The first Taoist priest of the Tang Dynasty

But no matter what, the dependent country also has a state system.

If Tuyuhun's royal family were really disturbed, the civil servants in this court would probably be able to pick up Li Daliang's ancestral grave.

Chapter 528 Qiang Tribal Language Cooperation

"General Li, I have something to do." Murong A Shique quickly and cautiously responded when he saw that Li Daliang was going to send him away.

However, he couldn't leave for the time being.

Because he hasn't done his business yet, no matter how scared he is, he has to do his own business.

"Tell me, what's the matter." Li Daliang asked angrily.

"General Li, we just want to come over and ask, is it true that you Tang Jun came to Chaka just for the bitter salt in this salt lake?" Murong Ashquer adjusted his state and asked after thinking for a while.

Li Daliang smiled, looked at Murong Ash Que, with a little unkindness in his eyes, "Do you think we came here to dig a hole?"

"General Li was joking." Murong Ash Que felt uncomfortable listening to Li Daliang's words, but he dared not express his dissatisfaction.

"Okay, if you have nothing to do, go back quickly, don't hang around here, you Tuyuhun people can still mine salt in the salt lake, and we won't drive them away, but if someone wants to make trouble, then don't blame me for being rude It's over." Li Daliang didn't want to say anything more, and left directly after speaking to Murong Ashque.

This really left Murong Ashquer there, thinking in his heart that he really wanted to stab Li Daliang to death.

The helpless Murong Ashque looked at Li Daliang's leaving back, feeling really uncomfortable.

Then, he left under the leadership of the soldiers.

However, he, Murong Ashque, also learned something he wanted to know from Li Daliang's mouth.

At least, the Shaka Salt Lake is still safe at this time.

Likewise, he also got the answers he needed.

Originally, his royal family came here just to find out some news about these Tang people, but now, they know that these Tang people are here to pick bitter salt.

Speaking of which, his royal family doesn't have much power.

He would not have wanted to come if the ministers of the Tuguhun court hadn't encouraged him to come.

"Your Majesty, what's the matter?" An official of Tuguhun, who had been waiting impatiently, asked in a low voice after seeing Murong Ashque and the others come back.

"It's all right, you can send people to continue mining salt, Tang people won't send your people away, but it's better not to come here, otherwise these Tang people will kill people." The officer who asked the question responded.

"That's good, that's good, as long as the Tang people don't kill people." The official was very happy when he got the news.

He belongs to the family of civil servants of Tuguhun, and, originally, the salt lake belonged to them as well.

But some time ago, the arrival of Zhong Wen and the others scared away all these salt miners, and this is how this happened.

Salt, no matter whether it is in the Tang Dynasty or in Tuyuhun, is still an important strategic material.

What's more, Tuguhun's technology of mining salt and making salt is much behind that of Tang Dynasty.

Most of the salt that ordinary people eat comes from Chaka Salt Lake.

Of course, there are also salt lakes in other places, but the craftsmanship is far too different.

Coupled with the fact that Chaka Salt Lake is close to Futeng City, the capital of Tuguhun, those court officials have already occupied the salt lake.

If it weren't for the arrival of Zhong Wen and the others, the Chaka Salt Lake still belonged to the officials of the Tuguhun court, so it would be the royal family's turn to say nothing.

A few days ago, they got the news, so they jumped up and down in a hurry, and finally found Murong A Shique to come over to contact Li Daliang and the others, so as to find out some news.

At this time, Zhong Wen was talking with Li Daliang.

"The royal family of Tuyuhun came here to investigate the news, right?" Zhong Wen looked at Murong Ashque, who had gone away, and asked Li Daliang.

"It should be, probably the civil officials of Tuguhun encouraged him to come. As far as I know, this salt lake originally belonged to the largest and strongest tribe of Tuguhun at first, but was confused by the civil officials of the court and began to intervene. Among them, later on, the Chaka Salt Lake was under the control of Minister Tuyuhun, and even Fu Yun could not regret it." Li Daliang introduced the matter of the Chaka Salt Lake to Zhong Wen.

"I see. No wonder you just said that Tuguhun's people can continue to mine salt. You don't mean to attack Tuguhun's courtiers, do you? Are you planning to divide the forces of Tuguhun? Or are you going to stab him?" Zhong Wen heard. , I also understand the truth here.

"Zhong Shaobao, what you said is that I look like a heinous person. I don't want to complete the instructions of the Holy Majesty as soon as possible. If Tuguhun can be disintegrated, then Tuguhun will belong to my Tang territory. Besides, Tuguhun has belonged to our territory of the Tang Kingdom since ancient times." Li Daliang responded to Zhong Wen's words angrily.

"I'm just talking, I don't know what you want to do, and I don't want to know. I only think about the bitter salt in the salt lake, but I don't have much heart to think about your affairs." Zhong Wen said.

In fact, Zhong Wen didn't want to know about the decisions or plans of the DPRK and China at all.

What's the benefit of knowing it?

There is no benefit to it, and it might cause some trouble for myself, so why should I know?

Moreover, what Li Daliang said was right.

Tuguhun originally belonged to Huaxia, but it was separated out before.

