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On the same night that the two careerist fathers and sons, Maggie Dorjee and Maggie Rinci, were busy arranging their seizure of political and religious power in Tibet. More than 300 kilometers southwest of Lhasa, in the Chumphi Valley of Yadong, there was also a gloomy atmosphere in the office of the "political commissioners of Sikkim, Bhutan, and Tibet" of the British and Indian governments.

Former Anglo-Indian Government Political Commissioner in Sikkim, Bhutan and Tibet. Alfred. Burr has secretly returned here and resumed his day-to-day work as an illegal "office". Seven or eight years ago, he participated in a series of political and military reforms in Tibet as a political adviser to the 13th Lai Lai, and also put forward a proposal for the eventual establishment of a "Greater Tibet State." It is only because Tibet's human and financial resources are very limited, and in order to achieve the "grand goal" set by Boer for the 13th Emperor, it is necessary to levy taxes and troops from the monasteries; And to increase taxes, it is necessary to reduce the income of the temple. This naturally aroused opposition from the monks and laymen. In 1921, at the Lhasa Rumor Conference, the Tibetan monks were about to drive out Bur, which led to a clash between the monks and the Tibetan army. Subsequently, a note was posted in front of the residence of Burr, "Leave Tibet quickly, avoid your life". Fearful and unwilling to leave, Boer had to ask the Dalai Lama to help him find another place to live. However, the Dalai Lama did not dare to agree, saying that the Tibetan people have a deep hatred for Boer, and it will be difficult to save their lives if they do not leave. In this way, Bohr was forced to leave Tibet in disarray.

After escaping Tibet, Boer officially left the Anglo-Indian government and began writing books on Tibet—Tibet: Past and Present in 1920 and The Tibetan People in 1928...... He launched a series of books on Tibetan culture and history, with only one main line, the so-called "****". In the original history, this Burr did not return to the Anglo-Indian government, but the history of this time and space has clearly changed. After the Sino-Japanese Battle of Jinan in April this year, the British and Indian governments were keenly aware that Tibet was very likely to become the next target of the Kuomintang authorities' expansion. Therefore, he decisively recalled Boer, ordered him to return to Tibet, and tried to contact the pro-British forces in Tibet and the Lai Lama, and must find ways to prevent the Kuomintang forces from infiltrating Tibet......

In the darkness of tonight, an unmarked Western carriage quietly drove into the British office of Chumphi Valley. A tall, thin, dark-faced Tibetan was led by the servants into Commissioner Burr's study. As soon as he entered, he saw Boer sitting upright behind a large desk, holding a telegraph in his hand, and his face was pale.

The man walked in, bowed, and sat down across from Burr. This person is the former commander-in-chief of the Tibetan army, and the current Gexia regime is Glen Wool.

Wipe Rong looked at his old friend Boer, frowned slightly, and spoke fluent English: "Mr. Boer, why is your face so ugly?" What happened? ”

Boer and Wipe Rong glanced at each other, and found that the other party also had a gloomy face, obviously depressed, and it seemed that the news of the "Battle of Jinan" had caused a lot of waves in the upper echelons of Tibet.

Boer forced a smile and tried to calm his voice: "My friend, the current situation is very bad, the Chinese have defeated the powerful Japanese army, killed more than 100,000 people, and their next target is Tibet, in fact, they have already begun to act"

Hearing this, he hesitated for a moment, and asked in a trembling voice, "Mr. Burr, what do you mean...... The Kuomintang is about to attack Tibet, but we have just helped them, that Jebtsundamba has just been elected, how can they ......?"

