Chapter 249: The King of the Prairie
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The court of the Turkic Khan of Iron Mountain.
The golden wolf silently guarded in front of the big tent, defending the former glory of the owner of the big tent.
In front of Shibi Khan's bed, his three young sons, Ashina Desire Valley, Ashinash Bowl, and Ashina Association led the three of them to lie on Shibi Khan and wept loudly. And his two younger brothers, Philosher, also stood on the side of Shibi Khan, silently shaking their heads.
Half-asleep and half-awake, Shibi Khan once again came back from the ghost gate, and when he heard the cries of the house, he also knew his current situation. Shibi Khan tried to sweep his gaze over the standing Philescher, and the two of them spoke, "Has the next Khan agreed?" ”
Ashina took a step forward and said, "It's the second brother." ”
Shibi Khan looked at the standing Philescher and said, "Ah, in the future, Ben Khan's golden wolf banner will be held by you!" ”
"Big brother!" Liversh bowed his head.
Shibi Khan seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, and said: "Very good, I have two wishes in my life, one is that my Turks can unify things and reproduce the khanate that was feared by all directions when our fathers and ancestors were in power, and the other is that I let my Turkic wolf flag be planted on the Han people's Xijing Jingdu, and look at their frightened looks." ”
"Now I can't do it, it's up to you what happens to my golden wolf's descendants in the future."
He was silent, and the weeping of the three young sons intensified.
Shibi Khan turned his head and looked at the top of the tent, and looked straight for a long time, and his gaze was finally colorless.
"Khan!" A cry of grief erupted from inside the tent. Hundreds of shamans kneeling outside the tent performed a dance together, wishing the souls of the deceased to ascend to the heavens of eternal life and rest in peace.
Among the thousands of tents in Iron Mountain, the Turkic people, hearing the gongs and drums on the mountain, walked out of the tents in unison and raised their heads to look at the golden wolf in the distance. At this moment, they understood that their khan's soul had returned to immortality. The time of the Turkic Shibi Khan passed.
The sky of the steppe was as blue as a wash.
After Shibi's death, the corpse was lodged in the Khan's tent, and then the Turkic secret service, She, Yehu and other officials all rode around the tent together, walking a total of seven laps. Then they came to the tent, and cut their cheeks, and wept aloud. The successor to the throne of the Khan, Philip wept and cut his face with a knife, exchanging blood and tears.
Then everyone piled up the things they had used in their lives, and as for the seven war horses they had ridden in their lifetimes, and the hundreds of slaves and wives and concubines they had loved in the past, they were also tied up and thrown out of the tent. Among the slaves, there were many teenagers, and they all looked down at the grass and wept silently. Then they were piled up on all sides, and a fire raged around the tent where Shibi was located, and countless cries came from the fire.
After the fire was extinguished, some Turkic soldiers entered to collect the ashes, and the Turks cremated them, and it was summer now, and it was customary to bury them in autumn.
After Shibi's death, he set up a ceremony to inherit the Turkic Khan in the eyes of his close guards and important ministers. When his brother ascended to the throne of Khan, he had seen such a great ceremony once, but it was not a good experience for him.
Dressed in the ornaments of the Khan, he was first helped into the chariot by his courtiers, and then covered it with a large felt, and with the sun it turned nine times, and with each turn, tens of thousands of generals and soldiers from all sides saluted together.
At the end of the prayer, Philfith was helped onto his horse. The rest was not a good experience, first wrapped a cloth around the neck of Liversh, and then a dozen ministers each held one end of the cloth and twisted it vigorously, as if they wanted to usurp the throne and strangle the new khan.
When he was strangling hard, the great shaman on the side kept an eye on it, and waited until he almost lost his breath. The great shaman waved his hand to stop, and then the ministers on the side let go.
The great shaman stepped forward and asked Liversh as if asking for his last words: "How many years can you be a khan?" ”
At this time, he had just survived by luck, and he couldn't take his breath, and he didn't know if his head was on his head, so he replied casually: "Ten years! ”
At that moment, all the ministers wrote it down together, and when Liver's complexion was very slow, he was alive again.
The ministers raised his golden wolf and slowly descended the mountain, and from the top of the mountain to the bottom of the mountain, countless Turkic cavalry raised their horned bows and spears, and shouted to the sky: "Khan! ”
"Khan!"
"Khan!"
Seeing the scene, he raised his arms excitedly, looked up at the sky and shouted, "Immortal Heaven! I'm coming! ”
The tsunami of the Wanjun Mountain ushered in a new king on the grassland.
Later generations of history books, the thirteenth year of the great cause, in August, the Turkic Shibi Khan in Yanmen after the battle, the injuries did not heal, and finally died of illness in Tieshan, his son Tong Lifusheh succeeded to the throne, is to deal with Luo Khan.
The most important thing in Huaihuang Town now is that the grassland Hu merchants, they come and go from the south to the north, and the news is transmitted the fastest. Therefore, a few days later, Li Chongjiu learned of the news of the new death of Shibi Khan and the accession of the new Khan to the throne. Hearing the news, Li Chongjiu said in his heart that it seemed that Shibi Khan did not die so soon in history, could it be that he was hit by an arrow in Yanmen, so he died of illness in advance.
