Chaos of the Three Kingdoms Summons

Chapter 2574 Shocking Changes on the Plateau, Struggle for the Throne

plateau!

During this period, Cen Wenben was extremely stressed, incredibly stressed!
Everything happened so suddenly!

Over the past decade, both the Central Plains and the grasslands have been in dire straits.

In the past decade, the first two years were filled with war in the Central Plains and the grasslands. The following three years were the most difficult three years. The three years of the pandemic were even more difficult than the war.

After enduring those five years, the economy began to recover. Even so, during the early and middle stages of the recovery, everyone tightened their belts.

However, the plateau is the only exception.

Even if the epidemic is raging in other places, it hasn't affected them.

The Central Plains and the grasslands were in dire straits.

However, on the plateau, Songtsen Gampo completely crushed the Qiang people and unified the entire plateau in the past ten years. His two greatest enemies, the two Qiang tribes led by Yao Yizhong and Li Te, have now become a thing of the past and have been completely incorporated into the ancient Tibetan people.

Yao Yizhong and Li Te, who were the leaders, also became a thing of the past with the defeat of their respective tribes.

At this point, there was no longer a distinction between the Qiang and ancient Tibetan peoples on the entire plateau, leaving only the last Tubo people.

This decade also marked a period of rapid development for Tibet.

When Princess Wencheng entered Tibet, Songtsen Gampo did not acquire the various technologies he needed, but at least he gained access to the scriptures and culture of Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism.

As for various technologies, although they did not obtain them from the Great Jin Dynasty, they obtained them from the Yuan Mongols.

With Xizhou and western Liangzhou officially falling into the hands of the Yuan Mongols, communication between Tibet and the Yuan Mongols became slightly easier. Of course, it was only slightly easier. A round trip to the plateau would take at least half a year, even if it didn't take a year.

Today, the various cultures and technologies of the Yuan Dynasty are composed of a combination of different elements, with the largest part coming from the Han Chinese. Through continuous contact with Parthia, they also acquired a great deal of culture and technology from them.

In addition, they also came into contact with Rome and the Kushan Empire, and in the process, they learned about some of the culture and technology of these two great empires.

Therefore, through continuous piecing together, the unique style of the Yuan and Mongol dynasties was formed.

As for present-day Tibet, in terms of culture, it was most influenced by the Jin Dynasty, while in terms of technology, it was just like the Yuan Dynasty, a complete copy of Pinduoduo.

However, even so, these past ten years have also been a period of rapid development for Tibet.

After all, Tibet's foundation was very weak before, so the improvement it received after acquiring these things was even greater.

As the first unifier of the plateau, Songtsen Gampo, the founder of the Tubo Kingdom, is destined to be a shining figure in history. Indeed, modern Tubo has begun to learn from the Han and Jin dynasties and has started compiling its own history.

In the past decade, Tibet has been developing rapidly, and Songtsen Gampo himself has also been developing rapidly. Whether it was formally establishing the Tibetan kingdom and officially becoming emperor, or formally unifying the plateau, his attributes have been greatly enhanced.

Therefore, the personal attributes of Songtsen Gampo later were completely different from those of him when he was born.

But just a few years after Songtsen Gampo unified the Tibetan Plateau, and while Tibet was on the rise, his personal life came to an end.

This powerful ruler of the plateau, one of the top rulers in history, was so easily taken away by disease.

All of this was too unexpected and too sudden. As an important minister of Tibet, Gar Tongtsen Yulsung did not expect that Songtsen Gampo would suddenly die of illness, and Cen Wenben of Jin also did not expect that Songtsen Gampo would suddenly die of illness.

Even with rapid development in recent years, the medical conditions on the plateau are still far inferior to those in the Central Plains. Even in the Central Plains, a minor illness could be fatal, let alone on the plateau.

Songtsen Gampo, in a sense, died young, as he was only in his thirties.

Of course, compared to his original historical counterpart, he still came out ahead.

Historically, he also died in his thirties. If you really count, he lived an extra year in this life.

However, although Songtsen Gampo died, he left behind a mess.

After all, although he is dead, problems have arisen regarding the issue of succession.

The reason is simple: Songtsen Gampo had not yet appointed a crown prince.

In his heart, he naturally wanted to establish a prince of pure Tibetan blood, rather than Princess Wencheng's child as the crown prince.

With his lineage from the Jin Dynasty, and given the situation of Cen Wenben's forces on the plateau, if he were to become the next ruler of Tibet, he would be a destabilizing factor.

However, since Tibet was weak and the Jin Dynasty was strong, and Princess Wencheng was the empress, Songtsen Gampo chose to postpone the matter of the crown prince for the time being.

Before his death, although he left behind a decree of succession, there were two such decrees.

It is precisely because of these two completely different edicts of succession that the current plateau is in turmoil over the succession.

The true edict of succession issued by Songtsen Gampo was indeed passed to the son of his concubine.

But Cen Wenben has been on the plateau for more than ten years, and those ten years have not been wasted.

Cen Wenben, who lived on the plateau, was a complete spendthrift. He truly paved the way with money, relying solely on showering Tibetan officials with cash to win their favor.

In the process, he also won over countless people, including those close to Songtsen Gampo.

In Tibet, most people were terrified of poverty.

Using money to bribe people is a simple but effective method.

Three years before the pandemic, the Great Jin Dynasty was not short of money.

Three years after the pandemic, although the Great Jin Dynasty was extremely short of money, it was not just a small amount of money that it needed.

Yes, although Cen Wenben used money to pave the way, the amount of money he spent each year was really a small sum for the Great Jin Dynasty.

The same amount of money might not be enough to win over Han Chinese, but in the impoverished highlands, purchasing power is a completely different story.

The value of money lies not in itself, but in its purchasing power.

Therefore, it was precisely because Songtsen Gampo had several people around him who were Cen Wenben's men that he was able to forcibly create a second edict of succession.

Ultimately, this wasn't even written by Songtsen Gampo himself.

He was already seriously ill at the time and was unable to write, so he dictated to his attendants who wrote it down for him, and then affixed the official seal.

It was precisely because Songtsen Gampo himself did not write it, and because he had his own people around him, that the possibility of forgery arose.