Chapter 938: Meeting, Seeking Advice
The next day, Yu Wenqian asked Yunshang to come forward and arranged for a reliable Tubo foreign affairs official to receive the Tang envoys and his party, and arranged for Guo Ye to go to the mausoleum of Songtsan Gampo to pay his respects.
There is only one purpose, to stabilize Guo Ye for the time being.
At the same time, she also asked Yunrong to convene the Tubo courtiers in the name of the queen of Tubo, open the court to discuss politics, and discuss the matter of establishing a new Tubo Zampu.
Although Yu Wenqian knew that local forces such as Wu Lu De Nai would definitely fiercely oppose Queen Yun Rong's accession to the throne, Yu Wen Qian still summoned Wu Lu De Nai and others into the palace to participate in the court discussion. Because a slap can't be heard, if there is no local conservative forces such as Lu Denai who refuse to express their position, Queen Yunrong's ascendancy will inevitably be unjustifiable, and she will not be able to command the officials and troops of the eighteen cities of the entire Tubo country.
Early in the morning, Guo Ye, who was outside the palace, accompanied by the foreign affairs officials of Tubo, went to the Shannan area on the bank of the Qiongjie River, dozens of miles away from the city of Luoqi, because the mausoleum of Songtsen Gampo was located there.
At the same time, the forces of the two sides in the Tubo court were fiercely competing over who would succeed the new Zampu, and the quarrel was extremely fierce.
The Tibetan prime minister Wu Lu Denai led the local elite class of Tubo to occupy two-thirds of the power of the court, and tried his best to promote the younger brother of Songtsen Gampo Gongsong to succeed the new Zampu.
Under the secret instructions of Yu Wenqian, Lu Dongzan, the second minister of Tubo who took refuge with Queen Yunrong early, led the emerging forces that were favored by his surrender, and stubbornly resisted the erosion of local conservative forces such as Wulu Denai.
Lu Dongzan and others proposed on the spot that Queen Yunrong should serve as the new Zampu, continue to uphold the last wish of the late Zampu Songtsen Gampo, and lead Tubo to continue to move towards the road of prosperity and strength.
Without Lu Denai and the others, they naturally didn't do it, and scolded Lu Dongzan for being shameless and forgetting his ancestors, and Si Chen would only bring Tubo to decline and perish.
And Lu Dongzan and others were also unequivocal, bluntly pointing out that the prince of Gongsong is a man who is obsessed with women and can't help Adou, not the master of Tibet. Moreover, it is a word-for-word criticism of Wu Lu Denai and others harboring evil intentions, and the reason why they want to support the prince of Gongsong is nothing more than to emulate Cao Cao Cao in the late Eastern Han Dynasty in the Central Plains - coercing the Son of Heaven to order the princes, to be precise, it should be to coerce Zampu to order the Tubo State.
At this time, the two parties have pulled the hatred to the highest level, and they are about to roll up their sleeves and fight regardless of their identity.
The attitude of both sides is very clear, no one will accept anyone, no one will back down, for the position of Zampu, to the end!
In this way, you sing and I will take the stage, and you will come up again after we are gone, and the court council has been deadlocked, from morning to afternoon.
In the end, a court council full of gunpowder was hastily concluded, and Queen Yunrong disbanded the court meeting tiredly under the instruction of Yu Wenqian behind the curtain.
Lu Denai and the others left the palace first, but they knew very well that they had already completely torn their faces with Queen Yunrong today, no, they should have completely torn their faces with Yuwen Qian's forces, and I am afraid that there will be no earlier dynasty in the future.
If you want to restart the early dynasty, unless one of them wins and has the new Zampu on the throne, there will be no earlier dynasty in the Tubo country.
And if one of them wants to win, either you die or I live.
Next, it depends on whose force can conquer the other party, and who can annex or even swallow the other party first, who is the real winner.
Lu Denai guessed correctly, Yu Wenqian's patience has been worn out, and she can't hold back her ambition at all.
After disbanding the court, Yu Wenqian immediately summoned the two women of Yunshang and Yunrong, as well as emerging forces such as Lu Dongzan, the second minister of Tubo, to his dormitory, ready to discuss the next swallowing plan.
And Lu De Nai was not idle, he clearly predicted what kind of scene would be next, millions of slave soldiers were outside the city, Yu Wenqian gave an order, and he and the others would be worried about their lives at any time.
He felt that it was time to issue an edict to the defenders in all parts of Tibet, so that they could assemble in one place under the banner of King Qin and advance towards the city of Luoqi.
Moreover, in order to control Luo Qi City as soon as possible, it is also time to meet with Guo Ye, the envoy of the Tang Dynasty, to discuss the most critical move.
Immediately, he ordered someone to squat near the Foreign Affairs Post House in disguise, waiting for Guo Ye, who was mourning at the tomb of the king of Shannan, to return.
It was not until the evening that Guo Ye, accompanied by foreign affairs officials, returned to the city with Zhao Jiuchou, Danzhu and others.
When Guo Ye entered the post house and was about to take a bath and rest, the messenger of Wu Lu Denai found him, and stated in the letter what happened in the Tubo court today, and at the same time tried his best to ask to see Guo Ye.
After reading the letter, Guo Ye knew that this matter had reached a bottleneck, and it was time to solve and deal with it, otherwise there would be a volcanic eruption at any time.
