I became emperor in the Tang Dynasty by relying on the palace fighting system

Yan Rushi sighed: "The Tang Dynasty is surrounded by powerful enemies."

"Although the Eastern Turks were destroyed, the Tang Dynasty still had the Xueyantuo in the north and the Western Turks in the west. The Tang Dynasty had been at war many times, and had been sending troops to the Western Regions for years. The burden on the treasury and the people was extremely heavy. We really couldn't afford to add another strong enemy like Tubo."

She paused, a trace of sadness in her eyes: "It doesn't matter who the princess is."

"What's important is the dowry that goes with the princess: grain, craftsmen, literature, money..."

To put it bluntly, marriage alliance is a disguised way of ceding territory and paying compensation in order to bribe the enemy country and stop the war.

However, what was given up here was the princess, and the compensation was the princess's dowry.

On the surface, both parties are from the same family, but the party that marries the princess only gets a better look in terms of face, verbal advantages, and being treated as the father-in-law and son-in-law of the enemy country, but they don't get any other benefits at all.

When the time comes to fall out, they will fight and kill each other without caring about anyone else.

The ladies and gentlemen at the table realized this and all sighed.

Li Zhao smiled and said to Yan Rushi: "You said it very well, Madam Zhang, I will reward you handsomely."

She picked out a few more pieces of paper: "The owners of these articles will also be rewarded."

"We bow down to thank the Lord for His Grace." Everyone at the banquet was overjoyed and hurriedly bowed to express their gratitude.

Li Zhao was very generous. The best prize was a pair of high-quality green glazed lotus bowls, twenty pieces of silk, and a golden pot of tribute tea. The worst was a set of gold cups and silver pots, and a set of four treasures of the study. The rest were each given a piece of pen, ink, paper, and inkstone.

After receiving the reward, the atmosphere in the woods became more harmonious.

Li Zhao took the opportunity to activate his "calligraphy master" skill and put pen to paper on the mother scroll of [Zi Mu Shu] disguised as the heavenly book.

In the eyes of everyone, Xuanzun was doing his homework. Mrs. Zhang took the time to glance at Xuanzun's handwriting and found that his font was as vague as clouds and extremely difficult to recognize.

She thought with awe: What Xuanzun wrote must be the divine text from heaven.

Human beings are always full of awe for the unknown mysterious things.

However, the system assistant Qingluan said, what is the divine text in heaven, do you want to know more about the Taoist cloud seal script?

Li Zhao doesn't have the skill of writing cloud seals, but she can take advantage of the system to show off!

Just input directly into the system's universal input method, find the Yunzhuan dictionary, select some characters and trace them, and pretend to write divine text. It's very simple!

As Li Zhao wrote, he said, "There was another very important reason why Emperor Taizong of Tang married the Tubo people - at that time, although the Tang Dynasty had many soldiers and generals, it could not do anything to the Tubo people."

The reason for the marriage mentioned by Yan Rushi is only a small part.

"Because Tibet has a great geographical advantage."

Li Zhao recalled the map of Tubo and sighed: "Tubo is located on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and the Tang soldiers are not used to fighting on the plateau, so they can't invade Tubo at all. However, Tubo can use its geographical advantage to protect itself while harassing the Tang border."

"If the Tibetans' physiques were not adapted to fighting on the plains, the Central Plains would have been theirs long ago."

Li Zhao still remembers the proverb circulated in Tubo: "Tubo once declared that the Han people would never be able to cross Wuhai."

Wuhai, an important border city of Tubo, is located near the South Kara Sea in Xining City, Qinghai Province.

"The Tang army was unable to capture Wuhai City, and the Tibetan area was desolate and barren, and it was impossible to grow crops there. It was commonly known as a barren land."

"Occupying Tibet will make subsequent governance difficult, and the administrative and military management costs are too high. The value of Tibet itself is not worth the Tang Dynasty's efforts to occupy it."

"Therefore, the Tang Dynasty rarely sent troops to attack Tubo, but instead defended against Tubo by supporting Tuyuhun, various Qiang peoples, and the countries in the Western Regions."

"Including the Anxi Protectorate that was established later, one of its main functions was to fight against Tubo."

Qingluan didn't understand: "Supporting other countries to fight against Tubo? Isn't this too much trouble?"

"Did Emperor Taizong of Tang ever think of a way to wipe out Tubo once and for all?"

Even if we can't get in for the time being, we will find a way.

