Chapter 467: Xu Jingzong's Difficulties
After learning that Zhang Yi was the identity of the Tang Dynasty, Sahazhuo gradually figured out everything.
Datang wants to deal with Tubo, Zhang Yi and they are just the first stop, what he didn't expect is that he will be so stupid, Zhang Yi and they want to deal with Tubo, but he still treats them as good brothers.
He even thought about relying on Zhang Yi to climb to a higher position with the goods they provided.
In retrospect, how ridiculous it all was.
If it weren't for the official people of Datang, how could they have raised so much green salt in such a short time, and even if they went to grab it, they wouldn't be able to grab so much.
Besides, when Sahazhuo went to Wang Zaixu's house for the first time, he pushed open the door and saw a large group of Tang warriors, at that time he felt that those warriors were not ordinary people, but he didn't expect his feeling to be really so accurate, those warriors were really Tang Army soldiers.
But now it's useless to think about that, he has already planted it, and from the time he was caught by Tang Jun, he knew that he would definitely not have any better results.
At least for the Tibetan side, a big hat buckle is certain for him, and it is light not to bear a thousand years of infamy.
He knew very well how much impact Zhang Yi and them had on doing this, and now the entire Tubo was almost facing a situation where there was no salt to eat.
The green salt provided by Zhang Yi and them had a big blow to the local salt manufacturing industry in Tubo, and many people engaged in salt manufacturing were forced to change careers because they couldn't make money, and the culprit was himself.
And now that there is no salt to eat, it is still difficult to get those people to change careers and come back immediately, and salt production requires a process.
In short, many factors make Tibet extremely short of salt in the next period of time.
When the time comes, not to mention the common people, even those nobles, the salt at home will have to be tightly supplied.
The Tibetans will definitely be the first to meet the needs of the royal family and the army, and then they will slowly be distributed from top to bottom according to rank.
During this time, there has been a shortage of salt in Tibet, and most of the salt merchants are waiting for Sahazhuo to get green salt from Zhang Yi and then take it back to supply.
That's why Sahadro is under so much pressure.
There is no salt reserve in China, and Zhang Yi is out of stock again, so what do they eat?
They definitely don't have anything to eat, and if they don't have to eat, someone will definitely get up and make trouble, and Sahazhuo is a big head when he thinks of this.
If it weren't for Wang Zaixu who introduced Zhang Yi to the past, there would be no more current things!
Thinking of Wang Zaixu, Sahazhuo suddenly thought that last time Wang Zaixu and others seemed to have withdrawn from the Tang Dynasty.
"Could it be that even Wang Zaixu already knows about it? Even Wang Zaixu and they chose to betray me? ”
Sahadro felt a deep sense of powerlessness in his heart.
Among all the Han merchants, he believed in Wang Zaixu the most, but he didn't expect Wang Zaixu to know the truth and not tell him.
If you don't tell him, forget it, he actually helped Zhang Yi to deal with himself.
"Sure enough, if you are not of my race, you must have different hearts."
Sahadro shook his head and laughed at himself.
Sahazhuo figured everything out in a short period of time, but Zhang Yi just looked at him with a smile from the sidelines.
There is no talking, and there is no need to speak.
Now that the two of them are on opposite sides, if they say more, Sahazhuo will have more hatred for Zhang Yi, so Zhang Yi doesn't plan to talk to him.
"Take him down, eat and drink first, if it weren't for him, we wouldn't be able to deal with Tibet."
Zhang Yi whispered to the soldiers around him, he was afraid that Sahazhuo would hear it, so he didn't dare to say it loudly.
The soldiers took Sahazhuo and the others to imprison, even if Zhang Yi had the power to release them at that time, it would be after the end of the war, and now, in the face of national righteousness, everyone, no matter what excuse you have, have to give way.
"Let the border army act according to the original plan."
Zhang Yi turned his head to Xu Jingzong behind him and said this.
The last time Zhang Yi and the others' caravan was 'attacked' by the Tang army, Xu Jingzong and the others returned here directly, and they didn't go to Qingtang with Zhang Yi and them at all.
Everything was in their plans.
Xu Jingzong also nodded after hearing Zhang Yi's words, and immediately asked the people behind him to inform the Tang border army that had already been prepared.
Although the Tibetan side knew that the border troops of the Tang Dynasty had been frequently mobilized recently, and it was very likely that they would counterattack them, they also took a little precautions.
But they still despised the Tang Army.
The Tang Border Army only has a regular army of 15,000 people here, plus a few miscellaneous armies of several thousand people, the total strength is less than 30,000.
In Qingtang alone, Tubo has more than 15,000 troops, most of whom are cavalry, plus garrisons in other places, and the garrison in this area has reached 40,000.
Combined with the troops requisitioned from other places during this period to prepare for the surprise attacks of the Tang army, Tubo now has a total of 50,000 troops on the border.
However, for the Tibetans, they did not distinguish between regular and miscellaneous armies, and the two were confused together, so their army was slightly inferior to the Tang army.
But the terrain smoothed out that little bit of a gap.
The power of the two sides was unbalanced, and the Tibetans had the advantage, so the Tibetans were just on guard and did not really make much changes.
What they didn't expect was that Li Er was really going to use troops against Tubo this time.
In addition to the movement of the border army on the surface, the 30,000 border troops of the Tang Dynasty were all concentrated, and Li Er also sent several troops to quietly surround the Hehuang area at this time.
Just wait for an order from the border generals, at least more than 30,000 Tang cavalry and 40,000 Tang infantry will attack Qingtang at the same time.
Zhang Yi didn't care about these things, his and Xu Jingzong's task was to conduct economic warfare, and now that their task was completed, they didn't know what kind of effect the Tang army could have when attacking Tibet.
"Lord Xu, let's go back?"
Zhang Yi looked at Xu Jingzong with a smile.
And Xu Jingzong has been having a headache these days.
Li Er obviously asked him to hold all the power in his hands, but in the end, Zhang Yi was doing things, and all the power was on Zhang Yi's side, which made him unable to explain to Li Er when he went back.
I didn't think that the phrase "companion is like a tiger" was very powerful, but now Xu Jingzong can really feel it.
There is a lot of pressure in my heart.
"Why don't we go back two days later? Let's see what kind of feats our Datang border army can achieve. ”
Xu Jingzong wants to delay for a few days, if the Tang border army is like a bamboo, then Li Eryi is happy, and he estimates that there will be nothing to do.
Although he could be regarded as a meritorious service this time, Xu Jingzong did not dare to think about the reward at all.
Don't seek merit, but seek no fault, and do things for the emperor's family, that's it.
No fault is the greatest credit.
Zhang Yi naturally understood Xu Jingzong's difficulties and nodded in agreement.