Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

On the Leyou plateau, the flags are flying, and the horses are neighing.

Crown Prince Shao Chengjie also came to hunt with a group of Donggong subordinates.

Not many people came here, including Prince Zhan Shi, Beizhou native Cui Xie, Prince Prince guests, Chang'an native Wei Shuo, Prince Xima, Qiongzhou native Liang Zhen, Prince Tongshi Sheren, Yongzhou native Zhong Yunzhang, etc. The only military attaches were One, that is, An Chonghui, the deputy commander of the Prince's Zuowei Army.

Although these people have high positions, they are envied by the people of the time.

After Shao Shude appointed the prince, the prince immediately formed his own team, but he had people in the army, but not many civil servants, so he selected talents from the Jinshi who had trusted him to fill various positions.

These people can be said to have reached the sky in one step, and they are envied by many people.But looking at their peaceful appearance, they didn't seem to care what other people thought, they surrounded the prince and talked softly.

"The king of Yan is in Yunnan, and he is quite popular." Cui Xie said: "I heard that the barbarians in the Xi'er River obeyed him, and everything in Dali and Kunzhou was also well organized. I heard it from far and near, and I thought it was possible. Prince You have to pay attention."

Wei said strangely: "Didn't King Yan want to conquer Yunnan?"

Cui Xie shook his head and said, "Do you really believe it? If you really want to stay in Yunnan, the sage will come back with an edict."

Wei said hesitating for a while, and said, "How about King Yan's military strategy?"

"I didn't see anything before. This time, in the battle of Yazhou, I went south from Chengdu and rushed to help for hundreds of miles. Using myself as bait, I have already earned a wave of favor from the warriors." Cui Xie said: "During the defense of the city, I visited the city several times. He raised his head to boost morale, and then he marched into Yunnan, where the governor and his ministries destroyed the country, he is not mediocre."

"I ask the prince to pay attention to King Yan." Zhong Yunzhang listened for a while, worried in his heart, and said.

In this country, there are only four people who can be called monarchs in a broad sense, namely the emperor, queen, prince, and princess.Others, even the harem concubines, are of high rank and are all ministers.

"Among all the kings, King Yan is indeed the most threatening." Cui Xie said: "I also ask the prince to pay attention to King Yan."

Among the kings, King Yan is the son of the eldest son, and it can be seen that he is not the kind of person who will eat and wait to die. The threat is indeed great.The sage was obviously just worried about Li Tangbin and asked King Yan to be called a coach. Who would have thought that he would add so much drama to himself?

Isn't it good to learn from King Han?When leading the army in Liaodong, all the conquests were paid to the general of the imperial army, and he was only responsible for using the seal. This is the prince who has no ambitions.

As for King Zhao, although Concubine Zhao was posthumously named Empress Mingxian, the threat was much less than that of King Yan.

During the Tang Dynasty, the prince was Li Shi (Dezong), and the prince's biological mother, Shen, disappeared during the war.Daizong chased Concubine Dugu as empress, and the son of Concubine Han Li Jiong had no chance at all, and could not threaten the position of the prince.

In the final analysis, King Yan, who was also produced by Empress Zhe, was the greatest threat.

"My brother and friend, brother Gong, how could it be as serious as what you said?" Shao Chengjie was tired of hearing it, stared at him, and said: "It's nothing at all, it's all you guys talking nonsense every day, even if there is no wind, it will cause waves .”

"Prince!" Wei said anxiously.

"Prince, please think twice, don't take it lightly." Cui Xie glanced around, saw that they were all his own people, and said in a low voice: "It is necessary to guard against others. A few days ago, the sage hosted Changhe at the Hanliang Palace. During the banquet, someone talked about the past events since King Yan’s Southern Expedition, and the sage Long Yan was very happy, and he laughed and said, "This child is like me."

What Cui Xie said was very poisonous.

"Like me" has been said by many people.

Liu Bang once said that the prince is "benevolent and weak, not like me."

