Recreating the prosperous Tang begins with summoning players

Chapter 244 Changes in Tubo

The [Inner Guard] player lurking in Fangguan Mansion is named Xue Hu. Although he is an eight-test player, he ventured to Wuwei City and sneaked into Fangguan Mansion by taking the opportunity of Fangguan's slaves to escape. superior.

Generally speaking, a newly recruited house slave like Xue Hu would not have the opportunity to get close to a confidential place like the study.

But Xue Hu got the housekeeper's favor because of his slick beard and cleverness, so he was arranged to sweep the floor near the study.

In the entire Jiedushi Mansion, this is quite a comfortable leisure job.

This Xue Hu is also very upright, treats the housekeeper very submissively, and can often take out some fresh gadgets for the housekeeper.

The ultimate purpose of Xue Hu sneaking into Fang Guan's residence was to eavesdrop on Fang Guan's activities.

As the fourth natural disaster that is not afraid of heaven and earth, Xue Hu immediately began to eavesdrop on Fangguan's secrets after lurking in Fangguan's mansion.

The only thing that made Xue Hu unhappy was that Fang Guan was drinking and having fun every day these days, and did not deal with the government affairs of the Jiedu Envoy's Mansion at all.

But today, thanks to Xue Hu who continued to hide in the corner, he listened to all the conversations between Fang Guan and Chu Zhuang with a self-made receiver.

Xue Hu immediately sent the recording to the headquarters, and then continued to lurk in Fang Guan's mansion.

Almost at the same time, King Jianning, who was still on his way back to Shazhou, received the news that Tubo was planning to plot against Zhangye!

Li Yan didn't expect that the Tubo people had just suffered a defeat, and they were going to mobilize again in less than half a year.

Regarding the fact that Tubo is going to mobilize troops, monk Yuantong, who had already been lurking in Tubo, had already received news of the change in Tubo.

Today's monk Yuantong can be regarded as a well-known master in Tubo East.

The Tubo East Road was actually conquered by Tubo for only a few decades. There used to be a name here called Tuyuhun.

Tuyuhun was originally an independent country, and its earliest history can be traced back to the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties.

This is the country established by the Xianbei people in the north who migrated to the west.

Tuyuhun was once defeated during the reign of Emperor Yangdi of the Sui Dynasty, and the Sui Dynasty established counties in the Tuyuhun area.

But after the great chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty, Tuyuhun returned to the country again. In the early years of the Tang Dynasty, there were frequent border issues between Turkic and Goguryeo, and the Tang Dynasty did not deal with the more obedient Tuyuhun.

During the reign of Emperor Taizong, the Tang Dynasty defeated Tuyuhun again, and the royal court of Tuyuhun fled westward again, and was finally destroyed by the Tubo people.

Immediately afterwards, the Tubo people gradually expanded to Tuyuhun, and finally swallowed the territory of Tuyuhun.

Tubo established the Tubo host in the Tuyuhun area, and established the host Dalun to control this area.And Tuyuhun set up the host Dalun Mansion in Tianzhu City to control the entire host area.

The Tubo people's rule in the Tuyuhun area was also quite brutal, and the local struggles continued one after another, but they were all brutally suppressed by the Tubo people in the powerful period.

In the name of spreading Buddhism, Monk Yuantong went deep into various areas in the Tuyuhun area and learned about the situation in this area.

The ethnic groups in the Tuyuhun area are complex, including Xianbei, Qiang, Turkic, Uighur, Han and Tubo.

The Tubo people controlled this area, and the ruling method they adopted was also very simple and brutal.

The first class is naturally the Tubo people. The Tubo people in the Tuyuhun area are all nobles who moved here, or warrior manor owners who were rewarded here because of their military exploits.

For example, Bawu's family was promoted from a lowly slave to "Gui" because of Bawu's father's military exploits, and was awarded to the Tuyuhun area.

Under the rule of the Tubo people, the second class was the Xianbei people. The Tubo people annexed Tuyuhun, and once held the banner of restoring the Xianbei people to the country. Now among the nobles in the Tuyuhun area, there are also some Xianbei nobles.

However, Tubo relied on intermarriage and other means to win over these Xianbei people into the Tubo system.

And the lowest are the Qiang and Han people.

The Tuyuhun area is close to Liangzhou, and Liangzhou has been the area where the Qiang people lived in ancient times. Some Qiang tribes lived in the Tuyuhun area.

However, the Qiang people are still a relatively backward nation, and even the Qiang people do not have a unified language. Therefore, the Qiang people have been enslaved by major dynasties since the Han Dynasty.

Most of the Han people in the Tuyuhun area were captives plundered by Tubo in the war against the Tang Dynasty, and there were also populations captured by Tubo who repeatedly invaded the border of the Tang Dynasty.

Yuantong traveled all over the area around Tianzhu City, drew a detailed map of various ethnic groups, and then secretly contacted the enslaved and oppressed Qiang and Han people in the Tuyuhun area.

And Yuantong returned to Tianzhu City recently, and he clearly felt the unusual atmosphere of this city.

Tianzhu City is a city built on a cliff by the West Sea. This city should be the capital of the Tuyuhun Kingdom. It claims to be a natural moat that will never fall.

The West Sea is the Qinghai Lake of the later generations. The ancients named it after the East, West, South and North Seas. After discovering the large lake of Qinghai Lake, they thought it was also an ocean and named it West Sea.

Tianzhu City was built between two peaks on the edge of the West Sea. This place is easy to defend and difficult to attack, so it was set up by Tubo as the host camp.

Yuantong returned to Tianzhu City today because the Tubo host Dalun Shang Qixin'er was about to hold a ordination ceremony, completely abandoning the Bon religion and becoming a Buddhist believer.

The ordination ceremony this time was a big event for the monks in the Tuyuhun area, and even for the whole of Tubo.

A Dalun converts to Buddhism, which is a big event that can affect the Tubo Zanpu royal court. At the time when the ministers of the Buddhist sect and the ministers of the anti-Buddhist faction are fighting the most intensely, a Dalun who controls the host country joins the Buddhist Taoism, which is also a big event. It means that the influence of Buddhism and Taoism has greatly increased.

Regarding this ordination ceremony, the eminent monk Jihu, who was preaching in Zanpu Royal Court, also sent his disciples to witness Shang Qixin'er's ordination ceremony.

All the monks who were enshrined in the original host area also moved to Tianzhu City to participate in the ordination ceremony.

Because this is not only a religious ceremony, but also a political declaration, which affects the balance of the Zanpu royal court in Tubo.

Monk Yuantong also followed the team of monks and entered the gorgeous monk's house that Shang Qixin'er had prepared for them.

For this ordination ceremony, Shang Qixin'er specifically asked every castle owner to offer gold as tall as herself.

And the castle owner also apportioned layer upon layer, demanding that the manor owner under him also take out a gold cake as big as his palm.

Shang Qixin'er built a huge Buddhist temple in Tianzhu City, and the ground was covered with gold leaf. He will accept a ceremony to convert to Buddhism in this most magnificent temple.

But Monk Yuantong also realized something unusual, it was obviously a religious ceremony, but Shang Qixiner also summoned all the warriors.

Bawu was also within the scope of the conscripts, and at the same time, Qi Xin'er also asked them to bring weapons, and each warrior also brought two slaves, enough food for the servants to eat for seven days, and gathered in Tianzhu City.

Monk Yuantong felt keenly that this was not an ordinary religious ceremony, but an army gathering!

And this time Tubo mobilized the power of the entire host country, this is definitely not an ordinary military operation!

(End of this chapter)