Chapter 4 The Shore of the Aral Sea
News of Dumodu's death soon spread near the Aral Sea, with little impact on the Ugus tribes there, but for the Corsas, who are also one of the five left wings of the Western Turkic Republic, it was like throwing a huge rock in a calm lake.
“No piece of land is superfluous”
This sentence is most suitable for use in the Eurasian prairie.
At this time, nomadic, fishing and hunting populations had appeared in Siberia and the northern areas, let alone the prairie areas.
“Every place is full of livestock and people”
A Turkic historian in later generations lamented in his books.
The same is true for the Eurasian prairie at this time. The Cassas, who originally lived in the Suye River Basin, was the same as the Cassas, one of the most part of the Western Turkish left wing. Driven by his desire for unknown land and fear of Tuqi Shi Dahan Sulu's later state, the Cassasas moved westward.
As they approached the Aral Sea, they met a strong enemy.
At this time, the Aral Sea was still a super lake with a length of 800 miles from north to south and the widest from east to west. It has abundant water and grass and abundant salt, making it a must-fight place for nomadic tribes.
Needless to say, the Hualazim oasis area to the south has been a Persian territory for thousands of years, and was occasionally conquered by the Huns and Turks who moved westward, but the descendants of the Persian royal family have always occupied a major position.
But the nomadic tribes near the Aral Sea are different. To the west, north and east, there are desert grasslands, with a vast area. They are the Xiaoyuz of the later Kazakhstan State, but are now occupied by three forces.
To the north is the Turkic tribe in the Kimak Khanate that moved westward, and to the northwest is a tribe that has always been nomadic here - the Pecheneg people, which is the ancestor of the Tatars and the Bashkir people who were nomadic in the Volga to Ural River.
Between the Aral Sea and the Caspian Sea, another tribal alliance that speaks ancient Turkic language is active - the Ugus tribe.
So, the corsair cadres, full of longing for the endless grasslands, were still unstoppable at the beginning, but the closer they got to the Aral Sea, the more obstacles they encountered.
In the end, the Corsai cadres stopped at the pasture between Kazarinsk and Kizilorda in the Sir River in Kazakhstan. Although they also had salt fields for boiling salt, they were just a small piece of the Aral Sea. The opponents they encountered were not the Kimak tribe of the Turkic Khanate, but the barbaric Ugus people in the west.
Of course, they met only the primitive Ugus people. At present, the Ugus tribe formed by only nine small tribes was nomadic in the area where the later Xiaoyuzzedouer Alliance was located. Its pasture reaches the Aral Sea in the east and the Caspian Sea in the west. Its pasture is a completely nomadic tribe, with tall and strong horses and a large number of camels.
The Ugus Tribal Alliance was formed by the union of nine small tribes. Among them, the Knik tribe chief has always served as the chief of the Tribal Alliance. There are eight tribes, two of which are more famous, one is called Sargur and the other is called Afshar. The descendants of their descendants have established dynasties.
For the Pecheneg people and the rest of the Turkic Khanate, the Ugus people sandwiched in the middle were naturally the most barbaric and crude, somewhat similar to the Shiwei people in the north of the desert at that time. However, unlike the Shiwei people, the Ugus people could smel iron tools even if they were barbaric and crude. With the barbarity in their bones, they naturally had strong combat power.
When the Corsa cadres had just moved to the Aral Sea, they encountered an attack from the Ugus Alliance. Since then, the two sides have fought in the northeast of the Aral Sea. Now, the Corsa cadres occupy a small salt farm in the northeast, which is the result of many wars.
After learning that his hardcore ally, Dumodu, the chief of the Assy tribe, died of illness, he set up a large tent in the later generations of Kezil Orda, and the descendant of the Sunong Abo, who claimed to be one of the Turkic Blue Noble tribes of Kizil Khan, also fell ill.
He will be stationed near the Aral Sea and recall the tent by Sunondagan, a son born to Kedun, a daughter of the noble chief of the Afshar tribe.
"Dagan, I can't do it anymore. Changshengtian summoned me last year. I forced myself to come to this day. There are a few things that I haven't told you. It's time now."
Sunondagan is a capable young man who has just turned 20 years old. Because his mother comes from one of the three major Ugus tribes, and happens to be nomadic in the north of the Aral Sea, his father asked him to take five thousand tents to nomadic in the northeast of the Aral Sea and manage his own salt farm.
It is also because of this relationship that the Corsair cadres and the Ugus temporarily remain in peace.
"During the period of Yehu Khan, the Western Turks were divided into ten tribes and two wings. At its peak, the Khanate had ten tribes as its core and overwhelmed many small tribes. There were hundreds of thousands of string control men, and each tribe controlled by about 50,000 households. Unfortunately, the Khanate failed to last for a long time and was destroyed by negligence. In the era of Tuqi Shi, each tribe was sharply reduced to about 20,000 tents."
"At present, there are even the names of the two-sided ten divisions. The Tang Dynasty and Beiting have risen one after another. There were originally six major divisions such as Sheti, Hu Luju, Geshu, Axijie, Basaigan, and Chumukun. Chumukun was destroyed by Beiting. Sheti, Hu Luju, Geshu completely surrendered to Beiting."
"Originally, only Ashijie and Basaigan remained relatively independent. Ben Khan also migrated his tribe westward because he was too close to the Tang Dynasty. However, he did not expect that without the Tang Dynasty, the west was not peaceful. Ugus, Kimak, and Hualazimo, none of them were easy to meet."
"We can have the current ranch, which is also the result of the protection of the immortal world."
