What kind of bad intentions can the little prince have?

Back then, Tubo made a lot of money because of Princess Wencheng’s marriage. Princess Wencheng’s dowry included a lot of wealth, books and craftsmen, which greatly improved the productivity of Tubo. In fact, there is no shortage of resources on the plateau. , There are still quite a lot of various minerals there, which were difficult to use before, but with the technology of the Central Plains, they have made a great breakthrough in weapon casting, which has also improved the strength of Tubo.

Datang's strength is growing faster now, and the reason why it can't take Tubo is because of altitude sickness.For example, at low altitudes, Tang’s heavy armored cavalry and heavy infantry are invincible in this era, but after the altitude rises, let alone wearing heavy armor, you may not be able to breathe easily , but people who lived on the plateau since childhood don’t have to worry about such things. Most of them wear leather armor made of animal fur unique to the plateau, which is relatively lighter and of good quality. In the environment of the plateau , which is sufficient to resist most attacks.

Although Tubo has been immersing itself in development these years, it has never really let go of its attention to Datang.Back then, I blackmailed Datang when everyone was an enemy, and now I still have such thoughts. As a result, watching Datang continue to push the border outwards, those tribes that were still somewhat dissatisfied immediately became obedient one by one. , scrambling to be dogs for the Tang Dynasty, and some tribes even shamelessly stated that they were originally orthodox Chinese nobles, but they migrated out during the chaos of China, and then lived with the barbarians, and gradually changed their customs. It is the heart to Zhu Xia, and I dare not forget it for a moment.Therefore, at the foot of the plateau today, if you see people with obvious nomadic characteristics wearing orthodox right lapel clothing, their hair is no longer loose, but is combed into a bun, wearing a crown, and inserting their hair. Hairpin, don't be surprised, these people only hate that they don't look like Zhu Xia. If there is plastic surgery technology these days, they will definitely not mind cutting a knife.

Even though Songtsan Gampo has passed away at this time, the upper class in Tubo is quite wise and has always learned to learn from the people around them. Unfortunately, Tianzhu is now in chaos. Can't wait to play the dog's brain.It may have been relatively developed there, but now, it is really hard to say. Tubo can obtain a certain amount of food and various luxury goods from Tianzhu, but if you want to get more advanced technology, that is true. Not much.In addition, after the Central Plains Buddhism was introduced to Tubo, it absorbed the elements of Tubo's primitive religion, and has increasingly exerted great influence in the religious field of Tubo.But the mainstream in Tianzhu is now Brahmanism. After knowing that Tubo began to convert to Buddhism, he immediately turned against Tubo.On the other side of Tianzhu, primitive Buddhism has long been beaten and retreated steadily. Xuanzang was able to obtain the so-called Tripitaka in Tianzhu. directly tied to the fire and burned to death.Fortunately, he is not the pedantic Tang Sanzang in "Journey to the West". He probably violated a lot of precepts along the way, but he finally came back intact with many scriptures.

However, Tubo actually doesn’t look down on Tianzhu. Tianzhu people are very good at fighting among themselves, but if they really fight, it’s really not enough. Otherwise, Wang Xuance wouldn’t have just borrowed some troops from Tubo to wipe out Tianzhu. However, the people in Tianzhu are also very strange. Foreigners can enslave them, but they will still adhere to the Brahmin belief.Now that Tubo has started to believe in Buddhism, they will oppose Tubo.

The ever-growing Tang Dynasty gave Tubo a strong sense of threat. They tried to hand over the army of Datang, but soon they realized that apart from their relatively strong mobility, they had no advantage at all.As long as the Tang army is stationed at the entrance of the plateau, they will not be able to plunder like before.

This made Tubo very anxious. After thinking about it, they actually wanted to get married again. If they married a princess and learned the advanced technology of Datang, wouldn't they be able to fight against Datang?

The Tubo people must not have inquired clearly when they came. Now the unmarried princess of the Tang Dynasty is Princess Taiping, the heart and soul of the emperor and empress. The other two were married because of Li Hong's advice. It barely makes sense.At that time, Li Shimin had more than a dozen daughters, but he was not willing to let his own daughter marry, but chose the daughter of the clan.And Li Zhi and Empress Wu are now such an unmarried princess, can they let the Tubo people succeed?

