The talks were carried out in the military camp of Datang, as the victor and the owner of this land, Datang entertained the Tubo delegation represented by Lu Dongzan as the host, and the Datang delegation headed by Du Ruhui warmly received the Tubo delegation, and the two sides carried out cordial and warm bilateral talks, and the meeting discussed a number of important issues, and the two sides continued to reach consensus, the atmosphere was harmonious and felt good.

"Then, the number and type of items that the Tubo Kingdom will pay tribute to the Tang Dynasty every year have been determined, and General Lu Dongzan has no opinion, right?" Du Ruhan smiled and handed a piece of paper full of words to Lu Dongzan, Lu Dongzan took it, sighed at the excellent quality of Datang's paper, looked at the Chinese characters on it, and then nodded: "We have no opinion." ”

Du Ruhui nodded, then lifted the brush and signed his name on a piece of white paper in front of him, then pressed his handprint, and took out the jade seal that Li Er's majesty handed over to him to represent the emperor's opinion, covered it, and handed it to Lu Dongzan: "Please General Lu Dongzan sign his name on that piece of paper in the way of the old man, press the handprint, and then stamp the seal representing the lord of Tubo, and then hand it over to the old man for safekeeping."

The treaty with the old man's name and handprint and seal was kept by the Tubo State, and this treaty was preserved by the Tang Dynasty. ”

Lu Dongzan nodded, signed his name, and pressed his handprint. Then he took out the seal given to him by Songtsen Gampo and covered it, saying that there was no seal before Tubo, but when he heard that the seal would be used for the talks, Songtsen Gampo ordered the most powerful carver to carve out a seal representing Tubo Zampu overnight, and sent it to Lu Dongzan and asked him to look at it.

Lu Dongzan finished stamping the seal and handed the paper in his hand to Du Ruhui, who took the contract and swept it slightly, and expressed his satisfaction with it. The first treaty between the Tang Dynasty and the Tibetan state, the Treaty of Tuyuhun, was thus signed.

The Tibetan state officially submitted to the Tang Dynasty. And promised to pay tribute to the Tang Dynasty every year to ensure the tranquility around the Tang Dynasty, and the border between the two sides was divided, and the soldiers were not allowed to cross the border for a single step. Datang will set up a trade office in Tibet. That is, the representative Tang Dynasty embassy in Tibet. In addition, 500 garrisons were attached to protect the embassy and all the Tang people in Tibet.

On the issue of the Tang Dynasty's establishment of the Western Regions Protectorate, Tubo should keep pace with the Tang Dynasty. If necessary, the Tang Dynasty shall not disobey the requirements of the Tang Dynasty to send troops below 20,000 troops, and must be implemented, and the Tang Dynasty will give Tubo Zampu a "Tubo Lord" gold seal, and in the future, the Tubo State and the Tang Dynasty will not be recognized without a golden seal, and at the same time, in order to commend Tubo's excellent performance on the Tuyuhun issue, Datang will reward Tubo with 1,000 catties of gold to show recognition.

Finally, the two sides signed each other's names on the cover of the treaty belonging to their own countries, pressed their fingerprints, and then exchanged signatures, and finally exchanged and returned, indicating that the treaty was officially signed, and the "Tuyuhun Treaty" would become the highest norm in the process of exchanges between the Tang Dynasty and Tubo from now on, and neither side should violate it.

The formal topic of the session was finally over, Lu Dongzan breathed a sigh of relief, Datang did not make any excessive requests, did not ask for money and goods compensation, but gave Tubo a thousand catties of gold as a reward, although it sounds bad, but for the financially inadequate Tubo country, the use of this thousand catties of gold is really great, of course, the premise is that this gold is not taken away by those priests, damn it, this gold must not fall into the hands of those priests!

As soon as he thought of this, Lu Dongzan said: "Du Xiang, there is a reluctant request below, and I ask Du Xiang to agree!" ”

Du Ruhui said: "What's the matter? You say. ”

Lu Dongzan said: "I think Du Xiang doesn't know much about some of the internal problems of my Tubo country, there is a group of priests in Tubo, in the name of the priest god occupies the name of righteousness, and most of the people of Tubo are superstitious, and most of the food and money in Tubo are dedicated to them for them to squander, sometimes they would rather burn everything for the sake of the priest gods, rather than give it to people who are about to starve to death, and even sacrifice the living, Tubo is dying by them.

Every time I see these people, I hate them very much, but there is no way to deal with them, even if they are Zampu, they can't shake it, they can only watch those people starve to death, and there is nothing to do, and this time the gold that the Tang Dynasty rewarded to Tubo Once they know about it, they will definitely use various means to take it away, and then Tubo doesn't know how many people will be starved to death, and ask Du Xiang to help Tubo, don't let the Tubo people starve to death! ”

Lu Dongzan said emotionally, his eyes were red, and he bowed to the ground, Du Ruhui's eyes flashed a trace of vigilance, glanced at Suning beside him, and then stood up, pretending to help Lu Dongzan up in a hurry: "Oh, General Lu Dongzan, why is this difficult?" It's really unthinkable, there are such people in Tubo who careless about people's lives, it's really unthinkable, this matter, the old man will definitely ask, don't worry! ”

Lu Dongzan was overjoyed in his heart, squeezed out a few more tears, raised his head and was just about to express his gratitude to Du Ruhui, when he saw Suning beside Du Ruhui stand up and said: "Du Xiang, in this matter, I think that Datang should not interfere." ”

Lu Dongzan was shocked, Suning didn't say a word from the time the contract began to negotiate, Lu Dongzan thought that this Suning was just in vain, or only good at military strategy, not good at other things, so he ignored him a little, but he stood up at this time, but why? What does he use to contradict himself?

