Datang: Dad, I really didn't want to rebel!

Chapter 207 Enmity with Xue Yantuo

Chapter 272 Enmity with Xue Yantuo

In the third year of Zhenguan, Li Shimin sent general Li Jing to lead the army to counterattack the Eastern Turks. In just one year, Li Jing captured Ashina Dubi and successfully eliminated the Eastern Turk Khanate.

Then most of the Eastern Turks surrendered to Xue Yantuo, and some surrendered to Tang Dynasty.

After that, Xue Yantuo became the overlord of the northern grasslands, but still surrendered to Tang.

When Xue Yantuo's wings hardened, he had some inexplicable thoughts, such as breaking away from the control of Tang Dynasty.

But not long after the Tang Dynasty destroyed the Eastern Turks, the momentum was in full swing, and people all over the world were looking for people to fight, so Xue Yantuo had a wicked heart but no courage.

In the 12th year of Zhenguan, with the consent of Yinan, Li Shimin canonized Yinan's sons Bazhuo and Jielibi as Yinan's Khans. On the surface, he respected them, but in fact, he hoped to expand the relationship between them. differences.

In the 13th year of Zhenguan, Li Shimin placed the surrendered East Turks within the boundaries of the Tang Dynasty, and the local officials were responsible for their management.

However, in September of that year, Ashina, the nephew of East Turkic Khan Ashina Dubi, suddenly ran to Chang'an and wanted to assassinate Li Shimin.

At that time Li Shimin was going to Jiucheng Palace, Ashina took advantage of this opportunity and led more than [-] people, intending to kill Li Shimin, and Chang'an would definitely be in chaos.

And they were able to take advantage of the chaos in Chang'an, leave Chang'an, and let Tuli Khan's son He Luo'u return to the Eastern Turks and establish himself as king.

The situation can be imagined, as soon as they showed their weapons, they were wiped out by the patrolling Marquis Wu.

After the plot to assassinate the emperor failed, Li Shimin changed his mind and conferred the title of Asina Simo, an Eastern Turkic aristocrat loyal to the Tang Dynasty, as the new Eastern Turkic Khan, that is, Tilibi Khan, who lived in Monan as the brother of Tang and Xue Yantuo. buffer between.

This action made it clear that he didn't trust Xue Yantuo. If Xue Yantuo really wanted to harm Datang, he would have to go through East Turkistan.

As long as they attack East Turks, Datang will be able to respond immediately.

Being so suspicious of others made Yi Nan unhappy.

The cruelest thing is that Li Shimin actually guessed it right.

Yi Nan began to have small feelings for Datang, but under the deterrence, he still didn't dare to disagree.

In the 14th year of Zhenguan, when the Tang Dynasty conquered Gaochang State, Yi Nan sent a team to help, but because Hou Junji moved too fast, before Xue Yantuo's army had time to help, Gao Chang State was captured. Went out.

In the 15th year of Zhenguan, Ashina Simo finally settled in Dingxiang, north of the Great Wall, bordering Xue Yantuo.

At the same time, Yinan heard that Li Shimin was about to consecrate Zen to Mount Tai, and thought that the main force of the Tang army would follow Li Shimin on the east tour, so he sent his son Dadu to launch a major military attack on the Eastern Turks, with the intention of destroying Ashina Simo before Tang provided assistance. regime.

Ashina Simo retreated to the Great Wall, arrived at Shuozhou, and asked Li Shimin for urgent help.

Li Shimin immediately sent generals Li Shiji, Zhang Jian, Li Daliang, Zhang Shigui and Li Xiyu to attack Xue Yantuo.

Obviously, Dad will always be Dad, and under the strength of Tang Jun, Dadu Set was defeated.

As soon as Yi Nan saw that things were going wrong, he immediately sent an envoy to tell Li Shimin that it was a misunderstanding.

At that time, Li Shimin had just conquered the countries in the Western Regions and wanted to consolidate his status as a Khan, so he didn't do anything to Xue Yantuo.

But from now on, there has been a rift in the relationship between the two countries, the kind that can't be repaired with instant noodles.

