In the eyes of later scholars, the historical legacy of the Western Turks is a very perplexing problem, and no one can explain why in the face of an enemy of a dying brotherly country, the Western Turks will completely turn against each other, and finally integrate into the arms of the Tang Dynasty and become one of the 112 ethnic families of the Tang Dynasty.

It is impossible to verify when the Western Turks began to integrate into Tang society, but later generations of scholars can get a glimpse of the heavenly opportunity from the thirty-sixth volume of the "Historical Records of the Tang Dynasty" and the "Guigu Treatise Volume". "We know that the defection of the Western Turks was by no means accidental, and it is very likely that it was a bureau set up by Guiguzi, and it was this bureau that completely assimilated the Western Turks without spending a single soldier, which made later generations of scholars sigh and shock.

Victory and subjugation in this world are not necessarily the participation of blood and fire, there is a method called the bloodless blade, which is ten thousand times more powerful than the conquest by force. ———— excerpted from "On the Fall of the Western Turks during the Tang Dynasty......

"Your Majesty, this is the wool that the Western Turks have recently paid tribute, and they are very grateful to you for opening Youzhou as a place for commercial exchanges, so this time not only sent a large amount of wool, but also thousands of livestock." The white-eyed father-in-law stood aside, respectfully reciting the words on the song.

Li Er put down the scroll in his hand, stretched his waist, and showed curiosity on his face, "Youzhou is an important military town in the north, and its geographical location is very dangerous, when did I approve it to open up commercial exchanges with the Western Turks?" ”

The white-eyed father-in-law was still full of smiles, and replied: "Your Majesty, you have forgotten, when Xu Yang returned from overseas, he once captured the leader of the Western Turks, the Tuli Khan, into the court, and you were also very shocked at that time, so you ordered to kill the Tuli Khan, in order to dismantle the Western Turkic regime, and the ghost valley Xu Yang tried his best to dissuade His Majesty, and finally put forward a theory of "sheep eat people", Your Majesty does not remember? ”

"Oooh. I remembered! Li Er also suddenly realized and said, "I have only been reading books on the revision of commercial taxes recently, and I have forgotten about it, how is this plan being implemented now?" ”

With a smile on his face, Bai Mei replied: "Your Majesty, according to the spy of the shadow guard, the implementation of this plan is extremely smooth. ”……

Tukoli was once a formidable warrior in the Western Turks, he was tall from an early age, and had a solid skeleton, and when he grew up, he was even more burly, even able to fight with huge breasts, and he also grew up to be a brave and warlike soldier in the Western Turkic army.

The Western Turks used very few troops abroad, once when the Eastern and Western Turks were still allies, they sent troops to the Tang Dynasty together, Tukeli was also honored to participate in the invasion, and finally passed all the way to Chang'an City, forcing the emperor of the Tang Dynasty to greet him in person, in the mouth of the Central Plains, they called that time the "Weishui Alliance". At that time, it was the time when Tukeli felt the most honored.

But later, there was a split between the Eastern and Western Turks, and the Turks finally had a huge disagreement with the Turkic Khan, and the Turks also had a strong regime that split into two countries, and since then, the civil wars between them have continued, and Tukeli has also participated in many civil wars between the two Turks, and the Turks who died in his hands can be said to be dozens if not hundreds.

Tukeli didn't want to kill, but on the battlefield full of dangers, if you don't kill others, others will kill you, Tukeli has no choice, he can only choose to protect himself.

Food is getting scarcer and supplies are getting scarcer, and the civil war between the two Turks will not only not bring any benefits, but will have a huge impact on the daily production and life of the two ethnic groups.

Tukeli didn't understand this, he was simply nostalgic, nostalgic for the days of the previous invasion of the Tang Dynasty, only by fighting with the Tang Dynasty, if he won, he would get a lot of loot, all kinds of grain, bronze, gold and silver, jewelry, and fighting against the Eastern Turks, only the dead people all over the ground won, and the clothes and armor on the dead people are getting thinner and thinner.

The Turks don't care about the land, but the Turks need food.

A snowstorm swept through the Eastern Turks, and even the Western Turks were greatly affected, and many herders who suffered from the wind and snow near the east were frozen and starved to death.

