Datang Longya

Chapter 1012 Let the tiger go back to the mountain (2)

The departure of Lu Dongzan and Xiao Zanpu finally cleared up Gao Yuan's power hierarchy.Without the leadership of a few big heads, the tribes below are independent. As long as they are divided a little, they can offset a lot of opposition forces.

But if Lu Dongzan goes back, if the plateau tribes collectively oppose Datang, then all the previous foreshadowing will be in vain, and maybe the plateau will become Tubo again and confront Datang.

Seeing that Feng Zhidai was about to jump up, Leng Feng smiled and said: "It's not that serious. In my opinion, sending Lu Dongzan back will help our actions a bit. Although Lu Dongzan abandoned those tribes back then, But as Prime Minister of Tubo, he is still a bit majestic. With him as the head of the flock, we can also reduce some resistance."

Although Feng Zhidai stopped dancing, he still didn't give up his opinion, and advised Leng Feng all the way to kill Lu Dongzan directly or imprison him.

Back at the place where the tour group's guards camped, Leng Feng found Lu Dongzan who was cutting herbs.

During this period of time, there were only two guards following him all the time, other than that, they didn't monitor him too much.Besides taking care of the remnant soldiers, Lu Dongzan rarely went out.

Seeing Leng Feng coming to see him, Lu Dongzan pointed to some medicinal materials beside the guillotine, and said, "If you have anything to say, I'll talk about it after I finish guillotining these medicinal materials."

These medicinal materials are needed by those disabled soldiers who passed through the Nanzhao Lin Mang with their disabled bodies, causing great damage to their bodies.The 500 people at the beginning have been reduced to 3000 today.After arriving in Lingnan, more than a dozen died due to acclimatization and worsening injuries.

After cutting out the herbs and letting a one-armed remnant soldier take them away, Lu Dongzan asked, "It's the reply from the Tang court, right? When will I go on the road?"

In his opinion, it is already a profitable business to exchange these remnant soldiers with their lives.

Leng Feng sat on a small bench and shook his head: "The imperial court didn't say to kill you directly, but gave me the right to dispose of you. That is to say, I am the one who decides your life and death now."

Lu Dongzan gave Leng Feng a strange look, and asked directly: "What do you want me to do? Let me tell you in advance that I will not betray Zanpu."

It's easy to talk to a smart person. If a stupid person comes over, I'm afraid I'll have to plead with him and ask for forgiveness immediately.Lu Dongzan, on the other hand, asked him directly what he wanted.

Looking at the remnants of the soldiers basking in the sun in the courtyard, Leng Feng said: "I can let you go back to the plateau, but you must promise to help me clear the plateau again. I'm afraid some of the remaining tribes are not so easy to appease. I want you to point them out."

Lu Dongzan said seriously: "Are you going to kill them? Is this how your Tang Dynasty comforted us?"

Leng Feng smiled and said: "Do you think it's possible? I'm not trying to kill them, but to send them away. Such a tribe can't have a centralized force, so they can't be broken up, part of them scattered, and part of them moved out of the plateau and distributed to Qinghai for a generation. Only In this way, the resistance of Datang to appease the plateau will be much smaller."

This is the result of Leng Feng weighing the pros and cons. In terms of understanding of Tubo, no one in the entire Tang Dynasty can compare with Lu Dongzan.Datang wants to control the plateau as soon as possible, and Lu Dongzan's help is indispensable.

As for letting the tiger go back to the mountain, as long as the road down the mountain from the western region of Shu is blocked, the tribes on the plateau can't do anything at all.With the threat of a large army, even if someone in the plateau wants to become king on his own, it is impossible.

As a place of severe cold, Datang wants to completely control the plateau in a short period of time, it is simply a dream.And the plateau that cannot be controlled by Datang, it is much better to let it be autonomous to a certain extent than to simply let it go or keep it in captivity.

For self-government, there needs to be a person who is not stupid enough to become a king on his own.Coincidentally, Lu Dongzan met this condition.

As long as there is a team following Lu Dongzan, it is impossible for him to make any changes.What's more, after a month of waiting and watching, Leng Feng had already seen Lu Dongzan's decadence.

Taking little Zanpu on an expedition, abandoning his ancestral land, and fighting repeatedly has polished off all his heroic hearts.At this time, he may be thinking of taking these remnants back to his hometown, where they will eventually be buried.

So what if you let the tiger go back to the mountain?As long as the tiger has a rope tied around its neck, it will be fine if it can deter those restless beasts when it returns to the forest.

Lu Dongzan's eyes flickered, he knew that people like Leng Feng would do what they said, and he also knew that Datang really needed him now, but doing things under Datang's control still made him feel like betraying his tribe.

Looking at the soldiers basking in the sun, Lu Dongzan said solemnly: "If I don't agree, what about these soldiers?"

Leng Feng shook his head: "What I said earlier still counts. I won't do anything to them. We will send them to the plateau as promised, and even send one or two doctors to follow them."

"Send a doctor?"

Lu Dongzan was taken aback. There were no doctors in the plateau, and there were only masters who also served as doctors.As a smart person, he didn't know that the practices of those masters could not cure diseases at all, but when he went to the Central Plains to seek medical skills, he always hit a wall.

When he went down the mountain to ask for Zanpu to marry Princess Datang, he wanted to introduce some technologies from the Central Plains, and medical skills were the most important thing.

"Didn't you prevent the spread of medical skills in Tibet? Why are you willing now?"

Leng Feng said seriously: "Of course not back then, we are an enemy country, anyone who can help you is an enemy. Now it's different, even though the tribes on the plateau are not official citizens of the Tang Dynasty, we can't just sit and see them If you get sick, you can’t cure it, and if you suffer from famine, you can’t eat. Lu Dongzan, believe it or not, as long as the herdsmen who stay on the plateau live a good life, they don’t care whether they are ruled by Zanpu or the emperor.”

Lu Dong sighed in admiration, although he didn't want to admit it, he still felt that what Leng Feng said was right.Those who did not follow Zanpu no longer had Tubo's usual enthusiasm and invincible mentality, and only wanted to live a peaceful life.Even if there are a few tribes that are dishonest, compared with all the people, they are only a minority.

Nodding stiffly, Lu Dongzan said: "Okay, I promise you. However, I still have to make a condition. At the beginning, we Zanpu built a Budala Palace (river crab) in order to marry the princess of the Tang Dynasty. Although the plateau It has been included in your Datang territory, I still hope you respect this place and don't reach out to this place."

It is Lu Dongzan's last wish to leave as much traces of Tubo's rule over the plateau as possible.

It was only then that Leng Feng remembered that the earliest Budara Palace was built at this time, it was just a group of palaces, and it didn't matter if it wasn't burned.

(End of this chapter)