Along the stone mountain road from Gangdis Mountain to Shigatse, the mountain wind blows on the sparsely vegetated plateau, rolling up a stream of fine light sand, and before the light sand hits the ground, it is swept up by a wild force and flies into the air.

Thousands of yaks and up to several times as many as many sheep carried heavy bags on their backs, like military brigades, like floods, overwhelming the heavens and the earth, and from time to time the rough singing and whipping of the cattle and sheep resounded in the ranks of the cattle and sheep, which were the orders used by the people in the camel caravan to drive the cattle and sheep forward.

This camel caravan loaded salt from the salt lake in northern Tibet, packed the gifts of God in hand-woven cow hair flower striped bags, and carried them on the backs of yaks and sheep, winding thousands of miles along the salt road formed over thousands of years to the Later Tibet region for salt and grain exchange.

They set out from their hometowns, traveled southeast from Ali and Aksai Chin, and it took several months to reach Shigatse, an important town in Houzang, in exchange for the food they needed. Cattle and mutton, cowhide and wool and other products from the pastoral areas will also be transported to the agricultural areas to exchange for grain.

This road has been very prosperous since the Songtsen Gampo period, and it is recorded in the Sui book, "You have a lot of salt, and Heng will sell salt to Tianzhu, and its benefits are several times." "The salt road that runs through the east, west, north and south of Wusizang, with Lhasa as the center, passes through Shigatse and Ali to the west, can reach the Junggar department, and can go straight down to Sichuan and Yunnan through Qamdo to the east, connecting the ancient tea horse road. To the south, from Shigatse through Sangzhuzi, Sagar, Latse, Yadong, Jilong, Zhongba and other places, and trade with Bengal, Tianzhu and other places.

Later Tibet, the location of the Tashilhunpo Monastery where the great erudite treasure and wise man resided, is also the granary of the entire Usizang. There is the valley of the Nianchu River. It is the richest grain-producing area in the whole of Wusizang.

People climbed over the Gangdis Mountain, burned incense in the ancient Rujiang Temple, the great temple of the Yongzhong Black Sect, crossed the Dajiacuo Lake, starting from Angren, it was all the way down the mountain, those pack sheep who carried more than 20 catties of salt on their backs traveled thousands of miles, when they passed through the Saga on the bank of the Brahmaputra River, they were already exhausted, they seemed to smell the smell of grain in the river and the air, and they ran all the way forward.

The people in the caravan saw this. You know where you're going. Zongga Town is about to arrive. Here, they are about to complete the trade of salt for barley, and then return to their hometown with a large amount of grain. Let the wife and children have tsampa to eat.

People quickened their pace. Full of longing to Zongga. Chasing the footsteps of pack sheep and yaks, he rushed towards Zongga. But is the outlook really good?

The buildings are mainly composed of red and white colors, forming the large and small streets of Zongga.

on the streets. Bustling with merchants from all over the world, people drove yaks and led horses, exchanging things for each other: musk, tiger skins, tiger bones, jade, silk, coral, bronze, and salt and cloth needed by ordinary people. The food needed by all is piled up in the wider middle of the street.

With a nose that was frozen a little stiff by the cold air of northern Tibet, he greedily sniffed the smell of a large amount of grain mixed with salt, musk and other items in the humid and warm air.

"What did you bring? Salt?! Today's salt is not easy to sell! The innkeeper, Lobsanne, wiped the grease from his mouth with a newly made silk robe, handed a pot of barley wine to his friends who had come from afar, and invited them to sit down and drink wine and eat meat.

"In previous years, one bag of salt could be exchanged for one bag of barley, even if we came late, at least three bags of salt could be exchanged for two bags of barley, right?!" The leader of the camel caravan, Dunzhu, who is good at dealing with all kinds of complex things, is eager to know the market today.

"Salt is worthless now!"

After drinking a bowl of thick butter tea in a huge copper bowl, Lausanne began to tell his friends from afar about the changes in the market today.

After conquering the city of Barisal, Li Huaxuan, the third son of the Li family, reorganized his ranks, strengthened the city defenses, and at the same time used a weapon several times more powerful than a cannon - silver dollars to attack the loyalty of the various native kings under the Bengali Nawab.

