Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 1534 National Conference (monthly ticket plus 3)

On both sides of the Kunshui River, a new round of spring sowing has begun again.

Due to the lack of various materials, this year we still only sow seeds on the scale of last year, and we do not blindly expand the scale.

Farmers are 3000 Tutuan villagers recruited from Ling, Sheng, and Feng prefectures.Arrived in May last year, and then with the assistance of some captives, they leveled the land and planted rye and oats.

To be honest, last year's land reclamation was a bit rushed, and the time was also rushed, which made everything go wrong.In the eyes of these native farmers who are used to farming the land, the sixty-seven-dollar harvest per mu has simply set a new record for their careers.

But there is no way.The appetite is too great, and more than a hundred hectares of fields have been cultivated. There are a lot of grass roots and grass seeds left in the fields, and no deep plowing has been carried out.

That is to say, no one has planted this land for thousands of years, and there are more nutrients in the land, otherwise Liudou would not be able to harvest it.

This year is considered to be the second year in this field, and the yield per mu should be better than last year, but most of it will not reach one dendrobium, and if there are eight or nine bushels, it will be high incense.

Feng Zangzhi, envoy of the Hengye Army, and Xiao Dilu, deputy envoy of the Luoyan Army, rode their horses around the field, looking at the flat farmland, quite satisfied.

"I heard that the Huns, Turks, and Uyghurs all used to farm on the grasslands. Where is this?" Feng Zangzhi asked.

"I don't know." Xiao Dilu said, "The Uighurs have been exiled for a long time, and there are very few people who can write. There are small-scale farming.”

"If there is no rye, it would be too risky to farm in the grassland." Feng Zangzhi said, "What will happen to Heichengzi in the future depends entirely on the sage."

"Heichengzi looks a bit isolated and helpless. Once something happens, I'm afraid I won't be able to react in time." Xiao Dilu said.

He is a Khitan, and he is very clear about the situation in the grassland.

What do low-level herdsmen know?Thousands of years of customs and traditions have told them that what the leader says is what they say, and it is right to follow the leader.If an ambitious person came out and surrounded Heichengzi, it would be difficult to persist for a long time.

As for whether there are ambitious people here... needless to say?
At that time, the Turkic aristocrats took advantage of the excessive oppression of the Tang court, and everyone complained about it. They encouraged various ministries to rebel against the Tang Dynasty and established the post-Turkish. This is a living example.

Ambitious people are only temporarily dormant due to the situation, they have been waiting for an opportunity!If you can't wait, let your son and grandson continue to wait, there will always be a chance, right?
In fact, after the spring of this year, some unknown people came to spy on it.

Xiao Dilu was very nervous for a while.Gein Heichengzi's city walls are short and broken, and there are only one thousand Hengye Army and one thousand Luoyan Army each in the city. If there is really a large-scale rebellion, this is not enough people.

Fortunately, the deterrence of last year's big victory is still there, and nothing happened in the end, and it has survived safely until now.

"Report, the people from Prince Yeli's family are here." A rider came galloping from a distance, approached, got off his horse and bowed.

"Get up." Xiao Dilu looked at his nephew Shao Zanhua, and asked kindly, "How many people are here?"

"More than ten people." Shao Zanhua replied.

He is 16 years old this year. His nickname is Tuyu. He used to be named Yelubei. He is the son of Abaoji and Yueliduo. His current name is Shao Zanhua. years.

He's out of ideas right now.

The new father treated him very well, rewarded him with a lot of property, and he also had a quite spacious house in Luoyang.Even though he joined the army in order to gain fame and wealth, he was assigned to be under his uncle Xiao Dilu, which was regarded as taking good care of him.

"Fortunately, there are too many people coming, and it's not easy to eat and drink all the time." Xiao Dilu heaved a sigh of relief.

Although the weather this year is not bad, the pasture has turned green by more than half in the first ten days of April, but the amount of grain, grass, cattle and sheep stored in Heichengzi is still very limited.

