Lin Xuan spent a day, his eyes hurt from looking at it, and finally he saw a familiar name - Ashina Sheer.
When talking about famous generals in the early Tang Dynasty, many people will think of people like Li Jing, Li Ji, and Cheng Yaojin.
In fact, the Tang Dynasty was a very tolerant country and treated foreign generals equally.
Not to mention anything else, Yuchi Gong was from Xianbei. In addition, there were some foreign generals whose achievements were no less than those of Cheng Yaojin and others.
Ashina Sher is one of them.
Ashina Sheer was born in the Turkic royal family. His father, Chuluo Khan, was once the king of the grasslands. He was powerful and had many people. Ashina Sheer was famous for his wisdom and bravery. He was worshiped when he was eleven years old.
For expansion.
The so-called Tuoshe means tribal leader in Turkic language. After Ashina Sheer became Tuoshe, he led his tribe members to establish a tent in the north of Qi, and together with Yugushe, the son of Jieli Khan, attacked Tiele.
The Huihe, Pugu, Tongluo and other tribes implemented the rule.
After the death of Chuluo Khan, Ashinasheer's uncle Jieli Khan came to the throne. There is a custom in Turks of marrying stepmothers. Therefore, Jieli Khan married his stepmother, Princess Yicheng of the Sui Dynasty, after he ascended the throne.
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Under the instigation of Princess Yicheng, Jieli Khan sent troops to the Tang Dynasty many times, resulting in heavy casualties and disengagement of the soldiers. Ashina Sheer saw this situation and was anxious in his heart. He repeatedly sent troops to the Tang Dynasty.
Jieli Khan gave his advice, but it was not accepted.
In the fourth year of Zhenguan, Jieli Khan was defeated and captured alive by Li Jing. At this time, civil strife also broke out in the ancient Tibetan city where the Western Turks were located.
After the death of Yehu Khan of the Western Turks, his son Dulu Khan and his brothers competed for the throne, which also brought an opportunity to Ashina Sheer. He threatened to join Dulu Khan and led his troops out to the west to reach ancient times.
After entering Fancheng, they suddenly launched an attack.
Dulu Khan was caught off guard and was severely defeated. Ashina Sheer took the opportunity to advance and occupy Gufan City. After that, he pursued the victory and won many battles. Before long, he almost captured nearly half of the Western Turks' territory.
Shinasheer also took this opportunity to proclaim himself Dubu Khan, which greatly increased his prestige and became a decisive force on the grassland.
Ashina Sheer can never forget Xue Yantuo's betrayal. It was precisely because of Xue Yantuo's betrayal that the East Turks were destroyed.
Ashina Sheer ignored the opposition of his men and fought with Xue Yantuo in Qibei for more than a hundred days. Because Ashina Sheer's footing was unstable and Xue Yantuo had the support of the Tang Dynasty, he was ultimately defeated.
After the defeat of Ashina Sher, their strength was greatly reduced. Naturally, the Western Turks would not miss this opportunity and sent troops to attack Ashina Sher's tribe.
In desperation, Ashina Sheer could only lead some of his people to retreat to the vicinity of Gaochang and survive.
Later, Ashinasheer could not withstand the attack of the Western Turks and finally surrendered to the Tang Dynasty.
Lin Xuan was not clear about the time when Ashina Sheer took refuge in the Tang Dynasty. Anyway, he did not join the Tang Dynasty now.
And Ashina Sheer still has more than 30,000 soldiers and horses in his hands.
Ashina Sheer has been reduced to this situation, and the only ones left around him are loyal and elite soldiers.
The most important thing is that Ashina Sheer is very familiar with the grassland.
If Ashinasheer can be recruited and surrendered, with the 30,000 elite cavalry and Xue Rengui's 10,000 troops, there will be much to be done.
It's just that it's not that easy to recruit Ashina Sheer.
Judging from the fact that he sent troops to attack Xue Yantuo when he first established a stable foothold, we can see that he had deep feelings for the Eastern Turks.
The Tang Dynasty also had a share in the destruction of the Eastern Turks. His uncle Jieli Khan is still under house arrest by the Tang Dynasty.
Ashina Sheer also harbored hatred towards the Tang Dynasty.
If he had not been forced into desperation by the Western Turks, historically it would have been impossible for him to surrender to the Tang Dynasty.
