Chapter 44 The Great Hero of Evil
Yi Nan came to this Turkic Khan Court not only once, but the first time he came to this place with such a complicated mentality.
Yi Nan had ambitions since childhood and was determined to achieve something. However, he lived in an era when both the East and West Turks were extremely strong. Since Shibi Khan, the Eastern Turks have always been the best in the northern grasslands, and they have won the northern deserts and northern deserts, and even controlled the situation in the Central Plains. The same was true for the Western Turks. The Western Turks controlled the entire Western Regions, and the countries in the Western Regions had to marry the Western Turks. The political situation was under certain control. They even reached an alliance with the Western Arab Empire to deal with Persia, setting their targets on the West.
Yi Nan was in a dilemma between two large tribes, sometimes dependent on the Western Turks and sometimes dependent on the Eastern Turks. It was not until Yang Gongdao's guidance that he decided to rely on the Eastern Turks to rise up on the grassland with the help of the Tang Dynasty and achieve great achievements.
From the result, it was perfect. He was like a wife who had been married for many years, and finally waited for the demise of the Turks. But Yi Nan found that he could not be happy. The strength shown by the Tang Dynasty in this battle was really amazing. It was obvious that the chaos had just ended, and it was clearly affected by the turmoil at the end of the Sui Dynasty, but the strength shown was so terrifying.
On January 6th, the arrogant northern overlord was destroyed directly, and there was no chance to breathe and ease.
According to his original expectations, the Tang Dynasty defeated the Turks, and the Turks fled to the west of the northern desert like the Xiongnu in history, with the intention of making a comeback. The Tang army could not go deep into the western desert to pursue the remnants of the Turks, which was too much for them. The way the Central Plains fights, the logistics could not be supported for too long. The only option in the end was to use him, the Turks ally, to support him to deal with the remnants of the Turks. He could also openly swallow the Turks and strengthen himself under the eyes of the Tang Dynasty.
In this way, Xue Yantuo had the right time and place to dominate the country.
Yi Nan did not have the intention or thought of fighting against the Tang Dynasty at present, not because he was grateful for the friendship of the Tang Dynasty, but because he understood that since ancient times, the grassland people could only defeat the Central Plains when the Central Plains were weak, when the Central Plains were in a weak position, the Central Plains were full of monarchs, the loyal ministers were full of dynasties, and the loyal and virtuous suffered disasters. Now the Tang Dynasty is booming. It rises like the dazzling sun, and will only become stronger and stronger. They are not opponents. They are the same as the Tang Dynasty. They are just seeking death and destroying themselves.
Compared to Jie Li's arrogant attitude, Yi Nan looked down on himself and looked very high on the Tang Dynasty. There was no intention of being an enemy at all. But as long as Xue Yantuo was powerful and as long as Xue Yantuo replaced the Turks, one day, Xue Yantuo would become the overlord of the territory like the Huns in the Han Dynasty and the Turks at the end of the Sui Dynasty.
But he never expected that the Tang Dynasty was so powerful that it directly destroyed the Turks and captured Jie Li alive.
Only then did Yi Nan realize that he thought he was very good at Tang Dynasty. In fact, his high opinion of the Tang Dynasty was still a kind of underestimation. The potential of the Tang Dynasty was much stronger than he imagined.
Because of this, Yi Nan's plan was perfectly implemented, but it ended in failure.
The reason is that Jie Li is domineering, and he does not allow the existence of disobedience or threatening him on the grassland. All the tribes that are not his trusted will be limited by him and will not allow transitional development. So much so that the Turks, which were the dominant ones, emerged, and other tribes such as Xueyantuo, Uighurs, Pugu, Tongluo, Bayegu, etc., were extremely limited in strength.
Although the Turks were defeated by the Tang Dynasty as he expected, he did not gain any benefit from it. Although the Xueyantuo he led was indeed the most powerful tribe on the grassland now, this kind of power is like a general from a short man and a tiger or monkey in the mountains dominates the king, and there is not much strength to be on the table.
Datang ate the meat and chewed the bones, and even drank the soup. What he left was a little soup residue.
The difference between soup slags and the originally expected fat meat is really huge. How can Yi Nan be happy?
However, he understood that even if he couldn't be happy, he had to be happier at this moment: because he was the one who drank soup, and the only person on the grassland who was qualified to drink soup. Although it was the one, it meant the support of the Tang Dynasty. If he did not show enthusiasm and did not show certain value, there were many people who wanted to steal his soup soup.
In order to prove that he was happy to drink the soup, he held the celebration banquet. For this reason, he drove the wild game hunted from the tribe and the cattle and sheep raised in the captives to the Khan Court without hesitation and slaughtered them at will, intending to hold the celebration banquet prosperously.
I first met Li Jing and discussed the matters at the celebration banquet in detail. When I walked out of the handsome tent, it was getting late.
Just as I was about to return to the tribal camp, I heard a familiar and unfamiliar voice in my ears, looking for it. As expected, I saw my childhood playmate who grew up together and was a childhood sweetheart...
At this moment, it was sniffing comfortably, raising its head high, feeling extremely enjoyable... It seemed to have discovered him, opened the slightly closed lantern eyes and roared happily.
