Mangsong Mangtsan and Garzangzhuo were filled with disbelief. They stared blankly at Li Hong, who was holding the shoulders of the Holy Salvation Mother Buddha, standing on the square of the Red Palace and sighed, "Tsk, tsk, this Potala Palace is really great. Is that the legendary golden roofs over there? Is this really like a maze? If you walk in without someone familiar to lead you, you will get lost and won't be able to get out?"

"If it really can make people lose their way, I will throw you in first and trap you, the little devil, inside so that you can't harm my Tibetan people." Director Wenchenggong said unhappily while Li Hong put his arm around his shoulders.

Looking at his grandson Mangsong Mangzan and the Tubo prime minister, standing there trembling and cautiously, waiting for the victor's questions, he felt even more upset.

Li Hong didn't care at all. He didn't care what Wen Cheng said. He still stood above the Red Palace, looking at the entire Lhasa City.

The entire city of Lhasa seemed to be under his feet, with rows of houses neatly arranged, but contrary to this, the people in the city were running around in panic, and even began to gather in several places in the city.

"It seems all right. The arrival of our Tang people has not caused too much panic." Li Hong said with a smile. He didn't care at all about the heart-wrenching cries coming from the city wall that he had blown up.

"Are you deaf? Can't you hear the Tibetan people crying over there?" Princess Wencheng shook off Li Hong's arm that was around her shoulders, reached out her hand like Wu Mei, grabbed Li Hong's ear and looked towards the destroyed city gate.

"That's what war is like, right?" Li Hong said confidently. After seeing Princess Wencheng let go of her hand, he slowly walked up to Mangsong Mangzan.

After Princess Wencheng married into Tubo, the Tibetan king began to ask the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty to appoint a new Tibetan king.

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Mangsong Mangtsen was appointed as the King of Tubo by Li Zhi.

However, these are just formalities, and the real decision-makers are still Tubo. What the Tang Dynasty got is just an honorary title.

If one could really have absolute power and influence over the enthronement of the Tubo king like in the previous life, or like the theocracy of Tubo, then one would be truly controlling Tubo.

And this is what Li Hong wanted to do after conquering the city of Lhasa, to establish a puppet-like Zamp to serve the Tang Dynasty.

But he also knew that such an idea was not realistic now because Princess Wencheng would never agree to it.

This relative of the Tang royal family, who enjoyed the highest reputation in Tubo, was now completely focused on Tubo.

As the Holy Savior Buddha of Tibet, she would never agree to my request.

In the second year after Emperor Taizong passed away, Songtsen Gampo also passed away.

I don’t know if this was the end of an era. The two wise monarchs, who had made extraordinary achievements in their respective countries, seemed to have made an appointment. They each left behind a country with a bright future, and entered paradise together less than a year apart.

"When my father appointed you as the King of Tubo, he never thought that you would disobey the will of our Tang Dynasty and invade Tuyuhun despite the opposition of the Tang Dynasty. As the King, shouldn't you give the Tang Dynasty an explanation for this matter?" Li Hong looked at Mangsong Mangtsen, and the attitude of a winner was obvious.

Mangsongmangzan, like his father, is tall and powerful.

Mangsong Mangzan bit his lip and said with difficulty: "It was Tuyuhun who attacked Tubo first, and I did not intend to provoke trouble."

Li Hong smiled and said with a sigh, "At the beginning, my grandfather rejected your proposal to marry my aunt Wencheng, so you thought that Tuyuhun was the one who interfered, and you have been holding a grudge ever since, and started to use military force against Tuyuhun."

Li Hong paced in the Red Palace Square, and continued to speak softly: "In the 14th year of Zhenguan, Aunt Honghua married Tuyuhun, and in the 15th year of Zhenguan, Aunt Wencheng married your Tubo. It has been 30 years now. When Aunt Wencheng married, my Tang Dynasty bought her a rich dowry: statues of the Buddha, gold and jade bookcases, various scriptures, food cooking plans, silk and satin mattresses, various craftsmen and technologies, including our Tang Dynasty's medical skills, and my Tang Dynasty's vegetables suitable for your Tubo to grow, etc. To put it bluntly, if it weren't for Aunt Wencheng, who brought these advanced civilizations of the Tang Dynasty to your Tubo, I'm afraid that you, the people of Tubo, would have to lead your people to eat dirt when natural disasters or man-made disasters occur, right?"

Li Hong killed people with every word and sentence, which not only pierced Mangsong Mangzan's heart, but also made their faces turn blue and red, making them extremely embarrassed.

This made Galzanzhuo and Princess Wencheng look equally embarrassed and uncertain.

