The fall of Langri Songtsen made Nie Chizan and Mu Chizan, who were rushing to Fuqi City, extremely angry. They originally thought that with their current strength and the advantage of fighting on the plateau, they could completely keep the Tang soldiers out of the city and make them return in defeat.
But the thunder that seemed to be out of place in this world quickly tipped the balance of war in one direction.
The death of Langri Songtsen in battle also shocked the entire Tubo people. For a time, the entire holy city was in panic.
Some people have begun to ask the Zamp to make peace with the Tang army and are willing to give up the Tuyuhun land to express the greatest goodwill.
However, the ministers of Lu Dongzan's period, led by Galzangzhuo and Thonmi Sambhota, hoped to take this opportunity to avenge Lu Dongzan, and even more hoped to use all their military forces to drive the Tang army out of Tuyuhun.
Galtsanzhuo walked into the Potala Palace with a gloomy face. This time he did not come to the audience on his own initiative, but it was Mangsong Mangtsen Zamp who urgently summoned him.
When he arrived at the top of the Red Mountain, the palace symbolizing the highest power of Tubo, Thonmi Sambhota, Trisang Yangdoncuo, Saidan Songdon and others who had always been on good terms with him had already arrived here early.
A young man dressed in the clothes of a noble king saw Galzangzhu walking in quickly, and immediately stood up from his chair. Ignoring the sidelong glances of other ministers, he also walked down quickly.
He grabbed Garzanzhuo's hand and asked anxiously, "Is our Dafeichuan really lost?"
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"Yes, Zamp, the land of Tuyuhun has now been occupied by them." Galzangzhuo looked at the young Mangsong Mangzan with a complicated expression and said with difficulty.
As soon as he finished speaking, the atmosphere in the Red Palace of the Potala Palace suddenly became depressing, and many ministers showed disappointment and even despair on their faces.
They originally thought that they had learned all the advanced knowledge of the Tang Dynasty, and after so many years of hard work, they had enough strength to compete with the Tang Dynasty soldiers. However, they did not expect that the Tang Dynasty soldiers could enter Tubo as if they were in an empty land.
Moreover, the entire offensive was unstoppable. They marched from the easternmost part of the Tubo territory to the westernmost part, and then attacked Langri Songtsen from the front and back.
Mangsong Mangzan let go of Galzangzhuo's arm in a daze, and murmured, "Why do the Tang people have thunder? Why is the power so great that even our strongest warriors can't come back alive. Is it really that the gods are helping the Tang people and giving up on us?"
Galzangzhuo looked at Mangsong Mangzan, slowly held his arm and walked to the throne, letting Mangsong Mangzan sit down.
You could hear a pin drop in the silent Red Palace, and the atmosphere was dead and depressing.
Defeat in the war is not scary. What is scary is that the Seven Kings of Tianchi have now been completely wiped out, and Langri Songtsen has also died in the battle. They were killed by heavenly thunder before they even had the chance to fight with the Tang soldiers on horseback.
They did not die at the hands of Tang Bing, but died under God's thunder, because God was helping Tang Bing.
Now, of the 400,000 Tibetan soldiers, only 150,000 are left in the holy city. The rest were either killed in bombings in Tibetan territory or in Dafeichuan territory.
Garzangzhuo patted Mangsong Mangzan's shoulder in a comforting manner, turned his head and looked at a young man in his thirties and said, "Ashinu, do you know why the Tang people had thunder in the sky? Did that mysterious person ever tell you about it?"
Ashnu was dressed in Tibetan clothes, and his hair was braided like the Tibetans, with a circle of small braids showing outside his hat.
Seeing Garzanzhuo's inquiring eyes, he recalled everything about him and the mysterious man from the Tang Dynasty, and said carefully: "Replying to the Prime Minister, I haven't heard about it from that mysterious man, but I only know that Taiyi City is very mysterious, and even he doesn't know exactly what's inside."
The mysterious man is Li Zhong, the former crown prince of the Tang Dynasty. To be on the safe side, Li Zhong has always let everyone in Tibet who knows his existence call him the mysterious man.
Over the years, he sent a lot of valuable information to Tubo through Ashinu, and had a very good relationship with the Tubo royal family.
Moreover, he and Galtsanzhuo and others successfully avoided the suspicion of Princess Wencheng and others, and his identity was always known to only a few people in Tubo.
It was precisely because of his cautiousness, coupled with his understanding of Li Hong over the years, that his small actions in recent years had always left Li Hong puzzled, unable to figure out who was secretly working against him.
Including cement and so on, he secretly smuggled them for the Tibetans. He knew that he would be discovered by Li Hong, but he was still obsessed with it. His purpose was to divert Li Hong's attention by smuggling cement.
Then, I will take this opportunity to see if I can find out what shocking secrets are going on in Taiyi City’s herbal medicine room.
After a lot of effort, he finally got the chance to secretly deliver some things out of the medicine room. After contacting Tubo, because the matter was of great importance, Li Zhong did not even go through Ashinu, but contacted Lu Dongzan directly.
Galzanzhuo knew that his father must know something, otherwise he would not have gone to Yumen Pass in person to pick up the goods this time.
But he didn't expect that he was discovered by the Tang people and eventually died on the way back.
