Wang Huaqiang was slightly stunned, he was very unfamiliar with the name Changsun Sheng, but he was very familiar with the surname Changsun, so he said: "Changsun Sheng? But the descendants of Sun Song, the founding general of the Northern Wei Dynasty? ”

Gao Xi smiled and said: "Yes, back then, Tuoba Si, the leader of the Tuoba Xianbei Department, entered the Central Plains and established the Northern Wei Dynasty, and Changsun Song was his number one general.

Changsun Sheng's great-grandfather, Changsun Zhi, guarded the Wuguan when Yuwentai entered the customs with the puppet emperor of the Yuan clan of the Western Wei Dynasty, when he invested in Yuwentai, opened the gate and let them enter the customs, and blocked Gao Huan's pursuers, and had the merit of saving the driver, so he was named the king with a different surname. When it was passed to Changsun Sheng's father, Changsun Yu, he was a state assassin, Yitong, and finally died as a county marquis.

Changsun Sheng himself is the fourth son, and his father's title has nothing to do with him, but he has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, and he has practiced a magic arrow stunt, and when he was a little older, he entered the palace of the Northern Zhou Dynasty as a guard sergeant. No one else knew what he was capable of, but the emperor, who had not yet made a career at that time, discovered his talent at a glance, and among all the young guards, he was the only one who had a green eye.

In the year of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the emperor of the Northern Zhou Dynasty married the Turks, and ordered the daughter of Zhao Wang Yuwen Zhao to marry the daughter of the Khan of Sha Bo Liu, at that time, in order to promote the military prestige of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the guards sent to escort the princess were all elite guards with high martial arts and superb archery skills, and among these people, Changsun Sheng was the best one, and his archery skills were praised even by the Khan of Sha Bo Liu, and even the children of the Turkic nobles learned archery from him.

Changsun Sheng is not only strong in martial arts, but also scheming, because of the appreciation of Sha Bo Luo Khan, he is the escort of the envoys between the two countries every year, along the way to the Turkic mountains and rivers, geography, customs and people are familiar with the heart, after returning to China, he will find craftsmen to make a sand table, and even the grasslands and camps of the main Turkic tribes throughout the year are clearly felt.

Moreover, Changsun Sheng also figured out the internal division of the Turks, and there were many large and small khans, especially the discord between Shabalu Khan and Apo Khan. As for the Datou Khan of the Western Turks, he was only nominally appointed as the suzerain, and in fact did not follow his orders.

Therefore, after Changsun Sheng came back, he made a plan, and when the Eastern and Western Turks came to the court every year, he deliberately placed the position of the envoy of the Western Turkic Datou Khan above the envoy of the Shabalu Khan, and the reward of the annual coin was also more to the Western Turks. Sure enough, Sha Bolu Khan had suspicions of Datou Khan in his heart.

In the war of the third year of the emperor's reign, Changsun Sheng, who was still the captain of Fengche Du, went out with the army of Dou Rongding of the Zhuguo State, and happened to meet Apo Khan and Datou Khan at that time, so Changsun Sheng infiltrated the enemy camp, and these two people knew the benefits, and even took the initiative to say that they could give up some border states and counties for them to loot, and as a result, the full Datou directly retreated, and Apo was not greedy enough, and wanted to rob again, but was defeated by Dou Rongding's army, so he also retreated to the desert.

And Changsun Sheng secretly found the nephew of Sha Bolu Khan, who was close to my Great Sui and had always been dissatisfied with Sha Bo Luo Khan's troops, and asked him to go to Sha Bo Liu's army to spread the news that the Tiele tribe in northern Turkic rebellion had attacked Sha Bo Liu's headquarters.

At that time, although the Khan of Shabalu was defeated by General Daxi, the main force was still there, and he still did not give up, and he was going to invade the area of Bingzhou in a different direction, but when he heard the news, he found that Apo and Datou had retreated, and he had become a lone army, so he quickly withdrew his army.

Shabalu Khan suffered the greatest loss in this battle, almost nothing, he attributed the reason for the defeat to the betrayal of Apo and Datou, turned back and broke the tribe of Apo Khan, and killed Apo Khan's slave mother, Apo was defeated and defected to Datou Khan, Datou was furious, borrowed Apo's hundreds of thousands of troops, and let him counterattack Shabalu Khan, since then the Turks have been fighting for years, and have declined year by year.

In the past few years, the Shabalu Khan has not only been unable to defeat Apo and Datou on the battlefield, but our Sui army has also attacked several times and attacked his servant tribe.