So, under the reminder of the messenger of Wu Lu Denai, he changed into the Tibetan robe of the Tubo people, dressed up in disguise and left the post house, and went straight to the mansion of the prime minister without Lu Denai.
When he came to Wu Lu Denai's mansion, Guo Ye was directly invited to a secluded place by Wu Lu Denai's henchmen.
As soon as Lu Denai saw Guo Ye, he immediately retold it again in the court today.
However, halfway through speaking, he was stopped by Guo Ye waving his hand, only to hear Guo Ye say: "No big minister, you have already told the ins and outs of the letter in your letter, and there is no need to repeat it again." Since time is pressing, let's get to the point early. ”
Lu Denai was interrupted by Guo Ye so stiffly, and he didn't feel faceless, but was a little anxious for a while, and then asked: "Guo Shangshu, when will the reinforcements from the Tang Dynasty arrive?" If there were no reinforcements from the Tang Dynasty, it would be difficult for the defenders from all over the city to deal with the millions of slaves outside the city. ”
Guo Ye scolded secretly, bullshit reinforcements, you have a big dream of spring and autumn, didn't you wake up?
However, he reassured with a smile on his face: "No big minister, I see that you are really in a hurry, Chang'an is thousands of miles away from here, not to mention whether His Majesty has received my letter and your "Golmud Treaty", even if he receives it, he will have time to send troops to reinforce, isn't it?" It will take at least half a month to wait for reinforcements to come, and this is still the speed of running day and night. Let's base ourselves on the present and use the strength we can to solve the current troubles. ”
Wu Lu De was disappointed at first, but he was not two hundred and five, so he naturally knew that Guo Ye was right, so he smiled again and again: "Yes, yes, yes!" Alas, the true appearance also made Yuwenqian's woman anxious, she was really confused! ”
Guo Ye shook his head and chuckled: "At present, not to mention our reinforcements, even if you form the army of King Qin formed by the defenders in various places, it is impossible to approach the city of Luo in just one or two days. Therefore, the plan for the present is to use our limited power to control the city of Luo as soon as possible. ”
Lu Denai nodded and said, "That's right, Guo Shangshu and I have thought together." ”
As he spoke, he looked embarrassed again, and sighed: "But with only your 3,000 Xichuan troops and my 5,000 soldiers and horses buried in the slave army outside the city early, how can it be so easy?" Not to mention the millions of slave troops outside the city, even the garrison inside the city may not be able to take it. And once the slave army outside the city is alarmed, it will be an army of millions of slaves pouring into the city, and you and I will definitely be counterattacked by Yu Wenqian, surrounded and exterminated, and there will be no bones left! ”
"Well, I know what you're saying. So ......"
Guo Ye cautiously glanced at Wu Lu Denai, and spat lightly: "So, now we have to do one thing first, and that is not to give Yu Wenqian the opportunity to mobilize the army of slaves outside the city into some cities." ”
"It's difficult, the attitude of our side is very clear, and we have sternly rejected Queen Yunrong's proposal to succeed Zampu, so this woman has now begun to arrange a plan to kill us."
Wu Lu De Nai shook his head and sighed with a worried face: "If she doesn't mobilize the slave army outside the city to enter the city and kill me, it's difficult, it's difficult!" ”
Guo Ye ignored Wu Lu Denai's long sigh, but suddenly asked: "No Lu Daxiang, Guo overheard the foreign affairs official who accompanied me to mourn the royal tomb today, if your country's new Zampu succeeds to the throne, he must go to the late Zampu's tomb to perform the succession ceremony, right?" ”
When Wu Lu De heard Guo Ye's answer, he couldn't help but feel annoyed, but now he has a request for others, and the two of them are now a cooperative alliance, so he still replied patiently: "That's right, this is the tradition of my Tubo country." In doing so, in addition to respecting the late Zampu, I also hope that the spirit of the late Zampu in the sky can bless the new Zampu to lead the Tubo Kingdom to national wealth and strength. ”
"Oh......"
Guo Ye looked at himself, was silent for a while, and then asked again inexplicably: "So, if Queen Yunrong inherits the throne of Zampu, then she and Yuwenqian will also go to the Qiongjie River dozens of miles away to hold a succession ceremony in front of the Songtsen Gampo Mausoleum in Shannan?" ”
"Of course, this is a national tradition, and no new Zampu is exempt from vulgarity. What the? Queen Yunrong succeeds the new Zampu? ”
When Lu De heard that something was wrong, he said angrily: "Guo Shangshu, do you want to break the covenant and support Yunrong, that cheap woman to take the throne?" ”
Guo Ye glared at Wu Lu Denai angrily, and said a little unhappily: "No Lu Daxiang, I think you are really in chaos, and there is no square inch at all." In this situation, only if you pretend to compromise can Yu Wenqian give up her plan to mobilize a million slave troops outside the city into the city, and you can temporarily breathe and save your life. Otherwise, hehe, do you think with your current resistance, what is the chance of victory? ”
Wu Lu Denai seemed to understand Guo Ye's meaning, and asked weakly: "What does Guo Shangshu mean to say that first paralyze and delay them, and wait for the arrival of the Tang Dynasty reinforcements and our Qinwang army?" ”
Guo Ye didn't answer him, but said softly: "We have a saying in the Central Plains, which is called 'If you want to take it, you must first deal with it'." Today, Guo forwarded this sentence to the ...... of the Great Minister of Wulu"