The face of the great elder Tsering was even uglier than Qu Zhen's dark face.
The wine was drunk, the meat was eaten, the woman also let these Dali people sleep, and now these people dared to sit on the ground and raise the price!
Have they forgotten whose territory this is?
In the past, I only knew that Dangxiang people were not afraid of death. When did they Dali people become so brave?
Tsering and Deji were silent. Some Tubo people had closed their eyes and started chanting sutras, as if they were giving salvation to Liang Chuan and Ye Fan. The scene looked a bit strange.
Liang Chuan and Ye Fan were like two gamblers, sitting carelessly across from a group of big guys with evil smiles on their faces.
The initiative in this transaction is in the hands of Liang Chuan and the others!
Of course Ye Fan had his reasons for proposing the three thousand kilograms plan!
The people of Dali know best what kind of virtue the Tubo people have. Tubo has always regarded Dali as their vassal state, and this is also the fact. Dali has always been suppressed by Tubo. So when the Tibetan imperial advisors in The Eight Tribes of Heaven and Dragons arrived in Dali, they dared to show off their power and rob families and homes. How can there be diplomacy in a weak country?
There is no business for weak countries!
Dali has always been at a disadvantage in the commercial activities between the two countries. Even if it suffered a loss, the court would turn a blind eye and would rather let its own people suffer. To offend this plateau tiger.
The Tubo people have no reason to say, these people are so barbaric!
The reason why Tubo has kept a low profile now is not because they changed their minds by fasting and chanting Buddha's name, but because they first fought to the death with the Tang Dynasty, which exhausted all their national power, and then they encountered a scheming party clan, which drained the last few breaths of their true energy. It has been completely destroyed, and the national power cannot be restored for hundreds of years. Now they are committing suicide, and no one dares to deal with them even in private commercial activities. Once and for all, no matter how big the family fortune is, they will not be able to withstand such a build-up, and the Tubo Kingdom will It’s just one straw away, and it might be almost done!
But no one dares to underestimate this nation!
Their terrain advantage is too obvious! Fighting is all about being condescending and swooping down from the plateau. Who can stop it? The terrain and climate of the plateau are so harsh that no other nation can stand it except the Tubo people! Those permanently frozen lands are given to others for free and no one wants them, so they have occupied this plateau snowy area for thousands of years, and no one except their own people will try to take advantage of them!
They are always thinking about others, and others can't hit them. Where in the world can there be a better home than this!
As long as there is a chance, the Tubo people will come back!
And they have been waiting for such an opportunity!
For the Tubo people, what they fear most is none other than the Dali people at the foot of their mountains and at their doorstep!
These beasts on the plateau treat Dali as their pet every day, taking whatever they want. If they don't agree, they will attack the weak Dali first!
Ye Fan knows what it's like to do business with this group of people!
We want to make money from them, but we can’t let them, these beasts, this sick tiger recover from his illness!
He wanted to prevent the Tubo people from leaving Ye Fan, but he also didn't want the Tubo people to make money too quickly and feel comfortable. They might kick him away in the future, which would make them stronger, which he didn't want to see. !
Starvation therapy is still the most effective!
Ye Fan's mouth revealed a hint of a bad smile. Looking at these angry Tubo people, the pleasure of succeeding made him extremely happy!
'Should the two great elders have a good negotiation? We don’t have much time. If we can’t negotiate well, we will just take the goods away anyway. There will be many people who want to buy goods along the way! '
These words were like a sharp blade, piercing the lives of everyone present!
Yes, this seemingly cynical young man looks very frivolous and behaves very frivolously, but his eyes and thoughts are like the poisonous snake next door on the plateau. If he doesn't bite, people will feel that he is stupid, but if he bites, he will make people feel stupid. Kill!
The two monks no longer have a calm demeanor. Years of practice have completely ruined this young man, and he actually threatens them with this!
Tubo's own internal strife was also extremely serious!
I think back then, the political power on this plateau rose like a meteor. The mighty Tang Empire had a legend of being undefeated in field battles. However, this legend was broken by the Tubo people, not the Turks or the Uighurs. !
During the Tang Dynasty, the Tubo Dynasty that arose on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau was once the most powerful empire in East Asia. Yes, even the Tang Dynasty was once crushed to the ground by it.
When it was at its most powerful, its territorial territory included the entire western China, and its military fronts reached as far as Central Asia and Tianzhu. It competed with the Tang Dynasty, the Uighur Khanate and the Dashi (Tianzhu) Empire at the same time for regional hegemony.
The emergence of this epiphyllum is as incredible as the Mongol Empire.
However, historians attribute the reason for its rise to four factors: time, location, people and people. . lucky!
The earth's climate always has ice ages and warm periods every once in a while, and it's not just the influence of the greenhouse effect! Man's influence on nature is quite small!
The temperature during the Sui and Tang Dynasties was more than three degrees higher than the average temperature during the Song Dynasty!
At that time, the Northeast was also quite warm, with abundant rainfall and a humid climate on the plateau, which gave the Tibetan people the conditions to carry out large-scale reclamation in the valleys of the plateau.
