If you don't talk about the matter of making a marquis, one general will make thousands of bones wither.
Jinlianchuan, the sudden and powerful court of Khan.
Tuli Khan Ashina Shibobi summoned the noble chiefs and showed them the heads of his younger brothers who had been executed for rebellion.
"Till death!"
Tu Li finally stopped holding back.
He pulled out the knife and cut his face, causing blood to flow freely.
Cutting the face with a knife is a sign of the Turks' determination to take revenge.
Tuli's most trusted guards, the Prince Consort Langqi, also took out their knives, slashed their faces, and shouted for revenge.
Wu Huaiyu took Lu Chengye and others to witness this scene.
Tu Li publicly exposed how Jie Li bribed his younger brother to poison him and even put the blame on Wu Huaiyu, the governor of Youzhou in the Tang Dynasty.
Then a lot of evidence was produced, proving that Jieli used this despicable poisoning method to poison his great uncle Chuluo Khan.
"Jieli is not qualified to be the Great Khan of our Turks, and he is not qualified to be the Golden Wolf King,"
The Turkic shaman also came out. He danced and muttered words. Finally, a group of family members led by the association were brought up.
They were disemboweled and had their hearts removed as sacrifices to the gods.
In this winter, Tuli resolutely gathered his men and challenged Jieli.
Wu Huaiyu also took the time to meet and chat with the chief of the Xi Tribe Alliance.
The Xi tribe and the Khitan have the same origin. It is said that they are both descendants of the Donghu people. They were formed by the continuous fusion of the Gao Che who was attached to the Xiongnu from east to Liaodong outside the Great Wall and the descendants of Xianbei Yuwen. The Khitan was very famous in later history. It established the Liao Dynasty, and later the Xi tribe
It is also tied to the Khitan. But for a long time, Xi has been stronger than the Khitan, including now.
In the more than ten years since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, during the Wude Dynasty, the Xi tribe only paid tribute to the Tang Dynasty once.
According to historical records, during the Northern Wei Dynasty, in the forty-six years from Emperor Gaozong Wencheng to Emperor Gaozu Xiaowen, the Xi people paid tribute nineteen times to the Northern Wei Dynasty. This was all because the Northern Wei Dynasty attacked Northern Yan and Western Yan, and established Yingzhou in western Liaoning, which weakened the Northern Wei Dynasty.
Xibu's strength even directly threatened them.
At the end of Emperor Xiaowen's reign, there was civil strife in the Northern Wei Dynasty. Xi took the opportunity to invade, but lost the battle. Then he came to annex again and asked for mutual trade. The Northern Wei Dynasty no longer trusted Xi people and sent him to serve as an assistant to oversee the Xi tribe.
Later, when the Northern Qi Dynasty was established, Xi paid tribute to the Northern Qi Dynasty five times.
During the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Xi Jiyu belonged to the Turks.
In the Northern Dynasties, the Xi tribe transitioned from a clan tribe to a tribal alliance stage before the Khitans. The five major tribes of the Xi tribe were led by the Ahui clan.
They lived together with the Khitan in a vast area between pine deserts. However, for a long time, the eight Khitan tribes were divided and attacked each other. The Xi tribe also often plundered them.
Xi is closer to the Central Plains, has mutual trade and other conveniences, and is stronger than Khitan in all aspects.
However, after the Turks became stronger, they inevitably became Turkic tributaries.
After the establishment of the Sui Dynasty, the Xi tribe did not pay tribute.
Since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, Xi has often taken advantage of the chaos to raid the northern border of the Central Plains.
Xi's real name is Kumo Xi, which is said to mean sand or desert.
During the Northern Qi Dynasty, Xi led the Khitan forces to invade the south, and were personally conquered by two emperors, Gao Yang and Gaoyan, and defeated their main force. It is said that they captured more than 100,000 people and more than 200,000 livestock, and the vitality of the two tribes was seriously damaged.
"Those who can be saved will pay homage to Governor Wu."
The chief of the Xi tribe, Mohe Fukeduzhe, is a young man, about thirty years old. He is very tall. At first glance, he looks like someone who is very capable of fighting and convincing people. But judging from his age, he should be the son of his father.
The position of chief is hereditary.
He was very respectful to Wu Huaiyu. He had been summoned by Tu Li and led 500 elite guards to come from King Xi's Yazhang in Huzhen River (Laoha River). The whole journey was 800 miles and it took only three days to arrive.
