Chapter 1107: Turkic Khan
When he arrived here, Yue Guanchao thought about it carefully, the Steinman Group wanted to get the Yin Yang Jade Pendant at all costs and go to Bell Jianghu, and their purpose was about to come out.
Either to find the former Jinshi Mountain, or to find the Beihai Ghost Mansion near Lake Belga, there should be nothing near Lake Belga that can make them so troublesome.
Thinking of this, Yue Guanchao blurted out: "Do you want to find the Beihai Ghost Mansion under Jinshi Mountain?" Right? ”
John Hua nodded: "You are only half right, we are going to find the Beihai Ghost Mansion, that is just to find out what the mirror world is, in addition, we still need to find the huge wealth on the shore of Lake Belga." ”
Yue Guanchao knew that this old foreign dog liked to play riddles, so he decided to break the casserole and ask in the end: "Although the shore of Lake Belga is the territory of Huaguo, it is already close to foreign territory and belongs to the frontier, and the border situation is unstable, what is the huge wealth here?" ”
John Hua didn't speak, his eyes motioned to the secretary, who took out a few photocopied files of historical documents from the file bag, put them in front of Song Siyuan and Yue Guanchao, and looked at the records of the photocopied files, probably some ancient books.
Judging from the description of the data, it is related to Jieli Khan in the Tang Dynasty...... Beihai Immortal Mausoleum. ”
Song Siyuan set her eyes on these words, and after thinking about it carefully, she understood that the huge amount of wealth that the Steinman Group wanted to pursue might be in the Immortal Mausoleum, she instantly became interested, picked up the information and read it from front to back, and also knew the clues and information of the Beihai Immortal Mausoleum in her heart.
Beihai Changsheng Mausoleum is the cultural relics of the mausoleum said, in fact, if it is called in a strict sense, it should be called the tomb of the Great Khan of the Eastern Turks, the owner of the tomb is of course the Eastern Turkic Jieli Khan, his tomb can be built here, and Tang Taizong Li Shimin is related.
During the reign of Li Yuan and Li Shimin's father and son, the early Tang Dynasty was not as prosperous and rich as the later Tang Dynasty.
Internal worries refer to the fall of the Sui Dynasty, the countless independent regimes in the north, the displaced people in the south, and the floods and famines caused by natural disasters, all of which threatened the stability of the Li Tang regime for a long time, and also gave Li Yuan, Li Shimin and his son headaches.
Let's not mention internal troubles for the time being, just talk about external troubles, which refer to the strong and prosperous countries bordering the Tang Dynasty!
When the Li father and son laid down the Li Tang Dynasty, there were already many powerful regimes around the Tang Dynasty, namely the Turks in the northwest, the Nanzhao Kingdom in the southwest, the Bohai Kingdom in the northeast, and the Tubo State on the plateau.
The Bohai Kingdom and the Southern Zhao Kingdom were small in size and could not be a threat for the time being, only the Turks and Tubo were the hidden enemies of the Tang Dynasty.
In the face of the Tubo Dynasty, Li Shimin chose to send the princess to the snowy plateau to make peace, drawing differences into peace, bringing peace to Tubo and the Tang Dynasty for a long time, but when facing the Turks in the northwest, it really gave Li Shimin a headache.
The Tubo State on the snowy plateau has established a complete and unified country, and the existing civilization is not backward than the Central Plains civilization, and in some respects even more advanced than the Central Plains.
After the Tang Dynasty sent the princess to make peace, it brought to Tibet a lot of building utensils and techniques, cultural and artistic classics, craftsmen from all walks of life, as well as countless gold, silver, jewelry, silk and tea, and even the methods of intensive cultivation of grain.
In the warm climate of the plateau, the Tubo country ushered in the rapid economic prosperity and the height of the splendid culture, the Li Tang royal family did this, also because it was clear that it is better to give fish than to give fish, only let the plateau civilization and economy prosper, the two countries will be safe forever.
This strategy of international communication with people is completely ineffective in the face of the Turks in the northwest!
Because the Turks in the northwest, in a sense, are not a complete country at all, and there has never been a real unified country, even if it is called a Turkic country, it is only because there is a powerful land snake that suppresses other small land snakes.
