readx; Tocharian Ashu City, here is the largest city in Tocharo, but also the capital of the Yue Clan, at the beginning of the Tubo army's attack on Tocharo, here they were met with strong resistance, Shang Xi Dongzan after conquering Achu City, here pit and kill 30,000 generals, and in Achu City massacre, arson and plunder the people. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Despite the devastation of the city of Ashan, the Governor's Palace was located here because of its vastness and favorable terrain that was ideal for ruling Tochar.

Shang Xi Dongzan didn't care about the destruction of the house, but his soldiers destroyed the royal palace of Achu City but made him regret it a little, the royal palace of Achu City is the largest and most magnificent palace in Tochar, just for his Zampu to live in Tocharian when he inspected it, but half of the palace was destroyed, which made Shang Xi Dongzan feel a little frustrated, fortunately, the foundation was not destroyed, Shang Xi Dongzan ordered to mobilize 50,000 people from the Tocharian countries to repair and expand the palace of Achu City.

On the huge construction site, a magnificent palace has risen from the ground, and the palace has been built, but Shang Xi Dongzan has a new idea, he wants to pave a wide road with stones, from the palace to twenty miles outside the city, so that the city of Ashu will have the momentum of a royal city, so he ordered that 50,000 people continue to pave the road until the paving is over.

Driven by the Tibetan soldiers, 50,000 people began to build roads again, on the construction site about dozens of miles long, busy with the figure of 50,000 people, dusty, dusty, everywhere is the sound of jingling stones and the sound of the people carrying stones, and a team of Luo Luo in the distance brought the stones taken from the mountains.

On the construction site, 5,000 Tibetan soldiers served as supervisors, monitoring every move of 50,000 people, a little slack, the whip was drawn like raindrops, time was running out, it is said that Zampu has arrived in Da Bolu, at most ten days, Zampu will arrive in Ashu City, Shang Xi Dongzan began to be anxious, he ordered day and night, regardless of life and death, be sure to pave the road within ten days.

The 50,000 people began to build the palace two months ago, and under the heavy labor and extremely bad conditions, four or five thousand people had died of illness or exhaustion, and the Tubo people did not take into account the additional food supply of these 50,000 people, so they ordered them to bring their own food, but the food they brought was not enough for two months, some people brought more, some people brought less, and the Tubo confiscated their food, and made porridge for supply, only two meals a day, and many people died of illness and hunger.

On this afternoon, on the construction site at the gate of the city, Zhou Mi and his companions were checking the flatness of the stones, unlike others, Zhou Mi and others took the initiative to ask to join the construction brigade, and there was a special greeting from the political undersecretary Alan, so their treatment was not bad, and they were assigned the easiest job: checking whether the stones were qualified, and Zhou Mi was also the chief leader of the 8,000 laborers of Wang Tingguo.

Every kingdom had a labor leader, and in addition to the Tibetan people using leather whips to govern them, there were some things that had to be discussed with the labor leaders.

"Agano! Agano! "Someone was shouting not far away.

Zhou Mi raised his head and saw that it was a well-dressed Tocharian calling him on the side of the road, he was very familiar with it, and he was the confidant of Alain, the political undersecretary.

He immediately greeted him, "What's the matter?" ”

The attendant pulled him aside and whispered, "Alain has something important to look for you, come with me!" ”

"Wait a minute, I'll explain it later."

Zhou Mi came back and ordered everyone a few more words, and then followed his entourage.

Alan was the tax collector of the Yue country, and he was the third minister in the Yue country, but in the whole Tocharo, he was nothing, after the Tubo people called, the royal magnates of the Tocharian countries fled to Anxi or broken leaves, but this Alan took the initiative to welcome him, relying on his ability to speak the Tibetan language, and was reused by the Tubo people, and became the first minister of Tocharo, and in the eyes of the Tocharian people, he was also the first Tocharian to destroy.

It is also interesting to say, when the Tang army controlled Tocharo, there were countless Tocharian princes and ministers who defected to the Tang army, but they were not regarded as Tu Annihilation, one of the very important reasons is that Tocharian has always been a subject country of the Tang Dynasty, and the princes and nobles also recognized the rule of the Tang Dynasty, and they would not accept the rule of a small and barbaric and backward country like Tubo anyway.

Historically, the Tibetans also occupied Tocharian for a time, but they were soon defeated by the Great Cannibals and drove the Tibetans out of Tocharo, largely because the Tocharians did not recognize the rule of the Tocharians, since ancient times, Tocharian is an extremely difficult place to rule, Tocharian is today's Afghanistan, until today, this weak country is easy to occupy, but difficult to conquer.

