Wendeng Wharf, which is now the most prosperous port in the northern region of Datang. Boats come and go every day.

Some went to sea to fish, some went to the sea to fish, some went to the southern region, and some went to Waguo or Luoyang, Chang'an and other places.

The number of coolies who begged for a living on the docks alone exceeded 1,000.

As the morning sun slowly rises over the sea level, a new day begins.

The first to enter Wendeng Wharf was a clipper boat that the people of Dengzhou were already familiar with.

Although it is not the latest clipper, the entire Dengzhou capital, except for people who are close to the fishing industry in the East China Sea, cannot buy clippers.

Although there are people in other shipbuilding workshops who imitate the production, after going to the surface of the sea, the stability is far less than that of the shipbuilding workshops of the East China Sea fishing industry.

"Everyone was quick, and as soon as the people on the boat got down, they were sent to the carriage. Fill up a wagon and set off, don't wait on the docks. ”

Seeing that the bow clipper on the sea was about to lean against the corner of the pier, a group of men and horses who had obviously been waiting for a while began to move.

"Chun Yu is in charge, don't worry, it's not the first time we've done this, and we won't make any mistakes."

"It's better to be fine, don't take it lightly, or no one will be able to hold back when the time comes."

It was a son of the Chun Yu family who spoke, as a native of Dengzhou Mansion, the influence of the Chun Yu family, even today, is very large.

Of course, this root has a lot to do with their timely bowing to Li Kuan, the king of Chu.

At present, Chun Yu's biggest profit is no longer the sale of salt or grain, or even any of the food, clothing, housing and transportation, but the unexpected slave trade.

To be more precise, it should be slave hunting.

As the only team engaged in slave hunting in Dengzhou, Chun Yu's slave hunting team has a two-bow flying clipper boat specially sold by the East China Sea Fishery.

Basically, every once in a while, a shipload of slaves would be transported to the Wenden docks.

"It's down, it's down, everyone's hands and feet are numb."

The steward of Chun Yu's house beckoned everyone, stuffed the group of people who got off the boat into the carriage, and then immediately left the dock quickly.

……

Datang's new round of cement road construction plan has been in full swing for several months.

Except for the section from Chang'an City to Luoyang, which was the responsibility of Nanshan Construction Engineering, the rest of Luoyang to Jinyang and Luoyang to Dengzhou Mansion were left to other noble families.

After all, the Hubu was not bold enough, and after borrowing five million yuan from the Datang Royal Bank, he stopped his actions and wanted to wait until the beginning of tomorrow to borrow another sum of money to increase the construction of several other roads.

"Smack! Don't be lazy. ”

Dozens of miles outside the gate of Wendeng County, a group of people are building a cement road in full swing.

From time to time, overseers wielded whips and beat slaves who were slower on their hands and feet.

That's right, slaves!

On this section of the road from Dengzhou, eighty percent of the people are slaves.

Slaves captured by the Chunyujia slave hunting team from Goguryeo, Silla, and Baekje.

Prior to this, Chun Yu's slave hunting team mainly captured some young women and young people and sold them to Dengzhou and nearby state capitals.

Since there was rumor in the imperial court that the cement road from Luoyang to Dengzhou was to be built, Chun Yu's slave catching team increased its attendance, and every few days a shipload of slaves came from the sea.

Today, at the road construction site, there are at least more than ten thousand slaves.

Chun Yu looked at the lively construction site in front of him, and a smile appeared on his face.

He still knows how much benefit the construction of the cement road will be to Dengzhou Mansion.

As a native of Dengzhou, Chun Yujia can naturally get a lot of benefits from it.

Needless to say, the direct profits of cement workshops and sand and gravel workshops are the invisible benefits after the construction of cement roads in the future, and he also knows a thing or two.

Therefore, he is still very concerned about the construction of this cement road.

Even, the Ministry of Users and the Ministry of Industry sent people to supervise, and the Dengzhou Thorn History Mansion arranged special personnel to supervise the work on the construction site every day.

This is a great political achievement, who dares to drag himself back, he will be mad when he is in trouble.

"Are these slaves still obedient?"

Looking at the slaves who were working hard in short coats, Chun Yunan asked Chun Yubo next to him.

"Envoy, these slaves are more honest than we thought, except for a few who ran away and were lazy at the beginning, which are now rare."

The result that Chun Yubo said made Chun Yunan feel a little surprised.

"They are busy from dawn to dark every day, and they have no salary, so they don't have any opinions?"

