First Minister of the Tang Dynasty

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In detail, the history of Western Turks can be described in one word, that is chaos.

Originally, the Western Turks were the regime of Datou Khan Ashina Tanjue, who established himself as a Khan, and this bad tradition continued until later.

At that time, Sabolo Khan of the Eastern Turks, when he was old, felt that his son Ashina Yonglu was cowardly and unable to fight against the Western Turks, so he ordered his younger brother Ashinachu Luohou to succeed him, named Mohe Khan.

However, Mohe Khan died of illness not long after he came to the throne, so Ashina Yonglu, the son of Shabobi Khan, won the support of various tribes and successfully succeeded to the throne, named Dulan Khan.

In order to appease people's hearts, Dulan Khan named Ashina Rangan, the son of his uncle Mohe Khan, as Tuli Little Khan (the current Tuli Little Khan Ashina Shibobi is Ashina Rangan's grandson. ).

Seeing that the Eastern Turks were becoming more and more powerful, Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty accepted Changsun Sheng's suggestion to support Ashina Rangan, the young Turkic Khan, to compete for the throne of Great Khan, and married Princess Anyi, the daughter of the clan, to Ashina Rangan.

Dulan Khan was furious, and he joined forces with Western Turkic Datou Khan to attack Ashina Rangan. Rangan was defeated and had to surrender to the Sui Dynasty. Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty canonized him as Qimin Khan and placed Qimin Khan in Hetao area.

It has to be said that Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty and his ministers were very dark-hearted. They used Qimin Khan to divide the Eastern Turks, and also placed Qimin Khan in the Hetao area as a buffer to resist the Eastern Turks.

East Turkic Dulan Khan united with Western Turkic Datou Khan to attack Qimin Khan, which is tantamount to leading a wolf into the house.

After Qimin Khan was defeated and surrendered to the Sui Dynasty, Datou Khan immediately attacked Dulan Khan. Datou Khan was famous.

Since then, Datou Khan has unified the eastern and western Turks, and his power has overwhelmed the east and west for thousands of miles, becoming a veritable Great Khan of the Turkic Khanate.

However, there is a saying in the Central Plains that prosperity must decline. After Datou Khan dominated the grassland, he immediately sent troops to attack the Sui Dynasty. At that time, the Sui Dynasty was in its heyday. Cong Zheng.

Datou Khan has never withdrawn his sword in just a few years.

First, Dulan Khan of the Eastern Turks attacked Qimin Khan. After defeating Qimin Khan, Datou Khan turned around and attacked his allies Dulan Khan. After Dulan Khan was defeated, Datou Khan unified After the East and West Turks, they did not give up their troops and directly attacked the Sui Dynasty, which can be described as militarism.

Years of wars have made all the tribes under his command miserable, and in every war, Datou Khan always preserves the strength of the Turkic tribe and orders Tiele and other tribes to attack. Over the years, Tiele and other tribes have suffered heavy casualties. Finally, in the third year of Renshou, More than a dozen tribes of the Tiele tribe descended to the Sui Dynasty.

The Tiele tribe is one of the most powerful tribes in the Turkic Khanate. As soon as Tiele surrendered, the tribes under Datou Khan rebelled one after another.

For a time, the huge Turkic Khanate fell apart again, and Datou Khan rebelled against his relatives. Under the attack of Sui general Shi Wansui, he was defeated and fled to Tuyuhun, where he disappeared.

Later, Yang Su took the opportunity to assist Qimin Khan in the Northern Expedition and once again ruled the Eastern Turks. Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty officially conferred the title of Qimin Khan as the Great Khan of the Eastern Turkic Khanate.

In the fifth year of Daye, Qimin Khan entered the court and paid homage to Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty. He died of illness in Luoyang, the eastern capital.

After the death of Datou Khan, Ashina Daman, the grandson of Lidatou Khan in Western Turks, became the Great Khan, named Nijue Chu Luo Khan, and Nijue Chu Luo Khan named his cousin Ashina Shekui It is the little Khan, and the number shoots the little Khan.