Du Ruhui had a faint joy in his heart, but his face was very strict, and he said, "What does Deputy Envoy Su mean by this?" The Tang Dynasty is a state of etiquette, the most important thing is etiquette and heavenly principles, those Tibetan priests obviously have food, but they don't want to distribute it to the people, and even take the people as sacrifices to sacrifice to the so-called gods, the Central Plains has long abolished the rules of human sacrifice, and eating the lives of living people is called gods? That's a ghost!

His Majesty values human life the most, and he often talks about sacrificing living people for burial in ancient times, or focusing only on sacrifices regardless of people's lives or deaths. are all hateful, clearly said that this kind of thing is not allowed to happen in the Tang Dynasty, and now Tubo has declared himself a minister to the Tang Dynasty, this kind of thing, the old man as the right servant of the Tang Dynasty will naturally take care of it, and those who ignore people's lives will be killed! ”

Lu Dongzan was even more pleasantly surprised in his heart, thinking that this matter was nine out of ten, but Suning said with hesitation: "Du Xiang, although this is reasonable. But. After all, those priests are Tubo people, and Tubo is still a country, not the land of the Tang Dynasty, nor the county of the Tang Dynasty. Although he is a vassal to the Tang Dynasty. But. The treaty did not stipulate that the Tang Dynasty could be involved in the internal affairs of Tibet.

There are also many vassal countries around Datang, but Datang has never been involved in its internal affairs, although these things sound unkind. But after all, this is not Datang's internal affairs, but Tubo's own affairs, Datang is indeed inconvenient to meddle, if it does, how do the surrounding countries view Datang? Therefore, in the next opinion, this matter is inappropriate. ”

Lu Dongzan almost wanted to tear Suning apart, because what he said was the most difficult problem to solve, and it was also a problem that he couldn't solve all night yesterday, give Datang this right, I'm afraid that Datang will have some other ideas, but if he doesn't have this right, Datang will really ignore the nonsense of those priests, and if he can't control those businessmen at that time, it will only make things worse.

Lu Dongzan looked at Du Ruhui anxiously, this look sank, Du Ruhui showed a thoughtful expression, and then sighed: "Alas, God won't help me, General Lu Dongzan, it's not that the old man is unwilling to help, it's just that this matter is related to the reputation of the Tang Dynasty and the views of the surrounding countries, the Tang Dynasty is not only a vassal country in Tubo, and I don't know that only Tubo has a problem, but Datang's promise is not to dare to do the internal affairs of the vassal country, otherwise, how will Datang be viewed?"

At this time, if the old man intervenes, and the old man's identity is too special, he will definitely be noticed and misunderstood by the surrounding vassal states, so this matter is really not suitable for Datang to intervene, and Datang can only express regret about this matter, alas, the old man is ashamed of the people of Tubo! Du Ruhui's face was full of disappointment and regret, and he looked compassionate, which made all those who didn't know feel a little blocked in their hearts......

Lu Dongzan was engaged in a fierce ideological struggle in his heart, and when he was about to make a decision, Suning suddenly spoke: "Du Xiang, General Lu Dongzan, I think that although Datang can't interfere in the internal affairs of Tubo, it is not impossible, if you change the method, even if Datang does not directly intervene, it can still have some effect." ”

As soon as this remark came out, everyone was interested, even when Du Ruhui and Suning discussed the details of today's talks all night last night, Suning did not say it, not that Suning was unwilling to say, but he just remembered a very important message, Tubo is located in Tibet, the most famous religion in Tibet is Tibetan Buddhism, Suning vaguely remembers that Tibetan Buddhism is the product of the intersection of Indian Buddhism and ancient Zhangxiong Buddhism, and Buddhism naturally does not use living people as sacrifices.

Indian Buddhism was introduced to Tibet in the seventh century AD, which point in time in the seventh century, Suning does not know, and the history books do not say, but it can probably be estimated that the mainstream consciousness of Tibet is still the cannibalistic sect of Tibet itself, it seems that Indian Buddhism has been introduced to Tibet after hundreds of years of struggle with the local evil sect of Tibet, during which there have been several extermination campaigns, and now this means that Buddhism has not occupied the mainstream even if it was introduced to Tibet.

So why don't you just let Indian Buddhism do this, and just introduce Middle-earth Buddhism and local Taoism into Tibet? The Tang Dynasty pursued the policy of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, Confucianism is not a religion, but Buddhism and Taoism are both religions, and Taoism is not small in Chinese history, whether it is Zhang Lu's Wudoumi Sect or Zhang Jiao's Yellow Turban Sect, they are all based on Taoist teachings.

Think about the Middle East and India, these countries with fierce religious conflicts, for the sake of their respective religious beliefs, they will not hesitate to break their heads and blood, and they will not hesitate to die, and the power of religion can even dominate the government, and the power of politics cannot contain the power of religion.

Since the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the ancient Chinese government has paid special attention to the development of religion, especially not allowing religion to dominate politics, which is both fortunate and unfortunate, fortunately China has never had large-scale religious vendetta and confrontation, China's two major religions, Taoism and Buddhism, are competing and coexisting in a relatively peaceful way, and there is no armed struggle, except for the Taiping Rebellion in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, which was also a group of peasants according to their understanding of Christianity......

Unfortunately, China has never had a faith of its own......

But in any case, this is also a clever trick, so that what did not happen in China happens once in Tibet, try to see if it can reach the Cheng dù of India or the Middle East, if it can, Tibet will not have the rest of its life...... (To be continued......)