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Chapter 249: Grassland King

The Turkic Khan Court of Iron Mountain.

The golden wolf banner silently guards in front of the big tent, defending the former glory of the owner of the big tent.

In front of Shibi Khan's bed, his three youngest sons, Ashina Yugu, Ashina Shibobi, and Ashina's association led the three of them lying on Shibi Khan's body and weeping bitterly.In addition, his two younger brothers, Tulifushe and Dubi, also stood by Shibi Khan's side, shaking their heads silently.

In a half-dream and half-awake state, Shibi Khan came back from the gate of hell again, and heard the cry of the whole room, he also knew his current situation.Shibi Khan tried his best to glance over the standing Tulif She, and the two of them said, "Is the next Khan agreed?"

Ashina took a step forward aggressively and said, "It's the second brother."

Shibi Khan looked at Tulif She who was standing aside, and said, "Ah, from now on, you will hold the Golden Wolf Banner of Ben Khan!"

"Brother!" Qi Lifu lowered his head.

Shibi Khan breathed a sigh of relief, and said: "Very well, I have two wishes in my life, one is that I, the Turks, can unify the east and the west, and reproduce the feared khanate of our fathers and grandparents; The Turkic wolf flag was planted on the Han people's western capitals and eastern capitals, and they looked scared."

"If I can't make it now, the future of my golden wolf's descendants depends on you."

At the end of the day, Li Fu was silent, but at the end of the day, the crying of the three young children intensified.

Shibi Khan turned his head and looked at the top of the tent. After staring straight for a long time, his eyes were finally colorless.

"Khan!" A mournful cry erupted from inside the tent.Hundreds of shamans knelt outside the big tent, exorcising demons and dancing together, wishing the souls of the dead to ascend to the Longevity Heaven to rest in peace.

Among the thousands of tents on Iron Mountain, the Turkic people heard the gongs and drums on the mountain, walked out of the tents in unison, and raised their heads to look at the golden wolf banner in the distance.At this moment they understood that their Khan's soul returned to Changshengtian.The era of Turkic Shibi Khan has passed.

The sky in the prairie was as blue as a wash.

After Shibi died, his body was buried in Khan's big tent. Afterwards, the Turkic special service, Shi, Yehu and other officials all rode their horses around the tent, walking seven times in total.After that, everyone came to the tent, cut their cheeks, and cried loudly.Tulifushe, who succeeded the Khan, cried and cut his face with a knife, exchanging blood and tears.

Afterwards, everyone piled up all the things that Shi used during his lifetime into the account. As for the seven war horses he rode during his lifetime, and the hundreds of slaves, wives and concubines he loved in the past, they were also tied up and thrown out of the account.There were many teenagers among the slaves, and they all looked down at the grass and wept silently.Afterwards, they were piled up on all sides, and a big fire wrapped around the tent where Shibi was located was blazing, and countless cries came from the fire.

After the fire was extinguished, some Turkic soldiers came in to collect the ashes, and the Turkic people cremated them. It is summer now, and according to the custom, they should be buried in autumn.

After Shibi's death, Qi Lifu held the grand ceremony of inheriting the Turkic Khan under the watchful eyes of his close guards and important ministers.When his elder brother became Khan, he had seen such a grand ceremony once, but for him, he felt that this was not a good experience.
When Li Fu set up the khan's decorations, he was first supported by the ministers into the cart, and then covered with a big felt, and turned nine times with the sun, and every turn, tens of thousands of generals and soldiers in all directions They all worshiped together.

After the salutation was over, Chilifushe was helped onto the horse.The next thing was not a good experience. First, the cloth was wrapped around the neck of Tulif She, and then a dozen ministers each held one end of the cloth and twisted it vigorously, as if they wanted to usurp the throne and strangle the new Khan to death.

When he was strangling, the big shaman on the side was always paying attention, until Qi Li Fushe almost died of breath.The big shaman waved his hand and said stop, only then did the ministers let go.
The big shaman stepped forward and asked Li Fushe as if he was asking for his last words: "How many years can you be a Khan?"

At this time, Li Fushe had just survived by chance, was out of breath, and didn't know whether his head was on his head or not, so he replied casually, "Ten years!"

At that moment, all the ministers took notes together, and they got on the chariot only after Li Fushe's complexion slowed down and he became alive again.

All the ministers raised his golden wolf banner and slowly descended the mountain. From the top to the bottom of the mountain, countless Turkic cavalrymen raised their horns, bows and spears, and shouted to the sky: "Khan!"

"Khan!"

"Khan!"

When Li Fu saw the scene, he raised his arms excitedly, looked up at the sky and said loudly: "Longevity! Here I come!"

The Wanjun mountain roared and the tsunami ushered in a new king on the grassland.

According to the history books of later generations, in the 13th year of the great cause, in August, after the first battle of Yanmen, the Turkic Shibi Khan suffered continuous injuries and finally died of illness in Tieshan. .

The most indispensable thing in Huaihuang Town now is the Hu merchants in the grassland. They travel from south to north, and the news exchange is the fastest.Therefore, within a few days, Li Chongjiu learned the news that Shibi Khan had died and the new Khan Chu Luo had ascended the throne.Hearing the news, Li Chongjiu thought that Shibi Khan did not die of illness so quickly in history. Could it be that he was shot by an arrow in Yanmen and died early.

