When Li Junxian was advancing north and constantly surrendering those tribes, Jieli, who was a Turkic khan, was about to be driven crazy. Jieli is now living a very bad life, and there are legends every day that this tribe took refuge in the Tuli Khan, and then that tribe was exterminated by the Han people. Now Jieli is an ant on a hot pot, and he is not at peace at all. Jieli Khan felt aggrieved because he was arguably the worst Khan.

In the original history, there were nomads who pressed the Han people in the Central Plains to fight, and they were rarely attacked by the Han people in the Central Plains. And Jieli used to often laugh at the tribes that were attacked by the Han people on the grassland, which was too embarrassing for the grassland people. But now, the Han people of the Tang Dynasty also sent a large army to attack the grassland, which made him uncomfortable. And Jieli also wanted to attack, but he found that the small army was not useful, but the large army did not have much around him. The last time Tuli rebelled, the result was a loss of tens of thousands of people. The remaining tens of thousands of people will have to be corrected before they can fight.

As for the tribes that were not directly subordinate to the Khan, it was even more of a headache. Jieli Khan sent orders several times to gather in the sweat tent of the northern Tieshan Khan, but those tribal leaders were afraid that Jieli would swallow up the tribe, so they did not go. Now we can only watch these tribes being swallowed by the Han people one by one.

"Bastard! Li Junxian, are you our Turkic nemesis? This was the case since three years ago, and it is still like this, are you really the nemesis of the Turks? Jieli shouted helplessly to the sky.

At this time, a Turkic nobleman came to Jieli and said, "Khan, another great tribe of 10,000 people has been annexed by the Turki Khan. ”

"What Turki Khan? He's just a rebel. He betrayed our Turks and cooperated with the Han people, wanting to completely destroy our Turks! Jieli said angrily.

The Turkic nobleman was sweating a little, but he didn't think so. Because the Turkic tribes are funded by other powerful people, it can also be said that it is very normal, and their own tribe is usurped. Isn't it normal to go to the people of the big tribe for help? Moreover, the Turks did not think that the Han people could occupy the steppe forever, anyway, the Han people just wanted to teach the Turks a lesson. So those Turks are careless, and if they lose anyway, they will lose, and they will not lose much. This was also one of the reasons why the Turks were reluctant to integrate their forces to face the Tang army, because their sense of crisis was too small.

But as a khan, Jieli, his political level is very strong, how can Jieli not see that the Han people are not good at this time? This time, the Han people have already announced the sale of pasture in the Central Plains, specifically to those big families. Those big families have got pasture, so they can't hire someone else to herd sheep for them? Don't say anything else. I'm afraid that as long as the price is reasonable, many Turkic herders will agree.

Of course, the virtues of the tribal leaders below knew, because he, the khan, did the same. In fact, grassroots herders do not have much wealth, and the main wealth is concentrated in a few tribal leaders. Only those tribal leaders had a great deal of wealth. As for the herdsmen, in the eyes of the chief, they are their own herdsmen. This situation is very popular among the steppe peoples, even the Mongols who later swept the world, although the Mongols were positioned as a first-class people, but the grassroots Mongols also had many herding slaves, and the quality of life was even far worse than that of those Han people who had the opportunity to become officials.

Because of such a long period of exploitation. So that the herdsmen at the bottom can't stand it at all. As long as the century-old clans in the Central Plains do not exploit the herdsmen too blackly, and even as long as they choose the sharing system like the farmers in the Central Plains, I am afraid that many Turkic herdsmen will be hired by the Han Chinese. In addition, the Turks did not have any real concept of land property rights. They are all grazing wherever they go, and there will be no conflict between the herdsman and his owner over the ownership of the land. As long as the Han people in the Central Plains were well organized, coupled with strong force, and a bloody battle defeated the Turkic people's stride. That would be complete domination of the grasslands.

The Han people of the Central Plains had had several opportunities to rule the grasslands, but they all believed that the cost of ruling the grasslands was too great for the state treasury to afford. There is also nothing good to come of in the steppe. But now the Tang Dynasty not only contributed money from its own treasury, but also pulled the family into the water, so that the financial resources were greatly enriched. And in the Han Dynasty, because of the accumulation of private wealth, what could not be done may be completely done at this time in the Tang Dynasty. This was the most terrible thing about Jieli Khan, because the steppe no longer belonged to the nomads.

"Regret not being at the beginning! Why did I take people to attack the Tang Dynasty back then, but now stealing chickens and rice is not a recipe for rice. Now, the Turks are in danger of extinction. Jieli thought bitterly.

However, although Jieli regretted attacking the Tang Dynasty back then, he would never openly admit this kind of thing, otherwise the morale of the Turks would be over.

"Khan, what should we do now?" The Turkic nobleman asked.

"What to do? Hurry up and shrink your forces and fight a decisive battle with the Tang Dynasty! If we fail this time, we will be wiped out. But the people of the Tang Dynasty were not afraid, even if they failed, they would be able to recover within twenty years. They have pinched the death hole of our Turks and fought with us. In this battle, even after the battle, we will lose hundreds of thousands of able-bodied young people, and even our population will be fractured. This is terrible, it can drain the blood of our Turks! But after twenty years, the Han people have recovered, and even become stronger. But we will not be able to recover these young adults in twenty years, so we will be even weaker by then. When the time comes, they will reduce us in turn, and we will be completely finished! Jieli Khan said sadly.

The population problem has always been a problem for the Turks. Now the Han people have used their demographic advantage to the extreme, and they are invincible. Even if the Han people of the Tang Dynasty failed, it would not be a loss of hundreds of thousands of people. In less than 20 years, I am afraid that it will recover in less than 10 years. Although the troubled times have just ended, the population of the Han people is still ten times that of the Turks, and this is the difference. The core idea of Li Junxian's strategy is to use the advantage of his own population to constantly accumulate Turkic production space. Anyway, war is to use one's own advantages to bully those countries or forces that happen to be in a short position. This is not a boxing match, you have to pay attention to the equivalence and fairness! (To be continued......)