What's more, Tubo doesn't have the upper hand against the Tang Dynasty now. If it weren't for the special environment on the plateau, with the strength of the Tang army, Tubo could be plowed more than a few times.In the end, you guys still want to come to marry my precious girl, you must be crazy!

Therefore, without further ado, Li Zhi asked someone to show off his military power to the Tubo people. Immediately, the Tubo envoys stopped talking about the marriage, and began to express eagerly that they admired the culture of the heaven and the country, so they wanted to show off to the Tubo people. Datang is studying, and in order to make life better for his own people, he wants to purchase some supplies from Datang.

If people who really know the situation in Tubo heard what the envoy said, they would probably laugh out loud.Since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the Central Plains has attached great importance to self-cultivating farmers. This group is equivalent to the middle class of later generations and belongs to the main source of tax revenue for agricultural countries.When a large number of self-cultivating farmers went bankrupt, became tenants, encountered natural and man-made disasters, and even became refugees, a dynasty often came to an end.But Tubo is different. Apart from the nobles and a small number of free people, most of them are actually serfs. These serfs are very hard-working. Later, it absorbed some concepts of native religions and primitive Buddhism from Tianzhu. The most criticized part is that it uses human bodies to make various instruments, which can be described as extremely cruel.Therefore, in some legends, Guru Rinpoche, who really shaped Tibetan Buddhism, is even said to be the orthodox lineage of the demon king Bo Xuna. After all, compared with Central Plains Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhism is no matter in terms of doctrine or In daily actions, they are all like demons. Could this be the original intention of the Buddha?

However, although the courtiers don’t really know much about Tubo, everyone has learned it now. When they married Princess Wencheng and paid so much money, Tubo didn’t stop. It is located on a plateau and the environment is bitter and cold, but it is said that the mineral resources there are very rich. If nothing else, you can see that there must be a lot of gold mines when these Tibetans sell gold nuggets. Otherwise, why are they so rich? .In fact, the Central Plains used to have a large amount of gold reserves, but they couldn’t hold back the Qin and Han Dynasties. In the past, people who had a little money after death wanted to get some gold to be buried with them. At the end of the Han Dynasty, warlords took the lead in robbing graves. , the tombs of several princes and kings in the Han Dynasty were stolen several times. When archaeological work was carried out in the future, a large number of gold cakes had been discovered. If you calculate the number, you will know how much gold was buried in the ground.

Of course, even now, gold is still a hard currency.Silver was not popular in the Tang Dynasty as currency. For a long time, in the Central Plains, the reserves of silver were not high. Silver was once more expensive than gold. It was not until silver from Japan and other places flowed into the Central Plains that silver became the main circulation. currency.For example, now, in bulk goods transactions, everyone still uses gold as currency, otherwise, you have to hold as much copper coins as you want.Li Yue never thought about setting up a money bank, this thing is a trap, among other things, if the imperial court takes the lead in doing this, believe it or not, they will be able to issue paper money so much that this thing is too hard to wipe your ass?And ordinary businessmen do this, they really don't have the capital.Li Yue does have this capital, and even in Minyue and Ryukyu, he even issued some coupons, which are actually a kind of token, but he has no intention of promoting them. These things are only circulated in his own industry, and he does not Intending to get others involved.

In any case, as long as it is known that Tubo has a large amount of gold reserves, those official families who have benefited from foreign development will sooner or later attack Tubo.Although the height of Tubo is a problem, it cannot always be a problem. Some people have secretly proposed to recruit government soldiers from some plateau-like places in Tiannan and Yizhou, train them, or let the Tang Dynasty The army trained and adapted to a similar environment, and then used them as the main force to attack Tubo.Li Zhi was very tempted by this. Although he said that the achievements in these years have been great, if he captured Tubo again and washed away the shame of Tang Dynasty having to send the princess to marry him, that would be the icing on the cake.Li Zhi had been to Taishan Fengchan once before, if he could defeat Tubo, then he felt that he could go again, and this would prove that he was better than his father.Therefore, Li Zhi is still very interested in attacking Tubo.