Although Alain was the number one spit out, he made a lot of money from this position, and some estimates that he made at least 100,000 silver dollars in this winter.

Although the money is rolling in, the most worrying thing for Alan is whether his wealth can last, and he also understands in his heart that with the powerful Tang Dynasty in the north, the Tubo people cannot last, and they are extremely unpopular among the Tocharian people, and it is a matter of time before they are driven away, so finding a way back for himself is the most important thing for Alan.

He can't drag his family to the Tubo Plateau, he is a Buddhist, and it is impossible to take refuge in Dashi, the only way out is to flee to the Tang Dynasty, but can the Tang Dynasty tolerate him?

Just when he was anxious, his brother-in-law ** La brought him a glimmer of hope, some merchants actually wanted to buy information on the whereabouts of Tubo Zampu, **La may not understand, but Alan understood as soon as he heard it, no guest would spend five hundred silver dollars to buy this kind of information, this must be a spy of the Tang Army, only a spy of the Tang Army would be interested in the whereabouts of Tubo Zampu.

This gave him a glimmer of hope, maybe the Tang Army scouts could become a bridge to his retreat.

At this time, the voice of the subordinate came from outside the question: "Master, Agano is here." ”

"Invite him in!"

After a while, his henchmen brought Zhou Yu in, and Alan hurriedly greeted him, and said with a smile: "I have something important to look for you." ”

He waved his hand, ordered his entourage to retreat, and closed the door again, and then said, "Captain Zhou, please take a seat!" ”

Zhou Mi had already changed into a robe with exquisite texture, and he was not polite, he sat down directly, and said with a smile: "What is the important matter that the political officer is looking for me." ”

The two have met several times, and the current cooperation is quite tacit, Zhou Mi also promised him that if he is willing to help Tang Jun, he will definitely report his merits truthfully, so that Alan has a way out, he is more than fifty years old today, he has seen through many things, he actually does not expect the Tang Dynasty to give him any official position in the future, he is a smart man, as long as the Tang Dynasty can allow him to spend his old age in Chang'an, he will be satisfied.

Alan took a document from the table, handed it to Zhou Mi and said: "This is this morning, I had a meeting with Shangxi Dongzan, and I got accurate news, Tubo Zampu has passed through the Shushi country three days ago, and they are currently located in a secret west of Dabolu, he brought an army of 80,000 to follow, and the Tubo people are short of food, so Shangxi Dongzan ordered me to collect 200,000 stone grain and 300,000 sheep from the Tocharian countries within ten days, and 1 million sheep must be collected within two months. ”

Speaking of this, Alan smiled bitterly and said: "Tocharian to support 100,000 Tibetan troops, already very difficult, one winter, almost stripped by the Tubo, now to increase the supply of 80,000 people, the Tocharians are impossible to do, I estimate that the Tocharian rebellion is about to begin." ”

Zhou Mi pondered for a moment and asked, "Then where do you think the Tocharian rebellion will begin at the earliest?" ”

Alain shook his head and sighed, "Actually, I don't know, I don't even know where to start?" 300,000 sheep! Now is the time for cattle and sheep to give birth in spring, and now to take the sheep, isn't it to take the lives of the people? ”

"Your Excellency, I have a suggestion, and I wonder if the Administer would like to listen to it."

Alan perked up and hurriedly said, "You say!" ”

"Now that the paving is almost complete, you can suggest to Shang Xi Dongzan that you can save a lot of food by reducing every two meals to one."

"This...."

Alan hesitated a little, he understood what Zhou Yu meant, and instigated the rebellion of the laborers, so he said: "Now the laborers are complaining that the food is very mean, and if the supply is reduced, the rebellion will definitely start as soon as it is touched, Shang Xi Dongzan is not stupid, and he can't save much food, he is afraid that he will not accept this suggestion, it is better to change the strategy, it will have the same effect." ”

"Then tell me what strategy to change?"

"When recruiting laborers, Shang Xi Dongzan promised that as long as the palace was completed on schedule, he would pay two silver dollars to each laborer, and he was originally to deceive laborers to build the palace, I knew that he didn't want to give it at all, and he wouldn't give it, so it was better to let the news out, the laborers would definitely make trouble, what do you think?"

Zhou Mi thought about it, and said with a smile: "This method is good, I will spread the news, but you also have to use a channel to spread the news, you represent the ruler, and they believe the news you spread even more." ”

"I will, and the news will spread all over the site tomorrow."

