"In November of the third year of Zhenguan, the Eastern Turk generals Yarkin and Ashinadur led an army to disturb Hexi, which gave Li Shimin a reason to counterattack the Eastern Turks."

"The six generals Li Jing, Xu Shiyun, Chai Shao, Li Daozong, Xiaojie, and Xue Wanshu each led the First Army to send troops to the Eastern Turks, and Li Jing was the commander-in-chief."

"In the first month of the fourth year of Zhenguan, Li Jing led 3,000 cavalry from Mayi, entered the Tun Evil Yang Ridge, and occupied Xiangcheng by night."

"Jieli Khan didn't expect the Tang army to come so quickly, thinking that Li Jing dared to go deep alone, and there must be a main force following him, so he hurriedly retreated to the moraine."

"Li Jing also sent spies to divide Jieli Khan's subordinates, and successfully induced Jieli's henchman Kang Sumi to coerce Emperor Yang of Sui, Empress Xiao and her grandson Yang Zhengdao, to Dingxiang and surrender to Tang."

"Jieli Khan saw that his henchmen secretly descended to the Tang Dynasty, and knew that the mouth was no longer safe, so he continued to lead his troops to retreat to Yinshan, and as a result, he met the Jinhe army led by Chai Shao on the bank of the Hunhe River, and then was intercepted by Xu Shiyun's Tongmo army in Baidao, and the Eastern Turks were defeated."

"Jieli Khan finally withdrew to Tieshan, and realized that he was no longer the opponent of the Tang army, so he sent his generals to Chang'an to apologize to Li Shimin and ask for surrender."

"But this is just his delaying tactic, he wants to delay the time, and when the grass is green and the horses are fat, he will move to Mobei and wait for the opportunity to make a comeback."

"Li Shimin will do what he wants, and sent Hongluqing Tang Jian and general An Xiuren to the Eastern Turks to comfort him, and secretly ordered Li Jing to lead his troops to respond."

"In February of the fourth year of Zhenguan, Li Jing and Xu Shiyun joined forces."

"Xu Shiyun analyzed that although the Eastern Turks were defeated, there were still a lot of men and horses left, and if they walked through the desert and were protected by the nine surnamed Tiele, the Tang army might be difficult to catch up."

"Now that Tang Jian is going there to comfort, the Eastern Turks must relax their guard, and it is a good opportunity to attack."

Li Jing thought so, but the deputy general Zhang Gongjin was afraid that doing so would put Tang Jian and others in danger.

"As the head coach, Li Jing naturally can't just think about the safety of one person, he has to think about how to completely destroy the Eastern Turks."

"In the end, Li Jing adopted Xu Shixian's suggestion and led his elite troops to attack overnight, and Xu Shichang led the army to follow."

"Jieli Khan saw that the Tang envoy came to comfort him, and he really relaxed his vigilance."

"On the eighth day of the second month, Li Jing's subordinate general Su Dingfang led 200 cavalry as the vanguard, and under the cover of dense fog, he hurried to the Jieli Khan's tent seven miles away before being discovered.

"Li Jing led a large army to follow up and defeat the Turkic army."

"In this battle, the Tang army annihilated more than 10,000 Eastern Turks and captured more than 100,000 prisoners, and Tang envoys Tang Jian and An Xiuren were also able to take advantage of the chaos to escape."

"Jieli Khan fled all the way west, wanting to defect to Murong Fuyun, the king of Tuyuhun or Lu Wentai, the king of Gaochang, but there were fewer and fewer generals following him on the way to escape, and soon there were only dozens of cavalry around him."

"People are unlucky to drink cold water and stuff their teeth, like a lost dog, Jieli Khan ran head-on into Li Daozong's Datong army again, this time he didn't run away, and was captured by the Tang general Zhang Baoxiang."

"In this way, the Eastern Turks, who were once invincible at the end of the Sui Dynasty, perished in just three months under Li Shimin's lightning blow."

"Jieli Khan was not executed after being escorted to Chang'an, and Li Shimin also generously named him the king of Guiyi and the general of the right guard, which moved Jieli Khan to tears."

