The night was deep, and there was silence in the camp behind the commander's tent. This was very different from the past days when patrols were patrolling and being heavily guarded.
In the only small house that was still brightly lit, Qin Mubai paced leisurely and said, "I have given an order that no one is allowed to come within ten feet. Let us talk now, from the king's mouth. My ears don’t have to worry about the walls having ears.”
The mysterious Tubo man had been sitting cross-legged on the ground. Two sharp eyes shot out from the messy hair covering his eyebrows and fell directly on Qin Mubai. He said in fluent Chinese, "You are Qin Mubai." ?”
"It's guaranteed." Qin Mubai stopped and met his eyes. His heart moved slightly: This man's eyes are so calm, seasoned, sharp and profound, he is definitely not an ordinary pawn!
The Tubo man raised his hands and pushed away his messy hair, revealing a young yet heroic face, "What do you want to talk about?"
Qin Mubai smiled slightly, walked to the opposite side of him and sat down cross-legged, staring into his eyes, "Just talk, what you want to talk about."
"I have nothing to talk to you about." The Tubo man did not avoid Qin Mubai's staring gaze at all, and replied very calmly.
"That's strange." Qin Mubai said, "You went to such great lengths to first pretend to be sick and stay in my barracks, and then kill the other soldiers who stayed with you to silence them. Any chance to talk to me alone?”
The Tubo man raised his eyebrows in surprise and grinned slightly on his lips with a mustache, "You are indeed smart, I can't hide this from you!"
"Ha! What a trick!" Qin Mubai sneered, "Everyone is dead and you are the only one who is still alive. Isn't it obvious? In addition, among the four people who fell ill, only you were the least poisoned. He died of the least poison. The eight people holding the sword looked like they had drawn their swords and killed themselves, but that was just an illusion. After their bodies fell, they all pointed in your direction. It can be seen that they were all standing very close to you at that time, listening intently. What did you order, and then you were killed by a sudden killer blow without any precautions? I checked your hands. You are left-handed. There are thick calluses on the fingers of your left hand. It was sharpened by years of hard work on the scimitar. This is consistent with the depth of the cuts and the direction of the cuts. After killing them to make it look like they committed suicide, you poisoned the other two sergeants - tell me. , who are you? Why do you do this? "
"Aren't you very good at guessing? Why don't you keep guessing?" Tubo Man looked at Qin Mubai provocatively and said.
Qin Mubai sneered, "Haha", "I'm not interested in playing guessing games with a prisoner in the middle of the night. If you say anything, I'll kill you with a knife. I'll let you take your secret and bury it underground forever. ”
"If you kill me, you will regret it for the rest of your life." The Tubo man did not panic at all, but said with confidence.
"Really?" Qin Mubai smiled nonchalantly, got up and walked out, "I've done a lot of things I regret, and I'm not afraid of one more."
"Stop!" Tubo Man suddenly shouted.
Qin Mubai felt a little surprised: Weird! What kind of person is this, whose commanding tone makes him use it so skillfully
So he turned around, stared at the Tibetan man with a condescending frown, and said: "I don't want you to die now. But if you don't say what you should say clearly, you will never regain your freedom in this life. "
The Tubo man seemed to have turned a deaf ear to Qin Mubai's words and was not threatened at all. Instead, he answered the question coldly: "My name is Dege Damba Wangjie."
"Jujue is a big shot." Qin Mubai raised his eyebrows slightly and said, "None of the people named Dege in Tubo are nobody. If I remember correctly, after your Zanpu ascended the throne, he ennobled the meritorious officials and gave them Territory. The rewarded hero added his original surname to the name of the fief, and it became a new family name. As far as I know, the Dege family is deeply trusted by Zamp. Someone in the family has served as a general in Wei Ru, which is equivalent to me, General Zuowei of the Tang Dynasty, commanding the Royal Forest Army to guard Kyoto and defend the imperial city—then should I call you General Danba Wangjie? "
"My brother is what you call General Wei Ru. And I am the captain of the Guards of Zanpu." Damba Wangjie's triangular eyes never left Qin Mubai's face.
Qin Mubai frowned slightly, "You want to tell me that your Zamp has arrived at the military camp?"
"good."
"No, your Zanpu secretly sent you to find me. Is there something important?" Qin Mubai said with a smile.
