Yili Little Khan looked at the back of Tong Yehu leaving, thoughtful, and muttered. The other nine cases in the account were followed by the chiefs of the Turkic Khanate, and one of them, a burly man with full hair, complained to the little Khan of Yili: "I think the Great Khan does not want to wait for the army of the tribes to come and converge, but is waiting for the return of Yili, who was sent to Luoyang. The Great Khan had just led our steppe tribes to unify the steppe, and it was a good time to go south to the Central Plains, but the Great Khan still wanted to learn from the Han people's first salute and then soldier. ”

"Hahaha." On the other side, a young general of about thirty years on the back of a tiger laughed a few times, and then said to the big man who spoke before with a strange smile: "Que Dushe, you are getting bolder and bolder, and you can guess the Khan's thoughts." Since the Great Khan sent a message for me to wait here for the tribes to converge, then I can just act according to the order, but who do you want to say this cool thing to? ”

The commander of the Gorniro tribe, the assassin Kahahu, watched the quarrel in the tent with interest, and picked up a piece of mutton with a dagger and put it in his mouth, as if their quarrel was just a good show. Today, although the Khan of Tongyehu basically unified the tribes of the steppe, he restored the unified Turkic Khanate. But the Turks are a people on horseback, and the tribal nature of nomadism will not change.

The Ashina family is a clan of khans, and their power is the most powerful in the entire Turkic Khanate. But in addition to the Ashina family, there are many tribes on the grassland, but they cannot be underestimated. It is different from the centralized system of the Central Plains Dynasty. The Turkic Khanate, however, was in the form of a tribal alliance.

Chen Pojun once said publicly at the court meeting: "The Turkic director is only a horse and a shot, and when he sees the advantage, he will go before he knows the difficulty." The wind is galloping, and it is not constant. With bows and arrows as minions, and armor as regular uniforms, the team does not line up, and the camp has no fixed place. Chase water and grass for the living room, take sheep and horses as military food, win and seek wealth, and there is no shame in defeat. There is no police patrol day and night. There is no cost of building a base to feed the food. Although these words are a bit too much to destroy the prestige of others, they have the intention of deliberately belittling the strength of the Turks. But in fact, it also says a lot about the characteristics of the Turkic people.

The Turkic Khanate was due to its tribal union character. Therefore, the Turkic Khanate was also a military and political khanate. Tongye Hugui was the Great Khan of the Turkic Khanate, the supreme leader of the Turks, and the presiding officer of the meeting of the tribal alliances. But under the protection of the leaves, there are also four little khans, and these four little khans are not only because of their support for the protection of the leaves. More because these four little khans controlled the four strongest forces in the Turkic Khanate, except for the Tongye Protector.

Today's four little khans, except for the Yili little khahan, who was named the eastern khan, who was a loyal courtier and ally of the Tongye Protector, the other three little khans, the west little khan Mohedu. The little khan in the south and the little khan Tong'e in the north each have great power, especially the little khan in the west, Mohedu, who is still a loyal ally of the original Daro Khan. Although he is now subordinate to the protection of the Lord, he does not have much loyalty in terms of loyalty.

The Turkic Khanate was the Great Khan of Tongye Hu. There are also four little khans with many tribes and strong strength, who compete with the power of the Tongye Protector. According to the Turkic tradition, in order to strengthen the control of the khanate, the Turkic khanate was divided into ten parts, each of which was unified by one and divided into ten by the children of the Ashina family. In order to strengthen control, the Guardian of the Leaves stipulated that those who were not of Ashina family blood were not allowed to hold positions. It was in an attempt to divide the power of the four little khans with ten sets, so as to strengthen the authority of his own great khan.

These ten sons of the Anashi family were born as ministers plenipotentiary sent by the Commander Yehu to the ministries, and he managed the administration of the ministries in peacetime and was the military commander in wartime.

This reform of the Tongye Protector in the Khanate made the power of the Turkic Khanate begin to break the traditional way of subordination. In the Khanate, the Great Khan is now the supreme leader, and although the Four Little Khans are still the second only to the Great Khan on the surface, in fact, their rights have been weakened a lot by the ten feudal divisions. However, according to the regulations of the Commander Ye Hu, he was in charge of the secrets, handled diplomatic relations, and often served as an envoy to negotiate military affairs, but he was given full authority to the Qing noble title Teller, which was originally only used to confer on Ashina's children. The first lord of Teller suddenly changed from an idle position to a fourth-class lord after the Great Khan, the Little Khan, and the lower one. And because of the stipulation that Teller can only be held by the son of Ashina of the Khan family, the power of the Khan family is suddenly much stronger than in the past. …,

In the past, although the Great Khan was in a high position, in fact, many important military affairs had to rely on the joint meetings of the major tribes to discuss and decide. But now, Tong Ye Hu used the Ten Sets and the Zhutler to snatch away most of the rights that originally belonged to the Four Little Khans and the major tribes. In many matters, Tong Ye Hu has even stopped discussing with them.

The tribal leaders and several little khans began to be dissatisfied with the unconventional practice of Tong Ye Hu, but in fact, Tong Ye Hu had just unified the Eastern and Western Turks, and it was the peak of his life, although the tribes were dissatisfied, but few people dared to express it directly in person. But I didn't dare to say it in person, but behind the scenes, everyone also had a way to express their dissatisfaction.

