Chapter 1102: The Poisonous Hand Reaching Out to Tibet (I)
After Li Zhi plotted against Tibet in Chen Fei, in March of the same year. A caravan of more than 100 people set off from Chang'an City with goods and forgot to travel to the Tibetan Plateau.
If you look closely at this caravan, you will find that the merchants in the team walk with a fierce atmosphere, and their every move looks rigid, these people do not look like merchants, but like a group of soldiers.
In fact, this caravan was dressed up as a special soldier under Chen Fei's command. Over the years, the number of special forces has expanded from 300 to 1,000, and each of them is fierce in combat.
Hu Di was promoted from the captain of the 300 special forces that year to ...... One of the top generals of the 1,000 special forces.
However, he is now mainly responsible for training soldiers, and is not responsible for leading soldiers on missions. The reason is very simple, this guy also married a wife and had children, Chen Fei considered it comprehensively, and consulted him, and decided to let him stay in Chang'an to be responsible for training soldiers selected from all over the country. I have to say that Hu Di still has a set of training people, and he has won the true inheritance of Chen Fei, and he doesn't want to torture those soldiers......
Two months later, a caravan disguised by special forces arrived in Songzhou, and after a slight adjustment here, they would leave the west and enter the territory of Tibet.
After staying in Songzhou for three days and making all the supplies, the caravan headed west and embarked on a long journey to the plateau.
Two months later, the caravan finally arrived in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa (present-day Lhasa). Fortunately, although many people in the team had altitude sickness, it was not particularly serious, and now they can slowly get used to the climate on the plateau. Along the way, they managed to defuse a few robberies, and on the whole, they were lucky enough to make it to Logo, and there were no casualties.
In the city, when they led the horseskin goods through the market, they attracted the attention of many people. Although they have changed into Tibetan costumes, their appearance is still very different from that of the Tibetans, and their accents are completely different, so along the way, almost all pedestrians are looking at them curiously.
There are very few caravans from the Tang people who come here, first, because the distance is far away and the climate cannot be adapted, and secondly, the people here are too poor, and they have nothing, and the pay is not proportional to the return, and there is no value in doing business at all. So all year round, you can hardly see businessmen from Datang. Only occasionally some caravans of nationals will purchase things from Datang and sell them here.
In the cognition of the Tibetan people, the Tang Dynasty is undoubtedly synonymous with "tall and tall", and the goods on these Tang people's horse skins should be very valuable, if they can ......
Well, although Buddhism has been popular in Tibet, the vast majority of the Tibetan people live a life of poverty and hunger, even if they believe in Buddhism, they can't stop their desire for property, and there are many people in some cities who are bold!
The captain of the caravan also quickly noticed the strangeness of the surrounding Tibetans, since they entered the city of Luoqi, there have been several robberies and thefts, fortunately they have all been driven away without causing any losses.
Dare to rob and steal openly in the city, it is enough to see how chaotic the order here is, I am afraid that here, no one will talk to you about the law, and no one will help them talk to these foreigners, if one is not careful, it may be hacked and eaten by black.
So the team leader immediately made adjustments, didn't look for a hotel to stay in, and went straight to the Tubo Palace with the goods.
For it is only in the palace that those outside do not cause trouble.
Gongsong Gongzan received a report from the people below and received the merchant.
Since that year Songzhou, Yumen Pass twice in a row, and many times after the failure to ask for marriage, Gongsong Gongzan's father Songtsan Gampo completely lost his fighting spirit, he was pressed to death by the Tang Dynasty, and he could not take a step on the plateau, and finally died of depression, and the throne was inherited by Gongsong Gongzan.
After Gongsong Gongzan ascended the throne, with the assistance of Lu Dongzan, he was diligent in internal affairs, and finally made Tibet gradually rich.
Of course, the so-called affluence means that the people can eat enough, so that many people do not starve to death every year, as in the past.
On the other hand, while Gongsong Gongtsen inherited the throne of Songtsen Gampo, it also became his father's fear of the Tang Dynasty, and he ascended the throne for six years, except for the occasional disobedient tribe who went to the Tang border to loot, he never dared to rule out a soldier crossing the border. has never had any contact with the Tang Dynasty.
Today, he heard that there was a caravan from the Tang Dynasty that wanted to make a deal with the royal family, and he thought about it for a long time, and finally decided to meet these Tang people. Closed for too long, he didn't know what Datang was developing now, so he desperately wanted to get answers from these businessmen.
Gongsong Gongzan entertained the caravan, and learned from the merchants about the changes in the Tang Dynasty over the years, and couldn't help but yearn for it.
The Tang Dynasty has rich land, prosperous cities, and powerful armies, but there is nothing in Tibet, only the deserted sandy land, the herdsmen who live in no fixed place, and even the royal capital is only built of mud and stone, which cannot be compared with the legendary Chang'an City.
Everything in the mouths of the merchants made him yearn for it, but he was disappointed because he could not get it.
Lu Dongzan sat silently on the side, once he also had great ambitions and wanted to assist Zampu to move into the Central Plains and realize his ambitions, but what happened later? was pressed to the ground and rubbed by Datang, and the soldiers were lost, and they couldn't resist at all.
The two wars launched against the Tang Dynasty back then, after almost 20 years, have not eased up, and now when it comes to the thunderbolt of the Tang Army, everyone still changes color, and they dare not compete with it at all, he is already in his forties and close to fifty years old, and now he just wants to stay in Tubo in peace, and try his best to make the people of Tubo rich, well-fed, and warm clothes.
As for the Crusade? Hehe, it's okay to dream and think, but don't be stupid in reality.
The merchants chatted with Gongsong Gongzan for a while, and finally said what they wanted to do - they wanted to make a deal with the Tibetan army!
They have a very magical thing, which can make people get excited after smoking, and they can fight on the battlefield without panting, and the reason why the Tang army can fight so well is because of this thing, so they also want to sell this thing to the Tubo army. Although you can't beat the Tang Army, you can bully and bully a small country like Tianzhu!
After some rhetoric, Gongsong Gongzan was very moved. The team leader took advantage of the victory to pursue, took out a piece of black smoke wrapped in cloth from the suitcase, stuffed it into a long smoking gun and lit it, handed it to Gongsong Gongzan, and said with a smile: "Zampu, whether the effect is good or not, you will know if you taste it." ”
Yesterday's gloomy departure from Mero was the end of an era
(End of chapter)