The people of the government quickly identified their identities through the clothes left on some of the corpses, and hurriedly reported them to the higher-ups.

Qunu City, the palace of the king of the sun.

The prefect of the district where Gelu Town is located reported: "Your Majesty, there has been a major bloodshed in Gelu Town, Hanning County, a caravan has encountered an attack by unknown forces, and all more than 50 people in the caravan have been killed and their property has been looted.

After careful investigation by the ministers, it can be concluded that all the people killed were Tibetans.

After hearing this, the first feeling of the king of the sun was that something had happened to the Tibetan mission, because the location and number of people in the accident matched that of the Tibetan mission.

He carefully inquired about some details, and it could basically be judged that Lu Dongzan and others had an accident.

He was shocked and said to the prince: "How is this good, how can we explain to the Tibetan people?" ”

The prince of the Ring Sun said, "Father, wait a moment, and I'll ask you about the situation." ”

He asked, "Have you found out who did it?" ”

The official who came to report said: "It is not clear for the time being, but according to the situation at the scene, all the property of the Tubo people was robbed, and even most of the clothes on their bodies were robbed. ”

The prince of the Ring Sun said: "Have there been any Tang Dynasty people nearby? ”

"No reports have been received," the official said. ”

The prince of the Ring Sun said: "Okay, you go back, continue to investigate this matter, and once the cause is found, come and report it quickly!" ”

"Obey." The officer saluted and stepped back.

The prince of the Ring Sun said: "Father, I don't know why, I feel that this matter is related to the people of the Tang Dynasty. Erchen suggested that until the matter was investigated, no contact with the Tibetans should be made for the time being. ”

The King of the Ring Sun nodded and said, "You do two things now, the first thing is to send someone to the scene to check and confirm the identity of the victim."

The second thing is to send people to the southeast to check whether the Tang Dynasty people have indeed gone to Nepal. ”

"Erchen understands, so let's arrange it." The prince of the ring said.

Soon after, the people sent by the prince of the ring came back, and a group of people determined that the Tubo people killed in Gelu Town were Lu Dongzan and his party.

Another group of people came back and reported that the Tang Dynasty mission had indeed gone in the direction of Nepal, but not five days ago, and had just passed Sanguan 60 miles southwest of Qunu City the day before yesterday!

Now it is certain that this matter is related to the Tang Dynasty.

The king of the Ring Sun was furious and ordered to immediately send troops to chase after him, and he must arrest the Tang Dynasty people so that they could give an explanation to the Tibetan people.

The prince of the Ring Sun was also very angry, and he wanted to personally lead his troops to arrest the hateful Tang Dynasty people.

The prince of the Ring Sun left the palace, went to the nearby military camp and set up 500 cavalry, and out of the gate of the military camp, he was about to march in the direction of Nepal!

At this time, the king of the ring sent a message to the prince of the ring to stop the pursuit and return to the palace immediately.

The Palace of the Ring of the Sun.

The prince of the Ring Sun asked, "Father, why didn't you chase after you?" ”

King Jieri waved his hand and said, "What is the use of you sitting down first, catching up and catching these Tang Dynasty people?" Do you want to hand them over to the Tibetans? ”

The prince of the king of the ring asked: "If this is not the case, how can you explain to the Tubo people?" ”

The King of the Ring Sun asked, "Why do we want to explain to the Tibetans?" ”

The prince of the Ring Sun was stunned for a moment, calmed down, and carefully pondered the words of the King of the Ring of the Sun. After a while, he understood, and said:

"Father is right. There is no need for us to explain to the Tibetans. ”

The King of the Ring said, "That's the truth. Let's seize the Tang Dynasty people, regardless of whether the Tang Dynasty people admit it or not, they did it. Even if they admit it, can we still hand them over to the Tibetans?

If we do this, it will be clear that we are against the Tang Dynasty, and for the sake of the Tubo people, we can't offend the powerful Tang Dynasty. ”

The prince of the king of the Ring of the Sun asked: "After all, Lu Dongzan is an important minister of Tubo, and he died in our Kingdom of the Ring of the Sun, if the Tubo people ask, how should we answer?" ”

The King of the Ring Sun smiled and said, "What do you say? ”

The prince of the king of the Ring Sun pondered for a moment and said: "Erchen understands, after the Tubo people left Qunu City, they have returned to Tubo, and we don't know where they went.

We can vaguely tell the Tubo people that the disappearance of Lu Dongzan and others may be related to the Tang Dynasty.

The Tibetan people are now suffering from internal and external troubles, and they don't dare to offend us, so they can only suffer this dumb loss. ”

That's exactly what happened.

Lhasa, Potala Palace.

Songtsen Gampo received the news of the disappearance of Lu Dongzan and others, and discussed with the ministers for a long time, speculating that it might be done by the Tang Dynasty or by the Kingdom of Jieri.

Everyone discussed and discussed, thinking that if it was done by the Tang Dynasty, they would be helpless. If it was done by the Kingdom of the Ring of the Sun, now that the Tang Dynasty army is pressing the border, it is not the time to turn against them.

Songtsen Gampo decided to put the matter on hold for the time being.

Tai Chi Hall, Li Su's office.

"This Wang Xuance is really beautiful!" Wei Zheng said.

"Yes, this Wang Xuance is really a talent, he handled the affairs of the Japanese archipelago very well, this time, he did it even more beautifully, this person has the talent of the Han class.

Your Majesty, the minister admired you for the five-body cast, at the beginning, this Wang Xuance was just a seven-grade petty official, he was still in the field, and it seems that he has not had direct contact with you, I don't know how you saw his talent? Huang Furui said.

Li Su smiled, didn't answer this question, he said: "Wang Xuance is making such a fuss, if Tubo and the Jieri Kingdom want to form an alliance, I'm afraid it won't be possible." Nepal has also made it clear that it will not support Tibet.

The current situation is that the foreign aid of Tibet has been cut off, and General Li's million-strong army is overwhelming, but I want to see how Songtsen Gampo copes. ”

The ministers were very optimistic that the war against Tibet might end before the end of the year.

Longyou Dao Lanzhou Mansion.

Hou Junji got his wish and put on his armor again, this time he had a well-equipped 500,000 Tang army under his command, he was very excited, he kept walking around the barracks every day, supervising the army's combat readiness training, just waiting for the general headquarters to conquer Tibet, and immediately waved his army westward.

The general headquarters of General Li Jing was located in Weizhou, Longyou Province. He was waiting for the troops to assemble, and when the troops were assembled, he would launch an attack on Tibet.

Li Su trusted Li Jing, Hou Junji, and Su Dingfang very much, and after the establishment of the General Headquarters for the Expedition to Tibet, he no longer intervened in this matter.

Huang Qi is now the minister of the Ministry of Science and Technology of Datang, and the original Datang Research Institute has been merged into the Ministry of Science and Technology. On this day, he received a notice to take the main person in charge of the Machinery Department of the Ministry of Science and Technology to the East Palace to accept the summons of His Majesty the Emperor.