The third emperor of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 738
Arranging Li Keshi and Du Chuke as prefects of Xihai and Heyuan was only the first step. Immediately afterwards, Yang Tong ordered Pei Xingyan and Niu Jinda to lead the first army to Heyuan County to prepare for the war with Tubo.As long as the second general is fully prepared, then Yang Tong will go to the front line and personally conquer the arrogant Tubo army.I thought that was it, but I didn't expect that two days later in the evening, Ling Jing, a bad guest, broke the warm dinner of Yang Tong's family.

Inside the Hall of Qianqiu, Ling Jing cupped his hands and said, "My lord, Langri Zanpu sent a message of reconciliation through General Li Shimo."

"How do you say it?" Yang Tong asked with great interest.

Ling Jing said: "It's still the same. I hope Da Sui can agree to Tubo's marriage proposal, and the two countries will forever become a country of brothers, separated by a strip of water, will always be good neighbors, and will not use weapons for a hundred generations!"

Yang Tong was stunned when he heard the words, what happened to Lang Ri Zanpu, he still hasn't given up on courtship?
"It's really a wolf's ambition. It's simply a vow not to give up until the goal is achieved." Yang Tong sneered, "If Da Sui still refuses to marry, so what?"

Yang Tong could almost imagine that as long as he agreed to Tubo's marriage proposal, the next step would be to cry and ask Da Sui to marry doctors, farmers, craftsmen, etc., so as to bring the essence of Sui's thousands of years of culture to Tubo.

This is the case with Li Shimin, who was very successful and short-sighted in history. After he married Princess Wencheng to Songtsen Gampo, he unreservedly handed down official systems, laws, poems, agricultural books, history books, medical books, calendars, and even construction and engineering. The technology flowed to Tubo, so that Tubo jumped from a slave society to a highly centralized and powerful feudal era.

In just a few years, Tubo became the dominant power in the Southwest.Later, they not only seized the Western Regions and Hexi, cut off the Silk Road, but even broke through the capital and looted all the treasures in Daxing City.

Now Songtsan Gampo replaced his father—Langri Zanpu was poisoned to death, but Langri Zanpu used what his son did to Li Shimin, and applied it to himself. It was a good plan!

Ling Jing glanced at Yang Qinfang, who offered the fragrant tea and was lingering, and said with a smile: "If you don't agree, then lead the Tubo warriors to ride eastward, use weapons to plunder, and use blood and fire to destroy Tubo. Man's way of life!"

"I don't have a good life and want to rob others. This is simply the logic of robbers." Yang Tong laughed angrily, "I even use threats and intimidation. Do you really think I'm a fat sheep?"

"This time is different." Said: "The marriage they proposed this time is different from last time. Langri Zanpu wants to marry his aunt to the Holy One."

"Damn...I'm not interested in old women..." Yang Tong's face turned dark with anger.

"It's not an old woman, but a sister-in-law from his clan. She's not very old, and she's said to be quite beautiful." Ling Jing glanced at Yang Qinfang, who was holding back and had an ugly face, and tried his best to hold back a smile. As Yang Tong's close minister, of course She knew where Yang Qinfang came from, and also knew what this Lujiang princess was thinking.

"This matter is absolutely impossible." Yang Qinfang said with an ugly expression, sonorous tone, and words like a knife: "I think that the reason why my great Sui is rich in the world and the borders are stable is that the soldiers exchanged their lives and blood. It's not a marriage. If the generals in the court put out their bravery, then this Palace will be the first to call for a fight, vowing to defeat Tubo and protect every inch of our Great Sui territory."

Yang Qinfang was really annoyed in her heart, obviously everyone knew what she was thinking, but that bastard Yang Tong brought all the beauties into the harem one by one, but he didn't express his opinion at all, which made her feel anxious and hated, now she heard ' Marriage', jumped out to object without even thinking about it, thus ignoring Yang Tong's previous arrangement.

But after she finished speaking, she realized that she had overreacted. Seeing Ling Jing looking at her strangely, as if she had read her own thoughts, her face turned red, and she insisted righteously: "'No Ceding the land, not getting married, not paying tribute, the emperor guarding the gate of the country, and the king dying in the country' are my Great Sui national character, and I say this to maintain the Great Sui national character."

"What Lujiang said is very true." Yang Tong coughed lightly, and said, "It is obvious that Tubo coveted the wealth of the Sui Dynasty. In order to realize their own ambitions, they even talked about war in a high-sounding way to satisfy their greedy selfish desires. My generation, how could I agree? Let Li Shimo reply to Tubo: 'If you want to fight, then fight', there is no need for mother-in-law."

Da Sui wants peace?Then the only option is to trample the enemy country to the ground, not give him a chance to rise up, and let him be attached to and surrender to the Great Sui forever.So getting married is absolutely impossible...

Throughout the history of Tubo, Li Shimin's period was the most prosperous. This is not accidental, nor is it because Li Zhi was unlucky and unlucky to catch up with the powerful Tubo... but Li Shimin's "favor", so that Tubo, which lacks strong enemies, can be easily annexed In the surrounding land, integrating various internal forces, it easily dominated the southwest, and eventually surpassed the Central Plains Dynasty.

