"I didn't say it was false. At least there were a lot less Tang troops in Yingzhou and Pyongyang. It's true!" Qi Si Biyu sneered: "But have you ever thought about why Tubo is so far away from Liaodong? Did you all know the news so soon?"
Alcohol has made most of the people at the long table confused. They are unable to carry out complex thinking and reasoning, and can only react simply. They are more like a group of beasts than humans! When they heard Qi Sibiyu's question, they shouted loudly:
"Why did you say?"
"Yes, stop beating around the bush, Qi Sibiyu, we all know you already have the answer!"
"They are from Silla!" Qi Sibiyu slammed the wooden wine glass in his hand onto the table: "Only Silla people would do this!"
"Silla people? Aren't they dogs of the Tang people?" Someone asked: "The Silla people sent troops to fight against Baekje and Goguryeo! Why do they spread the news that the Tang people were defeated!"
"Yes, but that is already a thing of the past! Yes, the Silla people did serve as dogs for the Tang people, but even dogs will have to compete with their owners for the prey when they catch a rabbit!" Qi Si Biyu sneered. .
"Competing for prey? You wouldn't say it's Goguryeo's land, right? But the Silla people have already obtained a lot, right? I heard from the traveling traders over there that the Silla people have not been idle in the past few years. Expanding to the north, some of their mountain cities have been built to the banks of the Datong River, and you can even see Pyongyang Mountain City!"
"You are right, but who would think that they have too much land?" Qi Si Biyu said with a smile: "Besides, now Goguryeo and Baekje have been destroyed, the Japanese have become vassals of the Tang people, and the Silla people There is either the sea or the people of Tang Dynasty in all directions. If it were the other way around, you would be very worried, right?"
"good!"
"That's true!"
"That's the truth!"
The leaders and elders at the long table nodded in agreement. They began to praise Qi Sibiyu's mind and wisdom, and yelled at him to tell the answer quickly. Don't use one sentence to the left and the other to the right. It didn't sound satisfying.
"It's very simple. The Silla people want to drive the Tang people away from the land of the Goguryeo people and take it as their own. But they know very well how much the Tang people have at stake. If they fail, they themselves will be like the Goguryeo people and the Baekje people. Just like the shadow puppet performers in the Tang market, they hide behind the scenes and let others jump out for them to resist the Tang people; and they can support these people from behind while asking the Tang people all kinds of things. Conditions, when the power of the Tang people is weakened, they finally stand up, defeat everyone, and then take everything for themselves!"
"These Silla people are really too treacherous!" someone shouted at the long table.
"Yes, they always want others to die for them!"
"Then what should we do?"
"Yeah, what should we do?"
"Qi Sibiyu, you must have a way, tell me quickly!"
"Yes, Qi Si Biyu, since you have seen through the Silla people's tricks, you must have a way!"
The leaders at the long table stood up one after another, waving the wine glasses in their hands, shouting Qi Sibiyu's name with mouths that smelled heavily of alcohol. Qi Sibiyu waved his arms and said loudly: "You just They also asked me why I couldn’t pay back the troops, and I said it wasn’t the time yet. Since the Silla people wanted others to rise up first to fight against the Tang people, they hid behind them. Then we can do the same, we can definitely gather our tribes and express our allegiance to the Tang people. ——”
"Be loyal to the Tang people? Qi Si Biyu, what do you mean? Are you going to betray us?"
"Yes, are you a man from the Baishan tribe?"
"Everyone gathers together just to do something big, but you actually want to be the Tang Dynasty's dog?"
The people at the long table shouted in annoyance, and a few people even touched the sabers around their waists. If everyone's sabers had not been placed outside the house in advance, a bloody fight would have broken out immediately.
"Idiots! Listen to what I have to say!" Qi Sibiyu finally lost his temper. He grabbed the beard of the nearest person, pushed him hard twice, pressed him on the table, and then used He stepped on his neck with his foot and roared angrily: "Use your brain and drink less birch sap and mead, otherwise we will always have others stepping on our necks, just like this!"