"Since I was blocked by the Aral Sea, my ambition has long disappeared. I was satisfied with being able to maintain the current pasture. I watched coldly for several years and finally realized a truth."
"Father Khan, please tell me"
"That is, whether it is the former Ashina clan or the later Datang, Tuqishi, there is actually not much difference between us and the ten tribes. It is just that we are the noble surnames and our subordinates are the leaders and we are under the jurisdiction of herders. Specifically, Tuqishi is the most exploited, the Tang Dynasty is the lightest, and the Ashin family is in the middle."
"But Sun Xiurong, who is rising in Suiyechuan, is an anomaly. He did not simply manage the ministry by collecting taxes, but instead governs the ministry through the standing army, school, and workshop. Now it seems that he has succeeded. He actually absorbed all the young and strong tribes into his Bogra division through the standing army, school, and workshop."
"Because the life of the Bogra tribe's herdsmen far exceeds that of other herdsmen, a sign of yearning for the Bogra tribe was formed among the tribes. Therefore, if Sun Xiurong recruited standing troops, students, craftsmen in other tribes, and responded a lot, the Bogra tribe became more prosperous and the other tribes became weaker."
"It would be nothing if it were just a Bogra tribe. Before we had divided ten tribes, we were collectively called the Turkic tribe. If this continues, the Bogra tribe would not have had this result? But Sun Xiurong is worthy of being a Tang Dynasty, and he has another trick..."
"What is that?"
"The Bogra tribe is just a cover. When the herds, craftsmen and farmers who entered the ministry were all stable, he set up counties commonly used by the Han people in the local area, and used officials to replace the noble surnames of various tribes and govern the low surnames. Since there were no slaves in his tribe, he did not cause much trouble when he did all this."
"So, a country that is different from the previous Khanate has actually appeared..."
"Father Khan, you told me these are..."
"Silly kids, I, Sunon, Astra, Zhishi, and Sari were all separated from Astra. They were originally a family, and were a surname of Tengger. Among them, Astra was the descendant of Astra, the Shishi was the commander of Astra, and the Sari was the chief of the Astra"
"And I, Sunon, was the seal-holder of the Ashin family for generations. Why did the Turks neglected and declining to this point? That's because the seal was lost."
"Oh? The grassland tribe also has seals?"
"Of course there are. At the beginning, the seal was engraved with a wolf head pattern and covered with blue ink mud on sheepskin as a token. Unfortunately, the seal was lost after the demise of the Eastern Turkic Khan. Later, the Western Turkic Tongyehu Khan accidentally obtained it, so it was once prominent, and my ancestors also kept it."
"It's a pity that the Turks were always unable to unite for a long time. Tongyehu Khan was killed in an internal strife, and my ancestors were killed with him. In that internal strife, the seal was lost again. From then on, the Turks were unable to recover, but Ben Khan knew its whereabouts."
"Oh?" Sunondagan suddenly felt spirited. Although this story was a bit incredible, it was still very attractive to a young man like him.
"Ten years ago, I saw the sheepskin covered by this seal from a businessman from the West. My Sunon family has been a seal officer for generations, so naturally I have very clear about that mark. It is indeed the treasure of my Turkic people."
“From the west?”
"Guess who this seal falls into?"
"I think, well, in the west, except Ugus, Kimak and Pecheneg, they can't be called a Khanate, nor have they used seals. That is, the Khanate. By the way, the tribe officially said that the Khanate started ten years ago, which means they got the seal ten years ago?"
"Yes, they used to be a tribal alliance, similar to the Ugus, but ten years ago they married their daughter in the name of a princess to the Roman power in the south. According to the merchants from the west, it was no less than that of the Tang Dynasty."
"Father Khan, that is to say, the Khanate of the Khanate rose only when the seals of the Turks were sealed?"
"Absolutely, I didn't believe this at first. It was just a stone. How could it be so magical? But when I found out about another thing, I had to believe it."
"oh?"
"At that time, there were two seals under my control in the Sunong family, both of which looked white and red. People in the Hezhong area called it peach blossom stones. The Turkic Khanate used it was naturally not ordinary peach blossom stones, but were all fossils that were millions of years old. One of them had a butterfly inside it, which was called the phoenix-patterned seal, and the other one had a gecko inside it, which was called the dragon-patterned seal."
"What the Khonsa Khanate gets..."
"The Khanate of Khonsa is full of water on all sides, so what I get is naturally a dragon-patterned seal."
"Where is the phoenix-patterned seal?"
"you guess"
"I can't guess"
"Haha, look around, who is in the limelight on the prairie right now?"
"Beiting?!"
"It is said that the phoenix-patterned seal fell into the hands of the King of Shi Kingdom. Somehow, Bian Lingcheng, the eunuch of the Tang Dynasty's military inspector, got the seal under threat. Later, somehow it fell into the hands of Sun Xiurong. It was originally useless to hide it."
"Later, he became the Grand Governor of the Jun tribe, and even after being elected as Bogda Khan by the surrounding tribes, he wiped off the wolf head on the seal and used Turkic texts and Tang texts to engrave the 'Bogda Seal' to be officially published."
(In fact, the phoenix seal that Sun Xiurong saw did not have a wolf head, and it had long been erased by the King of Shi Kingdom)
"No wonder!"
"Child, the situation is very obvious at the moment. If I do something, I will not be able to last long. Either go west to join the Xhosa people or go east to rely on the Beiting people, everything is in your own control..."
......
Sunon Abo died, and died with the secret of the Turkic Khanate's seal officer, leaving behind the helpless Sunon Dagan.
Chapter completed!