Chapter 1367: I Didn't Threaten You
Songtsen Gampo pursed his lips and tried to refute, but in the end he didn't know what to refute.
Glancing at Songtsen Gampo's expression, Chen Xuanzang smiled and said, "Your Majesty, there is actually something I can say in advance, but I didn't say it, the main thing is to have a sincere exchange with Your Majesty." ”
"What's the matter?" Songtsen Gampo's tone was not so blunt, because there were some words that Chen Xuanzang said very reasonably.
"Your Majesty should know that Datang has completely taken over the entire Goguryeo, after all, this battle report has also been reported by the Datang Weekly near Yuzhang Port, and with Your Majesty's attention to Datang, it is not difficult to get a newspaper."
"But I think Your Majesty shouldn't know how long Datang took it, right?" Chen Xuanzang said with a smile.
"What do you mean?" Songtsen Gampo frowned.
"Two months." Chen Xuanzang stretched out two fingers.
"It only took two months for the Tang Dynasty to take the entire Goguryeo, and the early stage of the Tang Dynasty was just a transfer of troops to the front line, from the first step of the Tang Dynasty's offensive to the complete capture of Goguryeo by the Tang Dynasty, it was only two months."
"I swear by my personal honor in this matter, if I Chen Xuanzang lies, not only will I be thundered and there will be no place to die, but even my family and future generations." Chen Xuanzang swore calmly.
Songtsen Gampo's face finally changed.
Goguryeo's powerful Songtsen Gampo is known, not to mention anything else, Goguryeo has resisted the attack of the former Sui million-strong army three times, and Goguryeo itself has hundreds of thousands of armored soldiers.
Whether it is combat effectiveness, population, land area, and even iron smelting and other technical aspects, it is far higher than that of Tibet.
Two months?! He didn't know what to say, because according to his thoughts, the land area of Goguryeo's level, two months just for the army to advance, right?
Although it is said that Datang is attacking from two directions, or even three directions, this speed is too fast!
And there are so many cities in Goguryeo, are those cities not paper-paste?
But Chen Xuanzang is so gambling, which means that there is a chance that this matter is true, because it is almost impossible for this kind of news to be faked, and it will spread sooner or later!
So, can Songtsen Gampo's face remain the same? Not to mention the Songtsam cadres, even Shang Xiang, Lun Keer and others, who have been listening, have changed their faces greatly, at such a speed and time, how strong must Datang's military strength be?
The point is that Chen Xuanzang mentioned one point before, after the Tang Dynasty took Goguryeo, this means that the Tang Dynasty has no enemies in the hinterland at all, and all the land will be the land of the Tang Dynasty, including Silla and Baekje, and the Tang Dynasty has also directly chosen to be incorporated into the territory of the Tang Dynasty.
Needless to say? Needless to say, after the Tang Dynasty has no enemies, it means that the Tang Dynasty can dispatch hundreds of thousands of troops to the west at any time, but they have lost the former moat! Plateau!
The place named by the Tang Dynasty as the Qinghai-Tibet Prefecture and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau used to be their biggest dependence, but now they can't go back there.
"Even if so, so what?" Songtsen Gampo is already completely hard-mouthed.
Because he actually thought of countless ways in his heart, but he couldn't think of a way to resist Datang.
"Actually, Your Majesty, some of the thoughts in your heart have never turned a corner, so let's think about it from a different angle, and all the prime ministers are the same." Chen Xuanzang looked at the other prime ministers who were listening, and then smiled and spoke.
"Your Majesty, let me say a few points first, people live in this world, it is nothing more than the word fame and fortune, let me not talk about it, after all, Your Majesty is also the king of a country."
"I'll start with the name, Your Majesty once said that you want to carry forward Tibet and become the founding king, can I think that Your Majesty wants a reputation, a reputation of Tibet, and lead Tibet to a strong reputation? The reputation of the Founding Emperor, right? Chen Xuanzang looked at him and asked.
Songtsen Gampo frowned slightly, although it was a bit blunt, but there was no one else here, Songtsen Gampo still nodded: "So to speak, that's right." ”
"This is very simple, whether it is Your Majesty or the prime ministers, no matter how you want to develop and expand Tibet, it is definitely not for the people of Tibet, right? If it was for the Tibetan people, then they would not be called serfs. Chen Xuanzang added lightly.
Shang Xiang and Lun Keer and the others did not answer, this kind of thing that everyone knows, there is no need to quibble, even Songtsen Gampo will not quibble.
"You see, in such a state, since it is for the sake of fame, then if you want to record your reputation, whether it is a history book or other methods, you must use the words of the Tang Dynasty to record it."
"But what I said is ugly, you Tubo don't say whether it can be sustained, even if it continues for your generation, after the next generation is destroyed by the Tang Dynasty, those historical books you left behind, after the Tang Dynasty casually destroys them, what is your reputation?" Chen Xuanzang said lightly.
"This ...... Not really. Songtsen Gampo didn't hold back, frowned and said, "Aren't the historians of the Tang Dynasty even going to change the emperor's living notes?" Moreover, in the history books handed down by the Tang Dynasty, the things about hostile countries recorded are not few. ”
"You see, Your Majesty, you know this very well, don't you? In other words, whether it is Your Majesty or the prime ministers, they all acquiesce that only the Central Plains Dynasty of the Tang Dynasty can pass on these historical books, am I right? Chen Xuanzang asked with a smile.
As soon as Chen Xuanzang's words came out, Songtsen Gampo and they were silent, this was not their acquiescence, but the fact. From ancient times to the present, starting from the bamboo slips of various historical books, the Central Plains Dynasty that used Chinese characters as a inheritance, and all dynasties have always had a history to pass down.
But what about these small countries around? There is almost no problem, only from the history books of the Central Plains Dynasty can we find a few words about them.
If there were no records in the history books of the Central Plains Dynasty, these small countries would have been annihilated in the history books long ago, and there would be no word of mouth.
Just like Tibet, before the establishment of Tibet, there were people living on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and maybe even lived for a thousand or two thousand years, but what do these tribes have? There was nothing at all, and Songtsen Gampo, who was also born as a tribal leader, knew very well.
His own tribe didn't record much about his predecessor, and he only knew about his grandfather, not even his great-grandfather.
Because there is no text, there is no record.
So what Chen Xuanzang said is not something that is difficult to understand or accept, because this is the truth!