Datang: The prince of salted fish was overheard by Li Er

Just when the construction of the two square cities started vigorously, the battlefield was also full of good news.

This time, the seven armies were mobilized together, and Li Jing got off to a good start in less than a month.

Li Jing led three thousand brave cavalry to set off from Mayi, enter Eyangling, and attack Xiangcheng by night.

Such a sudden attack completely blinded Jieli Khan.

Although he knew that after Liang Shidu, the Tang Dynasty would definitely use troops against the Turks, he never expected that this day would come so soon.

Jieli Khan didn't expect the sudden arrival of the Tang army, thinking that Li Jing dared to go deep alone, and there must be a main force to follow. He hurriedly withdrew the Yazhang to Qikou, preparing to use the vast depth of the Turkic grassland to pull against the Tang army.

Jieli's retreat made the other tribes of East Turkic panic. At this time, the spies who had already been lurking in the Turkic grasslands began to act.

After a lot of hard work, those tribes that had been swinging between Datang and Jieli Khan surrendered one after another.

Seeing that the general situation was over, Jieli's confidant General Kang Sumi also took Sui Yang Emperor Empress Xiao Shi and her grandson Yang Zhengdao to Dingxiang to descend to Tang Dynasty.

When Jieli Khan saw that Kangsumi had descended to the Tang Dynasty, he did not dare to stay. He continued to retreat to the Yinshan Mountains and fought against Chai Shao's Jinhe Army by the Hun River. Volley.

The two armies fought, and Jieli Khan was defeated.

Jieli Khan fled in a hurry, preparing to retreat to Tieshan.

In his opinion, after arriving at Tieshan, his remnant army reunited with the local tribes before moving to Mobei.

After crossing the desert and recruiting troops again in Jiuxing Tie Le, they can plan to make a comeback.

However, when he came to Tieshan, in addition to the familiar tribes, waiting for him was an iron army from the Tang Dynasty.

Su Dingfang and his troops had already arrived here one step ahead of the secret road presented by Kang Jie, and after setting up their positions, they were waiting for Xieli to throw himself into the trap.

After the First World War, the Turkic army was completely disintegrated, and Jieli Khan fled westward from Yunzhong with only a few hundred people in a hurry, intending to join Murong Fuyun, king of Tuyuhun, or Qu Wentai, king of Gaochang.

On the way, most of the generals defected.His son Dieluo Shi also separated from him.

Soon, Jieli Khan, who had only dozens of cavalry around him, bumped into Li Daozong's Datong army head-on.

After a fierce battle, Tang General Zhang Baoxiang captured Jieli Khan.

With the capture of Jieli Khan, the situation in the Turkic grasslands suddenly improved.

Tuli Khan, who had originally intended to surrender, immediately presented his letter of credence to surrender, and Xue Yantuo, Pearl Khan Yinan, who had just emerged from East Turks, also expressed his surrender.

With such a complete victory, the civil and military forces of the whole court were beaming with joy.

Now Jieli Khan is being escorted to Chang'an by Li Daozong and Zhang Baoxiang, and the 10,000+ Turkic people who surrendered to Datang also came to the pass with Li Jing and Zhang Gongjin.

However, although his people have not yet arrived in Chang'an, the issue of his disposal has caused quite a commotion.

In the end, it was Li Shimin who overcame all opinions and asked Li Daozong to bring him back to Chang'an in order to show the demeanor of a great country in China and save him from the death penalty.

Subsequently, regarding the arrangements for these surrendered people and the future management of the Turkic grasslands, a larger-scale debate was triggered between the ruling and opposition parties.

According to Li Jing's idea, these 10,000+ Turkic people will be taken to Yanzhou, Yuzhou, Youzhou, Bingzhou and other places for resettlement.

Li Jing planned to let them learn farming and mulberry farming, work together with the Han people, and become ordinary farmers.

However, Zhongshuling Wen Yanbo, who had just taken office, believed that he should learn from Liu Xiu, Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han Dynasty, who set up Wuyuan County to accept the surrender of the Southern Huns, and retain all the customs of the Huns.

At the same time, set up a guard house in Shuofang to manage these Turkic people and preserve their own customs, so as to show the demeanor of a great country.

Compared with the benevolence of Li Jing and Wen Yanbo, Wei Zheng's suggestion is more cruel.

In his view, these Turkic people have harmed the people of the Central Plains for generations, and if they are not my race, their hearts must be different.

He wrote to Li Shimin and said: "The Turkic people were bandits and robbers, and now they are ruined. Your Majesty cannot bear to punish him because of his surrender. He should return to his homeland and must not stay. He has never been trustworthy in Rong and Di. Obedience, strong will lead to rebellion. Today, no less than [-] people have been surrendered. After a few years, the number of Tibetans will double, and it will be a serious problem for the confidants."

In Wei Zheng's view, it was the Eastern Han Dynasty's policy of relocating the Hu people inland, coupled with the rebellion of the Eight Kings of the Western Jin Dynasty, which led to the decline of the court's prestige, which led to the historical tragedies of the Yongjia Rebellion and the Five Husbands.

Not to mention that it is not safe for these 10,000+ Turks to stay in Shuofang and keep their own customs, it is not even safe for them to be ordinary farmers in Yanzhou, Yuzhou, Qingzhou, Bingzhou, and Youzhou.

So the best way is to exile them in Mobei and let them fend for themselves.

For a time, the three views had their own supporters, and the court was full of quarrels.

This situation naturally spread to Li You's ears.

This is absolutely the case with Shi Feng Shaoshi, the head of Shence Palace. Li Shimin is likely to come to ask Li You's opinion, and he is a little curious about it.

"You'er, if it was you, how would you decide?"

After thinking for a while, Li You said, "Actually, these three methods are all possible, but they all have flaws. Who can explain this clearly."

"Letting the Turkic people move inland can increase the population of the Central Plains, speed up the construction of national strength, and realize the tolerance of our great country."

"But they are always outsiders, and the court is not at ease if there are no generations."

"Arranging them in Shuofang is a compromise solution. Developing a border town will provide an additional barrier to foreign invasion in the future."

"But this power is still controlled by foreigners. It's okay if the leader is a loyal person, but if it's a wolfish and ambitious person, I'm afraid it may not be possible to fight back."

Li You's analysis made Feng Shaoshi keep nodding.

Although he has not been with Li You for a long time, he has always recognized Li You's analytical ability.

In his opinion, Fang Mou's decision is nothing more than that.

"So Yu'er supports Wei Zheng's idea?"

In fact, Feng Shaoshi himself is more supportive of Wei Zheng's idea. Since it is difficult to deal with left and right, it is better to exile them.

During this time, Master Feng also saw a lot of history from Li You that he had never seen before.

For example, some of the Xiongnu who were defeated by the emperor of the Han family moved south, while the other part moved all the way west.

After long-distance migration, they defeated the Ostrogothic Kingdom ruled by Alexander the Great and landed in Europe strongly.

In the end, under the leadership of Alati, the whip of God, the Huns established a great empire stretching from the Baltic Sea in the north, the Caspian Sea in the east, the North Sea in the west, and the Danube and Rhine in the south.

Although this empire eventually came to an end, it also brought chaos for hundreds of years to the west, far away from the Central Plains.

In Feng Shaoshi's view, if these 10,000+ Turkic people are also exiled, maybe the West will be in chaos again.

I have to say that if Feng Shaoshi made this period of history public, perhaps important changes will take place in the entire history of the world.

However, under Feng Shaoshi's excited eyes, Li You shook his head again.