The Period of Khan Şi-pi: The Refreshment of the Honour of Gok-Turks (609-619)

      
       However, after his death, Şi-pi (Shih-pi), his son and his successor, could save the Gok-Turks' honour. Although he married a Chinese princess, he used this issue as a fake in order to prevent the interventions of China in the internal affairs. He annihilated the disorder in the lands of Eastern Kingdom in 5-6 years, and he began to control from Tibet in the west, to the River of Amor in the east (615). The emperor that became anxious for the development of the events, began to apply again the unchangeable Chinese plans of bringing conflicts into the Turkish family members of the kingdom: This time, his advisor was P'ei-chu, the envoy who prepared the special trick rapports and whom books written for the west recognized as being the main sources.

 

       The little brother of the khan, Ç'I-ki-şad, was proposed to be the "khan". However, this young man who knew the wretchedness of the people and the corruptions of the Chinese oppression, refused this offer together with the Chinese princess promised to him. The Chinese people tried another way: they trapped one of the Turkish commander and killed him, and informed the khan as they found appropriate to remove him because of t"he friendship they had toward the Turks", saying that he was referred to them wishing the opposition. The aim was to spoil the relationship between the Khan Si-pi and the leaders of Gok-Turks. But, the khan did not believe this fake too. He did not pay the yearly taxes and prepared for the war asserting that the last event had been damaged the Chinese-Turkish agreement.

 

       His plan was to catch with a sudden attack the emperor who was on a journey to the north provinces. But the information of the attack reached secretly to China to the emperor by Chinese princess, the wife of those three khans mentioned before, who was in Ötüken. The emperor tried to return quickly but he was surrounded in the city of Şan-si Yenmen (today's Tai-hien) by the Gok-Turks cavalrymen who followed him. The same princess helped Emperor Yang-ti who cried for his despair, as being told so: she proved to recede of the Turkish armies with the rumour of the rebellion in the Gok-Turks country (615).