It is difficult for later historians to understand why Ou Song Zanpu, who had spent most of his life in a wreck's pocket and did nothing, actually changed his life trajectory so much after meeting Emperor Shenwu. Not only did he not end up depressed, but he rose up to fight and then unified the Tibetan Plateau.

After the establishment of the New Tang Dynasty of Emperor Shenwu, he resolutely led Tubo to join the territory of the Holy Empire, becoming the most difficult to define and controversial monarch in the history of Tubo.

From that year, the great Tibetan king Ou Song Zanpu agreed with Emperor Shenwu and the Tuyuhun people on a strategy to recover Tibet, and then, according to the plans of both sides, launched an offensive operation called "Rebellion Holy War" in the history of Tibet in the spring of the following year.

With the help of the mysterious weapons of the Tuyuhun and the Tang people, the royal army of Osong Zampu defeated the Yongdan rebels and retreated. Then, in Lantang, Nosirloyi, Nangba and other areas, they defeated the large army of the Yongdan rebels and the slave revolt entrenched in the vicinity of the city of Rakhe, and then captured the leaders of the slave revolt such as Wei Kokulu Ledden and Wei 61 Lopo Lojong.

The rebel army of Ou Song Zanpu couldn't help but deal a powerful blow to the Yongdan rebels, and also dealt a strong blow to the rebels in Tubo, and for a while, Ou Song Zanpu became the most shining and terrifying existence in Tubo.

The strange uniforms of the Han Chinese army that marched towards the city of Lhasa attracted the attention of the Tibetan people, and the costumes worn by this army were very special, neither like Tang costumes nor like Tibetan costumes, and their costumes were a bit like Hufu, but not like them.

But their costumes are very special and very lightweight. Unlike the Tang costume or the Tibetan costume that drags the robe, the hem and clothing are very simple, and they actually have a new style of clothing, called pants. It is by no means the same as the "Xingteng" that most Tang people only wrap around their calves.

But the pants were really lightweight, so the clothing of the Tang army was very popular among the rebel army of Osong Zampu, and many Tibetan soldiers were most enthusiastic about waiting until the evening, when the Tang people went to their camp to steal pants.

Therefore, for a period of time, the relationship between the Tang and the Tubo people was very tense, and later the king of Ji personally issued a military order, strictly prohibiting the Tang people from clashing with the Tubo people in the rebellion war, and strictly ordered the Weizhou sergeants who entered the Tubo to temporarily stop wearing pants, in order to prevent the Tubo people from coveting and causing conflicts between the two sides.

After receiving the order, the Weizhou army was very embarrassed, as the first Tang people to put on their pants, they had long been accustomed to the feeling of warm legs and then took them off. Besides, the temperature difference between day and night on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is so big that people can't stand it. However, wearing pants provoked the Tubo people to steal, and they were even more reluctant to provide them with customized military pants provided by Weizhou.

In the end, the reluctant Weizhou sergeant had to use some felt blankets as leg guards and squeeze them on his legs with ropes to resist the severe cold of the plateau. This way of legging was eventually learned by the Tubo people, and slowly became a custom of the Tubo people in later history and passed down from generation to generation, which was something that the Weizhou soldiers at that time would never have thought of.

The soldiers who fought in Tibet were all selected, they had strong combat effectiveness, good discipline, and were the most loyal to Weizhou, but they did not understand the "dog eat dog" war of the Tubo people, but their most beloved King Ji gave an order. They had to abide by it, and together with those Tibetan barbarians, they fought together against other unconvinced Tibetan barbarians.

When Li Bao ordered his subordinates to enter Tibet, he specially ordered Yang Gan and Yang Liu, who were the earliest to follow him, to be the leaders of the troops entering Tibet, and gave them his orders and painstaking efforts, and asked them to carry artillery as a strategic force to assist Ou Song Zampu's subordinates to conquer the fortified city and strong enemies, and also had to face the harsh natural environment.

A battalion of 500 troops in Tibet is already the most elite team in the Weizhou army, but it still suffered a lot of losses on the plateau, and more than 10 soldiers have passed away forever just after entering Tibet, and with the progress of the battle and the march, nearly 100 people have stayed on the plateau forever.

After Li Bao learned of the deeds of the troops entering Tibet, he explained the importance of entering Tibet to Li Keji, and asked him to arrange for the art troupe to publicize the noble sentiments of the members who sacrificed their lives in Tibet and the great sacrifices made for the development and growth of the Weizhou Army.

In addition, Li Bao also specially inscribed the name of the Tibetan army for this army - the Wind and Fire Army, which means the unquenchable flame in the cold wind, symbolizing the scorching vitality and tenacious will!

This army, which was written by Emperor Shenwu, was the predecessor of the "Shenji Battalion" of Megatron World in the future, and also established a fixed format for the name of the descendant army under the Weizhou Army, and all the troops began with the word wind.

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Just as the rebellion war in Tibet was in full swing, Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty, also ushered in the long-lost wave of Tang Emperor Li Yi and the courtiers of the Tang Dynasty returning to their hometowns.

The rebellion between the king and the Huang bandits, which lasted for more than ten years, finally came to an end in June of the fourth year of Zhonghe, and Huang Chao, who occupied the eastern and western capitals and claimed the emperor, was finally defeated and died under the siege of the forces of the inner and outer feudal towns and Li Keyong, who was blessed by the halo. And his son Huang Hao led a remnant army to flee in disarray, and he couldn't make any big waves.

