Chapter 424 Crisis
For Northern Qi, the eighth year of Wuping was an excessively quiet year. Nanchen, south of the Yangtze River, and Zhou State, who had contracted into Shu, were licking their wounds, watching the Northern Dynasty with vigilant power, and no strength to launch troops to invade the North.
At this point, inside and outside the Great Wall, from north to south, there was an atmosphere of peace and happiness. There was nothing wrong in the world. All officials were amending laws one by one and formulating relatively tolerant laws. They were deployed in Hedong for a long time. The army in Jinzhong gradually retracted and returned to Yecheng in large numbers. The rest were scattered and placed between Chang'an and Henan's important towns, sharpening their knives and beginning to prepare for the war of unification.
But the neighbors in the north of Daqi lived a little unstable life.
In recent years, the Turks have been unable to expand externally and have begun to pay attention to the loyalty of the tribes in the south of the Moon. The grassland has always been a place where the strong prey on the weak. Every powerful tribe has stepped on the corpse of the former overlord. The Turks and Northern Qi have been defeated in the battle. Although they did not hurt the root cause, the prestige of the Turks began to decline.
First, the Uighurs contacted some medium-sized tribes to overthrow the overlord status of the Turks, and then Tiel began to be ready to move.
The Turks are just a country with a tribal alliance system, with a loose structure. Its deterrence to other ethnic groups on the grassland comes from powerful force intimidation. Once other tribes begin to feel that the Turks have begun to go downhill, they can be replaced. These once docile tribes like sheep will pounce on them like wild wolves, tearing the Turks apart like Ruran like the destruction of the Turks!
Therefore, Tuobo Khan chose war without hesitation and used his sharp scimitar to put these ambitious tribes in their right position.
The Turks drove to the north of the desert and defeated the Uighurs and Tiel one by one. The head of the Uighur chief was cut off by the Turks to make a wine vessel, which shocked all tribes. After that, the tribes that looked faintly despised the Turks recalled the fear of being whipped by the Mugang Khan and began to crawl at the feet of the Turkic Khan again.
For Tuobo Khan, this was a memorable event, and he could not feel the joy of victory at all. As Gao Wei had expected at the beginning, the Turks inevitably entered the internal struggle.
Although Tuobo Khan's actions of enfeoffing Khans from all over the world briefly achieved external unity of the Ashin family, it inevitably led to the prosperous family's split!
A few years ago, Tuobo Khan was still in good health, and these signs had not been revealed. Now, Tuobo Khan has shown an old attitude. The men of the Ashin family began to fight for power and profit around who should take over the next Khan. The selfish face and wolf ambition they showed made Tuobo Khan, who was determined to be in the middle of arbitration, also frightened!
Tuobo Khan looked at the leaders of the tribes who were quarreling in front of him, and couldn't help feeling a sense of desolation in his heart.
In the war against Uighurs and Tiel, although the Turkic wolf cavalry had gained something, they were not many. Except for a few cars that could not be eaten as food or firewood, the Turks had almost nothing. In order to make their trophy appear more, Turkish Khan specially ordered that the young, young, women and children be killed, such as the violent orders that the Ding mouth was higher than the wheel were cut, which was temporarily abolished.
They allocated as slaves to the Khans of the Ashin family, and the cattle, sheep, gold and silver they stolen from each unit will also be distributed according to the proportion of troops sent by each unit. However, Tuobo Khan himself did not obtain a cattle, sheep, or a slave.
Tuobo Khan's two brothers did this before. They gained unanimous support from all over the Turks and became heroes circulated by the herdsmen. However, Tuobo Khan did these things, but no one saw his hardship. They took an extra piece of sheepskin and made a big fuss in front of him like a shrew.
"Are these people still descendants of the Ashin family?"
Tuobo Khan often couldn't help thinking now.
His physical condition is not very good. It is half because of government work, and the other half because of the Khans in front of him. As long as these people are not careful, they will play various strange tricks. They either slander each other or plunder other people's cattle and sheep, as if they cannot survive without taking advantage of each other. It is even more tiring to stare at them all day than fighting.
"Bu Li is too bullying. This is not the first time his tribe has crossed my grassland. More than a dozen of my slaves have been beaten to death by his people. Today, please ask the Khan to be fair to me. We can't just let it go, otherwise we will be looked down upon by everyone!" The one who shouted the most in the crowd was Asina Seijue. This guy was named Datou Khan by Tuobo Khan and ruled the west side of the Turks.
