Early in the morning, while the shepherds were busy milking cows, walking horses, and driving sheep to gnaw on the sparse dry grass in the barren land, Kestan was taken to the Great Tent of the Turkic Khan.

Kestan was still dressed as a shaman, wearing a crown of pheasant tail feathers, a colorful coat, a pigskin cloak on his shoulders, a skeleton with cow bones around his neck, and a strange cane in his hand.

As soon as he entered the Great Tent of the Khan, he found that the Turkic generals had filled the Great Tent, and then he found that the envoy of the Tang people was sitting firmly on the top position.

The heart of the Khestan witch tightened, and this is not a good sign!

"Khan! I know that the Tang sent envoys, but I don't know if the Khan believed his rhetoric, or was he willing to be friends with our honest Khitans? ”

Kestan didn't dare to slack off, and immediately went straight to the point and questioned Mo Si.

Yang Fan sneered when he heard this, he was not the only one who sneered, among the leaders who heard the scout's description yesterday, several of them were young and couldn't hold their breath.

Kestan's heart sank even deeper, he stared at Mo Si tightly, and said sharply: "Khan! What did he say to you, I can swear in the name of the ancestral spirit, what I said to the Khan, there is no half-word falsehood! ”

Mo Si had completely believed Yang Fan's words at this time, and he still had a teasing mind, wanting to call Lai Kestan and let him confront Yang Fan face to face, but when he saw that he looked extremely angry, he suddenly became excited.

Mo Si said lightly: "Kestan Witch, since you believe that your ancestral spirit will bless you, then there is no need for you to seek our cooperation at all. I admire your loyalty to your people, so I don't want to embarrass you to your face. You can go, get out of here right away with your people! ”

The Khitans had already begun to build their own foundations in the Yingzhou area. did not suffer much loss on the battlefield in Hebei, although with Li Duozuo's victory and Lou Shide and Sha Zha Zhongyi entered Hebei one after another, the battle situation began to change, but the commander of these famous generals is still an incompetent martial artist.

The commander of the North Road is Wu Youyi, and the commander of the South Road is Wu Yizong, the existence of these two people seriously restricts the development of the Hebei battlefield in favor of Wu Zhou, if the Turks are unwilling to ally with the Khitans, the Khitans can survive the same, but the battle situation will be more confusing.

If this is the case, the alliance will not work. Kestan could have walked away, but if it wasn't the icing on the cake, their situation wasn't too bad. But now it was different, and Kestan was keenly aware that the purpose of the Wu Zhou envoys was probably not just to sabotage their plans. Rather, they have other purposes.

What if the Turks allied themselves with the Zhou state?

He had already heard that the condition for Mo Si to ask Wu Zhou for the surrender of the six states of Hequ was to crusade against the Khitan on behalf of Wu Zhou. Originally, he firmly believed that this was a reason for the Turks to deceive Wu Zhou. But I saw Gao sitting on the top. The envoy of Wu Zhou, who was regarded as a guest of honor by the Turks, he didn't dare to have this illusion.

"If my mission can't succeed, then I can't let you succeed!"

With this thought in mind, Kestan said loudly: "If the Khan doesn't say it, I can guess it too!" This cunning envoy of Wu Zhou must have told you that we have suffered a great defeat. We're at the end of our rope, and we're even asking you to send troops to help them encircle us, aren't we? ”

Kestan hit the nail on the head. Mo Si's face immediately sank, and Yang Fan sighed secretly: "This Khitan envoy could have retreated peacefully, if he was stupid, not only could he save his life, but he could also send the news back in time to make the Khitan people watch out." Now that he had guessed the Turkic jihua, how could Mo Si let him go again? ”

As soon as Kestan saw the faces of Mo Si and the others, he knew that he was unfortunate enough to say it, and in a hurry, he blurted out: "Tang people are cunning, you must not be trusted!" Silent Khan. Have you forgotten how Li Tang bowed to you when he was in turmoil at the end of the Sui Dynasty and wanted to seek the world? ”

Kestan bulged his eyes angrily, looked around at the leaders in the tent, and said impassionedly: "Li Yuan is a vassal to your Turks, in order to make you stand on their side, I promise you that as long as you lend him troops, you can take the wealth of your children and silks from the victory, and the Tang State will only take the land." If you don't send troops, as long as you don't cooperate with other anti-kings to attack Li Tang, you will also be given gold beads and jade treasures!

Your Turkic Khan passed away, the Tang Dynasty stopped mourning for three days, the Manchu Dynasty civil and military mourning, whenever there are Turkic envoys to go, Li Yuan will personally accompany the banquet, respectful, what is the result?

Once the Tang Kingdom is stable, he wants to come from behind. Jieli Khan hated the Tang State for being respectful and stubborn, and sent troops to conscript, Tang could not be the enemy, Li Shimin poured his treasury to bribe the Turks, and promised marriage and relatives only to withdraw the army, you withdrew the army, what is the result? ”

Kestan said in a fierce voice: "As a result, Li Shimin was obedient to the yin, superficially flattering, secretly accumulating national strength, coinciding with the Turkic civil strife, he took the opportunity to send troops, first to destroy the Eastern Turks, and then to destroy the Western Turks, even your Eastern Turkic Jieli Khan and the Western Turkic Shabaluo Khan were captured alive, and your land became the Governor's Mansion and the Protectorate of the Tang State!" ”

Kestan shouted angrily: "The children of the Turkic nobles have been trapped as slaves of the Tang Dynasty since then, and they are very innocent women, and they have been reduced to slaves and maids of the Tang Dynasty." The Turks were forced to abandon the Turkic name, inherited the name of the Tang official, and surrendered to the Tang Emperor for more than 50 years, groveling and losing his prestige! You have finally recovered your country and become strong again, and now you are going to repeat the mistakes of the past? ”

Kestan's words caused a commotion among the leaders of the tent, and the Turks were a little unhappy when they mentioned these painful experiences of the Turks.

