Six hundred and seventieth IX civil strife in Western Turks
During the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Cao corrected his edicts, and eighteen princes came to challenge Dong.
How could those princes not know what Dong Zhuo had done?
But they had no reason to send troops. They knew what Dong Zhuo did, but ordinary people did not.
If they raise troops for no reason, they become rebels.
The so-called false edicts are also made up and do not exist at all.
Those princes acquiesced in the existence of the imperial edict, and ordinary people could not see it anyway.
During the Battle of Guandu, Cao Cao wrote an appeal written by Chen Lin that could defeat a hundred thousand soldiers. This shows how important a legitimate reason for sending troops is.
The Han people are deeply influenced by Confucianism and hate war in their bones.
Once a war occurs, it will affect the people in all aspects. Without justifiable reasons, people will lose their support.
People's hearts and minds are important whether they say they are important or not.
Seriously counting the Eastern Han Dynasty, it can be said that it was destroyed when Dong Zhuo deposed the emperor.
But considering that the Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty together existed for nearly four hundred years, the people still supported the DPRK very much.
The so-called vitality is not exhausted, but it actually means that it has not completely lost the support of the people.
Therefore, people's support is still very important to the court and Li Shimin.
Li Shimin said with some worry: "Fang Qing's plan is very good, but what if Ashina Sheer has different intentions?"
Ask yourself, if he were Ashina Sher and had the opportunity to control the Western Turks, he would not choose to surrender.
With Ashina Sheer's current strength, it will definitely need the support of the Tang Dynasty.
Li Shimin was worried about raising tigers and ended up making wedding clothes for others.
Li Shimin did not dare to underestimate Ashina Sheer.
If Ashina Sheer hadn't wanted to take revenge on Xue Yantuo, I'm afraid the Western Turks wouldn't be able to do anything now.
"Your Majesty, Ashina She'er was recruited by the Marquis of Jingyang County to surrender, why not let him contain Ashina She'er?" Changsun Wuji suggested.
Lin Xuan was valued more and more by Li Shimin, which made Changsun Wuji feel a sense of crisis.
With his identity and status, Changsun Wuji was confident that as long as Li Shimin was around, Lin Xuan would not be able to shake his position.
But what if Li Shimin is gone?
Li Chengqian had a very good relationship with Lin Xuan. He tried to belittle Lin Xuan in front of Li Chengqian several times, but to no avail.
The most important thing is that Li Chengqian is not the ideal prince candidate in Changsun Wuji's mind.
Changsun Wuji knew that Li Shimin was very suspicious, so he chose to retire and resigned from all his posts.
Changsun Wuji was not willing to give up his power, but as a relative, having too much power was not a good thing.
Li Shimin trusts him now, but when Li Shimin gets older, he will inevitably be jealous of Li Shimin if he gains power.
Changsun Wuji has been waiting for an opportunity, that is, the new king will succeed to the throne.
Li Chengqian is now sixteen years old, and Li Shimin is not yet forty. By the time Li Chengqian succeeds to the throne, he will have already matured.
This is not conducive to his control. Changsun Wuji's most ideal successor is actually Li Zhi.
Li Zhi is young and is also his nephew.
Only when Li Zhi succeeded to the throne could he take over the power.
And because of Lin Xuan's relationship, Li Chengqian's position has become more stable, which is not a good thing for Changsun Wuji.
Ask Lin Xuan to contain Ashina Sheer. If he succeeds, because of Lin Xuan's age and being a relative, he won't be able to get a big reward.
Although the Tang Dynasty did not stipulate that the consort could not have real power like the Ming Dynasty, Li Shimin also deliberately restricted the power of his relatives.
If Lin Xuan fails, Li Shimin's impression of him will be greatly reduced.
So no matter which way you look at it, Changsun Wuji's recommendation of Lin Xuan to contain Ashina Sheer is a clever move.
The others didn't know Changsun Wuji's intention. Only Cheng Yaojin thought it was strange. Although Lin Xuan married Li Lizhi, Changsun Wuji couldn't really regard Lin Xuan as his nephew and son-in-law.
How could Changsun Wuji be so kind to help Lin Xuan?
Cheng Yaojin thought for a long time but still couldn't understand Changsun Wuji's intention.
Li Shimin nodded and said, "This is a good idea. I will consider it carefully."
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"General, the people sent to Ashinashe'er to report the news are back." Qin Huaidao said.
"How's it going? He doesn't have much to lose, right?" Lin Xuan asked.
What he is most worried about is that if Ashina Sheer suffers huge losses and bears a grudge against the Tang Dynasty, it will be in trouble.
After the historical Ashina Sheer took refuge in the Tang Dynasty, he made a lot of contributions to the Tang Dynasty and can be said to be a good general.
Many of the Turks who surrendered rebelled, but Ashinasheer never rebelled until his death.
If Ashina Sheer did not defect to the Tang Dynasty in the end because of him, then the trouble would be big.
"Back to the general, Ashina Sher led troops to raid the rear of the Western Turks. Because most of the young men of the Western Turks went out with the army, the rear was very empty. However, just when Ashina Sher was about to attack the Western Turks' royal court,
After receiving the news that the Western Turks were withdrawing their troops, they immediately withdrew their troops," Qin Huaidao said.
Lin Xuan breathed a sigh of relief and said, "That's good."
Qin Huaidao smiled bitterly and said: "Although Ashina Sheer did not suffer any losses, he was very angry about the sudden withdrawal of the Western Turks. He said that the general wanted to use the hands of the Western Turks to destroy him, and almost killed the people who sent the message.
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Lin Xuan was not angry about this, after all, this matter was indeed his problem.
If it were him, he would also be angry.
However, since Ashina Sheer did not directly kill the person who reported the news, it means that although he was angry, he did not lose his mind in anger.
"Okay, let's wait for two days. When the injured soldiers are almost recovered, we will withdraw our troops and go back. Then I will go see him in person." Lin Xuan said.
Because of the trauma treatment method taught by Lin Xuan, more than 200 of the more than 1,000 wounded soldiers eventually died, and the rest survived.
But more than a hundred of them will never go to the battlefield.
Lin Xuan had nothing to do about this. The cold weapon era was like this, and he was lucky to be able to survive.
Just when Lin Xuan was about to withdraw his troops, Baiqi delivered Li Shimin's letter to Lin Xuan.
After Lin Xuan read it, he put down the letter and thought about it carefully.
Li Shimin's letter asked him to find ways to support a force to compete for the position of Khan of the Western Turks. The purpose was to cause internal conflict in the Western Turks.
In addition, let him return to Chang'an once if possible.
During this time, he also obtained a lot of information about the Western Turks.
Nishuo is not dead, but it is almost there.
After returning to the royal court, Nishu ordered Tong'eshe to succeed him as Khan after his death.
Tong'eshe was not very popular, and he had offended many people before, so those people were naturally unwilling to succeed Tong'eshe, so they focused on Nishu's son Yuanqi.
The tribal strength that Tong'eshe controlled was already one of the strongest tribes in the Western Turks, and those tribes that supported him had the upper hand for a while.
Although there were many people supporting Yuan Qi, Yuan Qi had no power. The tribal leaders supported him because they were unwilling to succeed Tong'e, so naturally they would not follow Yuan Qi's advice.
It seems that Yuan Qi has many supporters, but in reality, they are scattered.