289 The Betrayer (I)
As the leader of the grassland power second only to the Tang Dynasty, Yi Nan is definitely not a fool, just like Jieli Khan, the same grassland Tianjiao, but it is a pity that they were born at the wrong time, and when the Chinese Second Empire was the most powerful, Li Shimin, the most powerful emperor of the Second Empire, took the powerful Second Empire, and beat them to the heavens and the earth, which is what a Western scholar said, China in this era is a strange epic China.
At this time, it was the time when the Second Empire was at its strongest, even without the existence of Suning, the Second Empire still eliminated the Eastern Turkic Khanate and the Xue Yantuo Khanate in the early and late stages of the Zhenguan era, respectively, and the military strategists Li Jing and Prince Li Daozong took their lives respectively, and the Eastern Turkic Corps and the Xue Yantuo Corps collapsed.
As for the Western Turkic Khanate, due to its geographical distance, the Second Empire did not defeat the Western Turkic Corps by the general Su Dingfang until the era of Tang Gaozong, and eliminated the Western Turkic Khanate.
Despite this, it is still impossible to completely deny these pride sons of heaven on the grassland, maybe they are still a little lacking compared to the unprecedented steppe overlord Genghis Khan, but if they are placed in the Northern Song and Southern Song Dynasty when the Second Empire declined, it will not necessarily be so miserable, but it is a pity, it is a pity that they were born in the same era as the Great Emperor Li Shimin, the Great Emperor of the Second Empire.
Similarly, Emperor Li Shimin's own broad-mindedness and open era can give birth to many famous generals, whether it is Li Jing or Hou Junji or Li Shiji or Su Dingfang Xue Rengui. Even a Wang Xuance can lead an army to destroy a country, the Zhenguan era of the Second Empire is a unified era in which China has the most generals with the ability to destroy a country, and no other time, including the strong period of the First Empire and the strong period of the Third Empire, does not have such a strong military force.
Yi Nan is definitely not stupid, he is definitely not stupid, he knows his emperor very well, yes, his emperor His Majesty, he has surrendered to the Tang Dynasty. After the Tang Dynasty burned the last hope of the Eastern Turk Corps. He made up his mind not to meet with the Tang Dynasty for five years, and after the Battle of Lingzhou and the Western Turkic Campaign, he once again decided that he would not fight with the Tang Dynasty for at least ten years, and would not fight with it for five years. Even when Emperor Li Shimin was still alive. Cannot be fought head-on. Otherwise, he would be like Jieli Khan, concentrating on studying dance postures in the Chang'an Palace.
But when he learned of these two battles that made him tremble, of course, the rest of the Central Plains generals had the credit in them. But no matter what, he couldn't erase the same name - Suning, and he began to inquire about who Suning was, and the conclusion he came to made him very depressed, because he learned that this man, this man, oh no, this young man, was only fourteen years old when he defeated the Eastern Turkic army, and only fifteen years old in the year when he instigated the Western Turkic mutiny.
He's sixteen years old this year, will he have another earth-shattering battle? His tactical level and war ability made Yi Nan tremble, and he was also impressed by the courage of Emperor Li Shimin, who else dared to use a young general who was only fourteen or fifteen years old to fight, and achieved such a record in the end? So he came to the conclusion that the reason why this little general could achieve such a record was also because his emperor was Li Shimin.
Emperor Li Shimin believed in him, so he let him lead the army to fight, and now this little general, as the official plenipotentiary envoy of the Tang Dynasty, came to Xue Yantuo to discuss the matter of the northern trade pass, which made Yi Nan a little puzzled, could it be that this little general can not only create miracles on the battlefield, but also give the emperor a huge confidence in government affairs, so that the emperor will send him to participate in such an alliance?
Yi Nan naturally understood that His Majesty Li Shimin would not come to join him in the alliance, and the people who joined the alliance with His Majesty Li Shimin were already dead, or were raised by him to dance in the deep palace, and he did not allow anyone to stand on the same position as him, so he could look down on everything and look down on the world, and only he could make Yi Nan feel powerless and depressed.
Because of this, Yi Nan will overcome public opinion and personally come out to greet this envoy who is only sixteen years old, you must know that before this, when Xue Yantuo Junchen learned that the person sent by the Tang Dynasty to take full jurisdiction over the affairs of the alliance was only sixteen years old, he was extremely surprised and annoyed, coupled with contempt......
Surprised, because of his youth, irritated, because of his youth, contempt, or because of his youth.
The leaders of the country are always very entangled, on the one hand, they attach importance to young talents, on the other hand, they despise young people, and they attach great importance to their qualifications, and they cannot but say that they are unreasonable, but at least this will wear out the spirit of young people, and enterprising, relying not on old scheming, but on sharp energy, using old scheming to suppress sharp spirit, will only make a country spin in place, or even regressive, old scheming and deep calculation to assist sharp spirit, there is hope.
Any weakened country and dynasty, without exception, there is no outstanding young talent who can have enough power and status to save the country, a group of old people in the twilight can only sigh, but they have no power to change a terminally ill country, and the only one who can change everything is the young man, or the old naughty boy with a young and energetic soul.
Just like the tragedy at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the emperor pinned his hopes on the border army and the generals of the Northwest Dynasty, but unfortunately the two veterans of the Seed Family died one after another, the Northwest Frontier Army was wiped out in turn, and the Northern Song Dynasty perished, so the old man did not have the energy and enterprising spirit to save a country, and the development of the country was like sailing against the current, and if he did not advance, he would retreat, and the ruling class without enterprising spirit could only fail, and the country and dynasty that put age and seniority in his mouth had no hope.
