Shi Na, people who don't know the history of the early Tang Dynasty will not know what the meaning of this surname is the descendants of the wolf who believe in the god of Zoro, they will not understand the glory and history contained in this surname, and they will not understand the bitterness and blood and tears hidden behind this surname. In the history of the savannah in the last few hundred years, the series of glorious names that began with "Ashina" is no longer to be seen, and only the oldest herdsmen, from the oldest and distant legends, can casually come up with such names......

Ashina Dyegan, Ashina Ji, Ashina Lifu, Ashina Daman, Ashina Helu, Ashina Shiba, Ashina Sheer, Ashina Simo......

Of course, while these people were alive, there were very few people who could call these heroes by their names, and the subjects of the steppe called them by the most honorable titles of their own tribes.

Turkic Qimin Khan, Turkic Shibi Khan, Turkic Chuluo Khan, Turkic Li Khan, Turkic Yehu Khan, Turkic Datou Khan, Turkic Turki Khan, Turkic Tabu Khan, Turkic Yimi Ni Hou Libi Khan......

Each name and one honorific title symbolize the glory and glory of a steppe khanate. At a time when this self-proclaimed descendant of the god wolf was strong, from the Green Mountains in the Western Regions to the Tooth Tent in the Beiting, and then to the Bohai Sea in the Eastern Liaodong, dozens of ethnic groups of all sizes, such as the Hui, Murowei, Khitan, Xue Yantuo, Mole, Lite, Dangxiang, and Si peoples, huddled at the feet of this behemoth and trembled, and more than a dozen large and small countries such as Tuyuhun, Gaochang, Qiuzi, Khotan, Shule, Kanjubo, Lingling, Goguryeo, Baekje, and Silla bowed down under the threat of the tooth tent of this steppe empire. Even the Han dynasty in the Central Plains, which was known as the land of China at that time, was once nakedly put on the table of the Khanate because of the sudden disintegration of the old empire of the Great Sui.

At that time, the separatist forces that had been dominant in the north for a while, whether it was a behemoth like Li Tangxi, Qin Dou Xia, or a little brother like Liu Wuzhou, Liu Hei, Luo Yi, and Gao Kaidao, who begged for a living and picked up a bargain in the cracks of the crowd. Without exception, they turned to this steppe overlord for support and help. In the early days of the Tang Dynasty's unification of the world, Li Yuan, the ancestor of the Tang Dynasty who had always prided himself as a noble family in Guanlong, had to temporarily bow his head to him and forbear. In the process of unifying the world in the Tang Dynasty, whether it is the battle of Western Qin or the battle of Hedong, or even the decisive victory of Tiger Prison Pass and the end of Hebei, there is the shadow of this northern overlord behind it.

In the ninth year of the founding of the Tang Empire, this huge khanate mobilized 200,000 allied troops of various ethnic groups. All the way to herd sheep and horses, from the spirit of the broken pass, the Yan, Qing, Ning, Yuan and other Weibei prefectures and counties ravaged under the iron hoof, all the way to the Weishui River. A tooth tent was built on the west side of the capital of the Tang Dynasty, forcing the new emperor of the Tang Dynasty, who had not been on the throne for a few days, to conclude an alliance under the city.

Then, just three years later, under the planning and leadership of the young emperor who had always been proud and domineering and never willing to give in, only he bullied others and no one dared to bully him, it took only three years for the reunited Tang Empire to completely destroy this powerful khanate that had dominated the steppe and the sea for more than 80 years. As the great khan of the monarch, Ashina was dragged to the main hall of the Taiji Palace to dance the Hu dance. Hundreds of thousands of people of the Ju clan crossed the Yellow River and moved south under the coercive surveillance of the Tang army, and hundreds of royal nobles with the surname "Ashina" tied their hair, put on armor, and entered the Taiji Palace to guard the door of the young Tang Dynasty Emperor......

The fall of the Prairie Empire was so rapid. It's almost dizzyingly fast, and you don't even have a chance to catch your breath......

In this large group of Ashina doormen, there is one name missing.

At the beginning of the turmoil of the Khanate, the young Tang Emperor wrote a personal letter to three important ministers of the grassland who were given the surname Ashina, and two of them happily obeyed. Only one person turned to the west and threw away the handwritten letter written by Feibai on the spot.

