Mabalanjie is actually the nephew of King Lagarri, the separatist regime of Tubo. The Maba family is also aristocrat of the Lagarri Kingdom. The Maba family and the Lagarri family can be said to be married for generations, similar to the relationship between the Liao Dynasty royal family and the Xiao family.

So, what is the origin of the Lagarri State? After the fall of the Tubo Dynasty, a branch of Zamp's descendants established a small country in Qusong and ruled part of the Shannan region in later generations.

Li Luo knew that the Lagarri family was descended from Princess Jin Cheng. In other words, they were Li Tang's nephews.

Therefore, Mabalang is also a descendant of Princess Wencheng and is also related to Li Tang.

Li Luo regards himself as a descendant of Li Tang, and of course he has some long-standing blood relationship with Mabalang. This is also the reason why Mabalang asked to give his children the surname Li before his death. He has this confidence.

Since the Lagary Kingdom was founded by descendants of the Tubo royal family, although it was a small country, it had a respectable status in the entire Tubo region, second only to the highest ruler of Tubo.

Now, Tubo is ruled by the Sakya regime, and the highest leader is the head of the Sakya family, the imperial sage of the Mongol Yuan, and the minister of the Xuanzhengyuan Basiba.

In history, Basiba should have been poisoned to death by political enemies of Yang Lianzhenjia and others ten years ago. However, because of Li Luo's role, history has been changed, and the famous Basiba still lives well.

However, although Basiba, who was named Dabao King, was the supreme leader of the local government in Tubo, he was essentially not a politician, but a scholar. Therefore, Basiba ignored civil affairs and handed over all the major affairs of Tubo to Benqin (the supreme consul, similar to the great minister) of the Sakya regime.

Basiba nominally governs the thirteen thousand households of Tubo. These thirteen thousand households are the first-class nobles under the Sakya family (Quan family).

However, the thirteen nobles were not the top families under the Kuan clan. Under the Kuan clan (Basiba clan), there was also a great nobleman above the thirteen clans, that is, the Lagarri clan, a descendant of the Tubo Zamp.

The Lagari family was the second most important nobleman after the Cun family, with a detached status and relatively independent. Therefore, the Lagari country did not include the ten thousand household system, but maintained relative independence, and only nominally obeyed the Sakya regime dominated by the Cun family.

As the nephew of King Lagarri, Mabalangjie was of course a nobleman with roots and was able to enter the Yuan court. But it would be nonsense to say how close he was to his uncle King Lagarri.

According to previous information from the TCHS Bureau, the mother of Mabalanya and King Lagarri were half-siblings of the same father and father. King Lagarri was killing his brother and seizing the throne. The brother who was murdered by King Lagarri was the brother of the mother of Mabalanya.

Marbalang's father was also killed by King Lagarri because he supported his wife's dearest brother.

As an elder sister, her husband and her brother who are both father and mother were murdered and seized by her half-brother. It is conceivable how much this elder sister hates her half-brother.

So, when he was young, Mabalanjie obeyed his mother's orders and led his family soldiers to attack his uncle. As a result, his mother was defeated and ruthlessly poisoned by his half-brother. The fief of the Maba family was also deprived of.

But Mabalangjie escaped from Lagarri and found the Lang and Huo clans, who were related to the thirteen nobles, and asked them to uphold justice. But Lang and Huo clans were unwilling to offend King Lagarri for him, so how could they help?

Mabalangjie had no choice but to join the Yuan army and become a general of the Yuan court in order to protect himself.

Therefore, although Mabalangjie was a Tubo native, he hated his uncle King Lagarri very much, and of course he was also resentful of the other thirteen Tubo nobles.

As the son of Mabalangjie, Li Wangzhu knew these things. Therefore, when he heard that the emperor was going to use troops to Tubo, he immediately requested to go to war.

He wanted to watch himself that the Lagarri State was destroyed by the Tang Dynasty. Including the entire Tubo, it must be included in the Tang Dynasty territory.

Li Luo knew that the Lagarri family was descended from Princess Jin Cheng. In other words, they were Li Tang's nephews.

Therefore, Mabalang is also a descendant of Princess Wencheng and is also related to Li Tang.

Li Luo regards himself as a descendant of Li Tang, and of course he has some long-standing blood relationship with Mabalang. This is also the reason why Mabalang asked to give his children the surname Li before his death. He has this confidence.

Li Luo looked at the treacherous Li Wangzhu and smiled: "You grew up in the Central Plains, can you still adapt to the waters and soil of Tubo?"

Li Wangzhu kowtowed and said, "I have followed my father to Sakya nine years ago, and I have no discomfort. Please rest assured."

Li Luo nodded in approval. Li Wangzhu is only seventeen years old this year, but she is determined and has a father-like manner. She not only loves martial arts, but also likes to study. She is a seed of a general. As a young guard, she can also work diligently in the palace, which is very popular with him.