If the head of the Central Plains Dynasty was a person with a little vision, and he was the first to divide, disintegrate, absorb, and destroy Tubo before it became stronger, how could it sit back and watch the small border countries come from behind and dominate?
The direct result of Tubo's rise was the fall of the four towns of Anxi, the Central Plains lost control of the entire Western Regions, and the connection between the Western Regions and the Central Plains was severed.This series of evil results can be said to be caused by Li Shimin alone, causing future generations to pay for his stupidity.

However, Li Zhi, who was regarded as weak and incompetent by later generations, was actually a far-sighted political master. Retiring behind the scenes, leaving a room for myself, if he fails, he can throw Wu Zetian out; it is also the reason for his early death, otherwise, how could there be the later Zhou Wu Dynasty?

"My minister complies with the order, and my minister will leave." Ling Jing was afraid that he would offend Yang Qinfang, so he didn't dare to stay any longer, so he bowed and withdrew.

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In fact, it was not without reason that Langri Zanpu brought up the marriage again.

Before he succeeded Zanpu, Tubo was only a relatively powerful tribe on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. After he took over the throne, he started a war to dominate the plateau. Jialiang and other tribal countries attacked the mighty Subi tribe, thus unified the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and then established the Tubo Dynasty.

However, he reused the power of the original Subi nobles such as Niang Zanggu, Nong Jubo, Drepung Nasheng, Ba Yuzebu, Qiongbo Bangse, etc. who had made contributions in the unification war, in order to realize the annexation of Jiqu The purpose of the river basin and other places, and gave them territories and slaves, so that the status of the new aristocracy surpassed the old aristocracy. Although the royal power was greatly enhanced, it violated the interests of the old aristocrats, aroused the dissatisfaction of the old Tubo officials, and therefore harbored resentment.Although everyone is afraid of Langri Zanpu, who has a strong hand, he still can't completely suppress the forces of all parties based on tribes.

What method is used to twist the loose Tubo into a rope, so as not to consume Tubo's meager vitality due to internal friction?The way is - war!
He kept launching wars in all directions, uniting all classes in Tubo with the dividends of war.

It has to be said that this method has indeed brought great benefits to the major forces in Tubo. It has made all the forces in a state of disunity keep their own place and unite unprecedentedly.

But in any case, the barren land on the plateau and the sparse population doom the strategy of "supporting war with war" will not last long. Shang Nang, the Prime Minister who has long been entangled with the interests of Liangri Zanpu, knows that only the eastern powers that are flourishing in the Western Regions ——The Sui Dynasty maintained close ties in order to keep the royal family in a state of comprehensive development.

Moreover, Shangnang believes that the friendly countries Tianzhu and Nibhara are countries with the supremacy of religion. They control the people with religious beliefs, and the state power is always in the hands of Buddhism. It has a long history, but the national system has always stagnated. Only the political system of the Central Plains is in line with the future development of Tubo.

Langri Zanpu thought deeply that what he needed was a country with supremacy of the monarchy, and he really looked down on the official systems of Tianzhu and Nibhara, so he listened to Shang Nang's suggestion and sent his eldest son Dazan Gampo to pay tribute to the Sui Dynasty, hoping to establish friendly relations , so as to obtain all the cultural essence of the Sui Dynasty, so as to promote the comprehensive development of Tubo politics, economy, culture, military, agriculture, industry, and medicine.

It's a pity that they had calculated thousands of times, but they didn't count that the emperor of the Sui Dynasty was completely uncooperative. Not only did he blatantly reject Tubo's marriage proposal and plan to carve up Tuyuhun, but this powerful emperor also made Tubo's enemies Xiangxiong, Bolu, and Nvguo Included in the Silk Road Alliance for protection.

But Yang Tong's reaction was like a resounding slap in the face, which made Langri Zanpu's face burn with pain. This is not over yet, the Sui Dynasty even supported Prince Supi's "restoration of the country" activities.

The clay figurines are still angry, not to mention Langri Zanpu who unified the plateau?

But although he is proud and arrogant, he also knows that there is a gap in strength. When Sui was weak, he fought against the Eastern/Turkic army with millions of troops. Even if he had self-confidence, he had to wait and see. Look at Yang Tong's true attitude towards Tubo; secondly, Xue Wanche and Yu Chigong's [-] Silk Road coalition forces killed Tuyuhun and almost wiped out the country. I can vividly remember, so Langri Zanpu is still quite afraid of the Sui Dynasty. , not daring to directly become an enemy of the Sui Dynasty.

So he went back to form an alliance with Li Tang, not only sent troops to help, but also supported Li Tang's urgently needed war horses, hoping to use the hands of Li Tang Dynasty to achieve the goal of weakening the Sui Dynasty; Murong Xiaojun, whom he supported, will annex Tuyuhun in the next step, and then steadily approach the Sui Dynasty step by step. By taking advantage of the border, he will lure talents from the Sui Dynasty to enter the country with high-ranking officials and generous salaries, and use their knowledge Construct a perfect system; at the same time, befriend the Sui officials on the border and use them to influence the decision of the Sui Dynasty emperor.

However, the Sui army reacted too quickly, and a few guys wiped out more than 1 soldiers in Tuyuhun, and even entered the country to rob several times.He also saw that the Li Tang dynasty was really unreliable, which made him doubt the ability of his allies, and finally there was a proposal for another marriage.

(End of this chapter)