Six years later, at the end of his life, the man finally returned to the Tang with his followers. The Son of Heaven of the Tang Dynasty married this person with his own sister Princess Hengyang, and at the same time gave him the power and treatment of entering the palace without exception.

As a result, the Turkic Tabu Khan, who frightened all countries in the steppe desert of the Western Regions, became the commander of the Tang Dynasty and the general of Zuo Xiaowei.

Ten years later, this man returned to the Western Regions with an army of 100,000 Hu and Han, crossed the conquered Tuyuhun and Gaochang, and incorporated the five kingdoms of Qiuzi, Khotan, Shule, Kujubo, and Lengling, which had not yet surrendered to China, into the territory of the Tang Dynasty, and today's Xinjiang was incorporated into the territory of the Han Dynasty in the Central Plains from that time.

At this time, the unruly Ashina, who gently discarded the call of the Heavenly Khan as the wind in his ears, had become the Duke of Bi Guo of the Tang Dynasty and the chief of the Kunqiu Dao march.

When this person returned to Chang'an, the unhung son of heaven who had been a soldier since he was sixteen years old and had been tossing on the chessboard of the world for thirty-five years had passed away in the Hanfeng Hall of Yuhua Palace.

The former steppe Dabu Khan, who had wiped out the five kingdoms of the Western Regions, cut his hair and was disfigured on the day of his burial in Zhaoling, and since then he has been stationed in the mountain mausoleum to guard the mausoleum for the deceased Tian Khan until his death six years later.

So far, at the gate of Zhaoling, the stone statue of this person standing in braids is still standing, and it has not changed for thousands of years.

A few years later, his son became the deputy commander of the march of the Luo Dao and followed the Dafeichuan River on the Tibetan Plateau.

A few years later, his grandson was demoted and dismissed for killing cattle and banqueting guests, violating the decree of Emperor Zetian Dasheng on cattle ploughing, deprived of Ashina's surname, and given the surname "Killing Cows", and was sent to Gyeongju to be assigned to the foot of Baekyu Mountain in Gyeongju together with his slaves......

As a result, there was one less alien Li in-law in Chang'an City, and there was one more cattle killing tribe in Gyeongju who herded and hunted for a living.

In that time when the authentic Li clan was still in danger and everyone didn't dare to sleep at night, no one noticed that this family that was originally a foreign Hu person left, and no one had the ability and courage to say one more good word for them, and the people at that time had long forgotten that the ancestors of this family had opened up thousands of miles of territory in the Western Regions for the empire.

Except for the stone statues outside the Zhao Tomb and the earth mountain in the burial mausoleum, all traces of the family's existence in the Tang Dynasty have been erased.

Except for the descendants of the Cattle Killing Clan, everyone has forgotten them, forgotten the contributions and exploits that this tribe had made to the Central Plains Dynasty, and forgot the glorious past of this family.

For Guo Yanqin, who served as the assassin of Gyeongju. This family is nothing more than a vulgar alien race that lives in its own jurisdiction, a group of savages who have long been accustomed to the fishy and ignorant king, ants and insects that crawl at their feet.

For the party departments, this tribe is an alien household that was unexpectedly relocated hundreds of years ago, and the language is different and the culture is very different, since it is not a brother of the same clan. Naturally, it is the enemy who fights for pastures and water sources.

This is especially evident in the close party vein of the pheasant clan.

After years of wars and turmoil, the two families have long formed a blood feud, and it is impossible to drink the same scoop of water. The patriarchs of the two families both dreamed of destroying each other. It is a pity that there has been no such opportunity on either side for hundreds of years.

Therefore, this time the news of the pheasant tribe's rebellion came, and the cattle killing clan was in high spirits from top to bottom, and all the nobles watched the reaction of the Gyeongju side, as long as the Han court was willing to send troops, the cattle killing clan would do its best to completely erase the pheasant tribe from the surface of Qingyan and Yanzhou.