．．．．．．．． After Zhou Mi left Alain's mansion, he did not go to the construction site, but went to an inn in the east of the city, where he found Wang Yiqing.

Wang Yiqing was the only one of the ten of them who did not work as a laborer, not because he had a language problem, but because he was a falconer, and the transmission of information to Broken Leaf must be completed by Wang Yiqing, so Wang Yiqing must remain a free body.

Wang Yiqing lived in the innermost part of the inn, it was a single courtyard, the room was equipped with water and food, he rarely went out, and when he saw that the person who knocked on the door was Zhou Yu, he immediately pulled him in and asked with a gesture: "Is there something wrong?" ”

Wang Yiqing has never spoken since the cave incident, for nearly two months, he has always regarded himself as a deaf and mute, which makes Zhou Mi a little worried in his heart, if he returns to the broken leaves in the future, he will not be able to speak, but he also understands Wang Yiqing's determination, he does not want to harm other companions because of himself, Zhou Mi sighed secretly, sat down, put a piece of information in front of Wang Yiqing, and wrote on the table with clear water: "This is 100,000 urgent information, you send it away immediately." ”

Wang Yiqing nodded, he took out a thin white silk from a small box, and copied the information with a special pen, he used Turkic script, which is the unique intelligence code of the Tang Army, after the other party received the letter, he would convert the password into Chinese characters, so that even if the eagle was captured by the enemy, it was difficult to understand the content of the letter, and after writing it, he carefully checked it twice, Zhou Yu watched from the side, saw that he was meticulous, and couldn't help admiring it, at this time Wang Yiqing had already checked it, and waited for the white silk to dry a little, He took a red letterhead, folded the white silk into thin strips and stuffed it in, closed the letterbox tightly, and went to the yard, where two falcons stood quietly on a tree, and he took off one of the falcons, and fastened the letterbox to the eagle's legs, and he stroked the falcon's feathers lovingly for a moment, and threw it upwards violently, and the falcon spread its wings and flew high, circling, and soaring northward.

．．．．．． The revolt of the 45,000 laborers spread with the news that their wages would be denied, and the pent-up anger of the Tocharians finally broke out, and for two whole months, they ate their own rations, day and night, and undertook extremely heavy labor, many of them died of disease and starvation, they did not dare to resist, and the two silver dollars were the self-comfort they did not dare to resist, and they were their only spiritual support, but now, the last spiritual pillar of the last was also collapsed.

The news that the two silver dollars will be refused has reached the ears of every worker, starting with the largest number of laborers in the Yueshi Kingdom, the prelude to the general strike has begun, on the nearly thirty-mile-long construction site, the busy labor situation has been invisible, the construction site is full of laborers, each of them is very silent, with silent protest to resist the cruel exploitation of them by the Tubo people, even a dog, will also give a bone, but they get nothing.

The news of the strike also quickly reached the table of the governor of Tocharo, Shang Xi Dongzan, who served as the prime minister of Tibet for two years, that is, the prime minister of Tibet, and it stands to reason that he should know more about the long-term way to be tough and gentle, but what Shang Xi Dongzan did in Tocharian was not at all like the style that a politician should have, and what he did was only described in one word, conquer.

Conquest means killing, as soon as he set foot on the land of Tocharo, he killed 30,000 soldiers, bloodied the city of Ashu, bloodshed the city of fainting, bloodshed the city of Huolu, all the troops who dared to resist the Tubo were cleaned, annihilated and burned, how many people were killed, they can no longer count.

Conquest also meant exploitation, and from the first day of his occupation of Tocharo, he levied on the Tocharians the money and food of the garrison, then the annual tax, the monthly tax, and the army winter tax, and all kinds of taxes and taxes had wiped out the wealth of Tocharo.

Perhaps Huairou's tough-line strategy only applies to Tibet itself, and for the aliens, he has no need for Huairou, only conquest and extermination, and before leaving, Zampu told him that in the future, Tocharian is likely to become the new home of the Tibetans moving westward, in this case, reducing the indigenous population of Tocharian is one of their strategic plans.

Shang Xi Dongzan sat on the golden ivory chair of the king of the Yue clan, his eyes were indifferently watching the urgent report of the labor strike on the table, the Tocharians wanted two silver dollars, two silver dollars for one person, and the fifty thousand people were one hundred thousand silver dollars, could he give it? If you don't say 100,000, he won't give 100,000.

