[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-great-tang-ten-years-of-signing-in-in-tibet-retu":3,"chapter-great-tang-ten-years-of-signing-in-in-tibet-retu-great-tang-ten-years-of-sign-ins-in-tubo-returni-chapter-558":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Great Tang: Ten Years Signing In in Tubo, I Return Leading a Million-Strong Army",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},2019788,3024,"Chapter 558","great-tang-ten-years-of-sign-ins-in-tubo-returni-chapter-558",558,"\u003Cp>As for the people, Great Tang had more than ten million.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Old Li's mind, too many people were also a burden.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then it's settled, Great Tang will use people to pay the debt.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Actually, this was the result Qin Mu was looking forward to most.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unlike Old Li, what Qin Mu valued most was not land or prisoners of war, but the people!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Land and prisoners of war were things that were easily obtained for Great Qin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the population of the people was not so easy to increase.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After conquering foreign lands, assimilating the foreign people also takes a long time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How could it be easier than obtaining people directly from Great Tang?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Great Qin and Great Tang share the same roots and origins.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, the Great Tang people's yearning and recognition for the Great Qin court far exceeded that of the foreign people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It can be said that as long as the Great Tang people cross the border, they can directly become Great Qin people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Refreshing!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then it's settled!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The wealth obtained from robbing the family merchant caravans also belongs to the horse bandits!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By the way, there is also the Arab Empire; didn't you do any business with them?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as Qin Mu announced that the family wealth looted by the horse bandits belonged to the horse bandits,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he immediately changed the subject, not giving Old Li a chance to object.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Old Li had indeed wanted to object.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The families had made a big move this time, sending a large number of guards, and the wealth in the merchant caravan was not a small amount.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Losing it for nothing made Old Li's heart ache.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Old Li thought about it again and decided he couldn't compete with Great Qin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because he had no strength!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is a sad reality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Arab Empire... oh, we just have ordinary merchant caravan dealings with them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Currently, there is no smooth path to reach the Arab Empire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps we will take the sea route in the future, bypass Tianzhu, and go to the Arab Empire.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Old Li had just been pondering the loss of the family merchant caravan and wasn't paying much attention.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He let it slip.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had hidden the pirate business with the Arab Empire,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>but he had revealed the idea that the two countries wanted to try sea trade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qin Mu didn't believe that Great Tang would have no conspiracy with the Arab Empire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the original four-nation alliance, the one clearly isolated was Byzantium.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Great Tang could cooperate with Byzantium, so how could they let go of the Arab Empire?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What are you talking about?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What do you mean the trade route is not smooth?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both of your countries border Great Qin; you can completely go through Great Qin's territory!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There is normal commercial trade between Great Tang and Great Qin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The roads within Great Qin are indeed smooth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, Old Li did not want his own economic lifeline to be held in Great Qin's hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That's why they wanted to open up other trade routes outside of Great Qin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But how to say this?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He couldn't just say directly that Great Tang wanted to guard against Great Qin, right?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although that was the fact!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this time, Fang Fang Xuanling stood out and explained for Old Li.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Your Majesty, previously, there were often some border battles between Great Qin and the Arab Empire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, it is difficult for us Central Plains people to pass through the Arab Empire's border.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I hope Your Majesty will not overthink it!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Qin Mu intentionally brought up the cooperation between Great Tang and the Arab Empire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, he had a purpose.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How Old Li and Fang Fang Xuanling explained it didn't matter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What mattered was how to achieve his goal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Old Li, Minister Fang, the Arab Empire's prophet Moke Mo is a charlatan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You must be careful not to be cheated by him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He seems to have been making some little moves at the border.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I am considering when to send troops to teach the Arab Empire a lesson again, so they don't always act dishonestly.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dishonest?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Old Li and Fang Fang Xuanling were both dumbfounded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When they met Moke Mo last time, they didn't think he was very dishonest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that time, they even felt that this person was quite wise and did things with a sense of proportion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How could he make little moves at Great Qin's border and provoke Great Qin?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Great Qin Majesty, may I ask what kind of little moves the Arab Empire is making at the border?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sometimes, it might just be that everyone's living habits are different.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Old Li even tried to excuse the Arab Empire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If Great Qin really used troops against the Arab Empire,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>then the pirate business they were doing with the Arab Empire might be exposed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qin Mu just tested them slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And he tested out the relationship between Great Tang and the Arab Empire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the relationship between the two countries wasn't very close, why would Great Tang plead for the Arab Empire?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In his anxiety, Old Li had revealed his flaws.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qin Mu was confident and calm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I just said, this person Moke Mo is a charlatan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He has been at the border, intimidating the people to believe in that little sect of his.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Great Qin does not oppose sects, but does not Wu Li Ke those that mess around.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I just wiped out the Persian Manichaeism, you should have heard of it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This Moke Mo is truly courting death!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Old Li and Fang Fang Xuanling were both bitter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course they knew that Moke Mo had created a sect, which is why he had the title of Arab Prophet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But they didn't expect Qin Mu to hate those small sects so much.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Your Majesty, if you use troops against the Arab Empire, it will inevitably destroy the current prosperous trade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why not write a letter first to warn him and let him restrain himself?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fang Fang Xuanling still wanted to make a final effort.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once Great Qin and the Arab Empire go to war, it will be of no benefit to Great Tang at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It's not just as simple as losing an ally.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There is also the possibility of being implicated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, once Great Qin prepares military supplies, it must purchase them on a large scale in the market.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially grain!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Great Qin court will control grain prices so that the Great Qin people do not have to bear the burden.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Great Qin's market will be Wu Li Ke a magnet, sucking in all the low-priced grain from surrounding countries. Great Tang's grain prices were already much lower than Great Qin's.\u003C\u002Fp>",1120,"2026-06-15T19:07:32.733Z","2026-06-15T19:16:48.062Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","1b38078e8fd00704051efbc0d1d1ee7a80b146f5e99fed9352cd3a7544b4eb5a","great-tang-ten-years-of-sign-ins-in-tubo-returni-chapter-559","great-tang-ten-years-of-sign-ins-in-tubo-returni-chapter-557",605,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fgreat-tang-ten-years-of-sign-ins-in-tubo-returni-cover.jpg"]