After arriving here, Yue Guanchao thought about it carefully. The Steinman Group wanted to get the Yin-Yang Jade Pendant at all costs and go to Bell Jianghu. Their purpose became clear.
Either to find the former Golden Stone Mountain, or to find the Beihai Ghost Mansion near Lake Baiga. Other than that, there should be nothing near Lake Baiga that would make them spend so much time.
Thinking of this, Yue Guanchao blurted out: "You want to find the Beihai Ghost Mansion under Jinshi Mountain? Right?"
John Hua nodded: "You are only half right. We are going to find the Beihai Ghost Mansion. That is just to find out what the mirror world is. In addition, we still need to find the huge wealth on the shores of Lake Baiga. "
Yue Guanchao knew that this old foreign dog liked to play riddles, so he decided to break the casserole and ask the question: "Although Lake Baikal is Chinese territory, it is close to foreign territory and belongs to the border. The border situation is unstable. What huge wealth is there?"
John Hua did not speak, but looked at the secretary. The secretary took out several photocopies of historical documents from the document bag and placed them in front of Song Siyuan and Yue Guanchao. They looked at the records in the photocopied files, which were probably some ancient books.
"Judging from the description of the data, it is related to Jieli Khan of the Tang Dynasty... the Beihai Tomb of Immortality."
Song Siyuan laid her eyes on these words. After thinking about it carefully, she realized that the huge wealth that the Steinman Group wanted to pursue might be in the Tomb of Immortality. She suddenly became interested and picked up the information and read it from front to back. , and also know the clues and information of Beihai Changsheng Tomb.
Beihai Changsheng Mausoleum is the term for this mausoleum in the cultural relics world. In fact, if it is called in a strict sense, it should be called the Tomb of the Great Khan Jieli of the East Turks. The owner of the tomb is of course also the Jieli Khan of the East Turks. The fact that the tomb can be built here is related to Emperor Taizong Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty.
The early Tang Dynasty during the reign of Li Yuan and Li Shimin and his son was not as prosperous and prosperous as the later Tang Dynasty. God provided for all the countries. What they faced were first of all the internal and external troubles that a new regime would face.
Internal worries refer to the numerous self-established regimes in the north, the refugee unrest in the south, and the floods and famine caused by natural disasters when the Sui Dynasty fell. These things threatened the stability of the Li and Tang regime for a long time, and also made Li Yuan, Li Shimin and his son had a headache.
Let’s not mention internal worries for the moment, let’s just talk about foreign aggression. Foreign aggression refers to the powerful countries bordering the Tang Dynasty!
When the Li family conquered the Li Tang Dynasty, there were already many powerful regimes around the Tang Dynasty, including the Turks in the northwest, the Nanzhao Kingdom in the southwest, the Bohai Kingdom in the northeast, and the Tubo Kingdom on the plateau. , when Li Shimin ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor and began to take power, the surrounding powerful countries were also eyeing the Tang Dynasty.
The Bohai Kingdom and the Nanzhao Kingdom were small in size and were not a threat for the time being. Only the Turks and Tubo were the hidden dangers of the Tang Dynasty.
Faced with the Tubo dynasty, Li Shimin chose to send his princess to the snowy plateau to get married, and the division was peaceful, which brought a long period of peace to Tubo and the Tang Dynasty. However, when facing the Turks in the northwest, it really gave Li Shimin a headache.
The Tubo Kingdom on the snow-covered plateau has established a complete and unified country. The existing civilization is not lagging behind the civilization of the Central Plains. In some aspects, it is even more advanced than the Central Plains. Their attitude towards the Central Plains is trade and business, and communication is host.
After the Tang Dynasty sent the princess to get married, it brought to Tubo a lot of architectural artifacts and technology, cultural and artistic classics, craftsmen from all walks of life that had never been seen on the plateau, as well as countless gold and silver jewelry, silk tea, and even food. The methods of intensive farming were also handed over to them.
Under the warm climate of the plateau, Tubo ushered in rapid economic prosperity and highly splendid culture. The Li and Tang royal families did this because they understood that it is better to teach them to fish than to teach them to fish. Only by allowing the plateau civilization and economy to prosper, the two countries Only then will it be safe forever.
This international communication strategy of being kind to others completely failed when facing the Turks in the northwest!
Because the Turks in the northwest are not a complete country at all in a sense. There has never been a truly unified country. Even if it is called a Turkic country, it is just because there is a powerful local snake that suppresses it. and other small local snakes.