Familiar operations reappeared. Nijuechu Luo Khan ruled the country without justice, and his subjects were rebellious. Just because of suspicion and suspicion, he feared repeating his grandfather's mistakes, and hundreds of leaders of Xue Yantuo's tribes were imprisoned and killed. This action is really a word to describe , Absolutely, it's purely looking for trouble for nothing, people didn't retaliate, and in the end you directly killed many leaders, those tribes would rebel if they didn't.

Pei Ju, the servant of the Yellow Gate in the Sui Dynasty, managed the Western Regions, so he offered advice to Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty. Following the story of Changsun Sheng, he supported Shekui Xiao Khan to stand on his own, and attacked Luo Khan at Nijue.

This strategy succeeded again, and the Shekui Khan won the support of many tribes. He succeeded in becoming the Great Khan of the Western Turks.

After the defeat of Nijuechu, Luo Khan returned to the Sui Dynasty. Emperor Sui Yang named him Hosana Khan and ordered Teqin Ashina Danai to live in the building.

Later, Luo Khan of Nijue Chu also conquered Goguryeo, and lived in the Central Plains for a long time. After Li Yuan founded the country, he was named the king of Guiyi County, but he didn't know what the purpose of Shibi Khan of Eastern Turkic was to send someone to kill him. die.

It is worth mentioning that Luo Khan's mother, Xiang Shi, was an ordinary Han woman.

After She Kui Khan came to power, he managed painstakingly, and Western Turks developed rapidly.

At that time, there was Shibi Khan in East Turkic, and Shekui Khan in Western Turkic. The two Khans worked hard to rule and accumulated strength.

It's a pity that the Central Plains at that time was already at the end of the Sui Dynasty, and the princes rose together, causing the East and West Turks to grow again.

Shekui Khan once again made Western Turkic Khan stronger, but died of illness after only eight years in office, and was passed down to his younger brother Tong Yehu Khan, who is now the Great Khan of Western Turkic.

During the reign of Tong Yehu Khan, the Western Turks reached their peak.

However, after Tong Yehu got old, he once again forced the tribes to rebel.

At this time, it was the time when Li Shimin ascended the throne.

Tong Yehu Khan no longer trusted foreigners, so he sent his eldest son Ashina Quli and his uncle Ashina Quli to lead the army to suppress the rebellion.

Perhaps it was because the Turkic Ashina family had a deep-rooted tradition of cannibalism, or perhaps it was because of the power that moved people's hearts. Ashina Quli did not suppress the rebellion after leading the troops out of the tent. Instead, he joined forces with the rebels to attack Yehu Khan. He killed Tong Yehu Khan, and became a Khan on his own, named Mo He Du Khan.

Mo Heduo Khan did this very dishonestly. No matter how violent Tong Yehu Khan was, as the Great Khan of the Western Turkic Khanate, he was still very good to the Turkic people, but he was cruel to other foreigners. Turks, the Turks still regard Khan Yehu as a great hero.

As a result, Ashina Quliteng, who was the Turkic royal family, and the uncle of Tong Yehu Khan, even united with foreign clans to kill the king and stand on his own. This move was very unpopular.

All Turkic tribes and even Moheduo Khan's own tribe defected from Moheduo Khan one after another, and supported the son of Yehu Khan, Ashinah Li, as the Great Khan of Western Turks, named Siyehu Khan.

At this point, the Western Turks split again, and Siyehu Khan and his uncle Moheduo Khan attacked each other.

This is really God's will in Tang Dynasty, and it can also be said that Li Shimin's luck is really good.

The new king ascends the throne, and the Tang Dynasty is waiting for prosperity.

At this time, the Jieli Khan of Eastern Turks was cruel and violent, and forced them to rebel against the Bayegu tribe of the Chile tribe, the Tongluo tribe of the Tiele tribe, and the Uighur tribe. Don, sharpen the knife and rush to uncle.

On the other hand, Western Turks followed Tongyehu Khan's death, and Siyehu Khan and Mo Heduo Khan fought fiercely, and Western Turks quickly fell into chaos.

