Chapter 1032 Northwestern Shanxi...ah, the Western Turks have turned into a mess
"It's a waste of time and money, but it can keep the Xiao family alive, right?"
Mrs. Xiao stared at Li Yuanji, fearing that she would hear a word "no" from Li Yuanji's mouth.
This is her only bargaining chip, but this bargaining chip was very attractive to the Tang Dynasty in the past, but not necessarily to the Tang Dynasty today.
After all, Datang today is not short of money and food.
Li Yuanji faced Xiao's question and was silent for a long time. When Xiao was about to speak again, he happily agreed, "Yes!"
Since the Xiao family had begged for mercy, they also donated a large amount of hermitage and land, as well as some of their descendants.
Then there is no need to kill them all.
After all, after the wealthy families who are against the Li family are eliminated, the wealthy families who side with the Li family will become a new threat to the Li family. As long as these people do not make mistakes and lie flat enough, you can really
You can't help them. After you die, if Li's successors are weak, they will pounce out like evil wolves one by one and devour everything Li owns.
After they have devoured everything belonging to the Li family, they may still let someone from the Li family become the emperor, but being a puppet emperor from a wealthy family is not that easy to do.
It is better to be a puppet emperor for the rich and powerful than to be a puppet emperor for the common people at the bottom.
Therefore, we must train some opponents for them before they are fully developed.
And wealthy families like the Lanling Xiao family, which they had devoured with ferocious looks, are their best opponents.
Perhaps a hundred or two hundred years later, they will settle their differences and make peace because of some interests.
But what happens one or two hundred years from now cannot be decided by people now, nor should they worry about it.
Because even if you make a decision and worry about it, people one or two hundred years later can change it beyond recognition.
This is the charm of Chinese culture.
A word can have multiple meanings, and when combined into a sentence, the meanings will be even greater.
So even if you decide on some ancestral laws now, people a hundred or two hundred years from now will be able to misinterpret them in dozens or even hundreds of ways.
So it is better to be a guide, draw the attention of the Han people, let the Han people see a broader world, and develop the broadest mind.
When people like Li Bai, Du Fu, and Wang Wei appear again in a few decades or hundreds of years, they may no longer be proud of "riding down to Yangzhou on a crane with a hundred thousand guan in their pockets", but will be proud of their "hands"
You may be proud of "carrying millions of soldiers and riding horses to go on a feast", or you may be proud of "having the seals of the Nine Kingdoms on your waist, and I am the only one honored by the people of the Tang Dynasty".
When Mrs. Xiao heard this, she breathed a sigh of relief, and then promised: "I believe Xiao Yu and the others will not let down His Highness's love!"
This means that the Xiao family of Lanling, headed by Xiao Yu, will stand firmly on the side of Prince Yong's Mansion from now on.
However, these are no longer important to Li Yuanji now.
So Li Yuanji just smiled and nodded without saying anything more.
After exchanging a few pleasantries, Mrs. Xiao saw that Li Yuanji was not interested in talking anymore, so she wisely found an excuse and left the Chinese army's tent.
Not long after Mrs. Xiao left, Li Shimin reappeared in the Chinese army's tent. As soon as he appeared, he asked straight to the point: "What did Mrs. Xiao tell you?"
Upon hearing this, Li Yuanji knew that half of Li Shimin's anger just now was probably fake.
He probably guessed Xiao's intention when Xiao made her angry at him, so he deliberately pretended to be angry with Xiao and left the Chinese army's tent.
Thinking about it, Li Shimin was an emperor through the ages, and he had never concealed his lust. How could he be really angry when Mr. Xiao used such a thing to criticize him?
Li Yuanji did not hide anything, and said frankly: "Mrs. Xiao asked me to let the Xiao family of Lanling go. In return, she told me a secret?"
Li Shimin was stunned for a moment and said: "Let the Lanling Xiao family go?"
Li Yuanji nodded.
Li Shimin said in slight shock: "A family as big as the Lanling Xiao family can't hold on anymore?"
Li Yuanji rolled his eyes at Li Shimin and said: "Although I, the Li family, have given up, the Taiyuan Wang family and other families have not given up. Under the pressure of my Li family, the Taiyuan Wang family, and other families, the Lanling Xiao family is already in danger.
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So even if we give up, they are still no match for the Taiyuan Wang family and others."
Li Shimin thought about it and said: "According to your statement, the Taiyuan Wang family and others are likely to become new behemoths, and we have to guard against them."
Speaking of this, Li Shimin emphasized: "Especially the Hongnong Yang family, relying on the protection of their younger brothers and sisters, has annexed everywhere and has now become the largest family in Duji. If it is not restricted, I am afraid it will become our biggest family."
Tang is doing great harm."
At the end of the sentence, Li Shimin raised his eyebrows and said, "You don't want your son to be controlled by your relatives, right?"
Li Yuanji glared at Li Shimin and said angrily: "You should worry more about your son. When we conquer the Western Turks, your son will conquer Mobei.