But now that Tang's national power is getting stronger and stronger, if you don't take it back, you will really feel sorry for your ancestors.

"Report, general, there is a group of people running towards us from twenty miles to the west. According to the scouts, the leader is the one named Bo Haoren a few days ago. General, please decide." In the afternoon of the [-]st, a group of soldiers rushed to Li Daliang's camp to report what the scouts outside had detected.

After Li Daliang got the news, he hurried to Zhong Wen's camp next door and told Zhong Wen about it.

"Zhong Shaobao, these Qiang people are not good people. If we really want to cooperate with the Qiang people, we might cause a lot of trouble." Li Daliang said with a little worry.

"There are also many kinds of Qiang people. Except for the Qiang Party members who must be on guard, other Qiang people are not as bad as you think. Moreover, Qiang people can endure hardships. As long as the conditions are right, they will work hard for you. Believe me Me, as long as this matter is settled, we might be able to gather the Qiang people to our place." Of course Zhong Wen knew that the Qiang people were special.

However, this particularity is only based on the lack of food and starvation. If these can be solved, these will not be any problems.

Moreover, Qiang people are good at fighting, which is definitely a good thing for Tang.

If at that time the entire Qiang family can be drawn to the Tang State and form a powerful army, it will not be a problem to fight to the west.

Of course, this is just Zhong Wen's idea. If Li Daliang really knows about this idea, Zhong Wen must be said to be a lunatic.

Speaking of which, the Qiang people are not the same as the Qiang people.

The Qiang people can be said to be a group that has existed for a long time and has been active in western China.

According to records, since the Shang Dynasty, there have been many wars with the Qiang people.

The bravery of the Qiang people is the characteristic of their nation, and at the same time, it is also the object of competition and utilization in the past dynasties.

In the Battle of Muye, where King Zhou defeated Zhou, there were warriors from the eight tribes of the Qiang people.

In the Qin and Han Dynasties, the policy of "isolation of the Qiang Hu and the right arm of the Huns" was implemented.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the warlords separated their regimes, and Dong Zhuo, Ma Teng and others all relied on the Qiang people to start their homes.

In addition, there are many branches of the Qiang people, the area where they live scattered is large, and internal strife is constant, and they have never established a kingdom or a king.

The only ones who really established state power were the Later Qin and Xixia during the Sixteen Kingdoms period.

On the other hand, Xixia is the Qiang Party among the Qiang tribes, that is, Dangxiang Qiang.

Throughout the history of Xixia, you can know how the soldiers of this country were able to fight.

Under such poor conditions, and under the condition that the defective rate of weapons is as high as [-]% to [-]%, they can compete with Da Song.

This shows that the Qiang people are indeed a tribe capable of fighting, so Zhong Wen wanted to win over the Qiang people to the Tang Dynasty.

"Zhong Shaobao, don't worry at all. You will definitely go back to Lizhou in the future, but I have to stay here. These Qiang people are not a tribe that is easy to control, so don't let me be tricked by then." Li Daliang In my heart, I still don't want Zhong Wen to carry out his plan.

"Okay, this is my idea. If you have any ideas, you can write a letter to the Holy Spirit and take a look at it later. However, it is best not to fight at the moment. In this war, the enemy is dead, but your own side has to die too." At least, as a general, you have to take pity on your subordinates." Zhong Wen really didn't want to see a war happen.

If it is really necessary, Zhong Wen basically does not want war to come.

"Zhong Shaobao, you'd better think about this matter about the Qiang people, so that there won't be any trouble." Li Daliang continued to suggest.

Of course he, Li Daliang, knew about the war.

But as a subject, he has no way to stop Tang Guo's progress.

He doesn't want war either, but there are still enemies in all directions of the Tang country, if they don't enter, they will naturally be bullied.

"Okay, let's take this matter step by step. If we can talk about it, then talk about it. If we can't talk about it, I'll leave it to you to decide." Zhong Wen understands that some things can't be decided by his own thinking. result.

Tang Guo's footsteps are bound to move forward, but there are stumbling blocks on the way forward, so naturally they have to be eliminated, otherwise, the future variables of Tang State will become more and more unclear.

The two of them went out to the camp with a dozen soldiers. After five miles, they finally saw Bo Haoren and the others who were galloping towards them on horseback.

"I've met Tang Prince Shaobao Zhong Shaobao." After seeing Zhong Wen and the others, Bo Haoren and his group quickly pulled back their horses, brought a dozen people to a few meters away from Zhong Wen and the others, and saluted Zhong Wen.

For negotiation and cooperation, the number of people must be equal.

If Bo Haoren brought his team of more than 100 people here, then the negotiation would become unequal, and Li Daliang might have to turn his face immediately.

"Seeing you coming again, it seems that our cooperation should be feasible. I wonder how your department's discussions are going?" Zhong Wen asked after returning the gift.

"Zhong Shaobao, I agree with Zhong Shaobao's proposal after discussing with the tribe, but we hope that Zhong Shaobao can deliver one thousand shi of grain to our department first." Bo Haoren put forward his own opinion.