An uninspiring battle soon began outside the city of Barisal, but, unexpectedly, after launching an attack on the Nanyue army, Nawab's headquarters was soon defeated and retreated under the frantic counterattack of the Fusang volunteers who were eager to kill the enemy in exchange for military merit or to die in battle.

Then, suddenly, two armies turned against the ground and rushed from Nawab's left flank towards his own position.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the various earth kings and lords who came with Nawab withdrew from the battlefield with their own teams. Only Nawab's own 10,000 troops were left, facing the inhumane baptism of artillery fire of the third prince and Zuo Tianpeng and others.

Under the cold eyes of more than a dozen lords and earth kings, the Nawab's army was annihilated in one fell swoop by the Nanyue army and the Fusang volunteers like chopping melons and vegetables in the red land of Bengal like a flock of lambs.

Nawab himself glanced hatefully at the group of earth kings who were lined up in the distance to watch the battle. "I died today and died. I'll see what happens to you from heaven! I curse you to be worse than I do! After using all his strength to perform this most vicious deathbed curse, Nawab pulled out his scimitar at his waist and slashed himself.

Since then, Li Huaxuan has also achieved a record that he can boast of with his brothers and sisters.

These earth kings and lords may not know who Xiang Yu is, but when they entered the Nanyue army camp to meet the new conqueror with trepidation, they thought that their mood was the same as that of the princes who went to the Chu army camp to meet Xiang Yu after the battle of Julu.

Winning more with less, and fighting against the local governor with a lone army that goes deep into a foreign place, can break the enemy in one battle, and force the governor to kill himself with a sword, such a strong combat power makes this group of soil kings frightened.

Especially after entering the camp, when they saw those Fusang soldiers whose faces were covered with blood and were excitedly carrying their heads to the military judges to report their merits, several small lords were almost frightened to pee.

However, the Nanyue Army did not embarrass them too much, after inviting them to visit the exhibition of achievements. It is very generous to ask the lords to choose their favorite among the spoils of war, except for the population and horses, everything else can be qiē.

"I, the Ming Nanyue Army, are true to their word, but they only deal with Nawab alone, only take his land and kill his army. The fact that the rank can maintain strict neutrality during the battle is seen by the whole army. Therefore, our army has decided to carry out our previous promise and carry out trade activities with the lords. ”

In the big tent of the Chinese army. Li Huaxuan announced this decision very arrogantly to the dozen or so lords who were kneeling at his feet.

Change to a new ruler. For these earth kings and lords, it's nothing new, isn't it like this for hundreds of years? Arakan, Afghan, Mughal. Turkic. Like a marquee, you come and go on this land. In the past few decades, the Portuguese and French from the west have also quietly climbed the coast, and now the army of the Ming Dynasty has also arrived.

But it doesn't matter. For the lords, there was another reason to re-collect taxes from the common people, and moreover, to collect taxes through commerce to obtain more benefits.

After a series of ceremonies to show their submission, such as kowtowing and kissing their feet, these earth kings held high the banner that had just been replaced, and announced that they were someone under the rule of Ning Yuanbo of the Southern Yue Army of the Great Tomorrow Dynasty, and continued to rule the people under them.

"Hua Xuan, this group of guys is really a barbarian nature."

Looking at the back of the newly canonized Tuwang and lord who had been canonized by the Nanyue Army and led the army away, Zuo Tianpeng couldn't help but snort from his nostrils, expressing his disdain for this generation.

"Barbarians only know that mercenary is for profit, and only for force is to see, so we must lure them with profit and coerce them with force."

In order to be able to achieve the above two points, Li Huaxuan and Zuo Tianpeng reported to Li Shouhan about the military situation here in the name of the Western Expeditionary Army, and informed Shouhan that Bengal had been pacified. It is required to dispatch Long Shengxing and other firms to carry out business activities here, to purchase all kinds of materials needed by Nanzhong, Liangguang, and Fujian, and to sell all kinds of commodities produced in the area under the jurisdiction of the Nanyue Military to this area. At the same time, he distributed the grain seized in the city of Barisal, and the grain and cloth seized in the treasury of the Nawab, to the poor everywhere according to the capitation, and told them, "Your new master, our lord Ning Yuanbo, is a man chosen by the gods, and if you follow him faithfully and work according to his will, you will have a good life!"

