Neon Clothes and Iron Clothes

Chapter 554 Two Inscriptions
"Guo Langjun, it is precisely because the emperor ordered us to lead the army to conquer, so we have to prepare more before sending troops!" Ashina said sincerely: "Qinling, the chief general of the Tubo people, has never been defeated since he led the army. But don’t underestimate it!”

Guo Daifeng sneered and said: "Zuo Zuo is just a barbarian. The so-called undefeated is just that he has never met an opponent. Once the imperial army arrives, won't it collapse?"

Xue Rengui turned his head and looked at Guo Daifeng coldly, Beifeng whispered in their ears, the war horse stomped its hooves and neighed softly, everyone could smell the embarrassment and embarrassment.

"Mr. Guo Lang, whether you are a barbarian or a Han Chinese, the arrows you shoot can kill people, and sometimes barbarians are more accurate!" Xue Rengui straightened the reins.

At least Guo Daifeng wasn't stupid enough to argue with Xue Rengui directly, he turned his head to look at the tree beside him and didn't speak.Xue Rengui jumped off the horse and said: "Dig the surrounding area too. If this is really the scene of the oath of the Tibetans, there should be something like a stone or copper plate recording the covenant!"

As dusk fell, the cloudless sky turned bruised, as if he had just been beaten, and the moon climbed up from the hills, casting bleak moonlight on the mounds, which brought some bad memories to Xue Rengui, He spat on the ground and couldn't help thinking of some indecent things he'd done before he got rich.

"Why so slow?" Guo Daifeng asked, at this time the moon had already climbed over his shoulder.

"It's winter now, this is not Chang'an, the ground has been frozen hard, so it's not easy to dig!" Ashina said in a really cold voice, the words of Guo Daifeng just now made his impression of him even worse.

Guo Daifeng snorted coldly, but did not speak. At this time, a wolf howled from a distance, and gusts of cold wind swept across the wasteland. His mink cloak trembled behind him, as if it had life.Ashina really became serious: "There's something wrong here!"

"Really?" Guo Daifeng sneered, "Because of howling wolves? I thought you were familiar with this!"

Ashina Daozhen was furious when he heard the words, and stared at Guo Daifeng viciously. He came from the Turkic royal family, and his surname Ashina originally meant "wolf" in Turkic. Xue Rengui sighed secretly, and was about to explain to the two of them. , but heard cheers from the soldiers in the pit: "Dug it, dug it!"

The bright moonlight shone on the slate, and one could clearly see that it was engraved with handwriting, but it was not in Chinese. Xue Rengui coughed: "Find an interpreter who knows Tubo script, and find out what is written on it!"

"No need!" Ashina Daozhen's face was as pale as death: "It's written in Turkic characters!"

"Turkic script?" Xue Rengui was taken aback: "How could it be Turkic script? Isn't this an oath made by the Tubo people?"

"Because the party who made the covenant is Turkic, there are Turkic characters on this slate!" Ashina said in a low voice: "There should be Tubo characters on the other side of the slate. If I guessed correctly, one of the two parties to the covenant should be Tubo people, one side is Turkic people!"

Xue Rengui turned the stone slab over, and sure enough, as Ashina Daozhen said, the other side of the slate was engraved with a different kind of script, and he called a translator who was proficient in Tubo script to have a look, and it turned out to be Tubo script. The general idea is that the two sides form an alliance to jointly fight against the invasion of the Tang people. If there is any violation, the heaven and the earth will not tolerate it, and the gods will swallow it. There are several names at the end of the stone slab. There are Tubo people and Turkic people. It is Ashina, who should be a nobleman among the Turkic people.

"Khan don't need to think about it!" Xue Rengui comforted: "It's not yet confirmed whether this matter is true or not. Maybe it's a conspiracy by the Tubo people. Besides, it doesn't matter even if it is true. Ashina is a noble surname in Turks, and there are many people. Very well, even if there are a few traitors who don't know how to obey and rebel, it's nothing, the Turkic people are loyal to Datang!"

