude is still more than 4,000 meters, which is not much better than the position they are in now, and the whole person is really comfortable.

Later generations of people who traveled to Tibetan areas generally went to several places with relatively low altitudes to live, such as Nyingchi, Shannan, Bayi and other areas, because of the relatively low altitude of these places, the environment is actually the same as in the Central Plains, and it is a bit of a paradise.

However, Li Xiangdie and Yao Hongsleeve are not as uncomfortable as Sun Xiangfu and Yu Xiuer.

It turned out that when they went to the Western Regions, they stayed in the Pamir Plateau at an average altitude of three or four thousand meters for a period of time and adapted to mild altitude sickness, and those who have adapted in this way will be much easier when they go to the plateau again.

"Husband, madam, drink some butter tea! Otherwise, the lips will be chapped and bleeding, and the skin on the face will also dry out until the flakes are gone. ”

For this kind of oily, salty and fishy thing, in fact, Yu Xiuer is more acceptable than Sun Xiangfu, because, before Sun Xiangfu came through, most of the people in the Tang Dynasty liked to use mutton fat and green onion and ginger to make tea soup and drink, and the taste was not much better than this butter tea.

And Sun Xiangfu, who has actually tasted it, knows that this thing is far from being as delicious as described in later songs and film and television dramas, especially for people who are not used to this salty smell, they can simply drink and vomit.

Although Sun Xiangfu was extremely reluctant, he still drank a bowl, and the purpose was naturally to persuade Yu Xiu'er to drink more, otherwise, such beautiful lips and such a white and tender face would be blind.

After drinking a bowl of butter tea very reluctantly, Yu Xiu'er fell into a painful semi-sleep state, and so did Sun Xiangfu.

Two hours later, the team finally stopped, his eyebrows and eyes were full of frost, and Zhang Ke, who was also not in a very good state, went to the carriage to report, "Grandpa, Naqu City has arrived, and the leader of Subiru and Lu Dongzan have come to greet us." ”

Hearing this, Sun Xiangfu cheered up, cleaned his face with the water on the carbon stove in the carriage, wiped the ointment made of saffron on his forehead and temples, and put on his full equipment to protect against the cold, before walking out of the carriage.

It is the yak in the Tibetan area that pulls the cart, and it can only walk more than 100 miles a day at most, but there is no way, the horse walks in the snow, and it is not as safe as this kind of yak, so although Naqu City is less than 500 miles away from the city of Luo, it still needs four or five days to walk.

In comparison, Lu Dongzan and Subi are much more relaxed, they are not afraid of the cold wind of Tanggula Pass, and the whole person has a layer of light red oil to protect them.

"Young Master Sun is on the plateau for the first time, it's not easy!" After a salute, Subi and Lu Dongzan led Sun Xiangfu and his party in the direction of the only decent brick and stone complex in the city.

Sun Xiangfu saw at a glance that these houses should have been built by Han merchants, and the Tubo people of this period did not care so much about aesthetics, they were more commonly used to sew yurts made of yak or sheepskin, and those with fixed living sites would use the bones of cattle and sheep to build a wall courtyard for their own homes.

"It's not the first time I've come up, but it's still uncomfortable, don't tell me what kind of reception banquet you have prepared, now, I smell the fishy smell of beef and mutton, and I want to vomit, settle our people first, and we will solve the problem of food ourselves."

Sun Xiangfu walked to the front of the yard, and he smelled the smell of roast beef and mutton, if it was in Shanyang, he would be able to eat some, but the altitude sickness in Tubo made him have no appetite at all, if it was fish head tofu soup or something, he might be able to drink a little.

"Everything is up to you, the leaders of Subiru, will you see it?"

Lu Dongzan seemed to have expected such a situation early on, but he didn't know when Sun Xiangfu had come to Tubo, of course he didn't know, what Sun Xiangfu said was when he came to travel after the opening of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway in the previous generation.

After Lu Dongzan asked this, the leader of Subi, who was like a follower on his side, looked at Sun Xiangfu with a look of expectation, if their tribe had a high enough status in Tubo, they would not have been sent to the Tanggula Pass, the place where the cold wind was the greatest and the weather was the most changeable, for grazing.

Subiru is one of the six major tribal groups in Tibet, 'Ru', in fact, is the meaning of tribal groups, and this branch of Naqu, although it is the largest tribe in the entire Subiru, is only two or three thousand people.

In the eyes of the Subi chieftain, the person in front of him is the one who can change the fate of their tribe, which can be seen from Lu Dongzan, a powerful figure who was at the top level in Tibet in the past, is so deferential to him.