"Okay. I will agree to you." Li Luo smiled and said, "Ministry of War, appointed Li Wangzhu, the Marquis of Songfan, as the marching sir, and let him experience it first."

"Thank you for your kindness! Long live long live long!" Li Wangzhu was happy in her heart, but there was no smug look on her face. "However, I hope to be a general and charge for the Tang Dynasty."

Li Luo said: "You are the only son of your deceased father. I'll talk about this charge when you get married and have children."

Although Li Wangzhu was a little disappointed, her heart was also very warm, "No! I obey the order!"

The ministers were a little envious of the emperor's love for this young man. Well, at the age of only seventeen, he became a guard such as C, inherited the title of Songfan Marquis, and inherited the great business of the whole family. With his appearance and decent behavior, this is the son-in-law of Dongshui.

Suddenly, many ministers with daughters waiting to be called Li Wangzhu.

Wutu made a list and said, "Your Majesty, regaining Tubo is a major military service. But I heard Mabalangjie say before that the Tubo climate is difficult for people who are not Tubo to adapt. No one of the generals above the Tang Dynasty camp can adapt. The candidate for the commander is a problem."

When the generals heard this, they all nodded together. General Li Yi of Dangxiang came out and said, "Your Majesty, what Mr. Wanyan said is very true. I am a person in the southwest of Liangzhou and is close to the Tubo highlands. But even if I am a minister, I may not be able to adapt to the climate of the highlands. Young soldiers are fine, but older, it is even more difficult to overcome."

Although they had never heard of the word altitude sickness, they knew what was going on.

Li Luo was also in a little trouble.

How important is the commander of a hundred thousand troops? No matter whether you need to know the military, you also have the talent of a commander.

Among the Tang army today, there are currently ten men who are capable of commanding the expedition of 100,000 troops, namely Wen Tianxiang, Jiang Jun, Chen Shuzhen, Yang Xu, Zhu Han, Wu Yan, Hu Gu, Xiao Bei, Zhang Lian, and Shen Huasheng, and a few of them are barely competent.

But none of these ten people can adapt to altitude sickness. People like Mr. Wen, who are over fifty years old, don’t have to fight any more if they go to the Tubo Plateau. They probably will be sent back directly with a coffin.

Younger people, such as Liu Weitai, Liu Dadao, Yan Jun, etc., are now only the battalion commander who commands 20,000 troops. It is enough to serve as generals in the field, but as the commander of the 100,000 army, it is not enough. Besides, they are not adapted to altitude sickness.

Many of the generals below the camp commander were from the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau and western Sichuan, but they could barely adapt. However, these generals did not have the military ability to control the expeditions of 100,000 troops.

Li Luo suddenly remembered Zhezha. Zhezha was a Mongolian general and could definitely adapt to altitude sickness. However, Zhezha was just a cavalry general, not a commander, so it still couldn't. Even if it was OK, Li Luo was not at ease to hand over the 100,000 army to a Mongolian.

If Mabalangjie is still alive, he will be the best candidate.

In the end, Li Luo was sadly discovering that only he, the Emperor of Tang, was the most suitable commander of the foreign army.

He has no altitude sickness.

Later generations, he spent a long time in Lhasa and other places for cultural relics, searching for "treasures" and the royal tombs of ancient Tubo Zamp, which was also adaptable.

"Then I will go in person." Li Luo said helplessly.

To be honest, he really doesn't want to be in charge of the army now. His military achievements are already very great, enough to bless him as the founding emperor, and he doesn't need to be in charge of the army at all.

But if he doesn't go in person, who will let him go?

In ancient times, medical insurance conditions were very poor, and altitude sickness could not be effectively alleviated without drugs. Later, the People's Liberation Army entered Tibet, but there was medical insurance.

When the Qing army entered Tibet, the main force was the soldiers from the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau and the Qinghai soldiers from the western Sichuan soldiers in high altitude areas. The head coaches were also veterans such as Yue Zhongqi and Fu Kang'an who had been fighting in western Sichuan and Qinghai for a long time.

"Your Majesty is the emperor, how can you go through an unexpected and dangerous place? If something goes wrong..." Lin Biju immediately came out to persuade him, "I would like to think twice!"

Other ministers also came out to advise the emperor not to personally conquer Tubo.

In fact, since ancient times, no Central Plains army has been able to recover Tubo. Why? Isn’t it because the Tubo terrain is too high that the Central Plains army is very uncomfortable?

Li Luo said solemnly: "I don't want to go either. But I spent some time in the past, and it was fine. I was just over thirty years old and was still young and strong, and I was not afraid of the plateau climate. If I don't go, can anyone else go?"

What? Your Majesty had been there before?

