Datang: Li Shimin begged me to rebel

"If Chen Envoy only wants to say this, then please go back." Songtsan Gampo stood up straight away.

"Your Majesty, be safe and don't be impatient. Since Your Majesty doesn't want to hear the truth, let's talk about other things." Chen Xuanzang smiled, and then said: "I want to ask Your Majesty a question, I wonder if His Majesty can give I have an answer."

"Talk about it first." Songtsan Gampo didn't give him a good look.

"Your Majesty, you can be regarded as the king of a country in Tubo. I want to know, what is your ideal, Your Majesty? Or dream, or what you want to do." Chen Xuanzang changed the subject.

"What do you mean?" Songtsan Gampo frowned.

"I just want to chat with His Majesty, and want to know about His Majesty's ambitions. I wonder if Your Majesty can answer?" Chen Xuanzang asked seriously.

Songtsan Gampo frowned, then fell silent, ideal?dream?Songtsen Gampo is considered to be the one who inherited the position relatively early, but in fact, even today, whether it is ideals, dreams or ambitions, he has had them before.

But in fact, when he was the most ambitious, he didn't think too much about things. In fact, his ideals and so on have always been vague, just wanting to make Tubo stronger.

But this kind of strength, he has never had a concept of what kind of strength it has reached.

Until Li Shimin, the Heavenly Khan of the Tang Dynasty, was born, it cannot be said that he was born. To be precise, Li Shimin had just become emperor for two years after Songtsan Gampo succeeded to the throne at the age of 12.

But in the next few years, he had just pacified the entire Tubo, but Li Shimin was already the Khan of Heaven, the Khan of Heaven that was respected by all the countries around the Tang Dynasty, including the nomads!

Songtsan Gampo grew up more mature than many people. After all, he began to unify Tibet after he succeeded to the throne, so he knew exactly how difficult it was.Not to mention being like Li Shimin.

It is also because of this that Songtsan Gampo actually has a somewhat admiring mentality for Li Shimin in his heart, and this is why he admires the Central Plains culture very much, because the teachers who taught him are also learning the Central Plains culture.

As for trying to marry Datang princess again and again, whether it was his personal obsession or not, in general he still admired Datang in his heart.

As for ideals and the like, if you said that he has ever thought about developing Tubo to be as powerful as the Tang Dynasty, he must have thought about it.

But it was just thinking about it, he knew very well that he couldn't do it, and in many cases the safety of Tubo was due to the unique geographical location of Tubo, which Chen Xuanzang said was not wrong at all.

Take the current Tubo as an example, which is located on the continent of Tianzhu. Obviously, the Tubo people have stronger military strength and quality, and the combat effectiveness of those Tianzhu people is simply indescribable.

But their casualties are still not small.

At this time, Songtsan Gampo realized how much convenience the original unique geographical environment of Tubo provided to Tubo.

Because the Tubo people lived on it for generations, those who could not adapt to the environment had already died, and those who survived were all adapted to the environment, but the enemy who tried to attack them was not like this.

When they came to the land of Tubo, they had to reduce their combat effectiveness by at least one-third.

"There is nothing to say, I want to build Tibet into a powerful country." Songtsan Gampo said with a serious face.

Chen Xuanzang laughed when he heard this, and he looked at Songtsan Gan preaching: "I don't know what your majesty knows that a strong country needs as a foundation?"

Songtsan Gampo frowned, he didn't want to answer this kind of question, and he wasn't being tested by the other party.

However, it seemed that he had seen through his thoughts, and Chen Xuanzang did not expect him to answer, but continued to speak directly: "For a country to be called strong, it is necessary for the country to be rich and the people strong, and if the country is to be rich and the people strong, the whole country must There must be a stable environment, that is to say, at least the whole country is united, this is a must, right?"

Songtsin Gampo paused, then nodded, "That's right."

"Well, Your Majesty, do you think the current Tubo is united? Or don't talk about the current one, just talk about the former Tubo? Are the top and bottom united? In the former Tubo, millions of Tubo people really stood by Your Majesty. Is it true? If it is true, then they will not think about rebelling."

"Not to mention choosing to join Datang directly after the rebellion. Because they just want to live a good life with enough food and warm clothes. Datang can give them such a good life, but Tubo can't. This point, as the supreme leader of Tubo, you should know better than me, Your Majesty."

"Your Majesty, you should understand what kind of life the former Tubo serfs were like and what they were like in the hearts of the Tubo nobles." Chen Xuanzang said.

What he said silenced Songtsen Gampo, could Songtsen Gampo not know?Of course he knew, of course he knew what life was like for the low-level serfs, otherwise, why did these serfs rebel?Isn't it because the nobles in Tubo don't treat serfs as human beings?

Only then did today's situation come into being, which is why after he stabilized here, he immediately started to follow Datang's reforms and carry out reforms in the way of Datang's reforms.

The results of these two years of reform made Songtsen Gampo understand that he was doing the right thing, because now Tubo can quickly gain a foothold here, which is inseparable from the policies he implemented.

Not only that, many people from the Jieri Dynasty next door sneaked to them because of their policies.

"You are right." Songtsan Gampo nodded and admitted.

"Since this is the case, the current policy of the Tang Dynasty is better for the people than that of Tubo. The Tang Dynasty does not even collect agricultural taxes now, and it does not lower the food prices of the people to ensure the income of the people. Everyone has monthly money."

"Which side do you think ordinary people prefer?" Chen Xuanzang asked with a smile.

Songtsan Gampo: "..."

"Of course, the reason why a country exists is not only the policy, but also the feelings of the family and the country, but now the people of Tubo have a sense of belonging to Tubo... It doesn't seem to be strong." Chen Xuanzang added.

Can it be strong?How many years has it been since Tubo gained a firm foothold here?You want these people to fight for Tubo?It's not impossible, but it depends on who you're fighting against, against the Jieri Dynasty, they definitely fought bravely, because they know what it's like to be ruled by the Jieri Dynasty, and they don't want to live like that.

But with Datang?

For a moment, Songtsan Gampo felt that what Chen Xuanzang said... seemed to be quite reasonable.