Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 1541 New Order

On the evening of the second day of August, Shao Shude arrived in Tingzhou and stayed in the Uighur Xiadu Palace.

The bloodstains in the city were not clear, thousands of people were in panic, and there were occasional cries and cries. If you look carefully, it turns out that some family members were killed.

Shao Shude sent people to make an unannounced visit. It turned out that when the army entered the city, soldiers burned, killed, looted, and raped women. Although it was quickly stopped, hundreds of people were still killed.

He didn't intend to pursue it.

The game between the general and the sergeant has never stopped.Stronger than Li Shimin, facing the soldiers' request to massacre the city, there was no way to stop him, so he could only pay for the lives of the people in the city.The slaves that the sergeants snatched before he stopped them could not be retrieved, and they could only be redeemed with money.

People walk thousands of miles with you, fight with your head up, and don't care about your own body. You must distinguish the seriousness from the seriousness.Don't lose the morale of the army for the sake of uniting the front to conquer the people in the area—it may not be effective in the short term—and lead to defeat in the next battle. This is the so-called picking sesame seeds and throwing watermelons, which is very unwise.

"Count the property in the city, and reward the siege sergeants as appropriate. Then reiterate the military discipline, and don't disturb the people without orders." Shao Shude ordered: "I don't want any of the palace men in the Uighur palace. I will reward all the meritorious soldiers."

The secretary, Lang Cui, moved his pen like flying, and wrote down the order.

The property seized was mainly cotton cloth, which should have been transported from Xizhou, Yizhou and other places, and was used as a reward for the ministries during the northern tour of Yiduhu.

In Uyghur society, cotton cloth was the main transaction currency.

The envoys of the Song Dynasty came to Kucha and recorded: "There are marketplaces in the country city but no money and goods, so we use flower pistils to buy goods."

To put it simply, it is a kind of coarse cotton cloth "four feet long and one circumference wide" with the seal of the Uighur Khan on it as a general equivalent.After the cotton cloth becomes old, it should be washed and stamped again every seven years.

Later generations unearthed a sales contract written in the Uyghur language of Gaochang Uyghur, which read: "On the second day of the twelfth lunar month in the Year of the Monkey (the year of the Uyghur), I, Tiete Milig and Kara Buhua, were in need of expenses. Sold a woman named Kutruh for 150 (pieces) of cheesecloth from Kutruh Temur..."

Of course, cheesecloth is only the most widely used currency.In the Uighur society, the silk from the Central Plains was more valuable and was often used as a high-value settlement currency—in this regard, the Central Plains was completely reversed, and the price of silk was much lower than that of cotton cloth.

The above is mainly for internal trade. In foreign trade, cotton cloth cannot be used.The Uyghurs used copper coins from the Tang Dynasty, Sasanian silver coins, and silk from the Central Plains to trade with the natives of Central Asia, including the enemy Karakhan.

Shao Shude rewarded the sergeants with cotton cloth, and everyone was willing to accept it, because it was really more valuable than silk, although the price of this item had already been reduced for a round - due to the influx of Yunnan cotton cloth into the Central Plains, the price plummeted, and it has just rebounded this year a little.

"Let the leaders of the surrendered tribes come to see me." Shao Shude said again.

"Obey." Han Quanhui, who was standing on the sidelines, immediately sent Xiao Huangmen to pass on the message.

After a while, several people headed by Ah Chuo entered the hall, paid respects and said: "See the king of heaven."

"Why do you call me Heavenly King? I'm not Pu Gujun." Shao Shude asked in Uighur.

"You are the King of Light, our Holy Tomorrow Khan, just like the sun god and moon god we expected," said one person.

This remark smelled like Manichaeism, Shao Shude smiled and asked, "What's your name?"

"Abus."

This name should come from the Basimi tribe, who is one of the natives of Beiting.

"How many members are there?"

"There are 2 people."

In fact, there were not so many. It was almost the same number before being harmed by Wang Yanzhang, but after chasing and fighting, there were at most [-] to [-].

"Why do you want to surrender to Ben Khan?"

"The Great Khan is the Allah of the Grassland. Compared with the Great Khan, the Pugu clan, the Yaoluoge clan, and the Ada clan are not heroes."

"The iron law of the Uyghur, you can't be called a Khan unless you are a member of the Luo Ge family. I am a Han Chinese and I have also become a profuse Khan. Are you really willing to surrender?"

Speaking of this, Shao Shude suddenly called Juan Niang.When he first married her off, the prince was still depressed for a long time.

Isn't Juanniang's surname Yaoluoge?Well, I made a little mistake. If I knew it earlier, I wouldn't accept her as a righteous daughter, and kept it for the prince.

"Great Khan is creating a new country, just like Guli Pei Luo established the Uyghur back then. There is no need to follow the rules that you can't be called a Khan unless you are a medicine Luoge. Naturally, you are willing to surrender."

"Since that's the case, I will give you the post of Yili Jin, and you will still live in Puleihai." Shao Shude said: "However, at this time of using the army, you need to recruit young men to fight for me."

"Thank you, Khan." Albus thanked again happily.

"Born wise and supreme Khan, your land stretches from the sea in the east to the Altai Mountains in the west. Under your happy rule, no matter it is the holy peak Bahe, Biesha Bali (summer capital), Gaochang (winter capital), Let's sing and dance, praise and praise." Another person stepped forward and said.

"What's your name?" Shao Shude asked.

"Ali bones from the Khazar Ministry."

"You are from the Khazar Ministry, so why didn't you join Pang Teqin?" Shao Shude wondered.

Uighurs are actually divided into core tribes and peripheral tribes.

