Chaos of the Three Kingdoms Summons

Chapter 2792 Fengtai Kingdom, Entering the Plateau

On November 3rd of the sixth year of Jian'an, after a series of crushing defeats, the entire Zhu Wu had lost all hope.

Zhu Tianpeng, a veteran general of the imperial clan who was already bedridden, finally stepped forward at this critical moment.

Under his leadership, the civil and military officials finally reached a temporary consensus and decided to formally surrender to the Great Jin Dynasty.

After Zhu Wu retreated from the mainland to Yizhou, there was indeed a group of people among them who were determined to be enemies of the Great Jin.

But so many years have passed!

Most of those people from back then have grown old and died.

Those who remained were mostly killed in battle not long ago, such as Lu Xun and Lu Ya.

Therefore, at this time, the voices of the die-hard faction in Zhu and Wu were no longer so loud.

Even if there were still some voices from these people, they were suppressed by the vast majority.

As for the King of Wu, he was young at this time, and Zhu Tianpeng and his civil and military officials made decisions for him.

Given the current age of the young King Wu, his opinion is of little reference value.

On November 11th of the sixth year of Jian'an, under the leadership of Qi Jiguang, the generals of the Great Jin formally accepted the surrender of Zhu Wu.

From that moment on, Yizhou was also brought under the rule of the Great Jin Dynasty.

And these wanderers from Yizhou, who had been away from their hometown for decades, finally embarked on the journey back to their homeland with tears in their eyes.

Unfortunately, Zhu Tianpeng, the veteran general of the imperial clan who orchestrated the defection to Jin, returned to his homeland and went back to the Zhu family ancestral home in Jiangdong. That very night, he passed away peacefully with a smile on his face.

Zhu Yuanzhang was a great ruler, and out of respect for him, the ancestral home of the Zhu family in the Great Jin Dynasty was not destroyed after the Southern War ended and is still well preserved.

Moreover, there is still a woman surnamed Zhu in the palace as a concubine. Since the other side has already lost, there is no need for the Great Jin to continue to kick them while they are down.

On the second day of the seventh year of Jian'an, Li Xiang established the State of Tai in Yizhou and selected one of his sons who was of suitable age but had not yet been enfeoffed to the State of Tai.

It would be inappropriate to classify the Yizhou region under Yangzhou.

The southern states were much larger in area than the central plains and the northern states, but the south was not yet fully developed.

Once the South has undergone sufficient development and transitioned to the prosperity seen after the first or even second southward shift of the economic center in history, it will inevitably be further divided.

Yangzhou, which was already large enough, was not suitable at this time to include Yizhou under its jurisdiction.

Not to mention, if the isolated island of Yizhou were incorporated into Yangzhou, it would be difficult for Yangzhou to manage it.

However, given the current population situation here, it would not be suitable to establish a separate state.

Japan never established a province because of its population problem.

Bai Qi killed so many people in Japan that the country is now severely underpopulated.

If the population is insufficient, there is no right to establish a state.

Therefore, Li Xiang compromised and established Yizhou as a separate country, just like Japan, and enfeoffed it. At the same time, after the region was enfeoffed, the central court would naturally allocate a portion of it to be undertaken by a prince.

In November of the same year, an envoy from the plateau arrived in Luoyang and expressed to the Emperor of Jin his desire to become a subject.

The plateau, during the time of Songtsen Gampo, was once again divided into three parts under the design of Cen Wenben.

After Princess Wencheng entered Tibet, her ambition grew as she rose to a high position, and she was no longer satisfied with Cen Wenben's control.

But at that time, Cen Wenben had no choice but to depend on her.

If the two of them officially break up, Cen Wenben's men will have no legal standing whatsoever on the plateau.

After all, this force was nominally part of Princess Wencheng's dowry, her personal property.

Princess Wencheng recognized this, which is why she adopted radical measures to get rid of Cen Wenben. At the same time, while seizing the throne, she did not forget to keep Cen Wenben dangling in order to utilize his power.

After all, regardless of how she came to be a princess, from the moment she was bestowed the title of princess, and from the moment Cen Wenben's troops became part of the princess's dowry, she already possessed the natural right to rule and the natural advantage to suppress Cen Wenben completely.

Even if the Great Jin Dynasty were to choose a palace maid, bestow upon her the title of princess, and send her to Tibet for a marriage alliance, it would certainly not choose a fool.

When Lu Dongzan was asked to choose a princess from a group of palace maids, he did indeed choose one, and that one would become a princess.

However, these palace maids were carefully selected from tens of thousands of palace maids.

In particular, he also needs to receive basic training before going to Tibet.

During her journey to Tibet, Cen Wenben continued to mentor her.

The strength of one's abilities can always have both advantages and disadvantages. With his strong abilities, Cen Wenben's work in the early stages went very well and smoothly. With the cooperation of Princess Wencheng, he even killed the Yuan Mongol envoy in Songtsen Gampo's palace, achieving the goal of "nothing ventured, nothing gained".

However, this also led to a situation that became increasingly difficult to control as the opponent's ambitions grew.

So, while pretending to cooperate with the other party, Cen Wenben flipped the table.

From then on, the issue of succession after Songtsen Gampo's death gradually evolved into the later issue of the division of Tibet.

As many years have passed, Cen Wenben has finally outlived Princess Wencheng. Now that Princess Wencheng's son has died of a "cold," he has supported the three-year-old prince to ascend the throne.

From then on, the military and political power of one of the three branches that had split up from Tibet completely fell into the hands of Cen Wenben.

It was under these circumstances that he sent envoys to express his desire to submit to the Great Jin Dynasty.

Of those who went up to the plateau together back then, Fan Kuai has passed away, and Gongyang Shuo also died from overwork after years of fighting.

Now all that's left of him is his old bones.

He feared that if he didn't return to his homeland now, he might never have the chance to do so again in his lifetime.

The Chinese nation, after all, still has a deep-seated belief in returning to its roots.

After the Tibetan Empire split, one of the three branches expressed its desire to become a vassal state of the Jin Dynasty, which meant that the Jin Dynasty's politics and military had thoroughly penetrated the plateau.