A scholar of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty

"Call Lu Dongzan in." Li Er said.

Lu Dongzan?Gu Qing wondered, why is this guy in Chang'an?

Wang Qin left in a hurry, and when he came back, he took Lu Dongzan, who was wearing Tubo clothes, with a lot of vicissitudes. Compared with before, he seemed to be a different person. It seems that the Tubo incident hit him very hard.

Coming in front of Li Er, Lu Dongzan knelt down, "The sinner, Lu Dongzan, pays homage to His Majesty."

Fang Xuanling walked up to Lu Dongzan and helped him up, "You have worked hard all these years."

"No hard work!" Lu Dongzan said, "These are all things we should atone for. His Majesty the Tang Dynasty sent the criminals to recover the people of Tubo. It is His Majesty who gave me the opportunity to atone for the sins of Tubo."

"How is Tubo now?" Fang Xuanling asked again.

Lu Dongzan has been recovering the people of Tubo all these years?After the First World War in Tubo, it was true that little attention was paid to Tubo's movements. Unexpectedly, Lu Dongzan had been recovering people in Tubo all these years.

"Return to the house minister." Lu Dongzan said, "Many people in Tubo are learning Guanzhong dialect. There are more than [-] newly-adult children, and their strength is about [-]. The current grain harvest is stable, and everything has been rebuilt. .”

Fang Xuanling nodded again, "Very good, if you are asked to lead troops to support Persia, how many troops can Tubo provide now?"

"Return to the house minister." Lu Dongzan then replied, "up to [-]!"

"Thirty thousand is enough." Fang Xuanling sighed, "Tubo needs more strength to restore its vitality. What you have to do is to stabilize the Western Regions, send troops to Persia, and stay on the border of Persia to pay attention. The situation, try to keep the royal family of Persia as much as possible, and when Datang is ready to send troops, he will fight Dashi head-on, and you Tibetans must remember not to fight Dashi head-on.”

"Yes!" Lu Dongzan replied, "The guilty minister has one more request."

"Say." Li Er said with a smile.

"The sinful minister wants to meet our Tubo monarch, our Zanpu, Songtsen Gampo!" Lu Dongzan knelt down and said, "I also ask for your majesty's permission! The criminal minister's request is only this."

"I'm ready."

Fang Xuanling stood aside and stopped talking.

Gu Qing also stood aside and didn't say anything. Back then, Tubo almost shed blood and tears, almost destroyed the country, and the battles of those corpse mountains and seas of corpses are vivid in his memory.

Let Tubo go to Persia first, Gu Qing and Chu Suiliang didn't have much opinion.

After walking out of Ganlu Hall, Gu Qing followed in Lu Dongzan's footsteps, "It's hard to survive these years."

Lu Dongzan also looked at Gu Qing. This young man has not changed over the years, and he smiled bitterly, noting what he has lived like. "I was in the Hexi Corridor, and I knew that if Tubo lost to Datang, it would also lose to you."

"That's wrong." Gu Qing also replied, "Even without my firearms, you Tibetans are still no match for the Tang Dynasty. There is something called the foundation. How many years have the foundation of the Central Plains been accumulated? How many people in the Tang Dynasty can go to war General, just from this point you Tubo can’t compare with Tang Dynasty, General Li Jing, the famous General Qin Qiong, Cheng Yaojin, Niu Jinda, Li Daozong..."

"I know, I know Datang is strong, I knew it from the beginning." Lu Dongzan shook his head and sighed, "But it's all because of firearms. Datang is too strong with firearms! The demise of the Turks tells us that sooner or later your sharpness will fade away." To reach Tubo, we have only two paths, one is surrender, and the other is the start of the war

"It can be better, why take the most dangerous path."

"It's too late to say anything." Lu Dongzan's voice was hoarse.

The two came to Dali Temple without knowing it. Di Renjie received the news first that Lu Dongzan was coming to Dali Temple to visit Songtsan Gampo.

"Teacher." Di Renjie saw Gu Qing approaching.

"This is Lu Dongzan, take him to see Songtsan Gambo." Gu Qing said.

Looking at the tall Dali Temple, Lu Dongzan lowered his head, "Please lead the way."

"Come on." Di Renjie said, "Songtsan Gampo is fine in Dali Temple."

