When it comes to Tubo, what is the first thing that comes to mind?

Most people will think of Princess Wencheng and Songtsen Gampo!

Although history textbooks praise this matter as a good thing for national integration, from a historical perspective, this is not a good thing for the Tang Dynasty at all.

Songtsen Gampo, a local rich man, married Princess Wencheng, who was a teenager, and received a large number of skilled craftsmen from the Tang Dynasty and a huge dowry. But what happened afterwards? Tubo gradually grew and grew stronger and the Tang Dynasty gradually declined, not only did he not lend a helping hand to the Tang Dynasty, but instead sent troops to attack the Tang Dynasty and plunder the resources of the Tang Dynasty. It is no exaggeration to say that it was a wolfish ambition.

Zuo Xiaoyou called this incident the Tang Dynasty version of the Tang Dynasty, and lost his wife and soldiers.

So Zuo Xiaoyou has no good feelings for Tubo, but he hates it very much. Now he wants to train the actual combat capabilities of the Yizhou army, and Tubo happens to be right next to Yizhou. Who else can he hit if he doesn’t hit him?

As for the plateau climate problem in Tubo, this puts high requirements on the physical fitness and adaptability of the soldiers. The plateau problem is a difficult problem even in later generations. Apart from adapting, you can only adapt.

The combat power of Tubo is basically the combat power of the plateau. Once the plateau is left, the strength of the Tubo army is not worth worrying. However, because the Tubo people adapt to plateau combat, the Tubo people are basically invincible in the battles in Tubo.

Of course, that was only due to the lack of research and preparation of plateau reactions in ancient times, and it was not a problem with the Yizhou Army. Under the past twenty years of modern military training, the generals of the Yizhou Army had already learned the importance of intelligence wars. When Zuo Xiaoyou proposed to launch a war against Tubo, the Yizhou army began to collect intelligence and began to effectively carry out adaptive training for plateau operations.

Tubo's territory is actually not small, with one-third of the territory of the Tang Dynasty, but Tubo is vast and sparsely populated. A huge country has a population of less than 10 million, which is less than Yizhou. Of course, Tubo's living conditions are also relatively bad. Just look at the local people in later generations, you can tell that it is because they die of heat during the day and cold at night, and the climate changes are unpredictable. If you are not fully prepared, you will really die there.

After almost a year of preparation, 50,000 troops in Yizhou entered Tubo and relied on the latest successfully developed rifles to successfully break through the Tubo defense line and win a big victory at the beginning.

Afterwards, the Yizhou army followed the established route and did not entangle with the local Tubo army at all. Instead, they rushed directly to the Tubo royal court and captured the king first!

Tubo has been developing for more than a hundred years since Songtsen Gampo, but the development in this century is not as important as Yizhou's ten years. This shows how important a leader with vision and blueprint is. Yizhou has left the left and right, and a better life is just around the corner. Tubo only has a group of local cadres, and basically makes a living by shedding sheep and horses. There is no infrastructure construction at all. The natural environment is harsh. Many people die every year when they get sick. At most, the people's livelihood is better, and nothing else is good.

The roads in Tubo are really not easy to walk. Fortunately, the 50,000 army equipped with bicycles. Even if the road is difficult to walk, it can still travel hundreds of miles a day smoothly.

Speaking of this bicycle, it is a major achievement in the past twenty years. In particular, tire technology has been solved, thus providing a foundation for producing bicycles. With the maturity of the steel casting industry in recent years and the emergence of lathe technology, bicycles were finally manufactured last year, and were first invested in military use, and are temporarily not open to the public.

Nowadays, with bicycles, the difficult journey of Tubo has become no problem. The 50,000 Yizhou troops happily rode their bicycles and marched towards the Tubo royal court with great ease. Although they encountered interceptions from some local troops in the middle, a bullet shot over and gradually no Tubo army died.

In order to attack Tubo this time, each of the 50,000 troops was equipped with two rifles, and each of them had 100 bullets, which was equivalent to five million bullets. As long as the local Tubo people did not die by themselves, they could basically kill the Tubo ruling class a hundred times. Moreover, the 50,000 troops carried compressed biscuits, jerky meat and other military rations, which was enough for them to eat for a month. These military rations were tied to the back seat of the bicycle, which was easy to carry and did not delay the marching.

