Yelvhadi was attacking Abaoji in the plain pine forest.
"Abaoji, Yingzhou has been captured. Who are the brothers of the Gao family that you value?" Jiadi said angrily: "As soon as Yingzhou was lost, the Xia people marched north in large numbers and invaded our pastureland. What do you think?
what to do?"
Abaoji was left speechless by the question.
In this matter, he really has nothing to defend. A mistake is a mistake. He trusts the Han people too much and is too obsessed with the Han people. Although this is the only way to build a great dynasty, it is still difficult to achieve such a great dynasty.
It is really difficult to blame everyone for the catastrophe.
Abaoji didn't say anything, and all his cronies were a little anxious, yelling and swearing at him.
"Judi, have you forgotten the achievements made by Abaoji during his previous expeditions here and there? Even Yingzhou was mostly captured by Abaoji. Who do you think you are just sitting back and enjoying the success?" Yelu wanted to be stable.
The first one jumped out and asked.
Yelvhadi sneered and said disdainfully: "If you want to be stable, what is your identity? If you pretend to be Yelu, do you think you are from the Yelu family? Go away, I'm asking Abaoji."
Yuwen was from Tulububu and had a good relationship with Abaoji and his family. When the Yelv family was in civil strife and Abaoji's grandfather Yeluyun Deshi died, orphans and widowers were in danger. Yuwen's grandfather Taiya once reached out to
Helping hand.
The existence of this kind of kindness made the relationship between the two families very close, and Abaoji also trusted and wanted to be stable.
"Old thief!" Xia Li, the younger brother who wanted to be more stable, whipped out a knife and said angrily: "Do you dare to fight me?" "I will fight you!" Delit, the son of Judi, stepped forward.
Stepping forward, holding a knife in his hand.
After Xia Li and Delit faced each other, the atmosphere suddenly became tense.
The struggle for power on the grassland has always been very bloody. They don't know how to save face or play any dirty tricks. They just do it. Whoever wins will keep his word.
After just a short while, Xia Li and Delit each had more than ten people standing behind them, looking like they were going to fight.
"Judi, what do you want?" Abaoji suddenly spoke: "The Xia soldiers arrived at the pine forest on the plains and divided their forces to plunder. We gathered here to repel them. But you are fine. Why, you dislike the Khitan's strength?
Too strong, will there be a wave of civil strife first? What are you thinking about? If you want to cause trouble, you have to wait until the Xia people are defeated first."
"Abaoji, I have no other intentions. I am only worried that the foundation created by Nieli's ancestors will be destroyed in your hands." Hedi protested: "Back then, the Great He clan alliance disappeared and all the ministries suffered heavy losses. It was not easy to pick up the embers and develop.
So far, things are booming again. Abaoji, I just want to ask you, how strong are the eight Khitan tribes today compared to the eight tribes of the Dahe family?"
"Of course it's better than before." Abaoji said.
"You also know that it is better than before, but you can't even fight the town of Youzhou. To assemble a large army, you can only take advantage of the absence of their main force and go to the Central Plains to fight, rob and run away, and you have to worry about retaliation."
He said: "Now that the Central Plains are about to be unified, how does Shao Shude's army number one million compare to the Khitan's 500,000 cavalry?"
Abaoji was filled with hatred.
This old thief in charge of the situation never strays away from the Khitan's defeat. It's as if the Khitan's defeat makes him very happy.
"Under the jurisdiction, our army has gathered in the plain pine forest. Before the battle with the Xia bandits begins, can you decide the winner or lose?" Abaoji asked.
"I don't know whether we won or lost. Anyway, Yingzhou was defeated. Abaoji, you did have a lot of achievements in the past, but the Western Expedition the year before last year, you lost more than 20,000 people, and many of them were detained by Li Keyong. He
But your sworn brother, we tried our best to snatch the land in southern Liaoning from the Bohai people. You were unprepared and let others take it away easily. Shi Lu wiped your ass and assembled for the battle, losing thousands of troops.
.Now there is the defeat of Yingzhou. Your most trusted Han officials and generals have betrayed you and the Khitan, causing us heavy losses. After these three defeats, what else is there to say?"
"What do you want?" Abaoji calmed down and asked.
"It's not what I think, it's you who have to give everyone an explanation." Jiadi said: "For your ambition, each ministry sent men, grain, cattle and sheep to accompany you to fight from east to west and then to west, but in the end, little was gained.
, there were many casualties, don’t you want to say something?”
