Chapter 65: Conditions
"My son, don't be too indifferent to your old friend!"
After Li Jing finished speaking of Ashina, he looked at Zan Po: "Let's go to the reminiscence between you, let's talk about your purpose this time, let me see how sincere you are when you come to seek peace.
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"Regent, I want to correct the mistakes in your words. We are ordered to negotiate, not seek peace. This is different!"
Zan Po said.
"No matter what you think in your heart, in front of me, you can only ask for peace. The Tubo kings before you have always been ministers of the Tang Dynasty, and Tubo is not qualified to be on an equal footing with the Tang Dynasty!"
Li Jing refuted without hesitation and negotiated with the Tang Dynasty, and Tubo could only talk to him as a foreign minister!
"My brother asked me to tell you that in order to be friendly with both sides, to be able to live in peace and not to invade each other, I hope to withdraw the troops that attacked the four towns of Anxi, and to assign the ten Turkic surnames to my Tubo, and to withdraw from Tuguhun.
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Zan Po said that the conditions for this peace talks were to maintain the original territory of Tubo and the Tang Dynasty. Zan Po represented Lun Qinling and promised that he would never invade the territory of the Tang Dynasty during his lifetime.
Tubo and Tang dynasty are still as close as one family. The alliance between nephew and uncle will be firm. The family should not fight each other!
After hearing this, Li Jing sneered. Tubo is really ambition. I am afraid that even ghosts don’t believe such nonsense. How could he believe it?
Unless he is stupid, it is absolutely impossible to give up the ten surnames of Anxi, Tuyuhun and the Turkic people to Tubo. If he does this, he will only fatten Tubo and eventually invade the Tang Dynasty!
He actually dared to say something about family members in front of him, and who has ever seen a family that can stab him all the time!
"The four towns in Anxi, the ten surnames Turks and Tubo are not the same tribes. I want me to give up these. Is it not that they have the intention of annexation? Tuyuhun was originally occupied by Tubo. Now, our Tang Dynasty sent troops to regain his territory for the Tuyuhun King, which is the general trend.
How can you promise you bandits who invade other people's homes!"
Li Jing retorted.
Not to mention anything else, just like Tuyuhun, Tuyuhun is not a territory of Tubo, but was robbed by Tubo by force. What is the difference between such behavior and robbers?
He sent troops to attack Tubo to uphold justice, help the suffering Tuyuhun people, drive away the robbers who robbed and occupied their homes, and help them restore their country.
Zan Po's nose was so angry that his nose was crooked. Li Jing kept saying that he was upholding justice. His actions were not the same as those of Tubo, and he wanted to obtain the territory of Tuyuhun.
It’s just that Tubo robs openly, while Tang robs secretly. There is no big difference in essence!
The only difference is that the people of the Tang Dynasty spoke of benevolence, righteousness and morality, stood at the highest point of morality, and set up the banner of justice to condemn Tubo’s evil deeds!
"If Tubo is greedy for land and wants to disrupt the borders of the Tang Dynasty, he will invade Ganzhou and Liangzhou from the east. How could he plan for land thousands of miles away?"
"The Tuyuhun King is stupid and cruel, and his virtue is indestructible. I, Tubo, sent troops to help the Tuyuhun people kill the tyrants in order to save the suffering people of Tuyuhun!"
Zanba retorted, elevating himself to the righteous side!
"So, the Tuyuhun people should thank you?"
Li Jing asked.
"This is not necessary. I, Tubo, just don't want to see the misery of the world!"
Zan Po said.
"But why did I see that the Tuyuhun people hated Tubo! They wished that the Tubo people would die early, but instead, they would eat pots of slurry for the Tang Dynasty's king's army!"
Li Jing refuted again that the Tubo dog thief was really shameless. He was obviously invading others and doing bad things at other people's houses, and insisted on helping others. He had never seen such a shameless person!
Zan Po's face turned pale and wanted to continue talking, but Li Jing reached out to stop him. Discussing these meaningless things was just a waste of time!
Li Jing would not agree to any of the conditions raised by Zan Po. If Tubo wants to solve it with force, let them see how strong the military strength of the Tang Dynasty is!
"If you Tubo really want to ask for peace, I, the Tang Dynasty, cannot agree. If you really want peace, then return to the Tubo local tribes and return the Tuyuhun tribes, the former Qinghai area, and the Western Turkic Five Qijin tribes, to the Tang Dynasty,
From now on, I will pay tribute and pay tribute every year. I can forgive you for your previous offense to the Tang Dynasty!”
Li Jing put forward his own conditions, and Tubo must accept it, otherwise he would raise troops to destroy Tubo.
Zan Po didn't expect that Li Jing was so crazy. With such conditions, not to mention his brothers or others, even all Tubo people would not agree to Li Jing's unreasonable request!
After several generations of efforts, Tubo sacrificed many warriors and spread blood to the battlefield to establish the current Tubo territory. Tuyuhun is an important strategic location for Tubo. How can he give up people?
Even if he, Gar Zhengzangdun, could agree, the Tubo people would never agree!
"Regent, we come to talk to you with full sincerity, but you humiliate me so much. You don't want to see the people of the two tribes live in peace, so we can only fight to the end!"
Zan Po stood up and said angrily.
"If you want to fight, then you will fight. My Tang Dynasty is not afraid of any enemies, let alone you mountain village men like Tubo. If you don't surrender now, when my Tang Dynasty's heavenly soldiers arrive, you will definitely destroy your Tubo!"
Li Jing was not polite to Zanpo. He couldn't speak well, no matter what, he couldn't lose in terms of momentum. He must maintain the prestige of the Tang Dynasty!
Zan Po turned around and left. At this point of negotiation, there was no need to continue the negotiation!
"Regent!"
After Zan Po left, Guo Yuanzhen stood up and bowed.
"What? Do you think it's inappropriate for me to do this?"
Li Jing looked at Guo Yuanzhen coldly.
"I don't have this intention. I feel that while Lun Qinling has not noticed it, I will immediately send troops to attack Wuhai City!"
Guo Yuanzhen advised.
The current situation is very good for the Tang Dynasty. It just happened to take this opportunity to completely drive all Tubo back to the Tubo local area and force Tubo to submit tribute!
Li Jing was a little surprised!
Is this still the history of Guo Yuanzhen he knew?
If Guo Yuanzhen in history had never suggested that he send troops to drive Lun Qinling back to Tubo, he would instead persuade him to stabilize Lun Qinling first, and then provoke the conflict between Tubo kings and Lun Qinling, and use the hands of Tubo kings,
Kill Lunqinling.
But will he agree to such a thing?
Obviously, that was absolutely impossible. He came here to drive Tubo back, completely block the way out of Tubo, slowly eliminate Tubo, and turn Tubo into a part of the Tang Dynasty!
It is precisely because Guo Yuanzhen knew what Li Jing wanted that he advised Li Jing to send troops to conquer the world with one battle, and completely reversed the fate between the Tang Dynasty and the Tubo!
Chapter completed!