"In front of us, there are despicable and shameless natives and rich people, we also have strong soldiers in our hands, and in our ears, there are the sorrows of the urban poor. When I used these ill-gotten gains to help the poor, I took a small portion of them in a moment of greed. But at the same time, millions of poor people were saved. I'm still wondering what would have been the fate of those poor people if I hadn't taken that little bit away. ”

At the same time as sending booty to his father and his mother, aunts, brothers and sisters, Li Huaxuan wrote a letter to his father asking his father to allow him to go to Fusang to recruit another 10,000 volunteers, and the necessary food and salary could be paid from the captured booty.

In order to achieve the goal of razing and razing, Hua Xuan also asked his father to allocate 10,000 weapons and armor, and he wanted to recruit native soldiers in this area. They should take advantage of their familiarity with the geography and people's conditions and adapt to the characteristics of the terrain and climate, and strengthen their control over this area.

Recruit Fusang soldiers to suppress the place and charge into battle, this point Zuo Tianpeng and his third nephew Li Huaxuan have the same opinion, first, according to Zuo Tianpeng's opinion, the army here is so weak, it seems that heavy troops are needed. And those soldiers from Fuso are the best candidates.

However, for Li Huaxuan's practice of recruiting 10,000 local soldiers to train native soldiers, Zuo Tianpeng was a little insensitive to thanks, the reason, as I said just now, he thinks that the soldiers here are not suitable for battle. It's too weak.

But Li Huaxuan has a different view. "Uncle Tian, I don't think so, the people are afraid of the chief, as long as they are strictly trained and the officials supervise the formation, it is easier to use."

"With these 10,000 Fusang soldiers to press the ground, and then recruit 10,000 native soldiers to recruit those unscrupulous Tu kings, we can return the original 5,000 Fusang soldiers to Gonzalez's house, and this guy has written several times asking us to return those Fuso soldiers to him for his great cause of recovering the country."

The uncle and nephew expressed their disdain for Gonzalez's incessant door-to-door urging behavior, but they seemed to have forgotten that the 5,000 Fuso soldiers were indeed recruited by the Dutch in Japan in the name of the Portuguese Restoration Army, but in the process of transshipment to the west. They were left behind by their uncle and nephew to temporarily use it for the war in Bangladesh.

It seems that Liu Bei's borrowing of Jingzhou is everywhere, and it is easy to borrow it and difficult to take it back.

After complaining for a while, the opinions of the uncle and nephew were unified, Zuo Tianpeng went to count the troops and horses, check the casualties, make up for the personnel and materials consumed, and prepare to lead the five thousand Fusang soldiers to the direction of Goa to join Gonzalez, as a big help in his restoration army.

After ordering the spoils of war to be used as military pay, official documents, family letters, etc., to Hue by speedboat, the uncle and nephew began to intensively cultivate Bengal and the surrounding areas.

With the arrival of a large number of merchants. Li Hua ordered people to select some of the prisoners in the army who were loyal and honest and had families. He acted as a guide for the caravan, and at the same time sent official letters to the local kings, ordering them to prepare for trade activities with the merchants of Ningyuan Bofu.

Large quantities of refined salt, cloth, sugar, silk, porcelain, swords, armor, gunpowder and other materials were transported to Bengal by the merchants. It is very strictly in accordance with the previous agreement between Li Huaxuan and the lords of the earth king. Paid customs duties worth five percent to the kings of the land everywhere. It was then sold everywhere through the guò trade route.

The smiling earth kings who collect money are for their own cornucopia, and at the same time for the sake of the new master. It is indispensable to send troops to escort them on the one hand, and on the other hand, to open up new sales channels on a large scale.

As a result, Zongga, which was originally a salt export area, quietly became a salt distribution center.

At the same time, there are also a large number of rice, silk, cloth, sugar, swords, bronze utensils, etc., which are like magnets with strong magnetism, attracting the eyes of the Dunzhus.

Compared with the refined salt placed on the street stalls, the natural salt collected by the Dunzhu people from the salt lakes in northern Tibet is like the feeling of a great erudite treasure and a wise man standing together.