Since he could seek refuge with the Tang Dynasty in history, it is still feasible to surrender.
However, Ashina Sheer has not yet reached the end of its rope, so it will take some effort to recruit surrender.
Lin Xuan is not in a hurry now, this matter needs to be dealt with slowly after he reaches the border.
On the second day, Lin Xuan came to the Duke's Mansion in E, neatly dressed and carrying congratulatory gifts.
Today is the wedding day of Yuchi Baolin.
As the Duke of the country, Yuchi Gong was also Li Shimin's confidant.
Yuchi Baolin was the eldest son and the future Duke of E. His marriage to a wife was naturally very exciting.
There was a lot of traffic and people at the gate of Duke E. Every guest who arrived had a smile on his face.
"Zichu, you're here, come and sit inside." Cheng Chumo saw Lin Xuan arriving, so he pulled Lin Xuan and walked inside.
Today, all of them are guests and are responsible for guiding the guests.
Because we were not sure when Lin Xuan would come back, Lin Xuan was not the one chosen to be the guest of honor at that time.
After Lin Xuan came back, Yuchi Baolin mentioned it to him, but Lin Xuan rejected it.
"You sit here and we'll come over after we finish our work." Cheng Chumo said.
"Okay, you go and do your work."
Lin Xuan sat down, and a servant came forward to serve tea.
Lin Xuan picked up the tea and looked around while drinking it.
As for getting married in ancient times, he had only seen it on TV.
After traveling to the Tang Dynasty, although I had seen the wedding procession, this was my first time to attend a wedding banquet.
"My Majesty, Wang Ning, has met the Marquis of Jingyang County."
A boy of seventeen or eighteen years old, with a warm smile on his face, saluted.
"Wang family?" Lin Xuan raised an eyebrow.
Wang Ning nodded and said with a smile: "My father, Wang Liang, is the Minister of Household Affairs."
Wang Liang was the person in charge sent by the Wang family to Chang'an after Wang Duo's death.
I don’t know what Li Shimin thought, but he appointed him as the Minister of Household Affairs.
Because Li Shimin deliberately suppressed the five surnames and Qi Wang, the chief officials of the six tribes did not have people from those families.
It can be said that the minister of ministers in various ministries is already the highest official position they can hold.
"What's the matter with you?"
Lin Xuan thought Wang Ning was here to provoke him, so his tone was very cold.
"I've always heard of the name of the Marquis of Jingyang County, but I haven't been able to meet him. I came here to make some friends," Wang Ning said.
Lin Xuan sneered: "You don't know the relationship between your Wang family and me, right? Are you here to make friends with me?"
He didn't know what Wang Ning had in mind, and he was too lazy to pretend to be a coward with him.
Wang Ning was not angry because of Lin Xuan's attitude, and said with a smile: "I am not an important figure in the family, and the family grudges cannot be involved."
Lin Xuan seemed to know what Wang Ning was thinking. The Wang family should have guessed that Wang Duo and his son were killed by him. Wang Ning was afraid that he would do something to him.
"In that case, why did you come to Chang'an?" Lin Xuan asked.
Lin Xuan suspected that Wang Ning was deliberately showing weakness to the enemy and wanted to dispel his wariness so that he could deal with him.
"I don't want to come. It's just that the family has regulations. The children of the family must go out for training. My father comes to Chang'an to take up a post, so I have to come." Wang Ning said with a bitter face.
As the saying goes: Those who are bold are afraid of being stunned, and those who are stunned are afraid of losing their lives.
In his eyes, Lin Xuan was the kind of person who was stunned. For so many years, whoever dared to do something to someone from his family, Lin Xuan dared to do so.
I think Wang Ning is also an arrogant young master, but how dare he be as arrogant as Lin Xuan?
"As long as you don't mess with me, forget about making friends." Lin Xuan said lightly.
For a moment, he couldn't tell whether what Wang Ning said was true or false.
But if Wang Ning didn't provoke him, Lin Xuan wouldn't bother to pay attention to him.
There are so many people in the Wang family, so we can't kill them all.
Anyway, the family's good days don't have much time left.
"Yes, yes, I'm resigning then." Wang Ning left happily.
"Rengui, Zichu is here. You can also sit here and chat with him."