At the moment, Li Chongjiu summoned these grassland Hu merchants in Huaihuang Town to inquire about a lot of news in the south and north of the desert.Li Chongjiu understands that after the new Khan came to the throne, he has not established his prestige to the various ethnic groups in the Quartet.This is the last chance. If Chu Luo Khan's butt is hot, I don't know if he will be the first to attack Huaihuang Town.

The strength of the Turks lies in the raging ambitions of the khans of the past dynasties, and the never-ending pace of foreign conquests.250 years ago, when the Turks first defected to Rouran, there were only [-] households. Now on the grassland, the Lan Turks, the most noble Ashina clan, are the most direct power of the Turks and are located at the top of the pyramid of power.The second is the Black Turks, the Black Turks are the tribes of the original grasslands who gave up their clan names after the Turks conquered them.The last is Tiele, which is the general name of other ethnic groups on the grassland except Turks.

For 250 years, the Turks have never stopped conquering the Quartet, so it is conceivable that Chuluo Khan still continued to conquer after he succeeded to the throne.Li Chongjiu must try to deal with it very early.

Now there are nine tribes of Tiele in Mobei, which is what the Turks call the nine surnames Ogus, and now Xue Yantuo and Huihe are the two strongest tribes.Xue Yantuo's department is now roughly active in Jinshan, with [-] accounts, which can be called the largest department in Mobei.

The Huihe tribe lived in Suolingshui. There were nine tribes, also known as Huihe with nine surnames. The leader was Tejian Tengjin. He had a son named Bodhisattva, who was brave and good at fighting, but he was chased by his father.Li Chongjiu believes that the death of Shibi Khan will be an opportunity to give the second part the courage to fight against the Turks.

Li Chongjiu decided to let these Hu merchants go to Mobei as his messengers to seek support.There are quite a few Hu merchants who came to trade in Huaihuang Town from Monan, and there were also Hu merchants who crossed thousands of miles of Gobi and went to Mobei, but how to trust them was not easy.Shi Defeng recommended several Shi Dexi caravans, and after screening, he picked two caravans and went to Mobei thousands of miles away to find the second department and seek support.

Li Chongjiu ordered the caravan to have a lot of ironware and silk. He heard that Huihe believed in Buddhism, such as the Bodhisattva, the son of Jinjin, which is obviously the name of Buddhism, so he ordered people to find a few Buddhist scriptures, and ordered the caravan to take them with them.Seeking the support of allies to jointly fight against the Turks is currently Li Chongjiu's first concern.
Afterwards, Li Hu was in charge of the construction of the new city. Now the population of Huaihuang Town has exceeded [-], and the four squares in the city are gradually congested, unable to accommodate that many people.So the former grass market in the north of the city was planned to be used as a new city.

For this Huaihuang new city, Li Chongjiu has always disapproved. Huaihuang town is at the forefront of the confrontation with the Turks, so it should exist as a military town.Even in terms of location, now that the commercial road from Zhuojun to Yuyi Town has been opened up, the traffic in Yuyi Town will be more convenient.

And Li Chongjiu also chose Yuyi Town as the temporary capital for his Khan and the residence of Shanggu County Sheriff.At the same time, the Shide Xi Department also set up the Khan Court in the Bashang Grassland, but people have inertia, and more and more Fan people come to Huaihuang Town. Now the new city of Huaihuang Town is not only from the Xi people. The five tribes, Baiyu, Shiwei, and Tie Le gathered here, and even the Black Turks, who were hostile to Li Chongjiu, and the Khitan II tribe also had tribal leaders and caravans who migrated here.

Even the blue Turks of the Ashina family have taken a fancy to this place.

As a last resort, the grass market in the north of the city has been planned as a city.This new city is closer to Anguli Nao, but its scale is not inferior to that of Huaihuang Town, and its function is purely for the residence of Fan people. Outside the city, a row of wooden walls were erected with large wooden piles, and watchtowers and archery towers were built on them. .

People from all ethnic groups and tribes gathered in the city. According to the groups, they drew nine squares in the city like a nine-square grid.The Han people live in the most central square, and this square city is the most prosperous place. The rest of the houses have a single square for the Xi people, one for the Mukun Xi people, one for the Sanbu Xi people, one for each of the Baijiao, one for the Shiwei, and one for the Tie people. There are two workshops for each department, one workshop for Turks, and one for merchants from the Western Regions.Xincheng has a population of [-], and there are no defenders in the city, but [-] patrolmen organized by various ministries, similar to the security team, to maintain order.

In the city, a ten-member council was formed by the heads of various ministries to discuss and decide the affairs of the city, and Li Hu was also named in the council.Except for a few influences from Li Chongjiu, the city is basically self-governing. Of course, the city needs to provide Li Chongjiu with tax income equivalent to 500 million yuan every month.Li Chongjiu looked at the new city, although he frowned secretly, but he had to say that the city had indeed brought him great benefits.Although the city is full of the smell of money and philistine elements, the grassland ministries and the Han people get along quite harmoniously in it, and generally maintain transactions.

After seeing all this, Wen Yanbo suggested to Li Chongjiu that in Yuyi Town and the Turkic Khan Court on the dam, such a city could be set up for the mutual market between Hu and Han.Li Chongjiu nodded.

(End of this chapter)