Once the powerful local snakes lose power, these small local snakes will take their place. At the same time, the Turkic country will fall apart and be pushed to the edge of disintegration. Even in peacetime, they will work on their own and fight against each other for the king's power and the position of the khan. This is This also caused a lot of chaos within the Turks.
As early as the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the Turks had already divided into Eastern and Western Turks. They were independent and hostile to each other and did not deal with each other. However, they did have a rare consensus on one point, that is, in years of famine, they must go south to harass the Central Plains. Its name is "threshing grass"!
This is related to the climate of the northwest, as well as the nomadic people’s dietary structure and social gathering methods.
The further to the northwest, the colder the climate and less abundant water and grass. In the good season, nomadic people can rely on herding sheep and cattle to obtain food for survival. Milk wine, beef and mutton, dried meat, sorghum and corn can be found in the diet. They relied on animal skins to survive the winter. If they were rich, they could even take over the Central Plains in exchange for something.
Once in a disaster year, when the wind and snow intensify and the pasture withers, there will be nothing to eat in the ice and snow. Almost all cattle, sheep and horses need to rely on rich pasture to grow meat and body. When cattle and sheep cannot survive, They would have to starve to death.
However, the further to the northwest, the more extreme cold weather there is, and they often experience various natural disasters. Famines are possible in six years out of ten. This extremely unstable production method has never been able to form. A relatively stable imperial regime.
Even in really good years, in order to obtain more cattle and sheep, they will be forced to pursue various fertile areas of water and grass to feed more livestock, which of course leads to a nomadic or semi-nomadic life. .
For them, the place where Kehan was stationed was called the Xiongnu Yazhang. Where the Yazhang was, the capital was also there. This state of being completely unable to settle down had advantages and disadvantages.
The advantage is that you can move around. As long as the pasture in one place dies, you can move to a place with richer pasture. If there is a snowstorm, you can also leave your camp and move to a warmer place at any time. If the enemy comes, you can respond quickly. , leading the camp to make a detour with the enemy.
The disadvantages are also obvious!
This nomadic or semi-nomadic life always carries great uncertainty, which makes it impossible for the Xiongnu people and the Xiongnu royal court to settle down. They are unable to build tall and beautiful buildings, make utensils, and develop culture. , everything is based on lightness and simplicity.
This kind of life of no fixed abode kept the Huns in a slave society or even a tribal society. Their medical skills, architecture, and skills were completely unable to develop. The stagnation of medical skills was even more fatal. As long as people got sick, they would either pray to the gods, Otherwise, we can only let the shaman wife dance with magic to cure diseases, and human lifespan is never long.
There is an old saying on the grassland, even though there are many children on the grassland, one of them will fall over when the wind blows. What this means is that although the Huns can give birth, not many grow up smoothly, and most of them die of illness in the process.
This kind of life of long-term instability and lack of supplies makes it impossible for the herdsmen to make a stable living. In disaster years, they have only one way except starving to death, and that is to go south to "threat grass".
As long as they go south, they will get endless food, gold and silver jewelry, clothes and utensils, and even plunder the Central Plains as slaves to enrich the population of the Huns.
It can be said that whenever the Huns go south to thresh grain grass, it proves that the year of disaster has arrived. Li Tang is facing a group of Huns refugees who cannot survive.
The Huns' soldiers are the people, and the people are the soldiers. As long as they arrive, it is equivalent to the enemy's detention. There is no room for negotiation at all. They just want to rob the people and plunder supplies so that they can survive.
In order to solve this problem, the emperors of the past dynasties could only build the Great Wall, guard dangerous passes, and try their best to look after homes and courtyards to prevent these nomads from coming in. They could not even send princesses to get married, because in the northern realm, only nomadic customs could survive. .
From this point of view, it is not that the Huns will not be killed unless they are killed, but that no matter who they are, as long as they go to the north, the harsh natural environment there will catalyze everyone to become Huns or Turks.
During the Li and Tang Dynasties, Li Shimin finally found an opportunity to take advantage of the civil strife between the East and West Turks to directly destroy the Eastern Turks, and even captured the Eastern Turks' Jieli Khan alive. The last generation of the Eastern Turks' khans suffered the humiliation of being captured alive. Way, escorted by Tang Dynasty soldiers, they came from the grassland to Chang'an!