The chiefs were frightened. They woke up from the wine and remembered Qi Si Bi Yu's illustrious reputation. They sat down at the long table dejectedly and told Qi Si Bi Yu to speak slowly and they must sit down honestly. Listen, there will never be another drop of wine, and there won't be any more noise.
"I ask you, who were the strongest and the weakest among the Baekje, Goguryeo and Silla people?" Qi Si Biyu didn't wait for the others to answer: "The Goguryeo people were the strongest and the weakest. They were Silla people, but in the end, it was the Silla people who survived. Goguryeo and Baekje were both destroyed. Have you ever thought about why?
The Silla people first pledged their allegiance to the Tang people and used the power of the Tang people to eliminate Baekje and Goguryeo. In the process, they became more and more powerful. If we raise troops to resist the Tang people now, the Tang people will use all their strength to attack us. If we lose, it will be all over; even if we win, there will be many casualties and it will be difficult to resist the next enemy.
And if we strengthen our own strength first and let others resist first, when the Tang people need us, they will have to pay a big price and give us land, weapons, horses, official positions, silks, and all kinds of rewards! Every time we defeat a tribe, we can annex the other's land and tribes. In this way, we will become stronger and stronger——"
"Then what?" Seeing that Qi Sibiyu had stopped talking, the leaders asked.
"Then?" Qi Si Biyu showed a ferocious smile, with thick white teeth, bulging nose, and spread beard, like a tiger about to pounce on its prey: "Just counterattack, drive away the Tang people, and establish Our own country!”
The long table was quiet for a while. The leaders looked at each other and saw ecstasy in each other's eyes. A man jumped up, raised his glass and shouted: "The gods of heaven, earth, mountains and rivers have finally given us a wise man to lead the Mohe people of the white mountains and black waters towards the light!"
"Lead us to the light!"
All the leaders responded in unison. They lifted Qi Si Biyu up and put it on their shoulders. Some people pulled the four sides of the felt tightly and hung it in the air, and then let Qi Si Biyu sit on it. , just like a king or a khan, he walked around the house seven times before finally letting it go.
"Chiefs, elders!" a leader shouted loudly: "We captured a Khitan, an officer of the Tang Dynasty, and found this on his body!"
Qi Si Biyu took a command arrow from his boss. He looked at it carefully for a while and found that it had the words "shooting general" written on it. He knew that only the elites of the Tang army who were good at riding and shooting could get this command arrow. After pondering for a moment: "Bring him up!"
Dahe Huaien was brought up. He had arrow wounds on his shoulders and thighs, but his waist and neck were still straight. He stared coldly at the leaders at the long table without any hint of timidity or weakness.
"Is this yours?" Qi Sibiyu threw the piece of arrow in front of Dahe Huaien.
"good!"
"So you are an officer of the Tang Dynasty?" Qi Sibiyu asked, "Are you here under military orders?"
Dahe Huaien did not answer Qi Sibiyu's question. He stared at the other party coldly and asked: "Who are you and why are you besieging me!"
"Shut up, we're going to ask you again!"
"Yes, answer quickly, or I will kill you!"
The leaders at the long table burst into threats, but Dahe Huaien seemed not to have heard it and showed a disdainful sneer. Qi Si Biyu stretched out his right hand, his voice calmed down, and he stood up: "My name is Qi Si Bi Yu, is the leader of Baishan Mohe. As for why you are besieged, the reason is very simple. It is very dangerous everywhere now, and a war may break out at any time. My people regard you as spies who came to spy, so I want to arrest you and question you. after all!"
"Spies?" Dahe Huaien sneered: "In my opinion, you are the spies, spies with evil intentions!"
"What's the reason?" Qi Sibiyu said with a smile: "You have to have a reason for saying that, right? My people suspect you are spies because you are a group of outsiders, and you have such good horses and weapons. My people suspect You are normal. Why do you call us spies?"
"I came along the way and met many barbarians coming here. You gathered all of them and organized them into an army. Isn't this an evil plot?"