There is a reason for Xue Rengui's remarks. Since the fourth year of Zhenguan (630 A.D.) after the Tang Dynasty destroyed the Turks, and the Tang Dynasty adopted a policy of win over its upper class, in the next few decades, the Turkic people generally He has always been subject to the Tang Dynasty, and most of the military victories the Tang army achieved during the reign of Emperor Taizong and Gaozong were attributed to the Turks.But under this harmonious surface, there is not no countercurrent.Among the Turkic aristocrats, there were also those who constantly recruited them to conquer the Tang Dynasty, lost their children and soldiers, and gained very little. This kind of mentality is vividly reflected in the famous Que Teqin inscription. At the end of the ninth century, it was discovered by Russian scholars on the bank of Hushuchaidam Lake in present-day Mongolia.

The inscription records the deeds of Vija Khan, the founder of the Turkic Khanate, and his younger brother, Que Teqin.Turkic inscriptions are engraved on the front and left and right sides of the stele, and Chinese characters are written on the back by Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty. There is a dramatic contrast between the two inscriptions on the stele.The Chinese text is the Chinese text written by Emperor Xuanzong himself, and the content is Tang Xuanzong's mourning for the late Turkic Khan Que Teqin.Tang Xuanzong first traced the friendly relationship between Tang and Turkic dynasties, and then emphasized that since the establishment of the father-son relationship between the two sides in the Xuanzong Dynasty, a new peace has emerged. Li, you have nothing to worry about, and I have nothing to deceive you." Summarizing the harmonious relationship between Turks and Tang, Xuanzong wrote a poem at the end of the inscription: "The country of Chasai, the hometown of Dingling, the great power rises, the king Yu Er, the king of you Jun Kechang, Zai Heshufang, Erdao Keshun, who seeks to marry me in Tang Dynasty, who is like a human being, the network protection is extended, the high monument stands on the mountain, and the prosperity is boundless."

The three sides on the negative side of the stele are in Turkic script, and the inscription on the stele is written in the tone of Vija Khan. After mourning his younger brother Que Teqin, he used the following words to warn the Turkic nobles and people under his rule: "The Han people gave us a lot of gold. , silver and silk. The words of the Han people are always sweet, and the goods of the Han people are always exquisite. Using sweet words and exquisite things to deceive, the Han people make distant peoples approach them in this way. When a tribe lives so close to them, The Han people became malicious.

The Han Chinese do not allow the really smart and the really brave to develop.If someone makes a mistake, the Han people will never forgive anyone, from their immediate family members to clans and tribes.You Turkic people have been murdered in great numbers because of their sweet words and beautiful objects.O Turks, you are going to die!If you try to emigrate to the Zongcai Mountains and Turktor Plains in the south, Turkic people, you will die!Those malicious people will make such harmful persuasion: "If people live far away from (the Han people), they will only provide cheap things; if people live close, they will provide precious things." persuade.After hearing these words, stupid people approached (the Han people) and were killed in large numbers.

Because of the discord between Burke and the common people, and the cunning and treachery of the Han people, because they cunningly created a division among the brothers, which caused Burke and the common people to quarrel with each other, the Turks then brought their formerly established country to ruin. ,
The khan they had previously embraced was on the verge of collapse.The former master became the servant of the Han people, and the former wife became the maidservant of the Han people.The Turkic Berkes gave up their Turkic titles.The Burkes in the Han people had the official titles of the Han people and obeyed the Han people's Khan,
Said so clearly: "We were a people with our own state, but where is our own country now? For whose benefit are we conquering these places?" "We were a people with our own khan, but Where is our own khan now? Which khan are we serving?" After talking like this, they became enemies of the Chinese khan again.

But, having turned against him, they failed to organize themselves well, and again they succumbed.The Han people did not consider that the Turks had served them so much, but said: "We will kill the Turks and make them extinct." The Turks were in danger of being wiped out. "

Obviously, in the eyes of quite a few Turkic nobles, the Turkic people were in a state of "subjugated slaves" from the fourth year of Zhenguan to the half century after the establishment of the Turkic Khanate.The Vija Khan recalled that period of history painfully, and believed that the Han people used various gifts to lure the Turkic people, causing discord between the Turkic Khan and the nobles, and between the nobles and the tribesmen, and then used this discord to conquer the Turks. The Turkic people were forced to obey the orders of the Tang emperor, and then used the Turkic force to conquer the Quartet. Then when the Turkic people had the idea of ​​re-establishing their own national khan, the Tang army sent troops to suppress it. When the Turkic people surrendered again However, the Tang army ignored the Turkic people's contribution to the empire and massacred the Turkic people who put down their weapons.Finally, he warned the Turkic people to always remain vigilant against the Tang Empire, and not to be deceived by it and fall back into the original tragedy.

