Win the Ding 1617

Along the stone mountain road from Gangdise Mountain to Shigatse, the mountain wind blows on the sparsely vegetated plateau, rolling up waves of fine light sand. Before the light sand lands, it is swept up by a wild force , flew towards the mid-air.

Thousands of yaks and as many as several times as many sheep carry heavy bags on their backs, like troops and floods, overwhelming the sky and the earth, and there are rough songs and whips among the cattle and sheep from time to time , that is the command used by the people in the camel caravan to drive the cattle and sheep forward.

This camel caravan loaded salt from the salt lake in northern Tibet, packed the gifts of God in hand-woven ox hair striped bags and carried them on the backs of yaks and sheep. The salt road formed in the past was exchanged for salt and grain in the Houzang area.

Starting from their hometown, they traveled all the way southeast from Ngari and Aksai Chin. After several months, they arrived at Shigatse, an important town in Tibet, to exchange for the food they needed.Products such as beef, mutton, cowhide and wool from pastoral areas will also be transported to agricultural areas to exchange for grain.

This road has been very prosperous since the time of Songtsen Gampo. It is recorded in the Sui Dynasty, "There is a lot of salt, and the salt is sold to Tianzhu, and the profit is several times." It runs through the east, west, north, south, and north of Usi Tibet. The Salt Road, with Lhasa as the center, goes west through Shigatse and Ngari to the Junggar region, and goes east through Qamdo to go straight down to Sichuan and Yunnan, connecting the ancient tea-horse road.To the south, from Shigatse, through Sangzhuzi, Saga, Lazi, Yadong, Jilong, Zhongba and other places, and trade with Bangladesh and Tianzhu.Houzang, the location of the Tashilhunpo Monastery where the great erudition, treasures and wise men reside, is also the granary of the entire Uzang.The Nianchu River Valley there is the richest grain-producing area in Uzbekistan.

People crossed Mount Gangdisi, burned incense at Gurujiang Temple, the great temple of the Yongzhong Black Sect, and crossed Dakacuo Lake, starting from Angren.It is the downhill road all the way. Those pack sheep who have traveled thousands of miles with more than 20 catties of salt on their backs passed Saga on the banks of the Yarlung Zangbo River.They were already exhausted, and they seemed to smell the food in the river water and the air.He ran all the way forward.

When the people in the camel team saw this scene, they knew the destination of their trip, and Zongga Town was about to arrive.Here, they are about to complete the trade of exchanging salt for highland barley, and then return home with a large amount of grain so that their wives and children can have tsampa to eat.

People quickened their pace and went to Zongga full of longing.Chasing the footsteps of pack sheep and yaks, they rushed towards Zongga.But are the prospects really good?

The buildings mainly composed of red and white colors form the large and small streets of Zongga.

The streets are bustling with merchants from all over the world. People are driving yaks, leading horses, and exchanging things they need: musk, tiger skin, tiger bone, jade, silk, coral, copperware, and the needs of ordinary people. Salt, cloth.Food that is needed for all.On the other hand, there are hills piled up in the middle of the street, which are relatively wide.With the nose that was a little stiff from the cold air in northern Tibet, I greedily sniffed the smell of a large amount of food mixed with salt, musk and other items that permeated the moist and warm air. Zhu and Sangjie excitedly went to find a familiar warehouse to live in.Ready to find a merchant to trade.

"What did you bring? Salt?! Today's salt is hard to sell!" Luosang, the owner of the warehouse, wiped the grease from the corners of his mouth with a newly made silk robe, and handed a pot of highland barley wine to friends from afar, inviting them to sit down. Drink and eat meat.

"In previous years, one bag of salt could be exchanged for one bag of highland barley. Even if we came late, at least three bags of salt could be exchanged for two bags of highland barley?!" Dundup, the leader of the camel team, who is good at handling all kinds of complicated things, eagerly wanted to know current market conditions.

"Salt is worthless now!"

After gulping down a bowl of thick butter tea in a huge copper bowl, Lausanne began to tell his friends far away about the changes in the market today.

After conquering the city of Barisal, Li Huaxuan, the third son of the Li family, reorganized the team.Strengthen the city's defenses, and at the same time use a weapon that is several times more powerful than cannons-silver dollars to attack the loyalty of the various soil kings under the Nawab of Bengal.

