A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 936 The Death of the Tibetan Envoy

When Li Chengqian heard Murong Shun's name, he was very familiar with it.

In the Chongxian Hall of the East Palace, the prince gave Li Yifu a cup of tea and asked him to continue talking.

"Murong Shun is the son of Tuyuhun Khan Fuyun. He was also the prince of Tuyuhun. His mother was Princess Guanghua of the Sui Dynasty."

In the 16th year of Emperor Kaihuang's reign, Princess Guanghua was ambushed by Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty Yang Jian and his relative Tuyuhun Khan. Later, she died in civil strife. According to the death of Tuyuhun's father and brother, she was married to her stepmother, widowed sister-in-law, and wife's brother-in-law. It was given to Shifu's younger brother, the new Tuyuhun Khan Fuyun.

Murong Shun was originally established as the prince by Fu Yun, but later he was asked by the Sui Dynasty to enter the court as a hostage.

As soon as Murong Shun left the Central Plains and never returned, Fu Yun made his younger son Zunwang the prince. It was not until the death of the Sui Dynasty that Murong Shun was able to return to Tuyuhun, but he lost the title of prince and was only granted the title of King Daning.

Because he was born to a Sui princess and had been in the Central Plains for a long time, not only Fu Yun didn't like him, but also many people in the country didn't like him. But to the Tang Dynasty, Murong Shun was half Han ancestry and had stayed in the Central Plains for many years. It is a more suitable marriage partner.

Murong Nuohebo was still very young, but he also had Han blood in his body.

"Sooner or later the Tang Dynasty will defeat Tuyuhun,"

"The purpose is to provoke enmity between Tubo and Tuyuhun, and to make them fight. If the Tang Dynasty and Tubo make peace, then Tubo may not go to war with Tuyuhun,"

Cheng Qian thought for a while, and it seemed that this was true. If Tubo was satisfied, why would he still fight Tuyuhun?

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's strategy coincides with His Majesty's previous thoughts." Ma Zhou praised.

"I once heard my teacher talk about this Tibetan people, especially their king Songtsen Gampo. I heard that he was about the same age as me, but very capable. When he was twelve years old, the nobles rebelled and his father was poisoned. He succeeded to the throne at a young age. However, it only took a few years to put down the rebellion, and then sent troops to conquer Yangtong, a powerful country in the west.
After the defeat of Yangtong, he took the initiative to marry his younger sister and his brother Yangtong to the king. The two countries married and stopped fighting. Then they moved the capital to Luoche, reformed the system, and in just a few years, the snow-covered plateau rose. "

He handed the memorial to Zhongshu Ling Ma Zhou, "Come and take a look."

Cheng Qian wrote a memorial about the plans Li Yifu had discussed with him and presented it to his father.

After Li Shimin saw it, he couldn't help but be a little surprised.

"Teacher really attaches great importance to Tubo. He has told me more than once before that Tubo will become an important enemy of the Tang Dynasty in the future, and may even become a close enemy, far more threatening than Tuyuhun.

This young man is now the imperial censor,

He felt that the young man Zampu was very impressive. Under his leadership, it was indeed possible for Tibet to descend from the plateau, and even march into the Western Regions one day, or raid north to Qinghai.
They might even threaten Jiannan or even Nanzhong of the Tang Dynasty.
Qinghai has the Silk Road Qinghai Road, and Nanzhong now also has the Southwest Silk Road that is being rebuilt.
Although Tubo is far away, it has the potential to threaten the Tang Dynasty in the future, so we must start paying attention to it now and nip it in the bud.

So this time we took the opportunity of the two countries to get married and let them fight, which will not only break Tubo's development plan, but also consume Tuyuhun's strength first." Li Yifu originally didn't think that Tubo could be very powerful, but the court had previously suffered from Wu Huaiyu's Despite repeated reminders, several envoys were sent to visit Tibet.
The mission went to the snow-covered plateau for careful investigation and brought back many of the real conditions there, and also truly understood the greatness of this young man Songtsen Gampo.

This is why we now pay more attention to Tubo.

Cheng Qian thought for a while, "Normally, it is said that the Tang Dynasty will destroy Tuyuhun sooner or later, so why is it not with Tubo but with Tuyuhun in this marriage?"

Li Shimin laughed, "Chengqian definitely didn't come up with these by himself," he asked Zhang Ananda to ask,
I soon got the answer,

"I really want to meet that boy Zanpu in person." Cheng Qian was very interested in the young King Fan of the same age who even the teacher praised.

