Chapter 1236: Embassy
On the snowy plateau, reform is in full swing.
The Tibetan warriors rushed to all over the country, measured the fields, declared them kingdoms, and then let the people lease them again. At the same time, the registered population was counted, and the cattle, sheep, horses, and livestock were counted.
At first, the Tibetan farmers and herdsmen did not know what was going on, but after the count, it was not long before someone came down to collect taxes.
When they pay this tax, if they want to sell the grain produced in the field or sell their cattle and sheep in exchange for other commodities, they have to pay a transaction tax, which is again ten taxes.
Many Tibetans who originally lived in the mountains were forcibly driven down the mountain and let them build fortresses and markets in the river valleys.
The herdsmen watched as the tyrannical aristocratic warriors had to take one of the four oxen and one of the four sheep to catch. Even outside the northern pastoral areas, the Tibetans in the mountainous valleys were ordered to raise livestock for the king.
Each household is required to raise a horse, a calf, a dairy cow, and a yellow cow, and cut grass in summer and turn it in hay.
And these one-horse and three-cow raised according to the regulations have to pay a quarter of the cow leg tax according to the regulations, which is also indispensable.
In the past, it was necessary to support the aristocratic royal family, but it was not so heavy.
Not to mention that Zampu also ordered the expansion of the army, originally sixty-one Dongdai, a total of more than 60,000 people, now to expand to 120,000, which means that a Dongdai is actually 2,000 people, divided into left and right thousand households.
The people of Tibet dare to be angry but do not dare to speak, they have always been used to being oppressed, and they do not dare to resist.
Especially the Bon mages, they always have to be patient.
The most terrible thing is that these Bon people who persuade them to endure are not all good people. Because in Zampu's new decree, there is another clause, that is, every seven households must support one monk.
This monk is mainly a Bon monk, but there are also new Han Buddhist monks and Han Taoist monks from the original middle, and seven households have to support one monk, which is also a large expense.
The Bai Yuqiang, Miyao, and Baiwolf Qiang in the north of Luo also received a letter from an envoy sent by Tubo Zampu, with a long list on it, demanding that these vassal states that submit to Tibet must pay tribute to Tibet, a large amount of money, goods, and materials.
The feudal lords were dissatisfied.
And in Tibet, there is also an undercurrent surging at this time.
Six Shang Seven Formations, Twelve Orders, every nobleman is waiting for how Zampu will arrange them, but more and more rumors indicate that Zampu intends to reuse those people from the original vassal countries such as Subi and other places, whether it is in the Luo Dynasty or in the Wuru region, but it is their old nobles who have been used for generations and are really reused.
Discontent spreads, and the old aristocrats begin to conspire in the shadows.
And the Six Treatises and Zampu share the fate, which makes these big nobles who got the news that they will be awarded the Six Treatises even more think that this is Zampu's bad intentions.
After all, although Tibet has the custom of being buried by people, it is mainly buried by slaves, which of these great nobles is willing to commit suicide for Zampu.
"Mi Yao said that he couldn't raise so much tribute for the time being, and only sent so much for the time being."
"It's just a success, is the medicine sent to Hanako?" Nang Ri Lunzan looked at the list presented and was very dissatisfied.
"Where's Bai Lanqiang?"
"Bai Lanqiang directly refused the tribute, saying that we wanted too much, and it was impossible for them to give so much."
"Reversed them!"
Those who were angry about the praise were about to send troops to fight Bai Lanqiang, but Dong Zan immediately dissuaded, "Zanpu, we are not ready, and now Bai Lanqiang and Qin Guo are eye-catching, if we attack, they are afraid that they will immediately throw themselves into Qin State." Moreover, it has been agreed before that it is necessary to increase the army and expand the army, collect and store materials, build ordnance, and then send troops to the west to destroy Zhangxiong to solve the worries, and then you can send troops to the north to crusade against Zhuqiang. ”
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In the corner of the city, there is a large courtyard, and a tall red Qin flag is erected in front of the gate.
In front of the door, six Qin soldiers wearing bright light armor stood guard, this is the embassy of the Great Qin in Tubo, because of the end of the war with Tubo, Tubo and the princess, called the vassals, so now the imperial court in Tubo resident envoys, in order to contact Tubo, at the same time, it is also to monitor the movement of the Tubo court, secretly collect Tubo intelligence.
In addition to the resident ambassador, there were more than 20 embassy officials and 200 Qin army guards.
"The Tibetan people are dying!"
Yang Wen, the ambassador to Tibet and a member of the Ministry of Rites, said with a smile.
Wang Anguo, a member of the subordinate, was making tea beside him, "Nagar Dongzan is young, and he has traveled twice to the Central Plains, and he really thinks that he has learned the true essence of my Great Qin governance, don't you know, it's just a toddler in Handan." ”
"Yes, painting a tiger is not an anti-cat, you see that Tubo is doing it like this now, and sooner or later it will come to a big event."
"It's good if something happens, Tubo is not chaotic, I think that some people's ambitions will sooner or later be a disaster for my Daqin."
So everyone laughed together.
"Report, ambassador, I went to buy just now, and when I came back, I found that there was a letter in the car that I didn't know who had quietly thrown in, and my subordinates didn't dare to open it privately and submit it to the ambassador."
Yang Wen took the letter and found that the envelope was written with the words "Cheng Yang Gong Qi".
"It's interesting to secretly submit a book."
Yang Wen opened it, and after reading it, a more and more strange smile appeared on his face.
"Ambassador?"
Yang Wen smiled, "Just now I said that Tubo will be chaotic, what do you look at?" ”
"What?"
"There is a Tibetan nobleman who wants to seek refuge."
"Found us?"
"Hmm."
"Committed an accident and want to flee to the Central Plains?"
"No, he wants to commit a crime, but he hopes to get my Daqin's help."
The people in the embassy are all Great Qin people, the guards outside, and the servants in the embassy are all brought by the Central Plains, and there are no outsiders, so everyone can discuss in this room with confidence.
"Hey, these guys are bold enough."
"That's also forced to have no choice, you see that Gardonzan kid, he actually came up with a lack of moral idea of six theories and Zampu's life, who do you say is willing to be these six theories."
"But the praise of the day is quite young, even if it is a common life, it is not a loss, after all, the six theories are equivalent to the slaughter of my court's house."
"That's the same, the day praises the young, but he will eventually die, these big nobles are not willing to give him suicide and burial, in their eyes, martyrdom, that is a slave. These old nobles who are as old as the Si Boye family can be qualified to be the patriarchs of the six great nobles. ”
Yang Wen shook his head, reform is a good thing, but Gar Dongzan is still too young, and he is too anxious, just like his uncle Yang Guang, who forcibly changed the Great Sui Empire. Otherwise, he wouldn't be just an outsider stationed in this snowy region now.
Thinking that he was the son of King Yang Xiong, the first Shi court, he was awarded the servant of the Ministry of Officials, and was named the Duke of Anjun, and also served as the ambassador of Henan Province, suppressed the rebellion at the end of the Sui Dynasty, and returned to Guanzhong with Li Yuan after the Jiangdu Mutiny.
It's a pity that soon after Luo Siye broke through Chang'an, Li Tang perished, and he became an official of the country again.
Looking at the letter in front of him, Yang Wen and Yang Gongren smiled slightly, throwing away the little old things in their minds.
"We have to add fire and oil to these nobles, so that they will be bold and go about it."
"Ambassador, it's too dangerous for us to get involved."
"There is danger, but isn't that what it is our duty to wait for the envoys to be stationed here?" Yang Wen asked rhetorically, no one said anything anymore now.
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