Chapter Eighty-Seven: The Quest for the North

Comrade Lao Sha smiled and bowed down to his subordinates, but I am almost certain that his laughter is more ugly than crying. Because Lao Sha's behavior below exposed his heart. It is said that this time after bowing to the ministers and returning home, Lao Sha was greatly stimulated, and when he went back, he hugged and cried with these ministers. Not only because of the loss of face in front of the minister, but also because of the passing of the Turkic power era, I shed tears of heartache. Diplomacy is face, strength is the last word, and the key to the problem was the complete victory of the Great Sui over the Turks at that time. The situation continued to deteriorate due to the continuous division and attack of the Great Sui, and in July of the fifth year of the emperor's reign (585), Comrade Lao Sha really couldn't get mixed up, so he complained to the Sui court and asked to lead the tribe to the south and live in Baidaochuan (Wuchuan, Inner Mongolia). This was actually a feudal domain, seeking military protection from the Sui Dynasty. The mighty Turks finally collapsed. Two years later, in the seventh year of Kaihuang (587), he finally couldn't hold it anymore, and in the midst of internal and external difficulties and shame, Comrade Sha Bolu returned to the west. However, the raging flame of the dream of national rejuvenation did not go out with the extinguishing of the lamp of life of Sha Bo Liu, but burned more and more.

At the time of his death, it was not Sha Boluo's own son who was designated to succeed the Khan, but his younger brother Chu Luohou, who had a tense relationship with him and was often suspicious, but was super capable and intelligent and obedient. At the moment of his death, Comrade Lao Sha finally had an epiphany: national rejuvenation is the last word, and other gods and horses are floating clouds. Seeing that the leader of the neighboring country was dead, this Sui Ting immediately came to his strength. Immediately, he sent Comrade Sun Sheng, the chief of the cattle man, to "congratulate" him with a festival, and named Luo Hou as Mohe Khan and gave him a banner to advocate. Another tragedy of the disintegration of the stratagonist continued.

Another tragedy of the disintegration of the stratagonist continued. Sha Bolu's son, Yonglu, was the Dulan Khan (i.e., Yehu Khan), and there was also an Apo Khan to the west. Under Mo He's strong request, the imperial court gave Mo He a banner, and Mo He had the confidence to attack Apo under the banner of the Great Sui. Later, the strongman Comrade Mo He, with the support of the Great Sui, continued to attack the neighboring countries in the west, but was shot and died in a campaign in November of the eighth year of Kaihuang (588). How good, the brothers are desperately grabbing the inheritance, and this Da Sui is handing the knife in the back. As soon as Mo He finished playing with this sand bowl, his son took the throne. This buddy is Dulan Khan. By this time, the development of the situation in Northeast Asia had been completely reversed. In the ninth year of the opening of the emperor, the Great Sui destroyed the hidden danger of the Chen Dynasty in the south in one fell swoop, and the land of China was finally reunited. This will free up your hands to clean up this evil wolf of the north. This Dulan had a bad relationship with the Great Sui, and gradually became estranged from the Great Sui under the demagoguery and instigation of Princess Dayi (the princess of the Northern Zhou Dynasty) and a group of anti-Sui and Fuzhou forces. After the imperial court learned of this news, it sent this eldest grandson Sheng to the Turks to deal with the matter with full authority. The heroic and martial eldest grandson Shengtong used various means of bribery, discord and intimidation to finally force the Turks to kill the members of the anti-Sui forces and the righteous princess. Of course, this series of military exploits Emperor Yang Jian will not forget jì, and the official position of Changsun Sheng is like the sesame blossoming, rising day by day. Later, under the guidance of Changsun Sheng's foreign struggle line of "long-distance friendship and close attack, separation from the strong and weak", he created contradictions with his relatives and supported the little Khan Tuli, which is the Qimin Khan we will talk about here. In the wrestling between the Tuli Khan and the Dulan Khan, the Great Sui was on the side of the Tuli. In February of the 19th year of the emperor's reign (599), the Tuli Khan reported to the imperial court that the Dulan Khan had made siege equipment and was preparing to attack Datong City (in the northeast of the present-day Inner Mongolia Urat Qianqi). It is impossible to verify whether this report is accurate, whether it was dug for this Dulan under the instruction of the imperial court. But this is not important, the important thing is that the Great Sui has a reason to intervene militarily, and this is the key. Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty, Yang Jian, ordered his youngest son, Yang Liang, the king of Han, to be the marshal (he did not actually come to the front line), and shot Gao Gong out of Shuozhou (Zhishanyang, now Shuo County, Shanxi) with the left servant of Shangshu; Shangshu's right servant shot Yang Su out of Lingzhou (Zhihuile, now southwest of Lingwu, Ningxia); Shangzhu Guoyan Rong out of Youzhou (Zhiji County, southwest of present-day Beijing); The soldiers were divided into three ways, and the sword was pointed at the Turks. Nadulan was very nervous, and immediately formed an alliance with the Datou Khan in the west to deal with the Tuli and Sui dynasties. Taking advantage of the fact that the Turks were outnumbered, they led the troops to raid the Turks. Then he gave Tuli a black stick under the Great Wall. As a result, Tuli was defeated. This time it's really embarrassing. It is recorded in the history books that this Tuli comrade and Mr. Changsun Sheng were defeated under the alliance of Dulan and Datou, and in an emergency, he only took five followers, and the two brothers fled all the way to the south. Tuli saw that there was only this bit of capital left, and he would definitely not be welcomed when he followed the handsome brother of the eldest grandson back to see Yang Jian. Then prepare to flee. But Changsun Sheng doesn't think so. The political zhì family is not ordinary. He didn't value tangible assets such as cattle and sheep, treasure, and armies. He valued the noble lineage of Tuli. That's the resource that can be used the most. Even coaxed and deceived, Tuli was brought to Emperor Wen Yang Jian by Changsun Sheng. Emperor Yang Jian Dayue. He was awarded the rank of chief Sun Shengzuoxun Hussar General and protected the Turks. Then, Da Sui quickly made a move. In April, Gao Gong ordered Zhao Zhongqing of Shangzhu to lead 3,000 troops as the vanguard, and broke the Turks, and Dulan Khan was defeated and fled, and was killed by his subordinates when he was desperate. At the same time, Yang Subu encountered Datou Khan in the area north of Lingzhou and also defeated the Turks. Datou was seriously injured and fled, and his many dead and wounded were innumerable. Under the business differentiation of the Great Sui that lasted for nearly 20 years, under the joint efforts of the Tongguò monarchs and ministers, especially the direct control of the Changsun Niuren, the Turks who dominated the Mongolian Plateau finally finished the game. The Central Plains Dynasty ushered in peace and tranquility. On a sunny morning in October of this year, Emperor Yang Jian was in a good mood. As the leader of the Great Sui Empire, he had to canonize the Turkic Khans in particular. That's a great thing. I think there are a lot of cattle in the sand bowl during the Northern and Southern Dynasties. The two little brothers of the Northern Zhou and Northern Qi dynasties, including the later Great Sui Dynasty, had only tongguò treasures and women in exchange for the temporary tranquility of the empire at the beginning of the founding of the country. Now, the history of humiliation is a thing of the past, and East Asia has a new master. Finally raised his eyebrows. In the Wu'an Hall of Daxing City, Yang Jian's ceremony to canonize the Turkic Khan is underway. Canonized this Turki as the Khan of the Enlightened People. This Qimin is the leader of the ** territory that Yang Guang is about to inspect here, and the leader of the pro-Sui regime that my father once ordained. Khan is still Qimin, and the starring role is still led by Changsun Sheng, but the master has been replaced by the son of the old emperor Yang Jian, the new Yang Guang. Can Keimin not be excited? Without further ado, just follow along. That Changsun Sheng went to the Turks to fight with the leader first. After seeing the Khan of Qimin, he directly read the emperor's edict, and this Qimin was very respectful. Immediately beckoned his little brothers, the heads of the small tribes, to come over. The meeting was held to discuss the welcome of the Great Sui Emperor to visit the Turks, and obeyed the dispatch and arrangement of the eldest grandson. After Changsun Sheng stepped on it, he felt that everything else was fine, but he was not too satisfied with the environment of this grassland. Kind of said. In fact, this nomadic people live on this grass, without grass, there will be no cattle, sheep and horses, so naturally there is no food, no drink, no opportunity to ride horses to the Han people to grab food, jewelry and women, so these grasses are quite affectionate and feel very natural. But the Han people are different, they see crops all day long, which are all neat and uniform well fields, and the blocks are very standardized. Moreover, the publicly-funded inspection group led by the emperor is too demanding, and the eyes must be good. When the eldest grandson saw the momentum of this wild grass growing wildly, he frowned and wanted the Qimin Khan to cut the weeds himself. What are you doing, people are the number one Turks, not cleaners! What is the purpose of this eldest grandson's work? The magistrate doesn't understand. If Qimin personally weeded the emperor and greeted the Son of Heaven of the Great Sui, then wouldn't the other small tribes and small groups all shout long live in front of the Son of Heaven of the Great Han Dynasty and bow down to the courtiers? This achieves the goal of deterring the crowd. The key is also to sing a play, the name of which is the goal that Yang Guang and the Chinese emperors have loved and pursued all their lives. The name of the play is: The Coming of All Nations. The monarchs of the Central Plains Dynasty liked to see the heads of state of all the small surrounding countries come to worship, believing that they were the true lords of the world. Say a few more words, big guy Lele.