The increase in crop yields gave Tubo a sufficient material foundation to carry out various upper-level construction as well as military construction and training.
Although most of the fringe areas controlled by Tubo were nomadic tribes, just like the Mardun area, most of them were herdsmen, but its core area of control, in the valley of the Brahmaputra River, had the largest proportion of farming civilization.
In other words, the rise of Tubo was the result of the agricultural civilization conquering the nomadic civilization, and then a group of farmers holding hoes drove a group of herdsmen holding riding whips to fight.
Once this kind of regime's agricultural economy declines, the entire Tubo will collapse from the inside out.
As for the location, it is simple. The relatively isolated geographical environment of the plateau objectively allows Tubo to calmly annex surrounding political power and accumulate strength without being affected by external forces. As Ye Fan understands, this place is everywhere. It's frozen soil that doesn't thaw all year round, and seeds won't germinate even if they are planted. Why grab such a land? See snow?
Then there were successive generations of Tubo heroes. Starting from Grandpa Songtsen Gampo, they consulted countless experts for advice on the rise of Tubo! Even though Songtsan Gampo had a wife, this wife, Princess Wencheng, brought numerous advanced production technologies to Tubo! Not only their efforts as Zampu, but also the nobles below were able to share the same spirit with them as Zampu. This group of people worked together to create the glorious situation of Tubo!
Of course, among the four factors, the most important is that Tubo’s national destiny has arrived!
Whenever the Tubo regime was in trouble, the surrounding regimes would inexplicably help.
On the north bank of the Brahmaputra River, not far from Luoche City, that is, Lhasa, there is a powerful political power called Subi, which is more powerful than Tubo itself. However, when Tubo was about to fail, they first started fighting among themselves, and then the top officials asked Tubo to After a bloodbath, the middle-level slave owners became Tubo people overnight, becoming the biggest help for Tubo to attack the Tang Dynasty! ,
After the fall of Su Pi, the Tuyuhun regime on the plateau was next. They had been crippled by the Tang Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty did not want their bad land, but it was the most important front line for Tubo! They annexed Tuyuhun without hesitation!
Then the Anshi Rebellion occurred in the Tang Dynasty, which changed the destiny of the country. The northwest was completely out of control, allowing Tubo to seize a large area of land in the Western Regions. Even after the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty no longer had the strength to deal with the powerful enemy on the plateau. Even its own capital was abandoned. Occupied, every autumn after the An-Shi Rebellion, the city of Chang'an would be trembling with fear, fearing that the gang of bumpkins from the plateau would come down to beat the autumn wind again!
It was such an incredible series of coincidences that Tubo, a small tribe with the worst foundation, suddenly became a highlight in the history books!
But as the old saying goes, thirty years to the east of the river, thirty years to the west of the river!
God has favored Tubo for almost three hundred years. After the Tang Dynasty failed, Tubo also failed. Several reasons that made them successful are also the reasons why Tubo is half dead!
During the Song Dynasty, the climate on the plateau made them tremble again. After agriculture could not provide support for the cavalry, all superstructures would collapse. They are so weak that they cannot even defeat a nouveau riche Dangxiang clan. They are hungry and have no food and clothing. Who has the strength to fight!
In order to suppress their native Bon religion, which is the specialty of Zhuanshan, Tubo introduced Buddhism. The two have been fighting among themselves for more than two hundred years. The fight made Tubo go from dying to dying, and in the end they didn't need others to attack them. , they fell apart!
When the riot was at its worst, the rebellious Tibetans dug up the graves of all previous Zampos except Songtsen Gampo. The history is always surprisingly similar. The ancestors who once brought them glory, in a special During this period, everything was completely rejected, and it was even worse than a pile of dung.
On the plateau, although Luoxue City is still their nominal co-owner, they are all in their own way. There is no such a strong unified political power. However, they organized an army of hundreds of thousands of people overnight and marched eastwards invincibly. Now The Tubo people are just like a group of beggars. There is no food growing in the fields, and they are also very depressed!
If the Tubo tribe wants to cause trouble now, they must first find a sect. With their support, they will have the support of believers and the blessing of divine authority. Elder Tsering of Mardun belongs to Buddhism, and other tribes have The others are staunch Bon believers. If Ye Fan brings these goods to them and forms a strong joint force with them, then it will not be as simple as just doing business!
Religion is justice, the reason for existence!
At that time, it will be a matter of life and death!
Although Ye Fan's attitude was not clearly expressed, such a threat was extremely obvious to their ears. His goods could be sold to them in Mardun, or they could be sold to the west to other tribes in Luoxue City. , as long as someone is willing to pay, whoever buys it will not buy it!
Although it is the first batch of goods, there will be a second batch and a third batch later. Once this supply and demand relationship is established, the impact on a tribe will be huge in the future!
Those tea leaves alone may make plateau people who eat beef live longer, their health can be guaranteed, and they will be more effective on the battlefield! This is a very terrible consequence. You may not see any consequences in one year, but in three years, you will definitely develop a powerful opponent!
