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Chapter 753: Subjugating Botie (End)

It is no wonder that Botie did not expect Li Yan's ulterior motive. In his opinion, the chaos among the grassland tribes would definitely be in the interests of the Central Plains. However, at most it would only mean that the grassland people would not come to attack him, which was a simple defensive idea.

Because past history told him that nomadic peoples could trample the Central Plains on horseback, but people from the Central Plains could not survive on the grasslands. During the Han Dynasty, Wei Qing and Huo Qubing conquered the Wolf's Lair and defeated the powerful Xiongnu, forcing them to fall into pieces and flee westward.

But so what!
The grassland is still the world of the grassland people and will never be incorporated into the territory of the Central Plains, let alone Botie. This is common sense that every grassland person knows, so Botie did not and would not suspect that Li Yan had other intentions.

Anyway, the prairie is undefended and belongs to whoever has the ability. You people from the Tang Dynasty cannot occupy it even if you become the dominant force for a while, and you are not interested in it.

This allows the people of the grasslands and the people of the Central Plains to cooperate without any burden in their hearts.

Botie's considerations were not without reason. The grassland was vast, with numerous ethnic groups, inconvenient transportation, frequent disasters, and difficult survival. The difficulty of unifying the grassland was more than ten times that of the Central Plains. Even so, the Chinese land would not sink until the Central Plains was in chaos and unable to resist.

As long as the Central Plains dynasty does not have internal strife itself, and then supports a grassland tribe to divide and disintegrate it, the crisis of the grassland can be limited to the grassland. But even so, many dynasties cannot do it, not because the farming people are not smart enough.

It's because they are too smart, and they will feel comfortable once there is no external crisis.

When people become comfortable, internal strife will break out, and it will be endless until the country is broken up and the mountains and rivers are lost, but people still do not change their original intentions. Only when the nation is in danger of extinction and people are suffering, will they temporarily put aside their past grudges and fight the enemy together.

And often by the time everyone wakes up, it won't take long for these remaining smart people to display unparalleled wisdom and fighting power, drive away all foreign enemies, establish a more powerful country, and once again surpass other nations.

Throughout history, it has always been like this: rising strongly from the brink of extinction, then slowly declining until it reaches the brink of extinction again.

This cycle repeats itself over and over again.
Li Yan was helpless about this. In this era, the grassland was like a chicken's rib to the Central Plains. It was neither edible nor was it a pity to abandon it. It was not suitable for farming or building cities, and the environment was bad. No one was willing to stay here for a long time. Even in later generations, this land kept changing hands.

Those mineral deposits buried deep underground are of no significance to the current Tang Dynasty and are difficult to protect for a long time.

Before the industrial age when hot weapons dominated, the threat posed by nomadic peoples to the Central Plains dynasties was almost unsolvable.

However, the threat posed by the Central Plains dynasty to itself is eternal and unsolvable.

The two discussed for a while, and when they had almost finished talking, Li Yan took out a emerald green dragon and phoenix jade pendant from his arms. In the puzzled eyes of Botie, he held it in his hand and kept stroking it, with a look of nostalgia in his eyes, and sighed for a long time.

Then he looked at Botie with an expression more serious than ever before and said, "Brother Botie, this jade pendant was given to me by my father and mother when I was born to celebrate the birth of their eldest son."

"I have never taken it off since I was born."

"But today, I am willing to give it to you. You must keep it properly. This represents my deepest friendship for you. If you encounter danger in the future, send someone to bring it to me. I will provide you with the greatest help and help you overcome the difficulties."

When Bodhi heard this, his expression suddenly became very serious. He knelt solemnly and stretched out his hands to take it. Looking at the translucent emerald green jade pendant in front of him, he knew at first glance that it was not an ordinary item. There was a word "Qian" engraved on it between the dragon and phoenix totems.

Böte was very moved. He had not expected that the prince across from him would value the friendship with him, a mere servant, so much that he would actually give him such a precious thing. What virtue did he have? The other party had helped him a lot, and the other party, as a prince, could hardly ask him for anything.

When she thought of this, Bote felt deeply grateful for the prince's friendship towards her.

Without saying anything, Bodhi thrust his middle finger into his mouth and gritted his teeth, blood gushing out of his finger. Bodhi said solemnly, "In the name of the head of the Borjigin clan, I promise to Eternal Heaven with the highest etiquette of our tribe that the Borjigin clan will never be an enemy of the Li clan and will always be loyal to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

After saying that, Botie pressed his middle finger on his forehead, his face looked pious, and he kept muttering some spell that Li Yan couldn't understand.

After a while, Botie stood up and said, "I need the help of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. At the same time, I will make some contributions to His Royal Highness to the best of my ability. I know that there will be a war between the Tang Dynasty and the Turks. I am willing to do my best to provide His Royal Highness the Crown Prince with some intelligence about the Turks to repay His Royal Highness's kindness."

