It will take a little time for the economic war to be effective.

Just when the people of Tibet were dreaming of sending a large army to crush the Tang army and then dominate the world, a piece of news caught the attention of the Tubo quartermaster.

Their salt reserves have bottomed out!

It doesn't matter if you don't eat meat for a few days, but if you are used to eating salt, as long as you can't eat a meal made with salt, you will be extremely unaccustomed to it, and many people will lose their appetite.

After two or three meals, fatigue will begin to appear, which is a manifestation of salt deficiency.

However, the quartermaster did not take this seriously, but first asked his men: "How many days do we have enough salt to eat?" ”

The subordinate replied, "About five or six days." ”

"Five or six days is enough, let everyone speed up the pace, as long as we get to Qingtang, we won't worry about these things, Qingtang is a rich place."

The quartermaster said with a yearning look, as a quartermaster, he naturally knew how rich Qingtang was, and he also knew how important Qingtang was to Tubo.

Qingtang is notoriously rich, so there must be the salt they need, and it is also the best green salt.

He naturally knew that the green salt from the Tang Dynasty had recently become popular in Tubo, and although he wanted to support the development of the salt industry in Tubo very much, in the end those green salts still conquered him.

The taste of cooking with green salt and cooking with those coarse salt is very different, mainly because the price between the two is about the same.

At a similar price, fools know that they have to choose green salt, so that although the people benefit, it is extremely unfavorable to the development of the salt industry in their country, but the Tubo people don't care about that, anyway, they have salt to eat.

However, the traders who had been supplying them with salt before were out of stock, resulting in a shortage of salt for this Tibetan team.

And the same thing happened not only to one army, but also to almost all the Tibetan troops who rushed to Qingtang to aid the defenders of Qingtang.

However, they also behaved and did the same as the quartermaster, thinking that they would get these things as long as they arrived in Qingtang, so they only urged the army to hurry.

In fact, the army's salt reserves are quite large, but they also use a lot of it, but this is not the case with those civilians.

In this era, there are very few people who can eat green salt, and the low price set by Zhang Yi has made many middle and lower-class people also eat green salt.

Those middle- and lower-class people who have eaten green salt, they can only buy a little bit at a time, as long as they run out of stock, then they will immediately have no salt to eat.

And because the supply was too small before, even those aristocratic and wealthy merchants did not have much green salt, and when they suddenly ran out of stock at this time, they immediately panicked.

It has been five days since Sahazhuo sold the last batch of green salt, and in the five days, Tubo has not sold a single bag of green salt, because there is no stock, and even if there is a little left, he is reluctant to sell it.

Soon, a large-scale salt shortage began to occur throughout Tibet.

In other words, the whole of Tibet is now short of salt, and even out of stock, and there is no salt to eat.

Because of the impact of the green salt sold by Sahazhuo and Sahazhuo's methods, the local salt industry in Tibet was greatly affected, and the amount of salt they could produce at this time was also extremely limited.

There is simply no power to change the situation.

But how can people not eat salt, so whoever has salt has become the object of patronage.

Of course, that patronage was not to rub rice, but to grab salt directly!

I've heard of robbing money and relatives, but this salt grabbing is the first time I've heard of it, but when people are forced to be anxious, they can do everything.

And all of these are within the scope of Zhang Yi's expectations.

He had already calculated such an outcome, even if there were still salt producers in Tubo, but at the current scale, it was not Zhang Yi who laughed at them, the little salt they filtered out was not enough for the nobles and lords of Tubo.

And now that the mouths of the Tibetan people have been fed by them, it is difficult for those coarse salt or low-quality salt to get into the eye, and everyone wants to continue to eat green salt.

This is from thrift to luxury, from luxury to thrift!

For two days, the Tang army only launched a tentative attack on Qingtang, and did not launch a large-scale attack at all.

They are listening to Zhang Yi now, let's see the effect of economic warfare first, there is no need to take human lives to fill the pit at this time.

Qingtang is indeed the most important place in Tubo, and it is the richest, but since Sahazhuo got the green salt provided by Zhang Yi, all the salt merchants in Qingtang have stood with Sahazhuo, and naturally, what they sell is the green salt brought by Zhang Yi.

The entire Qingtang City was eating green salt, so much so that almost all of those coarse salts were discarded.

Later, after Sahadro sent out all the green salt, Qingtang fell into a state of extreme salt shortage.

Now, they can't even eat coarse salt.

And due to the encirclement of the Don army, supplies from outside could not be brought in at all.

So in just the past two days, riots began to appear in Qingtang City.

Everyone has no salt to eat, so what else can they do, it is safe to stay in Qingtang City all the time, but if there is no salt to eat, then they will also be starved to death.

Instead of being starved to death, it is better to rush out and fight the Tang army, maybe they can still fight off the Tang army.

There was a shortage of salt in the city, and all kinds of voices became more and more popular.

See the results!

Not only Zhang Yi saw it, but even the generals of the Tang Border Army began to see the effects of economic warfare.

However, just when Qingtang City was about to lose its hold, the first batch of Tibetan reinforcements arrived.

The arrival of reinforcements gave the people of Qingtang a hope, although the reinforcements were defeated in the battle with the Tang army on the first day, but they also knew that it was because their own number was far less than that of the Tang army.

However, since the first batch of reinforcements came, there will be a second and third batch of reinforcements in the future, so they are not worried.

Since the Tang army is unable to conquer Qingtang City now, after their reinforcements come, the Tang army will have no chance to capture Qingtang City.

Although Qingtang City was defended, the issue of salt was getting worse.

In order to ensure the combat effectiveness of the Qingtang soldiers, the Qingtang army began to ask the people in the city to donate voluntarily after the army ran out of salt, but there were not a few grains of salt at the end of the day.

There is no way, the soldiers have to fight, and they can't eat without salt, so the soldiers in Qingtang began to search for green salt from house to house.

The conflict broke out so simply!