Chapter 173: The Shadow of War I
"How could it be here?" After getting married, Li Hao had a period of vacation, which was specially granted to Li Hao by Li Er. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoOriginally, Li Hao's appointment had come down, the governor of Maozhou Prefecture in Jiannan Province, the first leader of the Zheng'er Eight Classics, and the fourth official, but the position was in the west of Sichuan Province in the later generations.
This appointment surprised Li Hao, who originally thought that he should go to Tanzhou to take up a post. After all, there is a foundation laid by himself over there, and Li Ke is also over there, so it is easy for him to make any achievements.
I didn't expect Li Er to throw himself to the western part of Sichuan Province, and he was still the leader of a state capital. Is Li Er going to cut off the relationship between himself and Li Ke? I can't help Li Hao think so, and the situation in Maozhou is actually very complicated.
This Maozhou Prefecture is different from the later Maozhou County, and its jurisdiction is different, but the place is almost in the same location. It's just that at this time, Maozhou governed several counties, including the county seat where the earthquake occurred, and the population was relatively complex.
Although there are no families here, and you can't tell anything by looking at the place name alone, if you look at the map, you will know that this place is not a good place. Because this place is almost the frontier of the Tang Dynasty, and a little west is Songzhou Mansion.
"Li Shaojun thinks this place is not good?" Wang Xuance happened to come to Li Hao's mansion to sit on this day, and the two looked at the place where Li Hao was going to discuss the situation here, and heard that Li Hao was puzzled about the place where he was appointed, Wang Xuance was a little curious.
As a Tang Dynasty official, Wang Xuance is naturally no stranger to Maozhou Mansion. This place is close to the frontier of the Tang Dynasty, and in Li Hao's terms, the economy here is average, and there are many other ethnic groups living together, which is a relatively chaotic place.
But compared to himself, Wang Xuance felt that Li Hao's promotion was too fast. I was even a jinshi, and when I took office, this guy was still white. As a result, more than a year has passed in a blink of an eye, Li Hao is now a fourth-grade official and a governor of the lower capital, but he is far behind.
Of course, not everyone can copy Li Hao's enterprising path, and Lao Wang has a deep understanding of this piece. Whether it's high-yield food, or being able to save people by disembowelment, and defending against plagues, these are not things that you can do, so there's nothing to be jealous of.
"This place will soon be unpeaceful, and I think the imperial court should have received news from the territory west of Songzhou Mansion at this time. There's an indigenous country over there, and I'm thinking of getting some benefits from my Datang to go back, but I didn't expect it to let me go. ”
After listening to Wang Xuance's words, Li Hao replied that the lower governor of Songzhou Mansion in the west of Maozhou Mansion was Han Wei at this time, which was the same as Li Hao's official position. Although Songzhou Mansion is not a big place, this place is the first gateway to the border between the Tang Dynasty and Tufan, and it has a strong mark in the early Tang Dynasty.
If nothing changes, there will soon be a great battle here next year, that is, in the twelfth year of Zhenguan, known as the Battle of Songzhoufu. A battle that is not big, but has a deep impact.
After this war, Datang did the most stupid thing, after winning the battle, he also promised a princess to Tufan, and also brought a lot of advanced technology to Tufan, so that Tufan's economy and technology have developed rapidly.
Since then, Tufan has become more and more powerful, relying on the favorable terrain of the plateau to harass the Tang Dynasty from time to time. In the years that followed Li Er, he became a confidant of Datang, and even exacerbated the decline of Datang.
The official history of later generations is introduced as follows, saying that Songtsen Gampo and Princess Wencheng made important contributions to the friendship between the Han and Tibetan ethnic groups, and brought advanced civilization to the Tufan people, so that the relationship between the Tufan people and the Tang people became closer.
This marriage has strengthened the exchanges between the peoples of the two countries, and it is a great civilization exchange activity and an exchange activity of special significance. But no one mentioned the losses of the Tang Dynasty in the Battle of Dafeichuan, and no one mentioned that Tufan's soldiers fought in Chang'an many years later.
These are gone, and all that remains is all kinds of things that have been covered up by some people with intentions. Just look at history, the real situation is roughly that Li Er's head was clipped, and after winning the battle, he sent a woman to sleep with the barbarian natives. If you send a woman, you will send a woman, and you will also send a lot of strange tricks that he thinks are worthless, and as a result, he will strengthen others and pit his offspring.
Therefore, history is a fig leaf, a fig leaf held in the hands of the rulers, what can be seen, what content they want to see, they have modified countless times, and this thing has already changed beyond recognition.
"A barbarian clan dares to come to my Tang Tiger Whiskers, this is self-defeating." People like Lao Wang have the heroic spirit of a typical Datang Guanzhong man, and also have the strong pride of the Datang people, and they have always been disdainful of those Fan. Perhaps, this is the motivation for this guy to dare to pick a country alone in the future.