Boer smiled wryly and raised a hand, interrupting the words of the cashmere grape who seemed to be flustered. The colonialist of the British Empire seemed to have regained his composure and his face had calmed down. He waved the newspaper in his hand lightly and said with a smile:

In fact, the Chinese are not about to attack Tibet, but are already on the way to attack, just on the third of this month, the warlord Liu Wenhui in the Sichuanbian region suddenly telegraphed to announce an uprising, and set up a workers' and peasants' ** army under the leadership of the Chinese GCD, but this army did not attack Sichuan to change the life of the Chinese Kuomintang, but embarked on the road of expedition to Tibet. It is estimated that there are now about 30,000 to 50,000 well-equipped and well-trained Chinese troops marching towards Qamdo, and there should be a big battle by late August at the latest...... Is the Tibetan army ready? ”

Polishing Da Gelen shook his head silently, but did not say anything. Boer still smiled bitterly: "If you could follow my advice seven years ago, expand the Tibetan army to 15,000 people, and update your equipment, you might be able to defeat this so-called 'workers' and peasants' ** army' now, right?" ”

Wipe Rong was silent for a while, and took a deep breath: "That...... What now? Is it possible for the British Empire to send troops to Lhasa? ”

"Send troops?" Boer shook his head slightly: "The Chinese have tens of thousands of troops, and in the Battle of Jinan in April, they have shown their combat effectiveness. If they were to be defeated, the Anglo-Indian government would have to use the same number of troops, but London would not agree...... The only feasible way now is to transfer the 13th Lai Lama to the safety of India, and must not let him fall under the control of the Chinese."

Burr's tone was heavy, as if he was making a very difficult decision. He had been in Tibet for many years and was well aware of the enormous influence of the Lai Lama. As long as Lama leaves Tibet and does not recognize China's sovereignty over Tibet, Tibet is likely to remain in turmoil. This may not necessarily turn the situation in Tibet around, but it can be regarded as a containment of China. Although Britain is still supporting the Kuomintang regime, the regime seems to be too strong and it is believed that London will soon make adjustments. However, there is also a problem with this, that is, the 13th D Lai is very old, already in his fifties, which is already a high age for Tibetans. Moreover, D Lai's health is not good, and it seems that he will die soon, and there will be no way to produce a new D Lai when the time comes......

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Beijing, Zhongnanhai.

The British Empire's Minister Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Republic of China, Sir Frank Lamb, arrived early in the morning at the office of China's theoretical central government. It was now arranged in a luxuriously furnished hall. A female secretary with a pleasant appearance and fluent London English served him a mellow coffee. The mild-mannered Vice Premier Wang Jingwei also sat in front of him with a smile...... Like a schoolboy, he smiled a little uneasily. After all, Sir Lampson had come to protest on behalf of the British Empire

However, after meeting with Vice Premier Wang, the British minister, who was said to have come to protest, exchanged a few words of greeting, and then sat there with a coffee cup and drank lightly. It was as if he had not come to protest, but to drink coffee with Wang Jingwei, the vice premier who had nothing to do all day. In fact, Sir Lampson suddenly found himself at a loss what to say to this empty Deputy Prime Minister in front of him. China's political system is really ...... right now There are two governments that are actually independent, one in the south and one in the north, but these two governments have put a central government in name only on their heads, and this central government seems to be unable to make any decisions without the consent of the two "local governments". And as a minister, he can only protest to the central government, which cannot make any decisions.

Besides, this incident also made him unable to speak. According to what the British have so far, a warlord affiliated with the Nationalist Government has defected to the Chinese GCD in order to avoid being stripped of military power by the Nationalist Government, and the Chinese GCD has openly admitted this in their official publication, the Red Star, and pro-G workers and students in Beijing have taken to the streets to protest against the Kuomintang authorities' repression of the patriotic general Liu Wenhui...... It seems that the Kuomintang is also a victim. The whole incident is supposed to be that one of their troops suddenly defected to the GCD, and then marched into Tibet to avoid being wiped out by the Kuomintang army. How should this be protested? Uh, is it possible that the British Empire will not allow your army to attack the GCD? If you say that, wouldn't you become sympathetic to GCD? Or go to the chairman of the coalition government, the man named Mao ZD, to protest against the GCD uprising?