A battle without suspense soon started outside the city of Barisal.But, unexpectedly.After the Nawab's headquarters launched an attack on the Southern Cantonese Army, it quickly retreated under the frenzied counterattacks of those Fusang volunteers who were eager to kill the enemy in exchange for military meritorious service, or let themselves die in battle.

Then, suddenly, two troops turned their backs on the battlefield and rushed from Nawab's left flank to his main formation.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the various earth kings and lords who accompanied Nawab withdrew their troops from the battlefield one after another.Only the [-] troops of Nawab himself were left to face the inhuman artillery baptism of the third son, Zuo Tianpeng and others.

With more than a dozen lords and earth kings riding their horses watching coldly, Nawab's army was wiped out like a herd of lambs on the red land of Bengal by the Southern Guangdong Army and Fusang volunteers like chopping melons and vegetables.

Nawab himself cast a bitter glance at the group of earth kings who lined up neatly in the distance to watch the battle. "I will die today as soon as I die. I will see your end in heaven! I curse that you will end worse than mine!" After using all his strength to curse the most vicious deathbed, the Nawab pulled out the With a machete at his waist, he slays himself with the knife.

Since then, Li Huaxuan has also achieved a record that he can boast to his brothers and sisters.

This group of earth kings and lords may not know who Xiang Yu is, but when they entered the camp of the Southern Guangdong Army with a trembling attitude to meet the new conqueror, their feelings are similar to those of those who went to Chu after the Battle of Julu. The princes who met Xiang Yu in the army camp were in the same mood.

Winning more with less, using a lone army that went deep into a different place to face the local governor, was able to defeat the enemy in one battle, and forced the governor to commit suicide. Such a powerful combat power shocked the local kings.

Especially after entering the camp, when they saw those Fusang soldiers with blood all over their faces and excitedly reporting their merits to the military judges with their heads, the little lords almost peed out of fear.

However, the Southern Cantonese Army did not make things difficult for them. After inviting them to visit the display of achievements, they generously asked all the lords to choose what they liked from the spoils. Except for population and horses, everything else is fine.

"My Southern Cantonese Army of the Ming Dynasty kept its word, and only dealt with Nawab alone. We only took his land and killed his army. Everyone in the army can strictly maintain neutrality during the battle, and everyone in the army has seen it. Therefore, the army decided , to carry out our previous commitments. Conduct trade activities with the lords."

In the large tent of the Chinese army, Li Huaxuan announced this decision arrogantly to the dozen or so lords kneeling at his feet.

Changing a new ruler is nothing new to these earth kings and lords. Isn't this how they have lived for hundreds of years?Arakanese, Afghans, Mughals, and Turks all come and go on this land like a revolving lantern.Over the past few decades, the Portuguese and French from the west have also quietly climbed onto the coast, and now the Ming army has also arrived.

But it doesn't matter, for the lords, there is one more reason to collect taxes from the people again, and more benefits can be obtained by collecting taxes through commerce.

After a series of ceremonies to express their surrender, such as submissive and respectful kowtows and feet, the group of earth kings held high the banners that had just been replaced.Announced that he was a certain person under the rule of Ning Yuanbo, the Southern Guangdong Army of the Great Tomorrow Dynasty, and continued to rule over the people under him.

"Hua Xuan, these guys are really barbarians."

Looking at the backs of the newly-canonized earth kings and lords leading the army away, Zuo Tianpeng couldn't help snorting through his nostrils, expressing his disdain for this generation.

"The barbarians only know that profit is the only thing they want, and power is the only thing that matters. Therefore, we have to lure them with profit and coerce them with force."

In order to achieve the above two points, Li Huaxuan and Zuo Tianpeng reported the military situation here to Li Shouhan in the name of the Western Expeditionary Army.Inform Shou Han that Bengal has been pacified.It is required to send Longshengxing and other companies to carry out business activities here, and to purchase all kinds of materials needed in Nanzhong, Guangdong, Guangxi, and Fujian.Sell ​​all kinds of commodities produced in the area under the jurisdiction of the Nanyue Army to this area.At the same time, the grain seized in the city of Barisal.and distributed the food and cloth obtained from the Nawab treasury to the poor everywhere according to their heads, and told them, "Your new master, our lord Ning Yuanbo, is the one chosen by the gods. As long as you are faithful Follow him, work according to his intention, and you will have a good life!

