Chapter Twenty-Three: Kindness, That is the Matter of the Saints
Pei Min's face was slightly gloomy when he heard this.
Along the way, he received a lot of news from the front.
To be honest, at the beginning, the Arabians attacked with heavy fists and surrounded the city, Pei Min was still quite panicked.
Arabia has a calculating heart or not, and it hits the dead hole in the Western Regions.
Once the Western Regions are lost, if you want to regain it, it will be extremely difficult.
But then the news kept coming, and Pei Min was relieved.
The more critical this kind of time, the more it can reflect the value and significance of famous players.
Pei Min certainly has the true biography of Li Jing, Su Dingfang, Pei Xingjian, and Xue Rengui, and his military level is top-notch in the world. But he is tens of thousands of miles away, how can he take care of everything?
At this time, local self-coping skills are particularly important.
Famous generals such as Feng Changqing, Gao Xianzhi, and Wang Zhongsi, with their own abilities, forcibly stabilized the situation in adversity, so that the disadvantages of the Western Regions would not expand, and also stabilized Pei Min's heart.
This time, Arabia has two killer features, one is to trap the kings of the Western Regions in Tuozhi City, and the other is to secretly prepare nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses to attack Gaochangcang.
The former is the ability of Arabia, but the latter is a betrayal.
Ge Lulu, like Hui Hui, was chosen by Pei Min to deal with the Turks and stabilize the Western Regions.
Judging by the results, it is clearly good.
Under the persecution of Qarluq, the strength of the Turgish is now greatly reduced, and their strength has naturally increased greatly.
But for Ge Lulu, Pei Min's support is not strong. Qarlu did not rise in strength like Hui and became a local overlord.
Because the Western Regions are no better than the North.
Pei Min supported Hui because he was sure enough to suppress him, and there was no escape. Qarluq, on the other hand, is located in the Western Regions, and it would be foolish to raise him and throw him into the arms of Arabia.
Pei Min won't do this stupid thing.
But even so, without Pei Min's support, Ge Lulu would not have the strength he has today.
The Qarlu Huyan Department actually bought the Arabs and attacked Gaochang Cang together with the horse thieves, which was not easy to slap Pei Min in the face.
"Let's go, let's go meet Ashina Shi and see how he apologizes!"
Pei Min walked first.
Cui Xiyi followed.
When he came to Gaochang Mansion, Pei Min sat down to serve tea.
Cui Xiyi asked people to inform Ashinashi.
Ashina Shi is a rugged man, compared with the original bravery, the sharpness on his body has been reduced a lot, and it has been replaced by a kind of calmness of the superior.
From the leader of a small tribe to the leader of a large tribe with more than 300,000 people and 80,000 soldiers, Ashina Shi has obviously completed a transformation in ability.
At this meeting, Ashinash knelt down: "The criminal minister Ashinash pleads to the king of the county and His Majesty!" ”
He knocked his head three times, powerful and dignified, and red scars appeared on his forehead.
Pei Min didn't let him get up, he still let him kneel,
With his current status, he can afford to bow down to Ashinashi.
"Over the years, the court owes you a little bit?"
Pei Min's voice was hard, and people were full of anger when they heard it.
Ashina Shi couldn't help but feel stunned in his heart, with inexplicable fear.
It's not why, the pressure on him from the famous King Pei Jun in front of him is even better than Li Longji who he saw in Chang'an in the past.
"No, the king of the county and His Majesty are as kind to us as a mountain, and today's matter is really the idea of Hu Yanze, a beast. It was he who blinded the pork, it was he who betrayed his treachery and brought me to the point of treachery. King of the county, I, Ashinash, am willing to swear with my left ear, and I am sincere to the Heavenly Empire, and I will never have the slightest objection. ”
As he spoke, he suddenly drew the scimitar at his waist and cut off one of his ears with a single blow.
The red blood ran down his cheeks, and Ashinashi's face was resolute, with the demeanor of Qi Bi He Li back then.
He Li is the most famous of the three major foreign generals in the early Tang Dynasty, he is a member of the Tiele tribe, and has led the army to crusade against Tuyuhun, pacifying Gaochang, defeating Qiuzi, Xue Yantuo, and the Western Turks, pacifying the nine surnames of Tiele, and destroying Goguryeo, which can be described as brilliant.
The most well-known thing is to cut the ears and swear not to rebel against the Tang Dynasty.
In the past, the Tang Taizong sent Qi Bi He Li back to Liangzhou Province and appeased his tribe.
However, the clansmen of the Qibi tribe captured Qibi He Li and tied him up and sent him to Xue Yantuo, and threw it in front of the tooth tent of Zhenzhu Khan Yi Lost.
Yi lost the man to persuade Qi Bi He Li to surrender, Qi Bi He Li pulled out his saber and shouted to the east: "How can there be a loyal martyr of the Tang Dynasty who has been humiliated and captured, heaven and earth, sun and moon, I wish to know my heart." ”
He cut off his ear with a knife to show his unyieldingness.
Ashinas is clearly following this example.
Cui Xiyi's face was moved, as an orthodox literati, he firmly believed in the truth of his parents.
Ashinashi's hand shocked him.
Pei Min didn't think so, but he couldn't be indifferent, and said: "Dudu, what's the trouble, I don't doubt your loyalty, but it is undeniable that it is your Qarluq problem, and it is also your people who joined the horse thieves to attack and kill the vital granary of our dynasty." The Governor deserves to give me an explanation. ”
Ashina Shi said angrily: "This is natural, I have already captured that traitor, just outside." Let the king of the county dispose of it, if you want to kill or chop, listen to it, I'll never say a word. ”
Pei Min also saw from this that Ashina Shi really had nothing to do with this matter.
If Hu Yanze died, he would be suspected of murder, but Ashina Shi handed him over so happily, which is enough to prove that he really has a clear conscience here.
Of course, this is also related to interests, and Ashina Shi can have today, all thanks to the support of Datang.
Ashina Shi had no reason to betray the Tang Dynasty because of a little petty profit.
The foreign attitude of the Arabs and the Tang dynasty is obvious.
"Kill them all!" Pei Min said lightly.
"Good!" Ashina Shi stood up and said, "Killing that beast will only dirty the hands of the county king, so I will go and take off the traitor's head and sacrifice it to the county king." ”
"No, no, no, no......" Pei Min said several "nos" with a face, shook his head and said: "The governor misunderstood what I meant, what I said was to kill them." ”
He put his hands behind his back and said, "According to the news from my hands, the Huyan Department sent more than 7,000 troops this time, of which 2,000 were broken by Gao Xianzhi's Beiting Army and Gao Changcang's guards, and more than 5,000 fled back to Qarlu when they saw that the situation was not good. I say kill, including them. ”
Ashinash's face changed suddenly, and he immediately knelt down and pleaded: "The king of the county, they are all my people, they are just instigated by traitors, and I also ask the king of the county to open the net, I will be grateful for the mercy of the king of the county!" ”
Pei Min looked at Ashina Shi and said word by word: "Kindness, that's a saint's business, what I, Pei Min, want to do is to wipe out all the people who rebelled against my Tang Dynasty!" ”