Chapter 29 The aftermath of the grassland and the imperial seal [Thanks to the fried chicken and tomatoes
The emperor's order reached Li Jing as quickly as possible. He did not see the imperial edict condemning him for burning more than 200,000 Turks to death, so he felt inexplicably moved in his heart. Of course, he was more relieved.
In fact, Li Jing knew that when Su Lie and Zhang Shigui conquered Dangxiang, the emperor ordered them to capture Dangxiang's slaves. He was also worried that burning more than 200,000 Turks to death would displease the emperor.
But he did it anyway.
There are many reasons. In addition to completely solving the dangers of the Turks, the most important thing is that he deliberately made the emperor feel uncomfortable with him.
This is not seeking death, this is self-protection.
Historically, when Li Jing was conquering the Turks, Tang Jian was sent as an envoy to the Turks. At that time, Tang Jian's people were still in the Turk camp, so Li Jing took action directly.
Why?
It was not because he was worried that his great achievements would shock the emperor, so he deliberately gave the emperor a reason to punish him. Of course, there is no denying that this was also the reason why Li Jing wanted Tang Jian to stabilize the Turks, so that he could kill all the Turks' troops in one fell swoop.
This time, Emperor Li Zhiyun knew that he had burned more than 200,000 Turks to death, so he did not mention it in the imperial edict. Instead, he praised him for his good work.
This made Li Jing feel a little sad.
Soon, he gathered his mood and led the army to the grassland.
Mid August.
The Tang army went all the way north to the desert, broke through many Turkic tribal settlements, captured all the cattle, sheep, women and children, and sent them back to Chang'an in batches.
At this time, news of Jieli's defeat and the death of more than 200,000 Turkic troops on Baishan Mountain gradually spread back to the grassland.
Iron Mountain King’s Tent.
Jieli's youngest son, Dieluoshi, looked at the tent full of Ashina nobles in disbelief, listening to their quarrels at a loss.
Some people want to lead the army to fight to the death with the Tang army, while others want to flee to the Northern Desert and seek asylum from other tribes.
Others planned to surrender to the Tang army.
There was a lot of quarreling and almost falling apart.
"That's enough!" Ashdewu was furious and stopped the quarrel among the Turkic nobles.
In the Turks, the Khans of Khatun for generations were all from the Ast family. Ast was not the only one here and had great power.
"If you keep arguing, will the Tang army withdraw?"
Faced with Asdewu's unrestrained questioning, some dissatisfied nobles scratched their necks and said, "We will definitely die if we stay. Haven't you heard that the Tang army burned, killed, and looted all the way, and took away our cattle, sheep, women, and children?"
, they want to exterminate our great Turks!"
"The winner is the king and the loser is the bandit." Ashdewu said coldly, "This is the rule of the grassland. There is nothing surprising about it. Do you think that if the Tang army defeats us, it will only require our surrender?"
"Isn't it always like this before?" said the noble. "The Sui Dynasty also defeated us back then, but the Sui Dynasty did not take away our cattle, sheep and children."
"You..." Astew was so angry at this idiot.
This time Jieli went south and took away all the elite Turks and 90% of the generals of the Ashina royal family.
After all these people died in the battle, this also led to the current disputes among the Turks. They lost their backbone and fought on their own. For their own interests, neither of them was willing to compromise with the other party.
No matter how Asdewu tried to persuade him, the parties were still unable to coordinate.
As a result, they were all captured by Li Jing.
By the way, there is also Yang You who was secretly sent to the grassland.
Jie Li once wanted to use Yang You to deal with the Tang Dynasty, but in the end it didn't come in handy.
With the capture of the Turkic king's tent, the Turks who dominated the grassland were officially declared extinct. Some of the adult Turkic men were captured, some escaped, and the rest were all killed in battle.
Their cattle, sheep, women and children were all sent to Chang'an.
After capturing the Turkic Royal Court, Li Jing ordered Luo Shixin to lead 30,000 troops to the Niutouchaona Mountain to support Qin Qiong and Xu Shiji.
With the cooperation of both parties, Zhi lost Si Li chose to submit to the Tang Dynasty after learning of Jie Li's defeat.
September.
Turkic royal court.
As the last batch of Turkic cattle, sheep and women were sent away, Yi Nan and Yao Luo Ge Bodhisattva approached Li Jing.