"Jadi, this is your fault. Last year, we attacked the Bohai Sea and plundered many people.
Everyone has benefited greatly, and you have been assigned more than ten thousand slaves. How come you get "very little" from your place? You must be conscientious." Yelu Huolu and Yelu Yu's brothers shouted almost at the same time.
"Hua Lu," Haidi suddenly smiled and said, "Did you know that Shi Lu wanted to train you back then? Abaoji's current status was originally yours."
Yelu Huolu's expression remained unchanged and he cursed: "Abao and I have a stronger relationship than each other. You don't need to provoke us."
Jiadi didn't answer his words at all, and looked at Yelu Yuzhi again, saying: "Wuli, your unmarried wife is already a plaything under Shao Shude's crotch. All of this is Abaoji's fault, so just——
"
"Get out!" Yelu Yuzhi's face flushed red, and he directly carried the bones forward, but was pulled back. Yelu Yuzhi sneered again and again, as if he didn't take this young boy seriously at all.
"Haidi, how long are you going to keep making trouble?" Abaoji asked with a cold face: "We are facing a formidable enemy. If we continue to make trouble like this, we will all be Khitan's sinners. We are sorry for our ancestors."
Hearing these words, I was slightly touched in my heart. He was silent for a while and said, "You have done so many wrong things. It's time to resign from the Alliance and the Dai La tribe."
Abaoji suddenly laughed and said, "So you are eyeing this position. Let me ask you, if you are asked to be Yi Li Jin, can you do it?"
"You don't need to take care of this." Judi said sternly, "Even if I should be dismissed or not, it has nothing to do with you. It will be recommended by everyone." After saying that, Judi turned his attention to the hundreds of distinguished people present.
Abaoji also looked towards them, but saw some people avoiding his gaze and not daring to look at each other.
Abaoji felt sad in his heart. His younger brother Diela and others were among them. Even his younger brothers no longer supported him. It was in vain that he had distributed slaves, equipment, cattle and sheep to his younger brothers to enhance their strength.
Now it seems that everything is fed to the dog - no, it is worse than that, the dog can even wag its tail twice.
For a moment, Abaoji thought about killing all these people. Then he thought that this move would definitely cause internal strife in the Die La tribe and reduce its strength. When foreign enemies were present, it would only make Xia
People and some other tribes benefited.
The Die La tribe is his Die La tribe. If its strength is greatly reduced, what is the meaning of his efforts over the years?
"Abaoji, please tell me whether you agree or not." He shouted: "Xia Emperor Shao Shude has sent an envoy to Xilou with a letter. There is still the possibility of peace between the two countries, but the condition is that you are handed over. As my uncle,
, I really can’t bear to see you die at the hands of the Xia people, so as long as you resign, I will protect your life no matter what, and will not hand you over."
"Negotiation." A trace of sarcastic smile appeared on Abaoji's lips.
"Die La, do you think so? Will the Xia people let the Khitan go?" Abaoji looked at his younger brother and asked.
Yelu Diecai was a little panicked and could only bite the bullet and said: "Abaoji, the Khitan has been defeated so badly in the past two years and is in urgent need of recuperation. It would be great if we could negotiate a peace."
"Trash!" Abaoji cursed angrily, then looked at his third brother and asked, "Yin Dishi, do you think so too?"
"Abaoji, why don't we negotiate peace with the Xia people first? After they retreat, we can then attack the Bohai Kingdom and restore our strength as soon as possible. Wouldn't it be better after we become stronger and then fight the Xia people decisively?" Yelu Yindishi said.
"Trash!" Abaoji lamented in his heart. The Khitan was finished, and all his energy and energy were knocked out!
He has no interest in talking to these losers anymore. He would rather come to force him to marry than fight to the death with the Xia people. Such a Khitan is not his ideal Khitan.
Now he just wants to return to the tribe and see his wife and children.
Yue Liduo is very resourceful. Over the years, it was she who made step-by-step plans, managed the tribe, and even trained elite soldiers for him. The success of the Diela tribe is certainly based on the strong strength passed down by the ancestors, but his bravery and Yue Liduo's
Strategy is also indispensable.
That's all, I don't know these people anymore. They want to die, so let them do it. Sooner or later, they will come back to beg for you.
Abaoji snorted coldly, turned and left.
Desire for stability, sea
Seeing this, Huo Lu and other close associates glanced at the bottom of the palace with hatred and followed suit.