The inner nine surnames with Yaoluoge as the core (later added the Adi family and became the ten surnames) are Uyghur orthodox own people, with Pugu, Tongluo, Hun, Qibi, Ge Luolu, etc. as the outer nine surnames, To put it bluntly, it is the peripheral tribes who surrendered to the Uyghur Khan. After all, it is impossible for a grassland empire to have only one race or nation.

Khazar is one of the ten surnames in China.

After moving westward, because the Khan was still alive, Pang Teqin called himself Ye Hu in Yanqi, and Pugujun also surrendered to him in name, "there were as many as 20 people".Generally speaking, people with the ten core Uyghur surnames are mixed up with Pang Teqin whose surname is Yaoluoge.

"In the past, when the Uighurs perished, some went south to Tang, some returned to Khitan, some went south to Ganzhou, and some moved west. In fact, some people did not leave..." Khasa explained.

It turns out that in the west of the Uyghur Khanate near the Altai Mountains, many tribes did not leave (maybe there were some Magegas mixed in), they were ruled by Pugu Junji, and they obeyed the orders of Gaochang, the Khazar tribe (only the entire Khazar tribe) Part of it) is also among them - this part of people was called "Nianbage" in the Liao Dynasty, and later merged with the Tatars who moved westward, and there may be some Gaochang Uighurs who went north and evolved into "Naiman".

"How many people do you have?" Shao Shude asked.

"There are only three thousand soldiers." Ali Gu smiled wryly, "The tribe was captured by the soldiers of the Great Khan. I heard about it in Xizhou and fled back overnight. Unexpectedly, I was attacked head-on by General Zhe and surrendered."

"So that's how it is." Shao Shude nodded, and said: "Dingkou of your department has been captured by the army, and I can't take it back at will, but I can send back your relatives and family members."

"Thank you Khan." Ali Gu was overjoyed.

"I gave you the post of Dagan (General), and I will lead troops to fight for me in the future. As long as you make meritorious deeds, there will always be women, cattle and sheep. If you rob property, I will be the master for you and redeem Dingkou back. "

"Of order." Ali Gu replied.

After these two people, Shao Shude received several leaders, but there were not many soldiers and horses, it was miserable.

Shao Shude comforted him a bit and gave him the duties.

After doing this, his style of painting has also changed a little...

A bunch of Meilu, Dagan, Yilijin, and Lin Ya around him gradually filled up the positions of the Khanate. If the country was established in Beiting at this time, the somewhat crude court framework could be roughly functioning, of course. It operates in the way of the steppe khanate.

simply put--

A Chu Meilu is the prime minister of his royal court, dealing with various tribes, still in charge of his old business, and in charge of finance and taxation.

Aligu was the general at the center of the Khanate, commanding a 2000-strong army. If his prestige was high enough, he could also command the converging tribal soldiers, as was the case in the Uyghur Khanate era.

Absi and others are Yi Li Jin, who have their own tribe and submit to the Great Khan.

Fuck, his profuse sweat is getting more and more authentic.

After pacifying the Western Regions, he had to integrate his Khan Court with the upcoming reform of the Beiya Privy Council and the Lifan Court.To be more precise, he needs to reorganize his assets in the grasslands and the assets in the Central Plains, and combine them into one—these two family businesses are all earned by me, so it is better to exchange shares for each other and merge and go public.

After the chiefs left, the city was visited by Manichean monks.

Shao Shude wasn't very interested at first, but he chatted with them patiently.

The reason why their attitudes changed drastically was probably because they were disturbed by Wu Fu.After all, in this day and age, everyone knows that the temple is rich, and it is impossible not to beat the bone and suck the marrow.

But Shao Shude still received their Fu Duodan, because it might be useful when attacking Xizhou and other places.

Furthermore, he now needs to stabilize the situation in Beiting as soon as possible, because it is not far from winter, and if he fights again, many people will starve to death and freeze to death this winter—he will definitely not be able to freeze and starve his army, because They have cattle and sheep, which are already fattening up, and the army is a violent machine, which can be plundered to supplement consumption, but it is not a problem if a large number of people starve to death.

The influence of Manichaeism in the local area is not small. If they are willing to help, under the deterrence of the army, it is relatively easy to obtain superficial surrender.

After the Manichaeism Fududan left, the Buddhist master came again.

This group of people is even more shameless, and even gave some sensitive gifts.After Shao Shude saw it, he was powerless to refuse, and accepted it tacitly.

"If, as the mage said, Vija Khan suffered consecutive defeats and Gaochang's people panicked, I will be relieved." Shao Shude said.

The monks in the Western Regions are very different from those in the Central Plains.They control large tracts of land, shops, and farmers in the society, and they are deeply involved in various major political affairs—maybe not directly involved, but the indirect influence is certain.

"In a few days, you can go south with me." Shao Shude said.

Wang Yanzhang's department has already gone south.

The soldiers and horses near Tingzhou will rest for another day tomorrow, and will go south the day after tomorrow to join the ranks of besieging Gaochang.

Shao Shude was a little later than them because he was waiting for the tribal leader from the northwest to visit him.

After Zhu Jin went west, she fought several battles, and then continued to recruit, and gradually some tribal leaders were willing to surrender.

He has now arrived in the area of ​​the former Dudufu in the desert state (now Altay), which is theoretically the territory of the Uighurs in Gaochang, and the local tribes surrendered to Gaochang.But in fact, it's just a grass on the wall, and it's hard to say what the position is.

Zhu Jin has not met Ge Luolu people so far, but Shao Shude felt that he only had [-] soldiers, which was a bit small, so he ordered Wang Jianji and He Gui to lead [-] cavalry to the north to reinforce, and by the way, subdue the tribes and order them to come. drop.

Fighting is only one aspect, establishing your own order is the most important thing.

(End of this chapter)