Mansong Mangzan and Garzandro looked in disbelief. They stared blankly at Li Hong, holding his arms around the shoulders of the Holy Savior Mother Buddha, standing in the square of the Red Palace and exclaimed: "Tsk, tsk, this Potala Palace is really nice. Ah, is that the legendary Golden Summit Group over there? Is this place really like a maze? If you don’t have an acquaintance to guide you, you will lose your way and then you won’t be able to get out?”
"If it really makes people disoriented, I will throw you in first and trap you, the little devil, so that you can't harm our Tubo people." Director Wencheng Gong Li Hong put his arm around his shoulders and said angrily. .
Seeing his grandson Mangsong Mangzan and the Tibetan Prime Minister standing there with trepidation and caution, waiting for the winner to ask questions, his heart felt even more uncomfortable.
Li Hong didn't care. He didn't care what Wen Cheng said. He still stood above the Red Palace and looked at the entire Luoxue City.
The entire Luoche City seemed to have been trampled under his feet. Rows of houses were neatly arranged. However, contrary to this, the people in the city were running around in panic, and even started to gather in several places in the city.
"It seems pretty good. The entry of our Tang people didn't cause too much panic." Li Hong said with a smile, not caring at all that heart-rending cries could be heard from time to time at the city wall he blew up. .
"Are you deaf? Can't you hear the Tibetan people crying there?" Princess Wencheng shook off Li Hong's arm around her shoulders, stretched out her hand like Wu Mei, grabbed Li Hong's ears and moved toward the blown-up city gate. Look everywhere.
"That's what war is like, right." Li Hong said confidently. After seeing Princess Wencheng let go of her hand, she slowly walked to Mansong Mangzan.
After Princess Wencheng married Tubo's Zanpu, she began to ask the emperor of the Tang Dynasty to appoint the new Zanpu of Tubo.
When Mangsong Mangzan was established as Tubo Zanpu, it was Li Zhi who appointed him and conferred him the title of Tubo Zanpu.
However, these are just a formality, and Tubo still has the final say. What Datang received was nothing more than an honorary ordination form.
If we can really have absolute power and influence over the canonization of Tubo Zampu like in the previous life, or like Tubo's theocracy, then we can truly control Tubo.
And this is what Li Hong wanted to do after he invaded Luoshou City, and established a puppet-like Zanpu for the Tang Dynasty to use.
But he also knew that such an idea was not realistic now, because Princess Wencheng would never agree.
This Tang royal family member who enjoys the highest reputation in Tubo is now devoted to Tubo.
As the Holy Savior of Tubo, she would never agree to this.
In the second year after Emperor Taizong died of illness, Songtsen Gampo also followed his soul to return to bliss.
I wonder if this is the end of an era. Two wise monarchs who have made extraordinary achievements in their respective countries seem to have made an appointment. They each left behind a country with a bright future. Less than a year apart, they We entered the paradise world together.
"When my father appointed you as the Zanpu of Tubo, I never thought that you would disobey the will of the Tang Dynasty and invade Tuyuhun regardless of the opposition of the Tang Dynasty. In this matter, as a Zanpu, should you give it to the Tang Dynasty? "Tang, can you tell me something?" Li Hong looked at Mang Song and Mang Zan, with the victor's posture clearly visible.
Mansong Manzan, like his father, was tall and mighty.
Mansong Mangzan bit his lip and said with difficulty: "It was Tuyuhun who offended me first, and it was not that I deliberately provoked trouble."
Li Hong lowered his head and smiled, then sighed and said, "When my grandpa rejected your proposal to marry my aunt Wencheng, you thought it was Tuyuhun who was causing trouble. From then on, you held a grudge against Tuyuhun and started to use troops against Tuyuhun."
Li Hong walked around the Red Palace Square and continued softly: "In the fourteenth year of Zhenguan, Aunt Honghua married Tuyuhun. In the fifteenth year of Zhenguan, Aunt Wencheng married you Tubo. It has been thirty years now. When Aunt Wencheng got married, our Tang Dynasty bought her a rich dowry: Buddha statues, gold and jade bookcases, various scriptures, food cooking, silk and satin quilts, various craftsmen and technologies, including our Tang Dynasty’s Medical skills, and the vegetables that our Tang Dynasty is suitable for you to grow in Tubo, etc. To put it bluntly, if Aunt Wencheng hadn’t brought you these advanced civilizations of the Tang Dynasty to Tubo, I’m afraid you, the Tubo people, would have suffered any natural or man-made disasters. You have to lead your people to eat dirt, right?"
Li Hong's words and sentences not only pierced Mansong Mangzan's heart, but also made his face turn green and red, making him extremely embarrassed.
What's more, Garzandhuo and Princess Wencheng also looked embarrassed, with uncertain expressions.
