Songtsan Gambo pursed his lips and wanted to refute, but in the end he didn't know what to refute.
Glancing at Songtsan Gampo's expression, Chen Xuanzang smiled and said, "Your Majesty, there is actually something I could have said in advance, but I didn't say it. Mainly because I wanted to have a sincere exchange with you, Your Majesty."
"What's the matter?" Songtsen Gampo's tone was no longer so harsh, because some of what Chen Xuanzang said made sense.
"Your Majesty should know that the Tang Dynasty has completely captured the entire Goguryeo. After all, the battle report has been reported by the Tang Dynasty Weekly near Yuzhang Port. And with His Majesty's attention to the Tang Dynasty, it is not difficult to get a newspaper."
"But I don't think your Majesty knows how long it took the Tang Dynasty to use?" Chen Xuanzang said with a smile.
"What do you mean?" Songtsen Gampo frowned.
"Two months." Chen Xuanzang stretched out two fingers.
"It only took two months for the Tang Dynasty to take over the entire Goguryeo. In the early stage, the Tang Dynasty just mobilized troops to the front line. From the first step of the Tang Dynasty's offensive to the Tang Dynasty's complete victory over Goguryeo, it only took two months."
"I swear on my personal honor about this matter. If I, Chen Xuanzang, lie, not only will I be struck by thunder and die without a burial place, but also my family and future generations will be the same." Chen Xuanzang swore with a calm face. road.
Songtsen Gampo's expression finally changed.
Goguryeo's powerful Songtsan Gampo knew it. If nothing else, Goguryeo had resisted the attack of a million-strong army of the former Sui Dynasty three times. Goguryeo itself had hundreds of thousands of armored soldiers.
Whether it is combat power, population, land area, or even various technologies such as iron smelting, it is far higher than that of Tubo.
Two months? ! He didn't know what to say at all, because according to his thinking, with a land area of Goguryeo's size, it would probably take two months for the army to advance, right?
Although Datang attacked from two directions or even three directions, the speed was too fast!
And what about the many cities in Goguryeo? Are those cities made of paper?
But Chen Xuanzang made such a curse, which means that this matter is most likely true, because it is almost impossible to fake this kind of news, and it will spread sooner or later!
So, can Songtsen Gampo’s expression remain unchanged? Not to mention Songtsan cadres, even Shang Xiang, Lun Keer and others who had been listening changed their expressions. At such a speed and time, how strong must the military strength of the Tang Dynasty be?
The point is, Chen Xuanzang mentioned something before that after the Tang Dynasty captured Goguryeo, it meant that the Tang Dynasty had no enemies in the hinterland, and all the land would be the land of the Tang Dynasty, including Silla and Baekje. Directly choose to store and enter the land of Datang.
Is there anything else to say? Needless to say, after the Tang Dynasty had no enemies, this meant that the Tang Dynasty could mobilize hundreds of thousands of troops to the west at any time, but they, Tubo, lost their former natural moat! plateau!
The places named Qinghai-Tibet Prefecture and Qinghai-Tibet Plateau by the Tang Dynasty were once their greatest dependence, but now they cannot go back there.
"Even if that's the case, so what?" Songtsen Gampo was completely arrogant.
Because he actually thought of countless ways in his heart, but he couldn't think of a way to resist Datang.
"Actually, Your Majesty, some of the thoughts deep in your heart have never changed. Why don't we think about it from another angle? The same is true for all the prime ministers." Chen Xuanzang looked at the other prime ministers who were listening, and then said with a smile. .
"Your Majesty, let me say a few things first. People living in this world are nothing more than fame and fortune. Let me not talk about profit for now. After all, your Majesty is also the king of a country."
"Let me talk about fame first. His Majesty once said that he wanted to promote Tubo and become the founding king of the country. Can I think that His Majesty wants a reputation, a reputation of Tubo, a reputation for leading Tubo to become powerful? The reputation of the founding emperor does not exist. Is that wrong?" Chen Xuanzang looked at him and asked.
Songtsan Gampo frowned slightly. Although it was a bit more straightforward to say this, there was no one else here. Songtsan Gampo still nodded: "You can say that, that's right."
"It's very simple. Regardless of your majesty or the prime ministers, if you want to develop and expand Tubo, it must not be for the Tubo people, right? If it is for the Tubo people, then they will not be called serfs. "Chen Xuanzang added lightly.
Shang Xiang, Lun Keer and others did not answer the call. There was no need to quibble about something that everyone knew, and even Songtsen Gampo would not quibble about it.
"You see, in this state, for the sake of fame, if you want to record your reputation, whether it is history books or other methods, you must use the writing of the Tang Dynasty to record it."
"But let me put it harshly. Let alone whether you Tubo can continue, even if it lasts for your generation, when the next generation is destroyed by the Tang Dynasty, the history books you left behind will be destroyed by the Tang Dynasty at will. Where will your reputation be from now on?" Chen Xuanzang said calmly.
"This...can't be so." Songtsen Gampo couldn't hold back, frowned and said, "Aren't the historians of the Tang Dynasty not even able to change the emperor's daily life notes? And it has been handed down from the Tang Dynasty. There are quite a few things recorded about hostile countries in the history books."
"Look, your Majesty, you know this very well, don't you? In other words, both your Majesty and the prime ministers have agreed that only the Central Plains dynasties like the Tang Dynasty can pass down these history books. Am I right?" Chen Xuanzang smiled. asked.
As soon as Chen Xuanzang's words came out, Songtsen Gampo and others fell silent. This was not their acquiescence, but the fact. From ancient times to the present, starting from the bamboo slips of various historical books, the Central Plains Dynasty using Chinese characters has been passed down through the ages.
But what about these smaller countries around here? There are almost no problems. Only in the history books of the Central Plains Dynasty can we find a few records about them.
If there were no records in the history books of the Central Plains dynasties, these small countries would have been lost in the history books long ago, and there would be no word of mouth.
Just like Tubo, before the establishment of Tubo, there were always people living on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, maybe even for one or two thousand years, but what did these tribes have? There was nothing at all. Songtsen Gampo, who was also a tribal leader, knew it very well.
His own tribe didn't record much about his predecessor, and he only knew about his grandfather, and he didn't even know about his great-grandfather.
Because there are no words, no records.
Therefore, what Chen Xuanzang said is not something difficult to understand or accept, because it is the fact!
