Neon Clothes and Iron Clothes

"Beggar fan!" The shaman cleared his throat: "The last time I saw you was three years ago, right? No, it should be five years. Now you are trimming your beard, combing your bun, and wearing a Wearing a silver belt, a jade pendant, and a futou on her head, she looks more and more beautiful and powerful!"

Facing the shaman's praise, Da Tinghuai'en frowned. He could smell the sarcasm in the other person's words, but at this time he was not interested in a verbal fight with the other person: "Shaman, if you have anything to say, just say it directly, no need to beat around the bush!"

"Hahaha!" The shaman laughed: "What I mean is very simple, Beggar Fan, you are now dressed the same as the Tang people, and you have been working for the Tang people for so many years, which makes us doubt that you are now a A Tang person is still a Khitan person!"

"Of course they are Khitan people!" Dating Huai'en's heart skipped a beat. He had already guessed the other party's intentions, but now he had no choice but to follow the other party's footsteps, even if there was a big pit ahead: "I am born I grew up drinking mare’s milk in Oting’s tent, and everyone here watched me learn to ride a horse, walk, and shoot arrows!”

"Yes, we all watched with our own eyes as you grew from a crying baby to a soaring eagle!" The shaman said with a smile, "But then you went to the Tang Dynasty and became a hostage!"

Da Tinghuaien's face was serious, his eyes were cold, and he stared into the shaman's eyes. The shaman looked at him calmly, and the air in the tent almost solidified.Da Tinghuai'en knew in his heart that the shaman was right. When he left the tribe and went to the Tang people, he was indeed a hostage. But what happened next made him forget about his homesickness and his status as a hostage. In just a short time, In just a few years, Da Ting Huai'en had transformed from a Khitan officer to the Anton Governor's Mansion. He began to plan his future with great ambition:
The first is to serve as a guard. This is a dangerous position, but it is also the position with the most opportunities for promotion. Basically all the upper-level officers in the Anton Governor's Mansion have served as a guard.After serving as a governor for three years, he would have the opportunity to be promoted to a Jisi Prefecture or a Dudufu under the Duhu Mansion to serve as governor or governor. However, Da Tinghuaien's ambitions were even greater. He was eager to make the emperor famous by accumulating military merits. , or if a big shot in the court hears of his reputation, he can go directly to Chang'an and become a member of the emperor's bodyguard. In this way, he only needs to move a few times to enter the ranks of the upper echelons of the Tang army, and even marry a clan daughter. , so that the next generation of yours will not have to start from the frontier army, or become a civilian official, or directly enter the Forbidden Army.Such a way out is not without precedent. Among the bodyguards of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, there were many Turks, Tuguhun, Tiele and even southern barbarian nobles. Many of them had the opportunity to marry the daughters of the clan, or were given the surname Li, and the great court favor. En is still very confident in his own bravery and talent.The shaman's words were like a bucket of cold water poured over his head, waking him up.

"I am a Khitan and a general under the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty. This is not a contradiction!"

"Most of the time, yes, but not all the time!" The shaman's smile remained unchanged: "You just said that our pastureland was given by the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, so we must be loyal to him from generation to generation. But we Khitans are all We know that the land belongs to the God of Heaven and the Mother of the Earth. People have been grazing, playing and cultivating on it since ancient times. How could there be an Emperor of the Tang Dynasty at that time? The Emperor of the Tang Dynasty just drew a circle on the map. In fact, even if there was no such circle, thousands of Countless people have been nomadic and farming on this land for hundreds of years, do they need other people’s permission?”

"You can't say that!" Da Ting Huaien argued: "We Khitan people were still very weak at the beginning. Without the protection of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, we would never have been able to occupy such a fertile land. The Xue Yantuo people or the Uighur people would have This land became their pasture!”

"Yes!" The shaman nodded: "But have you ever thought about why the Tang people did this? Why not let the Xueyantuo people, Tiele people or other stronger tribes occupy this place?"

This time Dating Huaien was asked, he hesitated and replied: "Perhaps the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty took pity on the weakness of our Khitan people and did not allow the Xueyantuo people, Tiele people or other tribes to be strong against the weak, so he did this of!"

