If you want to evaluate Zhang Yuan, it is not an exaggeration to say that he is a heavenly figure like Yao Guangxiao. He is not interested in wealth or enjoyment, but wants to destroy the Song Dynasty and then support the Zhao family to establish a new order. He supported the Li family from the separatist side to the founding of the country.
Arrogant and upright, the number of people in Xixia who could catch Zhang Yuanfa's eye can be counted on one hand.
Under the planning of Yelu Chongguang, the intelligence team went deep into the party to spy on various intelligences about Liang Chuan, and concluded that this man lived a miserable life like a monk, who only wanted to fight in the court and did not form cliques. Very well, it offended a lot of people.
Will Wu Qi end well? No.
Zhang Yuan probably never dreamed that he would be specially plotted by Liang Chuan to use the hidden clues found a few years ago to take him down. In the Battle of Hequ, he once again proved his ability. After Li Yuanhao left, he could only raise horses on the fortress. Hunting and conquering the world is a joke.
Li Yuanhao was very angry, and it was very rare that he could lower his face and ask Zhang Yuan shamelessly, but he had heard a lot of rumors in Xingqing Mansion recently!
In the past few days, Xingqing Mansion has arrested a large number of madmen who were discussing state affairs in restaurants and inns and slandering court ministers privately. The party nobles seemed to have seized a chance. Knight Zhang Yuan had been domineering over them for too long. Well, there is no smoke without fire, someone is definitely going to attack Zhang Yuan!
I don't know that Zhang Yuan and Wu Hao were both madmen in a restaurant before they attracted Li Yuanhao's attention. Who will be spared in the reincarnation of heaven?
These gossips were told with both nose and eyes, saying that Zhang Yuan controlled the world with his troops and defeated the Song Dynasty first and then the Liao Dynasty. The leader of the country, Li Yuanhao, had no real talent. Without him, Zhang Yuan, Xixia was destined to perish and so on! In short, he turned Zhang Yuanshen into an extremely powerful person and stepped on Li Yuanhao again and again.
Although Li Yuanhao was headstrong, his level was not too low. It was obvious at first glance that someone wanted to spread rumors about this kind of alienation scheme, so he ignored it at first.
However, once the suspicion of a suspicious person is aroused, the suspicion will never go away like a shadow. Later, a legend began to spread in the city: Song Ting finally recognized Zhang Yuan's talent and was willing to let him return to Song Ting as prime minister. . .
This aroused Li Yuanhao's vigilance. Wu Hao's experience was vivid in his mind. After the war with the Liao Kingdom, he privately asked the Khitan for Wu Hao. However, the Liao Kingdom stated that it did not know who Wu Hao was and would not use it as an individual. Damage the diplomatic relations between the two countries.
Since they are not Han people from the Liao Kingdom, they are undoubtedly Han people from the Song Dynasty! Wu Hao had no other choice but to defect and return to the Song Dynasty. He would never believe that the two of them came together thousands of miles away just to gain fame and had no motive.
There were so many people who were in Li Yuanhao's ear, and they were all ruined. Li Yuanhao's eyes looking at Zhang Yuan gradually became cloudy and uncertain.
Zhang Yuan was not aware of this subtle change at all, because he felt that Li Yuanhao could not live without him, and this was also true.
But in politics, no one is inseparable from the other. There are only winners and losers, and there is never a win-win situation.
After the Battle of Hequ, Wu Hao's defection caused considerable turmoil in the situation in Xixia. During the most difficult period of Xixia, Li Yuanhao launched two more wars. Fortunately, many victories were plundered during the Battle of Hequ. The contradiction between supply and demand in the country has been transferred, but the party nobles have begun to be dissatisfied with the two Han Chinese Wu Hao and Zhang Yuan taking power!
With Wu Hao gone, Xixia's vitality was severely damaged. If Zhang Yuan had second thoughts, Xixia would be finished!
At this juncture, Xixia's secret agent stationed in the Song Dynasty received an unusual secret message.
This secret is naturally the letter of departure that Yelv Chongguang asked Dang Xiang, who had been captured and instigated rebellion in Yuanqing, to send back to the country!
The northwest experienced a brief period of peace after Li Yuanhao first defeated the Song Dynasty and then the Liao Kingdom. This period happened to be Liang Chuan's best chance to breathe!
Sun Houpu took the customs clearance documents that Liang Chuan had obtained from Xia Song and returned to Bianjing first. He contacted an official from the Ministry of Household Affairs and showed him the document that Xia Song agreed to open the port for trade. It was indeed true that the official had received the official document from the court. At Sun Houpu's request, he gave it to Sun Houpu. A tea guide was issued.
Since Sun Houpu took over the Forbidden City, he has taken over the connections and platform Liang Chuan left in Bianjing.
Before Ding Wei's fall, everyone thought that the manipulator behind the Forbidden City was Ding Wei. He did not look at the monk's face but the Buddha's face. The Forbidden City was filled with guests and became the most popular place in Bianjing. Unexpectedly, after the fall of Ding Wei, this building was not raided or troubled. The eyes of the Bianjing people were forged in Laojun's furnace. Those who knew the goods immediately discovered that the back of this building actually pointed to a person - —The biological father of the current prince!
The one who took over the task was a little-known young man from Qingyuan in the South. Anyone with a discerning eye would know at a glance that there must be something big going on! Where is Bianjing? A falling brick can hit several fifth-rank officials. A Fujian businessman with no background and a clean reputation dares to come here to take over the top restaurant in Bianjing. He must not wake up!