"That's true. At the beginning, I also thought it was strange, but after a detailed understanding, I basically understood. Chun Yubo explained on the side, "These slaves, whether they were captured from Silla Baekje or Goguryeo, basically lived without food before. But when they arrived in Dengzhou, they not only fed every day, but also had whale meat to eat, which was a life they couldn't have imagined before. ”

When Chun Yubo said this, he couldn't help but show a proud expression on his face.

As a Datang person, I am proud!

"In that case, then buy two more clippers from the East China Sea Fishery to expand the intensity of slave hunting. I heard that there are also a lot of people on the Japanese side, although the distance is a little farther, but the sea route is already very mature, and if the difficulty of catching it is lower, it can also be considered. ”

Chun Yu's slave catching team has already encountered development bottlenecks in Goguryeo and other places.

The villages in the coastal areas are now becoming more and more vigilant, and in the past month, they have encountered Goguryeo's officers and soldiers several times in succession.

It may be a better option to transfer the capture destination appropriately.

"Envoy, the lord of the Chu Palace, Bo Chu Suiliang, has not been in Dengzhou recently, I went to visit him a few days ago, and when it comes to catching slaves, he gave me a suggestion, which is very special."

Chun Yubo originally felt that Chu Suiliang's suggestion was quite unreliable, and he didn't plan to tell his own envoy, but now that he talked about the difficulty of catching slaves, he thought about it and said it.

"Oh? What does he recommend? ”

Chu Suiliang's talent has been seen in a difficult way, and he is really a little curious.

"He asked us to select some people with families from among the current slaves, select some who are willing to help us, send them back to their original country, and promise them a reward of 500 wen for recruiting a person."

"It's a good suggestion to tempt it with profit, and to balance it with protons."

Chun Yubo felt that if he spit out the meat that he had eaten in his mouth, he might not be able to eat it back.

But Chun Yu's vision is farther than Chun Yubo's natural vision, and this trick may be able to play an unexpected role.

"That'...... So I'll try to arrange a batch first? ”

Although Chun Yubo didn't think it was a good idea before, he saw that his own envoy also thought it was good, but he threw away all his original positions.

……

The top of a thousand mountains, the source of ten thousand waters.

Beyond Tuyuhun, there is a towering snow-capped peak and a vast plateau pastureland.

For Datang, this is a place full of mystery and barbarism.

For this barbaric land, the city of Raksha (present-day Lhasa) was their center.

The city is surrounded by high mountains, each of which resembles a continuous Great Wall.

Unlike the Central Plains, there is not even a single decent tree on the mountain here, and it is full of all kinds of strange-shaped stones.

In the midst of these mountains, the city of Logos occupies a large basin.

And the leader of this basin is called Songtsen Gampo.

I have to say that Songtsen Gampo is actually a talented Zampu, Zhenguan three years, he was only twelve years old, and he ascended the throne of Zampu.

At that time, the situation faced by the Tubo State was not much better than when Li Shimin first ascended the throne.

The old aristocracy conspired to rebel, and Yangtong and Subi also took the opportunity to invade Tibet, and the situation was critical.

However, in just a few years, he not only calmed down the chaos, formed an army loyal to him, and subjugated various tribes in the country, but also used a variety of means to soon make the Tubo State a well-deserved king of this region.

"Zampu, now the slave hunting team of the Tang people has repeatedly appeared in the tribes that Tuyuhun handed over to us, capturing slaves, in my opinion, not giving the Tang people a lesson, it is not enough to show the majesty of my Tubo country."

Prime Minister Lu Dongzan was indignant and told Songtsen Gampo about the situation facing the frontier of Tubo.

Historically, the Tubo State was because it failed to ask the Tang Dynasty for marriage, thinking that Tuyuhun was doing a ghost in it, so it sent troops to attack Tuyuhun, and then tried to get the sweetness, so he continued to send troops to attack Songzhou, and was taught a lesson by the Tang Dynasty, only to know that there is a sky outside the sky, and there are people outside the people, which can be regarded as winning peace for the two countries for several years.

However, because of Li Kuan's small wings, the relationship between the two countries began to change slightly.

The most important thing is that Tuyuhun, which is between the Tubo Kingdom and the Tang Dynasty, no longer exists.

And the slave hunting team led by Da Fei, under Li Kuan's instructions, constantly entered and exited the tribes of the Tubo Kingdom, bringing them tangible harm.

At this time, the Tubo State, to be honest, was still in the stage of rising national strength, and it was far from reaching its peak.

At the beginning of this year, Songtsen Gampo had just sent people to Nipolo (now Nepal) to propose marriage to solve the problem of backward craftsmanship and safety in Tibet.

At this time, Nipolo was a special existence, one of the few countries that attached great importance to commerce, and its handicrafts were extremely exquisite, and its carving, painting, and architecture all reached a very high level.