What makes Sir Rampson even more embarrassed is that China is no longer the soft persimmon that the British Empire held a few years ago, but now they have established a system of heavy industry that is beginning to take shape, and the combat effectiveness of the army has been surprisingly improved under the training of the Germans. In just two years, the Soviet Union was defeated and then Japan, and if this development continued, the interests of the British Empire in Asia should probably be violated by the Chinese, right? It seemed that it was time to remind those in London to change the policy of the British Empire in Asia.

"Your Excellency the Deputy Prime Minister." Lan Pusheng finally put down the coffee cup in his hand, took out the vaguely worded protest letter that had been prepared long ago, and handed it to Wang Jingwei with both hands: "The British Empire has noticed that a Chinese army is marching towards Tibet...... We believe that this is an unusual incident, and we hope that you will handle it properly so as not to overshadow the friendly relations between the two countries. ”

Wang Jingwei was slightly stunned when he heard this. He had expected the British to be furious at this, and then threw down a large pile of gunpowder-filled threats, and then walked away haughtily. I didn't expect to just ask for it to be handled properly, and the only threat was nothing more than "a shadow over friendly relations" to look ...... Can the Chinese really stand up and be human?

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The northern suburbs of Lhasa, the southern foot of the Sera Wuzi Mountain, the Sera Mahayana Temple. The gate of the temple was closed, and the golden tops, vases, and heads of the three major barns of Jiba, Maiba, and Abba shimmered golden in the sun.

Sera Mahayana Monastery is one of the six main monasteries of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism. And Drepung Monastery, Ganden Monastery together called the three major monasteries in Lhasa, there are more than 8,000 monks in the temple at present, the scale is slightly inferior to Drepung Monastery. These Tibetan lamas are not as easy to talk to as monks and nuns in the temples of the Central Plains, and these 8,000 people are a fairly powerful "military force" in sparsely populated Tibet, and in 1923, the lamas of Drepung and Sera monasteries confronted the Tibetan army under the command of Charong because of the "reform issue...... In the end, after weighing the pros and cons repeatedly, the 13th Lai chose to support the Tibetan high-ranking monks, belittled and dismissed the young officers of the pro-British faction who participated in the secret organization, dismissed them from their posts, and later, removed them from the post of commander-in-chief of the Tibetan army.

In fact, in Tibet today, the conservative monks and aristocrats are not die-hard "Tibetan independence" elements. Their desire is nothing more than to maintain Tibetan traditions for thousands of years, and to preserve the vested interests of monks and monasteries. In fact, they are a "vested interest group" that hinders the development of Tibetan society, and most of Tibet's social wealth and political power are also in the hands of these monks, and Lama Lai is only their representative. In another time and space history, the most fundamental reason why some members of the Tibetan monk group fled to India with the 14th Lai was not an imperialist conspiracy, but that the social reform of the Chinese and Chinese monks threatened the vested interests of these monks. In Tibet in the twenties, however, the situation was somewhat different, and it was not the Chinese government that was far away from the Chinese government, but the British colonialists and a part of the pro-British secular aristocracy that were at hand.

At this time, in the four-storey golden Buddha hall of Jiba Zacang, the largest Zacang in Sera Mahayana Temple, several great lamas are sitting in a staggered manner, and the rich fragrance of butter tea floats in the entire hall. Sitting on the top seat was a dark-skinned young lama, only sixteen or seventeen years old, who just looked at the adults next to him and talked. His Dharma name is Tudan Gyangbai Yeshe Danpa Gyaltsen, and he is the fifth generation of Sidling Hutuktu, one of the four great Linhutuktu, and is also known as the "Rezhen Living Buddha". Sitting below him were his two teachers, who were also the two "khenpo" of the Sera Mahayana monastery, Ngawang Tuanzhi and Gyatso Xianpa. Sitting opposite is the living Buddha of Danji Rindimu, who made a special trip to Sera Monastery to visit the Living Buddha of Rezhen, which is the lama who colluded with the father and son of Maiqi Renci.