Emperor Li Shimin did not stick to age and qualifications, Yi Nan thought so, since this is the case, it can only be said that this person has the trust of Emperor Li Shimin, he already has the ability to take on the affairs of a country, this young man, will be more difficult to deal with than some middle-aged or old people, more difficult to deal with......
Even a little bit of contempt. There can't be a little bit of inconsiderateness.
He overrode public opinion, angrily reprimanded some people who had no vision, he must greet him personally, welcome Suning with a welcome ceremony that is only one level less than welcoming the king, and welcome this young envoy.
"Xue Yantuo Khanate, Zhenzhu Khan, Yi Nan, led his subordinates to welcome the Tang envoy Sanyuan Marquis Suning." Yi Nan came to Sun Ning first, a standard understanding, with a warm smile on his face, just this one detail, let Suning have full appreciation and vigilance for Yi Nan, just like Yi Nan's thoughts. Suning cannot be taken lightly. Suning also has ideas, whether this Yi Nan despises himself or attaches importance to himself, from this point, you can see what level of overlord Yi Nan is.
The result of the test was that he would never be a mediocre person. He is a qualified steppe overlord. He did not have a high-level education from Datang. Without a qualified monarch's education, and without the guidance of Houheixue, he just crawled around on his own. At the age of forty, he became a grassland overlord and gained the status of the grassland co-master that no number of people can come, the men on the grassland are wolves, and he is the wolf king.
We have seen all kinds of overlords in the circus, lions, tigers, bears, elephants, crocodiles, leopards, but when have we ever seen wolves? It's not nothing, it's just very rare, because the wolf yearns for freedom, it would rather starve to death than stay in an iron cage, it will hardly be tamed, even if it is caught, it will try its best to escape, so the cost is too high, and gradually there is no circus willing to domesticate wolves, in this regard, how did human ancestors gradually domesticate wolves into dogs, this is a question worth considering, or, wolves and dogs are originally two different species?
The wolves on the grassland will only obey the real strong, that is, the wolf king, that is to say, Yi Nan is a well-deserved wolf king, and there are few fathers in the wolf world, which explains the reason why the grassland regime is unsustainable, the wolf will only obey the wolf king himself, only the wolf king, not the son of the wolf king.
Yi Nan's attitude towards Suning made it easy for Suning to understand Yi Nan's opinion of himself, he attached great importance to himself, and did not despise himself because he was young, Suning noticed that in addition to Yi Nan, Xue Yantuo's other important people were looking at themselves with contempt and curiosity, only Yi Nan, under the warm smile, there was a deep vigilance.
He was guarding Suning, he knew what His Majesty Li Er would let him come to represent, that was absolute trust, he could get such trust at such a young age, and he was entrusted with a heavy task by the emperor, so Yi Nan must have come to a conclusion, that is, he was very difficult.
It seems that this action will not be easy, the previous approach is also right, to let the Guanzhong United Business Group win, there must be a three-legged competition, otherwise, the Shandong family that was forced to a desperate situation will agree to what kind of conditions Yi Nan will have, when the time comes, Yi Nan will get a huge wealth, will he honestly surrender to the Tang Dynasty? Also, Yi Nan's keen sense of smell, will he smell Datang's true intentions?
In an instant, Suning made the idea of joining forces with Cui Xiaoyi to deal with Yi Nan, this person is very dangerous, very difficult to deal with, and he can't be profited.
"The Tang Emperor sent a special envoy plenipotentiary, Sanyuan Marquis Suning, to meet the Zhenzhu Khan!" Suning also made a very standard Xue Yantuo etiquette, and then showed a warm smile.
These are probably the two most false smiles in the whole world at the same time.
It doesn't matter, it's negotiation.
Yi Nan said with a smile: "It's better to see than to hear, there is a saying in the Central Plains, it is called a hero since ancient times, and it is really like this, Su Hou Ye is really a heroic young man, who defeated the Eastern Turks and the Western Turks, I am afraid that only Huo Qu's illness in the Han Dynasty can be compared with Su Hou Ye!" ”
Like the history of the Han nationality, and have some understanding of the history of the Han nationality of foreigners, are not easy to deal with, Huo Quzhi is the national hero of Le Shi Yanran, this title is often attached to the lives of a large number of foreigners, no one nationality likes the national hero of another nation.
He compared himself to the national hero of the Tang Dynasty, and the implication was that he was an enemy rather than a friend, naturally this was what he didn't want to see, so he said it to his face, which was a kind of praise and a warning, this Yi Nan was a qualified overlord and a qualified national leader.
So what?
"Haha The Great Khan has a reputation. is just a yellow-mouthed child below, how can he afford the name of Huo Huqi? It's too early, it's too heavy, besides, the Great Khan, I came here as a plenipotentiary envoy to negotiate friendly, and I didn't lead thousands of troops to ask for the guilt, hahaha! Great Khan, let's go in and talk about it! Suning sorted out the armor on his body, held his saber, and said with a smile.
Yi Nan's pupils shrank for a moment, and then he regained his expression and smiled: "Yes, yes!" Haha Come on, come on, please enter with the envoys, Ben Khan has been waiting for a long time, two caravans have already arrived here, you still have to negotiate, right? How about we eat and drink first, and then we talk? ”
Suning Da Lu smiled: "Okay! Ben Hou has long heard that Xue Yantuo's mutton and beef are very delicious, but unfortunately Datang can't eat beef, otherwise he will go to jail, but Ben Hou will be greedy, Ben Hou is known as the Chang'an God of Food in Chang'an, this time you have to fight your teeth well, Ha Lu Ha (To be continued......)