It was beyond his expectation.

And Li Yifu also carefully read the information about Tubo brought back by the envoy, and especially carefully studied the situation of the young man Zanpu.

"In the end, he is just a barbarian king in the Snow Land," Li Yifu said with a smile.

Four countries, five forces, three princesses.

"Li Yifu, Huaiyu's most protégé, I guess. He is a smart young man. He is young and talented, and has good means of doing things. He dares to fight and attack."

Today's Tubo is actually separated from Tuyuhun by some small tribes.
In fact, it is not yet time for the two countries to meet each other. Tubo has risen strongly, and its priority expansion direction is left and right.
They proposed marriage to the Tang Dynasty, and of course they wanted to strengthen trade with the Tang Dynasty. They even wanted to use the tiger skin of the Tang Dynasty to attack the Qiang in the east.

Even though he was only from the sixth rank, the imperial censor was an enshrinement officer, a regular council officer, and even a Qingwang officer. His job was to often correct and impeach hundreds of officials, and he was known as the junior third officer together with the doctor of the Ministry of punishment and the Dali minister. director,

As an official of the Qing Dynasty, he also had the emperor's advisors on hand to serve around him.

Li Yifu also held the title of direct bachelor of the Chongxian Palace of the East Palace. Li Shimin was still very impressed by him. After all, he was very young when he became a Jinshi and was even called a child prodigy.

"Prince Bin, please prepare a Taoist edict for me. I will confer the imperial edict to Li Yifu, the prince of the East Palace, and the direct bachelor of Chongxian Pavilion. I will grant you the title of male from Guangping County."

Ma Zhou couldn't help but be a little surprised. This Li Yifu had really risen through the ranks. He remembered that Li Yifu should only be twenty years old this year.

The imperial censor is a high-ranking official. He is both noble and valuable.
The current crown prince, Sheren, is in the sixth rank, and is in charge of the Eastern Palace's orders and orders, which is also an important position.

What's even more amazing is that he was directly granted the title of county baron.
Although the title of Sanjue is false, it is not easy for civil servants to be granted the title. Unless the official position is above the third rank, the court will naturally grant the title of Sanjue to prime ministers, ministers, etc. in vain.

For example, Ma Zhou was previously the son of Gaotang County. Later, when he entered the third rank and entered the center, he was given the title of County Marquis. This time, because of his position as prime minister, his merit in compiling history, and his stepdaughter's pregnancy with the emperor's eldest grandson, he was granted the title of Duke of Yan. . It is undoubtedly very rare for a sixth-grade man from Li Yi Mansion, who is only twenty years old, to be granted the title of county boy.

Obviously, the emperor was very satisfied with the suggestions given by Li Yifu to the prince to deal with the marriage proposals of various tribes, which were truly strategies for the country.

Ma Zhou knew that the emperor originally planned to send troops to Tuyuhun this year, and everything was ready. Suddenly, there was a flood in the Huanghuai River, and the imperial court had to suspend the troop plan.

The plans proposed by Li Yifu at this time, including marrying Murong Shun's son and provoking Tubo to attack Tuyuhun, were indeed clever moves.

Especially the son of Murong Shun, whom he married, made Li Shimin think this move was very beautiful.

If we don't send troops this year, we will definitely send troops next year. The imperial court is confident enough to kill that bad old man Fu Yun, but after killing Fu Yun, how to control the old Tuyuhun land is indeed not easy.

Yang Guang defeated Tuyuhun and then established four counties, but he did not succeed.

Therefore, from Wu Huaiyu to Li Jing to Fang Xuanling, Wei Zheng and other prime ministers, most of the suggestions are based on the experience of destroying DTZ.

In order to defeat Tuyuhun militarily, in particular, Fu Yun must be captured and sent to Chang'an, or Fu Yun must be killed. Then it is best to support Murong Shun, a man who is close to the Central Plains but has no foundation in Tuyuhun, to rule the homeland.
He was granted the title of governor and county king, and the governor's palace was established in the Tuyuhun area. More states were designated below and awarded to the noble leaders of Tuyuhun who surrendered to the imperial court.

At that time, the governor of Liangzhou will be appointed as regent and lead troops to monitor Tuyuhun.

According to this plan, Murong Shun's son, Princess Shang Datang, would naturally allow Datang to better control Tuyuhun.

"This Li Yifu is indeed Wu Huaiyu's proud disciple, and he actually has several true inheritances of Wu Huaiyu." Li Shimin laughed loudly. He was very good at discovering talents and was willing to promote them.

