The news about Qinling's death reached the Tubo capital. Lu Dongzan was like a thunder strike. No matter how wise and tricks were, his mind was blank in the face of this moment. His beloved son died tragically, and his plan for more than 20 years was destroyed.

"puff!"

In a panic, blood and blood flowed backwards. A mouthful of blood gushed out of his throat and collapsed to the ground with a somewhat abnormal expression. He muttered: "It's over, everything is over..."

The ignorant is fearless, and another meaning is that only the wise can identify what awe is.

There is a shortage of supplies, inconvenient transportation and a sparse population on the plateau.

The development of Tubo has reached its peak. There is a saying among the Han people, which is called prosperity and decline.

If they do not find ways to expand and keep the new Tubo alive, they will soon become corrupt and lose competitiveness from within.

It is rare to have an opportunity to seize food from the Tang Dynasty. This failure, the Tang army was prepared and they had no chance again.

The most hurtful thing is Lun Qinling's death.

Tubo is no better than the Tang Dynasty, and there are many talents.

Generals of Xue Rengui's level emerged one after another, and there were even more powerful Li Jing, Su Dingfang and others.

A famous general who only produced hundreds of years was able to emerge in the Tang Dynasty for decades, more than ten years or even years.

There is no general who can fight against the Tang army, and they have few people and poor countries, what can they compete with the Tang Dynasty?

Do you rely on yourself?

Lu Dongzan knows his body better than anyone else. He has worked hard for many years and has not had many years to survive. The new Tubo king is young and cannot be intimidated by the powerful people in the country. He originally wanted to hold up his son Lunqinling and replace him before his death.

Now everything has become nothingness.

Lu Dongzan, the first prime minister of Tubo, was dark in front of his eyes. He did not see Tubo coming, but was too clear about what happened next.

Victory can conceal all unstable factors, but failure will be the opposite...

Their Gar family has controlled the Tubo government for many years. Their power is overwhelming. It has attracted the covetousness of others. They can still maintain it. Once they die of illness, it will be the end of the Gar family, and Tubo will fall into endless internal strife until the next Songtsen Gangbu appears...

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The battle report of Qinghai Lake reached Chang'an.

Regarding the fleeting grasp of tactics, no one has come out of Su Dingfang right now.

Under the command of Su Dingfang, the Tang army took advantage of the fatigue and slackness of Tubo's victory after the great victory in Tuyuhun, and advanced in one fell swoop. They mobilized the remaining Tuyuhun troops to siege the defeated Tubo army, annihilated 50,000 elite Tubo soldiers at the cost of more than 3,000 soldiers, and won the battle cleanly and beautifully.

When Li Yuanai received this battle report, he was in a happy mood. He laughed three times when he saw anyone and showed joy.

Most people think that Li Yuanai is making a big deal, but he himself knows how great the impact of this victory will have on the future.

In this battle alone, the most troublesome opponent of the Tang Dynasty, the Tubo Empire, which had been entangled with the Tang Dynasty for more than two hundred years, will no longer exist.

Originally, it was difficult for foreign countries to rise. They were not like the Central Plains, with hidden dragons and creeping tigers. There were countless heroes and heroes among the tens of millions of people. Whenever the country was in danger, someone would stand up and turn the tide.

It may take them hundreds of years to emerge a hero who leads them to glory.

They are like Maodun, Jie Li, Songtsen Gampo, Temujin, Yelu Abaoji and others.

Once they fail, it will be even more difficult to rise again.

As a country on the plateau, Tubo is different from other tribes.

They were trapped in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. If they wanted to rise, they could only rely on the resources of Qinghai Lake and had no other way out. As long as the Tang Dynasty guarded Qinghai Lake, Tubo would be like a tiger locked in an iron cage, without room to stretch.

The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau gave them huge advantages, but it also had congenital deficiencies.

For some reason, facing Tubo, who had become a dog in the water, Li Yuanai raised his dog-beating stick again without hesitation.

"Your Majesty, I propose to welcome back Nuohobo Khan and Princess Honghua, place them in Chang'an, and directly adopt Qinghai Lake as our dynasty. According to my understanding, there are many salt lakes in Qinghai Lake, and even if the people in our dynasty have eaten salt for thousands of years, it will be a drop in the ocean."

"really?"

Li Zhi suddenly stood up and couldn't sit still.

Although everything was as Li Yuanai expected, Tubo was indeed a Zhongshan wolf hidden very deeply.

But Li Zhi was really interested in Qinghai Lake.

But when I heard that there was a large salt lake in Qinghai Lake, my attitude immediately changed. It was not happiness, but a slight warning.

"It's true!"

Seeing Li Zhi's expression, Li Yuanai knew that he had reacted and said, "Not only that, Qinghai Lake has inexhaustible salt, but also rich mineral resources. When it comes to the terrain and climate, the terrain around Qinghai Lake is flat and the land is fertile, which is suitable for grazing and farming, which is very suitable for the daily life of all kinds of people."

He said word by word.

Those who understand it have already started to frown.

People who don’t understand only think that Li Yuanai is based on interests.

Interests? The salt and iron in Qinghai Lake have the interests of chickens.

Of course, where is there an inexhaustible salt lake? But was the Tang Dynasty short of salt?

The Myth of Hedong Salt Pond appeared. Huangdi fought two wars with Chiyou and Yandi, namely the famous Battle of Zhuolu and Banquan in history. The victory of these two wars made Huangdi firmly control the Salt Pond and the Lifeline of the Central Plains, and eventually became the leader of various tribes, gaining the lofty status of "the ancestor of China".

Even if there is no definite evidence, there are clear records in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

After more than a thousand years of use, there is still no sign of exhaustion.

And iron?

China is indeed not a major iron-producing country, but it does not mean that it will go to the plateau to mine and dig iron. The high labor freight costs will be worthy of salt and iron.

But if you don’t take advantage of the situation to control Qinghai Lake today, the salt and iron of Qinghai Lake will be owned by others in the future.

Qinghai Lake is also a Feng Shui treasure land for grazing and farming, which is completely in line with human living standards.

Barbarians will not always be barbarians. Is it difficult to make salt and smelify iron?

Not difficult!

In addition to the highest level of smelting and salt making techniques, which village and town blacksmith and which salt workshop workers can’t do it?

How can I hide this kind of thing that I can learn casually?

Before, the barbarians were stupid, but it did not mean they would be stupid for the rest of their lives.

At least the strength shown by Tubo this time is enough to warn people.

Even if it is wasted, Qinghai Lake cannot be put into the hands of others.

Because Qinghai Lake's resources are enough to maintain the economic operation of a big country.

Isn’t the Tubo Empire in history able to compete with the Tang Empire and the Dashi Empire and the Uighurs at its peak relying on the resources of Qinghai Lake?

Li Zhi sat down again and said, "Tubo has sent official documents to apologize for reprimands. How should Uncle Sixteen think he should answer?"

"Well, apologize! We are not ready to enter the plateau, but there is a condition to severely punish the culprits and let them hand over Lu Dongzan to us for disposal. Apart from this, there is no room for maneuver. As for the tribute of guilty tribute... it is also said."
Chapter completed!