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty said that Emperor Zhaodi of the Han Dynasty "is like me."

Li Shimin also said, "Wu Wang Keying is like me."

This kind of words may not have any deep meaning to the founding monarch. They may just say it casually when they are disappointed or happy.

Considering political influence all the time is a sign of insufficient control, which is usually the case for future generations of kings.

Liu Bang and Li Shimin's words have a high degree of freedom and randomness, and you can interpret them however you like.

Shao Shude was overjoyed, and casually said, what can you do?

This kind of thing, after a hundred years after the founding of the country, may be studied by the old bureaucrats as a political signal.

But in the early days of Emperor Ma's founding, this was a signal, and that was another signal. Are you a signal transmitter?

Some of the founding generals may be from petty officials, some may be from butchers, and some may be from thieves. Are you bothered by so many signals every day?If you have time, why don't you go and see if the people have enough farm cattle, do more practical things, don't spend all your time thinking about politics, don't you want to govern the country?State affairs are corrupted by you old bureaucrats, right?
Shao Shude said that King Yan was "like me", and most people thought that King Yan did a good job in Yunnan, which made the sage happy, but you, Cui Xie, are talking too much to sow discord.

Prince Xi Ma Liang Zhen glanced at him, but said nothing.

The prince formed a team, but there was a shortage of manpower, and all the stupid people were recruited. It seems that there will be a cleanup in the future.

Cui Xie's words might be known to the sage, and I'm afraid it will not end well.

"Wait!" Shao Chengjie was also a little unhappy, and said, "I know better than you the process of the sage making me the crown prince. The sage taught me, especially the ability to command the army. I know the talents of the other brothers better than you. Even if someone is born with ambition, it is better to come out than to be in command of the army. Can you compare with me? If you can’t compare, just stay aside. I am rich and honored all my life. If I am restless, I will make peace with myself. I am such a man, so don't say more!"

Cui Xie and Wei said that they were ashamed and retreated in embarrassment.

"Liang Xima, what are you thinking?" Shao Chengjie turned to look at Liang Zhen who had been silent until now, and asked.

Liang Zhen saluted unhurriedly, and said, "I'm thinking that the crown prince's position is as stable as Mount Tai. After the new year, the sage may issue an edict ordering the crown prince to act in military and state affairs."

"How do you know?" Shao Chengjie asked with great interest.

Liang Zhen pointed to the sages, generals, and chieftains of the tribe who were hunting on the plateau, and said: "The sages often feel that they are not treated by others when they want to go west. Last year when they attacked Yunnan, most of their military use was taken from the southern barbarians, and there is nothing in the country. Injured, the common people were able to recuperate. After the sage visited Beijing, he heard that he often read the classics in the palace to learn about the customs of the Western Regions. He also went to the lecture hall several times to deduce wars with the generals. Today, all the heroes are gathered, and the Western Expedition is not far away. .”

"It makes sense." Shao Chengjie praised: "It's rewarding."

Liang Zhen bowed to thank him, and continued: "But the timing of the westward expedition is not very good. Huainan has only been pacified for two years, and the people's hearts have not recovered. The Bohai Kingdom seems to be peaceful, but it still needs a large army to be stationed, so we can't leave it lightly. As for Yunnan, It was only this year that the chaos was settled, and the chaos was raging. Whether the King of Yan can control the situation is a matter of fact. The sage is the jade pillar of the kingdom. Once he leaves, some thieves may feel that there is an opportunity to jump out and make trouble. At this time, someone needs to engage in military and state affairs. This kind of thing, the prime minister’s name is not right, the empress can’t do it, only the prince is the most suitable.”

If there are thieves who make trouble, it is necessary to send troops to suppress it.

If the emperor is not in the country, who can lead the army?You can't hand it over to the General of the Forbidden Army, right?That is impossible and very dangerous.

Only the prince is the most suitable.

