Chapter 195: One Country, Two Systems
On the grassland of Wuhou Qinshui, various Hu people gathered together and came from all directions. In mid-August, a huge team was heading towards the banks of Wuhou Qinshui River to hold this grand alliance.
In this grand team, there were first three hundred Xi tribes and Han soldiers holding all the black feather banners and wearing brocade clothes to walk forward to open the way. The banners were the three thousand Xi tribes guarding the cavalry and angry horses, wearing saddles and horses, and were fully carved bows, and walked in a row. Behind the cavalry was a huge black red chariot, which was slowly moving forward from thirty-two burly men with large figures and exposed upper bodies. The chariot was a yellow axe on the left, the white axe on the right, and the three hundred axe cavalry with iron armor reflected the cold light, surrounded the chariot and walked forward. After the chariot, there were two thousand axe cavalry.
This huge momentum and ceremonial war suddenly made the Hu tribes who came to the alliance all fear their might and respected them. At the meeting on the riverside, a turret platform had been built early, and three hundred soldiers held five-colored flags and stood in the five directions. When the turret came to the turret, they stopped immediately. Li Chongjiu walked slowly down from the turret. More than ten tribes on the side, as well as several elders from Shidexi's tribe, bowed down from the turret.
After Li Chongjiu received the ceremony one by one with everyone, he sacrificed the river and worshiped the sky with the leaders of various tribes, praying for protection. Later, someone led a white horse to come. Li Chongjiu and others killed the white horse and applied the blood on the edge of his mouth to show that he was stolen. Everyone jointly supported Li Chongjiu as the Khan of the Khanate, and named Khan Uppa, and everyone bowed to Li Chongjiu again.
After Li Chongjiu ascended the throne of Khan, the Qiuli Han from Mukun's tribe personally congratulated him to show the friendship between the two families. Later, Li Chongjiu announced that he would divide the Xi and Hu tribes into banners and army. Each tribe had a hundred tents as the first class, and set up a banner owner and a deputy, and then set up a team leader and a deputy team. Each master gave a banner.
Each tribe had one or several buildings, and then ten were one army, with the army leader and the military deputy. Finally, the five armies were set up as a unified army, and they were given a big banner to be a general. This official system was the military system that Wei had not usurped power at the time when Yuwen Tai had not yet usurped power. During the Northern Qi Dynasty, the five military systems of generals, other generals, commanders, military masters and banner masters were called the five preparatory positions.
Li Chongjiu generals of more than 60,000 Shidexi tribes, and directly divided them into fifteen armies. The remaining ten armies together were 20 armies, and four of them personally appointed the commander. Among these four army leaders, Sun Erniang, Ertuo, Shidefeng, and Yan Yelie, who was born in the Wei tribe.
The Shiwei tribe is located north of the Khitan tribe. It is now divided into five divisions, from south to north, namely the Nanshiwei, the Beishiwei, the Boshiwei, and the Shenmodashiwei and the Dashiwei are further north of the Boshiwei. Because the Shiwei tribe is in the dense forest of the Daxinganling Mountains, it also calls itself the people in the forest. Yan Yeli is a nobleman of the Nanshiwei Wei. There are 25 tribes of the Nanshiwei Wei, each with a thousand to two or three thousand people. Yan Yeli is a Mohedu, the leader of the same tribe. Previously, the Southern Shiwei Wei had always surrendered to the Turks and sent several Tutuns to rule. However, later the eight tribes of the Khitan killed Turkic officials, rebelled from the Turks, and sent troops to attack the Nanshiwei Wei tribes, captured tens of thousands of people, and moved to the bank of the Qinshui River in Wuhou.
Yan Yelei and his tribe were also captured together. He was only fifteen years old at the time. Later, he was sent by the Khitans as the leader of the Wei clan in the management department. Because he had received Khitan culture since he was a child, Yan Yelei was proficient in the language of the Turks, Khitans and Shiwei clans. In the Battle of Wuhou Qinshui, Li Chongjiu defeated the Khitans, and the 80,000 army of Khitans returned alive to the east bank of Wuhou Qinshui. Yan Yelei saw the opportunity and immediately took his tribe members to follow Li Chongjiu's command and became a member of the newly established Shide Khanate Kingdom on the Qinshui of Wuhou. Among the four commanders, two Shide Xi people, one Han people, and the other Yan Yelei, who was born in Shiwei clan. This composition also reflects the power structure of the three parties in the Shide Khanate Kingdom.
Of course, the military system of the grassland is only suitable for managing the various tribes on the grassland, but it is not suitable for the Han people in Huaihuang Town, Yuyi Town, and Feihu County. The official positions and military system of the Sui Dynasty are still maintained here, which is the so-called one country, two systems. Both sides are not subordinate to each other due to the surprise of folk customs and folk customs. At the same time, Li Chongjiu called himself Khan on the grassland to show that he would never compromise outside the Turks and Khitans. However, for the Central Plains, Li Chongjiu still called himself the prefect of Shanggu. As for the khan position on the grassland, it can be explained that Li Chongjiu was a side who guarded the grassland for the Han people.
After the Shide Khanate was divided into four divisions, the original divisions and tribes were divided into each other and they were broken up. There was no division between the Xi people, Turks, Shiwei, Khitan, and the Jun tribe. The masters of each pagoda must obey the orders of the military commander, and the masters must obey the orders of the military commander, and the guards must obey the orders of the military commander, and the guards will obey the orders of the Khan.
Of course, Li Chongjiu's Khan's power was not unscrupulous. The elders of the Shide Xi tribe, plus the tribes of various tribes, elected some original leaders and elders, forming an elder group similar to twenty people. The daughter of the Shide Xi tribe, Shide Xi tribe, was Li Chongjiu's mother-in-law, served as the eldest elder. Anyone who sent troops to fight in the Khanate state, the appointments of the chief army, the deputy army, and the above-level military commander, as well as major government affairs, must be decided by the elder group and the Khan.
It’s not that Li Chongjiu didn’t want to do it, but this is the rule on the grassland. Even if Shibi Khan of the Turks agreed on a major event in the tribe, he had to discuss it together with the special service, Ye Hu and Xiao Khan from the Ashna clan. In this newly established Shide Khanate, with Li Chongjiu’s current power, he could not be able to break it alone.
After spending a month to discuss the rules and regulations of the Khanate and the civil law system, Li Chongjiu immediately proposed to use troops to the south.
It turned out that last month, there was a monk named Gao Tansheng in Huairong County, Zhuo County. He secretly summoned his followers in the county and gathered thousands of people. Later, when a sacrifice was held in the county, Gao Tansheng, who was the presided over, suddenly led fifty confidants to kill the county magistrate and guard general who came to sacrifice, and then he carried the whole county to establish himself. Gao Tansheng became emperor, called the Mahayana emperor, and the country was named "Buddha". He named a nun with the name Jingxuan as the queen.
Gao Tansheng was not blindly appointed as the emperor according to a county. He was appointed as the emperor and conferred Gao Kaidao, who had tens of thousands of people in Yuyang County as the King of Qi, and asked him to surrender and lead his army to Huairong County. After hearing that Gao Kaidao learned the news, he had already agreed to Gao Tansheng's title of King of Qi and was leading his army to Huairong County.
If Gao Tan Sheng and Gao Kaidao join forces, the situation will be very unfavorable to Li Chongjiu, because Huairong County is located between Huaihuang Town and Feihu County, which is the main military strategist.
Chapter completed!