Chapter 816 If you don’t give money, it doesn’t count...

Author: Middle-aged paper tiger

Chapter 816 If you don’t give money, it doesn’t count.

In the seventh month of the fifth year of the Shaoming Dynasty, one hundred and twenty miles south of Luoche, on the north bank of the Yangqiabo Zangbo River, there was Qushui City.

The so-called Yangqiapo Zangbo River is the Yarlung Zangbo River in later generations, and Qushui City is Qushui County in later generations.

Since ancient times, this has been the transportation center from Lhasa to Shannan, Nyingchi, Shigatse and other places.

After hearing that the Tang Dynasty occupied Luoche, the feudal lords from various places in Qingtang jointly elected King Ali Zhaxi Degun, who occupied Buyang (Pulang County), as the king.

The feudal lords of Shannan, Linzhi and other places also sent troops to participate. The coalition forces totaled 47,800 infantry and cavalry, and they jointly shed blood and vowed to drive the Tang people out of Luoche.

Li Cunhui took the lead and led his army south to block the key point of Qushui City to avoid leading the war directly outside Luosu City.

The founder of the Ali King lineage is actually an old acquaintance of Zhang Shengren, the same Jide Nyimagon who also claims to praise Pu.

However, after the short honeymoon period between the two parties, as Zhang Gao's forces withdrew from Tianzhu, Hezhong and Anxi and shifted their attention to the east, Jidenimagon quickly said goodbye to Zhang Gao.

The current Ali region should actually be called the Greater Ali region, because in addition to the Ali region of the later Republic, it also included most of the Kashmir region.

At this time, heading south from the Ali area, it is directly to the place where my blood vessels exploded when I heard it, Zhang Shengren.

He sealed it himself, thinking that it could be used as a bridgehead to control Tianzhu, and later Zhenyuan Kingdom used Tianfangjiao Fort as its capital.

The leader of the Zhenyuan Kingdom, Bingzhong, was originally from the Xiaobolu Kingdom living in the Congling area.

After the Xiaobolu Kingdom was wiped out by Gao Xianzhi, the Tang Dynasty established Congling Shouchu here as a place of actual control by the Tang Dynasty.

Xiao Bolu's race should be a mixture of Tocharians from Kashgar and Sino-Tibetan people.

When the Central Plains was prosperous in the Han and Tang dynasties, they and the Tat people (ancestors of the Tajik people) who lived next to each other jointly called themselves Hanri Tianzhong.

In other words, they believe that their tribe is the descendant of the princess from the Central Plains and the tribes that followed her to the east.

This is actually a narrative of mixed blood between Han and Indo-Europeans, and it is also a symbol of the power of the Han and Tang Dynasties.

Even during the years when the Tang Dynasty controlled Congling, the upper echelons of their tribe could barely understand Chinese.

Every time he thought about this, Zhang Yan was speechless for a while. With such a good relationship with the Central Plains, Zhang Bingzhong's niece Cao Yanmian was also Cao Shufei, one of Zhang Yan's four concubines.

As a result, as soon as this old boy established a foothold in Zhenyuan Kingdom, he colluded with Jidenimagon and even married Jidenimagon's daughter. It seemed that he wanted to completely treat Zhenyuan Kingdom as his own territory.

But now, Jidenimagon has passed away, and his three sons, Bejiribagon, Tashi Degun, and Dezugun, have divided the Ali dynasty into three parts and established separate regimes.

And Tashi Degun, who was elected as the king this time, was the strongest among them. Zhang Bingzhong married Tashi Degun's sister.

This time he dreamed of breaking into Luoche City and becoming a champion in Qingtang, and Zhang Bingzhong was behind him.

The leader of the Zhenyuan Kingdom was already having trouble sleeping and eating. He did not expect that Zhang Yan could really become the emperor of the Central Plains.

Originally, he thought that Zhang Yan would definitely die in this impossible dream, which was also an important reason why he dared to become the king behind closed doors.

Now, seeing that he has caused huge trouble, of course he must persuade more people to get on the same boat with him, so that they can fight against him.

Li Cunhui was not in a hurry at all. He didn't even wear armor. The coalition forces on the opposite side arrived at the beginning of May, but now it was the end of July, and the battle still had not started. The two sides were still facing each other across the Yangchabu Zangbo River.