The East and West Turks are all internally unstable, giving Li Shimin enough time to restore national strength.

After Jieli retired, the New Year has passed.

Li Shimin passed the imperial edict to the world and officially launched the reign title of Zhenguan.

The Tang Dynasty entered the Zhenguan era, but the monarchs and ministers of the Tang Dynasty were not happy.

In the Ganlu Hall, Li Shimin sat at the head, not hiding his sadness, with a bitter look on his face.

In the hall, Du Ruhui was holding a roll of pictures in his hands, and was reading out in a deep voice. Gao Chong also felt bitter when he heard it.

After Li Shimin ascended the throne, Du Ruhui paid homage to Minister of Minbu. Of course, after the imperial censor's advice, he changed his name to Hubu.

After Du Ruhui took over the household department, he began to count the household registers and check the population of the fields. After more than a month, he calculated that the registered population of every state in the world was less than 300 million households.

After a long time, Li Shimin spoke with a slightly hoarse voice, his eyes full of sadness.

"In the last years of Renshou in the former Sui Dynasty, the number of households in the world was nearly 900 million. In just over [-] years, the population dropped by [-]%. My heart really hurts."

All the ministers lowered their eyebrows and remained silent when they heard the words. This cold number is actually those tens of millions of people who died in wars and disasters.

As long as there is still a sliver of conscience in the bottom of my heart, I will feel sad when I hear this horrifying number. After all, it is tens of millions of human lives.

"My lords, all the waste is waiting to be done, there is no time to delay." Li Shimin calmed down, looked at the several important officials present and sighed.

All the ministers looked up at Li Shimin, and promised.

In the next few days, Li Shimin issued several orders in succession, involving military, economic and other fields.

In the land equalization system issued in the seventh year of Wude, the people were once again given generously. All males above were divided into [-] mu of land and [-] mu of Yongye farm.

After the land was distributed, the "rent system" was adopted. Except for the disaster-stricken war zones that were exempted from taxation, the rest of the area paid two stones of millet a year and 20 days of corvee every year.

Policies like these abound.

The government affairs hall was brightly lit every night, and the decrees of the three provinces were conveyed to all states in the world one by one.

Regarding the restoration of people's livelihood, Gao Chong originally had some ideas, but before he sorted out his ideas, the affairs of the Ministry of War were full of papers.

Zhang Shigui, the governor of Suzhou, reported: the Western Turks have changed, the two Khans are fighting each other, and a large number of Western Turkic people have crossed the border and fled to the Eastern Turks...

Gao Chong didn't dare to delay, and immediately went to Ganlu Hall, because after seeing the five words "Western Turks have changed", he understood that Datang should do something, even if he couldn't send troops, it didn't mean he stood by.

The merits of former Sui Changsun Sheng and Pei Ju are in front of him. Gao Chong will never give up any opportunities. He is best at this kind of calculation.

When Gao Chong rushed to Ganlu Hall excitedly, he was stunned, there was something wrong with the atmosphere.

I saw the old father Gao Junya sitting down, closing his eyes and dozing off, while Li Shimin, who was above him, frowned.

After a long time, Li Shimin put aside the memorial in his hand, looked at Gao Chong, and rubbed his brows, "What bad news do you have? Let's tell it together."

Seeing Gao Chong's bewildered face, Li Shimin also deliberately added, "Don't worry, I can take it."

In private occasions, neither Li Yuan nor Li Shimin generally would praise me, and even officials would not talk about their own officials in private.

"Uh...Your Majesty, you seem to have misunderstood." Gao Chong said with a smile, "This is not bad news, but good news."

Li Shimin paused, and immediately looked forward to it, "Let's talk about it."

"Look, Your Majesty, this is the military report from Zhang Wu'an in Suzhou." Gao Chong took out the letter from his pocket, "Those Turkic people in the west are fighting."

Li Shimin's eyes lit up when he heard it.

After reading the military newspaper, Li Shimin was in a good mood, "Let's fight, the worse the fight, the better", and at the same time passed the general newspaper to Gao Junya.

