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Chapter 195 One Country, Two Systems

On the grasslands of Wuhou and Qinshui, all the tribes of the Hu people gathered together and came from all directions.In mid-August, a huge team is heading towards the Wuhou Qinshui River for this grand meeting.

In this grand procession, there were first three hundred Xibu and Han officers and soldiers, holding all black feather banners and walking in front of the road in brocade clothes. The bows are complete and meandering.Behind the cavalry is a walking chariot with a huge black canopy inlaid with red on it, and 32 burly men with bare upper bodies move forward slowly with their hands raised.On the side of the walking chariot, with a yellow ax on the left and a white yan on the right, three hundred cavalry with iron armor reflecting the cold light surrounded the chariot and walked forward, and behind the chariot were two thousand cavalry.

This huge momentum and guard of honor immediately made all the Hu tribes who came to join the alliance all respectful and awe-inspiring.At the meeting place by the river, an earthen platform had been built long ago, and three hundred soldiers held five-color flags and were separated in five directions.When the chariot came under the earthen platform, it stopped immediately. Li Chongjiu walked down slowly from the chariot, and more than ten tribes beside him, as well as several elders of the Shi Dexi tribe bowed down under the platform.

After Li Chongjiu and all the people received the ceremony one by one, they burned the altar to sacrifice to the river, and together with the leaders of the various ministries, they worshiped the sky and prayed for blessings.Afterwards, someone brought a white horse, and Li Chongjiu and the others killed the white horse, and smeared the white horse's blood on their mouths to show that the blood was an alliance. They all supported Li Chongjiu as the Khan of the Shide Khanate, and named the Khan Upa. Then bow down to Li Chongjiu.

After Li Chongjiu ascended the throne as Khan, Qiu Lihan from the Mukun tribe personally congratulated him to show the goodwill of the two families.Afterwards, Li Chongjiu announced that he would divide Shi Dexi and the various ministries of the Hu people into buildings and armies.And each tribe, with a hundred tents as the first class, set up a master and a deputy, and then set up a team leader and a deputy, and each leader was given a banner.

Each tribe has one building, or several buildings, and then there are ten buildings for an army, with a military leader and an army deputy, and finally a unified army with five armies, and a big banner is given to show it as a general.This kind of official system is exactly the military system of Wei Zaiyuwentai before usurping power. During the Northern Qi Dynasty, the five military systems of the general, the other general, the commanding army, the army leader, and the banner owner were called the five positions of preparation.

Li Chongjiu divided more than 6 people from Xi's tribe into [-] armies, and the other dozen armies added up to [-] armies, four of whom were personally appointed to lead the army.Among the four commanders are Sun Erniang, Ertuo, Shi Defeng, and Yan Yelie, who was born in the Shiwei clan.

The Shiwei tribe is located to the north of the Khitan tribe. It is currently divided into five tribes, from south to north, namely the South Shiwei, the North Shiwei, the Boshiwei, and the Shenmo Tanshiwei and Dashiwei in Boshi. Wei Gengbei.Because the Shiwei people live in the dense forest of Daxing'an Mountains, they also call themselves forest people.Yan Yelie was an aristocrat of the Nanshiwei. There were 25 Nanshiwei divisions, each ranging from 3000 to [-] people, and Yan Yelie was the Mo Hedu of one division, that is, the leader.In the past, Nanshi Wei had always been subject to the Turks, and the Turks sent several Tutuns to rule, but later the eight Khitan tribes killed the Turkic officials, rebelled against the Turks, and sent troops to attack the Nanshi Wei, plundered tens of thousands of people, and moved to Wuhou Qinshui riverside.

And Yan Yelie and his clan were also captured together. He was only 15 years old at the time. Later, he was appointed by the Khitan people as the head of the Wei clan in the management office.Because of accepting Khitan culture since childhood, Yan Yelie is proficient in Turkic, Khitan, and Shiwei languages.In the battle of Wuhou Qinshui, Li Chongjiu defeated the Khitans, and less than half of the [-] Khitans returned alive to the east bank of Wuhou Qinshui.Seeing the opportunity, Yan Yelie immediately led his people to serve under Li Chongjiu's command, and became a member of the newly established Shide Khanate by the waterside of Wuhou Qinshui.Among the four commanders, two were from Shidexi, one was Han, and the other was Yan Yelie from the Shiwei clan. This composition just reflected the power structure of the three parties in the Shide Khanate.

Of course, the system of commanding the army on the grassland is only suitable for managing the various tribes on the grassland, but it is not suitable for the Han people in Huaihuang Town, Yuyi Town, and Feihu County.The official position and military system of the Sui Dynasty are still maintained here, which is the so-called "one country, two systems" at present.At the same time, Li Chongjiu called himself Khan on the grassland to show his determination to be independent from Turks and Khitan, and never compromise. But for the Central Plains, Li Chongjiu still claimed to be the prefect of Shanggu. On the one hand, they guard the grasslands for the Han people.
After the Shide Khanate was divided into four tribes, the divisions of the original tribes and ethnic groups were all broken up, and there was no division of Xiren, Turkic, Shiwei, Khitan, and Yu tribes.The owners of each building must obey the orders of the army chief, and the army master must obey the orders of the guards, and the guards must obey the orders of the Khan.

Of course, Li Chongjiu's khan power is not unscrupulous. The elders of the original Shidexi tribe, together with some former leaders and elders elected from various tribes and tribes, formed a group of elders similar to 20 people.In the past, the daughter of Shi Dexi, Li Chongjiu's mother-in-law, served as the great elder. Whenever the Khanate sent troops to fight, the appointment of the army leader, army deputy, and the appointment of the commander above, as well as major government affairs, must be discussed by the elders and the Khan. After the decision.

It's not that Li Chongjiu doesn't want to be dictatorial, but this is the rule on the grasslands. Even if it is the Turkic Shibi Khan, if a major matter is agreed among the tribes, it must be discussed together with the special service, Ye Hu, and the little Khan from the Ashina clan. to decide.In this newly established Shide Khanate, with Li Chongjiu's current power, it is impossible for one person to break it down.

After spending a month of hastily discussing the khanate's laws and regulations and the civil law system, Li Chongjiu immediately proposed to use troops to the south.

It turned out that last month in Huairong County, Zhuojun County, there was a monk named Gao Tansheng who secretly summoned his party members in the county and gathered thousands of people.Later, when a sacrifice was held in the county, Gao Tansheng, who was the host, suddenly led fifty confidants to kill the county magistrate and guards who came to sacrifice, and then coerced the whole county to stand on its own.Gao Tansheng established himself as the emperor, called the Mahayana emperor, and the country name was "Buddha", and named a nun named Jingxuan as the queen.

Gao Tansheng was not blind when he proclaimed himself emperor according to a county. After he became emperor, he named Gao Kaidao, who had tens of thousands of people in Yuyang County, as the king of Qi, and asked him to surrender and lead the army to Huairong County.After hearing the news, Gao Kaidao had agreed to the title of Gao Tan Shengqi King and was leading his army to Huairong County.

If Gao Tansheng and Gao Kaidao join forces, the situation will be very unfavorable to Li Chongjiu, because Huairong County is located between Huaihuang Town and Feihu County, which is an important route for military strategists.

If it was based on two people, it would be a stick in Li Chongjiu's throat.

(End of this chapter)