Mohefu is the name of the chief of the Donghu clan.
Kedu is the leader of the Xi tribe alliance of the five major tribes, and is also the leader of the strongest Ahui tribe. The leaders of the five tribes call him the leader of humiliation, which is equivalent to the meaning of Qijin, the leader of the Turkic tribe.
In fact, Xi still belongs to the Turks and is under the control of the little Khan of Tuli. The official title of the tribal leaders on the Turk side is Qijin.
The Xi tribe's animal husbandry is very good, and all the Xi people are good at shooting and hunting, and they are excellent warriors. However, because they are close to the Central Plains, the Northern Wei Dynasty, Northern Qi Dynasty, etc. successively attacked the Xi tribe, and launched an army of killers to attack them, and captured one or two of them several times.
The population of 100,000 and the livestock of hundreds of thousands were seriously damaged.
According to the information Wu Huaiyu learned, King Xi is also Mohefu, and all five tribes are under his control. But in fact, this is still a relatively loose alliance, which is better than the Khitan. The eight Khitan tribes fought from the ancient eight tribes to the new ones.
The eight tribes, anyway, have not had a leader who can convince the masses for a long time.
However, the Five Xi tribes were still only considered an alliance, not a country. They were far different from khanates like the Turks, let alone compared with the centralized court in the Central Plains.
The one who can be saved has a standing guard of five hundred people.
Other than that, they were nomadic and hunting in peacetime, and gathered during wartime.
Kedu was very young. It is said that he went to Chang'an to pay tribute to the Tang Dynasty during the Wude period, and even went to Luoyang during the Sui Dynasty. He also went to Liaodong with Shibi Khan to watch the Sui army conquer Goguryeo.
Anyway, he is a very knowledgeable young man. Although he has a big braid on the back of his head and a Mediterranean haircut on the top of his head, which greatly affects his handsomeness, you can still feel that he is not a barbarian when he opens his mouth.
He is knowledgeable and even speaks Chinese very well.
Kedu has only succeeded Mohefu for two years. He was a famous warrior of the Xi tribe before, so he has pretty good control over the Xi tribe now.
In the past two years, under his leadership, Xibu has been very honest and has never violated the Tang Dynasty border again.
He wanted to have a good talk with Wu Huaiyu, the newly arrived governor of Youzhou, hoping to increase cross-border trade. They had already discovered that mutual trade was much more profitable and less risky than robbery.
Especially now that Datang is so powerful, it will be even more dangerous to rob it.
It would be best to set up more border markets and lift restrictions on some commodities, such as iron materials and ironware. It would be best if we could directly sell them weapons and equipment, especially armors and the like.
Wu Huaiyu chuckled, what were he thinking? Although if the Tang Dynasty really exported weapons and armor to them, it would definitely be a huge profit product, but who would sell these sophisticated weapons and equipment to the barbarians at their doorstep? They are still a group of brave people who are good at riding and shooting.
A barbarian warrior? Aren’t you making yourself miserable? These are unthinkable and are absolutely prohibited from sale and embargo.
Even iron materials are not allowed. At most, some special iron pots and kettles can be exported, which must be high-priced and limited.
The Xi people have a developed livestock industry. They have many livestock, furs, even milk, meat, and medicinal materials that can be sold to the Tang Dynasty. They even have slaves they captured. If there is a stable border market, the Xi people can directly pass through the border market.
Trade in the market and export your surplus things in exchange for the various Central Plains goods you want.
"Border trade is a good thing, and we can exchange what we have and what we don't have. This is a good thing. In recent years, Xibu has been quite respectful to us, the Tang Dynasty. During the Wude period, due to road obstruction, he only paid tribute once, but since Zhenguan, he has sent envoys to Beijing to pay tribute every year.
It's still pretty good." Wu Huaiyu said.
Those who could be saved quickly agreed, saying that during the Wude period, the roads were blocked and there was really no way. Later, after Dou Jiande, Liu Heitai, Gaokaidao, Yuan Junzhang and others were pacified, they immediately went to Beijing to pay tribute.
Wu Huaiyuxin said that I believe you, you were a Turkic bastard in the past, and followed you to invade Hebei, Hedong and even western Liaoning again and again, and looted a lot.
Wude paid tribute because the Weiqiao Alliance and the Turkic Khan Jieli were defeated by the new emperor of the Tang Dynasty, so your Xi tribe began to fear paying tribute.