However, the south bank of the river where the opponent is stationed and its surroundings were originally the territory of the Lhasa royal family. Now that Zanpu has surrendered, Li Cunhui does not believe that the small nobles and common people below still have much willingness to fight.

Most of the coalition forces on the opposite side came from afar. Due to the traffic environment on the Qingtang Plateau, they could not bring much supplies. Food and grass must be provided by the local feudal nobles south and west of Qushui City.

This is not a small number, there are almost 50,000 troops, and there are thousands of mules and horses. People eat horses, and even mountains of gold and silver cannot bear it.

At the same time, the Zhou army's baggage and supplies had long been hoarded in the Women's Kingdom area, which was later known as Yushu City.

As soon as the snow melted a little, Huangshui Prefecture, Songpan Xuanwei Envoy, and Kangding Xuanwei Envoy recruited more than 100,000 civilians, and more than 20,000 yaks began to be transported to Luochang. With the previous seizures, there was no need to worry about supplies.

Therefore, Li Cunhui calmly started a war of attrition with his opponent. He did not believe that the nobles of the original Lhasa royal family, who had been responsible for providing food and grass for the coalition forces, could withstand it.

Sure enough, ten days later, on the fifth day of August, Li Cunhui's sentry in the sentry tower on the hill discovered a commotion in the army formation opposite.

Later that night, people from the Qingjie area who claimed to be Gyantse swam to the north bank of the river and expressed their willingness to provide internal support for the army.

Li Cunhui ignored them all, hacked them all to death, and threw the bodies into the river. What a joke, just three or two kittens here just trying to gain trust?

Regardless of whether it was true or not, Li Cunhui felt that the local tycoon opposite had not yet reached the point where he could no longer hold back any longer, so he would not take any action until he saw Big Fish appear in person.

Ten days later, when the Zhou army here was celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15th, someone came from the lower reaches of the Yangchabu Zangbo River for more than a hundred miles and came to Li Cunhui's military camp in person to ask for an audience.

The person who came was none other than Shanwu Xingya, the head of the Wu Lu family. He fell to the ground crying as soon as he entered the military camp. It turned out that the riot by the coalition forces ten days ago was caused by their family.

As a result, Shang Xingya's personal followers were killed, and hundreds of people in his tribe were killed. King Tashi Degun, elected by the coalition, also detained Shang Xingya's eldest son and nephew, saying that if the Lu family and others did not supply military supplies on time,

He will kill his whole family.

"Mr. Cun Hui, Tashi Degun didn't want to be more logical at all, because he knew how powerful the Tang Dynasty was.

These pig-like and dog-like things simply want to hold the 50,000-strong army in their hands until they overwhelm the locals so that they can occupy our land."

The gray-haired Shang Wuxinya was crying with snot and tears. He had suffered a big loss now. If he had known better, he might as well have taken refuge with these Tang people.

Li Cunhui burst into laughter on the spot. As expected, Tashi Degun still had his wits about him. No wonder he could still confront him in such an unfavorable situation.

It turned out that he had no intention of marching into Luozhe at all, but just wanted to consume the strength of the powerful people west of Luozhe, so that he could annex them.

Tashi Degun's base was in Buyang, which was later known as Purang County of the Republic of China and the western region of Nepal, which was a full 2,500 miles away from Luosu.

With such a long distance, even if he broke into Luozu, he wouldn't be able to control it unless he was willing to move to Luozu City.

But if you enter the logic, you will be far away from the basic market, and there is a high probability that you will be pinched by others like Chiwang Xuzan.

In this case, it is better to simply destroy the local tyrants south and west of the Yangqiabo Zangbo River, including the Lu family.

Then annexing the territory close to where he basically made concessions is not much better than running into Luozuo and acting as a puppet.

Shang Moxinya thought that Li Cunhui would believe him immediately after hearing this, and then he couldn't wait to ask him if there was any way to cross the river. Unexpectedly, Li Cunhui laughed a few times.

"If Tashi Degun is so sensible, why should I cross the river to beat him?