The name of the play is: The Coming of All Nations. The monarchs of the Central Plains Dynasty liked to see the heads of state of all the small surrounding countries come to worship, believing that they were the true lords of the world. Say a few more words, big guy Lele. The one who likes to sing this play and is famous all over the world is the Qianlong Emperor who ranked first in the cultural and martial arts of our Qing Dynasty, Aixinjue, Luo Hongli is also. It is said that in the 57th year of Qianlong (1792 AD), this Englishman watched the French make money from trading with the Qing Dynasty, and also wanted to join in the fun and engage in trade with the Qing Dynasty, so he sent this empress envoy, Mr. Macartney, to Beijing to celebrate the birthday of the Qing Emperor Qianlong (of course, the birthday celebration is fake, and the purpose of trade is to make money). Qianlong was very happy. He thinks that this is the coming of all countries, and we have everything in the Qing Dynasty, so why do we trade with you? In his eyes, this means that there is a new member of the Fanbang of the Qing Dynasty. Then the birthday celebration is to exchange gifts. The emperor's side was prepared early, and the governor of Liangguang and the superintendent of Guangdong Customs prepared gifts, so the following two are all fat poor, can the tribute gifts be bad? The Emperor's gift to the British was called an atmosphere. In one breath, I rewarded these British Yankees with thousands of treasures, all of which were high-quality pieces of value, and no jade agate could be put on the table. Then it's time for the British. This Macartney presented to the emperor is also the most precious and sophisticated in the eyes of the British, which are all British scientific and technological products after the Industrial Revolution. What a globe, an astronomical orbiter, a Herschel telescope, a Parker lens, a barometer, etc. This gift box one exchange problem comes. The chairman and general manager of the Qing Dynasty was very unhappy. In Qianlong's eyes, what is the use of these strange and ingenious weapons? Later, because the Qing Dynasty required Macartney to enter the Forbidden City to perform three bows and nine bows, Brother Xiao Ma quit and promised to kneel on one knee at most. This made the emperor even more unhappy. In the end, the British tossed and did not catch anything, and put forward the terms of the trade demand, which were all rejected by the Qing Dynasty. Have trade relations? There are no doors! The British were depressed about this. The information asymmetry guide zhì Liangzi is thus concluded. As the saying goes, it is not too late for this gentleman to take revenge. The British continued to postpone this time, and it seemed to them that forty years was not too late. If it doesn't work, then it will be hard, and in the ** war forty years later, these grudge-minded British directly opened the country of the Qing Dynasty with cannons. Since then, the Chinese leadership has been busy, lining up every day to sign unequal treaties with the great powers. What the Treaty of Nanjing, the Treaty of Tianjin, the Treaty of Peking, the Treaty of Shimonoseki, the Treaty of Xincho, and so on. It is impossible to count the amount of money lost and the amount of land lost. Like Yang Guang, in the eyes of these leaders, for the sake of the so-called face, they did not hesitate to lose all their glory. It seems that a moderate amount of face and vanity will give you the motivation to progress and excel. But if it's too much, it's stupid and dangerous. Qianlong's stupid and failed reception work actually led our country to breathe for hundreds of years. These stupid emperors never seem to understand this. Mistakes are being made one after another. The front fell, and the back followed. To get back to the point, this eldest grandson Sheng is a person who understands, and he knows it best. Amusing the emperor is the last word. The leading actor of this great drama of the coming dynasty of all nations is Qimin Shiye. This eldest grandson Sheng has already decided. A diplomat is a diplomat, and his brain is not in vain. Thinking about the problem is different from us mortals. A handful of grass in our eyes can be fed to pigs and sheep. You look at the head of the family, Lord Sun, a handful of grass will also make a big fuss, and it will become a political prop for wrestling between countries. But although the Qimin Khan was established by the Great Sui, after all, he is the king of a country, and no matter how good your eldest grandson Sheng is, you are just a slave by the emperor's side. How to make Qimin accept happily and not lose face requires skill. However, after all, Master Sun has played in the wind and waves, which is really difficult for our No. 1 diplomat in the Great Sui. The eldest grandson immediately pointed to the wild grass outside the tent and told Qimin, saying, "This grass is very fragrant." This Qimin stupidly lay on the ground and smelled it, and when he smelled it, he got up and clapped his hands and said to Changsun Sheng suspiciously: "It's not fragrant at all." At this time, Changsun Sheng said unhurriedly to Qimin: "The Son of Heaven went out on patrol, and everywhere he went, the princes had to personally sprinkle water and clean the royal road to show respect. As soon as these words came out. Qimin immediately sobered up. Hurriedly said: "The sin of slavery is also! The flesh and blood of the slave are all given by the Son of Heaven, and they have to work hard, how dare they resign. In particular, the people on the border do not know the law, and General Lai teaches them; The favor of the general, the luck of the slave. The faithful man immediately drew his saber and cut the weeds outside his tent with his own hands. This guy, even the boss has done it, and the leaders of the small tribes below are all scrambling to meet the inspection of the Han Emperor, and they are extremely active in making various preparations. The delegation then set off, and Yang Guang was also stunned. There was not a single weed to be seen along the way, and from the moment they crossed the border, these Turks built a special royal road for His Majesty the Emperor, from Yulin County to Qimin's Tooth Tent and then to the east to Zhuo County. My good man, a full 3,000 miles long and 100 steps wide, is equivalent to 250 meters of Super Boulevard. This face is doubled, and the emperor's spectrum is bigger. In Yang Guang's eyes, this spectrum is directly proportional to his influence and deterrent power to other countries, including his own people. The bigger the spectrum, the more you are afraid of me, and the more afraid I will be, the more obedient I will be, and the more all nations will come. That's what you want. Emperor Yang Guang wants this face. But he can't eat it as a meal. The crisis is slowly hatching in this face-building day.