To be honest, the current combat and marching style of the Yizhou Army is a bit eye-catching. He has never heard of any army riding bicycles to fight, and the Yizhou Army has set a precedent in history.

After three days, the 50,000 troops in Yizhou finally arrived at the Tubo royal court. After a round of strafing, the 300,000 troops of Tubo collapsed instantly. The battle ended after only half a day. The Yizhou army won a great victory with less than 100 casualties, occupied the Tubo royal court, and merged the Tubo territory into Yizhou in one breath. As a result, the territory controlled by Zuo Xiaoyou reached 5 million square kilometers, and the imperial dragon energy in his body surged.

The Tang Dynasty court learned that Zuo Xiaoyou only used 50,000 Yizhou troops to break through the Tubo royal court and annex the Tubo territory. The civil and military officials of the court were shocked. Then these people finally began to face up to Zuo Xiaoyou, who invaded Yizhou as a bandit, more than 20 years ago and forced Li Longji to grant him the throne of a different surname.

This time, the 50,000 troops in Yizhou actually did not kill many people. Except for the first time, the Tubo border guards and the final attack on the Tubo royal court, the total number of people was killed, only 40,000 to 50,000 people were killed. Therefore, the population of Tubo was basically preserved, but the aristocratic class of Tubo changed, and Zuo Xiaoyou also basically accepted the national strength of Tubo.

As a result, the forces of Yizhou and Tubo were merged, and the Tang army had no advantage in facing Zuo Xiaoyou, a king of different surnames, which made the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty very anxious, and the civil and military officials of the court began to make their own plans.

For a country, ministers are the most likely group of people to rebel, because no matter who is in power, they will be valued. Once the support of these ministers is not supported by these ministers, no one in power can take over a country smoothly. It is normal that the ministers will fall to the side wherever the wind blows.

Why do people always praise those loyal ministers? Isn’t it because loyal ministers are rare?

For example, the famous Wei Zheng in history was the person of the crown prince Li Jiancheng. Later, Li Jiancheng was killed by Li Laoer, so he followed Li Laoer, and then he gained the reputation of being a strong minister in history. But if Wei Zheng was a loyal minister, and when Li Jiancheng died, he would not have received such high praise in history. Therefore, the loyalty of the ministers is worthy of praise, but for the sake of his family's interests, the ministers should not blame them. After all, everyone is out to make trouble and no one wants to die.

In the past, when the Tang Dynasty was strong, the ministers would naturally be loyal to the Tang Dynasty, but now suddenly a Zuo Xiaoyou, who was not inferior to the Tang Dynasty, suddenly appeared. Of course, these ministers would make their own plans. Although they would not say anything on the surface, they would definitely have letters with Zuo Xiaoyou behind their backs. This was the case with Cao Cao's ministers before the Battle of Guandu in history, basically had private messages with Yuan Shao because no one thought Cao Cao could win. Even Cao Cao himself felt that he would lose, but in the end Cao Cao won.

At this time, Cao Cao found a large number of private messages from Cao army officials and Yuan Shao, and Cao Cao's actions were amazing. He didn't even read them, and burned them in front of all the officials, which moved the ministers who had secretly prepared their avatars. This made the Cao army unleashed its power and even unified the world.

It’s a pity that Cao Cao’s descendants were not successful, and the vast country made the Sima family cheaper.

History has left many stories, and history has left many things to learn from, such as ministers having an affair with foreign countries. After seeing countless letters from the ministers of the Tang Dynasty, Zuo Xiaoyou did not despise them because of this. After all, they are all for life. They are not eating with anyone, but only by following the strongest can they eat better. Therefore, their secretly surrendered to the enemy can be forgiven. It is not bad that the object of their loyalty has been overthrown, and they can still live, and once the object of their loyalty is killed, they will inevitably get the title of "traitor".

Therefore, if a country wants to be stable, the first thing it needs to do is patriotic education. If an unpatriotic person causes trouble in his own country, then the country will not be able to get better. The situation in China and the world in later generations has proved this. Countries that were cooked by the West will basically be destroyed and their families will be destroyed, while those "dictatorial" countries will live better.