Li Zhao was helpless: "Why haven't I thought about it!"

"Why did the Tang Dynasty and Tubo have such frequent exchanges? It was to obtain Tubo's topographical maps and to get Tubo's internal information."

Li Zhao said unhappily: "Unfortunately, just as Yan Rushi said, the Tang Dynasty has too many enemies."

"Emperor Taizong of Tang cannot destroy Tubo for the time being. Even if Tang wins the Battle of Songzhou, he can only make friends with Tubo through marriage."

Emperor Taizong of Tang agreed to the marriage alliance with Tubo because he was forced by the situation and had no choice but to do so.

Li Zhao snorted coldly: "Look, Tubo stationed troops in Songzhou of the Tang Dynasty and took the initiative to attack the Tang Dynasty. What will be the fate of the Eastern Turks, Xueyantuo, and Western Turks who dared to do such a thing?"

"What will happen to Tubo?"

The Xueyantuo, Western Turks, and Eastern Turks were three barbarian brothers who died tragically under the hooves of the Tang Dynasty's iron cavalry.

As early as the Zhenguan period, they went down hand in hand to meet Emperor Erfeng's previous enemy - Li Jiancheng.

As for Tubo?

I'm sorry, it's still alive and well, it didn't even make a sound even when Taizong made a sound.

Qingluan was embarrassed: "Tubo is still here."

Tubo planned so many wars to attack the Tang Dynasty's borders, burning and killing countless Tang people, but it still stood on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and even formed a friendly relationship with the Tang Dynasty.

"Princess Wencheng's entry into Tibet was a lifelong shame for General Tian Ce, who chose to marry a princess even after winning the war," said Li Zhao.

She snorted and laughed: "In the past, General Tiance would have crushed Tubo and captured Songtsen Gampo, and together with Jie Li Khan, he would have become the mainstay of the Tang Dynasty Song and Dance Troupe."

"Marriage? Humph."

The last person who dared to suffer the humiliation of being humiliated by Emperor Taizong of Tang was Jie Li Khan of the Eastern Turks, who had the honor of becoming the leader of the Tang Dynasty Song and Dance Troupe during the Zhenguan period.

Songtsen Gampo, no, it was Tubo that was much more powerful, he slapped Emperor Taizong of Tang in the face, yet he was still able to be the son-in-law of Tang and interact with the Tang on an almost equal footing.

This is something that most countries in Asia cannot do.

Li Zhao could almost imagine how angry Emperor Taizong of Tang was when he saw Lu Dongzan, who came to propose marriage with a smile on his face.

Emperor Erfeng (biting his handkerchief inwardly): Ahhhhh! I can't be angry, I can't be angry. Even if I send troops, I can't destroy Tubo. The gain is not worth the loss.

Emperor Erfeng (self-hypnosis): I have to hold it in, hold it in. I must not suddenly jump up and stab these bastards to death with a spear on the spot!

Qingluan nodded secretly: "Yes, I heard that when Lu Dongzan came to ask for marriage, Emperor Taizong of Tang embarrassed him several times."

"As a great general of Tiance, he couldn't bring the Tibetan king to Chang'an to be a Tang student, but he had to use tricks to embarrass the Tibetan officials and send the princess to marry. I wonder how aggrieved he must be."

Qingluan thought about this and felt like sighing for Emperor Erfeng.

The Second Phoenix Emperor cried violently: Oh, oh, oh, oh~ I really feel wronged! !

After winning the battle, they failed to make Tubo kneel down and submit, and sent the king to Beijing as a hostage. Instead, they even wanted to marry the king to win him over!

This is not only the emperor's helplessness, but also the helplessness of the entire Tang Dynasty, a powerful country for a century.

Li Zhao had mixed feelings: "From a male perspective, they may only see that Tubo became a foreign country of the Tang Dynasty, and Princess Wencheng went to Tibet to promote exchanges between the Tang Dynasty and Tubo. However, many historical events are really terrifying when viewed from a different perspective."

"From a female perspective, to put it simply, we can see the loneliness and pain that Princess Wencheng felt when she married far away in a foreign land."

"If you have a broader vision, you can see the helplessness and sadness of the entire Tang Dynasty."

Qing Luan sighed: "Yes, what a woman sees from a female perspective is really different from what a man sees from a male perspective."

“We really need a female perspective right now.”

"Yan Rushi is the future historian you chose, Zhao Zhao, right?"

Qingluan was right.