After that, Bodhi took out a black iron object shaped like a wolf's tooth from his neck and handed it to him, saying with some sacredness and sadness: "Your Highness, I have no way to repay you for your kindness. This is a divine object that fell from the sky when our ancestors migrated to the vicinity of Mount Burhan. It looks like a wolf's head."

"Our ancestors believed that it was the will of the Eternal Heaven for us to take root and multiply here, so we settled there, and it has been hundreds of years now."

"Later, our ancestors continued to worship this sacred object and used the wolf as the totem of the tribe. During a grand sacrificial ceremony, it was struck by lightning and broke into two pieces, resembling wolf teeth."

"It so happened that the lines formed where the two sides were broken were exactly the words of Borjigin. One was positive and the other was negative. When the two sides were put together, they formed the shape of a wolf's head. So our tribe changed its surname to Borjigin."

"After many years of reproduction, the surnames Borjide, Borjigen, Borjijijin, Borjiji, Bolot, Burchijin, Borji, Baoerjijin, Baoerchijin and other surnames were formed based on this surname." "Later, for the development of the tribe, my grandfather left the place where the ancestors lived and opened up a wider living place for the tribe in the expectation of the tribe. Before leaving, the tribe members let my grandfather wear this wolf tooth and said that the ancestors had a prophecy."

"When the wolf heads become one, that will be the time when our Borjigin clan will dominate the world."

"The other one is placed on the altar in the ancestral land. The tribe members offer sacrifices every year. They think that through the wolf's fang, we can feel the power from our blood and relatives, so that we will not feel lost and will always be full of fighting spirit."

"And today I met His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and His Royal Highness accepted me as his brother. This is the greatest opportunity in my life, and also the greatest fortune of our Borjigin clan. Therefore, I would like to give this wolf tooth to His Royal Highness, to represent the eternal friendship of my Borjigin clan."

Seeing that Botie spoke so seriously, Li Yan didn't want to take it lightly, so he took it and looked at it with a sincere attitude.

The object is about two fingers wide and one finger long. It is pitch black all over and slightly heavy in the hand. It looks like half a crescent moon. It is uneven on the surface, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom. There is indeed a positive Cyrillic-Mongolian word "Boerjigin" in the middle.

The weirdest thing is that it has a blue tint to it.

This was also because Li Yan had spent more than ten years in the Qing Dynasty world. In that environment, he was familiar with the writing systems of ethnic minorities such as Manchu, Mongolian, Zang, and Hui. With the help of that big man who also had a high status in the Qing Dynasty world, Li Yan was able to recognize this Mongolian surname at a glance.

Now imagine the other half. If it is put together, it really looks like a wolf's head.

And it looks like iron from outer space, but strangely, it is as warm as jade in the hand, not cold at all like iron. Otherwise, if I put the bet on my neck every day, it would be too cold to bear. Look at the patina on it.

It would take several generations to make things like this happen.

Li Yan felt a little ashamed. It was obvious at a glance that Botie's item was not an ordinary thing and was beyond human power. But his own item was specially made. Li Yan remembered watching a movie in which the heirlooms were very interesting.

There were many fine jades from the Tang Dynasty at that time, and Li Yan had a convenient status.

So they asked people to find all kinds of jade and create various shapes, which they could use to win people's hearts at critical moments.

I felt ashamed that I exchanged an ordinary commodity for a token that had been worshipped by a tribe for hundreds of years and might still be of great use in the future!

However, thinking about Botie's current situation and the gap in status between himself and Botie, Li Yan calmed down again.

Li Yan said with emotion: "Brother Botie, my good brother, from now on, the two of us brothers will join forces sincerely, you will stay in the grassland, and I will stay in the Central Plains. The two of us brothers will share the world, and our two nations will always live in harmony and be brothers forever!"

"Hahaha, well said, brother!"

Bote was also extremely excited. After all, his elder brother would be the ruler of the Central Plains in the near future, while his own grassland was still in the hands of the Ashina clan.

But how could Li Yan not be excited about his promise and vision for the future?

Li Yan rolled his eyes and put his arm on Botie's shoulder without any disdain: "Brother Botie, I think that our sworn brotherhood and friendship today will definitely change the situation on the grassland in the future, and will be widely spread in the future and have a huge impact."

"How about this, when you go home, record our sworn brotherhood in the family tree."

"This way, our future generations, and generations to come, will be able to witness what we are seeing today and remember our friendship. Isn't that wonderful?"

Botie's eyes lit up and he immediately gave a thumbs up: "Brother, you are right. I want my descendants to remember the great help your Highness has given to our Borjigin clan and never forget your kindness to us."

"Hahaha, good brother, that's right."

No matter what, I can only do so much, making friends with them, taking advantage of them, and then restricting them. No one can control what happens five or six hundred years later. By then, the Tang Dynasty may have disappeared.

Li Yan and Botie got along better and better as they talked in the room. Their hearty laughter continued to be heard from the room. Xing Yi, who was guarding outside, also felt relieved and continued to guard with peace of mind.

(End of this chapter)