Datang: Li Shimin begged me to rebel

"Your Tubo is too backward. Your Highness can allow the caravan to sell some ironware, food, salt and other materials to you, but the prerequisite is that you are not allowed to collect taxes from our Datang caravan! This is a little favor from His Highness to you." Wang Zheng curled his lips in disdain.

"That's it?" Songtsan Gampo's eyes flashed a light, but he said with disdain on the surface.

"Haha? That's it? This is His Highness's kindness, otherwise you will never think about whether you want love or not. I am in a hurry, and I can give you a day to think about it. I will come tomorrow to ask for an explanation. If there is no explanation, either Zanpu, if you kill us, we will have to meet on the battlefield." Wang Zheng sneered and stood up.

His wound had already been stitched up, and the wound was not long at first, but the pain still consumed a lot of Wang Zheng's strength, and the doctor next to him helped him to stand up.

After speaking, he reluctantly waved at Songtsen Gampo before turning around and leaving.

Naturally, the people from Songtsan Gampo arranged accommodation for their mission, and Wang Zheng did not refuse.

After arriving at the arranged place, the guards of the mission directly surrounded the outside of the room of the two of them, and strictly prohibited anyone from approaching.

Inside the room, Yang Cheng whispered: "Do you think they will be fooled?"

"Of course they will. They are short-sighted and a frog in a well. They will never think that His Highness's real purpose is this." Wang Zheng said with a sneer.

"That's right, I have received reports from the trading company that Tubo has been trying to buy ironware, grain, seeds, and books through some smugglers in the Western Regions and other places. This Songtsan Gampo is an ambitious People, let him continue to develop, it must be His Highness's confidant's big trouble! It's not long since Tubo put down the rebellion, and a large number of people have just integrated into them, now is the best time." Yang Cheng nodded and said.

"How much gold do you think we want?" Wang Zheng thought for a while and said, it is absolutely impossible for the other party to take out [-] stones.

"I asked the people in the trading firm to calculate from the business of these tribes conquered by Tubo in the past few years, plus the plunder between Tubo, it is estimated that they can produce at least [-] to [-] catties of gold. "Yang Cheng gave a number.

"Then it will cost at least 130 jin tomorrow!" Wang Zheng nodded fiercely. The price is only more than [-] shi, which is far away from [-] shi.

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"Zanpu, if His Royal Highness the King of Qin can sell us the ironware and the food we need, that's fine." Shang Xiang said.

"I just don't know how much ironware they can sell us, as well as food seeds and books. What we need most are seeds, ironware, and books. Actually, we don't lack food itself." Lun Kerr also said quickly.

Songtsan Gampo nodded: "But gold, we will definitely give a batch. But gold doesn't matter, just treat it as our purchase. After all, even if we wanted to buy it before, Datang didn't sell it. But tomorrow we can't let it go. They saw that what we wanted most was this trade."

"I think so, they proposed not to allow tax collection from Datang's caravan, do you think this caravan will belong to His Royal Highness King Qin himself? After all, the money earned by this caravan is his. According to the news that came back, after he killed the Hei Shan Bandit, he plundered all of the Hei Shan Bandit's villa." Shang Xiang said.

"It's very possible. If this is the case, then it is possible that we will buy a lot of things!" Lun Cole's eyes also brightened!

"I think so. In order to prevent us from exposing the target, let's test it out tomorrow. Although the envoy of the royal government just said this matter very disdainfully, as if this matter was a gift from His Royal Highness King Qin, but in case he is actually Want to make money? And don’t want to pay us taxes.”

"Tomorrow we will test it out. If they really have this purpose, then we have to cover it up. We can't show too much, so we reluctantly agree to this matter. We say that they are allowed to trade freely, but our Tibetan officials actually have nothing to buy. , or we can buy some less important ones, such as silk, tea, or the mercury mirror that rose in Chang'an."

"As for the important iron materials, we can use the excuse to buy them from the nobles we trust, so that the other party will not be so suspicious." Shang Xiang quickly added.

"What do you think Zanpu?" Lun Kerr turned to Songtsen Gampo.

Songtsan Gampo pondered for a moment, then nodded and said, "Yes, but this Murong Shun, I'm afraid we have to lead our own troops to exterminate him."

"There is no way around this, so I can only praise you for your hard work. I don't know what the situation is, but we may not be able to get back the area north of the Kunlun Mountains." Shang Xiang sighed.

"It doesn't matter. The population there is not large, and the distance from us is too far. If you lose it, you will lose it. Unless he can stay in the Tang Dynasty, otherwise, sooner or later, it will be ours." Songtsan Gambo sneered. .

"Then it's settled. But tomorrow, the two of you will assist me in persuading this envoy to reduce the gold compensation as much as possible. It is impossible for us to get so much gold."

"Yes, Zanpu." Naturally, the two of them had no objection, although they both knew that the other party was deliberately extorting the price of [-] shi gold, but if it can be reduced, it must be reduced.

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"Your Highness, this is a good thing in the first place. Tubo is eager for you to do this. Why do you have to take so much trouble?" Lu Hai was a little confused.

"You don't understand, we took the initiative to do this. Although they are very happy, they will also pay close attention to us, but in this way, they will lower their vigilance against us, so that your work will be more convenient .” Li Ke shook his head slightly, “Have the relevant personnel been arranged?”

"It's been arranged. It looks almost the same as the Tubo people, and there are no problems in speaking. There are about 500 people in the early stage. I am handing over and checking the follow-up selection plan with Secretary Li." Lu Hai said immediately.

"Well! It's up to you next." Li Ke nodded lightly and said.

The reason why he doesn't mind giving Tubo these weapons and equipment is because Li Ke is going to fundamentally disintegrate Tubo. As a slavery country, almost all herdsmen in Tubo are slaves, and once some ideas are introduced, That spark can start a prairie fire.

It should not be too simple for these 500 people to mix with these slaves, because most of Tubo are also nomadic, which makes their slaves not like slaves in the Central Plains under the supervision of nobles.

It's like slave tribes scattered on the grasslands, except that unlike the Tuyuhun Turkic herdsmen, these slaves, the cattle and sheep they graze, all belong to the master, and they themselves belong to the master. The master decides what they eat and where they live. Calculate.

So Li Ke didn't mind giving them ironware, books, seeds, even Qu Yuanli, because Tubo and the others couldn't completely digest them in less than ten years.

In fact, digestion is useless, because the good things are given to Tubo, and Tubo is used to make their slaves work and serve nobles like them, and what Li Ke did... is to pry the fundamental thing.

"Yes, I will appease and arrange for those tribes who entered our Tang Dynasty from Tubo as soon as possible, and select some herdsmen who have acquaintances from other tribes in Tubo to train them. They will live in my Tang Dynasty for a winter, and they will definitely feel your Highness's love next year. Guanghui, when the time comes, they will look for the people they know, and use the way these people pull people to pass it on." Lu Hai bowed his head immediately.

"That's right, I hope to see some good news in the tenth year of Zhenguan." Li Ke nodded in satisfaction.