Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 681: Chasing in the Central Plains (One Hundred and Two)
Three months later
Autumn of the second year of the Republic 470 (682)
Monan Grassland
A group of Tang Empire cavalry arrived at the Yanran Protectorate. In the name of the empire, they summoned the surrounding Turkic herdsmen to kneel down to greet them.

However, when these Turkic herdsmen came to the Tang army's tent, what awaited them was a cold butcher's knife.

"The Turks intend to rebel and will be killed without mercy!"

The leading Tang Army officer sneered.

This kind of thing was often done by the soldiers stationed in the grasslands of the Tang Dynasty. In the name of the Tang Dynasty, they deliberately recruited herdsmen to come to greet the king. When the Turkic herdsmen actually came to greet them, they casually charged them with rebellion. , slaughtered them all, and used the heads of the Turks to increase their military exploits.

"We have surrendered to Datang, and pay livestock to Datang every year as taxes. We have never thought of rebelling. Did the general have some misunderstandings?"

A small Turkic aristocrat who knew Chinese knelt down under the horseshoes of the generals of the Tang army in horror, begging the empire to forgive them aliens.

"Misunderstanding? Humph!"

"Is there any misunderstanding? Kill them all! Men, women, children, no one will be spared!"

General Tang Jun was determined to use the head of a Turkic fellow to give himself military merits, ignoring the Turkic man who knelt under the horseshoe and begged for mercy.

The herdsmen were slaughtered, and the eyes of the imperial soldiers were filled with light.

That is the desire to make contributions, and that is the endless motivation to become a master.

The Tang Empire has never been merciful to the barbarians who surrendered to them. Facing the indiscriminate killing of innocent soldiers for military merits, the top officials of the Tang Empire often turned a blind eye and pretended not to see or know.

There are always people who think that the barbarians can take over the Central Plains because the Central Plains is too benevolent, and they really bully the barbarians and do not know how to write history books.

The competition of civilizations is more cruel than we imagined, and there has never been a saying who is kind to whom.

From time to time, they would be punished by the empire for military exploits and forced to confiscate livestock. The Turkic people naturally resisted.

However, the resistance of the Turkic people gave the frontier Tang army an excuse to carry out massacres.

"Look, we are not killing innocent people indiscriminately, they are really rebels!"

Just as the imperial soldiers were immersed in the joy of military exploits, a group of Turkic cavalry rushed over.

There were 700 Turkic cavalry in this group, and they came prepared, while the cavalry of the Tang army, who were making military achievements, only had 200 people, and they were busy counting the spoils, and they were not ready for battle.

Tatata!
Seven hundred Turkic cavalry turned their backs to the sun and charged at the panicked imperial cavalry who were mounting their horses.

The Imperial cavalry hurriedly responded to the challenge, faced the sun, and were weighed down by loot, and were quickly defeated.

"Who are you? Do you want to rebel?"

After being defeated by this group of Turkic cavalry, the Tang army generals reprimanded him.

Since Emperor Taizong conquered the grassland, the herdsmen on the grassland also belonged to the subjects of the empire. Therefore, the general of the Tang army angrily accused these Turks of rebelling.

"Remember my name! Ashina Gudulu!"

The leader of the Turkic cavalry said indifferently to the general of the Tang army.

"It's you!"

The Tang army general exclaimed.

Since two years ago, the Turks have been rebelling against the rule of the Tang Empire.

"Turk, the Turk of the Turk!"

"Turks will never be slaves!"

"Expel Li Tang and restore the Turks!"

The resistance of the Turks was very fierce. Even though they were suppressed again and again by the empire and massacred again and again, they still resisted wildly.

Last year, after the Turkic Restoration Army was defeated by the Tang Empire, they were forced to surrender to the Tang Empire.

However, Emperor Li Zhi, who was ill in bed, ordered coldly: "The Turkic people are capricious. Although they surrender today, they will rebel tomorrow. They should be slaughtered and killed as an example to the monkeys!"

It is impossible for the Turkic people to self-govern. Facing the Turkic people's idea of ​​independence, the empire's response is also very simple, one word: kill!

The empire never showed mercy. For the Turks who had surrendered, the empire decided to kill them. One hundred thousand surrendered Turks were all killed.

This is already the third restoration movement of the Turks.

"The Turks will not perish!"

"Turks will never be slaves to the subjugation of their country!"

"The empire slaughters our families and conscripts our livestock. We must retaliate with an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth!"

"This is not a rebellion, this is the restoration of the country!"

"We have never been from the Tang Dynasty. It was the Tang Dynasty that destroyed our homeland and enslaved our wives and children. Everything we did was for the restoration of the country. Why do you talk about rebellion?"

The Tang Empire defined the Turkic restoration of the country as a rebellion.

However, the Turks didn't think they were rebelling, they thought they were restoring the country.

Ashina Gudulu was once a descendant of a Turkic pro-Tang nobleman.

What does that mean?

In fact, there are far more "Musangists" in Turkic than in the Republic, and they have done much more than that.

What a traitor, you have to look at the Turks!

Many Turkic nobles acted as dogs for the Tang Empire, helped the Tang Empire, enslaved the Turkic herdsmen at the bottom, and even some Turkic nobles sold their herdsmen to the generals of the Tang Empire, and then the generals of the Tang Empire cut down these low-level The heads of the Turkic herdsmen acted as military meritorious service, and since then have relied on military meritorious service to get promoted and make a fortune.

This kind of thing has already formed an industrial chain.

"Being a dog to Datang is the greatest honor for us Turkic people!"

"It is Datang who brought us advanced civilization, and it is Datang who made us wear beautiful silk clothes. We are only grateful to Datang!"

"We Turks all have bad national characteristics. The great Li Tang, they are our saviors!"

"We Turks should not rest on our laurels, we should open our arms and embrace the Tang Dynasty!"

"Our wife and daughter can be favored by Datang, that is a blessing for our three lives, we should all be grateful, not hate!"

"Resisting against the Tang Dynasty means resisting civilization, and not wanting to be a dog to the Tang Dynasty means destroying the friendship between the Tang Dynasty and the Turks!"

The Turkic nobles were only grateful to the Tang Dynasty.

Ashina Gudulu's grandfather was a Turkic nobleman who worked as a dog for the Tang Dynasty. He was also appointed by the Tang Dynasty as an official in the Yanran Protectorate, specializing in helping the Tang Dynasty manage (enslave) the Turkic herders on the grasslands.

The grandfather acted as a dog for the empire, helping the empire to enslave its compatriots, and the grandson betrayed the empire, established his own country, and even wanted to destroy the empire.

This plot is really familiar. The Jizhou Dynasty in 800 also had this kind of family history, including the Manchu Qing Dynasty in another time and space, which also had this family history.

Ji Chang, who was born in the Qiang people, helped the big merchants and slaughtered and enslaved other Qiang people.

Jue Chang'an (Nurhaci's grandfather), who was born in a Jurchen, helped Daming and slaughtered and enslaved other Jurchens.

History always repeats itself.

What has been, is bound to happen again.

(End of this chapter)