Prosperous Tang Soul

Chapter 465 Crisis erupted
It takes some time for economic warfare to show its effect.

Just when the people of Tubo were dreaming of sending a large army to crush the Tang army and then dominate the world, a piece of news caught the attention of the Tubo quartermaster.

Their salt reserves have bottomed out!
It doesn't matter if you don't eat meat for a few days, but people who are used to salt, as long as they don't have a meal made with salt, they will be extremely unaccustomed, and many people will lose their appetite.

And after two or three meals, fatigue will begin to appear, these are the manifestations of salt deficiency.

However, this quartermaster didn't take it seriously, but first asked his subordinates: "How many days do we have enough salt?"

The subordinate replied: "About five or six days."

"Five or six days is enough, let everyone hurry up, as long as we get to Qingtang, we don't have to worry about these things, Qingtang is a rich place."

The quartermaster said with a yearning look on his face. As a quartermaster, he naturally knew how rich Qingtang was and how important Qingtang was to Tubo.

The Qingtang is famously rich, so there must be the salt they need there, and it is also the best green salt.

He naturally knew that the green salt from the Tang Dynasty had recently become popular in Tubo. Although he really wanted to support the development of the salt industry in Tubo, the green salt finally conquered him.

The taste of cooking with green salt is very different from that of coarse salt, mainly because the price between the two is about the same.

For a similar price, a fool would know to choose green salt. Although the people would benefit from this, it would be extremely detrimental to the development of the country's salt industry. It's just that the Tubo people don't care about that, anyway, they have salt to eat now.

However, the merchants who had been supplying them with salt before had run out of stock, resulting in a shortage of salt for this Tubo team.

And the same thing didn't just happen to one army, it would happen to almost all the Tubo troops who rushed to Qingtang to help the Qingtang defenders.

However, they also behaved and acted the same way as the quartermaster, thinking that they would get these things as long as they arrived at Qingtang, so they just tried their best to urge the army to hurry.

In fact, the army has a lot of salt reserves, but they use a lot of salt, but that's not the case for the civilians.

In this era, very few people can afford green salt. The low price set by Zhang Yi and others has allowed many middle- and lower-class people to eat green salt.

Those middle and lower class people who have eaten green salt can only buy a little at a time. As soon as the stock is out of stock, they will immediately have no salt to eat.

And because the supply was too small before, even those nobles and rich merchants didn't have much green salt in stock. At this time, they suddenly ran out of stock, and they immediately panicked.

It has been five days since Sahazhuo sold the last batch of green salt. In the five days, Tubo has not sold a pack of green salt, because there is no stock, and even if there is a little left, they are reluctant to part with it. sold.

So soon, a large-scale salt shortage began to appear throughout Tubo.

In other words, the whole of Tubo is now short of salt, or even out of stock, and there is no salt to eat.

And because of the impact of the green salt sold by Sahazhuo and Sahazhuo's methods, the local salt industry in Tubo was hit hard. At this time, the amount of salt they could produce was extremely limited.

Can't change the situation at all.

But how can people not eat salt, so, whoever has salt has become the object of patronage.

Of course, that patronage was not to grab food, but to grab salt directly!
I have heard of robbing money and robbing relatives, but this is the first time I have heard of robbing salt, but when people are in a hurry, they can do anything.

And all of these were within Zhang Yi's expectations.

He had already calculated such an ending, even if there were salt producers in Tubo, but at the current scale, Zhang Yi didn't laugh at them, the little salt they filtered was not enough for the nobles in Tubo to share.

And now the mouths of the Tubo people have been fed up by them. Those coarse salt or low-quality salt are hard to see. Everyone wants to continue to eat green salt.

This is how easy it is to go from frugality to extravagance, but difficult to go from extravagance to frugality!
For two days, Tang Jun only launched a tentative attack on Qingtang, and did not launch a large-scale attack at all.

They are now listening to Zhang Yi, and first look at the effect of the economic war. At this time, there is no need to fill the hole with human life.

Qingtang is indeed the number one place in all of Tubo, and it is the most affluent place. However, since Sahazhuo received the green salt provided by Zhang Yi, all the salt merchants in Qingtang have stood with Sahazhuo. Naturally, their The ones that are sold are all the green salt brought by Zhang Yi.

People in the whole Qingtang City are eating green salt, so that the rough salt is almost all discarded.

Later, after Sahazhuo distributed all the green salt, Qingtang fell into a state of extreme salt shortage.

Now, they can't even eat coarse salt.

Moreover, due to the siege of the Tang army, the supplies from outside could not be brought in at all.

So in the past two days, riots began to appear in Qingtang City.

Everyone has no salt to eat, so what can they do? It is safe to stay in Qingtang City all the time, but if there is no salt to eat, they will also starve to death.

Rather than being starved to death, it's better to rush out and fight Tang Jun, maybe they can beat Tang Jun back.

There is a lack of salt in the city, and there are more and more voices.

I can see the effect!
Not only Zhang Yi and the others saw it, but even the generals of the Datang Frontier Army began to see the effect of economic warfare.

But just when Qingtang City was about to lose its hold, the first batch of Tubo reinforcements arrived.

The arrival of the reinforcements gave the people of Qingtang a hope. Although the reinforcements were defeated in the battle with the Tang army on the first day, they all knew that it was because their number was far smaller than that of the Tang army.

But since the first batch of reinforcements came, there will be a second and third batch of reinforcements, so they don't worry anymore.

Now that the Tang army is unable to capture Qingtang City, after their reinforcements arrive, the Tang army will have no chance to capture Qingtang City.

Although Qingtang City has been defended, the problem of salt has intensified.

In order to ensure the combat effectiveness of the Qingtang soldiers, the Qingtang army began to ask the people in the city to donate voluntarily after the army ran out of salt, but they didn't see a few grains of salt in a day.

There is no way, the soldiers have to fight, and they have to eat without salt, so the soldiers in Qingtang began to search for green salt from house to house.

The conflict broke out so simply!

(End of this chapter)