Your Majesty was really reading thousands of books and traveling thousands of miles back then.

Since Your Majesty has been in Tubo, it should be fine. Your Majesty is right. Although there are many generals in the Tang Dynasty, he may have led a hundred thousand troops to recover Tubo, and he really can't think of anyone who can do it.

Those who can be the commander must be not very young and are not adapted to the climate. They may die before they succeed.

"I have decided, so no one should persuade you anymore." Li Luo made a decisive statement, "The Weaving Department will immediately prepare 100,000 sets of cotton jackets for the use of the army. The Military Advisor's Office will take out military strategies, and the Ministry of War mobilizes troops and transports food, grass and supplies. In early June, troops must be sent."

If it was too late, the Yuan army would strengthen defense on the Tubo Plateau, or the weather would become colder, and it would be difficult to fight.

"Abide by the order!" Everyone took the order together.

It is early May now, and there is only one month to prepare for the expedition, but we must hurry up. Fortunately, the Tang Dynasty court was very efficient, and even though the expedition was intricate, we could still prepare for it.

Li Luo continued: "The Yuan army is determined to be immortal. In addition to the regaining of Tubo, there are also old places in the Western Regions, and the south and north of the desert. In the future, it will require years of military use. The 100,000 new recruits recruits should be trained and used as soon as possible."

The Minister of Finance breathed a sigh of relief. He thought His Majesty was going to recruit more troops. If that were the case, the burden would be heavier.

How many soldiers and horses were there in the Tang Dynasty?

As the yamen for allocating military rations and pay, the Ministry of Finance is of course clear-headed.

The active service is over 935,800 troops, including 100,000 newly recruited northern soldiers a few months ago.

How many people did the Tang Dynasty have? The Ministry of Finance and Yemen Qing.

There are more than 10,200,000 nations with the identity of Tang Min.

In addition, there are nearly 30 million people, second-class quasi-Tang people (people from Indochina Peninsula), third-class education people (indigenous people of the Nanyang Islands and Hengbei), and fourth-class slaves.

Together, there were 103 million people in the fourth class. It sounded like a lot, with more than 100 people raising a Tang army, and the court was not burdened with it.

But it's not that true.

Because, in addition to more than 900,000 troops, there were more than 200,000 police officers to be raised in the Tang Dynasty!

Moreover, the military and police in the Tang Dynasty took the elite military route and paid a lot. In the past four years of Hongwu, the imperial court spent more than 28 million silver dollars on raising military and police and equipment.

This does not count the war expenses and casualties during the war. To add these, Hongwu spent nearly 40 million silver dollars on national defense and security expenses in four years, accounting for more than 40% of the national treasury income in the four years of Hongwu!

If Your Majesty recruits new recruits, the military expenditure will be too high. Even if Your Majesty has the right to make money, how many years can he last?

Fortunately, His Majesty did not recruit new recruits again.

Otherwise, the life of the Ministry of Finance will be difficult. You must know that Your Majesty also requires that the Ministry of Finance must have a surplus of 10 million yuan a year and cannot be used at will. This means that it is less than 10 million yuan of money that can be used.

The Minister of Finance is actually not too worried about money.

Several silver mines in Yingzhou are producing silver every day and casting silver rounds. Are he afraid of losing money?

What he was afraid of was food shortage.

Now the food in the Tang Dynasty is just enough to eat. However, food security is very fragile. Once a major natural disaster occurs, the food will become nervous immediately.

What restricts the grain output of Datang is not water conservancy, but water conservancy has been well-established. The main reason is the shortage of cows.

When the emperor finished talking about military affairs, the Minister of Finance seized the opportunity and said, "I ask the court to add oxen to the court."

The emperor and the ministers frowned. Increased oxen? There was nothing we could do.

The cattle from Hengbei have transported hundreds of thousands of them in, and they can't transport them anymore. Otherwise, Hengbei's plan to build a grain base will be affected.

The number of Ministry of Revenue is that the Tang Dynasty now has more than 5.3 million cows. This is just after trading with the Yuan court, adding the number of cows transported from Tianzhu.

After the wars in the Yuan and Song dynasties and the Three Kingdoms, the southern soldiers suffered a lot of disasters, and the land was abandoned severely. A large number of plowing oxen were slaughtered and eaten meat, or stolen by the scattered soldiers, and the number dropped sharply.

Although Li Tang has been trying to increase the oxen over the past few years, the gap is still as high as tens of millions!

This led to several families sharing a cow, and the efficiency of arable land was very poor. The people could only barely eat enough. Although it was much better than the Yuan Dynasty, it was still far from the prosperous era.

Therefore, the Tang Dynasty severely punished those who slaughtered oxen and executed the most severely!

