Prince Echiken's first reaction was, what nonsense is this Tang envoy talking about?
The 2,000 Stele Forest Army led by Anashi, including 300 Stele Forest heavy cavalry, were completely wiped out by the Tang Dynasty?
No matter how incompetent Anashi is, he can still bring back the Beilin Army who has gone like a wind in the future? Not to mention a mere King Jianning, even if the Tang Dynasty gathered all the power of Beiting, there would be no Beilin Army left!
But Prince Yijijian looked at Shang Bo's face and suddenly had self-doubt.
At this moment, a close aide of Prince Echiken rushed in. He quickly walked up to Prince Echiken's bedside and told him some shocking news in his ear.
"Your Highness, the two thousand Stele Forest cavalry led by Ana Shi were surrounded and annihilated by the Tang Dynasty, and only a hundred people escaped from the Tang Dynasty!"
What!
Prince Yijijian stood up and stared at Shang Bo. This turned out to be true!
This Tang Dynasty envoy is so brave!
Prince Yijijian held the sword at his waist and wanted to take out the sword and chop Shang Bo to death.
Two thousand cavalrymen in the Forest of Steles were completely wiped out! Is Anashi a stupid pig?
These are the elite guards of the Forest of Steles, the elite Uighurs second only to the Yazhang soldiers!
This is the Stele Forest Elite Cavalry that Prince Kenji worked hard and spent countless resources to control, but it was ruined in one fell swoop!
Damn Tang Dynasty!
Shang Bo had already noticed the expression of Prince Yi Dijian. He stepped forward and said: "The Tang and Hui have long agreed. The Uighurs are a role model for all tribes, but there are always those ambitious people who want to sow discord between the Tang and the Uighurs.
, Such ambitious people will definitely die without a burial place!"
This was already a scolding directed at Prince Ken Ken, but this made Prince Ken Ken calm down.
He sat back on the bed and said coldly: "Your envoy has come all the way here just to show off his rhetoric in front of this prince, right?"
He is worthy of being the future Uighur Khan and the person who brought the Uighur power to its peak in history.
To be able to calm down so quickly, Prince Echiken is truly a character.
Shang Bo supported the festival and said, "Of course I'm here for the friendship between the Tang and Hui families!"
"Friendship?" Prince Kenji added an accent to the word friendship, with a strong sarcasm in his tone.
Shang Bo then said: "Of course it's friendship. I dare to ask Your Highness, every year there are rebel generals from the Uighurs who don't obey the Khan's orders and invade the Tang Dynasty. What's the reason for this?"
Prince Echiken immediately said: "Of course it's for food, slaves and wealth."
Shang Bo smiled and said: "In this case, if these things can be easily obtained, why would the Uighurs bother to invade Datang and bleed blood on the border between the two countries in vain?"
Prince Yidijian suddenly laughed. He looked at Shang Bo and said, "Did King Jianning send you here to pay tribute to me, the Uighur?"
Shang Bo said sternly: "No, no, I am here to visit the falcon to open a tea and horse trade!"
Tea and horse trading?
Prince Yijijian looked at Shang Bo, this was still a new word he heard.
Shangbo said: "The grassland needs nothing more than tea, cloth and grain. These things can be obtained through trade. Why go south to plunder?"
"Deal?" Prince Yijijian is half of the Lithu people, and this ethnic group is best at doing business.
He immediately said: "In order to trade, both parties must produce goods. I, the Uighur, need Datang's tea, cloth, and grain, so what does Datang need from me, Uighur?"
Shang Bo immediately said: "Horses, cattle and sheep are all what I need in the Tang Dynasty!"
Sure enough, it was horses. Between the Uighurs and the Tang Dynasty, there had been such merchants doing this kind of business for a long time.
Tea and grain were purchased from the Tang Dynasty, transported to the Uighur tribe, exchanged for horses, and brought back to the Tang Dynasty.
However, these are just small fights among the people, and they are not large-scale at all.
But when Shangbo formally proposed it, Prince Yijijian began to think about it.
Since the Tang Dynasty was able to wipe out two thousand Stele Forest cavalry, it really underestimated King Jianning's ability to integrate Longyou.
If Longyou of the Tang Dynasty was impregnable, sending people to the border to plunder would be a recipe for death.
Even the most determined anti-Tang faction in the Uighurs could not afford to lose a few more Stele Forest cavalry.
On the contrary, if the tea-horse trade market mentioned by Shangbo can be implemented by oneself, how much benefit can it bring?
The Uighurs are not short of horses, cattle and sheep. If these livestock can be stably exchanged for tea, grain and cloth, then who will lick their blood and go to the Tang Dynasty to rob them?
What's more, the destruction of two thousand Stele Forest cavalry this time shows that Longyou has revitalized its defense line against the Uighurs, and it would be uneconomical to plunder them again.
However, Prince Yi Dijian still narrowed his eyes, looked at Shang Bo and said: "Mutual trading is a matter that can only be decided by the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, right? You are just an envoy of King Jianning, do you think mutual trading can be done by mutual trading?"
Shang Bo immediately said: "The Emperor of the Tang Dynasty has appointed King Jianning to be fully responsible for the military and political affairs of Longyou. This is opening up mutual trade in Longyou. How can the emperor not allow it?"
In response to Shang Bo's sophistry, Prince Yi Dijian smiled softly. Isn't Longyou the territory of the Tang Dynasty? If the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty issued a ban, could King Jianning still disobey it?
Just when Prince Yijijian was about to refute Shang Bo, he heard Shang Bo say:
"The envoy heard that Prince Yehu of the Uighurs has sworn sworn brothers with the Crown Prince of the Tang Dynasty, the elder brother of His Royal Highness King Jianning."
Prince Yi Dijian raised his head and stared at Shang Bo with deep meaning.
He suddenly realized that his identity and that of King Jianning were so similar.
He is the younger brother of the Uighur prince, and King Jianning is the younger brother of the Tang prince.
Such words from Shang Bo made Prince Yijijian see countless possibilities for cooperation.
He became the leader of the anti-Tang faction not because Yi Dijian hated the Tang Dynasty. On the contrary, he was proficient in Chinese and had a good understanding of Han culture. Even many of the reforms he made to regent the Uighurs were all based on the Tang Dynasty.
Yijijian rebelled against the Tang Dynasty just because his brother, the prince, was close to the Tang Dynasty.
Prince Echiken, like many outstanding politicians, has a flexible moral bottom line. It is obvious that he can be anti-Tang, but if necessary, he can also transform into a pro-Tang faction.
Shang Bo's words made Yi Dijian see the common interest between himself and King Jianning - to seize the direct descendant!
After seeing this common interest, Yi Dijian no longer doubted the tea-horse trading proposal. King Jianning, like himself, was also expanding his own strength!
This is an unbreakable alliance!
Just when Prince Yidijian was about to agree to Shang Bo's proposal to open a tea and horse trade between the Tang Dynasty and the Uighurs, suddenly there was a noise at the door of the meeting hall.
"Where is Prince Yidijian? We are the envoys of the great Zanpu. Is there anything more important than the alliance between the Uighurs and Tibetans?"
Cai Bang Lun Sa led the delegation and rushed into the meeting hall despite the obstruction of the Uighur guards.