"Hahaha!" the shaman said with a smile: "You are right, but you only got half of the answer right. The Tang Dynasty did help us because we Khitans were weak, but that was not because he sympathized with us, but because this was the rule of the Tang people. The strategy of the grassland. The Sui Dynasty conquered Goguryeo three times and failed. The Central Plains fell into turmoil. The Turks took advantage of the situation and rose up. They continued to provoke among the Han people, helping the weak and containing the strong, so that the strength of the Han people would not be too different. Whenever there was a If the Han people want to annex their neighbors, the Turks will find ways to stop it. In this way, all the Han people have to pay large tributes to the Turks to beg the Turks not to help their enemies.

Later, the Turks themselves split. The Tang people took the opportunity to defeat other Han heroes and unified the Central Plains. The Tang people also learned the methods of the Turks. They supported the weak side in the Turkic civil war and used them to contain the great Khan who was consuming the Turks. beat.After defeating the Turks, the Tang people divided the grasslands among various tribes, giving more to the weak and less to the strong. Then they used the weak to defeat the strong, and then used another to defeat the victor, and the cycle continued.

So when we Khitan people were weak, the Tang people were indeed very kind to us, giving us good pasture land and livestock. If foreign enemies attacked us, they would send troops to protect us; but as our population increased, the livestock suffocated. , there is a brave leader who is good at fighting.The Tang people will try their best to weaken us, such as helping our enemies, instigating brothers to fight with each other after the leader dies, and helping the weaker party, and finally dividing the tribe equally to weaken the Khitan people.So if you were blinded by the kindness of Tang people when they were weak, you would be too stupid! "

Da Tinghuai'en returned to his seat, upset. A voice deep in his heart told him that the shaman was right, and the people of the Tang Dynasty did do this all the time, but so what?This does not conflict with your own future!With the Khitan people's current strength, it was still very early for them to arouse the suspicion of the Tang people!By that time, I am afraid that I will have already passed away.

"This is all your imagination!" Da Tinghuai'en retorted: "And even if this is true, so what, we Khitan people are still very weak, and the Tang people will not attack us!"

"Haha!" The shaman laughed and said, "Really? It's been a long time since Beggar Mini came back, so he doesn't know much about the situation in the tribe! You can ask your father, how many people are there in your tribe now?"

"Father?" Dating Huai'en cast a consulting look at his father. The old man coughed and showed a proud look: "Now there are more than 6000 tents, more than 2 horses, and countless miscellaneous animals of all kinds. Let's talk less. There are also 20!”

"So many?" Dating Huai'en was shocked: "Didn't I only have less than three thousand accounts when I left last time? How come there are so many?"

"That's what happened!" The old man explained with a smile. It turned out that after the Tang Dynasty destroyed Goguryeo, the vast land from Changbai Mountain to the Greater Khingan Mountains fell into great turmoil. Many Goguryeo people, Mohe people and various small tribes wanted to avoid war. , all fled to the territory of the Khitans, which was relatively stable.A considerable number of these refugees used to live a farming and settled life, and they all have rich experience in handicrafts and agricultural production. For the Khitan people whose productivity and cultural level are still extremely backward, they are like a big pie falling from the sky.

Various ministries incorporated them into their own tribes, which greatly increased their natural strength. For example, the Da Ting tribe, which was more Chinese, simply divided the Han people, Goguryeo people, and Mohe people who used to farm into five households into one account, and allocated hundreds to them in each account. He allowed him to cultivate acres of wasteland, and even lent him livestock for land reclamation, which he would return with grain after harvest.After the harvest, each family only needs to collect three measures of coarse grain, three handfuls of grain and grass, and five feet of linen. There is no labor or military service.In this way, the refugees were very happy, and the Khitan people could not only get food for the winter, but also obtain many handicrafts from the refugees that they could not produce themselves. Naturally, their household registration number and strength increased greatly.

"So you understand, right?" the shaman sighed: "Things are unpredictable. If the war continues like this, more and more refugees will only flee to us, and we Khitans will also become stronger. . Before the Tang people defeated the Silla and Mohe people, they would naturally be very friendly to us, but after the Tang people defeated the Silla and Mohe people, we would be an eyesore in the eyes of the Tang people!" "Nasa Man, what are you going to do? Form an alliance with the Silla people and the Mohe people to fight against the Tang people together?" Dating Huai'en sneered: "Can three rabbits unite to defeat a tiger? This is simply ridiculous!"