Gal Zangzhuo was very sad about Lu Dongzan's death. He felt based on his intuition that his father's personal trip to the Yumen Pass of the Tang Dynasty to pick up the goods might be related to the thunder.
Chidusongjie listened to the conversation between Garzanzhuo and Ashinu, and the expression on his face changed from hope at the beginning to calmness, all of which were seen by Garzanzhuo.
Galzanzhuo knew that after he became the prime minister, Chidusongjie had always been dissatisfied and had always hoped to replace him.
But he didn't believe that Chidu Songjie would become a spy arranged by the Tang people in Tubo like Li Zhong of the Tang Dynasty.
After the two men finished talking, Chidu Songjie walked out from the crowd on both sides, saluted to Mangsong Mangzan, then saluted to Garzangzhuo and the deputy prime minister, and said: "The Zamp is now an adult. Perhaps we can send envoys to the Tang Dynasty to ask for marriage, just like the great Zamp Songtsen Gampo, to show our sincerity."
"Then what about the many warriors who died? Our proposals for marriage in the past two years have been rejected. Will they agree if we propose again this time?" Deputy Prime Minister Chamo looked at him and asked.
"They certainly wouldn't agree in the past two years, because we defeated Tuyuhun and the Tang people would think we were demonstrating. If they agreed to the marriage proposal at that time, others would think they were surrendering to us. But now that they have defeated us, they are the superior country and will naturally agree. As for the many warriors who died, the Tang people have a saying that it is never too late for a gentleman to take revenge. As long as we give our wise and brave Zamp some time, I believe the Zamp will be able to lead us to retake Tuyuhun." Chidu Songjie spoke eloquently, not afraid of Deputy Prime Minister Chamo at all.
After Lu Dongzan's death, Chamo was originally appointed as the prime minister. However, after Galzanzhuo rushed back from Tuyuhun, the fool Chamo voluntarily gave up the position of prime minister to Galzanzhuo.
This made Chidu Songjie feel insulted. After all, in his opinion, no one was more qualified than him to be the prime minister.
Except for Chamo, who was more prestigious than him, Chamo voluntarily gave up the position of prime minister because Lu Dongzan's second son Galzanzhuo returned to Tubo. This was Chamo's deliberate attempt to embarrass him.
Galtsanzhuo looked at Chidusongjie. His proposal was very tempting. If he could ask a Tang princess to be the Zanmeng of Tubo for the current Zamp, at least the Tang would be less hostile towards them.
Moreover, he could also, like his father, assist a Zamp who had a Tang princess as his Zamp. Wouldn't that be like inheritance and bring greater luck to Tubo?
"Mu Chizan and Nie Chizan also died under the thunder. We no longer have the strength to compete with the Tang Dynasty. The only thing we can do is to conserve our strength, lie dormant patiently, and wait for a comeback." Gal Zangzhuo looked at Mangsong Mangzan and said solemnly.
"Should we ask grandma about these things? Or seek the opinion of 'Guxin'?" Mangsong Mangzan looked to be ten years older than Li Hong.
But in fact, compared with Li Hong, Mangsong Mangzan is only about four or five years older than Li Hong.
Songtsen Gampo had only one son: Mangri Songtsen.
But because of his early death, after Songtsen Gampo passed away young, the Tibetan king became Songtsen Gampo's grandson, and Mangsong Mangtsen, the son of Mangri Songtsen, succeeded him.
The grandmother that Mangsong Mangtsen mentioned is the Princess Wenchen who is still alive. She enjoys a high reputation throughout Tubo and is worshipped and respected as a god like Songtsen Gampo.
Gu Xin is unique to Tubo, which means national teacher or Dharma King.
Because they believed in Bon religion, during the tenure of each Zamp, there would be a high-ranking Bon monk to assist the Zamp, but he did not have absolute power like the Prime Minister.
Galzangzhuo thought for a while, then exchanged glances with Deputy Prime Minister Chamo and agreed to the suggestion that Mangsong Mangzan asked Princess Wencheng and the Dharma King.
Inside the tall, majestic, magnificent, solemn and dignified Potala Palace built on the Red Mountain, discussions were underway on how to reconcile with the Tang Dynasty.
The culprit was currently riding on horseback, doing his homework to know himself and the enemy so that he could fight every battle without defeat.
"You said Songtsen Gampo died at the age of 34?" Li Hong asked in surprise.
"Yes, Grand Protector, you are absolutely right." Pei Xingjian left Yuan Shuji to guard Tuyuhun to prevent another Tubo raid.
He took advantage of the defeat of Tubo and led 10,000 people to Li Hong's tent, insisting on following Li Hong back to Tubo.
During this period, imperial edicts flew into his arms like snowflakes. If Li Hong had not been in the dangerous area of Tubo, he would have been beheaded by His Majesty eight or ten times.
There is only one reason, and that is the failure to settle and protect the safety of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.
So now that he had finally managed to get to the side of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, Pei Xingjian refused to leave no matter what.
He would rather be scolded by the sensible Crown Prince here than be frightened by the imperial edict every day.
He was really afraid that one day he would not die on the battlefield, but would be scared to death in the Western Regions by an imperial edict.
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