Chapter 1878 I have to mention that the Tibetan businessman named Nima
"One to two..."
"I can't afford it..."
"Pass……"
The private room on the second floor of the teahouse in Zhengjiazhuang outside Luoyang, the eastern capital, has become the residence of Li Ke, His Highness the King of Wu.
Cheng Sanlang, Li Ke and Li Jingheng, who has been coming here frequently in the past few days, are playing bamboo cards energetically at the moment.
Until I smelled the tempting aroma of food, and then I saw someone bringing an iron pot, and someone else brought a small charcoal stove.
I placed the iron pot filled with soybeans and braised bamboo rat on the charcoal stove. After opening the lid, the aroma became more intense.
Smelling the alluring aroma, the three of them had no intention of continuing the fierce battle. After scrupulously ending the card game, they sat around the iron pot and began to enjoy the food.
Braised Bamboo Rat with Soybeans requires a low fire, and the longer the better.
At the end of the stew, after the soup is gone, the bamboo rat meat changes from the soft aroma at the beginning to a dry aroma.
The soybeans are simmered until the end, relying entirely on oil to completely fry out their moisture, making them extra crispy and delicious.
Li Ke, His Highness the King of Wu, was fond of eating rodents and was now an expert at eating bamboo rats. He advised Li Jingheng with great experience as he took down his chopsticks in anger.
"My dear brother, please eat slowly. This is not delicious enough now. This braised bamboo rat with soybeans will become more delicious as you go to the end."
"Chengchengcheng, little brother, I feel a little hungry, so I need to pacify myself." Li Jingheng hummed, his chopsticks still moving very fast.
Seeing this scene, Li Ke despised his cousin's greedy appearance. He took a sip of wine and his eyes fell on Brother Chu Bi who was also eating his chopsticks like flying.
These two vulgar warriors, Li Ke, the only gentle man, was helpless and turned towards Cheng Sanlang.
"Brother Chu Bi, let's just post those articles and then do nothing else?"
"What else can be done?" Cheng Chubi asked vaguely, chewing on a piece of fragrant and chewy bamboo rat skin.
"What we need to do now is to wait for things to ferment. At present, the Tibetan envoys have not yet arrived in Luoyang, the eastern capital."
"As for the new issue of "Chang'an Xunbao", I'm afraid it won't be delivered until tonight. After it is released here, haha..."
Cheng Chubi continued to explain his bold plan with a proud look on his face. Oh no, in fact, this plan was not bold at all.
After all, Cheng Chubi was a little worried that Uncle Li, the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, might make up his mind to agree to the Tubo people's marriage request in order to deal with Xue Yantuo.
And what kind of impact can the articles I concocted have on the people and scholars of the Tang Dynasty?
Cheng Chubi himself felt that it was not easy to grasp, after all, people's hearts are unpredictable, but he showed the true appearance of the Tubo people in history to the Tang Dynasty and the public.
It would inevitably cause a huge stir, so for the safety of himself and others, Cheng Sanlang, Li Ke and Li Jingheng drew lots to come up with a pen name.
These pen names can actually be said to be transliterated names in Tubo language.
The medical school where Cheng Chubi was working at that time had a medical mission to assist Tibet, and Cheng Chubi had participated in one training session.
However, this guy is good at everything, except that learning Tibetan is too difficult, and he has to use Chinese characters to transliterate the daily Tibetan expressions.
With this little cleverness, I learned some daily expressions in Tibetan.
In the end, Cheng Sanlang became a member of the glorious medical team to aid Tibet and stayed in the snowy area for almost a year. Unfortunately, he stayed in the Sichuan-Tibet area.
As a result, almost everyone could speak Sichuan dialect, which made Cheng Sanlang feel that the Tibetan language he learned was useless as a hero.
However, I could still remember the transliterations of some commonly used expressions, so it became the pseudonym of Cheng Sanlang as the author of these articles that were full of malice against Tibet.
At this time, Li Jingheng wiped the grease from the corner of his mouth and said to Cheng Sanlang with a sincere expression on his face.
"Brother Chu Bi, I feel that the outlines you gave us and the articles you wrote for us are as if you really lived in Tubo for many years."
"The made-up stuff in it seems to be very reasonable."
"How can you call me editor?" Cheng Chubi snorted unhappily, picked up the wine glass in front of him, and took a pleasant sip.
It was a slap in the face, and then he spoke earnestly and sincerely. "After all, Mr. Cheng has been staying there on Jiannan Road for several years."
"I'm not like some people who do nothing but eat, drink and have diarrhea all day long..."
"???" Li Ke's eyes suddenly bulged as he was chewing oily bamboo rat meat in his mouth, and he stared at Brother Chu Bi.
Although Cheng Sanlang didn't name him or even look at him, Li Ke always felt that he was being targeted.
Seeing the expression of Li Ke, the former governor of Luzhou, Cheng Chubi burst into laughter.
"Look at what I've done, I'll eat yours quickly. Didn't I say you were guilty?"
"Brother Chu Bi, can you please be a human being? Just say what you say and stop talking nonsense. w"
"Look at your guilty conscience. Brother Jing Heng, you must also know that I, Mr. Cheng, spend a lot of time on Jiannan Road."
"And Jiannan Road is adjacent to Tubo. Tubo has never been very respectful to the Tang Dynasty, and there have even been many conflicts."
"Why should I pay close attention to them? Now that I have told you, there are countless Tibetan merchants in Jiannan Road, and their eyes are even more vicious than Xizuo's."
"And most of them, there is only one thing they care about, and that is wealth."
Cheng Chubi raised his fingers and waved proudly.
And his expression made Li Ke and Li Jingheng have to admit that what he said was really the nature of those merchants.
"And after Cheng received the news that the Tibetans invaded our border town of Tang Dynasty, he collected more detailed information about them."
"As the saying goes, if you know the enemy, you will be victorious in every battle."
Cheng Chubi couldn't help but think that after he occupied Jianchuan City, he interrogated many Tibetan prisoners from top to bottom, from big to small.
The Tibetan soldiers were not the targets of his interrogation, but the Tibetan merchants and people stranded in Jianchuan City were.
Cheng Chubi still remembered very clearly the conflict between Tubo and Xiangxiong Kingdom, as well as the current difficult situation of Xiangxiong Kingdom.
Even the news that Li Mixia, the leader of the Xiangxiong Kingdom, was not killed by the Tubo after being captured by the Tubo, but was imprisoned by the Manasarovar Lake, was first learned from the Tibetan merchant named Nyima.
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Cheng Chubi naturally took this news very seriously, and after asking many Tibetan merchants.
Only then did we confirm the authenticity of the news. The strength of the Xiangxiong Kingdom was no less than that of Tubo. However, although the leader of the Xiangxiong Kingdom, Li Mixia, was quite brave.
But in terms of political methods, he is not even the master of moderation.