"My benefactor!" Yi Nan shouted and quickly stepped forward.
Luo Shixin was bathing Chi Piao and bristling his hair. When he heard the call, he looked at the sound and pondered for a moment. When he thought of Chi Piao's pleasant call, he also remembered the person: "So it was you? Yili Yantuo's Yi Nan, so you are really Xue Yantuo's Khan, Zhenzhu Via Khan?"
At the beginning, he suspected that the man who was accidentally rescued on the way to seek medicine for Pingyang was Yi Nan, and now it seems that there is no doubt.
Yi Nan followed Jie Li to the south and fought with Luo Shixin at Dapan Mountain. But at that time, Luo Shixin was like a fireflies in the dark night, while Yi Nan was one of the leaders of a 150,000 army.
Therefore, Yi Nan had already recognized Luo Shixin, but Luo Shixin had no sign of Yi Nan.
Yi Nan said, "By thanks to the respect of His Majesty of the Heavenly Dynasty, he was granted the title of the true pearl, Via Khan, as if it were a fake. However, Yi Nan never thought that the benefactor who saved me back then was General Luo Shixin, the most famous brave soldier in the Tang Dynasty." As he said that, he touched the horse's neck and smiled, "It is really a blessing for this horse to meet the general."
Luo Shixin said without hesitation: "It is also my blessing to have such a good horse. I thanked Lu En again for giving it to me. I like it very much."
Yi Nan smiled and said, "It can be seen that only heroes like the General are worthy of it. I feel at ease with the General cherishing it so much. The celebration banquet needs me to prepare well and say goodbye."
Luo Shixin did not try to keep him and watched him leave.
Li Jing, who saw this scene in the distance, walked over and said, "What do you think of him?"
Luo Shixin paused and said, "It's not simple at all!" He explained the origin of Chi Piao and the situation of saving Yi Nan and sending him to war horses.
Li Jing paused thoughtfully and said, "I am loyal to you and regard the BMW as a good horse as a dirt. I am a character. If I choose him, I can indeed stabilize the situation in the north as soon as possible and make a huge profit. However, everything has two sides. With a khan like him, the speed of development in the future must not be underestimated."
Luo Shixin said: "I don't think there are so many concerns, and the gap is getting bigger and bigger. My Tang Dynasty was not long after its founding, and it has not yet recovered its vitality. The Turks were restricted from the development of our Tang Dynasty for many years, so that this battle was achieved. Now, the Tang Dynasty fought to set the Turks down, destroying the arrogant Turks and stunning the world. In a short period of time, no one dared to touch the momentum of our army. What we need now is a stable environment. Peace in the north means that we can obtain a large number of tributes every year, and through transactions every year, and make excellent economic progress. All our conditions are better than Xue Yantuo. They are one plus one development, but we have a one hundred plus one hundred degeneration. Progress may be the same, but the result is a huge difference. Even if Xue Yantuo becomes the second Turk in the future, it is a Tang Dynasty that has developed into. Now a stable north is better than anything else."
"It makes sense!" Li Jing looked at Luo Shixin unexpectedly and smiled: "I didn't expect that you could see this bottom in this regard."
Luo Shixin scratched his head and said, "This person always needs to grow up, right? It's not bad to live until he is old and learn more." In fact, he said it based on the historical process. In history, the Tang Dynasty supported Xue Yantuo to ensure stability in the north, which really allowed Xue Yantuo to grow up. However, during a period of harmonious relationship between the two sides, Xue Yantuo often paid tribute to the Tang Dynasty with horses, cattle, sheep, camels, marten fur, etc. The number was so large that it could be tens of millions or even tens of thousands. Trade with the north also stabilized the country's economy.
The Tang Dynasty was able to take advantage of it. Just when Xue Yantuo showed signs of rising, the black-hearted Li Shimin sent someone to destroy him.
Playing with darkness and politics, Luo Shixin believes that no one in this world should be comparable to the future Emperor of the Tang Dynasty and the current Prince of the Tang Dynasty, so he is a little distracted by Li Jing's concerns.
Yi Nan is indeed a character, but compared with Li Shimin, it is much worse.
As the celebration banquet approached, it turned out that the Turkic Khan Court became lively. Many tribes on the grassland gathered together, bringing gifts, cheers and smiles to attend the celebration banquet of the Tang Dynasty.
Luo Shixin didn't like this false atmosphere and went out to hunt directly: there was no hunting ground that was more suitable than the grassland. He directly avoided these habits and came back with his rich prey on the day of the banquet: the beast that was hungry for a winter was the most ferocious beast that was most likely to encounter in this spring. Luo Shixin had better luck and had extremely rich harvests.
I met Li Jing and the celebration banquet officially began at noon that day.
As the host, Yi Nan condemned Jie Li's evil deeds at the beginning. The grassland chiefs lined up on the left and right, and heard the righteous indignation, just as Jie Li had a grudge against them to kill their father and take their wife.
Immediately afterwards, I was grateful to the Tang Dynasty for eliminating evil for them, and solemnly introduced the great hero to eliminating evil in front of everyone.
This so-called great hero is Li Jing, Luo Shixin, and Li Shiji. (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!