"Thank you." Lu Dongzan saluted again and followed into Dali Temple.

Gu Qing stood outside the Dali Temple and didn't go in for a long time. He turned around and was about to leave. The old man's voice came from behind him, "Gu Qing, why don't you come in and sit down?"

Turning around, Gu Qing looked at the person who came, "It turns out that it was Dali Siqing in person, so I was rude."

"Come in, I have something that I want to talk to you." Dali Siqing said.

"Okay!" Gu Qing walked into Dali Temple.

Coming to a side room of the Dali Temple yamen, Gu Qing sat down and looked at the old man, "I still remember that the meeting with Dali Temple Minister was because of Li Yuanchang."

"Yes." Dali Siqing said, "It's been so many years in the blink of an eye, you are still young and vigorous, but the old man is already old."

"I don't know why Dali Temple Minister called me to come here this time."

"It's not about that kid Di Renjie." Dali Temple Secretary said, "Di Renjie is a good boy. The chair is willing to be handed over to him."

"But he was brought up by you, Gu Qing." Dali Siqing said again, "This Di Renjie was brought up by you. Di Renjie was only seven years old in Chang'an until now he was married at 15 years old. The most precious years of a child are If you take him with you, this is the old man's worry, if Di Renjie becomes the Minister of Dali Temple, will you intervene in Dali Temple?"

Chapter 533 The Silk Road War ([-])

"Young Minister of Dali Temple is worrying too much." Gu Qing said, "I'm a person who doesn't even want to get involved with Shangshu Sheng, and you know what kind of virtue I am."

"Of course I know what kind of person you, Gu Qing, are." Dali Temple Secretary said, "I just want a promise from you, Gu Qing, that after Di Renjie becomes Dali Temple Secretary, you will not interfere in any affairs of Dali Temple."

"I promise!" Gu Qing nodded.

Dali Temple Minister nodded, and brought a pen and paper, "Don't be offended, it is not easy for Dali Temple to have today. I want you to write down your promise, so that I can safely hand over the position of Dali Temple Minister to Di Renjie." .”

"Okay! I'll write." Gu Qing smiled and picked up the pen to write.

In the dungeon of Dali Temple, Lu Dongzan followed Di Renjie in the quiet and somewhat messy corridor of the dungeon. After walking for a while, the cell in front of him began to become empty, and it was clean again when he walked inside.

When Di Renjie stopped, Lu Dongzan also stopped, looking at a familiar figure in a prison cell in front of him, wearing a clean prison uniform, sitting in a clean cell and reading a book.

"Zanpu..." Lu Dongzan called out with a trembling tone.

Hearing the voice, Songtsan Gampo raised his head suddenly, confirmed that the book in the hand of the familiar face before him had landed on the ground, and immediately walked to the prison door, looked at it again, "Lu Dongzan!"

Lu Dongzan immediately knelt down in front of Songtsan Gampo, his red eyes hoarse voice: "Zanpu! Lu Dongzan came to see you!"

"Why do you look like this?" Songtsan Gampo looked at the sallow and emaciated Lu Dongzan, how the good Tubo man turned into a scrawny middle-aged man.

"Tubo is miserable!" Lu Dongzan knelt in front of Songtsan Gampo.

"How did you come here all these years." Songtsan Gampo said, "Tubo..."

"People in Tubo say that Tubo has come back, only Zanpu has not come back!" Lu Dongzan held back his sobs, "I have been recovering the people of Tubo these years. After the officials of the Tang Dynasty entered Tubo, they treated Tubo well and gave them food. , was given to people to govern, but without Zanpu, Tubo seems to have lost its soul."

Di Renjie opened the cell door, "Go in and talk, I'll avoid it for a while."

"Thank you." Songtsan Gampo said to Di Renjie.

In the quiet cell, when Di Renjie came to a corner, he could still hear Songtsan Gampo and Lu Dongzan's voice. Although it was Tubo dialect, he could still understand a few words.

"How did you come here?" Songtsen Gampo asked.

Lu Dongzan put away his emotions and said, "Persia and Dashi are fighting, and now Tianzhu is also moving, all for a trade route. Persia is not far from our Tubo. The one who wants us to go to Tubo first, he also promised to let us go." I'm here to see Zamp."