"Of course it won't work if there are only three of us, but the main force of the Tang people is in the west! They are fighting the Tubo people, you should know it very well!" The shaman smiled and said: "This is a good opportunity. If we seize it, we can Like the ancestors of the Tang people——"

"Ancestor of the Tang people?" Dating Huai'en was stunned and looked at him in confusion.

"Wuchuan! The ancestors of the Tang people were soldiers in the Wei Dynasty. They were in Wuchuan, which is further north and more desolate than ours!"

Only then did Da Tinghuaien realize that he had stayed in the Tang Army for so long, so he had naturally heard of the Li family's Longxing Land there - in fact, it was not just the Li family, but also the Yuwen family of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the Yang family of the Sui Dynasty, and the famous Ba family. More than half of the twelve generals of the Zhu Kingdom came from this small military town established by the Northern Wei Empire in Shuobei. From the perspective of Feng Shui, it can only be said that this place is the hometown of emperors, with an unprecedented concentration of dragon energy.Wuchuan is located north of today's Hohhot City in Inner Mongolia and at the northern foot of Yinshan Mountain, while the Khitan Yazhang is in Tongliao City in southeastern Inner Mongolia today. Obviously Wuchuan is much more desolate than the Khitan Yazhang.

"Shaman, you are so brave, I really underestimate you!" Da Tinghuai'en understood what the shaman meant, his face became colder and colder, his right hand was already pressed on the handle of the knife, his father Seeing this, he hurriedly stretched out his hand to stop him: "Beggar Mi, this is the tooth tent, and the shaman is a psychic person, so you can't use swords against him!"

Da Ting Huaien snorted coldly and moved his hand away from the handle of the knife: "I'm a little tired, so I'll go back and rest first!"

Back at his residence, Da Ting Huaien remained silent. His father could feel the dissatisfaction under his son's silence, and explained with difficulty: "Beggar Mi, you don't know the situation at that time. Before the meeting, the shaman had secretly I met the leaders of all the other seven tribes and convinced them. By the time the meeting came, the overall situation had been decided. I couldn't possibly fight against the other seven tribes with just one, right?"

"Father, I don't mean to blame you!" Dating Huaien suppressed his anger: "But this matter is too strange, isn't it? Why did the shaman spend so much effort to convince the other seven tribes? Did he really Is it for the future of the Khitan people? I think it’s unlikely!”

"That's not true!" The old man laughed. He looked around and lowered his voice: "I heard a news that the Silla people sent an envoy and bribed the tribe leaders and shamans with heavy sums of money, so they Such a big effort!"

"Just for this?" Dating Huai'en became anxious upon hearing this: "If this kind of thing fails, the entire clan will be exterminated. What's the use of having more money at that time?"

"There may be other reasons for the shamans and tribal leaders. If my guess is correct, the Silla people should also promise to help them become the khan of the Khitan people! Instead of rotating every three years like now Lord of the tribe. In addition, the strength of our Great Court Department has grown too fast in the past few years and is already the top of the eight tribes. They should also take the opportunity to suppress our Great Court Department!"

"You bastard! You really shouldn't have stopped me before and let me kill those two old guys with one knife!" Dating Huai'en said angrily. He pulled out the steel knife: "But it's not too late now -" After that, he said to He rushed out but was held back by his father: "Don't be anxious, don't be anxious!"

"How can I not be anxious? If this continues, we Khitans will be exterminated!"

"No, I have a better way!" The old man showed a mysterious smile: "My child, you can leave here immediately, escape back to the Tang people, report this situation to the Tang people's generals, and show your loyalty to the Tang people!"

"Should I run away immediately? What about you?" As soon as Dating Huai'en finished speaking, a terrible thought suddenly flashed through his mind: "Are you going to stay here?"

"Yes!" the old man said with a smile: "We must be prepared for anything we do. No matter whether the Tang people win or the Silla people win, the Great Court Department must continue. My child, don't you think so?"

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