On that day, while Shibi and Yang Guang fought against Yanmen, Chen Kefu was behind. When Shibi and Yang Guang both suffered losses and retreated to the north, they were ambushed and intercepted halfway. Shibi's army was gone, and even Shibi Da Khan, who was the Turkic wolf king, could not escape and became a prisoner of the Liaodong Army.

And the Kedun, who he inherited from his father, Princess Yicheng of the Great Sui Dynasty, was earlier by Chen Pojun and penetrated the grasslands. Even the noble families were captured and returned to Liaodong. Shibi and the little khans, including Shijin and other great nobles, tribal leaders, Chen Kefu naturally could not let them return to the mountain, and kept watching them back and forth.

However, Chen Kefu, the princess of Yicheng who was a princess of the Great Sui Dynasty and kissed her, was treated very well. He put her under house arrest in a mansion in the capital and assigned many servants to take care of her. Over time, he gradually forgot that he had such a princess in his hands.

Gao Shilian agreed, "The Western Turks are back, and their power is strong. Although we are not afraid of them, we can't control them for a while. The Turks are all horse-backed nations, and their foundation is even farther away from the northwest. If we want to defeat them, it is impossible in a short time. Once we escape far away, we are afraid that we will become enemies from now on, and we will harasse the border like wind, and there will be no peace on the border from now on. It is better to form an alliance with them temporarily and stabilize them. After we pacify Hebei and Hedong, no matter how strong the Western Turks are, they will not dare to plunder the tiger power of our court."

Fang Xuanling also nodded and said, "Although the Eastern Turks nominally surrendered to me, they have actually been divided into pieces and the tribes are in their own right. None of these scattered Eastern Turkic tribes is an opponent of the Western Turkic people. Without their restraint, there is no one to control the Western Turkic people on the grassland. If we cannot form an alliance with the Turkic people, then the Western Turkic people will inevitably form an alliance with Li Yuan and others. Li Yuan is now in a dead end. It will not take long for him to be defeated. But if he gets the full support of the Turkic people, I am afraid that this matter will add endless variables."

Chen Kefu frowned and said nothing. The flowers and snow fell outside the pass in the distance, covering the entire mountain and river. The snow was covered with silver. He got up and walked out of the city tower and went to the battlement. The biting north wind blew on his face, making his thoughts much smoother.

Although he hated getting along with the Turks the most, the general trend in front of him made him helpless. He would either temporarily be in vain and stabilize the Turks. After fighting for the Central Plains, he would settle the settlement with the Turks at that time. Even if he was unwilling to do so, reason told him that this was the best strategy. Moreover, even if he formed an alliance with the Turks, because the Liaodong Army was strong, they still had a lot of bargaining chips and did not have to pay tribute like the Li family.

Understanding all this, Chen Kefu grabbed a ball of snow on the battlement and pinched it hard into an ice ball, slowly turning it into snow water. It seemed that at this moment, the snow ball was the Western Turkic people.

Returning back to the building, Chen Kefu returned to calmness and said calmly. "The matter will be sent by the Secretariat, and the Secret Service Department, the Ministry of War, and the General Staff each sent one person as the deputy envoy to assist the mission. It is okay to marry Princess Yicheng and his relatives into the Western Turks, but the Western Turks must also marry a daughter of the Jinguan royal family with a noble status into Hebei. In addition, we can allocate the grasslands of the Eastern Turks occupied by the Western Turks to the Western Turks. Our condition is that their tribal cavalry of the Western Turks will not be allowed to go south, nor will they be allowed to help Li Yuan. If the Turks break their faith, then tell them that Shibi Khan, the leaders and nobles of the tribes of the Eastern Turks, and the prisoners of war of the Turks, will be sent back to the Turks. Moreover, we will also be the Iron Cavalry of Liaodong when they go back together!"

The conditions for alliance proposed by Chen Kefu can be said to be very harsh, and even the Western Turks could not get any actual benefits. But Fang Xuanling and others heard this and nodded repeatedly.

Although Chen Kefu proposed the conditions that he vaguely placed Hebei's status above the Western Turks, they thought it was completely appropriate. Even after the Western Turks got this condition, if there was no accident, they would have to agree.

All was because the Liaodong Army had a larger bargaining chip in its hands. Once the Western Turks refused to agree to Chen Kefu's conditions, the Liaodong Army would put the captured Turkic nobles such as Shibi Khan of the Eastern Turks and prisoners of war back to the grassland.

Once Shibi Khan and the leaders and nobles of major tribes return to the Turkic grasslands, with their fame, the Eastern Turkic Khanate, which is now in chaos and division, will definitely be unified again. If Shibi Khan reunified the Eastern Turkic Khanate and received the help of the Liaodong Army's iron cavalry, the Western Turkic Khanate would face a life-and-death enemy.

Should I choose to cooperate with the Liaodong Army and promise not to go south to the Central Plains, or choose to work with Li Yuan to gain some money and wealth, but I have to face the unified Eastern Turkic grassland and the Liaodong Army cavalry. I believe that as long as I am a Lianming person, I understand how to choose.