"It is true that many people come here, but we did not ask them to come!" Qi Sibiyu said with a smile: "They came here because they heard that a war was about to break out. In order to avoid the damage of the war, they came to attach themselves to our Baishan tribe. , be protected. As for training them, this is not surprising, we have also heard some bad rumors, so we need more people to protect our tribe and land!"
Hearing Qi Sibiyu push away everything, Dahe Huaien couldn't help but sneered: "You can really speak, but I heard that those who defected to you said that they wanted to take up arms to restore Goguryeo and restore the country to Goguryeo. The Tang people drove away, how can you say these are fake?"
"Since you said that, of course it is true. But you also said that these people came from all directions. What they came for should not be my responsibility, right? As for the restoration of Goguryeo, then This is even more nonsense. Since you are a Khitan, you should know very well that our Baishan tribe did not have a high status in Goguryeo. Why should I take such a big risk to restore Goguryeo?"
At this time, Dahe Huaien had calmed down. Although he was not afraid of death, he did not want to seek death himself: "You said you don't want to restore Goguryeo?"
"Of course, everyone knows that the Tang Dynasty is much more powerful than Goguryeo. It is normal for those people from the five tribes of Goguryeo to want to restore the country. But why would I, a Baishan Mohe person, do this? As for the people who came to me, they are These barbarians on the meadow are very ignorant. It is normal for them to think and say whatever they want before coming here, but since they have come to my place, they must obey my orders and be under my jurisdiction from now on!"
"You won't rebel against the Tang Dynasty?"
"Hahaha, of course not!" Qi Si Biyu laughed: "Do I look so stupid? It's just that I heard that the Tang Dynasty suffered a defeat in Tubo and the situation in Liaodong was not stable, so I gathered people to protect myself. That’s all. If I can be rewarded by an official position, I am also willing to fight those traitors for the Tang Dynasty!"
Dahe Huaien looked at Qi Sibiyu in surprise. The Mohe man in front of him gave him a very strange feeling. He was standing among these Mohe-headed men who were smelly and wrapped in fur, just like a crane standing among them. Like a group of pheasants. But whether it is true or not, this is a good thing for himself and the Anton Protectorate. Datang really needs a little breathing space in Liaodong.
"Very well, can my people and I leave?"
"Of course, if you want, you can do it at any time!" Qi Sibiyu said with a smile: "But the way back is very dangerous now. You and your people are injured, so why not rest for a few days and recover from the injuries? , go back with my son!"
"Your son?"
"Yes!" Qi Si Biyu said with a smile: "In order to show my loyalty to the Tang Dynasty, I will let my son go back with you as a hostage of our Baishan Mohe tribe. I hope that the Tang Dynasty can trust us!"
"Hostage!" Dahe Huaien stared at the Mohe man in front of him. His dark face was full of smiles. He looked respectful and kind, but he was feeling cold in his heart. This feeling is not unfamiliar to He Huaien. When he was sixteen years old, he and a group of friends went out to hunt deer. When passing a water bubble, a tiger suddenly jumped out from the reeds next to the water bubble and fell down. One of his companions rushed back into the reeds before others could react. Dahe Huaien will never forget the green eyes of the tiger when it looked back, which made people feel cold from the soles of their feet. The feeling at that time was Same as now.
"How's it going? You believe us now!" Qi Si Biyu laughed. He turned his head and shouted to the other leaders at the long table: "Why are you standing there in a daze? Why don't you quickly pour this noble man a glass of wine?" , Wine can wash away all hatred, drink, drink!"
"Drink, drink!" the leaders shouted in unison. They diligently filled a cup of mead, put the cup into Da Hehuai'en's hand, and then hugged him to the long table as if they were the most distinguished guests. Take off your hat and bow deeply to him until your head is lowered than your navel, then toast him and apologize for your rudeness. They took turns coming forward until Da He Huaien was drunk until he was drunk.
"Are you drunk already?" Qi Sibiyu looked at the snoring Dahe Huaien, and his opponents smiled and said: "See, if you want to catch the fox, you must be more cunning than the fox!" (End of this chapter) )
