For the Northern Qi Dynasty, the eighth year of Wuping was an excessively quiet year, and the Southern Chen to the south of the Yangtze River and the Zhou State that had contracted into Shu were licking their wounds, vigilantly watching the Northern Dynasty, and had no strength to raise troops to invade the north.

At this point, inside and outside the Great Wall, the north and south of the river have presented a kind of atmosphere of peace and happiness, the world has nothing to do, hundreds of officials are revising the law one by one, formulating relatively tolerant laws, and the army that has been arranged in Hedong and Jinzhong for a long time has gradually withdrawn, and a large number of people have returned to Yecheng, and the rest are scattered between Chang'an and the important towns in Henan, sharpening their knives and beginning to prepare for the war of unification.

But the neighbors in the north of Daqi are not living a very stable life.

In recent years, the Turks have been unable to expand externally, and they have begun to attach importance to the loyalty of the southern and northern Mobei tribes to the Turks...... The steppe has always been a place where the weak eat the strong, and every powerful tribe stepped on the corpses of the former overlords, and the Turks and the Northern Qi were defeated, although they did not hurt the fundamentals, but also made the prestige of the Turks begin to decline.

First, the Hui contacted some medium-sized tribes in an attempt to overthrow the hegemony of the Turks, and then Tiele began to move.

The Turks are only a country with a tribal alliance system, with a loose structure, and its deterrence of other peoples in the steppe comes from the threat of strong force, once the other tribes begin to feel that the Turks have begun to decline and can replace them, these formerly docile and sheep-like tribes will pounce on them like wild wolves, tearing apart the Turks like the Turks perishing!

Therefore, the Khan did not hesitate to choose war, using a sharp scimitar to put these ambitious tribes in their position.

The Turks drove Mobei for a long time, defeated the Hui and Tiele one by one, and the head of the Hui chieftain was cut off by the Turks to make a wine vessel, which shocked all the tribes, after which those tribes who were faintly contemptuous of the Turks recalled the fear of being whipped by the wooden pole khan, and began to prostrate at the feet of the Turkic Great Khan again.

For the Khan, this was a memorable event, and he did not feel the joy of victory at all. As Cushman had predicted, the Turks inevitably went into infighting.

Although the move of the Tubo Khan to divide the big and small khans temporarily achieved the external unity of the Ashina family, it inevitably split this once-prosperous family!

A few years ago, the Tuobo Khan was still quite strong, and these signs had not yet been revealed, and now, the Tuobo Khan has shown his old state, and the men of the Ashina family began to fight for power and profit around who should take over as the next Great Khan.

He looked at the leaders of the large and small tribes who were arguing in front of him, and he couldn't help but feel a sense of desolation in his heart.

In the war against the Hui and Tiele, although the Turkic wolf cavalry made some gains, it was not much. Except for a few carts of gold and silver that could not be eaten as food or firewood, the Turks caught almost nothing, and in order to make their spoils appear larger, the Tubo Khan specially ordered that the old and young women and children should not be killed, and the violent law that the mouth was higher than the wheel was also temporarily abolished.

They were distributed as slaves to the large and small khans of the Ashina family, and the cattle and sheep, gold and silver they stole would also be distributed according to the proportion of the troops sent by each department, but the Tubo Khan himself did not get a single cow, sheep and a slave.

The two elder brothers of the Khan did the same, and they won the unanimous support of the Turks and became the heroes of the herdsmen. But when the Khan did this, no one saw his misfortune, and they quarreled like shrews in front of him over who could get an extra slave girl and who could get an extra sheepskin.

"Are these people still the descendants of the Ashina family?"

The Bowl Khan often can't help but think about it now.

His physical condition was not very good, half because of the work of government affairs, and the other half because of the khans in front of him. As long as these people are not careful, they will play some strange tricks. Either slander each other, or plunder other people's cattle and sheep, as if they can't live without taking advantage of each other. Staring at them all day is more tiring than fighting.

"It's not the first time that his tribe has crossed Lao Tzu's grassland, more than a dozen of my slaves have been killed by his people, today please ask the Great Khan to give me justice, we can't just forget it, otherwise, we have to be looked down upon by everyone!" The loudest shouter in the crowd was Ashina Sulp, who was named Datou Khan by the Tubo Khan and ruled the western Turkic territory.