******
Midsummer in the mountains is actually not that hot. Yue Liduo sat on the hillside, holding her chin with her right hand, quietly looking at the herds of cattle, sheep and horses in the valley.
This is the pasture of the Uighur Shulu tribe.
The strength of the Shulu Department has grown rapidly in recent years, and now has more than 10,000 accounts/households and a population of more than 80,000.
Naturally, these people are not all Uighurs. They are mixed with many Khitan, Bohai, Haner, Shiwei, Tatar and other tribes, which is very mixed.
After all, the Shulu tribe is actually a man-made tribe.
When the Uighurs were powerful, the Khitan controlled them - "During the time of the Yaonian clan, they received the seal from the Uighurs. When Yelan Khan requested the seal from the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Wu Zong granted him the "Khitan Seal of Fengguo"."
In order to control the Khitans, the Uyghur royal court also sent many officials to supervise them - "Chu, Xi, the Khitans belong to the Uighurs, and each has its own supervisor to supervise its tribute every year."
The Uighurs who supervised the six tribes of Xi were unlucky. During the Wu Zong Dynasty, Zhang Zhongwu, the governor of Youzhou, conquered the Xi people and defeated them, killing more than 800 Uighur supervisors. Because the Khitan surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, the Uighurs who stayed in the Khitan pastureland
Instead, he survived.
The Khitan is an extremely backward tribal alliance. The Uighurs have royal courts, cities, writing, and officials at all levels. Their level of civilization is much higher than that of the Khitan. Therefore, the Uighurs who stayed in the Khitan still retain a strong influence.
They united with each other and formed a tribe. At the same time, they vigorously absorbed the Uighurs scattered on the grasslands to strengthen their own strength, and they have lived in peace with the Khitan until now.
The ancestors of Shuluping were the nobles sent by the Uyghur royal court to supervise the Khitan. After the fall of the Uighur Khanate, the Shulu family, as a great nobleman, took the lead in forming the tribe and named the tribe after their family name. In today's Shulu Ministry, Shulu Ping
Lu's "shares" are the largest.
Shu Luping's great-grandfather Wei Ning was a Uighur "relic" - a relic is equivalent to being from a noble family, but without official status.
Wei Ning thought carefully about giving birth to a son, and became a Uyghur "Meili" - a Uighur woman, and all the prime ministers were called "Meili".
Think carefully about the Yuewan that gives birth to a child. The Yuewan has also been called "Meili", but I don't know whether it is the Meili of the Uighurs or the Meili of the Khitan. Of course, most of the important official positions in the Khitan came from the Uighurs. For example, Yili Jin is the "tribal chief" of the Uighurs.
"Official position is the Khitan transliteration; Yu Yue is the transliteration of the Uighur "advisor, prime minister"; Linya means the Uighur "secretary, financial officer" - and the names of these Uighur official positions come from Turks.
The nobles of the Shulu tribe intermarried with the Duici tribe, the most powerful of the eight Khitan tribes. They had a close relationship, which was also a way to survive.
After Shuluyuewan's death, Shuluping, who was married to Abaoji, quickly eliminated his competitors and effectively controlled the tribe, at least in name, with the support of her husband.
She has real power and is also a ruthless person.
Not only can she take care of the tribe, but she also has her own opinions on management and personnel. At the same time, she is "brave in making many changes" and makes suggestions for Abaoji, winning every time.
Historically, Abaoji marched westward to Dangxiang, and Shuluping stayed behind to take charge of all affairs. Shiwei took advantage of the situation and invaded the south. Shuluping personally led the attack, setting up an ambush on the way, and defeated Shiwei, making him "famous in the desert."
During the rebellion among his brothers, Abaoji did not respond quickly enough, so Shu Luping personally persuaded him. At the same time, he wore armor and sword and commanded Abaoji's soldiers to crush the rebellion.
Before Abaoji founded the country, Shuluping integrated his own forces, selected elites from the Shulu tribe, and selected elites from the captives, and established the "Shushan Army", which was commanded by the nobles of the Shulv tribe and set the stage for Abaoji's campaign.
Thanks to his great efforts, the number of employees has steadily expanded, and now there are more than 15,000 people.
Shu Luping was a well-behaved wife in front of Abaoji. She personally fed the horses, milked the cows, cooked and took care of the children, but this was only one side of her.
Everyone has another side, and sometimes it can scare you.