At the moment, Li Chongjiu summoned these Hu merchants from the grassland of Huaihuang Town together to find out a lot of news about the south and north of the desert. Li Chongjiu understood that after the new khan ascended the throne, he did not have the prestige of the four tribes, and it was an opportunity for him to be unwilling to submit to the tribes of the steppe under the Turks. This is the last chance, if it is hot in the butt of Luo Khan, I don't know if he will be the first to take Huaihuang Town.
The strength of the Turks lies in the ambition of their successive khans and their never-ending foreign conquests. At the beginning, two hundred and fifty years ago, when the Turks first defected to Rouran, there were only 500 households, and now on the grassland, the Lan Turks, who are directly related to the most noble Ashina clan, are the most descendant forces of the Turks, located at the top of the power pyramid. And the second is the Black Turks, which are the tribes of the original steppe tribes that gave up their names after the Turkic conquest. Finally, there is Tiele, which is the general name of other peoples in the steppe except for the Turks.
For two hundred and fifty years, the Turks have not stopped conquering the Quartet, so it is conceivable that the word "conquest" was still carried out after the succession of the Luo Khan. Li Chongjiu had to try to deal with it very early.
Now the nine divisions of Mobei Tiele, that is, the nine surnames of Oghuz as the Turks say, and now Xue Yantuo, Hui are the two strongest among them. The Xue Yantuo Department is now roughly active in Jinshan, with a force of 70,000 tents, which can be called the largest department in Mobei.
The Hui tribe is located in Suolingshui, there are nine tribes, also known as the nine surnames of the Hui Hui, the leader is the special health of the Jin, he has a son named Bodhisattva, brave and good at fighting, but chased by his father. Li Chongjiu believed that the death of Shibi Khan would be an opportunity to give the Second Division the courage to confront the Turks.
Li Chongjiu decided to let these Hu merchants go to Mobei as his messengers to seek support. There are quite a few Hu merchants who come to Huaihuang Town from Mo Nan to trade, and there are also Hu merchants who have crossed thousands of miles of Gobi and gone to Mobei, but it is not easy to trust. Mur Defeng recommended a few Mur Dexi caravans, and after screening, he picked two caravans and went to Mobei, thousands of miles away, to find the second department and seek support.
Li Chongjiu ordered a caravan to have a lot of iron, silk, I heard that Hui Hui believes in Buddhism, such as the Bodhisattva of the son of Qi Jin, obviously the name of Buddhism, so he ordered people to find a few Buddhist scriptures, and ordered the caravan to take them together. Seeking the support of allies and fighting the Turks together is Li Chongjiu's first concern.
And then Li Hu is abbot of the construction of the new city, now the population of Huaihuang Town has exceeded 10,000 people, and the four squares in the city have gradually been crowded, unable to accommodate so many people. As a result, the former grass market in the north of the city was planned to be used as a new city.
Li Chongjiu has always disapproved of this Huaihuang New Town, which is at the forefront of the confrontation against the Turks, and should be the survival of a military town. Even in terms of location, after the opening of the trade route from Zhuojun to Yuyi Town, the transportation of Yuyi Town is more convenient.
And Li Chongjiu also chose his khan, as well as the garrison of Shanggu County, in Yuyi Town, which is equivalent to the temporary capital. At the same time, the Xi Department of Murode also set up the Khan Court in the grassland on the dam, but people have inertia, and there are more and more people who come to Huaihuang Town, and now the new city of Huaihuang Town is not only the five tribes of the Xi tribe, Bai Fei, Murowei, and Tiele have gathered here, and even the Black Turks who are hostile to Li Chongjiu, and the Khitan two tribes also have tribal leaders and caravans migrating here.
Even the Blue Turks of the Ashina clan have taken a fancy to this place.
As a last resort, the grass market in the north of the city has been planned as a city. This new city is closer to Angu Linao, and the scale is not under the Huaihuang town at all, and the role is purely the residence of the Fanren, outside the city with large wooden piles, erected a row of wooden walls, on which the lookout tower, the arrow tower.
And in the city gathered the people of all ethnic groups and tribes, and they divided nine squares in the city according to their groups, like nine squares. The Han people regard themselves as the most central square, this square city is the most prosperous place, and the rest of the room has a square for Xi people alone, a square for Mukun Xi people, a square for three Xi people, a square for Bai Fei, a square for each of the Murowei, two squares for each department of Tiele, and a square for Turkic and Western Regions merchants. The population of the new city was 8,000, and there were no defenders in the city, but the various departments were organized into 500 patrols similar to the security brigade to maintain order.
In the city, a ten-member council was formed by the heads of various departments to discuss and decide on the affairs of the city, and Li Hu also had his name in the council. Except for a few influences from Li Chongjiu, the city was basically self-governing, and of course the city had to provide Li Chongjiu with a tax equivalent of 5 million yuan per month. Li Chongjiu looked at Xincheng, although he frowned secretly, but he had to say that it was indeed this city that brought him huge benefits. Although the city was full of the smell of copper and the elements of philistine, the various tribes of the grassland got along with the Han people in it, and generally maintained trade.
Wen Yanbo saw this qiē and mentioned to Li Chongjiu that in Yuyi Town, as well as the Turkic Khan's court on the dam, such a city could be set up for the Hu and Han families to exchange markets. Li Chongjiu nodded at this.