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Of course, Li Tai was not satisfied with just carrying out a military strike and deterrence against the Turks, but he also knew very well that the current Western Wei Dynasty did not have the ability to frequently influence and control the development of the Turks' situation in the long term.

This time the Battle of Yinshan was just a special case. If the army of Mugan Khan had not stayed here, today's Western Wei Dynasty would not even have the ability to attack the Turkic Khan's court from a distance.

Therefore, if you want to maintain the effect and influence of this shock for a long time, you must rely on other means, such as developing your own allies within the Turks.

There are no permanent enemies or permanent friends in this world, especially for foreigners like the Turks who have no common survival pressure and cultural beliefs. Using force and inducement is the most basic way of getting along.

That's why Li Taicai wanted to intimidate the Turkic dignitaries to elect the local khan. Whether the local khan is trustworthy and easy to control is secondary. Because as long as this change of power is completed, these people will become allies of the Western Wei Dynasty, or the Western Wei Dynasty will become a major help for them to maintain their power.

The Turks are obviously not monolithic, and the Turkic dignitaries captured in Yinshan do not represent all the Turkic ruling classes. The covenant reached in Yinshan may not be recognized by other forces within the Turks. If these people want to gain recognition and avoid being strangled by other forces, they must maintain close cooperation with the Western Wei Dynasty.

As for what kind of disputes and infighting will occur within the Turks next, it is not something that Li Tai needs to worry about. If the controlling Khan can succeed, they can continue to deepen and extend mutual cooperation. If not, it will also bring a certain degree of internal friction to the Turks. Even if other forces win, with the lesson learned from the wooden pole Khan, in a short time He may not dare to enter the Loop again.

After a few years have passed, the situation inside and outside the Western Wei Dynasty will inevitably be greatly improved. By then, whether the Turks will invade or not, they will no longer disturb people's hearts as they do now. Even if the Turks do not invade, Li Tai will try to continue to expand his influence beyond the Great Wall and even to Mobei.

At present, the so-called new Khan and his heroes are still prisoners of the Western Wei Dynasty. They want to be free and return to Mobei, and of course they must continue to follow Li Tai's arrangements.

Next, Li Tai arranged for a chariot to carry Kutou, the new khan, and other Turkic dignitaries to follow the chariot. They visited the Turkic prisoner-of-war camps together and announced the news of the new khan's ascendancy to these Turkic prisoners of war. At the same time, the head of Muzhan Khan also followed the new Khan's ceremonial drive and was conveyed to all camps.

These two incidents naturally caused an uproar in the Turkic prisoner-of-war camp. Many of Mugan Khan's cronies and guards couldn't help but cry bitterly after seeing his head, and even committed self-mutilation such as cutting their faces and biting their arms. behavior to express the grief in the heart.

Compared with the powerful chiefs and nobles, these low-level Turkic soldiers reacted more violently to the death of Mugan Khan. But apart from these emotionally explicit reactions, they do not have any ability to reverse and change the situation.

Through this series of inspections, the suspicion that the new Khan and other dignitaries conspired with the Western Wei Dynasty to execute Mugan Khan became more and more solid. Although it does not have much significance at the moment, in the future it will greatly increase the price these people have to pay for betraying the alliance and continuing to be enemies of the Western Wei Dynasty.

In addition, Li Tai also made three requests to the new Khan. The first point is that after returning to his Khan's tent, he needs to use Princess Changle of the Western Wei Dynasty as his partner, that is, the Khan's official wife. The second point is that in the next one to two years, the Turks need to send troops to coordinate with the Western Wei army to attack Tuyuhun.

The third point is to take the picture of the son of Yixiji Khan as the little Khan of the south, and the little khan of the south will be the successor of the khan. After the death of the khan who controls the land, the little khan of the south needs to be the new one. of Turkic Khans.

This third stipulation is, of course, reserved by Li Tai as a handle for interfering in the domestic situation in Turks in the future. Yixiji Khan is the eldest son of Ili Khan and the first Turkic Khan to succeed to the throne through the death of his father and his son.

Nowadays, the land-controlling khan obtained his throne through the succession of elder brothers. Of course, Li Tai wanted to preserve the tradition of father-to-son succession for the Turks to enrich the way of succession of the Turkic khan throne.

