Chapter 317: Covenant and Evil Intentions
This war, which was expected to be bloody, ended with a halt and a handshake between the two sides. Emperor Gao Wei of the Northern Qi Dynasty and the Turkic Great Khan drank the blood of the white horse and made an alliance with blood.
In front of the million-strong army, what everyone has witnessed is undeniable.
Next, naturally, it is time to discuss the specific details of the covenant.
The excuse for starting the war was nothing more than that the previous terms of the alliance were not favorable enough for his side and wanted to fight for more benefits.
After learning this lesson, he also realized that it was impossible to bring Northern Qi to its knees, and what could be achieved by negotiating on the table with what could not be obtained from the war? Therefore, he eliminated many of the previous rude conditions, leaving only some that seemed not so excessive, such as increasing the scale of border trade, hoping to obtain skilled craftsmen, and opening up more areas for bilateral trade......
Of course, in return, the Turks would further form military and political alliances with the Northern Qi, protect the Northern Qi's merchant contingent to the countries of the Western Regions, depose the Northern Zhou Qianjin Princess, put pressure on the Northern Zhou court, and so on......
At first glance, the Turks are really interesting to their allies, but if you analyze the news from the Northern Zhou Dynasty recently, you can know what kind of calculation the Tubo Khan is fighting.
As the so-called east is not bright and the west is bright, the army of Tubo Khan went south, and it was not said that it must be to deal with the Northern Qi or sweep the Northern Zhou. Compared with the Northern Qi Dynasty facing the high pressure of the Turks, the Northern Zhou Dynasty may not be easy to go there, they have to deal with the situation of the Zhuqiang rebellion and the Tuyuhun attack.
Yuwen Yongfu is pro-government, and his prestige is not enough to support the cohesion of the country, and now he is also in a hurry, not to mention, the Northern Zhou Dynasty is still in the aftermath of the political purge of the fall of Yuwen Hu's team.
As a last resort, Yu Wenyong had no choice but to suspend the political purge, and make overtures to the nobles of the Eight Pillars Kingdom and the Guannai family, giving them more power to consolidate their position. But if you say how much strength you can draw out, it's a delusion, not to mention that there is still a Hu Luguang in front of Yubi, and there is still a Gao Changgong in Xiangyang, who is watching the pass all the time. Enemies on three sides!
Yuwen Yong killed Yuwen Hu, but Yu Wen Hu's policy is still being implemented, according to Yu Wen Hu's vision, build a good defense system, and the scale of the mobilization of soldiers and horses is almost at the limit of enough support in the Northern Zhou Dynasty! The rich Jiangling, Xiangyang, and Nanyang were taken away, and the loss of population and wealth was great, especially after Xiangyang was taken away, it was equivalent to one less transit station for materials, and the wealth and money and grain in the land of Shu had to find another route to transport to Guanzhong, and the consumption on the way was even more amazing, and the Northern Zhou Dynasty could only rely on the money and grain in Guannei and Hedong to support it at present.
Yu Wenyong also wanted to immediately send a large army to regain the lost territory, but the Northern Zhou really couldn't afford the cost of another big war! Yuwen Yong had to follow Yuwen Hu's pre-conceived plan to increase taxes and support himself. Now there are many complaints among the people, saying that after he is pro-government, the national fortune may not be as good as when Otsuka Zai was regent. As for a series of other reform measures, Yu Wenyong is now in a hurry, and he has no time to move, and he doesn't dare to move!
Since Northern Qi is a hard stubble, can't your Northern Zhou's head also be made of iron, right? Persimmon has to be picked and pinched softly!
Tu Bo's idea has always been so real, as long as he can grab the money, is it what does Kedun's mother's family care about him? He poured the country south, and he didn't get any benefits from the Northern Qi, so the people below didn't have any ideas?
If it weren't for the fact that there was an alliance to attract attention, I am afraid that he would have been removed from the throne of Khan by the angry chieftains! At this time, of course, it is important to find a way to consolidate the authority quickly!
In the Turks, is there anything more prestigious than taking the big guys to burn and loot? He thought about it and found that when he raised his eyes and looked at the past, there was only the possibility of taking care of it in the Yan Ya, Tuyuhun and Northern Zhou. Although he was disappointed, he had no choice now, so he could only pinch his nose and honestly sit at the table and talk to others.
Otherwise, even if you lose the battle, the blow to the prestige of the Turkic Ashina family is very huge! The Turks look at the territory so big, but they are just tribal alliances, when the power is great, there are millions of troops, once the power is weak, the herdsmen are not willing to follow you! Not to mention the tribes such as Tiele, Xiren, Xiren, and Hui, all of them are not good stubble, once they feel that the Turks are not good, they will rebel at any time!
Therefore, the Tuobo Khan has no choice now. He is not stupid, he naturally knows that suppressing the Northern Zhou will only contribute to the growth of the Northern Qi forces, but what can he do, only he can rob the Northern Zhou!
At the same time, he also fell into thinking about why hundreds of thousands of people couldn't defeat the Northern Qi. Later, he seemed to figure it out, because these vassal tribes were just slaves, not their own people! The Turks rode their horses and whips to fight the enemy, and these goods would only flee, without any backbone and blood! Somehow must be found to eradicate these tribes one by one and turn them all into real Turks!
Gao Wei didn't know how rich the idea of the bowl was, and he wasn't very interested, because the initiative was now firmly in his hands. At the same time, he also knew that he had no choice. Since the White Horse Oath, Cushman has completely seen through the weak nature of the Turkic people under the powerful surface! That is a paper tiger, and he is more and more careless in his actions.
He could have ignored the Turks' proposals, but he eventually accepted them. Without him, Northern Qi can't make a move, since He Bo wants to beat up Northern Zhou, then it's up to him! The enemy of your enemy, whether you are your enemy or not, is something to celebrate.
Therefore, for the conditions of the bowl, Cushman and Wakefield agreed very generously! Subsequently, he also very understandingly suggested that Tu Bo should better defeat Guazhou, Jiuquan, and Ganzhou, and completely open up the way to control the Western Regions, so that the Northern Qi and Turkic people could get the most intuitive benefits in trade in the future. Whether it can be successful is another matter, as long as Cushman & Wakefield spares no effort to fall into the well!
After the two sides reached a series of agreements in the shortest possible time, people from the Turkic side came and demanded that the Northern Qi side open the encirclement of the Eastern Route Army and let them out. If the encirclement is not loosened, the Turks will have to break the siege themselves. Gao Wei thought about it for a while, and finally put a seal on the holy decree, and the fast horse rushed to notify Gao Baoning and others to release them as soon as possible.
"After a month of siege, how can the food be eaten, and I don't know how many of these more than 100,000 people can go back?" Gao Wei said to Zuo Xiang with a sigh, but there was not the slightest compassion in his eyes.
PS: I used to take recorded classes, but now I have live classes, five big classes a day (two hours a class), if I only have two or three thousand words a day, if I make a big chapter of five or six thousand words the next day, I find that everyone may prefer to read big chapters?