He successively pacified the three major forces of Li Maozhen, Ma Yin, and Yang Wo, and also participated in the war against the Bohai Kingdom. It was he who brought down the southern states.If he is a commander, he is a real commander, because he really knows how to fight.

"Liang Qing can teach Zuo De." Shao Chengjie said happily.

Liang Zhen thanked him again, but did not refuse.

Cui Xie and Wei said they were a little jealous.It's really abominable that Liang Zhen is stepping on his colleagues.

"Let's go, it's time for the sons and daughters of the Eastern Palace to go into battle, don't let the Tibetans look down on you." Shao Chengjie asked someone to bring a horse, turned over and rode it, and said with a smile.

"Obey!" An Zhonghui immediately called to the prince's guard generals who came with him, and got on their horses together.

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Shao Shude rode his horse back, threw down two rabbits and a pheasant, and said, "Cook it, and share it with others later."

The chieftains of the tribe also happily took down their prey, and the sage will comment on who has killed more, so that they can be rewarded.

Some people even argued, because some prey was hit by two arrows. This person said that I shot the neck and it was mine, and that person said that I shot the body and it was mine.

Shao Shude laughed out loud when he saw it.

The chieftains arguing in front of him, in a deeper sense, is a kind of recognition for him, an attitude of submission.If you don't really obey, you don't bother to fight.

To deepen your relationship with literati, you have to talk about poetry with them.

To deepen your relationship with Chief Hao, you have to hunt together.

Riding and shooting is the basic skill of the emperor, and it must not be left behind.

Not to mention Li Shimin's martial arts, Tang Xuanzong Li Longji was able to ride a horse to hunt, and even shot a rabbit. The Turkic Khan's envoy dismounted himself, picked up the prey and offered it.

I don't know when, the emperors of the Central Plains lost this basic skill, probably because they didn't need to rule the grassland tribes.

Suddenly, there was a burst of enthusiastic applause on the plateau.

Everyone looked up, and it turned out that the prince shot two pheasants with one arrow, and everyone was amazed.

"That's my son, what do you think?" Shao Shude asked with a finger on his horsewhip.

"Sure enough, it is the seed of Khan!" Someone praised.

"If it's not Khan's son, he is enough to be my son-in-law." Another person said.

"Haha!" Everyone laughed.

Shao Shude also laughed, pointed at the man with a horsewhip, and said: "Ba Yegu, if your daughter is beautiful, you can marry me. I say what I say, and it means what I say!"

"Thank you Kehan!" Ba Yegu was overjoyed, and said, "I have twenty daughters, let them come over next year, let the little prince choose."

"Then it's settled." Shao Shude said with a smile: "Your family was one of the Turkic and Uyghur Yuyue back then, right? That's also aristocratic, so you won't humiliate my son."

The name Ba Yegu is a common surname on the grassland, one of the thirty Tatar surnames, and later evolved into Barhu Mongolia.

At the beginning of the Turkic period, Tatars with the [-]th surname lived in the area east of Lake Baikal and north of the West La Moron River. They had a close relationship with Shiwei and intermarried with each other. Some scholars even directly believed that they were Shiwei people.

After the Turks conquered them, they, together with the Khitan, Mohe, Shiwei and other tribes, were called "the people of the East".

When Yili Khan died, the Thirty Tatars sent people to Turkic to pay homage.

In the early years of the Tang Dynasty, because the Turkic Khans continued to wage wars and imposed excessive taxes, the vassal tribes were squeezed too much, and they couldn't stand it, and they all belonged to the Tang Dynasty.The Tang Dynasty seized the favorable opportunity and destroyed the Turkic Khanate in the fourth year of Zhenguan (630).

Thirty Tatars also contributed to it, so they were hated by the Turks.