In addition to the Yili Little Khan, who has always been loyal to Tongye Hu, the other three little khans who received the order of Tongye Hu to lead their troops to Yinshan to assemble and prepare to participate in the southern expedition were all the same for various reasons, and could not arrive at the scheduled time to meet, especially the soldiers and horses of the Ni Yi Khan even had a month to arrive. The three khans were so obviously in defiance of the yang and yin orders, and naturally they were unanimously agreed by the leaders of the major tribes under them.

In addition to the three little khans and those tribes, in fact, even some of the tribal leaders who had gathered at the foot of Yin Mountain at this time were also dissatisfied. The Ganelo tribe had always been a strong supporter of the seizure of the Khan's throne by the Emperor Yehu, but now he felt more and more that the power of the Ganelo, as a subordinate tribe of the Ashina tribe, was getting smaller and smaller, and the wars he had to bear were getting bigger and bigger.

Moreover, in addition to the leaders of subordinate tribes such as the Ge Nelu tribe who are dissatisfied with Tong Ye Hu, even within the Ashina family, some people have begun to be dissatisfied with some of Tong Ye Hu's strong practices. The two big men who argued before, one is Que Dushe, one of the ten subordinates, the authentic Tongye Hu's direct courtier, and he is also the core disciple of the Ashina family. And the other person who argues with him is also the core son of the Ashina family, and now he is Ashina, who is the Teller. Danai.

The two voices within the Ashina family are actually because of the different opinions within the Khan's clan on the northern and southern expeditions. Since the first Khan of the Turkic Khanate, Tumen Khan, defeated the strong man of the steppe 70 years ago, the Turkic Khanate has expanded rapidly, and in just one or two decades, it has been on a par with the Central Plains Dynasty and has the strength to confront it. More than 40 years ago, Sha Bolu Khan led 400,000 steppe iron cavalry to the south to attack the newly established Sui Dynasty, but suffered an unprecedented defeat at Yinshan Baidao. After that war, the Turkic people, who had not been defeated since the establishment of the Khanate, suffered an unprecedented defeat, and after that war, the unified Turkic Khanate began to split several times, and then split into the Eastern and Western Turkic Khanates, and since then the powerful Turkic Khanate has been plunged into an unprecedented civil war, which lasted for more than forty years.

It was also that battle that made the strong grassland wolves know the horror of the Han people in the Central Plains. It was not until 40 years later that the first generation of Tianjiao Eastern Turks on the steppe, Bi Khan, once again took advantage of the failure of several expeditions of the Sui Dynasty to Goguryeo, and when the internal rebellion was rising, he once again ordered all the tribes of the Turkic steppe to gather 400,000 Turkic wolf horsemen, wanting to go south in one fell swoop, and snow the great shame of 40 years ago.

After the Yanmen Gate was closed, the Dingxiang grassland, and the 400,000 grassland men who went south never returned to the Turkic steppe.

The defeat of Shibi Khan also led to the demise of the Eastern Turks, and it was precisely because of this that the Western Turks were given the opportunity to end the civil war between the Eastern and Western Turks for more than 40 years and reunify. Now that the Turkic Khanate has finally been unified again, the Anash Khan branch of the former westward expedition has now become the orthodox Khan. This is an incomparable honor for the entire Western Turkic Ashina family. …,

It is precisely because of this that when the 400,000 army of Shibi Khan was wiped out for only five years, Tong Ye Hu brought up the old matter again, dispatched soldiers and horses from various tribes, and prepared to send another 400,000 troops to the south to conquer the Central Plains.

400,000, 400,000, as soon as they heard this number, many leaders of the Ashina family couldn't help frowning.

Forty-five years ago, Shabalu Khan led 400,000 cavalry southward, but suffered a major defeat, which also caused the Turkic Khanate to be split in two, and plunged into more than 40 years of civil strife.

Five years ago, Shibi Khan led 400,000 iron cavalry southward, but suffered another major defeat, and none of the 400,000 iron cavalry returned to the steppe, and the Eastern Turks were wiped out.

Now, Tongyehu Khan is once again going to send 400,000 troops south, which makes the nobles within the Turks have begun to hesitate. The two southern expeditions were defeated, and the southern expedition to the Central Plains has already cast a shadow in the hearts of many Turks.

In the tent, Que Dushe, Telleashina, and Danai were still arguing, and the desire Gu Sheh on the other side suddenly stood up and said loudly: "I have followed the Great Khan for many years, and the Great Khan in the past has never been like this. My steppe tribes want the fertile pastures on the grassland, not the cities and fields in the Central Plains, and it is useless for us to rob them. Now there are still many tribes on the steppe who do not obey our golden wolf Turks, but the Khan wants to take hundreds of thousands of grassland men to the south of the Central Plains, has he forgotten the original southward movement of Shabalu Khan and Shibi Khan? Forget how they lost their country? In my opinion, all this must be provoked by the hateful Han Dou Hongxian, Dou Hongxian's purpose is to borrow our Turkic soldiers to help him avenge the Chen Dynasty Emperor for killing her father and brother, as for the fate of our Turkic warriors, how can she scruple! Brothers, come with me to kill the witch, and we will persuade the Great Khan to return to the steppe!" ”

"Kill the witch! Return to the steppe! Many of the leaders who were already worried about going south threw down the wine bowls in their hands when they heard the sound, jumped up and shouted, and the crowd was full of emotion for a while. ~！ ……，