"Your Majesty, aren't you going to add fire?" Seeing that Li Shimin was only happy about the chaos in Western Turks and had no other thoughts, he asked immediately.

Hearing this, Li Shimin and Gao Junya looked at Gao Chong at the same time.

Gao Chong laughed and said, "As Your Majesty said, the worse they fight, the better. If that's the case, why don't we add fire to the East Turks?"
The Western Turks are far away in the Western Regions, and far away from the Tang Dynasty. Li Shimin is most concerned about the Eastern Turks. Now that he heard Gao Chong's words, he immediately cheered up and "speak."

Gao Chong took the tea from the waiter and drank it down, wiped his mouth with his cuff, and said with great interest, "Western Turkic Mohe is unpopular and will be defeated sooner or later, but he can't fight too quickly." Defeated, it is better to beat the Western Turks to death.

Kang Guogong was born in the Western Turks. He came to the Central Plains with King Guiyi (Nijuechu Luo Khan). foundation.

Back then when Shekui forced King Guiyi to the Central Plains, the two parties could be said to be enemies of life and death, so it is better for Duke Kang to support Mo Heduo in his own name, claiming to avenge King Guiyi, which can also occupy righteousness."

Li Shimin and Li Shimin were a little confused at first, but after they figured out the relationship between the characters, their eyes lit up.

Kang Guogong is Shi Danai, formerly known as Ashina Danai, who was born in the Western Turkic nobles, and Luo Khan at the Nijue Department was appointed as a special Qin.

Later, with the support of the Sui Dynasty, Shekui Khan defeated Nijuechuluo Khan, and Nijuechuluo brought Ashina Danai and other remnants to the Sui Dynasty.

After the founding of the Tang Dynasty, Nijue Chuluo was granted the title of Guiyi County King. Ashina Danai led the rest of the Western Turks to follow Li Yuan, from Ping Chang'an, and was given the surname Shi. General Yiwei, named Kang Guogong.

Shi Danai is from Nijue Chuluo, and She Kui took away the position of Great Khan from Ni Jue Chu Luo, and now Si Yehu inherits the foundation of She Kui, so it is reasonable for Shi Danai to take action against Si Yehu , the enemy of the enemy is a friend, so it is justifiable for Shidanai to help Mo Hedu attack Si Yehu, and it can also be used in the name of revenge.

What's more, Mo Hedu is also Nijuechuluo's direct uncle, and of course, Nijuechuluo is also Siyehu's subordinate uncle.

It's just that Gao Junya frowned slightly, and said with a little hesitation: "But Mo He kills the king to stand on his own feet, and abandons both humans and gods. We support such rebels, which will be criticized by others."

Gao Chong didn't take it seriously, waved his hands and said with a smile: "Datang will not interfere in the internal affairs of other countries, this is Kang Guogong's unauthorized action. In the future, His Majesty must severely punish Kang Guogong, such as releasing him."

Gao Junya's eyes widened, her eyelids twitched, and she reprimanded: "Don't talk nonsense, the sage will have his own judgment at that time."

Li Shimin also didn't know whether to laugh or cry, he pointed at Gao Chong and said with a smile, "You'll have to serve Kang Guogong wine later."

However, what Gao Chong said seems to be really feasible. Shi Danai misses the old master and supports Mo Hedu to avenge the old master. It is reasonable and understandable.

When the time comes to investigate, he will be removed from the position of General You Yiwei, and he will be released from Beijing to serve as... the governor. You can also avenge the old master and get promoted by the way, why not do it.

"I think it's okay." After thinking about it carefully, Li Shimin looked at Gao Junya, "What does Mr. Gao think?"

"It's feasible", Gao Junya hesitated for a while before replying: "You can call all the ministers and Kang Guogong to discuss the details."

Li Shimin nodded in response, and immediately ordered everyone to be summoned.

Then he looked at Gao Chong again with burning eyes, "I remember you just mentioned East Turks, what do you think?"

East Turks, this is a sharp sword hanging over Li Shimin's head.