Chapter 262: Promoted to the Third Lord in One Year
Sun Xiangfu also read a few books in later generations, but generally rarely read down, especially the Tang wear, the main foot back to the early Tang Dynasty, as soon as he came up, he copied a poem "Qin Shi Mingyue Han Shiguan, 10,000 people have not returned the Long March, but make the dragon city fly general, do not teach Hu Ma to do Yin Mountain." This kind of poem lamenting the unscrupulous generals of the country, moreover, is still read in front of the fierce generals of the early Tang Dynasty, which is really enough to choke how the protagonist survived, or rather, the author does not know the meaning of this poem at all.
Sun Xiangfu never dared to recite such a poem, because the generals in the early Tang Dynasty were really fierce, and when such a poem was recited, he would be slapped in the face.
In mid-October, the heavy snow in Shanyang was not knees, and more than ten fast horses trekked from the grassland and snow, bringing Li Jing's good news.
Jieli did not escape his fate, he was captured by Li Jingsheng a year earlier than in history, in this battle, the Tang army killed more than 10,000 Turkic diehards at a very low price, captured more than 90,000 Turkic young soldiers, 130,000 herdsmen, millions of cattle and sheep, and countless goods.
When he saw this battle report, Sun Xiangfu jumped up from the chair happily, it has a great significance to Shanyang, remove this restless guy, and the safety factor of the territory of the Anbei Protectorate has increased several times, and at the same time, the fold of asking for the right to settle the prisoners was written and sent to Chang'an as soon as possible.
Jieli is divided, the Tang Dynasty opens its channel to the west, the entire north, the west territory is connected, and the capital of Anbei can directly export output to the west, and in the future, the economic situation in the north will be very good.
The eight-hundred-mile urgent battle report entered Chang'an almost at the same time, and Li Shimin's shout almost tilted his jaw, and all the ministers in the court were stunned.
When did we start the war against the Turks?
And such a grandiose victory?
Winning a battle is always the best way to boost the confidence of the people, and at the same time, it is also the only way to deter the small.
After Li Shimin selectively told all the arrangements, the officials of the family were shocked and shocked.
What made the emperor so confident that on a snowy day, more than 10,000 horsemen would dare to raid Jieli's 100,000 army?
Was the Emperor a reckless adventurer?
The sons of the family were a little worried, and at the same time recognized the fact that the Tang Dynasty had destroyed even the most powerful Turks, and the military strength was unparalleled in the world, and the emperor dared to take risks, that is, to provoke him, he dared to swing a butcher's knife at them, so he had to be honest in the future.
As in history, after Li Shimin destroyed Jieli, his internal prestige in Datang was extremely high, and those who were still secretly scolding him for being in the wrong position, and those who disobeyed him, all shut up and reined in, which led to the situation of Datang's rapid economic take-off four years after Zhenguan.
Also shocked by this matter is also far away in Mobei Yi Nan, he has just wiped out the Tushi cavalry, tens of thousands of people, now, he has nearly 200,000 young and strong men in his hands, the total population, has reached more than 500,000, compared to before the Turks were not divided, it is not much worse, and the territory controlled is almost half of the later Inner Mongolia plus the entire Outer Mongolia, east, west, north and south thousands of miles each.
"Hasn't Dongzhu come back yet?"
"No, she said that she wanted to learn the songs and dances of the Han people in Shanyang City, and I couldn't persuade her."
"Song and dance of the Han people?" Yi Nan squinted his eyes at the servant he had sent to Shanyang earlier.
"Yes, she is learning singing and dancing skills from the Governor of Shanyang, saying that she wants to give it to the patriarch when she returns, and she also asked us to bring back a lot of iron tools and specialties of Shanyang City."
The servant did not do what Yi Nan had confessed, but he was not afraid of punishment, and he shouted out of the tent as if offering a treasure, and suddenly many of his entourage came to the tent with their things in their arms.
"Patriarch, this is an iron pot made by Shanyang, and, these, are boning knives made by Shanyang, which is very convenient for cutting mutton, and this salty soybean sauce has a lot of salt in it, add some to the pot where the mutton is boiled, the mutton will become very delicious, and the body will be more powerful after eating, you can warm the whole body with spirits······"
This servant has only lived in Shanyang for three days, and when he talks about this, he talks endlessly, even Dongzhu unconsciously forgets her lamb because of all kinds of things in Shanyang, let alone a servant, and now, he can't wait to take another errand to Shanyang, and eat and drink there for a few days.
Yi Nan looked at the dazzling array of things in the tent, it was impossible not to be curious, but at this moment, he was still a wise and wise tribal leader, and he would unconsciously think of the things behind these things in his mind.
Li Tang was too different from the former Sui, they actually defeated Jieli so easily, and even gave up the previous plan to unite with him.
And how confident must they be that they would dare to place such a wealthy city less than five hundred miles away from them?
No wonder the Hui Ministry did not send someone over to express its submission to him after receiving the news that he had eliminated the Tushi Cavalry Department, but to Li Tang, who had only been founding the country for more than ten years, so what was the strength? This is something that Yi Nan really wants to figure out.