"Hutuktu. Those Han Chinese had only come to expel the British, and in no way would harm the interests of the monks and the temples. This is exemplified by what is happening in Mongolia now, and they do not want to continue the practice of the previous dynasty. They have very little more to want than in the UK, and we can get more out of it. Therefore, the poor monks hope that Hutu Ketu and Sera Monastery can stand on the side of safeguarding national unity and the interests of Tibetan monks, and must not let D Lai Hutu Ketu fall into the hands of those careerists. ”

It was the living Buddha of Danji Dimu who spoke, and he was sitting upright with his eyes and nose and nose, and his tone was extremely respectful. In this life, the Living Buddha of Dimu no longer has the title of Hutu Ketu, and he is no longer the most powerful lama in Tibet. Therefore, when he saw the Rezhen Living Buddha, he could only be a dwarf, and he lowered his eyebrows and pretended to be his grandson.

"But now they are marching towards Qamdo, and I heard that there are tens of thousands of troops," said Ngawang Duanzhi, who looked like he was about to die with a wrinkled face, and shook his head slightly. He is the "khenpo" of Sera Monastery, which means "presiding", and also serves as the teacher of the Living Buddha Rezhen, and is the most powerful lama in Tibet. He let out a long sigh again: "These Han people have burned a lot of villages and destroyed many Buddhist temples in Khamba, and now who can guarantee that they will not do the same thing when they arrive in Lhasa?" ”

"Yes, Dimu Living Buddha, the suggestion made by Rub Rong to ask Lama D Lai to take refuge in India for a while...... There seems to be some truth to that, too. Another "khenpo" of Sera Monastery, a younger lama, Xianpa Gyatso, also frowned and echoed: "If these Han people are really as they say, they will not interfere with our actions...... At that time, it would be okay to invite Lama D Lai back to Lhasa to preside over the overall situation. ”

Buddha Dimu shook his head slightly: "I'm afraid that after Lama Lai comes back from India, he will have to implement all kinds of new policies, and the monks in Tibet will have to suffer at that time." ”

The two great lamas, Xianpa Gyatso and Ngawang Duanzhi, glanced at each other and shook their heads helplessly. On one side is the fierce warlord Liu Wenhui, and on the other side is the ambitious British Empire, and for a while the two lamas don't know how to deal with it. The world is changing a little bit too fast...... Why can't the Tibetans be allowed to live in peace? Just like for thousands of years, the outside world is only the Qing Emperor who is kind and benevolent, and the Mongolian princes who sincerely worship the Buddha. It would be nice if it could stay the same forever

Dimu Living Buddha's eyes flashed, and he changed to a smiling face: "Two Khenpo, do you think General Liu Wenhui and the Kuomintang are difficult to deal with, or are those white-skinned British Yankees more difficult to deal with?" The little monk heard that Liu Wenhui believed in Buddhism, and there were many people in the Kuomintang who believed in Buddhism. The British, on the other hand, believe in Christianity...... There are very few Buddhist monasteries left in India, but there are many Christians, and maybe one day we will become like that here in Tibet. ”

The two great lamas shook their heads slightly, and they didn't know whether to believe the words of the Living Buddha Dimu, or not to believe it, or to be skeptical, right? After all, Lama D Lai had been to India, and when he came back, he was still a lama and did not become a priest. However, it has brought a lot of various "new policies" to Tibet, and it is terrible to open Western schools at one time, train new troops at the same time, and levy taxes from monasteries

The Living Buddha sighed lightly and said, "Our Tibet is sparsely populated and the land is barren, where do we get the money to run the new policy and the new army?" Where in the world is there a reason that only a million people can build a country? The British Empire and the Republic of China have tens of thousands of people, and if Tibet follows the group of people who follow the Rong group, it will never be independent in the end, and it will just become another territory of the British Empire. Officials in the British colonies were much more difficult to deal with than Han Chinese warlords like Liu Wenhui...... Liu Wenhui asks for money and women at most, and we can give all of this. And the British are going to drive us monks to a dead end, can we go?. ”