Chapter 859: The Treaty of Tubo in the Tang Dynasty
In the evening, the two women did come, but they did not become nonsense.
On the contrary, His Royal Highness the King of Qin can admit defeat in anything, but this can't, so after Li Ke went through the big battle with Yang Anning, Yang Li, Yang Yue, Liu Qingchan, and Li Changge, they all had to join their brothers.
The next day Li Ke got up late, today he was going to go fishing, I heard that the angler can catch anything, Li Ke is also ready to try to see if there is a mermaid to catch.
However, Li Ke can't be easy here, but some people can't.
Lu Dongzan didn't want to touch Li Ke's moldy head at this time, in his opinion, Li Ke probably provoked His Majesty the Tang Emperor, so he was beaten, otherwise, how could a serious person be suddenly beaten?
As for the specific reason for the matter, it is impossible for them to inquire from the mouth of the minister of the Tang Dynasty, who would dare to spread such a thing?
Say a word more, and you'll be waiting to be cleaned up by His Highness.
So Lu Dongzan can only guess by himself, the question is that everyone else can wait, but can he wait? No!
The family is still waiting for the rice to go to the pot, so he has to touch this mold.
Taking a deep breath, Lu Dongzan still proposed to visit His Royal Highness King Qin.
Li Ke, who was fishing in Qinwangzhuang, frowned slightly when he received Lu Dongzan's request to visit, so blind? Didn't you see that Lao Tzu was just beaten yesterday? Come and visit today.
"Nope." Li Ke waved his hand directly and said.
"Your Highness, the other party said that a thousand Tianzhu girls were prepared for Your Highness, all of whom were born Brahmins. After these girls waited for him to go back, they sent someone to Datang. Tian Meng bent down and said.
"Oh? So sincere, let's see it. Li Ke thought about it, after the construction of his sleepless city was completed, there was still a shortage of some talents, and these Tianzhu girls came well.
Lu Dongzan soon came in, and when he saw Li Ke lying on the deck chair fishing, the corners of his mouth couldn't help twitching.
"Lu Dongzan, the envoy of the lower country, has seen His Royal Highness the King of Qin." Lu Dongzan saluted Li Ke, this time his purpose of coming to Datang has been achieved, and 10,000 sets of Mingguang armor have far exceeded their expectations.
"Excuse me, we're acquaintances, so let's just say anything about it. I still have to recuperate. Tian Meng, give the seat. Li Ke said lightly.
"Your Highness." Lu Dongzan gave Li Ke a salute.
"Your Highness, books about the Tang Dynasty." Lu Dongzan hesitated and said.
"What do you want in terms of books? Tell me first, I see if you can give it? Li Ke looked at him and asked, Li Ke talked to him once before the military parade, and he only talked about books on Mongolian studies at that time.
"Here's my list of books." Lu Dongzan hurriedly took out a booklet from his arms.
Yang Anning, who was waiting behind Li Ke, stretched out his hand to take it, and then handed it to Li Ke.
Li Ke took it and looked at it, he couldn't see anything on the surface, but Li Ke couldn't help but praise it in his heart, this Lu Dongzan can leave a name in history and has some ability, among these books, they are basically the most critical, although those books of Confucianism are available, but some important books, such as the Nine Classics of Arithmetic, are also available here.
And many of the books he asked for, or all these books, Li Ke didn't care.
The reason is simple, so the books were given to him, and it took at least twenty or thirty years for them to train enough talents.
What will Tibet look like in twenty or thirty years, it's still uncertain.
"To be honest, I don't really care how many of these books give you or what they look like." Li Ke looked at Lu Dongzan and said.
"Yes, Your Highness said so." Lu Dongzan bowed his head and said.
"Let's be real, what can you give me? What can you give me? Depends on how much I can give you. Li Ke didn't want to talk about Lu Dongzan's pressing too hard, because these things were actually of little use to Tubo in the short term, and they would not affect Tubo's policies in the short term.
"Gold?" Lu Dongzan said tentatively.
Very good, His Highness's love for gold seems to be well known to everyone in the world!
"What else?" Li Ke looked at him and asked.
"I heard that His Royal Highness wants some documents from Tianzhu and the like, and I can send someone to send these things to Tibet when the time comes." Lu Dongzan spoke again.
"I'm just handy with those things, it doesn't matter if I want them or not." Li Ke waved his hand, culture may be the most important thing for everyone in the future, but in this era, for some countries, it is really useless.
Otherwise, the Library of Alexandria would not have burned down.
The same is true for a country like Tibet, since the Tibetans have made a decision to learn Chinese and learn the culture of the Central Plains, they do not have the energy to engage in other cultures in a short period of time, and it is impossible for them to do so.
Therefore, the Tibetan literature is of no use to them at all.
In fact, it is not useful to Li Ke, but there are some things that are useful to a civilization that has been inherited for a long time.
Since he didn't want these books from his original civilization, it was okay for Datang to accept them.
"Then why don't you speak out, Your Highness?" Lu Dongzan looked at Li Ke and asked.
"Gold is okay, those books can be sent over, and there is another one, when I have enemies in the local Tang Dynasty, Tubo must unconditionally cooperate with my Datang to send troops!" Li Ke said with a calm face.
Lu Dongzan did not refute, but lowered his head and began to ponder, unconditionally cooperating with Datang to send troops, this is actually what the subject country should do, and all the subject countries that have been subordinate to the Tang Dynasty before have this obligation, but Li Ke emphasized this matter again, which shows that the Tang Dynasty does not trust them.
In other words, Datang is also warning them in disguise.
"We can say yes, but the price...... Can't be too expensive. Lu Dongzan hesitated and said.
"I can sell these books to you, and of course, I can even print them for you." Li Ke said lightly, "In terms of price, I am about three times more expensive than the market price of Datang, and I will deliver the goods directly in Yuzhang Port." ”
Li Ke made the price and the like clear.
Lu Dongzan was stunned for a moment, and then said decisively: "No problem! ”
"Another condition, we have to sign a trade contract between us, Tang merchants do business in Tibet, and within 20 years, the Tubo government will not collect any taxes." Li Ke opened his mouth and added.
During this period of the Tang Dynasty, taxes were concerned, and the current tariffs were basically taxes on the import and export of goods, but in fact, the Tang Dynasty was not called this name at the beginning, but called the checkpoint tax.
Later, Datang's checkpoint tax will even continue to the fact that some people set up cards to collect taxes between various states, but now this will not be the case.
With a unified national commercial tax system, and the existence of departments such as the Ministry of Security, these will be much lower in the future.