As for Empress Wu, she also agreed with this. After all, the Tubo people dared to ask her daughter to get married, and they simply didn't take themselves seriously.Empress Wu definitely wanted to vent her anger on Princess Taiping, so even if Tubo couldn't be defeated, just teaching Tubo a good lesson would let them know who can miss and who can't.

And Princess Taiping was also very angry about this, not to mention how bad the environment in Tubo is, just the appearance of the Tubo people is not in line with Princess Taiping's aesthetics, all of them have a black and red face, and they are not tall. The skin is also very rough, and the appearance is also very rough, but Princess Taiping likes the kind of orthodox beautiful boy, the yushu facing the wind, the personable type, the Tubo people are far from this standard.

What's more, the current Princess Taiping is really not a love brain. She has communicated with Mingzhu these years. Although Mingzhu did not disclose the situation of the Ryukyu Islands, she always referred to it as Yizhou Island in the letter, but she also said that the world is vast. The beautiful scenery of Yizhou Island, and the fact that she recruited and trained female soldiers in Quanzhou, hoping to lead these female soldiers to conquer the sea in the future.

Princess Taiping was really interested in this, she followed Li Zhi and Empress Wu for a while, and finally got a decree from the two emperors and empresses, that she could choose some of the maids as her own soldiers.Princess Taiping struggled a lot because of this, military training requires talent on the one hand, and money on the other hand!In the letter, Princess Taiping and Mingzhu exchanged a lot of experience in military training. In addition, they also found someone to help teach them. They were the military officers in Qianniuwei. Gotta get over it.What she likes the most now is to bring these female guards around the city and clean up all the dudes in Luoyang and Chang'an.

Under such circumstances, her idol has long been Princess Pingyang. After hearing that Tubo is so bold as to want her to get married, she can't wait to take someone to the post house to beat up the Tubo people. Will have other thoughts.

"Aye, after a few years, I will take my personal guards and go directly to the Potala Palace, and capture that Zanpu from Tubo, just like Xieli back then, and dance for you, Aye!" Princess Taiping said ambitiously.

Li Zhi was both happy and funny when he heard it: "Okay, okay, then Aye will wait!" A daughter with such ambition is better than those noble girls who regard the Tubo people as scourges. It is true that they are not afraid of anything, even if they are really bears and lions, they are nothing in front of the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty!

Li Xian was very envious and jealous when he was on the side. Ever since Li Shimin made a change in the Xuanwu Gate, it is almost impossible for these princes of the Tang Dynasty to have the opportunity to lead the army. And then directly followed by a mutiny?Therefore, Princess Taiping can say that she wants to be like Aunt Pingyang and her grandmother back then, but it is difficult for her, the prince, to say that she also wants to lead the army and promote the prestige of the Tang Dynasty.He began to wonder in his heart, if he really won Tubo, could he be a fief in Tubo?However, the environment in Tubo is really bad. If you really want to calculate it, Tiannan is actually better.

Li Xian was thinking wildly there, but Li Xian and Li Dan didn't have so many thoughts. There was a burst of rainbow farts to Princess Taiping, blowing Princess Taiping like a proud little rooster, with her head raised higher and higher, and her chin almost It was level with the ground, and she said tolerantly: "Don't worry, if you are willing, this general is also willing to take you with you when the time comes, so that you can also make some credits!" Li Xian and Li Dan immediately returned It was a burst of crazy shooting. Seeing the satisfied eyes of Li Zhi and Empress Wu, the two became more and more excited, which only coaxed Princess Taiping to be elated. I really felt that I was the second princess of Pingyang. As long as I made a move, I would definitely be invincible. Nothing can be done.

Li Hong didn't have a good impression of Tubo either. He just laughed and said nothing when he heard his two younger brothers bragging. He seemed to be in better health recently because of his better maintenance. Li Zhi then told some things Let him deal with it. For example, the matter of the Tubo envoys was taken over by Li Hong. Li Hong pondered for a moment, and then said: "The Tubo people are getting impatient. According to Yi Erchen, they may Do you have any other ideas!"