Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 733 To Tibet

Tanggula Mountain is the biggest obstacle to Tibet. Although the slope of the mountain pass is gentle, it is more than 5000 meters above sea level. Even in March, it is more than ten degrees below zero. It was smashed down, and suddenly, the team was in a miserable state.

"Husband, how did the Tubo people survive in such a place?" Yu Xiu'er said in a slightly depressed tone, weak.

In her opinion, her husband should be omnipotent and can solve her pain at this time. However, Sun Xiangfu is also helpless when it comes to problems such as lack of oxygen in the plateau.

"Of course they don't live in such a high place. After passing the Tanggula Mountain, they are Dongdai, which is managed by Subiru, which means a county. There is a county called Nagqu in a slightly lower position on one side. We Where can I rest." Sun Xiangfu comforted Yu Xiu'er as he himself was suffering from a terrible headache.

In fact, the location of Nagqu County is still more than 4000 meters above sea level, which is not much better than their current location. If you really want the whole person to be comfortable, after you get Luoxie City, there will be Lhasa in later generations. Only about 3000 meters, normal people generally will not have altitude sickness.

People who travel to snow areas in later generations generally live in places with relatively low altitudes, such as Nyingchi, Shannan, Bayi and other areas. Due to the relatively low altitude, the environment in these places is actually the same as that in the Central Plains, and it is more of a paradise. the meaning of.

On the contrary, Li Xiangdie and Yao Hongxiu were not as uncomfortable as Sun Xiangfu and Yu Xiuer.

It turned out that when they were sent to the Western Regions, they spent a period of time in the Pamirs with an average altitude of 4000 meters and got used to mild altitude sickness. Those who have adapted in this way will feel much more relaxed when they go to the plateau again. .

"Husband, madam, drink some butter tea! Otherwise, your lips will be chapped and bleed, and the skin on your face will be dry enough to flake off."

For this kind of oily, salty food, in fact, Yu Xiuer is more acceptable than Sun Xiangfu, because, before Sun Xiangfu passed through, most Tang people like to use sheep oil, green onion and ginger to make tea soup, and the taste is better than this. Butter tea is not much better.

But Sun Xiangfu, who has actually tasted it, knows that this thing is far less delicious than described in later songs and film and television dramas, especially for people who are not used to this salty smell, they can almost vomit.

Although Sun Xiangfu was extremely unwilling, he still drank a bowl. Naturally, the purpose was to persuade Yu Xiu'er to drink more, otherwise, such beautiful lips and such a fair and smooth face would be blind for nothing.

After drinking a bowl of butter tea reluctantly, Yu Xiu'er fell into a painful half-sleep state, and so did Sun Xiangfu.

Two hours later, the team finally stopped. Zhang Ke, who was full of frost and also in a bad condition, went to the carriage to report, "My lord, the city of Nagqu has arrived. Chief Su Piru and Lu Dongzan came to greet you." Let's go."

Hearing this, Sun Xiangfu pulled himself together, cleaned his face with water from the charcoal stove in the carriage, wiped the ointment made of saffron on his forehead and temples, and put on his full-length cold-proof equipment. Just got out of the car.

The carts are pulled by yaks in the snow area, and they can only travel more than 100 miles a day. There is no way, horses can walk in the snow, which is not as safe as this kind of yaks. Therefore, although Nagqu City is less than [-] miles away from Luoxie City, But it still takes four or five days to go.

In comparison, people like Lu Dongzan and Su Pi were much more relaxed. They were not afraid of the cold wind at the Tanggula Pass. They were protected by a layer of reddish oil all over their bodies.

"Master Sun's first visit to the plateau, isn't it easy!" After some greetings, Su Pi and Lu Dongzan led Sun Xiangfu and his party towards the only decent brick and stone building complex in the city.

Sun Xiangfu could tell at a glance that these houses should have been built by Han merchants. The Tubo people in this period did not care so much about aesthetics. They often used yurts sewn from yak or sheepskin for permanent residence. Those who live in the land will use the bones of cattle and sheep to build a wall yard for themselves.

"It's not the first time I've come up here, but it's still uncomfortable, don't tell me what kind of reception banquet you have prepared, now, I smell the smell of beef and mutton, I want to vomit, let us settle down first Come down, the problem of food, we will solve it ourselves."

As soon as Sun Xiangfu walked to the yard, he smelled the smell of roasted beef and mutton. If he was in Shanyang, he would be able to eat some, but the altitude sickness in Tubo made him have no appetite at all. If it was fish head tofu soup Like, he might be able to drink a little.

"Everything is up to you, the heads of Subiru, can you meet me?"

Lu Dongzan seemed to have expected such a situation early on, but he didn't know when Sun Xiangfu came to Tibet. Of course he didn't know that Sun Xiangfu was talking about the time when he came to travel after the opening of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway in the previous life.

After Lu Dongzan asked this question, the leader of Subi, who was like a follower, looked at Sun Xiangfu with a look of expectation on his face. If their tribe's status in Tubo was high enough, they would not be sent to Tanggula In the mountain pass, where the cold wind is the strongest and the weather is the most variable, the animals are grazing.