Once the powerful Landlord Snakes lose power, these small Landlord Snakes will take their place, and at the same time, they will also tear apart the Turkic state and push it to the brink of division, and even in peacetime, they will go their own way for the sake of the kingship and the position of the khan, which will cause chaos within the Turks.
As early as the Sui and Tang dynasties, the Turks had been divided into the Eastern and Western Turks, they were independent, each other's enemies, and did not deal with each other, but for one point, there is indeed a rare consensus, that is, when the famine year, it is necessary to go south to harass the Central Plains, which is called "threshing grass"!
This is related to the climate of the great northwest, and the diet structure and social gathering mode of nomads.
The more to the northwest, the more cold the climate, the water and grass are not abundant, in the harvest season, the nomads can rely on sheep and cattle to obtain subsistence food, the diet will appear milk wine, beef and mutton, jerky, sorghum corn, can also rely on animal fur to survive the winter, if rich, even can take the Central Plains, to exchange for something.
Once the disaster year comes, the wind and snow increase, the grass withers, there is nothing to eat between the ice and snow, and almost all the cattle, sheep and horses need to rely on the fat pasture to grow meat and body, and in the case of cattle and sheep can not survive, they have to starve to death.
However, the further they go to the northwest, the more this kind of extremely cold weather, they often have to experience various natural disasters, and six famines in ten years are possible, and this extremely unstable mode of production has never been able to form a relatively stable imperial regime.
Even in a good year, in order to get more cattle and sheep, they will be forced to chase all kinds of fertile places with water and grass to feed more livestock, and of course form a nomadic or semi-nomadic life.
For them, the place where they can be stationed is called the Hun tooth tent, and where the tooth tent is, the capital is also there, and this state of completely unable to settle has advantages and disadvantages.
The advantage is that you can move around, as long as the grass in one place withers, you can migrate to a place where the grass is more fertile, but in case of a snow disaster, you can also open the camp at any time and move to a warmer place, if the enemy comes, you can also react quickly and take the camp to the enemy.
The downside is obvious!
This kind of nomadic or semi-nomadic life has always carried great uncertainty, so that the people of the Xiongnu and the court of the Xiongnu can never settle down, they cannot build tall and gorgeous buildings, they cannot make utensils, they cannot develop culture, everything is mainly light and simple.
This kind of life without a fixed place makes the Huns always stay in the slave society or even the tribal society, their medical skills, architecture, skills can not be developed at all, the stagnation of medical skills is more deadly, as long as people are sick, either pray to the gods, or, can only let the shaman wife jump the god to cure the disease, human life is never high.
There is an old saying in the grassland, don't look at the many children on the grassland, the wind blows and falls down, these words mean that although the Huns can give birth, there are not many who grow up smoothly, and most of them die of illness halfway.
This long-term life of no fixed place and lack of materials makes it impossible for herders to make a stable living, and when it comes to disaster years, they have only one way to starve to death, that is, to go south to "threshing grass".
As long as they went south, they would get endless food, gold, silver, jewelry, clothes and utensils, and even plundered the Central Plains as slaves to enrich the population of the Xiongnu.
It can be said that whenever the Huns went south to threshk grass, it proved that the disaster year had arrived, and Li Tang was facing a group of Hun refugees who couldn't survive.
The Huns are the people, the people are the soldiers, as long as they arrive, it is equivalent to the enemy army detaining the pass, there is no room for negotiation at all, they just want to plunder the people to grab the materials, so that they can live.
In order to solve this problem, the emperors of the previous dynasties could only build the Great Wall, guard the dangerous passes, try to take care of the family and the courtyard, and do not let these nomads come in, or even send princesses and relatives, because when they reach the northern border, only nomadic customs can survive.
From this point of view, it is not that the Huns cannot be killed or killed, but that no matter who they are, as long as they go to the north, the harsh natural environment there will catalyze everyone to become Huns or Turks.
In the Li Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin finally found an opportunity to take advantage of the civil strife between the East and West Turks to directly destroy the Eastern Turks, and even captured the Eastern Turks alive Jieli Khan, the last generation of the Eastern Turks, in this humiliating way of being captured alive, escorted by the Tang Dynasty soldiers, from the grassland to Chang'an!