Chapter 286 Tengri

The child was very strong and not afraid of people. Li Jiancheng finally smiled after several months: "The child looks a bit like my princess when she was young."

No wonder, after all, they are all children of the Li and Ashina families.

Tong Yehu hurriedly said, "I have specially brought gifts for the princes and princesses."

Li Jiancheng returned the child to his sister and said, "We are a family, so I will not be polite to you."

When she got closer, she realized that the emperor had suffered a lot. Princess Gaomi cried and said, "My brother, please take care of yourself."

The brother and sister exchanged a few private words, and then Gao Mi took the child to pay a visit to the retired emperor.

The emperor offered the Western Turkic Khan a seat and said, "I heard that things are not going well over there."

After Tong Yehu returned from the Tang Dynasty, he cleaned up his uncle's confidants and devoted himself to his wife and children. He became much more lenient towards his subordinates and was no longer as cruel as before.

It is said that in the Central Plains, the country must be able to be stable, but in the Turkic people, people have always only feared power but not benevolence, and many of the tribes under him have become disloyal.

Tong Yehu nodded and said, "Shebi Dagan and the Nushipi tribe jointly rebelled and received support from several rulers of the Western Regions."

Li Jiancheng thought for a moment and said, "Do you need me to order the King of Qin to help you put down the rebellion?"

"I can still handle the rebellion of these two tribes, but..."

Tong Yehu suddenly left his chair and knelt down, but did not speak. Li Wei hurriedly drove out the many servants and only left a few strong eunuchs.

"Your Majesty, you just said that we are a family. Is this true?"

Li Jiancheng was a little surprised: "Of course."

Tong Yehu continued: "Your Majesty is preparing to march north to attack Tuli."

The emperor slowly leaned back in his chair, his tone without emotion: "Yes, the army will set out in two months. If you also want to have a share of the pie, you can send a message back to prepare."

Tong Yehu shook his head: "Tuli has caused great wrath among the people. No tribe will obey his command once it leaves Dali City. He is doomed to fail, and the grassland will fall under the rule of the Tang Dynasty."

After finishing speaking, Tong Yehu was silent for a moment: "What is the next goal of the Tang Dynasty, Your Majesty, you are only in your thirties."

Li Jiancheng did not say anything, but just looked at Tong Yehu with a puzzled look. What was the point of revealing such a thing?

No answer is the best answer. Tong Yehu got confirmation that the thing he was most worried about was bound to happen.

After the Tang Dynasty had resolved the grassland issue, its next step was the Western Regions, namely the Western Turkestan.

Compared with the Eastern Turks, the Western Turks are naturally stronger, but their strength is limited, and their internal forces are more complicated. Once something unexpected happens, it will be fatal.

The Tang Dynasty was currently in a period of rapid development. It was expanding its territory every year and rewarding its meritorious officials and generals every year.

Tong Yehu did not think that the Western Turks led by him could resist such a country.

Tong Yehu couldn't help shedding tears, while the emperor sitting high on the throne just looked at him quietly.

"Your Majesty, I am willing to offer my land to you."

Li Jiancheng was not happy when he heard this, but frowned. Eating meat is easy, but eating a living thing with healthy limbs and horns on its head can easily upset the stomach. "This kind of thing is not a joke."

"What I have said is not false."

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In the summer of the seventh year of Taiping, the emperor ordered Li Jing, Duke of Wei, to be the commander-in-chief of the army and Zhang Gongjin to be the deputy commander-in-chief, and they went out through Dingxiang Road, Xu Shiji, Duke of Yingguo, to go out through Tonghan Road, Li Shimin, Prince of Qin, to go out through Jinhe Road, Li Xiaogong, Prince of Hejian, to go out through Heng'an Road, Zhang Huli, Duke of Ying, to go out through Changwu Road, and Duke of Zhangqiu, to go out through Datong Road.

There were six armies, but their total number of soldiers was only a little over 100,000. They were like six sharp swords piercing towards Mobei at the same time, straight into Tuli's Khan's tent.

When Tuli received the news, he quickly ordered all the tribes to resist. As a result, only a few small tribes responded, and all of them had no more than 20,000 people in total.

It is difficult for this army to defend Dali City, let alone divide it to resist the six armies of the Tang Dynasty.

So, at the suggestion of Zhao Deyan, Tuli simply ran all the way to Chikou, north of Yinshan Mountain, where he set up a camp and ordered everyone to come.

A Khan who flees before fighting can only be described as a disgrace. Who would be willing to obey his orders?

Not only did the other tribes fail to respond, but even a few smaller tribes that had previously obeyed the order began to change their minds and forced Tuli to kill the sinner Zhao Deyan first.

Tuli had no choice but to drag Zhao Deyan to death with a horse with tears in his eyes, and humiliatingly gave more than a hundred of his concubines to his subordinates, but the result was that he lost all his dignity.

The Tang army successfully occupied Dali City without encountering any organized resistance. King Qin Li Shimin read out the imperial edict in Dali City, officially incorporating the grassland into the territory of the Tang Dynasty and ordering the grassland tribes to come and swear an oath.

Duke of Wei, Li Jing, led a large army to pursue Tuli, while Prince of Hejian, Li Xiaogong, led the troops of the surrendered Turkic tribes to wipe out the rebellious tribes.

Tuli took the initiative to send envoys to request surrender, but the emperor refused. Until Tuli's head was chopped off, Princess Yicheng also died in the chaos.

The battle was a great victory, tens of thousands of Turkic cavalry were killed, and hundreds of thousands of tribesmen were surrendered. The vast land from Yinshan Mountain in the north to the desert in the south all fell into the control of the Tang Dynasty.

The emperor divided the grassland into ten states and established the Anbei Protectorate. All the Turkic princes and nobles were forced to move to Luoyang and the surrounding areas of Jiangdu, where they were granted official positions and their children were directly admitted to the Imperial Academy.

After incorporating the grassland, the emperor became the Supreme Tengri in the alliance of various tribes and with the respect of Khitan, Shiwei, Yiwulu and other countries, and managed everything on the grassland as a god.

The grasslands in the north were very submissive, and the 80,000 elite troops of the Protectorate of Andong were stationed there. In the east, the Three Kingdoms of Liaodong had been destroyed, and half of the country had been occupied by Japan. It was struggling to resist the Tang army while being busy with a civil war.

With the return of the King of Qin, he led his troops westward again just a few months later. All the countries in the Western Regions were under the threat of the Tang Dynasty and had no choice but to rush to Luoyang to pay homage.

The establishment of a substantive international political system meant that Li Jiancheng was not only the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, but also the king of kings respected by all the barbarians.

It also meant that the Tang Empire had since taken the leading position in the League of Nations, becoming not only the leading force in maintaining international order, but also the sole arbitrator in handling international disputes.

In the country, the emperor is the Son of Heaven, and abroad, it is Tengri Khan. He performs the affairs of the Khan in the capacity of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty. For example, some remote small countries can both maintain their original systems and accept appointments from the Tang Empire and serve as officials of the Tang Dynasty.

All the people in the world praised: "The virtue of Tang is great! All the lands under the sky are under its control. There are no prefectures or counties in the country. Therefore, the emperor is honored as "Tengri". Since the Three Kings, no one has surpassed it.

As for the rulers in remote areas, they have to wait for the Tang seal and flag to rule their country. If they refuse to submit, they will be captured and be captured!

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(End of this chapter)