Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 637 Competing in the Central Plains (89)

Spring of the Sixth Year of Yan State 420 (636)
New Year
The ice and snow melted, the grass grew, and the livestock began to multiply.

When attacking the grassland, spring is often chosen, because in this season, the grassland people are busy taking care of the livestock and have no place to run. If they run away, the livestock will disappear and be taken away by other tribes.

The Tang Empire and Yan State simultaneously announced their involvement in the civil war in Eastern Turks, all under the banner of saving the Turks.

Tang Jun and Yan Jun declared that they wanted to save the Turks.

The Yan State supported Jieli Khan, and the Tang Empire supported Xue Yantuo and other rebel tribes.

The situation in the world seems to have returned to the period of Yang Jian, and to the period of the civil war between Dulan Khan and Qimin Khan.

After learning from the previous experience, this time, Yan Guo chose to end in person, intervening in the Eastern Turkic Civil War, and preventing Eastern Turkic from being enslaved by the Tang Empire.

The Tang State dispatched [-] cavalry, with Li Jing as its commander, and the Yan State dispatched [-] cavalry, with Yan Wenya as its commander.

In addition to the [-] cavalry sent by Yan, Khitan and Kumoxi each sent [-] cavalry to assist Yan, so the total strength of Yan was [-] cavalry.

However, after arriving in the grassland, Yan Wenya had no interest in fighting the Turkic rebels at all, but took advantage of the Turkic civil war to burn, kill and loot wantonly in the Turkic grassland.

"As long as we see Turkic people, they are all rebels. The young people are all arrested and used as slaves to open up wasteland. The old people are all killed, and the children are kept to reproduce. We can't kill them all. If we kill them all, there will be no slaves in the future. To understand sustainable development."

The cavalry of the Yan State were on the Turkic grasslands, and they didn't bother to find out where the rebels were. Instead, they followed the water and grass, attacked and wiped out the tribes when they saw them, arrested all those who could work, and killed those who couldn't. Stay here and let them prosper, so that when they grow up, they can be captured by the country of Yan and used as slaves to open up wasteland.

Obviously, the country of Yan didn't kill for the sake of killing, but for making money, otherwise there was no need to keep the herdsmen and children.

As for Tang Jun, he was searching the mountains and seas, looking for traces of Jieli Khan everywhere.

Jieli Khan was defeated by the rebels not long ago and is currently hiding near Yinshan Mountain.

Another two months later, Jieli Khan pretended to surrender to the Tang Empire, but actually wanted to delay the time and ran to Mobei to seek refuge.

His thoughts were seen through by Li Jing, the god of war of the Tang Empire, and he was finally captured alive by Li Jing.

Jieli Khan, who was negotiating, never expected that Li Jing would be so cruel. He launched a sneak attack when the envoy of the Tang Empire was negotiating with him. Wouldn't he be afraid that he would kill the envoy in a fit of anger?

At the beginning, Han Xin ignored the fact that Li Shiqi was negotiating with Qi State, and launched a sneak attack on Qi State, and Qi State was so angry that he cooked Li Shiqi to death.

Jieli Khan was escorted to Chang'an City, where he knelt at the feet of Emperor Li Shimin, humbly begging for his life.

"You have repeatedly plundered the border of our Tang Dynasty, and Sha killed the people of our Tang Dynasty. Originally, I planned to behead you, but I thought you would surrender sincerely and not kill you." Li Shimin said so, but in fact he just felt that Jieli Khan There is also some use value, which can be used to restrict Xue Yantuo and other grassland tribes.

Although Xue Yantuo and other grassland tribes paid tribute to Datang, they had to bow to Datang only to overthrow Jieli Khan. Now that Jieli Khan is overthrown, they might have the idea of ​​betraying Datang.

Therefore, by keeping Jieli Khan, these grassland tribes can be checked and balanced to a certain extent.

Taking in the ruling class of the defeated country can be used to support puppets in the future, and it can also be used to check and balance other younger brothers. This is a normal method.

