There is a corridor connected to Furong Garden, which is built next to the city wall, mainly to facilitate Taiping to Furong Garden, but unexpectedly, this corridor is convenient for Zhang Zong. After the carriage galloped all the way to Furong Garden, Zhang Zong immediately brought Gong Ren to meet Li Hong.

Li Hong has been very busy recently, mainly because Li Zhizheng is preparing to move the capital to Luoyang. As the prince, he needs to stay in Chang'an for a period of time. After all, it is not easy to move the capital in such a large empire. It takes a period of time to transition. Li Zhi is guarding Chang'an, which is enough to make the whole process smoother.

However, although Li Hong was very busy, he felt very surprised when he heard Zhang Zong coming to see him. After all, Zhang Zong and Taiping had just gotten married for a few days, and Taiping had not even returned to the door. Why did Zhang Zong come to see him at this time?

With the question in his heart, Li Hong also summoned Zhang Zong immediately. When he saw Gong Ren who was brought in with Zhang Zong, he was also stunned. Then he thought of the negotiations between the two countries at the first time. Could it be that Gong Ren found Zhang Zong and asked him to be a lobbyist?

"Your Highness, this is Gong Ren, I believe you should know him?" Zhang Zong smiled and pointed to Gong Ren behind him.

"Of course I know each other, but why did you two come together?" Li Hong said, "asked knowingly."

"Your Highness is kind. Gong Ren is here to beg for his life from the Tang Dynasty. I hope your highness will save my whole family's life!" I saw Gong Ren very simply and immediately stepped forward and bowed.

"Huh? You didn't come for peace between the two countries?" Li Hong couldn't help but shouted in surprise when he heard Gong Ren's words.

"Your Highness, there have been changes within Tubo. The Gongren family is now facing a great dilemma..." Zhang Zong said and told the situation of the Gongren family.

After Zhang Zong finished speaking, Gong Ren immediately seized the opportunity and stepped forward again and said, "Your Highness, the uncle was arrested. I don't know my life and death now. My father and uncle are also in danger. Now the only one who can save us is the Tang Dynasty!"

Li Hong was also happy at this time, but when he thought that Gong Ren was still here, he coughed dryly to make his smile calm, and then he said, "How do you want us to help you, and what price can you pay?"

To be honest, the Tang Dynasty will definitely not help for nothing, and the Gongren family will definitely have to pay the price of treatment, such as seeking over the Tang Dynasty, or other benefits of treatment, etc.

Of course, Gong Ren also understood the above truth, so he immediately spoke: "Your Highness, although I can't be the head of the family now, as long as the Tang Dynasty is willing to provide us with help, I am willing to go back to Tubo and persuade my father and others immediately, and I will never go against the Tang Dynasty in the future, and even be willing to obey the Tang Dynasty's orders!"

The ruling structure of Tubo is different from that of the Tang Dynasty. Its interior is composed of Tubo nobles of all sizes, and each noble has its own tribes and families behind it. Tubo is an alliance between these tribes and families, and the Gongren family is the most powerful among these tribes and families, so they can also break away from Tubo at any time and become an independent force.

"Haha, from your words, I don't feel your sincerity!" Li Hong shook his head and said after hearing this.

Gong Ren said that his family would not go against the Tang Dynasty in the future, and was even willing to obey the Tang Dynasty's orders. Although it seemed good, it also allowed their family to maintain independence. The Tang Dynasty did not control their family. If they did not obey the orders in the future, the Tang Dynasty would have no way to deal with them.

"What price does Your Highness want us to pay?" Gong Ren seemed to have known that Li Hong would not easily agree to the conditions he proposed, so he asked again.

Zhang Zong beside him saw Li Hong and Gong Ren start bargaining, and immediately stood aside and stopped talking. After all, he was not good at this kind of thing, and he didn't even know what the reserve price in Li Hong's mind was, so he would let Li Hong handle it himself.

"First, your family will accept the reward from my Tang Dynasty and become an official of my Tang Dynasty. Second, in the future, the court will dispatch officials in your family's territory, and you must not stop it." Li Hong said again with a flash of light in his eyes.

When Zhang Zong heard this, he couldn't help but admire Li Hong's etiquette. If the Gongren family accepted the reward from the Tang Dynasty, it would be equivalent to a complete break with Tubo. The entire Tubo would regard them as enemies. It can be said that it almost blocked the Gongren family's road to returning to Tubo. In the future, officials would further weaken the Gongren family's control over the territory and make them vassals of the court.

Even in the long run, the Gongren family will become a nail deployed by the Tang Dynasty on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and can enter the core area of ​​Tubo at any time. After all, they are all plateau people, and plateau reactions are ineffective against them, and they may even become the main force of the Tang Dynasty to destroy Tubo.

"This..." Gong Ren also knew the effectiveness of Li Hong's two conditions, so he showed a hesitant expression for a moment. Finally, he sighed and said, "Your Highness, you really can't make decisions under these two conditions!"

Gong Ren was actually very helpless. After all, his father made the decision on the family. Although he was his father's favorite son, he sometimes could not influence the future of the family. So he had to report to his father before letting his father make the decision.

"I know you can't make the decision, but I can send someone to take you back now, and then you go and discuss with your father. If you can agree to my conditions, the Tang army stationed in the Tuyuhun Army will support you immediately, and even allow you to retreat to Tuyuhun when necessary." Li Hong smiled again. Since he had put forward this condition, he thought of this.

"What if my father doesn't agree with these two conditions?" Gong Ren hesitated for a moment and asked again. The two points proposed by Li Hong were really harsh, so he was worried that his father would disagree.

"Then there is no way. This is the bottom line of my Tang Dynasty. If you don't even agree with both conditions, then I have to doubt your sincerity!" Li Hong stared at Gong Ren with bright eyes and said, "The Tang Dynasty has always been strong, not to mention that after defeating Tubo, it took the initiative. Even for the Tang Dynasty, the internal struggle between the Gong Ren family and the Tubo royal family and a large amount of consumption of Tubo's strength was also a good result.
Chapter completed!