"She is really like your mother, but growing up at the foot of the Holy Mountain, she will definitely be blessed than your mother."
Ashina laughed heartily and said to his daughter.
Ashina Qiulan happily came over and offered a bowl to his father, while Ashina Qiuluo just smiled and said nothing. As a Turkic man, he, like other nobles, was not very concerned about his young children.
Only when the eagle grows up will it say goodbye to its parents, or come to rob their parents' nest. At that time, it will face its children.
Now that he is still young and can ride a war horse and draw a bow and arrow, no one can stop his progress, not even his father-in-law.
In fact, he and Ashina Qiulan were close relatives. Two of their sons died in infancy, but they gave birth to three daughters who were all alive and well.
Ashina Tongsu is his second daughter, she is very courageous and very smart. Who knows whether she looks like his mother-in-law or not.
The Turkic royal family has been intermarrying with each other for hundreds of years. While ensuring their own bloodline, they also suffered terrible sequelae.
Most of their sons who died in infancy were deformed and were immediately killed by their ferocious fathers. They generally believed that this was a test from the gods to make them dedicate their most precious things.
This is the custom of the Turks. For example, if one day he can ascend to the supreme position of the Turks, he will not hesitate to take that woman into his tent...
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"The alliance is about to begin. Is there any movement in the royal court?" Ashina asked quietly, his smile reduced.
Ashina Qiuluo shook his head and said nonchalantly: "The people in the south have returned to the same flag. What's the point of being able to ally but not ally?"
Ashina nodded in agreement, "We Turks don't have the habit of smiling and talking to our enemies, not to mention that man's hands are stained with Turks' blood...
But don’t forget that Khan was originally from the Sui Dynasty, and it’s hard to guess what she was thinking... The emperor in the south was her son-in-law, and he also helped her when she ascended the throne. When they met
, I think we have to be more careful, you won’t forget how your uncle Ashina Eliver died, right?”
Ashina Qura laughed, threw away the gnawed bones, wiped his hands and said: "When people are proud, they always have to beware of arrows shot from the dark place, but look at it, how can we be proud?"
What a look.
My subordinates are all talking about her benefits... She Kui died, Tong Yehu inherited his throne, and the people there only have hatred for me.
So what I think is different from what you think. I think she will reuse me soon, but Ashina Dawen should be more careful, lest his horse be hit by a hidden arrow."
Ashina Dubi stopped talking, picked up a bone stick and started chewing it, thinking depressedly that this nephew and son-in-law seemed to be smarter than him, more like a cunning Sui man.
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"More and more of our relatives are migrating westward. There is no way to stop them forcefully. Do you have any good ideas?"
Ashina Qiuluo waved his hand, and the people in the tent retreated, leaving only Ashina Qiulan sitting in the corner.
Ashina Dubi said: "What good solution can there be? You led them to defeat Shekui, but they were injured and so many people died, so they will naturally resent you.
Moreover, their kin in the Western Regions seem to be doing very well. If you have such relatives, would you also want to join them?
If it were me..."
Speaking of this, Ashina Qiuluo looked at his son-in-law and said nothing more. The meaning was very clear. His prestige among the Tiele people was not comparable to that of Ashina Qiuluo. In the past, as long as his figure appeared in
On the banks of the Tula River, people from Tiele tribes will come to welcome him.
Ashina Qiuluo failed. After becoming the Khan of the West, he only accomplished one major thing, which was to lead the Western tribes to defeat the invasion of Shekui Khan.
In other words, apart from his military talent, Ashina Qura did not show any other outstanding qualities as a qualified Khan.
Ashina Qura, who had accompanied his father Shibi Khan on two southern expeditions, was too pursuing military victory and ignored the demands of his tribe.
In essence, after he ascended to the throne of the Western Khan, he did not bring much loot to his tribe, nor did he let them live a good life.
So six or seven years later, he faced the increasingly powerful Tuli Khan and the dilemma of his tribe being dispersed, which was almost impossible to reverse.
Of course, Ashina Qura didn't feel that what he did was wrong. He was still so energetic and ambitious, hoping to lead his tribe out of the predicament and to achieve the goals that his father had never achieved.
For example, unifying the Eastern and Western Turks, returning to the Western Regions, and making the people in the south bow their heads, etc.
So he shook his head and sneered: "What can Tong Yehu give them? Tell me, if I can give them a place more suitable for living, will they reconsider their future?
