Chapter 1192 Congratulations
"Great joy!"
In front of the gate of the East Palace, Xu Jingzong, a scholar of the Hanlin University, stood to greet the coming prime ministers of the Zhengshitang. He crossed his hands and saluted from a distance.
Several prime ministers in purple robes, gold talismans and jade belts came, the first one was Zhongshuling Ma Zhoushe, Shangshu of the Ministry of Officials, then Zhongshu Ling, Shangshu Zuopushe Changsun Wuji, and then Fang Xuanling Then the right servant shot Gao Shilian, then Chu Suiliang, the servant of Huangmen, and Cui Dunli, the servant of Zhongshu.
Only Tong Zhongshu's subordinate Sanpin, Prince Zhan Shi, inspector Shizhong, and Minister of the Ministry of War Li Ji still guarded Bingzhou and served as the governor of Bingzhou Metropolitan Government.
But today, behind the six prime ministers of the Zhengshitang, there are three purple-robed ministers, namely Han Zhongliang, the royal historian, Sun Fujia, the minister of Dali Temple, and Liu Dewei, the secretary of the Ministry of punishment.
The appearance of the Chief of the Three Law Departments undoubtedly made today's meeting a bit unusual.
"Great joy, great joy." Ma Zhou nodded with a smile, but only laughed twice but coughed continuously. The prime minister of the Zhengshitang has won the trust of the emperor and the prince of Jianguo now, but his health has been recognized as failing, and he is thin It is said that the shape of the body, especially a pair of legs, has been festered everywhere, and even a few toes have rotted off.
Just now Ma Zhou came in a small chariot, which was a special gift from the prince.
No one knows how long Ma Linggong can last, but it must not be long.
"Mr. Ling, please take care of your health. The saint and the prince still rely on you," Xu Jingzong smiled and stepped forward to help Ma Zhou.
"I can only repay your kindness to the Lord if I do my best and die."
Elder Sun Wuji said on the side, "Mr. Ma must never say that. You are still so young. Put aside your business and rest more."
Ma Zhou also nodded, "I'm so sick now that I can't walk anywhere, and staying in the Zhengshitang is just a vegetarian meal in the corpse's place. Today I will take advantage of the good news and beg for the bones of the prince to retire."
Several people entered the hall while talking.
Minister of the Ministry of Justice, Zhang Xingcheng, Prince Shaozhan, and Gao Jifu, Zhongshu Sheren, Prince You Shuzi, came up to greet him.
Entering the hall, everyone took off their cloaks and sat down.
At this time, Xu Jingzong also put on a serious face, "Today the crown prince summoned all the ministers to discuss important matters."
A moment later, Prince Chengqian arrived.
After sitting down, his eyes slowly swept across the faces of the ministers.
"Just received the good news from the Western Regions, General Zuo Xiaowei, Li She'er, Chief of the Kunqiu Road Marching, General You Xiaowei, Li Heli, Deputy Chief of the Kunqiu Road Marching, the two county kings led troops into the Western Regions, left Gaochang, left Tunwei General Ashina Buzhen and Youjianmen General Ashinami shot as the left and right vanguards, and attacked the south of Jinsuo Mountain, Shatuoqi in the east of Puleihai, and the moon department of the Great Army, beheaded 7,000 people, and put them in the moon Chief Shatuo Jinshan and his son Shatuo Fuguo lead their troops to surrender.
After Jinshan was attached to him, he took the initiative to lead his troops to attack Chumi, beheaded three thousand, and surrendered secretly.
The minister Ashina Helu, who wanted to set up the valley, was frightened and sent envoys to ask for surrender. "
"And Shi Guo Xiaoke, the head of the governor's office in the west of Zhenxi, also took the opportunity to send troops to attack Yanqi again, smashing the Yanqi king's city, beheading the Tutun official who stayed behind at Na Chuu, and capturing the false Yanqi king Xue Poanazhi who was established by Na Chuu. Guo Xiaoke counted them Sin, beheaded in front of the army. The nine cities of Yanqi, it will be decided! The Yanqi Governor's Mansion will be recovered!"
"Congratulations!" Everyone applauded.
This time the Tang army fought in the Western Regions, it was the lion fighting the rabbit with all its strength. Just looking at the few generals dispatched, the lineup is extremely luxurious.
Guo Xiaoke and Hou Junji needless to say, they are fierce generals.
Let’s just talk about Asheer and Li Heli, one was the son of Luo Khan in the East Turkic region, Tuoshe who sealed off the town of Mobei, and the other was the young head of the original Tiele Qibi tribe, both of them are capable of fighting The foreign fierce generals have belonged to the Tang Dynasty for many years, and the subordinates under their command now are the elite Tang army with the bonus of the Tang Dynasty's excellent equipment, and they are quite familiar with the habits and tactics of the Turkic people, let alone the Western Expedition Army under the command of the two. It is a joint army of Turks, Tiele, Tuyuhun, Dangxiang and Tang Jun.
