In 641, Lu Dongzan, a Tibetan envoy, was deeply appreciated by Li Shimin. In addition to giving him an official position, Li Shimin also wanted to give him the daughter of the royal family, but Lu Dongzan said that he already had a wife in the family and refused Li Shimin's kindness.
Lu Dongzan was the minister of Songzan Gampo, the male lord of the Tubo Kingdom, and a beautiful marriage between Songzan Gampo and Princess Wencheng could be passed on as a good story, and Lu Dongzan was indispensable.
At first, Songzan Gampo wanted to marry a princess of the Tang Dynasty, but at that time, the Tang Had just established a relationship with Tubo, and Li Shimin did not rush to agree.
After the marriage proposal emissary returned, he reported the news that Datang did not agree to the marriage, and added oil and vinegar to say that Li Shimin had already promised to marry the princess to Songzan Gampo, and it was other ethnic minorities who provoked dissension from it, and Li Shimin did not agree.
Songzan Gampo was very angry after hearing this, and he led the Tubo soldiers to severely damage those ethnic minorities one after another, and shouted that if the Tang Dynasty did not give him the princess Xu, he would step on the entire Tang Dynasty and rob the princess.
Li Shimin spent his whole life fighting horses, and at this time the national strength was strong, and he did not pay attention to Songzan Gampo at all. Songtsen Gampo also realized that his strength could not compete with Datang, but still insisted on sending emissaries to ask For datang.
Li Shimin was a powerful and ambitious king, and he knew that Songzan Gampo was not his opponent now, but Tubo's guerrilla tactics were a great threat to the Tang, and after careful consideration, he agreed to marry Princess Wencheng to Songzan Gampo.
Songzan Gampo was ecstatic and immediately sent the minister Lu Dongzan as a marriage proposal messenger to come to Datang with thousands of taels of gold as a dowry.
Lu Dongzan was a vigilant man, calm and full of wisdom in the face of the test of The Tang Emperor Li Shimin. In order to test Tubo's courtship emissaries, Li Shimin gave Lu Dongzan six difficult problems.
In the first problem, Li Shimin asked someone to bring a piece of wood with a uniform thickness, and asked Lu Dongzan to judge which end was the root. Lu Dong Zan moved, put the wood into the water, and the root was sinking down.
The second problem, Li Shimin asked Lu Dongzan to thread a piece of jade with a hole, and the unique feature was that the hole was curved and narrow in the middle. Lu Dongzan was not embarrassed, he smeared honey on one end of the jade, and tied a thin rope to the waist of an ant at the other end, and the ant was attracted by the scent of honey and climbed through the hole to the end of the jade.
In the third problem, Li Shimin asked Lu Dongzan to match a mare with a hundred newborn foals. Lu Dongzan did not say a word, directly locked up the foal, hungry after a day and then released, as a result, the foal quickly went to each mother.
The fourth problem is to distinguish which flock of chicks is which hen, and the fifth problem is to find a place to live after getting drunk. Lu Dongzan solved them one by one with his great wisdom.
When Li Shimin came up with the sixth puzzle, everyone was stunned!
Li Shimin asked Princess Wencheng to mix among the 500 palace girls, and five hundred people wore the same clothes and covered their heads. The emissaries of various countries tried many times, and no one could find Princess Wencheng.
Lu Dongzan had already made preparations before he came, and he inquired about Princess Wencheng's preferences. Princess Wencheng likes to use a rare flavor of incense that can attract bees.
Lu Dongzan walked to the crowd and released the bees in his hand, only to see the bees moving through the crowd and finally landing on Princess Wencheng.
Seeing that Lu Dongzan successfully passed the sixth test, Li Shimin smiled happily, praised Lu Dongzan, and gladly married Princess Wencheng to Songzan Gampo. Thus, there is a scene at the beginning of the text.
Songzan Gampo was able to marry Princess Wencheng smoothly, and Lu Dongzan's contribution was indispensable.
Princess Wencheng became the queen of Songtsen Gampo and lived in Tubo for nearly 40 years, making great contributions to the economic development of Tubo.
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