Datang was unexpected, taking advantage of the snowstorm to destroy the Eastern Turks who had been dominating the Central Plains, and heard that even Jieli Khan was arrested in Chang'an, when Tukeli first heard the news, he actually had a sense of sadness that the rabbit died and the fox died, and the powerful countries like the Eastern Turks were wiped out by the Tang Dynasty, can the Western Turks still be able to protect themselves?

Although Tukeli did not read, his grandfather once told him a story that was circulated in the Central Plains, called "Dead Lips and Cold Teeth", which means that if a person does not have lips, then his teeth will feel cold, Tukeli thinks that this story is very true, and now, the Eastern Turks as lips have perished, and only the teeth of the Western Turks are left, and he feels worried and cold from the bottom of his heart.

When the entire Western Turks began to panic and many large tribes began to migrate north, another news hit them like a thunderbolt from the sky, and their leader, the Tuli Khan, was captured by the Tang people in Youzhou City, and his fate was uncertain.

But "the weather in the steppe always changes suddenly", and this proverb among the Turks did happen again, and when the Western Turkic regime was in danger after waiting for more than a month without seeing the leader, the Turki Khan actually returned.

And not only did he not escape this time, but the scenery was pulled back by the carriage, he brought back a lot of gifts from the Tang Kingdom, distributed them to various tribes, and also announced a good news, the Tang people need wool, as long as they work hard to raise sheep, the Tang people are willing to exchange food, materials, and even gold and silver with them.

This stupidity is simply unbelievable, Tukeli never thought that the Tang people would be so stupid, wool without sheepskin has no effect, they cannot be sewn, they cannot be woven, the only end is to fall from the sheep to the steppe during the season of sheep shedding, and become part of the steppe land.

But the stupidity of the Tang people is a good opportunity for the Western Turks to get rich, isn't it? Tukeli also raised more than 20 sheep with the mentality of trying it out, and after raising them for a while, he cut all the wool, wrapped them in large bundles of cloth, and went to the Youzhou city of the Tang people to sell the wool together with several Turkic brothers who had also served as soldiers.

To tell the truth, Tukoli had never been to the cities of the Donals, and in his impression, the cities of the Dons seemed to look the same as the border towns he plundered.

However, when Tukeli approached Youzhou City, he was shocked by such a huge and towering city tower, only to see that the black city bricks were as thick as a giant beast lying horizontally, and next to Youzhou City, there was also a taller but smaller megalith building.

A Turkic brother who often comes to Youzhou to lead the way said with a smile: "Hey, brother, it's a coincidence that you came, this afternoon just happened to be the final of the football match in Youzhou Gymnasium, and the people of Youzhou will go back to watch it, you can also go to see it, it's really quite exciting, well, it's in the building of that big stone." The brother who led the way pointed to the small megalithic building beside the city walls.

Tukeli pretended to nod his head, but he didn't understand anything.

The garrison of Youzhou City was not as strict as he imagined, and after the brother who led the way showed a small glass plaque to the guards guarding the city, the guards let him go directly, and did not ask Tukeli the others.

One of them asked curiously what it was, and Tukeli and the others looked curiously at the brother who led the way, and pricked up their ears to hear him.

I saw him smile slightly: "This is a VIP pass card, as long as the transaction of more than ten yuan in Youzhou City is successful ten times, a copper card will be issued for free, if it reaches a hundred times, a silver card will be given, if it is a thousand times, a gold card will be given, and then there is a diamond card, of course, different cards have different privileges." For example, this copper card can bring less than four people into the city to trade, and there is no need to check. ”

Several people showed expressions of sudden realization, and Tukeli was secretly a little excited in his heart, he also wanted a small card like that.

The first time he entered the city, he was very touched by Tukeli, he really couldn't believe that such a beautiful and grand building was built by the Tang people, but the scenery was always short-lived, and soon, the brothers who were driving in front of him turned his head to them and said: "Brothers, Youzhou Trading Street has arrived, come down." ”

Tukeli got out of the carriage in a daze, and saw a towering big sign above his head, and in front of him was a street about 100 meters wide...... R1152