"You guessed it right." Damba Wangjie said seriously, "That's exactly it."
Qin Mubai's heart trembled, and he asked doubtfully: "Even so, you don't need to kill so many people who are traveling with you, right? Why on earth is this?"
Damba Wangjie smiled coldly at the corner of his mouth and said: "I only recognize Zamp and no one else."
"I understand." Qin Mubai suddenly realized, "Garqinling sent people to go against me, but you did the opposite - then can I understand it this way, your Zanpu, and Garqin The mausoleum is not as harmonious as it seems?"
"Hmph..." Danba Wangjie snorted disdainfully, "It's not your turn to care about this matter. I only know that I am here to complete Zamp's mission."
"What mission?"
"Discuss peace, stop fighting, intermarry and make amends."
Qin Mubai was startled for a moment, then laughed, "Are you kidding?"
"I swear in the name of the gods of the plateau, this is not a joke." Damba Wangjie said seriously, "If the overall situation is not for the overall situation, love and self-interest are the most important, who would kill his own compatriots with his own hands?"
"It's just a trick, how can you hide it from me!" Qin Mubai sneered.
"..." Danba Wangjie was speechless for a moment, but he could hold his breath and said without changing his expression, "When I tell you the whole story clearly, you will believe it."
"Then just tell me and listen!" Qin Mubai said calmly, thinking: Isn't this right? Extorting confessions through torture and coercion and inducement may not yield anything. Only playing hard to get made you take the initiative to speak... It seems that this Damba Wangjie does know a lot of secrets!
"To tell you the truth, if it weren't for the talented people in your army who saw through the poison of the 'Zibazlanerli' flower, I wouldn't have killed my compatriots!" Damba Wangjie raised his eyebrows. Shen said with a cold expression, "Originally, according to Gar Qin Ling's plan, his three close guards would use this flower poison on you and your guards. Then..."
"kill me?"
"If he wants to kill you, he won't just use this kind of anesthetic." Danba Wangjie said, "He wants to put you into a coma and leave Dafeichuan leaderless. Then he sends troops to capture Dafeichuan and capture you alive. - Of course, the latter is the biggest goal. He even arranged for his confidants to find a way to kidnap you! "
"Idiots are just dreaming!" Qin Mubai sneered disdainfully, "Even if you are lucky enough to knock me over, it is absolutely impossible to take me out of the military camp."
"Even if it's impossible, just turning you upside down will achieve the goal." Damba Wangjie said, "Do you want to know what the purpose of the Garqin Tomb is?"
"Beating me and humiliating me, isn't that what he has always wanted to do?"
"On the contrary." Danba Wangjie said with a strange and gloomy smile, "He has made three preparations for you. First, he will put you under house arrest on the plateau for life, and you will not be able to return home for the rest of your life; second, he will become a foreigner with a different surname and race from you. We are sworn brothers, standing side by side on the plateau, with one man under one man and more than ten thousand people holding military power together; thirdly, if you don't agree to serve me, once Dafeichuan is defeated and Lanzhou is still difficult to break, he will Put it back!"
Qin Mubai was speechless for a long time after listening.
Of these three strategies, the first is cruel enough, the second is tempting enough, and the third is poisonous enough!
"Qin Mubai, thanks to the fact that Gar Qinling thinks so highly of you, he wants to become a sworn brother with you and jointly control the military power of Tubo. But he definitely has little hope for this, so he has the first and third hands. Prepare." Danba Wangjie said, "Not to mention the first hand, when you catch him, that may be his best ending; as for the third hand..."
"On the surface, it looks like letting the tiger return to the mountain, but in fact, it is just driving the tiger to devour the wolf and killing people with the help of a knife." Qin Mubai snorted coldly and said, "Gar Qinling, you have learned Sun Tzu's Thirty-Six Strategies in the Art of War quite well. . If according to his predetermined goal, I am defeated, Dafeichuan is lost, and he captures me alive and puts me back... By then, I, Qin, will definitely be unable to defend myself. Not only will I have to bear the crime of losing my teacher and humiliating my country, I will also be punished. Accused of collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country, no matter how much trust the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty has in me, there will only be one result, even if I don't die. Even if he is sentenced to death, he will be dismissed from his post, investigated and taken back to the capital. Once I leave, the Guanxi army will be in chaos without a leader. By then, it will be easy to defeat Helong and lead the army to the Central Plains - what a brilliant plan! "
"It seems... you and Gar Qinling are really good match and will meet a good talent." Damba Wangjie looked at Qin Mubai in surprise and said, "What you said is as if you heard it with your own ears. It’s exactly the same as what Gal Qinling said!”