"In the eighth year of Zhenguan, Li Shimin ordered Jieli Khan to dance in public when he held a state banquet in Weiyang Palace, and at that moment all the shame of the Weishui Alliance no longer existed."

"Does this shame really not exist? Did Jieli Khan really let go of his prejudices? ”

"Tang Taizong is eloquent and strategic, has established immortal achievements, and his diplomatic methods are also remarkable, but when dealing with the Eastern Turks, he called the minister Nagong, and forbearance for more than ten years, and he couldn't figure out how to let go."

"This is different from the Han Dynasty, if it is a foreign race, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty will not let it go, and the Tang Taizong Master "Renzheng"! ”

"Treating Tubo is also war and peace, sending Princess Wencheng into Tibet, money and beauty for diplomacy, stabilizing the Tang Dynasty and making the Tang Dynasty prosperous."

"Although the view on treating foreign races is different from that of Tang Taizong, in terms of diplomacy, Tang Taizong has nothing to say."

"A group of people of different races, especially the Hu people in the west, if they talk about Han culture, they may not understand it, but the music is borderless, blowing, playing and singing, melodious, and anyone can enjoy it."

"When you talk about music, you can't talk about musical instruments like the lute."

"During the Qin and Han dynasties, there were Qin pipa and Han pipa in the Central Plains, and their history can be described as long."

"During the Northern Wei Dynasty, musical instruments such as the Qiuzi pipa and Wuxian from the Western Regions were introduced to the Central Plains, which greatly impacted the music culture of the Central Plains."

"After the Northern Dynasties, the Sui Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty, the music culture of the Western Regions, especially the pipa culture, was favored in the court, and Gaozu Li Yuan and Tang Taizong Li Shimin were all pipa lovers."

"When Li Shimin was in power, there was a musician in the court who was good at playing the pipa, named Luo Heihei, who was proficient in Hu Wen."

"But because this person was mixed in the court, Li Shimin castrated him in order to prevent him from committing adultery with the palace, and left him in the palace to teach the palace people to play the pipa."

"Luo Heihei's kung fu of playing the pipa is very good, and he has made great contributions to Li Shimin's diplomacy."

"According to the record of "The Ruling and Opposition Records", when Li Shimin was in power, the envoys of a certain country in the west went to Chang'an to pay tribute, and by the way, he brought a Hu man who was good at playing the pipa."

"This man has created a new piece and uses a very special lute with much thicker strings and plectrums than a regular one."

"Obviously, this person is nominally here to exchange art, but in fact he is here to fight."

"Li Shimin has always refused to admit defeat, and he doesn't want to lose face in this pipa diplomacy."

"In order to outperform the Hu people, Li Shimin specially arranged a cocktail party to invite visiting envoys and enjoy the new works of the Hu people's pipa."

"Before the banquet, Li Shimin ordered Luo Heihei to hide behind the curtain in advance and listen to how the Hu people played and sang."

"When the pipa sounded, Hu Ren brightened his voice, Luo Hei never forgot it, and after listening to it only once, he memorized all the tunes, lyrics, and tones."

"After the Hu people finished playing and singing, Li Shimin appreciated it very much, but he was unforgiving, saying what is this, the women of my harem can also play and sing."

"Hu Ren didn't believe it, so Li Shimin ordered someone to take a large pipa and let Luo Heihei pretend to be a palace person to play and sing behind the curtain, and the result was exactly the same as Hu Ren's playing and singing just now, the notes and tunes were not bad at all."

"Hu Ren didn't know that the singer was Luo Heihei, a castrated man, a musician with an amazing memory."

"The Hu people are messy, a powerless palace man can instantly write down his new work that has just come out, and can easily pluck the heavy pipa, so he said goodbye in amazement and publicized it after returning to China."

This incident caused a strong sensation in the west, and all countries attached themselves to the Tang Empire of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. ”

"In a pipa diplomacy, Li Shimin's soldiers surrendered without a fight, which is enough for cattle!"