Chapter 44: The Great Hero of Evil
Yi Nan didn't just come to this Turkic Khan court once, but it was the first time he came to this place with such a complicated mentality.
Yi Nan has been ambitious since he was a child and has the heart to achieve a career. But time was running out, and he lived in a time when both the Eastern and Western Turks were extremely strong. Since the beginning of the Khan, the Eastern Turks have always surpassed the northern grasslands, won the northern desert and the southern desert, and can even influence the situation in the Central Plains. The same is true of the Western Turks, who control the entire Western Regions, and the countries of the Western Regions have to marry with the Western Turks, and the political situation is controlled to a certain extent, and even an alliance with the Western Arab Empire to deal with Persia is reached, and the goal is set in the West.
Yi Nan was in a dilemma between the two big tribes, sometimes attached to the Western Turks, sometimes to the Eastern Turks, until he got Yang Gongdao's guidance, and he decided to settle down. Relying on the Eastern Turks, with the help of the power of the Tang Dynasty, they rose to the steppe and achieved great things.
Judging from the results, it was perfect, and he was like a daughter-in-law who had become a mother-in-law for many years, and finally waited for the demise of the Turks. But Yi Nan found that he couldn't be happy, the strength shown by the Tang Dynasty in this battle was really amazing, obviously the chaos had just ended, and it was obviously affected by the turmoil at the end of the Sui Dynasty, but the strength shown was so terrifying.
On the 6th of January, the invincible northern overlord was directly destroyed, and there was no chance to breathe and relax.
According to his original prediction, the Tang Dynasty broke the Turks, and the Turks, like the Xiongnu in history, fled to the west of Mobei, intending to make a comeback. It was impossible for the Tang army to go deep into the west of Mobei to pursue the Turkic remnants, which was too much of a drain on them. In the way the Central Plains people fought wars. Logistics can't support it for too long. In the end, the only option was to activate him, an ally of the Turks, and support him against the remnants of the Turks. And he can also swallow the Turks openly under the nose of the Tang Dynasty. Be strong.
In this way, Xue Yantuo has the right time and place to dominate the party.
Yi Nan has no plans and thoughts to compete with the Tang Dynasty at the moment, not because he misses the love of the Tang Dynasty, but because he understands that since ancient times, the grassland people have only been able to suppress the Central Plains when the Central Plains is weak, when the Central Plains is faint and subordinate, when the Central Plains is full of people, and when the loyal and virtuous are in trouble. Now Datang is thriving. The rise is like a rising sun, it will only get stronger and stronger, and they are not opponents. and the Tang Dynasty. It's just killing itself, bringing about its own destruction.
Compared with Jieli's indispensable, Yi Nan thinks very low of himself and thinks very highly of the Tang Dynasty. There is no intention of being an enemy in the slightest. But as long as Xue Yantuo is strong. As long as Xue Yantuo replaces the Turks, one day, Xue Yantuo will also become a hegemon like the Xiongnu in the Han Dynasty and the Turks in the late Sui Dynasty.
But he never thought that the strength of the Tang Dynasty was so strong, and he directly destroyed the Turks and captured Jieli.
Only then did Yi Nan realize that he thought he was looking at the strength of the Tang Dynasty, but in fact, his high opinion was still an underestimate. Datang's potential is much stronger than he imagined.
Because of this, Yi Nan's plan was implemented perfectly. But it ended in failure.
The reason is that Jieli is a domineering person, and he does not allow there to be a disobedience or threat to him on the grassland. The strength of all tribes that are not his cronies will be limited by him and will not allow the development of the transition. As a result, there is a large Turkic family, and other tribes such as Xue Yantuo, Hui Hui, Fugu, Tongluo, Bayegu and other tribes are extremely limited.
Now the Turks have certainly defeated the Tang Dynasty as he expected, but he has not benefited from it. Although Xue Yantuo led by him is indeed the most powerful tribe on the grassland now, this kind of strength is like a dwarf general, and there is no tiger and monkey in the mountains to dominate the king, and there is not much strength to take the stage.
Datang ate the meat and gnawed the bones, and even drank the soup, leaving him with a little bit of soup residue.
The difference between the soup residue and the expected fat is really huge, how can Yi Nan be happy?
However, he understood that even if he was not happy, he had to be happier than anyone else at this moment: because he was the one who drank the soup dregs, the only person on the grassland who was qualified to drink the soup dregs, although it was the soup dregs, it meant the support of the Tang Dynasty. If he doesn't show his enthusiasm and doesn't show a certain value, there are many people who want to rob him of the soup dregs to drink.
In order to prove that he was happy to drink this soup dregs, he held this celebration banquet, for which he drove the wild game hunted in the tribe, the cattle and sheep in captivity to the Khan Court without hesitation, and slaughtered them at will, intending to make the celebration banquet prosperous.
I met with Li Jing first, discussed the things at the celebration banquet in detail, and when I walked out of the tent, it was getting late.
He was about to turn back to the tribal camp, but he heard a familiar and unfamiliar voice in his ears, looking for the sound. I really saw the playmates who grew up together since childhood......
At the moment, it is snorting comfortably, raising its head, and feeling extremely enjoyable...... As if he had found him, the slightly closed lantern opened and hissed happily.
"Eun Gong!" Yi Nan shouted and stepped forward quickly.
