Chapter 60 Ultimatum
Since the sixth year of Daye, the Huangmen Minister of the Sui Dynasty, the counselor of political affairs, and the Western Regions General Pei Ju designed to lure and kill Shibi Khan's favorite minister Shishu Huxi. Shibi Khan began to be hostile to the Sui Dynasty and sent troops to test the borders of the Sui Dynasty many times. However, during this period, Shibi Khan never took advantage. It was not until the eleventh year of Daye that Shibi Khan took advantage of Yang Guang's northern tour and led hundreds of thousands of cavalry to intercept the attack. Princess Yicheng sent envoys to report changes. Yang Guang rushed into Yanmen (now Dai County, Shanxi) and was besieged. The Turks rushed to Yanmen, and forty-one cities defeated him 39 and plundered more than 250,000 people to return to the north.
At this point, the Eastern Turks began to win over the traitors of the Sui Dynasty, Xue Ju, Wang Shichong, Liu Wuzhou, Liang Shidu, Li Gui, Gao Kaidao and others all bowed to their posts and asked for help, and the Eastern Turks supported them to split the Sui Dynasty. Of course, the support of the Turks was not free. Xue Ju, Liu Wuzhou, Liang Shidu, Li Gui, Gao Kaidao and others launched dirty population transactions to obtain support from the Turks.
According to incomplete statistics, no less than one million skilled craftsmen, young and strong women in the Sui Dynasty became Turkic slaves. Among them, Princess Yicheng directly controlled more than 100,000 people.
Chen Ying wanted to develop Lingzhou, but without human resources, everything was in vain. At this time, if he attracted the population from Guanzhong, it would definitely arouse Li Yuan's deeper fear, so Chen Ying put his ideas on the Turkic people.
Chen Ying made a bold statement: "Let the Turks release Han slaves back!"
This bold statement is naturally not a saying, but requires strength to support it. If Chen Ying is strong, even if Chen Ying is so sequel, the Turks will not pay attention to Chen Ying. However, Chen Ying has the ability to threaten the Turks. No matter how bad the attitude is and how arrogant the words are, the Turks can only pinch their noses and recognize them.
Chen Ying naturally would not be just talking. While entering Huaiyuan City with Liu Tong as an envoy, Chen Yingming, the reorganized Dingyuan Army's first, second and sixty-third Zhechong Prefectures, plus the left and right battalions of the Shengjie Army, totaling nearly 10,000 infantry and cavalry. Under the leadership of Luo Shixin, he went north from Lingzhou and approached the woye (now in Pingluo County). At the same time, the third, fourth, fifth and Shengjie Army's front and back three battalions of the third, fourth, fifth and Shengjie Army had a total of more than 12,000 troops, under the leadership of Zhang Shigui, crossed the Hengqiang Canal fifteen miles south of Huaiyuan City, and built a large camp with the Hengqiang Canal backed.
Chen Ying's intention was very obvious. Once the Turks rejected Chen Ying's request, Chen Ying would attack Huaiyuan City from the fertile field to the south and north.
Chen Ying had no room to bargain for the Turks, either obeying Chen Ying's request, handing over the captive Han people, or fighting.
In order to increase the bargaining chips in his hands, Chen Ying even let go of the shackles of Turkic prisoners of war and told the Turkic prisoners that if they joined the Tang army, they could directly kill the Turkic head level one and directly obtain the Tang Dynasty Baizhi.
The incident of the Turkic prisoners of war that worried Zhang Huaiwei eventually occurred. However, as Chen Ying expected, hundreds of Turkic prisoners of war led by Turkic nobles such as Ashina, Ashide, Hu Luwu, Baye, Aduo, Tongluo, and Pugu wanted to rebel after getting the weapons.
Before the Tang army took turns to take action, a strong Turkic prisoner of war asked with a stiff Tang Yan: "Is it a matter of killing these traitors?"
After getting Chen Ying's approval, Zhang Huaiwei nodded at the prisoner of war: "Count it!"
As a result, a fight without any suspense began. Without a single arrow, the Tang army soldiers fired and killed nearly 600 prisoners of war who rebelled against Turkic nobles. Six hundred bloody heads were cut down and sent to Jingguan in Wild Boar Ridge to add bricks and tiles to this huge Jingguan.
Zhang Huaiwei asked the prisoner who was excited to cut off Xiri's robe in confusion and said, "Why don't you run away?"
