"Your Majesty, the King of Tubo has sent an envoy to pay homage!"
When the soldier said this, Li Shimin stopped talking.
"What did you say? The King of Tibet sent envoys here? What do they want to do?"
Li Shimin asked curiously.
How did the soldier know?
Empress Changsun said, "If you want to know, why don't we just meet?"
All civil and military officials were shocked.
Because before, that was impossible.
After all, the relationship between Tubo and the Tang Dynasty and even before the Tang Dynasty was a competitive relationship with little contact. Even if they met, it was on the battlefield, and the two countries did not establish diplomatic relations.
Why was an envoy sent this time?
It's puzzling.
Some people even doubt whether all this has anything to do with Li Min.
After all, Li Min had done business with Turks before.
I sold some colored glass to the Turks.
If this is the case, it may even cause the King of Tubo to send people over for the purpose of trade. That would be really famous!
But this is also everyone’s guess.
Not confirmed.
We can only know everything after meeting the messenger.
Everyone feels that they need to speak up.
"Your Majesty, I thought I could meet you!"
Fang Xuanling followed.
"Yes, Your Majesty, just take a look and you won't lose anything!"
Cheng Yaojin also said.
"Your Majesty, if the Tubo people are willing to trade, it might be a good thing!"
Dai Zhou also said.
He is from the Ministry of Household Affairs, so his perspective is naturally also an economic perspective.
Hou Junji opened his mouth and said: "Your Majesty, please come and see me to show off the power of our great country!"
Regarding major issues of right and wrong, if it were not related to Li Min, Hou Junji could still be used.
But once he got involved with Li Min, he jumped on the matter.
Who knew that this time, it still had a major relationship with Li Min.
Others also suggested that Li Shimin meet the visitor.
They expressed their suggestions one after another.
Facing the suggestions from the ministers, Li Shimin thought he could give it a try.
"Okay, where is the messenger?"
Li Shimin asked.
"Waiting outside Tai Chi Palace at this time!"
"Um?"
Li Shimin thought for a while.
Why are you there?!
Then he said: "Let him come here to see me!"
He said so.
Why he said that, because in his opinion, there was no one who went to Taiji Palace to meet with him on his own initiative because of the envoy.
Only messengers came to see him.
Everyone knows this.
"yes!"
Wait for the soldiers to leave.
Li Shimin also ordered all civil and military officials to prepare and get everyone dressed up to show the style of a great country!
At this time, Li Min was actually watching nearby.
He took Ji Ruxue, Wu Jue, and Su Mei with him and sat in a building outside the west of the city.
Compared to the cold outside, the location he was in was not too warm at all.
Behind it is a huge fireplace, which is extremely warm.
This building was built by his Shengtang Group and was built just outside the west of the city.
Usually, we receive some people who are doing business from outside, so that they can tidy up before entering Chang'an City.
He was sitting at the table, while Ji Ruxue, Wu Jue, and Su Mei were standing behind him.
She also poured him hot tea from time to time.
From the beginning to now, Li Min has been around here.
That is to say, he knew everything that happened just now.
He had a panoramic view of all their performances.
Like Li Chengqian's rage.
Hou Junji's opposition.
As well as the eating habits of Li Shimin and his wife, and the bad things some people said about him, he kept them all in mind.
Sitting here and watching the live broadcast in front of me, it’s so exciting.
"Mr. Zili, why is this Tubo man suddenly visiting?"
Wu Jue suddenly asked.
At this time, everything on the field was known to them.
Su Mei expressed her opinion and said: "Yes, the Tubo people usually have a bad relationship with the Tang Dynasty. There must be some conspiracy to send envoys here this time!"
Before the seventh year of Zhenguan, Tubo had always had a bad relationship with the Tang Dynasty.
In the following hundreds of years, Tubo's eastward expansion strategy and the Tang Dynasty's strategy focused on containment. On the one hand, Tubo requested to establish a fraternal relationship or alliance with the Tang Dynasty, but on the other hand, it continued to attack the Tang Dynasty. Therefore,
The relationship between the Tang Dynasty and Tubo was intertwined with war and peace.
Ji Ruxue continued: "I heard that the King of Tubo at this time was Songtsen Gampo, a seventeen-year-old young man. He had inherited his father's mantle a few years ago, which is very impressive! It's amazing that Tubo can have such a man today.
The results have a lot to do with him!”
Songtsen Gampo was the 33rd Zampu of the Tubo Dynasty, and was actually the founding king of the Tubo Dynasty. He came to power in 629, moved the capital to Luoche, quelled the Tubo civil strife, surrendered Yangtong, unified Tubo, and formally established the Tubo Kingdom ruled by slave owners.
This person is quite talented.
He has such courage at such a young age, which is better than some emperors.
Songtsen Gampo was about the same age as him at this time.
It would be very interesting to meet him.
He also wanted to see what was so powerful about this great Tubo man.
At this time, he sent an envoy with the sole purpose of seeking good things.
Maybe he also saw Datang Xiangqiang, otherwise how could he let people come over?
This person is very strategic, so this trip must not be easy.
Li Min opened the browser, checked it carefully, and smiled.
So that’s it.
The three women talked about their opinions. After they finished speaking, Li Min took a sip of tea.
"That's right, this Tubo trip is not normal! I want to see how he will deal with the envoys coming!"
Li Min said.
This him is Li Shimin.
Then he turned his attention to where Li Shimin was.
At this time, Li Shimin was sorting out his clothes.
And Queen Changsun sat next to him.
Looking slightly thoughtful.
The two of them drank hot tea while watching Li Chengqian's retreating back.
The ministers stood in the cold wind, shivering a little.
Next, Li Shimin asked the ministers some irrelevant questions.
But in my heart, I wanted to see the envoy. Why did he come to the Tang Dynasty?
"The messenger has arrived!"
At this time, a soldier shouted.
At the same time, a middle-aged man dressed with foreign characteristics appeared.
Li Min thought to himself, who is this man?
Couldn't he be Songtsen Gampo's close minister?
Or is he just an ordinary messenger?
As far as he knew, there was a being named Ludongzan who acted as an envoy and facilitated the wedding of Princess Wencheng and Songtsen Gampo.
Ludongzan's main achievement was to go to the Tang Dynasty as an envoy, prompting Princess Wencheng to marry Tubo. He also served as prime minister, making Tubo a powerful country at that time. This man's status was outstanding. Will Songtsen Gampo send him?
Because of some of the things he did, the future direction of history has changed.
But when he checked carefully, he found that this time point was still in the rear, that is, seven years later.
Because he hasn't reacted yet, this will be the case for the time being.
As the soldiers shouted.
The messenger tidied his clothes.
Come towards the west gate.
Li Shimin and the civil and military officials puffed up their chests and prepared to receive the envoy.