(Oh, does Lang Sheng dare to stand when he encounters a great erudite treasure and wise man?) Didn't you kowtow a long time ago? It's better than kneeling and licking. ）

And the jute they brought from the Ali region and the jade they exchanged from the Dzungar tribe were also defeated by the jute and jade from the south.

The jute transported from the Dzungar Department is naturally not the opponent of Bangladesh, the main jute-producing area of jute, and it cannot compete with Bengal jute in terms of quality, quality and price, not to mention, the quantity of Bengal jute is really terrible.

The jade from Hotan was defeated by jade jade from Burma.

Looking at the good things that filled the streets, and then at the salt, jute, and jade piled up in the warehouse, Dunzhu and Sanjay didn't know what to do.

After seeing off a few businessmen from Bhutan, Lobsang smiled and turned around to help these old friends solve the problem.

"How's it going, my old friends, seeing all the good things on the street? If you don't want to go to the street and bargain with the small traders, I also have merchants from the south in this shop, and the few merchants from Bhutan who believe in the White religion are also good friends of mine. They also had in their hands a lot of refined salt, rice, sugar, silk, cloth, swords, and other good things. ”

As a believer of the Yellow Sect who had begun to dominate in Wusizang, he naturally wouldn't be too cold to the people who believed in the White Sect, and the Dunzhu just snorted and expressed their disdain.

"Huh! The White Sect is very beneficial now! ”

It is the Pazhu sect of the White religion that dominates Bhutan. As one of the four major branches of the White Sect, the Pazhu faction, since the leader of the Pazhu sect, Ngawang ? Namgal, judging the situation in times of crisis, resolutely led the followers of the Pazhu (Zhupa) sect to Bhutan. Because of Ngawang? Namgar has cultivated a good Buddha and has a four-legged dragon as a guardian, so everywhere he goes to Bhutan, he is subordinate to him. So the White Sect took root in Bhutan and became the ruler of this land known as the land of thunder and lightning.

But how can the White Sect believers be so spirited? But it's puzzling.

"People now say that they are descendants of the remnants of the Tang and Song dynasties!" Lausanne's words were even more puzzling to the Dunzhus. Looking at the appearance of those guys, whether it is appearance, bones, clothing color, or hairstyle, what does it look like a Han from the Central Plains?

Lausanne took a sip of hot butter tea and began to tell everyone about the mystery.

"The Han people from the south, the third prince who manages affairs has a rule, called Xu Chong is not allowed to rely on. It means that you can pretend to be a Han Chinese, but you can't fool around and say that you are not a Han Chinese. This group of Bhutanese White Christians took advantage of this loophole. ”

The Baijiao Pazhu faction has a very close relationship with many manor owners in the Nianchu River Valley, especially Zhubajiare. And this family branch, according to their genealogy, is said to be traced back to Princess Wencheng's entry into Tibet, and their ancestor was one of the two gold-armored warriors who guarded Princess Wencheng's chariot.

In this way, the Baijiao Pazhu faction in Bhutan has enjoyed the treatment of the descendants of the Tang and Song Dynasty relics.

This time, it is a hornet's nest, let me ask, from the Tang Dynasty to the Northern Song Dynasty Jin Yuan, the war between Tubo and the Central Plains or the pro-tribute is still less? If it is okay to be so confused, I am afraid that even a herdsman on the grassland in northern Tibet can say that their family has Li Shimin's bloodline.

Full of envy and jealousy for the followers of the White Religion in Bhutan, the Dhondrups were helpless for a while, and they couldn't go home immediately to go through the family tree, right?

"Those of ours?"

"According to me, even the yaks and pack sheep have been sold! Yaks and pack sheep are worth more than your salt! Then, exchange them all for rice, refined salt, sugar, or something, and I'll help you find a camel caravan, so that when you go home along the way, you can sell some goods along the way, and then exchange them for cattle and sheep! ”

Thanks to Lausanne for his idea, the Dundups asked Lausanne for his help in finding a buyer.

It's just that the Dunzhu people are a little puzzled, the people of the White Sect are so arrogant, relying on the power of the Han people to swagger through the market, don't Gushi Khan and the two Buddhas know?

The Buddha and Gushi Khan should both have great wisdom and magical powers! (To be continued......)