"Hmph, why do you say that it is your pasture? I say it is mine, so how can you deal with me?! I have the kind of call you here!"
Another person who was yelling to fight with Datou Khan was Tuobo Khan's younger brother, Buli Khan. His words were very intense and he almost drew his sword on the spot.
But Tuobo Khan knew Buli's little thoughts. If Buli Khan really had the courage to fight, he would not be bluffing like this. He just acted so that he could try to win his brother to stand on his side.
Although Tuobo Khan was a little unhappy with Buli's clever behavior, he didn't say anything. No matter how much Buli Khan said, he was his younger brother. Datou Khan Ashina was separated from the current Turkic "orthodox" several generations and was not so close to him. Besides, Datou Khan is not very famous. A typical fence-bearer always takes three steps back when encountering things.
At that time, Tuobo Khan asked him to be the vanguard and brought tens of thousands of wolf cavalry into the Central Plains first. As a result, Datou Khan was defeated by the Qi army in Baidao. He was also captured and captured. The key point was that this guy was still humble to the Emperor of Northern Qi and had no backbone!
Gao Wei locked him in a cage and made all passers-by despise and insult him. Not only did this guy not be ashamed, he asked for food from the sergeant who was guarding him. The face of the Asina family made him lose all his face!
Tuobo Khan was also deeply ashamed. He wanted to find an opportunity to kill Datou Khan, but the other party was slippery like a loach in the stream. Tuobo couldn't catch any of his handles, and Datou Khan always gave the most filial piety to the elders and shamans every year. He was so popular that every time Tuobo wanted to find an excuse to mess with Datou, someone would come to plead, so that he could not make such a move.
Although Datou Khan was defeated, Tuobo Khan could not easily deal with him. First, Datou Khan was smooth in his work and could not catch the handle; second, Datou Khan was not without a background, and his background could be said to be terrifying. Datou's father was Ashinashi, which is Mohedu Yehu, who the Turks still missed. He and Yili Khan (Ashinatumen) spread the power of the Turks into the Caspian Sea, which are two recognized giants by the Turks! After the Western Expedition more than 20 years ago, Ashinashinashi has been operating the west side of the Turks, and this force has long become a climate!
It was the support of this force that made Ashina defiled power and became one of the great Khans, inheriting all the power of his father Ashina's secret room in the west of the desert. With this relationship, no one could accuse Darto Khan of being incompetent in combat, and no one would say that he was once captured by the Qi people. All the humiliation that happened to him seemed to have never happened before.
For such a good relationship and strong strength, Tuobo Khan could only treat him with courtesy no matter how he was afraid of his stomach. He could not make other Khans feel upset because he was unhappy, so he tried to make a smile on his face: "Shenjue, your fiefdom is on the west side, how could he conflict with Buli? Explain clearly, what's going on?"
This guy wants to put all the blame on me!
Datou Khan cursed in his heart, and his face was filled with fear and fear: "If I go back to Dashan, my tribe has never moved in the west, and I will not be jealous of other people's pastures, but Buli is not satisfied with his pastures and always wants to occupy other people's territory. Everyone has seen it! If Buli doesn't know how to restrain himself, then I will have to be forced to fight back."
The noble people in the tent changed drastically, and even Tuobo Khan frowned.
"What do you mean? What is your pasture? It's obviously a land without a border, but I took the lead in taking that place! What's wrong with me robbing it back? What's wrong with me? Is it the only one who died here? Is it that you killed several of my subordinates, and you are still here to turn black and white!" Bu Li Khan was so angry that he rushed forward and refuted immediately.
"Anyway, no matter what, I will never give in. Brother Bu Li, go find another place!"
"You!!——" Bu Li came forward with great momentum, and his hand was already pressed on the hilt of the knife.
"——Enough!" The porcelain cup was smashed to the ground, and the tent immediately became quiet again. The khans of all sizes bowed and expressed their awe at the angry khan. The old Tuobo Khan stared at them with red eyes, his chest undulating like a bellows, and he said furiously:
"You can fight for a little bit of flies, are you still descendants of the Ashin family, or descendants of the wolf god? Look at what you are now, you are like dogs that bite together and fight for bones!"
Chapter completed!