Faced with the secret communication of these Tang officials, Zuo Xiaoyou welcomed it, but he also stated that he had just won Tubo and would temporarily focus on building Tubo and have no time to attack the Tang Dynasty, so they would be their Tang ministers with peace of mind. If they free up their hands in the future, they would have their own place to use their skills.

With Zuo Xiaoyou's guarantee, these officials of the Tang Dynasty felt at ease.

Zuo Xiaoyou did what he said, and then he spent almost fifty years to develop Yizhou and Tubo. Although Tubo belongs to a plateau area and is not very rich in resources, it has the cleanest air and the best natural environment in the world. As long as the construction keeps up, it can definitely develop into a strong country.

Zuo Xiaoyou did not blindly carry out a swarm of construction of Tubo, but adapted to local conditions and carried out different levels of development and construction based on the local characteristics of Tubo. Of course, the most important thing is to write the same text and train the same track, and use the Han culture as the only culture for education and promotion, so as to achieve the synchronization of thoughts and behaviors and control the people.

Because the territory of Tubo is really large, Zuo Xiaoyou took fifty years to build Tubo well. After these fifty years of development, Zuo Xiaoyou has a population of more than 70 million within the territory controlled by Zuo Xiaoyou, and this population has exceeded that of the Tang Dynasty. The current population of the Tang Dynasty is only more than 60 million, and the population density of Tubo is significantly higher.

In the past fifty years, Zuo Xiaoyou has managed his territory into a completely industrialized country. With its industrial strength, large-scale transportation tools such as trains, cars, ships, etc. have become the mainstream. Moreover, other industries have also developed explosively with the success of industrialization. Now, the living conditions of the people under Zuo Xiaoyou have become completely overturned compared to those of seventy years ago. Various high-rise buildings have risen from the ground, and the reinforced concrete structures have made the people in the mountains and rivers where earthquakes occur no longer afraid of earthquakes.

The underground water conservancy system is also very developed and perfect, so there is no need to worry about a heavy rain that turns the city into a water park. In addition, the people have also achieved the conditions for lighting the household with electric lights. Even at night, the people can enjoy a beautiful life at night, unlike before, when they can only make villains in bed at night.

With the development of these fifty years, the transportation system under Zuo Xiaoyou's rule has also been basically developed and improved, thus consolidating his dominance and no longer having to worry about local troops not obeying commands.

Over the years, Zuo Xiaoyou has had an idea about the territory in Tianzhu. After all, it is a territory that is no smaller than Tubo, and the lives of the local people do not seem to be good, and their combat effectiveness can be basically negligible, and each fight is accurate.

However, Tianzhu is the territory of Western Tathagata, and he is not sure whether he will fight him. So after thinking about it, he gave up the invasion of Tianzhu for the time being. However, Tianzhu has no cause. The ships he developed are very interested in the oceans in the south, so in recent years, he has begun to develop towards the south.

There is a large area of ​​unlimited land waiting to be developed in the south. Zuo Xiaoyou didn't have to consider the competition with the Tang Dynasty. He directly sent caravans in his territory and the people were developing in the south. In the past few years, he had basically occupied the unlimited land in the south, which also gave him a large area of ​​vast ocean territory.

However, the undeveloped southern territory is not very good. Although it is rich in natural resources, it is an undeveloped place after all. Moreover, problems such as high temperatures and mosquitoes are very troublesome, which takes time to solve them one by one.

In addition, there are many indigenous people in this territory in the south. These indigenous people are basically uncivilized savages. Although they have their own language system, they are very simple and they are merciless in killing people for food. Zuo Xiaoyou also spent a lot of effort to eliminate these indigenous people.

Originally, Zuo Xiaoyou planned to spend fifty years to develop the southern territory, but at this time the Tang Dynasty was declining, and the northern nomadic peoples were eyeing the Tang Dynasty and had launched several wars. Now the Tang Dynasty has basically lost control over the north, and the history of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms seems to be inevitable.

After Zuo Xiaoyou discovered this situation, he immediately adjusted his national policy and changed the development of the south to expel the barbarians and restored the glory of the Han Dynasty.
Chapter completed!