"There is a saying in the Tang Dynasty: 'Fighting rice nourishes kindness, shouldering rice nourishes hatred'. Do you know what it means? That is, when people are in trouble, I give them a small amount of help to help them solve their urgent needs. He will be grateful to me. But if I continue to help him like this, when I am unable to help him for other reasons, he will hate me and will bear it for the rest of his life. To put it more bluntly, I have raised a white-eyed wolf! Instead of doing this, it's better to strangle me! Otherwise, you will hate me and stab me in the back!" Li Hongyun said calmly, but it made people feel a strong murderous intention.
"Ouch..." Bai Qi ran up to Li Hong and lightly bit Li Hong's hand that was stroking its head in protest.
As soon as I ran up, I heard someone using myself as a metaphor, and it was a negative example. This must be refuted.
The Tibetan ministers standing in the square were either Garzandro or Mangsongmangzan. At this time, they were pointed at their noses and scolded as ungrateful villains, but they could not refute and couldn't help but bowed down in embarrassment. head.
Princess Wencheng remained silent, quietly watching Li Hong, who was calm and domineering, talking.
The Tang Dynasty was really lucky to have such a prince. This son's talents and strategies are infinitely superior to those of his father, and he points directly to the late emperor's dominance of the world.
"So, people must know how to be content, but also how to be grateful. Back then, Grandpa Huang was able to defy all opinions and agree to marry Aunt Wencheng, bringing long-lasting prosperity to Tubo. Then... I, Li Hong, can still defy heaven. Behind the scenes, with my iron cavalry of the Tang Dynasty, I will let you continue to return to the era of eating grass!"
"Li Hong, how can you really pretend that I don't exist? This is Tubo, not your Chang'an City of the Tang Dynasty. How can you be allowed to talk nonsense here!" Princess Wencheng said coldly with a cold face.
Although what Li Hong said is true, is the cause of the matter really as simple as what Li Hong said
It has been more than thirty years since I entered Tubo, and now I have already lived and died with Tubo.
Why was he married into Tubo back then? To put it bluntly, I am just a victim of the complicated background between Tubo and Tang Dynasty!
But now that Tubo is prosperous, he is worshiped and made a god by the Tubo people.
It was indeed everything he brought from the Tang Dynasty that changed the poverty situation in Tubo and established his noble status in the hearts of the Tubo people.
But after Li Hong said it, the taste changed unknowingly, as if these people were all repetitive villains who were inferior to pigs and dogs.
"Big talk? Am I wrong? If you hadn't married them and brought them advanced civilization, would they know how to burn charcoal? They knew how to smelt iron? They knew how to weave wool? And not only do they not know how to be grateful , but they used the civilization of the Tang Dynasty to harm the people of the Tang Dynasty! Why shouldn't I stand here and question you?" Li Hong suddenly turned around and looked at the trembling Princess Wencheng. , shouted loudly.
"What on earth do you want to do? Now you have avenged your people, and Tuyuhun has been returned to you! And how many people in Tubo died at your hands? Four hundred thousand lives were lost by you in Tubo for more than a year. They killed and injured nearly 300,000 people from west to east and from east to west. Isn’t that enough to compensate for the mistakes made by Tubo in the past few years? "Princess Wencheng looked pitiful, with a somewhat sad look on her face.
I don’t know if she is sad because of the death of the Tubo people, or because her good years were given to Tubo in the far west and high land.
Now when I look back suddenly, I realize that in the complicated background of Tubo and Tang Dynasty, I, as a political victim, entered Tibet, lived in Tibet, and defended Tibet.
There is too much sorrow in this life. Now, because of the destruction of the city, he has to face his own royal family members again.
She looked at Li Hong and vaguely guessed the ambition of His Highness the Crown Prince of the Tang Dynasty.
This was a terrifying boy, terrifying enough to scare her and make her feel frightened from the bottom of her heart.
Li Hong looked at her quietly and said word by word: "Please ask Aunt Wencheng to return to Datang."
"impossible."
"no!"
"Absolutely not!"
Princess Wencheng, Mangsong Mangzan, and Garzandhuo objected at the same time, their dry voices more and more revealing the panic in their hearts.
The Holy Mother of Saved Buddha, after the death of Songtsan Gampo, she was the spiritual support of the Tubo people. If she returned to the Tang Dynasty and abandoned Tubo, no one could imagine what kind of chaotic situation Tubo would usher in.
On this point, whether it is Mangsong Mangzan, Garzandro, or Princess Wencheng herself, they all understand it clearly.
The intention of His Highness the Crown Prince of the Tang Dynasty is to plunge Tubo into civil strife, and then completely destroy Tubo's current peaceful situation.
Let Tubo fall into pieces, so that he can have the opportunity to slowly divide Tubo and eventually incorporate the entire Tubo into the territory of the Tang Dynasty.
"Okay, then let's set up another Zampu, one that needs to be recognized by the Tang Dynasty! Not the Zangpu that you recognize! I, the Tang Dynasty, will select the Zangpu for you!" Li Hong glanced at Chi Dusong with his profound eyes. Jie and the others said slowly.
"impossible."
"That's nonsense!"
"Absolutely impossible!"
The three of them objected emphatically and unanimously, but this time, their expressions were full of anger.
(End of chapter)