However, the state of Tibet was still in the stage of a slave society.

Songtsen Gampo was very clever, and took the opportunity of intermarriage to not only get the technology, but also stabilize the frontier.

Historically, he also used this trick to deal with Datang.

Although the first time failed, the second time was to successfully marry Princess Wencheng back in the fifteenth year of Zhenguan, realizing the leap in various technologies of the Tubo Kingdom.

Of course, now with Li Kuan, Songtsen Gampo's good business is doomed to fail.

"It is necessary to teach the Tang people a lesson, but where is the best place to start?"

Although Songtsen Gampo knew that the Tang Dynasty was a powerful country, he was also very confident in his Tubo State.

Especially since he ascended the throne, Songtsen Gampo has repeatedly fought in person, and he has not yet been defeated, which also makes him have no fear of Datang.

"To the north is the hometown of Tuyuhun, where the poor herdsmen of Tuyuhun are basically left, and there is no oil or water. And the terrain is dangerous, which is not conducive to the deployment of the army, and it is inconvenient to march all the way. In my opinion, we can choose to attack Songzhou. ”

As the prime minister of Fanbang country, Lu Dongzan can leave a strong side in history, which naturally has his merits.

"Songzhou?"

Songtsen Gampo came to a simple map and watched silently for a while.

"Songzhou is relatively close to the Shannan region, and it is relatively easy to raise military rations, so it should be much easier to attack, and it is indeed a good choice."

Many people have the impression that Tubo is located on the plateau, with little grain output, and is a country composed of nomadic people.

Not really.

Songtsen Gampo's father, Langri Nongzan, was himself a tribal leader in the Shannan region, and through the southern and northern wars, he unified a large area of land, laying a solid foundation for Songtsen Gampo's success.

Even in the early years, the capital of the Tibetan Kingdom was not the city of Luo, but the city of Shannan Qiong.

This Shannan is actually the Nyingchi area known as Xiaojiangnan in later generations.

The altitude here is much lower than that of the city of Rales, which is very suitable for farming.

Farmers and herdsmen here grow a large amount of barley, and also raise some cattle and sheep.

Even after moving the capital to some cities, many of the surrounding herdsmen were actually nomadic, but herded in fixed places.

It can be said that the state of Tibet was actually a slave country that was half agricultural and half pastoral.

"If you want to attack Songzhou, then you must send troops as soon as possible, and after winning the battle, you can just come back to catch the autumn harvest."

Whether it is Ludongzan or Songtsan Gampo, they do not think that the attack on Songzhou by the Tubo State will fail.

In fact, it is actually normal to succeed in dealing with an unprepared state capital with the strength of a country.

Of course, those who dare to offend the Tang Dynasty will bear the consequences.

"There are already some military horses in the Shannan area, and we will bring tens of thousands of troops from Luoqi City over, and at the same time let Yangtong also contribute some manpower, it must be enough."

With the resolutions of Songtsan Gampo and Lu Dongzan, there are more people in the border of the Tang Dynasty who are doing things.

At the same time, the original Turkic homeland, Xue Yantuo's True Pearl Khan also rode a horse to patrol his tribe in high spirits.

Without the biggest opponent, Xue Yantuo has developed very fast in recent years.

Although in the homeland of the Eastern Turks, the Tang Dynasty built the Yunzhong Governor's Mansion and other yamen to govern some areas, but more territory was taken over by Xue Yantuo.

To put it mildly, there are now 200,000 people under the command of Zhenzhu Khan, and even the generals of the surrounding Tang Dynasty military towns feel vaguely uneasy in their hearts.

Although Xue Yantuo is close to the tribes of Liangzhou, many herdsmen have become full-time sheep breeders, and their combat effectiveness has been greatly reduced.

But further north, the influence of Liangzhou City on them was relatively limited.

It can be said that Li Kuan's grassland strategy is far from being completely successful.

Xue Yantuo, who is gradually becoming stronger, has not yet reached the point of turning his face with the Tang Dynasty, but conflicts on the border from time to time occur from time to time.

Northwest Trade has a deep understanding of this.

For this reason, after listening to Ma Zhou's many reports, Li Kuan asked Wang Xuanwu to take the tentacles of the Intelligence Investigation Bureau of the Chu Wangfu and began to penetrate deep into the hinterland of Xue Yantuo in case of emergency.

The Tang Dynasty, which has been in the twelfth year of Zhenguan, is relatively quiet on the whole, and there is no major movement for the time being for these frontier movements.

However, there are always Diao people doing trouble, and when it is time to clean up, someone will definitely clean up.

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