"It's different, the country has just been unified, and they are evolving from barbarism to civilization. Such a country is much more threatening and growing than the Turkic peoples, and their combat effectiveness is also stronger. ”
Li Hao didn't have the strong pride of satirizing Lao Wang, but he didn't deliberately belittle Tufan. I once heard a saying that those natives, the more fierce the off-road barbarians are, and now Tufan is roughly like this, they are still in the barbarism.
I haven't been in contact with Tufan yet, and I don't know much about their combat effectiveness. Li Hao himself was not sure how to deal with Tufan, so this time he was going to Maozhou Mansion to take up a post, Li Hao felt that he had to leave the relationship with Li Er, and brought Wang Xuance and Xue Rengui over. With these two people on the side, Li Hao's life protection will be improved a lot.
Looking at the location of Maozhou on the map, Li Hao's mind was no longer on his official position. His eyes looked to the west of Songzhou Mansion, and from his memory he turned out the situation in the west of Tubo and the Tang Dynasty in this history, he never thought that he would be so close to the battlefield.
Li Er put himself in this place, if he didn't give himself enough troops, Li Hao would think that this guy was trying to pit himself. In such a dangerous place, let such a young person go to guard it, is this to look up to yourself or do you want to give yourself to someone else to kill?
You must know that after you became the governor of Maozhou Mansion, Songzhou was besieged, and the next one was Maozhou Mansion, which you wanted to guard. As a human being in two lives, Li Hao has never participated in any battles, which has to be a hero for the cadres in the countryside, and Li Hao feels that he is under a lot of pressure.
Li Hao is only sixteen years old now, while Songtsen Gampo is in his twenties. This guy has been fighting for power since he was thirteen years old, and now he has been fighting for many years to unify Tufan, how can Li Hao compare with him?
In the third year of Tang Zhenguan, the rural cadres were wrong, and when Songtsen Gampo reached the age of 13, the unified Tubo Dynasty was dealt a heavy blow. Songtsen's father, Langri Songtsen, was poisoned, and at the same time, his father's ministers and his mother's clans rebelled together, and Gongbu, Dabo, Niangbo and other places were all occupied by the rebels.
Not only that, the Yangtong tribe in the west took advantage of the situation to invade, and the old Subi nobles in the north of the Yarlung Zangbo River also tried to "restore the country", and these forces marched to Tubo one after another. The rural cadres inherited their father's throne and also took over the responsibility of the 33rd generation of Zampu in Tibet.
It's just that what comes to him is a mess, and this baby relies on the emerging forces that rely on him to recruit more than 10,000 people to form an elite team. After 3 years of conquest. The internal rebellion was quelled, the situation was stabilized, and the unity of Tibet was restored again.
In the sixth year of Zhenguan, Songtsen Gampo led his troops to cross the Brahmaputra River and moved the capital from Zedang to Luo. Thus they got rid of the fetters of the Tibetan aristocracy and the threat to their lives. At the same time, the political center and the military center are unified to facilitate the command and control of the army.
After the relocation of the capital of Tibet, Songtsen Gampo formulated a series of strategic guidelines for annexing the surrounding Qiang to unify the plateau. He first targeted the kingdoms of Subi and Yangtong. These two kingdoms had a population of tens of thousands, and they were both agricultural and pastoral, rich in good horses and salt, which was closely related to the life of the Tibetan people.
After Songtsen Gampo destroyed these two kingdoms, it not only eliminated the threat from the west and north, but also helped to replenish the Tibetan soldiers, military rations, and horses. It has obtained an army with strong combat effectiveness, which provides a material guarantee for the development and strength of the Tubo Kingdom.
At this time, Tibet was in a period of expansion, and the young rural cadres were also high-spirited and looked down on the heroes of the world. Tang Xuan, Subi and Yang, and other tribes adjacent to Tubo were all attacked by Tubo, and all the surrounding countries were beaten by him and were powerless to fight back.
The conquest of Tuyuhun was also part of Tubo's foreign expansion, but when fighting this country, the rural cadres heard that the princess of the Tang Dynasty was very beautiful, and even the king of a country like Tuyuhun could marry one. He is handsome and chic, brave and good at fighting, how can he say that he can go to Datang to get a princess.
The rural cadres who felt good about themselves sent an envoy to Datang to go around, proposed to Li Er, and asked Li Er to marry a princess to him. He felt that he was so powerful, and he would definitely give himself a beautiful princess by sending a messenger over, but the result was not.
At this time, after the Tang Dynasty eliminated the Eastern Turks, the country was growing and powerful. Therefore, Li Er generally gave him a marriage in order to strengthen the relationship when the surrounding forces expressed their submission to him, and marrying Princess Honghua to Tuyuhun is a typical example.
The rural cadres did not clearly express their submission to the Tang Dynasty at that time, and they looked very dragged. Li Er's head hadn't been caught by the door at this time, how could he give marriage to a rural cadre at this time? Doing so did not have any practical significance for the Tang Dynasty.
After listening to the words of the envoy, the rural cadres who had lost face immediately became angry, and after defeating Tuyuhun, Tubo took advantage of the victory and turned to the southeast. defeated the party and Bailan Zhuqiang, and marched 200,000 troops into Curzon Prefecture, preparing to compete with Li Er.