"In front of us, there are despicable and shameless rich and unkind native rich people. We also have strong soldiers in our hands. In our ears, there are the weeping of the poor in the city. When I use these ill-gotten gains to help the poor, I am greedy for a while. A small part was taken away. At the same time, millions of poor people were saved. I still wonder what the fate of those poor people would have been if I hadn't taken so little."

While sending people to deliver the loot to his father and his mother, aunt, brothers and sisters, Li Huaxuan asked his father to allow him to go to Fusang to recruit another [-] volunteers in his letter to his family. among the spoils of war.

In order to be able to achieve the goal of using the barbarians to control the barbarians, Huaxuan also asked his father to allocate 1 weapons and armor, and he wanted to recruit local soldiers in this area.Take advantage of their familiarity with geography and people's conditions and adapt to the characteristics of terrain and climate to strengthen their control over this area.

Zuo Tianpeng and his third nephew Li Huaxuan had the same opinion on recruiting Fusang soldiers to suppress the area and charge into battle. First, according to Zuo Tianpeng's opinion, the army here is so weak that it seems that heavy troops are needed to garrison it.And those soldiers from Fusang are the best candidates.

However, for Li Huaxuan's plan to recruit 1 local soldiers to train local soldiers, Zuo Tianpeng was somewhat insensitive. The reason, as I said just now, was that he didn't think the soldiers here were suitable for battle.Too weak.

Li Huaxuan, on the other hand, had a different opinion. "Uncle Tian, ​​I don't think so. If the people are weak, they will be afraid of the officers. As long as they are trained strictly and the officers supervise the formation, it will be easier to use."

"With these [-] Fusang soldiers pressing down on the ground, and another [-] local soldiers recruited to conquer those evil kings, we can return the originally borrowed [-] Fusang soldiers to Gonzales, who wrote several times and three times. A letter came, asking us to return those Fusang soldiers to him for his great cause of restoring the country.”

The two uncles and nephews expressed their contempt for Gonzalez's non-stop door-to-door begging behavior, but they seemed to have seriously forgotten that the five thousand Fusang soldiers seemed to be recruited by the Dutch in Japan in the name of Portuguese restoration. The hired ones were only temporarily used by their uncles and nephews for the war in Bangladesh during the transfer to the west.

It seems that Liu Bei's borrowing of Jingzhou is happening everywhere, and it is easy to borrow and difficult to take back.

After complaining for a while, the opinions of the uncle and nephew were unified.Zuo Tianpeng went to get some soldiers and horses, check the casualties, and make up for the consumed personnel and supplies.He is going to lead these five thousand Fusang soldiers to Goa to join Gonzales and be a great help in his retaliation.

He ordered people to ship the loot, official documents, family letters and other things used as military pay to Hue by fast boat.The two uncles and nephews began intensive farming in Bangladesh and surrounding areas.

With the arrival of a large number of merchants, Li Huaxuan ordered people to select some loyal and honest captives with family members from the army to act as guides for the caravan. Businessmen in Bofu started trading activities.

A large amount of refined salt, cloth, sugar, silk, porcelain, swords, armor, gunpowder, etc. were transported to Bengal by merchants. In strict accordance with the previous agreement between Li Huaxuan and the local kings and lords, they paid the local kings everywhere a tax worth five percent.Then sell it everywhere through trade routes.

The smiling earth kings who collect money, for their own cornucopia, but also to curry favor with their new masters, have to send troops to escort them, and open up new sales outlets at the same time.

As a result, Zongga, which was originally a place for exporting salt, quietly became a distribution center for salt.

At the same time, there are also a large amount of rice, silk, cloth, sugar, swords, copperware, etc. flooding the streets of Zongga, like a magnet with strong magnetic force, attracting the eyes of Dundups.

Compared with the refined salt that is displayed on the street stalls.The natural salt collected by Dundup from the salt lakes in northern Tibet is like the feeling of a wise man standing with a Langsheng.