"Lead all the people to the foot of Wudeyan Mountain and let them set up their own tents." Feng Zangzhi said from the side, "Let the leader of Prince Yeli's family come to see me."

"Of order." Shao Zanhua got on his horse and sent the order to go.

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On the seventh day of April, news came from the south that Shengjia had arrived at Jiyuquan.

Ten miles north of this place, you enter Qikou.In another month at most, the sage will arrive in Heichengzi.

At this time, more than a dozen Hexi Dangxiang departments came one after another, each ranging from a dozen to dozens of people, and all of them were arranged at the eastern foot of Wudeyan Mountain.

On April [-]th, Li Shouxin, the new prime minister of Taichang Temple, and Yang Zhao, prime minister of Guanglu Temple, arrived in Heichengzi together to arrange various reception matters.Together with them, there are a group of people headed by Zhang Suqing, a calligrapher and painter, and Yang Ningshi, a Hanlin scholar. The alliance ceremony has entered the substantive preparation stage.

On April [-], almost all party items in Hexi had arrived.

A few days later, even the chieftains of Liaodong also came.They crossed almost the entire grassland, and they were exhausted. In history, it took Abaoji several months to fight from Liaodong to Fengzhou, but naturally it would not take so long for a few people to travel.

On April 26, there were thousands of chieftains and their entourage gathered in Heichengzi, with all kinds of costumes and accents, which made people dazzled.

Feng Zangzhi, Xiao Dilu, Li Shouxin and others were also busy without touching the ground. Together with Uruk, the most famous shaman on the Qibei grassland, they discussed the procedure of the alliance.

"The last empire on the grassland is the Uyghur. Its codes are common to all ministries, and the ceremony of the alliance should be based on this." Li Shouxin said.

After speaking, he glanced at Uruk, the shaman with the same name as the wizard in Uyghur myths and legends.

Uruk smiled back and said, "Very good. In fact, this has been done on the Qibei grassland since the Huns. According to the Han people, it is the law of the ancestors."

"Then I would like to ask the great shaman to give a brief explanation." Li Shouxin said.

"Okay." Uruk said: "If you use a term that the Han people can understand, it is to hold a 'national meeting'..."

Uruk explained it in great detail.

"Guoren" means "noble person".Because of the particularity of the nomadic economy and the concept of the traditional family property system, since the Xiongnu, the system of enfeoffment has been practiced on the grasslands.

The Khan needs to meet the needs of every local force and tribal group under his rule in exchange for the loyalty and follow of the leaders of these local forces to the Khan.This is true for the Xiongnu Shanyu, Turkic Khan, and Uyghur Khan, without exception.

Khan also needs to discuss important matters in the country with these nobles who represent local forces.

Taking the Xiongnu as an example, the nobles gathered in the royal court three times a year to hold "court meetings" to discuss state affairs.These three meetings are regular meetings. If there is an emergency, Shan Yu will send someone to notify and hold an additional meeting temporarily.

Participants included shamans, relatives of the Shanyu/Khan, and local nobles.

The power of the nobleman/national council is very great, because the vast majority of the population of the steppe empire is controlled by the nobles, and Khan is just the biggest nobleman.

In the early Tang Dynasty, there was a story of Guo Ziyi riding back to the Uighur alone.At that time, five of the Uyghur army were located in Yue (prime minister). Guo Ziyi relied on his old relationship and personal charm to persuade them, making Yu Yue doubt what Pugu Huaien said.Therefore, even though the military commander insisted on attacking, the five Vietnam convened a national meeting and made a decision to withdraw troops.

The decisions made by the National People's Congress are above all else, higher than Shanyu/Khan's orders.

In fact, this is the tribal democratic deliberation system.The tradition has a long history, and even until the end of the Ming Dynasty, Hou Jin also had a similar political system, which can be glimpsed.

An important topic of the National People's Congress is the election of the Khan.

Unlike the Khitan system where the term of office is three years and anyone can stand for election, the Uyghur Khan is a lifelong system, and in principle is inherited by the eldest son.