A few months ago, the retainers of Du Lie, the Marquis of Mianyang, robbed themselves and resold more than 70 calfs. Du Lie entered the palace to apologize for his salary and was fined for half a year. As a result, the retainers, the merchants who bought cattle, and the butcher who slaughtered the cattle were all executed.

Therefore, more than ten people were killed in major cases. The court also raided oxen from various aristocratic manors and found more than a dozen cases of selling and slaughtering oxen.

For a moment, more than a hundred people were killed before and after, and the world was shaken.

The emperor rectified the rule of nobles and servants, and also issued an edict himself: "Plowing oxen is related to the food and clothing of the people, the country of the Tang Dynasty, and the peace of the world. Since ancient times, there has been no news that there is a prosperous era for shortage of oxen... Today, there is still insufficient use of farming, so how can you kill and eat it? If you want to slaughter oxen if you are greedy, the way of heaven does not tolerate it, and the law of the country will not tolerate it..."

This is the most serious case of plowing oxen since the founding of the Tang Dynasty.

No one dares to sell calves anymore. The increase in the number of arable ox is still not fast enough.

"Your Majesty." Zheng He replied, "Just simply, I will issue an order to the Hengbei Protectorate, so that Qu Shi can use troops to Central and Southern India, conquer those small countries in India, and let them lose the cow and pay tribute!"

Lose the cow and pay tribute? This is a good idea.

"Authentication." Li Luo said without hesitation, "Let Qu Shi move, join forces with Liang Kingdom to defend the country, and use troops to attack Central and Southern India, and be afraid of them, so he asked him to send cattle. Without cattle, he could only occupy their land and destroy their country."

The Emperor of the Tang Dynasty said very domineering. If the Zhao official family and Emperor Zhu said that the ministers of the dynasty in the dynasty would strongly oppose it, saying that it was not done by the benevolent king, and it would lose the morality of the Celestial Empire.

But the ministers of the Tang court all smiled and looked as if they were taken for granted.

Every time the Tang Ting used troops to the outside world, he gained great benefits. Although the Chinese warriors were keen on war, even the civil officials believed that fighting well was the way to make money.

Therefore, the national affairs that were related to the plowing ox turned into military affairs in a blink of an eye. It turned out to be a military force against Tubo and Tianzhu at the same time. However, Tianzhu did not need to mobilize troops from the local area, but directly used Hengbei's troops to order Liang Guoli and the newly established guards to send troops to assist the war.

This is the famous "Cow War" in later generations.

After a while, Tang Ting began to prepare for war again.

On May 21st, Li Luo and Cui Xiuning returned to the bedroom after they left the court. Before they sat down and spoke well, Li Zhi from the Special Inspection Bureau sent important information from the West.

It turned out that on the eighth day of March, the Yuan army and the second mobilized crusaders fought a decisive battle in the Austrian state.

As early as late February, Western countries mobilized more than 200,000 people again. The Yuan army was small and very tired, so they could only retreat to the east of the Rhine.

In early March, Prince Zhenjin personally led an army of 100,000 yuan from the Ross area. King Anxi received reinforcements, his morale was greatly boosted, and the decisive battle broke out soon.

Before the decisive battle, the Yuan army used war horse trampling in front of the two armies to brutally execute the previously captured King of France, which was hit by the morale of the coalition forces.

After two days of decisive battle, the Yuan army cavalry used a tactic of combining cavalry and firearms to defeat the Western coalition. Only 20,000 to 30,000 people left in the Western coalition were escaped.

Wherever the Yuan army went, they slaughtered all the way. I don’t know how many yellow-headed and seductive eyes were killed, nor how many people became slaves. The Yuan army tied young men and women up with strings of ropes and dragged them behind war horses.

Subsequently, the Yuan army divided into two groups, one led by Prince Zhenjin, and continued to expedition to France in the west, and the other led by Ananda to conquer the Pope (Italy).

Li Luo received the information and asked Li Zhi to retreat and said to Cui Xiuning: "The West is over. After two major wars, all the elite soldiers on the European continent were almost dead, and all the kings and grand dukes died. No one could stop the Yuan army from occupying Europe."

Cui Xiuning said: "There are also English and Spain. Their strength is not weak. The entire Europe now has tens of millions of people, and it is enough for the Mongols to fight guerrillas."

"It's too late." Li Luo shook his head, "If England and Spain actively participated in the war before, they might still win. Even if they couldn't win, the Yuan army would not be able to eat up the European continent so easily. But now the elite troops of the European continent are all lost, and it would be too late for them to send troops again."

"There is no way to fight guerrillas. The Yuan army has high mobility and the combat power of the cavalry team, except for the Tang Dynasty, who in the world can compare with them? Europeans can only fight guerrillas and kill more ruthlessly."

"Within this year, the Yuan army can completely capture the entire European continent. Spain will definitely not be able to save it. It depends on whether England can save it again."
Chapter completed!