The two characters on the stele represent the description of the relationship between Turkic and Tang in the half century from the fourth year of Zhenguan (AD 630) to the first year of Yongchun (AD 682) from the two perspectives of Turkic and Tang. He and Turks are father and son, and they are sincere to each other; but in the eyes of Turks, at least some Turks, Tang is a cruel and cunning neighbor, who will put the shackles around his neck and force himself to do it for him whenever he has the opportunity. Bloodshed.

For the Tang Empire, the biggest nightmare was that the Turkic people living in the Monan Grassland launched a rebellion and united with the Tubo people. In this way, not only the Western Regions would not be defended, but Longyou would also fall into a pincer attack from both sides. The west will be plunged into war.

"Regardless of whether this is true or not, we must immediately report to Chang'an!" Ashina said in a low voice, "Otherwise, if there is a rebellion in the old Turkic land when we attack Qinghai, it will be too bad!"

"What Khan said is true!" Xue Rengui did not have the slightest doubt about Ashina's true loyalty. Although the other party is a Turkic royal family, the blood of the emperor's family still flows in his blood: "If not, Khan, you can bring a thousand The cavalry went to the old place of the Turks, first invited a few people on the slate to put them under house arrest, and waited for the investigation to be done before dealing with it!"

"That's good!" After thinking for a while, Ashina understood what the other party meant. He is the grandson of Chuluo Khan and has a high prestige among the Turkic people. It is naturally the best situation to eliminate it.

After going through such a thing, everyone got on their horses and set foot on their way home without thinking about more things.In the moonlight long black shadows cut across the wasteland like razor blades.

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Songzhou.

The morning is cold, and the cold wind hurts the face, but a touch of green can already be seen on the meadow outside the city, which means that winter is coming to an end.Tenzin stood in the crowd, full of anxiety and excitement, whether to return home or stay, his fate was about to be revealed.

The captives have been led to the grassland under the hill outside the city, and most of them have already heard the situation from the guards. They whispered to each other and talked in low voices. Compared with a few months ago, most of them became more lively Yes, although the labor of building roads is heavy, life is much richer than when they were in Tubo, and some people even got a little fatter.

The breath of the Tubo people intertwined into a steaming snow-white mist net in the cold morning air. The soldiers of the Tang Army stood under the mound, with the red-bordered and white-bottomed flags flying above their heads. Dan Zeng knew that everyone was waiting for Wang Wenzuo. arrival.

Wang Wenzuo came a little later than Dan Zeng expected, his hair was fluttering in the wind, his expression was majestic, and his eyes were cold.In fact, this person is much kinder than he looks, Tenzin thought, he had talked with him before, he would laugh, forgive, and even feel sad for the death of an enemy, this is the first time for a person like this meet.

In the chill of the early morning, Tenzeng heard someone shouting something, but he couldn't make out what was said.Finally, Wang Wenzuo rode his horse to a place about [-] or [-] steps away from the Tubo captives, and said loudly: "I have reached an agreement with your Zanpu, and I will release you to return to your hometown and reunite with your family!" Repeated in Tibetan dialect.

Although the guard had already heard the news, there was still a commotion among the Tubo crowd. Some people burst into tears, and some grabbed the hands of their companions and asked Wang Wenzuo what he said. It seemed that he had to listen to others again before he could believe it. This is true. More people knelt down and kowtowed to Wang Wenzuo to express their gratitude. After all, according to the laws and customs at that time, the victor had the right to dispose of his captives at will.

But there was no joy on Dan Zeng's face. On the contrary, his face was full of worry, and he stared at Wang Wenzuo, as if he was expecting something.

"However, I heard that some of you want to stay and don't want to go back to your hometown. I can meet these people's demands, but he has to make a decision here!" At this point, Wang Wenzuo paused and used The horsewhip pointed to his right side: "If he wants to stay, he can stand here. If he wants to go back and reunite with his family, then he can stay where he is!"

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