Yang Fan saw that the Turks were aroused by Kestan's words to hate the Tang people, and secretly screamed in his heart. When Kestan spoke, he was searching his intestines and scraping his stomach to think of countermeasures, and when Kestan finished speaking, Yang Fan immediately hahadaxiao three times, and lightly high-fived: "Wonderful!" It's exciting! ”

Mo Si looked at him, and saw that he looked calm and smiling, knowing that he must have something to say, and the hatred in his heart aroused by Kestan faded by three points, and he just wanted to hear what he said.

Yang Fan said lightly: "Before the Sui Dynasty, the Turks were strong, and China and his relatives agreed to marry, so why not treat them like guests?" Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty, Yang Jian, was eloquent and strategic, ruled the world, and the Quartet surrendered, so why didn't the Turks do the other way around?

When Emperor Yang Guang was fortunate to visit Yanmen Pass, the Turkic Khan personally led the Manchu Dynasty to greet him. Yang Guang went to his camp to inspect, first by the envoy as the pioneer, the envoy disgusted that the sweat tent is not very clean, the khan personally pulled out a saber to cut the grass, in order to show respect to the Great Sui, this is the difference between strong and weak.

At the end of the Sui Dynasty, the Central Plains was in turmoil, the anti-kings were divided, the Turks rose, and the anti-kings of the Central Plains curryed favor with the Khitan. He made great stutters in order to hope that the powerful Turks would be on his side, respectful and respectful, like a minister. But the strength is not as good as others, what is there to say about this?

Wait until the Central Plains are unified. Growing stronger. The Turks had civil strife again, split into the Eastern and Western Turks, the two tribes were fighting endlessly, and the national strength was getting weaker and weaker. In my opinion, it is an inconceivable strange thing, and God does not tolerate it!

Yang Fan sneered and said, "Strong and weak." It is relative, any country has times when it is strong, and there are times when it is weak, when it is strong, it bullies other countries, and when it is weak, it is bullied by other countries. The prairie people, who believe in the law of the jungle, agree with this sentence, but it is not so comfortable to land on themselves.

Yang Fan said: "Today, the Mo Si Khan is a wise lord, so there are 400,000 people who control the strings, and the territory is thousands of miles, and the northern tribes are all Khans. As for the future, whether the Turks are strong or the Zhou State is strong, it depends on whether each of them will replace the Ming Lord, and it is not for you and me to decide.

As a person of the present, we only need to do a good job in the present, what is the current situation? At present, the Turks are rising, but my Zhou State inherited the Tang Dynasty, and the country is still in decline, and it is also a strong country. If the two great powers compete with each other, it is not fortunate for each other, and once both sides lose, they will inevitably benefit others. Therefore, today's Turks are not as good as the Zhou war. On the contrary, it is you Khitan ......"

Yang Fan looked at Kestan and said with a smile: "You beg and borrow troops, grovel, and promise a large area of land to the Khan, but your methods are the same as when we treat the weak with the strong!" ”

Yang Fan turned to Mo Si and asked with a smile: "Don't the Khan think that the Khitan's methods today are the same methods used by your and our two countries when they were weak?" are also nomads, if the Khitan becomes stronger, I don't know if it will be my Zhou State or your Turks who will bear the brunt. ”

When the generals in the tent heard this, they couldn't help but look at Kestan, and their eyes showed a dangerous light. The Zhou State is obviously not something they can eat at the moment, and even if the Zhou State becomes strong, it is impossible for them to be their mortal enemy with the desert steppe, a place where other ethnic groups cannot survive except for the nomads, and the Khitan is not.

The Khitan's submission today is just like the Sugan Khan cutting grass for the Sui Emperor back then, and the Tang Emperor Dai Xiao for the Turkic Khan, but once the Khitan became strong and nomadic, they could completely rule the entire steppe, and integrate the Turkic people into their ethnic groups such as the Xiongnu, Rouran, Xianbei and other powerful nomadic peoples, and completely wipe them out.

The Khitan has now manifested their Liliang, which is a most dangerous enemy!

Kestan's face was red, and before he could say anything more, he had made up his mind in his heart, and he slapped his palm on the case with a "snap", and shouted loudly: "Someone! ”

Several warriors outside the tent entered in response, silently pointed to Kestan, and said fiercely: "Ben Khan has already made an appointment with the Zhou State, promised a friendly alliance, and forever friendship!" This man is cunning and wants to trap me in a land of injustice! Damn it! Drag him out, and put him to death with his men, and leave not a single one behind! ”

The guards shouted, dragged Kestan and left.

Kestan was shocked, the splitter was first robbed of his crutches, and then his hands were twisted back, Kestan struggled hard, the pigskin cloak broke to the ground, the feather hat on his head was crooked, and he shouted hoarsely: "The two countries are fighting each other, don't cut them off!" Sip, you can't break the rules, you can't kill me! ”

Chebikli sneered, slapped him heavily, and said, "The Khitan is just a clan of the vassal Zhou State, which country are you?" Bah! ”

Yang Fan secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, but his face always had a calm expression, calm and composed.

Mo Si looked around at the leaders, and said in a deep voice: "I will, fulfill the previous promise, cooperate with the Zhou State, and send troops to attack the Khitan, what do the leaders think?" (To be continued......)

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