In the 16th year of Zhenguan, Yi Nan seemed unable to stand this kind of cold violence, so he sent his uncle Nishu to ask for a marriage marriage with one of Li Shimin's daughters, and for this he paid tribute to Datang with horses, fur clothes and amber mirrors.

At this time, when Tang General Qibi Heli went back to the tribe to visit his mother, he was detained by Xue Yantuo.

Li Shimin was worried about Qibi Heli's safety, so he agreed to the proposal of marriage, and sent his minister Cui Dunli to Mobei to negotiate with Yinan, and promised to marry his daughter Princess Xinxing to Yinan after Qibi Heli was released.

In the 17th year, Yinan sent his nephew Tuli to pay tribute to the Tang Dynasty with [-] horses, [-] cows and [-] sheep as a dowry.

However, under Qibi Heli's suggestion, Li Shimin planned to give up this marriage.

So Li Shimin asked Yi Nan to go to Lingzhou to marry Princess Xinxing in person, thinking that if Yi Nan refused, he would have a good reason to break off the marriage.

It turned out that Yi Nan was an infatuated person and actually agreed to go to Lingzhou, so Li Shimin left and found another excuse.

Let’s just say that Yi Nan didn’t give all the bride price that was required.

In fact, this request was fulfilled by Yi Nan. In order to pay tribute to enough livestock as a gift, he expropriated from his subordinate tribes. As a result of the expropriation, all the collected livestock died before they crossed the Gobi.

But Li Shimin didn't care about these, insisting that Yi Nan was not sincere, and then refused the marriage.

There are many princesses in the Tang Dynasty, and Li Shimin also likes to send them outside, but it depends on the situation. Xue Yantuo is a vassal state to the Tang Dynasty, so why would Li Shimin send his daughter there?

The most important thing is that Yi Nan, under the guise of the Tang Dynasty, has incorporated many tribes from Chile. If he marries with the Tang Dynasty again at this time, Xue Yantuo's power will definitely rise again.

In order to prevent this from happening, Li Shimin could only go back on his word.

When the negotiations broke down, Yi Nan decided to continue attacking the Turks, and Li Shimin once again sent envoys to persuade them to live in peace.

Needless to say, Yi Nan must have rejected him.

So the happy national friendship was instantly shattered, and Datang finally showed his ferocious fangs!

Before Li Shimin conquered Goguryeo, Yuan Gai Suwen went to Xue Yantuo once, hoping that they could help to contain the main force of the Tang Dynasty.

Coincidentally, Li Shimin knew about this incident, and at that time Yi Nan wiped out the Eastern Turks, and sent envoys to Chang'an to tell Li Shimin the news.

At that time, Li Shimin's nose was crooked, so he called the envoy Xue Yantuo to the Taiji Hall, and told the envoy Xue Yantuo in front of all civil and military officials: The Tang Dynasty will conquer Goguryeo in the near future. If Tang makes an attack, we welcome him very much. It depends on whether you have the courage!
This sentence is very domineering, at least it really bluffed Yi Nan.

When the envoy conveyed the message back to Yi Nan, he was so frightened that his face changed. He sent an envoy again to Chang'an to apologize to Li Shimin, and at the same time expressed that he could assist them in their eastern expedition.

The first time Goguryeo asked for help, without any sincerity, just came to the door like this, without even bringing a gift of fruit or the like, it was a ghost that Yinan would agree.

This time, Goguryeo was in danger of destroying the country, so Yuangai Suwen had no choice but to give up half of Goguryeo's land and let Xue Yantuo send troops to encircle the Tang army from behind. Even if the Tang army could not be seriously injured, it could at least allow Li Shimin to withdraw his troops.

After the Goguryeo envoy arrived at Xueyantuo, he directly found Xueyantuo Khan Yinan without any obstruction and explained his purpose of coming.

"You mean? As long as Xue Yantuo sends troops, Goguryeo will give up half of its territory?" Yi Nan said thoughtfully.

The envoy nodded and said solemnly: "Khan, this is indeed what our Master Mo Zhili said. I hope Khan can consider it carefully. Think about it, if the Tang Dynasty destroys Goguryeo and there is no one to restrain it in the northeast, then their next target , it must be Xue Yantuo!"

(End of this chapter)