"See, though, wait for tomorrow! I have brought them a lot of gifts, and after daybreak, let them gather all the people here, and I will personally bring them to distribute them, and announce something. Sun Xiangfu raised his hand while looking at the house prepared for him by Lu Dongzan and the Subi chieftain.

At the gate of these brick and stone buildings, there were already a few Han people, leading dozens of Tubo people, waiting with various daily uses, seeing Sun Xiangfu coming over, far away, he bowed and saluted, Sun Xiangfu waved his hand to excuse him, told him not to be so polite, and asked, "This place, is it you who run it?" ”

The Han shopkeeper at the head replied, "Exactly, knowing that you are coming, the eighty rooms of the small shop have all been emptied and cleaned, and even the ondol has been burned." ”

Sun Xiangfu nodded and said, "Well, you have a heart, Zhang Ke, you go with the shopkeeper and divide the room to those female officials and female league members of the art troupe!" Squeeze in, you should be able to stay, and when you're done, bring him to see me in the room where I'm resting. ”

After speaking, Sun Xiangfu turned to Xiang Lu Dongzan and the leader of Subi and said, "I am still bothering the two of you, take me to see the camp where the sergeants are stationed, and some of them will be stationed here in the future." ”

Hearing this, the faces of Lu Dongzan and the leader of Subi were all condensed, at this time, Songtsen Gampo declared himself a vassal to the Tang Dynasty, and the news that Tubo would become the Luo Dao of the Tang Dynasty was only a month or two after it was transmitted back to Tubo, but he didn't want to, the Tang Dynasty was so fast, he was ready to garrison and directly rule the place.

They didn't know that the 30,000 Annan army brought by Sun Xiangfu from the western Yunnan grassland was just a vanguard force, and a few months later, Li Ji would lead 120,000 troops into Tibet.

After quickly digesting some of the information Sun Xiangfu just said, Lu Dongzan led Sun Xiangfu to the camp outside the city, which had been leveled and many yurts had been built, and asked, "I don't know, the imperial court has agreed on the follow-up policy of my Tibetan people?" ”

Sun Xiangfu replied very naturally, "The imperial court treats the people of all nationalities equally, so your question is a bit redundant, you should know what the people in the Central Plains have, what they have, and the people here will have in the future." ”

"Compare the people of the Central Plains?" Lu Dongzan was a little stunned.

The Tubo Plateau is not the Central Plains, it is convenient to do anything, rich in products, here, more than ninety percent of the land is barren land, all are snow-capped mountains and no man's land, the reason why their population is one million, they must go out to fight, rob, consume, because the survival materials are not enough.

It is not a simple matter to want them to be like the people in the Central Plains, have houses, fields, and endless food, take the inn opened by the Han businessman just now, its cost is more than ten times more than that in the Central Plains, even if it is in Chang'an City, to open an inn of the same scale.

Moreover, the daily consumption is also large, and most of the fuel here is cow dung, because there is no other fuel, even if the coal reserves here are abundant, but under the frozen soil, you can't mine it.

And the trees, well! Here, Sun Xiangfu can't see any trees at all, because, I don't know how many years ago, the trees here were cut down by the local people and used as fuel, and in order to keep warm and survive, they usually don't even let go of shrubs and roots.

If you want to restore the ecological environment here, the amount of work will be very large.

The first thing to do is to move people down, or to live in the lower valley areas first.

Seeing Lu Dongzan's look of disbelief, Sun Xiangfu spoke again, "This year, I will open up a few plantations in a few low-level places here, and the total cultivated area may only be more than 100,000 mu, and some of them are still fields that you have originally opened up." However, the food produced is enough for hundreds of thousands of people to eat.

In the future, the local people's residence, administrative management, will be all re-planned, I will according to the size of the plantation, all the people's residences, will be relocated, will be all moved to Nanzhong, Jiannan Province, or Nincheon Province, according to the local people, with houses, fields, cattle, sheep and livestock. ”

"Then, won't all these clans and tribes of us have to fall apart, or live together in a concentrated manner?" Lu Dongzan asked a key question.

Sun Xiangfu smiled and said, "Do you know why you Tubo people can't be strong?" Just such a few people, you still have to divide so many tribes, snatch and consume each other, this is called disunity for us Han people, how can a disunited nation be strong!

Now, your Gar clan is a relatively strong tribe in Tibet, but have you ever thought that if you continue to maintain such an estrangement, one day, you will decline, or even disappear in the long river of history.

Our Emperor His Majesty can't bear to see you continue to lag behind like this, so he will agree to merge you into the Tang Dynasty, and solve your survival problem at the root, which is a great act of kindness for the benefit of all your future generations and grandchildren, if you are a person with real wisdom, you should be able to understand what I said. ”