In the Uighur era, they used a system called "Shixuan", that is, the successor of the Khan was selected first among the descendants of the "Yaoluoge" family.When the first Khan passed away and the new Khan hadn't succeeded to the throne, Yuyue usually supervised the country temporarily to handle various affairs, and then convened a national meeting.

At this time, there is actually room for manipulation.If Yu Yue is very capable and has a high prestige, he may replace Yao Luoge's descendants and become the new Khan.But even if the bloodline of the Khan has changed, the new Khan still takes Yaoluoge as his surname. Looking at the history of the Uyghurs, such examples are not uncommon—like Gaochang Uyghur Pu Gujun who directly usurped the throne without changing the surname , is indeed a minority.

"Back then, Guli Pei Luo established the Uyghur Khanate and became Khan, what happened?" Li Shouxin asked again.

"The Han people have the theory of 'rule of law', and the grassland also has it." Urugu smiled slightly, and said: "In the last years of the Turkic Khanate, the world was in chaos. Guli Pei Luo first followed Ashina Shi in the army, made many military exploits, and won the 'Ye Hu' After that, he defeated Juan Que Teqin, Usumish Khan, Pugu, Tong Luo and other ministries. He also joined forces with Ge Luolu to defeat the old master Ashinashi. Then he turned against Ge Luolu and competed in Mobei , drove him far to the Western Regions. After doing these things, Guli Pei Luo calmly killed the last Turkic Khan (Baimei Khan), ending Ashina's rule over the grassland."

Gu Li Pei Luo's father was the leader of the Uighur Tribe, and once served as the governor of Tang Hanhai. Later, he was falsely accused of treason and exiled to Lingnan by Tang Xuanzong.

Guli Pei Luo then defected to the Turks. In the last days of the Turkic Khanate, he showed extraordinary military talent and super maneuvering ability, and finally killed the last Turkic Khan in one fell swoop, ending the rule of the Ashina family. The grassland ushered in The era of medicine Luoge.

"After Guli Pei Luo killed Baimei Khan, everyone was consecrated by the Tang Dynasty, so he became a great khan. This is only one of the reasons." Uruk said: "The real reason is that a national meeting was held, and everyone promoted Guli. Pei Luo was a khan and established the Uyghur Khanate. Without this meeting, Guli Pei Luo would not be a real Khan, no matter whether he was canonized by the Tang Dynasty or not."

Li Shouxin used to read only the history books of the Han region, but this is the first time he heard the narration from another angle, and found it quite interesting.If you listen to it, you will understand that the canonization of the Tang Dynasty only consolidated the status of Guli Pei Luo, but it still lacks "legitimacy" and "orthodoxy". This requires the convening of a national meeting.

"The Uighurs are dead today, the grasslands have no owners, and all the tribes have gathered together." Li Shouxin said: "The leaders who came to participate in the meeting can be regarded as Chinese?"

"Yes." Uruk said.

"Then are you qualified to hold a National Assembly?"

"Have."

"That's good." Li Shouxin said with a smile: "After the National People's Meeting, the new Khan elected is the only Allah of the grassland?"

"Yes."

"After the new Khan ascended the throne, the Gaochang Pugu family and the Cong Xiyao Luoge family have stolen the Khan's position. They should be punished. Is there a problem?"

"No."

"So, prepare quickly." Li Shouxin said.

At the same time, he was going to report the situation to the saint.

The saint's previous title, "Supreme Khan", is strictly a self-proclaimed title and has not gone through any procedures.It's just that it is powerful and has a fait accompli, and no one dares to object.

Now all the tribes in Qibei are there, and after being elected by the national people's meeting, he is the undisputed Khan, just like Guli Peiluo back then, which is equivalent to the founding of the country.

After the founding of the country, the sage was the emperor of the newly established khanate on the grassland, and there was no flaw in orthodoxy.

Some things seem unnecessary.But you'd better be really "overkill", because many people believe this "overkill".

(End of this chapter)