The third emperor of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 161 Unifying the Grassland (recommended for collection)
"Your Highness, Luo Khan of the Turkic Office has died of illness!"

Inside Chaoyang Hall, Wei Yunqi had a serious face.

"That guy is young and strong, so he won't be seriously ill! Is there any fraud?"

"Your Highness, this is indeed what the Turkic envoy said, but the news we got is completely different from what the Turkic envoy said."

"what news?"

Wei Yunqi said: "We are the South Khan. The news we got is: Chuluo Khan and Jieli Khan have reached a tacit agreement to attack Tiele from the north to the west! , the injury is very serious, and it is very likely that he will not survive! Once Chu Luo dies, the Turks will face major events. According to the Southern Khan’s envoy, Tie Le is already disabled. Now Chu Luo and Jieli are integrated. Elect Xieli as the Great Khan."

"No wonder Chu Luo didn't come to participate in the war in Guanneidao on the grounds that the war was tense!"

Although history has turned a corner because of itself, Turkic is still developing according to the original track.In history, after Chuluo Khan died of illness, Jieli Khan came to the throne. This is a very talented, ambitious, and extremely difficult Turkic Khan. Invading the Central Plains, once hit the outskirts of Chang'an, forcing Li Shimin to sign the alliance under the city.Now Tie Le has almost fallen apart, and there is no longer a major force to contain the Turks on the grassland. A powerful Turkic Khanate will appear in the north of the Central Plains in at most two or three years.

Judging from the current situation in the grassland, it is inevitable for the Turks to rise again, and its rise will be a huge threat to the fragmented Sui Dynasty. Of course, Ashina Simo cannot be tolerated by the Turkic nobles because he became a vassal of the Sui Dynasty, so he can only black out to the end , but the [-] troops and tribes under his command are hard to say, and in terms of historical achievements, they are not even one percent of that of Jieli Khan.

Thinking of this, Yang Tong said slowly: "Let Pegasus, Baitan, Dingxiang, and Mayi county soldiers move into the new Great Wall."

There is a small Hetao in Wuyuan. After the Yellow River enters the Hetao area, it is divided into two parts. One is the North Yellow River and the other is the South Yellow River. After running for hundreds of miles, they merge into one and continue to flow eastward. Between the North and South Yellow Rivers, Then the rich Xiaohetao Plain was formed.

The Xiaohetao Plain in Wuyuan is densely covered with river networks, lush forests, and fertile land. Many people from the Han Dynasty reclaimed the land on the Xiaohetao Plain and thrived!Jiuyuan County, Wuyuan County is located in the south of the Xiaohetao Plain. After the relationship with the Turks became tense, Yang Guang built three tall and strong castles along the North Yellow River in order to defend against the Turks. Baicheng was also included within the Great Wall, and the Turks could only attack from farther west.

"Here!"

Fang Xuanling, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, Yang Shidao, Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, Ling Jing, Minister of the Ministry of Commerce, and Jiang Xingben, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, should be at the same time.

Yang Tong asked Wei Yunqi, "Has Jieli's envoy arrived?"

"Here we are!" Wei Yunqi frowned, "Turks have sent two groups of envoys this time, one to Yecheng and the other to Chang'an. The means are extremely high, trying to take advantage of the dispute between the Sui and Tang Dynasties to seek the greatest benefits for the Turks."

Yang Tong smiled and said: "In the more than [-] years that General Changsun Sheng has been in contact with the Turks, although he has not commanded any major battles, with his outstanding strategy, he has divided and disintegrated the Turks, maintained the peace of the northern border of the Sui Dynasty, and promoted National integration has made a significant contribution. At the beginning, he used power to separate the relationship between the Turkic chiefs, divided each other's camps with interests, and supported the hostile Turkic forces! Time and again by supporting different Turkic Khans, the Turks were divided into things, and then the big points Little. The Turks have suffered many losses, so it would be strange if they didn’t learn a little experience.”

Yang Gongren agreed: "Actually, supporting Liang Shidu, Guo Zihe, and Liu Wuzhou at the beginning is to hope that the Sui Dynasty will fall into uninterrupted internal strife. Early on, these three lackeys died before taking advantage of them. Secondly, the three people he supported were not up to date and did not do much, so we were wiped out one by one! Now the forces bordering the Turks in the northern land, except me, Da Sui, Only Li Gui is left, but Jie Li is smart enough to know that Li Gui has only half his life left, so he chose Li Yuan."

"That's why I mobilized foreign prisoners of war to keep building the Great Wall!" Yang Tong said, "Our Sui Dynasty was torn apart, and we had no time and energy to spend too much time on external affairs. Great Wall, as long as the defenders are careful, even if the Turks have millions of troops, they will not be able to enter our Great Sui territory."

The New Great Wall stretches from the northern foot of Changbai Mountain in the east to the Weibel Lake in the south, covering most of the Northeast Plain. In the vast territory of Liaodong, many areas were acquired by the Sui Dynasty with Mohe and Nanshiwei in exchange for grain and salt. At that time, the foreigners had no sense of territory and were really afraid of Yang Tong, so they agreed to the land exchange deal.Then it was repaired from the semicircle within Bell Lake to Wuyuan County.

The city walls are four feet high and five feet thick, and they are all built with ashlar stones. The casualties were heavy, and now there are only [-]% left at most.

"Your Highness, have you seen this Turkic envoy?" Wei Yunqi asked.

"Of course we have to meet, otherwise how would we know what kind of tricks they are playing?"

Yang Shidao smiled, "It should be a test. We have reached a trade relationship with Xieli before, and at the same time started an official trade relationship. This time Xieli ascended the throne, they will naturally send envoys to tell them. At the same time, they want to get greater benefits."

Yang Tong asked again: "Then what benefit does he want to obtain?"

Yang Shidao didn't answer, but looked at Fang Xuanling. Fang Xuanling stared at the vast northern grassland map for a while, and then said: "Xieli's purpose is very simple. He wants to have an equal relationship with the Sui Dynasty politically, and economically. To obtain greater strategic resources."

After defeating Shibi, Yang Tong let Chuluo succeed him as Great Khan. Among the regulations, there was a provision that the Turks recognized that the Sui Dynasty headed by Yang Tong was the successor of the Sui Dynasty, which meant that the Sui Dynasty was still the suzerain of the Turks.The Turkic Khan ascended the throne, he must be canonized by the Sui Dynasty to be orthodox.But the Turks are now united again, not to mention the internal struggles in the Sui Dynasty, and Jieli Khan is also an ambitious person. He certainly does not want to admit that the Sui Dynasty is the suzerain state.

The Turkic envoy came this time to seek political independence. If the Turkic still recognized the Sui Dynasty as the suzerain state, then it was not the envoy, but Jieli Khan personally met.

In the past official trade, the Sui Dynasty only sold tea, bee sugar, silk, porcelain, and cloth. In order to keep the Turks fighting among themselves, they also sold some obsolete soldiers and armor at sky-high prices, while strategic materials such as pig iron, copper, and grain But he was determined not to sell it, and the smelting technique was even more secret and precious, and private businessmen were not allowed to trade with Turks, and once found out, it would be a capital offense.They have a large demand for pig iron, weapons, grain, and salt, and they will inevitably come to seek the lifting of the ban by the Sui Dynasty.

"From now on, the supply of weapons will be stopped. In any case, we must not let go of our trade. If there is still a trade, we will conduct more stringent investigations in the future."

On this point, Yang Tong was absolutely unambiguous. Today, the Turks gave the ironware to the Turks, and the Turks will use the iron swords to massacre the Sui people tomorrow.

(End of this chapter)