(Oh, Lang Sheng met a great erudition, treasure, and wise man. Do you still dare to stand? Kowtowing long ago? It’s better than kneeling and licking.)

And the jute they transported from the Ali area and the jade they exchanged from the Junggar tribe were also defeated by the jute and jade from the south.

The jute shipped from Junggar is naturally not the rival of Bangladesh, the main jute producing area. No matter in terms of quality, appearance or price, it cannot compete with Bangladesh jute. What's more, the quantity of Bangladesh jute is really terrible. .

The jade from Hotan was defeated by the jade from Myanmar.

Looking at the good things all over the street, and looking at the salt, jute and jade that they had worked so hard to transport in the warehouse, Dundup and Sanjie didn't know what to do.

The owner of the warehouse, Lobsang, sent away a few businessmen from Bhutan with a smile.Turn around and help these old friends solve puzzles.

"How about it, my old friends. Have you seen all the good things on the street? If you don't want to go to the street to bargain with the small merchants, there are also merchants from the south in my store. The few just came from Bhutan , the merchants who believe in Baijiao are also my good friends. They also have a lot of fine salt, rice, sugar, silk, cloth, swords and other good things in their hands."

As believers of the Yellow Sect who had already begun to dominate in Uzang, they naturally would not be too cold towards those who believed in the White Sect. The Dunzhus just snorted and expressed their contempt.

"Hey! People's Baijiao is very beneficial now!"

It is the Padrup sect of the Bai religion that dominates Bhutan.As one of the four major branches of Baijiao, the Padrup Sect, since the leader of the Padrup Sect, Ngawang Namgal, judged the situation at a time of crisis and resolutely led the followers of the Padrup (Dhuba) Sect away from Bhutan.Because Ngawang Namgal cultivated a good Buddha and was escorted by a four-legged dragon with a talisman, all the places he went to Bhutan were under his banner.So the Baijiao took root in Bhutan and became the master of the so-called land of thunder and lightning.

But why are the believers of the Baijiao so arrogant?But it is puzzling.

"They now say that they are descendants of the survivors of the Tang and Song Dynasties!" Luo Sang's words were even more puzzling to Dunzhu.Looking at the appearance of those guys, whether it is appearance, bones, clothing color, hair style, how do they look like Han people from the Central Plains?

Luosang took a sip of the hot buttered tea, and began to tell the mystery to everyone.

"The Han people from the south, the third son who manages the affairs has a rule called Xu Chong and not Lai. It means that you can pretend to be Han, but you can't pretend that you are not Han. This group of Bhutanese Baijiao believers are Take advantage of this loophole.”  …

The Phagrup Sect of the Bai Sect has a close relationship with many manor owners in the Nianchu River Valley, especially Drukpa Giare.And this family branch, according to their genealogy, is said to be traced back to Princess Wencheng's entry into Tibet, and their ancestor was one of the two golden armored warriors who guarded Princess Wencheng's car.

With such twists and turns, the Padrup sect of the Baijiao in Bhutan enjoys the treatment of descendants of Tang and Song survivors in a grand manner.

This time, I stabbed a hornet's nest. How can I ask, from the Tang Dynasty to the Northern Song Dynasty, Jin and Yuan Dynasties, there were fewer wars between Tubo and the Central Plains, or were there fewer marriages and tributes?If it's okay to be so promiscuous, even a herdsman on the grasslands of northern Tibet can say that their family has Li Shimin's blood.

Full of envy, jealousy and hatred towards the Bhutanese Baijiao believers, the Dundups are helpless for a while, they can't go home immediately to look up the family tree, right?

"Our goods?"

"According to me, even the yaks and pack sheep are all sold! The yaks and pack sheep are much more valuable than your salt! Then, replace them with rice, salt, sugar or something, and I will help you find a camel team , when you go home along the way, you can sell some goods along the way, and then exchange them for cattle and sheep!"

Thanks a lot for Luosang's idea, Dunzhu asked Luosang to help find a buyer.

However, the Dunzhus were a little puzzled. The people of the Baijiao were so arrogant, relying on the power of the Han people to swagger through the market, didn't Gushhan and the two Buddhas know about it?

Both Buddha and Gushi Khan should have great wisdom and supernatural powers!