The great wave of homecomings that began in the first month of the fifth year of Zhonghe was not until the end of March, when the emperor's chariot arrived at Fengxiang.

In early February, Li Bao set out from Tubo after receiving the news, and arrived in Weizhou in mid-March, where he met Emperor Li Yi, who was waiting for him in Fengxiang Palace. When they met, the brothers met enthusiastically, but the practical problems were not mentioned by the two of them very tacitly.

Now, as a great warlord entrenched in the northwest of Chang'an, Li Bao is in stark contrast to the two brothers of the emperor Li Yi, who are like prisoners, but Li Yi, who is becoming more and more mature, is very optimistic, and Li Bao asks the emperor to stay in Fengxiang for a while. So that the courtiers can return to Chang'an in advance to prepare for the emperor's return to Luan.

As the advance envoy to return to Beijing, the great eunuch Tian Lingzi, who was one step ahead of the emperor, looked at the devastated Chang'an City after returning to Beijing, and felt depressed and unbearable, and what made Tian Lingzi even more annoyed than the messy Chang'an was that his lieutenant's mansion was even more dilapidated.

Seeing this ruined scene, Tian Lingzi felt the pain of lack of money even more. In the past four years in Shuzhong, although the tribute from various feudal towns has been continuously transported through the Shannan West Road controlled by Weizhou.

However, Weizhou is very hateful, and every time the feudal town pays tribute, Weizhou has to pay taxes. Every time a tax is drawn by 30%, the reason why Tian Lingzi, who is idle in Shu, dares to be angry and does not dare to say anything about the secret loss, is mainly because the combat power of the Weizhou army is too strong, and he can't beat it!

Now that Tian Lingzi has returned to Chang'an, he has a feeling of power, and the hateful King Li Bao must defeat him, but how easy is it to defeat the strong Weizhou army? In the past, he was repeatedly bullied by Li Bao, mainly because he had no soldiers who could fight, and the elite soldiers he had trained in Shu in the past four years were very strong, much stronger than the rich soldiers in Chang'an.

Now that he has returned to Chang'an without the clamp of Weizhou, Tian Lingzi has found the feeling of being in power in the past, and he has made up his mind that he has to train elite soldiers. However, if you want to train soldiers, you have to have money, and he is a lieutenant and a minister, but the source of money is very small.

The Shanhe Society led by Li Bao has already let him withdraw his shares, and besides, Datang has just exterminated the Huangchao bandits, and the lives in various places have been seriously damaged, and the tribute will be hopeless for a while and a half, Gao Biao has made a fall out for him again, and it is difficult for the sea trade in Lingnan and Guangzhou to recover the old view in three or five years.

Lieutenant Tian had no choice but to find a way to find money by himself, so Tian Lingzi summoned his dog-headed military advisors and a group of people to gather in Tian Lingzi's lieutenant's mansion again to discuss the plan to raise money.

Although as a strategist is to relieve the worries of the main public, but in the face of the bleak situation of Datang, they are also full of sorrow, they all know in their hearts that it is the most difficult to find money now, but how can they give the main bus as a strategist?

Li Guang is the best at figuring out Tian Lingzi's intentions, and he also knows that Tian Lingzi is worried about lack of money. He thought about it for a long time, and then his eyes turned to his heart.

Li Guang smiled and said to Tian Lingzi: "Don't worry, lieutenant, it's very simple to get money, as long as the lieutenant convinces the official family to make a few edicts." ”

"Oh, what is Li Dalang's clever plan, you might as well say it for a certain reference." Tian Lingzi said happily.

"If you want to say that the money is still salt and iron, as long as we have salt and iron in our hands, the money will not roll in." Li Guangxian said.

"Salt and iron come quickly, who doesn't know, but now the salt and iron transfer envoys of the imperial court have long been recovered, but there are bandits in various places, where are those tributes so easy to transport to Beijing, and besides, waiting for the offerings of various provinces is far from quenching the thirst of the near. The official family is still in Fengxiang and hasn't come back. ”

It was Tian Lingzi's other think tank who spoke, his name was Xie Yilie, he was a down-and-out talent, and he had been by Tian Lingzi's side for a long time, and he had long been unaccustomed to Li Guang's style, how could he let go of the opportunity today, so he immediately refuted Li Guang's strategy.

Li Guang looked at Xie Yilie, smiled contemptuously and continued: "Lieutenant, don't worry, the secret of the edicts that a certain party just said is here. Shannan East Road, Huainan Road and other places will not be able to refer to it for a while, but there are still salt-producing areas near the left side of the capital. ”

When Li Guang said this, Tian Lingzi hesitated: "Da Lang is talking about the two salt ponds in Xie County under Wang Chongrong's men?" ”

"Exactly, the lieutenant's salt pond produces no less than tens of thousands of cars every year, and the profits are even more lucrative, plus Wang Chongrong's guy has always been disrespectful to the lieutenant, let's just change that guy to another town this time, and change his heart to the lieutenant, isn't this salt pond in Xie County the lieutenant's bag."

"Good! Haha, at the critical time, Li Dalang has the most heart, okay, come and send someone to Fengxiang to ask for an order! ”