"Hmph, why do you say it's your pasture, I said it's mine, what can you do with me?! There's a kind of hit! ”

The other who was clamoring for a fight with the Datou Khan was the younger brother of the Tuobo Khan, who walked away from the Khan, and his words were so fierce that he almost drew his sword on the spot.

But the Tuobo Khan knew the careful thinking of the Buli Khan, if the Buli Khan really had the courage to fight, he would not be so bluffing, he was just making a show, so as to win his brother to stand on his side.

Regarding Bu Li's clever move, although Tu Bo Khan was slightly unhappy, he didn't say anything. No matter what you say, Buli Khan is also his own brother, and Datou Khan Ashina is not so close to the current Turkic "orthodoxy" for several generations. Besides, Datou Khan has a bad reputation, a typical wall-to-wall grass, and he always takes three steps back when he encounters things.

At the beginning, Tubo Khan asked him to be the striker, and took tens of thousands of wolves to ride into the Central Plains first, but Datou Khan was defeated by the Qi army in Baidao, and he himself was captured, and he was captured when he was captured, and the key is that this guy is still groveling to the Emperor of Northern Qi and has no backbone!

Gao Wei put him in a cage to show the public, making all passers-by spurn and insult, this guy was not only not ashamed, but asked the sergeant who was guarding him for food, and the face of the Ashina family made him lose his face!

The Bowl Khan was also deeply ashamed, and he wanted to find an opportunity to kill the Datou Khan, but the other party slipped like a loach in a stream. He Bo couldn't catch him at all, and the filial piety that Datou Khan gave to the tribal elders and shamans every year has always been the most among all of them, and his popularity is so good that every time Tu Bo wants to find an excuse to rectify his head, someone comes to intercede, so he can't do this.

Although Datou Khan lost the battle, Tubo Khan could not easily contain him. First, Datou Khan was tactful and couldn't grasp the handle; Second, Datou Khan is not without a background, his background can be said to be terrifying, Datou's father is Ashina Room Dianmi, that is, the Turks still miss Mohe Yehu, he and Ili Khan (Ashina Tumen) spread the power of the Turks to the Caspian Sea, and they are the two giants recognized by the Turks! Since the westward expedition more than 20 years ago, Ashina has been operating the western side of the Turks, and this force has long become the climate!

It was the support of this force that made Ashina become one of the Great Khans against public opinion, inheriting all the power of his father Ashina Mur in the west of the desert. With this relationship, no one can accuse Datou Khan of being incompetent, let alone talk about him being captured by the Qi people, and all the humiliation that happened to him is as if it never happened.

For this kind of slippery head with good connections and strong strength, Tubo Khan can only treat each other with courtesy no matter how jealous he is in his stomach. He couldn't chill the other khans because he was unhappy, so he tried to put a smile on his face: "Sullen, your fiefdom is in the west, how can you conflict with Buli?" Let's be clear, what the hell is going on? ”

This guy wants to put the blame on me!

Datou Khan scolded in his heart, and his face was also full of sincere and fearful expressions: "If you go back to the Great Khan, my tribe has not moved in the west, and I will not look at other people's pastures, but Buli is not satisfied with his own pasture, and always thinks about encroaching on other people's territory, and everyone has seen it!" If Bu Li doesn't know how to converge anymore, then I will be forced to fight back. ”

The expressions of the nobles in the tent changed drastically, and even the Tuobo Khan furrowed his brows.

"What do you say, what do you call your pasture? It's obviously a borderless land, I saw it first, but you took the first step to occupy that place! What's wrong with me letting people snatch it back? What's more, are you the only one who has died? Several of my men have also been killed by you, and you are still here to reverse black and white! The Khan was furious and immediately rushed forward to refute.

"In short, no matter what, I won't back down. Let's go find another place to get away from my brother! ”

"You!! - "Bu Li stepped forward with a menacing attitude, his hand already pressed on the hilt of the sword.

"-Enough!" The porcelain cup was smashed on the ground, and the tent immediately fell silent again, and all the khans of all sizes bowed down one after another, expressing their awe at the angry Great Khan, and the old Tuobo Khan stared at them with red eyes, and his chest rose and fell like bellows, and he said angrily:

"You can fight for a little bit of petty profit, are you still the descendants of the Ashina family, or the descendants of the wolf god?! Look at what you look like now, you are like dogs biting together, fighting for bones! ”