I don't know where the gossip came from. Zhao Yunrang stood firmly behind Sun Houpu. Everyone took a breath of cold air. Zhao Zong'e, the boy of Xin'an County King, had been eyeing this building for a long time, and then quietly stopped, not because he was afraid of others. It turns out that you are giving face to this giant Buddha!
If you can't even distinguish the situation clearly, and you can't stand on the right side, then there is no need to talk about the political future. In order to show their loyalty to the next official (Zhao Zongshi), all the civil and military officials began to use various means to flatter his father.
Not to mention that this Zhao Yunrang is a character, usually a quiet person, but everyone is fighting for this throne, and he quietly took it into his pocket. As expected, he did not make a move, and his success will be amazing!
The Third Division, Sixth Division, and Nine Ministers of Zhongshu now simply regard the Forbidden City as their place for gathering and entertainment. They have long wanted to go to a restaurant, but there are unwritten rules in the Song Dynasty. Now, Xiaoguan's father has opened a restaurant of his own. Restaurant, why don’t you go and support me?
In fact, according to the current situation on the border, Sun Houpu did not need tea bait to trade directly with the Tibetans. However, Liang Chuan told him that if he had the opportunity to get the tea bait himself, he would not need to do smuggling in the future. After all, this war It can't last a lifetime. You have to make enough money for now and still have to make plans for the future!
In this way, Sun Houpu successfully fulfilled the favors of the people in the Ministry of Revenue and obtained the tea invitation for himself. Moreover, he did so in a legitimate manner and did not use Zhao Yunrang's relationship for personal gain.
The Sun family also has tea in their hands, but it's just too little. Generations of people have relied on smuggling to make their fortune. Now that he has established his own business, he finally has his own connections. It's finally just around the corner to rectify the name of the Sun family!
With the help of Yelv Chongguang and others, Sun Houpu got in touch with the Tibetan businessman Karma Gongbu. The two fell in love at first sight, and they wanted to kill chickens, burn incense, eat their heads, and become sworn brothers.
The dark skin of Karma Gompo who was tanned on the plateau still has two plateau reds on his face after more than ten years in Qingyuan. His country bumpkin appearance makes people look at him as someone who is not a native of Qingyuan. Their body is unique to the plateau. His characteristics betrayed him immediately. At first, he thought that Yelu Chongguang and the others would do something detrimental to the Tubo Dynasty when they incited him to rebel. Although he was in a humble position, he was still a man of character. .
Just can't stand the torture. .
Yelv Chongguang did not harm him. Instead, he introduced him to use Qingyuan's connections to do countless businesses, and brought back countless funds for the organization as well as various spices, tea and luxury goods that the nobles liked. His status also rose again and again. The Tubo nobles would come to him if they wanted anything good, and now he is also a man of the hour among Tubo.
When Sun Houpu met him the first time he met him, he gave Karma Gongbu a thousand catties of the best tea bricks he had!
If this were the case in the past, if someone were caught smuggling such a large amount of tea into Tubo, they would have been beheaded ten times. But now they are doing a legitimate business, and one thousand kilograms is only what the nobles consume in a few months. Tea is not good for them. It is said that it is more important than food. Without food, you can still eat meat, but without tea, fat will accumulate in the blood vessels and intestines. In the end, death will be more uncomfortable than being hacked by a sword.
Thousands of kilograms of tea leaves are prepared, and every kilogram is the best of the best. The best quality tea leaves from Sun Changkeng Mountain are perfectly transplanted from the excellent strains of Jianzhou tea and are improved to adapt to the acidic red soil of Changkeng. Excellent tea!
He has already asked his crew to move forward by land and water, and nearly 10,000 kilograms of fine tea bricks are on their way to the land!
In return, Karma Gompo transported 5,000 fine Tibetan horses from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. This horse breed is small in size and is abundant in Shigatse and Changdunaqu areas. Tibetan horses are not like Kazakh horses and Mongolian horses. Although it is as tall as a horse and not very muscular in appearance, this kind of horse has its own unparalleled advantages.
Tibetan horses, which naturally grow in a plateau climate, have the same strong disease resistance and endurance as Yunnan horses. Their strong physique and compact structure are even better than Yunnan horses. Tibetan horses do not need roughage in their rations. Ordinary Forage is enough. Leave it near the camp at night during the march, and they will eat the grass themselves. In this way, the maintenance cost is greatly reduced. However, Tubo has cut off trade with the Central Plains since the Anshi Rebellion. It is easy to get Yunnan horses. Kurama is incomparable to reaching the sky.
The most practical thing on the battlefield is often not the fastest horse, but the horse that can run the longest. After all, it is impossible to carry fodder with you on the battlefield. It often takes ten days and a half to end the battle. During this period, you can only give the horse With a little bit of supplies, whoever can hold on for this time can decide the direction of the battlefield!
Of course, horses are no different from cattle and sheep to the Tibetan people and are not very valuable. In exchange for these tea leaves, they paid tens of thousands of gold and silver.
The Tubo people hated the Dangxiang people. Of course, Li Jiqian had killed Tubo Zanpu and started a feud. What made the Tubo people hate them even more was that their trade routes with the Song people had been cut off by the Dangxiang people. Even though there were countless cattle, sheep and horses holding gold in their hands. For ten thousand taels of silver, they couldn't exchange for a piece of tea. Over a hundred years, their national power gradually weakened invisibly, and even the plateau fell!
Liang Chuan looked at the five thousand horses and grinned. Now that we have war horses and armor, can the iron kite be far behind?
