Great Tang Dynasty

Chapter 2414 Great Cold Weather
Tubo King City.

Songtsen Gampo has always been a little restless recently.

Since the beginning of winter, the weather in Tubo has become colder every day, and cattle and sheep in many places have froze to death.

Such weather is very unfavorable to them.

According to past experience, the weather is very cold, and some natural disasters may happen here.

Either the weather is so cold that people and livestock are frozen to death.

Or it will be a heavy snow, ruining everything.

He had a premonition that this winter would be difficult.

And just when he was so worried, snowflakes floated outside.

When the snowflakes first started, they were numerous, giving people a very poetic and beautiful feeling.

However, after seeing the snow falling, Songtsan Gampo's face became very ugly.

There is nothing poetic about him.

After the snow fell for a long time, it began to grow bigger, as big as a goose feather, and it kept falling.

At night, the snow in various parts of Tubo King City was already so thick that even walking became difficult.

Looking at the heavy snow, Songtsan Gampo felt a little nervous.

"Come, come, come."

Soon, a palace official ran over in a hurry.

"What's Zapp's order?"

"Go and call the important ministers of the court, all of them."

"Here!"

It was snowing heavily, it was very cold, and the roads were not easy to walk. Everyone didn't want to go out, but Songtsen Gampo called, but they couldn't come.

When these officials braved the wind and snow, when they came to the palace, their heads were covered with snowflakes, their noses were red from the cold, and they could breathe out when they were panting.

"Zanpu announced us to come, why not?"

All the important ministers of the court came, and after gathering in the room, it seemed that the room was still a bit crowded, and everyone exhaled to each other.

Songtsan Gambo glanced at them and said, "My dear friends, I'm afraid that the heavy snow will last for a long time, and we are afraid that the winter in Tibet will be difficult this year. Shouldn't we take some countermeasures in advance? "

This, their important ministers also know more or less.

After listening to Songtsen Gampo's words, someone soon stood up.

"What Zanpu said is very true. I am afraid that many people will suffer from this heavy snowfall. We should organize some slaves as soon as possible and let them rescue the people in Tubo."

They still practiced slavery in Tubo. In Tubo, the status of slaves is very low. They have to be sent by their masters for generations. They are the money of the master, and even the children they give birth to are also the property of the master.

In Tubo, however, many corvees were done by slaves. People who had money and could afford slaves did not have to do the labor themselves.

Now that the snowstorm is severe, it is normal for slaves to do these things. Although they are all human beings, their lives are far from those of ordinary people.

They can sacrifice these slaves at will without feeling any distress.

But ordinary people can't do it.

This situation is the norm here in Tubo.

After the official finished speaking, he immediately got the approval of other officials. It's too cold, it's better to let those slaves do the rescue work.

"That's right, that's right, Zamp, we should organize the slaves as soon as possible and let them rescue the people trapped by the heavy snow."

"The houses of many people have collapsed, and they need slaves to rescue them."

"Yes, those slaves should be sent to rescue them as soon as possible."

"........."

Everyone said this, Songtsan Gampo nodded: "Everyone is reasonable, so let's arrange this matter, but it's not a problem just for disaster relief. I'm afraid it will be difficult to solve the problem. Our food this year in Tubo I’m afraid it’s not enough, what can you do?”

The heavy snow will destroy the crops, but more often their cattle and sheep will freeze to death. Without cattle and sheep, their losses will be serious. In the next few months, food will become their problem.

Faced with this, the officials hesitated.

Without food, they can't make food. Their location in Tubo is not very good, and food has always been in short supply. There are some new crops in Datang, which are very suitable for them to grow here. , but they want to get those things but they can't get them, so it's not okay to increase the production of some grains.

In this way, how to overcome this difficulty has really become their problem.

Of course, the heavy snow has only started to fall now, and the disaster is not particularly serious, but if they don't think of a solution now, when the disaster is out of control, they really have nothing to do, and they can only watch them helplessly The people were starved to death, frozen to death.

The house suddenly seemed a little quiet, the wind and snow outside were whistling, and they could feel the unbearable cold inside the house.

They shuddered.

At this time, an official stood up and said, "Your Majesty Zanpu, we can go and rob, go and rob Datang."

"Snatch?" As barbarians, once they are short of food, the most direct way is to rob. In this case, the Huns did it before, the Turks did it later, and the Western Xia and Liao Kingdom will do it in the future. .

This is an unchangeable habit of barbarians.

When life is threatened, they can only grab it and use other people's lives to extend their own. It is very selfish, but it is also the natural law of survival.

In the past, when someone proposed robbery, many people would agree, but today, there is no one who agrees.

"This... I'm afraid it's not good. Today's Tang Dynasty is very powerful. It's easy for them to defeat us. Wouldn't it be courting death for us to rob them?"

"Yeah, let's not provoke Datang, we haven't reached the point of no return in Tubo, maybe the disaster won't be so serious."

"Extremely, extremely, it's better not to do this, we can't afford to provoke Datang."

"........."

The power of Datang has been imprinted in their minds, they are very afraid of Datang, they feel that as long as there is a war with Datang, Datang will destroy them Tubo.

Of course, this kind of situation only exists in the minds of some officials, but some other officials don't think so. They think that no matter how powerful Datang is, it may not be easy to destroy them.

"Zanpu, I heard that the Tang Dynasty has been training soldiers, and they are the kind of soldiers and horses specially adapted to our plateau climate. Obviously, the new emperor of the Tang Dynasty, Li Chengqian, wants to use troops against us and destroy us. If we wait for them to train their soldiers and horses well, we will be in danger in Tubo. So, it is better to send troops to plunder them before they are well trained, and we can get through the difficulties first. At that time, we will have no troops to fight against them."

(End of this chapter)