"General, these grassland people should stay in the grassland." Yi Nan suppressed the anger in his heart and said to Li Jing.
In order to defeat the Turks this time, Xue Yantuo's tribe was out of ten and suffered extremely heavy losses. It urgently needed to devour the Turks' cattle, sheep and slaves to replenish its own strength.
Li Jing looked at him blankly, "According to the rules of the grassland, it was the Tang army that defeated the Turks and killed Jie Li. These are the spoils of war for me, the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty."
"Fart!" Before Yi Nan could speak, Yimang, the eldest son behind him, scolded: "Obviously it was us who contained the Turks, and our losses were the heaviest. Why should all the cattle and sheep belong to you!"
After listening to the translation, Li Jing narrowed his eyes and looked at Yi Nan.
"Do you want to disobey me, Datang?"
Yi Nan gritted his teeth, turned around and slapped Yi Mang on the face, "You bastard, what kind of dog are you? If you dare to speak here, get out of here!"
Yi Mang stared at his father in confusion. Before he could make a move, Yuchi Gong stepped forward and punched Yi Mang's eyeball out in front of Yi Nan.
Blood burst out, and Yimang fell to the ground in pain.
In an instant, the Tang army in the tent stared eagerly at Yi Nan and Yao Luo Ge Bodhisattva.
Yi Nan looked at Yuchi Gong angrily, "I am the Zhenzhu Pijia Khan who was granted the title of Emperor of the Tang Dynasty. What do you mean by hurting my heir?"
"What do you mean?" Yuchi Gong seemed to have heard some big joke, and he mocked: "Yi Nan, you are just a dog raised by my emperor on the grassland. Who allows you to negotiate terms? Our army has a strength of 200,000 soldiers and horses.
Even if you, Xue Yantuo, are deposed, we can still replace you with other tribes. Don’t take yourself too seriously.”
Yuchi Gong's words made Yi Nan look extremely ugly, but he did not dare to open his mouth. Because Yuchi Gong was right, as long as the Tang army was willing, Xue Yantuo could not protect him.
Li Jing said coldly: "You came at the right time. I have an order from the emperor, so kneel down and listen to his orders."
Hearing this, Yi Nan bit his lip. For the sake of the tribe, he could only kneel down slowly.
On the other side, Yaoluoge Bodhisattva was also about to kneel down, but Li Jing waved his hand and said with a smile: "You don't have to. Your Majesty has given permission, you can bow down and listen to the order."
Yi Nan narrowed his eyes slightly, lowered his head and said nothing. There were still screams in his ears, but no one paid attention to him at this time.
It wasn't until Li Jing gave the order that Yuchi Gong kicked him out and ordered his soldiers to hang Yimang on the school grounds.
Faced with such humiliation and forced by the powerful army, Yi Nan could only endure.
Li Jing saw Yi Nan's expression clearly, but he didn't care at all, because in the grassland, only the strong were respected.
There is no difference between humiliating Yi Nan and not humiliating him. When Xue Yantuo becomes stronger in the future, they will not miss the court's kindness to them either.
This is how you should treat these barbarians and lowly people, so that they can be feared and have a long memory.
"Order of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty..."
Li Zhiyun's imperial edict mainly has two cores.
First, the Bodhisattva Yao Luoge was enthroned as the Uyghur Multidensity Khan.
Second, the Turkic general Zhi lost his ability to think and was enthroned as a little khan.
In addition, a few words of encouragement to Yi men.
Finish.
Yaoluoge Bodhisattva looked at Li Jing in confusion. Under the latter's urging, he could only accept the canonization by the emperor of the Tang Dynasty.
The Turkic general Zhi lost his thinking power and also accepted the canonization.
Yi Nan slowly clenched his fist, his whole body on the verge of rage.
But thinking of the 200,000 Tang troops outside, he could only swallow it hard.
If there is a chance in the future, he will get it back from the Emperor of Tang Dynasty a thousand times!
Li Jing continued: "After this time, if there is a war on the grassland, I will ask His Majesty the Emperor if anyone dares to disobey, Tang Qi will go out of the fortress and set foot in the camp to exterminate the clan!"
Facing Li Jing's naked threat, Yi Nan and others dared not speak out in anger.