A woman like Shu Luping, if the man is strong enough, can be very well-behaved, take care of her husband and raise children, occasionally show her strength in critical moments, lead troops in battles, defeat thieves, and then continue to serve her husband's great cause. In the 21st century in the future
On the Internet, women like Shu Luping are the standard "empress" model. She is beautiful, can care for her husband and raise children, can make suggestions, and can govern the place.
He can also kill people with a sword, and even lead troops in battles. He is a perfect match for young people who don't want to work hard.
But young men who lie flat really can't control this kind of woman.
Shuluping and Abaoji are indispensable for mutual success, but at this time she encountered a little problem.
"Sister, the situation is very bad now. There is an uprising in Jiadi, and there are many followers. According to the news from the West Tower, Khan Dejin also supports Jiadi. As a result, Abaoji was forced to resign from the Diela tribe.
Jin and the eight tribes left Jin's post." Shulu Porun frowned and said, "Shulu is in Yinliangchuan, so he will probably be implicated."
"Porun." Shuluping looked at his younger brother with reproachful eyes.
Porun lowered his head.
"You will be a foolhardy person until your death." Shulu Ping sighed and said, "What? Look at Shilu, Abaoji is in trouble, do you just want Shulvbu to be alone?"
"I'm not the only one who thinks so." Porun raised his head and said, "There are many fearful people among the leaders of each clan. However, they all listen to you and are waiting for your opinion."
"Let's go." Shuluping stood up and said. "Ah?" Porun was a little surprised.
"You take care of the tribe, and I will take Shan's army away," Shuluping said. "Where to take them?" Porun asked.
"My head is going down to the city." Shuluping said without looking back. Porun understood clearly that he was going back to support Abaoji. When he went down to the city, he was also called tou down to Junzhou.
The eight tribes of Khitan originally lived as nomads, but during the long-term war, they captured a large number of Xi, Bohai, Han'er, Shiwei and other tribes and became private slaves. At this time, they needed a place to place slaves.
The first one to do it was the Die La tribe, which was symbolized by Die La Xi, but this was the "public property" of the tribe. The nobles of the tribe also had a large number of slaves, and they also had this need, so they built "private cities" - be careful.
The city was built with earthen walls, but it was actually a farm or a pasture without paying much attention to it. It only had the title of "city lord".
Yelv Shilu set the precedent for private cities, and other nobles followed suit and began to look for land to house slaves. After these Touxia cities and Touxia military states developed, some became formal military states during the Liao Dynasty.
.
Shuluping also had its own military state under its head. The military state had cities, officials, and thousands of Bohai households. Han people could collect taxes. Except for a small number of tribute tribes and remote chariot khan cities, most of them
At her own disposal - before that, she had given it to Abaoji.
The history of the private city's existence is very short, only three or four years, and Shuluping's Touxia City was established only two years ago.
But today, the Eight Tribes of Khitan are developing very rapidly, and each noble is desperately trying to benefit themselves and increase their strength.
Abaoji was encouraging of this. He believed that this would increase the number of Khitan's farming and settled population, and over time, it would be able to provide a large amount of grain, cloth, ironware and other commodities, which would have immeasurable positive significance for the development of Khitan - just in recent years.
Judging from the current year, the Eight Khitan Divisions, under the control of Abaoji, are actually in an era of intense change and are making rapid progress as a whole.
Oh, by the way, the military state under Abaoji's command is mainly in Yingzhou, which has not yet built a city. It is hard to say how much can be saved this time - generally speaking, it is probably not possible to save it.
After Shuluping left, Porun and his sister Bodhisattva looked at each other, both of them feeling sad.
Abaoji, the biggest backer, was in trouble. Some short-sighted leaders of the Shulu Department wanted to draw a clear line with Abaoji. Porun was under a lot of pressure.
Bodhisattva Nu is Porun, the sister of Shuluping, who also married into the Dieci tribe. Her husband is dead, and her only son Yelu Laogu also died in the hands of the Xia army.
My husband's family is not from the Yundeshi (Abaoji's grandfather) line, but from the ancient straight line. He is relatively distant from Abaoji, but this time he is firmly on his side. The Bodhisattva slave doesn't know what the future will bring.
, so I came to seek my sister’s opinion. Now it seems that it’s good that my sister didn’t scold her.
Alas, damn Shao Shude, he is extremely vicious, he wants to kill my son, and he is full of malice towards the Khitan. Some Aogu said that he was the reincarnation of a lustful ghost who likes prostitutes, so why wasn't he accepted?