Let’s talk about the two vanguard officials, Ashina Mishe and Ashina Ayumi, who were originally a pair of cousins, both of whom are the fifth grandsons of Midianshi, but these two brothers were once a pair of deadly rivals. During the civil strife in the Western Turks at the beginning of Zhenguan, the Tang Dynasty conferred Nishi as the Great Khan and Mishe as the Little Khan. As a result, Buzhen also wanted to become a Khan on his own, and was dissatisfied with this, so he raided the Mishe tribe and killed his brother and nephew. More than ten people formed a death feud.
Mishe was forced to lead Chuyue Chumi and other ministries to join the Tang Dynasty, and later entered the court himself, and stayed in the court to serve. He handed over Chuyue Chumi's subordinates to Ashina Helu, and He Lu was Mishe's uncle, Yu Buli, set up the son of Shekuiteqin Jieyue, and asked him to take over the various ministries on his behalf.
Although Bu Zhen defeated his cousin Mi She and established himself as Du Lu Ye Hu, but the tribes did not accept it, especially after the Tang Dynasty court also issued an edict to confer He Lu as Ye Hu, Bu Zhen finally had no choice but to return to Datang Enter the court as an official.
Originally, after the two brothers Mi She and Bu Zhen entered the court, He Lu appointed Ye Hu as the commander of Chuyue Chumi Ministries, and they settled down for the time being. Who knew that He Lu was also ambitious. The fight was fierce again, and finally formed an alliance, and expressed full support for the establishment of Yugu as Yipidulu Khan.
So this time the imperial court wants to attack Chuyue Chumi 2 first, because He Lu is vacillating and capricious. In addition, these 2 departments are located near Gaochang, and their geographical location is very important. , is also at the node between the Western Regions and Mobei, and always threatens Gaochang and Yanqi.
So this time, two brother-in-laws, She Er and He Li, were selected as the commanders, and the brothers Mi She and Bu Zhen, who had previously belonged to the second department of Chuyue Chumi, came over.
These two are also very powerful. As soon as they arrived in the Western Regions, they tried their best to overwhelm each other, and they worked harder than the other, so the Chuyue Department, nicknamed the Shatuo Department, was the first to suffer.
Shatuo Jinshan, which was fought by Mishe and Buzhen, lost 13 battles in a row in one day, and fled all the way for seven days, but failed to escape. In the end, they could only kneel down and beg for surrender.
Brothers Mishe and Buzhen defeated Jinshan dozens of battles in seven days, beheading a total of more than 7,000 mouths of Chuyuebu, which can be regarded as a deadly move.
However, Yehu Ashinahelu was far away from the water and was near thirsty. Before he could summon people to help, Shatuo Jinshan surrendered to Tang Dynasty. With his son who had just changed his name to Shatuo Fuguo to show his loyalty, he turned around The first one rushed to the Ministry of Secrets.
Victorious in all three battles, beating more than 3,000 levels in a row.
The Department of Chumi was also defeated, especially seeing that Shatuo Jinshan from the Department of Moon was playing the forward, led by two old bosses, Mi She and Buzhen, and behind them were the two great killers, Sheer and He Li. No more fighting spirit.
You must know that many years ago, He Li's grandfather established the Tiele Khanate in the Gaochang area of Jinshan and was called Khan. At that time, the Tiele Khanate also persisted for more than ten years under the attack of the Western Turks. Brother Qibi Leng has taught Chuyue Chumi and other Western Turkic tribes a lot about how to be human.
As for She'er, he came to the Western Regions from Mobei back then, and based himself in Khan Futu City, it was also not far from Shatuoqi. At that time, Chuyue and other tribes had also surrendered to this Chuluo Khan's son. .
More than 10,000 heads, at the foot of Jinsuo Mountain and on the Pulei Sea, piled up two big Jingguan, like twin towers.
Although Chuyue and Chumi are also the majority of the Turkic tribes, tens of thousands of people were beheaded and killed, which can be regarded as a serious injury, and they no longer have the courage to resist the Tang Dynasty.
Ye Hu Ashina Helu originally wanted to resist, but the second department of Chuyue directly escorted the men he sent to Tang Jun, and refused to listen to them any more.
Although He Lu didn't have Chuyue Chumi Second Division under his command, after he supported Yugushe as Khan, Yugushe also treated him well and granted him the title of Ye Hu, making him the second only to him. Turkic second figure.
Let him live in Doroschuan, and command the Yuechumi, Geshu, and Geluolu tribes.
His station is 1,500 miles away from Gaochang, located at the west foot of Jinshan Mountain. Seeing that Yugushou is still in the Hezhong area to conquer the nine surnames of Zhaowu and Kangguo in the United States, the Tang army has already defeated Chuyue Chumi with a stick. , He and Yugu are located one east and one west, thousands of miles apart, and Yibi Shekui Khan is separated in the middle.
But Tang Jun was serious this time, with fierce generals like clouds and elite soldiers like rain, He Lu immediately gave up.