For the Liaodong Army, they could not really choose the latter one unless they had to. After the start of the sacred period, although they could temporarily curb the Western Turks, in the end, they defeated the Western Turks just like the Sui Dynasty, and the Eastern Turks became stronger immediately. After all, they could not truly control the overall situation.

He sighed in his heart, and Chen Kefu secretly swore in his heart that one day, he would completely pacify the Turkic grassland and turn it into a stable territory for the Han people. He would no longer allow one strong grassland nation to grow on this grassland, and would harm the Han people in the Central Plains again and again.

But soon, Chen Kefu became cheerful again.

As long as Li Yuan's Turkic reinforcements were eliminated, Li Yuan would be just a wild beast trapped in a cage. It would not take long for him to consume his last little strength and be destroyed. When he thought that the generals of the Li family had to face the enemies coming from all directions, and the trapped beasts were still fighting again and again, and struggled to death again and again, he couldn't help feeling very happy.

At that time, the Hedong melee will not only waste the Li family, but also the powerful people like Liu Wuzhou and Liang Shidu. Using this Taiyuan melee, Li Yuan, Liu Wuzhou, Liang Shidu, Guo Zihe and others will consume the strength of separatist forces, and finally enter Hedong and settle down Hedong by himself. What a wonderful prospect. Thinking about it, he couldn't help but feel happy, and the unhappiness in his heart also dissipated far away.

He was in a good mood and no longer talked about political affairs. He just talked about some interesting stories while drinking and watching the scenery. Soon, Chen Kefu felt drunk and became a little drunk.

Listening to Fang Xuanling and other civil officials there singing poems and drinking lyrics and depicting the beautiful snow scene, Chen Kefu couldn't help but get up with the intention of drinking, and a familiar poem in his memory blurted out.

“The scenery of the north is filled with ice for thousands of miles and snow falls.

Looking inside and outside the Great Wall, there are only the vastness;

The river suddenly surging.

The silver snake dances in the mountains, and the wax figures are galloping, trying to compete with the heavens.

On sunny days, I look at the red dress and it is very charming.

The country is so beautiful that countless heroes are competing for the competition.

He cherishes Qin Emperor and Han ancestors, and loses his literary talent;

Jin Wu and Sui Wen were slightly inferior to the style.

A generation of geniuses, who only knew how to bending a bow and shooting eagles.

All have passed, and there are several romantic figures, and I still look at the present day.”

After a poem by Taizu in later generations was slightly revised, everyone who was talking stopped.

Although the first few sentences are written vividly, they are not much. But what really touched them is the second half of the poem, the heroic spirit in the poem suddenly appears, and even a sense of conceit. No one expected that even the unified Qin Emperor and the Han ancestor who founded the Han Dynasty only commented in the eyes of King Chen, saying that they had high martial arts skills but had no talent for cultural governance.

Even the fourth Emperor Wu of Jin, Sima Yan, who created a unified dynasty in the Central Plains, and the fifth Emperor Wen of the dynasty who created a unified dynasty in the Central Plains, had very high political skills, but he had no literary talent. Even the Turkic Khan Shibi, who was traversing the grasslands, turned out to be the only one who knew about conquests but did not understand strategies in the eyes of King Chen.

Let’s talk about the four founding kings of the Central Plains dynasty in detail, and a great khan on the grassland. These heroic figures are just average in Chen Kefu’s eyes. Even those who can be called heroes are still looking at the present.

Still looking at the present? Wouldn’t that meant to be very straightforward?

Looking at Chen Kefu's drunkenness, Fang Xuanling and others frowned slightly. If this poem was just written by ordinary people, it would be very grand and heroic, but this poem was written by Chen Kefu. The poem is born from the heart, but this is different. If you hold such a position, as long as you continue like this, everyone knows that in the future, Chen Kefu will definitely be a founding king who can create a dynasty.

But such a character was pronounced such words at this time? Could it be that this young highness, who is as talented as a young master, was blinded by the successive victories? Could it be that he had already started to be proud and arrogant so early?

Fang Xuanling and others are all well-readers of history books. They have read too many historical books and know that there are too many people in history. They were once as dazzling as Chen Kefu now, but in the end they were just like meteors. Although they were shining brightly, they were only in a moment.

Before the late emperor Yang Guang conquered Liaodong, he was not so dazzling. His civil and military skills were few. Not only did he travel west to the north, but he even wrote poems that were really good, and everyone praised them. But in the end, Yang Guang became more and more arrogant and conceited. Later, Xue Daoheng, who wrote the famous line "The dark wall hangs on the spider web, and the empty beams fall on the mud of swallows", was killed by Yang Guang for a small mistake.

Confidence is a good thing, but as a king, once it goes too far, it becomes a conceit, but it is a dangerous thing. Because later on, you often become stubborn and unable to listen to others' words, until you walk on the road of no return like Yang Guang.
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