Struggle in the early Tang Dynasty

After a while, Guo Ye read the whole letter, but his brows were wrinkled into a ball, and he exclaimed, "It's actually a letter from Hejian County King Li Xiaogong."

Kang Bao nodded and said: "It's him. A few days ago, the Tang Dynasty sent Shu Wang and Hejian County King Li Xiaogong to lead a delegation to Tubo, passing through Xichuan, and stayed in Tuva City for a day. I haven't seen it before, but Li Xiaogong, Prince of Hejian County, invited me for a meeting. Speaking of which, it seems that they are going to Tubo this time because of you, right?"

Guo Ye nodded and said with a smile: "It has something to do with it, haha, I didn't expect that a dogfight between the two countries would eventually lead to the cession of the casino city. It's really a bit of a big deal. Closer to home, the meaning of Li Xiaogong's letter Do you understand what it means?"

Kang Bao shook his head and said, "This letter was delivered to my Duhu Mansion this morning by a captain under his command who disguised himself as a Tubo herdsman and fled all the way from Luoxie City. It's just that there was only one sentence in the letter, 'Kang Xiao From the day the protector saw the letter, he immediately dispatched three thousand Xichuan troops to the frontier of Tubo, displaying the power of my Tang Dynasty, to frighten Xiaoxiao!', the rest are just empty and meaningless words. Why did you write such a letter to me? And you see, the earnestness and concern in the words make it seem like I, Kang Bao, are his direct descendants of Li Xiaogong."

Guo Ye handed the letter back to Kang Bao, and said meaningfully: "Why didn't he just send someone to deliver the letter to you, but asked his captain, a captain, to disguise himself as a Tibetan and escape all the way to Tuva City to give you a letter?" Sending a letter? And, I want you to show off the three thousand Xichuan soldiers and Chen soldiers in the Tubo frontier. What does it mean to show off? It’s nothing more than to show off the appearance of going to war. Now you can guess about it, right?"

Kang Bao immediately panicked and shouted: "You mean, His Royal Highness the King of Shu, the King of Hejian County, and the mission we sent to Tubo encountered danger in Luoxie City, the capital of Tubo?"

Guo Yedao: "It shouldn't be too late if you encounter danger. It should be because you have encountered obstacles in the delivery of [-] miles of land with the Tubo people, or the negotiation is not going well. Li Xiaogong is nothing more than trying to put on a show of force to scare the Tubo people, right?"

Speaking of this, Guo Ye added in a timely manner: "Of course, it is not ruled out that the Tubo people do not want to hand over the [-]-mile land at all. Moreover, the King of Shu, Li Xiaogong and a group of missionaries may be taken as hostages."

"You mean that the Tubo people will play tricks and refuse to accept their debts. Not only do they not want to hand over the land, but they may even start a war with us?"

"It's also possible, but Li Xiaogong didn't explain it clearly in the letter. We're not in some cities, so we don't know what happened there."

After Kang Bao heard this, he scratched his neck anxiously, and asked urgently, "What's going on?"

Guo Ye thought about it for a while, and said: "Well, you should do what Li Xiaogong said first, transfer three thousand soldiers and horses from Xichuan to the frontier fortress, display the chariots, horses and cannons, and do whatever you want. I will go to a place to visit first. Alone, maybe there will be answers we want to know."

"Where are you going?"

"An old friend, hehe, I haven't seen you for a long time, it's time to pay a visit!"

Chapter 561 Goodbye Samba

Guo Ye asked Kang Bao to send three thousand Chen soldiers from the Xichuan Army to the border of Tubo according to what Hejian County King Li Xiaogong said in the letter, and put on a menacing posture that was about to start a war.

As for himself, he quietly left the mansion, summoned Lieutenant Ge, who accompanied Xichuan from Chang'an, and asked him to lead the Dibailei out of Tuva City with him, and headed straight for the frontier pass.