He took the initiative to send envoys to Mi She, saying that he should not have listened to Yugu's lies and was bewitched by him, etc., and said that he had failed Mi She and failed to manage the Department of Chuyue Chumi and other departments entrusted to him. Now I am willing to repent and rehabilitate, and once again return to Datang and others.
He Lu also has no choice. In name, he has a lot of tribes under his jurisdiction, but Ge Luolu and Ge Shuben are strong tribes, and his control is limited. Seeing that this time, Yugu may not be able to come back. He simply surrendered.
Anyway, surrender would not pose any psychological barriers to the Turkic people at all.
"He Lu is vacillating, rebellious and impermanent, and he is the same type of person as Yu Gushe, with two heads at both ends. However, after carefully considering the situation in the Western Regions, I think that the main enemy of the Tang Dynasty right now is Yugu is set up and then Kucha, since Shatuo Jinshan, Ashina Helu, etc. have come to surrender, then you might as well accept them first."
Datang’s strategic goal of annexing the Western Regions will not change, but this does not mean that it is necessary to fight against the sky. Around the big goal of eventually annexing the Western Regions, the means can be more complex and changeable.
Think back to the time when Midianshi went west and commanded ten chiefs and 100,000 troops to conquer the Hu countries in the Western Regions from the Eastern Turkic Prairie. The top ten tribes at that time were Nushibi, Duolu, and Geluolu , Chuyue Department, Chumi Department, Yiwu Department, Shatuo Department, Qibi Department, Xue Department, and Yantuo Department.
During the first Turkic expedition to the west, there was no division of hatchbacks at that time.
Later, the secret room conquered the Western Regions, established a firm foothold in the Western Regions, and passed on for several generations.
Datou, Abo, etc. all briefly unified the Eastern and Western Turkic tribes.
The top ten tribes of Western Turkic at that time also gradually formed the hatchback ten surname tribes of Western Turkic lineage, and other miscellaneous tribes.
These two sides are the five major tribes that were developed and differentiated from the two tribes of Nushibi and Duolu.
Qi Du Lu Wu Chu: one is called Chu Mukun Lü Chu; Take a half sip.
After the crossbow is lost, there are five catties: one is called Axijie, Que, one catty; ;The fifth is Geshu Que Tongjin.
Of course, the ten surnames of the east and west hatchbacks are not fixed, just as the hatchbacks were only two of the top ten tribes during the Western Expedition, and later developed into the ten surnames of the hatchback. Then it continued to develop, for example, the Tuqishi Department was further divided into Heluo Shichu and Suoge Mohechu, and Chuyue, Chumi, and Ge Luolu, one of the top ten departments of the year, were still there, and The Shatuo Department was merged into the Moon Department.
These tribes are also in constant change.
Among the left and right hatchbacks, the chiefs of the Zuolu tribes in the left wing are called Chu, which actually means the direct descendant of the Turks. The chiefs of the right-hand crossbows and bi tribes were called Qijin, which originally referred to Turks with different surnames, and leaders such as Tie Le were also called Qijin.
Back then, the Western Turks came up with the distinction between the ten-surname headquarters and the various miscellaneous tribes, and then later created the East and West hatchbacks, which were divided into Wudulu and Wunushibi, and then separated the direct line and the miscellaneous line. It is the way to create chaos.
The internal strife in the Western Turks for many years was originally caused by the division between the East and the West, and now it has become a mess.
For example, He Lu is now leading the Zhishedi, Chumukun, and Pobi tribes to request surrender. Among them, the Zhishedi is also called the Shesheti tribe, and like Chumukun, it is a member of the Wudulu tribe. One is the core headquarters of the Western Turks.
And this Pobi is very interesting. He originally belonged to the Chebishi tribe, and Chebishi was from the Tiele tribe. He entered the Western Regions around the time when Gaoche moved westward and the Turks conquered the west. After the Fu Luo family of the King of Che weakened, they even succeeded them as the leaders of the Tiele tribe in the Western Regions. At the end of the Sui Dynasty in the Central Plains, they and the Xue Yantuo tribe jointly established the Qibi-Xueyantuo Khanate.
That's right, Chebishi was also called the Qibi tribe. After being suppressed by the Turks, part of it merged into the Western Turks and became a part of Cheqishi. Some of them joined Datang with Qibi Heli and became the Qibi tribes that Datang placed in the Hexi area.
After Chebishi was merged into Tuqishi, they were called Tuqishi with the black surname, which is the same as Tiele people were called Black Turks in Turkic.
As for Tuqishi, it is the product of the fusion of Wusun, Yuezhi, and Yueban tribes in the Western Regions. Shi et al., those who joined later were called Tuqi Shi with the black surname.
Today's Western Turks are in such chaos. There are two traditional camps, the East and the West, opposing each other. At the same time, even the same five-duolu or the same five-nushibi ministries are divided by internal strife. If you support Dulu, they Supporting She Kui, even the same large tribe, may also cause splits again because each supports different people.
As a nomadic tribe, the same tribe itself is scattered and easily split due to the traditional system, let alone in today's complex environment.
(end of this chapter)