"No need to talk nonsense - tell me, as a Tubo, why do you want to sabotage the plan of Gar Qinling?" Qin Mubai asked.
"It's very simple. Zampu doesn't want to fight, and Tubo needs peace." Damba Wangjie did not hide anything and said simply and decisively.
"Then what did you Zanpu do?" Qin Mubai said with a sullen look on his face, "These successive conflicts and wars, from the battle of Songzhou to the siege of Liangzhou, to the rebellion of Gaochang to kill my father, and then again The fierce fighting in Dafei and Sichuan is happening in front of us... Is this what you said, Zanpu does not want war, but Tubo needs peace? "
"There is only one reason, the Garqin Mausoleum." Damba Wangjie said, "He needs war to stabilize his position and prosper his family; he has crazy ambitions to unify Tibet and dominate the Central Plains - more importantly Yes, he holds more than 70% of the country's troops, and even his father cannot restrain him!"
"To put it in a nutshell, the Garqin Mausoleum has emptied out your Zanpu and arbitrarily determined the direction of the government by claiming the Tianxian, right?" Qin Mubai said.
"That's right." Damba Wangjie said, "In Tubo, down to Zanpu, no one does not respect the Garqin Mausoleum. He is like a god on the plateau... But he forgot that he is not a god after all. But the minister. The future of the dynasty and the life and death of all people should be decided by Zanpu, not a minister who is militaristic and has great achievements. "
After hearing this, Qin Mubai smiled slightly and said, "There is a saying in the Central Plains, which is that if the king wants his ministers to die, they will have to die."
"That's your Central Plains." Damba Wangjie replied without hesitation, "In Tubo, this won't work. Especially in the case of Garqin Ling, he was both the founding hero and the marshal in command, and Zampu's sworn brother. In fact, Apart from the differences over the war with the Tang Dynasty, Zanpu and Garqinling are as close as brothers from the same mother. There is no doubt that Garqinling is loyal to Zanpu, even if he has great achievements. No one will believe that Gar Qin Ling has different ambitions - this is the uniqueness of Gar Qin Ling, and this is also the difficulty of the matter!"
"This is quite the truth. If you are a powerful minister with different ambitions, it will be easier to handle." Qin Mubai said.
"Do you believe me now?" Damba Wangjie asked back.
Qin Mubai's face was expressionless and he didn't answer.
Danba Wangjie continued, "Last time, the Tang Dynasty court sent Liu Shanyin, the young minister of Honglu Temple, to the plateau to discuss the issue of intermarriage with the alliance. Originally, Zanpu attached great importance to this and was prepared to go to Golmud in person to welcome the discussion. . But before Zanpu arrived at Golmud, Liu Shanyin was already dead. Gar Qinling wrote a letter saying that Liu Shanyin died in an avalanche. The Tang army used this excuse to start another war, and he was forced to face the enemy... But the real reason , everyone knows it well. For this reason, Zanpu is very sorry, but he has no choice. Now that the war has begun, the possibility of negotiating a peace alliance is slim. Therefore, Zanpu did not give up his efforts. I disguised myself and infiltrated this mission. To be on the safe side, I first stole the anesthetics from the three confidants sent by Gar Qinling, and then knocked them unconscious. I also pretended to be poisoned and stayed there. In your military camp, in the end, in order to avoid friction and conflicts between Zanpu and Garqinling, I had to kill everyone who was left behind - the purpose was to carry out the order issued by Zanpu, Discuss with you the withdrawal of troops and the alliance!"
"You know, it's all over?" Qin Mubai's reaction was cold and calm beyond Danba Wangjie's expectation.
"Don't you believe me yet?!" Damba Wangjie finally got a little excited and shouted loudly.
"Believe it or not, it's one thing; how to do it, it's another thing." Qin Mubai smiled faintly and said, "I'm sorry for you to live here for a while, don't go anywhere."
"How long do you want to think about it?!" Dambawangjie asked eagerly.
Qin Mubai stood up, raised his head, pointed upward, and said with a smile, "God knows."