After his face swept over the things offered by the servant, Yi Nan spoke again, "Dongzhu, let you bring these things back?" ”
Hearing this, Thorn Har stammered a little, "Well, also, there is another letter, but it was written by the Governor of Anbei of the Tang Kingdom, and after the gentleman who knows Chinese characters reads it, he advises me not to hand it over to you." ”
"What letter? Bring. ”
Yi Nan's words, Thorn Ha'er didn't dare not listen, and suddenly, he took out a letter from his sheepskin jacket and handed it to Yi Nan.
"Sun Zhengming, who is only twenty years old, has such courage to invite me to Shanyang Horse Race?"
After reading the letter, Yi Nan did not get angry as Thorn Har expected, but stuffed the letter paper into the envelope untouched, according to the translation of the gentleman who knew Chinese characters, in addition to inviting Yi Nan to go to Shanyang City to race horses and arrows, but also a large part of the persuasion Yi Nan to the Li Tang Emperor to be a minister, although a lot of conditions and benefits were given, but Su Yi Nan had the intention of replacing the Turks, but he thought that this was insulting Yi Nan.
He didn't know that what Yi Nan wanted to do most now was to establish a khanate and change the title of his leader or patriarch, as for the drama of being called a minister in the above table, he didn't care, and he got the actual benefits, and when the days couldn't go on, his subordinates would naturally support him to wave the butcher's knife and kill the Han land.
Sun Xiangfu wrote very clearly in the letter that as long as Xue Yantuo was a vassal to Li Tang and regarded him as the suzerain, then Li Shimin would issue an edict to crown him as a khan and let him continue to manage the land of thousands of miles in the north of the desert, and at the same time, the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate would fully liberalize the commodity control of Xue Yantuo's department, and would also help him build a city in the grassland that could withstand the severe cold, so as to ensure that his cattle and sheep would not freeze to death during the winter.
Li Shimin's task to Sun Xiangfu is to try to ensure that there are no border troubles in the past two years, and with Sun Xiangfu's current status, he has been able to deal with diplomatic matters on behalf of Datang.
Claiming the minister, the establishment of the khanate, Yi Nan will not pat his head and decide, he also needs to discuss with his subordinates, yes, the spices, salted fish and bean paste, as well as spirits, and tea brought back by Thorn Har, have come in handy, in the winter, Yi Nan has convened the generals to discuss the matter, and it is not okay not to eat.
At dusk, the drunken Yi Nan gave an order that from tomorrow onwards, the tribe would move fifty miles south every day.
Sun Xiangfu in Shanyang City naturally didn't know Yi Nan's movements, and Li Shimin in Chang'an didn't know even more, he was very busy now, and after destroying the Turks, there were a series of things that he needed to deal with, first of all, he set up a state capital in the place originally occupied by Jieli, Shazhou, Yizhou, Xizhou, and Tingzhou were the first to be established.
This was actually an area ruled by a few ethnic minorities, but these small tribes or small countries were wiped out by Jieli, and now, Li Jing has destroyed Jieli, of course, these territories are all to be taken over, with the precedent of the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate, Li Shimin now sees the land as valuable.
The second is to agree on the reward of the beggar servant, the title of the king of loyalty, of course, there are only 1,200 households in the real food city, and a country is good, and he also hung the title of the governor of Suzhou, but after he handed over his subordinate tribes to Sun Xiangfu, he was going to Chang'an to be an official, Li Shimin gave him a house in Chang'an, and divided the fields for him in the surrounding counties, as for the tenants, he could choose half from his own people, and the other half, Li Shimin arranged Han people for him.
Then, it was the arrangement of the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate, and Shuozhou was stripped out of Sun Xiangfu's hands, he no longer served as the Shuozhou Assassin History, upgraded Shanyang to the county seat, and put the old land of the Hui Department under the rule of the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate.
And Sun Xiangfu operated to destroy Jieli, made great contributions, was promoted to the Duke of Shanyang County, 1,200 households in Shiyi, served as the Metropolitan Governor of Anbei, and had the right to arbitrarily decide on the spot.
For such rewards and appointments, there is almost no opposition in the court, because Sun Xiangfu's related households will not object, and those family officials still count on Sun Xiangfu to help them plant their fields! There will be no objections.
As a result, after Feng Ang in the south, there was another minister who held great power in the northern frontier, and he was still a young man under the age of twenty, but no one found this difficult to accept, because the territory he was in charge did not belong to the Tang Dynasty originally, and outside the Great Wall in the north of the Tang Dynasty, there was such a barrier as the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate, and everyone felt comfortable.
However, there are still some jealous parties who jumped out and spewed a few words, since Sun Xiangfu was sent to Shuozhou last year, this is just a year, he has been promoted from a deposed marquis to a county duke, in one year, he has been promoted to the lord three times, unprecedented!
Not only that, but his official position is also the real power of the Metropolitan Governor of Anbei, although it is a border land, but it is also worth more than the nominal state governors of the Tang Dynasty, this kid is the rhythm of heaven!
So, the will to give him the title of official has not yet reached Shanyang, and the person who is making trouble for him jumped out first, and there is a speech that the official played, Sun Zhengming was mad when he was treating the plague in Weinan, and burned down all the houses in the county, and the production and living objects were not left, resulting in a good Weinan County becoming a wasteland, and he must be responsible for this matter.