690、The monarch and the ministers are suspicious
After the morning court passed away, everyone left with satisfaction because they exploited Tuyuhun 20 million guan, which made everyone eat a lot. As for the next step, there was no big deal and everyone left. However, Li Shimin kept Jing Wen.
"Look at it!" Li Shimin didn't say a word and asked Jing Wen to read two letters.
Jing Wen didn't say anything to Li Shimin, because Jing Wen and Li Shimin are a little unhappy now because of Princess Changle. Li Shimin didn't dare to kill Jing Wen, because if Jing Wen was really killed, wouldn't Princess Changle hate him for the rest of her life? Moreover, Li Shimin wouldn't kill a capable minister for this family matter, but it is understandable that he is cold towards Jing Wen.
When Jing Wen saw this letter, the first one was written in animal skin, but it was indeed Chinese characters. The content on this letter was written to Lu Dongzan, who was far away in Tubo, and wrote to Emperor Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty, and hoped that he could hand over a letter to Songzan Gampo. This letter was to express loyalty and to Songzan Gampo.
Another part is Songtsen Gampo's formal apology to the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, hoping that the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty would forgive him for invading the Tang Dynasty and was willing to compensate. However, Tubo is now in chaos with the power of politics, and hopes that the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty could send troops to help him regain Zanpu's rights.
Now it's great. On one hand, he keeps showing loyalty, and on the other hand, he wants to use the Tang Dynasty's troops to help him regain power. These two are completely biting dogs, which means that Jing Wen's words worked. Jing Wen said at that time that Lu Dongzan might be usurping the throne, but Songzan Gampo really took it seriously, so he took the initiative to send troops to help him regain power. However, Lu Dongzan immediately sent a letter to express his loyalty. This is almost the opposite thing, and it depends on how Li Shimin judged it.
"Emperor, their monarch and ministers are suspicious!" Jing Wen said.
Li Shimin immediately said: "Yes, the Tubo prime minister hurriedly sent a letter to express his loyalty, which showed that he did not betray Tubo Zanpu. However, he talked about how loyal he was, but he did not mean that he wanted me, Tang Dynasty, to release them Zanpu. Therefore, his way of expressing loyalty was a bit turned on the cart."
If he is really loyal to Songzan Gampo, he should ask the Tang Dynasty to release Songzan Gampo at all costs. However, there is only a letter explaining his actions to Songzan Gampo, but there is nothing to ask the Tang Dynasty to release Songzan Gampo back. Did he forget it? Or is there any other deep reason?
However, although Tubo is a small country, how could a person who can become a prime minister be a fool? So, I'm afraid that Lu Dongzan deliberately forgot to ask the Tang Dynasty to relax Sangzan Gampo to go back. This is interesting. Lu Dongzan actually wanted to be dictatorial, but did not want Songzan Gampo to go back.
The reason why Lu Dongzan sent this letter was actually to leave a way out for himself. Lu Dongzan knew the pulse of the Tang Dynasty, so he sent this letter so that Songzan Gampo could see that he was still "loyal". If Songzan Gampo returned, Lu Dongzan could use this letter to prove his loyalty. Anyway, at most, he would go back to the past situation and would not lose his status and rights. Instead, he was the prime minister of Tubo.
But Songzan Gampo obviously didn't know Lu Dongzan's idea. Before seeing Lu Dongzan's letter, he wrote a letter of apology to Li Shimin and asked the Tang Dynasty to send troops to help him regain power. Now that's it. These two letters made Li Shimin realize that these two guys were probably suspicious of each other, and they were even hating each other.
Although Songzan Gampo was only fifteen or sixteen years old, he was also a giant owl and was very suspicious. In order to resist the Tang army in time, Lu Dongzan hurried back. However, he inevitably became a person in power without Zan Pu. In this case, can Songzan Gampo not doubt him? This is simply an unsolvable problem. If Lu Dongzan does not take over power in time, then the Tang Dynasty can send one or two thousand troops to deal with them, because they are simply a mess.
But once Lu Dongzan takes over power, Songtsen Gampo will suspect him. On the one hand, he completely destroyed the country, and on the other hand, he was suspicious of his own monarch. This is not a good choice. In this case, Lu Dongzan's loyalty to the nation suddenly became higher than his loyalty to the monarch, so he chose to temporarily take over the Tubo regime for Songtsen Gampo, and successfully used enough combat readiness, coupled with the clever climate of the plateau, he successfully forced the Tang army to retreat. However, he was also suspicious of Songtsen Gampo.
Lu Dongzan certainly understood that Songzan Gampo is a giant owl, and he would probably be very likely to be afraid of Songzan Gampo by doing this. Therefore, Lu Dongzan hopes that Songzan Gampo will never come back in this life. After all, Lu Dongzan is not alone, he has his own family, and his family needs to support him. At that time, if Songzan Gampo comes back, he may be very dangerous. At the least, he will lose power, and at the worst, he will be confiscated and exterminated the family. Lu Dongzan wrote this letter of loyalty just to leave his destiny to do his best. However, the conflict between the two sides exposed that both sides had serious suspicion and no trust between the king and the ministers had no longer had any trust.
It has to be said that people's hearts are also very dangerous. Although they were the king and his ministers before, they have not even met each other now, but they are already suspicious of each other. Since Lu Dongzan came to the Tang Dynasty and asked the Tang Dynasty to send a princess. He has never seen Songzan Gampo since then. At that time, he was the person Songzan Gampo trusted the most, but now he has become the most dangerous and suspicious person. It has to be said that things in the world change so quickly and are so helpless.
"You said, is this a good or a bad thing?" Li Shimin asked.
Jing Wen thought for a while and said, "Your Majesty, this may not be a bad thing, but a great thing!"
"Oh? Do you still think that Tubo is the enemy of our Tang Dynasty? Tubo now has a population of only hundreds of thousands, and we annihilated 50,000 elite troops in one battle. Can they rise again?" Li Shimin asked.
Even now, Li Shimin does not think that Tubo will be his biggest enemy. Li Shimin now still does not have a strong understanding of Tubo. Therefore, he does not very recognize Jing Wen's judgment.
Jing Wen replied: "According to common sense, they will not continue to rise. But..."
"But what?" Li Shimin asked. (To be continued, please search for astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
Chapter completed!