This time, he wants to cross the frontier pass, cross the border of the Tang Dynasty and enter the Tubo Kingdom, and visit an old friend on the opposite side that he hasn't seen for many years-the leader of Samba.

Exactly, the [-] miles of land that Tubo Kingdom wants to hand over is under the jurisdiction of Samba.

About a hundred people passed through the pass, and under the leadership of Guo Ye, they rode horses and galloped on the territory of Tubo, and arrived at the territory of Samba very quickly.

As soon as he arrived at the Samba territory, Guo Ye paid special attention to observation. In just three years, the outer earth wall of the Samba territory was not only widened by a few feet, but also strengthened by a few points.

Moreover, there are many towering towers, and on each tower there are at least ten to twenty slaves, holding bows and carrying quiveres, guarding the surroundings.

Guo Ye secretly thought, it seems that Samba has been making a lot of noise in the past few years.Seeing that everything in the territory was ready for battle, Guo Ye aggravated his doubts in his heart.

Soon, a patrolling slave discovered the whereabouts of Guo Ye and others. After asking Guo Ye's whereabouts, he immediately reported back and notified Samba.

When Samba heard that Guo Ye, who had not been in Xichuan for three years, was actually visiting at this time, he rushed to greet him. He not only led Guo Ye to his resting place, but also asked a slave leader to arrange for Captain Ge to wait for a hundred People eat and drink with great generosity and enthusiasm.

Guo Ye followed Samba deeper into the territory, and found more strange places. In the current Samba territory, the number of slaves has increased significantly compared with three years ago, and there are many more blacksmith shops in the territory.He paid attention to a few of them. These blacksmith shops not only cast sickles and hoes and other agricultural tools, but also continuously forged weapons, including knives, swords, and axes.

He knew that these blacksmithing skills should have been learned by the Tubo people through the business travelers traveling from south to north in the two countries' big bazaars.

But this is not the main point of his concern. His main point is, why did they add new things like this to strengthen the earth wall, and why they knew that the territory would be handed over to Datang for a radius of [-] miles? The construction of the tower, and the blacksmiths everywhere are working day and night to forge weapons?

Suddenly, Guo Ye had an answer in his heart. It seemed that the Tubo people really did not intend to hand over the eight hundred miles of land.

On the contrary, Samba, the bastard, has already begun to actively prepare for the battle, and the target of the preparation is naturally the adjacent Xichuan Small Protectorate.

However, Guo Ye is still not 100% sure. He has to ask Samba a few more words and test it out before he can confirm it.

As Samba came to a wooden building, although Samba retained some living habits of the Tubo people in the room, the decoration and furnishings in the room have obviously tended to be Sinicized.

Bronze vessels can be seen everywhere, arty porcelain pots, and the walls are covered with brocades from the Jiangnan area of ​​the Central Plains.

Look at this grandson living quite comfortably for the past three years.

After bringing Guo Ye in and arranging a seat, Samba still maintained his previous enthusiasm and shouted with a smile: "My dear friend, I never expected to see you again today after three years of separation. What a joy!"

Guo Ye nodded and said, "Yes, I arrived in Xichuan yesterday, and today I came to meet the Samba headman. Meeting old friends is often the happiest."

"That's that." Said the Samba leader, "Samba misses Mr. Guo, and Mr. Guo also remembers Samba in his heart. Okay, that's great. I wonder how Mr. Guo has been in Chang'an for the past three years? "

"Okay, very good, the leader of Lausamba is concerned."

Guo Ye and Sangba came and went, asked each other and answered each other, as if they were very close, but the questions and answers were all unnutritive.

After about half a cup of tea, Guo Ye asked straight to the point: "Samba headman, I heard that your country intends to delay the transfer of the [-]-mile land to our country, but is it true?"

"what?"