The tribute paid every year in the past two years is naturally due to the changes in the situation on the Youzhou border.
"Recently, I have pacified the area behind the mountain. Does Mohe Fudang know about it?"
"I heard that Duke Wu was so powerful that all the villages in the area behind the mountain flocked to him as soon as they saw Duke Wu."
Huaiyu chuckled, and the Tang Shenji firearms were displayed in a circle behind the mountain. It is estimated that many interested people already knew about it.
"There is something I need to confirm with Mohefu. A long time ago, the dividing line between our Central Plains and the Xi tribe was said to be bounded by the watershed of the Chao River in the west, Lulong Sai in the southeast, and the northern section in the middle.
The boundary is Luanhe River?"
When Kedu heard this, his face turned a little dark.
Wu Huaiyu's mouth was too harsh.
Except for the southeastern Luronse boundary, which has been the traditional boundary for hundreds of years, he has changed a lot on the other two sides.
"Director Wu, in fact, a long time ago, the area north of Yanshan Mountain was the land of my Xibu."
"Mo Hefu is wrong. Do you know where the Great Wall of Yan is?"
Wu Huaiyu told the young chief with a smile, "The Great Wall of Yan starts from the west of Yanzhou in the north of what is now the Tang Dynasty, and goes along the back of the mountain to Liaodong. Not only is the entire back of the mountain area within it, but also the entire territory of your Xi tribe.
Within the Great Wall of Yan, including your King Xi’s Yazhang, its northern boundary is probably the current boundary between you and the Khitan."
"This is impossible." Kedu shook his head.
Huaiyu called Lu Chengye, "This Lu Wulang of the Lu family in Fanyang is an old native of Youzhou. He knows this very well. The historical records are very detailed. Let him tell you about it."
If we want to talk about the past, who can talk about the Tang Dynasty?
Lu Chengye was very eloquent, and he quickly defeated the extremely brave Kedu Zhe on the battlefield, and had to honestly talk to Wu Huaiyu about the present.
Wu Huaiyu was very powerful, and although Kedu wanted to fight for him, Wu Huaiyu did not want to have a good talk with him.
In the end, Wu Huaiyu made a slight concession and proposed a new boundary line such as the Chaohe River, Liuhepu River, and the connection of these three rivers to draw a boundary line between the north and south of Tang Xi.
This line is much farther north than the current actual border line.
The west side was originally bounded by the Heihe River watershed, but now it not only includes the Tang River to the east, but is even drawn directly to the west bank of the Chaohe River instead of its western watershed.
The Chaohe River connects to the Liuhe River in the east and directly enters Luan. This section is much further north than the current Xiren Line of Actual Control. Therefore, the traditional southeastern boundary of Lulongsai also extends northward to the Puhe River and expands three or four times to the north.
Ten miles.
"Big mountains and rivers are more suitable as dividing lines. I think so. These lands have belonged to our Central Plains since ancient times. However, I also consider that your Xi tribe has indeed lived in these places for a long time, so I will not mention the Great Wall of Yan.
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According to this Chaoliu-Luanpu line, we will establish four new border cities in Youzhou: Fengning, Xinglong, Kuancheng and Lingyuan, taking advantage of the convenience of the river valley to facilitate mutual trade between Xi and other tribes."
Kedu looked at the line drawn by Wu Huaiyu on the map and looked at it expressionlessly for a long time.
It is bounded by the Chaohe River in the west, the Puhe River in the east, the Chaohe River and the Liuhe River in the middle are connected by the Qingshui River, the Liuhe River is connected to the Luanhe River, and then the Luanhe River is connected to the Puhe River.
This line is very clear, using several large rivers and several tributary rivers to connect the east and west, but they have to lose a lot of territory.
However, the Ahui tribe is nomadic in the Huzhen River Basin further northeast, and there are several other tribes in the Luanhe River Basin, and there are some small tribes in the Tanghe, Chaohe, Puhe, Liuhe and other river basins.
Wu Huaiyu did not rush him.
The tradition is indeed to use Yanshan Mountain as the boundary and the Great Wall as the boundary, but Wu Huaiyu did not mind pushing further north when he was strong.
You are not afraid even if you are pushed outside the Great Wall. You can build fortresses to control those river valleys. With your back against the Great Wall, Youzhou is still afraid of the ridicule? (End of this chapter)