Emperor Li Shimin was crowned as "Tian Khan", and let Jieli Khan dance in public, showing the Tang Dynasty's monarchs and ministers the grassland Khan's dance.

Since the collapse of the Sui Empire, the Eastern Turks have repeatedly plundered the Central Plains, supported many puppet regimes in the Central Plains, and forced the Tang Dynasty to give money to women during its heyday.

This is a great shame for Datang.

Today, in order to survive the once powerful Eastern Turks, their Great Khan bowed to the Tang Dynasty and danced in public in the palace.

"Exhaust! Exhaust!"

"The Great Khan of the Turks, dance for us personally, hahaha!"

Cheng Yaojin drank a big sip of fine wine and was very happy. He wanted to fight the Turkic people for a long time, but he had never been allowed to fight before, saying that he was hiding his strength and biding his time. Every time he saw those delicate beauties and gleaming gold, he was given Turks, he felt distressed.

Now, Datang is finally proud!

And at this moment

Xue Yantuo sweat tent
"Ben Khan is an ally of the Tang Dynasty. It was Datang who helped Ben Khan destroy Jieli Khan. Datang is Ben Khan's benefactor. How could Ben Khan betray Datang?" Xue Yantuo's barbarian Khan shook his head, as if genuine He was loyal to the Tang Empire.

"Since Tang really wanted to help Khan, why didn't he kill Jieli Khan? Instead, he gave Jieli Khan a mansion so that he could enjoy the colorful world in Chang'an?"

"The Tang State just wants to divide the grassland forever. This is the purpose of their emperor Li Shimin."

The envoy of Yan State came here with eloquence.

"A few months ago, your country of Yan massacred and robbed livestock on the grassland. How could it be any better?" a Xue Yantuo nobleman said disdainfully.

"But we didn't massacre the people of the nobles, did we?" The envoy of Yan State skillfully shifted the contradiction. What we massacred were those of other tribes, not the tribe of Xue Yantuo, but you are all called Turks.

After the news that Jieli Khan was captured alive by the Tang Empire spread to Yan State, Yan State responded immediately.

Naturally, this response was not to rescue Rangjieli Khan, but to immediately cooperate with Rangjieli Khan's enemy, the Xue Yantuo tribe, and win Xue Yantuo into joining the [Anti-Tang Alliance].

Not long ago, Yan State was Xue Yantuo's enemy, but now, Yan State will become Xue Yantuo's friend.

An enemy is still a friend, but it is a matter of interest.

"Great Khan, don't you want to unify the grasslands? Are you willing to bow down to Tang?"

"Cooperating with us, we can show more sincerity than Tang. We will not ask the grassland people to pay tribute, and we will not force the Khan to be inferior like the Central Plains. There is equality and mutual benefit between us Yan and Khan. relation."

"We are here to join the big grassland family, not to break up the big family."

Yan State does not have the mentality of all nations coming to court, so it will not force the grassland regime to surrender to itself, but can cooperate on an equal footing.

Such a gesture made Xue Yantuo Yinan Khan hesitate.

When cooperating with Datang, one has to pay tribute to them, and their status is inferior to others. However, when cooperating with the country of Yan, the status is equal, and there is no need to pay tribute to the country of Yan.

After thinking over and over again, he made up his mind: "This Khan, I will never submit to Tang! I will be the real Great Khan!"

"Your country will surely become the strongest in the world!" the envoy of Yan Kingdom flattered.

The two parties communicated in Turkic throughout.

In the grassland melee, Datang captured Jieli Khan alive, and also surrendered Xue Yantuo and other tribes, making a lot of money!

Yan State robbed a large number of people and livestock, and with Xue Yantuo, a new ally, it is also a big profit!
Xue Yantuo rose rapidly from a marginal tribe enslaved by the Turks. He owned a large grassland and made a lot of money!

This is a win-win situation.

The only loser was the East Turkic Jieli Khan, who had to dance for the Tang Dynasty monarchs and ministers, not to mention the ruin of the country.

(End of this chapter)