Of course, the most important thing is that this picture is not only the legitimate son of Yixiji Khan, but also a teenage boy who was captured in the army when he went on an expedition with Mugan Khan.

Li Tai planned to bring this little southern Khan back to Chang'an, first as a hostage, and secondly, to provide him with a certain degree of Chinese education to strengthen his identification with Han culture and political power. It was precisely because there was such a candidate that Li Tai executed Mugan Khan so simply.

Compared to Wooden Khan, who is young and has matured his temperament, this third-generation boy from the Ashina family is undoubtedly more malleable. And because this boy is younger, it will be difficult for him to seize power even if he is returned to the Turks. This can prevent the Khan who controls the land from feeling too much pressure and resisting the cooperation with the Western Wei Dynasty. Even if the Western Wei Dynasty wanted to replace the land-controlling Khan with this little southern Khan, it would have to be more than ten or twenty years later.

Nakong Khan agreed with all three points raised by Li Tai.

After all, whether he can return to the Turks and how much force he can bring back is still a matter of Li Tai's thoughts. And generally speaking, these three demands are not too excessive. In fact, including the attack on Tuyuhun is in line with the interests of the Turks themselves.

So both parties reached a new covenant happily based on their own free will. And in order to enhance the sense of ceremony of this alliance, Li Tai actually asked the craftsmen accompanying the army to create two gold and jade alliance letters. Then, in the presence of tens of thousands of Han and Hu people in the camp, they swore an oath by killing the white horse and exchanged the alliance letters with each other.

After all this was done, Li Tai began to arrange for the Khan to return to the team.

In order to allow the Khan to control the power more smoothly after returning to the Khan's court, Li Tai released all the powerful Turkic chieftains who had supported the new Khan and allowed them to follow the Khan to return to the Khan's court. Only a dozen direct descendants of the Turkic tycoons who were similar in age to the young Khan in the south were left behind, and they were allowed to go with the young Khan to Chang'an for education.

As for the soldiers and horses, Li Tai asked the Khan of the controlled area to select 5,000 soldiers from the prisoner camp to accompany him back.

After all, the situation of the battle in Yinshan has not been fully spread yet. If the group in control of the land works quickly, it is entirely possible to return to the Khan Court before the news reaches Mobei, and take over the power smoothly by taking advantage of the remaining power of the Wooden Gun Khan.

On the other hand, if the news reaches the Khan Court first, and the remaining personnel of the Khan Court are well prepared and refuse to accept the rule of the Khan of Kangditou, Li Tai can let all the Turkic prisoners be brought back by Khanditou, even if he himself leads the army. Going there is just throwing yourself into a trap.

Therefore, the important thing in this matter is that the troops are expensive and fast, and how many troops are brought back does not mean much. Moreover, these Turkic prisoners saw the new Khan running around in the camps with the old Khan's head. If too many people were brought back, rumors would inevitably breed, and it would not be conducive to the establishment of the new Khan's prestige.

Of course, this is all Li Tai's rhetoric instilled in the land-controlling Khan. It cannot be said that he has to manage the Hetao, Guanzhong, and the government soldiers to confer farmland here, and he also needs slaves for service everywhere.

"Thank you very much to Duke Tang for your righteousness and kindness. This time I return to Mobei. If I can successfully take over the power, I will be an alliance with Duke Tang forever and never betray!"

The Khan who controlled the land also listened to the advice and did not bother much in this regard. He quickly selected the five thousand men and horses, and then said goodbye to Tang Gong. He led these men and horses from Gaoque garrison to the north and passed through After Yinshan, he rushed to the Khan Court in a hurry.

After Li Tai sent away the controlled territory here, he also began to pack up and prepare to withdraw his troops and return to Guanzhong.

He had not made public the news about his attack on the Turks before, but with the collection of various information about the dispatch of troops and materials in the country, his specific movements must no longer be a secret. In order to stabilize the situation in the country, it is also appropriate to return to the country as soon as possible to report the victory.

But before leaving, some personnel arrangements need to be made in the Hetao. After the Battle of Yinshan, Li Tai no longer planned to maintain the previous control method of just restraint, but wanted to directly garrison troops.

When he sent out troops before, he had ordered Yuanzhou, Xiazhou, Suizhou and other states to gather their own troops. After the Battle of Yinshan, he ordered these states to gather 2,000 troops each in Lingzhou. .

