Prosperous Tang Soul

Chapter 463 Xu Jingzong's Difficulties
After learning that Zhang Yi was a nobleman of the Tang Dynasty, Sahazhuo gradually understood everything.

When Datang wanted to deal with Tubo, Zhang Yi and the others were just the first stop. What he didn't expect was that he would be so stupid. Zhang Yi and the others wanted to deal with Tubo, but he still regarded them as good brothers.

He even once thought about relying on the goods provided by Zhang Yi and the others to climb to a higher position.

Looking back now, everything is so ridiculous.

If it weren't for the official Datang people, how could it be possible to raise so much green salt in such a short period of time, even if they went to grab it, they wouldn't be able to get so much.

Besides, when Sahazhuo went to Wang Zaixu's house for the first time, he opened the door and saw a large group of Tang Dynasty warriors. At that time, he felt that those warriors were not ordinary people. It's really a soldier of the Tang Army.

But now it's useless to think about that, he has already fallen, and from the time he was caught by Tang Jun, he knew that he would definitely not have any good results.

At least for the Tubo side, it is certain that he will be given a big hat, and it is easy not to bear the thousand-year infamy.

He is very clear about the impact of Zhang Yi and the others' actions. Now almost the whole of Tubo is facing the situation of no salt to eat.

The green salt provided by Zhang Yi and the others had dealt a severe blow to the local salt manufacturing industry in Tubo. Many people engaged in salt manufacturing were forced to change careers because they could not earn money, and the culprit was himself.

But now that there is no salt to eat, it is still quite difficult to get those people to change careers immediately, and making salt requires a process.

In short, due to many factors, Tubo will be extremely short of salt in the next period of time.

At that time, let alone the common people, even the nobles will have a tight supply of salt at home.

The Tibetans will definitely take the lead in meeting the needs of the royal family and the army, and then slowly distribute them from top to bottom according to their ranks.

During this period of time, there has been a shortage of salt in Tubo, and most of the salt merchants are waiting for Sahazhuo to get green salt from Zhang Yi and then take it back to supply.

This is why Sahazhuo is under so much pressure.

There is no salt reserve in the country, and Zhang Yi is out of stock, so what do they eat?
They must have nothing to eat, and if they don't have anything to eat, some people will definitely rise up and make trouble. Thinking of this, Sahazhuo has a headache.

If Wang Zaixu hadn't introduced Zhang Yi and the others to the past, the current situation would not have happened again!
Thinking of Wang Zaixu, Sahazhuo suddenly thought that last time Wang Zaixu and others seemed to have withdrawn their entire family to Datang.

"Could it be that even Wang Zaixu and the others already knew? Even Wang Zaixu and the others chose to betray me?"

Sahazhuo felt a deep sense of powerlessness in his heart.

Among all the Han merchants, Wang Zaixu was the one he trusted the most, but he didn't expect Wang Zaixu to know the truth and not tell him.

It's fine if you don't tell him, but he actually helped Zhang Yi deal with him.

"Sure enough, people who are not of my race must have different intentions."

Sahajo shook his head and laughed at himself.

Sahazhuo figured everything out in a short time, but Zhang Yi just smiled and looked at him from the sidelines.

No words were spoken, and there was no need to speak.

Now that the two of them are on opposite sides, if you say one more word, Sahazhuo will hate Zhang Yi more, so Zhang Yi doesn't plan to talk to him.

"Take him down. Eat and drink first. If it wasn't for him, we wouldn't be able to deal with Tubo."

Zhang Yi ordered the soldiers around him in a low voice. He was afraid that Sahazhuo would hear him, so he didn't dare to say it out loud.

The soldiers took Sahazhuo and others down and imprisoned them. Even if Zhang Yi had the power to release them again, it would be after the war. Now, in the face of national justice, everyone, no matter what excuse you have, have to give way.

"Let the border troops act according to the original plan."

Zhang Yi said this to Xu Jingzong behind him.

When the caravan of Zhang Yi and others was "attacked" by the Tang army last time, Xu Jingzong and the others returned here directly, and did not go to Qingtang with Zhang Yi and the others at all.

Everything is according to their plan.

Xu Jingzong nodded after hearing Zhang Yi's words, and immediately asked the people behind him to notify the Tang frontier army who had already prepared.

Although the Tubo side knew that the Tang frontier army had been mobilized frequently recently, and it was very likely to counterattack them, they also took a little precaution.

But they still underestimated Tang Jun.

The Datang frontier army here has only a regular army of 5000 people, plus a few non-brand troops of several thousand people, the total strength is less than 3.

And Tubo has more than 5000 troops stationed in Qingtang alone, most of them are cavalry. In addition to the garrisons in other places, Tubo's garrisons in this area reached 4.

In addition to the troops recruited from other places to prepare for the Tang army's surprise attack during this period, Tubo now has a total of 5 troops at the Chen Bing border.

However, for the Tubo people, there is no distinction between the regular army and the miscellaneous army. The two are mixed together, so their army's combat effectiveness is slightly inferior to that of the Tang army.

But the terrain smoothed out that little gap.

The power of the two sides was unbalanced, and Tubo had the upper hand, so the Tubo people were just on guard, and did not really make much change.

What they didn't expect was that Li Er really wanted to use troops against Tubo this time.

In addition to the mobilization of frontier troops on the surface, the [-] Tang frontier troops were all gathered, and Li Er also sent several troops to quietly surround the Hehuang area at this time.

Just wait for an order from the general of the frontier army, at least there will be more than [-] Great Tang cavalry and [-] Great Tang infantry attacking Qingtang at the same time.

Zhang Yi didn't care about these things. The task of him and Xu Jingzong was to carry out economic warfare. Now that their task was completed, they didn't know what effect the Tang army would have when they attacked Tubo.

"Master Xu, can we go back?"

Zhang Yi looked at Xu Jingzong with a smile.

And Xu Jingzong has been suffering from a headache these days.

Li Er obviously asked him to hold all the power in his hands, but in the end, Zhang Yi was still doing things, and all the power was on Zhang Yi's side, which made it impossible for him to explain to Li Er when he went back.

Before, I didn't realize how powerful the saying that companions are like companions to tigers is, but now Xu Jingzong can really feel it.

There is a lot of pressure in my heart.

"Why don't we go back two days later? Let's see what kind of exploits our Tang frontier army can achieve."

Xu Jingzong wanted to delay for a few days. If the frontier army of the Tang Dynasty was as strong as a bamboo, then Li Eryi would be happy, and he probably would be fine.

Although he had made meritorious service this time, Xu Jingzong didn't dare to think about rewarding him at all.

Don't ask for meritorious service, but ask for no faults. This is the case when working for the emperor's family.

No fault is the greatest credit.

Zhang Yi naturally understood Xu Jingzong's difficulty, and nodded in agreement.

(End of this chapter)