Subiru is one of the six major tribal groups in Tubo. "Ru" actually means tribal group, and this branch in Nagqu, although it is the largest tribe in Subiru, only has 3000 people look.

In the eyes of Chief Su Pi, the person in front of him is someone who can change the fate of their tribe. It can be seen from the fact that Lu Dongzan, who used to be at the top in Tubo, was so obedient to him.

"See, but wait until tomorrow! I brought them a lot of gifts. After dawn, let them gather everyone here. I will personally lead people to distribute and announce something." Looking at the house prepared for him by Lu Dongzan and the leader of Su Pi, he raised his hand and said.

At the gates of these masonry buildings, there were several Han Chinese who led dozens of Tubo people and waited with all kinds of daily expenses. Xiangfu waved his hand away, told him not to be so polite, and asked, "Is this place run by you?"

The headed Han shopkeeper replied, "Exactly. I know you are coming. The eighty guest rooms in the small shop have all been emptied and cleaned, and even the kang has been heated."

Sun Xiangfu nodded and said, "Well, you are determined, Zhang Ke, you go with the shopkeeper and allocate all the rooms to the female officials and female troupe members of the art troupe! If you squeeze, you should be able to live and finish the work Afterwards, bring him to meet me in the room where I rest."

After finishing speaking, Sun Xiangfu turned to Lu Dongzan and the leader of Su Pi and said, "Please trouble me, take me to see the camp where the soldiers are stationed, some of them will be stationed here in the future. "

Hearing this, the faces of Lu Dongzan and Su Pi leaders were frozen. At this time, Songtsan Gampo professed his vassal to the Tang Dynasty, and the news that Tubo would become the Tang Dynasty's leader had only been sent back to Tubo for a month or two. But I don't think that Datang is ready to garrison troops so quickly and directly rule the place.

What they didn't know was that the 12 troops brought by Sun Xiangfu came from the Annan Army on the grasslands in western Yunnan. In addition to the ministries, some preparations must be made for the garrison and placement of the army after the arrival of the army.

After quickly digesting some of the information that Sun Xiangfu just said, Lu Dongzan led Sun Xiangfu to the camp outside the city that had been leveled and many yurts had been built, and asked, "I don't know, the imperial court is very concerned about my Tibetans. Is there any agreement on the follow-up policy of the people?"

Sun Xiangfu answered quite naturally, "The imperial court treats people of all nationalities equally, so your question is a bit redundant. You should know what the people in the Central Plains have. What they have, here People, there will be in the future."

"Compared to the people in the Central Plains?" Lu Dongzan was a little stunned.

The Tubo Plateau is not the Central Plains. It is convenient for everything and rich in products. Here, more than [-]% of the land is barren land, and it is all snow-capped mountains. The reason why they have a population of more than one million must go out to fight , Looting, and consumption, it is because the survival supplies are not enough.

It is not easy to want them to have houses, fields, and endless food like the people in the Central Plains. Take the inn opened by the Han merchant just now. Its cost is even higher than that in the Central Plains Even if it is in Chang'an City, the investment required to open an inn of the same size is more than ten times more.

Moreover, the daily consumption is also expensive. The fuel here is mostly cow dung, because there is no other fuel. Even if the coal reserves here are abundant, you cannot mine it under the frozen soil.

And the trees, well!Here, Sun Xiangfu couldn't see any trees at all, because, as early as how many years ago, the trees here were cut down by the local people and used as fuel. Don't let go.

And to restore the ecological environment here, the amount of engineering will be very large.

The first thing to do is to move people down, or, first concentrate on living in the lower canyon area.

Seeing Lu Dongzan's expression of disbelief, Sun Xiangfu said again, "This year, I will open up several plantations in several lower places here, and the total arable land may only be 10,000+ mu. Moreover, There are some fields that you have opened up, but the food produced is enough for hundreds of thousands of people to eat.

In the future, the residence and administrative management of the local people will all be re-planned. I will redistribute the residences of all the people according to the size of the plantation. Those who cannot be resettled will all be moved to Nanzhong, Jiannan Road, or Ningchuan Road. Compared with the local people, configure houses, fields, cattle, sheep and livestock. "

"Then, aren't these clans and tribes like us all going to fall apart, or live together?" Lu Dongzan asked a key question.

Sun Xiangfu smiled and said, "Do you know why you Tubo people can't become strong? With so few people, you still have to divide into so many tribes, robbing and consuming each other. For us Han people, this is called disunity. How can our nation be strong!
Now, your Gar family is considered a relatively strong tribe in Tubo, but have you ever thought that if you continue to maintain such a barrier, one day, you will decline, or even disappear in the long river of history.

Our Emperor, just can't bear to see you continue to fall behind like this, that's why he agreed to merge you into the Tang Dynasty, and solve your survival problems at the root. This is a great act of kindness that will benefit all your descendants , if, you are a person with real wisdom, you should be able to understand what I said. "

(End of this chapter)