In the emperor's view, Li Yifu was undoubtedly another Ma Zhou and another Wu Huaiyu. The emperor was very willing to reuse a young man like Li Yifu who came from a poor family.

"Ask gifts from six countries to the Western Turks, and ask for hundreds of thousands of livestock as gifts from Xue Yantuo and Tuyuhun. Good, very good, let's do it as they discussed, and let the prince personally talk to the envoys from these countries,"

In the next few days,
The Crown Prince, along with Li Yifu and Ma Zhou, personally took charge of the matter and had many rounds of face-to-face discussions with envoys from several countries.

"The fight started,"

There was a fight at the embassy.

First, the envoys of the Western Turks and Eshe led people to fight with Yugushe. The Tang Dynasty asked the Western Turks to cede the six kingdoms as a courtesy to the Tang princess. Tongershe still hesitated, but Yugushe's people took the initiative to report to the Tang Dynasty. He expressed his willingness to cede the six kingdoms just for the sake of Princess Tang.

That Yugushe is Jieli's son. His father just died in Chang'an at the beginning of the year, but Yugushe has no intention of avenging his father. Now he just wants to hug Datang's thick legs tightly so that he can rely on him to fight for the Western Region. .

My father is dead. As long as he can become the Great Khan of the Western Turks, there is nothing wrong with being Li Shimin's son-in-law. I am willing to be his grandson.

But Tongeshe refused,
Why are you arguing with me? Five of the six countries are now in the hands of the Western Turks. You are too shameless to give my five vassal countries to the Tang Dynasty as a gift princess.

I have never seen such a shameless person.

Especially since you, Yugushe, are from DTZ. Your Jieli son followed Shibi Khan’s son, Laoyugushe, to guard Mobei. As a result, Laoyugushe died. You took advantage and became Yugushe, and later became a soldier. After being defeated and fleeing to the Western Regions, the Western Turks took us in.

As a result, your wings have become stronger now. Not only are you poaching, but you also want to seize the foundation. Now you even want to rob the princess, and you are shameless, especially using the vassal state of the Western Turks as a gift.

Tong Ershe also knew that his eldest brother, Duolu Khan, could not last long. This time he came to Chang'an to court the emperor, and he would have to get the support of the Tang Dynasty. Of course, the best support would be to marry Li Shimin's daughter, so that he would become the emperor's Khan. son in law.

Both missions were housed together,
Then the fight started,
Both he and Oshe were stabbed, and he almost died before his brother.

The two missions from the Western Regions were fighting fiercely here, and Tubo and Tuyuhun were also fighting.

The reason why they fight is simple.
Honglu Temple officials first told them that both the saint and the crown prince were very satisfied with their young and promising Zanpu and intended to marry the princess to him.

Just when the Tibetan envoy was overjoyed, thinking that Tubo had been asking for marriage for many years and now it was finally going to succeed.
Suddenly the officials of Honglu Temple said that this matter was dirty.

The Tibetan envoys inquired in every possible way, and finally got the news that Tuyuhun had interfered and ruined their good deeds.
Not only that, Tuyuhun also received a marriage grant from the Tang Dynasty.
The Emperor of the Tang Dynasty had decided to marry Murong Nuohebo, the king of Yan, the grandson of Tuyuhun Khan, as the wife of Princess Honghua, the princess of Honghua. This Princess Honghua was the one whom Songtsen Gampo was originally scheduled to be married to as revealed by Honglu Temple officials.

Tuyuhun not only snatched away the princess with a sword, but also made rude remarks and mocked them in various ways. The officials of Honglu Temple felt that Tuyuhun's envoys were too rude.

The two Tibetan envoys, whose faces were as red as the plateau, couldn't bear it, so they knocked on the door directly. Tuyuhun was very happy, and they were not to be outdone when the Tubo envoys came to the door.

The two sides got into a melee at the embassy, ​​and by the time the belated patrol arrived, seven or eight people on each side had been killed. The leader of the Tibetan mission, the red-faced man with pigtails, was also beaten. died.

The conflict was stopped,
The members of the Tibetan mission surrounded the dead red-faced ambassador and the seven or eight Tibetan warriors wearing tiger and leopard skin skirts, singing loudly, then slashing their faces with knives, and uttering the most vicious curses at the Tuyuhun envoy.

Facing the Tubo people's curse, the Tuyuhun people ridiculed them with disdain.

(End of this chapter)