"Your Tubo is too backward, Your Highness can allow the caravan to sell some iron tools, grain, salt and other materials to your Tubo, but the premise is that you are not allowed to collect taxes from my Datang caravan! This is a little discount for you from Your Highness. Wang Zheng pouted disdainfully.

"That's it?" A bright light flashed in Songtsen Gampo's eyes, but he spoke disdainfully on the surface.

"Huh? That's it? This is also the kindness of His Highness, otherwise you will never think about it, love or not. I'm short of time, I can give you a day to think about it, and tomorrow I'll ask for an explanation, if there is no explanation, either Zampu you kill us, or we will only see you on the battlefield. Wang Zheng sneered and stood up directly.

His wound had been stitched up, and the wound was not long, but the pain still consumed a lot of Wang Zheng's strength, and the doctor next to him helped him to stand up.

After saying that, he reluctantly waved his hand at Songtsen Gampo before turning to leave.

Naturally, their envoy had a place to stay for the people here from Songtsen Gampo, and Wang Zheng did not refuse.

After arriving at the arranged place, the guards of the mission directly surrounded the outside of the two of their rooms, and no one was allowed to approach.

In the room, Yang Cheng said in a low voice: "Did you say they would be fooled?" ”

"Definitely, they are just rats, frogs at the bottom of the well, they will never think that the real purpose of His Highness is this." Wang Zheng sneered and said.

"Also, I have received a report from the trading house that Tubo has been trying to buy iron tools, grain, seeds, books and other materials through some smugglers in the Western Regions and other places, this Songtsen Gampo is an ambitious person, let him develop, it must be a big trouble for His Highness! Now that Tibet has just put down the rebellion, and a large number of people have just integrated into them, now is the best time point. Yang Cheng nodded.

"How much gold do you think we need?" Wang Zheng thought for a while and said, it is absolutely impossible for the other party to take out 30,000 stones.

"I asked the people of the trading house to calculate the business with these tribes conquered by the Tibetans a few years ago, plus the plundered between the Tibetans, it is estimated that they can come up with at least 15,000 to 16,000 catties of gold." Yang Cheng gave a number.

"Then tomorrow it will be at least fifteen thousand catties!" Wang Zheng nodded fiercely, this is only more than 130 stones, and it is far from 30,000 stones.

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"Zampu, if His Royal Highness the King of Qin can sell us iron tools, as well as the food and other things we need, this matter is okay." Shang Xiang said.

"We just don't know how many iron tools they can sell us, as well as grain seeds, and books, but what we need most are seeds, iron tools, and books. In fact, we do not lack food itself. Lunker also spoke quickly.

Songtsen Gampo nodded: "But gold, we will definitely give a batch." But gold doesn't matter, it's just us buying something, after all, even if we wanted to buy it before, Datang didn't sell it. But tomorrow we can't let them see that what we want most is this trade. ”

"I think it's okay, they proposed not to allow taxes to be collected from the caravan of the Tang Dynasty, do you think this caravan will be His Royal Highness the King of Qin's own? After all, all the money earned by this caravan is his, and I can hear from the news that he killed the Black Mountain Thieves, but plundered all the Black Mountain Thieves' villas. Shang Xiang said.

"It's very likely, if that's the case, then it's possible that we will be able to buy a lot of things!" Wheel Cole's eyes are also bright!

"I think so, in order to prevent us from exposing our target, let's test it tomorrow, although the royal envoy just now seemed to be very disdainful about this matter, as if this matter was a gift from His Royal Highness King Qin to us, but what if he actually wanted to make money? And don't want to pay us taxes. ”

"Tomorrow we will test it, if they are indeed for this purpose, then we have to cover it up, we can't show too much, so we reluctantly agree to this matter, we will say that they are allowed to trade freely, but our Tibetan officials actually have nothing to buy, or we can buy some less important, such as silk, tea, or the mercury mirror that has risen in Chang'an."

"And the materials of important iron tools can be purchased by the nobles we trust under the pretext that the other party will not be so suspicious." Shang Xiang quickly added.

"Zampu, what do you think?" Lunko turned to Songtsen Gampo.

Songtsen Gampo pondered for a moment, then nodded and said, "Yes, but this Murong Shun, I'm afraid we have to personally lead the troops to exterminate it." ”

"This is also a helpless thing, I can only work hard to praise you, it is not clear what the situation is, but I am afraid that the area north of our Kunlun Mountains will not be able to get it back." Shang Xiang sighed.

"It doesn't matter about these, the population there is not much, and the distance from us is too far, if you lose it, you will lose it, unless he Datang can always garrison the army, otherwise, sooner or later, it will be ours." Songtsen Gampo sneered.

"Then it's decided, but tomorrow, the two of you will assist me in persuading this envoy to reduce the compensation for the gold as much as possible, and we can't get that much gold."

"Yes, Zamp." The two of them naturally had no opinions, although they both knew that the other party was deliberately asking for the price of 30,000 stone gold, but it was natural to reduce it.

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"Your Highness, this is a good thing, Tubo can't wait for you to do this, why bother so much?" Lu Hai was a little unsure.

"You don't understand, we take the initiative to do this, although they are very happy, but they will also pay great attention to us, but in the current way, they will lower their vigilance against us, so that your work will be more convenient." Li Ke shook his head slightly, "Have the relevant personnel been arranged?" ”

"It's arranged, it's almost the same as the appearance of the Tubo people, and it's not a problem to speak, there are about 500 people in the early stage, and I am handing over and checking the follow-up selection plan with Secretary Li." Lu Hai said immediately.

"Hmmm! It's up to you. Li Ke nodded lightly.

The reason why he didn't mind giving Tubo these weapons and equipment and so on was because Li Ke was ready to fundamentally dismantle Tubo, as a slave country, almost all the herdsmen in Tubo were slaves, and some ideas, once introduced, could ignite the prairie fire.

It is not too simple for these 500 people to be mixed into these slaves, because most of the Tibetans are also nomadic, so their slaves are not like the slaves of the Central Plains under the supervision of the nobility.

Rather, it is like a slave tribe scattered to the steppe, but unlike the Tuyuhun Turkic herdsmen, these slaves, the cattle and sheep grazing are all the master's, they themselves are also the master's, and what they eat and live in is the master's decision.

Therefore, Li Ke didn't mind giving them iron tools, books, seeds, even Quyuan plows, because they couldn't completely digest it in Tibet without more than ten years.

In fact, it is useless to digest it, because the good things are given to Tibet, and the Tibetans are used to make their slaves work and serve their nobles, and Li Ke does what he does...... It's a fundamental thing.

"Yes, I will appease and arrange those tribes who have entered my Datang from Tubo as soon as possible, and select some herdsmen who have acquaintances in other tribes in Tubo for training, they will live in my Datang for a winter, and they will definitely feel the brilliance of Your Highness next year, and then they will look for those people they know, and pass them on through these people." Lu Hai immediately bowed his head and said.

"Yes, I hope Zhenguan can see a good news in the tenth year." Li Ke nodded with satisfaction.