Although in the "Zuo Zhuan: Cheng Gong Four Years" of the Spring and Autumn Period, it was written that people who are not of my race must have different intentions.
But in ancient times, there was actually no deep concept of ethnicity.
Especially after the great national integration after the Five Husties in China.
Even Li Shimin has Xianbei blood, let alone the others.
After Zhu Yuanzhang unified the world, many Han people believed that the Yuan Dynasty was orthodox and were unwilling to serve the Ming Dynasty. Their national consciousness was generally indifferent.
Not to mention the current Tang Dynasty, so Ashina Sheer didn't think there was anything wrong in helping the Tang Dynasty deal with the Turks.
Lin Xuan smiled calmly. He had known for a long time that there was no national consciousness at this time. When the Tang Dynasty was established, Li Yuan also borrowed troops from the Turks. No one said anything about it.
This is true for the Han people. The national identity of the nomadic people can be said to be indifferent. It can be said that they have no national consciousness.
Therefore, historically, after Ashinasheer surrendered, he remained loyal to the Tang Dynasty and made many contributions to the Tang Dynasty.
Of course, that doesn't mean that the surrendered foreigners didn't rebel, but those people mostly couldn't let go of their rights, and it wasn't because of their so-called ethnicity.
"General Ashina is a smart man. I promise here that as long as General Ashina cooperates with the Tang Dynasty's actions, I will personally ask for credit from your majesty for General Ashina afterwards. If nothing else, the position of a Duke
, there must be no problem. Of course, General Ashina’s troops will still be commanded by General Ashina.” Lin Xuan said with a smile.
Anyway, Li Shimin agreed to these conditions. Even if he doesn't say it now, Li Shimin will reward him generously in order to make Ashina Sheer return to his heart. In this case, it is better to say it now, so that Ashina Sheer will be more motivated.
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As for the soldiers and horses under his command, how many will be left when the grassland is pacified?
There will definitely be many Turkic prisoners in the grassland pacification, but it is impossible for Li Shimin to let Ashina Sher replenish his troops among the prisoners. In this way, the number of people under Ashina Sher can be said to be reduced as the battle continues.
From time to time, some Han people were added in. As time went by, most of the soldiers and horses under Ashina She 9'er were Han people.
With Ashina Sher's methods, it might be possible to subdue those soldiers and horses, but it would be impossible to take them to the grassland. In this way, Ashina Sher would have no possibility of rebellion.
"Thank you, General. I will definitely do whatever the General orders me to do." Ashina Sheer said in a completely subordinate tone.
Lin Xuan is just a marquis. Logically speaking, he should not believe Lin Xuan's words.
After all, a marquis promised him that he would protect him as a duke. It looked like he was deceiving him.
But Qin Huaidao had introduced Lin Xuan's identity to him. In addition to being a marquis, Lin Xuan was also the son-in-law of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty. This was credible.
Next, Lin Xuan discussed some details with Ashina Sheer, and the chat ended in the evening.
In the evening, Lin Xuan hosted another banquet in honor of Ashina Sheer. Because he had already said all that needed to be said, he didn't care about it, so he didn't control himself during the evening. By the time the banquet was over, both of them were drunk.
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Ashina Sheer was carried back to the yard prepared by Lin Xuan for them by the soldiers.
When the soldiers put Ashina Sheer on the bed, the commander of the soldiers sent them away and closed the door.
Hearing the sound of the door closing, Ashina Sheer sat up directly.
Although his face was red, there was not much drunkenness in his face.
The weather in the grassland is very cold, the wind is very strong in autumn and winter, and there is a lack of heating supplies, so the nomads like to drink wine to keep warm.
Wine has become an indispensable thing in their lives, but the nomadic tribes do not know how to make wine and do not have the food to make wine. They basically rely on merchants from the Tang Dynasty to sell it to them.
Even though it was hard to find the Immortal Drunk, with his status as Ashina Sheer, he could still get some, so it wasn't his first time drinking and he probably knew his drinking capacity.
During the banquet, it seemed like he was drinking all the time, but in fact he was secretly trying to control it.
Although he understood that what Lin Xuan was going to do to him after entering Gaochang King's Capital, he couldn't change the outcome even with his little skills, but he still stayed awake.
"Albert, what do you think of this meeting?" Ashina Sher asked.
Albert was the one who had been standing behind Ashina Sheer before, and was introduced by him as the commander of his own soldiers.
In fact, Albert was not the commander of the personal soldiers, but one of the three generals under Ashina Sher.
When Ashina Sher occupied half of the Western Turks and wanted to use troops against Xueyantuo, it was Albert who was the first to persuade him to destroy the Western Turks first to consolidate their strength and then attack Xueyantuo.
However, he did not obey, which led to the subsequent defeat.
However, after that incident, Ashina Sheer valued Albert very much and regarded him as a think tank. He would ask Albert's opinion on many things.
This time he was negotiating with Datang on such an important matter, so naturally he wanted to bring Albert with him.
"Great Khan, I think the benefits that the general just promised were probably promised by the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, otherwise he would not be so sure," Albert said.
Ashina Sheer smiled and said: "I didn't understand it at first, but I realized later that if he said things like those without the consent of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, it would be a big taboo for him to say that to me.
Although this person is young and is still the son-in-law of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty is very talented and strategic. If this person was incompetent, it would be impossible to send him here, so this person should not make such a mistake."
Prairie people worship the strong, but their feelings towards Li Shimin and Ashina Sheld are actually very complicated.
On the one hand, some people hate him. If the Tang Dynasty had not sent troops to attack him, even if Xue Yantuo rebelled, with the reputation of Jieli Khan, it would not be difficult to deal with Xue Yantuo as long as the winter passed.
It was the sudden attack of the Tang Dynasty and Xue Yantuo's rebellion that led to the demise of the Eastern Turks.
So Datang was also his enemy, and he hated Li Shimin.
But Li Shimin destroyed the Eastern Turks, and he admired Li Shimin a little.
This feeling is very complicated.
As for Xue Yantuo, if it weren't for Datang, he wouldn't have paid much attention to him at all.
"Great Khan, these are not important. What is important is that now we have no choice but to believe in Datang." Albert said.
Although they can still conquer the Western Region as a place to establish themselves.
However, although the countries in the Western Region are not large and often fight internally, they are still relatively united when encountering foreign enemies.
When the Tang Dynasty was able to destroy Gaochang, in addition to the fact that the countries in the Western Regions were afraid of the Tang Dynasty, the most important thing was that the Gaochang State monopolized the trade routes and did not benefit other countries, so it lived alone.
The blocking of trade routes will also cause certain damage to the interests of other countries.
Their interests were damaged, and Gaochang did not give them any benefits. In addition, they were afraid of the Tang Dynasty, so all countries watched Gaochang's destruction in tacit agreement.
In addition to these, the countries in the Western Regions knew very well that it was impossible for the Tang Dynasty to occupy the Western Regions.
Because the Western Regions were important to the Tang Dynasty. During the Han Dynasty, all the countries in the Western Regions surrendered. Didn't the Han Dynasty just establish a protective palace in the Western Regions, but did not think of incorporating the Western Regions into the territory of the Great Khan?