The land around Qingtang is beyond the control of us Han people, Tang'er. The court only needs to have some logic in hand.

As for Tashi Degun, he can be granted the title of prince or something like that. As long as he is willing to humble himself and be a small boy, then it will be good for you, good for me, and good for everyone."

After that, without listening to Shang Wuxinya's explanation, he was kicked out again.

Because the time has not come yet, Shang Wu Xingya and other local tycoons can still provide a certain amount of food and grass. These guys have two sides, and if they don't let it hurt to their bones, they won't know the benefits of joining the Central Plains.

Moreover, just as Tashi Degun thought, Li Cunhui also wanted to severely weaken these local powerful people. Since Tashi Degun was willing to take action, why not do it.

On August 25th, Shang Wuxinya came over again. This time he really couldn't stand it any longer.

While he was still outside the military tent, he led a group of local tycoons from the south bank of the Zangbo River in Yangchabu, kowtowing step by step, all the way into Li Cunhui's camp.

Behind Shang Moxinya and others, there were dozens of shabby monks standing. These were all former Buddhist monks hidden on the south bank of the river.

Shang Mo Xin Ya brought them here because he wanted to express his willingness to convert to the Six Methods Sect.

Afterwards, he had three large boxes of treasures brought in, all containing various hidden gems and gold and silver items. It seemed that he had indeed taken out everything at the bottom of the boxes at home.

A coquettish beauty was also pushed forward by Shang Wuxinya.

"This is the second daughter of a poor family on the south bank of the river. I wonder if she can catch the eye of Duke Wei."

Li Cunhui took a look and said, oh! She is indeed very beautiful, and she is clean and white. Unlike other Tubo women who always have the smell of not taking a bath all year round. He only smelled this fragrant smell, and he agreed.

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In fact, you don’t blame me, Li Sanlang, for being lustful. There has always been a great demand for brave and unparalleled generals like him in some aspects.

For example, Chang Yuchun in history, after King Kaiping went to war, as long as it was not the eve of the decisive battle, he liked strong women the most. If not, Heifer would not be unable to accept them.

Li Cunhui was like this. He had just turned thirty and already had nearly forty wives and concubines. It was said that he didn't even know how many children he had. His bodyguards in Jinyi counted them for him, and they found that there were thirty-seven of them.

So much so that because of his high position as the Duke of Wei, Zhang Gao had to help him from time to time, otherwise the family would not be in a good position.

This also shows how extraordinary Murong Nobunaga is. Among all the unparalleled generals in the past dynasties who were so close to the emperor, the only ones who could suppress their inner desires were Wei Qing a thousand years ago and Xu Da four or five hundred years later.

Just waiting for a few people.

However, although Li Cunhui is lustful, he is also very shameless!

He likes women very much, and he also likes gold and silver, but as long as he feels that the best time has not come, he will just take it as sugar-coated and throw the cannonball back.

I took your money and women, but I can still do nothing!

If you don’t pay, it doesn’t count as prostitution!

However, after the last failure, Shang Wuxinya seems to have inquired about my reputation, Li Weigong, and he has also prepared a trump card.

When he saw Li Cunhui shamelessly preparing to say a few words and then take the little beauty from a poor family to the back to enjoy herself, Shang Moxinya shouted in a deep voice:

"Mr. Wei, among the coalition forces opposite, there are 300 soldiers from the Zhenyuan Kingdom. The Zhenyuan Kingdom advocates Bingzhong, and he is the brother-in-law of Tashi Degun!"

What! Li Cunhui's face turned solemn. He stepped forward and grabbed Shang Wuxinya's collar, "But that Zhenyuan country in Tianzhu?"

"Exactly!" Shang Moxinya had already found out clearly. Not only did he know that there were 300 soldiers from the Zhenyuan Kingdom in the coalition army, he even knew the list of officers among them.

"You know you have to pay a price for talking nonsense!" Li Cunhui was really anxious now.

Because he knew that Zhenyuan Kingdom's advocate Bingzhong was the person his emperor's adoptive father hated the most. If there were soldiers from Zhenyuan Kingdom on the other side, he would definitely capture them all.

"I would like to issue a military order. If not, please ask Duke Wei to behead my servant!"
To be continued...