Luo Shixin was bathing and brushing Chibi, when he heard the call, he looked for a voice, groaned slightly, remembered Chibiu's happy call, and also remembered the person: "It turned out to be you?" Yili Yinan, so you are really the Khan of Xue Yantuo, the Khan of Zhenzhu Viga? ”
At the beginning, he suspected that the man who was accidentally rescued on the way to seek medicine for Pingyang was Yi Nan, but now it seems that there is no doubt about it.
Yi Nan followed Jieli to the south, and also fought with Luo Shixin in Dapan Mountain. But at that time, Luo Shixin was like a firefly shining in the night, and Yi Nan was one of the many leaders of the 150,000 army.
It was because Yi Nan had already recognized Luo Shixin, but Luo Shixin did not have the slightest image of Yi Nan.
Yi Nan said: "Thanks to the weight of His Majesty of the Heavenly Dynasty, he is sealed as the true pearl Viga Khan, such as a fake exchange." It's a general, Yi Nan couldn't have imagined that the Engong who saved me back then turned out to be the famous General Luo Shixin, the first brave man in the Tang Dynasty. As he spoke, he touched the horse's neck and said with a smile: "It is really a blessing for this horse to meet the general." ”
Luo Shixin said without hesitation: "It is also my blessing to have such a good horse, and I thank you again for the grace of the horse at the beginning, I like it very much." ”
Yi Nan smiled: "It can be seen that only a hero like the general is worthy of it." The general cherishes it so much, and I am relieved. I still need to prepare for the celebration banquet, and I will leave. ”
Luo Shixin did not keep him, and watched him leave.
Li Jing, who saw this scene from a distance, walked over: "What do you think of him?" ”
Luo Shixin paused and said, "It's not simple at all! Saying that, he detailed the origin of the red horse and the situation of saving Yi Nan and sending the war horse.
Li Jing paused thoughtfully and said: "Righteousness and squandering money, treating BMW and good horses as dung, to a person, choosing him can indeed do his best to stabilize the situation in the north, so as to obtain huge profits." However, there are two sides to everything, Xue Yantuo has a khan like him, and the speed of development in the future must not be underestimated. ”
Luo Shixin said: "I don't think there are so many concerns, the gap is getting bigger and bigger. Not long after the founding of the Tang Dynasty, I have not yet recovered my vitality. The Turks have been restricting the development of our Tang Dynasty for many years, so there is this war. Now that I have decided the Turks in the first war of the Tang Dynasty, we will destroy the invincible Turks and shock the world. In a short period of time, no one dared to touch the momentum of our army. What we need now is a stable environment for development, and peace in the north means that we can receive a large amount of tribute every year, we can trade guò every year, and we can make excellent economic progress. Our conditions are better than Xue Yantuo, they are the development of one plus one, but we are one hundred plus one hundred deformation. The progress may be the same, but the results are vastly different. Even if Xue Yantuo becomes the second Turk in the future, it is a Tang Dynasty that does not know what it will become. Now a steady dìng north, stronger than anything else. ”
"Makes sense!" Li Jing looked at Luo Shixin unexpectedly and said with a smile: "I didn't expect you to have such a bottom in this regard." ”
Luo Shixin scratched his head and said, "This person always has to grow, doesn't it mean, it doesn't hurt to live and learn a little more." In fact, he said it according to the historical process, in history, the Tang Dynasty supported Xue Yantuo to ensure the stability of the north, which really made Xue Yantuo grow up. However, during the period of harmonious relations between the two sides, Xue Yantuo often paid tribute to the Tang Dynasty with horses, cattle, sheep, camels, mink, etc. The number is huge, often tens of millions, or even tens of thousands. Trade with the North also stabilized the country's economy.
The Tang Dynasty can be said to have taken advantage of it, and just when Xue Yantuo showed signs of rising, the black-bellied Li Shimin sent someone to destroy him.
Playing belly black and playing politics, Luo Shixin believes that there should be no one in this world who can compare to the future Tang Emperor and the current Tang Dynasty Prince, so he is a little unimpressed by Li Jing's worries.
Yi Nan can indeed be regarded as a character, but compared to Li Shimin, it is much worse.
As the date of the celebration banquet approached, the original Turkic Khan's court became lively, and many tribes on the steppe gathered together, bringing congratulatory gifts, cheers, and smiles to participate in the celebration banquet of the Tang Dynasty.
Luo Shixin did not like this false atmosphere very much, and went out hunting: there was no hunting ground more suitable than the grassland, so he avoided these habits directly, and did not return with rich prey until the day of the feast: the beast that had been hungry for a winter was the most ferocious beast and the easiest to encounter in this spring season, and Luo Shixin was lucky and the harvest was extremely rich.
After informing Li Jing, at noon that day, the celebration banquet officially began.
Yi Nan, as the host, denounced Jieli's evil deeds at the beginning, and the grassland chiefs lined up on the left and right listened to righteous indignation, as if Jieli had a grudge against them for killing his father and taking his wife.
Immediately afterwards, he thanked Datang for eliminating evil for them, and ceremoniously introduced the heroes of eliminating evil in front of everyone.
This so-called big hero should be Li Jing, Luo Shixin, and Li Shiji. (To be continued......)
PS: Chapter 2.