He is not an adult yet, so he has to stay away from you and your sister-in-law and go to Mobei to become a feudal lord. It would be pitiful if he is freezing, hungry, and crying for his father and his mother."
Li Shimin's expression changed when he heard this. After a moment of silence, he said sternly: "That's his life, he has to accept it!"
Li Yuanji said funnyly: "Are you accepting your fate?"
Li Shimin was immediately silenced and stopped talking.
Li Shimin was obviously not a person who accepted his fate, otherwise he would not have launched the Xuanwu Gate Revolution as his second son.
Therefore, it is not easy to ask your son to do things that he cannot do.
Li Yuanji continued: "As for what you said about guarding against the Wang family in Taiyuan, you don't have to worry anymore. I have already started to do it. I plan to keep the Lanling Xiao family and other wealthy families that they have dealt with.
, let them go to fight with the Taiyuan Wang family.
When they win, I will move them all to Jiaozhou or the Western Regions."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Anyway, it is to prevent the wealthy families from developing steadily within Datang.
In this way, it would be difficult for them to develop into a big and deep-rooted organization within Datang.
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Two days later.
Under Xiao's lobbying, Zhi lost Si Li and Ast De Si'en agreed to submit to the Tang Dynasty.
The moment Zhi lost Si Li saw the Xiao family, he agreed to join the Tang Dynasty without any hesitation. This shows that he admired the Xiao family and was a licking dog. He would do anything for the Xiao family.
Unprincipled licking.
Astez'en was different. Although he agreed to submit to the Tang Dynasty, he was not fascinated by Xiao's beauty. Instead, he put forward two conditions.
The first condition is that the Tang Dynasty should treat Ashinabil well.
The second condition is to meet the person who defeated him.
Li Yuanji satisfied these two conditions, and he completely surrendered to the Tang Dynasty's camp.
Subsequently, a six-day victory celebration was held in Aries City. During this period, Xue Shou, Han Liang, who was temporarily transferred, as well as Chu Suiliang and Wang Xuance, determined the territory of the newly conquered Suni troops.
According to the method of the Jieli tribe, the gathering areas were divided, manpower was allocated, cattle, sheep and horses were distributed, prisoners of war were distributed, and all the tribesmen of the Suni lost tribe were distributed.
At the end of February, after everything was distributed, Li Yuanji ordered Li Jing to rush to Monan to guard the Jieli tribe's territory that had been conquered before, and ordered Su Dingfang to stay in Aries City to guard the newly conquered Suni's lost territory, and then took Xue Wanshu and Xue Wanshu with him.
, the four brothers Xue Wanjun and Xue Wanche, as well as Cheng Yaojin, Yuchi Gong and others rushed to Li Shiji's location.
After Li Shiji officially became the commander-in-chief of the expedition against the Western Turks, he moved the location of the Chinese army's camp to Lingzhou.
Lingzhou borders the Western Turks and also borders Xiping Prefecture, which was newly conquered by the Tang Dynasty. It is a battleground for military strategists, and it is also a place that the Tang Dynasty must pass through when it subsequently conquers the Western Turks.
Therefore, setting up the camp in Lingzhou would be most beneficial to the Tang Dynasty in its campaign against the Western Turks.
Mid-March.
Before Li Yuanji led his army to Lingzhou, news spread within the Western Turks that Tong Yehu Khan had passed away. What surprised Li Yuanji was that Tong Yehu Khan did not die of illness.
He did not die of old age, but was killed by his uncle He Modu who launched a coup. The royal army that he trusted not only failed to protect him when his uncle He Modu launched a coup, but instead became his uncle's
accomplice.
After his death, his uncle He Modu proclaimed himself khan.
Since He Mo Duo usurped the position through unfair means, all the Western Turkic tribes did not recognize it, and established Tongyehu's son Siwei Siyehu Khan in the north of the Western Turkic.
But this Si Yehu is a little honest person. After being supported as a khan by various tribes in the Western Turks, he really thought he was a khan, and then pointed fingers at the chiefs of various tribes. He also imitated his father and made all the chiefs
The chief offered all the good things in his hands for him to enjoy.
When the chiefs of various tribes saw that this was another Tong Yehu, they remembered the fear of being dominated by Tong Yehu, and then killed him.
After all, when his father Ye Hu asked the chiefs to hand over various good things, he had absolute strength in his hands, and the chiefs had to obey. He was a puppet supported by the chiefs, and he had only three thousand in his hands.
He had nothing but soldiers and horses of his own clan, yet he still wanted to follow his father's example and kill everyone else if the chiefs did not kill him.
After killing him, the chiefs of the Western Turks discussed and established the Western Turk clan Ashina Ni as Khan, calling him Dulu Khan.
After Dulu Khan accepted the lessons from Si Yehu Khan, he had to be more obedient and well-behaved after he came to power.
However, within half a year, the Western Turks experienced three great changes. Two khans were replaced, and two khans appeared. They were completely divided into two. When they were fighting among themselves, Ashi
The Turkic tribes headed by Nasheer are still frantically attacking cities and territories within the Western Turks.
It can be said that the Western Turks today have become a mess.