"The fool... the fool ran away!" said the strong prisoner of war: "You can eat two meals a day for the Tang people, one meal a day, and sometimes you can eat meat!"
Chen Ying naturally knew that the Turks adopted slavery. Not only the Han and other Hu tribes were slaves to the Turks, but in fact, it can be said that in addition to the Turkic nobles, ordinary Turks were also slaves. Their treatment was only slightly better than ordinary Han slaves and Hu tribe slaves.
Chen Ying had already painted them a huge painting cake, which could become a Bai family in the Tang Dynasty and be protected by the Tang army. Although these Turks were backward in their thoughts, they did not mean that they were fools. At this time, the Turks, Tuyuhuns, Qiangs, and Tubos were almost the same, and they did not have very intuitive concepts of state and nationality in their minds.
The Chinese nation had the concept of state and unity, which was due to the frequent wars and chaos in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period for nearly 800 years. The loose political organizational relationship of Chinese people was the root of all wars. Therefore, Qin Shihuang could unify the world smoothly. Even though the princes rebelled at the end of the Qin Dynasty, Liu Bang easily overthrew Xiang Yu because Xiang Yu wanted to restore the nominal rule of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and the Han Kingdom represented by Liu Bang was preparing to unify the world and end the troubled times.
Therefore, the Turkic enemy had no concept of state and nationality at this time, so they could easily accept the fact that they became Tang people.
Looking at the sturdy prisoner of war, Chen Ying smiled and said, "What's your name!"
The strong prisoner of war quickly crawled on the ground, like Yu Guni, stepped forward and kissed Chen Ying's boots: "Report to the master, my name is Yiscar, and I don't have a surname."
Chen Ying frowned and said, "What the hell is this!"
He wanted to uniformly subordinate these Turks under Yu Duni's command, but suddenly his heart moved.
As long as it is power, it needs to be restricted.
The more a regime expands, the more people there will be, the more factions there will be. If there are strong enemies outside, it may force the internal factions to unite, but if the external pressure drops sharply, there will be a situation where "invincible foreign patients" will appear. The so-called "enemy country" does not mean a hostile country, but a country with even power.
After China is unified, internal struggles will rise. That is, it is in a state of "invincible". Fighting is the nature of all mankind. When the entire nation is invincible, its struggle will naturally turn inward. If a state lasts for a long time, it will form inertia and even tradition.
Although Chen Ying is not an emperor, he feels that power must be restricted. He is not afraid that power will be put into the cage and will one day lose himself. If Chen Ying is just a small Zhe Chong Duwei, with the right guard in charge of the superior guard, he will never have any strange thoughts.
However, when Li Jiancheng gave him the first time to quell the rebellion of the neighboring enterprises, Chen Ying was a little flustered. However, this time, he supported Lingzhou and led all troops, Chen Ying had already developed an uncontrollable mentality.
After taking this power, they will also have everything - money, beauty, land, famous horses, treasures, as long as they want, they can get it.
But this is power, it is something in this world that is more crazy than money, beauties, land, famous horses, and treasures. For this thing, people can be unfaithful, unfilial, unkind, unrighteous, unfaithful, unfaithful, shameless, and do whatever they want!
Now, Yu Duni has more than 12,500 troops from the Sixth Battalion. He has become the largest soldier in the Lingzhou General Administration Office, and the number of troops led far exceeds that of Luo Shixin, Zhang Shigui and others. If Yu Guni's power is not restricted, Yu Guni may become another An Lushan in the future.
Chen Ying said: "Yescar, I give you the surname Chen and his name is Jinyong!"
Yiscar was excited and quickly knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly: "Chen Jinyong, thank the master for his name!"
Chen Ying also said: "This general manager appointed you as the commander of the Sujie Army. The Sujie Army has five songs under its jurisdiction, each song is 500 people!"
Chen Ying liberated not many prisoners of war, only 2,500.
On February 28, the second year of Wude, Chen Ying led the 2,500 Sujie Army and the Shengjie Army, and the Dingyuan Army met on the bank of the Hengqiangqu River.
Zhang Shigui led all the soldiers to greet Chen Ying. Yu Guni said, "Master, Liu Duwei has been in the city for almost an hour. I'm afraid there is a lot of danger. It's better to lead your troops to rush to the city!"
Chen Ying shook his head and said, "No need for the time being!"
Chapter completed!