However, the performance of the Gyeongju soldiers was very disappointing to them, and they traveled from the state city to Huai'an. It was more than 100 miles away, and more than 1,000 state troops walked for half a month, south of the Great Wall in Beiditu, Huai'an County. The more than 1,000 cavalry put together by the pheasant tribe scattered the Gyeongju Han soldiers who were very backward in armor and weapons with only one charge, and the routs fled all the way south, and Huai'an County fell into the hands of the pheasant tribe in this way, and the northern gateway of Gyeongju was opened, and the salt road was completely cut off.

After this battle. Guo Yanqin refused to leave the city again, and took the remaining hundreds of soldiers to stay in Gyeongju and wait for the imperial court to rescue. Outside the north gate of the state city has become a world of rebel cavalry scouts, if it weren't for the pheasant clan, there would be no ambition. Just thinking about using Huai'an County and Luoyuan County and Qingyan's road into the interior to negotiate the price with the Central Plains Imperial Court, Guo couldn't even defend the state city.

In addition to being disappointed, the cattle killer family had to rectify their own military horses and take strict precautions against the pheasant family in the direction of Luoyuan. Although the pheasant family won the battle, the leaders of the ethnic minorities who were making enemies of such a behemoth as the Central Plains Imperial Court also knew that this was not the right time to take the initiative to provoke the enemy of the Niu family, and similarly, the Niu family was unwilling to take the initiative to cause trouble when the pheasant family was in full swing.

Without the backing of the Han army, Niu Duji did not think that he was sure of defeating the pheasant tribe.

It was at this time that Li Wenge came.

After listening to the story of the ancestors of the clan told by the slaughtering of the cow in a difficult and incoherent manner, Li Wenge only said one word to the old patriarch, which made the old man who was full of tragedy and death when he left the tooth tent smile.

"My ancestor is the king of Tang Huo, and the ancestor is the brother of Mrs. Biguo!"

Although Li Wenge has not been able to confirm until now whether the nest of Ashina on the other side is the descendant of the one who sealed the earth and built the mountain in Zhaoling - Keyi's translation level is really a bit nonsense, and the historical knowledge of the Central Plains of the fine seal Minda is also nonsense - but since the other party's surname is Ashina, the set of relatives is always inseparable, between the grassland Ashina family and the Guanlong Li family, this kind of relative is too easy to set, I don't know how many princess county lords with the surname Li married Ashina's family. In his previous life, Li Wenge heard a joke on the Internet, there were guards standing guard in the Taiji Palace, and eight of the ten people were surnamed Ashina, and there were seven horses among the eight Ashina......

The men of the Li family are really able to plant......

Secretly slandered a few words about his own illusory ancestors, Li Wenge rode happily and slowly entered the camp of the cattle killer under the personal guidance of Niu Killer Du Ji.

"The old patriarch's name is the same as that of Shibi Khan, doesn't he offend his ancestors?"

Li Wenge asked in a good mood, and after listening to his words, Ke Yi's face was embarrassed, and he said respectfully: "General, I don't know what 'offending ancestors' means......

"Even if I didn't ask...... Looking at the disdainful and disdainful gaze that Xifeng Minda looked at him, Li Wenge, who felt embarrassed, touched his nose and lowered his head, giving up the search for the root of this doubt.

Ask a Turkic chieftain with a left hair about the avoidance of names

Li Wenge himself despised himself a little.

Entering the tooth tent of killing the cow, the old patriarch immediately gave a series of quick and urgent orders, and the fine seal Minda listened with a frown and difficulty, while Li Wenge didn't know what to do at all.

Looking at the serious and fierce look on the old man's face, Li Wenge secretly beat a drum in his heart, thinking to himself, could this old man be pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger to lure himself into the tooth tent and then ambush the soldiers and horses to gather and annihilate?

Immediately, he dispelled this idea - with the current military strength of the Cattle Killing Tribe that he saw, although his two hundred soldiers were unable to annihilate this tribe. However, neither a head-on confrontation nor a mobile guerrilla attack will be left behind, and it is more than enough to make progress and protect oneself. It is really no good to kill the cattle family and kill their own relatives who came to the door. It's going to get a lot of trouble.