Samba's face was obviously stunned, as if someone had pryed into the secrets of his heart, he was a little flustered and stunned, but he quickly covered it up, and laughed: "Where did you hear that, Mr. Guo? It's ridiculous, unbelievable, This is simply the greatest insult to our great Zamp Songtsen Gampo. You know, we Tibetans are famous for keeping our promises."

Guo Ye sneered in his heart, even if you were eloquent, your flustered look still showed the fox's tail.

Immediately, he asked bluntly: "The leader of the Samba is speaking from the heart? From my point of view, some of the things the leader of the Samba is doing now are not like what a leader who is about to leave the territory should do. Huh? Strengthen the earthen walls, expand the number of slaves, build towers, forge weapons, hehe, how does Guo look like he is actively preparing for war?"

"Huh? Are you spying on my information?"

As soon as the words came out of his mouth, Samba immediately felt remorse, and secretly scolded himself for being impatient and not calm, and Guo Ye set out the words in a few words.

Guo Ye's face was filled with contempt immediately, and he sneered, "Hey, Guo has guessed right. Let Guo guess again, the Samba leader is so anxious, could it be that he is waiting for your Tubo army to come here, you It’s good to send people to cooperate? That’s right, just relying on the mob slaves in your hands, so what if you give you [-] slave troops? Against the [-] Xichuan army, they are like chickens and dogs. Sang Batou people, when will your Tubo army plan to invade Xichuan and our Tang frontier fortress?"

"You...you...arrogant, extremely arrogant!!!"

I don't know whether he was so belittled by Guo Ye, or was caught by Guo Ye's words. At this time, the samba headman had faded away from the smile just now, and replaced it with a flushed and sullen look, and he was overwhelmed by Guo Ye's aggressive words. Words were choked for a moment and I couldn't deal with it.

"Haha, I really hit the spot! You unscrupulous Tubo dogs don't even accept the loss of our land of [-] miles from the Tang Dynasty, and dare to plot secretly to covet our frontier fortress of the Tang Dynasty. Damn, Do you still want to be a little more embarrassing?"

Bang!

Samba was irritated by Guo Ye again and again, and finally became angry and yelled: "Guo, don't bully people too much! Your Tang court wants to use a mere child's play dog ​​fighting match, Just win our [-] miles of fertile land, hmph, how can there be such a good thing in the world? You are gouging out my samba's heart! Don't say that our Tubo Zanpu does not agree, it is my samba, Will not agree."

As soon as Samba got off the phone, Guo Ye secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and sure enough, the fox's tail was still exposed.

However, he did not spare Samba lightly, and said, "Fuck you, you just want to shirk when you lose? Back then, your bullshit Prince Chiluo made a vow that he would take [-] miles of land against us. Betting on the two cities of Xichuan, why? If you lose, you will say that the dog fight is a joke? So you Tubo people only have this kind of embarrassment left? Crap!"

"You, you, deceive others too much, speak wild words!"

Samba was shamelessly scolded by Guo Ye, so he shook his shoulders and pointed at Guo Ye: "You are too arrogant, arrogant, extremely arrogant!"

Suddenly, Samba turned his eyes suddenly, and a sly smile appeared on his face, and he said with a smile: "Guo, you can do whatever you want in Xichuan, don't forget, you are in Xichuan now." The site of the headman. If you bring the hundred people here, what if you can count as ten? It seems that in order to prevent you from tipping off the Tang emperor and buying time for my Tubo army, the headman must take you Take it and leave you here."

There was no shock on Guo Ye's face, and he sneered with a determined expression, and said, "Samba, thanks to the fact that you are still the leader of the place, your IQ is really worrying!"

As he said that, he suddenly got up and poked Samba's forehead twice with his index finger, cursing: "Are you a fucking pig's brain, or a pig's reincarnation? You don't have any reliance, you really think I dare to single-handedly lead Bai Lai?" Are people coming to your territory?"

Samba was puzzled, and asked subconsciously: "What do you mean? What do you have..."