Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 1152 Silver Castle
plateau.

Xiangxiong Kingdom, the capital.

The dome-shaped silver castle, the city is as magnificent as a golden roc bird spreading its wings.

Because of the opening of the Daqin Silk Road, this ancient plateau city has been injected with new vitality. It is no longer just a holy place in the hearts of Bon believers, but also a transit point for business travelers from all over the world.

At the foot of the mountain in the capital city, there are Bon religion practice caves one after another, which complement the warehouses, inns, and restaurants opened on the side of the road.

Xiangxiong King Li Mixia is looking at an exquisite cup in his hand. This is one of a set of white porcelain cups from the Xing Kiln of the Great Qin Dynasty, and it was also fired in the Royal Kiln. It is so exquisite that it is simply a work of art.It is crystal clear, as thin as white paper, and even shines through.

"It's a good thing. It's a lot higher than other white porcelain cups. It's really not much to exchange a horse for a white porcelain cup like this."

At the beginning, Li Mixia was not very willing to open the Silk Road, but due to the pressure from Daqin Lianping Tuyuhun and the Western Regions, they had no choice but to agree to open the Silk Road, but who would have expected that this Silk Road would bring such great benefits? Benefits?

Not to mention that the Dome Silver Fortress became more and more lively, Li Mixia sent people to set up customs on the Silk Road, collected customs duties, and even started reselling himself, saying that the daily income was too little.

Compared with the roads in the Western Regions, the Zhang Zhung Silk Road is obviously faster and safer. It leads to the countries of Tianzhu in the southeast, and Persia and Sasan in the southwest.

Now not only the merchants of the Qin State gather here, but also the merchants of Tianzhu, Persia, Rome, etc., are also transported by business travelers from all over the world.

Collecting taxes on the ground, and then buying low and selling high, Li Mixia's wealth increased day by day.

Countless good things have also begun to be added to his court.

With money, you can naturally train more soldiers and equip them with better equipment.

"Your Majesty, the Son of Heaven of Qin sent an envoy to send an edict telling us to send troops to Tubo to help quell the chaos. What is the meaning of this?"

A group of Zhang Zhung's courtiers sat in the hall and asked incomprehensibly.

Li Mixia smiled.

"It's a good thing. Someone will send you a pillow when you're sleepy. This king was about to send troops to Tubo, but the Emperor Qin asked us to send troops to help Tubo quell the chaos. Isn't that a great thing?"

"My lord, is there any fraud in this?"

The last time they sent people to raid the Tubo embassy in Luoyang City, plotting to assassinate the Tubo princess, but in the end the matter was revealed, not to mention the loss of many dead soldiers, and finally they were reprimanded by the Emperor Qin.

I wanted to stir up hatred between Tubo and the Qin people, but who would have thought that in the end they would shoot themselves in the foot.

Afterwards, Tubo Zanpu sent envoys to claim revenge.

Since then, the Tubo people have been recruiting troops and actively preparing for war, obviously preparing to attack Zhang Zhung.In any case, Xiangxiong's strength was not as good as that of Tubo, which made Zhangxiong panicked, and even sent envoys to Beijing several times to ask the emperor of Qin to mediate.

No one could have imagined that the Tubo king was poisoned and killed by the old nobles, and the Tubo rebellion ensued.

"The Emperor Qin has sent someone to canonize Nangri Lunzan's five-year-old son Qi Zongnong as the new Zanpu, but those old nobles in Tubo will not quell the rebellion and serve Qi Zongnong just because of this."

"My lord, the civil strife in Tubo is more beneficial to Daqin, right?"

"That's why Emperor Qin ordered us Xiangxiong to send troops to help quell the chaos."

When Li Mixia said this, everyone immediately understood that Emperor Qin's so-called Xiangxiong sent troops to quell the chaos had no good intentions.

"Everyone, Tubo once offended Emperor Qin, and finally had to pay compensation with the princess to calm Qin's anger. But this is only on the surface, Qin Emperor is definitely not so easy to talk about, but it is still using troops from the Western Mountains for the time being, so it is only temporary. Appease Tubo. Originally, the people of Qin pacified the Qiangs in the Western Mountains, and they would eventually attack Tubo, but now that Tubo itself is in civil turmoil, how could the people of Qin let this opportunity pass?"

"Everyone, the Great Qin Emperor is implying that we will take revenge on Tubo. With the permission of the Great Qin Emperor, it will depend on our own ability to goug a few pieces of meat from Tubo."

All the Xiangxiong ministers were excited.

Someone shouted, "By the Zhangzhung River under the Dome Silver Castle, there are still too few cave dwellings, and there are not enough slaves in them. This time, all the Tubo people were captured as slaves."

"Yes, build bigger altars and build more Bon temples!"

"Let all Tibetans be our slaves!"

Li Mixia put down the porcelain cup in her hand.

"Let's make Tubo even more chaotic. We Xiangxiong Kingdom and Tubo are friendly neighbors. Of course, we must help them quell the civil strife. Hahaha!"

"Hahaha!"

"It's better for Tubo to become chaotic, so that the trade route of Tubo will be blocked, and it will have to be transferred to our side at that time. At that time, our Dome Silver Fortress will be more prosperous and lively."

"Yeah, more tariffs can be collected again."

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Without the emperor's order to send troops to quell the chaos, King Xiangxiong would have to hesitate.

But now that Emperor Qin has an edict, what are you waiting for?

Li Mixia stood up, and he raised the King's Staff of Garuda Roc high up.

"My king ordered that domestic troops be recruited immediately, and prepare to enter Tubo eastward!"

The dome silver castle sent out cavalry to gallop across the plateau.

The silver castle built of high stones is so dazzling in the sun.At the foot of the castle, believers of Bon religion sit in the practice cave where they can only hide, chanting sutras with their ears closed and meditating without hearing anything outside the window.

And in a place farther away, there are cave dwellings everywhere, where there are countless Zhang Zhung slaves, they live numbly, and have no emotion for the dome and silver castle high in the distance.

Wai Lang, a member of the Ministry of Rites, and Liu Wenjing, the ambassador to Xiangxiong, walked in the slave area with a team of entourage, dressed in eye-catching green Central Plains Han-style round ceremony robes.

The embassy of the Tang Dynasty in Xiangxiong is naturally also in the tall dome silver castle, but Liu Wenjing will come to this slave area every three to five days to visit.

He will choose those Zhang Zhung artisan slaves, most of whom are handed down crafts from generation to generation, slaves from generation to generation, and craftsmen from generation to generation. Some are proficient in carving Buddha statues, some are proficient in building castles, and some are proficient in carving Buddhist scriptures. Proficient in making utensils, but these people are just slaves for generations.

They worked in the craftsmen or homes of the slave owners, and at night they returned to the slave area and lived in cave dwellings.The Zhangzhung people are not afraid of them escaping, because there is only one entrance and exit in the entire slave area, guarded by Xiangxiong soldiers.

"Ambassador, King Xiangxiong has already started recruiting soldiers." The military attache said.

Liu Wenjing stopped in front of a young Xiangxiong female slave, and looked at the woman carefully.

"How much?" He asked a manager of the Zhang Zhung royal family who followed him.

Seeing the beckoning gesture, the steward came forward, first checked the hang tag on the slave girl's neck, then looked at the brand mark on her body, confirmed her identity and said with a smile, "This is just an ordinary slave girl, I don't understand What skill."

Liu Wenjing smiled and said, "I look at her very pleasing to the eye. I want to buy it back and serve tea and water. How much is it?"

The steward stretched out a finger, "A silver tiger."

"It's not expensive, buy it!"

(End of this chapter)