On the steppe, a khan who could not lead his people from victory to victory would only be abandoned by more and more of his people, and at one point, he was even beaten by Apo to hide in the grass and pretend to be dead. This is the truest rule of survival on the grassland.

So Sha Bo Luo was helpless in the end, so he had to ask me to surrender and apologize, and Changsun Sheng proposed at this time that Apo was brave, if he was allowed to sit big, it would be even more difficult to control it, so I sent troops to help Sha Bo Luo to repel Apo Khan, and stabilized the situation, and Sha Bo Luo could only be unwilling to pay tribute to my court, and his Kedun Qianjin Princess was also renamed Princess Dayi at this time, and was given the surname Yang.

Wang joined the army, now you should understand why the Turks were unable to take advantage of the situation when our army was conquering the south, as they did last time. ”

Wang Huaqiang listened to this wonderful story intently, and finally breathed a sigh of relief, and sighed: "Wonderful, so wonderful, Changsun Sheng can disintegrate the powerful Turkic division to such a point with just one mouth without a single sword, it is really a rare talent." In my opinion, even General He and General Han are not as good as him. He has done so much for the country, why is it still unknown? ”

Gao Xi smiled: "Because his background is relatively low, although his father is an official to the assassin history, the title is only a county marquis, and he is not the eldest son, he can't attack the lord, and he relied on his strong martial arts to become a Fengche captain." General He and General Han are both the eldest sons, and they have been generals for generations, and they came out to be assassins, and the starting point is much higher than that of Changsun Sheng.

Moreover, He Han and the two have been guarding the important town of Jiangbei for many years, and they are over fifty years old, while the eldest Sun Sheng is only in his thirties this year, and his qualifications are much worse than these veterans.

What's more, the things he is engaged in are not visible, they are all private dark transactions and espionage operations, unlike this dignified battle array, where you can reward officials according to the number of enemies killed, or when either parent is an official, you can be evaluated and promoted based on political performance.

So even if Changsun Sheng has made such a great achievement, but still can't be publicized to the outside world, now the Turks have not been destroyed, Datou Khan is still there, and Sha Bolu Khan died of illness two years ago, originally his younger brother Chu Luo Hou became the Great Khan, called Mohe Khan.

This person is the father of the dyeing dry who has a heart to my dynasty, this father and son are both close to my Great Sui, and also helped us kill Apo Khan, but two months ago, Mohe Khan was shot to death by a stray arrow in the grassland campaign, and the son of Sha Bolu, Yongyu Lu, became a khan, called Dulan Khan, this guy is a ruthless character, and he killed his own brother as soon as he took the throne, because his brother's tribe was strong, posing a threat to him.

So Changsun Sheng sent a secret letter the day before yesterday, frankly expressing his worries about this Dulan Khan, I heard that the righteous princess still hates me in her heart for the Great Sui to seize the Northern Zhou Dynasty and kill his father, and she has been honest for a few years during the period of Shabalu Khan, and now this wolf ambition Du Lan has come to power, and she has become the Khan of Du Lan again, and began to blow the pillow wind all day long, instigating Du Lan Khan's army to invade the south.

Wang joined the army, and the old man felt that your temperament was very similar to that of Changsun Sheng, who was thoughtful, very adaptable, and had a heart of loyalty to the country. This time, Dulan Khan is newly enthroned, according to the custom, he must first send someone to the court to seek the emperor's canonization, and then I will send an envoy to the Turks, Changsun Sheng is now too famous in the Turks, and Dulan Khan has some precautions against him, so this time I want to use a new face to go to the Turks. Would you like to? ”

Wang Huaqiang was overjoyed, but he didn't expect that he would directly get an ambassador, this kind of envoy visiting the Turks, at least at the level of a general, like Changsun Sheng, can only be an accompanying escort. Suppressing the huge excitement in his heart, Wang Huaqiang arched his hand and said: "Dare not obey your fate!"

Gao Xi nodded with satisfaction: "When I finish dealing with the matter here, I will return to the court, and I will arrange this matter at that time, your official position is now low, it is not appropriate for you to be the envoy, this time I am going to take the Pei military you have seen as the envoy, and you will be the deputy, and I will send the Turks together." ”

A trace of disappointment flashed in Wang Huaqiang's eyes, but after thinking about it, the deputy envoy was not bad, so he asked casually: "Who is this Pei who joins the army?" ”

Gao Xi smiled slightly: "His name is Pei Shiju, he is a member of the Pei family in Hedong, he is talented, and he has been with me for many years." I have been to the Turks twice before with the mission, and I am very experienced. ”