The Tibetan envoy sent the letter back, and the round trip took nearly two months.
This time, Tubo sent 100,000 taels of gold and 2 million taels of silver, as well as a lot of grain.
The main crops of Tubo are barley, wheat, buckwheat and broad beans, and this time, 100,000 shi of each were sent to Yongning.
As soon as the things arrived, the Tibetan envoys asked to see Emperor Yongxing, hoping that Emperor Yongxing would send troops immediately.
Emperor Yongxing immediately agreed, and three days later an army of 100,000 was assembled and ready to march to the border.
At the beginning, it was said that there were 300,000 troops, but now there are only 100,000 troops.
Although it is impossible to count the Tibetan envoys one by one, there is still a big difference between 100,000 and 300,000.
The Tibetan envoy immediately found Qin Bingrong and asked, "Sir Qin, didn't you say before that you would send 300,000 troops? Where are the 300,000 troops?"
Qin Bingrong said: "There are a total of 150,000 people here, and we will transfer 150,000 people from other places."
The Tibetan envoy asked, "There seem to be 150,000 people here, too?"
Qin Bingrong added: "There are 100,000 people here. The grain transport team, craftsmen and military doctors have all set off in advance, a total of 50,000 people."
The Tibetan envoy asked angrily, "The 300,000 troops you mentioned include logistics personnel?"
Qin Bingrong squinted and said, "Why? Logistics soldiers are not soldiers? Do you Tubo arrange people to transport food and grass to our army, cook, treat the wounded and repair siege equipment?
It is thousands of miles from our dynasty to Tubo. How much manpower and material resources are needed along the way to ensure the daily needs of the army?
If you arrange people from Tibet to do these things, I can immediately recall our logistics troops.
If you don't want to, that's fine. At worst, we can return the silver to you and we won't send troops."
"you……"
The Tibetan envoy was so angry that his chest heaved. Both sides took off their pants and returned halfway? You can put on your pants at any time, but can I still put on my pants?
The Tubo envoys were now angry but there was nothing they could do; they could only leave it at that.
If we delay any further, who knows what will happen next?
The "hundred thousand strong army" set off, and the Tibetan envoys followed the army back to Tibet.
Emperor Yongxing did not keep him either. He wanted the envoy to deliver a message. Even if he did not leave, Emperor Yongxing would let the envoy go with the army.
The army was led by the Duke of Wei, while the Marquis of Jing'an had already gone to the northern border.
All preparations of Yongning Kingdom have been basically completed. Even if Tubo and the grassland people join forces, although they cannot win, they will still have no problem defending the city.
Zhang Hulan is also very busy these days. Now it is the rice flowering season, and Zhang Hulan is leading a large number of people to cultivate hybrid rice.
The rice seeds cultivated last year seem to be good so far. The rice ears grown now are longer than those of other varieties of rice, and the rice stalks are also much thicker.
The newspaper run by the Queen has also opened. Fortunately, Zhang Hulan doesn't need to worry about the newspaper's problems. Sometimes she will ask her about typesetting issues.
After the rice flowering season was over, Zhang Hulan became idle again.
She planned to take a leave to send Old Man Zhang and Mrs. Wang back home. The two old people had been playing in the capital for several months and were really not used to it.
Apart from eating and sleeping every day, at most I go out for a walk. I am very idle every day.
They have been hardworking all their lives and have become accustomed to finding something to do every day, otherwise they will feel uncomfortable.
Old man Zhang refused to let Zhang Hulan send them off, saying that they could go back on their own. How could Zhang Hulan feel at ease?
In addition, wine-making workshops will be built in various places in the second half of the year, and this time I go back is a good opportunity to bring people back to learn how to make wine.
The manpower was all found by Emperor Yongxing, and one person was assigned to each winery to learn. After they learned, they were assigned to various places to build and manage workshops.
The wine-making equipment will be made by the engineering department and will be directly transported over once the workshop is completed.
After Zhang Hulan sent Old Man Zhang and Wang back to Daping Village, she did not stay long. The house was full of children, and she was a little worried.
After handing over the people brought from the capital to Zhang Hujun, he set off back to the capital on the third day.
Zhang Hulan started digging potatoes as soon as she returned to the capital.
This year, we planted more than five acres of land and harvested more than eight thousand kilograms of potatoes.
She will continue to save all these potatoes for seeds, and she plans to plant winter potatoes this year.
The yield of winter potatoes is relatively higher.
If we plant these more than 8,000 kilograms of winter potatoes, we can probably harvest 50,000 to 60,000 kilograms next year.
Then, after another year or two, the entire Yongning Kingdom will be able to plant it.
Moreover, Zhang Hulan was worried that a real war would break out. If a long-lasting war occurred, Yongning Kingdom would definitely be short of money and food.
It’s not so bad to be short of money, but it would be troublesome if we are short of food.
With potatoes and hybrid rice, as long as the city is not taken, we are not afraid even if the war lasts for ten or eight years.
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The "300,000-man army" led by the Duke of Wei had been marching for two months and still hadn't reached the border.
The army could not march fast to begin with, and it was summer and it rained from time to time.
As soon as the road became slippery, the Duke of Wei would order his soldiers to set up camp.
At the beginning, the Tubo envoys did not care. As long as the army moved forward, it would eventually reach the Tubo territory.
But the progress became slower and slower as we went further, sometimes we could only advance twenty or thirty miles a day.
At this rate, it would take more than three months to reach the border.
By this calculation, by the time they reached the border, the silver and food that Tubo had sent for the second time had almost been used up.
The time comes when the Duke of Wei will ask Tubo for silver and food. If they don’t give it to him, then we’ll be sorry because the army will not be able to move forward.
It was drizzling that day.
The Duke of Wei came down and set up camp.
The Tibetan envoy was anxious, "General, why don't you continue to move forward in such a light rain?"
Duke Wei said: "Although the rain is light, it is easy to get sick and catch a cold.
What if a soldier gets sick?
We don't have many medicinal herbs with us. If we are not careful, a small cold may develop into a plague.
Do you dare to let these soldiers bring the plague to Tibet?"
The Tibetan envoy was furious, but he did not dare to lose his temper with the Duke of Wei, so he could only plead with him, "General, please let the army move faster. If we cannot reach Tibet by October, it will be too late.
The weather in Tibet is cold, and many places start to snow in October, making the roads even more difficult to travel.”
Duke Wei muttered to himself, "I'm just going to delay it until October."
By October, it will start snowing in Tibet, so there will be no point in going there.
The Duke of Wei had already planned that the army would leave Yongning State, but not too far, and would stop at no more than ten miles from the border town.
The Tubo envoy asked, that is because it is snowing and we cannot march, anyway the rebels will not attack in heavy snow.
We have to wait until the beginning of next spring when the weather gets warmer and the snow starts to melt.
The Duke of Wei asked Tubo to help him feed his troops for half a year. Together with the previous ones, Tubo fed the 300,000-strong army for a full year.
I just don't know whether Tubo will provide silver and food later.
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