"There is a saying in our Tang Dynasty: 'A bowl of rice brings gratitude, a load of rice brings hatred.' Do you know what it means? It means that when people are in trouble, I give them a little help to help them out of their immediate crisis, and they will be grateful to me. But if I keep helping them like this, and one day I am unable to help them for other reasons, they will hate me and will hate me for the rest of their lives. To put it more bluntly, I have raised an ungrateful person! Instead of this, it is better to strangle him! Otherwise he will hate me and stab me in the back!" Li Hongyun said calmly, but it made people feel a strong murderous intent.

"Ouch..." Bai Qi ran to Li Hong and gently bit Li Hong's hand that was touching his head to show his protest.

As soon as I ran up, I heard someone using me as an analogy, and it was a negative example. This must be refuted.

The Tubo ministers standing in the square, whether it was Garzangzhuo or Mangsong Mangzan, were pointed at and scolded as ungrateful villains, but they could not refute and could only lower their heads in embarrassment.

Princess Wencheng remained silent, watching Li Hong speak calmly and domineeringly.

The Tang Dynasty is blessed to have such a prince. This child is much more capable and ambitious than his father, and can directly achieve the great ambition of the previous emperor.

"So, people should know how to be content and be grateful. Back then, Grandpa Huang was able to defy all odds and agree to marry Aunt Wencheng, bringing long-lasting prosperity to your Tubo. Then... I, Li Hong, can also go against the will of heaven and earth and use the iron cavalry of my Tang Dynasty to let you return to the era of eating grass!"

"Li Hong, do you really think I don't exist? This is Tibet, not your Tang Dynasty's Chang'an City. How can I allow you to speak nonsense here!" Princess Wencheng said coldly with a sullen face.

Although what Li Hong said was true, was the cause of the matter really as simple as Li Hong said?

I have been in Tubo for more than 30 years, and now I have already lived and died with Tubo.

Why was she married to Tubo back then? To put it bluntly, she was just a victim of the complicated background between Tubo and the Tang Dynasty!

Now that Tubo is prosperous, he is worshipped and deified by the Tibetans.

Indeed, it was everything he brought from the Tang Dynasty that changed the poverty of Tubo and established his noble status in the hearts of the Tubo people.

But after Li Hong said it, the meaning unconsciously changed, as if these people were treacherous villains who were worse than pigs and dogs.

"What nonsense? Am I wrong? If it weren't for your marriage and the advanced civilization brought to them, would they know how to make charcoal? Would they know how to smelt iron? Would they know how to weave wool? But instead of being grateful, they used the civilization of our Tang Dynasty to hurt the people of our Tang Dynasty! They invaded our Tang Dynasty territory! Why can't I stand here and question you!" Li Hong suddenly turned around, looked at the trembling Princess Wencheng, and shouted loudly.

“What on earth do you want to do? Now you have avenged your people, and Tuyuhun has been returned to you! And how many people of my Tubo died at your hands? Four hundred thousand lives were killed by you in Tubo from west to east and from east to west in more than a year. Nearly three hundred thousand people were killed or injured. Is it not enough to compensate for the mistakes Tubo has made in recent years?” Princess Wencheng looked pitiful and there was some sadness in her expression.

It is not known whether she was sad because of the death of the Tibetan people, or because she had spent her best years in Tibet, a land in the far west and high places.

Now when I look back, I realize that in the complicated background of Tubo and Tang Dynasty, I was a political victim, entering, living and guarding Tubo.

In this life, there are too many sorrows. Now, because the city is broken, he has to face his royal family again.

The look in her eyes when she looked at Li Hong made her vaguely guess at the ambition of this Crown Prince of the Tang Dynasty.

This was a scary young man, scary enough to scare her and make her feel terrified from the bottom of her heart.

Li Hong looked at her quietly, and said word by word: "Aunt Wencheng, please return to Datang."

"impossible."

"no!"

"Absolutely not!"

Princess Wencheng, Mangsong Mangzan, and Garzangzhuo objected at the same time. Their dry voices further exposed the fear in their hearts.

The Holy Mother of Salvation was the spiritual pillar of the Tibetan people after Songtsen Gampo's death. If she had returned to the Tang Dynasty and abandoned Tibet, no one could imagine what kind of chaos Tibet would face.

On this point, whether it was Mangsong Mangtsen, Garzangzhuo, or Princess Wencheng herself, they all understood it clearly.

The intention of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of the Tang Dynasty is to plunge Tubo into civil strife and then completely destroy Tubo's current peaceful situation.

Let Tibet fall into pieces, so that he will have the opportunity to slowly divide Tibet and eventually bring the whole Tibet into the territory of the Tang Dynasty.

"Well, then we will appoint another Zamp, a Zamp recognized by our Great Tang! Not the Zamp recognized by you! Our Great Tang will select the Zamp for you!" Li Hong said slowly, his deep eyes swept over Chidu Songjie and others.

"impossible."

"What nonsense!"

"Absolutely not!"

The three of them once again expressed their unanimous objection, but this time, their expressions were filled with anger.