When you had an alliance with them last time, you also heard their complaints and many requests. Do you think they are telling the truth?"
Ashina suddenly became interested, "Who knows, ever since we stood together to attack the Rouran people, their complaints have never stopped.
When they are short of cattle and sheep, they come to complain, and when they are short of clothing, they want to beg us for clothes. The hungry wolves and vultures on the grassland are easier to satisfy than they are.
Where do you plan to allocate to them? Better pasture than the banks of the Tula River is not easy to find."
Ashina Qiuluo laughed and signaled to his wife. It seemed that he had been prepared. Ashina Qiulan immediately took out a map and placed it in front of the two of them.
Ashina Qiuluo searched briefly on the map and clicked on it.
This is a map drawn by the Turks themselves. It is much cruder than the one in the Central Plains. It is all marked in Turkic language.
The Turks don't have many cities, so they only focus on rivers and mountains, plus some woods and the like. There are large blank spaces on the map, either deserts or grasslands.
Ashina Dubi looked over. He was no stranger to this kind of thing coming from the south. He frowned almost immediately, "Is this the place of the Sui people?"
Ashina Qiuluo smiled mockingly, "We no longer belong to them..."
Ashina Dubi also laughed, "That's right. Then how do you tell the Khan? She is about to make an alliance with the emperor in the south. Before that, she probably won't like to see this.
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Ashina Qura said firmly: "Khan won't care about this. She goes to talk to the whip of the gods. If she wants to make her voice louder, she needs to do something.
Last year, people from the south stationed so many troops on the border, which made everyone feel threatened. Wouldn't it be too weak if we didn't give some response?"
Ashina Dubi once again marveled at his son-in-law's intelligence and cunning. Of course, he also sneered at his "whimsical" ideas.
Because how to lure the Tiele people to move south is a big problem, and the Tiele people are not stupid...
"The alliance is a big event. I think the royal court will call you back soon to discuss it. You have to be prepared. Maybe the Khan will ask you to accompany him. Will you go or not?"
Ashina suddenly changed the subject.
Ashina Qiuluo was still staring at the map and said without raising his head: "I have long wanted to meet the man named Li Ding'an, but I think the Khan will let me stay in the royal court."
Ashina thought about it for a while and realized that what he said made sense. He failed again in terms of IQ, which greatly reduced his interest and he no longer planned to talk to his son-in-law.
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There were faint voices in the Western Khan's tent. The Turks were thinking about ways to solve their own problems, and at the same time they were being stirred up by the alliance.
If Li Po were here, there would be countless reasons to persuade them not to make any more crooked ideas. In the past ten years, the Western Khans have been ruined by their father-in-law, and they don't even plan to take a rest.
, trying every bad idea to stir up trouble.
If this continues, within ten years there may not be any Turks left on the grasslands in the west, regardless of foreign enemies.
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There is no peace in the sweat tent of Ashina Duowen in the east.
Ashina Dawen did not have as many problems as Ashina Qura. His predecessor Ashina Erivo had always been cunning.
When the Sui people conquered Goguryeo, Ashina Erivo chose to sit on the sidelines and even gave the Sui people a lot of help. Of course, that was also the time when the Turks and the Central Plains got along best.
Ashina Erivo also retained his strength in the subsequent wars and ignored Shibi Khan's southern expedition. This also allowed him to gain a strong first place in the subsequent battle for the throne.
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It's just that this time he was not very lucky. The Turkic gods didn't seem to like this guy either, so he fell down hard in the city of Dali.
Even before his death, his followers had been wiped out and driven to the south to become slaves.
This actually cleared the way for the newly appointed Tuli Khan Ashina Duowen. Although the loss was larger, it was bearable.
Today, Ashina Duowen has completely replaced Ashina Erivo, and few people on the eastern grasslands remember the former Khan King.
The Khitan people, the Xi tribe, and the Mohe people on the east grassland all presented gifts to the new master and fell at his feet. As a result, the Ashina who was once obedient in the Khan tent disappeared, and was replaced by today's
Turli Khan.
In fact, his achievements in these years are not small. He helped the Turkic royal court quell many rebellions. When the Shiwei people moved south, he led troops to defeat the Shiwei people, making the Khitan tribes grateful to him.
He also took in many rebel generals from the Sui people to strengthen himself, and occupied Yingzhou and other former Sui counties outside the Great Wall. He even interacted with Dou Jiande in the south and spied on Hebei.