The situation in Tibet is not good. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

There is Li Ji guarding the border of the Tang Dynasty, and it is difficult for Tubo to take a step beyond the Lei Chi, and Tianzhu in the west is often harassing Tubo at the request of the Tang Dynasty.

Today's Tibetans are eager to change the status quo.

At the beginning, Tubo really had no intention of funding the rebels in Shuzhong, and they didn't have much food, if it was given to the rebels in Shuzhong, then they could only eat all kinds of meat food.

Meat food is also good, but I can't stand it all the time, and besides, a lot of sheep and horses have to maintain a balance, if they eat them all, I am afraid it will be difficult to continue in the future, which is very detrimental to their future development.

However, even so, the rebels in Shuzhong gave high profits, so there were still many Tibetan merchants who provided food to the rebels in Shuzhong.

In this case, the Tibetans turned a blind eye.

But as the situation in Tibet deteriorated, the Tibetans felt that they should cooperate with the rebels in Shuzhong.

Only when Shuzhong was in chaos as soon as possible, and the rebels in Shuzhong destroyed Tang Zhou and went straight to the Central Plains, the Tang Dynasty would not have the energy to resist them, so Tubo Songzan sent envoys to Shuzhong to negotiate with Liu Bai.

The envoy sent by Tibet was named Asna, and he was a person who knew Han culture very well.

After he came to Yizhou City, he saw Liu Bai.

"Lord Wang, I came to negotiate with you on behalf of our Tubo Songzan."

The situation in Shuzhong is not optimistic, so Liu Bai is still very polite to the envoys sent by Tubo, he nodded and said, "I don't know what Tubo wants to talk about with this king?" ”

Asna said: "We have a common enemy, the Tang Dynasty, so what we mean by Tubo praise is that as long as you are willing to attack the Jianmen Pass as soon as possible and take the Jianmen Pass, we will provide you with food and grass until you break through the Jianmen Pass." ”

Such conditions are very lucrative, but after those people around Liu Bai heard this, they were very surprised, with grain and grass, they could continue to recruit troops, and they could occupy Shuzhong as soon as possible.

However, Liu Bai did not rush to agree, but glanced at Yuan Fu, who nodded slightly, and then said to Asna: "What is the way to provide grain and grass?" ”

"When you attack Jianmen Pass, when we bring grain and grass, as long as you attack, we will always transport it, of course, if you give up, then we will not be able to continue to supply grain and grass."

The meaning of Tubo, Liu Bai and Yuan Fu have already understood, and they even understand the deep meaning of Tubo, which is nothing more than to use them to disturb the sight of the Tang Dynasty, so that the Tang Dynasty can concentrate its forces to quell the rebellion in Shuzhong, and Tubo can ease up.

It stands to reason that this is beneficial to both Tubo and the rebels in Shuzhong, but for a moment, Liu Bai was a little repulsive or even resistant, he is also a Tang Dynasty, if he hits Chang'an and becomes the emperor, his country name is still the Tang Dynasty, Tubo is still just a barbarian, and he is an enemy.

If Datang is really chaotic and Tubo takes the opportunity to intrude, Datang doesn't know what kind of damage it will suffer, so from the bottom of his heart, he doesn't really want this kind of cooperation.

But soon, Liu Bai agreed, judging from his current situation, if there is no support from Tubo grain and grass, they will not be able to support it for long in Shuzhong, and now their soldiers and horses have reached 40,000, these 40,000 people are all going to eat, how can they do without grain and grass?

In this case, it is better to agree to the cooperation of the Tibetans, and use their grain and grass to drive their newly recruited soldiers and horses to attack the Jianmen Pass, as for whether they will enter the Central Plains after obtaining the Jianmen Pass, let's talk about it.

At that time, what else could Tubo do?

Liu Bai agreed, but made another request.

"In mid-August, I will lead the troops to attack Jianmen Pass, and I hope that in early August, you can send a batch of grain and grass first."

For this request, Asna did not refuse, and said: "This is naturally possible, but I also hope that the prince can speak his mind, otherwise the follow-up grain and grass will not be able to be supplied." ”

"Don't worry, didn't you just say that we have a common enemy."

After the two sides negotiated in this way, Asna returned to Tibet and began to raise grain and grass for the rebels in Shuzhong, while at the same time, the rebels in Shuzhong were still increasing their recruitment.

However, in the process of recruitment, some methods are not particularly acceptable, because the problem of grain and grass has been solved, so Liu Bai wants to have a large-scale army and capture Jianmen Pass in one fell swoop, therefore, his current recruitment is no longer as simple as voluntary, but wherever there are strong men, as long as they can be pulled to be soldiers, they will pull them.

In this way, it naturally caused some people's complaints, and the people blamed the rebels in Shuzhong, and they began to miss the Tang Dynasty, although the Tang Dynasty also had conscription, but they had clear regulations, and the protection of the population was very strict, but this was simply to catch the strong men.

Everyone blamed the rebels in Shuzhong, but they dared to be angry and didn't dare to speak, so they could only swallow the bitterness into their stomachs.

As for the people's complaints, many Shuzhong rebels did not care, although Liu Bai was a little worried, but because he knew that if he wanted to break through the Sword Gate Pass, he had to have an advantage in numbers, so he could only temporarily offend these people.

When he controls the entire Shuzhong, he can recuperate with these people, the people are very content, in his opinion, as long as he treats the people better afterwards, it doesn't hurt to be ruthless now.

The speed of Liu Bai's army has increased rapidly, at the beginning of August, it has reached 50,000 soldiers and horses, this number is five times that of the defenders of Jianmen Pass, originally at this time, Jianmen Pass should have increased some soldiers, after all, the imperial court has been recruiting troops, but because of the matter of Tubo, many soldiers and horses have been dispatched to Li Ji, and Tang Zhou has no supplies here.

There are a lot of people in the Tang Dynasty, and it is not difficult to recruit soldiers if they really want to do it, but Li Zhi has just ascended the throne not long ago, and if he ascends the throne on a large scale, it is easy to cause public resentment, so Li Zhi's conscription is only a small range of conscription, and it is generally voluntary to become a soldier, and it is not compulsory.

In this way, the follow-up supply of Jianmen Pass will be unsustainable.

10,000 soldiers and horses against 50,000 rebels is really a bit of a struggle.

Tang Zhou naturally knew about Liubai's conscription, and even Tubo was clear about providing grain and grass for the rebels in Shuzhong, but Tubo was connected to Liubai's territory in Shuzhong, and it was not easy for him to rob Tubo's grain and grass, so in the face of Liubai's conscription, Tang Zhou was helpless, and the only thing he could do was to take the opportunity to buy people's hearts.

Now that the people of Shuzhong have a lot of complaints about Liu Bai, Tang Zhou decided to take the opportunity to do something to make these people even more disgusted with the rebels in Shuzhong, and let them know that the Tang Dynasty is good.

It is often said that whoever wins the hearts of the people wins the world, and although at the beginning it was the power of power, when the people hated them to the extreme, it was not particularly difficult to destroy them.

The ancients did not deceive me.