"Your Highness, Luo Khan of the Turkic Department has died of illness!"

In the Chaoyang Palace, Wei Yunqi had a serious face.

"That guy is young and strong, so he won't get seriously ill! Will there be fraud? ”

"Your Highness, this is indeed what the Turkic envoy said, but the news we have received is completely different from what the Turkic envoy said."

"What's the news?"

Wei Yunqi said: "We are the southern khan, and the news we got from it is: Chuluo Khan and Jieli Khan have reached a tacit understanding, one north and one west to attack Tiele!" In a major engagement, he was shot by a stray arrow, and his injuries were so serious that he probably won't survive! As soon as Chuluo died, the Turks will inevitably face a major event, listening to the meaning of the southern Khan's envoy, Tiele has been crippled, and now the Chuluo Department and the Jieli Department have merged into one, and Jieli is elected as the Great Khan. ”

"No wonder Chura didn't come to participate in the war in Kannai Province on the grounds of war tensions!"

Although history has turned a corner because of itself, the Turks still develop according to the original trajectory. After the death of Luo Khan in history, it was Jieli Khan who ascended the throne, which was a very talented, ambitious, and extremely difficult Turkic Khan, who not only brought the Turks into their heyday, but also invaded the Central Plains under his rule, and once hit the suburbs of Chang'an, forcing Li Shimin to sign the alliance under the city. Now that Tiele has almost fallen apart, there is no longer a big force to contain the Turks in the steppe, and a powerful Turkic khanate will appear in the north of the Central Plains in two or three years at most.

Judging from the current situation in the steppe, it is inevitable that the Turks will rise again, and its rise will be a huge threat to the fragmented Great Sui.

Thinking of this, Yang Tong said slowly: "Order Pegasus, Baitan, Dingxiang, and Mayi soldiers to live in the New Great Wall." ”

Wuyuan is a small loop, the Yellow River enters the loop area and is divided into two, a north Yellow River and a south Yellow River, and then flows for hundreds of miles and then merges into one, and continues to flow eastward, between the north and south Yellow River, it forms a rich small river loop plain.

The Xiaohetao Plain in Wuyuan is covered with a dense river network, lush forests, and fertile land. Wuyuan County governs Jiuyuan County, located in the south of the Xiaohetao Plain, after the stiff relationship with the Turks, Yang Guang in order to defend against the Turks, and built three tall and strong castles in the area of the North Yellow River, which is very conducive to defense, as long as the Great Wall extends to the western castle, then the White City is also covered within the Great Wall, and the Turks can only attack from the farther west.

"Whoa!"

Xuan Ling, the secretary of the Ministry of Justice, Yang Shidao, the secretary of the Ministry of Commerce, Ling Jing, and Jiang Xingben, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, should be at the same time.

Yang Tong asked Wei Yunqi, "Jieli's envoy has arrived?" ”

"It's here!" Wei Yunqi frowned and said, "The Turks sent two envoys this time, all the way to Yecheng and all the way to Chang'an, and the means of Jieli were extremely high, trying to take advantage of the dispute between the Sui and Tang Dynasties to seek the greatest benefits for the Turks in the left and right. ”

Yang Tong smiled and said, "In the more than 20 years of interaction between General Changsun Sheng and the Turks, although he did not command any major operations, with his outstanding strategy, he made a major contribution to the division and disintegration of the Turks, the maintenance of tranquility in the northern border of the Great Sui, and the promotion of ethnic integration. At the beginning, he used his power to drive a wedge between the Turkic chieftains, divide each other's camps with interests, and support hostile Turkic forces! Again and again, by supporting different Turkic Great Khans, the Turks were divided into things, and then the big ones were divided into small ones. The Turks suffered many losses, and it would be strange if they did not learn a little experience. ”

Yang Gongren agreed: "In fact, Shi Bi supported Liang Shidu, Guo Zihe, and Liu Wuzhou, hoping that my Da Sui would fall into uninterrupted infighting, but people are not as good as heaven, first, Shi Bi defeated us too early, and died before using these three lackeys, and secondly, the three people he supported were not angry, and they didn't make a big difference, so they were wiped out by us one by one!" Now the forces bordering the Turks on the northern land are only Li Liang except for my Great Sui, but Jieli is also smart and knows that Li Liang has only half a life left, so he chose Li Yuan. ”

"This is my intention to mobilize foreign prisoners of war to continue to build the Great Wall!" Yang Tong said: "My Great Sui is fragmented, no time, no power to look too much, the Great Wall has played a major defensive role, only need to send a small number of troops to the new Great Wall, as long as the defenders are careful, even if the Turks have a million troops can not enter the realm of my Great Sui." ”

The new Great Wall east to the northern foot of Changbai Mountain, north to the south of the Weibei Lake, including most of the Northeast Plain, the vast territory of Liaodong, many of which are the Great Sui with grain and salt in exchange for the Yan and Nan Wei, at this time the foreign people have no territorial concept, and they are really afraid of Yang Dong, so they agreed to the exchange of goods for land. Then it was repaired from the semicircle within Lake Bell to Gohara County.

The city wall is four zhang high, five zhang thick, all are built with ashlar stone, very solid, the degree of tall and solid is not said to be the last, but it is absolutely unprecedented, it is the result of the joint efforts of nearly one million Khitan, Goguryeo, Xi nationality, Turkic, these years have suffered heavy casualties, and now only three percent are left at most.

"Your Highness, can you see this Turkic envoy?" Wei Yunqi asked.

"Of course you have to see it, otherwise how can you know what tricks they play."

Yang Shidao smiled, "It should be a temptation, we have reached a trade relationship with Jieli before, and at the same time opened official trade exchanges, this time Jieli ascended the throne, naturally we will send an envoy to inform him, and at the same time they want to get greater benefits." ”

Yang Tong asked again: "Then what benefits does he want to get?" ”

Yang Shidao did not answer, but looked at Fang Xuanling, who stared at the vast map of the northern grassland, and after a while, he said: "Jieli's purpose is very simple, he wants to obtain equal relations with the Sui Dynasty politically, and he wants to obtain greater strategic resources economically. ”

After defeating Shibi, Yang Tong let Chu Luo succeed to the throne of the Great Khan, and one of the regulations was that the Turks recognized the Sui Dynasty headed by Yang Tong as the successor of the Sui Dynasty, which meant that the Sui Dynasty was still the Turkic suzerainty. And the accession of the Turkic Khan to the throne must be canonized by the Sui Dynasty to be orthodox. But now that the Turks were once again united, the Sui dynasty was infighting, and Jieli Khan was also ambitious, and he certainly did not want to recognize the Sui dynasty as a suzerain.

If the Turkic envoys still recognized the Sui Dynasty as the suzerain, it would not be the envoys, but the Jieli Khan himself.

In the past official trade, the Great Sui only sold tea, bee candy, silk, porcelain, and cloth, and in order to keep the Turks fighting, they also sold some eliminated armor at sky-high prices, while strategic materials such as pig iron, bronze, and grain were resolutely not sold, and smelting was even more secret and precious, and private traders were not allowed to trade with the Turks, and once found, it was a capital crime. They had a large demand for pig iron, weapons, grain, and salt, and would inevitably come to seek the ban of the Sui Dynasty.

"From now on, we will stop providing weapons, no matter what, we must not let up on trade, and if there is still a trade, we will investigate more strictly in the future."

At this point, Yang Tong was by no means ambiguous, today he gave iron tools to the Turks, and tomorrow the Turks will slaughter the Sui people with war knives made of iron tools.