Since the Six Towns Mutiny, the Hetao Plain has been abandoned for too long, especially the Qentao and Houtao Plains near the Yinshan Mountains. Although they have a certain natural environment, it will take a certain amount of time to develop them again.

The Qiantao plain is close to Huaishuo, Wuchuan, and the Beishan Great Wall of the Northern Qi Dynasty. If troops are stationed for operation, it will inevitably arouse the vigilance and interference of the Northern Qi Dynasty, so Li Tai does not plan to start operations in Qiantao for the time being.

The Yellow River in the Houtao Plain is divided into two branches, the north and the south. The surface water resources are abundant and are more suitable for farming and grazing. However, due to long-term neglect, the river water is often silted up and difficult to use. Systematic management and development are still needed to make it more suitable for farming and grazing. It carries a certain size of population to settle and garrison here.

Therefore, Li Tai decided to temporarily set up the military center in the Hetao area in the Xitao Plain where Lingzhou is located, with Helan Mountain at the back and Longyou, Yuanzhou and other places below, so that he can rely on it to advance or retreat.

As for Houtao, a Wuyuan Ding border city was first established at the site of the original Woye town for border patrol and pastoral care, and gradually attempts were made to establish Hubu city-side armed forces relying on the Ding border city.

Currently, due to limited national strength and border conditions, it is difficult for the Western Wei Dynasty to invest a large amount of human resources in the Hetao area, and it is even more difficult for the Western Wei Dynasty to overhaul the Great Wall on the northern border like the Northern Qi Dynasty did.

At the moment, Li Tai can only try his best to coordinate and continue to invest, hoping to establish an offensive and defensive system based on the Hetao Plain in the next few years based on the historical check and balance of the Turks after the Tang Dynasty. Take it firmly into your own hands.

As for the new general area of ​​Lingzhou, Li Tai decided to appoint Li Xian as the general area of ​​Lingzhou after some consideration.

Although Li Yuan and his son appeared in the Gaoping Li family and disrupted the junior high school, the subsequent attitudes and performances of brothers Li Xian and Li Mu also had merits. Especially in the Battle of Yinshan, Li Xian took the initiative to undertake the arduous task of crossing the Yinshan Mountains to ambush the enemy rear, and sacrificed his life to fight, and finally cooperated with He Ruodun and other pursuers to capture Mugan Khan alive, which is also worthy of recognition.

Right now, the Hetao area is in a position to quickly build a personnel framework with the momentum of a great victory, but the Bafu does not have sufficient resources to invest here at the moment, and needs to rely on these frontier tycoons to mobilize their local resources to lay a foundation.

Li Xian was very excited when he learned that he had been reused in this important role. He bowed deeply in front of Li Tai and said with sobs: "Tang Gong was not dissatisfied because of the ugliness in the family, but he still led me to attack Hu Jiangong. Now he is given the important task of guarding the country." , From now on, I will always be a loyal servant of my lord. As long as my lord has orders, I will never give up even if I die!"

It's no wonder that Li Xian would make such an excited statement. As early as the Yuwentai period, their Gaoping Li family could be regarded as the leading martial arts sect in Kansai.

Their family was already quite sensitive when encountering a change of power, but as a result, Li Yuan and Li Zhi appeared as a father and son committing suicide, which cast an ominous omen on the entire family.

Although Tang Gong was lenient, he did not punish Li Yuan and his son any more, and even appointed Li Mu to Jiangling, a place of old achievements. But no one can tell whether there will be any personnel fallout in the future that will involve their family in political turmoil.

But now Li Xian has been appointed as the general manager of Lingzhou, responsible for the military and political affairs in Hetao. Although the personnel base here is very weak, this appointment also shows that Tang Gong believes that he can not only develop personnel in the frontier, but also guard the important frontier towns. He was given double recognition in terms of talent and loyalty, and Li Xian was very excited about it.

Li Tai bent down and helped Li Xian up, pulled him and said with a smile: "Hexi Lord is commendable for his loyalty and righteousness. Naturally, I can trust you, so I entrust you with this important task. But if you patrol the border next year and the scenery in this area does not improve, don't blame me for punishing you severely." No loan!”

After hearing this, Li Xian quickly lowered his head and said: "My lord, please rest assured. If I do something bad and allow the government to be neglected and useless, I am willing to receive the death penalty and will never complain!"