Although Li Wenge's qualifications in Guanzhong are shallow, after all, he is also a festival envoy who has accepted the canonization of the imperial court, and he is even a powerful town that even the Son of Heaven has to look up to.

killed Li Wenge, I am afraid that no monarch can tolerate this most direct and rude offense.

Although the old guy seems to be straightforward, he should not be stupid.

“…… He's ordering. He ordered his son's horses to return to their places and continue to monitor the movements of the pheasant's troops, but he asked his son to return to the tent and meet the great man of the original - I think he meant you. He had all the tribal nobles gathered to meet you in the tent. and command that ten of the fattest sheep be slaughtered to reward your soldiers, and that you be treated with the best milk wine......"

Fine Feng Minda lowered his voice and said lightly to Li Wenge.

Li Wenge thought for a moment and asked in a low voice, "How can I negotiate with him?" It seems that their habits are different from those of us Han Chinese, and it is difficult for them to be used against the ministers of the DPRK and China......"

Hoso Minda smiled: "Tell him what you want, and then tell him what you can give him, stab the left arm with a knife." Drip the blood in a bowl and drink it in exchange with him. That's it......"

Li Wenge suddenly saw the Venus in front of him, and it was really difficult for him to accept such a bloody bridge with such a simple negotiation model.

Three whole sheep were carried in, and a young man armed with a sharp knife walked into the tent and saluted to the chairman and Li Wenge, who were sitting on the chairman's chest. Then turn around and hold a sheep with its belly facing up, and grab the sheep's two front hooves with your left hand. The right leg bent the knee to press the right hind leg of the sheep, and with a slight stroke of the knife in his right hand, a small cut had been made in the belly of the sheep, and the bright red blood flowed out, and the lamb that had already accepted his fate suddenly bleated and screamed miserably, and the voice was very mad in Li Wenge's ears, while the old man on the side was smiling and smug.

Li Wenge frowned, although he didn't inquire, but he also knew that this was probably the highest etiquette for entertaining distinguished guests in the cattle killing clan. The general guest treats a meal of mutton is a preferential treatment, and the guests with status can enjoy the whole sheep hospitality, and only the most distinguished guests, the main family will slaughter the lamb in front of the face to show respect.

At this time, the young man had already released his right hand, and his hand penetrated into the sheep's abdomen from the edge of the knife, stirring slightly, and then he pulled out his right hand, which had become completely bloody, and quickly covered the sheep's mouth and nose. The mournful cry of the lamb gradually became low at this moment, and its limbs began to twitch involuntarily.

Li Wenge doesn't know how to slaughter sheep, but seeing that this young man's movements are skillful and sharp, he is obviously a middle and high master.

In the blink of an eye, the bound lamb was already exhausted, and the young man let go of the hand covering his mouth and nose, lifted the sharp knife and lightly slashed twice at the original edge, and began to peel the sheepskin.

"Is this kid okay?" Du Ji smiled and said to Li Wenge, after Li Wenge listened to Keyi's translation, the corners of his mouth smiled reluctantly: "The movements are very neat, and he will definitely be a warrior in the future!" ”

"This is my youngest son......"

After this sentence was translated by Keyi, Li Wenge was taken aback.

"His name is Beshi, and he is only nine years old, but he is very strong, like thirteen or fourteen years old!"

Nine-year-old children slaughtering sheep, if it was in the era of Li Wenge, this is indeed a great spectacle in itself, nine-year-old dolls, some people don't even dare to sleep alone.

But in this era, Li Wenge doesn't have much of a great feeling, he is also nine years old, Zhe Yuqing has begun to learn to kill, and this little Beshi is still in the stage of slaughtering sheep, although these two things are equally bloody and cruel, but after all, they are still different.

"If you don't think this kid is annoying, take him away and let him follow you, from a young eagle to a real eagle......

Killing Niu Luji pulled his beard with one hand and said with trembling lips, his eyes revealing a trace of concern and reluctance, but gradually transformed into determination and fortitude......

Listening to Bi Keyi's translation, Li Wenge pondered for a long time, the expression on his face gradually turned into solemnity, he turned his head, looked at Niu Duji with great sincerity and said: "Old patriarch, I am here to help you and your tribe, and at the same time to seek help from you and your tribe, I don't need you to use the young eaglet in the family as a hostage......"