Chapter 645: Ah Shilu, You Are the Western Turkic Imperial Family
Looking at the map, Li Ke pondered for a long time before he spoke: "Go back and tell Ah Shilu that his surname will be Ashina from today on." β
Ashina is the surname of the Turkic royal khan, Ashina, which means noble wolf or blue. Legend has it that the Turkic royal family all had blue eyes, so they were called Ashina.
But Li Ke knows that this point is not accurate, Ashina's other meaning is to represent the supreme god Tengri, that is, to represent the meaning of immortality.
Ashina doesn't all have blue eyes, and not all of them have blue eyes, there are more people with blue eyes, but don't say it, Ashlu really has a pair of blue eyes, of course, the blue is not so obvious.
You don't care if it's obvious, it's blue anyway.
And since I, Li Ke, admit that he is the Ashina clan, then he is the Ashina clan.
"Yes." Wang Zheng Li Ke nodded, "Your Highness, do you mean that you want Ah Shilu to pretend to be a royal khan of the Western Turks?" β
"Yes." Li Ke nodded.
"This ...... After hearing that Ashilu was a Western Turk, and there was a strong army, there were really many tribes who came to take refuge. Wang Zheng thought of what they had seen and heard when they came on the road.
Li Ke was a little speechless, is this considered an unintentional insertion of willows and willows?
However, the Western Turks are too chaotic now, which is normal.
"After going back, tell Murong Shun and another general, the two of them will temporarily follow Ashilu to garrison here, and the grain will not be a problem, and then just take over the grain at the port where you are, and the west of the river you currently control should be able to grow grain."
"Yes." Wang Zheng nodded.
"Well, you take charge of the management of these places first, and then we'll talk about it when the matter here is over." Li Ke thought about it and arranged Wang Zheng here first.
As for the exchange trade between gold and silver, it is within the expected range of Li Ke, at least seventy or eighty percent of the silver coins in Persia are already in the hands of Ashilu, if Li Ke appears at this time, as long as the Persian war is tight, then they will definitely buy the weapons in their hands at a high price.
When he set off, Li Ke had already predicted everything that might happen to Pei Xingjian, as for what Pei Xingjian could negotiate, then Li Ke could only believe him, as for letting Li Ke go over in person, it was estimated that it was unlikely, mainly because the current Persia was too chaotic, and there were many Persians in Persia who were bewitched by the Arabs.
Therefore, there are actually many informants in Persia who have defected to the Arabs, and the front line is not safe.
In November 20 of the Tang Dynasty, Pei Xingjian's ship officially arrived at the most important port in Sassanid Persia, which is also near the mouth of the mouth where the two rivers flow into the Persian Gulf.
So when Pei Xingjian arrived, he met here the envoy of IsΓ« III, Del Valle.
This is an old man in his fifties, and when he saw Pei Xingjian, the other party was obviously a little stunned, he didn't expect Pei Xingjian to be so young.
"This envoy of the Tang Empire, on behalf of His Majesty the King, I welcome your arrival." Del Valle spoke.
"Minister Del Barles is polite, I am not here this time on behalf of the Tang Empire, but only on behalf of His Royal Highness King Qin, the prince of the Tang Dynasty." Pei Xingjian said with a smile on his face.
Del Barle was a little puzzled, but he still nodded and said, "I don't know who His Royal Highness the prince is?" β
"The Sassanid Dynasty is a friendly neighbor of my Tang Dynasty, so we heard that there was a rebellion in the territory of the Sassanid Dynasty, so we came here to support the Sassanid Dynasty and support the Isai king." Pei Xingjian said with a smile.
This Del Barle is very good at the Tang language, so there is no problem with the communication between the two sides.
And there was actually a person sitting next to Pei Xingjian, who was the interpreter of Yuelai Firm, because Del Barles also had to consult with the other Persian ministers behind him, and they used Persian.
"Thank you for your concern, but these rebels are not worried, as for the weapons and equipment...... We have quite a few of ourselves. Del Valle said dryly.
Persia does not lack armor, but the full-body armor of Persia during this period is definitely not as strong as the Mingguang armor of the Tang Dynasty, and the number of armor in Persia is not as large as that of the Tang Dynasty.
Pei Xingjian was a little speechless, why did he put this outfit on it? If it were really that easy to suppress, would these rebels unite the entire Arabian Peninsula and then begin a counterattack on Mesopotamia, the most important region of Persia?
You know, the battlefield of the confrontation between the two sides is only 400 miles away from Ctesiphon, the capital of Sassanid Persia (later Baghdad)! Even at this time, this is already a soldier coming to the city!
If this defeat is followed, their capital will be completely captured, and then the entire territory will be wiped out after a dozen years.
The form is already so crisis, and they still don't care at all, it can only be said that these Persians have been arrogant for too long.
"Minister Del Barles, our caravan has always been trading with Persia, so we know the situation on the Persian battlefield very well, if it is really so easy to destroy, the enemy will not be in the city now, and it is only one step away from Ctesiphon!" Pei Xingjian said in a deep voice.
Now that the battle has not begun, Pei Xingjian feels that Persia can still save some, because if the capital of Persia is destroyed, the remaining Persia, although it will take more than ten years to be captured by the Arabs, is probably not in line with His Highness's strategic plan.
As long as the capital does not fall, then everything is easy to say.
Del Barle was silent for a moment, of course he knew about his own situation, but now that the army was already lined up on the front line, the most important thing was that their King Majesty was not worried.
"Minister Del Barles, do you know who our Royal Highness the King of Qin is?" Pei Xingjian felt that he had to put some fierce material.
"I'm really sorry, I don't know much about the prince of the Tang Dynasty." Del Valle still told the truth.
"Our Royal Highness the King of Qin has an unparalleled strategic vision, last year he exterminated the powerful Tuyuhun in one year, and wiped out hundreds of thousands of Tuyuhun cavalry with thousands of cavalry, and the Tuyuhun cavalry is on par with the Western Turkic cavalry! Even stronger! Subsequently, His Highness led tens of thousands of Tibetan soldiers with 5,000 cavalry and occupied a large area of their land. Pei Xingjian felt that he was not lying.
Although it was Dai Guogong who did it, if they were to use their combat strength in Nanyang this time, if His Highness used force, these people would have died faster.
And Pei Xingjian knew about Tubo's plan, so he didn't brag when he said this.