He actually has another plan, when this group of laborers finishes paving the road, he will send them to the silver mines of the Great Khanate, become mine slaves, and open mines for Tibet to smelt silver, but he didn't expect them to rebel, at this moment, Shang Xi Dongzan's eyes flashed a murderous opportunity." Pass my orders, send 10,000 troops to suppress the workers' strike, and if you dare to make trouble again, you will be killed! ”

．．．．．． The workers' strike lasted less than an hour, and the murderous Tibetan army rushed into the sit-in laborers, whipping them with leather whips, smashing them with the hilt of their swords, punching and kicking the laborers, and the slightest resistance immediately cut off their heads with a sword, and the bloody scene caused chaos on the roads, and the laborers rushed to flee, but the Tibetan army had surrounded their escape from all sides and began a bloody suppression.

"Get on your knees! On your knees! ”

This simple Tocharian language echoed repeatedly above the construction site, any Tocharian laborers who refused to kneel, no matter what the reason, were killed on the spot, the corpses were all over the field, the blood flowed like rivers, the cruel killing made the laborers afraid, and some people began to kneel, and more and more people knelt down, but soon, even the kneeling people were not spared, and the red-eyed Tubo soldiers had no choice, kneeling was just convenient for them to cut off human heads with a sword more easily.

A massacre began, at this time, tens of thousands of laborers had been forced to the line of life and death, the laborers were forced to resist, they picked up iron picks and chisels, picked up sticks and crowbars, picked up stones, and began to fight with the Tibetans, they were often a few people around a Tibetan soldier and beat him to death, or hundreds of Tibetan soldiers surrounded a hundred laborers and killed them in batches.

The city was in chaos, with shouts and screams everywhere, and even the Tibetans could not control the situation, the laborers broke through the blockade of the Tibetan soldiers, and tens of thousands of Tocharians fled from the city and fled in all directions of Tochar.

The labor civil strife in the city of Acharian was only a fuse, and they provoked a full-scale revolt of the Tocharians, and the tide of revolt began to rise and rise, stirring up in the land of Tochar.

．．．．．．．． At the same time as the civil strife in Tocharo, the Tang army also began to move, and the first step of the Tang army was in Little Bolu.

Xiao Bolu since Tianbao was conquered by the Tang army in six years, it has been firmly controlled in the hands of the Tang army, the Tang army formed the Quy Nhon army here, garrisoned by 3,000 people, the first soldier and horse envoy was Xi Yuanqing, but after Gao Xianzhi left Anxi, Xi Yuanqing also followed him out of Anxi, the second soldier and horse envoy called Yu Guozhang, was originally Xi Yuanqing's deputy general, a few months ago he was promoted to Shule soldiers and horses, and An Baozhen took over as the Quy Nhon army soldier and horse envoy, and at this time the Quy Nhon army has expanded from 3,000 to 8,000 people, becoming a Tang army force.

The terrain of Xiao Bolu is extremely dangerous, it is located in the lofty mountains, to the north and west to climb the towering snow-capped mountains, and to the east is divided into two by the Po Yi Water Grand Canyon, only by a narrow vine bridge to communicate, cut this rattan bridge, it also blocked the road to the Tubo Plateau, in the battle of Xiao Bolu that year, the scout captain Li Qing'an was on this rattan bridge on an arrow shot to kill the Tubo Jialan princess.

Eight years have passed in a flash, and today Xiao Bolu has once again become the focus of attention of the Tang Army, the difference is that this time Xiao Bolu is not the end of the march, but the starting point of the march.

The 8,000 Tang troops stationed in Xiao Bolu, except for 1,000 to guard the city, the remaining 7,000 people have been assembled outside the city, and they will set out to conquer Da Bolu thousands of miles away under the leadership of the main general An Baozhen, cutting off the return of Tubo Zampu.

The Tang army has received news from Tocharo, that Tubo Zampu has crossed the Great Bolu and entered Tocharo, and now it is time to close the door and beat the dogs, and Li Qing'an has given the order to march into the Great Bolu.

Under the clear blue sky, the seven thousand Tang army has been reorganized, the armor is clear, the swords and guns are like a forest, the soldiers are gearing up, the war horses are neighing excitedly, the young little Bolu queen Li Xuelian led thousands of Xiao Bolu subjects to practice for the Tang army, she held a glass of wine to the heroic general An Baozhen.

"General An, I wish you a victorious start and a triumphant return as soon as possible!"

An Baozhen looked at the young and beautiful queen, he was arrogant, took the wine glass and drank it all, and laughed: "There is a beautiful woman in fine wine, this time to go to Da Bolu, I will build my Tang Dynasty military prestige!" ”

(To be continued)