In the first year of Yongchun (682), the Turks took advantage of the excessive taxation of the Tang Dynasty, and the tribes were squeezed too much. They couldn't stand the favorable opportunity and gathered people to fight against the Tang Dynasty. They established the post-Turkic regime, and the Thirty Tatars also contributed to it.Later, the Turks organized the tribes into the left and right chambers, and the Tatars with [-] surnames living in the Greater Khingan Mountains were organized into the left chamber, and the leaders of each tribe had official positions.

After the establishment of the Uighur, the Thirty Tatars continued to submit to the Uighur.

After the Uighur collapsed, they moved westward one after another.Because the Xia Dynasty was effective in attacking the Yinshan Tatars, the Tatars with nine surnames in the west suffered heavy losses. The White Tatars, which were closely related to Li Keyong's family, were annexed by the Xia Dynasty, and the Heiche Shiwei (also known as the Heiche Tatars) was also vassalized by various vassals. The Dangxiang tribe shared the food, and the rest of the tribes either merged with the Hexi Dangxiang or fled after hearing the news. The Thirty-surnamed Tatars did not encounter major obstacles in their westward migration-but then again, even if the Nine-surnamed Tatars are complete, they still It is difficult to resist the westward migration of the Thirty Tatars.

The Ba Yegu family successively surrendered to the Turkic, later Turkic, and Uighur, and now they surrendered to the Xia Dynasty. They were all conferred official positions.

"Next year I will conquer the Uighurs in the west, and you will all contribute to this battle." Shao Shude said: "I think you have also seen that Xiang Zhuanglang, the Queen of the Mountains, Xiang Wang, Bai Daochuan, Qibi, and others who followed me in the early years But the Hun clan of Duncheng, the Geshu clan of Nuozhen Shui, the Cai clan of Dijin Zewei, etc., have more tribes, more cattle and sheep, and some of their descendants have entered the court as officials, or married into the heavenly family. They are extremely rich. They do not obey my orders. The nine-surname Tatar Yinshan Absi has long been wiped out. How to choose, you should think about it carefully."

"Great Khan, the Turkic Khan once erected a monument on the grassland in the past, and the leaders of various tribes such as Miaogas, Gu Ligan, Thirty Tatars, Khitan, and Xi all participated in the event." Ba Yegu said: "The ministers are willing to serve The Great Khan erected this monument."

Shao Shude was overjoyed, looked at the other leaders and asked, "What about you?"

Everyone knelt down and said in unison: "I would like to erect a monument for the Great Khan."

Shao Shude's face was rosy, he raised his eyes to look north, and suddenly waved.

"Your Majesty!" Han Quanhui walked over.

"Decree to the Privy Council and the Court of Lifan, the king of Xi Suzhi, the princes and chieftains of the seven holy states, the leaders of the Shiwei tribes, the Jurchen governors of the five states, the six patrol envoys, and the palace supervisors, at the end of April next year I rushed to Heichengzi before, so there must be no mistakes."

"In the fourth year of Qianning (897), I once said—" Shao Shude continued: "This year, I will go north to Yudujin Mountain and order the Tatars to build a palace for me. I will go to the west of the holy peak of Yudujin Mountain Establish my own tooth tent, and engrave my eternal edict on the stone tablet. I am the supreme khan blessed by the heavens. I use the earth to raise the people of Tartar, Oguz and Bayangu. I want to ask the sin Do not submit to my tribe, let them cry and beg, and offer the most beautiful maidens and warriors of the tribe."

After finishing speaking, he pointed the horsewhip at the chiefs and said, "Because of attacking Zhu Quanzhong back then, I failed to realize my wish. Now, no one can stop me. You——you can immediately contribute to the glory of the Great Khan."

"Supreme Khan!" Everyone bowed down one after another.

Han Quanhui left quietly, and ordered the Shang Palace to draft an order and send it to the Privy Council and the Lifan Court.

Next year, the Qibei Grassland will definitely mobilize teachers and mobilize people, and the scene will be grand.

The alliance is sacred, solemn, and serious.Once it is completed, after the Turks and the Uyghurs, another generation of Khans who rule the grasslands in the south and north of Qi will arise.