"That can't be done. Cooperation must be based on fairness. I'll pay you a thousand shi of food first. If you run away, I will suffer a lot." Zhong Wen immediately refused after hearing the words.

What a joke, I want food before everything is done.

Is it true that all the food in the Tang Dynasty is blown by the strong wind?You can open your mouth and ask for food at will.

Chapter 529 The Beginning of Cooperation

"One thousand shi of grain should be very simple for you Tang Dynasty. As soon as the thousand shi of grain arrives, 5000 people from my tribe will come to pick bitter salt." Seeing that Zhong Wen directly rejected his opinion, Bo Haoren said, Although he was unhappy in his heart, he continued to speak for the sake of his own tribe.

"5000 people?" After Zhong Wen heard the number of Bo Haoren, he also began to examine the Qiang tribe.

5000 people, this is labor.

If it really has [-] laborers as Bo Haoren said, then this tribe is already considered a big tribe.

By analogy, there must be at least 2 people in this tribe.

Otherwise, if 5000 people came to collect salt, a large group of people would naturally have to stay for their tribe's affairs.

"Yes, 5000 people. If Zhong Shaobao thinks there are fewer people, I can send another 3000 people." Seeing that Zhong Wen seemed very interested in the 5000 people he mentioned, Bo Haoren continued to say to Zhong Wen.

"You know, although I'm short of people here, not everyone can come to pick salt, and, when they come to my place, they have to obey the instructions of our people. If we can't do this, this cooperation will be useless." We can't continue the discussion." Zhong Wen responded while thinking about the number of people.

"Of course, as long as the people of my tribe come to collect salt, they will naturally obey your command, but we also have to send some people to manage it. After all, they are my tribe." Of course Bo Haoren also knew Well, the matter of salt mining is not up to him, but to the other party.

It's just that he wants to send someone over, and he has to grasp the management of this person.

His own clansmen came to work, no matter from which point of view, he, the leader, had to take good care of these people, otherwise, it would be difficult to say whether his leader could be a good one.

"General Li, can a thousand shi of grain be transported here?" Zhong Wen didn't ask Bo Haoren any more, but turned to Li Daliang.

"Zhong Shaobao, you also know that here is some distance from Shanzhou. A thousand shi of grain is said to be a lot less, but if it is really necessary to transport it, it will not be a matter of a day or two, at least half a month." Li Da Liang whispered back to Zhong Wen.

Although Li Daliang said that Zhong Wen was somewhat reluctant to cooperate with the Qiang people, after all, Zhong Wen was in charge of this matter, and he could only offer suggestions.

However, he, Li Daliang, didn't want to say anything about this thousand shi of grain, so he took it out now.

In his eyes, the Qiang people were wolves who were not cooked well.

If something happened, these Qiang people might just run away, and they would not care about salt mining.

What's more, he was worried that the Qiang people would lose their face immediately after receiving a thousand shi of grain.

At this time, the Salt Lake Battalion did not have many troops available, and Li Daliang did not dare to deal with this matter casually.

"Half a month? It's too long. In this case, you should hurry up and send people out to start bringing more grain over." Zhong Wen looked at Li Daliang and knew that he didn't want to deliver the thousand shi of grain to the Qiang people first.

"Zhong Shaobao, do you have to tell Chang'an about this matter first, otherwise I can't afford it if something happens." Li Daliang still insisted on his thoughts.

"This is your business. If you want to believe in Chang'an, then do so. The cooperation with the Qiang people cannot be stopped." Zhong Wen replied.

But at this time, after hearing Zhong Wen's words, Li Daliang was thinking in his heart why he hadn't replied to the letter after he wrote to Chang'an last time, which made him confused.

"General Bo, I completely agree with you when you said that you would send people to manage your own people, but everything in the overall situation must follow our arrangements, and I can't agree to all the thousand shi grains you just said, but you You can send people over first, as long as your people arrive, I will pay you a hundred shi of grain first, so that you can alleviate the food shortage in your clan first." Zhong Wen didn't discuss with Li Daliang, but said to Bo Haoren.

"Zhong Shaobao, one hundred shi is too little food, nine hundred shi." Seeing that Zhong Wen was so talkative, Bo Haoren immediately started talking about food following Zhong Wen's words.

Speaking of which, Bo Haoren's tribe couldn't send 5000 people at all.

These 5000 people, but he recently contacted other good tribes in his tribe, so he can send 5000 people out.

There are five tribes they unite, and the total number of five tribes is about 6000 people.

Excluding some old and weak women and children, there will be 2000 people who can be called.

However, they still kept a lot of livestock, so it was impossible to really mobilize 2000 people to help Zhong Wen and the others collect bitter salt.

8000 people can be said to be the maximum number they can deploy.

"Three hundred stones, at most three hundred stones, this is the maximum amount I can promise you." Zhong Wen didn't want to dwell on this matter for too long, so he directly set the number of three hundred stones.

"This..." Seeing Zhong Wen set this number, Bo Haoren felt very helpless.

Now it is their tribe that needs food, not Zhong Wen who really needs their tribe. Although he, Bo Haoren, doesn't understand why Zhong Wen wants to cooperate with them, but right now their tribe is really on the verge of running out of food.